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I had the pleasure of interning last summer with Inés at a European policy journal in Brussels. I started my internship while Ines was on vacation, and was definitely intimidated when I went through past emails with article authors, as she seemed to be corresponding in perfect English, French and Spanish with everyone! I was immediately jealous and curious to know how this Spanish chick was hired to edit articles in the Queen's English.
Well, Inés comes back from vacation and ends up being the best co-trainee/trainer ever, full of knowledge and interesting stories. Turns out Inés is Spanish, but her mother worked for the EU so Inés had grown up her whole life in Brussels and attended international school in English. Her school days and school years were split up into English, French and Spanish, and she had attended "uni" in London, so she has this fantastically posh way of speaking English, but still says really American things like "buddummmm" for "but, ummm". Inés is now in Paris studying urban planning, so let's hope she keeps her Belgian roots and doesn't come back talking like an enculée de Parigot 😉
What's your name (accents, characters and all)
Inés Álvarez-Gortari Mínguez (yup, it sure is Spanish…)
Where were you born?
What languages do you speak? What's your mother tongue?
Spanish, English and French. Mother tongue is Spanish!
When/how did you learn to speak English (Colm, for you French)? Was it a hard and painful process?
Luckily completely painless – I got sent to an English kindergarten and even since then I've pretty much always followed an English-speaking education!
What language do you think in? Dream in?
Depends. I've noticed I'll start thinking in the language where I'm based. So when I lived in England I'd think in English, but when I spend a lot of time in Spain then the whole process changes to Spanish. Same thing happens when I'm dreaming!
What sort of things do you associate with your mother tongue?
Laughter, good food, family, loud noises and people shouting (we love to speak loudly in Spain)
What language do you feel most comfortable speaking in?
Are there certain things you can't feel you simply can't translate into English? Like what?
Some expressions come out when I'm frustrated or pissed off that simply can't be turned into English – like 'me cago en [insert noun]!' Makes me feel better when I say it in the heat of the moment!
Do your parents speak English? What do you speak with them? With your siblings?
I always speak with my whole family in Spanish.
Do you feel different when you speak your mother tongue?
I feel more like me.
Do you feel awkward speaking your mother tongue in front of your friends?
Do you think people who speak your mother tongue natively can see that you've spent a long time outside of that country? Do you think you sound foreign in your mother tongue now?
Nope – they have no idea I'm the little 'outsider' until they hear the life story. They all think I'm Madrileña when first meeting me!
Can you teach us a word/expression in your mother tongue? What does this mean and why did u choose it?
Mariposa – it means butterfly. Just like the way it sounds!
A naughty, naughty word please.
Cachondo – (can be interpreted in very different ways depending on the context ;))
A sexy word please.
Ay papi!
"Alice is awesome and I love her and miss her!"
Popular/rude(r) version: Alice es la hostia y la quiero y la echo de menos !
Politically correct version : Alice es super guay y la quiero y la echo de menos ! (BIG difference between 'la hostia' and 'super guay'…)
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — April 2, 2012 — Cerner, a developer of information management systems geared towards health care, held a gala awards ceremony to honor its clients in the Middle East that have effectively delivered quality solutions across four different categories at the first Cerner Excellence Awards.
The anticipated winners of the Cerner Excellence Awards were announced on April 1 at The Address Hotel in Dubai attended by more than 150 of the region's leading health care professionals.
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre was selected for the Best Demonstration of Patient Centered Outcomes award for developing a child abuse alert for their caregivers. Best Demonstration of Workflow Design Improvements for a Physician was awarded to Abu Dhabi Health Services Company for successfully implementing a single Cerner® PACS archive allowing the exchange of PACS images amongst all of their facilities.
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"Implementation and adoption of health care information technology (IT) can be challenging, but automation offers tremendous measurable benefits toward improved patient care and enhanced workflow processes. The successes of our clients are testament to this," said Greg White, vice president and managing director, Cerner Middle East and Africa.
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During the gala awards ceremony, Cerner presented its client King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in both Riyadh and Jeddah with prestigious awards for being the first organization in the Middle East to achieve HIMSS Stage 6 on the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.
The Cerner Excellence Awards was celebrated during the two day Regional User Group 2012 in Dubai, the annual Cerner event that gathers all its clients across the Middle East region.
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Is there any school that has languages classes for intermediate level to join? Sirada only operates during the week and I'd rather not have a private tutor. If there was a group to join that studied the 4 skills on the weekend that would be great. Anyone know of one?
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June 3, 2010 by Gary Coats
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Sen. David Thomas policy and communications director James Hicks, who was recently appointed to be a Greenville County magistrate, was nominated on April 28th, 2010, while he was still serving on Thomas' staff, according to documents we have received from the governors' office via a FOIA request.
According to the SC Judicial Department, no judge or candidate shall endorse or publicly oppose a candidate for office, makes speeches on the behalf of a candidate and many other stipulations. You can read more of the rules at the SC Judicial Department website.
What further drives questions into the nomination is the lead signature of David Thomas on the nomination form, Hicks employment with Thomas' law firm and the glaring omission of his involvement/employment with Thomas' congressional campaign.
It's not like Thomas' didn't know about his involvement, he was being paid by the campaign and sent out communications as late as May 14th, 2010.
We have outstanding calls with Thomas' congressional campaign and to Magistrate Hicks that have yet to be returned and have requested meeting minutes to determine who actually nominated Hicks from the Greenville Delegation meeting.
Spokesman Ben Fox told us yesterday that the Governor's office was consulting with their legal teams to determine what should be done with the appointment given the violations made by Hicks.
