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The Top Ten IT Skills for 2014
By Paul Simoneau, Global Knowledge Instructor
Organizations are moving strongly toward Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) access, bringing outsourced activities back in-house, and finding ways to make use of the growing amounts of data flowing in from many new sources such as social media. These factors create an increasing shift in required and desired skills showing up in IT departments. Hiring and salary surveys, such as the 2014 IT Skills and Salary Survey from Global Knowledge and Windows IP Pro, TEKsystems' 2014 Annual IT Forecast, Foote Research Group's 2014 IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index, Computerworld's annual Forecast survey, Robert Half Technology Survey, and information from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Futurestep, Mondo, GovLoop, and Dice have presented a developing picture of the IT skills that will be in demand in 2014.
Here, in survey order, are the top 10 major skills and why they made the list.
1. Programming and Application Development
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, developers and programmers enjoy one of the lowest unemployment rates-just 1.8 percent. Multiple employers surveyed identify this as both the hottest skill for 2014 and the most difficult to fill. Further, major organizations are planning to transition from relying on third-party programming providers to in-house development. That makes for more openings than will be filled this year.
The number of ads for software developers has more than doubled since last year, and the demand for front-end developers and user experience engineers will continue to grow.
2. Help Desk and Technical Support
After outsourcing to third-party support companies, many organizations are also bringing the help desk back in-house. That seems to be in response to the huge increase of mobile devices, along with company-provided web services. With the complexity of those functions, it's crucial that the technical support staff has a strong understanding of just what the company is doing. That is one of the strongest arguments for returning (or keeping) this capability close.
Organizations usually add technical support and help desk staff when adding new employees as well as when they are expanding their tech infrastructure.
3. Networking
The demand for networking skills soared to third place this year in multiple surveys. Some surveys even place senior networking professionals as the most in demand. Network managers and administrators fill the senior positions above help desk and technical support staff. As one grows, the other follows shortly, and in this case, in the same year. As an example, the unemployment rate for network and systems administrators is 1.1 percent.
The requirement for expanding wireless connectivity is the most likely reason for the jump in demand for networking professionals. The increased network traffic BYOD solutions and organization-provided wireless devices produce requires a lot of troubleshooting.
4. Mobile Applications and Device Management
The use of smartphones, tablets, and similar devices is growing in all areas of both business and consumer arenas. This is driving a strong demand for specialists and experts with mobile skills-the skills that some surveys rated as the third most difficult to find.
Mobile app development is very high on many organizations' IT priority lists. That is followed closely by developing websites that are responsive to various mobile devices. This ensures a consistent end-user experience. Some managers have said they will resort to retraining existing staff if they are unable to find qualified new hires.
5. Project Management
Though less so than in 2013, project management continues to be a highly desired skill. Some surveys place it right behind software developers/engineers, with demand that has grown more than 10 percent from last year. Some of the latest survey results show that the demand for project managers is resurging in more complex, strategic long-term technology plans.
Since IT is being judged based on the success or failure of projects, such as HealthCare.gov, organizations are making heavier investments in business analyst/project manager skills. To make highly visible major projects and even small, quiet implementations successful, project managers must gather diverse business and end-user requirements, set priorities, be able to talk with developers about the technologies involved, and follow through to make sure the processes are completed in a timely manner and tested thoroughly before they are rolled out.
6. Database Administration
Though database administration missed the 2013 list, it will be quite hot in 2014. That stems from the growing interest in big data. Organizations have been gathering huge amounts of information from websites, social media, and third-party arrangements. Now they want to be able to use that data to make better decisions on products, services, and their customers.
A database administrator will build a logical data map of organizational systems, gather all the relevant pieces of data from multiple sources, compile analysis of that data, and provide a detailed report of the findings. This year, those in highest demand will have experience moving IT systems and services to the cloud.
7. Security
A hot IT skill every year is security expertise. Responding to highly publicized and very costly (in terms of dollars and consumer confidence) attacks, companies across all categories are looking for security experts who can help them protect their valuable intellectual property.
Growing interest in cybersecurity, up more than 20 percent from 2013, continues to push the demand. A big part of that is because security fits in many IT job descriptions just as networking, software development, and project management.
With increases in attacks, malware, and personal data theft, security jobs will continue to be some of the most challenging to fill. Like other skills on this year's list, the recent media attention on security failures has driven organizations to bring these skills in-house for better management and control.
8. Business Intelligence/Analytics
From education to retail and government to major corporations, organizations have been collecting huge amounts of data. In fact, big data is predicted to grow more than 40 times by 2020 to over 35 zettabytes. (A zettabyte is a billion terabytes.) With that volume of global data, companies and governments are eager to gain a competitive edge with ever more sophisticated analytics capabilities. Since many consider business intelligence and analytics a specialty, there are fewer postings in early 2014 than expected by 2015.
According to hiring surveys, demand for these skills and data modeling are double what they were last year and among the most difficult skills to find. The desire for a competitive edge is just one aspect of the increased demand for these skills. Security implementations are using analytics to search for data flows that are abnormal for the network and, therefore, suspect.
This third-fastest growing skill set means professionals can command six-figure salaries. Using these skills to transform heavy volumes of geospatial and consumer preference data into actionable insights on a timely basis will help organizations be more proactive and their data more useful in business decisions.
9. Cloud
With interest in and demand for cloud computing growing more than 30 percent in the past year, there will be a strong focus on moving IT systems and services to the cloud. That will probably increase over the next year and drive the demand for cloud-experienced networking professionals again next year.
Some organizations will defer the related long-term capital expenditures by using hybrid cloud models or moving some functions to the cloud to free up resources for on-site functions. Larger commitments involve an owned data center and/or collocating facilities to create an organizational cloud.
Making infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service work with the traditional data center resources requires a strong understanding of all the dependencies. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook are spending billions of dollars on new data centers and server infrastructures to power their workloads.
10. Interpersonal
According to most surveys, two key skills are the abilities to collaborate and communicate with business users. These skills are essential to empower end users to know how IT can help them be more efficient. That requires IT staff to be able to translate systems' capabilities into terms an end user can apply to their work.
One of the most important communication skills is the ability to speak using the terms familiar to the various business domains, such as sales, marketing, finance, and manufacturing. Technical skills are in high demand, though those with some knowledge or experience in areas such as supply chains and financial derivatives will get the first job offers.
More than half of the surveyed HR managers report they have open positions that may stay that way, as qualified candidates are rare. Nearly half of them say they expect things to remain this way through the first quarter of 2014 or perhaps longer.
Instead of waiting for a perfect applicant, about half of the employers surveyed are planning to train those who are short on the IT skills but have experience in the organization's field, up 10 percent from 2013. About 25 percent are sending employees back to school.
More than 25 percent of hiring managers plan to present their organizations to high school students or even younger. The plan is to begin luring future applicants to help them prepare.
All of this is activity is an encouraging sign for the economy as a whole, as it indicates that there is a continuing place for who are willing to reinforce their business skills by adding IT skills to their resume or vice versa.
