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"I feel you got to keep hustling because once you take over you got your whole city's respect."
Check out the interview with Corey Preston exclusively on Skilly Magazine Online.
Skilly: Where did this all start? Tell us about your journey in the entertainment business.
Corey Preston: It all started for me when I was a young boy. I used to sing in the church choir and it wasn't long until I wanted to sing solo. I've been writing my own music since I was 11. I would have to say the musical journey really started when I was 15 and went to a studio for the first time.
What would be your biggest piece of advice for the young kids out there trying to do what you do?
My advice for young kids out there is if you really want to take your music to the next level, keep a positive mindset because adversity will come. Consistency is key and go with your gut, don't listen to others.
What are some of the hardest challenges and tasks in your position?
The hardest challenge is maintain relationships with homies or the ladies. While being focused I've had to cut a lot of BS out of my life. Maybe being able to recognize the genuineness in those who are trying to build opportunity for your foundation.
We all know the entertainment business is very tough, but what do you find is the best way to promote and advertise your music?
I'm a people person so it isn't hard for me to be honest to be heard. If you're a laid back, charismatic, goofy type like me it's cake. To be specific, make sure to stay up on your social media; perception is everything being an artist.
Tell us about your city. How are the artists and the fans?
I currently reside in Tampa, Florida. My city is tough, artists don't want to work with other artists because of insecurities. You got to have the juice for buzz because people support, but not like you'd hope at times. I feel you got to keep hustling because once you take over you got your whole city's respect.
Where do you see yourself a year from today?
A year from now I see myself becoming a household name or having a way bigger buzz than I do now. Hope I can go on someone's tour and be opening and getting more exposure.
Who and what were your biggest inspirations? Who do you look up to in today's world?
I have a few big inspirations, one being my mom because she sings and inspired me as a child. Michael Jackson of course because he's the G.O.A.T. Stevie Wonder because he's a great composer and writer along with being the G.O.A.T. too. Chris Brown inspired me truly to pursue music as a career.
How do you feel about the music coming out today? Do you like it?
The music today is okay, there is still great music that comes out but I feel today is over saturated with no brainer music.
Where can we contact you and find you online?
Official website: www.coreyprestonmusic.com
Twitter: @cor3ypreston
Instagram: @cor3ypreston


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Solving the Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL
When you're using MySQL for big data (more than ten times as large as main memory), these challenges often arise: loading data fast; maintaining indexes under insertions deletions, and updates; adding and removing columns online; adding indexes online; preventing slave lag; and compressing data effectively.
This session shows why some of these challenges are difficult to solve with storage engines based on B-trees, how Fractal Tree® data structures work, and why they can help solve these problems. Tokutek sells a transaction-safe Fractal Tree storage engine for MySQL, but the presentation is primarily about the underlying technology. It includes a discussion of both the theoretical and practical aspects of Fractal Tree indexes.
I have the privilege of being able to give this talk at both conferences, so please stop by my presentation at whichever conference you plan to attend (or perhaps both, like me!).
- MySQL Connect will run From September 29th to 30th. Details on my talk can be found here. A sampling of the MySQL talks compiled by @stoker can be found here.
- For Percona Live NYC I will be speaking on October 2nd at 1:30 pm in Flatiron. Details can be found here. A sampling of the speakers can be found here.


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Promotions, Coupons & Discounts from Breakout Games
After securing your booking, you'll be able to participate in an adventurous game quite unlike anything you've done before. Our immersive rooms put you right into the middle of a suspenseful storyline, where you and your friends or family will have to navigate clues, surprises, and puzzles on a quest to escape in time. This action-packed game will put your minds to the test! The only question remaining is whether your group will be able to break out in time? Come play our escape rooms today and find out!
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The simplest way to enjoy a discounted escape room in Newport News is to play Breakout during the week. Between Monday and Thursday, you will be eligible to receive 10% off your entire booking by entering the promotional code "WEEKDAY10" during checkout. This is a great way to save, and also enables you more choice as to the particular scenario and time that you play, since weekends are generally busier. This code is not valid December 1st through January 7th.
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Businesses are quickly discovering the awesome team building capabilities of escape rooms. With your staff all together in the room, they'll have to work with each other as they race through clues as time winds down. This is a fun, invigorating way to bond and has helped bring teams together in a positive manner. Also, larger groups can be eligible for great savings at Breakout Games - Newport News, so call today and learn about how we can host your team's next outing. In addition to local companies enjoying our escape rooms, Breakout Games has also welcomed various other kinds of large groups to our rooms, including school field trips, summer camps, sports teams, birthday parties, wedding/bachelor/bachelorette parties, non-profit organizations, churches, youth groups, and other clubs or organizations seeking a fun bonding experience. Please give us a call several weeks ahead of your planned outing so that we can prepare to accommodate your group, and also please note that we prefer such bigger teams play during the week to ease with scheduling and allow us to focus entirely on your team. Please give us a call or visit our team building page for more information.
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At Breakout Games, we try to provide unique and memorable experiences to our guests. Therefore, we've put extra care and attention into our rooms in order to make them both gratifying and exciting. For this reason, we have become the nation's leading escape room brand. See what all the fun is about by signing up to play Breakout Games - Newport Beach today! Do you have what it takes to break out?