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We thought a lot about the logo for our shirts, and decided on the one you see in the blue circle above. Mashiach is a Jewish way to say Messiah, so basically the first two words are asking if Jesus is the Messiah. The last line in Hebrew script, says "Certainly!" (can also be translated "For sure!). The shirts are drawing lots of curiosity and especially from Israelis who see the Hebrew and come to talk to us.
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By Mike Bossy-September 4, 2017
It's the last long weekend of the summer and in the past I have always used this time to think about future things. Where do I want to go (the goals for the year) and how am I going to get there? But today the weather has caused me to be nostalgic. It's a humid, warm and windy fall-feeling day and I am remembering growing up on a tobacco farm.
I was fortunate enough to be raised by a loving family. A family that taught me independence. A family that taught me that the world did not owe me anything; I needed to set goals, rely on myself and work towards them. A family that proved through their own toils on the tobacco farm that hard work pays off. I am truly grateful.
While thinking about the weather, I coincidentally received an email from one of our former tobacco primers. He worked for us in the 1962 and 1963 harvest seasons and he was from Nahunta, Georgia. A lot of our help at the time came from there. He too was reminiscing about working for us and the positive influence my parents had on him. He reflected on the fact that whenever he asked my dad about the weather, my dad would always say "We will have weather all day."
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Anxiety? Hypnotherapy Helps
Anxiety, no matter what its cause, is an unpleasant feeling. It affects our mood, motivation, confidence, concentration and sleep. Anxiety is at the root of most problems, issues and life challenges that a hypnotherapist is asked to help with.
Cause of Anxiety
More often than not, anxiety has as its cause, fear. This fear is about the loss of something and that something might be status, respect, finances, a relationship, the home, job or other loss. Interestingly it is the anticipation of some event, whether it occurs or not, that brings the anxious feeling.
For example an office worker might hear gossip that there are going to be redundancies. He quickly realises that if he loses his job his financial status will deteriorate and he worries, frets and experiences anxiety.
Anxiety – The body Responds
Anxiety leads to increased hormonal production and in particular adrenaline. Adrenaline gets the body ready for action. The "fight or flight" syndrome kicks in. The muscles may tense, blood is drawn away from the digestive system (hence a loss of appetite is experienced) and the peripheral vision increases (hence the reduction in focusing ability.
This and many other examples are perceived threats to someone's lifestyle and status quo. Actual and perceived threats can result in the same anxiety. More often than not perceived changes never materialise and the anxiety, worry and fear dissipate.
For some though, the anxiety stays. For this person It's almost like they can't trust themselves or their world enough to be able to relax. They expect something to go wrong sooner or later and so they begin to worry about what next event will give them anxiety.
Social Phobia
Others learn to be anxious during certain experiences. Social phobia is the fear of being with people in certain situations. This anxiety might not be present if the social phobic is on familiar ground and only meeting one person. However anxiety can arise if they are invited to a new venue and they have to socialise with two or more people.
Anxiety from phobias are learnt responses and can be unlearned.
Anxiety, Hypnotherapy Helps
Hypnotherapy is particularly effective at helping to uncover the cause of a person's anxiety. Then through the teaching of self-hypnosis, the previously anxious person can learn a relaxation technique to control, reduce and resolve the links to experiences, perceptions and anxiety.
Hypnotherapy for anxiety is one of the most popular issues any hypnotherapist has requests to help with.
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I hope that everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather and all of the benefits of living in the Wawasee area. Work is progressing toward a fall of 2017 opening of a new Syracuse Elementary School. Both Milford School and Wawasee High School have renovation projects scheduled on areas of their buildings. Have a great time with school and family activities!
This fall begins a second school year of 1 to 1 computer devices. All students are learning so much individually and together with their devices.
We are now well acquainted with the Skyward program for student management of class schedules, lunches, communications, and grade reports. Every year shows us more ways that the information can assist students, parents, and teachers.
Robotics is being incorporated in grades 3-8 again this school year, in addition to a WHS course. Robotics clubs are in every WCSC school. This program provides new and exciting opportunities for our students.
At Wawasee, we continue to pride ourselves on preparing students for their future. From vocational programs, to dual college credit, to a wide variety of experiences that guide students to settle on a career path, our students are ready. We have had this goal in place since they were in early childhood.
Thanks for your support. With everyone's encouragement, assistance, and care, we work together for your child's future.
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In this article we want to have a look at present wine market prices by region and appellation from the point of view of the Wine.com website catalog. We will use Python-based libraries such as
Pandas and
The Data Journalism technical topics we will cover in this article include:
- How to retrieve data from a web API, the Wine.com Developer API in our case.
- How to work with JSON formatted data, including:
- How to get it from a HTTP requestresult into Python data structures.
- How to write into a text file.
- How to read it back.
- How to put it into a Pandas data frame.
- How to perform data aggregations on our data in order to calculate statistics by appellation.
- How to generate interactive visualisations from the previous results, using
Hopefully you will find this article interesting but, overall, you will learn the techniques we use here in order to apply them to your own data journalism projects. And hey, maybe after that you will be a bit more wine knowledgeable and a better buyer!
You can find the associated IPython/Jupyter notebook in our Data Journlism with Python GitHub repository.
Getting Wine.com API data
In this notebook we will use Wine.com Developer API in order to get a catalog of products we can later use for different analysis. We will use Python's library Requests to retrieve the data in json format. Then we will store that data in a file for later use.
Loading API key
First of all you need to sign up for a Wine.com Developer API account. Once you are registered, go to your Dashboard and copy your API key into a file called
apikey that we can read using the following Python code.
Making API requests
The goal of the Wine.com Developer API is to provide developers access to their extensive catalog of wine and wine related content in an open and easy to use manner. The API is built using REST principles. You can retrieve content in either XML or JSON format. The best way to start is by having a look at their documentation to read how the API works and the conditions of use.
