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7 New England Patriots Quotes That Will Help You Become A Champion
The New England Patriots have been the model of consistent success in the NFL since the turn of the century. In an environment where salary caps, injuries, and distractions caused by social media threaten to take teams from their primary focus, the Patriots organization has found a way to always prioritize winning. Their efforts have led to 5 Super Bowl championships in 17 years.
The 7 quotes below are from people within the organization over the past 17 years: the owner, head coach, and players like Tom Brady and Tedy Bruschi.
Each quote emanates a unique understanding of what it takes to be successful in life and business. Interpret each of these world-class performers models of the world and apply it to your business or life.
#1. "Mental toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you." – Bill Belichick
How often do you delay feeling good in favor of doing what is right for your life or business?
Coach Belichick makes it clear that the sum is greater than its parts. Sometimes other people and other things must take precedence to what you want most in the moment. In business and football, you must sacrifice if being world-class is your goal. Not always getting your first choice is part of the toll one must pay to get to the top.
#2. "You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad. " – Tom Brady
Trying to be the best does not work. Instead, focus on giving your best each day and let your ever-evolving process of achieving your goals dictate whether or not you are successful.
It is unlikely that you will consistently put in the work or go the extra mile for a cause you don't believe in.
#3. If you choose to do things that you are passionate about, you will not only do them better, but most importantly, you'll be a significantly happier person. –Robert Kraft
Robert Kraft is the chairman & CEO of a holding group that owns 4 professional sports teams and many other companies. He has a net worth 6.2 billion dollars. It stands to reason that he'd be chock full of secrets for conducting successful business.
And yet, the most interesting part about this quote is that he's talking about something attainable by all- choosing to involve yourself in things that you are passionate about. It can't always feel like work when consistent effort is the goal. You must love what you do to be world-class.
#4. "I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There's a tangible score." – Tom Brady
Any worthy pursuit will give feedback on how you're doing. Tom Brady looks forward to receiving feedback, which means he also embraces failing hard and quickly. Feedback and failure go hand in hand.
Take this lesson from arguably the greatest quarterback of all time- feedback is valuable. It gives you a reason to adjust, to tinker, and to keep doing the things that are helping you succeed. When you don't shy away from feedback, you have data at your disposal that shows you how well you've done. There is no guesswork for you to do.
#5. "Do your job."– Bill Belichick
There is no sentence arguably the greatest coach of all time is more famous for than these 3 words- do your job.
As he explains, "do your job" simply means focus on and execute the 1-3 things the team is asking you to do well. It is well known that Coach Belichick values versatile players that can play multiple positions and understand the game at a high level. This mantra explains why; week in and week out as they prepare for new opponents, a player's "job" may change. The same goes for your business.
Remember that what got you there last time might not always render the same result this time. Become a student of your work and adapt to what's being thrown at you.
#6. "The week preceding the game is just as important, if not more important, to prepare yourself mentally to make sure you know the ins and outs of the opposition. It's all about getting ready for Jacksonville. It's a one-game season." – Tedy Bruschi
Tedy Bruschi was the defensive captain for 3 Super Bowl championships with the Patriots from 2001-2004.
An example of how leadership trickles down, this quote shows how Tedy Bruschi mentally approaches each week.
#7. "There will be a time to reflect back and count them up, but…. I'm still chasing it now. It's a new season; I'm still chasing it." – Bill Belichick
This quote truly says it all about the New England Patriots and how they perceive success.
Success is fleeting. If you spend too much time dwelling on what you've done, you'll miss out on opportunities to do and accomplish more. Where your focus lies is your greatest asset towards achieving your goals. You must focus on what matters most.
It may be hard to let your successes go, but there will be time. The legacy of your life or business will stay intact as long as you stay in the trenches, grounded and motivated by a large amount of hard work that must be done.
It's difficult to write a new narrative when you focus too much on skimming through your own biography.
Make the choice to delay gratification and focus on what matters most to your life or business.


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The Nollywood actress, Lola Margaret, who is now an ex-convict got nabbed after a strong surveillance was placed on her account. She was suspected to have been withdrawing huge sums consistently before she was nabbed.
Sources close to the actress alleged that the Lola was initially released on condition that she reveals the identities of the characters she was working with on the illegal withdrawals, and she did. After Lola Margaret got released, she took to Instagram to thank God. She said, "What else can say onto the Lord? than thank u, my God is good". However, the police later returned to take her in for further interrogations, and she has been in their custody ever since.
There was no official report on the alleged card fraud by the Atlanta police, but the actress' mugshot surfaced online. See below.
Hints has it that the actress has since been released and deported back to Nigeria and considering the gravity of her actions, the actress has decided to relocate to Ibadan from Lagos where she formerly resided.
Currently the actress is maintaining a low profile as she is yet to attend any public function as she hopes to rebrand herself and stage a strong come back to the industry.


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The Nationals will keep Stephen Strasburg under watch like any other ace early in a longer-than-usual Spring Training.
"He's on a 45-pitch limit [Saturday]," Davey Johnson said. "Just depending on his pitch efficiency, he could go two or even go three [innings]."
Because of the schedule, Strasburg could make as many as seven Grapefruit League starts. With that in mind, Johnson will probably have his right-hander on a slower program to begin the year.
"You try to have a progression, just a little more each time," Johnson said. "You kind of push him -- I'd say when he's got two more starts, you kind of taper him down. But being that we're starting early, all I want is for him to be ready to throw 100 pitches Opening Day."
Red Sox Demote Will Middlebrooks - RealGM Wiretap
The Red Sox have decided to option Will Middlebrooks to Triple-A Pawtucket.


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Alibi Ale Works Saison and Pale Ale will be on tap! It's going to be a great night to drink Tahoe beer and absorb Tahoe Music!
Sneaky Creatures is a new mischievous gypsy jazz / alt-country septet from Tahoe Vista / Kings Beach, and they are creeping into the North Tahoe music scene with their unusual blend of the rootsy and the jazzy, the gypsy and the honky, the funky and the rock-a-billy.
Featuring Josh Roelle (Horsemouth, Truckee Tribe) on electric guitar, Kerry Andras (The Rusty Strings) on stand-up bass, Kevin Drake (Downbeat) on saxophones, Todd Holway (Quartet Minus One) on keyboards, Lena Meyer on trombone and trumpet, Jesse Steele on trumpet, and Steve Saturno (Quartet Minus One) on drums, this lineup of seasoned Tahoe musicians come together to create a sound that is at once unique and original, and also strangely familiar.
