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Design for Serendipity
There's no better feeling than those moments of unexpected inner delight. Like how you caught gaze of your true love, came across a childhood treasure at a yard sale, unintentionally came across a precious memory, or even connected with an insight that answered your dreams. These moments create internal warmth and they come only from unexpected joy and zero expectations.
So what if we could design these moments? Design love at first sight?
In the digital age, what if we could use technology to create these serendipitous moments for us? The moment that is so simple, yet it has unexpected randomness that emulates the moment of nice surprise.
With the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn, e-mails, Twitter, Amazon, Google, blogs and more, we have immersed ourselves into digital ecosystems that support our physical lives – each with a unique purpose. Yet one of the most undervalued aspects of these networks is data. The data that each collates on us, the data that allows for an intimate understanding of who we are, our tendencies, behaviour patterns, likes and dislikes.
While these things may make for an interesting hobby for the digital stalker, they offer an opportunity to bring context and insight to our lives more frequently than ever before. We've all experienced these moments before. In its most basic form, social networks use triangular analysis to suggest new connections, such as a long lost friend from college.
On the darker side of the digital world, things such as Facebook's advertising capitalise on these insights and invade your privacy to create hyper-targeted advertisements and thereby, dramatically increasing the impact of adverts. However, this could possibly remove unnecessary clutter from our lives. If a mutual understanding can be established and used for a greater cause, even advertising could eventually become truly insightful.
Connecting People
One of my recent favourite mobile applications is Ban.jo which aims to connect people in the physical world by looking at the location- based data from social networks and creating a virtual map. And because of this, I've experienced several moments being notified a friend is nearby. These spontaneous catch-ups to me are precious, serendipitous. Similarly, Amazon is able to develop insights into your preferences based on your browsing patterns, wish
lists and purchase history. The suggestions feature can help you discover products you may not even have previously considered.
Designing powerful serendipitous moments that have the power to inspire, please or warm those that experience them – through technology – can be difficult under normal circumstances. This is because the most impactful details are often hidden in subtle details like body language or casual behaviour. Nonetheless, in a world where data scientists can create magic from data, even the finest of details may seem valuable because our digital lives tell a lot about who we are, and what we potentially are.
However, do note that serendipity cannot work without complexity or effort. Yet ironically, it must be created in ways that are highly disguised to the individual. Therefore, this is where simplicity marries its values with data driven insights – a match made in digital heaven.
n. Finding something good without looking for it.
In life, such serendipitous moments may happen by luck or via forces that human beings cannot comprehend. In the digital world those moments need to be intentionally designed. The key to creating serendipity is to design with deep user insight, simplicity and emotional connection.
Deep User Insight
– design to solve unmet needs
In order to create a 'desirable' experience as a nice surprise, a deep understanding of users' needs is a must. The more you know about the person, you are likely to know what will nicely surprise them. Get to know users not only through the facts, but also soft factors such as personalities, aspiration, and behaviour. Marry data driven insights as well as behavioural and needs-driven insights.
Design for Simplicity
– lower expectations
Falling in love at first sight comes when you don't expect it. That's why that moment feels more magical.
In user experience design, when things are small with only a few visual elements, the human brain lowers expectations about how the object functions. When you have no or low expectations, it is likely that you are reacting to something more positively. You will be more amazed at what an iPod Nano can do in its tiny body and with a few buttons than a home entertainment system that comes with big hardware and a remote control with many buttons. This is when smart visual design plays a critical role. By smartly hiding or embedding information on the visual surface, we can lower users' expectation.
"The more you know about the person, you are likely to know what will nicely surprise them"
Eliminate Efforts
We don't feel rewarded when we get a gift redemption letter from a credit card company with a long list of instructions on how we should go about redeeming that gift. It involves too much effort. In the digital world, such efforts appear as a number of clicks, level of complexity/amount of information on screen. While steps need to be as short as possible (like Amazon's 'one click'), all other aspects of information design (content, visual, structure) need to eliminate the actual and perceived efforts too.
Design to Emotionally Connect
The final stage of designing simplicity is to create an emotional connection. Research by the neurologist Donald Calne revealed in his book, Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior (1999) that people are rational, and the essential difference between emotions and reasons is that emotion leads to action, while reason leads to conclusions. If we don't make an emotional connection to users, we are unlikely to lead them to an action. Learn from how the 'real world' creates an emotional connection, just like how Amazon is designed to emulate my friend who knows me very well, and it became a trusted advisor in choosing a great book for me. Instagram made my life simple, as it became my analogue camera that turns my dry digital images into how I love my pictures to be.
So, it is true. We can design love at first sight and many other serendipitous moments by marrying deep user insight, simplicity and emotions – a match made in digital heaven.
Scott Bales is chief mobile officer at Moven. Jin Zwicky is vice president of experience design at OCBC Bank.
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LOS ANGELES — XBIZ is pleased to announce plans for an unprecedented lineup of specialty workshops for the XBIZ 2016 events series scheduled for Jan. 12-15.
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The formal dining room: it's (unfortunately) losing popularity in new homes, but there's nothing like a separate, elegant room for special occasions and fancy dinners […]Read more
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AISD's bond program is focused on one thing. Our students.
The Construction Management department is an integral part of the process of Reinventing the Urban School Experience. Since 2004, nearly $1,353,000,000 in bond appropriations has ensured our students receive a first class education through the rehabilitation efforts and upgrades given to our 138 schools.
Improvements to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) increase air quality and help to lower rates of asthma, which can be linked to improved student performance. Improvements like these also save taxpayers money by lowering energy costs.
Curricular changes are driving technology upgrades, library improvements, and the inclusion of maker spaces allowing for project-based learning and enriched learning environments.
As building construction and rehabilitation technologies evolves, so must we. As curricular advancements are adopted by our staff, so must we. As our community needs change, so must we. Which is why since 2004, Austin ISD's systematic repairs, upgrades, and additions are designed to support learning outcomes and ensure equitable distribution of resources across the district.