From there we can learn that the base URL for any catalog query is as follows.
This base URL will be followed by a series of parameters and our API key in order to perform an actual query.
One of the best ways to query a web API is to use the Python library Requests. In the words of its developers "Python's standard urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you need, but the API is thoroughly broken. It was built for a different time — and a different web. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks". Let's start by importing the library (it might need installation).
Getting the total number of wines in the catalog
The goal of our first query is to find out how many products does the catalog have in total. Since we are using Python Requests, the best way to prepare queries is by using the base URL with a Python dictionary of parameters. For example, the following dictionary will ask for zero products, but still the API will give as the total of products as part of the response.
Using Requests to pass request parameters is super easy. Just call
requests.get passing the base URL and the previous dictionary. We call
json on the result so we get the json result into a Python dictionary.
{u'Products': {u'List': [], u'Offset': 0, u'Total': 85219, u'Url': u''},
u'Status': {u'Messages': [], u'ReturnCode': 0}}
There we have an empty list of products and the total we are looking for.
Getting the actual products
We can proceed now to get actual products from the catalog. With a Wine.com Developer account, we are limited to 1000 hits per day. Therefore we have to manage to get the list of products we want in just 1000 hits. We have more than 85K products in total. Then we need to get at least 86 products per hit if we want to get all of them. Let's define then a page size of 500 so we spend just 171 of our requests. Let's also wait 10 seconds between requests, so we don't overload the server.
We are now ready to get our products using the Wine.com API as follows.
We ended up with a list of products, as they were given by the Wine.com Developer API. Let's check how many of them we have.
Writing JSON data into a file
One thing we want to do is to store the list of products in a text file so we can process the data without querying the Wine.com Developer API over and over again. We do this in Python as follows.
Let's read it back in order to check so we know how to do that later on when needed.
Loading wine data into a Pandas data frame
Let's have a look at what an product information looks like in json format.
We have quite a lot of information there. Right now we will be interested in:
- Wine name
- Appellation name
- Region name
- Varietal name
- Wine tpye (e.g. red wine, white wine, etc)
- Retail price
We can build a Pandas data frame from a dictionary of Python lists that will act as columns. This is just what we are going to do. We will create individual lists for each column by applying a different function to each element in our product list. We will use
map for that, and the individual function will access the json field we want to include in the specific column.
Fro example, if we want a list with all the wine names, we can do as follows.
That was easy cause every single product has a name. However, some columns will have values missing when a product will not include that information. In that case we need to deal with that situation as follows.
The previous code tries to get a product appelattion name and if it fails it returns the empty string. Let's process the rest of the columns.
[99.0, 45.0, 65.0, 165.0, 38.0]
We have now all our column data ready. Let's create a Pandas data frame from it. First we need to create a dictionary defining our data.
And now we can use that dictionary to call the
DataFrame constructor. We also pass the name of the columns that, although is not necessary if we want all of them, it defines the order we want for them and not the one given by the Python dictionary keys.
Let's have a look at the first ten rows in our wines data frame.
|Fattoria Le Pupille Elisabetta Geppetti 'Saffr…
|Other Red Blends
|Red Wines
|Caparzo Brunello di Montalcino 2010
|Red Wines
|Bodegas Muga Gran Reserva Prado Enea 2006
|Red Wines
|Napa Valley
|Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
|Cabernet Sauvignon
|Red Wines
|Faustino I Gran Reserva 2001
|Red Wines
|Napa Valley
|CADE Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
|Cabernet Sauvignon
|Red Wines
|Napa Valley
|Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
|Cabernet Sauvignon
|Red Wines
|Casanova di Neri Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta…
|Red Wines
|France - Other regions
|Veuve Clicquot Brut Yellow Label
|Champagne & Sparkling
|Napa Valley
|Joseph Phelps Insignia 2012
|Cabernet Sauvignon
|Red Wines
And I think we are ready to start our analysis.
Exploring wine prices
It's always a good idea to start an exploratory data analysis by calling the handy
describe method on our data frame.
We have just one numerical variable, retail price. There we can see summary statistics accross all the dataset. For example, the average wine price is around
$52 (with a standard deviation of
$173), with an astronomic higuest price of more than
$12,000 and some wines given for free at
$0. However the median price is around
$23. This makes more sense. It looks like the average price in my own cellar actually. We know the median is less affected by a distribution edges. The first and third quartiles make sense as well, being
$15 and
Exploring regions
Let's know explore the previous variables by wine region. The first thing we have to do is aggregate our data frame by the
Region column. We can do this very easily in Python/Pandas as follows.
<pandas.core.groupby.DataFrameGroupBy object at 0x7fca6d7c2a90>
The previous gives us a
DataFrameGroupBy object we can use for getting statistics as we did with a normal data frame. For example, let's get the median prices by region, and put them in a bar chart, sorted by price.
The green horizontal line is a reference for the median value for the whole dataset. We have some well known regions with median retail prices above the global median, such as Burdeux, the Rhone Valley, or California, but also some others not so well known like Canada (at least not so well known by its luxury wines). Actually Bordeaux is over the third quartile (i.e.
$45) for the global distribution. These are countries we could consider to be expensive.
Then we have those regions below the median retail price. Some of them are well known for providing supermarket wines (not that this is something bad) such as Australia, South Africa, etc. although some of them are also part of the classic wine regions, such as Italy or Spain.
Remember that we are just looking at a fraction of the wine market given by a single website, so don't take this as the actual truth of the wine market. It is a shame we can't really use the rating information from Wine.com (at least with the Developer API we don't have individual ratings). That way we could have compared the median price with the median quality.
Exploring appellations
We can have a more detailed look at the previous if we explore the retail price not just by region but by appellation. Remember that a given region can contain multiple appellations.