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The complete system of the Trachtenberg method of mathematics which makes possible high-speed arithmetical calculations with a remarkable degree of accuracy. This method is not only speedy but simple. Once one has mastered the rules, lightning calculation is as easy as reading a story. It looks like magic, but the rules are based on sound logic.Cutler, Ann is the author of 'Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics System of Basic Math' with ISBN 9780313232008 and ISBN 0313232008.[read more]
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The organising committee of the 2017 International Macadamia Research Symposium would like to welcome you to the Big Island of Hawaii from the 12th to the 15th of September 2017 for a gathering to share, learn about and discuss the latest developments across the international macadamia research community. The last international macadamia research meeting was in 1992 at Kona, also on the Big Island, but there have been many developments in macadamia science since then. We have decided to hold the symposium this year in Hawaii as it coincides with the week prior to the American Society of Horticultural Science Annual conference at Waikoloa. We have planned for 2 days of symposium, including an afternoon field tour, a symposium dinner to encourage network building, and 2 days of optional tours for visits to learn about the local industry and research activities. We have attempted to keep the price of the symposium affordable, and are seeking sponsorship to encourage attendance and support student participation.
We look forward to your participation,
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Do you know that hire-purchase loans allegedly account for about RM118 billion total worth of Malaysian household debt? This was revealed by PKR deputy president Azmin Ali at a press conference today, and PKR estimates that of this RM118 billion, about 70% are actually the high excise taxes, import taxes and sales taxes paid on our cars.
Here's an example, the Renault Megane RS 250 Cup ,which we all really love, costs about RM236k in Peninsular Malaysia. It costs about RM119k in Langkawi. Even hybrid cars are not completely exempt from tax – only excise and import taxes are waived while sales tax still applies, which explains why the prices of hybrid cars in the regular economic zones in Malaysia are still higher than in Langkawi. The price difference is about 10%. And of course the profits from these hire purchase loans to pay taxes are also taxed – that's a lot of income for the government.
PKR revealed that their Pakatan Rakyat coalition will be tabling a "radical solution" to reduce the NAP-imposed automotive tax burden in a proposal at the Pakatan Economic Summit next month. It will be interesting to find out what this proposal is and dissect it to see if it's truly workable.
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The Highway King slot game will see you take the challenge to become the best trucker out there, even if it is only fictional, and it makes you feel as free as a bird.
For those who love the open road and huge trucks, Playtech has the slot which is perfect for you. It is called Highway King slot and true to the name, it will make you feel like you have been part of the trucking community for years.
System and Style
The slot game Highway King is based on a five reel, nine paylines system and it is linkedto the Dollar Ball progressive jackpot. Providing that the paylines are less than what you find on a slot game these days, it is a game that attracts modest betting players. There is also a focus on the fun aspect, meaning the overall gameplay is very basic and straightforward.
As for the style of the game, you may wish to see all kinds of mechanical parts. From steering wheels to spark plugs, these are the symbols which make up the winning combinations. Much like the personality of a trucker, the animation is colorful and plain, but it still makes an exciting atmosphere.
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Firstly, the reason why everyone is so willing to play Highway King slot is due to the high payouts from the regular symbols. In most cases players must pray for the wild or scatter symbols to bring about more substantial prizes, but in this case players are very happy with base combinations. Nevertheless, there is a small drawback, which is that there are no bonus rounds or free spins. But as long as you see how well the base combinations pay out then you will not really miss it. To make things better for the players, in case you land a winning combination with a substituted huge red truck wild multiplier then you receive double your winnings.
If you can not get past the missing bonus round and free spins then you can opt for the Highway Kings Pro. In the bonus round you get to select 1 of 3 trucks and race down the highway. It does not matter if you select the blue, red or green truck, your chances are the same of receiving free spins and multipliers.
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The Wellington Agreement's Confidentiality Provision Lives On
You remember the Wellington Agreement don't you? This was the settlement agreement entered into back in 1985 to resolve numerous coverage disputes between Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. and its producers and insurers over pending asbestos litigation. Confidential arbitrations took place as part of the Wellington Agreement to resolve these coverage disputes. Much evidence was created as part of those proceedings under the confidentiality umbrella.
In a recent case, a court was faced with an application by a non-signatory to the Wellington Agreement seeking discovery and a subpoena to obtain evidence from one of the arbitrations under the Wellington Agreement for use in its own coverage dispute.
The case involved an issue of industry custom and practice over whether defense costs are typically paid even without consent in defending asbestos claims. Continental Cas. Co. v. Borgwarner, No. C.A. No. N15M-05-009, 2016 Del. Super. LEXIS 132 (Del. Super. Mar. 15, 2016). The insured sought deposition and trial testimony and other evidence from an arbitration under the Wellington Agreement addressing this issue of custom and practice, particularly evidence from another insurer involved in the same consent issue on defense costs in asbestos claims. Some of the alleged evidence was discussed in a Third Circuit case following the arbitration under the Wellington Agreement. North River Ins. Co. v. CIGNA Reinsur. Co., 52 F.3d 1194, 1208 (3rd Cir. 1995).
Several parties objected to the subpoena claiming confidentiality of the evidence under the confidentiality sections of the Wellington Agreement, including the insurer involved in that arbitration as an intervenor in this case. The court partially granted the relief and partially quashed the subpoena.
A couple of interesting points come out of the decision. First, the attempt to use testimony from another case to prove industry custom and practice is somewhat unique. Because the subject matter was the same and the policy language was similar, this was one of the only ways to obtain the evidence that was discussed by the 3rd Circuit.
Second, the court took the occasion to admonish parties about overbroad subpoenas. The court found the subpoena too broad: "to the extent not encompassed by the Requests for Production nos. 1 through 4, above, your complete file in connection with the Owens-Corning ADR." The court said that if you want something specific, ask for it with specificity and don't ask for the complete file.
The court noted the parties' intent for the information under the Wellington Agreement to be confidential. But the court noted that the intervenor used some of the evidence in the public proceeding that ultimately went to the 3rd Circuit. Because of this affirmative use, the court found that the intervenor could not argue that the information was still confidential and not subject to disclosure in unrelated proceedings. What the court ended up doing was requiring the production of the materials that were publicly disclosed, released or used in other litigation (that information is to be produced under the confidentiality agreements in place in the present case). Material never previously disclosed did not have to be produced. The court left it to the parties to sort out what was and wasn't made public.


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Pharrell Williams and Justin Timberlake both earned seven nominations, but Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience" album failed to snag any nods in the top categories.
Sara Bareilles surprised many with getting a nom for Album of the Year for "The Blessed Unrest." She will face off against Daft Punk for "Random Access Memories," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for "The Heist," Taylor Swift for "Red" and rapper Kendrick Lamar for "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City."
Song of the Year nominees include Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' inspiring "Same Love," Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven," Lorde's "Royals," Pink's "Just Give Me a Reason" and Katy Perry's "Roar."
Click here for the complete list of nominations!
The nominations were announced at the Grammys concert, hosted by LL Cool J, in Los Angeles. There were performances by nominees Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Lorde and Robin Thicke.