With your help we are able to Reinvent the Urban School Experience as our students receive a world-class education right here in Austin.
In May 2013, voters approved a $489.7 million bond program to support technology, transportation and energy conservation, and address critical renovations and improvements at facilities across the district.
The largest portion of the program includes $349.1 million for repairs and renovations to aging schools (the average age is over 40 years), including replacing old air conditioning and plumbing and fixing leaky roofs. This portion includes work at every school in the district.
View all current 2013 Bond Program projects by facility.
In 2004, voters approved a $519.5 million school bond program to alleviate overcrowding, keep up with Austin's growth, and improve the quality, safety, and sustainability of AISD's facilities, and in 2008, voters approved a $343.7 million bond program allowing the district to meet legislative requirements, fund new investments in technology and construct a district-wide performing arts center. The majority of the original projects from The Apple at Work Bond Programs, as they are known, are complete with one ongoing project, the purchase of land for a south high school. Past bond program overview for 2004 and 2008 bond programs.
On October 28, 2013, the Board of Trustees appointed volunteer citizens to the Community Bond Oversight Committee (CBOC) to ensure the projects remain faithful to the voter-approved bond program scope of work and to monitor and ensure the bond projects are completed on time, with quality and within budget. For more information about the CBOC, including a list of the members and meeting agendas and materials, visit the CBOC page.


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When is competition good for your business? When your rival makes your common niche more profitable. That's what's happening these days to premium hamburger joints Five Guys and In-N-Out Burger -- and the same idea applies to plenty of other famous rivalries as well.
The twin premium burger chains are examples of the rising fast-casual market, which also includes Tex-Mex guru Chipotle Mexican Grill
To wit, Five Guys founder Jerry Murrell tells TheStreet.com that he loves the competition: "In-N-Out Burger just opened up in Dallas and when they opened up our business almost doubled. We help them and they help us. [...] The more In-N-Out grows, the better it is for us. It creates a better image for the industry."
And what a booming market it is: Shares of mid-cap Chipotle have more than tripled over the last two years as it rapidly expands its store network, while mid-cap Panera more than doubled. Fellow quick-gourmet restaurateurs Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
What a novel idea!
What's good for the goose is gold for the gander. If you love one premium foodie, chances are you'll check out some other ones -- and maybe become a regular there, too.
This is not the first time a pair or even a gaggle of competitors work side by side to create a new market with exponential growth. The most recent example is in smartphones, where Apple
One platform would never have grown the smartphone market as quickly as the duopoly has done. Gift baskets should be shuttling between Mountain View and Cupertino on a regular basis, thanking each other for all the help. This is why all the talk about "iPhone killers" is so ridiculous: Nobody is trying to kill anybody else here, and it would be counterproductive to try.
This opera plays out on the turnpike leading into every new business model. Whether it's top-notch fast food, premium phones, or business intelligence software, the market grows faster amid heavy competition than with one behemoth doing it all.
Exploiting the idea
The real trick for us hungry investors is to pinpoint which stocks stand to benefit the most in a co-opetition situation like the "better burger" sector. That means separating the chaff from the wheat (or the gristle from the meat) and buying into the best of breed before every other investor figures it all out.
That's one reason why data mining specialist Teradata
To learn more about Teradata and its co-opetitive genius, you should click here to download a free report on that very topic. What you read there might even make you appreciate the genius of your favorite burger joint more. This report is 100% free -- what are you waiting for?
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PEY-ART met with hotel managers through 25th Hotel Equipment Exhibition.
Pey-Art exhibited in the 25th Anfas International Hospitality Industry Equipments Exhibition that was held between January 22-25 2014. Pey-Art introduced landscape design and applications, structural implementation projects, games and sports fields, musical water show and animations, artificial rock implementation, luminary, laser, water and sound applications in the exhibition that was held in Antalya Exhibition Centre Expo Center.
PEY-ART co-founder Yasar Isbilen said that the basis working group of Pey-Art is hotels, that's why they exhibited in Hotel Equipment Exhibition. "Purchasing managers, general managers and executives of hotels constitute our target audience," Yasar Isbilen added. Isbilen continued as follows; "Structures cannot be without environment, there are also environmental materials within hotel inputs. As PEY-ART, we aim to remind ourselves to the senior hotel executives and show that we are an ambitious company."


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"Long-distance teleportation has been recognized as a fundamental element in protocols such as large-scale quantum networks and distributed quantum computation," the research team wrote in the paper , which is yet to be peer-reviewed. "However, the previous teleportation experiments between distant locations were limited to a distance on the order of 100 kilometers, due to photon loss in optical fibers or terrestrial free-space channels."
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Although this study is only a proof of concept, quantum technology hasn't got far to go until these systems are workable says Prasanta Panigrahi , who led the study at the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research in Kolkata. Even existing five-qubit quantum computers – like the one used in this experiment – could eventually be used to issue and verify quantum cheques, he says. But for now, these kinds of transactions can't be scaled to a wide population and they aren't exactly the most convenient way of moving cash.


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Samhain Publishing, $5.50, ISBN 1-60504-236-6
Fantasy Romance, 2008
Were not for the fact that the author is fond of the words "cock" and "throb", it'd be easy to imagine that The Englor Affair is a heterosexual romance rather than a steampunk gay romance. We have a shy, hesitant fellow paired with a more experienced been-around-the-block type and the dynamics of that relationship feel distressingly familiar.