About the Author
Paul Simoneau has well over 40 years of experience in working with multiple aspects of computers and data communications. He is the founder and president of NeuroLink, Ltd., an international coaching and education company specializing in professional development with a client list that includes Cisco, AT&T, Lucent, Citibank, Quest Communications, HP, Sprint, Verizon, and all branches of the US Armed Forces.
He is a senior instructor and course director with Global Knowledge, where he has authored and managed three highly successful courses: Understanding Network Fundamentals, TCP/IP Networking, and the now defunct Network Management with SNMP. In support of these and other courses, he actively participates in Global Knowledge's e-mentoring programs.
The author of "Hands-On TCP/IP" and "SNMP Network Management" published by McGraw-Hill, Paul is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and holds a master's degree from Webster University.


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Unless otherwise stated in Seller's quotation, payment in full of the price due as follows: All products – 1/2 of 1% if paid within 10 days. Net 30 days. Discount is not allowed on tax or freight. Invoices are dated day of shipment. Will call invoices are dated day of completion. Any payment not made when due shall accrue a finance charge of 1-1/2% per month. All prices quoted are subject to change without notice and are binding for immediate delivery of material from stock. Items requiring mill delivery will be billed at the price in effect at time of shipment. All weights and counts given at time of order are theoretical, based upon specific gravity of pure copper, zinc, nickel, lead, aluminum, or other elements involved. Commercial variations from these tables must be expected in actual practice. All shipments are weighed to insure accuracy for our customers.
Unless otherwise provided in the quotation, Seller's quoted price does not include any privilege, occupation, personal property, sales, excise, use of other Federal, State or Municipal taxes, and buyer shall be liable for all such taxes, whether or not invoiced by seller.
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Quotations on material that is to be cut, fabricated, special ordered, or otherwise made unfit for resale by seller are made with the understanding that resulting contracts or orders, once accepted are not subject to cancellation without seller's previous written consent and on terms which will indemnify seller against all loss.
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Unless you are notified otherwise, under normal conditions it is our policy to ship warehouse material when available the same day or the next day after your telephone order is received. Since shipment will in most cases be made prior to receipt of conforming order, buyer assumes the risk involved in possible errors. When telephone orders are confirmed in writing, please be sure to clearly mark the orders "confirming" in a conspicuous place to avoid the possibility of duplication.
Materials furnished by seller are to be within the limits and of the sizes published by seller and/or Mill and subject to standard tolerances for variations. Seller makes no warranty or guarantee of merchantability for the materials whether such warranty may be deemed expressed, implied, or statutory. Seller makes no warranty or guarantee whether express, implied, or statutory, as to materials or fitness thereof for any particular purpose which extends beyond any specific description or provision to the contrary set forth on the face hereof. For any products which are not manufactured by seller, but are manufactured by others and sold by seller in any capacity, seller will assign to buyer all warranties from the manufacturer. Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, seller makes no warranty whatsoever with regard to such products and the sole and exclusive warranty to buyer shall be that of the manufacturer. SELLER MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, EXCEPT AS SET FORTH ABOVE, AND MAKES NO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Buyer represents that it is solvent. Seller retains interest in the goods to secure payment of the price and all other indebtedness now and hereafter owing by buyer to seller. At seller's request, buyer will execute and deliver to seller a financing statement evidencing this security interest, and buyer's refusal to execute and deliver such financing statement shall, at seller's option, relieve seller from the obligation to deliver.
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If seller is unable to complete and ship goods to buyer on time because of anything seller cannot control such as casualty, labor trouble or unavailability of supplies or transportation, the estimated delivery time will be extended accordingly and seller will not be liable to buyer for any damages caused by the delay.
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All material supplied by Howard Precision Metals is fully compliant with the Aluminum Association, Inc.'s specifications, standards, and data.
We hereby certify that these goods were produced in compliance with all the applicable requirements of sections 6, 7 &12 of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended, and all regulations and orders of the United States Dept. of Labor issued under section 14 thereof. Any claims pertaining to above material must be made within 10 days after delivery. No returns without written authorization. Returns must be made within 15 days of written authorization.
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Currently enrolled as a dual-major student specializing in network administration at the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Superior, WI.
Walmart, Superior, WI July 2012 to present
Customer Availability Program - Inventory Management
Over the course of my tenure with Walmart I've held positions in customer service, as well as supervisory, management, and leadership positions.
- Currently responsible for the operation of the frozen and dairy, frozen and meat departments.
- Maintains inventory accuracy for the facility.
- Completes bin audits, working inventory exceptions and correcting shelf capacities.
- Maintains merchandise presentation by stocking and rotating merchandise.
- Assists with purchasing decisions and the execution of the customer inventory flow process.
- Collaborates with managers, co-workers, customers and other business partners to identify priorities, deadlines and expectations.
Mediate Data, Duluth, MN January 2011 - June 2012
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- Redesigned the company's website employing responsive design.
- Designed and developed cross-browser semantic websites using HTML5 and CSS2/3
- Clients ranged from biggest, most successful companies in their fields to smaller start ups and non-profits.
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|SAMURAIJEANS( samurai jeans) zero model 21oz "S5000VX21oz" appearance! !The straight that the product was the zero series, and rise was slightly shallow, and was just refreshing not to mention a familiar pine button, impermanence of all things sleek, a silhouette that becomes for 21oz of popular model S5000VX. It is a silhouette same as S5000VX. Strongest 21oz SPECIALIZED Ruse Lubitch, the leather patch flasher produced the cloth for this model newly.
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Hagerstown Community College will present its annual Kreykenbohm lecture series Monday, April 19, at 7 p.m., at HCC's Kepler Theater.
The lecture series is named after Helen Kreykenbohm, a retired professor and former humanities division chair at HCC.
This year's guest speaker will be Herald-Mail columnist Tim Rowland. Rowland was hired by The Herald-Mail in 1985 and covered the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis from 1990 through 1994 before becoming a full-time humor columnist.
He was syndicated by the Bridge News Service in New York, with his columns appearing in papers including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Star and Fort Lauderdale Sun-Times.
The lecture also coincides with HCC's annual faculty art show. A reception for faculty artists will be held at 6 p.m.


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Plucky young Jenny Benet, a recently orphaned American girl who was raised on the Wild West frontier and educated at a Boston finishing school, has come to Egypt in company with her uncle Neville Hawthorne, a prominent British archaeologist. They're part of a team investigating the legendary Buried Pyramid, the tomb of the pharaoh Neferankhotep - who may also have been Moses the Lawgiver.But they're not the only ones interested in the site. Another party, led by the opulent and treacherous Lady Audrey Cheshire, is shadowing theirs. Someone who signs himself "The Sphinx" has been sending threatening letters - written entirely in hieroglyphics. In Egypt, an ancient and shadowy organization seems determined to keep the tomb from being discovered.But mortals may not be all that stands in their way.