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Hi Team,
i am gonna ask a basic questions which will help me
what is FLARE and DART. is that the only two OS comes in EMC.
Where FLARE and DART will recide on . that is on celerra or clarrion.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Can you do me a favor and mark this question answered (if it is in fact answered)?
In a gist:
FLARE refers to Fibre Logic Array Runtime Environment an custom Windows Operating System which runs the EMC CLARiiON Storage System.
DART OS is a modified UNIX kernel with additional functionality added to operate as a file server.EMC Celerra runs on real-time operating system called as Data Access in Real Time (DART).
please help me to understand.
i heared that Flare OS is for Celerra and Dart OS is for Clarrion.
please let know how to conform this.
The other way around
please conform which is exact one. it wil help me further.
Flare for Clariion, Dart for Celerra
As I mentioned earlier FLARE Operating Environment is for EMC CLARiiON and DART is for EMC Celerra.
You can verify the same if you check the Storage System Properties for EMC CLARiiON in Navisphere or Unisphere Management software, you will find FLARE-OE Environment enabler enabled! For DART that makes it obvious which product it runs on now, right?
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i am on the East coast, 6:50am is not bad
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Traditionally children enter kindergarten when they are five years old and graduate from high school when they are 18 years old. However these incredible teens are moving along their educational pathway at their own pace. Check out seven Black students who either skipped high school altogether or graduated from high school earlier than the traditional student.
1. Grace Bush is a young lady that comes from a family of high achievers. She was homeschooled, along with her older siblings, and was astonishingly able to graduate from college before graduating high school. (The college ceremony was scheduled before the high school ceremony, but technically she received both her diploma and Bachelor's degree in the same month.) Her mother attributes some of her aptitude to having supporting examples in her older siblings. Grace began taking college courses at Broward College at the age of 13 and was simultaneously enrolled in high school. After graduation Grace plans to continue her education in pursuit of a Masters degree while preparing for the LSAT. I am confident we will see her in the history books accomplishing great things. Go head girl!
2. Who needs high school when you can go straight to college? By age 11, Thessalonika Arzu-Embry had enrolled in community college, after having been homeschooled through early grades, and was able to complete her bachelor's studies at Chicago University by age 14 when most students across the USA are just entering their freshman year in high school. Thessalonika says:
"My college experience is a traditional college experience for me — it is just that I have completed it faster, " Thessalonika said. "I am very excited about joining others in having the opportunity to contribute to society in a significant way."
Thessalonika's mother was also a graduate student of the university, and the family plans to open a clinical practice.
3. Mathematics is commonly thought of as a difficult subject to master, and requires developmental stages to happen before children can comprehend certain concepts, but that hasn't stopped Steven Stafford from becoming a Morehouse College student before becoming a teenager. Steven is a triple major, in computer science, mathematics, and pre-med. He was kept on track to take advantage of his exceptional abilities by his homeschooling parents. Steven does not like the term "prodigy" and has this to say about being exceptional:
"At the end of the day, I go home and play video games like a 13-year-old would like to play. I don't think I'm any more special than the next kid. I just learned fast because I had the resources to. My mother is the reason I was able to do that. I'm just using my potential. The only way to know it is to use it. I just love moving forward. I really do. When I slow down, I don't like it. I know I can do better than this, so why slow down?"
4. Martinique Stafford is Steven Staffords sister, who was also homeschooled. While most 17 year olds are completing their junior year in high school Martinique was completing her freshman year at Georgia Southern University. At 19 years old she was a Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society inductee. Exceptional academic achievement runs in the family. Major kudos to the Stafford family.
5. Saheela Ibraheem is a young marvel, at age 15 she had her pick of several top-tier colleges to attend, including MIT, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, University of Chicago and others. The exemplary teen settled on attending Harvard at the advice of her younger brother who also wishes to attend the school one day. Not surprisingly, Saheela had great SAT scores to complement her vigor for academics. She modestly explains that "anyone who's motivated can work wonders."
The Imafidons are commonly referred to as Britain's smartest family
6.Anne-Marie Imafidon who speaks six languages and at age 10 passed two GCSE's (General Certificate of Secondary Education). She went on to attend John Hopkins University in Baltimore and got her masters degree from Oxford University, all before she turned 20 years old.
7. Christina Imafidon who is one of Anne-Marie's sisters was the youngest student in history to attend a British university
8. Samantha Imafidon at the age of 6 had passed two high school-level mathematics and statistics exams. She also became the youngest girl in the UK to attend secondary school when she was 9 years old.
Moms, how do you feel about skipping grades? Are these young people exceptional or just normal kids who had resources, like Steven Stafford says?
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Many times a client only looks at the bottom line when it comes to the performance they are getting for their investment into Search Engine Marketing.
They often only look at the selected keyword phrases that they are paying for, without fully realizing what other residual effects they are receiving.
When a site gets properly optimized, (SEO) it is being transformed into a thought-out navigational pattern to information. This is the same pattern a search engine spider looks for. Don't forget, the easier you make it for a spider to index your site, the better your chances are for getting your site a higher placement in the search engine results page (SERP's).
While W3C validation is something all sites should strive for, it is not required for better rankings. Does it help? Probably. Yahoo engineers have stated that whether a site is W3C compliant or not makes no difference to how it ranks. If it has relevant content, it will get ranked.
Another element when optimizing a site is that through proper naming of page titles, file names and placement of content make the site all the more relevant to the spider. Although Google places less value on Meta Tags, they are still used as part of the algorithm, and should not be overlooked.
After the site has coded properly, the game then goes up to the next level. Search Engine Marketing is used to drive traffic to the site through various means. Press releases, articles, blogs, RSS/XML feeds, Directory Submissions and User Groups all can bring targeted traffic to a site.
Here is where the collateral benefits of SEM begin to appear. Let's say that you have been doing a series of press releases where once a week, you talk about a new color of widget. In each press release you also list the other colors of widgets that you have for sale. Even after only the first release gets sent, you've already created a valuable In-Bound Link to your site for your Red Widget, but since you included the other colors of the widgets as well, they all pick up IBL's as well.
An even greater demonstration of a collateral benefit is ranking for keywords and phrases that you aren't targeting. Keeping to our widget example, if your site copy talks about the different uses of widgets, the available colors that they come in and the best way to preserve your widget, you've just created a multitude of various phrases that your site can get ranked on.
Example site copy:
We sell the highest-quality widget available. Our color selection ranges from red to purple, black to white and can be used in your home or for industrial needs. The widget is the most versatile tool on the market. Pick one up today!
From this one paragraph, here are the possible phrases your site could get ranked on:
- high quality widget
- red widget
- purple widget
- black widget
- white widget
- home widget
- industrial widget
- widget tool
- widget
This is only a tiny sampling of the potential your site has. Remember, each page gets ranked on it's own, so that's why it is so important to make sure every page you have on your site is optimized.
Even your contact/about page is critical because if you have a brick-and-mortar business, by listing your street address, you help the search engines geo target your site. Most search engines are already trying to focus your search results regionally. While it's not a major factor yet, it is something to be aware of.
In conclusion, the next time you start checking Google to see where your site ranks for it's keyword phrases, don't forget about all of the hidden keywords/phrases that are embedded in your site's copy. You would be surprised at how many of those forgotten about terms end up at the top of the pile….