In this one, we have our macho fellow in Simon Hollister, a prince who moans about having to dance and mingle with marriage-obsessed debutantes on his planet Englor when he's not calling folks who frown on same-sex affairs "close-minded". He is also a Marine Colonel. Your quintessential "nobleman/soldier/rake" archetype, in other words. Payton Townsend, the prince of the planet Regelence where same-sex relationships are accepted as normal, is also playing the soldier, although being the designated "wife" fellow, he is naturally shy, awkward, et cetera. He is aiding Nate Hawkins, whom you may remember as the big brawny designated husband character in My Fair Captain, in the man's search for Nate's wife-with-penis boyfriend Aiden when Simon meets Payton and sparks fly. Of course, there are political intrigue and enemies abound to make the path to a happily ever after a bumpy one.
This is an interesting read in that while I can certainly appreciate the readability of this story, I am not sure whether I should admire or sigh at how well this story captures the essence of some people's argument that the current state of gay romance can resemble the "girls with penises" phenomenon too much. Ms Langley however also demonstrates that an author can write such story where a damsel is merely fitted with a penis to turn the whole story into a gay romance and still make that story readable and even enjoyable. The characters here are likable and the story is well-paced.
It's just that I also find that the abundance of clichés makes it a disappointing read in many ways. The characters are stereotypes, the setting can be too much of a Steampunk 101 for Dummies at times, and I could do without some of the more intrusive preachy affirmative action sentiments in the story as well. I was hoping for something more imaginative and magical, and instead I get stereotypes reenacting a "let's stick a penis on the woman and call her a gay man" Regency romance transported wholesale to space, sigh.
The Englor Affair is, at the end of the day, a solid and entertaining read that is also at the same time disappointingly ordinary.


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Tucked away in the corner, to the Northwest of Australia is a little paradise Vanuatu, that should be visited by all. For the adventurous, the romantic, the laid back…it has all the experiences to offer. One can go backpacking all alone or even enjoy a family holiday.
There are great deals available for Vanuatu holiday packages. Immerse yourself in this peaceful haven and make it your own while on a holiday.
Port Vila
This is the largest city, and also the capital of Vanuatu. If one is traveling by air, or taking any Vanuatu holiday package then you are bound to touch this city, as the only main airport is in Port Vila. There are plenty of little markets that one can spend time in around the city. From fresh fruits to vegetables, to jewellery and clothes. This is also a good place to buy little souvenirs to take back home when exiting the country. A lot of artisans make hand made crafts and sell in these markets, native wooden works, which are rare to find else where.
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Take a day trip on one of the Vanuatu holiday packages and experience a once in a lifetime chance to get up close and personal with a volcano. Yes, you read that right, a live volcano, with hot molten lava strewing from within. Any Vanuatu holiday package offers a tour of Mt Yasur. One gets an thrill of a lifetime. Make sure you take an excellent camera to capture some of the most amazing shots one could ever see. Make sure to play it really safe and abide by the rules, when climbing atop the volcano.
Hideaway Island
This is a nice little getaway if you like to be away from the hustle and bustle of the city life, and want to enjoy some peace and quiet. One can include in the Vanuatu holiday package activities like snorkeling and diving. This can also be made as a day trip, if you do not wish to stay too long on the island away from the people for too long. A romantic lunch can be organized, or a nice brunch barbecue along with some refreshing cocktails could also do the trick. Either ways, it will relax and ease your senses, just what a holiday is supposed to do.
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Things To Do in StellenboschStellenbosch Botanical Gardens
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Where? Botanical Gardens, Cnr Van Riebeeck & Neethling Street, Stellenbosch.
When? Daily from 08h00 to 17h00. Closed on some public holidays.
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How much? Falls into price group R1 to R100 per person. Confirm with the provider.
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The Stellenbosch Botanical Garden is the oldest university botanic garden in South Africa. The Garden is beautifully maintained and includes three glass houses (tropical-, succulent- and karoo houses), Lotus lily / Koi fish pond, Japanese Garden, Herb Garden and arboretum.
The garden is widely regarded as an open-air laboratory and serves as a centre for training, science, conservation and recreation. For this purpose rare plants have been imported from all over the world. This Botanical Garden, a mostly undiscovered gem in the historical centre of Stellenbosch, gives joy to all its visitors. The garden is small and compact, but time and again visitors are surprised by the atmosphere and the variety of plants and plant products found here.
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For a first hand review and lots of photographs of the Gardens, see our article at Stellenbosch Botanical Garden.
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Seventy years after the week in which the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt shocked the nation and the world, it is easy enough to imagine the loss of America's longest-serving and most-transformative president as history.
But FDR understood the American story as that of a long struggle characterized by old fights on new grounds. "In our own land we enjoy indeed a fullness of life greater than that of most nations," he said. "But the rush of modern civilization itself has raised for us new difficulties, new problems which must be solved if we are to preserve to the United States the political and economic freedom for which Washington and Jefferson planned and fought."
The way to "reaffirm the faith of our fathers" Roosevelt argued, as he sought and won his greatest electoral victory in 1936, was "to restore to the people a wider freedom."
"That very word freedom, in itself and of necessity, suggests freedom from some restraining power," FDR explained, in his "Rendezvous With Destiny" speech to the Democratic National Convention of 1936; he continued:
In 1776 we sought freedom from the tyranny of a political autocracy—from the eighteenth-century royalists who held special privileges from the crown. It was to perpetuate their privilege that they governed without the consent of the governed; that they denied the right of free assembly and free speech; that they restricted the worship of God; that they put the average man's property and the average man's life in pawn to the mercenaries of dynastic power; that they regimented the people.
And so it was to win freedom from the tyranny of political autocracy that the American Revolution was fought. That victory gave the business of governing into the hands of the average man, who won the right with his neighbors to make and order his own destiny through his own government. Political tyranny was wiped out at Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.
Since that struggle, however, man's inventive genius released new forces in our land which reordered the lives of our people. The age of machinery, of railroads; of steam and electricity; the telegraph and the radio; mass production, mass distribution—all of these combined to bring forward a new civilization and with it a new problem for those who sought to remain free.
