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Mellow Monkey Gifts and Home Décor
11th Annual Small Business Saturday® Begins on November 28th
Mellow Monkey Gifts and Home Decor has announced that as a member of the American Express® Neighborhood Champion Program, it is encouraging consumers to shop with local, independently owned small businesses as part of the 11th Annual Small Business Saturday, which begins on Nov 28 and continues all holiday season long. Created by American Express in 2010, Small Business Saturday celebrates the impact small businesses have on communities across the country, and is a celebration of the positive impact they have on communities across the country. American Express works with organizations and independent businesses to provide solutions that support communities and uplift local economies. Learn more and connect with us on ShopSmall.com, Instagram.com/ShopSmall, and Facebook.com/SmallBusinessSaturday.
For the fourth year in a row, Mellow Monkey has led the Shop Small effort in cooperation with the Town of Stratford Department of Economic Development by promoting "Shop Small Stratford." a town-wide effort that highlights small businesses in the town of Stratford and what they have to offer. This year's Shop Small event is particularly challenging given the fluid nature of the pandemic and its impact on small businesses.
According to Howard Aspinwall, "Historically, Shop Small Saturday has put a focus on getting consumers in the doors of small businesses. This year, restrictions on occupancy and any potential lockdown measures make this year's event a challenging one. To address that, we're encouraging businesses to plan for both scenarios – in particular, to ensure their online and social media presence is ready and up-to-date, and their alternative fulfillment processes (local delivery, curbside pickup and shipping) are clearly communicated to consumers."
"At Mellow Monkey, we are actively encouraging our customer base to get out NOW and shop with small businesses in advance of the event by incentivizing them to do so. The store will reward customers with shopping discounts on Shop Small Saturday when customers present receipts for purchases made with other Stratford Small Businesses from November 13th through November 28th (Shop Small Saturday)."
"Mellow Monkey is also cross-promoting other independently owned "retail stores" regionally and in its same vertical market. While technically we all sell gifts and home décor, our primary competition is not with each other, but with national and online brands. Working together, we are stronger as a collective by reminding and encouraging consumers to do their holiday shopping with small business retailers.
Specifically in retail, it's important to remember small businesses needed to tap into a financial reserve during the Spring lock down – a cushion that came from holiday sales in the previous year. Without the benefit of holiday sales this year, most retailers would find it difficult if not impossible to survive into 2021. The impact of shuttered small businesses in 2021 would be extensive and noticeable because they have given back to the community many times over and also make up the fabric and color of the communities they operate in." Howard Aspinwall, Owner, Mellow Monkey Gifts and Home Decor
In order to drive shoppers to Shop Small® this Nov 28, Mellow Monkey Gifts and Home Decor is participating in the American Express® Neighborhood Champion Program to spotlight small businesses and the impact they have on communities. According to the 2019 Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey, 97% of consumers who
shopped on Small Business Saturday agree that small businesses are essential to their community and 95% reported the day makes them want to shop or eat at small, independently-owned businesses all year long, not just during the holiday season.
Since it started in 2010, consumers have reported spending an estimated $120 billion across all Small Business Saturdays combined. Merchants and consumers can learn more about Shop Small, Small Business Saturday and how to get involved by visiting ShopSmall.com.


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One of the most beautiful things the Margiela brand has always stood tall upon is the aspect of defiant individuality. Knowing who you are and completely embracing it is something that always resonates with a consumer – most importantly, Generation Z. "there are no rules—you write the book." Galliano said backstage of his SS'19 stage RTW show.
Living in this age where everything is immediate and microwaveable its hard to become appealing and create that excitement. Yet, leave it to Maison Margiela to uphold the ambiance and continue to create the spice of beauty. When we look at the world today we always hold it to a specific standard of what we think it should be – and the same goes for Fashion. We always attempt at a comparison of the "rules" of what Fashion should be, instead of accepting it for what it was and embracing the push forward.
Today Galliano made the embrace apparent and strategic. The role of gender bending has always been fair and accepted amongst women – them in structurally tailored pants suits, menswear, boyfriend jeans. Yet nothing for the other side. Sitting second row, I was able to see the magical moment with a sort of blast to the past from the future. Hence the iPhone holster pumps. A beautiful mechanism of true non-binary and making it sincere – barely able to recognize the men from the women. In a complete range from skirts to dresses, extremely cropped pants, blouses and tulle to structure any "masculine" frame. A true expression, and defining moment of gender fluidity.
"It doesn't matter who wears it," Galliano said. Describing the collection as "nomadic couture" it sees beyond what a piece is supposed to be and proposes all that it could be.

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Trump drilling boost could boost Nelson's chances in Fla.
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The Trump administration's expansive offshore drilling proposal could boost Florida Sen. Bill NelsonClarence (Bill) William NelsonNASA, SpaceX and the private-public partnership that caused the flight of the Crew Dragon Lobbying world The most expensive congressional races of the last decade MORE (D) in his upcoming reelection fight.
Nelson is running for his fourth term in the swing state. His most likely rival is Gov. Rick Scott (R), though Scott hasn't declared his candidacy.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders 'After Action Review' of National Guard's role in protests MORE won the state in 2016 by a little more than 1 percentage point, suggesting Nelson could face a tough reelection. But Trump's proposal to open nearly all of the United States's coasts for potential drilling hands Nelson an opportunity to highlight his decades of efforts to fight drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, adjacent to Florida's coast.
Nelson has called the proposal to allow drilling "an assault on Florida's economy, our national security, the will of the public and the environment." The move to open drilling gives him the chance to potentially paint his rival as a close ally of the president who isn't capable of standing up to Trump, at the expense of Florida's environment.
Scott quickly and forcefully came out against drilling near Florida and promised to push his case with the administration and press "the crucial need to remove Florida from consideration."
But in a state with more than 1,300 miles of coastline, where the perennial threat of drilling rigs produces bipartisan anger, Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeOvernight Energy: Trump officials may pursue offshore drilling after election, report says | Energy regulators to delay projects pending appeals | EPA union calls for 'moratorium' on reopening plans Trump administration could pursue drilling near Florida coast post-election: report Trump to make it easier for Alaska hunters to kill wolf pups and bear cubs: report MORE's drilling plan could help Nelson hang on to his seat.
"Actions speak louder than words," said Aliki Moncrief, executive director of Florida Conservation Voters, an affiliate of the League of Conservation Voters, which recently endorsed Nelson for reelection.
"Sen. Nelson has been taking action to defend our shores for decades. Gov. Scott is definitely Johnny-come-lately to this issue."
Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida, said Nelson's years of fighting offshore drilling will pay off in November.
"His positions on the issue have never changed," she said.
Meanwhile, Scott's main problem is likely to stem from his close ties to Trump.
Florida Republicans have consistently opposed drilling near the state, as evidenced by a flood of GOP opposition after last week's announcement by Zinke. But that may not prove to be enough for Scott.
"When gas prices are up, people are in favor of drilling. But when they're down, people are against it. And right now, gas prices are very low," MacManus said. "And so this is the worst possible time for Republicans to have to face some kind of labeling as being pro-drilling in Florida."
Florida's sensitivity to drilling is also fueled by memories of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The explosion and 87-day spill sent oil to Florida's shores and cost the state billions, devastating its tourism industry because of the public's perception of the oil spill's impact.
The Gulf of Mexico hosts the vast majority of the nation's offshore drilling activity. But the eastern third of the Gulf has long been off limits, due both to Florida's opposition and military activity that could conflict with drilling.
Nonetheless, the oil industry sees the eastern Gulf as its top prospect. Drillers have a good idea of the oil and gas potential there, and the infrastructure for drilling is established.
Congress has banned drilling in the eastern Gulf through 2022. Zinke's proposal last week envisions starting auctions for drilling rights there in 2023.
Zinke stressed to reporters that he is listening to objections from Scott and others.
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"We're going to listen to the voices of communities, of all of the stakeholders. So I look forward to having a dialogue with Gov. Scott."