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I've created this blog to bring local businesses in the real estate market together in one place to share ideas and help each other by asking for help and/or offering solutions.
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The State of Marketing Leadership 2018
Times have changed, and marketers are being asked to do more than ever before. See what, why and how it's measured in the latest Target Marketing research.
Over the past five years, the prevailing narrative has been that marketing roles changed, marketers are being asked to do more and marketing leaders are being held to more bottom-line business results. To find out if that's really the case, Target Marketing conducted the "State of Marketing Leadership 2018" survey. Overall, 216 marketers responded in the month of April, offering unique insight into the changing roles and goals of marketing departments across the country.
You can download the complete research online. In the meantime, here are seven of the top insights from the report.
1. Marketing Roles Have Changed
While that sentiment alone may not come as much of a surprise, the extent to which marketers are reporting that their roles have changed is staggering. A full 86 percent say marketing roles have changed in just the past five years, and 49 percent say they have changed greatly or completely — including the elimination or creation of roles.
2. Marketing Responsibilities Are Only Increasing
To determine how those roles are changing, we asked whether responsibility had increased or decreased in 11 key areas, spanning revenue and budget responsibility through personnel management, creative, thought leadership and innovation.
What we see in the bar graph above is that all of these responsibilities are increasing for most marketers except personnel management, where "only" 42 percent reported increased responsibility, and 50 percent reported no change. For all of the other categories, responsibility has been increasing dramatically, and that trend shows no signs of slowing down in the near future.
What's more, very few of our respondents reported that any responsibilities were decreasing. Those colors are nearly absent on the far right of the bar graph.
The movement in marketing roles and responsibilities has all been in one direction: increased responsibility and workload. Looking at where these increases are happening, technology has expanded the most. When we combine the answers for "much more responsibility" and more responsibility, 77 percent of respondents say responsibilities have risen in that area.
That's followed by responsibility for business strategy (68 percent), metrics and reporting (67 percent), thought leadership (66 percent) and data (65 percent). All of these are taking up more or much more time than just five years ago.
When asked why these roles are changing, responses focused on changes in the environment and corporate expectations.
"Marketing to new generations requires more digital and more creative ideas," said one respondent. "Retaining the customers we have requires more rewards and creativity, too."
Other answers included "More sales pressures. Digital scares most of the leadership"; and "Change in leadership, new mission statement and goals for social media instead of sales."
3. Strategy, Technology and Personnel Dominate the Schedule
While there are many changes in the responsibilities of marketing leaders, good old marketing strategy is still the No. 1 thing they're spending time on — nearly a third (32 percent) of their time, in fact.
But after marketing strategy, technology and personnel management both take up large chunks of time, followed closely by time spent communicating with the C-suite.
4. Marketers Answer to the C-Suite and Sales
In terms of communication inside the company, marketing leaders talk extensively to corporate leadership and sales (both over 60 percent), followed at some distance by the product team (43 percent) and IT (40 percent).
These three departments — the executive team, sales and marketing — are the sides of the revenue triangle inside companies. Marketing leaders in 2018 need to recognize their place in this revenue structure and the importance of their efforts to the continued health of the company and its bottom line.
When business changes, the C-suite looks to marketing to lead the brand adjustment, find new customers and enable the revenue strategy. In many ways, marketing departments are carrying the weight of digital transformation. If you can do that, the rewards are great. If you can't, you risk being left behind.
Successful marketing leaders today must have the skills to fulfill this role, and to assemble the personnel and tech stack to achieve these wider business goals.
5. Dissatisfaction With Marketing Performance
Finally, we asked marketers what they thought about their departmental performance and where they're going. And the results here were unexpected.
We asked respondents to rate their satisfaction with different aspects of the marketing department's performance on a scale of one (not satisfied) to five (extremely satisfied). "Satisfied" was an even three.
As you can see in the chart, not one aspect of marketing performance averages a three or higher. The highest satisfaction average is 2.9 for retention — which is interesting in its own right, as retention often comes in with lower budgets than acquisition marketing. Customer acquisition actually has the lowest satisfaction average at 2.5, followed closely by direct sales at 2.58.
6. Marketers Feel Like They're Behind
Given that level of dissatisfaction in marketing performance, and the pressure to perform that corporate leadership is putting on marketers, it shouldn't be a surprise that most marketers (57 percent) feel their departments are a bit behind where they need to be, and only 9 percent consider themselves to be "ahead."
With more responsibility comes more pressure to perform, and the marketing leaders who took this survey certainly seemed to be acknowledging that they're still catching up to these new realities.
We asked why marketers felt they were behind, and the answers reflected systemic failures to get the resources the department needs. The open response answer repeatedly cited lack of time, resources and personnel as holding the department back from where it needs to be. As one respondent put it, there's often "not enough resources or freedom to spend on programs."
This is why it's so important to develop that relationship with internal stakeholders who are responsible for the bottom line. If marketers can't make their cases for these resources, they will never be able to live up to these increased expectations and responsibilities.
In 2018, it is imperative for marketers to keep evolving to become more capable to deliver on those business goals. The ability to create great creative today is secondary to the ability to build a great business department.
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Texas A&M University, NASP Approved
Doctoral Only
The primary goal of the program is the development of psychologists who recognize the importance of scholarly inquiry and the application of various methods to the resolution of problems encountered in their daily practice, teaching, continuing professional development and their discipline at large. The program strives to train psychologists capable of contributing to the health care of children and adolescents, from perspectives of prevention and intervention, related to mental, academic, emotional, and behavioral difficulties, especially as related to schools and the educational process, at the individual and organization level. Since children and families may be encountered in a variety of settings, the training program attempts to equip students to work in a variety of private and institutional settings, in addition to public and private schools. The program emphasizes diversity issues related to the practice of psychology, as well as addressing achievement and mental health disparities among minority populations.
Student Demographics
At least 25 % of students come from traditionally underrepresented groups
Specialized Training Experiences
- Grants: Historically, Texas A&M has had an Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) grant; the previous one has ended and we hope to get another one in the future. The purpose of the pre-doctoral fellowships was to facilitate the training of leadership personnel in an effort to improve the education and overall well-being of bilingual children and youth with learning and behavior problems.
- Immersions: Currently the school psychology program at Texas A&M has an intense three week immersion program in Mexico. This program allows students to take 6 credit hours related to multicultural issues in Mexico, while at the same time participating in observations, and delivery of services in schools and mental health clinics in Mexico. This program is open to all students in the program as well as students in other programs, but it is encouraged that students who are interested in working specifically with Latinos and their families, participate in the program.
Retention & Recruitment
Funding is available through the program that covers all or a portion of the student's tuition and/or related fees. Special materials are used to recruit candidates from CLD backgrounds along with special retention strategies.
Field Placements
Students are provided with placements in high poverty schools serving a high number of CLD students and assigned to supervisors that have had training or experience working with diverse populations.
At least one member of the faculty is involved in research and publication in the area of multicultural or bilingual issues. Faculty profiles and research interests are available on the Texas A&M website at this time and are updated annually (spsy.tamu.edu).
Program Specifics
As part of the curriculum at Texas A&M, several courses are required that focus on a range of multicultural, cross-cultural or bilingual issues.
- Degree Awarded: PhD degree in School Psychology
- Total number of credits: PhD: 90-111 semester/hours
- NASP-Approved: Yes
- Bilingual Specialization: Yes
Contact Information
Phone: (979) 845-1833


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A World in Crisis … Let Something Good to improve
Good morning! to all my fans and readers around the world. First of all, here I am sending my good vibes, to have a good start this week.
I urge you to help with everything good that may be in you, tomake our world a better one, with peace, love and harmony …always giving thanks to the Divine Creator for his love and opportunity in each day, gives us better people, better human beings. Never forget to give a smile to everyone and tell his people about the love, this will make the difference. and remember to do good to those who deserve it, when it is able to do so.
Do something good today, so to be remembered by all generations. Blessings to everyone, thanks for reading.
I love you.
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Running on Empty
He runs—five to ten miles per day with his cross country team. He jumps-before and after cross country practice-on a super charged pogo stick. He flips-on a trampoline before sunrise and way after sunset. He skates, scats skedaddles—up and down the street and around the block on a skate board, on a long board, on a bike, on two feet. He never stops; not even to fuel all that movement with food or drink.
It's a typical summer scenario. Gannan, the quintessential boy, wakes up at the crack of dawn to soak up every single second of play time that he can wring out of a sweltering sunny day. Breakfast, if eaten at all, is usually a piece of fruit or a granola bar that he can shove down his throat as he's whipping open the backdoor (only to throw the wrapper on the lawn as the back gate slams.) At lunch time, I scream my voice hoarse trying to locate my Prince-of-Playtime. He comes reluctantly, shoulders slumped, smelling of sweat and dirt and grass, but will stubbornly stay out on the front porch until the food is absolutely ready–not wanting to let one second of fresh air miss his awaiting nose. Somehow it is as if all that playing has caused his legs to forget how to bend him to a seated position. So he stands…and bounces…up and down… and wolfs a half a sandwich in one bite. He runs toward the front door. I yell "Halt" and hand him an 8 ounce glass of milk. Foot tapping, he drinks half and then those tapping feet bolt him out through the portal-of-play. Dinner is much the same. Even though I require that he must spend at least ten minutes at the family dinner table, he still will eat a half of a hot dog in a great big chomp and shovel a handful of fries into his mouth so that they stick out like the whiskers of the Energizer Bunny. Feigning a stomach ache he says he can eat no more and then bounces his right leg up and down, keeping the engine revving, looking at the clock, sighing with head in hand, blowing his long bangs out of his eyes, doing whatever it is so that he can get away from that table and back out to paradise. As he bolts once more, I again demand he drink "at least SOMETHING!" He dramatically takes in a gulp of milk and dashes off to greener pastures with his mother smiling after him, marveling at his energy.
Okay, so to some of you this description of a boy and his love for summer will conjure some smiles and make you wistful for the days of Andy and Opie walking to the "crick" with their fishing poles slung over their shoulders. However, after what happened this week, the description makes me feel ashamed. Yes. That's right. I said ashamed. Not sunny. Not whistly. Not reminiscent of days gone by….nope. Ashamed. Here's why.
Last Saturday, I awoke to a very ghostly looking boy standing at the foot of my bed asking me where the thermometer was. His arms were holding his comforter tightly around him, pathetically and weakly whispering, "I don't think I feel good." Since this is not a phrase that typically is spoken by Gannan because he knows it is one that would seal his fate INSIDE for the day, I immediately pop the thermometer in his mouth. It reads 103 degrees, and so I begin all the "mom" things that we do when we have a sick kid. Get him set up on the couch, ply him with Advil, coo and coddle. I suggest to him that he sip a little ginger ale and I wait for the protest. But to my surprise, he doesn't. Instead he asks for water, and I give him water; glass after glass after glass. It seems as if he is a bottomless pit and can't get enough H2O. That's not the only thing that is unusual. He practically begs for food. I question my husband…."What's that saying? Feed a cold-starve a fever. Or is it–starve a cold and feed a fever?" No matter. He wanted food; an egg and cheese sandwich to be exact, and then a bowl of cereal, and then a strawberry milkshake, and then another. All eaten in the span of two hours. He was ravenous. He was severely parched, very odd behavior for a sick kid. Or was it?
By Monday things hadn't changed and as I played Nurse Nightingale all weekend, something began to nag me in the part of my brain that houses the very large place where my "mom guilt" resides. And at the doctor's office, that nag was rewarded with a confirmation of exactly the diagnosis my "mom guilt" had already figured upon. Gannan in all his rigorous athletic, sporadic, manic movement had dehydrated. According to the Mayo Clinic's website dehydration in children can cause high fevers, kidney failure, seizures and swelling of the brain. It also states that athletes during exercise will absorb about 24 to 32 ounces of water an hour and lose twice that in the hot weather. Great…It had been 90 degrees all week. Had I even seen water in Gannan's hand on the way to each cross country practice? With every hour a person like Gannan has an increase in fluid debt and needs to replenish constantly. Well, readers, if you go back and read that pleasant diatribe on my child's love for summer and you add up what he typically drinks, you'll realize, just as my inner mom guilt did…that a typical day for him would be a FORCED 8 to 12 ounces of fluid, not nearly enough.
Shame on me. Shame on me for allowing my child to slowly dehydrate. Shame on me for letting him get away with the dashing and the bolting out the door with his gas tank on empty. But most of all, shame on me for not being a stronger mom and REQUIRING the proper nutrition. It was just more peaceful, less of a hassle to let him play than it was to argue with him over food and drink. I took the easy way out and now because of that…it isn't so easy for Gan.
Today is Friday. Six days after that ghostly request for the thermometer and still Gannan lies quietly on the couch battling a fever that won't let him alone; one that spikes upon any exertion whatsoever. Yesterday he was tested for the viral illness mono and pneumonia. All tests came back negative and yet the fever holds on as tightly as Gannan holds on to summer. Last night he said to me, "I feel sick." I answered, "I know you do babe. I am sorry." He shook his head and said, "No. That isn't what I mean. I feel sick that this is the way I have to spend the last days of my summer vacation."
"Gannan," I answered. "I feel sick too."
Logan has lived in Glens Falls, NY all her life. By day, she is an educator with 20 years experience, a mom to Aidan and Gannan, her two teenage boys, a new mommy to a beautiful daughter, Ila, and wife to the love of her life, Jeffrey. By night, weekends and any spare time she can find, Logan writes. She loves memoir and also adores writing essays about the challenges of parenthood. This year she started a parenting blog called A Muddled Mother, an honest place where mothers aren't afraid to speak of the complications and difficulties that we all inevitably experience. Logan has been published in various children's and parenting magazines including Today's Motherhood, Eye on Education, Faces, and Appleseed.


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If you wanted to strength train, you wouldn't use jogging as your primary form of achieving that. Because you know that's not how 'building muscular size or strength' works.
And yet, you might still be doing things to 'improve your mobility' that aren't actually creating the changes you're seeking. There is so much misunderstanding around 'getting more mobile', 'increasing usable mobility', and 'getting rid of aches and pains'…
And so in this article, I wanted to share knowledge with you so that you can dial in what you're doing to get yourself better results with your mobility goals.
One thing before we dive in…if you like doing one of the things I list below, and you want to keep doing them, that's a-ok. It's your life to choose what you do with it, I'm simply presenting a few pieces of science so that you can be more informed about how these methods do and do not work.
Four Mobility Myths
Myth 1. Your tissue will become more mobile by using a foam roller or lacrosse ball on it.
A driving factor for your mobility, or, 'the range of motion in your joints that you have access to', is your nervous system. It is always adjusting based on the input it's receiving from your internal and external environments.
In order to expand your mobility, you must show your nervous system that it is safe to enter that range of motion. This is done by applying intentional directional force inputs into the tissues to assist them in alterations.
It would be nice if you could simply lay on a foam roller and have your nervous system understand that you now have the ability to safely enter new ranges of motion in your joints, but it doesn't work that way. Remember, there is no such thing as a 'free lunch' when it comes to biology. (H/T Tim Ferriss)
Michael Ranfone said it beautifully, "If your mobility work doesn't cost you something, it doesn't give you something either."
You can see this clearly when you watch someone rehab from a major injury or accident. At some point in the rehab, the therapist starts requiring the patient to actively participate in learning to flex, extend, and rotate, their joint again instead of the therapist doing all of the work to move their limb for them.
The patient is required to start contracting specific muscles again in order to regain control of the joint or area that was injured. If you watch the patient, you see them working very intensely on making their joint move, on flexing their tissues with as much force as they can muster, even if it only creates a few degrees of joint movement that day.
You don't have to have been in a major accident to have the same science apply to you. Regaining lost tissue function, range, control, or strength requires your active participation.
The inputs applied to your body to make a change to your range of motion have to change the structure of the tissues themselves and change the neural control of that joint and those tissues.
When a well-trained manual therapist applies pressure into your tissues, they are applying intentional force into a specific layer of tissue, while taking up skin slack in order to get through to the layer they are trying to effect. And if they are really an excellent therapist, they'll following that treatment up with some kind of drill to incorporate your nervous system to learn more about how to use the tissues they just treated. A foam roller just won't do that.
All of this is not to say that foam rollers are useless. They (and all other self-massage implements) do have a palliative effect, in that they feel good even if they do not address the root cause of what's going on when used as a stand alone treatment.
This 'feel good' palliative effect might support a decrease in sympathetic drive if used in a way that the body feels safe and then the parasympathetic system can do its thing. Meaning: if it hurts a lot to foam roll, you're not getting the decrease in sympathetic drive, in fact, you're likely getting an increase in it.
One interesting thing that foam rollers might do is open up a sort of "neurological window". Your nervous system is always paying attention, and laying on a self-massage implement might be drawing more of your nervous system's attention to that area of your body, which might make the area more receptive to movements or drills you do immediately following the foam rolling.
However, those movements or drills would have to be specific and intentional muscular contractions that teach the nervous system something specific about the joint you're attending to and your control of it, not something random or overly-complex for where your nervous system control is at this time.
Myth 2. Stretching harder will make it stretchier.
Think about why you stretch…the common belief is that you use stretching to "loosen up" the tissue that is tight, aberrant, or "knotted up". But there is a significant problem with seeing your tissues as things that are 'tight' that need 'loosening', 'releasing', or 'unknotting'.
Your body is always keeping track of how "tight" or "loose" your tissues are. (We'll save for another day the discussion on why the terms 'tight' and 'loose' are inadequate.) And each tissue is at its current length-tension relationship for a reason. And that reason is not "because it hates you and wants you to suffer."
One possible reason for a 'tight' feeling muscle…if your nervous system knows you don't have stability at a joint where there should be stability, it will create stability using other tissues in your body, even if that means making one bit of soft tissue extra 'tight' feeling to do so.
Another possible reason for 'tight' feeling muscles…when you don't move your joints – and their associated tissues – through their full range of motion regularly, you stop having full access to the function of those joints and tissues.
And, you can't ignore the fact that high sympathetic drive can also influence how 'tight' you feel in your muscles.
And so you stretch, to try to 'release' that tight feeling. And if figure that if you're feeling something, you're probably doing something. So you stretch more. And on that cycle goes.
But doing something for the sake of feeling like you did something is akin to making your bed instead of writing your term paper/doing your taxes/handling your hard life stuff. You feel like you did something, but your feeling of doing something isn't related to doing the thing you need to do.
'Feeling it' does not equate to 'doing something effective'.
In addition, humans have done a bang up job of turning fitness into a thing that must be experienced with great intensity, obliterating all of the shades of grey that reside between the ends of the spectrum between "not exerting any force" and "exerting all of the force".
To assume that anything less than "intense" is useless, is to miss the point entirely.
Passive stretching does serve a few purposes though…
It fits into neural control training protocols, which is something I rely on routinely to help a client expand, control, and strengthen their range of motion and movement capability.
Passive stretching also serves the purpose of getting you to move more and connect to your breath throughout your day. Think of the last time you got out of the car after a long trip, you probably folded over to touch your toes (or your knees) and you took a few deep breaths. Or think back to that last meeting you were in…you might have stood up afterwards and stretched your arms behind your back as you took a few deep breaths.
The reality that any kind of movement during your day could assist you in reconnecting to your breath and could serve as a reminder to move your body more means it doesn't deserve to be fully vilified.
It simply needs to fit in its correct place in the spectrum of 'stuff that supports you feeling good and moving well.'
We've now covered two of the four most common mobility myths. Click HERE to read Part Two, where I'll cover the next two myths – yoga and "the genetic lottery".
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I own a dog and can't imagine our house without him there. I can't imagine why we didn't get a dog sooner. But God works in mysterious ways.
Our dog is a black lab and one of the best dogs around. He is a mix of some sort but we are not sure a mix of what. He was adopted after being turned into the SPCA because he was too much work for his owner. We have really ben blessed. But I am not a dog lover in the normal sense. I don't treat him like one of my kids. But he acts like one sometimes. It is great that when I come home from anywhere he acts like I have been gone a year. That tail is wagging so hard his whole body is moving. It was like when my kids were toddlers. They acted the same way.
In any event, I found this post on a site called "Reshareworthy" from a link of a blog I read daily. It is a great post. It is called 20 Essential Facts Dog Lovers Must Always Remember.


text: Ransomware has been far from low-profile since its inception several years ago. Everyone knows what the file-encrypting malware does, and they all know that paying the ransom can make the nightmare go away by decrypting the files located on their computer. As if the threat of losing data forever wasn't enough, you're staring down a ticking clock while this is going on. Nowadays, ransomware is becoming more difficult to manage through various tactics.


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Yea, We Have to Do This
That was the decision my buddy David Seigler and I have come to as we have enjoyed copious amounts of every critter you can imagine, along with some veggies and starches on occasion. Of course during our hang outs we also consume a delicious amount of "adult beverages", hang out with our dogs, work on home food production systems and generally eat ourselves into a meat coma.
Over the past year we have really started upping the game, cooking game collected by rifles and road kill alike. We realized about twice a month we get together at my place, eat amazing food and then generally don't remember exactly how we made it. So one day we thought of the idea to do an online cooking show, came up with a few ideas and during a plate of fried muscovy duck breast, twice fried Japanese purple sweet potatoes and Gochujang infused mayo, we stopped killing martinis long enough to commit to this adventure, in that moment we simply said, we have to do this!
Our goal is to include something we either grew, sourced locally, shot, caught, foraged or bartered for in every episode, which should not be a problem.
So What is Biltong and Why "Biltong for Breakfast"?
Most people will tell you that biltong is an "African form of jerky", these people are NOT to be trusted. To say biltong is a form of jerky is like saying a fine prosciutto is a form of pork jerky. Yes it is that bad. The good news is while up there with the finest cured meats, by using only red meats and a unique process biltong is ready in 4-7 days vs. 6 months or more for many cured meats that use pork.
Biltong was started by the Dutch Boers in South Africa, it is a basic form of dry pickling in a manner of speaking. There are only 5 ingredients in traditional biltong. First a red meat of your choice. Beef is fine, venison is great, if you can get bison more power to you, elk, you get it, red meat. No squirrels, rabbits, chickens, pigs, RED MEAT ONLY. The meat is cut about 1 inch by 1 inch thick or even thicker, not thin like jerky.
You then lightly coat the meat in apple cider vinegar, and salt it about like you'd salt a soft pretzel, you add fresh ground black pepper and ground coriander. You hold the meat chilled over night in the fridge. The meat is then cured not directly dehydrated.
In the bush this is done in the dry season by hanging the meat in a shaded area with good airflow. In modern times you simply hang the meat in an air conditioned room with good air flow. Wait 3-4 days and start checking it for doneness, just a bit pink in the center is great. But if you go thick enough you can nail it with a steak house medium rare this is off the hook.
So why did we call this show Biltong For Breakfast. Well, it certainly isn't that the show is going to be about biltong all the time. It is more that we both are cooks, not bakers. We don't bake bread, make cakes, whip up cookies and crap like that. No instead we focus on meats, veggies, some starches and copious amounts of top shelf adult cocktails. We are also big on fish, game, wild caught, home grown, etc. So the name just seemed fitting. The man who serves you Biltong for Breakfast is not likely to want to show you how to make a bunt cake, or some other such sugary nonsense.
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So what can you expect from Laurus Ryecroft?
Opening in a brand-new building offered us the chance to work with architects to plan exactly the right learning environment to provide a curriculum that delivers our vision:
'For every student, regardless of background or circumstance, to acquire the knowledge and develop the qualities which will open the door to the future of their choice.'
Laurus Ryecroft will provide an excellent and rounded education for all its students, regardless of their individual backgrounds, preparing them well for their future careers.
Our curriculum will ensure that every student recognises what it takes to succeed, sets aspirational goals and works hard to achieve them with the support of a highly qualified and dedicated team of education professionals. It will be shaped by the students as it responds to their individual needs and underpinned by the Cornerstones of the Laurus Trust: Academic Aspiration, Leadership and Service, Competition and Physical Endeavour and Culture, Creativity and Rhetoric.
We operate a one week, 28 lesson, timetable cycle. All lessons are 55 minute duration.
Students will also attend a minimum of 2 hours of electives each week.
Upon entry into Year 7, students are placed into one of 8 Personal Tutor Groups. These are divided into 2 bands and Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) are organised within these bands. Groups are based on attainment and are informed by National Curriculum tests and our own internal assessments. These arrangements may change as each student progresses through the Key Stage.
Humanities subjects, Art, Music, Drama, PE, Computing, Applied Science and Science are taught in mixed ability groups. English is taught in ability sets and Mathematics in mixed groups.
All subjects follow the relevant national curriculum programme of study. For more information,
please follow this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
For additional information on the content which is covered during years 7, 8 and 9 please see the
KS3 Curriculum Reference Guide below.
For information about Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance (CEIAG) please click on the link below.


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When you file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, you enter into a repayment plan that lasts between three and five years. You use your income to make plan payments to the bankruptcy trustee, usually on a monthly basis. The amount of your payments depend on your "disposable income." The trustee then repays your creditors -- in part or in full depending on the type of debt. If you make plan payments during the entire duration of your plan period, then many of your remaining debts will be discharged (wiped out) at the end of your case (not all types of debts can be discharaged, however).
But what happens if you lose your job during the repayment period or get a new job at a lower salary or pay rate? Will you still have to make plan payments that were based on a higher income?
If you are in the middle of a Chapter 13 repayment plan and you lose your job, all is not lost. Chapter 13 is designed to give you the opportunity to repay your debts based on the disposable income (i.e. income left over after paying your expenses) that you have available to you. Your payments are based both on the kind of debt you have (with mortgages and other secured debts requiring full payment) as well as on how much disposable income you actually have to put towards debt, both secured and unsecured.
Life experience tells us that disposable incomes can and do change. The bankruptcy system understands that and has created flexibility in the law that allows for bankruptcy courts to modify repayment plans when necessary and when circumstances change. If you still have enough income to make plan payments, your bankruptcy attorney can ask the court to change your plan payment amount. pThe petition submitted by your bankruptcy attorney will include a new plan based on your new income, offering lower monthly payments and simply repaying less of the debt.
While the same general rules will be in place regarding full payment of secured debts (as well as full payment of certain other debts such as child support payments), the low-priority unsecured creditors will simply receive less money under the new repayment structure than they would have had the job loss not occurred. This means a larger portion of the debt will end up being discharged at the end of the chapter 13 repayment plan term. (To learn more about the details, check out our section on the Chapter 13 Repayment Plan.)
In some situations, you may be able to get the remaining debts discharged, similar to what happens in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. To learn more about that, see our article on The Chapter 13 Hardship Discharge.
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Glamour is a "gift" used by the people of Luna.[citation needed] For years people on Earth were convinced that it was "magic," even Cinder before realizing she could use it herself. Glamour is not magic, however; it is the manipulation of bioelectricity. This allows one to put thoughts into someone's head. Shells are immune to the glamour used by the Lunars, which is why they are taken away right after they're born.
History Edit
The glamour was first found and recognized by Cyprus Blackburn, creator of Luna and the Lunar gift. He got it after some exposure to gamma rays. It was carried down generation by generation, even before World War lll. The Lunar civilization and cultures of Lunars were greatly modified by glamours. For the first time, women could look the way they wanted to, without expensive new-age surgery or expensive modern medicine. Children could get whatever they wanted. Bullying and misuse was everywhere. For the Lunar society, anything was possible.
Functions Edit
Glamours worked by a special system of cells, genes, and neurons. They used it to manipulate people. There are some Lunars that have more enhanced bioelectricity-manipulating abilities. Some of these people become thaumaturges. Thaumaturges are Lunars that are the strongest manipulators, second only to the Queen herself.
Preferences and signaturesEdit
Glamour of the Blackburn family is very strong, as demonstrated by Cinder during the night of the ball. Levana immediately recognized Cinder as her long-lost niece because her power was even stronger than her own. But, for Lunar guards, Levana and Sybil prefer their glamour to be weaker so they can control them easily in battle. The guards are picked for strength and beauty. They are tested in their fourteenth year for these traits.
Weaknesses Edit
It does not affect shells, androids, and those possessing the bioelectricty security system, a device invented by Linh Garan. It can also be exposed by netscreens, portscreens, and mirrors. That is why Levana and other people like to cover themselves up, so they cannot be exposed.
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| 8.5°C Belfast
Angry Belfast Giants coach Derrick Walser slammed referee Stefan Hogarth after being thrown out of the game seconds before the end of his team's 3-2 defeat to the Nottingham Panthers.
Walser blasted the official for making what he branded a "selfish call" that led to the five-on-three powerplay from which Nottingham scored their winning goal with nine minutes to go.
And the irate Giants coach claimed that the 4,700 crowd in the SSE Arena were robbed of the possibility of seeing a thrilling finish to the game.
"You can't always harp on about the referees, but in my opinion he really messed up a championship game," said Walser.
"It was two teams battling for first, us trying to close the gap on Nottingham and he ruined it with nine minutes left in the game."
Nottingham had led at the end of the first period when Steven Lee struck at 15:16.
James Desmarais continued his impressive goalscoring form this season when he fired home the equaliser at 24:34.
Jeff Dimmen put the Panthers ahead for the second time at 30:02, before Chris Higgins netted a beauty to put the Giants back on level terms five minutes into the third period - taking a hit from Matthew Myers in the process, which cost the Nottingham man two minutes in the penalty box and could see him brought before the Elite League's disciplinary panel this week.
The real drama, however, came five minutes later.
Higgins had just been sent to the box for a cross-checking offence when 35 seconds later, Kris Beech collided with Panthers' David Clarke.
It appeared to be little more than two players coming together, but Hogarth deemed it to be a boarding offence against Beech, handing the Panthers a two-man advantage in the process.
Just 45 seconds into the five-on-three, Juraj Kolnik finished neatly for what turned out to be the winner and when Hogarth then penalised the Giants for having too many men on the ice in the dying seconds of the game, Walser let rip and was subsequently thrown out.
"I'm not disappointed in the guys. I thought the guys had a great weekend, it was one of our better weekends," said Walser.
"I know we didn't get the results that we wanted, but I feel bad because technically we didn't lose the game.
"We didn't lose the game. Technically I thought it was taken from us.
"The guys battled hard, there was a great crowd, they were into it, it's just disappointing how one man on the ice can ruin it."
Hogarth had also been in charge on Friday night when the Giants beat Nottingham 4-3 in a fantastic contest.
Walser accepted his decision to rule out a Craig Peacock goal during that game, but refused to accept that he made the right calls on Saturday and the Giants player-coach is now demanding that the Elite League examine referee's performances, particularly as they could be the difference between winning the league or not.
"I wasn't hard on him with the no-goal call on Friday night," he said.
"I spoke to him pretty respectfully for five and a half periods and then he calls the softest penalty I have seen in a long time, where it really meant nothing.
"It was really soft and then he has the nerve to put us down five-on-three right away.
"The league has got to start looking into this stuff because two points or one point is very important for every team when it's as tight as it is right now.
"You could lose the league by one point just because of a selfish call by a referee who thinks he's going to make a stamp on a game like that.
"It's hard for me to bite my tongue on it. I feel bad for the guys because they battled hard and they deserved the chance to finish the game whatever way it would have went - overtime, shoot-out, five-on-five.
"Even if we don't win the game, it doesn't matter if we'd have lost in regulation, the guys played hard and we deserved to finish the game playing hard and whatever would have happened, happened, but now I feel like we just got robbed of the opportunity to see what would have happened."
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Ultra-high Resolution Zone Plates
To further increase the resolution of Fresnel zone plates beyond the limits of electron-beam lithography, we have developed a novel technique based on the coating of a template structure with a metal layer. The electron-beam written template is coated uniformly with iridium using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process (see figure 1). As iridium has a much higher x-ray refractive index as the template, we obtain a doubling of the effective zone density and subsequent improvement of the resolution by a factor of two compared to the template structure [1].
The method was used to fabricate iridium FZPs with line widths down to 12 nm. The imaging properties of the devices were experimentally demonstrated in the scanning soft x-ray microscope PolLux at the SLS using a test object consisting of GaAs/InGaAs line pairs of varying thickness (see Fig. 3). Line pairs down to 9 nm have been be resolved [2], which represents the best resolution to date achieved in soft x-ray microscopy.
This method can also be applied to produce Fresnel zone plates for the multi keV photon range. Using high energy electron-beam lithography electron-beam lithography, we can fabricate HSQ template structures with aspect rations beyond 20. After ALD coating, we obtained Iridium zone plates with outermost zones that are 550 nm high and only 20 nm wide (see Figure 3). This type of zone plates shows excellent resolution and good efficiency at high photon energies (see Figure 4) [3,4].
- K. Jefimovs, J. Vila-Comamala, T. Pilvi, J. Raabe, M. Ritala, and C. David, A zone doubling technique to produce ultra-high resolution x-ray optics Physical Review Letters 99 (2007) p. 264801
- J. Vila-Comamala, K. Jefimovs, T. Pilvi, J. Raabe, R.H. Fink, M. Senoner, A. Maaßdorf, M. Ritala, and C. David, Advanced Thin Film Technology for Ultrahigh Resolution X-Ray Microscopy Ultramicroscopy 109 (2009) p. 1360–1364
- J. Vila-Comamala, S. Gorelick, E. Färm, C.M. Kewish, A. Diaz, R. Barrett, V.A. Guzenko, M. Ritala, and C. David Ultra-high resolution zone-doubled diffractive X-ray optics for the multi-keV regime Optics Express 19 (2011) p. 175 - 184
- J. Vila-Comamala, Y. Pan, J.J. Lombardo, W.M. Harris, W.K.S. Chiu, C. David, Y. Wang, Zone-doubled Fresnel Zone Plates for High-Resolution Hard X-ray Full-Field Transmission Microscopy Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 19 (2012) p. 705-709


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After being told I was 20 years too young for double knee replacements, I felt completely defeated. Constant double knee pain was keeping me up at night, unable to keep up with my own schedule, as well as trying to attend the extracurricular activities and events of my two active kids. It was difficult to stand, walk, climb stairs, and I began to turn down social engagements just to stay at home and rest my arthritic knees. I found myself with a diminished quality of life in my early 40's, and I desperately wanted help.
I arrived at IMAC Regeneration Center, where I was told for the first time that there WAS HOPE… and it wasn't surgery, but an amazing stem cell procedure where they took my own stem cells and put them back into my knees. Skeptical at first, I asked a lot of crazy questions to convince myself this wasn't a "sci-fi" situation, or a "too good to be true" method of care. I was reassured by the expertise of the medical team when they went over the entire stem cell procedure, and within an hour I was literally WALKING out of the center on two brand new knees! In a follow-up PRP injection, I had to ask one of the staff if they put numbing medicine in my knees, that I went from intense pain to almost ZERO pain in the SAME DAY! My recovery only took a few days, and I was back to work after a weekend of relaxing at home.
I don't have to stretch my knees first thing in the morning to get out of bed. I no longer have to prop my knees up at the end of the day, or take daily over-the-counter pain medicine to function. Since my procedure, my daily walking average has almost doubled, and I'm not even trying to fit in more walking time, but just LIVING MY LIFE! I have experienced diminished pain, sleep-filled nights not tossing and turning, increased social activities and increased quality of life. The only downside to this procedure is I should've had it done YEARS AGO.
I can't thank the staff of the IMAC Regeneration Center enough for giving me my life back. Being a part of my children's lives has been the greatest gift anyone could have given me. And I am forever grateful for the memories I get to make with them that I wouldn't otherwise have been able to make. You have given me not only new knees; you have given me my life back!
-Amy M.


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Updating The Bathroom On A Small Budget
1. Cleaning the Bathroom: This is one of the most effective ways to initially update the look of your bathroom. A good, through clean will often work wonders and it does not cost a great deal, just a bit of hard work and time. Start at the entrance and work through it slowly. Place items in box that you want to throw away, others in a box to give to charity and the rest either stays in the bathroom or moved elsewhere.
Under the sink, empty out all the cupboards and try to free up as much space as possible. The aim here is to try and clear all the counter-tops and areas around the sink of clutter. Freeing up space will allow you to put all the counter-top items in there and hidden away. If your shower has mildew or mold on it then a great way to clean it is with a mixture of water and bleach in a spray bottle. You will be amazed at how quickly the caulking and grout comes up sparkling white.
2. Window and Shower Curtains: Using a cleaning agent such as Oxi Clean, curtains can quite easily be washed. If you have blinds, they can often be washed under the shower. If your shower curtain is looking a little tired then they are quite easy and cheap to replace, costing in the region of around twenty dollars. You can also replace any window dressing with new paper blinds which are cheap and easy to cut to the required size. After a couple of years they can easily be replaced.
3. Cabinets: One of the biggest things that can make your bathroom look outdated is old bathroom sink vanities. The can also be quite expensive to replace. Even just replacing the doors or having them refaced can be an expensive exercise. First of all, they need a thoroughly good clean to bring out the best in them. This way you will be able to see what you are working with. With a good clean they may not need any further work, but they can be repainted if the surface is marked or damaged. Another good option is to replace the knobs. These are easy and cheap to replace and make a surprisingly big difference to the look of your bathroom vanities.
4. Re-painting. Painting a bathroom can improve the appearance quite remarkably. Applying a completely different color or just a fresh coat of paint will make many bathrooms look like new. Earthy, natural colors are particularly in vogue at the moment. It should be possible to re-paint many bathrooms for under thirty dollars.
If you follow these simple steps you could have a new, modern looking bathroom that looks considerably different. It should not be too expensive either with all the work being done quite easily for under one hundred dollars.


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I am a latecomer to the Podcast craze. Podcasting started when I was in college, but I never had the time or the interest to check it out. Podcasting required an IPod and ITunes right? At least that's what I thought. It wasn't until a friend recommended I listen to the Joe Rogan Experience that I started enjoying podcasts.
For those who don't know, Joe Rogan is best known as that guy from Fear Factor and the commentator for the UFC. Joe Rogan has one of the most popular podcasts on the Internet. He interviews guests from all walks of life. On JRE #328 he had Dan Carlin on as his guest. Dan Carlin is a former TV and print journalist from LA who now is a blogger and podcaster living in Eugene, Oregon. On this episode Joe and Dan talked about a wide range of topics including Dan's 2 podcasts Common Sense and Hardcore History.
Common Sense discusses mostly current events and Hardcore History handles a wide range of historical figures and times. The running times for these two different podcasts vary widely as do their frequency of production. Due to the current events discussed on Common Sense, Dan usually puts out a new episode every few weeks, which lasts 40-60 minutes. Hardcore History on the other hand takes months to prepare and can last 3 or more hours over many different parts.
Dan always reminds his listeners that it takes so much time to release a new episode because it takes him weeks and months to research the specific topic. The depth to which he discusses a topic demonstrates just how much time he must take and how much he is interested in the topics he discusses. He also makes it a point to state in every episode that he is not a historian with a PhD, but instead is a "fan of history". He prefers it this way because he is able to examine multiple topics ranging over a wide swath of historical times, where as a historian has studied one specific subject or time period throughout his career.
The first episode I listened to was a 5 part series on Genghis Khan and the Mongols called "Wrath of the Khans". Dan had discussed this episode with Joe and it sounded intriguing. I was not disappointed. Over the next 8 hours I listened to some of the most riveting information I had ever heard. Dan talks about how Genghis Khan was able to unite these Steppe peoples, something the Chinese dynasties had always feared. The Steppe people were nomadic and expert horsemen. They used battlefield tactics never seen before by their foes, and were reported to be extremely brutal to those they captured.
Dan presents his topics with multiple sources from multiple points of view so you don't feel you are just hearing one side of the story. He is also quick to point out when he thinks "facts" are being exaggerated because the source was a historian in the Mongol court or the Chinese emperor's court. Dan also points out that while current discussions will present the Khans as spreading diplomacy and expanding trade routes, if you lived through the Mongolian invasions, your view of them might not be so kind. Just as we picture Alexander the Great as this romantic figure, but if you were on the other point of his sword you might not feel the same way.
After the podcast was over, I felt like I had just read 4 books on the topic and was excited to learn more. On his website he displays his notes after each show with references and books to check out.
Other topics that Dan presents are the fall of the Roman Republic, the Germanic tribes that lived north of Rome, the protestant reformation, the Spanish-American War, Etc. Some of these episodes like the fall of the Roman Republic have direct correlations to today's political climate. Dan releases the episodes for free on ITunes and only asks for a donation of $1 if you like what you hear. Older episodes can be bought on his website for a small fee. I recently bought a 4 part series on the eastern front during WWII for around 10 dollars.
If you enjoy history and like to listen to audio books I am sure you will enjoy Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. You will not be disappointed.


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A computer malware that has spread across 150 countries appears to be slowing down, with few reports of fresh attacks in Asia and Europe on Monday.
However staff beginning the working week have been told to be careful.
The WannaCry ransomware started taking over users' files on Friday, demanding $300 (£230) to restore access.
Hundreds of thousands of computers have been affected so far. Computer giant Microsoft said the attack should serve as a wake-up call.
BBC analysis of three accounts linked to the ransom demands suggests only about $38,000 (£29,400) had been paid by Monday morning.
However, the ransomware warning said that...Read more...
Source: bbc.com