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital—all undreamed of by the Fathers—the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.


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"I love her completely. She returns the love wildly. This love is worth the unsaid truths. The hidden lies."
I'm not sure where to being with reviewing Black Lies, so what I write might not make much sense. This book involves three people in a relationship yet I would not classify it as a love triangle, exactly. Black Lies is…different. The story is twisted, and it will definitely play tricks on your mind.
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The book will keep you guessing. It will have you questioning all the characters and their motives. You will come up with all these theories in your head at what "the secret" might be. You may guess right and you may guess wrong.
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Since first installing the brakes a spring has been missing off one of the pads which means the passenger side calliper rattles. I decided to switch from the jurid to ATE pads – the ATE's bite a bit better initally than the jurids – something I've found on my daily drivers. Also the ATE pads are OE for E46 / E9x.
A few bits of rust, here under the drivers door:
Chipped off, brushed and some rust remedy:
Sprayed with rollbar and chassis paint, you can see the hole in powder coat but I'd rather this than have the surface rust carry on creeping:
The wing mounts had also started to rust, so took these off while the wheels were off for the pad change. Also cleaned up any chips in the powder coat on the front suspension:
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NEW YORK — Derek Jeter didn't want the night to end.
The retiring captain gave New York one more win with a big hit, then took two trips out to shortstop, waving to the adoring crowd each time following his final home game at Yankee Stadium.
Soon after his game-winning single in the ninth inning sent the Yankees over Baltimore 6-5 Thursday, Jeter said that he played his last game at the position. He said he would only serve as designated hitter in his final three games in Boston this weekend.
"I want to take something special from Yankee Stadium," Jeter said in a news conference shown on the center field video board, with many fans still in their seats. "The view from shortstop here tonight is what I want to take."
As if on cue, Jeter began his last game in pinstripes with a double and ended it with another amazing moment in a career full of them.
"You can't even dream this stuff up," manager Joe Girardi said.
He was embraced by his teammates near second base as his Core Four buddies — Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada — came onto the field along with former manager Joe Torre.
"Sort of an out-of-body experience," Jeter said.
Jeter pointed and waved to the crowd as he walked out to the position he manned for 20-seasons. In an image seen before nearly every one of his 1,391 games at Yankee Stadium, Jeter faced the outfield and crouched down for a moment of reflection.
He then answered a few questions, said hello to his family who moved to the front row near the Yankees dugout for the final two innings, and greeted the teammates he won five World Series championships with.
Once more he took a slow walk across the diamond, covering his face with a towel several times and waving to the crowd as they chanted his name and "Thank you, Jeter!"
All across the majors, players saluted the 40-year-old star.
"Wow," Boston slugger David Ortiz said, breaking into a grin and shaking his head after the Red Sox beat Tampa Bay. "That's him. Perfect. It was unbelievable."
Moments after Detroit beat Minnesota to move a step closer to winning the AL Central, the Tigers' clubhouse at Comerica Park came to a near-standstill in the aftermath of Jeter's winning hit. Many players simply stood in silence and watched the postgame scene unfolding in New York on TV.
"You could see it coming when the inning started," reigning AL Cy Young winner Max Scherzer said. "We were sitting in the lunchroom. It was like, 'Jeter's hitting third. He's going to walk it off.' We knew it."
Jeter hit a double off the top of the left-center field wall in the first inning.
"Did you expect any less?" Pettitte said.
With a packed house cheering his every move from the moment he ran out to stretch, and some tickets going for $10,000 each, Jeter's farewell in the Bronx began on time after a dreary day.
The retiring 40-year-old New York shortstop waved to fans in the box seats as he came to the on-deck circle in the first inning. After a standing ovation that lasted nearly a minute, he launched a long drive that just missed being a home run.
Sitting in a suite, Jeter's dad stood and cheered as the ball banged off the wall for an RBI double.
The drive off Kevin Gausman, who was 4 when Jeter made his debut in 1995, was the 3,462nd hit of No. 2's career, good for sixth on the career list. Jeter wound up scoring on a grounder as the crowd roared once again.
"It didn't surprise me," Pettitte said on the Yankees' telecast.
The final player to wear a single-digit number for the Yankees was coincidentally playing his final home game on the 46th anniversary of Mickey Mantle's last game in the Bronx, played across the street at the old stadium.
The Yankees showed several tribute videos to Jeter on the center field video board and Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" played just before gametime. Many other former teammates gave video tributes between innings.
The captain led the team out of the dugout — as usual — and the cheering began in earnest — rarely letting up when Jeter was on the field. He took several deep breaths when he settled in at shortstop and waved to the crowd before the first pitch.
Not everything was perfect for the player with a charmed 20-season career and five World Series championships.
The Bleacher Creatures roll call was interrupted just as they got to a thunderous chant of "De-rek Je-ter!" That's when Baltimore's Nick Markakis led off the game with a home run, but Jeter still waved to the crew out in right-center field. Alejandro de Aza nearly silenced the crowd by connecting again.
But as they have throughout the Yankees' final homestand, nearly 50,000 fans stood in unison, with their camera lights shining and began cheering as a recording of longtime public address announcer Bob Sheppard's introduction of Jeter played ahead of his first at-bat.
"I've been a Yankee fan since I was in second grade. I'm originally from New York. I was there for all of the World Series from the '90s through 2001 and then I moved to Denver," said Jim Deak, 46, who flew in from Colorado. "He's the greatest Yankee I've ever witnessed."
Jeter grounded to shortstop to end the second. In the field, he made a nifty grab to start a double play — with help from replay review. He ranged behind second base to field Adam Jones' bouncer and flipped to Stephen Drew to start the turn.


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Erin Andrews will be co-hosting ABC's "Dancing With The Stars," replacing Brooke Burke-Charvet.
"Very excited! I have HUGE shoes to fill," Andrews wrote on Twitter on Monday.
