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Thank you, your BP Sat Nav files are now ready to download. Please choose one from the following three brands: Have you downloaded the latest issue of Fleet Matters? Best practice in fleet management – Issue 9 The ninth issue of Fleet Matters covers the cost of not going green, how to improve fleet operations, the post-Brexit outlook and the rise in road casualties. Fleet Matters offers useful advice on how to ensure your drivers are responsible and how to review your fleets refueling strategy. Fleet Matters, relating to all types of road vehicle, is of value to anyone managing vehicles in either the private or public sector.
NEW YORK (AP) Masahiro Tanaka took another positive step toward returning to help the New York Yankees make a run for a playoff berth, facing batters for the first time since he was sidelined six weeks ago with a partially torn right elbow ligament. In front of several dozen reporters and photographers, the Japanese ace threw 35 pitches in a two-inning simulated game Saturday morning and reported no problems with his elbow. His control is expected to come later. ''I feel it's a little bit still rusty, but there were some good balls that I was able to throw,'' Tanaka said through a translator. ''I want to keep moving forward.'' Tanaka said he was cautious, thinking about his elbow with each toss, but it didn't prevent him from throwing all of his pitches, including his devastating splitter, while working against teammates Brendan Ryan and Zelous Wheeler. After watching the 25-year-old right-hander from behind the mound, pitching coach Larry Rothschild said he thought Tanaka was on the right track. He felt his arm strength was good - about the same as it would be during spring training. ''I thought it was a good progression, as long as he's healthy,'' Rothschild said. The Yankees will wait until Sunday before deciding on the next step. It depends on how Tanaka's elbow responds a day later. The young ace got off to a blazing start after signing a $155 million, seven-year contract in January - New York also paid $20 million to his Japanese team - going 12-4 with a 2.51 ERA in 18 starts and earning an All-Star nod. But he was placed on the disabled list two days after a rough start July 8. The Yankees have fallen eight games back of Baltimore in the AL East and 3 1/2 games back of the second AL wild card and could use some help for a rotation that has been ravaged by injuries. Manager Joe Girardi said Tanaka will have to make some sort of rehab starts before he could return. ''I was pleased. He felt good, and that's the most important thing,'' Girardi said. ''Big thing is we'll see how he feels tomorrow then we'll make a decision.
Elder John Bryce Died July 19, 1864 Aged 80 Y's, 2 M's, 16 D's He was a faithful minister of the gospel for 58 years and a firm [illegible] He walked with God and is [illegible] God took him Buried Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 27 July 2013. The 1860 Henderson County census shows John Brice, age 76, born Virginia, Baptist clergyman. In his household are Lucinda J. Brice, age 60, born Virginia; Harriet A. Norris, age 58, born Virginia; M.L. Brice, age 5, born Kentucky; Barber Brice, age 31, trader, born Kentucky and Mary Brice, age 27, born Kentucky. Published 15 October 2013, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
S.436 - Sequester for Congressional Pay and Accountability Act113th Congress (2013-2014) \|Sponsor:\|\|Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL] (Introduced 03/04/2013)\| \|Committees:\|\|Senate - Budget\| \|Latest Action:\|\|03/04/2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.\| This bill has the status Introduced Here are the steps for Status of Legislation: Subject — Policy Area: - Economics and Public Finance - View subjects Summary: S.436 — 113th Congress (2013-2014)All Bill Information (Except Text) Introduced in Senate (03/04/2013) Sequester for Congressional Pay and Accountability Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to reduce the pay of each Member of Congress by the greatest percentage by which the pay of any federal employee is reduced as a result of a furlough relating to the sequestration order for that furlough period. Defines "furlough period" as each period: - beginning on the effective date of the first furlough of any federal employee relating to a sequestration order issued under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, and - ending on the last day of the fiscal year to which the sequestration order applies.
Let’s take a look at two sample sentences from Kindergarten students: Who do you predict will be the better reader by 3rd grade? Child A uses higher level vocabulary (frustrated, someone, home), more complex sentence structure (to find someone had…), and is more specific and clear. There’s abundant research to show that children who enter Kindergarten with more developed language skills (like Child A) learn how to read more easily. What contributes to differences in language development? A well-known study by Hart and Risley1, professors at the University of Kansas, looked at the relationship between a baby’s language experience in the home environment and language development. They found that there was a strong relationship between language experience, vocabulary development, and socioeconomic status (SES). The researchers began by looking at language exposure of children 7 to 9 months of age. All language experiences with the children were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed during monthly one-hour recordings for about two and a half years. As you can see, the study shows a 32 million word difference between the children of professional families and those from welfare families. When you consider that language experience and vocabulary development are a major part of the brain’s toolkit for representing, manipulating, and retaining information in learning to read, these highly varied differences present a daunting challenge for educators in the classroom. How do these differences in language experience impact students when they begin school? On the graph below2 we can see the effect that weakness in oral language development has on students learning to read. Over time, small differences in oral language skill of 5 and 6 year olds grow into a significant reading gap by the time students are in middle school. The weak language foundation manifests into a huge literacy gap. Fast ForWord reverses the trend! Fast ForWord was designed specifically to address the underlying language, reading, and cognitive skills that constitute the foundation of all learning. Aligned with a good curriculum and a language rich environment, Fast ForWord can create an optimal foundation to help every child achieve their learning potential. 1. Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children by Betty Hart & Todd R. Risley. Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. (1995). 2. The Effects of Weaknesses in Oral Language on Reading Growth (Hirsch, 1996)
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- Slack, the fast-growing workplace-chat platform, is about to go public via a direct listing with a possible valuation of $15.7 billion. - Stewart Butterfield founded Slack in 2013 after selling his first startup, Flickr, to Yahoo for more than $20 million. - Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Stewart Butterfield is on a roll. Before building his startup Slack — considered by many to be the fastest-growing business app ever, now going public with a possible $15.7 billion valuation — Stewart Butterfield ran another hot startup called Flickr, which sold to Yahoo for over $20 million. This time, Butterfield's exit promises to be much splashier. The workplace messaging app, born out of a now-defunct gaming startup Tiny Speck, will find itself in the spotlight when it has what's widely expected to be an exciting debut on the public markets. As 2019 shapes up to be a banner year for tech IPOs, Butterfield's journey to success stands out. Along the way, Butterfield grappled with trying to fundraise for a startup in a post-tech bubble landscape. And even should he successfully navigate Slack to a successful public debut, he still has to deal with the looming threat of Microsoft. This is an update to a post by Maya Kosoff first published in 2015. A few years later, the Butterfields got a computer. He taught himself to code as a kid, and he designed websites for extra money in college. "I was among the first cohort of kids to grow up with computers," he told Business Insider. Shortly after graduating from the University of Victora, he received his Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. The internet bubble had just burst, but the pair still managed to sell Gradfinder.com for what Butterfield describes as "a healthy profit" to Highwired six months after launching the company. Classon went to work for Highwei and Butterfield went back to web design freelancing. Butterfield created a contest called the "5K competition," which encouraged people to design websites in under 5 kilobytes. It took off. "It became unexpectedly huge, in every country in the world," Butterfield told Business Insider. Classon, Butterfield, and his then-wife Caterina Fake all founded Ludicorp, an online multiplayer gaming startup. This time, timing did not work in the team's favor. After 9/11 and another tech bubble burst, the company couldn't raise money. Butterfield got the idea for his next venture, Flickr, as he was throwing up from food poisoning in a New York hotel. Butterfield's team had created a photosharing platform but realized it wouldn't be successful if it required both parties to be online at the same time. So the Flickr team made some changes and eventually sold to Yahoo for $20 million. Working at — and leaving — Yahoo was a right of passage for many Silicon Valley stars in the early 2000s, so Butterfield and Fake left the company and separated shortly after. But Butterfield said that Tiny Speck made some mistakes and didn't appeal to large audiences. The team found the perfect pivot: the communication tool he and his team had built to chat in real-time in the game. It became known as an instant messaging platform called Slack, which formally launched in 2014. "Glitch," Butterfield once told Business Insider, "was too weird for most people," and shut down in 2012. Slack's growth impressed some of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. In 2015, it became the fastest-ever company to achieve a $1 billion valuation — just eight months after launch. By the summer of 2018, Slack grew to over 8 million daily active users, even as rumors swirled that Amazon was looking into an acquisition. All told, Slack raised over $1.2 billion in funding, and hit a $7.1 billion valuation in its last round of funding. In its IPO filing then, the company said that it did $134.8 million in revenue in its most recent quarter, on losses of $31.8 million. That revenue is up some 67% from the same period of 2018. However, even with that kind of growth, Slack still has to take on Microsoft, which launched its own popular Microsoft Teams product as part of the ubiquitous Microsoft Office 365 suite. Slack's June earnings report forecasted a doubling of its revenue in the 2020 fiscal year, landing between $590 and $600 million. The report also stated a $33.8 million operating loss in the first quarter fo 2019 (as compared to $20.2 in the first quarter of the 2018 fiscal year). The 2020 adjusted operating loss could be up to $192 million. Slack opted for a direct listing over a traditional IPO, meaning designated market maker Citadel Securities will use the New York Stock Exchange's (NYSE) reference price for Slack — $26 per share — to determine when to begin trading shares. If it had been a traditional IPO, shares would be sold to investors at a pre-determined price. Slack's NYSE ticker is expected to be "WORK." The company's valuation could be $15.7 billion, though with the $26 reference price being exactly that — a reference — the stock could begin trading above or below that price. Read the latest about its direct listing over at Business Insider, or check out our latest coverage below:
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The 2014 NFL concluded on Saturday evening. The three-day event featured Johnny Manziel taking over the Twitterverse on Thursday night, and the St Louis Rams selecting Michael Sam near the end of the draft on Saturday. A lot of the post-draft analysis was either based on total number of draft picks from a college or draft picks from a college adjusted for when they were picked in the draft. Of course, there are also a plethora of inane draft grades where clairvoyant “experts” project how well the draft picks will perform on the team. Our take on the draft is a bit different, as we will examine the process of taking high school talent and converting it into NFL draft picks. In other words, we want to understand how efficient are colleges at transforming their available high school human capital into NFL draft picks? Our approach is fairly simple. Each year, every FBS football program has an incoming class. The players in the class have been evaluated by several national recruiting/ranking companies (e.g. Rivals, Scout, etc…). In theory, these evaluations provide a measure of the player’s talent or quality. Each year, we also observe which players get drafted by the NFL. Thus, we can measure conversion rates over time for each college. Conversion rates may be indicative of the school’s ability to coach-up talent, to identify talent, or to invest in players. These rates may also depend on the talent composition of all of the players on the team. This last factor is particularly important from a recruiting standpoint. Should players flock to places that other highly ranked players have selected? How did you compute the conversion rate? The conversion rate for each school is defined as (Sum of draft picks for the 2014 Draft)/(Weighted Recruiting Talent). Weighted Recruiting Talent is determined by summing the recruiting “points” for the relevant eligible class for the 2014 NFL Draft for each program (this can include eligible juniors as well as fifth year seniors). These “points” are computed by weighting each recruit by the overall population average probability of being drafted for recruits at that corresponding talent level over the last three years. For example, a five-star recruit is much more likely to get drafted than a four or three-star recruit. We are using ratings data from Rivals.com. The figure above shows the top ten schools in the FBS for converting high school talent into draft picks for the 2014 draft. We have indexed the efficiency rating based on the leader, Boise State. It is interesting to note that the team with the most draft picks in the 2014 NFL Draft, LSU, finished 11th in our rankings. Do the results of one draft really matter? A fair criticism of this ranking is that it only represents one draft year; what if this draft was an anomaly for Boise State and Wisconsin? The rankings below consider the 2012, 2013, and 2014 NFL Drafts. While Boise State and Wisconsin are still on top, schools such as Connecticut, Iowa, and Nevada are now also in the top ten. How can you treat a first-round draft pick the same as a seventh rounder? Our study is primarily considered with schools that give high school talent the opportunity to play in the NFL. Thus, the rankings above do not discern between rounds of the draft. Ostensibly, a player’s initial contract and status in the NFL seems tied to draft order (although Richard Sherman has done real well for a 5th round pick). Let’s assume that being picked in the first three rounds of the draft is of importance to players. We can conduct a similar type of analysis, but only consider picks in the first three rounds of the draft, and adjust the weighting to reflect population averages for being picked in the first three rounds. The rankings below are based on an analysis of only the first three rounds over the last three years. Boise State is still on top, but schools like LSU, Cincinnati, & North Carolina have moved up the list. Of course, there are many other ways for trying to understand or rate draft efficiency. In the past we have also conducted regression-based analyses with additional data such as program investment to better understand the phenomenon of human capital development in both football & basketball. Mike Lewis & Manish Tripathi, Emory University 2014. We can already hear our friends at places like Alabama & USC explaining how players are rated more highly by services just because these schools are recruiting them. We acknowledge that it is very difficult to get a true measure of a high school player’s ability. However, we also believe that over the last few years, given all of the media exposure for high school athletes, this problem has attenuated.
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Forrester Research included RoboForm for Business among five Enterprise Password Management (EPM) solutions that offer "clear pricing, multiple deployment options" that address both end-user and administrative aspects of password (source "Best Practices: Selecting, Deploying, And Managing Enterprise Password Managers" Forrester report, January 8, 2018) Gartner's report Four Kinds of Password Management (March 2017) has mentioned RoboForm for Business within the Personal Password Management section. RoboForm Enterprise provided 90% of the value that the Enterprise Single Sign-on solutions promised, with only 10% of the effort at a fraction of the cost. Curt Rynties, M Financial Group I have a hard time remembering life before RoboForm. It makes logging in to the hundreds of sites necessary throughout the day a breeze. when I found the business application and was able to share passwords with my employees, life was even better. Karen Mehta; HR Block
Right – shop bought cakes – what are your options? No, don’t cover your eyes in disgust. Even I, lover of everything homemade and delicious, believe there IS a place for shop-bought cakes (decent ones) in our lives. Whether its because you need to make a tiramisu, trifle or cake pops and need some perfectly serviceable cake or because you just don’t have the time to bake – there are some good options out there. Generally I’ve found that anything out of Waitrose (bless them they can do no wrong on the cake front – their cookies though are actually horrible so steer clear of those!) is a fantastic option and tastes almost as good as homemade, which is high praise indeed. But Waitrose cakes are expensive (£2.50 – £12) at which point it starts to make more economic sense to make a cake… so what options are there out there for supercheapskates like us? In the name of research, I sampled a budget option – McVities lemon cake which costs £1 (on offer or more normally about £1.35). I tried the lemon variety but they also do chocolate and fruit cake. - Price – at about £1, this cake is less than a third of what it would cost you to make a homemade version - Lovely crunchy sugary sprinkles on top – I’m a sucker for those things - Considering its shop bought, it actually tastes okay - No hydrogenated oils (don’t eat anything that has this on the ingredients list!) - Although it costs about a third of a homemade cake, it tastes about a third as good… - Ingredients also include beta carotene, xanthum gum and potassium sorbate, none of which I can recall putting in my last homemade lemon cake! Overall – I gave the McVities lemon cake a rating of 6/10 – not a bad shop bought option if you don’t have time to bake your own and certainly a MILLION times better than the horrible Tesco Madeira cake that I bought to make my poor cake pops. What shop-bought cakes have you found that actually taste decent? Are there any budget gems out there I should know about?
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Welcome to the This Sacred Life and the Divine Feminine Spotlight. Every month on the podcast, I share transformational conversations with women who have learned to walk in beauty, with the strength, courage, and pleasure of reclaiming their feminine sovereignty. Women all over the world are rising up to be heard. I like to offer their voices a platform to share their truth, and invite you to do the same. Today it’s my honor to introduce you to Sophie Grégoire. Sophie is a writer, author, channel, reader, transformation coach, and sensuality guide. She helps others realign with their Soul Self & coaches women on the Priestess Path. This Goddess Shines! Listen to the podcast by simply clicking on the audio player below or download This Sacred Life to your iPhone, Android phone, or mp3 player at iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Stitcher or wherever podcasts are played. If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave us some stars and a favorable review. Every review helps This Sacred Life rise in the listings at iTunes which help us reach more women on their goddess journey. Points Covered in this podcast: - How several months working and living in Cambodia was the catalyst for her life-altering transformation and self-expression - How she embodies being a sovereign woman by being very honest with herself - Why speaking your truth is so important for women - Some of Sophie’s favorite sacred feminine practices - We explore the sacred yoni egg practice for sacred sexuality, healing and connecting with your yoni. - Sophie’s inspiration for the Priestess Alchemy Program Sophie’s channeled reading for June: A major cleansing has happened recently and you are now carried to a real moment of physical blessings & opportunities. June is about to bring much awaited physical change. You are about to be given opportunities to step higher into your own power & Divine self. You are about to be given opportunities to love more & relinquish the armoring to an extent that you may have never done before. Keep giving your energy to the highest and most authentic visions. Choices of now will have an impact. Do not be scared of stepping into more or higher. Much could land in the upcoming weeks. Be willing to not stop the energy on its way. The changes you are enabling within will be massively rewarded without.
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In this episode we meet Sean Tilley (aka @deadsuperhero) of We Distribute (and formerly the Diaspora project) to discuss: the early days at Diaspora, the first Facebook alternative to really reach critical mass; the steady rise of Mastodon and why the Fediverse its gaining traction; some surprising factors pushing people to move from Big Social to federated social media networks; and whether technologists could (or should) move beyond de-platforming to begin refusing use of their technologies to those whose political ideas they disagree with. Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing crypto, privacy, copyright and file-sharing developments. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary, and analysis. Host: Jamie King Guest: Sean Tilley If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron and getting involved with the show. Check out Steal This Show’s Patreon campaign: support us and get all kinds of fantastic benefits! Produced by Jamie King Edited & Mixed by Lucas Marston Original Music by David Triana Web Production by Eric Barch
An increase in the number of managed hives available for crop pollination is crucial to the continued prosperity of the Australian horticultural industry. Further development of the managed pollination sector will also provide important opportunities for the honey bee industry. However, a significant barrier in this regard has been the risk that beekeepers face in relation to honey bee pesticide poisoning. Pesticide poisoning events of managed hives have occurred in Australia, and they have mainly occurred from a chemical toxic to bees being inappropriately applied to flowers in a crop, or from spray drift from neighbouring paddocks. Although it is important to put in place mechanisms to ensure that these instances do not occur, it is also important to understand how to respond to a honey bee pesticide poisoning event if they do occur. The information contained below summarises some of the symptoms that may be associated with the hives, how to best manage hives in affected areas, as well as information about who to report the matter to for investigation. The action that a beekeeper takes will most likely be determined by the severity of the poisoning event and the beekeeper’s relationship with the farmer concerned, or other farmers in the area. Always remember that bees can fly over 5 km, so the poisoning event may not have occurred with the farmer that the beekeeper is working with, it could be a neighbour for instance who does not know that there are bees in the area. Regardless however, it is a good idea to collect samples that can be sent to a laboratory for analysis if required. Proper investigation is important to ensure that farmers, who have done the right thing, are not unfairly blamed. There are three types of samples that can be taken: Providing a swab sample from the outside of the hive is appropriate if you suspect that a chemical has come directly into contact with the hives (eg spray drift or aerial application), whereas the other two sample types should be taken for all poisoning events. The following things should be considered when collecting samples: For a summary of the information to include and what symptoms to record, download the Pesticide poisoning report. This report is an extract from Honeybee pesticide poisoning: a risk management tool for Australian farmers and beekeepers, published by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. Any adverse experiences should be reported either to the relevant state or territory government agency or to the APVMA’s Adverse Experience Reporting Program on 1800 700 588. The information on the pesticides toxic to honey bees is from Daryl Connelly (2012) Honey bee pesticide poisoning – a risk management tool for Australian farmers and beekeepers, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication 12/043. \|State or territory\|\|Contact details\| \|New South Wales\|\| Environmental Protection Agency \|Northern Territory\|\| Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, Apiary Inspector Phone: 08 8999 2036 \|Queensland\|\| Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Biosecurity Queensland Phone: 132 523 \|South Australia\|\| Department of Primary Industries and Resources, Senior Apiary Inspector Phone: 08 8207 7975 \|Tasmania\|\| Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Spray Referral Unit Phone: 1800 005 244 \|Victoria\|\| Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Senior Apiary Inspector Phone: 136 186 \|Western Australia\|\| Department of Agriculture and Food, Plant Biosecurity Phone: 08 9368 3535
PORTLAND & ELLSWORTH— Andrea Nemitz has been promoted to communications and marketing director at the Maine Community Foundation. She joined the foundation’s staff in 2013 after a 34-year journalism career at newspapers in Maine, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. Nemitz is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism. She lives in Buxton with her husband, Bill. Headquartered in Ellsworth, with additional personnel in Portland, Dover-Foxcroft and Mars Hill, the Maine Community Foundation works with donors and other partners to provide strong investments, personalized service, local expertise, and strategic giving to improve the quality of life for all Maine people. To learn more about the foundation, visit mainecf.org.
