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Ensuring You Get The Best LodgingsSometimes when choosing a hotel, it can be tempting to select one based only on price. Or, you might just be unfamiliar with the choices in a particular area. Instead of having such a narrow focus or not knowing enough information, you're about to learn some helpful tips that will aid you in your decision.
Do comparison shopping online. Often you"ll need to do some comparison shopping to find the best deals out there. Some quick web searches can do you a lot of good. There you'll see who has the best prices for hotels in the areas you are considering. It can save you some real cash.
Think about using room service if you want to enjoy late-night dining without needing to leave your hotel room. You will probably pay more for this meal, but for the convenience of having it delivered to your room, it is worth it.
When planning a vacation, be sure to make all of your hotel reservations well in advance. In this way, you can lock in lower rates. If you have some flexibility regarding when you take your vacation, be sure to find out about off season rates. Very often, the rate you pay in non-peak times of year is significantly lower.
When traveling with children, be sure the hotels you choose offer features the kids will enjoy. A playground on site is very helpful. A pool with plenty of shallow area and/or a kiddie pool will provide great play time. Also check to see if the hotel you are interested in offers a child care service.
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Do you travel a lot? Consider using a hotel loyalty program. They offer a variety of benefits to their members. The rewards can include free room upgrades, free meals and movie or show tickets tickets. The points can add up.
There are websites available that offer you an instant discount if the hotel you have booked decreases in price before your stay. You may end up with a good amount of money back in your pocket. The best thing about this type of site is that the opposite does not apply. If the rates increase, you will only have to pay the amount you were originally quoted.
Be aware of the check in and check out times for the hotel at which you are staying. If you arrive too early, your room may not be ready, and you may have to wait a few hours to access it. If you fail to check out by the appointed time, you may be charged for an extra day. Knowing the hotel policies with regard to check in and check out times can save you some aggravation.
If you want to have a massage with your partner on your vacation, make sure that you schedule an appointment with a masseuse as early as possible. Most of the time, the most reputable masseuses will be booked, so plan early in order to have the most enjoyable experience.
Frequent travelers can benefit from loyalty programs offered by many hotels. These programs provide perks to those who stay at a particular chain regularly. These programs can assure you niceties such as the best prices, room upgrades, and special perks such as free meals or late checkouts.
Before you make your hotel reservation, check to see if any fees will be added to your bill. Many hotels charge extra for parking, Wi-Fi and even room cleaning. These charges can make your stay more costly than you anticipated, so be sure to ask about them before you make your decision.
It is important that you find out how often rooms are vacuumed in a hotel. It may sound silly, but it isn't. Some places use a small sweeper to gather large particles. Many times, they only vacuum when the room is really messy. You should try to get a room that has been recently vacuumed so that it gathers the particles that you cannot see.
If you want your family to have a happy stay, call the hotel ahead and ensure that their swimming pools are available and in good working order. Nothing is worse than having excited kids who find out they cannot go to the pool.
Rely on ratings and reviews more than overall stars. relevant website can be very deceiving these days. It's better to rely on what honest people have to say about the hotel. Ratings and even more importantly reviews offer that. Dig through them before deciding on which hotel to stay at.
If you are concerned about good hygiene, do not use the bedspread given to you by the hotel. The top bedspread usually isn't cleaned as often as the sheets or blankets underneath. Therefore, you don't really know what is on it. Pull it off for peace of mind.
You should take your time when checking out to ensure that your bill is correct. Travelers often find additional fees for items that weren't used or wanted. For example, many hotels now charge a usage fee for their gyms and swimming pools. If you see you have been charged for an unwanted item, contest the charge with the manager on duty.
Did you receive a newspaper outside of your hotel room this morning? If so, chances are you will be charged for it. To avoid being charged for an unwanted newspaper, take the newspaper to the front desk and inform the desk clerk that you do not wish to receive a newspaper during your stay.
Read reviews on hotels before you book your rooms. Sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor have reviews from travelers who share their experiences and rate the accommodations. A hotel that just has a couple of reviews may not present an accurate picture, but if many reviews have a common opinion about a hotel, you can rely on that more.
The hotel business is competitive. If you have a bad experience during a hotel visit, let the management know right away. Your comments will help them improve their service and make them into a better chain. Sometimes you may even get room credits as a sign of appreciation from management.
Finding the right hotel for your dream vacation can be tricky. If you don't know what you are doing, you can end up overpaying for something that will not meet your expectations. This article provided tips that can help you make the right choice. Keep these in mind next time you have to book a hotel.