Andrews competed for the Mirror Ball Trophy with Maksim Chmerkovskiy in 2010 and finished in third place. But in her second go-round with the show, which begins its 18th season on March 17, she'll be a fixture alongside longtime host Tom Bergeron.
Andrews already works as a reporter for Fox Sports (after a much ballyhooed transition from ESPN) and said she plans to remain in the position.
And yes, I'm still a part of the @FOXSports family..it will be a BUSY fall..getting tips from @michaelstrahan on how to balance it 🏈💃
— Erin Andrews (@ErinAndrews) February 24, 2014
(During football seasons, Strahan, the New York Giants Hall of Famer, juggles his regular job as co-host of the morning show "Live With Kelly and Michael" with a broadcasting assignment on "Fox NFL Sunday.")
As Reuters pointed out, Andrews' hiring follows sinking ratings on DWTS. In November, viewership for the season finale fell to its lowest in the history of the celebrity ballroom competition.
We have one suggestion for a ratings boost: How about inviting the Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman to dance? If a post-routine interview with Andrews can top the player's rant after the NFC Championship game, it could be a Nielsen bonanza.


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Curriculum Alignment with a Mission of Social Change in Higher Education
Institutions of higher education frequently acknowledge their role in contributing to the common good through their mission statements. The current literature suggests that in order to be effective mission statements must be clearly articulated and reflected in all the activities of the institution including its curriculum. Faculty members at Walden University developed a Curriculum Guide for Social Change that could serve as a tool for reviewing current course offerings and developing new courses to reflect its mission of "creating positive social change." Those involved in piloting the Guide report on the process in this article. The general consensus is that it was time-consuming and frequently subjective; but the Guide gave substance to the institution's mission, opening the way for its fuller implementation.
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Inspiration for our renewed Self chec website came from my new car and the"15 second rule". Are you scratching your head yet?
When my child was born she didn't come with a how-to user parenting guide. Neither did I. My car came with one as well as the computer I just bought. Yet, the most complex of all machines, our own bodies, don't. It made no sense to us. So we decided to create our own "being a healthy human" guide.
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|The World's Fastest Processor.
Just so you have quite a basic, very simplistic idea, I'd like to share with you some of the facts that happen on the Internet every 60 seconds, that is, every single minute:
- 88,000 Skype calls are made.
- 2.66 million Google searches are performed.
- Almost 139 million emails are sent.
- People watch around 5 million videos on YouTube.
- 571 Web pages are created.
- 433,000 tweets are sent, and ...
- 293,000 status updates are posted in Facebook.
If we were to measure it in Gigas, we would be totally overwhelmed by the number that comes out. Truly shocked!
Can you imagine what would happen if you were to consume all this information, or just a tiny part of it? Your indigestion would be phenomenal and surely would send you straight to the hospital.
Let's start by the beginning: Healthy mind, healthy body.
I'm quite sure that since you were just a little kid your parents probably repeated this phrase to you too more than once: "Healthy mind, healthy body". Not everything in life is about studying hard but also doing some sports. And it also works the other way around: Not everything in life is getting plenty of exercise, but also nourishing our knowledge"
And most of us have grown with this phrase deep in our minds: "Healthy mind, healthy body". The healthy body side of it, you understand quite easy: Not overdoing it with the food, always trying to maintain a healthy diet, doing some exercising regularly and avoiding bad habits. That's an easy one.
But... how do you maintain a "healthy mind"? Obviously, the first thing that comes to mind has to do with the information you consume, what goes in: You have to make sure you only "eat" high quality, healthy information and, of course, don't overdo it with the amount you consume.
Faced with such an overwhelming flood of information, the most important thing is to choose only the one which is really valuable.
And that's what I did over the last two weeks: Check thoroughly the sources of information from which I regularly feed myself to only keep those that add value to my life and discard those that do not.
It is an exercise I recommend you to perform as well: Spend a few hours, a few days or a few weeks, to make a thorough review of all sources you have as a reference, the blogs you regularly read, pages you visit, the emails that you receive, and keep only those which encourages, nourishes and enriches you.
Just as your body needs exercising, your brain needs it too.
Having already checked the quality of the information you consume, then we come to a point perhaps you've never paid attention to, just as it has happened to me: exercising your brain.
If you are an average human being, like most of us, probably you use 99.99% of your brain to processing information: taking training courses, reading books, writing, listening to podcasts, watching tutorials, speaking, listening ... therefore information coming in and going out.
Paying attention, solving problems and building memories are the fundamental operations your brain performs.
And all this information is being processed by your brain by performing three fundamental tasks: paying attention, problem solving and keeping memories of all information processed, and all this can be done in a flexible way and at such a lighting fast rate that I can not even name it because it's amazingly fast.
There are plenty of applications that can help you train your brain in these three basic tasks. Some are paid, some others free; some nicer than others. Finally, there is one for everybody.
I chose one called Lumosity (you'll find the link below) which I feel great with and highly recommend it. It comes with super simple exercises that increase their difficulty level as you go along and develop your own abilities, and so the game can become highly addictive.
But at this point, I invite you to make your own choice. The important thing to keep in mind is that your brain, like the rest of your body, can also be trained on its most elemental tasks and the most impressive thing is that, as you push yourself more, your brain increases its performance. Really an spectacular thing!
And finally: What can we do to take advantage of all that valuable information we would like to read and review, but do not have enough time for it?
Taking your reading speed a little further.
In my case, there are multiple blogs I read every day, both for my professional and personal lives. Therefore I largely depend on the speed with which I can read all the content available for me everyday.
After carefully checking the quality of all the sources I feed myself from, as I mentioned above, I still have a large list of sites and blogs I'd like to keep visiting regularly. And my concern was: What can I do to process all this information more efficiently and quickly? That's when I stumbled upon the term "Speed Reading".