Author Notes
Jane Lindskold received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Fordham University. She was an adjunct professor at Fordham, before becoming an Assistant Professor of English at Lynchburg College in Virginia. While there, she became friends with Roger Zelazny. She completed his two unfinished novels Donnerjack and Lord Demon after his death. Her first novel, Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls was published in 1994. Her other works include Changer, Legends Walking, Through Wolf's Eyes, and Fire Season written with David Weber.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Taking a break from her well-received Firekeeper series (Through Wolf's Eyes, etc.), Lindskold delivers an exotic historical fantasy that takes the reader from Victorian England to Egypt. Sir Neville Hawthorne, a self-made millionaire and wounded war hero, is a man so mesmerized by his desire to retrace the path to a mythical Egyptian archeological treasure that he willfully neglects to use common sense and heed warnings of imminent peril. Sir Neville is hunting the burial chamber of Pharaoh Neferankhotep, who's rumored to be Moses the Lawgiver. His niece Jenny Benet, recently orphaned and come to live with him in England, is spunky and rather too American for her upper-crust English uncle's sensibilities, but she manages to persuade Sir Neville to take her into the desert along with the other members of his team. Lindskold does a fine job of describing the English lifestyle of the day and ancient Egyptian rituals. While the first third of the book tends to bog down in exposition about hieroglyphs (not hieroglyphics, please), by the middle the action has shifted to high gear and the supernatural spookiness carries the story to a satisfying conclusion. Agent, Kay McCauley at Pimlico/Auros. (June 3) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
After joining her Uncle Neville, a renowned archaeologist, in England, newly orphaned Jenny Benet begs to accompany him on his upcoming trip to Egypt. He is in search of a little-known tomb of the Pharaoh Neferankhotep-also known as Moses the Lawgiver. Lindskold (Through Wolf's Eyes; The Dragon of Despair) turns to the 19th century fascination with Egypt and archaeology for her latest fantasy, which mixes pulp adventure with legend for a tale of mysticism and derring-do that should appeal to both adult and YA fantasy fans. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
ExcerptsBuried Pyramid 1 The Arrival I T COULDN'T have happened at a worse time, but Neville Hawthorne knew he had no one but himself to blame. He was the one who had stopped reading his letters. He was the one who had fled from grief into obsession. Now the consequences of that obsession were coming to roost, and he still had no idea how he was going to deal with them. At least he'd opened the letter in time. Cold comfort indeed when one is standing at the dock, watching passengers file off the trans-Atlantic steamer, looking for a single young woman, not knowing if she will be recognizable. Neville thought he might recognize her. He had seen pictures, though the last one had been at least three years ago. Young women changed so much at that age. Then, like the moment between shadow and sunlight, twenty years vanished, giving Neville his sister back to him as she had been when she had left for the United States with her new husband. There stood a graceful figure, high-held head crowned with thick chestnut hair that defied a fashionable hat's attempt to tame it. There flashed the violet eyes beneath the shadow of the jet-trimmed brim. There in a tidy mourning black frockwas the womanly form that had made Alice one of the acclaimed beauties of her debutante season. Here again posed the loveliness that had stolen the heart of Pierre Benet--Pierre who had stolen Alice's heart in turn. When the senior Hawthornes would not consent to their daughter's marrying a penniless French physician, Alice had eloped with her Pierre. Soon thereafter the newlyweds had departed for the United States. Neville had not seen Alice since. Recollection hit Neville as solidly as a physical blow. He would never again see Alice, not even if he made that long-postponed trip to the United States. A letter had arrived six months ago reporting that Alice and Pierre had died in a conflagration that had also destroyed their home. The fire had reportedly been set by savage Indians who had left nothing behind them but charred wood and the arrow-riddled body of the family dog. The young woman who could not be Alice walked down the gangplank and made her way through the crowd, coming directly to Neville with perfect confidence. Clearly, she had recognized him. "Jenny?" Neville said, and heard his own voice emerge hoarse and unfamiliar. "Little Jenny?" "Uncle Neville," she replied, and her voice, sweet, but decidedly American in accent, broke the spell. "It's me, Jenny Benet." She pronounced the surname English style, not the French "Ben-nay," but Neville heard traces of a French accent incongruously interwoven with the American. Jenny seemed about to say more, but she paused, studying him. Neville wondered what had caught her attention. He had long ago recovered from the assault that had forced him to retire from the military, but the scars remained. Those on his head were mostly hidden by thick hair not unlike Jenny's own in color and luxuriance, but nothing would hide the ugly slash that began at the bridge of his nose and carried across his left cheek. Although in his mid-forties, Neville had taken care to remain active, and was not dissatisfied with his form. His father had gone to fat long before he reached this age. The limp remained, of course, and the slight unevenness of his shoulders, but these could not account for the strange expression spreading across Jenny's features. "Uncle Neville," she said at last, "what's wrong?" "You look," he managed to reply, giving only part of the truth, "so much like Alice. Those portraits your parents sent never did you credit." Jenny grinned, a wide, open smile that nonetheless held traces of sorrow too fresh to be forgotten. "I'm glad to hear you say it," she replied. "I always thought Mama was the prettiest lady I'd ever seen." There was the trace of the French again, on the word "Mama," and hearing it Neville could imagine Pierre bending over his daughter's infant cradle: "Say Mama, little Genevieve. Say Papa." Now that Neville could separate his niece from that momentary transformation into her mother, he could see something of Pierre in Jenny as well. These traits were less physical: a confidence he'd never seen in Alice until she'd defied everyone for her Pierre, an alert watchfulness that was a far cry from Alice's missish shyness, that disturbing tendency to assess her surroundings and make instant diagnosis. But then, except through her letters, Neville hadn't really known Alice these past twenty years. Maybe Jenny was like her mother in these ways too. Neville would have been hard pressed to say what was more unsettling, this sudden onrush of memories, or what he knew he must confess in the near future. Neville settled for focusing on the immediate present, knowing even as he did so that he was delaying the inevitable. "Are you tired, Jenny?" he asked. "I have a suite ready for you at my house, but if you are hungry we can send the luggage ahead, and stop for cakes and tea." "Cakes and tea," Jenny replied promptly. "I'm too excited to sleep, and scared stiff that once I see a bed I'll drop off and miss my first day in England." "Very well," Neville said with an amused smile. Needless to say, they couldn't leave immediately. Jenny had left her traveling companions rather abruptly when she glimpsed Neville in the crowd on the dock. Now she had to return, make her apologies, introduce Neville, and all the rest. Happily, her companion--a married woman, coming to visit her brother and his wife--was eager to be away with them, so beyond making vague promises to call, there was no added impediment. Neville thought this was a good thing. Given what he had to tell his niece, an audience would be rather awkward. A few words to his footman, and arrangements were made for Jenny's luggage. Then Neville hailed a cab, and gave the address of a hotel whose tea room was very popular with locals and visitors alike. He thought it would be easier to tell Jenny what he must there, away from his house and its current