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As 2018 comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at the outstanding work done this year. From spectacular machines, intricate tools and mesmerising performances and installations to the new mediums for artistic enquiry – so many great new projects have been added to the CAN archive! With your help we selected some favourites. Created by Maria Smigieska in collaboration with Pierre Cutellic, Proteus project is an analog digital display that allows for interacting with matter. It is an experiment on the modulation of ferrofluid patterns controlled by both magnetic field and robotic interface.
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\|Founder of the Redemptorists, Bishop, Doctor of the Church, Patron of Confessors and Moralists\| \|Born\|\|September 27, 1696 in Marianella, Kingdom of Naples, Italy\| \|Died\|\|August 1, 1787 in Pagani, Italy\| \|Venerated in\|\|Roman Catholic Church\| \|Canonized\|\|1831 by Pope Gregory XVI\| \|Patronage\|\|confessors, moralists, theologians, vocations\| Saint Alphonsus Liguori (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was an Italian Doctor of the Catholic Church, spiritual writer, and founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer or Redemptorists, an influential religious order. Saint Alphonsus Liguori was born in Marianella, in the Kingdom of Naples. He was the first born of a rather large family belonging to the Neapolitan nobility. In 1723, after a long process of discernment, he abandoned his legal career and, despite his father's strong opposition, began his seminary studies in preparation for the priesthood. He was ordained a priest on 21 December 1726, at the age of 30. He lived his first years as a priest with the homeless and marginalized youth of Naples. He founded the "Evening Chapels". Run by the young people themselves, these chapels were centers of prayer, community, the Word of God, social activities and education. At the time of his death, there were 72 of these chapels with over 10,000 active participants. In 1729 Alphonsus left his family home and took up residence in the Chinese College in Naples. It was there that he began his missionary experience in the interior regions of the Kingdom of Naples where he found people who were much poorer and more abandoned than any of the street children in Naples. On 9 November 1732 Alphonsus founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, in order to follow the example of Jesus announcing the Good News to the poor and the most abandoned. From that time on, he gave himself entirely to this new mission. Alphonsus was consecrated bishop of the diocese of Sant'Agata dei Goti in 1762. He was 66 years old. He tried to refuse the appointment because he felt too old and too sick to properly care for the diocese. In 1775 he was allowed to retire from his office and went to live in the Redemptorist community in Pagani where he died on 1 August 1787. He was canonized in 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI, proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1871 by Pope Pius IX, and Patron of Confessors and Moralists in 1950. Alphonsus was a lover of beauty and art, being a musician, painter, poet and author at the same time. He put all his artistic and literary creativity at the service of the Christian mission and he asked the same of those who joined his Congregation. Hagiography says that, in his lay days, he liked to go to the local theater, which at the time had a very bad reputation; after being ordained, each time he attended the recitals Alphonsus simply took his optic glasses off and sat in the last row, listening to the music and not paying attention to other distractions. Alphonsus wrote one hundred and eleven works on spirituality and theology. The 21,500 editions and the translations into 72 languages that his works have undergone attest to the fact that he is one of the most widely read Catholic authors. Among his best known works are: The Great Means of Prayer, The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ, The Glories of Mary and The Visits to the Most Holy Sacrament. Prayer, love, his relationship with Christ and his first-hand experience of the pastoral needs of the faithful made Alphonsus one of the great masters of the interior life. His best known musical work is his Christmas hymn Quanno Nascetti Ninno, later translated into Italian by Pope Pius IX as the well known carol Tu scendi dalle stelle (From starry skies Thou comest). Alphonsus' greatest contribution to the Church was in the area of moral theological reflection with his Moral Theology. This work was born of Alphonsus' pastoral experience, his ability to respond to the practical questions posed by the faithful and from his contact with their everyday problems. He opposed the sterile legalism which was suffocating theology and he rejected the strict rigorism of the time, the product of the powerful theological and ecclesiastical elite. According to Alphonsus, those were paths that were closed to the Gospel because "such rigor has never been taught nor practiced by the Church". He knew how to put theological reflection at the service of the greatness and dignity of the person, of a moral conscience, and of evangelical mercy.
6-1: Define design thinking. Similar to The Practice of Entrepreneurship in many ways, design thinking is ultimately a constructive and collaborative process that merges the power of observation, synthesis, searching and generating alternatives, critical thinking, feedback, visual representation, creativity, problem solving, and value creation. 6-2: Demonstrate design thinking as a human-centered process focusing on customers and their needs. Before business feasibility and economic sustainability are considered in the design process, entrepreneurs discover what people need. Products that achieve all three are bound to be the most successful, but the product or service must first be designed to provide a desired solution or fulfill a need for the design process to be considered human-centered. 6-3: Describe the role of empathy in the design-thinking process. To create meaningful ideas and innovations, we need to know and care about the people who are using them. Developing our empathic ability enables us to better understand the way people do things and the reasons why; their physical and emotional needs; the way they think and feel; and what is important to them. 6-4: Illustrate the key parts of the design-thinking process. The design-thinking process comprises three main overlapping phases: inspiration, ideation, and implementation. 6-5: Demonstrate how to observe and convert observation data to insights. An insight in this sense is an interpretation of an event or observation that, importantly, provides new information or meaning. Observations can fall along one of nine different dimensions, and, like entrepreneurship, the ability to discern trends and patterns from each dimension is a skill that can be practiced and improved. 6-6: Demonstrate how to interview potential customers in order to better understand their needs. Interviews should be done for two reasons: 1) to develop a better understanding of their needs during the inspiration phase of design thinking and 2) get feedback on ideas during the implementation phase. The interview must be well-prepared, the customer must be listened to and intelligent questions asked, and the interview must be evaluated when it is over. 6-7: Identify and describe other approaches to design thinking. The authors of Designing for Growth suggest four questions that are useful to ask during the design-thinking process, all of which have periods of divergence and convergence. They are as follows: What is? What if? What Wows? What works?36 Another variation on the design-thinking process is from the Stanford Design School, which uses five phases: empathy, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Design thinking can also be used to resolve wicked problems.
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I’m very sad to say that #CookoutWeek is over for me. The event officially ends tomorrow, so you’ll still have a variety of great recipes to drool over, but this is the last one for me. This is also the first time that I didn’t make a dessert for #CookoutWeek. I thought about it, but I have a bunch of other sweet recipes coming up in the next few weeks that I thought I could give myself (and my husband’s sweet tooth) a pass for this event. Much like foil packets, skewers (or kebabs) are another one of my favorite ways to grill up food. Once they’re prepared you only need a plate to get them to the grill and a serving plate once they’re done. Recipes that use minimal dishes are totally my thing. The chicken on these skewers is marinated in a sweet and spicy sauce that includes pineapple juice, brown sugar, Sriracha and crushed red pepper flakes as just a few of the ingredients. Only half of the marinate goes over the chicken and the remaining half is brushed over the skewers while they’re cooking to add additional flavor to the veggies and pineapple. The chicken does need to marinate for at least an hour and if you are using wooden skewers, they need to soak for 30 minutes before going on the grill, so make sure to plan ahead with this recipe. The last thing you want is under seasoned chicken and burnt skewers messing up this delicious, easy to make dish! #CookoutWeek: Sweet and Spicy Hawaiian Chicken Skewers The perfect pairing of chicken, pineapple and bell peppers covered in a sweet and spicy marinade and grilled to perfection. - Prep Time: 1 hour 30 minutes - Cook Time: 10 - Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes - Yield: 4 1x - Category: Chicken - Method: Grilling For the Marinade: - ¼ cup ketchup - ¼ cup pineapple juice - ¼ cup reduced sodium soy sauce - 2 tbsp brown sugar - 1 tbsp Sriracha (or more to taste) - 1 tbsp rice vinegar - 1 tbsp fresh ginger, grated - 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes - 1 tsp chili oil (or any oil you have) - salt and pepper, to taste For the Skewers: - 1 lb. chicken breast, cut into 1 ½ inch pieces - 2 cups pineapple, cut into 1 ½ inch pieces - 2 green peppers, cut into 1 ½ inch pieces - 1 large red onion, cut into 1 ½ inch pieces - salt and pepper to taste 1. Combine the ingredients for the marinade and set half aside. 2. Place the cubed chicken into a sealable bag and pour half the marinade on top. Refrigerate for 1 hour, but up to overnight. 3. Soak 6-8 skewers in cold water for 30 minutes. 4. Heat the grill or grill pan to medium high heat, around 425 degrees. 5. Alternate threading the onion, bell peppers, pineapple and chicken onto the skewers. 6. Grill the skewers for 5 minutes on each side, then baste with the reserved marinade and cook for 1-2 minutes more on each side. Serve immediately. Keywords: chicken, kebabs, skewers, hawaiian, pineapple, bell pepper If your family isn’t a fan of eating off a stick, after you grill these up, they are perfect served over a bed or rice or wrapped up in a tortilla to make Hawaiian chicken tacos. This is my last post for #CookoutWeek and the last chance you’ll have to enter the giveaway from my blog, so make sure that you do so today. Don’t forget to check out what the other bloggers have made:
Mini Rugby not only offers an excellent way for children to stay healthy, but also helps children develop teamwork, leadership, and sportsmanship. Police Mini Rugby will commence its fourth season in September. Regular training sessions, to be conducted by qualified coaches and members of the Police Rugby Club, are held at Police Sports and Recreation Club (PSRC) every Sunday between 10am and 11:30am. Mini Rugby is open to both boys and girls aged from three to 11 and no previous experience is required. Mini players will have the opportunity to participate in mini rugby festivals and compete with other mini rugby teams in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Police Mini Rugby Committee will host a Registration Day at PSRC between 10am and 12 noon on June 22. There are no charges for joining mini rugby training, except the Hong Kong Police Mini Rugby playing kit, which is available at cost price. Parents are advised to bring a cheque for purchase of the playing kit on the Registration Day. Interested parties should email [email protected] for registration form and kit order form. The deadline for application is June 22.