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And, as CBS News Correspondent David Pogue observes, the trend is only likely to intensify.
You can listen to 60 or 70 music stations, each dedicated to a different style of music-gospel, salsa, movie soundtracks, and nonstop dance music-all without ever hearing a single commercial.
You also get about 40 talk-radio stations that cater to every conceivable interest:
Comedy channels, business channels, all-hockey channels, all Catholic channels-for all I know, there's probably an all-Catholic hockey channel.
Of course, you can't listen to all these special channels without a special radio. Some of these models plug into your home stereo. Some go into your car.
And some models are designed to go back and forth between your house and your car.
The receiver will set you back about a hundred dollars and up-way up. But don't put your credit cards away just yet. You also have to sign up for the service, for the low, low price of 10 or 13 dollars a month. Yes, that's right: We've actually entered an age when people will actually pay a monthly fee to listen to the radio.
Still, the 2.1 million people who've signed up so far consider that a small price to pay.
In fact, one satellite radio wasn't enough for Sarkis Hagopian, "I actually have five official subscriptions."
The hard part is choosing between the two companies that offer satellite radio: Sirius and XM.
Each has invested over 2 billion dollars in equipment and satellites, and each is scrambling to sign up listeners-and start breaking even.
200 million cars and trucks on the road today, a built in growth rate of 16 to 17 million new sets each year,
"So is there a market? Sure. Is it huge? Yes. Is there room for two? Absolutely," says Sirius satellite radio's CEO, Joe Clayton.
"It's like we're a married couple," says XM Radio's CEO, Hugh Panero.
He and Clayton have quite a relationship
"We're tough competitors. And when lobbying issues come up in Washington, we're back at the altar," comments Panero.
If you want to know which service is better, these are the guys to ask.
"We clearly are the place to go if you're into sports," says Clayton. " We have the NBA, National Hockey League, and the NFL, National Football League."
"The monthly service is less expensive. It's only $10 a month. You know, theirs is $13," says Panero.
As far as programming goes, Clayton notes, "we have exclusives with National Public Radio channels, Public Radio International, we have The Wall Street Journal."
"Our hardware, our radio equipment, has been lauded as being the top equipment in the business. We've won a number of awards," says Panero.
Clayton: We have a young male channel, we have a female channel, we have a conservative channel, we have a left channel.
Panero: They maybe have 400,000 subscribers right now. We have over-- you know, close to a million seven.
In the end, though, these two companies have a lot in common. For example, each broadcasts from a very expensive, very state-of-the-art facility-XM in Washington, Sirius in New York.
These giant rooftop antennas blast the signal up to the satellites in space. But if you live in a big city, you're probably more interested in these smaller antennas. They're called repeaters. They capture the satellite signal and then rebroadcast it locally, so you don't lose the sound as you cruise through the concrete canyons.
The stars drop by for interviews or performances whenever they're in town.
It's not just a full-blown broadcasting facility; it has also got recording studios.
Each company handpicks music experts like Martin Goldsmith, who became XM's classical-music director after 30 years with National Public Radio, to develop its 100 channels.
"Over the last dozen, 15 years, in commercial radio and in noncommercial terrestrial radio, there have been increasing pressures to play the hits. But here at XM, there are no restrictions whatsoever," says Goldsmith.
And he's not the only happy refugee from traditional radio.
José Mangin, a DJ, programs two heavy-metal music channels for Sirius.
"Me being a metal head since I was a little tiny baby growin' up in Arizona, nine blocks from the Mexican fence, it's like, you know, I grew up with this," says Mangin. "And I really know what's gonna make someone smile in their car, or when someone's gonna say, 'Oh wow, they're playin' that?' That's what I'm looking for, and the feedback that's coming in every day is amazing, all positive, and I wanna cry sometimes."
It's a shame they couldn't find some DJs that are passionate about their work, you know?
So there you have it. Happy customers, happy employees. Everybody's happy.
"And what concerns our radio colleagues of course is satellite radio's obvious violation of FCC rules," says Ed Fritts.
All right, not quite everyone. Ed Fritts is the president of the NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters. You know-traditional radio stations. They are not among the fans of satellite radio-as XM's Hugh Panero knows very well,
"Well, I think the NAB is just an incumbent, you know, lobbying organization that doesn't like competition," says Panero. "As network television didn't particularly like when cable came out, and tried to do as many things as they could to thwart it or kill it."
"Also, the life expectancy of XM satellites has fallen from 17 to less than 7 years. That's why every morning when I get up; I look out the window to make sure an XM satellite is not plummeting toward my roof," says Fritts.
Say what? Falling satellites?
"No. All that's happened is that our satellites were supposed to last-- I don't know, 15, 16 years. And there's an anomaly on the satellite. And what we're doing is, we're launching new satellites faster than we anticipated, and actually want to probably go up by the end of the year," says Panero.
It is true, though, that satellite radio isn't perfect. The music stations don't have ads, but the talk stations do. The music quality is better than FM, but not as good as a CD.
And remember that except in big cities, the radio doesn't work unless its antenna can see the sky. At home, that pretty much means you have to park the radio near a window.
Even so, the two satellite companies are merrily signing up 150,000 new customers a month. And both have big plans for new services.
"Flashing your favorite sports scores on the screen, or your favorite stock quotes, and then down the road is video in the backseat of the car," says Clayton.
This fall, you'll be able to buy a car navigation system that color-codes the roads according to the speed of the traffic, using real-time traffic data from XM satellites.
"It will tell you the average speed of the cars, if there is any construction ahead, and then actually give you alternate routes," says Panero.
So, welcome to the new age of satellite radio. I'd stick around to chat, but-it's time for my favorite show on satellite radio: "All William Shatner, All the Time."
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Location: Riverhead, NY
Founded: 1972
Industry: Hospitality
Hotel Indigo East End
Rob Salvatico
President and COO
Hotel Indigo East End is a family-owned hotel development and management company with a primary operating focus on Long Island's east end. The company has two hotels, one full-service and the other select-service. Operated by a father, son and uncle, Hotel Indigo was founded with the idea of building something together that the family could grow with. What's more, the family worked to build up the hospitality market on Long Island. "We are very much one of those hospitable, love-all-people, love-to-serve and entertain-all type families," says president and COO Rob Salvatico. This mindset, combined with the company's passion for filling a need on Long Island, has led to significant growth.
Quick Tip: "Enjoy success, but never take it for granted. You have to keep changing if you want to be successful."
The company's first hotel was sold in 2007, and with it went its team, which Salvatico describes as a family. When the company opened its next hotel, rebuilding such a strong team under a cohesive culture was a real challenge. "It was the number-one reason we struggled in the early years on the east end. It has taken us almost 10 years to get back to where we've got a phenomenal team, a phenomenal culture, and we now know we will not let this team go again," says Salvatico. In fact, he says that Hotel Indigo East End's current team is the company's number-one competitive advantage.