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders emphasized later in the day that the administration would listen to Scott, who has met with Trump multiple times.
"Our goal certainly isn't to cross Gov. Scott. We have a great relationship with him," she told reporters.
Nelson has taken a leading role in fighting drilling or anything he perceives as a slippery slope toward drilling since at least the 1980s, when he was in the House.
"Sen. Nelson has always been a staunch opponent of any effort to either open up Florida's waters to offshore drilling or to undermine regulations," Moncrief said.
"He's been there from the get-go, which is not true of Gov. Scott."
Scott has promised to meet with Zinke on the matter to try to get waters near Florida out of the drilling plan.
When Zinke opened up public comments on a potential new drilling plan last year, Scott's Department of Environmental Protection raised concerns with drilling near Florida.
"The state remains concerned about the effects of [outer continental shelf] oil and gas activities on marine and coastal environments and the sensitive biological resources and critical habitats associated with them as well as the military activities critical to the nation's security," the department wrote in August.
Zinke's plan proposes drilling on Florida's Atlantic coast as well, a prospect that is seen as less likely, though it would hit similar opposition if it proceeded.
Scott's opponents accuse him of flip-flopping on drilling.
In 2010, when he was governor-elect, Scott seemed to support opening that area up, saying he "absolutely" disagreed with then-President Obama's decision not to pursue any eastern Gulf drilling through 2017.
"I believe we have to become energy independent," he said at the time, according to the Miami Herald. "Offshore drilling is an option."
Scott spokeswoman Lauren Schenone defended his record on drilling.
"The governor has been consistently clear that he would never support anything that would harm Florida's environment," she said.
Mac Stipanovich, a Republican consultant in Florida, said Scott's ties to Trump might be his main issue when it comes to drilling.
"The governor and senator elections are going to be a referendum on Donald Trump. To the extent that Floridians can be further incensed by the offshore drilling decision against Donald Trump, then it will be to Nelson's benefit and disadvantage the governor," Stipanovich said.
"Scott may be a little more vulnerable to it, because he has lunch or dinner with some frequency with the president," he said. "But he's thus far failed to move the president on this important issue."
Stipanovich said Scott has gone out of his way to show he's opposed to drilling, but as a governor close to Trump, he's still going to be expected to bring results.
"Other than dousing himself in gasoline and setting himself on fire, I think he's doing what is expected of him," he said.


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Camera traps reveal wolf pups born in the Broumov area
7.9.2016, Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic (AOPK ČR) a Friends of the Earth Czech Republic (Hnutí DUHA)
Wolf pack that settled in the Broumov region in autumn 2015 welcomed at least two newborn pups this spring. Reproduction success was confirmed over the summer when Friends of the Earth field workers managed to record pack's howling and the pups appeared on the camera trap footage. This proves that there are at least four wolves now living in the Broumov area. The following video montage showing Broumov young wolves in play expands our current knowledge of the grey wolf distribution in the Czech Republic.
The first reproduction of wolves in our country after more than a century was recorded in 2014 in the Kokořínsko-Mácha's Region PLA. Here, the wolves thrive already for three years.[1] That the wolves have now also recolonized the Broumov region and are reproducing there only confirms the trend of carnivores, which were extinct in the past, gradually returning to the Czech countryside. So far, two pairs of wolves are known to have raised their young in the Czech Republic.
In the past weeks, Friends of the Earth Czech Republic carried out intensive monitoring in the area inhabited by Broumov wolves focused primarily on collecting scat samples for DNA and diet analysis. The results of these analyses will determine the origin of wolves and the composition of their diet.
The wider area of the Broumov wolf pack's home range provides enough prey such as mouflon or deer. The wolves contribute to the recovery of the entire ecosystem by regulating the overpopulated ungulate species.
However, local farmers also reported damage to livestock mainly as a result of the insufficient protection of grazing animals. Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic offers advice to livestock farmers as well as assistance with damage claims and a loan of electric fences with power source. Experience from the German Lausitz, where an estimated one hundred wolves live, shows that damage can be prevented.
As a part of the new project in areas that are being recolonized by wolves, Friends of the Earth Czech Republic will also offer help to the sheep farmers with the protection of their herds including assistance with obtaining trained shepherd dogs, loan of electric fences and expert advice.
Miroslav Kutal of Friends of the Earth Czech Republic (local organization Olomouc) explains: "Gradual return of wolves to Czech regions is a result of expanding lowland populations of wolves in Germany and Western Poland where the total of about 70 wolf packs live. The footage of wolf pups from the Broumov area is unique and demonstrates that large carnivores can permanently thrive in our landscape if we give them a chance. The experience from other countries, including neighbouring Germany, shows that the presence of wolves does not need to be in conflict with sheep farming, it is, however, necessary to implement preventative measures to reduce the damage. That is why both Friends of the Earth Czech Republic and the state conservation agency are discussing the issue with farmers, offering them advice and help."
Petr Kafka of Broumovsko PLA administration – the regional office of Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic for East Bohemia added: "Three years ago when we recorded rare occurrences of migrating wolves in the Broumov region, we did not imagine that in such a short time wolves would become a regular part of our nature. Observations and findings of occurrence signs from the past year indicate that from now on we need to count with the wolf presence. Wolves belong here which is why we try to offer effective support to local livestock farmers."
Petr Urban, chairman of the District Hunting Association in Náchod said: "The occurrence of wolves in the Broumov region reflects the consistency and systematic nature of the current legislation in the field of nature and landscape conservation in the Czech Republic and the European Union. Improving nature conditions in ever larger areas throughout Europe mean wolf populations are able to increase in numbers and expand to new territories. Of course, there is a negative side to this success too in the form of disapproval from part of the public. Return of such species to the area from which it had long been extinct due to perceived damage to human activities is the most common objection. As with other species, the possibility of wolf return as a result of increased protection was to be expected. The question was not if, but when. That is why we need a serious and constructive debate involving all stakeholders including nature conservation organizations, farmers, and hunters."
[1] More footage of wolves in the Kokořínsko-Mácha's Region PLA:
[2] Video footage was obtained within the project supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway "Monitoring of important European carnivore species in selected localities within the Natura 2000" (more at http://monitoring.selmy.cz) on which Friends of the Earth Czech Republic (local organization Olomouc) cooperates closely with Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Charles University, University of Ostrava and the Administration of Krkonoše National Park and Czech Switzerland National Park.
Miroslav Kutal, Friends of the Earth Czech Republic – local organization Olomouc (large carnivore expert): firstname.lastname@example.com
Petr Kafka, Broumovsko PLA Administration – regional office of Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic for East Bohemia (zoologist): email@example.com
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text: WHEN it comes to rip-offs we are being urged this week to look no further than Prada's white cotton T-shirt, retailing for £270. This Reporter states this does rather, in her opinion, overlook a more glaring and ever present rip-off in our lives, which we will look at more thoroughly in due course. But back to the T-shirt, and words have been voiced over why any right thinking human would purchase the extortionately priced Prada T-shirt when there are all manner of identical alternatives available on the high street? "You get what you pay for" is the mantra from fashion disciples. However, in that case surely we can expect no less than the whole cast of Enid Blyton's magical Faraway Tree involved in the workmanship, weaving well-being and fortitude into every seam. The perfect antidote to the sweatshop. But then we are told over at Primark you can buy a pair of socks and come away with a free human bone. Admittedly that wasn't the original Primark marketing str


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In 2005, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) was judged to be America's Best Public Transportation System by the American Public Transportation Association. Even with such accolades, like every public transit system, there have been catastrophic accidents. In recent years, a growing number of OCTA buses have been involved in accidents with cars.
The Orange County OCTA bus accident attorneys at Greene, Broillet & Wheeler, LLP, represent people hurt in bus crashes throughout the Southern California region. We also represent injured tourists and families who have lost a loved one in a fatal OCTA bus accident.