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Most people think of dried beans and come up with the familiar four – kidney, navy, pinto and black. There’s a lot of diversity in dry common beans (Photo credit: Wikipedia) But there are a whole lot more varieties of dried beans and some of them have spectacular flavors and very high nutritional value. For my money, Rancho Gordo sells some of the best dried beans available on the market. I don’t normally recommend buying something if I can grow it in my backyard but…there are a couple of reasons I strongly endorse Rancho Gordo. First of all, organically raised, heirlooms like Mayacoba and Good Mother Stollard beans are just a click away from arriving at your front door. Secondly, Rancho Gordo is a small company in California started and run by Steve Sando, a man who knows a whole lot about organic and beans. Another reason I LOVE Rancho Gordo is that Sando’s bean seeds are organically sourced and he works with Seed Savers Exchange. Then there’s the fact that the beans he bags and ships are fresh and so flavorful they actually stand on their own as a main course. Those are all really great reasons to like and recommend a product but here’s one of the strongest reasons of all. The first time I had a problem (the disaster referenced below), I emailed Steve and he actually, personally emailed me back with advice and ideas. The “disaster” started because of one of my growing philosophies. In this age of saving money and eating locally, I decided to try sprouting some of Steve’s lovely beans and growing my own. Starting Dried Beans Indoors I made a decision to start my bean plants indoors, from beans I bought from Rancho Gordo. My last frost date is May 15th so I put the seeds in the pots the last week of April – first mistake. The seeds were incredibly quick to break open and start growing. Within 5 days of sprouting, they were a foot tall. It literally took less than a week for the beans to outreach my highest grow light. Here comes the second mistake. I thought about what I should do for a couple of days but when I went back into the basement to check the little dears, I realized I had no choice. I was raising two trays of Seymours from Little Shop of Horrors! I had to transplant them! The third and final mistake. A bit too early and a bit too cool, but I put the small trellis in the soil and put the bean plants in the ground. The next morning, I walked out to the garden to see how they were doing. All but 3 of my 48 bean plants were flat on the ground. Within 24 hours, most of them promptly fell over and died. It was a full-blown, growing disaster so I moved to Plan B. Direct Seeding Dried Beans Okay, so starting seeds indoors and transplanting them was an unmitigated disaster. But I don’t give up easily. And since the seeds were so ready to sprout and grow, I thought, why not direct seed? So, I put beans in the ground, watered them and watched them sprout quickly and reach for the netting. They were beautiful plants, sleek, green, growing straight up the supports. Then they were dying. I think they literally drowned. It rained for 5 weeks straight here in Eastern Pennsylvania – way too much water for this crop. When the bean plants that survived the flood (no I did not put them on the Ark and drive them around until the waters receded) finally did dry out, they really tried to finish their jobs and produce beans. The plants set flowers. I got bean pods. But with all the moisture in the air and the soil, the pods promptly got moldy! In desperation, I emailed Steve Sando and asked him if I could still harvest the bean pods if the outsides were speckled and turning black. This wonderful master of all things bean actually emailed me back. Yes, I could but…isn’t there always a but? If the beans themselves were discolored or speckled (unless that’s the way they were born), I had to toss them. Bottom line, I grew more than 100 bean plants; I harvested 1 quart jar of dried beans. And now I just buy my beans at Rancho Gordo because it is a heck of a lot cheaper than trying to raise them! Despite my bean disasters, I did learn a lot about how to plant and grow beans. That’s up, next week.
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I am a proud owner of a Kindle. As a fervent reader, it is the best technology that could happen to book worms like me. Its like having a library in your fingertips. No worries of losing any books, no lending books anymore ( esp b’cos you don’t get them back). Your own personal collection wherever you go ! But nothing can change my love for books and libraries. Books give me the comfort and happiness similar to what a coffee-addict gets from coffee. Anyways, here are my reasons to why we MUST own a Kindle 1. It is light weight and pencil-thin 2. Can accommodate more than 1,000 books 3. There are loads of FREE e-books from Amazon with minimal to no buy 4. Easy on the eyes – Like reading a paper. no glare – even in sunlight 5. Downloads books from internet in 60 seconds with built-in WiFi 6. Can be password protected 7. One month battery life 8. Adjustable font choices and text sizes 9. Kindle apps are available for iPhone and iPad. Happy reading my fellow bookworms !!!!
My visit to Hamburg, Germany was intended to be a stopover to facilitate catching a train to Copenhagen the next day – but turned out to be so much more than I ever could have anticipated! What an unexpected pleasure! Often referred to as the “Venice of the North,” Hamburg is adorned with cerulean canals and boats bobbing in the breeze everywhere you look. But it has so much more to offer than that. Perhaps the most captivating building in Hamburg is the Elbe Philharmonic Hall on the waterfront. The modern glass top mimics the waves of the water below, poised atop an old brick warehouse. This structure perfectly exemplifies the spirit of Hamburg, at once old and new. Hamburg embraces its future while honoring its past through its architectural wonders. Opened in 1897, City Hall showcases the older side of Hamburg. Bedecked with intricate detail, it is a majestic sight to behold, and provides and impressive backdrop for the crowds of locals congregating to socialize, enjoy the spectacle of street performers, or conduct business. Modern structures in Hamburg challenge the passer-by to discover the many inter-mingled components that allow them to be viewed in different ways from different perspectives and by different people. As diverse a city as Hamburg is, the diversity of architecture is distinctly fitting. Playfully defying our assumptions and notions about geometry, function, and color, Hamburg’s modern buildings are a delight to examine from every angle! Hamburg qualifies as a hidden gem, and highly underrated tourist destination in Germany. Hamburg’s many charms should not be overlooked! Whether you spend your time strolling along the canals, reveling in the sounds of street musicians, or marveling at the industriousness of it’s massive port, a memorable time is sure to be had by all who give Hamburg a second look! Video tour of Hamburg is available to watch here!: I am extremely grateful for your generous donation to help keep the site running! This site and individual posts are not sponsored! A dollar may not be a lot, but every dollar counts!
By Alick Junior Sichali BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-The Former Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Blantyre district chair lady,Roseby Dinala on Wednesday celebrated her birthday with party’s Vice President Wife, Abida Mia calling youths to participate in politics with the aim of developing their areas. The former district chair lady made the call at her birthday party in Blantyre which was organised by the party’s youths in the southern region. Dinala said was humbled with the support she has been receiving from MCP and urge the members to not stop showing the good will to other people saying the spirit of helping one another is what MCP advocates for in the country. Dinala advised the youths to take leading roles in politics so that they help in curbing socio-economic challenges affecting the country. “I should say that am humbled for the support you have shown to me despite I stopped active politics, to be honest with you MCP is always at my heart I can tell you that during my time even now DPP officials have been asking me to join their party but I have refused because I love MCP. “what I can advice the youths of today is that you should be proactive in politics and take higher positions with the aim of developing areas your coming from, this is your time and if you take the higher positions you can provide solutions to the socio-economic challenges the country is going through,” Dinala said. When asked about her thoughts in next year’s tripartite elections Presidential Candidate winner, the MCP icon confidently answered that the main opposition political party will be voted into power with no doubts. On her part, wife to the Vice President of MCP, Abida Mia said it was important for the party to celebrate together with the MCP icon on her birthday attributing to the works she has done to make the party firm. The wife to MCP Vice President further said Dinala has helped most of the party’s members to achieve their goals in their political career. Abida Mia said the name of Dinala it is not a new name in the party as she has also headed higher positions like that of the district chair lady in Blantyre and also she has been in MCP’s National Executive Committee (NEC). “The name Dinala is one of those Malawi Congress Party will never forget in its existence, Dinala has been a motherly figure to the youths and all members in the party whilst she was active in politics, with these reasons I felt it important to attend her birthday when I was invited by the party’s youths,”. “Our southern region youths have shown a good spirit and for that I urge them to continue in supporting all long serving members of MCP because they kept the party firm to reach today,” Abida said. Roseby Dinala was born on 8 August, 1938 and was one of the party members who welcomed Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda when he was coming to Malawi at Chileka airport. Dinala has been a member of Malawi Congress Party for over 50 years as she joined politics in 1958 where she was working at aerial level in Blantyre. The MCP icon resigned from her post in the National Executive Committee (NEC) in the recent party’s indaba but she has also worked at MCP’s Branch, and was selected to be Blantyre district chair lady in 1994
Las Vegas, New Mexico Lilacs in spring make your heart sing. Art in the park? Oh what a lark! Silvery river, lovely life giver. Vegas town is New Mexico’s crown. Enchantingly pretty, this little city Gracious and kind, a place to unwind. Architectural treasures, historical measures – So proud of this place, with its charm and its grace. New fallen rain, greens up the plain Expands to the rills, and touches the hills. Water comes down and brings joy all around. Melding shades, in shadows fade Engages God’s brush to enhance nature’s flush. Xanthic hues are mixed in with blues Indigo furls into mauve perfect curls Colors the sky and makes your heart sigh. Oh, how sublime, it is Las Vegas, New Mexico time.