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5 Who Moved My Cheese?
This book about dealing with change became a surprising phenomenon, considering the fact that most of its messages are things we've all been told again and again. But maybe that's precisely why it became so popular. It uses cute parables and simple statements and bullet points to verbalize obvious truths like "the world will inevitably keep changing" so that we can try to internalize the idea. Easier said than done, of course. But be careful if you plan to use this as a birthday present. A number of corporations who were in the process of restructuring have done it and, for some reason, employees found books about mice who cooperate with change to be more than a bit patronizing.
4 Tuesdays With Morrie
Yet another book chronicling the end of a life. Unlike Before I Say Goodbye, in this one Morrie Schwartz knows that he is leaving a book behind. He spends sixteen consecutive Tuesday afternoons sitting with his former student, Mitch Albom (the author), and discussing the meaning of life. Morrie died at the age of 79, so even though he died of Lou Gehrig's disease he was old enough to talk about the experience of aging and so much of the book focuses on that especially as the disease sped up the process. But he does not spend time describing his situation, instead he gives advice. We hear through Mitch's ears the wisdom he gets about how to face adversity gracefully, about what is important in life and about how to find the time for it. And from the hints that Mitch gives us about himself, it sounds like they're lessons that he needs. They probably can't hurt the rest of us either.
3 The Beatles Anthology
This is exactly what it claims to be: a collection of the Beatles. Not of their music, or their pictures, or facts. It combines all of those with anecdotes, documents, and first-person narrative that document the rise and fall of the Beatles Empire. Although the book is clearly meant as a coffee table book (it's heavy!) it's easy to read straight through without realizing it since it doesn't play out as prose but rather as a conversation between the reader and four interesting people. For some reason, even those of us who sneer at people who follow celebrity drama can't help being fascinating by some of the soap-opera behavior of the Beatles. Perhaps it's because it feels more like history than any other band and less like straight-up gossip. At the end of the day, that may be what it is — but you know you want to hear it.
2 Before I Say Goodbye
If you were dying of breast cancer would your first instinct be to write about the experience? Probably not. But that's what British journalist Ruth Picardie did and her last seven columns for the Observer magazine form the backbone to this book documenting the last year of her life. The columns are augmented by her correspondence with friends and family and by essays written by her husband and sister. If you're looking for the ideal model of the selfless dying here, this isn't it. Instead, Picardie spent her last year buying new clothes and makeup, or as she put it "finding my inner Shallow Fashion Bimbo before I die." But she feels real and so the amount of humor that comes out even as things get worse makes you hope that when you're time comes you can be so insightful, entertaining and eloquent.
1 Flags of Our Fathers
Any American can recognize the famous photograph of six men struggling to raise the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima. Although three of those men died in the same battle, the new symbolic status of the remaining men was recognized almost immediately and they were sent around the United States to fundraise. James Bradley, the co-author of Flags of Our Fathers, is the son of one of those men. After his father's death he spent years researching the lives of all six WWII soldiers, from their childhoods to their deaths in battle or back home in the U.S. Not only does this give us the historical context of what became one of America's most moving symbols of the war, it also describes a cross-section of "the Greatest Generation."
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Construction Companies have been through a lot in the last few years. Commercial construction has dropped off from its high in 2006 by almost 70% and residential construction went from an annualized rate of 1.8 million units to only 300,000 today. These drops in activity have left the wounded and dying construction companies on the field of battle wondering if it will ever get better.
Many companies that prospered in the boom years have learned the hard way during this recession that, "an abundance of cash flow covers a multitude of sins"©2011 TFC. This simply means that when there is plenty of profit to go around, inadequate internal controls and poor work processes can go undetected for years...until the cash dries up!
Vacillating over the question of whether the economy will get better is one of the worst ideas that a construction company owner could ponder. This question is of little use to the construction company owner, for the overall economy is not something that an owner can control. It would be a much better use of time and energy to exploit items that are controllable and are keys to immediate profitability such as:
1. Train ALL staff to Prospect...and Reward them for doing so. Sales and Cash Flow is the life blood of any company. Everyone wins when you have more business so encourage your staff to bring you leads. For example, on several occasions, our office and construction field employees brought us work by talking up the company to their friends and family members.
2. Train ALL staff that they are in Sales. You may think this is trivial, but not all employees understand this principle. I once had a construction manager tell a prospect that, "we don't erect building shells, we only do complete design/build projects". The prospect moved their business to a competitor and we missed $250,000 gross profit as a result of that slip of the tongue.
3. Train Sales Staff how to Prospect! In Business to Business sales the telephone is still your best friend. Yet, most sales people have a fear of the phone, a fear of rejection, a fear of those in authority, and no prospects. Teach Salespeople how to find prospects in their everyday activities and you'll have more than enough prospects to turn into sales.
4. Train Sales Staff how to sell! Once I was on a sales call and the salesman made a great presentation, yet failed to ask open or closed questions in a systematic manner, answered a probing question that I directed to the prospect -- instead of allowing the prospect to answer, and failed to ask for the sale. How often does your sales staff do similar non-productive things?
5. Teach Sales Staff that not all sales are good sales. Want more cash flow? Unprofitable jobs steal much needed cash and could be avoided if jobs were analyzed BEFORE they were taken on. Take the time to work through the estimate thoroughly and not just jump at the chance to have work. The time you take during the estimating stage will result in a gain or a loss of cash flow.
6. Guerrilla Marketing - Position your company as a winner in the market and achieve greater market share for little cost. Inexpensive is not impossible. Sponsor seminars, write articles, fix up your website, or find creative ways to reach your target market without spending a fortune.
7. Controlling Overhead - The keys to profitability are as simple (and hard) as realizing what can be reduced and what can be eliminated to improve cash flow. Do you really need an office in a city 60 miles from home? What about all those cell phones that you pay for month after month? Will the company suffer if the employees can't call home at a moment's notice? Scrutinize Gas Cards, Trucks, Travel Expenses, Office Trailers, and the alike to see where costs can be cut.
8. Improve Job Costing - For certain contracts - especially government contracts, cash flow can be accelerated by instituting more accurate and consistent job costing resulting in larger immediate billings. If overhead is a billable expense, it will quickly pay for someone to more accurately quantify and document the expenses that qualify as reimbursable according to the contract. By re-reading the contract and discovering that the client's definition of overhead was much broader than our own we were able to greatly improve our profitability and our cash flow. By re-defining our overhead costs to match the clients' contractual expectation we gained $100,000!
9. Worker Productivity - Morale is a lost science in America. True Story: A company told a department that compared to their peers in the industry they were all "over-paid". When the meeting was over one employee was asked to "return" $0.12/hour that they had been "over-paid". What do you think happened to department productivity?
What can you do to improve productivity and profitability? Studies show that you can increase your worker productivity by five percent or more. Did you know, depending upon the business, a five percent improvement on gross profit can result in one percent increase in net income.
In other words, if your gross margin is 20% and net income is 5%, a five percent improvement in gross margin would be 21% and net income would be 6%, an increase of 20%!
10. Contingency Based Profit Recovery - This is a real way to generate cash flow. So real, in fact, that one company pays for an extra office employee from the annual savings. Have you over-paid on Worker's Compensation Insurance, FED-EX, UPS, or Phone bills? Having professional audits produced usually cost nothing and yet will return 50% of the savings...savings that create positive cash flow.
11. Pro-Active A/R Collections ©2011 TFC. Due to the recession, many construction companies' receivables have fallen to greater than 100 days. This delay in collecting what is owed can cause companies to utilize their line of credit and having to pay for the privilege of doing so. Worse, instead of being able to bank the money and earn interest many companies are borrowing extravagant amounts of money just to stay afloat.
Yet, instead of taking the traditional passive collection route, smart companies are becoming much more proactive in their collections and are getting ahead of their competitors.
12. Change from Financial Accounting (that does little more than tell you how much tax to pay) to Managerial Accounting that will improve your projects' profitability with rational decision making - instead shooting from the hip and hoping for the best. With this simple change, businesses can actually manage projects, reduce gross margin shrinkage, and greatly improve cash flow.
Nicknamed, "The Dean of Cash Flow", Randall Turner, MBA, was formerly a CFO of a large construction company and now spends his time helping construction companies across America and Canada improve their cash flow. Because of his gift at rapidly improving cash flow, Randall is frequently called upon to act as a Turn Around Specialist and backs up his advise with a 2:1 ROI guarantee.
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Enkei Tuning – this brandname is a synonym for racing and tuning. The traditional Japanese brand has always been closely connected to the racing scene and is being used in several formula classes world wide.
The Formula One also counts on outstanding quality of Enkei products – with a few, exquisit designs, Reifen Gundlach offers the sublime wheel brand exclusively in Germany for racing enthusiasts and motorsport fans.
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What is lost by locking to the grid
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What is lost by locking to the grid
I have found that if I play and sing a song without a click, and then track overdubs afterward, it sounds a little sloppy but there's a great energy and vibe. It feels good.
Then when I try to polish it and tighten up, I start by re-tracking a scratch track to a click and getting a basic drum part to lock onto. When I add the overdubs it sounds much more solid … but it has a different feel and it's harder to sing along to.
I should probably just practice, so that my performance to a click sounds the same as without one. But it occurs to me that so much contemporary music faces similar issues by virtue of its "perfection". Would "She Loves You" by the Beatles sound as good if it was tracked to a click and laid down part by part? Would it have the same electricity? I don't think so. Would "Whole Lotta Love" or "Dazed and Confused"?
I am not saying the contemporary stuff sounds bad — there's lots of great music still being made. But it definitely sounds, and feels, different.
The recording medium, to me, is not as important to the sound as the recording method. Some older analog recordings have the same robotic feel — like "Shine" by Collective Soul. I enjoy the song but it sounds like it was tracked to a drum machine.
I think this accounts in part for much of the similar feel in contemporary music. Every band negotiates microscopic variations in timing differently, helping to distinguish and set them apart. But when all artists have the same grid-like precision timing, it's as if they all, in some sense, are playing in the same band.
One measure of information is called Kolmogorov complexity. It explains data in terms of the shortest computer program that can reproduce it. Thus 01010101… can be summed up as easily as "repeat 01". But a random string of data can only be summed up by repeating the string itself.
By this measure quantized music is less complex since it is easier to program. You know exactly where the note will be. But human music played live is harder to nail down. It requires more effort to reproduce through programming, thus it is more complex and information-rich.
This isn't even touching on timbral or harmonic complexity, mind you.
Finally, I want to emphasize that I'm not making any value judgments here. And these aren't exactly new insights we haven't heard before. But they have recently come home to me in a way I have not previously understood, and I thought I'd share my experience.