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Nazi gold. It's the stuff of legends, quests, dashed hopes, rumors, treasure hunts, movie plots and reality series. For over 80 years, stories of gold, art and priceless treasures looted by Hitler's troops and stored in secret locations around Europe, in South America or even on the bottom of the ocean have persisted. Another alleged clue to these treasures has surfaced, and it has all of the elements of past hints. Is the wartime diary believed to have been kept by an SS officer which allegedly describes the locations of 11 of these caches the real deal … or another Nazi wild goosestep chase?
"About ten years ago, after many discussions, the Quedlinburger lodge decided to hand the diary to the foundation. We are releasing information about the diary now as we wanted to wait until all persons who could be connected to the events and the diary had passed away, particularly officers of the Waffen SS. This was the wish of the Quedlinburger lodge."
For Roman Furmaniak, the story of the diary begins ten years ago when the foundation Schlesische Brücke (Silesian Bridge – Silesia is a historical region in Central Europe located mostly in Poland and partially in the Czech Republic and Germany), set up by businessman Darius Franz Dziewiatek, received the war diary from a 1,100-year-old Christian lodge (possibly Freemasons) from Quedlinburger, Germany. (Photos of the diary here.) The diary was kept by SS standartenführer Egon Ollenhauer, who The First News of Poland identifies as a member of the lodge and "the link between senior SS officers and local aristocrats who wanted help to protect their property from the Soviets" – with the "property" consisting of Nazi gold and valuables held in the then Nazi-occupied territory.
In 2019, all of the remaining persons connected to the diary were deceased and Furmaniak turned the diary over to the Polish Ministry of Culture, expecting it to lead a search for the hidden treasures.
"Dr. Grundmann and his people had already prepared in the grounds of the palace a deep well. The Following was placed at the bottom in crates: jewelry, coins and ingots, many of them were damaged, they had traces of gunfire. After we finished everything, the well was blown up, filled in and covered. Grundmann is a very good organizer. After the delivery of these 28 tonnes, the field gendarmes were sent away, their whereabouts…unknown. Sealing, covering and securing the site was achieved by an explosion, which was planned in the park according to Dr. Grundmann's plan and sketch."
Dr. Gunther Grundmann was a German conservator who, according to the diary, hid treasures under Hochberg Palace in Roztoce, a village in Silesia. The First News says Dziewiatek identified five treasure stashes under or near the palace – in a deep well in a palace park, at the bottom of a pond in another palace park, in a concrete sarcophagus under a stream, in an underground orangery in another palace park and in a secret room between the walls in another palace. However, this week Furmaniak revealed to The Daily Mail that the government has not yet followed through with a search and he's pressuring them to get going. He claims he has found the well and has it and the other locations under surveillance. The current owners of the palace, who allegedly believe the story, have erected fences. So, what is the government waiting for?
In 2019, local historian Joanna Lamparska said this to The First News about the diary.
"(It's interesting) But in my opinion, no treasure will be found using the diary. If these people really knew where the treasure was, they would not be acting in this way. The diary may be genuine, but a lot more work needs to be done."
Acting in what way? Perhaps the question of who owns the treasures is the issue. Furmaniak claims that it is our intention that the property is returned to its rightful owners." Whatever the case, the latest version of this story is out of the bag, as The Daily Mail and other news sites have exposed it.
How soon before the area is overrun by treasure hunters, modern Nazis, TV producers and others?
Is Harrison Ford up for one more Indiana Jones movie?
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Three Gloversville bowlers rolled 600+ series to defeat neighboring Foothills Council rival Johnstown 3,586-3,019 Wednesday, Dec. 12.
Aiden Carter had the high series (644) and the high game (258) for Gloversville. Adam Loveless rolled a 631 series with a 225 high game, and Derek Taylor added a 625 series with a 248 high game. Adrian Dorman rolled a 257 game for Gloversville.
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After eight years in college, there is one Aggie student who still can't seem to get himself graduated. He got in five years on a football scholarship, and everyone likes him, but he just can't seem to make it through his classes. The professors and the board of regents at the school are beginning to be anxious about the possible damage to the school's reputation, and decide that graduate or not, Jethro has got to go. They are worried that the general public is going to hear about this student hasn't graduated after eight years. After conferring with each other, they give him the news: "Jethro, we've decided that this is going to be your last semester at A&M. So we're going to give you a test at graduation time. We're going to ask you just one question, and if you answer it correctly, you graduate. If you answer it incorrectly, you don't graduate. But either way, this is your last semester and it's time to leave the school." So graduation rolls around, and Jethro is the very last person to step up, because he still has to take the test. Everyone at school knows about it and each person in the audience holds his breath as the university president asks Jethro the Test Question. "Jethro, what's four plus three?" Jethro thinks hard for a moment, and then hesitantly answers, "Seven?" There is a brief moment of silence, and then another Aggie calls out from the audience: "Aw, gee, give him another chance!" -- Karen Valentino <> Everex North Computer Graphics R/D <> Sebastopol, CA
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If there is one important leadership lesson that the recent health crisis has taught organisations all over the world is that agility is not just a fancy term that you adopt to appear current. It has become a necessity for your organisation to thrive. In a time where all teams have had to work from home with patchy internet connections and possibly different time zones, many employers and employees had scrambled to build models that work.
Incidentally, the organisations that were fast to adapt to uncertainty have had an easier run than those who could not. There is more than enough evidence from across the world, showing how agility benefits even huge companies such as Microsoft and Amazon in the long run when it comes to market capitalization and management as well. Complex fancy structures of corporate governance looked good back in the day but now is the time to do away with bureaucracies of hierarchies and embrace agility at the senior-most levels in any organisation- the C Suite.
This blog covers what agility means for the C Suite leaders and how can it be achieved in an organisation. Many traditional leaders believe that having agility as an option among teams that develop products is all there is to agility. However, agility has to start from the very top of the organisation's management.
What this simply means is that there will always be something more that the organisation can potentially do, even in the current mode of operation. In simple words or the words of Project Management Institute (PMI), agility is the ability to change fast, and transform fast. To assess where your organisation is today in the spectrum of agility, there are tools for you to do it, for example, Harvard Business Review's guide on The Agile C-Suite.
In essence, you need to look at what are the areas that you can be agile in, depending on the kind of business you are in. This needs to be followed by assignment of metrics that would define your agility journey.
What C-Suite needs to know about being Agile
1. Agility is about your organisation's ability to change fast, but agility isn't quickly achieved
Especially for C-Suite and processes set in stone, agility cannot be achieved at the snap of a finger. The steps that you take towards agility can be small, yet contribute a huge difference to your organisation's performance. You can start by imbibing a sense of agility in your teams to start with, by allowing them windows of innovation and creating a safe space for them to lead independently. Gradually, you can move towards allowing teams to self organise and allocate tasks (which can be a higher level of agility) and so on.
2. You can learn to be an agile leader
There are tens of courses and classes on how to lead in an agile environment available online, some of which can be studied by C-Suite leaders to be ready and anticipate some of the changes with agility and their response. These courses will also help leaders understand and assess what level of agility might truly be the right fit for their organisation. If they are a fairly large organisation, identification of places where teams would need to be left alone is required.
3. Some business processes will need to be overhauled to enable transformation
In some cases, you might have to consider procedural overhauls for certain processes or parts of the business, especially when you're setting up something new. Like mentioned earlier, these can be small steps but culturally, you will have to think in a transformational way.
As a leader, you will need to demonstrate a higher level of agility than your teams because while they work in individual teams, your work and agility would have to be cut across.
4. Demonstrate and communicate change, however small
Morning stand-up calls, walkarounds, inter and intra team check-ins coupled with a communication of the commitment to be agile are some of the things that can help a strong leadership be more agile. Whenever an old traditional process that is outdated is replaced with an agile one - for instance, having formal team meetings replaced with design thinking sessions - announce the change and share why you feel the need for such changes within the organisation.
5. Remember that there are no endpoints
Because agility is a trait that you would imbibe, there will be no endpoints to this agile journey that will clearly tell you that the goal of being agile has been achieved.