The first European app to empower citizens against floods, fires and extreme weather Thanks to the I-REACT app, citizens can warn other citizens of natural risks by sharing geolocalised photos and information on floods, fires and extreme weather. The app also notifies users of their risk to suffer natural hazards based on their location and provides information to improve their safety. Its launch coincides with the International Day for Disaster Reduction. 13th October 2018, Torino (Italy).- The research project I-REACT, funded by the European Commission, launches today a free app to keep citizens safe from floods, fires and extreme weather. The app enables its users to share pictures and other information on natural hazards and in turn provides essential information about the risks of suffering from these threats. The free app, available through Google Play, aims to provide citizens with tools to build a society more resilient to disasters and is launched with the occasion of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. Just in 2017, disasters like floods, wildfires and earthquakes killed more than 9000 people worldwide, affected 96 million, and caused €270 billion in losses —it is the second costliest year in disasters on record. For this reason, the International Day for Disaster Reduction focuses on diminishing the economic impact of disasters worldwide. “Our approach aims to empower all European citizens, enabling them to take a more active role in preventing disasters.”, says Dr. Fabrizio Dominici, head of the Mobile Solution research area at the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Italy, and coordinator of the I-REACT project. “The users of the app can monitor environmental conditions and share useful information such as photos and other data that will help other citizens be prepared.” These reports can be verified and rated by the rest of the users, so citizens can filter the relevant information and avoid the propagation of fake news. The same approach is applied to tweets: the app filter relevant tweets in real time, to offer the users only informative content related to emergency events happening in their surroundings. Also, the app also includes a set of tips and quizzes on what to do in case of a flood, a wildfire or other extreme-weather event. This kind of information becomes especially useful during floods, fires and other natural hazards. “The photos and comments uploaded by the users are useful not only to monitor the environment.”, remarks Dr. Dominici, “they also allow citizens to report the damage caused to infrastructures, and help fellow users locate safe havens during an emergency.” The app also features risk maps, that let people know at every moment the likelihood of being affected by extreme weather events, flood and fires. “We want to make disaster information as accessible as possible,” adds Dr. Dominici,”and in the current world this means that we all should be able to access it on our smartphones. This will contribute to keep people safe, saving lives and reducing the damages caused by natural hazards”. For the last two years, the European project I-REACT has been developing technological tools to prevent and respond better against natural hazards. Among the technologies developed by the project are a Big Data platform to predict better the occurrence of this type of events, wearables and smart glasses for first responders, so they can receive and send information without using their hands, and a decision support system for emergency coordinators, that enables them to take the best decision possible considering all the information available. I-REACT is complementary to existing solutions and its implementation is highly modular so as to be easily integrated with current operational platforms. “One of the key players during emergency situations are citizens themselves”, says Dr. Dominici,”so we wanted to provide them the tools they need to stay safe. The app is the easiest way to do so: its free, and it can be used on your phone. Hopefully, it will contribute to create safer communities and save lives in the process.” International Day for Disaster Reduction, held every 13 October, celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters. The 2018 edition continues under the "Sendai Seven" campaign, centred on the seven targets of the Sendai Framework. This year's focus is Target C: Reduce the direct economic losses caused by disasters by 2030. I-REACT (Improving Resilience to Emergencies through Advanced Cyber Technologies) is a 3-year project (2016-2018) funded by the European Commission Horizon2020 programme. The project is coordinated by the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella of Turin. Consortium partners include: Geoville, Eoxplore, Terranea, Alpha Consult, UNESCO (Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice), Politecnico di Torino, Celi, JoinPad, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Meteosim, Bitgear, Ansur Technologies, Technical University of Vienna, Scienseed, CSI Piemonte, Aquobex, Answaretech, and Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.
Fees would be assessed on new developments. By NANCY TULLIS VINDICATOR SALEM BUREAU COLUMBIANA -- The city will pay for $6.8 million of a $12 million sewage treatment plant with grants. City Manager Keith Chamberlin told city council Tuesday the city will receive $4.8 million from the Rural Development Corporation and $2 million from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The city needs to build a new treatment plant to both replace an outdated facility and increase capacity to meet growth demands, Chamberlin said. Council members discussed increasing tap-in fees and establishing impact fees to help pay for the new plant and its operation. Councilman Don Leonard said he favors impact fees because developers of new residential or industrial construction should pay part of the cost of the new plant since the new plant is needed due to growth. Leonard and other council members said they want developers of new business and industry to help pay for the sewer plant. That could happen by raising tap-in fees, but council members said they don't want to increase tap-in fees for those already in the city but who have septic systems. City Law Director Dan Blasdell cautioned that although the council could take such action, new residents and business owners would likely challenge the ordinance in court. They would argue that all should pay equally, he said. On a related matter, council heard from Bittersweet Drive residents who are receiving letters regarding assessment for the sewer line planned there. Chamberlin said there will be an appeals process for residents who want to challenge the assessment. He said he could not give an estimated date for construction of the sewer line to begin because he cannot advertise for bids until after the appeals process ends. Chamberlin said an appeals board made up of city residents will hear from all who challenge the assessments. If the appeals board makes major changes, then the assessments would be recalculated and the new assessments could also be challenged. Residents will receive a final assessment once the project is completed, Chamberlin said. Construction should take about two months, he added.
We launch new web! With a more modern, responsive design and with improvements in the software of the content manager. With the announcement ( by cms creators) of the end of the development of the software version that used this web,I had to completely redesign the web and transfer all the content to the new system, this has brought notable improvements, such as Adaptive design, but there have also been some features that could not be implemented due to incompatibility between platforms. At the user level the biggest changes are: Now the download of the photosets is done from the user account of the web, the download links will no longer be sent to the e-mail for the new photosets (from 272, but they are sent for the previous ones). This is due which has had to implement a new system of downloads, keeping the previous one for the system to work. IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL WITH INCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD LINKS. CHECK YOUR WEBSITE ACCOUNT TO DOWNLOAD THE PHOTOSETS. There they will all be.
Made by Citroen, our incredibly rare and beautiful Parisian Taxi, dubbed ‘Le Taxi’, is the only one you will find on the road in the UK and one of only two left in the world. It is in immaculate condition following a full nut and bolt restoration. Used as a taxi back when it was first produced, the detailing in the work of this car is truly remarkable. It comes complete with operating opera lights and its original taxi meter. The engineering behind this vehicle – remembering it is 93 years old – is nothing short of exceptional. Its 1432cc engine gives an output of 14BHP. Back in the day, you can picture this glorious car gliding around the roads of Paris, oozing class and demanding attention. Driverside: Left-hand drive *Plus two smaller seats available for young children. Enquire about Chauffeur Driven Hire This vehicle is not available as a self-drive hire. Click here to take a look at our Self-Drive hires. Alternatively you can hire this car for Chauffeur or TV/Film Hire. Enquire about TV and Film Hire
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If you’re like most Boston area homeowners, your house is your largest personal investment. With home values across the region consistently increasing, this has never been more true than right now. Ensuring your investment maintains its value is one of the most important challenges that Boston area homeowners face. One of the best ways to maintain and increase home value is through home remodels and additions. This is particularly true if you’ve invested in one of the Boston area’s many historic properties. These houses typically require a bit more creativity and care to create an updated, valuable space. In this post, we’ll take a look at some ways to improve and maintain the value of your family’s largest investment. A remodel with a focus on architectural design Everyone wants a beautiful home that’s attuned to their own personal tastes and style. A comfortable living space can be inspiring and uplift spirits. But what sets apart a standard home remodel with some basic new finishes, from one that tangibly improves your quality of life and adds value to your investment? The answer is a strong emphasis on architectural design. When you work with an architectural design-build firm, your vision is the heart of the project. You’ll consult with architects to decide what you need and want out of your new space, to ensure the changes that you make work for you. Here are some high level touchpoints that you can expect to review: - • Your long-term needs - • Your budget - • Your lifestyle - • Likes and dislikes about your current home Once the scope of work and project goals are established, the architects can begin generating various project designs. A great benefit to working with an Architectural Design-Build firm is that the architects and designers work hand in hand with project managers from the very start. This allows them to better understand the needs of the construction team, and design spaces that are feasible in terms of both cost and timeline. Opening up the design One of the most common requests we get at New England Design & Construction is that homeowners want to “open up” a particular space within their home. Quite often, this means creating an open floor plan kitchen, which modernizes your kitchen and transforms it into a hub for your family. While old-fashioned kitchens are designed simply for preparing meals, open floor plan kitchens are designed for everything from homework sessions, to meal preparations, to a holiday party. These spaces are beloved once completed and transform a home into a more inviting and comfortable living environment. But why stop there? Opening up spaces around the rest of your home can liven up your space. Generally open floor plan kitchens involve combining a dining room and kitchen into a larger space, but why not add to your living room, too? These more open spaces are something homeowners come to cherish because they are so functional. Adding natural light One of the key benefits to an open design is that it generally brings even more natural light. Simply by removing walls and obstructions, more light will fill your home. Given that natural light is good for your health and improves the aesthetics of your home, this is a serious win-win for your new space. Even if you don’t open up the design, you can still improve natural light. Strategies such as adding skylights or SolaTubes, French doors, or large windows will also add light and an inspiring positivity to your home. Modernizing kitchen appliances and features Modern technology has made day-to-day life easier. While many people think about iPhones, cars, and televisions when they think about technology, maybe the most common thing we interact with daily is something that’s gone through the biggest transformation: your kitchen appliances. Modern kitchen appliances create beautiful spaces that simply work better. Appliances such as refrigerators and ovens now come in materials such as stainless steel and are able to perform better, all the while using less energy for the increased performance. Kitchen islands are now extremely popular given the versatility they bring as part of a kitchen remodel. Not only do they add storage and space for more specialty appliances (wine fridge, anyone?), they also provide additional seating options and allow for more counter space. Luxury bathroom features People love waking up in a place that makes them comfortable. That’s why the trend of spa-like bathrooms has become a huge selling point. They are also an extremely nice feature for yourself and adds to the livability of your home. Some of our favorite spa-like features include: - • Open space: Even if it means borrowing space from another room, more square feet in a bathroom will immediately give it a more luxurious feel. - • Oversized bathtubs: If you love taking baths, just imagine a larger luxury tub where you could truly unwind at the end of the day. - • Two-person shower: These showers are large enough for two and are incredibly comfortable whether sharing or not. They also generally include a fully body spray shower head, which creates a bath-like experience while showering. Home additions are an extremely common project in the Boston area given the size of many homes. We’ve worked with a number of homeowners who’ve actually purchased homes knowing they’d complete an addition when they bought the house. The reason? They simply couldn’t find a home in the size they needed in a neighborhood they loved. Not only is this a smart, proactive move, but it transforms it into a uniquely large home in a neighborhood without a supply of them. This adds value and creates for you the ideal home to fit your family’s needs. Master suite addition One of the more common additions we complete are master suite additions. These additions are common for the same reason open floor plan remodels are: Old homes simply didn’t have them. Generally, this makes your home more appealing to a huge range of people: Those looking to age in place, those with large families with large bedroom needs, and those who simply want a space away from the rest of the family. Improve the value of your home — and improve your life — with NEDC At New England Design & Construction, we focus our home remodels on bringing value to homeowners lives. Whether it’s because your home sells more or you enjoy your space more than you ever thought possible, we want you to be satisfied you decided to partner with us. Contact us today to learn how we can help add value to your space.