While watching these guys furtively slink from genre to genre, you can expect to hear many fine examples of Roelle's songwriting skills, a plethora of obscure covers, and the occasional crowd pleaser. You'll want to swing your partner, laugh your head off, and duck for cover all at the same time.
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Yogyakarta 4 days 3 nights tour packages itinerary – Yogyakarta 4 days 3 nights covers the highlights of Yogyakarta. The tour will give you whole family entertained around Yogyakarta, we will bring you to see amazing nature in Gunung Kidul (Jomblang cave and Timang beach), historical place such as Borobudur and Prambanan temple.
Day 1: Pick Up Service – Sultan Palace – Tamansari water castle – Prambanan Temple
Our crew will pick up you at Jogjakarta airport, then we start our journey to sultan palace, sultan palace a.k.a Kraton Yogyakarta is the javanese culture living museum. The palace is the main living area of Sultan of Yogyakarta and his family.
It became a cultural center for the Javanese people and include a museum that displays the sultan's goods. From sultan palace continue our trip to Tamansari water castle, this places is the site of a former royal garden of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. It is located about 2 km south within the grounds of the sultan palace. Built in the mid-18th century, the Taman Sari had multiple functions, such as a resting area, a workshop, a meditation area, a defense area, and a hiding place.
After lunch break, we continue to visit Prambanan temple. Prambanan is the Hindu counterpart of Borobudur built by the 10th century Mataram Kingdom, a mighty empire covering a large part of Indonesia. The remains of a complex of a dozen candis spread over the Prambanan Plain still exist but the focus of restoration has been on the central complex originally fortified by a series of walled enclosures containing 232 temples. From prambanan temple, we check in hotel and free program.
See other Yogyakarta pakcage : Yogyakarta 3 Days 2 Nights
Day 2: Jomblang Cave – Timang Beach
Depart at 7 AM from hotel, we will drive to southeast Yogyakarta where is the located of Jomblang cave, will take about 2 hours. When we arrived, we prepare to descend the hole, installing an equipment to your body. Our cave instructor will help you. If all ready then we Descend the Jomblang hole with human belay system, an easy system for beginner (training is not necessary).
Cave instructor will dropping you down slowly to the base of the hole, 40 meters vertically, with a rope attached to your body. Then continue dry trekking into the other hole, Grubug cave. Light is necessary here. Nearly to Grubug hole, you will hear the rustling of underground river. Eventually the light was beginning to look and finally, the ray of light is coming down from the hole above us.
We have arrived at Grubug hole, 80 meters above us. 20 meters below us is the underground river. The first sight is a thousand light falling on the flowstone (cave ornament), the ray of light. Nice moment for photograph. But remember, don't stand on this rock.
Thousands of years to create this stone from water. Naturally. After we shoot picture here, then we back to the base of Jomblang hole, prepare to ascending up the hole. You will ascend the hole with hauling system (an easy system for beginner). Instructor will hauling you toward the top with a rope attached on your body. This adventure will finish around 12 pm.
After that we have lunch break, after lunch we continue our adventure to Timang beach to see gondola. If you want try crossing to Timang island by gondola you must pay IDR 200.000/ Person. Timang island is a small island. You have to across ocean to get there. It is adrenaline challenge and best experience in whole your life. Usually fisherman cross to the island to catch lobster using a trap.
Sometimes it become favorite place for fishing. But, to get here you have to collect all your courage to across the ocean. This place quiet isolated, not much tourist visit here cause the way so rocky. Even, for local tourist.
From timang beach we continue drive to Borobudur area, check in hotel and rest.
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Day 3: Borobudur sunrise – Merapi Lava Tour – Jogjakarta airport.
Earling morning around 4 AM, we will take you to explore the Borobudur Temple and see the sunrise from the top of the temple. Marvel at the magical light cast over this UNESCO World Heritage Site. After that we have break for breakfast and shower, then we continue our trip to Kaliadem village.
Arrive in Kaliadem village we take 4 WD jeep for Merapi lava tour, In merapi lava tour we will see the several village that were affected by Merapi eruption at 2010. You will also get to see authentic and real village life, where people carry their loads on their back while at work. Experience a variety of tropical plants and fruits, birds, giant spider, unique vegetables and beautiful landscape in the cool mountain air.
After merapi lava tour we drive back to Yogyakarta, check in hotel and rest
Day 4: Sunrise Mangunan Fruit Garden – Pine Forest – Jogjakarta airport.
Early morning at 4 am we departing from hotel to Mangunan fruit garden, will take about 1 hours. When arrive at the parking we continue walking to the view point, will take about 10 minutes. From the view point we wait for sunrise and if we are lucky we will see the fogs below us.
After sunrise shoot then we back to hotel for breakfast. After that we continue back to our hotel, on our way to hotel we will stop at pine forest. At the pine forest we can take some picture with very artistic background. After that we continue to hotel for shower.
Around 12 pm check out from hotel and we will drop you at airport.
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We write here a lot about the concepts behind Khorus—execution, alignment, engagement, culture, talent, etc.
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Distinct lack of updates in the last year, but no sense in overthinking that. Here is a Prezi of my brief talk on Mashups, Bowie and Bricolage for #BCM114 today.
Distinct lack of updates in the last year, but no sense in overthinking that. Here is a Prezi of my brief talk on Mashups, Bowie and Bricolage for #BCM114 today.
From the Fan Studies Network Australasia:
The first Fan Studies Network Australasia conference is to be held at the University of Wollongong, Australia from 30 November – 1 December 2017, hosted by the Research Centre for Culture, Texts and Creative Industries (CTC).
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Matt Hills, University of Huddersfield.
As research and interest on fandom gather momentum in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia at large, the Fan Studies Network is very keen to foster new connections and resources. This inaugural conference for scholars based in the region is the first step in establishing an Australasian branch of the FSN. We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for individual 20 minute papers that address any aspect of fandom or fan studies. We also welcome submissions for pre-constituted panels (for 3-4 speakers/papers). We encourage all of those engaged in fan studies as well as those existing members of the network to submit proposals for presentations on, but not limited to, the following possible topics: Fandom in Asia, Australia and/or New Zealand – Non-Western fan cultures – Producer-audience interactions– Activism and fandom– Ethics in fan studies– Defining fandom– Anti-Fandom and Non-Fandom– Fan use of social media platforms– Fandom (and) controversies– The future of fan studies.