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A new segment. I hope that this will become a very important segment soon. I think this is the best way to really get into the details of my builds.
So Client Build 18 questions in the comments please and Ill answer them in another video.


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Whenever I click on mic setup, it would always crash my game and end up with the window "The game has crashed. The crash report folder named "2016-03-19_135348" next to game executable. It would be great if you'd send it to the developer of the game." Another issue probably related to this, is that I cannot hear anyone in game or talk in game. But I can hear everyone thing else just fine. But I can use mic setup in the menu without crashing.


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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Fair shop employees Union on Thursday staged a demonstration protest demanding implementation of Cabinet Decision of 2014 regarding their adjustment as salesmen in the department.
Jahangir Ahmad Vice president Of Kashmir fair shop employees Union said " the previous government had adjusted us in the Department as a sales man. Due the floods of 2014, the cabinet decision cannot been implemented in the state.
"If the previous government of the state has made a cabinet decision, why the present government is not implementing the decision," jahangeer questioned.
Muhammad Aslam Sheikh, fair employee from Awantipora said "We surrendered our licenses that time and joined the department as a salesman. We have requested the concerned officials time and again to implement cabinet decision of 2014. But our issue is yet to be addressed."
The protestors requested the chief minister for implementation of Cabinet Decision of 2014.


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Now that the long holiday vacation is over, it's time to get back to my real life.
Here's my checklist for the week:
1. 2 forum posts for my online class
2. 5 papers for my major subject
3. 8 radio scripts
4. concept papers for 2 documentaries
All these on top of my regular work. And by Saturday to boot! Hmmm…I'm getting a headache just thinking of how I'm going to manage all these. It's going to be one hell of a week.