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Rebloging this on Bob’s Opinion… Thanks for the post. In 2008, somewhere between 80 and 85% of Black Americans voted for Barack Obama. Even though Obama pushed an agenda that many Blacks knew would setback Black America, like lambs being led to the slaughter, they gave “a brother a break” because “Obama doesn’t mean it” and/or “Obama doesn’t have a choice” and because “he’s one of us.” Did I say like lambs to the slaughter? (Really, eight years of the same talking points to vindicate the sins of a despot.) For eight year Commie Barack, his foot soldiers aka Occupy Wall Street which morphed into Antifa Anti-Fascist Fascists, Black Lives Matter, Islamic extremists, the Communist media complex, LBGTQ, illegal aliens and no shortage of Progressive organizations not mentioned here in collaboration with their comrades bought and paid for, in all levels of government, used the Civil Rights era to achieve their agendas. These same organizations hid behind the… View original post 163 more words
Tweaking your marketing strategy in a few key areas can help boost customer retention and revenue in the new year. Marketing your small business is a must if you want to produce a steady stream of paying clients and customers. If you've noticed stagnant consumer retention and attraction numbers, consider reviewing your marketing strategy. Perhaps your initiatives are outdated. Or maybe you’re trying to market your small business on a limited budget. Luckily, there’s always room for improvement. Here are some ways you can effectively market your small business: 1. Develop your brand. To effectively market your business, you need to create a memorable brand identity. A brand is more than just a logo or tagline. A well-articulated brand connects with your target customers and conveys who you are, what you stand for and what you can deliver. When developing your business brand, ask yourself these questions: - What is your business's mission? - Who are your competitors? - How can customers benefit from your expertise and services? - What feelings and characteristics do you want customers to associate with your company? Once you've answered these questions, you can begin to develop a brand image, voice and message. Strong brands help increase customer loyalty and keep your audience engaged. Editor's note: Is your business looking for online marketing help? Answer the questions below to have our sister site BuyerZone connect you with vendors that can help. 2. Create a brand logo. After you've determined your brand message, create a custom logo. You want to make sure that your logo is unique and adaptable. Consider hiring a freelance designer and comparing your competitors' logos to your ideas. When creating your logo, make sure you use on-brand colors, fonts and images. 3. Generate an email marketing strategy. 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One of the most effective places to market your business is through Facebook. According to the Pew Research Center, 68 percent of U.S. adults use Facebook. Seventy-four percent of users are active on Facebook daily. These numbers highlight the importance of developing a Facebook marketing strategy. When you create Facebook ads, you can choose your objective, audience, budget and ad placement. Facebook ads can help drive more traffic to your site and increase brand awareness and customer conversions. 6. Follow SEO best practices. Whether you're new to the world of search engine optimization or have used the practice in the past, there's a chance your SEO strategy needs improvement. When focusing on SEO, your priority should be keyword research. You can figure out the language your target audience is using in their searches through free channels on Google or paid SEO tools, like Moz or SEMrush. 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If apartments in two different co-ops are essentially the same in terms of size, location and amenities, why is one getting a higher price per square foot than the other? Could it be the uniform and demeanor of the doormen? This might sound like a small detail, but first impressions are vital in determining a sale and price, says Ira Meister, President and CEO, Matthew Adam Properties, a leading property management company. Paying strict attention to details is essential to creating value in a co-op or condo, one of the prime goals of a residential property management firm. Meister says that Matthew Adams Properties feels so strongly about viewing a home as an important investment that it calls its managers asset managers. “They are there to preserve and increase the asset value of the property, and thus the sale price of the units,” Meister says. Ira Meister Adds Value to Condos and Co-ops, Improving Living Experience Numerous factors contribute to creating value, some, such as the condition of the building, are obvious. Others, such as the demeanor and look of the doormen, are less dramatic. Here are some factors that add up to creating value in a property: “One of the most important is the financial condition of the building,” says Meister. How large is the reserve fund, is there debt, are the maintenance charges too high in relation to similar properties and have the monthly charges increased dramatically in the past several years? These are factors that buyers and their attorneys should consider. “We place great emphasis on finances, not only making certain that the books are current — it is surprising how many co-ops and condos have poor bookkeeping — but we also work to keep down expenses through controls as volume purchasing, careful scheduling of staff and use of the latest technology to reduce energy costs,” Meister says. Part of this is the maintenance of the property so that all systems are kept in good, efficient working order. If periodic maintenance of the boiler, for instance, is not maintained, the system will probably work less efficiently and use more fuel than it should. Periodic checking of the roof is important to detect problems early to reduce the possibility of damage to apartments and to repair the problem early, before it becomes more costly. (To be continued)
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The answer is loaded - as it always is with medicine! But I wanted to break this down for you in a way that is easily understood. If you understand how dogs cool themselves, you understand why certain dogs are more predisposed to heat stress. So cooling methods are physical (think panting)- but they are also physiological- which means there is a deeper bodily process going on. Bear with me here I promise to make it super easy simple! Part one: Physical cooling ie panting, body type, coat type, (basically doggy DNA) Dogs use panting as their number one method of active cooling. Yes, they do sweat through their paws, but this cooling method is minimal compared to the ability to pant. In fact, the majority of your dog’s water loss comes from panting. No other species can make open mouth breathing look so good! Haha! Think about it this way: that condensation and dampness that accumulates on your car window when your dog is panting while looking out the window? That moisture on the window is the water loss that is comparable to us sweating. Smashed face breeds (we call them brachycephalic in the biz) simply cannot cool themselves as effectively because their anatomy deters this. Their smushed faces usually mean narrowed windpipes- meaning they cannot pant as effectively since air gets blocked or trapped by the narrowed airway. But genetic predisposition to heat stress doesn’t always just come from anatomical differences. Certain breeds despite the anatomy of their upper airways are better at tolerating the heat. Think of a Greyhound vs a Siberian husky running trail in 80-degree weather. The Greyhound is probably better equipped to handle this scenario. Also keep in mind that overweight dogs will be more predisposed to heat exhaustion. Part two: Physiological cooling “heat shock proteins” Our dog's bodies naturally produce a molecule called a heat shock protein. I am not going to get super in depth or science geek out on this- promise! But a heat shock protein is a protein that helps your dog manage his internal or core temperature. The more heat shock proteins your dog has built up- the more capable he is of cooling himself and managing his internal body temperature- thus, decreasing chances of heat stress. We suspect that dogs with certain genetics might naturally make more of these heat shock proteins. We also suspect that the gradual conditioning of your dog to tolerate warmer climates can lead to an increase in heat shock proteins. Finally, to answer Hannah’s question- we suspect that as dogs age they might not be able to make these proteins as efficiently. Leading to less control over their core body temperature and increasing their risks of heat stroke. A quick summary: Older dogs, brachycephalic dogs, your dog’s DNA, his conditioning, and his body condition score could potentially put him at a higher risk for heatstroke due to anatomy, body type, and the ability to produce the heat shock proteins. How do we prevent this? The take away here is: no matter what kind of dog you have and no matter his age is it is very important to condition them to acclimate to warmer climates and do so gradually. All the while ensuring that they are at a healthy body weight. Don’t only consider the temperature, but also consider the radiant heat (think sun exposure), the moisture or humidity in the air, and the air movement. Once someone asked me: “what do I do for a dog who is having a heat stroke.” Well the blunt answer is to avoid it from happening in the first place. Acclimate your dog, offer him lots of water, and take frequent breaks. Pay close attention to the mild signs of heat stress so that you can take a break and cool him down before going any further. These mild symptoms aren’t always obvious, either, so definitely keep that in mind. If you notice mild symptoms of heat stress stop immediately in shade and offer water. Also, go slower and keep hikes shorter in the summer months to be safe. Especially if you have a thick coated breed, a short-nosed breed, or a senior pup. And a friendly reminder that frequent hydration and rest breaks are paramount. Offer water frequently and take breaks in the shade if possible. And if you haven’t already access this handy flow chart for reference. Because once a dog is showing full-blown symptoms of a true heat stroke – it might already be too late and you need to seek veterinary care as soon as humanly possible. So, I hope this was helpful. Not to sound like a broken record but first educate yourself on the symptoms and prevention tactics when it comes to heat stroke – and always error on the side of caution. If you think it is too warm for your pup to hike either go very early in the morning, later in the evening, cut it short, or keep him at home in the air conditioning. And per usual if you all have any questions never hesitate to reach out. Until next time, get out and explore more with your dog! Libbie Fort, DVM
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TAKE any musical artist or band, match them with a top-notch producer — and you are almost certain to have a hit record or single. Although the musicians may be talented, the producer is the key person behind the scenes — or console — who makes them sound good. This is what Mr Roland Lim, 29, does for a living. The music producer’s role is a multi-faceted one, he says. “It entails establishing the right vision, production style and concept with the band or artist. You also have to find the right studio and music gear. “You also have to coax the best performance out of every musician,” he adds. The nitty gritty involves overseeing instrument and vocal recordings, music arrangement, composing, sound design, editing and mixing. Locally, artists Mr Lim has worked with include Tay Kewei, Joi Chua and the singer-songwriter, Joel Tan, better known as Gentle Bones. Mr Lim’s talent speaks for itself. Gentle Bones’ three singles released last year, Elusive, Until We Die and Save Me, have all hit the top spot on the local iTunes chart. A former musician, Mr Lim got his first taste of music production when he and his band stepped into a recording studio to record their first demo in 2003. “I really loved being in that environment,” he says. Then, as he was studying for his degree in marketing and media at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, he encountered Adam Rock, a prominent music producer for the Perth alternative-rock band, Birds of Tokyo. “I bugged him to let me be his assistant and things took off from there,” says Mr Lim, who spent the next three years picking up recording basics. He also learnt how to direct and produce musical artists. In 2007, after doing his national service, Mr Lim decided to plunge into the music business full time. But he did not start producing immediately. For the next few years, he wrote jingles for various companies such as Canon, Julie’s and Minute Maid. Many producers, he explains, start out as, say, sound engineers, a job that requires a fair amount of mixing techniques and skills. Mr Lim got his break at 26, when he produced his first major album for Warner Music, Neverbloom, by Australian rock band Make them Suffer. “The success of the album brought more clients and, with that, the money I needed to set up my own production house,” says Mr Lim, who started Sync Studios with two partners in One of his career highlights was the chance to work with renowned producer Steve Lillywhite in 2013, on local band The Sam Willows’ single, Glasshouse. He was one of three local producers selected by The Music Society to be mentored by the five-time Grammy award-winning producer. The Music Society is a local non-profit body that supports talent in the local music industry. Asked what he loves about his job, Mr Lim says: “Working with people from all walks of life and communicating with them through our common love, music. I also get to share and trade cool and crazy stories about being in the music business,” says the self-taught bassist and guitarist. “You need to put in a lot of hard work and dedication to constantly improve your skills. You need to be brutally honest about your flaws,” he adds. He pointed out that a producer should have a good ear for sound frequencies, understand music trends and possess in-depth knowledge of equipment and recording software. A basic understanding of human psychology and knowing how to manoeuvre around “music business politics” are also useful when it comes to the business side of music production. “You need to be able to demonstrate the value you can bring to the project,” says Mr Lim. Even above the love for music, hard work counts. “This is a career you’re building, not just a job. Be prepared to work so hard you can’t tell the days from the nights,” he adds.