uproar. At least, he hoped it would be. Looking at Jenny, and noticing the lively curiosity with which she was regarding every aspect of London traffic, he wasn't at all certain. Once they were seated in a private corner overlooking the room, with tea and iced cakes set before them, Neville felt he must begin his confession. "Jenny," he began, but fate wasn't going to make this easy for him. There was a rustle of heavy silk skirts, and a throaty, melodious voice addressed him. "Sir Neville, how delightful to see you. I thought you had already departed." Without conscious volition, Neville rose to his feet. "Lady Cheshire," he said, bowing over her hand. "May I present my ward, my late sister's daughter, Genevieve Benet? She has only just now arrived from Boston. Jenny, this is Lady Audrey Cheshire." Lady Cheshire was a handsome woman in her late twenties. She wore her raven locks drawn up into a complicated arrangement that drew attention to her green eyes. The green of those eyes was echoed in the pale silk of her gown, a fashionably lace-trimmed creation in the French style, with a heavy bustle and a rather daring neckline. Jenny made her curtsey as neatly as could be wished, but the quick glance she darted toward her uncle left Neville quite certain that she had not been so awed by this introduction that Lady Cheshire's reference to Neville's departure had escaped her. "I am delighted to make your acquaintance, Miss Benet," Lady Cheshire said, apparently unaware of the undercurrents her words had stirred. "Or do you prefer 'Jenny'? Americans are so much more relaxed than we stuffy English." Jenny gave an exquisitely noncommittal smile. "Whichever pleases you, Lady Cheshire." Lady Cheshire raised one elegant eyebrow the slightest amount before turning to indicate the two people who waited politely in her wake. "May I introduce my own companions?" Lady Cheshire said. "Sir Neville, I believe you know Mrs. Syms. Miss Benet, Sarah Syms. Sarah, Miss Benet." Sarah Syms had the horsey features so common in the English upper class. She was grey-haired and rather plain, with a wiry figure that suggested she kept herself active. This impression was borne out by how her pale blue eyes darted with lively interest between Neville and his niece. "And Captain Robert Brentworth," Lady Cheshire continued. Robert Brentworth was a well-built, muscular man who towered over everyone present. His skin was darkly tanned, making his deep blue eyes seem more vivid by contrast. Although his brown hair and mustache were a trifle too coarse to be fashionable, and his features were too regular to be striking, he radiated a vitality that made him undeniably attractive. Jenny seemed to think so, for her gaze lingered on him for a moment beforeshe glanced over to Lady Cheshire as if attempting to assess the pair's relationship. Neville wasn't about to explain. Audrey Cheshire was the widow of Lord Ambrose Cheshire, a noted Egyptologist. Husband had been easily thirty years senior to wife, and so no one had been terribly surprised when he had predeceased her. Audrey had nursed her husband most devotedly during his final illness, but as soon as etiquette permitted her to put aside her widow's weeds, she had apparently put aside all memory of her husband as well. Robert Brentworth had been an associate of Lord Cheshire's, but it was rumored that his devotion to his friend's widow had more to do with her copious personal charms--and possibly the fortune Ambrose had left her--than with any loyalty to Lord Cheshire's memory. Though Neville had dared hope that Jenny's presence would stop Lady Cheshire's prying, he was disappointed. "So when do you leave?" she asked archly. "Within the week," he replied. "That's very wise," she said. "Dear Ambrose always said that the weather was the greatest opponent for a venture such as you intend. I always found it difficult to believe how cold and snowy England was when we were abroad." Neville managed a polite enough reply, but could feel his jaw hardening around the things he wanted to say. Perhaps Lady Cheshire detected his irritation, but perhaps she was only aware that she had forced her company on them as long as was polite. "I must let you drink your tea before it cools," she said, as Captain Brentworth stepped forward to escort her on her way. "I was simply so surprised to still see you in England." She turned to Jenny. "Delighted to make your acquaintance, Miss Benet." "The pleasure was entirely mine, Lady Cheshire," Jenny replied, and Neville was quite certain there was an ironical gleam in those violet eyes. "Mrs. Syms. Captain Brentworth." They parted company with appropriate insincerities, and Neville managed a swallow of tea while Jenny settled her cumbersome skirts. "Well, Uncle? You are going abroad?" "I was about to tell you," he said rather stiffly. She raised her rose-painted tea cup and sipped, neither helping nor hindering his explanation. Neville found himself saying rather more than he had intended. "Your parents' deaths, that was the start. I had long meant to visit Alice in her new home, tosee with my own eyes the life she described so vividly in her letters. As you know, I never made the journey. First, there were my responsibilities to the army. Then other things intervened. My parents had need of me; the weather was unfavorable; the political situation ..." He couldn't bring himself to mention his own recuperation from the injuries that had been inflicted upon him on that dark night, the events of which still haunted his nightmares. He told himself that Jenny had experienced enough suffering without his inflicting his own upon her vicariously, but he knew the truth was that he didn't want to dwell on those memories. The time when the doctors had nearly amputated his leg had perhaps been the worst, but there had been too many others nearly as bad. Jenny's expression remained neutral. She refilled his cup, then her own, took an iced cake from the plate between them and waited. "I resolved," Neville went on, "that I should not make the same mistake again, live to regret a promise unfulfilled. I began making arrangements for my return to Egypt." "Egypt!" Jenny's exclamation held delight and surprise. "Oh, Uncle! When do we leave?" Neville had not expected this. Indignation that he would leave her so soon after her arrival, anxiety for her own place in his absence, these he had considered, but not that a young lady ending one voyage would relish the prospect of another--and there was no doubt that Jenny relished the prospect of this one. "I had not intended to take you with me," he began, cut to the quick when he saw the disappointment dim the deep violet of her eyes. "Jenny, I shall not remain in the cities. I know that Cairo has quite a well-established European community, but I would not be able to squire you about--even if I still knew anyone. It has been many years since I lived in Egypt." "Cities?" Jenny replied. "I would like to see them. Cairo is Arab, of course, the Mother of Cities they call her, though I would rather see the pyramids and the sphinx. Alexandria has a more European pedigree than Cairo, and should be quite sophisticated. Yet Luxor that was Thebes of the ancient Egyptians, perhaps Abu Simbel, Karnak, Kom Ombo ... Those are the places I yearn to see with my own eyes." Neville blinked, and Jenny laughed, her momentary disappointment forgotten. "Didn't you know that Mama used your letters to make me take an interest in geography? Your accounts of your travels, the trinkets you sent, the picture postcards, all made those places real and alive. I read tons about wherever you were. I was so sorry when you left the Egypt and returned to England." So was I , Neville thought, but said nothing. "I mean," Jenny went on, faltering slightly as if she had read his thoughts. "I mean, England was still exotic and Scotland sounded wonderful, but they weren't Egypt or India or Greece or wherever else." Neville found his tongue. "Alice did mention that she shared my letters with you," he said, "but I don't think I ever realized to what use she turned them--or what an avid student she had created." "Now doesn't that beat all," Jenny said. "And here I am thinking that you know you're my greatest hero, right up there with Mr. Lincoln, who I do admire highly for what courage he had freeing the slaves and preserving the Union at such a terrible cost to himself. Mother must never have told you. She could be so very