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By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 2, 2005; Page A01
North Korea has reprocessed 8,000 spent fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium and appears to have exported nuclear material to Libya, U.S. officials informed Asian allies this week.
Two senior officials on the National Security Council, Michael J. Green and William Tobey, told key officials in Asia about the alarming intelligence, a U.S. official said last night. He said the "sole reason" for the trip -- officially billed as consultations about possible talks with North Korea about its nuclear program -- was to brief Japan, South Korea and China about the information.
The nuclear material that North Korea may have exported to Libya was uranium hexafluoride. This is not fissile material but can be enriched into weapons-grade material if it is fed into nuclear centrifuges. Thus, it is considered material that could eventually be used in weapons, making the discovery of the sale disturbing to U.S. officials.
The Bush administration has been grappling for four years about what to do about North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The new information could raise the pressure to act because it suggests that North Korea not only is expanding its program but also could be actively exporting nuclear material.
The determination that North Korea provided the uranium hexafluoride was made by a technical group within the Energy Department. It examined containers obtained from Libya -- which gave up its nuclear programs in a deal with the United States and Britain -- and picked up signatures of plutonium produced at Yongbyon, where North Korea has its nuclear facilities. The U.S. official said that because North Korea probably would have produced much of the uranium hexafluoride at the Yongbyon facility, this was deemed the link that connected the material in the containers to the North Koreans.
"This was not a conclusion reached by the CIA" or the intelligence bureau at the State Department, said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the intelligence matter. "This was the lab technicians from DOE."
He said this gave added credence to the report because it was based not on a murky intelligence assessment but on hard data.
The finding that North Korea has reprocessed fuel rods -- potentially enough material to produce six atomic weapons -- is less surprising. North Korea has long said that it had reprocessed the material, and many U.S. intelligence analysts concluded a year ago that the reprocessing had taken place. Yet it is significant that the Bush administration has decided to brief its allies on its conclusion.
The New York Times first reported last night that North Korea appeared to have produced uranium hexafluoride and exported it.
Talks involving the United States, Japan, South Korea, China, Russia and North Korea have yielded little progress. No meeting has been held since last June, when the Bush administration put its most recent offer on the table. The United States has alleged that North Korea is building a uranium-enrichment program and that it must acknowledge all of its nuclear programs before any incentives begin. But the government in Pyongyang has denied it has a uranium program.
Under the proposal, if North Korea agrees to terminate its nuclear programs, South Korea and other U.S. allies could provide immediate energy assistance to North Korea, which would have three months to disclose its programs and have its claims verified. The United States would then join its allies in giving written security assurances and participate in a process that might ultimately result in direct U.S. aid.
North Korea has indicated a willingness to return to the talks if President Bush does not indicate what Pyongyang calls his "hostile policy" during his State of the Union address tonight. Bush first labeled North Korea part of an "axis of evil" -- along with Iran and Saddam Hussein's Iraq -- in his State of the Union address three years ago.
But the U.S. determination that North Korea has obtained the material for six weapons under Bush's watch and mastered the art of uranium processing significantly raises the stakes in the impasse over North Korea's programs.
Libya has renounced its nuclear programs, as well as other programs for weapons of mass destruction, and provided all of the materials to the U.S. government for its inspection. The Libya material has exposed a vast nuclear smuggling ring emanating from Pakistan, but the North Korea finding has raised question about whether Pyongyang helped supply other countries.
China and South Korea have publicly complained that the Bush administration has not shown enough flexibility in the negotiations over North Korea's programs.


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Business After Hours (BAH) events are hosted by a different Chamber member business each month. These casual evening events provide fantastic networking opportunities in a relaxed setting and give hosting members the opportunity to promote their business. They are run in the last week of each month.
Our April BAH is hosted by Signarama Mosman, located just up from the Spit Road intersection at 58 Spit Road.
Signarama has an extensive range of capabilities and products to meet every signage need. Meet Colin and his team and learn how your local Signarama can design, manufacture and install any signage you require from simple building signs, vehicle signs, banners, office and reception signs, right through to enormous pylon signs, building signs and electronic displays.
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South Orange County Surfrider Laguna Beach Main Beach Clean Ups in May 2018.
Main Beach Clean Up is a Laguna Beach Community Engagement Event.
South Orange County Surfrider Laguna Beach Main Beach Clean Ups Schedule
Wednesday May 16 at 3:00pm-5:00pm
Friday May 18 2018 at 4:15pm-6:15pm
Saturday May 19 2018 at 8:00amm-11:00am
Wednesday May 23 2018 at 3:00pm-5:00pm
Friday May 25 2018 at 4:15pm-6:15pm
Saturday May 26 2018 at 8:00am-11:00am
Wednesday May 30 2018 at 3:00pm-5:00pm
3PM-5PM at Main Beach
Please come prepared with close-toe shoes, a water bottle and sun protection
Laguna Beach Main Beach is located at Pacific Coast Highway and Laguna Canyon Road.
All Day Public Parking:
There are 8 public parking lots in the City of Laguna Beach.
Prices : $10-15 all day with slight increases on weekends and holidays.
The City of Laguna Beach has ample metered parking within the city streets.
Meters Pricing:
$2-3 per hour for a 3 hour maximum in the downtown area.
The meters accept most credit cards.
Parking is strictly enforced daily from 8:00am-9:00pm.


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The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia (Catalan: Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia, Spanish: Catedral de la Santa Cruz y Santa Eulalia), commonly known as Barcelona Cathedral or La Seu is one of the most beautiful Catalan Gothic buildings in Barcelona. The most refreshing spot cannot be found elsewhere, but the 14th century cloister where 13 white geese are kept. On the way back to La Rambla, I visited Barcelona Cathedral to see its magical oasis and to say hello to the 13 white geese.
Its finest architecture and a gaggle of 13 white geese in the lovely oasis of Barcelona are the tempting notes to most visitors. According to legend,a belief behind the number "13" of white geese in the 14th century cloister is said to honor Saint Eulalia's purity or to signify her age when she was martyred or maybe to represent 13 ways the Romans had tortured her. Some say the number "13" representing one of each year of Saint Eulalia 's short life. Barcelona Cathedral is after all a holy place, so an appropriate dressing is required when visiting Barcelona Cathedral. The charming cloister courtyard is a joyful highlight as you can see different type of trees, and a mossy pond, called as the Well of the Geese. Holding one leg up is a kind of cutest thing I found here when talking about the 13 white geese. Their geese ancestors might be doing the similar poses during late afternoon since the 14th century or so.
Apart from the charming 13 white geese, you will have a chance to see the Sardana dancing, a true Catalan culture in front of Catedral de Barcelona if you go there on Sunday noon. This traditional Sardana dancing on Sunday and taking an elevator to a rooftop will be my next missions to embrace in Barcelona. Seeing is believing!