The appellations are consistent with what we saw for the regions. Most expensive appellations are in France for example. But here are some interesting facts that we didn't get with the regions chart:
- The most expensive appellation regarding median retain price is Paulillac in Bordeaux, France.
- the less expensive is Idaho.
- Some Bordeaux wines are quite below the median retail price (e.g. Other Bordeaux and even Graves - Bordeaux that is world know by its classy wines).
- Burgundy ws actually under Other Regions - France and yes, it is very expensive.
- The most expensive appellation in the US regarding median retain price is not Napa Valley but Walla Walla Valley, in Washington.
- Regions not considered expensive in the previous chart have expensive appellations such as Piedmont or Tuscany in Italy, Priorat in Spain, or Central Otago in New Zealand.
What about grapes?
Specially in the New World, people tend to think that wine is all about grape varieties than wine regions. So let's have a look at retail prices by grape varieties. We will proceed as we did before.
The first thing we notice is that we have not just wines in our dataset but also spirits (e.g. Single-malt Scotch Whisky).
But there is also something interesting happening here. Right now we are looking at our wines in a different classification that is not exactly geographical, and interesting things happen. For example, the varietal that makes the most expensive wines (regarding median retail price and Wine.com stats) is Nebbiolo.
Does this make sense at all? Let's see. We know Nebbiolo is mainly used in Piedmont, in Italy. We already saw that is an expensive appellation. But if we pay attention to what we have seen so far, the most expensive grapes should be those used in Bordeaux, (e.g. Merlot, Cabernet, etc). So what happens? Very simple. The french varietals became so popular that they are used all around the world, for wines in all price ranges, while Nebbiolo has managed to stay quite local in Piedmont, producing amazing and rather expensive Barolos. Actually we can see that Merlot for example is quite affordable, and that Bordeaux Red Blends are quite high, but still below Nebbiolo since probably wines outside Bordeaux are using that specific blends.
And finally, what about types of wine
Just in order to be complete in our analysis, let's have a look at median retain prices by wine type.
Well, there is the answer to your question. Red Wines are likely to be more expensive than Whites Wines, but not as much as Champagne & Sparkling. What comes as a surprise is that Vodka appears there… Probably we shouldn't take that data seriously. Why?
Is is based in a single element. Actually let's have a look at the histogram.
A single chart using Seaborn
So far we have been doing exploratory data analysis. What we want to do in this section is to create a single visualisation that summarises many of the previous findings, something more interactive and engaging that can be seen in a modern web browser. For that purpose we will use some of the previous data frames and the Python library
Seaborn is a Python visualization library based on matplotlib. It provides a high-level interface for drawing attractive statistical graphics. The chart we are going to use here is a violin chart provided by this library.
So let's get into it. The first thing we need is a few imports we are going to use for our visualisation.
Next is leaving out everything but red and white wines.
And since there is a lot of disparity between min and max retail prices, we are going to take logarithms.
We are now ready to generate our chart. First we will set some configuration values, and then we just call
sns.violinplot passing the following:
Regionas x value (normally a factor variable).
RetailPriceLogas y value, to calculate the distributions.
WineTypeto split the violin in two parts.
- The data we just prepared in
red_white_wines_dfthat we will sort alphabetically.
- We will also want quartile lines within each violin.
- We want the violin width to be the number of samples in a given bin/range for retail price.
You can check the actual region names by retrieving them from the x axis as follows.
Chart explanation
The previous chart shows the retail prices distributions separated by region, and split by type of wine. It is similar to a boxplot actually. For example, an expensive wine region such as France - Bordeaux (4) has most of its area in the upper side of the chart. At the same time, its area is wide, and that means that the range of retail prices in its appellations is wide spread, ranging from cheap to expensive wines within the region. The width of the area is the number of wines in a given bin so, the wider the area for a given region the more wines in that range of price we have in the dataset. In the Burdeaux casea gain, we have very few white wines. The opposite happens with Germany (7).
A brief note about arriving into conclusions
Remember that we are just looking at a fraction of the wine market given by a single website, so don't take this as the actual truth of the wine market. It is a shame we can't really use the rating information from Wine.com (at least with the Developer API we don't have individual ratings). That way we could have compared the median price with the median quality.


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P&C insurer United Fire Group has selected Valen Analytics predictive modeling tool to enhance its underwriting performance in commercial auto, the companies announced.
UFG chose Valen due to its "advanced abilities to accurately segment customers based on loss propensity," according to the insurer's EVP and COO Mike Wilkins. The platform also integrates directly into the underwriter's workflow, allowing for real-time decision support. Valen's custom predictive models are hosted on its InsureRight Platform.
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The Cedar Rapids Iowa-based company Joins workers' compensation insurer Acuity, New Mexico Mutual and FHM Insurance as Valen's latest customers.
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Using Microsoft Outlook to Improve Time Management
Training Program Assignment
Using Microsoft Outlook to Improve Time Management
Dr. Mary Kiker
15 December 2004
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This training program is designed to assist employees in the most difficult task which affects all positions in the job market today Time Management. Time Management is a critical component of most jobs and should be included in the required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) which are often overlooked during the job analysis. I will attempt to scope this vast requirement, and focus on certain tools that will be used to manage office tasks and assist the everyday worker in managing his or her time. Effective managers are managers who can manage his or her time, and also teach subordinates how to manage his or her own time. With the use of technology today, this difficult task can be made easier, and many "tricks of the trade" will be provided in this training program. In order for the worker to begin managing time, it is essential to first identify the lack of ability in managing his or her own time. If the workers feel they do not have any problems with time management, then they will not gain as much as others from this program. Therefore, I think training workers on time management, like all other training, is effective if the user is open to learning new skills. I also feel time management is easily viewed as a critical "necessary" skill in all forms of work. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA)
The students must have basic computer and office skills, and they must be able to identify tasks associated with their everyday job. Some assistance in identifying the day-to-day task will be accomplished within this training program; however, the students Cothran 3
must know what task they are expected to perform each day. The students must also know how to prioritize their task. This is critical in identifying what work must be accomplished and in what order. Needs Assessment
A needs assessment tool (questionnaire) was created in order to determine if the individuals to be trained possess the skills needed to learn about time management (see Attach A). This questionnaire was sent to 10 individuals who work within my office or within close proximity of my current office here at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. I used two different methods in order to conduct this needs assessment observation and documentation. The observations all came from working within the job market for several years and managing numerous individuals and projects during this evaluation period. Therefore, a lot of information will come from my experience and observations in and of itself. Additional documentation was found utilizing the Internet, in order to add more value to the observations I have made throughout my career. To analyze the needs of the users the results of the needs assessment tool was calculated and categorized (see Attach B). Based on the results of the Needs Assessment Survey, most workers have the KSA's required for training. The most critical KSA's being common knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, identifying task, prioritizing task, and typing. It was interesting to note that most individuals surveyed felt they WERE in control of their projects, and that they COULD prioritize their workload. However, from personal observations, most of the individuals surveyed are NOT capable of managing their time. Therefore, one of the Cothran 4
disadvantages of a survey is the fact individuals may not want to provide accurate data because they may feel it could be used against them or the individuals believe they are capable of time management when they are not. This is the case for several of the surveyed workers in my local office. The questionnaire was specifically created to determine if the participants or trainees had the necessary skills to gain a transfer of knowledge during training. Those required skills are sending e-mails and typing. All recipients stated they were able to...
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The Magic House has graciously allowed four Homeschool Days for us this year.
Save these dates for the Magic House:
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from 9:30am until 11:30am
The Educational entrance on the lower level is where we are to enter (unless otherwise directed). No passes are allowed and it is $3 per person for ages 2 and up (under 2 are free). Cash and credit cards are accepted. There will be two lines. When looking at the building the credit line will be toward the right (near the construction play area) and the cash line will be toward the left (under the trellis).
Please remember you are to stay with your children at all times - no one is allowed to be unattended. Remember no running is allowed. All morning drinks must be finished prior to entering the Magic House (closed water bottles are accepted). There is a coat rack on the second floor near the Bubble room/Blues area so please do not feel you need to stand in line and freeze during colder weather prior to entry.
Please share these dates with other homeschool families that would love to attend. Have a great time allowing plenty of time for the kids to learn and exercise while you visit with another mom you know or get to know someone new.
I look forward to seeing you there - Michelle Sifford
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Using a cell phone is Alexandria is about to become more expensive -- $3 a month more expensive.
The City Council approved a new tax on cell phones as part of the fiscal 2006 budget. It will help make up some of the money that the city will lose after the real estate tax rate was lowered in order to provide relief to homeowners. Residents will see the new charge on their cell phone bills starting in September.
The tax will bring in an estimated $1.7 million in fiscal 2006, city officials said, about one-third of 1 percent of the city's $468 million budget. Residents will pay $3 a month on cell phone bills of more than $30, while those on lower-cost plans will be charged 10 percent of their monthly bill.
Other measures passed to offset the real estate tax cut include a 20-cent increase in cigarette sales tax and a new entertainment surcharge on items such as movie tickets.
Taxing the growing number of cell phone users should help offset the losses created by a reduction in the real estate tax rate, Mayor William D. Euille (D) said.
"I was just sitting in my car at the intersection. I looked around at 15 or 20 other cars, and everybody had a cell phone," said Euille, who estimates that he spends more than $100 a month on cell service.
Barry Murphy, a 46-year-old realty agent and Alexandria homeowner, said the tax amounts to about a latte a month for him. He carries two cell phones -- one that runs on Cingular's network and another on the Verizon Wireless network -- and uses whichever one gets better reception in a given part of town.
"I don't mind paying some taxes as long as [we get] more value" from the city, said Murphy, who pays several hundred dollars a month in cell phone bills.
But some residents said $3 could make the difference between being able to afford a cell phone and going without.
Tawanda Moore said she works 25 hours a week at the Fuddruckers restaurant on Duke Street for $7.50 an hour. She said the tax will make it difficult for her to buy a cell phone.
"There are other ways for [the government] to get their money," said Moore, 33.
For years, Alexandria has relied on a dependable 25 percent tax on local phone service, bringing in an average of $7.50 per phone line every month. But the revenue stream has been drying up as more residents drop their regular phone service for a cell phone-only lifestyle. There were about 113,000 residential and business land lines in operation in the city as of July 2004, a drop from more than 120,000 two years earlier, according to Bruce Johnson, director of the city's Office of Management and Budget.
Federal Communications Commission statistics show a similar change nationwide -- a 6 percent drop in U.S. land lines from 2000 to 2004. Four percent of U.S. households say they have cut the cord altogether in favor of cell phones, but that number could swell to 12 percent by next year, according to a report released in May by Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc.
In another indication of an accelerating shift from hard-wired phones to mobile handsets, there were 173.2 million active phone lines as of the end of 2004, while cell phone companies counted 178.2 million users, according to IDC, a research firm also based in Cambridge.
"Obviously, a lot of people have figured out that they have two phones in their life and they both serve the same purpose," said Kevin Burden, a telecommunications analyst with IDC.
Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William and Spotsylvania counties already have cell phone taxes. In Maryland, however, cell phone taxes sparked an ongoing multimillion-dollar lawsuit by four cellular service providers against Montgomery County and the city of Baltimore. Montgomery County collects a $2 monthly tax on cell usage, while Baltimore collects $3.50 per month for each phone. Cell phone companies argue that the fees amount to an illegal sales tax.
Montgomery County expects to raise more tax dollars from cell phones than from land lines in 2005, the first time this has happened, said Robert Hagedoorn, chief of the county's Treasury Division.
Verizon Wireless is one of the companies suing Baltimore and Montgomery County, along with Cingular, Sprint and T-Mobile. It also sued Pennsylvania to force the state to repeal a 5 percent gross-receipts tax on cell phone use. That lawsuit is also pending.
Verizon officials say they do not plan to sue Alexandria or any other Virginia jurisdiction because the state has a law in place that allows local cell phone taxes, said Annabelle Canning, assistant general counsel for tax policy for Verizon Wireless.
Instead, the cell phone industry will try to persuade the Virginia General Assembly to approve legislation next year that would require all telecommunications services to be taxed the same way throughout the state.
A similar effort to set a straight 5 percent state tax failed earlier this year after satellite companies such as DirecTV started a letter-writing campaign, urging customers to write their representatives and ask them to oppose what the companies said would be a new tax on their service.
The Virginia effort highlights a debate about how different services should be taxed when technological advances allow people to communicate through a variety of devices. For example, people who use cell phones, BlackBerrys and land-line phones will be taxed in Alexandria, but not people who use increasingly popular Internet-based phone services such as Vonage, because calls made over the Internet are protected by a seven-year-old nationwide ban on Internet access taxes.
Robert MacMillan is a staff writer for washingtonpost.com. He writes the Web site's Random Access column, available at www.washingtonpost.com/technology.


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Hey Everyone, over the next three days, I'm going to share our WANDA Perception Study Series with you! The basis for the study was to see if installing a WANDA unit would impact customer perceptions of washroom cleanliness. Today, I'll go through an overview of the study, tomorrow we'll go through the survey process and questions, and Thursday we will unfold the results and conclusion. To read the next slide in the slideshow, please click on the image below. Enjoy!


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At Tuesday's Dublin City Council meeting, the City Council approved an agreement with Dublin Unified School District, providing the District with a 12-acre school site within the Dublin Crossing (now referred to as The Boulevard) project to address its future student population. Previously, on April 24, 2018, the Board of Trustees of Dublin Unified School District unanimously approved the agreement.


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Friday, August 14, 2009
Happy Friday
Last night I drank too much coffee and drove laps around the city. Tonight I barely got in the car and it was game on. I shot four tapes including two seperate shootings and two stabbings. Too many people with extra holes in them tonight. Coppers in 12 Div had a guy shot in the stomach on Trethewey near Jane St. The other shooting was in 13 Div on Eglinton near Dufferin. That guy was shot while in his apartment above a store. He was able to give the cops a pretty good description of the shooter. The stabbings were in Etobicoke and downtown in 51 Div. I don't think either is life threatening.
I'm moving into the new house in a week so I'll be packing all weekend but we might take a little break and go to the movies. The movie District 9 looks pretty good.
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'Responsive' web design is a concept that is now well established and is used to make websites look good on wide screen desktop computers, right down to small screen smart phones.
I program in the ability to dynamically move elements of your web site around on the screen so that dimensions, positioning of elements on the page, and font sizes all change according to the size of screen they are viewed on.
All browsers on smart phones and tablets will support HTML5/CSS3 fully so sites will 'respond' when viewed on them
It's more work than a static site, but it is a cheaper option than paying for a separate mobile version of your web site, or an app. The variety of devices available to view web pages is increasing all the time, and so making a web site responsive is the only way to future proof it.


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When you are starting your business, providing your service or products online will most probably be one of the things you will plan ahead as a business strategy. These days with various marketplaces and platforms as options to provide your products for your customers, each of these tools have different business models with their individual pros and cons.
In cases of marketplaces, they charge you by percentage for each sale you do and platforms usually charge you monthly for the specific amount of features they provide you and usually they get a small percentage of your sale too.
1. Mangoler is not a platform or marketplace
Mangoler eCommerce is a mobile application which you can own and have it permanently. You can change it or simply publish it as it is. This is a major difference between Mangoler and other eCommerce solutions. Once you purchase the package, there are no more charges for plugins or sales margin.
2. Mangoler source code is open to edit
We believe every business needs to have a clear idea about their application source code and what is going on under the hood. This is important for a few reasons:
- Each business handles and aggregate customer data differently.
- Businesses have different security measurements for keeping customer information, sales data and etc.
- When businesses grow, they are more likely to control everything rather than depend on a single platform.
- They need an app maintenance handled by their in-house team
3. There are no monthly payment and extra charges
We do not charge you every month or yearly. It means you will get your application with a full source code and it is under your control. In Marketplaces or eCommerce platforms, you will create a shop and pay every month to that platform. When you plan to stop and not sell anymore with the platform, you cannot move it anywhere. The reason being is the platform owns your application and they can remove it after you stop paying them. With Mangoler eCommerce we having a totally different approach.
Once you purchase your application with a single/multiple app license, you have the right to use the license permanently. Mangoler eCommerce comes with a Free 1-year support. As part of our support policy, when your 1-year free support expires, we will then charge you a specific amount yearly. Support includes iOS and Android updates, new features, email support and one-to-one support. Of course, you can cancel your application support anytime at your account, but we do not recommend it if you don't have a development team to maintain your application.
4. You are in charge of everything in your business
As a business, you usually need to scale up or down your business and simply make things in your own way. This may not seem important when you start your business with a small group of customers and products, but scaling your business is the one main thing you need to think of to maintain a successful growth.
The one reason we do not build another eCommerce platform or marketplace is because businesses cannot scale it easily and control everything such as customer data. With Mangoler eCommerce, you have unlimited control that includes:
- Branding your application with your business assets. No special code blocks. It is a pure CSS and HTML
- Setup your analytics tools on your app and measure customer behaviors such as track how many people drop-off from specific pages or how many customers abandon your shopping cart
- Access to your raw customer data and aggregate them for better sales and marketing reports
- Scaling your server whenever you think you need more speed and space
- Implement your security measurements (in case if you need)
- Possibility to port Mangoler eCommerce application API to your website for creating an integrated environment.
In conclusion, Mangoler is built for businesses that think about the growth of their business in the near future. If you only have a few products with a limited marketing budget, Mangoler eCommerce might not suit your business, but if you think you want to grow in the next few months and extend your product list and increase market shares with other competitors, this is the best way to go.


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Deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Tuesday to discuss President Trump's early moves in office, fulfilling a bevy of campaign promises, jobs being a priority.
"The president has made it very clear it's very important to him to jumpstart job creation, to build and look out for the American worker that Washington has left behind," said Walters.
Walters listed a number of Trump's early accomplishments, including withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, hosting COOs to announce a seven billion dollar Intel investment expected to create more than ten thousand American jobs, and signing an order to move forward "to clear the road blocks for the Keystone pipeline." Trump also moved forward on the Dakota access pipeline.
"The president has made it very clear that a top priority of his is to create jobs and to build the economy," added Walters, citing surging numbers on Wall Street previously pointed out by host Boyle. "We're going to continue to see that as the president is able to continue to roll back red tape bureaucracy – that is enabling businesses to boom and flourish and create jobs for the American people," she said.
"His main goal," concluded Walters, "is to make sure that those American workers that have been forgotten and left behind by Washington are able to get jobs and be employed."
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I was invited into Human Design a few years ago by someone who guessed I was a Generator from what he knew of me. He ran my chart, which showed I was one of a new Type of human that started appearing here in 1781 – a Projector. He then said emphatically "You NEED to know this stuff!". I ordered the Definitive Book of Human Design, got a reading, and my deconditioning journey began.
Since discovering Human Design, I have listened to and watched thousands of hours material, mainly from the Jovian Archive Media Library in the free as well as paid areas of the site, but also learning through many personal readings, coaching sessions and taking classes from certified analysts like Genoa Bliven, Kumud Kabir, Darshana Matthews, Becky Markley, Lasita Shalev and Carol Zimmerman.
I just re-took the foundation classes with Bethi Black at an in-person Human Design Intensive in Mount Shasta. This training blew me away in terms of my understanding of how I really am designed to function. Though I loved the convenience of the online foundation classes I'd taken over a year, now that I was more comfortable with the terminology, condensing that knowledge into a shorter time span and adding the in-aura interaction into my process allowed for a breakthrough in my understanding that I needed and am incredibly grateful for.
Some Human Design material I have reviewed several times over to absorb deeper meaning. Human Design uses the English language creatively to interpret the energy present in a graphical representation synthesizing major exoteric and esoteric sciences in order to understand the forces that make us who we are. Despite my years of study, after this week's Intensive I feel like I just woke up to my design and am hearing so many things as if for the very first time. I'm in awe as I observe my body's movements and have a visceral feeling of the practical applications that the Human Design System has in my life.
I know I can remember now to follow my Projector strategy of waiting to be recognized and invited into the big decisions in life – those critical, life altering decisions of where to live, who to love, what to do for work. I know I can wait now for clarity over time through the emotional wave of my defined solar plexus before actually moving forward with those big decisions.
I see now how open and vulnerable I was to the conditioning field of the people around me and the way that I was raised. My own incompetence (though I blamed it on others) made me into something I was not. In my over-eagerness to please the people I loved, to prove myself and to be loved, trying to be what I was not led me to living a negatively conditioned "Not-Self" life. My expectations of myself and the expectations of others were pressures I forced myself to meet and if I couldn't… well, I sure didn't handle it gracefully, to say the very least.
As a Not-Self human I rarely made decisions from a place of calm or clarity – my decisions were generally impulsive, when I was either very up or very down emotionally. I ended up regretting so many of them very, very deeply – some of these decisions haunted me for years. I am designed to make mistakes and learn from them, but boy, some of my learning experiences were doozies and I would not wish them on anyone.
Despite the innate resilience that is hard-wired into my design, I got to the point where I nearly killed myself. With similar chart aspects to the recently self-deceased Robin Williams, ("Individual circuitry", "Split Definition" and "Emotionally Defined"), I had huge waves of powerful emotions, never felt whole when I was alone and often experienced the melancholy and sometimes depression that pulses through my being.
The ache of an individual without the ability to express it's uniqueness can drain the life out of you when not understood, and can lead to intense feelings of loneliness that may have tragic endings for a Not-Self being. When that mutating pulse is understood and honored, it could instead lead to things like deep inner truth, innovative thinking and insight, intense creativity, radical change, higher knowing, and authentic direction. When you discover the truth about yourself, you are given the keys to unlocking your true potential and living the fullness of a life you were truly born for.
For 35 years I worked hard at making my life a success, wanting to accept and love myself, but looking in the mirror with unconditional love was just not possible. Rejection of self is a difficult place from which to learn how to behave. The pain from the countless mistakes I've made over the years through my trial and error learning process made it truly challenging for me to forgive, accept and love myself without guilt or trying to change anything.
It took heart-wrenching events of deep personal loss for me to really see the patterning of my experiences and to try to break it. Without Human Design to help me understand the program I was living and the reasons for my bitter predicament, who knows how much longer I would have chosen to live here. With Human Design I know I can peel back the layers of Not-Self to begin living as who I truly am and find the sweetness of success that I desire and was born for.
After hitting rock-bottom, I escaped the low-land city life that was not correct for me and moved to the mountains, focusing on being in nature, meditation and studying to get back to myself. Human Design was the major tool that allowed me to finally understand my life and brought the light of hope back into it, allowing me to function again.
With Human Design, I immediately knew I had had finally found the keys to mastering my life and what made other people tick. Now that I've been experimenting with the system for a few years, and after being invited several times to write about it, I know I can finally speak up and share my individual knowing to make a contribution.
Honoring the deep call from within to understand the way the world works in terms of the illusion we are living, I have decided to commit my life fully to learning and sharing this work and my process with others when recognized and invited.
The vast majority of you who might be reading this will not need the kind of intense study in Design that I did to see results. All it takes is finding out your Type, Strategy and Authority and beginning your own experiment by testing it to see how it works. Human Design is not a belief system. It is a way of understanding the mechanics of the forces around us that shape who we all are.
As a Projector, I am designed to love and master systems. During my first year of living my experiment and studying design, I experienced major "shattering" of many beliefs about myself, the world and others that I had stubbornly clung onto as truth. It was really hard at times; I felt very confused and there was A LOT of crying!
As a solar plexus defined being, with emotional cognition, I'm a highly emotional person – something I was always ashamed of. Starting as early as a young teenager I was prescribed powerful medications (which I could never consistently take) that just were not right for my sensitive system. Several important people in my life constantly pushed medication on me and sometimes I gave in just to please them. I didn't trust my emotions and the people closest to me didn't trust me because of them. They just couldn't.
As the messenger of Human Design, Ra Uru Hu would say at times after delivering a particular bit of information "It is what it is" or "What to do?" Whether you are emotionally defined and feeling your own powerful waves of emotion or not emotionally defined and amplifying the emotions of those around you, there's nothing you can do but learn about your design, so that you can understand the mechanics to ride the waves of emotions, "Live Your Design" and through it all, "Love Yourself." Human Design has shown me how to do that and I know it can do that for you too if you are ready for this knowledge.
No matter what my re-birthed form looks and behaves like, and on whatever mountain she will end up (I am designed to function optimally in the mountains), I finally get what "passenger consciousness" means experientially and I am enjoying the movie of what it is to be human in my own form.
Now I want to ask you a few questions.
Would you like to know who you really are?
Would you like to see your true strengths and gifts?
Would you like to know what your Life Purpose really is?
Would you like to live life as the person you were born to be?
If you answered positively to these questions I invite you to join me on a journey of deconditioning yourself of the negative beliefs and incorrect behaviors that in all probability make up the bulk of who you think you are.
Get your Human Design Chart to find out your Type, Strategy and Authority now so that you can begin your own Human Design experiment to truly wake up to what you really are. I highly recommend a personal reading with a professionally trained analyst; all have had at least 3.5 years of deconditioning and intense immersion in the authentic version of this knowledge as it was given to Ra Uru Hu, the original messenger of this work who brought it forth into the world.
There are analysts all over the globe who are dedicated to helping others understand themselves and others. But if you want to investigate this further first to see if it sounds right for you a good place to start is checking out the Introduction to Human Design section of the International Human Design School website.
Whatever path you take, the sooner you understand your design's Strategy and Authority and implement this understanding in your life to begin your experiment, the sooner you can stop living a Not-Self life and live out your authentic uniqueness.
Isn't it time to live the life you were designed for and experience the satisfaction, success, peace or surprise that you crave?


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There are two very different birthday party trends among Big Girl's (8 years old) friends. Several kids have had parties that are super-hyper structured, like the two that were held at art studios where each of the girls painted the exact same painting under the guidance of an "artist." Those glorified paint-by-number events make my skin crawl. I found myself wanting to scream, "It's supposed to be the process! Not the product, people! Please, let them be creative!"
Then there's the other extreme: sleepovers or late nights with no structured activity at all. Just a wild, jumping on the furniture, swinging from the chandelier, dumping out every toy in the house and not putting it away free-for-all. Those also make me want to scream. A little wildness is good, trashing the house is not. (It's wasteful and disrespectful, darn it!)
These birthday parties become one of the biggest parenting debates writ small: How much structure is good for kids? At what point does structure become too rigid and prevent kids from developing their own skills to plan, imagine and explore?
This is definitely something we struggle with in our parenting because neither of the two extremes seems ideal, and neither works for my kids. Both of my girls hang back when kids are just running wild. They want some structure so they know what the expectations are and so they know how to behave. But, when it's hyper-structured I see that my kids aren't really enjoying the activity. They are too concerned about doing it wrong!
I found myself facing this dilemma when planning Big Girl's birthday party. Despite the fact that they were flexible, at heart the crafts we planned were not open-ended—hair ties and headbands & charm bracelets—both either work or they don't. They were fundamentally about the product; making something cute. And, they were a big hit. The kids loved to learn to make them for themselves.
But, I was uncomfortable with doing only structured crafts so we also added a third activity: clay play (model magic, really). It was definitely the favorite activity. The kids mixed colors, made shapes and mushed it around. For some it was just sensory fun and never turned into anything. For others, they made elaborate pieces that they brought home to dry. For every single one of them, it was a few moments when they stopped worrying about doing it right and instead focused on just doing it.
It was a really good reminder to find that balance of both structure and open-ended. Even for big kids who seem like they might be too old for "clay play"!
One of the joys about my new-found unemployment is that I am looking forward to a summer with my girls where the three of us will play and explore together every single day. We will go on hikes, to museums and parks. We will garden and cook. We will do art every single day. And, I will strive to provide just enough structure to keep us engaged and feeling creative.