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We deliver stable, coherent and logically sound business solutions that give you better control. With our systems, you will spend less time on day-to-day tasks and more time focused on the big picture.
You quickly get good answers to your enquiries directly from skilled professionals who speak your language.
We have skilled and pragmatic professionals that are very good at turning requirements into working software with qualities above expectations. We deliver modern and coherent solutions based on innovative technologies.
2 out of 3 undesired incidents related to access violation, involve an insider. Usually by mistake, sometimes malicious. With our solution, you can easily document the functions of your enterprise and what access these require. You also configure the access and access combinations that are risky. By connecting user to function, you further ensure that each individual only has access to what is needed at any given time, so-called "Least privilege". This helps prevent data loss and reduces the threat surface of the enterprise. You get an overview of the most trusted users in the enterprise allowing you to implement additional measures for these, or to adjust permissions to reduce risk. Employees easily see what access they have. The latter is particularly important for credit and invoice authorizations because it reduces the risk of authorization breach.
The user concept of the solution is wide and extensible. It may be a permanent or temporary employee, a hired consultant, an external consultant, a robot, a system account, an operational user or a computer.
Managers including their deputies, themselves manage access and IT-equipment for their employees. Users can find and apply for access themselves. Approval for access requests is turned on by default, but can be turned off per service and access level.
Our solution supports your existing processes, business logic, associations and functions. Examples of associations are Company, Department, Job Title and Type of user. As for function, you can connect access to association. Role is an umbrella term for function and association. Function and Department roles support hierarchical structure.
Our solution yields simplified lifecycle management of identities and access with automated workflow, business rules and easy integration with heterogeneous platforms, internally and in the cloud. The main process involved is "Joiner, Mover and Leaver of employment", abbreviated JML. The solution supports JML via automated import from HR, both for association and other user data such as name and address. Combined with configurable access for association, this is a highly efficient automation platform.
The solution is readily available and easy to use. You can do all configuration and setup yourself. Thus you can continuously improve and increase the level of automation using internal resources. Automation trumps robotization. You can also implement new automated platforms through internal development.
The solution has excellent reporting capabilities. This is important for several functions, such as security, risk, compliance with external and internal auditors, HR, management, support, and administration. The reports are security trimmed so that they show only what the user is authorized for.
When an employee changes department, the new manager gets a certification task to audit the employee's access. Managers are also assigned periodic certification tasks to audit all employees in the department. The manager audits the employee's function and any special access granted beyond association and function. Cost and risk of employee access and access combinations, are the key figures in the manager's certification. The purpose is to reduce risk and cost.
The solution is a platform for continuous improvement of operational risk management and compliance. As regulatory requirements and ethical guidelines change, you easily and smoothly adapt existing and set up new services to comply.
The application includes the following compliance and risk management services that each customer can customize to their needs:
It is easy to set up services for other types of reporting by building enquiry and order forms per service. The fields in the forms are given sequence and can have caption and description. The fields support input of the following data types:
Alerts, access and responsible case workers are configured per area and category of each service. Access can be linked to function, manager of rapporteur, managers in department hierarchy of incident or managers in department hierarchy of customer pertained in incident. It may also be linked to the owners of the processes involved. Each service is a configurable security silo. With a system for identity and access management as platform, comprising automatic import from HR system of manager hierarchy, employee association and function, this is a highly automated and very powerful authorization tool.
The enterprise service desk should be rigged for self-service. This means that users can find information to help themselves and that users have access to features to solve tasks. Our solution has a complete service desk built around these self-service concepts in an agile and elegant way.
User-guides are information, fact sheets and frequently-asked-questions about the services the enterprise offers its employees and the products it offers its customers. Most enterprises have such a knowledge database for internal use by support. By making user-guides available and searchable for all, employees are able to help themselves. Self-service is the fastest problem resolution. It also eases the load on the service center, which then can serve requests faster and spend more of their time proactively, for example by continuously improving existing and creating new user-guides.
Our solution places the searchable user-guides and service pages between user and service desk. It connects user-guide to service. Services have 1st and 2nd line support teams. By default, the solution allows submission of enquiry only in the context of a service. The users are hence forced to try and find information themselves first, and then contact the service desk if they cannot find what they are looking for. With submission in service context, enquiries are also automatically routed to the proper support team. People with the necessary knowledge, can thus begin to work on their enquiries, sooner.
Each service has one or more custom forms used for submission of enquiry or order. The fields in the forms can have caption and description. The sequence of the fields is configurable and they support input of all conceivable types of information. By only allowing submission of enquiry in the context of a service, the requests more often contain the necessary information because the proper form is filled out.