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On our next edition of the Peter Hyatt Show, our special guest will be "Eyes for Lies" from the website that so many of our readers have referred to in their comments.
The show begins at 5PM EST with our chat room open one hour earlier, and will remain open for the evening.
Among our topics of discussion will be not only lie detection from our guest, but we will touch upon the latest news in the investigations into the disappearance of Susan Cox, the subsequent arrest and likely involvement by her former father in law, Steven Powell, as well as updates on Celina Cass and Hailey Dunn.
One topic we will be able to help clarify is the safety and well being of Susan's children, who are now reported to be in State custody with hopeful placement with Chuck Cox, maternal grandfather, and his family.
Eyes for Lies:
What goes into training?
Must one be a natural to learn micro expressions?
Can the average person learn to pick up deception?
This, as well as questions on specific cases (where Eyes for Lies has had access to video; for that is how she works) should be posted here in the comments section.
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This year the Common Application will not go live until August 1st, which is a month later than last year. There are several changes to the application this year, which include questions about language proficiency and religious preference (optional) to name a few. The application has also consolidated the activities and work sections into one space.
While some might see the August 1st date as a setback in tackling applications, I look at it as an opportunity to start working on the personal statement now. The essay questions will not be changing, so if you dive in now, you will have ample time to complete it and then work on the supplement essays that will be released after August 1st for individual colleges.
With 27 new members, the Common Application is now accepted by 414 colleges and universities. A few of the 27 include Seattle Pacific University, University of Michigan, Pepperdine University, Pacific Lutheran University, & Olin College of Engineering. In the 2009-10 applicant year, the Common Application saw a 20% increase in usage with over 470,000 unique users.
To preview the 2010-11 application, visit the Common Application's website.
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Ted Neward disagrees with
Chris Sells about when to use the GAC (Chris says "Never",
Ted says "Occasionally, for shared components"). I thought Chris' post was spot-on,
but Ted raises some interesting points. I'm so confused!
Miguel links
to a paper on IronPython,
a high-performance Python interpreter that runs on the CLR. Interesting stuff, particularly
the pystone benchmarks that shows IronPython to outperform plain old CPython.
Raymond Chen is in Sweden, and has
begun to experience the Swedish way of life. He seem to be helped by this list of
"You know when you've been in
Sweden too long when…" facts
Tim Bray, now at Sun, takes
a closer look at the XML formats used by OpenOffice and comes away impressed.
If one of the inventors are impressed by your XML format design, I think it's safe
to say you've done a good job.
Charles Miller
us how software development will be done in the future, when todays gamer kids and
their twitchy fingers have grown up.
Cedric Beust disses Lisp
(and other functional languages) fanatics. The Haskell quicksort example with
accompanying description is hilarious.
jwz reads up on "pure"
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This little cutie is the last "good" reminder of a bitter winter. The family, mom included, were rescued during a nasty blizzard. They adapted quickly to being safe inside and are now ready to find their new homes and their new families. Hailey is quite the player and is all about kitten energy. Born in late February of 2018, this beautiful grey and white girl enjoys wrestling with her siblings until she is tuckered out. Hailey would love a feline companion in her new home, possibly a sibling or even her mom, Angel. Hailey is vaccinated, altered, FeLV/FIV tested negative and microchipped. If you are interested in adopting Hailey, complete the pre-adoption application at www.startpets.net or call Lauren at S.T.A.R.T. at 973-785-1245.
Bobby is a handsome grey tabby, with a short tail. Bobby was born in January of 2012. He loves his belly rubs and likes to be King of the household! Bobby would do best with one other cat. He loves to play and sometimes the other cats think he is too rough, but Bobby likes to be boss. Give Bobby a chance and he will warm your heart!! Bobby is a lap cat and loves to watch TV and get attention!! He is vaccinated, altered, FeLV/FIV tested negative and microchipped. If you are interested in adopting Bobby, complete the pre-adoption application at www.startpets.net or call Kym at S.T.A.R.T. at 973-785-1245.
If you're looking for a gal who's equally playful and sweet, look no further! Missy's just as happy playing with toys as she is rolling over for belly rubs. She even likes being held!
Sweet Sheba is the best little girl. She is playful and loves her toys, but she's just as happy being pet and giving big puppy kisses.
The Alan Purcell Wayne Animal Shelter is located at 201 Pompton Plains Crossroad, Wayne. Adoption hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturdays from 12 to 4 p.m., or by appointment. Call 973-694 -0767 or visit www.waynetownship.com. All animals are up to date with shots, altered, and cats are tested FIV and leukemia.


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My name is… Milan
I'm from a country called… The Netherlands
I work at… Rockstart
And my job title is… Controller Financial Accounting
My secret side projects include… Providing tax advice and organizing neighborhood barbecues
I am pretty good at… Solving complex issues, meditation, swimming, keeping myself and others calm during stressful times
Outside the office, I'm passionate about… Playing instruments such as the ukulele, didgeridoo, banjo, piano and the mandolin. Meditation and YinYoga
I'm involved with Rockstart because… The times we're living in allows us to really discover ourselves and explore new options. Helping people to follow the thing they're passionate about gives a good feeling of satisfaction.
More about me: "If you're going through hell, keep going" – Sir Winston Churchill