However, there are metrics (such as transparency, change in team dynamics etc.) that you can use to see if agility is working well for your organisation or not. Each organisation is also unique which means that what works for a Microsoft, might not work for you. As there is no one-size-fits-all approach to becoming an agile organisation, it is important to continually keep training, unlearning, relearning and improvising at every step of the way.
Each company does agility differently and at different levels. What is important, although, is that the C-Suite level leaders in each organisation embrace it at the same time as well. This responsibility does not fall squarely on the shoulders of the CEO as many surveys have shown to be the case. Other CXOs too, will need to be involved given that this desire to be agile is lower amongst other C-Suites. This means that a top-level buy-in will be needed in the beginning to set the ball rolling throughout your organisation.
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Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Carolyn picked up Marisas loverboy this morning and brought him back to our house, so that the kids had someone to play with. As luck would have it another one of their friends came round as well and between them they made a mess but had a good time doing it.
Carolyn tried to teach Fraser how to Multiply and Divide Fractions, he is having trouble remembering how to work them out and we are trying to find a fool proof way of drumming it into his head, when he knows a formula for getting the answer he flies through them, it's just that he keeps forgetting the formula.
In the afternoon Carolyn came to the Café to help out while the kids plus loverboy went to Yoganup Park to play.
Winter is almost upon us and Ian has started making Soup for the Café again, so tonight we had Homemade Pumpkin Soup for Tea and it was lovely.
In the evening after the kids went to bed, we watched the film Transporter, it's ok, a bit over the top gratuitous violence and all that, but ok if you could imagine him beating crap out of someone you don't like.
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Some familiar cable news faces made the rounds in late night last night: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow appeared on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" and Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano visited "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."
Maddow and Meyers talked about their shared love for the Boston Red Sox and comic books, as well as why the Chris Christie bridgegate scandal continues to be captivating. "It's still unexplained at the heart of it, and I think that's the main reason it's not going away. Also, it's so salacious," Maddow said. "…It's so gangster. It's very Sopranos." Watch (at about the 22 minute mark):
Meanwhile, on "The Daily Show," Judge Napolitano locked horns with Stewart over the necessity of the civil war.
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I'm currently on an unlimited data plan on the iPhone 4. I've been thinking for a while about getting the 5s, but have been hesitant (like many) about losing the unlimited data. I was considering just going on to the family share plan with my family, but that didn't seem too appealing, so I had decided to upgrade.
Then, when this whole unlimited 'glitch' happened this weekend, I decided to chat with a Verzion Rep; in the end, he offered me 6 gigs for $30 (Verizon Max), only I don't have to go onto Verizon Edge if I do it. So, what I'm wondering is, will 6 gb be enough on the 5s if I'm streaming videos and such over 4g? I've never been a real power user, using only 1-2 or 3 gigs a month, but I'm wondering if that would change on LTE. Another option would be for me to buy an iPhone 5 off contract for about the same price as a 5s right now, and keep my unlimited data. Or, are there are other options? I welcome all of your feed back, as I've been thinking about this for a while. Thanks in advance.
I can say that I'm looking at this situation with the same skeptical eyes.
For my purposes, I'm eyeing a Galaxy Note 3 and the 8 GB plan. I am no data hog, but I have been known to exceed 10 GB during a bill cycle.
To check my pre-conceived notions at the door, this month I turned my wifi on and have had it on 24 hours a day since 10/1/13. Doing this, I have only clocked 1.23 GB of data in 9 days. If I can keep this figure under 8 GB, then maybe I don't need the warm, fuzzy feeling of unlimited data.
Like you, I do have questions that the website hasn't answered. For one, if you buy 8 GB for $60, then will my 20% feature discount come off. Right now I pay $48 for unlimited data & unlimited hot spot. Getting the upper Max plan for $48 is not necessarily a bargain, but it's a step in the right direction.
Before I raise the white flag, they'll have to make it worth my while to give it up. I would press them for additional short term savings on my wireless bill. When I have complained I have been able to extract free data ($29.99) or extra minutes.
What would really sell me on this is if the higher Tier was either 10 GB if a third tier could exist. Make it $70 or $75. I know I could keep my usage below 10.
(hint, hint to any Verizon customer service persons who might be lurking.)
Well, I've rambled enough. I need to see how my wifi experiment shakes out before I do anything.
The real problem with all of this is where the market is going.
Verizon wants you to use VZ Navigator and their exclusive NFL Mobile to watch games on our shiny new smartphones with 5" + screens... both these activities take data.
We are being conditioned to watch video on the go via our phones or tablets. Whether it's a kitten hanging from a tree branch or an episode of our favorite TV streaming from Hulu... these activities take data.
Car manufacturers are more and more integrating apps in radios such as iheartradio, pandora yet no one is talking about in car cellular modems. The expectation is out will hot-spot the radio from your phone and use data.
Now, I know shared data was created exclusively to stuff Verizon's mattresses with money. If you do the things above then you might blow through our data allotment and have to pay overages. $15 per GB overage is quite expensive when unlimited was priced at $30.
My thinking is Verizon did not need to go all nuclear on us by stopping unlimited data. I would have preferred they one to us a say that we need to re-write unlimited data. If they had said we need to Make $50 or $60 I don't think I would have complained.
Another option would have been to re-write unlimited the way T-Mobile did. The first 500 MB (low plan) or 2.5 GB (mid plan) is 4G, but after your allotment you move down to 3G. 3G is fine for Web, & email, but not streaming audio / video.
3G speeds would stop the true data hogs from hot spotting their whole home from their smartphone and thus using hundreds and hundreds of GB 's of data.
Instead of chasing the almighty dollar, Verizon should be looking for ways to expand and better utilize spectrum. I've read two white papers on various ways MIMO could be used to multiplex cell towers. Essentially let them send and receive twice as much data without the need for additional spectrum or excessive power demands.
I have a unlimited plan and usingna Verizon Motorola Maxx HD, streaming videos you tube stuff. I break about 3 just push 4 gb. I got the same offer. I think it's a great deal.
Joe- Don't do it, keep your unlimited data plan. 6gb may be enough now, but it may be peanuts in a couple of years as apps and computing power on our phones advance. Recommend paying the full retail price or buying a used/refurbished one on Ebay. Verizon is trying to do what's most profitable for them, not what is most economical for you.


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Saints Row – A New Reboot Has Been Announced. Releasing February 25, 2022
After being teased a few days back with a website and a picture which showed the words 'Rebooting'. It has now been confirmed that Saints Row will indeed be getting a reboot.
We have our targets locked on a brand new city – Santo Ileso – a melting pot of big city business and darkened alley street crime, the perfect place to start a new criminal empire and the biggest and best playground we have ever created. Also, on a side note, the best Tacos in the American South West, (Chalupracarbra has a certain "kick" to it, if you know what I mean). The law in this city? Never heard of her. You don't become self-made by following laws, right? Well, if you do – it sounds SUPER boring, so we'll do it our way, thanks. The city offers a range of criminal ventures to further your interests (and make some sweet cash to boot – rent doesn't pay itself).
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- Witness the Birth of The Saints – Play through an action blockbuster original story full of criminality, extraordinary scenes and signature surprises laced with humor.
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- Build Your Criminal Empire – Take over the city block by block, wage war against enemy factions and tighten your grip on the streets with ingenious criminal ventures.
- Fire Guns. LOTS of Guns – Shoot revolvers from the hip, fire and forget with a rocket launcher, or obliterate up close using melee heavyweights, complete with brutal takedowns. A vast variety of familiar and exotic weapons, all customizable, and all deadly fun.
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- Unprecedented Customization – Create the Boss of your dreams, with the most extensive character customization suite ever seen in the series, then complete the look with incredible options for weapons and vehicles.
- Seamless Co-Op – Experience everything on offer with a friend at any time, via fully untethered drop-in / drop-out co-op, skipping the need to take either of you out of the outlandish action; play nice together, or play all new pranks on your team mate. After all, who's the Boss now?