Please send any inquiries and/or abstracts to firstname.lastname@example.com by 25th August 2017.
Conference organisers: Dr. Bertha Chin, Dr. Renee Middlemost, Prof. Sue Turnbull, Dr. Ika Willis
W: https://fanstudies.org/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fanstudies/
T: @FSNAusAsia (hashtag #FSNA2017)
DL: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/fanstudies
About the Fan Studies Network: Since March 2012, the Fan Studies Network has provided a friendly space with which scholars from all disciplines who are interested in fans and fan culture can connect, share resources, and develop their research ideas. In June 2017, the network held its fifth annual conference at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Each year has seen the network grow exponentially, as the mailing list and conference attract more scholars interested in fan studies from all over the world.
This post is the first autoethnographic account in a research project for a future article to be titled 'Cardboard Asia'.
The lotus flower is a common element in Asian themed games where it is used to denote orientalism and mysticism. The flower, while often used to represent Chinese themes, also has a long history as the 'sacred lotus' in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. The lotus is, therefore, a polyvalent symbol and generic orientalist signifier. The lotus is featured in the German Der weiße Lotus (2000) that depicted territorial control in the middle ages and Flower of the Lotus (1996), which was republished under the title China Moon (1998). The German-only language version of Lotus (1998) is an award winning piece-stacking racing game with some strategical elements, which featured a red snake-like dragon on a grid layout that somewhat resembled a flowering lotus plant, a very stereotypical representation of Chineseness.
Lotus (2016)
The most recent Lotus boardgame first signals its 'asianness' representationally with the box cover that depicts a digital watercolour painting of a woman in traditional straight collar purple cheongsam with coiled buttons and green and gold embroidery, who appears to be levitating a glowing lotus flower. On the cover, the title 'Lotus' has a calligraphy-styled font, and the game's designers are simply listed as 'Jordan & Mandy', while the back of the box has images of the game's components. The back of the box signals the game's Chineseness with a single hànzì character appearing next to the component list, which Google translates suggests is 'lotus'. The game is illustrated by Anita Osburn and Chris Ostrowski, and made in China, but Lotus is published by Renegade Games studies, which is listed as a Californian company, who also publish two other popular Asian themed games Lanterns: The Harvest Festival and Honshu.
First encounter
As with most 'boxed' board games, the first game involves several commons experiences including the removal of shrink wrap, the 'popping' of cardboard tiles from the factory punched card stock and the learning of the rules. Our first game was a four player experience, with Harriet, my ten-year-old daughter, my partner Lucy, and our friend Jodie, who began reading the rule book while I search for a 'how-to-play video on YouTube. The first game we played was an introduction to the game's aesthetic experience that I described as 'beautiful meanness'. Playing the game involves placing the individual flower cards on the table and completing the flower 'sets' of the flowers placed by others by adding the right number of cards/petals. Each of the flowers – Iris (3 petals), Primrose (4 petals), Cherry Blossom (5 petals), Lily (6 petals) and the Lotus (7 petals) – is a typical Chinese flower type. The font on the Guardian cards and points coins replicate the calligraphy style of the box cover, but the cards lack other overt symbols of 'Chineseness'.
Each player gets two insect tokens – Yellow (Butterfly), Red (Ladybug), Blue (Dragonfly) and Green (Caterpillar), which evokes the connections to Japanese games media where bug collecting (Pokemon and Yokai Watch) is considered an honourable and worthwhile pursuit. In Lotus, the insects are 'Guardians', and when placed on the flower cards, they count as that player's territory. To take a flower, the player must complete it, but to get the bonus points or special power tokens, the player with the most Guardians wins. This helped to offset the 'meanness' I felt in completing the flowers that other player's put down. By building up the flowers, we emotionally invest in them, and it can feel mean when other players complete your carefully assembled Lilly or ambitiously planned Lotus. The beautiful meanness of the game became even more profound to me during our second game. In the first game, my strategy of completing flowers rather than investing Guardian tokens into them meant I won with a huge lead and prompted an immediate second game where I became the one to beat. Instead of focussing on taking the flowers in the second game I invested in achieving all the special powers, which gave me fewer points but it felt like I was experiencing more of the game than simply winning.
Final thoughts
Lotus is a game designed in the United States and made in China. It is a global product, one that is clear in its Asianness but also offering a contemporary feel to the concept. Lotus has a degree of 'ludonarratological dissonance' in which the gorgeous aesthetic, underlying spiritual and botanical motifs, contrasts sharply to the competitive element of traditional 'trick-taking' in Western card games like Bridge or 500. Board games, in general, suffer from this problem, and in the future, I'll put together a blog post on those that work to overcome it (I'm thinking specifically of Netrunner).
Lotus is a game designed in the United States and made in China. It is a global product, one that is clear in its Asianness but also offering a contemporary feel to the concept. Lotus has a degree of 'ludonarratological dissonance' in which the gorgeous aesthetic, underlying spiritual and botanical motifs, contrasts sharply to the competitive element of traditional 'trick-taking' in Western card games like Bridge or 500. Board games, in general, suffer from this problem, and in the future, I'll put together a blog post on those that work to overcome it (I'm thinking specifically of Netrunner).
The Pokémon GO Plus – the Pogo+ or Poképlus – is a wearable technology that connects to the smartphone via Bluetooth allowing the user to play Pokémon GO without being restricted to the mobile phone screen. Playing Pokémon GO, contrary to reports (see the Pokémon GO Death Counter) is concerned with locating the self in space by triangulating the player location in both the real world and the virtual world represented on the mobile phone screen.
The Poképlus is a device which translates onscreen information into blinking colours and vibrations. The device is shaped like a mashup of the Google map 'pin' and the classic white and red Pokéball. It attaches to a wrist strap or clip providing the user with the ability to feel, see and hear the location of Pokémon and Pokéstops within the sphere of detection permitted by the app (approximately 40 metres in diameter).
The player can put their phone in a pocket and interact with the local environment through a button press, which glows green in the proximity of a Pokémon, yellow if the Pokémon is not in the player's Pokédex, and blue in the presence of Pokéstops. If the Pokémon is captured the device vibrates in a distinct pulsing rhythm, matched with a LED flashing pattern of green, blue, red, and white. An escaping Pokémon results in a simple short pulse accompanied by a red flash. Approaching a Pokéstop the device flashes blue and the player gathers the items from that stop in the app with a button press that results in simple vibration and multiple colours flashing to indicate success.
The Poképlus transforms the experience of space and place in a much more embodied and less visual way that the game played only through the screen. The Poképlus makes the game less about using the screen to reveal the world filled with Pokémon, and more about using the body to interact with the game's translation of the environment, bringing the game into the physical and tangible world in a different way.
I found the Poképlus to be a massive release from lifting the screen up to view when walking. No longer does my neck ache after a Pokémon Go play session. It means that my walks with the game were less punctuated by stops and starts, and a more seamless movement through the environment. There is a degree of anxiety that I first encountered when playing with the Plus as the catch rate for Pokémon feels more random. The device is also deeply connected to the in-game economy, as it only uses basic Pokéballs in the catching process, which means these can be depleted and have to be replaced through buying currency and items in the game. The catching process is limited to a single throw, which means that higher level and rarer Pokémon can evade capture more easily. I had to make the conscious effect not to look at the in-game journal and ignore the ones that got away.
I use the Poképlus every day, and thoroughly enjoy the transformation of play into a differently embodied experience. It's a device that reveals how AR experiences don't have to be limited to interacting with screens and it shows how wearable technologies might expand interactions with our environments in simple and effective ways in the future.
Critics of Pokémon GO have called the app a device for amassing geospatial intelligence, and an instrument for violating personal information and privacy. The autoethnographic approach employed here recognises that these concerns are important, but they are only one way of addressing the disruptive potential of Pokémon GO and the degree to which its play has been performed, contested, resisted and rewarded at a local level. The debate and concern over the potential abuse of surveilling features of all mobile technologies should not be minimised, but it is also only part of what is going on and we shouldn't abandon a closer look at the entire experience.
My first experience with the Pokémon GO app transformed the interior and exterior of my workplace, the University of Wollongong, especially how I came to view and experience the campus. Often a place of intensive periods of work, teaching and researching, inside classrooms and between them, the campus – although an aesthetically enchanting location of artificially created streams and duck ponds and richly authentic native flora – had become a familiar site. That changed with Pokémon GO, as I searched the local environment for virtual monsters between classes, on the way to the library, to buy coffee and attend meetings.
The app changed the way I was oriented to the campus. My typical landmarks of central buildings, duck ponds and pathways changed to focus on the Pokéstops in the game which would reward me with in-game items. I was also intrigued to learn, and often think about, how these in-game locations were crowdsourced by players of Niantic's previous game, Ingress. Walking between Pokéstops, I began to hold the phone up in front of me as I walked: forcing my eyes between the virtual environment of the simplified Google Map on my screen and the direction I was heading. This act signalled my performance of play, and I noticed other 'Trainers' who similarly identified themselves as players to the world with a particular stance that centres the phone at chest height or above and in the middle of the view. The app forces the player into a new physical relationship with the phone, holding it out in front to look between the screen and the path ahead. This new way of holding the phone while walking aggravated a pre-existing neck injury, and I found myself always trying new ways of holding the phone to reduce its impact on my body.
Here I note the immense power and privilege that comes with the position of lecturer at an Australian university. First, because my wage had enabled me to buy into a contract for a new iPhone, the 6S, in the week of the app's launch (deciding between the closed model of Apple products and more open operating system of Android devices). Having access to the high number of 4G access points on the rooftops of the campus buildings and the institutions high-density WiFi signals servicing the demand for high-speed internet access of students and colleagues, meant that connection – when the servers were operating- was assured and not disrupted by gaps in coverage experience by other regional and rural players. The campus was also privileged as a prime location for Ingress players, university students who had mapped the location of potential sites of significance and interest by submitting details to Niantic as part of the play of their previous game.
This Google Map is an incomplete picture of the Pokéstops that I choose to seek out as I walk across campus. I no longer travelled along the most direct route between buildings, which increased the distance I covered with the app and advancing the number of pokémon I could find and the number of Pokéstops I could visit each trip. I began to leave the office to make short walks of ten minutes more often.
Until playing Pokémon GO, I had assumed that non-university attending players would regard the campus as a public place. My assumption was that 'the public' would visit to take advantage of the density of pokémon and Pokéstops. I had assumed, wrongly, that players would regard the University campus as a public place, similar to the Wollongong Botanic Gardens directly across the street, which also has a high density of available Pokéstops. My incorrect assumption was revealed by a question on the Illawarra Pokémon Go Facebook group. On the annual recruitment 'Open' day the University of Wollongong marketing team added 'lures' to each of the campus Pokéstops. Lures are purchased in-game items that increased the number and rarity of Pokéman 'spawning' in that location, which resulted in the arrival of a rare Kabutops: the question posed to Facebook asked if it was permissible for those not intending to enrol to be on the campus.
Pokémon Go is an augmented reality (AR) locative data application with a virtual and ludic interface connecting mobile device users to a universe filled with friendly monsters. The game functions like a magical talisman revealing hidden creatures in the everyday environments of our networked connected world. Released in July 2016 on the iOS and Android operating systems by Niantic Labs, the app had a turbulent first month. The experience of Pokémon Go in the first few weeks of play was characterised by disruptions: a fervour of activity and excitement generated by a new relationship to the user's mobile device which revealed unconsidered dimensions to familiar locations.
By holding up the mobile phone, the user, the app and the object transform the ordinary space of homes, work environments and public places into newly inhabited locations full of 'first generation' of Pokémon. Generation One (Gen 1) refers to the first Pokemon game for the Nintendo Game Boy developed by Game Freak for Japanese audiences in 1996. At launch, Pokémon Go included 151 pokémon of different rarity, which produced a highly nostalgic experience for players of Gen 1. The first few weeks of Pokémon Go was also marked with very high degrees of player frustration, as the servers which Niantic used to support the game were not able to keep up with demand. Hackers and modders overloaded the game's application programming interface (API), and players were shut out of the Pokemon tracking features meant to encourage the exploration of the play environment for hidden pokémon. These features were removed from the game entirely and later reinstated in a less server intensive iteration, which caused many players to register complaints via social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and Reddit.
Despite the early days of server-side instability, this game continues to attract millions of daily users, generating more than a $1 billion (USD) in 2016. There are numerous reasons for the game's global success beyond the popularity of the Pokémon franchise. Among them is the unprecedented harnessing of existing technology: the phone's forward-facing camera enables the augmented reality feature, overlaying pokémon onto the world; the internet connectivity provides access to the in-app Google Maps overlay revealing the hidden locations of pokémon around us; the network data storing the locations of Pokéstops (generated by players of Niantic previous locative data app, Ingress) which are required to receive in-game items and player experience points that increase the level of their personal avatars (XP); the mobile phone towers and GPS satellites triangulating location means the players transverse the virtual game space in the real world through walking or running; and the haptic phone interface which provides the experience of catching Pokémon in the wild, bringing to life the dreams of millions of players who have enjoyed Nintendo devices for three decades.
Norman Denzin, (2006) argued that doing and performing autoethnography is a way of being ethical and political in the world. This approach suggests that respecting objects is not merely understanding their role in the political economy of late capitalism, but requires making sense of our relationships with them as they are performed, lived and experienced in the everyday. Pokémon Go brought with it the sudden increase of people looking at their phones in public. A wave of news stories surfaced about absent-minded mobile phone users endangering lives, breaking property boundaries and turning previously highly regulated spaces such as workplaces such as offices, hospitals, police stations, as well as cultural sites like war memorials and museums into playable zones. Pokémon Go, with seemingly careless ease, reordered and destabilised previously established location-based networks of performance and behaviour.
The feelings of euphoria and discovery that characterised Pokémon Go play by people across the globe looking into their phones to see the world anew, was reflected on in the tweet from Nathan Sharp:
The launch of the app coincided with the original series celebrating its twentieth year, with GameFreak releasing a new Nintendo DS game, Pokémon Sun and Moon. The new game updated the player's experience but kept intact the vision of its creator, who synthesised elements of the Shinto and Buddhist cultural experiences of his earlier life, bringing them together with his love of bug collecting. Unlike GameFreak, Pokémon Go's developer, however, was not a traditional game development company and the app lost many players as Niantic changed fundamental aspects of the game after launch. Very few games companies would, or would be able to, remove core design elements post-launch.
At the time of writing, while the initial disruption and playful sense of discovery have abated, there remains a colossal and very active contingent of players around the globe. The game remained in the top five grossing apps available via the Apple iTunes store, with over $950 US million in revenue and attracting millions of previously non-gaming consumers to the market in 2016 (Stewart, 2017). The Pokémon Go app was released to the public in a very unfinished state -providing a bare minimum experience – it continues to be updated by Niantic in non-regular updates that remove some elements of the game and change others. This makes the play experience less stable and predictable compared to other Pokémon games.


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Kim Kardashian Debuts Sleek AF New Hairstyle
Do you love it or hate it?
New hair, who dis?
After dying her waist-length locks icy blond back in September, Kim Kardashian has switched up her look yet again by seemingly chopping considerable inches off of her hair. The reality TV star debuted her stylish long bob while stepping out at The Tot holiday pop-up celebration at the Grove in Los Angeles, People reports.
Is it a wig or the real thing? That's yet to be seen, but regardless, it's a damn good look for Kim K. It's not easy to pull off such dark roots, especially when the rest of one's hair is so light, but I think she definitely makes it work.
What do you think of Kim's new look? Do you prefer her earlier beachy waves, or maybe even her blunt black bob from earlier this year?
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Cooking up maple syrup with Sylvain Cormier
The Forager
by Allison Cooke
When spring begins, energy from the sun increases, days get longer, temperatures rise, growth begins, but most importantly, especially for a maple syrup producer, the ice and snow begin to thaw. For a short time, just a few weeks of the year, these producers, both young and old are enjoying the Canadian tradition of making their own pure, maple syrup. This is also a fun early spring activity, and a great way to get kids involved in learning the value of harvesting their own food.
Maple syrup is made from the sap of maple trees, which was originally a starch stored in their roots and trunks and then converted to a sugar. Once you find a patch to call your own, you can drill a tap into the tree and catch the sap while it is running. The sugary water is then boiled down and concentrated to make the delicious syrup. Usually you will need 20-50 litres of sap to make 1 litre of syrup, and it is important to monitor the sap while boiling, or it may crystalize.
To identify a sugar maple, it is best to do so in the summer using the leaves. A maple tree is easy to spot—if the leaf shape looks like it belongs on the Canadian flag, you have likely found a maple tree. If it's winter, you will want to look for twigs that are narrow, and a brownish red color. You may also notice small buds growing on the twigs, but in opposite directions. As for the bark, it changes as the tree ages, and is usually full of vertical grooves and tends to flake off as the tree gets older. Make sure the trees are large enough to tap. A good rule of thumb is that the tree should be at least 10 inches in diameter. If you tap it too early, you could risk harming that tree.
When you are getting ready for the season, make sure you have all the right tools for both collecting and storing your syrup, such as taps, and buckets to collect the sap. A great idea is to re-use 4 litre milk jugs for storage. These are perfect because they are reused materials, and come with their own lid. It is extremely important to thoroughly clean any container that your sap may come in contact with, it will pick up flavors from your tools and buckets—such as scented soaps, rust, or bleach, so avoid these products when you are cleaning your supplies. If you are storing the syrup year round, mason jars work well, kept out of the fridge and sealed.
Maple Syrup makes a sweet, high calorie, sugary treat, but good news. Maple syrup is also said to have some health benefits! It has various antioxidants, like the ones you find in berries, teas, flax and whole wheat. Pure maple syrup isn't refined, and is an all-natural product, which makes it more appealing than many other sweeteners.
As the temperature warms up and the snow begins to melt, find that maple in your yard, tap it, and enjoy the all-natural, unrefined sugary treat that can spruce up breakfast table and get you and your family enjoying the process of harvesting your own edibles.
Sylvain Cormier is a local forager, and owner of Everything Wild, a business that promotes unique and wild edibles on PEI.


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Today's Message: Death is inevitable. Write down your will even if your will power to write it is weak. Save yourself and your loved ones from the agony and pains that ensue in the absence of a will.
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FLOCK Specialty Finance Closes Nelson Watson Sale
FLOCK Specialty Finance announced the successful sale of the assets of Nelson Watson to CBE Companies.
In an effort to grow market share and diversify its client base, Nelson Watson was seeking an acquisition partner whose capabilities and clients would create incremental value for the Nelson Watson ownership and growth opportunities for its people.
George Nelson III, CEO of Nelson Watson, said, "FLOCK organized and managed a sale process that was highly competitive and generated solid returns for the Nelson Watson owners. With CBE, our employees will have more job opportunities, and our clients will have access to a breadth of BPO solutions beyond third party collections."
CBE Companies' Chairman and CEO Tom Penaluna said, "CBE was very intentional in finding an acquisition opportunity with specific success criteria such as size of company, services and industries served, and long-term growth potential. Nelson Watson fit very nicely within this defined strategy, meeting the goals for cultural, performance and quality alignment with CBE."
Nelson Watson, a collections agency based outside of Boston, specializes in pre-legal collection services for major financial institutions.
CBE Companies, based in Cedar Falls, IA, is a global business process outsourcing (BPO) organization.


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HV-50MP macro vickers hardness tester equipped with precise sensor (load cell), test result more accuracy; With high-quality imported components, ensure the Macro Vickers Hardness Testers working more stable. Protected by the state patent application of the lift & down system, after upgrading, the control system can provide more measuring data, and control more precise. This machine is integrated with optics, mechanics and electricity. It with unbeatable price/ performance ratio, widely used in quality inspection and quality control field.
Equipped with precise sensor (load cell), test result more accuracy; With high-quality imported components, ensure the Macro Vickers Hardness Testers working more stable. Protected by the state patent application of the lift & down system, after upgrading, the control system can provide more measuring data, and control more precise. This machine is integrated with optics, mechanics and electricity. It with unbeatable price/ performance ratio, widely used in quality inspection and quality control field.
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5. According to different visual habits of the operators, the strength of the light source can be adjusted. To avoid the visual fatigue for long time operation.
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8. Equipped with data transfer software, all the testing data can be transfer to computer via RS232 port, then can edit and save the data on computer.
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Hardness conversion scale
Testing Force
1kg(9.8N), 2kg(19.6N), 3kg(29.4N), 5kg(49N), 10kg(98N), 20kg(196N), 30kg(294N), 50kg(490N)
Loading speed
Standard Rectangular pyramid diamond indenter (136º±0.5º)
Min. Measuring Unit
Hardness Value Range
Hardness Value of Reading
Digital LCD Screen (62x44mm)
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Manual Turret
Automatic Turret
Objective lens center and indenter center
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Throat depth
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Built-in Printer; Built-in RS-232 interface (transfer data to computer, easy for long time save)
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Optional Purchase Accessories
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If you want to streamline the purchasing of manufacturing materials, inventory, or other items, consider investing in purchase order software. The right program depends on your industry, whether you sell inventory, and your personal preferences.
Unleashed Software
As an inventory management program, Unleashed handles purchases, stock management, and order fulfillment. If you deal with inventory, software like this can be ideal, as it handles buying and selling your inventory. The purchase order tools track purchase prices as well as taxes and duties, and you can track average costs for various items so you can easily see how changes in prices or duties are affecting you. The app works with multiple currencies to make international orders easier.
Office Books
In some cases, you need purchase order software designed especially for your industry. If you work in manufacturing, for example, Office Books lets you generate a purchase order online and sends it to your supplier electronically. The app's dashboard lets you see which orders have been accepted. To make ordering easier for you, Office Books engages with your work orders. When you create an order, the software generates a list of the items you need – and if you don't have the right materials in stock, the program automatically creates purchase orders for you.
Just as Office Books is ideal for manufacturers, Knowify simplifies the purchase order process for contractors. This app facilitates the process of creating bids, generating estimates, and drafting purchase orders. You can assign different purchase orders to different projects, making it easier to track your costs by client. You can also create unique vendor profiles so you can generate reports on purchases from specific vendors.
Sales Attach
Sales Attach also appeals to companies that stock inventory. This app tracks all of the information from your purchase orders including vendor details, order fulfillment numbers, costs, and more. This allows you to compare how each vendor performs so that you may adjust your purchasing strategy as needed to lower your costs and boost your profits. The program also offers similar features for managing your own sales information. This app integrates with QuickBooks Online as well as some other versions of the software, which is also a key component to keep in mind when selecting purchase order software. If your purchase order software communicates with your accounting software, that saves you a lot of time and money on transferring purchase order information by hand.
BeanWorks allows you to create purchase orders, and it also handles all other aspects of your accounts payable as well. You can sync the app with your accounting software so you don't have to enter purchases or expenses by hand. The program also lets you label each purchase based on the product or project it relates to, which helps you track costs over the long term.


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This period has become a special one for the nation. At this time politics is in the air and that is because every tier of government, whether they performed or not, join the ritual of celebrating Democracy Day now observed on May 29 of every year. There is something I have observed about the way we do our things; we just do things for the simple reason that it has been agreed by the leadership that it should be done but we don't attach appraisals to our acts. It we could attach sound rationalization to it we would have seen enough reasons to reverse ourselves in so many areas.
Today there is a battle between Democracy Day and Independence Day, which traditionally takes place on October 1 every year. We are now faced with which one to elevate, over and above the other, and every year the choice is becoming difficult. Like we often do we have settled for the less stressful which is to celebrate both events and in the process we put the people and the nation to a big loss. On both days in the same year we declare public holidays, we do this because ours is not a society propelled by rationalization, because if we did, elementary knowledge of what it takes to make a progressive nation would have shown us that it is against the dictates of a sound work ethic to declare public holidays at random and more so very foolish to do so on an event that is similar as in the case of Democracy and Independence days.
If we had a clear vision about the kind of nation we wanted, our approach and policies would be better made. Besides, making choices even as in the case of the above would be without difficulties. Let me explain and this is important: Democracy Day is essentially about democracy which is just about 30 per cent of what is needed to make a nation.
Independence Day has buried inside it the other 70 per cent of very important factors required for proper nation building. For instance, inside it should be found the reason for the country and it is the reasons for a country that propel the processes for building a nation. Independence contains the seed of nationalism and for those who know it is the spirit of nationalism that motivates the force of action. Great scholars have said and I agree that "when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable."
I want to admit a truth, before Independence and shortly after the purpose of creating Nigeria out of a motley of empires and independent states was clear and that reflected in the various prescriptions made for the proper governance of the space known as Nigeria but it would seem that the dreams and visions grew wings and disappeared with the nasty events that came with the ill-motivated military intervention in 1966. Inside Independence Day also can be found the all-important issue of a national ideology and this is very important for the simple reason that where there is a vision and no ideology, misdirection, stagnation and dislocation are inevitable outcomes. Our nation is on what I call staccato governance, ad hoc processes and solutions and these have led us to where we are today: nasty environment, unproductive yet closed economy and brutish existence all of which have combined to rubbish the sanctity attached to human life and made living a lamentation and a song not worth singing. So if I had my way or if I were the president I would decree we stick with the Independence Day.
If I wanted to be ritualistic, today my topic would have been "Buhari 3 years as president." It is topical and appropriate, it is about presidency and the most powerful office in the land and it would also be about politics which we all agree drive the other sectors. The most important reason would be that democracy without accountability time would be like a good soup without salt, it would be meaningless. Question and answer time makes our leaders to sit up, it reminds the indolent among the leaders that there would always be days of reckoning. So I love the appraisal time such as we are and I want to trust many of us writers would cease the opportunity to vent their observations and possibly anger given the state of the nation. But I have chosen a different path because of what I know. Appraisal is good and it is a scientific thing and like I said earlier it is a catalyst for proper development, but I have a problem with the way we go about it in our society.
In discharging this all important task we have through carelessness allowed extraneous factors that are detrimental to good process to come in and pollute everything. For instance, religion is positive, indeed other societies have used it to build up their places but in our case we have allowed it to become not just disruptive but have destructive influence. The other is ethnicity. Diversity well packaged is strength but in our case it has become a big hindrance. With ethnicity we destroyed merit and with it efficiency, then there is poor quality education, all of these combine to affect quality assessment exercises.
Let us talk reality; I have already read a few assessment accounts and I found something missing in all of them. There seems to be over emphasis on the President and the Federal Government alone and it is as if we don't have other tiers of administration. Are the state and local government administrations not expected to carry out quality development programs and if they are supposed, why is attention not paid to what they are doing in equal measure? From what I know some other societies used those layers of power to develop their society but in our case it would seem we have allowed a few individuals and in some cases one family to corner and pillage what should be common patrimony. This should be of serious concern to all. I have discussed the issue of ideology which if we had it would make the task of assessment a professional one. As it is everybody will be talking from his perspective and in the end a consensus would be difficult to achieve and the result would be that leaders who did not perform well would escape to continue their ruination of our society and that is what we call a tragedy of a nation or circle of national stupidity. I just hope we can improve on what we are doing. In the coming weeks I intend to talk in specific terms about the Buhari presidency and the activities of some state governors including my own. Meanwhile, let it be clear to us that when we cry and complain about sufferings in the land that we are co-conspirators to what is happening because it is the leaders we "elected" that are doing the things that are hurting us.
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Ember vs Knockout - Property Comparison
A small, appropriate comparison
At ModCloth, I've been working on an internal application that uses Ember.js as its front end framework. In learning Ember I've noticed some interesting architectural decisions they've made.
This article will concentrate on their Observable Models in comparison with how Knockout built the same functionality.
Ember.js and Knockout are great contrasts in the library vs framework debate in JS development.
Ember is
A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
(emphasis is mine).
Knockout is a library whose goal is to
Simplify dynamic JavaScript UIs with the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) pattern.
Ember is outspoken and proud of its framework status. Knockout makes it clear that it is a small library for building dynamic JavaScript UIs.
Ember, while a year younger than Knockout, has SIX TIMES as many commits as Knockout. It's also 4 times the size (71kb vs 17kb, once minified and gzipped).
Read-only computed properties
firstName: null,
lastName: null,
fullName: function() {
return this.get('firstName') + ' ' + this.get('lastName');
}.property('firstName', 'lastName')
this.firstName = ko.observable('Bob');
this.lastName = ko.observable('Smith');
this.fullName = ko.computed(function() {
return this.firstName() + ' ' + this.lastName();
}, this);
The differences here are trivial. Ember doesn't need you to tell it what properties to observe (all properties added to your models are observed). Ember uses getters and setters for each property.
Knockout asks you to state which properties you want to observe. Knockout then uses a named observable function instead of getters and setter.
Read/write computed properties
firstName: null,
lastName: null,
fullName: function(key, value) {
// setter
if (arguments.length > 1) {
var nameParts = value.split(/\s+/);
this.set('firstName', nameParts[0]);
this.set('lastName', nameParts[1]);
// getter
return this.get('firstName') + ' ' + this.get('lastName');
}.property('firstName', 'lastName')
this.firstName = ko.observable('Planet');
this.lastName = ko.observable('Earth');
this.fullName = ko.computed({
read: function () {
return this.firstName() + " " + this.lastName();
write: function (value) {
var lastSpacePos = value.lastIndexOf(" ");
if (lastSpacePos > 0) { // Ignore values with no space character
this.firstName(value.substring(0, lastSpacePos)); // Update "firstName"
this.lastName(value.substring(lastSpacePos + 1)); // Update "lastName"
owner: this
I think this scenario shows where Knockout really shine. I find the Knockout code easily readable. The fact that the Ember code needs comments to explain what part of the code is the setter vs getter is damning.
Also, the fact that the Ember code has to explicitly call out what properties it is watching is frustrating as well.
Forcing a Property to Recompute Every Time its Called
myViewModel.fullName = ko.computed(function() {
return myViewModel.firstName() + " " + myViewModel.lastName();
}).extend({ notify: 'always' });
fullName: function() {
return this.get('firstName') + ' ' + this.get('lastName');
}.property('firstName', 'lastName').volatile()
I think Ember gets the node here for the chainable extension method. Knockout's choice of passing in a extended configuration, while readable, seems a bit clunky to me.
The biggest difference I see in the two frameworks in regards to Observable Models is the need of Ember to register property dependencies. This seems like a huge drawback to me - what if you change your code and forget to update the dependencies? Or what if you have a typo in writing in the dependencies?
Since Knockout existed before Ember, it makes me wonder why the Ember creators didn't incorporate Knockout into their framework.
Solving a problem again after it's been solved by someone else reminds me of this famous XKCD cartoon:
##Side Note - How does Knockout get away without explicitly defining dependencies?
Knockout's Algorithm for Dependency Tracking
It's actually very simple and rather lovely. The tracking algorithm goes like this:
- Whenever you declare a computed observable, KO immediately invokes its evaluator function to get its initial value.
- While your evaluator function is running, KO keeps a log of any observables (or computed observables) that your evaluator reads the value of.
- When your evaluator finishes, KO sets up subscriptions to each of the observables (or computed observables) that you've touched. The subscription callback is set to cause your evaluator to run again, looping the whole process back to step 1 (disposing of any old subscriptions that no longer apply).
- KO notifies any subscribers about the new value of your computed observable.


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Social-Economic Debates, 2014, vol. 3, issue 1, 31-41
In the developing countries, foreign technology was largely compared to the one of the principal engines of the economic growth. However, according to the economic literature, the assimilation of this technology is far from being an automatic process. If the developing countries (or firms located in such countries) are not able to satisfy the conditions which their make it possible to learn this technology, so that they are deprived of sufficient absorptive capacity, they will face difficulties to transform these spillovers into profits of competitiveness. Initially, we will analyze within this paper the interaction between absorptive capacity of R&D spillovers and technological lag. In the second time, we will analyze the effects of the current and lagged R&D spillovers on the international competitiveness measured by exports and this, in the specific context of Tunisia.
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Lahore, Feb 17: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Lahore, on Tuesday extended the last date for submitting online admission forms for candidates appearing in Intermediate (Part-I) Annual Examination, 2011. Now the candidates can submit online admission forms with single fee till February 25. Earlier the last date for it was February 19. Lahore BISE spokesman Qaisar Virk said however the candidates appearing in Intermediate (Part-II) Annual Examination 2011 could submit their forms by February 28, 2011.
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Lahore: The Punjab University's Examinations Department has announced the written examination date-sheets of various examinations. LLB, Part-I exam, will commence from March 16 and conclude on March 31, LLB, Part-II exam, will commence from March 17 and conclude on April 04 while LLB, Part-III exam, will commence from March 16 and conclude on April 08, 2011.
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Lahore: The Education Complex, housing offices of EDO Education, DPI Elementary Education and Director Colleges, has been deprived of electricity for the last two days, thanks to the indifferent attitude of the authorities concerned.
The power suspension has made the lives of the complex's employees miserable who have to visit different markets to get urgent documents composed and faxed as well.
It is learnt the electricity suspended at the Education Complex situated at famous Hall Road and other adjacent areas, following failure of the electricity transformer. EDO Education Pervaiz Akhtar said the Buildings Department and Wapda authorities were informed but no response had been received so far. The news
UVAS, UNIDO to launch master's in food security
Lahore: The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) and the United Nation Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) have agreed to collaborate and launch master's programme in food safety and food security.
The UNIDO has planned to launch one-year diploma aimed at building indigenous human and institutional capacity to enhance the industrialization process in Pakistan in a sustainable manner.
This was stated by UNIDO Food Safety Management consultant Dr Ian Goulding during a meeting with UVAS Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Nawaz and other faculty members on varsity campus here on Tuesday. Dr Goulding was heading a three-member delegation comprising national expert in laboratory accreditation Dr Ali Abbas Qazilbash and UNIDO environment section chief Dr Aurangzeb.
Prof Nawaz termed the collaboration in food security and food safety with UNIDO as a good omen for the institution and added that it was high time to improve food quality standard that was posing serious challenges to country's exports.
He also explained the delegation about the vibrant role of the livestock sector which was contributing 53.4 per cent of the agriculture value-added and 11.4 per cent to the national GDP.
Despite a plethora of challenges, he said, the livestock industry was surprisingly growing by 4.1 per cent and cattle population had grown up to 65 million in 2009-2010.
He said the university had earned 12th position among 82 public and private universities for its research publications and was playing an effective role in leather, poultry, meat and dairy technology industry.
He said the varsity had also developed research collaboration and signed 21 MoUs with various international institutions to upgrade the standard of education.
Dr Goulding said the European Union was funding a cooperation programme with the Pakistan government on Trade Related Technical Assistance (TRTA) to provide support to the country in building necessary capacity to address trade-related issues, thereby fostering its integration into world economy and contributing to "poverty alleviation".
Dr Qazilbash said the UNIDO was upgrading various measurements and testing laboratories for international accreditation to ISO 17025 by providing equipment and training as well as fielding experts to assess, upgrade and conduct accreditation of these laboratories.
The delegation later visited various laboratories of the university.
PEF GIS for partner schools
Lahore: The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has decided to develop and launch "Geographical Information System" (GIS) for its partner schools.
This was stated by PEF Managing Director Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani while briefing a two-member Unicef delegation comprising education specialists Tariq Saeed and Muqadsa Mahreen at his office on Tuesday.
"The purpose of the project is to help identify partner schools' locations in 29 districts across Punjab. It will also be helpful in ensuring monitoring of the partner institutions," he said.
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Should I get a dissolution of marriage (formerly known as divorce) or a legal separation? After a judgment of legal separation parties' property rights, custody and visitation rights and support rights are determined the same way that they would be in a dissolution of their marriage. The difference is that parties who have a legal separation cannot remarry. Consequently, we see very few legal separations except by persons whose religious conviction requires that they not dissolve their marriage.
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I've walked through my share of foggy mornings. Let me tell you! As a Seattleite, nothing could be more prevalent. But this morning had a semi-unique kind of fog, following our week of achingly beautiful, summer-like weather.
Have you ever noticed the kind of fog that is like walking through raindrops so tiny and fine that they aren't falling to the ground? It's "heavy", yet it's not thick. And every once in a while, a drop has condensed enough mass that you'll feel a little 'ping!' sensation on your skin as you walk heedlessly into it? This morning was full of 'pings!'
Not too chilly, just calm and surreal, with unexpected little sensations as I stroll toward the bus stop for my morning commute.