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The American public's initial soaring optimism about the war against Iraq has flattened a little, but support for the war remains broad and President Bush's approval rating continues to stand at a record level, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.
Last Thursday, the day after the bombing began with little apparent Iraqi response, 40 percent of the public said they thought the war would be over in a few weeks. By Sunday only half as many held that view. There was a smaller decline in the percentage who said the war was going "very well" for the United States.
But approval of how Mr. Bush is handling the Presidency stood at 86 percent in Thursday's polling, and on Sunday it was at a statistically equivalent 84 percent. The 79 percent who said Thursday that the United States was right to attack was about equal to the 76 percent who said so on Sunday. Before the war, the country was evenly split between attacking and waiting for the economic sanctions to have more impact. The margins of sampling error were plus or minus four percentage points for the 544 people interviewed Thursday and three percentage points for the 867 interviewed Sunday.
The four-day telephone survey of 3,002 adults nationwide began the night after the first attacks on Iraq, and was designed to measure day-to-day shifts in opinion. A companion survey of 550 adults examined the views of those who opposed warfare before it began and shifted to support it once the bombs started falling. Those switchers appeared to expect an easier war than they once had and to have started paying more attention to the issue once war began. 'Something Needed to Be Done'
Asked to explain why they shifted, the switchers also indicated that their patience, like Mr. Bush's, had been exhausted. Michelle Fabiano, a 23-year-old teacher in Glasco, N.Y., said: "I just thought it got to a point where something needed to be done. So much was invested -- our troops, other countries.' "Continue reading the main story
Wallace Anderson, a 71-year-old retired civil servant and World War II veteran from San Antonio, said: "If you're going to have a war, go ahead and have it. In World War II they didn't mess around."
While the poll found that support for war, rather than continued reliance on economic sanctions, had increased sharply in all population groups since the weekend before the attack, some major differences remained.
Only 47 percent of blacks said the United States was right to start military action, and 43 percent said it should have tried sanctions longer. Among whites, 80 percent favored war and 16 percent preferred sanctions. That gap was about as wide as the prewar gap, when 52 percent of whites and 23 percent of blacks favored military action if Iraq was not out of Kuwait by Jan. 15.
Differences between men and women narrowed. Before the war, 56 percent of men and 40 percent of women said they favored force after Jan. 15. Among the 3,002 surveyed after war began, 81 percent of men and 70 percent of women said the country was right to attack. Record Approval
Approval of Mr. Bush's handling of his job went from 66 percent the weekend before the war to 84 percent for the four-day survey, reaching the mark that the Gallup Poll recorded for President Franklin D. Roosevelt just after Pearl Harbor.
The phenomenon of Presidents gaining public approval when deeply involved in foreign crises has a long history, but Mr. Bush's gain was one of the two sharpest ever measured, comparable to the 16 percentage points that President Richard M. Nixon gained in 1973 when the Vietnam peace accords were signed.
President John F. Kennedy gained 13 points from the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. President Lyndon B. Johnson's approval rating went up 8 points after the bombing of Hanoi in 1966.
But other events have produced smaller changes. President Ronald Reagan's bombing of Libya in 1986 was popular, but his approval rating only went from 64 to 70 percent, and Mr. Bush's invasion of Panama in 1989 won him a gain of 9 percentage points.
Some of those previous gains dissipated quickly, while others lasted many months. The poll could not offer any clues about the durability of Mr. Bush's gains, but even if bad news from the front spurred a quick decline, the gain thus far is immense. Good View of State of Nation
The war has also produced a sharp rise in the general view of the state of the nation, as measured by one question that Republican poll takers favor. When those polled were asked if they thought things in this country were going in the "right direction" or were "off on the wrong track," 57 percent said "right direction" and 31 percent said "wrong track." The last time any poll found as big a majority saying the country was going in the right direction was in January 1985, when President Reagan's second term was beginning. A Washington Post/ ABC News Poll at the time found 59 percent taking that view.
Other major findings from the latest survey were that 77 percent of the public said they were "proud" of the United States role in the Persian Gulf and that 81 percent said the United States should not just force Iraq out of Kuwait, but also "see to it that Saddam Hussein is forced from power."
In a question that was asked only on Sunday, 47 percent said they thought the "United States military is holding back information about mistakes and setbacks in the Persian Gulf," while 45 percent said they believed that the military was providing an "accurate account." How the Polls Were Taken
The latest New York Times/CBS News Poll is based on telephone interviews conducted Jan. 17 to 20 with 3,002 adults throughout the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The survey consisted of four independent dai8ly samples, with 544 interviews on Thursday, 683 on Friday, 908 onSaturday and 867 on Sunday.
In a separate poll, The Times and CBS News also conducted re-interviews with a panel of 550 adults from Jan. 17 to 19. This group amounted to 82 percent of 674 people who had been interviewed Jan. 5-7, before the war in the Persian Gulf began.
The margin of sampling error for the sample of 3,002 was plus or minus two percentage points. For each of the four daily samples and for the panel re-interviews it was plus or minus three to four percentage points.Continue reading the main story