English, you know." Neville realized that he'd been completely in error to ever equate his sister and her daughter. Alice would never have spoken this freely to a man she had just met--even an uncle whose letters she'd read for years. Indeed, Alice probably would have gotten all tongue-tied at the prospect of meeting one of her heroes. That was one of the reasons her romance with Pierre had caught everyone off guard, and why Father had thought that simply forbidding Alice to see Pierre would be enough. Neville had a feeling that forbidding Jenny to do something she desired would be about as useful as telling the sun not to shine. "But, Jenny," he said as gently as he could, rather overwhelmed by his newly acquired status as hero, "I do not intend to stay in any of those cities. Doubtless I will pass through some of them, but I am not touring. I have ... business to undertake." "In the desert?" Jenny asked, and the glow in her eyes diminished not a whit. "I should like to see the Egyptian desert--camels, jackals, ruins of ancient temples. I think the Egyptian desert would be far more interesting than our American versions." Neville was determined to nip this romanticism in the bud. "Camels are foul creatures--bad tempered and smelly. Jackals are not nearly as romantic as timber wolves, nasty scavengers that they are, and ruins are not at all what you might expect from the picture postcards." Jenny dismissed this with a wave of her hand. "Camels can't be worse than jack mules, and scavengers aren't nasty. They're useful. As for ruins, well, I've seen some that the old-time Indians left back home, and most of that's mud bricks, bits of stone tools, and busted pots. I liked that just fine, so I don't figure Egypt could disappoint." Neville thought furiously, hunting for any way out other than bald refusal, a thing he already had reason to believe this pert American miss would find offensive. "Jenny, my expedition is entirely male. It would not be proper for you to travel in such company." Jenny shrugged. "I'm sure that where it will matter there will be some woman about, and I'll just attach myself to her if needed. If there's no one around to care, well, then, who will care?" There was a certain logic to her argument, but Neville refused to be seduced. "Currently, my expedition is very small--myself and two other men. Only one of those men is married, and so could be expected to understand a woman's needs and temperament. You ask a great deal of two bachelors." Jenny didn't press the point, but Neville didn't think this was because she had resigned herself to remaining behind. He had been planning on leaving Jenny because he had assumed she would want to remain in London. After all, there were the autumn and winter social seasons yet to come. She would be novelty enough to be invited to numerous balls and fetes--she might even land a good husband. Still, if Jenny really wanted to accompany him, perhaps he could hire some army wife to assume the role of chaperon once he went into the field. Neville did feel rather bad about abandoning the girl so soon after her arrival, and this would ease his conscience and let him settle her where she could at least tour the museums and local ruins. A compromise might be best. "Woolgathering, Uncle Neville?" Jenny asked, her tone amused. "I've asked three times. Who are the other members of your expedition?" Neville could think of no reason not to answer. "The only one traveling with me from England is Stephen David Holmboe, a linguist whose specialization is the ancient Egyptian language. In Egypt we will be met by Edward Bryce, a soldier with whom I once served. He has local contacts, and will be quartermaster for our group." And military support, Neville thought. No need to tell Jenny that, though, nor explain Eddie's peculiar lifestyle over there. "Linguist and specialist in the ancient Egyptian language," Jenny mused aloud. "And a quartermaster. And going away from the cities. That sounds like you're going treasure hunting." "Not precisely," Neville replied frostily. "I'm sorry," Jenny apologized quickly. "I've rubbed you raw. I forgot. Treasure hunting's not good form any more, is it? People don't hunt for treasure. Theysearch for antiquities that will reveal to us knowledge about lost civilizations. Seems to me the thrill would be about the same." Neville shook his head in mock chagrin. "You're not responding like a proper young miss," he said. "Where are all the cries about snakes and spiders? Where are the warnings about the risks we shall be taking? Where the desire for iced drinks and the newest fashions?" "Drowned at sea," Jenny answered promptly. "I heard enough chatter about fashion to make me ill. Half the women on board were fretting about whether their gowns were too provincial. The other half were already sure that their gowns were and were gloating over plans to visit the best shops as soon as they were ashore. I could tell you enough about bustles and the new debate over appropriate colors to make your head ache." "No doubt," Neville agreed. He noted that despite her efforts at self-control, Jenny had been forced to pat back a yawn. "Come along, my dear," he said, helping her to rise. "We can talk more later. I can't have you falling asleep into your tea." Jenny smiled sheepishly. "Thought I could hold it back," she admitted, "but I'm bushed." Neville settled with the shop, then handed Jenny into a cab. She fell asleep almost before the cab had rattled into traffic, her head drooping trustingly onto his shoulder as her mother's had twenty years before. The jet beads trimming the crown of her hat trembled with the motion of the cab, tickling Neville's cheek a little like tears. Copyright (c) 2004 by Jane Lindskold Excerpted from The Buried Pyramid by Jane Lindskold All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
Table of Contents
|Prologue: Beneath the Eye of the Hawk
|p. 13
|Chapter 1 The Arrival
|p. 38
|Chapter 2 Sir Neville's Secret
|p. 47
|Chapter 3 A Letter from the Sphinx
|p. 63
|Chapter 4 Unexpected Traveling Companions
|p. 74
|Chapter 5 Auguste Dupin
|p. 88
|Chapter 6 Alexandria
|p. 100
|Chapter 7 Papa Antonio
|p. 114
|Chapter 8 Bazaar
|p. 128
|Chapter 9 Anubis
|p. 141
|Chapter 10 Miriam's Tale
|p. 156
|Chapter 11 The Great Pyramid
|p. 172
|Chapter 12 Mozelle
|p. 187
|Chapter 13 The Sphinx Again
|p. 200
|Chapter 14 Riskali
|p. 212
|Chapter 15 Destruction at the Hawk Rock
|p. 226
|Chapter 16 Four Watchers
|p. 246
|Chapter 17 Better and Verse
|p. 260
|Chapter 18 Dire Warnings
|p. 274
|Chapter 19 In the Pit
|p. 288
|Chapter 20 The Boat of Millions of Years
|p. 302
|Chapter 21 Magic
|p. 316
|Chapter 22 Apophis
|p. 331
|Chapter 23 Negative Confessions
|p. 343
|Chapter 24 Condemned
|p. 357
|Chapter 25 Tomb Robbers
|p. 371
|Chapter 26 Sweet Balm
|p. 384


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More Silicon Valley Tech Workers Were Born Outside the U.S. Than In It
It turns out that almost every major tech hub has more foreign-born workers than domestic ones.
The U.S. government has sent a clear message to potential immigrants over the past six months: no jobs here.
President Donald Trump's administration has taken aim at the H-1B visa program, a pathway for many foreign-born workers to join U.S. companies, and recently "delayed" implementation of the so-called start-up visa, an Obama-era rule allowing immigrants with funded startups that employ Americans to secure temporary residence in the the U.S., until 2018 The delay may be indefinite.
Just how important are all these immigrants? The Silicon Valley Competitiveness and Innovation Project Report analyzed the share of foreign- and U.S.-born professionals in the science, technology, and engineering fields in its 2017 report using 2015 Census Bureau data. It turns out that almost every major tech hub has more foreign-born workers than domestic ones. Silicon Valley leads the way: A greater percentage of its tech workforce is foreign-born than in New York, Boston, Seattle or Austin.
As anyone who spends time in San Francisco knows, the share of new arrivals from out of state or out of the country (82 percent) dwarfs the number of natives. That ratio holds true in each of the six largest U.S. "innovation regions" with the exception of Austin (45 percent domestic, compared with 36 percent foreign born).


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In Her Shoes
The book In Her Shoes was made into the movie In Her Shoes.
Book details for In Her Shoes
In Her Shoes was written by Jennifer Weiner. The book was published in 2002 by Pocket Star Books. More information on the book is available on Amazon.com.
Movie details for In Her Shoes
The movie was released in 2005 and directed by Curtis Hanson, who also directed L.A. Confidential (1997). In Her Shoes was produced by 20th Century Fox. More information on the movie is available on Amazon.com and also IMDb.
Actors on this movie include Cameron Diaz, Anson Mount, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Burgi, Candice Azzara, Brooke Smith, John Mastrangelo Sr., Emilio Mignucci, Mark Feuerstein, Terrance Christopher Jones, Nicole Randall Johnson, Kateri DeMartino, Brandon Karrer, Jon Ingrassia, Jason Peck, Mary-Pat Green, Gene Bozzi, Carlease Burke and Hamlet (II).


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Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#14420 closed (wontfix)
Can't do validation on ModelFormSets to prevent deletion when there is only one object in formset and it is to be deleted
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|Rory McCann
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|validation, formset, modelformset
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I'm using a ModelFormSet (using modelformset_factory and a custom formset param) to change and delete objects. I want to do some validation, to prevent objects being deleted if they match certain criteria. I put this validation code in the clean() method of the custom formset object (which is a subclass of BaseModelFormSet). It loops over self.deleted_forms and raises a ValidationError if any of the forms to be deleted matches this criteria.
However this doesn't work if there is only one object/form in the formset, and you want to delete that one object, and that object should fail your 'don't delete objects like this' test. The FormSet code shortcircuits the validation (since you should be allowed to delete an object without making it valid first), and doesn't call self.errors (on the FormSet object), and doesn't call the (custom) clean() method. The is_valid() method of the (bound) FormSet returns True, when it should return False. The non_form_errors() returns an empty list, when it should have the errors saying that you can't delete this object. You can then .save() this formset and delete the object that you shouldn't be able to delete.
A simple work around I am using is to call formset.full_clean() just after initialising the formset (i.e. before calling formset.is_valid()). This calls all the clean() methods of all the forms and of the FormSet.
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I'm not convinced this is a bug, since it depends on using validation errors to prevent deletion. You point at a specific bug in the 'one object' case, but if I understand the code correctly, the same bug will exist if you mark every row for deletion, since as you note, you don't need to make an object valid in order to delete it, and if there's nothing to validate, clean() won't get called on the formset. In order to fix the behavior you describe, we would need to change this fundamental assertion about when validation will be performed.
It seems to me like this should be handled by controlling the can_delete attribute of sub_forms, rather than trying to evaluate deletion properties at the formset level.
If you feel strongly about this, feel free to start a discussion on django-developers and make your case.


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CAS registry number (Chemical Abstracts Service)
Chemical Formula
Molecular Weight
Therapeutic Category
Cytostatic agent: Antimetabolite
Chemical Names
6H-Purine-6-tione, 1,7-dihydro-
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Generic Names
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The group goes back out into the hallway. Uzure looks to see what the bone priest has on him and finds a bastard sword.
Uzure says to Iocob: "You want this?"
Azure: "Yeah."
Uzure: "Well I was gonna take it, but I want to know if he wanted it."
Iocob: "Are you gonna use it?"
Uzure: "No."
Iocob: "Well someone who can use it needs to take it."
Azure: "I don't know how to use it."
Uzure: "Nobody here uses two handed weapons."
Iocob: "You can wield it one handed."
Azure: "How?! That's impossible!"
Iocob: "No." He pulls his greatsword out of his sheath one handed and holds it. "Look, right here. See that's…"
Azure: "The sword is too unwieldy to wield one handed."
Iocob: "Well, you have to practice a lot."
Azure: "Oh. I don't… I have a dagger."
Iocob: "It's too heavy for you."
Uzure: "I have my fists."
The group moves back into the throne room begins to thoroughly search the room. Azure starts out following him around, but then sits down in the floor with her legs crossed, watching him. Iocob checks out the table again, using detect magic and collecting the loot.
During Uzure's search he finds a secret door and opens it.
A few wisps of decayed webbing hang from the walls of this room, but there's none on the stone ceiling and no sign of spiders in the room. The ceiling is blank save for four 1-foot-wide, round steel medallions, one set into each corner. The floor is equally bare except for a pedestal in the center of the floor made of a single five-foot-square block of stone, about two feet high. On the pedestal sits a metal-framed wooden chest, and to the side of the pedestal rests a shallow hole in the floor housing what looks like a brass door handle set into the stone. A stone tile lying loose nearby is clearly designed to fit over the hole, concealing the handle.
Azure: "That's totally a trap."
Uzure: "Hmm. So this is trap and this is probably the thing that stops the trap." Uzure indicates the brass handle.
Iocob and Uzure then talk about the handle being made of metal and that it might be used to conduct electricity. Iocob feels that the handle will electrocute whoever touches it. He asks Azure for some healing from the wand and prepares to try the handle. Azure heals Iocob and moves out of the room. Before Iocob can grab the handle, Uzure says that he will do it and removes his chain shirt, handing it to Azure.
Azure, who is still weak from spider poison, complains about the weight of the armor and drops it beside her. "How do you wear that? It's like a thousand pounds!"
Iocob also steps out of the room: "I will watch you from here."
Uzure reaches into the hole to grab the handle, preparing himself to be shocked. He tries to pull the handle, but it does not move. So he twists the handle. Suddenly the ceiling falls and Uzure, having nowhere to run, drops to the floor. The ceiling stops two feet above the floor, suspended in the air.
Azure: "What did you do?!" She peeks around the corner. "That's not what I expected!"
At that point, Uzure notices that the platform with the chest had sunk into the floor, preventing it from being hit and smashed by the falling ceiling. He starts to crawl out of the room but Azure says "Could you do the opposite of what you did and make the ceiling go back up?"
Uzure: "I don't know." He looks at the ceiling right above him and notes that it is not moving.
Azure: "It's risky."
Uzure reaches back in the hole and turns the handle back to it's original position. The ceiling begins to slowly rise back up. He waits until he has room to stand, then looks at the metal disks in the corner of the ceiling to see if they are turning, but they are not moving. He sees that the pedastal and chest rises as the ceiling rises.
Iocob: "Maybe just mess with that."
Uzure goes over to the chest and kneels, getting ready to react if the ceiling falls again. He tries to open the chest and finds that it is locked. He tries a key that he picked up from the bone priest, but it doesn't work, so he puts it back around his neck. Inspecting the chest, he sees that it is made of wood and metal. He starts to use his grappling hook to try to break the wood, but then says "Hey! There were some daggers weren't there? Weren't there some daggers in that stuff?
Iocob: "Uh, yeah there's also four longswords. Do you want to use one of those?"
Uzure: "I don't care. I just want to try and pry this chest open."
Iocob walks into the room: "Here take a longsword."
Uzure: "Ok." He and Iocob both use longswords to try and pry the chest open. It works and the chest pops open.
Iocob has a short celebration: "Yeah… oh!" Then the ceiling falls again. Iocob was looking at the chest and the ceiling smashes into his head, sending him to the floor.
Uzure was watching the ceiling as they were trying to pry open the chest and he again falls to the ground in time to avoid being hit.
Iocob: "I'm just gonna lay here a minute."
Uzure, lying on his stomach: "Dude, did you not know that was going to happen?!"
Azure: "Reset it with the ring and then hold it so the ceiling doesn't come down."
Iocob: "I'm just gonna lay here."
Uzure crawls over to the handle in the floor and turns it, raising the ceiling again.
Azure: "Hold it so it doesn't go back down."
Iocob: "Azure help."
Azure: "Ok, ok." She uses the wand to heal him as he crawls out of the room.
Uzure checks the chest. Inside is a bleached cat skull and an aged, handwritten note reading, "Curiosity Kills: another ingenious demise, courtesy of Addington's Fine Traps and Defenses." He checks for a false bottom in the chest, but doesn't find one. So he takes the cat skull to add to the dog skull that he got from the goblins upstairs. Then he hands both the longsword he was using and the one that Iocob dropped back to Iocob.
Azure: "So that's it. We explored this whole floor right?"
Iocob: "Yeah. Right? I think so. We didn't go down the hole. We can go down the hole."
Azure: "No, we're going to go back to town."
Uzure replies in regard to the hole in the other room: "Did we search that?"
Azure: "No, we didn't search it. Do you want to? What if more spiders pop out?"
They look around the throne room one last time to see if they missed anything, then leave the Spire and head towards town.
On the way back to town they notice three barbarians about the time that they charge out of the woods at them. They attack Uzure, Ash and Emon. Ash and Emon were slightly ahead of the rest of the group, leading them through the forest. They combine their efforts and concentrate on one barbarian at a time.
Uzure attacks his target as Azure steps forward to use the healing wand on Iocob, who then steps up to flank Uzure's enemy with him. Iocob swings his greatsword, which the barbarian dodges, causing Iocob to overextend and expend additional energy.
Ash takes down the first barbarian and she and Emon turn to concentrate on the female barbarian, who then attacks Ash. Ash falls.
The barbarian hits Iocob with his axe, sending him to the ground. Azure runs over and revives Iocob with the healing wand. Then Iocob swings at their enemy from the ground. Uzure continues punching the last male barbarian until he goes down.
Azure then runs over to heal Ash with the wand. She does not wake. The female barbarian turns and runs for the woods. Iocob, Azure and Emon all try to take her down with a combination of melee and ranged attacks as she runs, but she gets away.
Uzure shouts: "I'll get her!" And he stabilizes Ash to keep her from bleeding out. Azure heals Ash with the wand once more, but she still does not wake. They load Ash up on her horse and continue to town.


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Wynonna & The Big Noise
Curb Records recording artist Wynonna Judd is a historic country music figure whose latest record, based on the number of YouTube views, seems kind of under the radar for an artist of such legendary status. But it's certainly not for a lack of soulful country character.
This album is a very big deal for Wynonna and her husband, drummer, bandmate and the album's producer, Cactus Moser. Cactus spent a long time recovering from a motorcycle crash that occurred in 2012 shortly after they were married. The crash left him with an amputated lower leg and a shattered hand. He recovered, bucking doctor's predictions and is solidly back to playing, as well as producing. Wynonna and Cactus dated in the 1980s and they go back a long way, but the accident brought them together stronger in ways that only tough times can.
It has been 13 years since Wynonna recorded a record of non cover songs. She managed to avoid doing the new record to match the short term whims and supposed tastes of today's demographics, but instead wrote and sang songs that are honest reflections of her place in life with all of the ups and downs she has experienced.
The recordings, as well as the music videos, are wonderfully organic with old school written all over them. It was recorded live in her home/farm studio with all vintage gear using her regular band and a few special guests (not typical session musicians often play on recordings for big acts) and it's worthy of garnering lots of love from fans who manage to hear it. All of the players make it as tasty as tasty gets. Cactus makes it happen with his prosthetic leg and rehabilitated hand with the custom stick holder. The happiness and contentness of how they went about making the record shows in some of their expressions in the video, where they all seem to be in a great head space.
Fans will want to grab tickets to her shows by visiting her tour page. Enjoy! GC
Wynonna & The Big Noise - Ain't No Thing (Track #1)
Wynonna & The Big Noise - Things That I Lean On (#Track #3)
Wynonna & The Big Noise - You Make My Heart Beat Too Fast (Track #4)
Wynonna & The Big Noise - Jesus And A Jukebox (Track #7)
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Can your mobile phone become a replacement for manually typing in a password? That's the promise of a new application called Knock, launching today, which uses an iPhone paired with a Mac desktop or laptop computer to log you in to your locked machine. The system takes advantage of the newer low-energy Bluetooth technology to enable the connection between the two devices, allowing you to just knock (you know, knock, like on a door) on your iPhone to login. But the company has ambitions to expand beyond unlocking computers, and envisions bringing Knock to browsers to log into websites, and eventually letting you "knock" to open anything, including even your home's front door, perhaps.
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Halle Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was also nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2011, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the most highly paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokeswoman. She has also been involved in the production side of several of her films.
Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant (1986), and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. Her breakthrough feature film role was in the 1991 Jungle Fever. This led to roles in The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and as Bond Girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002). She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person.
Divorced from baseball player David Justice and musician Eric Benét, Berry dated Quebecois model Gabriel Aubry from November 2005, through April, 2010. Their daughter, Nahla Ariela Aubry, was born on March 16, 2008.
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Berry graduated from Bedford High School, afterward working in the children's department at Higbee's Department store. She then studied at Cuyahoga Community College. In the 1980s, she entered several beauty contests, winning Miss Teen All-American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986. She was the 1986 Miss USA first runner-up to Christy Fichtner of Texas. In the Miss USA 1986 pageant interview competition, she said she hoped to become an entertainer or to have something to do with the media. Her interview was awarded the highest score by the judges. She was the first African-American Miss World entrant in 1986, where she finished sixth and Trinidad and Tobago's Giselle Laronde was crowned Miss World.


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The Trump administration blacklisted eight Venezuelan supreme court justices for rulings that have gutted the country's opposition-controlled congress, the Treasury Department said Thursday.
The justices have been responsible for what the U.S. described as "a number of judicial rulings in the past year that have usurped the authority of Venezuela's democratically-elected legislature."
The sanctions on the president of the Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice, as well as its seven principal members, include the freezing of any U.S. assets held by these officials, as well as the denial or revocation of their U.S. visas.
"The Venezuelan people are suffering from a collapsing economy brought about by their government's mismanagement and corruption," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. "By imposing these targeted sanctions, the United States is supporting the Venezuelan people in their efforts to protect and advance democratic governance in their country."
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I've been here more times than I can count and have always had a tasty, economical meal. They have all the usual Italian fare and their pasta fagioli is exceptional!
Ask for your pizza "thin and crispy" and it will come to you exactly that way. One of my favorites is the "chicken scarpariello." Michelle loves the "chicken parm" with a dollop of ricotta cheese which makes a richer, sweeter flavor. It is definitely worth a try.
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On my 20th birthday, I opened my first mutual fund. As a part-time night teller earning $8.25 per hour, I was so proud of myself. Things didn't go quite as I'd planned them, however. Throughout the next decade, I learned many investment lessons from my own choices and actions – as well as others'.
I wish I could say all of the lessons were positive. But, mistakes are excellent teachers, too. Doggone it.
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Wabash Picked Third in NCAC Preseason Football Pollsby Brent Harris • August 5, 2004 Share:
The media and coaches both picked Wabash College to finish third in conference play in the 2004 football preseason poll, announced Wednesday at the annual North Coast Athletic Conference Media Day in Granville, Ohio.
Wabash picked up 85 points and three first-place votes in the coaches poll. The Little Giants finished with 213 points in the media poll. Wabash finished the 2003 season with a 7-3 record, going 5-2 in league play to finish in a tie for second place.
Wittenberg was picked to finish first in the NCAC in the media poll, earning 241 points and 11 first-place votes. Wooster was the favorite of the coaches, earning 92 points and five first-place votes.
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Golfing while the world burns?
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President Barack Obama's passion for golf has long been a hobbyhorse for those on the right. The charge that the president is shirking his duty by relaxing on the links plays straight into the firmly held belief among conservatives that the president is both aloof and in over his head.
Such attacks on presidential vacations are far from new. President George W Bush received plenty of flak from the left over his frequent Crawford ranch trips. His golf course condemnation of terrorism followed by a "now watch this drive" boast was the subject of much derision. In 2003 Mr Bush gave up golfing for the rest of his presidency because he said it "just sends the wrong signal".
The president-golfs-while-the-world-burns view may be gaining some traction in the mainstream press. With the ongoing racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri and the beheading of US journalist James Foley making headlines last week, the contrast with a president at play on Martha's Vineyard fairways was particularly stark.
Over the weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd penned a scathing mock "Golf Address" by the president.
"Four! Score? And seven trillion rounds ago", she starts. She then has the president lament not being able to play for the rest of his presidency.
On Tuesday Politico's Roger Simon took a more traditional approach - but his critique was equally sharp. No one, he says, seems to be in control of the White House's message machine.
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"Was there anyone who said last week: 'Uh, the golf thing, Mr. President? Maybe delay it a couple of days? So it doesn't come minutes after you tell the nation how 'heartbroken' you are over a beheaded journalist. Maybe go hiking? Sit on a rock, commune with nature, that kind of thing?'"
The new Obama Doctrine, he concludes, could be summed up: "Speak softly and carry a Big Bertha." (That's a kind of golf club, for the uninitiated.)
"We are left with a president who seems wrapped in his aloofness as a protective blanket to keep the outside from getting in," he writes.
He says that this may not matter to the president as he approaches the final two years of his term, but it could be damaging for Hillary Clinton - the Democrat who seems likely to seek to succeed him. She has her own problems with aloofness, he says, and the public may be ready for a more visibly engaged president.
Elsewhere on Politico, former Obama White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton says that attacks on the president for his golf last week are misguided. Mr Obama, he says, is fully in charge wherever he is.
"In the end, it's not about the optics," he writes. "It's about doing your job. And if the president is doing his - which he is - we should all be able to appreciate the fact that he is taking the opportunity to be a dad, a husband and even a leader of the free world who can clear his head on the golf course."
In the turbulent wake of intervention - Following recent air strikes on militia positions in Tripoli, reportedly carried out by the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, the Middle East Eye's Steve Fox warns that intervention may not quell the fighting in Libya - it could make it worse.
Libya's bombing "reinforces the suspicion that the country's worsening civil war is now the plaything of a struggle between two Gulf states, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates," Fox writes.
With a history of foreign interference, Libyans are "resistant to foreign meddling, from whatever source." Their resistance might not be enough to stop "the temptation of the Gulf states, however, and anyone else eyeing Libya's rich oil bounty" from meddling.
The Al Qaeda threat that isn't there - Could islamic militants be in Mexico? Texas Governor Rick Perry says that's a "very real possibility", even though both Mr Perry and the Pentagon have said there's "no clear evidence" to suggest this.
Following his remarks, "the Mexican government is expressing some irritation" with the governor, writes Joshua Keating for Slate.
"Again, it's not outside the realm of possibility that someone planning an attack could sneak over the border," he says.
"But the scant reports of terrorists trying to enter the US illegally are far outnumbered by the numerous well-documented plots by native-born Americans, naturalised citizens, and foreigners entering the country with valid passports and visas."
IS is an overrated enemy - While the Pentagon is touting the Islamic State (IS) as sophisticated and skilled "beyond anything we've seen", these official words should not be taken without a grain of salt, writes Jack Shafer for Reuters.
"When at war - or about to go to war - the state craves greater acquiescence from its citizens and greater powers, and granted that acquiescence and those new powers it grows ever larger," he writes.
Although the fast ascent of the extremist group should be taken seriously, it "does not necessarily make Islamic State strong and fearful as much as it showcases the relative weaknesses of the Syrian and Iraq governments".
In the wake of the US military involvement in the Middle East, Shafer emphasises that although enemies exist, "boogeymen don't".
National optimism fades - A quiet crisis is brewing in Venezuela, as the country reels from a shortage of food and pharmaceuticals, a skyrocketing inflation rate, and one of the highest murder rates in the world, writes Andres Hoyos for El Espectador (translated by Worldcrunch).
"The separation of powers disappeared long ago, turning Venezuelan democracy into a hollow shell," he says.
As the political landscape continues to fracture and the once-thriving independent press is slowly liquidated by President Nicolas Maduro, Hoyos says that "the last factor feeding a growing pessimism is that people backing the regime appear to have become used to crises".
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A Chinese paper analyses Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's trip to Beijing to reportedly seek aid for his nation's ailing economy.
"The West should not slap sanctions on African countries who don't listen to them. If they do, they will be left behind by China in cooperation with Africa and it will not be because China chooses to take the lead, but because the West chooses to fall behind." - Editorial in Beijing's Huanqiu Shibao (Global Times)
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|The dilemma of not teaching the Mother Tongue
Two months ago, I made a post about what mother tongue is. Just today, I discovered its origin.
Well, I was once again late for my Ed8 subject today though I came to school early. Anyway, here it is.
Once, there was a teacher in a private and prestigious school in one of the cities in the Philippines. She was a fluent English speaker. In fact, she is teaching the discipline for quite sometime already. One day, she asked one of her students to get a broomstick.
Teacher: Kindly get a broomstick.
Student: Where is it placed teacher?
Teacher: It's at the back of the door.
Student: Pardon teacher.
Teacher: I said it is at the back of the door.
Student: Where?
Teacher: Naa sa likod sa purtahan bah.
Student: What is purtahan teacher?
Teacher: (irritated) Ay ako na lang mukuha.
After that incident, many teachers realized that they need not only teach the second language (which is English), but also the mother tongue especially to those children who have not been trained at home to speak in their native dialect.
Now, Lubuagan in Kalinga is the first to use Mother Tongue in their curriculum and they have found its effectiveness especially in the mastery and fluency of their learners in Language and Comprehension, both in English and in their mother tongue.