Since I was a kid, I've always liked to read. As an student and a professional, I find reading not only to be an opportunity for continuous learning but also a great way to relax and focus my mind on other things. And surely like you, I thought I was reading at an interesting speed, until I learned I could go a bit further.
Being able to read and process the information we receive faster and more efficiently, is a very valuable skill.
Similarly, there are multiple platforms and programs that might help you with increasing your reading speed. As always, there are some better than others, and for tastes, colors. I came across one training course named "Super Reading", a very interesting program, with a very simple structure and requires only 7, 30 minute sessions in 7 consecutive days.
In any case, as I indicated to you with training programs for your brain, you can choose the one that better suits you.
I just wanted to share with you today all this information which has been an spectacular discovery for me: how you can make a more effective use of your brain, and faster process all information available in the web, and continue to feed yourself from the vast amount of information which is available through many different venues nowadays.
Below you'll find the corresponding links to everything I've mentioned above.
What happens on the Internet every 60 seconds? Infographic updated.
Lumosity: Your brain training program.
Super Reading: Speed reading and fast learning course.


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Some Judiciary members upset over non-payment of retro money
Some members of the judiciary are upset that the Government has failed to honour its promise to pay over millions of dollars in retroactive sums this month.
They say while they have received a long-awaited 10 per cent salary increase for the period 2011-2014, retroactive sums for the period 2009-2011 are still outstanding.
In July, the Regulations Committee of Parliament approved the payment of $260 million to cover retroactive sums for the period 2009-2011.
However, personnel in the judiciary say the money has not been paid and no explanation has been forthcoming from the Government.
They saysthey are growing tired of the government's tardiness.
According to them, the non-payment of the retroactive money is hampering the financial position of some members of the judiciary.
It is against that background they are calling for the matter to be addressed urgently.
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Forget luxury cruises or all-inclusive vacations. Long-distance walking trips are the new holiday choice for an increasing amount of North Americans. And it makes sense. So many of us spend our working hours sitting indoors in meetings or in front of a computer; a walking tour is the antithesis of a 9-5 job.
Most of us are not going to spend multiple months walking thousands of kilometers, such as the Pacific Crest Trail (à la Cheryl Strayed in her wilderness memoir Wild). But multiday hikes are available in most nations around the world, and some routes offer comfortable accommodations along the way. For instance, trekkers along England's National Trails and Spain's renowned Camino de Santiago stay in hostels and guesthouses. A long-distance walking trip is more accessible than you might imagine.
I'm about to set off on my first multi-week walking expedition, and in preparation I've been doing — excuse the pun — mountains of research. If you're also thinking about hitting the trail, here are ten vital items to start gathering.
(Disclaimer: This list is not exhaustive. For instance, you'll need food and water. However, the following items are meant to help novice long-distance walkers get a sense of what gear they will need before setting out.)
1) Backpack. The challenge is finding the right size: big enough for all your gear, food and water, but not much bigger than that. (It might also be one of the last things you get, once you assemble all your other gear.) I'll be carrying a men's Osprey Men's Aether 70, which continues to impress me with well-thought design features: hipbelt pockets, backpanel shaping, J-zip access to main compartment.
2) Shoes. A myriad of footwear options exist, and the easiest way to navigate through the options is to know what you need. Trekkers tackling technical feats, such as BC's West Coast Trail, should opt for a supportive boot that rises above the ankle. Folks walking along smooth terrain might opt for a lightweight pair of trail runners. Whatever you choose, make sure you break your footwear in before you leave!
3) Tent (or bivy sack). Select an appropriate tent for the trail you're hiking. Coastal or high-elevation hikers — even in summer months — might consider a four-season tent. In my case, I want to keep my bag as light as possible, so I've opted for the Outdoor Research Advanced Bivy.
4) Sleeping bag (with a compression sack). Sleep is important, so get something to keep you warm. If you get cold easily, like myself, I'd suggest finding out the coldest temperature forecasted on the trail, subtract another 10 degrees, and then opt for a model in that range. To minimize bulk, spending a few extra bucks for a compression sack is totally worth it.
5) Sleeping pad. The primary function of a sleeping pad is to provide insulation from the cold ground, but a good pad should be relatively comfortable. Inflatable pads are less bulky, but are vulnerable to leakages and punctures. The other option is a foam-based pad. I've had a three-quarter length Therm-a-Rest pad for years. The brand makes great products.
6) First Aid Kit. A supply of first-aid resources will vary depending on the type of trip. For desert treks, you might want extra sunscreen. For hilly hikes, extra blister bandages. Construct your own kit, or start with a basic adventure medical kit, and add any additional items you might need. Remember: it's better to be over-prepared than under-prepared.
7) Headlamp. It's much more convenient than a hand-held light. A headlamp also makes the perfect tool for hands-free reading at night.
8) Smartphone. In today's day and age, a smartphone is a digital jack knife. Locate yourself on a map. Call for help. Or snap a photo of the sunset. The only hitch, of course, is to ensure you're in an area with mobile coverage and that you have batter power. (The Brunton's Metal charger makes a good backup.)
9) Hat and sunscreen. Fairly self-explanatory. Over the years, I've grown to love mesh trucker's hats for their lightweight breathability. Find what works for you. (Tip: For sunny destinations, bring a scarf or neck tube for your ears and neck.)
10) Water-proof/wind-proof jacket. Many options exist on the market. Try on a variety of jackets, and see what fits you best. Ensure that there is space for both a base layer (such as this Icebreaker merino wool top) and a mid layer.
Finally, if you're curious where I'm going on my long-distance walking adventure, stay tuned to Altitude's blog and I'll be sharing more details from my trip (including my destination and reports on my gear) in the coming months.


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The Adventurers continue to inquire into connections within the realm of our natural world. This week we have been investigating how different organisms are connected together in the Tundra ecosystem. We have created research questions and then independently researched a different animal, insect or plant from that ecosystem. We have also created a beautiful giant mural of the Tundra outside Read full article »
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The Phoenixes meet the Whale Sharks.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157629929192665/ We were delighted to be invited to visit the Preschool Whale Sharks class with Ms. Nat on Monday morning. Two members of our team have siblings that are in the Whale Sharks class, so we were delighted to have the chance for them to connect with their families and for the rest opf us to spend some time collaborating with Read full article »
Planting Herbs.
We came back from our trip to Pacem Eco Park with nine new friends! Herb plants to be precise. We had two Dill plants, two Tarragon plants, Spearmint, regular Mint, Memory plant, Rosemary and Sugar plant. The following slideshow and captions tell the story of the Fiery Phoenixes' collaborative adventure to find the plants the right home and efforts to provide Read full article »
Fiery Phoenixes go to Pacem Eco Park in search of Interconnectedness.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157627711715739/ Our trip to Pacem Eco Park, Assumption College, Antipolo on Thursday was a great experience. We saw countless examples of local animal and plant species in addition to a number of foreign species. Our guides were knowledgeable and friendly. The Fiery Phoenixes seemed to really enjoy themselves and there were countless examples of student learning. Many children made significant links between the Read full article »
Are You the Forest King ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157627653909147/ This is the story of our classes' inquiry into the story of "Are You the Forest King?" by local Author Penny Reyes Velasco. Over the last week we have produced many child led responses both oral and written to this text, have made connections to scientific standards within our interconnectedness unit and developed our self directed plus connection/collaboration learning dispositions. Please Read full article »
Interconnectedness Vocab Inquiry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157627607891683/ For our inclusion lesson on Tuesday afternoon, the children and adults of Fiery Phoenix class investigated what some of the key words that feature prominently in our unit really mean. We used dictionary and I.T skills in our research. We recorded and presented our findings using technical vocabulary and our own words. You can see what we did by clicking Read full article »
Habitats Exploration.
On Wednesday morning the Fiery Phoenixes assembled in the CMC. There to greet us was Miss Pat and some of our Fiery Phoenix class parents along with our class room parent. Brilliant~! We needed to have as many people together as we could as we had a challenge ahead of us. The big idea of our unit is that... "Ecosystems can help Read full article »
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Investigating and understanding through numbers and mathematical ideas.
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Research, experiment, discover and understand scientific and human things in our world.


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Welcome to "EduTips"
UAA IT services will be to hosting two separate instances of the UAA Blackboard Learn system previous to completing the full upgrade. If you are interested in the full time line and process for this project please go to this website, Blackboard Winter Upgrade, for more information.
If you are a faculty member who will be creating/updating or revising course content using course content from Fall 2015 or previous courses to get ready for Spring 2016 this information pertains to you directly.
You will be able to transfer course data from the current instance to your Spring 2016 course templates using the EXPORT/IMPORT process. Essentially you will be logging into the Archive/old Bb Instance, exporting a copy of your chosen course data, saving it to your hard drive, and logging into the new New Bb Instance and importing your course data into the Spring 2016 template(s) of your choosing.
The detailed instructions here will guide you through the EXPORT/IMPORT process, including navigation to the new Bb server. Note that the process is similar to course copy. When you import course content Bb will add all your copied material to the bottom of the navigation bar and within any pre-populated content areas. Each course will still need to be reviewed for missing content, broken links and edited before going live to students.
Also, please note as some building blocks and tools have been updated in the new environment you will might receive "error" messages from the import process. To know if your course imported correctly please review your new course areas. If you find errors or missing content, you may need to rebuild those individual items.
Export/Import Instruction Set
Log into https://bbarchive.uaa.alaska.edu and navigate to the course you would like to copy to your Spring 2016 course shell.
Navigate to the Export/Import tools in Custom Management>Control Panel>Export/Archive Course and Import Package/View Logs. These are located on the left navigation area in your course shell
To begin, navigate to Course Management>Control Panel>Packages and Utilities>Export/Archive Course. [We are exporting and not archiving in this tutorial]
In this interface, select "Export Package." In this instance choose "Select All," then scroll down and find "Student Help," "Instructor Help,"Course Evaluation" and deselect them. They may be in a different location in your list.
All the content area and other boxes should be checked. Then select "Submit"
The system will give you the "Success" alert, as a green bar across the screen, and you will receive an email at your @uaa.alaska.edu account verifying this action is completed. [If you get a RED bar indicating an error, call IT Services 907-786-4646 for assistance]
You will now see the ExportFile listed in the window. This is a .zip file. To download this file and make it accessible to import into another shell, hover over the menu icon at the end of the file name and select "Open."
This will begin to download the .zip file onto your computer, normally this defaults to your "downloads" file. (Do not "unzip" this folder before importing it into your Spring 2016 course template.
This image indicates how the downloading file will appear in the bottom left of your screen, if using Google Chrome as your browser:
Step 2: Importing into the New Bb Environment
Navigate to the new Bb log in page at https://blackboard.uaa.alaska.edu and sign in with your current Bb credentials (UA Username & Password)
To IMPORT this file into another Blackboard shell, navigate to your selected Spring 2016 course and open it. Navigate to Custom Management>Control Panel>Packages and Utilities>Import Package/View Logs
In #2 select Browse My Computer and choose your downloaded Export file from it's location, in #3 choose "select all" and Submit. You will get a success indicator and an email that it has been successfully imported to your @uaa.alaska.edu email account.
NOTE: (11/24/2015) After several faculty have attempted this process we have found that each course copy export is taking several steps to fully import into the new course shells. You may get a success email and not yet see your content loaded into the left navigation area. Please try to log out of Blackboard, clear your browser history and log back in to see your content appear. Try logging out and back in to "reset" your server connection if you are seeing odd error messages as you edit your course.