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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When night falls after her 14-hour work day, Indonesian domestic worker Deni Apriyani retreats to her room in Singapore and reaches for a pen to jot down her feelings, in poem after poem.
"I usually write about my daily life," the 27-year-old said.
"I feel satisfied - it's like you have just released something heavy in your head," Apriyani told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from Singapore where she has been a domestic helper for an expatriate family since 2013.
Like tens of thousands of maids in Singapore, Apriyani rises at dawn to clean, cook and look after children but this largely invisible domestic workforce and other migrant workers in the city-state often live in the shadows.
Now a small number have taken to poetry to write about their daily struggles, being homesick, love and joy in an annual contest which aims to break down barriers with Singaporean society by showcasing migrant workers' literary talents.
Apriyani won the first prize at this year's competition on Sunday with a poem about domestic abuse, which was based on an account from a woman in her home village in Indonesia.
Organisers said they have seen steadily rising entries since the competition was launched in 2014, with over 100 submissions this year from migrant workers representing eight countries including Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Philippines.
The poems were mostly written in their own languages before being translated into English.
Organiser Shivaji Das said he had seen a surge in what he termed "activism poems" in recent years which talk about the struggles of migrant workers.
"We have seen poems about their work situations, such as not being treated nicely, not being paid or around their living conditions," said Das, an Indian-born management consultant and author who moved to Singapore 12 years ago.
Migrant rights groups allege mistreatment of domestic helpers is widespread although the Singaporean authorities have consistently denied this.
Das said the aim of the competition was to give migrant workers "a voice and a platform".
"It is much more powerful to have them speaking about themselves in their own voice, their dreams and fears".
"The whole idea is when you see them in this way, you tend to appreciate them more as a complete human being, instead of being just an economic machine," Das told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Singapore counts on a large number of migrant workers in sectors ranging from construction and manufacturing to the service sector.
(Reporting by Beh Lih Yi @behlihyi, Editing by Ros Russell; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit http://news.trust.org)
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Windows 7 market share may have peaked: report
Nebulous Web traffic stats may indicate enterprise confidence in Win 10
The market share for Windows 7 may have reached a peak, according to a report from UK tech site The Register, which cited two online monitoring sources that watch Web server traffic.
Based on the assumption that share of Web traffic equates to desktop OS market share, the site looked at Internet activity from October 2013 to January 2015, as recorded by Netmarketshare and Statcounter.
Both monitoring orgs show an all-time peak traffic share for Windows 7 in November, 55.75 % for Statcounter and 56.41% for Netmarketshare. This was followed by a modest fall-off, although Statcounter did see a slight recovery for the OS in January.
While the methodology of determining OS market share through Web traffic is less than optimal, it is an indication that Microsoft's enterprise customers view Windows 10 as a viable upgrade. When Redmond discontinued XP it hoped that users would upgrade to Windows 8, but instead most opted for Windows 7 to avoid hardware replacement. Windows 7 upgrades placed users outside Microsoft's treasured app ecosystem, which includes the cloud-based Office 365. But an upgrade to Windows 10 will bring users into that ecosystem, where Microsoft can start to monetise them.


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The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. How true. Project House has a large number of outside projects to accompany the inside projects. This is actually good since it means I have fair weather projects and foul weather projects.
Outside projects usually mean dirt needs to be moved. A lot of dirt. And in the case of Project House, a whole bunch of rocks. The whole front and back yards are covered with rocks. The front yard is graded such that water from rain and snow flows towards the house. Not long after we put carpet in the basement a large rainstorm blew through. The water flowed right up to the house, filled up a window well, poured in around the window, down the wall and soaked the brand new carpet. Since it was outside ground water it was not covered by insurance. We called Serve Pro and they came out and vacuumed up the water, lifted the carpet and set a fan to blow air under the carpet to dry things out. Interesting fact, Serve Pro does not set their own rates, the insurance companies (the same ones that will not cover flooding for outside water coming into your house) dictates the rates Serve Pro can charge. Everything cleaned up very nicely and its like it never happened. But it did drive home the point that we needed to do something about the grading in the front yard. This picture gives you some idea of what we have.
Its all covered with rocks and there is black poly under the rocks so the water has no place to go but towards the house. We called a couple of landscape companies and learned that the cost of moving dirt was high. Very high. We have a hill that needs to be regraded, the whole front yard needs to be scraped so that we can put in a garden, there is a failed retaining wall to be rebuilt, I had a horse drinker and some electric and gas lines that needed to be buried. I am too damn cheap to pay others for things like that. I came up with a different solution - get my own tractor.
Now, I would like to say that the tractor was purely a purchase to help us save on our landscaping coasts. Truth be told, I had driven my brother-in-law's tractor and I wanted one. Bad. So after looking around a bit I settled on the Kubota BX25. It came with a front end loader, a removable back hoe (how cool is that! Useful too.) and I added a box blade for grading projects. Here is my tractor.
Here is the tractor "at work".
I have since used the tractor to bury the water line to the horse drinker, and electric line to the barn, scraped all of the rocks out of the back yard, turn the manure pile and shovel snow. As it turns out, a compact tractor is very handy machine t have around even if you only have an acre!
Now, I would like to be able to blame the purchase of this tractor on my promise to help my daughter own a horse but lets face it. This is Dad's toy. It has a 23 horsepower, 3-cylinder diesel engine (real tractors have diesel engines). It moves heavy loads, it digs holes, it fills those holes back in. It moves snow and I even used it move a 500lb table saw from the garage to the shop. And the daughters enjoy taking it out for a spin as well. Yep. If you have horses in the back yard, get a tractor! You will not regret it!


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No dirt today. Enjoyed the ride from St. George, UT. to Mesquite, NV., for a late lunch at a Mexican food joint. Made a loop out of it by taking the old highway back to St. George. Didn't realize how early it was getting dark now.
Monday, November 19, 2007
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Well, the plastic surgery is nearly completed, all that's left is some more touch-ups before primer and then on to the painting stage.
Some of the changes made to the original Academy kit:
-Re-shaped tyres and detailed wheel rims;
-New exhaust made of plastic and copper wire;
-New headlights, turn indicators and firemen symbol added to the grill;
-Reshaped wind-shield, added some details as well, like the rear-view mirror and the wind-shield wiping mechanism;
-Modified engine hood with the addition of the BV-TV symbol made of wire and Tamiya putty shaped with acetone and Tamiya Extra Thin glue.
-New steering-wheels made of coper wire, new gear-shift levers, modified seat cushions;
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Well, it's that time of year again. The Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) is right around the corner with it's 2014 version.
I will be presenting again this year and could not be more eager to connect with fellow like-minded tech-saavy educators from around the country and the world. You will find me at the front of three sessions for FETC 2014; all of which you can find listed below. New friends, old friends… I look forward to connecting with you there.
My FETC 2014 Sessions
01.30.14 | Digital Assessment: Using Mobile Devices for Assessment
8:00 AM (Ticketed BYOD Workshop)
01.30.14 | 60 Instructional Technologies in 60 Minutes
10:00 AM (Get there early… this one was at capacity in 2013.)
01.30.14 | Blogging with a Purpose: A Different Approach to Assessment
1:00 PM (Common Core focus)
You can find full descriptions for each and every session offered at FETC 2014 at http://www.fetc.org.
Until then you can find me on the Twitter @mikemeechin.
See you in Orlando.
Mike Meechin, M.Ed.
mikemeechin (at) gmail.com