While most of the focus of Super Bowl LIII is on the game itself and the fan experience, it is also important to think about what goes on behind the scenes. In a world of hyper-security and threats from every angle, what does it really take to secure the big game? The need to secure the world’s most watched event has become a necessity. But most of the security features and manpower will not make the news. However, there is nothing that can be left to chance because of the extremists that might wish to do harm on the world stage. There is a balance that has to be kept in line with allowing fans to have a great experience without fear, while also making their presence known so that there is a very clear statement that this event will be safe and secure. Planning Essential to Security First, it starts with planning. Officials in Atlanta are explicit in telling the world their plans, but Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields has commented that the city has worked with more than 40 state, federal, and local agencies to develop its plan to secure the area around the Mercedes-Benz stadium along with additional areas that are competing for fans’ attention. That included meeting with the current director of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen. This plan did not just start a few weeks ago like how the LA Rams and New England Patriots game planned. This has been in the works for at least two years. City Learned from Olympic Games, Leaves Nothing to Chance For the actual feet on the ground, officers will work 12-hour shifts and will be in place to react to any recognized threat. Unfortunately, Atlanta has experience with being on this type of stage and dealing with a terrorist plot. During the 1996 Olympic Games, a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, killing one and hurting more than 100 others. Atlanta officials learned valuable lessons from this incident, and they are not taking any chances this Sunday. That same park is a site for concerts and other activities, and now it is enclosed with chain-link fencing to make it less accessible. The stadium itself, which opened in 2017, is secure by design. The NFL actually rated it the number one stadium in terms of security. Thousands of Law Enforcement Officials Will Be on Hand Manpower is possibly the most important aspect of the plan. ESPN reports that 5,000 law enforcement professionals and 180 canines will be in place to thwart any violent or terrorist plots. These would include officials in uniform and those in plain clothes. In addition to boots on the ground, 75 to 100 officials will be manning the city’s Joint Operations Center, which allows them to have an eagle eye on all the areas in and around the stadium. The Atlanta Public Safety Center says the center will house “incident commanders.” Those incident commanders will be at 13 different locations throughout the city. Communication is key amongst all the different groups and locations. Each morning, they are starting with a briefing to talk about what happened in the past 24 hours and what to expect for the next day. New Technology Creates Need for New Protocols Another precaution put in place is to ban drones, something that security officials have had to learn how to deal with, as they have the capability to be used for nefarious reasons. The entire area will be drone-free. All eyes will be on the sure-handed quarterbacks Sunday night, but thousands of other eyes will be watching just about everything else to ensure the big game is incident-free. For the latest news, videos, and podcasts in the Sports & Entertainment Industry, be sure to subscribe to our industry publication.
Nepalese can't get Lao visa on arrival (report) I read the list of countries which is not allowed for on arrival visa at the link I am citizen of Nepal and I already contacted Lao Embassy, New Delhi on 2nd July 2012 but they are saying that Nepalese also not allowed to on arrival visa and they need guarantee letter from Ministry of Foreign Affairs. So, kindly update this country list so that I will know whether Nepal in also in the list of Who CAN NOT get Laos Visas on Arrival. Today again I contact office of Laos Embassy at New Delhi, They are confidently saying that Nepalese citizen are not allowed for On arrival Visa and they must produce the Guarantee Letter too. So please clarify this issue and I hope it will help me as well as to many Nepalese people who might be interested to visit Lao PDR. Thank you in advance. Added by D. Phothisane There has been a lot of different info, and this post seems true because Sanju checked with the embassy in New Delhi. However, it turned out that Nepalese CAN get Lao visa on arrival. Please read all the posts through to the end and you'll get the whole thing. Sorry for the confusion.
The day before Thanksgiving is so hectic! This year is different in a few ways. First, I’m still struggling with health problems. Second, I’m hosting a very casual dinner at my house. Third, the next 4 days will require a lot of adjustments in trying to survive my first holiday trying to eat gluten-free. The first dinner at my house is for our Alabama relatives. After we eat, I’m hitting the road to Mississippi for my side of the family. These ALL have to be gluten-free. We will have our Friday shopping trip and then the traditional Thanksgiving meal on Saturday. - pecan pie - cookie bars. I’ve also researched potential restaurants for eating out on Black Friday, but that’s a whole other post. After a busy morning of shuffling around, whining because blinking hurts my ribs, and flailing attempts a dusting, I managed to get a the table set. It looks a little festive, huh? And yes, that is Thanksgiving table setting in the middle of Christmas decorations. I like it, don’t judge my mingling of the holidays. I believe in merging cells, not splitting cells. Now it’s time to crash and hope I get to see some of the parade tomorrow! I love the parade. What I don’t love are the new balloons that I do not recognize. It makes me feel really old. However, I recognize this guy…
ii. Disabilities are objective empirical matters. Likewise, what computational architecture and surgeries are deployed by means of a brain or a computer (what computationalism takes to be necessary), and exactly what physical and chemical processes underlie (what mind-brain individuality theory takes to become essential), are objective empirical questions. All these are questions to be settled by appeals to proof reachable, in principle, to any qualified audience. According to such objections, irrespective of how apparently intelligently a computer acts, and no matter what mechanics and underlying physical processes allow it to do so, it might nevertheless be disqualified from truly be unintelligent as a result of its lack of abstract qualities essential for true intelligence. These presumed qualities are, in principle, introspectively discernible to the subject with them and nobody else: they're "personal" adventures, as it is sometimes put, to which the subject has "privileged access." Is one of the most frequently heard objections to AI and a recurrent theme in its literary and cinematic portrayal? Whereas we have strong inclinations to state computers see, hunt, and infer items we've scant inclinations to state they ache or itch or encounter ennui. But to be sustained, this objection requires reason to think that thought is inseparable from feeling. Perhaps computers are only dispassionate thinkers. Indeed, far from being considered indispensable to logical thought, fire traditionally has been presumed antithetical to it. Alternately -- if emotions are crucial to enabling overall human level intelligence -- maybe machines might be artificially endowed with them: or even with subjective qualia (below) at least using their functional equivalents. For their mathematical and other apparently high-level intellectual skills have no feelings or feelings... so, what they do – nevertheless "high-level" -- isn't real thinking. Required for overall human-level intelligence -- this, conversely, would reply: Which iii. The Lack of Feelings Objection 2. Objection II: It Thoughts are specific biological brain processes. Whatever else it could take for general human-level intellect -- besides has proven more difficult than might have been expected. Languages are symbol systems and (sequential structure) computers are symbol crunching machines, each with its own proprietary instruction set (machine code) in which it contrasts or compiles instructions couched in high level programming languages such as LISP and C. High-level computer languages express imperatives which the system "knows" procedurally by translation to its native (and similarly critical) machine code: their constructions are basically instructions. Natural languages, on the other hand, have -- perhaps principally -- declarative functions: their constructions include descriptions whose comprehension seems fundamentally to need rightly relating them to their referents in the world. Furthermore, high level computer language instructions have unique machine code compilations (for a specified server), whereas, the same all-natural language constructions may bear unique meanings in various linguistic and extralinguistic contexts. Contrast "the child is from the pen" and "the ink is in the pen" in which the first "pencil" must be understood to imply a kind of enclosure along with the second "pen" a sort of writing implement. Commonsense, at a word, is how we understand this; however would a machine understand, unless we can somehow endow machines? While the holy grail of complete all-natural language understanding remains a distant dream, here as elsewhere in AI, piecemeal progress has been made and locating application in grammar checkers; data retrieval and information extraction systems; natural language interfaces for matches, search engines, and question-answering systems; and even limited machine translation (MT). Towards the "scaled up" and interconnected human-level capabilities Nothing that it is like, subjectively, for a pc. The "light" of consciousness isn't on, inwardly, for them. There's "no 1 home." This is a result of their lack of sensed qualia. To equip computers with sensors to detect environmental conditions, for example, would not thereby endow them with all the personal sensations (of warmth, cold, color, pitch, and so forth) that accompany sense-perception in as such personal sensations are what consciousness is made of. Whether this outcome will spell defeat for the strong AI thesis which Objection: Picture Holding that thoughts essentially are biological brain procedures -- yields yet another debate: is subject to dispute. Scalability problems seem grave enough to scotch short term optimism: never, on the other hand, is a long time. If Gödel unlimited mathematical skills, or rule-free flexibility, or feelings, are needed, maybe these could be artificially produced. Gödel aside, feeling and flexibility clearly seem related in us and, equally clearly, much manifest stupidity in computers is tied to their own rule-bound inflexibility. However, even if overall human-level intelligent behavior is unnaturally unachievable, no blanket indictment of AI threatens obviously from this whatsoever. Rather than conclude from such a generality that non-human AI and piecemeal high-level AI aren't real intelligence, it might possibly be better to conclude that noninvasive AI (such as intelligence in lower life-forms) and piecemeal high-level skills (such as those of human "idiot savants") are real intelligence, albeit piecemeal and non. Suivre le flux RSS des articles Suivre le flux RSS des commentaires
We noticed that in Sam Rit (and mostly everywhere we traveled in Thailand) life happens in front of the house, at street level. People sit on mats, to relax, to watch TV, to eat, to cook…it all seems to happen outside and right in front. So one afternoon, we decided to situate ourselves right on the street. We watched children walk home from school, families ride by on scooters, rainbow colored rice trucks and local life pass us by. We recorded these sounds and paired them with a time lapse video of the rice harvesters at work. We enjoyed so many things at Sam Rit. Biking to Phi Mai was especially beautiful. On the way back, we found ourselves a bit lost. Someone soon stopped to give directions, without us even asking. We went though a small village with a very narrow main street and everyone was out on their stoop. It was in these few moments that we saw rural life unfiltered, everything happened in slow motion, peoples faces were illuminated, there was only this moment, this experience. To wrap up our stay, we exchanged stories over a big family meal at our host’s home. We became a part of Sam Rit's extended family. We could not have envisioned the profound effect that these experiences had on the way we approach our work and on us personally. Jaz Graf & Laos Fois, 2014
In past months, PACE has argued that the practice of retail net metering, i.e. paying solar customers the full retail rate for excess electricity they produce, is poor public policy and ultimately unsustainable for everyone. Now, economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) agree. In a recent study, a team of economists chaired by Dean Richard Schmalensee concluded that the United States should move away from net metering policies for rooftop solar. They say doing so is not only in the best interest of customers, but of the solar industry, as well, in the long term. “I think we’ve got to find a better way to do it, because I think net metering is going to result in a pushback against residential solar,” explained Richard Schmalensee, who also serves as an economics professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. MIT’s study has implications for arguments about the value of solar, as well. For example, while the solar industry claims that rooftop solar provides net benefits to the grid, Professor Schmalensee and his team found the opposite. In general, rooftop solar results in higher distribution costs because of the need to accommodate two-way power flow. “Residential solar doesn’t have greater external benefits; it has greater external costs,” said Schmalensee. Also, since utility-scale solar delivers the same product as rooftop solar, there is no justification or giving residential solar preferential treatment. Days ago, PACE reported on a new utility-scale solar project being undertaken by Entergy New Orleans that will be the first of its kind in the city. We believe that such projects represent a responsible way forward for solar deployment, as opposed to overpaying residential customers for excess solar generation. MIT’s team of economists seems to agree. “We’re not anti-residential, because some people love the thought of solar on their roof, and if you’re going to subsidize solar, there’s no reason not to subsidize them,” he added. “But there’s no reason to excessively subsidize them, or to subsidize them in a way, as net metering does, that’s going to produce a pushback.”
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Dissecting Jesse Livermore’s Century Mark Rule – Part 3 By Dr. Chris Kacher & Gil Morales, Managing Directors MoKa Investors, LLC One of the biggest big-stock names in the mid-2010’s, including the current market environment, has been Tesla (TSLA). The company, with its illustrious, visionary, and Twitter-wielding CEO Elon Musk has pushed the envelope of electric-car development, and this has in turn caught the imagination of investors who have either loved or hated the company. TSLA originally IPO’d in June of 2010 and had several fits and starts that went nowhere for a full 33 months before the stock finally broke out to the upside and began its now meteoric ascent. VirtueofSelfishInvesting.com first alerted members to the buyable gap-up move in May of 2013, which correctly identified the start of a rapid price move higher from that point. At that time the general market was also starting to emerge from a prior six-month consolidation phase, so the stock had the general market’s wind at its back, so to speak. Following the initial buyable gap-up, TSLA made a rapid move up through the $100 price level in late May 2013. On May 28th, it opened at 101.55, made an intraday low of 100.30 and closed at 110.75. The next day it opened at 113.55 and logged an intraday high of 114.90 before selling off. If Jesse Livermore was looking for Anaconda Copper in 1907 to rally from 300 to 340 “in a jiffy,” a roughly 13% move, then TSLA, after pushing through $100, did precisely that in late May 2013. The net move from the $100 price level was 14.9%, but the best one could have done based on where the stock traded was 14.6%, with something closer to 10-13% a more realistic outcome for a real-time trader. Eventually TSLA cleared the $200 Century Mark price level on February 11, 2014. It spent several days moving back and forth, above and below the 200 price level before finally gapping higher on February 20th. The stock then rallied to a high of 265, thanks to a positive earnings report from TSLA on February 24th. In this case, the Century Mark Rule worked again. However, from a practical standpoint anyone taking a position near the $200 price level might have been stopped out or may have simply chosen not to gamble on earnings. Thus, this application of Jesse Livermore’s Century Mark Rule gets partial credit for success. Currently, in April of 2017, TSLA is attempting to push up through the $300 Century Mark. So far it has made two unsuccessful attempts at decisively clearing the 300 price level. At the time of this writing it is making a third attempt following a continuation pocket pivot posted on Thursday, April 13th. It remains to be seen whether TSLA will move substantially higher from here. However, with earnings coming up in about 2-3 weeks, there is always the potential for an earnings-driven gap-up move. For those who read this well after the date of this publication, it is still instructive to see how TSLA played out. Next, in Part 4, we look at Nvidia (NVDA) as another example of Jesse Livermore’s Century Mark Rule in action.
Minor mag. 2.6 earthquake - 024 Km S 18° W of Kiblawan (Davao Del Sur) (Philippines) on Sunday, 15 December 2019 15 Dec 17:40 UTC: First to report: PHIVOLCS after 16 minutes. Local time at epicenter: 16 December 2019 - 01:24 AM (PST) Depth: 23.0 km Epicenter latitude / longitude: 6.6°N / 125.26°E (Philippines) Nearest volcano: Matutum (33 km / 21 mi) Nearby towns and cities: 3 km (2 mi) SE of Kiblawan (pop: 4,500) 7 km (4 mi) SW of Malinao (pop: 2,300) 9 km (5 mi) S of Matanao (pop: 7,200) 65 km (41 mi) SW of Davao (pop: 1,212,500) 107 km (66 mi) SE of Malingao (pop: 1,122,000) 113 km (70 mi) SE of Budta (pop: 1,273,700) Primary data source: PHIVOLCS Estimated released energy: 5 x 108 joules (139 kilowatt hours, equivalent to 0.12 tons of TNT) [learn more] Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision. \|Time\|\|Mag. / Depth\|\|Location\|\|Source\| \|16 December 2019 - 01:24 AM (PST) (15 Dec 17:24:00 UTC)\|\|M 2.6 / 23 km\|\|024 Km S 18° W of Kiblawan (Davao Del Sur) (Philippines)\|\|PHIVOLCS\| User reports for this quake User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale.At magnitude 2.6, this quake might have been felt very close to the epicenter and under calm conditions.
If your business is expanding and you are considering forming a corporation, you obviously have a long list of things you need to go over to make sure the transition is smooth from your current sole proprietorship or partnership. One of the best things you can do for yourself and your company in this situation though would be to hire a corporate lawyer to help you with said transition and the days that follow. - Motorcycles are a fun and exciting way to get around, but can be dangerous to drive if you aren't safe. For example, you may injure a passenger by driving too fast and getting into an accident. However, there are defenses you can utilize to protect yourself in this scenario. Passengers In A Motorcycle Accident May Sue The Driver Injuries caused to a passenger in this type of motorcycle accident are often considered the fault of the driver. - Jumping on a trampoline is both one of the most exciting and dangerous leisure activity for kids. However, just because it's dangerous, doesn't mean that you have no legal course for redress if your kid should get injured in a trampoline. Here are some of the people who may be liable for your child's trampoline injuries: The Owner of the Trampoline In most cases, the owner of a trampoline has the responsibility of protecting other people from being injured by the trampoline. - After you have been injured in a car accident, you are likely to consider hiring an attorney to get the maximum amount of compensation you are entitled to. Part of this compensation will be for medical expenses. Some of this compensation will be for things unrelated to medical expenses such as a loss of income. But one area of compensation that many people are concerned with is pain and suffering. And although you may be entitled to it, there are a few things you should understand. - If you are getting ready to go through a divorce, you'll need to create a separation agreement with your spouse. This is the document that contains all of the decisions about key things that will be resolved after your divorce is finalized. Here are some items that you and your separation agreement lawyer should include in this document. Property Division All joint marital assets need to be divided in order for your divorce to be finalized.

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