Items from the import file will show up in the new course at the bottom of the new course's existing content areas. The imported content will not replace any existing items in the new shell, and no items will be removed. Once the import is complete use the Date Management Tool to adjust course dates and make sure to edit the Grade Center to clean up any unneeded columns.
Remember you may get a list of error messages in the import process in your email account. If you feel the import was unsuccessful or had additional technical errors please call UAA IT Services 907.786-4646 for additional assistance.


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When things go badly, everyone would like someone else to blame. And that's why scapegoating seems more prevalent than ever.
We live in a rapidly changing world, and by some very important measures, it's not changing for the better.
Consequently, whether people are educated or not, there is a growing sense of unease among many — "things are not the way they used to be."
If we could simply wave a magic wand to solve our economic, social, and ecological problems, everyone would, of course, be quite happy. But since these problems are not going to disappear anytime soon, one of the most reassuring psychological responses to the problems we face is scapegoating.
Being able to identify a certain group of people who are "responsible" for the problems we face is psychologically comforting — but it is also false.
My sense is that scapegoating has become increasingly widespread in both private and public discourse these days and is a major contributor to the breakdown in intelligent, civil dialogue. Sometimes, I feel, it is one of the most defining characteristics of the articles and comments I read online — including articles from the press.
The problem with scapegoating, though, is that it turns us away from reality, and the problems that really need to be addressed, by offering a psychological fantasy solution of "the people who really are to blame."
One of the crudest examples of this phenomenon is the idea that "Mexicans and illegal immigrants are ruining America." How ugly and irrational this rhetoric can become is reflected perfectly in some of the statements from Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Latino immigrants, Trump has generalized, are "rapists" and "criminals," "killers," and the Mexican government intentionally sends its criminals to the United States!
Now, if we could address this problem, we would once again make America great!
A similar yet less obvious type of scapegoating arose from the Occupy Wall Street movement, with its well-known theme of "the One Percent" (now capitalized) versus "the 99 percent" — surely a stark dichotomy if there ever was one.
While there are real issues of financial injustice (and criminal acts perpetrated by the banking industry) that we need to consider and respond to seriously, one of the terrible effects of "the One Percent" theme is the way that it operates as a perfect scapegoating mechanism.
But instead of "immigrants and Mexicans are destroying America," it's now "the rich are destroying the world."
Like all scapegoating mechanisms, the effect of this is to shut down genuine thought.
And one of the most bitter ironies of this situation is that the people who are most vocal about the evils of the "One Percent" are actually members of the One Percent!
In other words, if you make $35,000 a year, you actually belong to the top 1% of all wage-earners on a global basis. And it is precisely this super-rich group (on a global basis) that is most critical of the super-rich.
To some people, criticizing the super-rich is so psychologically comforting they overlook the fact that they themselves are part of the same elite. And instead, they complain about how even more wealthy people have "stolen" their wealth and are destroying the social fabric simultaneously.
A further part of this narrative is that "capitalism is evil" — even though the people who make this claim are, for the most part, the primary beneficiaries of capitalism.
Could some more benign economic system save the world?
Well, perhaps — but all economic systems at work in the world today are based on the foundations of capitalism, including the economies of the most highly taxed social democratic countries:
In short, people everywhere have private property, they have bank accounts and money, and they can start and run businesses.
This infrastructure is unlikely to change anytime soon, and the differences in economic systems are mainly in the details: some forms of capitalism are more friendly, and others less so. Some countries have much better social safety nets, medical systems, and so on. And, as most would-be reformers would agree (myself included), there are many improvements that can be made.
What is Being Overlooked in the Real World
It's not my intention here to defend capitalism, aside from making a very important point that virtually everyone else has consistently overlooked when they say that "capitalism is destroying the world."
So please try to consider the following point with as open a mind as possible:
Capitalism is not inherently destructive. What makes capitalism destructive in practice is the vast scale on which it operates today.
And this fact applies to any other economic system you could invent in today's world (aside from an economy that is ecologically regenerative, which is still not a widely known idea).
What this shows, in the end, is that the people who scapegoat capitalism and the One Percent are missing the real issue at hand.
While they might now feel better in having found someone to blame, they are overlooking the fact that all economic systems are going to be destructive at this point in time, simply because of human overpopulation and the scale of any world economy.
Because of overpopulation, any economic system as a whole will now place too many demands upon the biosphere.
Take a look at the chart below.
During the entire history of our planet, human population never exceeded the level of 1 billion people until around the year 1800. Since 1800, we have added 6 billion people. But during the twentieth century, human population quadrupled.
The problem with scapegoating is that it diverts our attention from the most pressing issues we need to face. But no one wants to face these issues because they make people feel uncomfortable and helpless.
A recently released study shows that over the last 40 years, human population on the planet doubled and the number of wild animals declined by 50 percent.
Yet no one really wants to discuss this or analyze what the real implications of these figures are.
In the end, it's so much easier to blame immigrants, Mexicans, migrants, capitalism, the One Percent, or fill-in-the-blank, for our various troubles.
Because once you have a scapegoat, your world becomes so much simpler, and you no longer need to think about the real issues that are destabilizing our world, and the continuing effects they will have in the coming decades.
But at least you will have a target for your anxiety, unease, and anger — and the uncomfortable feeling that "things are no longer the way they used to be."


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Upcoming Meetings
The Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council meetings have been scheduled from 3:30 pm until 7:00 pm on the following days. Meetings will be held at the Oakland Mills Meeting House in Columbia.
- Thursday, September 13, 2018
- Thursday, December 6, 2018
If you plan to attend a Council Meeting and would like to request accommodations, please notify the Council office at least 5 days in advance so that proper arrangements may be made.


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I am struggling to find good Google Chrome themes. I have somehow managed to find a few for this Sunday. So, if you know of any good themes, do let me know in comments!
As usual, click the image for the download page.
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