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To anyone looking to build a website, there are many options out there that can help you realise your online ambitions. You no longer need to be able to code and work with computer languages in order to develop a website; there are page builders that take care of the coding for you. The most popular platforms/plugins offer the highly user-friendly 'drag-and-drop' functionality to help you put together a webpage. Some of these building platforms can be used for little or no cost and have extensive support networks. This blog will compare three of the major players: WordPress, Wix and Squarespace.
Just a note on WordPress. It has two platforms. The key difference between them is the hosting provider. With WordPress.com, WordPress takes care of the hosting for you, making it easier to start. On the other hand, WordPress.org requires you to source your own hosting provider. For the purpose of this comparison blog, we will be talking about WordPress.org. Unlike WordPress.com, it has far more potential for customisation and it is a lot less restrictive.
Ease of Use
As a 'drag-and-drop' page builder, Wix does a lot of the work for you. There are over 500 templates to choose from, for pretty much any business. They are organised into useful, specific categories such as events, music, and business. Once you have selected one there are built-in suggestions to guide you through building your site, making the process easy for beginners to web design.
Similar to Wix, Squarespace is a drag-and-drop builder that is simple to use and guides new users through the process with an onboarding tour. However, there are only 60 templates on offer. This has the advantage of not being an overwhelming selection to browse from, but the drawback of there potentially not being a design that quite matches what you desire.
Unlike the other two, WordPress can be overwhelming for new users. It definitely takes more time for users to get comfortable with all the development tools. Despite the steep learning curve, however, a web design novice can still get comfortable with the builder. You do not need to know code to make the most out of WordPress' features. An experienced WordPress developer will be able to set up your website exactly as you want it. Maintaining this will be just as easy as Wix!
Some landing page template options with our favourite WordPress page builder plugin, Elementor:
Design & Customisation
The available designs have a clean, modern feel to them, but they can just look like a standard template site. Themes come with imagery and text ready for you to use, or you can choose to select a blank layout and start from scratch. The website builder is mobile-friendly and pages can include Parallax effects which allow text to move at a different speed than the background, creating an eye-catching experience. A significant drawback of Wix, though, is that once you choose a template you cannot switch it after going live, locking your website into one design forever.
Although there are a limited number of designs on offer, they are excellent and high-quality, making strong use of typography, imagery and open spaces. You can use multiple themes within each website, they are optimised for mobile, and Squarespace will suggest various page configurations for you. Unlike Wix, you can switch to a new template should you want to.
There is no better option for customisation than WordPress. With thousands and thousands of themes to choose from, many of them free, you'll be spoilt for choice as compared to Wix and Squarespace. Even more interesting designs can be unlocked by paying just $50. Countless websites are entirely dedicated to building and selling themes. You can switch themes whenever you like, and most of them are optimised for mobile. Really professional, beautiful and high-performance websites can be built within WordPress by yourself. WordPress does require more time investment to get familiar with the interface, compared to Wix and Squarespace. A web-design agency would be able to build you a custom WordPress site, if you don't want to use an existing WordPress theme, with almost any functionality you would ever need.
WordPress powers more than 42.7% of all websites. See 10 websites below you might recognise, all built with WordPress!
Because of the relatively simple templates, Wix is not the best for features. It's possible to add something like an appointment scheduler or eCommerce storefront but it has to be done so as an extra layer which can hurt performance. Although, multiple payment methods are accepted and Wix does not take a cut of your sales. A nice design feature is that a video can be added as the background of a webpage, giving a different user experience.
Lots of templates are feature-rich, resulting in a pleasing aesthetic. Paying for a premium plan can allow for the integration of Mailchimp or Facebook Pixel. But there is not a directory of plug-ins and any add-ons require coding. eCommerce is available, but payments are processed with a 3% transaction fee and the platform is not well equipped for more complex needs. Fine for if you want to monetise your blog, but if eCommerce is the primary aim of your website then you should consider other builders.
There are a plethora of features available to you because of the thousands of paid & free plugins that offer almost any function you could desire for your website. If you want a membership site, eCommerce store, a directory, or any other conceivable platform, it can be done. WooCommerece is a plugin that provides extensive eCommerce options. There is video integration with YouTube and Vimeo available, and a backup with Dropbox to save your database.
Check out some eCommerce websites built for our clients below. All are powered by WordPress and WooCommerce!
Scalability and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
You are confined to the design you have chosen so it is very hard to scale up your website if it needs to grow. It is impossible to take your site with you if you decide to leave. You need to think carefully about the long-term vision of your website because you don't want to be stuck with a builder that won't let your site grow. In terms of SEO (the process of getting your site to rank higher on a search engine), Wix only allows for light optimisation and does not include the advanced settings that can be found on other plugins. In a study carried out but ahrefs, they found that only 1.4% of Wix domains get organic traffic.
The templates on Squarespace are only really suited to simple but stunning websites and can't be scaled up easily. SEO optimisation is also limited: all other pages will auto-generate from the search metadata you have written for your homepage. In the same study as mentioned above, ahrefs found that only 15.1% of Squarespace websites get organic traffic.
There are few limits in scaling up your website. New pages can be added easily and themes can be switched to suit your business needs. Despite being well set up for SEO, there are powerful plugins (such as Yoast) that can be installed to take your SEO strategy up a level. WordPress takes a significant lead for SEO: 46.1% of WordPress websites get organic traffic.
Neil Patel has a great video on which platform is best for SEO:
Wix has a fairly robust help centre, and by becoming a VIP customer you can get priority phone support.
There is a good knowledge base available to browse along with videos and live webinars. You can also contact reps through email or live chat. Furthermore, since Squarespace takes care of the hosting of your page, if something goes wrong with your website it is easier to fix because they have oversight of both the hosting and the design of your page – you are not split between two companies on this.
Although there is no official support centre, there is an extensive community of web developers using WordPress who are happy to provide advice and offer solutions to problems. There are online forums as well as regular meetups. You may also hire a web design agency to help develop the page in the first place or take care of an issue when it arises.
Website Management
Wix handles hosting and security and can help you register a domain. Cheap plans will include a domain that is name.wix.com. But you can add your own domain to your account if you already own one.
Squarespace handles the technical side of website ownership, including hosting, domain and email. The platform even includes website backups, security, speed and even analytics. As previously mentioned it is also helpful to have everything looked after by one company when something goes wrong.
You have to source your own hosting provider and register a domain name before you can launch a site with WordPress, but that does mean the website is entirely yours. Due to its impressive usage (a third of all websites run on WP), it is susceptible to hacking, but there are updates and plugins available to help mitigate this risk.
Monthly Costs: £3, £6, £8.50 or £18.
Domain: Not included. Average price £9.99/year.
Hosting: Included.
The cheapest monthly package has limited bandwidth and storage and will place Wix advertisements on your site. As the prices get more expensive Wix includes more features such as Wix Ad removal, increased bandwidth and storage, Site Booster apps and VIP support.
Monthly Costs: £10, £15, £20 or £30.
Domain: Included.
Hosting: Included.
All packages include free custom domains, security, 24/7 customer support, and unlimited bandwidth and storage. Paying more each month unlocks more features such as CSS and JavaScript customisation, advanced website analytics, integrated eCommerce and advanced merchandising options.
Monthly Cost: Free!
Domain: Not included. Average price £9.99/year.
Hosting: Not included. Average price £2.38/month – £11.26 per month.
WordPress.org is free to start using for any user, but you need to have registered a domain and set up a hosting plan. More expensive hosting plans will provide higher storage, bandwidth and performance. Also, you may end up paying for features like premium design and plugins, depending on your website's needs.
Final Thoughts
Wix and Squarespace have similarities in their easy-to-use interface, low-cost options and accessibility to new web designers, but also in their shortcomings with respect to scalability and customisation. Both are better suited for simple websites, such as blogs and portfolios, but Squarespace offers more eye-catching designs and Wix has more variety of templates.