User-guides should be promoted on the Intranet and in handling of incoming requests. In telephone enquiries, callers should be guided to the search page and asked to find the user-guide or service to help themselves. User only need to remember how to get to the search page the next time a problem occurs. The same can be done with screen dumps in response to a written enquiry.
Not all knowledge database content can be made available to all employees due to complexity and confidentiality. Our solution supports multiple authorization levels for user-guides. The search results are security trimmed so that each user finds and have access to only the user-guides authorized for. That means the support teams can have their internal user-guides in the same location as the open. The support teams search for and read the knowledge base in the same way as regular users. The knowledge database has one single location.
Change password and unlock user account, are the two most common service desk requests. Our solution supports these features via colleagues. That means that employees can get help to do this from a colleague in the next seat. Password are sent via SMS to the mobile number registered to the user. All actions are logged and employee is alerted of actions performed by colleague.
Password policy is configured per user type. All conceivable configuration is supported. Passwords can be made pronounceable. Some password policies make it hard for users to come up with a new password when change is due. Our solution suggests passwords to use.
The solution also offers self-service setup of project and document rooms, including support for confidential rooms. The access administration for the rooms is simple, centralized and self-serviced. This builds on the IAM module.
With an IAM system at the base, having continuous import from the HR system, the solution has correct employee information and departmental structure at all times. The solution uses this for interactive visualization of department hierarchy with features such as find me, find colleague, find department, see employee and department information, see the Skype status of employees, IT cost per department and employee etc.
IAM concepts such as function, association, access and case worker teams, group employees. This can be effectively used for communication. The solution has a useful message central with SMS and e-mail distribution to one or more of these groups. It is for example possible to send a message to all having access to the service Adobe Photoshop or all employees of the division Private Market.
Our cost-benefit overview will surely show significant savings for your enterprise. Please contact us for a presentation.
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Several functions are involved in the governance, control and assignment of identities and access. In smaller enterprises, it is natural that several of these functions have the same people.
A 1st line consisting of the authorization team, system owners, managers and the HR function, should be responsible for assigning and controlling identities and access.
Managers and HR use the features for Joiner, Mover and Leaver of employment. Managers also use the access certification feature for their employees and departments.
HR manages leave of absence and future department changes. HR is also responsible for the data foundation in the HR system, that JML is automated from.
System owners can automatically be assigned access requests to their services for approval and/or execution. System owners can also manage access to their services continuously. The authorization team manages the system owners' capabilities and responsibilities per service and/or access level.
The authorization team alongside system owners and the assignment groups for each service, are responsible for the processing of incoming access orders. The authorization team has the overall responsibility. For example, a new employee will result in a person registration enquiry with an order book which contains a new order book per service to grant access to. The various assignment groups are assigned responsibility for the order books of their services, but the authorization team is overall responsible for the user being operative the first day at work for the employee.
An access level is either manual, automatic or register. Automatic means that the underlying system is automatically updated. Registration means that access only shall be recorded in the solution. This type is usually used because the underlying system is updated by a periodic export from the solution that the system imports on its side. Access orders for manual access levels must manually processed, i.e. the caseworker must modify access in the underlying system before moving the order to the completed state in the solution.
A 2nd line consisting of the authorization team and the functions of risk management and security, should be responsible for governance and control of identities and access.
The authorization team governs the solution by setting up new services with access levels and by continuously improving these services. They create functional roles and adds access levels in functional and associative roles. If the enterprise has no automated HR import that creates associative roles, the team creates these too.
The authorization team also sets up one or more training services, each having any number of courses. Courses can be specified as requirements on roles, either by direct connection or via service and/or access levels of the role.
Risk and security are responsible for defining separation of duty access and for entering risk numbers on roles, services and access levels. This should be continuously improved and periodically controlled.
System owner is responsible for use of their access levels in roles and their assignment as special access to employees. The solution enforces periodic revision of this by system owners.
The following reports are the most important in governance and control:
The reports include all conceivable fields and each field has support for sorting and drill-down-filtering. The report "users with access having license price" for example includes company, division, department and cost centers, making it easy to divide the cost in the organization. The reports "All Users" and "All departments" have the possibility to sort to find the most trusted based on risk figures and the most expensive based on IT cost.
Security also uses these reports in its control function:
The solution currently has 43 different enquiry types. Both data requirements and access model is configurable for them. This flexible model makes it easy to introduce new enquiry types.
Our skilled and pragmatic professionals will turn your requirements into working solutions with qualities above expectations.
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The ambition of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) is to foster integrated EU and national policy frameworks that reconcile the imperatives of fighting climate change and fostering prosperity around a robust climate and energy framework for 2030.
Europe will need to remain ambitious and stay at the forefront of the global transition to a low-carbon future in order to generate competitive advantage. China, Brazil, India and the United States are all investing in low-carbon technologies and companies that translate into market share and patents. The European opportunity lies in encouraging investment in the types of innovations needed to ensure a low-carbon future and to generate the success of its companies and economy as a whole in the process.
The pressing challenge is to translate the vision of European decarbonisation by 2050 now into a robust legal and political framework for Europe's climate and energy policies for 2030, and to ensure its wider economic policies also embed and drive this agenda, too. For example, given the EU's high dependence on energy imports, with 26 out of 28 Member States being net energy importers, there is not
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These days, no matter what your personal interest you can find a travel experience to suit. From reading Dostoevsky to seeing art, getting crafty and drinking scotch, here are 20 niche tourism experiences worth your time
1. Weave your way around Morocco
Crafty types and textile lovers can take a do-it-yourself weaving tour of Morocco. The trip is aimed at women only due the fact that participants are hosted in traditional Moroccan weavers' homes, where they learn and share techniques. See ingridwagner.com
2. Fine-tune your photographic skills
Sure, it's hard to take a bad photograph in a beautiful location, but tours led by professional photographers will endow you with skills that will benefit your art back home too. Head to Iceland in July to capture forever the magnificence of the midnight sun. See udesignphototours.com
3. Get your motor(bike) running in Asia
If you are a trail-bike fanatic, an off-road adventure in Asia will literally take you off the beaten track and over the odd river crossing in your choice of Vietnam, Laos or India – or take an epic seven-country tour from Hanoi to Kathmandu. See mototoursasia.com
4. Immerse yourself in art history
Members of the Art Gallery of New South Wales can join hosted art and architecture tours around the world, gaining insight from both art theorists and artists. Australian artists Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis lead a tour of Paris and the Seine, while other tours include the art, treasures and cuisine of Peru or the temples and textiles of ancient Java. See artgallery.nsw.gov.au
5. Tour contemporary-art hot spots
If contemporary art is more your thing, head to London, New York or Berlin with Art Tours. Their itineraries include artist-studio visits and behind-the-scenes gallery tours of major institutions such as the Tate Modern and up-and-coming smaller art galleries. See arttoursltd.com
6. Visit the best architecture in the world
Modernism is so hot right now. See how Oscar Niemeyer assisted in ensuring Brazil's World Heritage status, and how other architects helped transform their cities, from Luis Barragan in Mexico City to Frank Gehry in LA and San Franciso, Alvar Aalto in Finland and Le Corbusier in France and Switzerland. Abu Dhabi is the place to go to see works by Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry all in one place. See artchitectours.com
7. Go gardening in your downtime
Horticulturalist and gardening columnist for The Weekend Australian, Helen Young regularly hosts groups on overseas coach tours of the major gardens of France and Germany, which includes a visit to Claude Monet's famed house and garden. See travelrite.com.au
8. Satisfy your foodie streak
Home gourmets will love the food adventures designed by Intrepid Travel, which are hosted by food-obsessed locals. You'll not only eat at great restaurants and streetside stalls, you'll eat in the homes of local families and get hands-on cooking lessons. See intrepidtravel.com/au/theme/food
9. Tune in to a classical musical tour
Salzberg, Vienna and Prague are beautiful places to visit with or without classical music knowledge, but to get a real feel for the history here this trip allows you to experience classical performances such as "The Magic Flute" in Salzburg's Marionette Theatre and a choral mass in Salzburg Cathedral, as well as tours of the Dvorak Museum, Czech Museum of Musical History, Vienna State Opera House and St Mark's Cemeteries, where both Beethoven and Brahms are buried. See inmozartsfootsteps.com
10. Bang your head on a heavy-metal cruise
Hard Rock Café got it so wrong. What hard-rock heads really want is a sun-filled ocean cruise out of Florida. 70,000 Tons of Metal sets sail each February for Jamaica, belting out live performances by such cult acts as Cradle of Filth and Sodom. See 70000tons.com
11. Join the ultimate Bronte book club
Any fan of the Bronte sisters will enjoy the Bronte Country Trail two-day tour, which takes in stately homes, museums, galleries, poetry readings, the sisters' favourite walks and, of course, those evocative moors. See oldschooltours.net
12. Douse yourself in Dostoevsky
Meanwhile, Russian-literature lovers can be as immersed in literature as they like on this four-day tour of Moscow and St Petersburg. You'll be in good company as you tour the Anton Chekov House Museum, State Museum of Lev Tolstoy, The National Alexander Pushkin Museum and Fyodor Dostoevsky's memorial museum and grave. See expresstorussia.com
13. Dig like an archaeologist
Indulge your inner Indie Jones with the five-week-long American Institute for Roman Culture's Summer Archeological Field School. The 2016 field trip takes place in Ostia Antica, and offers instruction on both Rome's history and archeology, museum visits and site digs. You don't need to have a degree or speak Italian, but BYO trowel. See romanculture.org
14. Get into the wars
Not that anyone would really want to relive the World Wars, but for amateur military historians, battlefield tours can be extremely rewarding. You may be surprised to learn there are tours of every historic war zone imaginable. Of course, there's Anzac Day tours to Gallipoli and excursions to the Western Front, but you can also take specialty Boer and Zulu War tours in South Africa or track the Battle of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. See battletours.com.au
15. Understand Jewish history
As above, while some would prefer a beach holiday, others would prefer an emotionally charged, insightful experience. Whatever your heritage, a Jewish Heritage Tour of Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest and Prague is so much more gripping than a high-school history lesson. You'll visit the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz and Oskar Schindler's factory. See tauck.com.au
16. Explore the wines of Burgundy
Wine snobs can enjoy their favourite grape in the region in which it's grown on an RBT-free four-day guided bicycle tour of Burgundy. Everything is included, from accommodation to breakfasts, lunches, dinners, winery tours and enjoy expert wine selections throughout. See burgundybiketour.com
17. Explore the Scottish whisky trail
Visit distilleries both large and small, from the Highlands to Speyside and the islands of Islay and Jura. Drive your friends nuts when you come home to explain in fine detail how there truly is a vast difference between the peaty whiskies of Laphroaig and Ardbeg. See whisky-tours-scotland.com
18. Carve up the world's best breaks
Small-group surf tours are gaining popularity in places such as Bali, Fiji, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea and the Maldives. If surfing is your passion, make a list of the waves you want to experience in your lifetime (eg Pipeline would have to be on there, surely) then set about ticking them off over the next ten years' worth of annual leave. See surftravel.com.au
19. Get as kitsch as can be
Aficionados of all things quirky often fall in love with Japan. It's not just the kawaii (cute) stuff but the downright weird experiences that make Japan such an addictive travel destination. If you want to ditch the cherry blossoms and temples in favour of as much wackiness as possible, it helps to get insider info on a guided tour such as the Art or Rubbish? itinerary hosted by Lobrow Japan (which actually visits a rubbish dump – but a fascinating one – among other arty finds). See lobrowjapan.com
20. Unleash your inner pirate
For anyone whose hobby is simply daydreaming, the idea of packing in your current life to sail the high seas is no longer unattainable – at least for a short time. Next break, head off to sail in an Indonesian wooden ship with bright red sails in Komodo National Park. The owners of the Calico Jack chucked in their day jobs so you don't have to. Sharing their fantasy is half the fun; you'll get in some incredible diving, too. See calicojackcharters.com
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Guido's friend Dr Crippen put this very bluntly, Ming in all probability will not last five years. That is the cold calculated actuarial estimate. We may allow that he is likely to be able to pull a few strings to ensure that he gets the best treatment available if his cancer condition should come out of "remission", but the sad fact is, well, he has "a 9/2 chance to be gone in two years or less; 4/6 to stay in charge for more than two but less than four years; 3/1 to rule the roost for more than four but less than six years and 8/1 to stay in charge for more than six years" according to my man at William Hill.
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With a few top point guards playing, Zack Osell makes a case for Jeff Teague as a reliable value pick.
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Donovan Mitchell and the Jazz welcome the Nets to town on the second night of a back-to-back.
Sasha Yodashkin checks out Tuesday's slate and expects Joel Embiid to take full advantage of a matchup against the Cavaliers, especially with Al Horford being rested by the Sixers.
Past Fantasy Outlooks
After playing in just 31 outings as a rookie, Embiid was able to more than double his amount of games played in 2017-18, taking the court for 63 contests. The 76ers also felt more and more comfortable getting their big man extended run and after being brought along slowly early on in the season, Embiid ended the year averaging 30.3 minutes. He turned that into his first full season of averaging a double-double, finishing with 22.9 points, 11.0 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.8 blocks. Those numbers placed him 15th in the league in scoring, ninth in rebounds and sixth in blocks, while it also earned him his first selection as an NBA All-Star. In addition, Embiid was a capable floor stretcher, knocking down 1.0 three-pointer at a 30.8 percent clip. That wasn't the most efficient number, but still forced defenses to extend to the perimeter and not sag in the lane. Looking forward to the upcoming campaign, Embiid should be in line for a similar role and could actually see another slight uptick in his workload now that he's further away from the foot injuries that plagued him previously. