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I am constantly shocked at the number of artists I meet that do not have a internet presence of any sort, let alone have a web site. Establishing a skilled, engaging presence on-line is an absolute necessity for any artist who hopes to create their profession and make a living from their art. And it is a lot less complicated that it might appear.
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Business cards aid to add a skilled appeal to your ARBONNE business. Give them to your consumers, post them on bulletin boards, leave them at companies or anyplace else that you can leave them. Work From House: You can also operate from residence and ask your children or family to look after your business even though you are away. You don't have to be present all the time in case of a vending machine business. Excellent article. Loved it. I have tried most of them. All of them demand lots of patience.


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Prescott set to allow more greenbelt homes
More greenfield sites look set be earmarked for housing under controversial plans to be outlined next week by the deputy prime minister, John Prescott.
Under the proposal, expected in a consultation paper, planning authorities would be forced to release more land for housing in areas where house prices are high.
The idea was put forward last year by the economist Kate Barker in her review of housing supply for the Treasury.
She said extra land should be released for new homes in areas where house prices rise above agreed thresholds. The idea has alarmed planners and countryside campaigners, but the government is believed to support it as a way of achieving a "step change" in the number of new homes built in the south-east of England.
Speaking at a Town and Country Planning Association conference this Wednesday, Mr Prescott said: "Too often in the past, the planning system has failed to respond to changing demand for homes in different places. We want plans to take better account of housing markets and need and reflect the needs and circumstances of different areas."
Kelvin MacDonald, director of policy at the Royal Town Planning Institute, said planning could not be reduced to simple mechanisms.
"It totally misunderstands the role of the planning," he said, "planning demands community involvement and community support. It has got to address a number of competing issues, it is not a sausage machine."
Mr MacDonald said he supports the drive for more housing, but he added that the planning system could not be relegated to a single issue.
He also pointed out that restrictions in land supply was only one reason for rising house prices.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England is also concerned by the scheme. Kate Gordon, its national planning officer, said: "It would be a huge mistake to use market triggers as the overriding rationale for deciding where, when and how much housing development should take place."
She claimed this "market-led approach" would be put more rural areas at risk, undermine efforts to recycle vacant urban land, and exacerbate regional disparities.
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Every time you hit an achievement in League of Legends, you could trigger "micro-savings." That's the big idea that enabled Blast to raise $5 million in funding.
Blast's micro-savings tools will eventually work with most games, from hardcore hits like League of Legends to casual fare such as Candy Crush Saga. Micro-savings has become popular with credit cards, where your purchases can be rounded up to transfer small amounts of money into savings accounts with every purchase you make.
Newport Beach, California-based Blast wants to encourage people to save, and it is starting with the world's 2.6 billion gamers, who can save and earn money while playing games that they love, said Walter Cruttenden, chairman of Blast and its related company Acorns, in an interview with GamesBeat.
"We decided to merge fintech and gaming," Cruttenden said. "This is not cryptocurrency. It's real money. It's a way for people to save."
Blast creates a wallet where you can store digital money. You can set "trigger savings," which can generate interest paid on balances, reap dividends from "missions" that you complete in a game, and weekly payouts for those who are ahead on a leaderboard.
"As you play your favorite games, you can set triggers," said Stephen Tyszka, chief strategy officer, in an interview. "I am a huge League of Legends player. Every time I take out a minion, I save a penny. A turret, a quarter. If I win the match, I save a dollar."
In some cases, you are saving money on your own through the Blast Wallet, transferring money from the equivalent of a checking account to a savings account. In other cases, you are earning new money from game companies that will pay you to stay highly engaged with their games.
It's a twist on "gamification," which offers game-like rewards for non-game applications.
"In games, it has been frustrating," Tyszka said. "You hit new levels and nothing happens. You get the same bells and whistles."
Blast is in beta testing and it will launch soon. Blast's "trigger save" feature enables gamers to set triggers based on key in-game achievements such as enemies defeated, turrets destroyed, and matches won in PC titles such as League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
The app also enables mobile gamers to save and win money automatically while playing any Android game, like Candy Crush and Clash Royale.
Players can earn dividends through "missions," which allow the user to test new games or take their favorite games to the next level. Additionally, gamers compete for ranking on a Blast "leaderboard" through missions accomplished, with half of all users receiving a portion of the weekly leaderboard payout, based on rank reached, up to $10,000 each week, for the top tier. The weekly payout schedule will be announced by top gamers and streamed on Twitch.tv.
"It becomes more fun when there's real money involved," Cruttenden said.
The mobile version does not require developers to integrate a software development kit (SDK). The aim is to increase retention and re-engagement for games, and it turns gamers into investors.
"It's hard to get publishers to install one more SDK," said Armin Collosi, head of partnerships for Blast, in an interview. "It's instant. Game developers and publishers are already marking the points in the game where you have an achievement. We use those points for triggered savings."
Blast users accumulate money in an FDIC-insured account earning 1 percent (annual percentage yield), plus any dividends earned from missions.
As the balance builds, a user can elect to let it grow, use the funds for in-app-purchases in their favorite games, move it to a partner institution to be invested, or just take it out of the wallet and spend it.
Investors in the $5 million seed round include the Forbes and Roth families, Core Innovation Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Snowmass Private Equity, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and others. The funds will carry the company through its current beta program and launch, expected in the second quarter. Blast offers protection from overdrafts, the company said.
Cruttenden said that Blast was started in the past year to focus on gamers. But the idea started with Cruttenden's Acorns, which built infrastructure to move and invest "micro monies," or very small amounts of money. Blast builds on this by allowing you to do more things with your digital wallet.
About 70 percent of the population doesn't even have $1,000 in savings, Cruttenden said. One of the keys here is that the amount of money transferred each time is small. It's a painless amount, but over time, it really adds up, Cruttenden said.
"Whenever you can break a service into small increments and distribute it widely, it works," he said. "It worked for Coca-Cola, and they bottled it."
Blast has 25 employees. Over time, they will add platforms including Android, the PC, the consoles, and iOS.
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About three months ago, my four year old son saw a toy at a store. He mentioned that he had played with it at a friend's house and that he wanted one.
But rather than demanding it this minute, he asked how much it would cost. Then, he asked how many allowances he'd have to save to be able to afford it.
He waited the necessary six weeks' of allowance (plus some pocket money put into his bank by Grandma), then happily went to the store and bought himself a Zhu Zhu Pet. The weird little electronic hamster has spent the last few weeks constantly running around on our floors – and I couldn't be prouder.
No, I'm not proud that he got a Zhu Zhu Pet – my primary concern there is that I'm going to accidentally step on it and hurt my foot when he's sending the toy all over the place and I'm walking through the entryway or the dining room.
I'm proud of other things.
I'm proud that he didn't have a meltdown in the toy area, demanding one now, which is something that we witnessed two other children doing that very day.
I'm proud that he didn't simply ask for or expect for me to just buy that toy for him.
I'm proud that he knew to save diligently for it and not to spend money along the way – he even pointed out that if he saved his "pocket money" too and went without the small stuff, he'd get the pet sooner.
I'm proud that even though he was really into saving for the toy, he still put money from his allowance aside for college and aside for his favorite charity.
How did we get to this point? I really attribute it to three things.
First, we bring home the point time and time again that everything costs money and that Mom and Dad have to work to earn the money they have. Whenever we consider any purchase of any kind, this is an idea that's brought up. We also talk about how the more money we spend, the more Mom and Dad have to work, and we also point out that as he gets older, he'll also be working for money.
Second, we do not give in to any sort of meltdown, crying, or whining. We leave, period. Neither Sarah nor I have any problem with just walking out of the store if either of our two older children melt down, particularly over a material desire. (Our youngest one is four months – the only reason he melts down is when he wants milk or a diaper change.) Our older kids have learned that crying and such only makes their case and their situation worse, so they've largely abandoned it. Yes, they still do it sometimes – they're four and three, after all – but it's not something that happens often, and it's usually when they're tired and acting more on raw emotion.
Third, we help them mark their progress towards specific savings goals. For example, when saving for the Zhu Zhu pet, we made it clear to our son that he would need $8.50 for the pet ($8 for the item, $0.50 for taxes). Each week, they get a small allowance – $0.50 for spending as they wish, $0.50 for saving for a goal, $0.50 for a charity, and $0.50 for college. Each week, he diligently chose to put the free spending money and the saving money into the saving for a goal slot in his bank. Then, he would ask how much more he'd have to save and he started to get quite excited when he was close to the goal. The clear marking of progress – talking about it, seeing money build up in his bank – excited him far more than the delayed gratification brought him down.
It works. If you want your kids to learn how to save, start young and be diligent. Our four year old gets it – it can be done!


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Nowadays, with the rise of big data, greater machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and the Internet of Things (IoT), reliance on machines by humans became greater than ever before. In one sense, the human race is becoming more and more digitally and social media sophisticated but in contrast, we, humans and companies, are increasingly relying on analytics and machines to think and make critical decisions. Given this new paradigm, how can we manage and get everything under control again?
Data is the new natural resource
In 2012, Facebook handled over 500 terabytes of data, 300 million photos, 2.6 billion 'likes' and 2.5 billion content uploads, all of which, on a daily basis. We become More and more reliant on social media platforms to access and share things we care about and this situation will only intensify. In such context, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest logically continue to monetize their services and it is expected that the experience make of them will get more and more tailored to their needs, thanks to Big Data based technologies.
Did you know? Facebook already uses our data to predict our personalities with more accuracy than close friends and families. Every like, share, follow and comment, is data that tells social media companies what one likes or dislikes, what one's actions will be, which cause or brand one will support and what one is likely to buy next. Not to mention, any action one takes using their browsers and search engines today will most likely link back to their social media profile, leaving behind a long trail of digital footprint that can be used to detect their next move.
Big Data… the chaos?
90% of the world's data was created within the past two years. Off this data, only 20 percent is effectively structured, the remaining 80 percent of this newly created data is "unstructured" content stemming from sources such as Instagram photos, YouTube videos and social media posts. Given that this content is merely about people'sdoings, sayings andinterests, the ability to store, manage and analyze chaotic social data to gain new insights is a huge plus for marketers.
How can you structure this ocean of data?
The day your business will be capable of analysing and using 100% of this data, will be a GREAT day! In order to achieve that, companies can use content analytics to understand the content that is created, how it is used, the context it is in and the nature of that content. Content analytics are all about unstructured data and can be used to explain trends in structured data and provide valuable insights to organisations.
The objective is to deliver the relevant content to the right audience via the right channels at the right moment to support the right objective. Thanks to Content Analytics and the real time perspective it offers, your entreprise will be able to take more informed marketing decisions. The right data sets can open doors to Customer Intelligence based strategies, insights on new trends and market needs.
It is not about more content; it is about better content!
Unfortunately, most companies nurture a flawed notion of the use of social media for business. They set up pages on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and begin mesuring their success counting likes, shares, tweets and +1s. Impressive as these numbers seem to be, these vanity metrics fail to provide details relating to marketing campaigns, including sales, new customers and revenue generation.
Knowing who reads what content, when, how often it isshared, the number of clicks, location of visitors, etc. is not sufficient anymore. You should also care about whether the content is actually useful to your audiences whileserving the business objective it was intended for. Content related trends or insights revealing information i.e. what content caused a drop in sales can help make better content and thus drive growth or revenue.
Understanding your business and the future of your social media sphere?
With the 3 "tives analytics"!
For many years we have been trying to understand how organisations around the world behave by analysing available data.
In the past, this used to be merely descriptive analytics. This answers the question "what happened in the past with the business?" With the availability of Big Data we entered the new area of predictive analytics, which focuses on answering the question: "what is probably going to happen in the future?" However, the real advantage of analytics comes with the final stage of analytics: prescriptive analytics. This type of analytics takes on this third question: "Now what?" or "so what?" It tries to give a recommendation for key decisions based on future outcomes.
What's the difference between these three '…tives analytics' and how do they affect your organisation? First of all, these three types of analytics should co-exist. One is not better than the other, they are just different, but all of them are necessary to obtain a complete overview of your organisation. In fact, they are more consecutive and all of them contribute to the objective of improving your decision-making.
Descriptive Analytics is About the Past
Descriptive analytics helps organisations understand what happened in the past: this can be from one minute ago to a few years back. It deals with the relationship between customers and products all while the objective is to gain an better understanding of what approach to take in the future : learn from past behaviours to influence future outcomes.
Netflix for example uses descriptive analytics to find correlations among different movies that subscribers rent and to improve their recommendation engine they used historic sales and customer data.
Descriptive analysis is an important source to determine what to do next and with predictive analytics such data can be turned into information regarding the likely future outcome of an event.
Predictive Analytics is About the Future
Predictive analytics provides organisations with actionable insights based on various data from a Big Data methodology: it can range from open, sales or social media data to historical and transactional data. Statistical models and algorithms are then used to capture relationships in these various data sets and provide an estimation regarding the likelihood of a future outcome. In order to do this, a variety of techniques are used, such as machine learning, data mining, modelling and game theory.
Predictive analytics can for example help identifying any future risks or opportunities. An example of predictive analytics is forecasting the demand for a certain region or customer segment and to adjust production based on the forecast. With predictive analytics it is important to have as much data as possible. More data means better predictions.
Prescriptive Analytics is About Predictions
Prescriptive analytics is the final stage in understanding your business. They not only deal with what will happen and when it will happen but also with the why and provide recommendations on about how to act upon it in order to take advantage of the predictions from stage 2.
Prescriptive Analytics is still in its infancy, it's been around only since 2003, and it remains still so complex that there are very little best practices on the market. Only 3% of the companies use this technique, and still in a fashion that's still plundered by a certain margin of error. In 2016's Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies by Gartner, prescriptive analytics was mentioned as an "Innovation Trigger" that will take another 5-10 years to reach the plateau of productivity.
Prescriptive Analytics uses a combination of many different techniques and tools, such as mathematical sciences, business rule algorithms, machine learning and computational modelling techniques as well as many different data sets ranging from historical and transactional data to public and social data sets.
One of the best examples is Google's self-driving car that makes decisions based on various predictions and future outcomes. These cars need to anticipate what's coming in the very near future and what could be the consequences of each possible decision it will make before it actually take one.
Prescriptive analytics tries to see what the effect of future decisions will be in order to adjust the decisions before they are actually made. This will improve decision-making furthermore as future outcomes are taken into consideration, in the prediction.
WIIFM : What's In It For Me?
Here are the 4 benefits from content analytics :
- It creates machine-readable content from your unstructured data that allows computers and machines to understand the unstructured content and link it to other data for additional insights.
- It improves retrievability thanks to semantic metadata that is added to the content.
- It helps organisations understand what content they have or need and more importantly why that is the case.
- It helps understanding the causes behind the trends and events that can't be discovered with traditional business intelligence. It therefore helps explaining why things happen taking into account vast amounts of documents and content in real-time.
Content Analytics : beyond business intelligence
In the coming years, Content analytics will become more critical in order to discover new insights from big data, to criticise your organisation's content, to deliver smarter social media experiences and to take better-informed decisions that take into account future outcomes. As such, Content analytics will undoubtedly impact any industry and any organisation and help them becoming more effective and efficient.
Thanks a bunch for reading. Tune in for more. That's it from me, Valérie Maus de Rolley at World of Digits signing off.
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Customer Orientation:
The ability and willingness to find out what the customer wants and needs and to act accordingly, taking the organization's costs and benefits into account.
Behavioral Examples
is respectful to customers, no matter how unreasonable their demands or complaints are
shows his/her willingness to come to a solution
aims for a win-win situation
recognizes opportunities to inform clients of his/her services, anticipates future needs
makes a thorough inventory of the client's needs and wishes by asking further questions
informs clients about solutions that meet their needs
translates the client's wishes into the organization's products and services
makes sure the client is satisfied and renders extra services when necessary
listens carefully and makes sure the client feels heard and important
looks at the organization through the eyes of the client and his needs; makes improvements accordingly
is aware of the clients' interests and needs and anticipates them
demonstrates the advantages of his/her services to the client
is clear about the organization's products and services and looks for alternatives with the client when necessary
is honest about the limitations of his/her services and takes the trouble to refer the client elsewhere
is aware of the needs and problems of specific client groups
develops strategic approaches to various client groups now and in the future
builds relationships with organizations representing certain clients to hear what they have to say
comes up with new ways of how to approach clients now and in the future
Development Potential
Customer orientation can be easily developed if the candidate has a more than average score (7,8,9) on the drives Helpfulness, Sociability & contact and Social empathy.
Interview Questions
What can you say about a difficult customer you encountered recently? Why was he difficult? What did you do to satisfy the customer?
Some customers have unreasonable demands. When did you last encounter such a customer? Why did you find his demands unreasonable? What did you do eventually?
Which traits are important in order to interact well with customers? To what extent do you have those traits? To what extent could you train yourself to obtain these characteristics?
Could you describe a situation in which you dealt with a customer ineffectively?
When was the last time your boss criticized the way you deal with clients? How did you earn this criticism? How did you respond?
Development Activities
Inform your client of your proceedings.
Promise less than you deliver (underpromise and overdeliver).
Be clear about the services you provide.
Ask customers what they expect from you and ask them afterwards whether they are satisfied with your service.
Try to exceed your customer's expectations.
Coaching Advice
Simulate a situation in a role play in which a difficult customer files a complaint and see how the candidate reacts. Provide feedback afterwards. Does the candidate understand? Does he listen? Does he try to solve the customer's problem? Does he indicate he will do whatever it takes to prevent the same thing from happening again? Encourage your candidate to realize that the customer makes his organization work and therefore deserves a central position in his mind.
Make sure that your candidate listens carefully to his customers. Confront him when he does not listen to you carefully and draw a parallel to customer relations.
Explain the importance of knowing the customer's expectations and the notion that it is better to promise less and to deliver more (underpromise and overdeliver).
Ask the candidate how he could improve his service towards clients and discuss these ideas. Ask for specific and concrete improvements.
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Microsoft switches from Bing to Nokia maps in Windows Phone 8 for offline maps and turn-by-turn directions
Today at Microsoft's Windows Phone event, it is announcing a series of updates to its Windows 8 platform.
One of the biggest pieces that came out of the event is that Microsoft has dumped Bing to use Nokia maps for turn-by-turn directions and offline access in the platform.
Along with a shared core between Windows Phone and Windows, the company is showing off what users will be able to see this fall.
This is a developing story, please refresh for updates.
Read next: Windows Phone's wallet app to support credit and loyalty cards, deals, and NFC payments


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Blissful getaway in the beautiful island of Thulusdhoo, Maldives with Inner Seed.
Experience true island life on the Maldives white sandy beaches, and for the ultimate de-stressing and healthy break, maximize your well-being by taking part in daily sunrise and sunset yoga while facing the turquoise waters of Indian ocean.
Embrace nature and relax with soothing Ayurvedic and Balinese treatments, feel rejuvenated with indulgent spa therapies and find inner peace with yoga sessions. For more adventurous types, snorkeling and scuba-diving are great for exploring the splendor of the ocean.
Sunrise yoga on the rooftop. Explore the true meaning of well-being as you revive yourself through an ancient form of practice incorporating the utmost purity and tranquility.
Sunset yoga on the beach #innerseedretreats
Yoga is for everyone, you don't need to be an experts, nor be flexible to feel good. Each session includes the practice of pranayama (breathing exercises), asanas (yoga posture) and savasana (relaxation in the end of the class). Let yourself emerge into the flow of yoga practice.
Watch Inner Seed Maldives Soul Retreat video here
Spreading the love of life
With numerous snorkel sites nearby Thulusdhoo, there are plenty opportunities to take on adventure you've always fancied.
Sunrise yoga on the sand bank in the middle of Indian ocean.
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Burna Boy Regrets Missing Nipsey Hussle's Memorial Service In L.A
Burna Boy has expressed his disappointment at not being able to make it to Nipsey Hussles public memorial service.
The singer who in the past couple of days has been expressing his sadness over the death of the American rapper who was killed right in front of his store in Los Angeles about a fortnight ago.
As a result of the intense remorse Burna Boy has been showing over the unfortunate murder of the anti-gang advocate, many would only expect that the "Ye" singer would be present at the memorial service of the late rapper.
But the singer has now come out to express his disappointment at the fact that he missed the service which happened at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles yesterday. He revealed that he's been on the bus which couldn't make it to LA on time.
He wrote; "I'm so bummed i couldn't make it to LA on time to pay my respect. We still on the bus. But watching everything on the internet and seeing how everything turned out yesterday. I Know You live forever. R.I.P Nipsey."
Lots of superstars from many walks of life were present at the memorial service to pay their respect and it is comprehensible to understand why Burna feels a sort of regret at missing it.
You would recall Burna said after the immediate murder of Nipsey that he was the only one he was hoping to feature on his next album which spells what great respect the afrobeat star has for Nip.
R.I.P Nipsey


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Roblox Game Development: Adventure Maps
In this course you will:
✔ Create your own Challenging Adventure Map!
✔ Learn Lua Programming
✔ Use Tools, Variables, and the Terrain Editor
✔ Embark on 4 Epic Quests
✔ Complete 13 Coding Challenges
✔ Create a Lava Shield, Jump Wand, and Lantern!
Recommended for students ages 8 and up
System Requirements:
- PC: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, or Windows 10 or Mac: 10.7 (Lion) and higher – and Intel only Macs
- Must meet or exceed Roblox System Requirements
- Greater than 4-8 Mbps bandwith Test Your Network Speed.


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Developed by Thylacine Studios, Siralim is making its way to the PS4. Classed as a deep RPG with roguelike elements, Siralim lets players summon and customize hundreds of creatures to fight in strategic battles.
"Fight your way through randomly generated dungeons and complete randomized quests. Find rare treasure and use it to upgrade your castle, empower your creatures, craft powerful artifacts, learn new spells, and much more."
• Randomly generated dungeons and quests - no two dungeons are alike!
• Capture and summon over 300 unique creatures to fight for you. Each creature has its own unique abilities which directly affect the way you play the game.
• Upgrade your castle to add new rooms, to unlock new creatures, and to entice new citizens to live in your kingdom.
• Craft and enchant equipment to augment your creatures' power or to grant them new abilities. There are over 500 different crafting materials to collect and use.
• Craft powerful eggs which will someday hatch into extremely powerful creatures.
• Infinite playability. There is no level cap, no restrictions, and the game never ends. Want to play until your character is level 937? Go for it.
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A confessor was speaking in the dusty square of an old town with a pale cathedral and a blond brick clocktower. When he had finished his discourse, a pretty young woman cried out angrily, "Oh, bullshit! You're full of bullshit!" The confessor looked calmly at her and asked, "Bullshit? In clear ontological and epistemological terms, explain to me how it is that you are not the very epitome of bullshit itself." Shocked, the woman burst into tears and ran off. The clock struck twelve, the bells rang and the crowd laughed ambiguously. Some days later, as the confessor was returning to town from a short excursion, he saw the pretty woman rolling around in a carrall, much to the bewilderment and annoyance of the bull. "And how long has this been going on?" the confessor asked. "Three days," the bull lamented. "I won't go into details, but she seems obsessed with my, well, you know…" The woman was covered from head to foot in ripe, pungent dung. The confessor made her get up, and took her to a fountain in the town square where he carefully washed her with some soap borrowed from a barber as she sobbed and whispered to herself. "Maybe we will try some grammar and rhetoric before we attempt philosophy or astronomy," the confessor kindly suggested to her. She embraced him tightly and wept harder. The clock struck one, but the bells did not ring. The confessor thought that someone should look into that.
Month: December 2016
The White Horse
A young woman lived alone on the high plains between the sawtoothed peaks of indelible mountains. To pass the time, she collected sacred footprints, old wooden wheels that could fit into her palms, golden tape measures, brass coins with holes in their centers, silver tweezers, and the odd gear or screwdriver. One day, she encountered a fox, the most beautiful fox she had ever seen. It could teleport from one place to another. One moment it was on the horizon, and a moment later it was resting under a dried-up tree close by. The longer she gazed at it, the more she wanted it to keep her company, but she remembered that foxes are dangerous beings; their presence only leads to trouble. She walked on, scouring the land for stone beads, rare things, and sacred footprints, when the fox began to speak to the wind, telling it the story of the enchanted wooden horse. The woman had never found one of those before. Curious, she stopped to listen as the fox related all of the misadventures and mysterious exploits of the wooden horse. The shadows shifted on the rocks, sand and golden grass. Clouds raced back and forth across the high blue sky. Night began to fall when a cluster of stars formed themselves into a galloping, white horse. It must have been the enchanted wooden horse itself, descending from the sky in a light, quiet snowfall. The white horse neighed and trotted up to her, bringing its soft muzzle down to her cheek. Then the young woman gasped. The fox was nowhere in sight, and all of her screwdrivers, stone beads, wooden wheels, brass coins, silver tweezers, golden tape measures, rusted gears and sacred footprints had vanished. It has long been said in legends and in lectures that the words of a fox remain in the air for a long time after he has gone. In the great night of the mountains, the young woman rode the white horse through the endless desolation.
The Hanging
To read the book of time is to be inspired to write other books, and thus every planet and every world has become a library. On a machine planet a shepherd read the great book of time while tending to his sheep of cast iron and lead. Only one in a hundred sheep would provide steel wool; only half would survive the galactic winters. Through dusted concrete pastures, down tunnels of naked light bulbs and across railroads and scrapyards and mounds of coal and slag, he faithfully led the sheep, resting now and then to smoke or search for straw and stray tools. When he had finished reading the book of time by the light of an old train signal, burning like a tiger's eye in the darkness, his heart burned with a thousand books, tens of thousands of thoughts, hundreds of thousands of words. At the same time, he hungered for more books, more words, more thoughts to devour. Not a single new codex turned up on his nomadic searches, but he did find a book of blank pages, a book that rather resembled the book of time. The only thing left was to read and write as time permitted, and this is what he did. A word or two by matchsmoke, one page here and there in the company of growling and purring metallic sheep. One day, in the graveyard of rubber tires, the censors arrived with gendarmes and arrested him for reading a forbidden book, for plagiarism and for crimes against truth. They seized the two codices—one bone-white and the other gray like steel wool. The interrogations began at once while the bailiffs and sergeants built a ready-to-wear gallows in a matter of seconds, anchoring it on a mound of coal dust. The censor read out the charges again and demanded the reason for the shepherd's activities and his refusal to strip for his execution, which was a crime of resistance. The shepherd claimed not to have known that the book of time had been banned. Great books were difficult to come by, and he had found his copy in an abandoned kiln, where books turned up now and then, most of them half-burnt as kindling. Since he had so little time to read or write, he had been forced to choose. And thus he chose both—he copied words from books, especially the book of time, which was the only reading material still in his possession—so that he could immerse himself in the joys of both impression and expression. The censor shook his head in disgust. The shepherd said that from time to time he would slip into a daydream or trance, and during those minutes or hours his pen would not follow what was printed in the book but what randomly appeared in his mind. Thus, in the thousand pages of his bone-white codex that still had some blank spaces left, at least one hundred had not been copied, but had come from the pain in his heart and head. For this reason, the shepherd requested that he be allowed to wear his coat and hold his codex as he hanged. It is a strange thing to hang a legend. And the poor sheep were left alone.


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Pacton Gold Inc (CVE:PAC) (OTCMKTS:PACXF) revealed it expects to start drilling at the famous Red Lake district on Ontario this May, as it told investors it is set to buy more claims there.
The Vancouver-based company has struck a deal with Larry Herbert to acquire 100% ownership of the additional claims, which are contiguous and to the northwest of Pacton's current landholdings in the prolific Balmer Assemblage.
READ: Pacton Gold set to identify drill targets at Red Lake; presents historical finds
It means Pacton now holds 16,630 hectares in the area.
"Pacton's Red Lake land package now spans a large, underexplored area of the prolific Balmer Assemblage and Confederation Assemblage, as well as much of the contact between the two," said Dale Ginn, executive chairman of Pacton. "We view this as a clear opportunity to capitalize on prospective ground that hosts geological structures of considerable interest. Our team has an aggressive exploration program planned for this spring, and we expect to commence drilling in May."
The Balmer Assemblage hosts significant high-grade mineralization at Pure Gold's Madsen mine and Goldcorp's Red Lake and Campbell mines, which combined, have produced more than 20 million oz (ounces) of gold.
The new property contains geology consistent with known areas of high-grade gold mineralization, highlighted Pacton.
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To earn a 100% interest in the new claims, Pacton must complete a heli-mag survey on the property and issue 325,000 shares. it must also pay $100,000 over two years.
The property is subject to net smelter return (NSR) royalties of 2.5%, half of which can be purchased by Pacton for $2 million.
The prolific Red Lake mining district has produced more than 30 million ounces of gold and benefits from major active mining operations, including the Red Lake Gold Mine of Goldcorp Inc (NYSE:GG), plus modern infrastructure and a skilled workforce.
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The Two Big Macs Bet – An Accountability Post
Last month, I bet Raúl that there would be no Constituyente election on July 30th. I lost that bet. Here's my attempt to figure out where and why I went wrong.
Part of my job is to make predictions. Broadly, there are two ways you can do that. You can take the Luis Vicente León approach and hedge every call to within an inch of its life until it really isn't a prediction at all, because there are no circumstances in which it can be falsified. The appeal of this approach is clear enough: the guy's never ever wrong because he never ever takes a risk. Bo-ring!
The other approach is to make clear predictions. That's the one I go for. It's risky. It means some times I get to take victory laps and other times I have to take the walk of shame… this one is, erm, one of the latter.
Basically, I read the politics wrong, and also MUD's reaction.
Back in June, my partner Raúl Stolk bet me two Big Macs that the Constituent Assembly election would go ahead as scheduled on July 30th. I bet him they wouldn't. I owe him two burgers (Emi is vegetarian, so she sat this one out).
Here's how I got it wrong.
My argument, originally, was that going ahead with a widely despised Consituyente election was just too risky, and the government would eventually come to see that. Specifically, I argued:
To press forward with an Assembly the country plainly doesn't want is to invite the kind of civil conflict that I don't believe the people around Nicolás Maduro actually want. It's to court the next wave of Oscar Pérezes, this time inside the Armed Forces and organized, to attempt a power play. It's to invite a situation so explosive and uncontrollable that no politician with a working self-preservation instinct could want it.
My argument had two parts: first, that the Constituyente election was likely to destabilize the regime, and second that the regime would recognize that, accept that view, and respond by cancelling or postponing the vote. The first part of the analysis had serious problems, the second part was just plain wrong.
First the first part: protests were pretty strong in early June, and my assumption is that if people were destabilizing then, they'd be that much more raucous come Assembly Election time. Basically, I read the politics wrong, and also MUD's reaction. MUD didn't really dare to mount a coordinated attempt to sabotage the vote – and even so election day left 15 dead. The government then immediately pivoted – in what I have to admit was a brilliant, JVR-style gambit – to sucking MUD into a fratricidal discussion on gubernatorial elections. Together, the images of the Constituent Assembly officially convening with Delcy Rodríguez at its head, alongside anger at MUD leadership and its visible powerlessness ended up sucking all the air out of the protest movement instead.
Jorge Rodríguez/Raúl: 1, MUD/Quico: 0.
Of course, I also argued that going ahead with Constituyente elections would destabilize the Armed Forces, and I was partly vindicated by the Fort Paramacay fracas. There are lots of signs of military discontent, they are ongoing, and it may yet be that the government rues the day it decided to go ahead with such a polarizing election. (But that wasn't what my bet with Raúl was about, so I still lose those Big Macs.)
I plainly misjudged exactly how much risk Maduro and the people closest to him were willing to tolerate.
It's in the second part of the argument that I really had it wrong: I thought the clique around Maduro would eventually come around to understanding how destabilizing the election would be. I thought they'd share my analysis and realize it was in their best interest to avoid it. This just didn't pan out at all.
Jorge Rodríguez/Raúl: 2, MUD/Quico: 0.
The reasons are many: Diosdado Cabello's faction and the radical civilian wing of chavismo both mobilized to keep Maduro to his word, and their opinion plainly outweighed the voices urging a postponement of the vote. Though it's clear the government was repeatedly warned by multiple voices, both inside and outside Venezuela, about the dangers of going forward, Maduro concluded the warnings were just overblown. The ones that were coming from within his own security aparatus, I think, he dismissed as just overly cautious: exercises in bureaucratic ass-covering by analysts who didn't want to be blamed if "something" happened and they'd failed to issue the appropriate warnings.
One thing July 30th has taught us is that the Armed Forces aren't really a veto player within the regime. Their instinctive conservatism and their private warnings to Maduro were just disregarded by a leadership clique that has a higher tolerance for risk than they do. Like them, I plainly misjudged exactly how much risk Maduro and the people closest to him were willing to bear.
Turns out they're willing to tolerate a lot more risk than I thought.
Personally, I still think that's likely to catch up with them sooner rather than later, but that's neither here nor there. The voices counselling caution ahead of July 30th weren't strong enough to get the Constituyente election called off, and next time we meet I get to sit in stony silence while Raúl enjoys two gorgeous burgers in front of me.
I went out on a limb, and I got it wrong. For an analyst, it's an occupational hazard. Posts like these aren't a huge deal of fun to write, but I'd still rather do it this way than hedge everything to the point of meaninglessness.
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MakuluLinux 14 LinDoz uses Cinnamon as Desktop, and that requires a Video card that has 3D (OpenGL) support. To get this running properly as a VM within Vmware Workstation or Vmware Workstation Player, some settings need to be taken care of for the VM itself, and the Vmware Tools installed within LinDoz itself. This guides you through the installation.
Setting up the VM for the installation
This guide uses Vmware Workstation, if you are using Vmware Workstation, the procedure is similar.
Open Vmware Workstation manager. Click on "File", "New Virtual Machine".
Select "Custom (advanced)", then click on "Next".
Now select the Compatibility level of the VM. I usually select "Workstation 12.x", as this works on a larger number of PC's, while "Workstation 14.x" requires the host PC to have certain CPU's and it's features enabled to run. But basically this is up to you. Once you have selected this, click on "Next".
Now select the iso file of LinDoz and click on "Next".
In the Next Window select "2. Linux" and version "Ubuntu 64-bit", then "Next"
Now Give the VM a name, for example "MakuluLinux-14-LinDoz Vmware", and also a location on your HD for the VM. Make sure there will be enough space on that disk to install the VM on. Around 20GB or more should be fine. Then click on "Next". Now assign the VM the number of CPU cores you want to allow it. Don't select more than the number of threads your PC's Physical CPU actually has. Often 1 core is enough. Then click on "Next".
Now you get to assign the amount of RAM for the VM. The default of "1024 MB" may just work, but for good performance you should assign at least "2048 MB". Here you also must make sure that your host PC actually has the amount of RAM you assign here. If your host only has 4 GB of RAM, then your host OS will use some of that, and your VM will also use some of it. Depending on what OS you are running on your host PC, and what other software is open, 4 GB may be a little on the lower end and you should consider adding more RAM to your PC. Once you have selected the amount RAM click on "Next" yet again.
The next Window allows you to select the Network type the default "NAT" will usually work fine, but if you have setup a LAN at your place like I have, then "Bridged Networking" would be the better option, as then your VM will be able to access your network resources and vice-versa. Once you have picked your Network Type, click on "Next".
The next Question for controller type you can use the default recommendation, so click on "Next".
Now select "Create a new Virtual Disk" and click on "Next".
Select the size for the virtual Disk (as I mentioned earlier, 20 GB or more should be fine). I usually don't select "Allocate all disk space now", as that way the size of the virtual disk starts out small, and more space will only get assigned as needed. This may have a small performance loss, but it is negligible. I do select "Split virtual disk into multiple files" as that way the files can be backed up more easily to Fat32 formatted USB disks (Fat32 only allows for a maximum file-size of 4 GB), or also to DVD's, most of which have a maximum capacity of 4.7 GB. Click on "Next" when done.
The next Window asks you for a name for this file. You can normally just click on "Next" here.
Now click on "Customize Hardware…" and a hardware Window will open. Select "Display" and select "Accelerate 3D Graphics". Also make sure to assign at least "128 MB Graphics Memory" to the VM. When done click on "Close".
Now disable "Automatically power on this virtual machine after creation" and click on finish.
If your host PC is running Linux as the main OS, and you are running Vmware on this OS, you must now manually edit vmx file that was created for the VM during setup, and add the following line to it:
mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"
I suggest you do this on M$ Windows hosts as well, it shouldn't make a difference there, but then you can run the VM on Linux hosts as well and that makes you more flexible.
Now you can start installing LinDoz.
Install MakuluLinux-14-LinDoz as the VM
In the Vmware Manager select the VM, then click on the "Go" button, or "Startup this guest operation system". The iso will boot. Sometimes you can get a message that cinnamon just crashed, if that happens, don't worry and click on Yes to restart it. Once the OS is up and running, double click the "live Installer" icon on the desktop and install LinDoz. Answer the Questions to properly install the OS. Once installed shutdown and then in the settings of the VM make sure the iso or DVD isn't enabled. Now boot LinDoz and you should be able to run it as normal.
Now, once the installed VM is running, click on "VM" in the Manager and select "update Vmware tools", or "install Vmware tools", or "reinstall Vmware tools". This can be different depending on the the situation.
After that double Click "Computer" on the desktop, then select the "DVD drive", which should have the Vmware Tools loaded.
Open the "Vmware-Tools*.tar.gz" file, and extract it, for example to your download folder.
Then select "Show the files", go into the directory, right click an empty part of the desktop you end up with, and select "Open as root".
Now double click "vmware-install.pl". Then click on "run in terminal". After that acknowledge the Questions you get asked, be patient, this can take some time. When finished, reboot.
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According to new research, the fish population is likely to significantly decrease in size by 2050 due to global warming and changing oxygen levels in the oceans. The average weight of over 600 types of marine fish including cod, halibut and flounder is expected to decrease by about 14-24 percent by from 2000 to 2050.
Rising water temperatures caused by global warming have the effect of cutting off the amount of oxygen in the oceans. This may also lead to dwindling catches for fisheries. According to William Cheung of the University of British Columbia in Canada, "The reductions in body size will affect whole ecosystems."
Cheung is a lead author of the findings, posted in the journal Nature Climate Change. Cheung and his team believe that smaller fish sizes will have major effects upon ocean food webs and fisheries and the human consumption of fish. As human burn fossil fuels, life becomes more difficult for oceanic fish because warm water is not capable of holding as much dissolved oxygen as colder water. Oxygen is vital for these fish for respiration as well as growth.
"As the fish grow bigger and bigger it will be difficult to get enough oxygen for growth. There is more demand for oxygen as the body grows. At some point the fish will stop growing," Cheung deduced from the study, based upon computer models.
Fish are also more likely to migrate from tropic seas towards cooler waters North and South. As water gets warmer it gets lighter as well, mixing with oxygen near the surface of the water rather than the cooler deeper levels where many fish live.
In the Indian Ocean fish size is expected to shrink the most, by an average of 24 percent, followed by a 20% decrease in the Atlantic and a 14% decrease in the Pacific. The study also predicted that most fish populations would towards the North and South poles at a median rate of 17.1 to 22.6 miles per decade from 2000 to 2050.
Marine food chains are expected to suffer from these changes most of all. In addition to over-fishing and pollution, many fish like cod swallow their prey whole, and can only eat fish that can fit in their mouths. Cod may now become less fearsome to many smaller fish, and allow these smaller species to suddenly thrive.
Increasing climate change should be the cause of all of this; the study predicts an increase in world temperature of between 3.6 to 9.7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.
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The Ceylon Petroleum Cooperation has detained a stock of diesel imported by the Indian Oil Company since it had failed quality standard tests.
A consignment of 5000 Metric Tonnes of diesel has been impounded in the following manner while unloading has also been suspended.
Chairman of the Kolonnawa Oil Storage Terminal Major General M.R.W. Soysa expressing his views to our news team stated that
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When it comes to marketing, any investment that doesn't yield results becomes an expensive mistake.
As anyone in marketing will tell you, the marketing budget is never big enough. For some marketers, marketing budgets are limited more to investments in time, rather than cash; this can be especially true for nonprofits, small businesses, and new startups.
Don't let a limited marketing budget limit your outreach. Even if you have more time than money in the budget, a little strategic thinking can help get you where you want to go. Here are some channels that can provide no-cost marketing opportunities.


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Angaza Afrika, translated from the Swahili to mean "Shed light on Africa" or "Look around Africa", is comprehensive in its range. Each work will be a stunning visual and physical manifestation of the artists' energy and spirit, such as Rachid Kora's Sufi-inspired black and white applique work and the beautiful work of South African artist Karel Nel, who sets vast leaves from the Coco de Mer palms in atmospheric, elemental architectural spaces.
Other featured artists include Romuald Hazoumè, whose immense installation Dream (2007), consisting of a boat made from petrol canisters, placed in front of a panoramic photograph won the Documenta 12 prize; El Anatsui, who with his magnificent cloths made from thousands of glimmering bottle tops was one of the highlights of the 52nd Venice Biennale and who will transform Channel's 50ft logo, situated in front of their London Headquarters, with an installation in June 2008; Owusu-Ankomah, whose drawings were chosen by Giorgio Armani for his Emporio Armani (PRODUCT) RED capsule collection and Abdoulaye Konatè who has been shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 2008 Prize.


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ST. LOUIS — U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway reached a settlement Thursday with online gambling company BetOnSports PLC which permanently bars the London-based company from accepting any bets from the United States.
The settlement ends a massive civil case Hanaway filed this summer.
The settlement also requires BetOnSports to open a toll-free telephone service to inform bettors how they can reclaim wagers pending before the suit was filed.
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Evil Genius is a book that basically describes how sinister and nefarious I wanted to be when I was younger. It is about a boy named Cadel Piggot, wait no, Darkkon...English? We'll get to that later I guess...Basically Cadel was born a genius. By the age of seven he was banned from computer usage because of the things he could do with them. Many years and a few dastardly plans that destroyed half a building and the careers of a whole class later, Cadel, with the help of his father and counselor gets enrolled into the Axis Institute. It is a college for the creation of evil. Not even a year into college, Cadel accidentally kills almost all of the staff and finds out his whole life was a lie.
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Gabriel Project, NMPD Plan to "Stuff the Cruiser"
It is time, once more, for area residents to help stuff the cruiser of New Martinsville Police Department Chief Tim Cecil!
This is the second year in a row that NMPD and Cecil will join forces with The Gabriel Project's Wetzel County site. Linda Barth, of the Gabriel Project, encourages shoppers on Friday, Oct. 13 to make donations of baby items to help local needy babies. The event will last from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Items accepted are as follows: baby food or pouches, baby cereal, baby bottle sets or sippy cups, pacifiers and teethers, diapers (sizes 2, 3, 4, 5) or pull-ups, wipes, diaper creme, baby bath wash, baby washcloths and towels, all baby safety items, baby gate, and all shoes/boots/socks/a nd slippers.
The Gabriel Project also welcomes monetary donations and gift cards.
The project is always available to provide emotional support, information about child care, and they even make referrals to other social service organizations. The Gabriel Project is always in need of volunteers as well. Also, check out "Gabriel Project Wetzel Site" on Facebook.
The project is located at 515 Maple Avenue in New Martinsville, and can be reached by calling 304-398-4156 or (681) 302-8413.


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Namita Nayyar:
Who has been your greatest inspiration in achieving success in your career?
Kristina Rihanoff:
Definitely my mum and my dance teachers. I think I was always surrounded by strong women so I looked up to them since I was a kid. Becoming a professional dancer in Soviet Russia took a lot of courage but I believed in my craft and myself so I worked very hard to archive what I have. I was never waiting for anything on a silver plate. I just worked more then anyone else and wasn't scared of opportunities. Nothing will happen if you just sitting and waiting for something to come your way. You have to work hard, there is no short cuts to success.
Namita Nayyar:
In September 2017, you launched your fashion line in collaboration with Pia Michi. Share with us your Top 5 Picks for Fall 2018.
Kristina Rihanoff:
I loved my collaboration with Pia Michi. I have been wearing this brand for red carpets for 9 years ! I love their feminine and body hugging dresses !
I actually don't follow fashion trends that much as I believe in dressing comfortably and suitable for my own body type. However I love good bags and shoes so this is what I'm usually investing in for new seasons. You can look very stylish just by accessorising your look without spending a fortune on every season.
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With social media becoming big day by day, what do you wish to spread your message through this channel?
Kristina Rihanoff:
I am active on my social media and most of my posts are about my projects like yoga and dance classes. I try to answer any questions from my followers and help them if they have any concerns about adapting new hobby like yoga. I just want all women to feel good about themselves and if I can help in any shape or form I'm very happy to do so!
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Women Fitness works with a goal provide women with best in health, fitness, nutrition, beauty & fashion. Share your view about the website (Womenfitness.net) and an inspirational message for our readers?
Kristina Rihanoff:
As a working mum my main message would be this: I know we all trying our hardest to be good mums and be good to our families. But we can't give our best if we don't look after ourselves. I know we might feel guilty by taking an hour to do yoga or dance class, by taking some money out of family budget to pay for a new hobby or new outfit but at the end of the day these things keep us feeling good, refreshed and just normal ! So don't feel guilty about making a difference in you as it will make a difference in everything you else around you!
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Politics: You don't have to get your hands dirty to get involved
Monday, April 6, 2015on
I hear it all the time when I tell people that I work in Public Policy. "Well, I don't play that politics game," or "It's too complicated," or "I have a family, a job, I'm involved in my church, and I don't have time to get caught up in that." The public perception of politics is that it's an insider's game that is impossible to navigate: the bills are hard to read, the proceedings on the House and Senate floors are chaotic, the legislative process is complicated, the committee hearings are dull and filled with political jargon, and, most of all, politics is a dirty game. Sound familiar? Chances are you've had these thoughts whether you are involved in public policy or not, and, they aren't all inaccurate. But let's start with that last statement: Politics is a dirty game: The truth is, you don't have to get your hands dirty, or play any kind of political game to get involved and make a difference. What's the easiest way to do that? Focus on the policy issues, not the political issues. As a member of the business community, and even as a citizen, legislation is being written, voted on, and passed or killed every day that affects your livelihood and quality of life. Notice that I didn't say you have a vested interest in all legislation. Engage in issues that you're passionate about. If you don't make your livelihood or spend your spare time hunting, you're probably not real concerned about the Turkey hunting bill, H.3118, that's sitting in conference committee. And that's OK! But if you're a small business owner that owns property, the Trespasser Responsibility Act that passed the House last month protects you from being held liable if a trespasser is hurt on your property. That's a bill that affects you and your bottom line. By focusing on the issues, you don't have to get involved in partisan squabbles or inflammatory rhetoric. So, (1) Find your issues. And, (2) Advocate for them. This can take two minutes. Pick up the phone, or write a short email letting your House members and Senators know what you want. Two minutes - it can be that simple to get involved. You can find your legislators by clicking here, and all of their office phone numbers and emails are listed online. If you want to go a step further, ask them to meet you for coffee or for a quick meeting in their office when they are in their home districts. You don't have to be in Columbia to get your voice heard (but if you are, and happen to get a little dirt on you, you can always take the Governor's advice). Mondays and Fridays are perfect days to meet with them when the Legislature is in session from January through June. Be honest and sincere with them on how legislation is going to affect you, no dirt, no games. As for the rest of those thoughts: Politics is an insider's game that is impossible to navigate. This can be true, and that's where we step in. We are your eyes and ears at the Statehouse, your voice, sorting through the politics to give you information on what bills will affect our community and how. We send out legislative updates every week that give you easy-to-understand commentary on what's happening in Columbia, along with links to news articles that you might be interested in. If you aren't getting our updates already, you can sign up for them by joining our grassroots list. If you are a member of one of our 13 Chambers of Commerce, you may contact us any time to discuss an issue and give us feedback. You can make a difference and get involved without getting in the political weeds. Let the politicians play the game, you be the referee.
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Art Academy
Our art academy sets the goal of art-creative abilities and art taste development, awakening of interest to the fine arts, acquaintance with various genres of painting.
We use color pencils, gouache, a water color and a palette.
Classes are being held weekly on Sundays.
Please, look at our teacher's blog: AcademicArts.blogspot.com
Lessons Plan:
- The image of subjects and environments
- Drawing (people, animals and plants)
- Composition
- Still-life
- Painting (free painting, favorite cities and fairy tales)
- Application of various techniques in art
- Moulding
Welcome to Russian Center's new 3-6 years old Art teacher Zaryana Bezu! She will teach Saturday's classes 9:45-10:25 and 10:25am-10:55am
Zaryana Bezu has been teaching art since 2000. She has worked with children of all ages and skill levels. She received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in 2004 and is currently taking Early Childhood Education classes from Waldorf Institute of Southeastern Michigan. Zaryana has had the opportunity to teach for a variety of institutions like Saturday Morning Classes at CCAD, and YMCA. In 2010 she started to give private art lessons and soon after she opened her own little art school Children's Art Program that was located in Forest City, Iowa. Currently Zaryana is working at the Juniper school Waldorf-inspired preschool, raising two daughters and spending her free time creating whimsical artworks. To see Zaryana's artworks please visit: www.bezuart.com
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En-Nesyri smashed home the opener in the 22nd minute, adding another from close range before half-time and sealed his hat-trick after the hour mark and the player was quick to thank his teammates after the heroics.
"It wasn't a personal success, rather a collective team effort and scoring a hat-trick will always be one to remember. I feel happy to be the first player to score a hat-trick but it took the collective efforts of those with me on the pitch, others on the bench and our fans inside the Butarque [Leganes stadium] to make it happen," the striker said after the match.
21-year-old En-Nesyri, who only joined Leganes from Malaga last August, has now scored seven goals in his last five league matches for the club.
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Born in the Moroccan city of Fès, he began his youth career at Académie Mohammed VI before moving to Spanish club Malaga's youth side in the summer of 2015.
He represented Morocco at U-20 and U-23 level before making his senior debut in a 0-0 friendly draw against Albania in August 2016. Drafted in as a late replacement for defender Badr Benoun, he scored with a superb header on his only appearance at the 2018 World Cup in the thrilling 2-2 draw against Spain.
He has six goals in 21 appearances for the Atlas Lions and played all Group B matches as the North Africans secured a spot at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.


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People saving for their retirement may want to consider putting some of their retirement assets into gold, silver and other precious metals. Unlike the typical stocks, bonds, annuities and mutual funds that people put into their individual retirement accounts, precious metals can never become worthless. But they also don't pay any interest. Investing IRA assets in precious metals requires planning.
Open a self-directed traditional or Roth IRA account with a trustee or custodian experienced in handling precious metal transactions. In a self-directed account the IRA owner decides what to invest in, rather than having the choice restricted to the IRA investment products offered by the bank, brokerage or mutual fund handling your IRA. Decide whether your precious-metal IRA will be a traditional IRA where contributions are tax-deductible but retirement distributions are taxed, or a Roth IRA where you get no tax deduction for contributions but retirement distributions are tax-free.Step 2
Deposit money with your IRA trustee or custodian in a cash account. A precious metal IRA is subject to the same Internal Revenue Service contribution rules as other IRAs. As of publication, you can contribute up to $5,000 per year collectively to all the IRAs you own, or $6,000 if you are over age 50. Review how much you already have contributed to IRAs during the year to know how much you can put into your precious metals IRA. For example, if you are under age 50 and had contributed $3,000 to another IRA during the year, you can put only $2,000 into your precious-metal IRA.Step 3
Tell the account custodian what precious metals to buy. Choose from the IRS-approved gold, silver, platinum and palladium legal tender bullion coins minted by the United States and certain foreign countries including Canada, China, Australia and Austria. You can also include precious metal bars issued by international banks and major mining companies. These highly liquid assets trade in the markets every day at prevailing bullion prices. Gold coins and bars must be at least .995 fine. Silver coins and bars must be at least .999 fine. Platinum and palladium coins and bars must be at least .9995 fine. The IRA custodian will draw from your cash account to make the purchase and will store your physical metals with a depository service company. The custodian will send you periodic statements listing your holdings.Step 4
Track precious metal market prices and take advantage of favorable price fluctuations to increase your account. When you want to sell metals, tell your IRA custodian what metals to sell. The IRA custodian will hold the sale proceeds in your cash account pending further instructions from you. There are no tax consequences so long as precious-metal purchase and sale transactions stay inside the IRA and nothing is paid to you. At retirement, tell the custodian whether you want your retirement distributions paid to you in physical metals at fair market value or in cash from sale of your metals.
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The first step in becoming a Realtor in the United States is to become a member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which is done by joining a real estate association or board. New NAR members are required to take a course online about the ethics code and then pass a test on the material. Current NAR members need to take a refresher course every four years. An important part of being an NAR member is to adhere to the association's strict standards of practice and code of ethics. The ethics code is updated every year in order to reflect changes in real estate law. However, the main thrust of this code is that all parties to a real estate transaction must be treated honestly [source: National Association of Realtors]. Realtors vow to never withhold information or mislead any participants in a real estate transaction.
In fact, this strict code of ethics is what distinguishes Realtors from real estate agents who are not members of the NAR. The NAR has a solid reputation behind it and many people decide to become members of the association in order to capitalize on this. Becoming an NAR member gives you access to consumers who would prefer to use a real estate agent who has taken an oath of honesty over one who hasn't.
The National Association of Realtors is essentially a trade organization and being a member of it provides you with a collective voice, which can be used in order to lobby for stronger legal protections. Another one of the benefits of group membership is that it will allow you to network and learn about the most effective practices for your specific community. Realtors can further hone their skills by taking educational courses and participating in annual conferences.


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|Review: Anubis Gate - The Detached
|The Detached
Label: Locomotive Music
Year released: 2009
Duration: 65:15
Tracks: 12
Genre: Progressive Power Metal
Rating: 5+/5
Review online: April 13, 2009
Reviewed by: Christopher Foley
for:The Detached
Rated 4.4/5 (87.92%) (53 Votes)
Every once in a while a band releases an album that makes us all stop what we're doing and look. Be it Lost Horizon's incredible A Flame to the Ground Beneath, Defying the Rules from Brazil's Hibria or recently Pharaoh's Be Gone – albums every metalhead should hear at least once in a lifetime. When Anubis Gate released the superlative Andromeda Unchained heads turned the world over, having an effect similar to the aforementioned albums. Ladies and gentlemen prepare to take notice once again, as Anubis Gate proves Andromeda Unchained wasn't the only ace up their collective sleeves.
Once again a concept album with a pretty damn sweet story, based around a chap named Bilao who belongs to a special race of humans; the Detached. They are called the Detached because they are immortal and able to move time past them, and thus detached from the dimension of time and space. This enables them to visit any era. However there is a catch, that being; the more they move through time the harder it becomes physically for them. Another interesting twist in the idea is that the Detached can choose to age and die like regular human beings if they wish. A really nice idea and throughout the story we see Bilao travel through the past and into the future, with a pretty interesting outcome in the end – although I'll let you explore this story throughout the music. Speaking of which, I really didn't think these guys could get any better; boy was I wrong because The Detached is a vast improvement over Andromeda Unchained.
Whilst retaining the signature Anubis Gate sound, we see the Danes adding to that sound in every possible way. Heavier than anything they've released to date and sounding at their most mature, the vocal arrangements are out of this world. Technically we see the band stepping up their game, be it the tasteful drum-work of Morten Sørensen or the incredibly inventive fret-board acrobatics courtesy of Jesper M. Jensen and Kim Olesen. Not to forget bass-player Henrik Fevre and his sublime backing vocals. The star of the show however has to be the multi-talented Jacob Hansen, with his unique style of vocal delivery and of course what he's known best for on the metal circuit: his phenomenal production.
Kicking things off is a short intro with an atmosphere similar to that of Andromeda Unchained - the computer/space effect really works for these guys. "Find A Way (Or Make One)" is an awesome track, tearing through your speakers with a wicked dual harmony, with a foundation of pounding drum-work. Seriously this is the perfect introduction track to Anubis Gate, showcasing everything that's catapulting them into the Progressive Metal premier league. Next up is the godly "Yiri" boasting a very impressive chorus, sending shivers through me each and every time I listen. The pace never lets up with The Detached, not a single track is without its own merit. Be it using smoking Power Metal guitar leads, soaring vocal melodies, or drenching the music in sublime atmosphere - we really have it all. Tracks such as "Dodecahedron" and "Bloodoath" see Anubis Gate firing on all cylinders, with bad-ass chugging and some inventive guitar work of which only these guys seem capable of. Epic tracks such as the masterpiece entitled "Pyramids" features an awesome Arabic atmosphere with some cool Egyptian-style riffage woven through it. "Options – Going Nowhere" is another really cool track, pushing nigh on 10 minutes with a really awesome spacey/computer effect throughout.
Most of us know by now that ballads and metal don't gel, "Out Of Time" is the closest we get to ballad and really breaks the mold when it comes to ballads and metal. Showing us exactly how it should be done keeping an awesome doom-esque theme riff and adding a wonderful atmospheric part in the mid-section, sounding like something from an anime movie. Special mention has to go to the sublime vocal arrangement at the end of the song. It's hard not to write a fully fledged track by track. Anubis Gate are a band I hold very dearly and The Detached has undergone a lot of scrutiny from me, due to how high in regard I hold Andromeda Unchained. Try as I may I just can't fault this release. Forget what you ever thought about Progressive Metal because this album deserves your undivided attention. Anubis Gate really are on top of their game and I hope they can keep this streak up with album number five. Absolutely Essential
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|Review: A Perfect Forever (reviewed by Christopher Foley)
Review: Andromeda Unchained (reviewed by Larry Griffin)
Review: Andromeda Unchained (reviewed by Sargon the Terrible)
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Volume 8
Issue 1
- Life with Bats, Books, and Caves
- THE B.A.T Club
- Photo Exhibit on Bats Opens in Israel
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- A New Look for BATS
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- The Changing Face of Bat Conservation in the Pacific
- THE FLYING FOX: Becoming a Rare Commodity
MARIANAS FRUIT BATS (Pteropus mariannus) are among the most important plant pollinators and seed dispersers of the Marianas Islands. This one is pollinating the brilliant flowers of a coral tree. Some 40% of the local tree species on the island of Guam are dependent upon these bats, but Marianas fruit bats, as well as other Pacific island bats, are now endangered. Their loss seriously threatens the dense tropical rain forests of the islands.


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The Battle of the Somme – New Museum and Exhibition
The iconic Battle of the Somme, which began on 1st July 1916, was the bloodiest day for the British Army and became a symbol of the First World War in Great Britain.
The Thiepval Anglo-French Monument
The Thiepval Anglo-French Monument is one of the main memorial sites in the Somme region and the repository of 72,194 names of British and South African missing soldiers who have no known grave.
Next to the Memorial is the Visitor Centre which has been managed by the Historial de la Grande Guerre (Museum of the Great War) in Péronne since its creation in 2004. It welcomes over 200,000 visitors each year, the majority of which are British.
A new museum
Built along the path leading to the monument itself is a new 400 square metre museum, an extension of the Thiepval Visitor Centre opened to coincide with the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Chiefly constructed underground it has been designed to blend in sympathetically with the surrounding architecture and with the landscape.
Featured in the new museum an animated map dedicated to the Battles of the Somme presenting the impact of the fighting on the territory, taking the form of a wide panorama of the battlefield, Joe Sacco's artwork titled The Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Other features include The Germans on the Somme – an installation to explain the German experience of the Battles of the Somme; The Battles of the Somme – Mourning and Missing – a comparison of two types of memories, the massive loss of men in a total, destructive war symbolised by the fate of the missing and heroic figures; The Mass of the Missing – a room called the 'Chapel of the Missing' which is dedicated to those soldiers whose names adorn the Thiepval Monument; and Heroic Figures – a scale replica of a Great War combat airplane on display along with biographies of heroes from all nationalities. This room is dedicated to the role of aviation in the war that increased from 1916 onwards with that the emergence of "sky heroes".
New 'Writers in War' Exhibition
On display until 16 November 2016, the Historial de la Grande Guerre – Museum of the Great War – located in Péronne – is also presenting a new 'Writers in War' 14-18 exhibition. Written by great authors of the French, German and English language, the exhibition is a literary and poetic trail through the eyes and voices of writers who experienced the First World War, from the front lines to rear, from the eve of the conflict to its aftermath.
These men, including J.R.R. Tolkien and Siegfried Sassoon, shared the fate of millions of their contemporaries. Their unique words are strongly expressed through letters, stories and poems, especially the English war poets who in 1916 took part in the Battle of the Somme. One hundred and forty documents, a large number of which are displayed for the first time, include diaries, manuscripts, personal effects, illustrated books, literature, photographs, graphic art and drawings by the writers themselves or by artists whom they knew.
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Entry to 'Writers in War' is free of charge.
Joint tickets are available for entrance to the Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne and the new museum at the Thiepval site.


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Sharkoon Announces New REX Water Cooling Edition Midi Tower
Gabriel Roşu / 7 years ago
Sharkoon has extended its PC cases with the REX Water Cooling Edition Midi Tower dedicated for micro-ATX motherboards. The arrangement of the case offers space the installation of a 120 mm or 240 mm water cooling radiator on the top, and if water-cooling is not for you, it can still be used with an air cooling ventilator, providing its height does not exceed 165 mm.
The case does not look very different from the REX series from outside, but make no mistake, the inside is completely rearranged so as to fit only micro-ATX motherboards. Due to this, it gains a lot of space for cooling systems to be mounted.
You can also view inside the case with the help of a tinted acrylic window on the side, which provides insight into the housing interior and the installed components. Don't worry about having cables all over the place when you want to show off all your LEDs and fancy equipment you have inside, because a cable management system is in place to help you with just that.
Looking at the Rex Water Cooling Edition features, we can see it has five slots for expansion cards and up to two dual-slot graphics cards with a maximum length of up to 40 cm can be installed. Also, the front panel is made completely out of mesh for perfect air circulation, having behind the panel two 120 mm Low Noise blue LED fans.An additional 120 mm LED fan is pre-installed on the back of the case to ensure optimum air circulation.
Optical drives can be installed without screws in the two available 5.25″ drive bays, also up to three 3.5″ hard drives or 2.5″ hard drives/SSDs can be mounted in the HDD rack system. There also is a panel containing a mounting frame for card readers is also included. The front panel has six USB ports, two USB ports on the top and four USB 2.0 ports in the front, along with headsets and speakers which can be connected via the two audio connections.
The case is retailing at around $68 / €50 / £42 and can be found in selected retail stores.
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