For complete control over your website, for the potential for customisation and scalability, and for the availability of a wide range of plugins and features, WordPress is by far the best option. You may need to invest some time in getting to grips with its building tools or hire a web developer to do the work for you, but the long-term results will be worth it as there is virtually no limit to the kind of website you could design.
Additionally, what is the point of having a website if no one can find it? With 46.1% of WordPress websites getting organic traffic against 1.4% for Wix and 15.1% for Squarespace, it really doesn't make sense to invest time and money in a website no one will find!
General FAQ
What does CMS mean?
A content management system (CMS) is a software that allows the user to create, edit, organise and publish their content. WordPress, Squarespace and Wix are all types of CMS that facilitate the publication of this content onto the web.
What is a page builder?
A page builder usually just means a tool that allows you to visually construct a page, typically using a 'drag-and-drop' interface. Wix and Squarespace are both 'drag-and-drop' page builders. WordPress pages can be built with pure HTML / CSS / JS, but there are many 'drag-and-drop' page builder plugins, such as Elementor and Divi that make building websites far easier.
What is WordPress?
WordPress was initially created as a tool for people to set up their own blogs. But its user-friendly interface made it one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) for all kinds of web development, from simple blogs to advanced eCommerce sites.
Which is better: WordPress, Wix or Squarespace?
This all depends on your budget and time. To get a basic low-cost website up quickly, with limited functionality Wix and Squarespace are probably most suitable. For more serious websites, with some more complex functionality, it may be worth investing in a dedicated WordPress specialist or agency to help get your business up and running.
Is Wix bad for SEO?
A study by ahrefs found that Wix websites only get 1.4% of organic traffic. This is extremely low compared to WordPress which sits more comfortably at 46.1%, and even Squarespace gets roughly 15.1%.


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For 3D navigation systems, representing the orientation is always annoying. After going through several painful learning and debugging processes, I share some lessons that I learned.
The quaterion parameterization
There are several ways to represent a 3d orientation. In real system, everyone pretty much choose over the rotation matrix or the quaternion. While treating the orientation as state, the unit quaterion representation is almost inevitable. Here comes the first annoying thing: the order of parameters is the unit quaternion differs in every system. For example, in Eigen library, the quaterion constructor takes w-x-y-z order, while it stores the data in the x-y-z-w order.
Another annoying thing about unit quaternion. In fact, unit quaternion doubly covers the SO(3) space. To be precise, \(q\) and \(-q\) represent the same 3d orientation. (The "minus" orientation is actually the conjugate of \(q\), or \(q^*\).) Therefore, in the equations, there are several multiplication of 2 or devision of 2. These multiplications and divisions have no thing to do with the real data, but just the adjustment of different representation. Of course, some papers choose to write it out explicitly while some papers don't, which further confuses the beginners.
To optimize over a minifold, the Jacobian matrix is essential to tell the variation with respect to the parameters. However, computing Jacobian matrices on a manifold is not trivial. Several papers started this by defining the linearization point. I personally follow the method here. This tutorial defines the derivative by defining addition and substraction first, which is more direct and extendable. One thing to notice is that the order of multiplication is different in different paper, but they leads to different result, since the multiplication is not communitive in general.
Lift Jacobian
This issue is particular important to ceres solver, as mentioned here. In ceres, the Jacobian is with respect to the parameterization in the manifold, or the so-called over-parameterized space. However, the Jacobian is more direcly related to the tangent space, or the local parameterized space. Therefore, in ceres, if one wants to specify the Jacobian by themself, an intermediate Jacobian is necessary to link between the over parameterized space and the local parameterized space, which is the lift Jacobian.


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There's a poem called Warning by Jenny Joseph that starts:
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
There's a weird joy in getting to an age when you realise that you can pretty much do what you like and I was overjoyed to recently find a book that should be every woman's fashion bible as they age.
Being on the 'fine wine' side of 50, I am never quite sure about my 'style'. Should I just do what I want, wear what I want, or be sensible and fade in to the beige background the way youth focused society seems to want me to? I know I'm certainly not waiting until my dotage to wear purple.
Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen, is a celebration of confidence, style, glamour and fashion amongst a wonderful group of kick arse New York women aged over 60.
It is filled with wonderful glossy photographs of gorgeous, outrageous, fabulous fashionistas who are living life to the full. Sure they must have squillions in the bank and the way they look is their life, but hey, why not. There are also a few men in the book who also have their own style, sometimes they seem to be just trying to keep up with their partner.
Cohen was inspired by his own grandmother's style. There are wonderful stories about these women, their lives, their inspirations and why they love to push the boundaries.
I identify with their obvious, 'why wear one string of pearls when you can wear ten?' ethos and their sense of colour and fabrics is stunning. Some of the pieces they wear are indeed art works. Accessories are definitely their best friends and they just ooze confidence and a strong sense of self.
What are your thoughts on aging and fashion? Do you think we should fade into oblivion, or do we stand proud, and raise a fashionable middle finger to convention?


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r Community Action Services will team up with mail carriers to collect food for Utah seniors in need of food assistance
By Sara Davis
Community Action Services announces the Mail Carrier Stamp Out Hunger drive for Saturday, May 12. Food collected will benefit families and individuals facing hunger throughout Utah, Wasatch and Summit counties. The food drive takes place during May which is Older Americans Month. Special focus will be placed on collecting food that benefits seniors ages 60 and older who face food insecurity, are low income, at nutritional risk, isolated or homebound. Community Action Services Food Bank will partner with Mountainland Association Of Government/Meals on Wheels and eleven Senior Centers to coordinate the distribution of donated food to seniors in need.
"Utah seniors in need often are required to make a choice between purchasingrfood, buying medication or paying bills," said W. Dave Smith, Food Bank Manager at Community Action Services. "That's a difficult circumstance to be in. We hope for a very successful 'Stamp Out Hunger' food drive in 2018 to help our agency assist seniors and others in need. Our communities are healthier and more vibrant when we all remember those who are in need. Raising awareness and inspiring community and business support is key."
Easy to use food for seniors is requested – canned tuna, chicken, meat and beans; peanut butter/jam; canned fruits, vegetables, soups, beef stews and shelf-stable meals that are non-perishable, not frozen or refrigerated are helpful. Mail carriers will deliver reminder flyers/bags to local households on the week of May 7th.
About Community Action ServicesrCommunity Action Services and Food Bank is a non-profit organization based in Provo, Utah, that is part of national Community Action efforts. Programs provide support to families and individuals in solving poverty: first, stabilize the family and then support them with programs as they rebuild their lives. Since 1967, the agency has stabilized persons in need by meeting their basic critical needs (such as food and housing) while providing them with the long-term solutions needed to rebuild their financial and social self-sufficiency, enabling them to move out of poverty.


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Gym-Soccer - Test Thursday Oct. 29, 2015
|Soccer: Goalie
|The only player on the field that can use their hands and/or punt the ball. They play net.
|Soccer: Fullback
|The defense position
|Soccer: Halfback(Midfield)
|Offense and defense
|Soccer: Forward
|What is a Kickoff?
|It is used to start the game and after a goal is scored. The Ball must be passed forward across the midfield line to a teammate to begin.
|What is a Throw-In?
|It is used to put the ball into play after the ball is kicked out of bounds over the sideline. Two hands are on the ball and the balls goes behind your head before releasing. Both feet must remain in contact with the ground.
|What is a Corner Kick?
|Used when the defensive team kinks the ball out of bounds over the end line.
|What is a Goal Kick?
|Use when the offensive team kicks the ball out of bounds over the end line.
|What is Goal?
|It is when you score. It is worth 1 point. The ball crosses the goal line into the net between the two posts.
|What is Fitness?
|Stretching, Push Ups, Curl Ups, Mile Run, Aerobic(air) Exercise, Agilities, Anaerobic exercises.
|Aerobic means?
|"with oxygen"
|Aerobic Activities are?
|Activities that are vigorous enough to elevate(increase) the heart rate into the target heart rate zone. Aerobic activities are exercises that increase cardiovascular(heart) endurance. Running the mile, biking, rollerblading
|Anaerobic means?
|"without oxygen"
|Anaerobic activities are?
|These are intense activities that last for short periods of time. They increase your speed and ability to move quickly with ease. Scissor jumps, weight lifting, sprinting, push ups.


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Cisco + Samsung, innovating healthcare
Re-imagining healthcare
The healthcare landscape is changing faster than ever before, and the industry is looking towards the return to a new normal for patient care. Daily tasks of our international healthcare heroes, have become hazardous and very involved, requiring extreme working hours and costly protective gear.
Hospitals are constantly looking for new ways to physically distance their staff from patients in order to minimize the spread of virus and the risk of being exposed within care facilities. Ultimately, facilities affected by the shortage of protective gear need to turn to new and creative solutions that will help reduce the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 masks, or gloves, yet still provide personal care for patients at an increased volume.
For patients being treated at these facilities, many are experiencing lonely and isolating times, as interaction with staff have become strictly minimal and, more importantly, families are prohibited from visiting.
Connecting with technology
At Cisco, we take "connections" very seriously, even beyond our network. Keeping humans connected is in our DNA. With this in mind, we have recently joined forces with Samsung to develop a zero-touch solution that will allow facilities to continue caring for their patients, while keeping staff safe and families connected. Cisco collaboration has brought together Cisco Webex Teams™ and Samsung Knox Configure on the Galaxy Tab Active2 tablets, to enable clinical staff to conduct virtual consultations and daily virtual rounds with the patients at their facilities.
The solution features the use of Samsung Galaxy Tab Active2 tablets (managed by the Knox Configure tool) in examination (consultation) and patient observation rooms. The Samsung devices run a custom version of Webex Teams in kiosk mode, allowing the patient to connect over video with their care givers (and families) without having to touch the tablet in any way.
Virtual Consultations
Keeping Families Connected
If the patient is admitted for observation (and quarantine) at the facility, the clinical staff will be able to keep a line of communication with the patient's family by messaging over a Webex Teams. This way they'll be able to keep them informed on when it's time for the patient's virtual check–in.
Virtual Rounds
Much like standard physical check-ins, clinical staff can perform daily rounds on their floors by dialing the Webex Teams space associated to the patient's room. During their virtual consultation via the Samsung device, the care giver can invite family members to the video call, creating an instant and seamless connection to their loved one.
"Samsung has partnered with Cisco to jointly develop a solution to help medical institutions safely provide care during the current public health crisis. Samsung is pleased to have our technology help bridge the distancing measures now pervasive in hospitals so that patients can safely connect with their families and their healthcare providers. – Taher Behbehani, General Manager and Head of Mobile B2B, Samsung Electronics America
Learn How to Connect
We've created tailored documentation that will help all those involved set up and use this solution.
Visit the solution site to learn more and get started by registering for a Webex Teams trial and a Samsung Knox trial
If you are a large healthcare facility and need help discovering what solution fits your needs, contact your Cisco account manager, partner or your Samsung account manager to get information regarding Samsung Tab Active2 tablets, Knox Configure, or Webex Teams.
For information on Cisco Webex and HIPAA compliance, see Protecting Your Webex Healthcare Data.
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Starting an Internet Radio Station---You Don't Need All The "Bells and Whistles"
When it comes to internet radio stations,the technology has changed drastically over the past 10 years but lots of former terrestrial broadcasters are sort of "stuck in the past." They think that internet radio must model terrestrial broadcasting meaning they need a large studio, expensive processing equipment, an expensive broadcast audio console etc. etc etc. This is simply not true thanks to today's technology.
You can target your internet station to meet your specific needs. If you're broadcasting a music format and will be voice tracking and doing live shows with no live phone calls, you do not need an expensive broadcast quality audio console. This is especially true if all of your music is digitized. You also don't need a large space. A room set up as a small studio in your home will work fine. Keep in mind that most internet only radio broadcasters, work solo or with some remote DJ's and don't have a large budget. Just because it's not a big operation doesn't mean that you can't sound "big."
You do want to sound professional and put out a high quality sound. Radio automation software is a crucial part of your broadcasting experience. Some of today's software has so many features including high quality processing. You also need a high quality mic and a quiet space to work. A small mixer will do fine.
Keep this in mind. If you're an internet radio only station, why purchase all the expensive processing equipment which can cost thousands of dollars? There is great processing software available some of which is free. Bit rate matters. The higher the bit rate, the better the sound quality. You will have to spend between $1,500 and $2,000 initially to get things going in the right direction.
Yesterday I sampled my station Edgewater Gold Radio on an Amazon Echo device. then I sample full blown local FM and LPFM stations. Edgewater Gold Radio's sound quality was as good as or better than these FM stations.
Broadcasters mind sets must change. Radio isn't like it used to be. I see broadcasters with a large audio console, utilizing one channel for broadcasting! Before automation announcers had to utilize multiple channels, CD players, cart players, traffic, news etc. etc. etc.
If you're an internet only station, concentrate on quality programming, make sure your sound is professional. The listener doesn't care at all if you're in a full blown studio with all of the fancy schmantzy equipment----they could care less. All they care about is hearing the program that they want with high quality sound!
So the moral of the story " small can be big."


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Flamory provides the following integration abilities:
Flamory provides advanced bookmarking for Hancom Office. It captures screen, selection, text of the document and other context. You can find this bookmark later using search by document content or looking through thumbnail list.
Flamory helps you capture and store screenshots from Hancom Office by pressing a single hotkey. It will be saved to a history, so you can continue doing your tasks without interruptions. Later, you can edit the screenshot: crop, resize, add labels and highlights. After that, you can paste the screenshot into any other document or e-mail message.
Here is how Hancom Office snapshot can look like. Get Flamory and try this on your computer.
Hancom Office 2010 is an office suite software package that includes Koreas quintessential word processor, Hangul 2010, which is expected to be iCDL certified, as well as the spreadsheet program for calculation using tables, Hancel 2010, and Hanshow 2010, which allows fast and easy creation of professional presentation documents.
Hancom Office is also known as Haansoft. Integration level may vary depending on the application version and other factors. Make sure that user are using recent version of Hancom Office. Please contact us if you have different integration experience.


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If you are a working professional, chances are you spend the majority of your waking life in front of a computer. And depending on the type of work that you do, you might need one that has a huge screen estate. This will dictate how many windows you can fit on your display. The busy ones may have one browser window tucked to one side, and on the other, they could have the photo-editing software that they are using for things such as their gym's digital marketing efforts.
Some people swear by the effectiveness of working with two monitors. The thing about that is it requires you to have two pairs of power sockets and two sets of cables required to run them. That begs the question: Why not try using an ultrawide monitor?
Like Two Monitors in One
What exactly is an ultrawide monitor? For context, if you turn back the clock a few decades back, you will learn that the CRT TVs of yore employed a 4:3 aspect ratio, lending to a more squarish look. Back to the present, most of the screens used today have a 16:10 or 16:9 aspect ratio. Touted as widescreen, it now has proportions that make it more of a rectangle.
Ultrawide uses a 21:9 ratio, which is equivalent to what is being used in many cinemas today. This is fitting because most movies are shot in the same aspect ratio, which makes this kind of monitor perfect for the movie enthusiast. They no longer have to deal with the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, as the screen can now be filled with the whole picture.
Sleek and Useful
Since it has not yet taken over many people's desk space, the ultrawide monitor can elicit interesting reactions the first time people see them. But it can also be a productivity beast. It is akin to having two 4:3 screens being glued together. The great thing about that is you do not have chunky bezels splitting the middle of your screen. This changes the game because you can now arrange windows in a manner other than splitting them in half. You have the option to lay three of them side by side.
Resolution is Still King
No matter what the size or shape of your monitor is, the main thing that will determine the screen estate is the resolution. It basically is the number of pixels that a screen can display. Having a higher one allows you to show finer details.
Now imagine having two different screen sizes, one is 32 inches and the other 55. If they both have a native resolution of 1080p, it means that despite the difference in their sizes, they could only display the same amount of information on the screen. For example, if your 32-inch screen can display 50 icons on the screen at once, the 55-inch one can do the same. Nothing more, nothing less. If the smaller screen has a higher resolution, it will end up being able to show more stuff on the screen.
For those who are very particular about their productivity, their screen estate would be one of their most wanted things to have. There are many options on how you can deal with that, but the most convenient one is to just get an ultrawide monitor. It gives you more screen with less hassle.


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Sometimes people need a 40,000 foot view.
I designed a beautiful airplane window screensaver, first as experimental art, then as a human-centered software product.
Independent product design for screensaver
Solo entrepreneurial project
My Role:
UX Research, Lean UX Design, Market Strategy, Product Design
Holding Pattern screen saver was an accidental success. As a graduate student, I created a free screen saver for Mac OS that emulated the view from an airplane window. Using gentle and dreamy transitions, the view switched through different viewpoints, landscapes, and times of day.
I submitted the application as a free download to the predecessor to the app store: Apple's software downloads site. The next day, Holding Pattern was an Apple Staff Pick, and by the end of the week the download first crashed my academic server, then burned through a friend's hosting bandwidth.
As the numbers of downloads ticked well into the six digits, I knew something about the software was resonating for users. Soon a friend told me he had stumbled upon a repackaged copy of my screensaver that had been loaded with ads and viruses. Turned out there were several of these, and even ripped copies available for sale on eBay. I suddenly had financial and legal responsibility to my popular free download.
I knew I had an opportunity to improve the screensaver by creating a human-centered product that fit users needs, and perhaps even make a sustainable business. Idle Time Software, my sole proprietor garage software company was born! I began the process of developing Holding Pattern as a fully-featured software product.
An online user questionnaire helped me ideate new features, think through content, and determine the all important price point.
Feature prioritization led to:
Tons more photographs: more than four times the visual
content, with aerial views from unique places around the world
Times of day: night, morning, sunset and day, each with distinct color palettes and moods
User control over transitions, flight path, and flight speed
A multiple monitor feature that let users match views
on more than one screen
Easter egg surprises and rare views
I finessed every detail: the installer package, the application icon, the End User License Agreement. I added an advertising funnel within the popular free download. Holding Pattern was ready to launch!
After Holding Pattern's launch, I was asked to create a special edition of the software for David Byrne and Brian Eno's collaborative digital album, EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY. The special screen saver was available with the deluxe digital edition of the album, and had very special content: beautiful in-flight photos taken by and featuring David Byrne.
Fans wrote me emails explaining why they loved the screen saver: it fit into their environments in a gentle way, it was meditative and it reminded them of their own travels and airplane experiences. A pastor used it to help addicts in recovery. An architect praised it for its ability to create ambience instead of distraction.
By the late 2000s, technology was rapidly moving away from the need for ambient screen graphics. Low power mobile devices killed the need for screensavers. Holding Pattern's main sales channel, Apple's software store, evolved into the App Store. It was time to pack up the product. (insert sad face emoji.)
Great stuff I learned from Holding Pattern:
As a scrappy one-woman garage software company, I practiced Lean Product Design!
If you make a good product, people will pay you for it.
Providing support is a huge part of the ongoing life of a product. Plan for product maintenance and life cycle.
Whatever users tell you is golden, and it is never a waste of time!


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Small Portable Air Conditioners
Size in terms of performance
Portable air conditioners are available in four major size classes:
Generally, the higher the BTU, the better the unit cools.
This would seem to indicate: the higher the BTU, the larger the room that the unit can accommodate.
However, this is simply not the case.
Our own research and testing revealed that there's only one size category you should be considering regardless of room size: 14,000 BTU.
Here's why:
Portable AC units are inherently inefficient appliances. They use the air in the same room they're cooling to cool off their own internal parts. This hot air is exhausted out of the room via a large diameter plastic exhaust hose.
The hose radiates heat back into the room the AC unit is cooling. The removal of air from the room creates an area of low pressure inside the room which causes higher pressure hot outdoor air to get sucked into the room.
A new standard for measuring portable air conditioner cooling capacity – seasonally adjusted cooling capacity (SACC) – takes into account these inefficiencies when giving the total BTUs for a particular model.
Here's what happens when you account for heat added by ducting and outdoor air getting sucked into the room:
|Old standard
|New standard (SACC)
|14,000 BTUs
|7,500 to 10,000 BTUs
|12,000 BTUs
|6,500 to 7,200 BTUs
|10,000 BTUs
|5,200 to 6,500 BTUs
|8,000 BTUs
|4,000 to 5,500 BTUs
The table above indicates the following:
1. there's a wide range of actual cooling capacity among models in the same size category. For example, in the 14,000 BTU category models range from 7,500 to 10,000 BTU (SACC).
2. interestingly, there's overlap between the most efficient models in one category vs the least efficient models in another. For example, the most efficient 10,000 BTU model has the same SACC - 6,500 BTU – as the least efficient 12,000 BTU models.
The most important take away, however, is this:
3. there's a substantial drop off in actual cooling capacity after you account for heat added by ducting and hot outdoor air getting sucked into the room, no matter which size category you're looking at.
Even the highest BTU portable air conditioners only have about 7,500 to 10,000 BTUs of actual cooling capacity. This is not a lot of cooling power. It is barely sufficient for most applications.
Smaller units – in the 4,000 to 7,200 BTU (SACC) range – will only work
- in very small spaces (under 150 sq. ft.) and
- only if the space is not especially difficult to cool (e.g. it's not in a climate where it frequently gets over 90° F)
- for larger spaces OR
- for any space that's difficult to cool
A 14,000 BTU unit – really, a high SACC 14,000 BTU unit - is your only option.
Our recommendations are
- LG LP1419IVSM – at 10,000 BTUs (SACC) it's the highest SACC portable air conditioner currently on the market
- NewAir NAC14KWH02 – at 9,500 BTUs (SACC) it's the second highest SACC unit currently on the market
For smaller and non-challenging environments our recommendation is the LG LP1017WSR. At 6,500 BTUs of seasonally adjusted cooling capacity (SACC) it provides the best compromise between SACC and price among sub 14,000 BTU models currently on the market.
Physical size
We've established that higher BTU – higher SACC BTU – portable air conditioners are really the only way to go for the majority of applications.
But what does this mean in terms of overall size and portability?
All portable AC units are heavy appliances. The average weight for an 8,000 BTU unit is about 55 lb. That's very heavy.
14,000 BTU units are heavier – about 65 to 75 lb. on average. That's also very heavy.
So, no matter which portable air conditioner you buy, regardless of size class, it's going to be very heavy.
Note that all portable AC units do come pre-installed with casters. So while they are very heavy to lift – to take up stairs, for example – they're actually quite easy to move around on the same floor (by rolling them around on their casters).
All portable AC units are also large appliances.
First of all, they all come with a very large 5 inch diameter hose. It doesn't matter if the unit's capacity is 8,000 BTU or 14,000 BTU. It will come with an eyesore of a 5 inch diameter hose.
The body of the portable AC unit is also very large, no matter the size class.
8,000 BTU units may be a few inches shorter than 14,000 BTU units, on average. But they're still very large appliances – about 2.5 ft. tall and well over a foot wide and deep.
There are, of course, outliers in each size category. And, higher BTU size categories do tend to have the most extreme outliers. For example, the 14,000 BTU Whynter ARC-14S is over 80 lb. Both the ARC-14S and the 12,000 BTU Frigidaire FGPC1244T1 are over 3 ft. tall.
As a whole though, all portable AC units are approximately the same large size – about 2 to 3 ft. tall and between 1 and 2 ft. wide and deep.
A portable air conditioner is large and heavy no matter its size class, so make your purchase decision according to cooling capacity, not size or weight.
Again, we recommend only the highest SACC units on the market for the majority of applications. Only buy a lower SACC unit if the room you're cooling is very small and isn't especially difficult to cool.
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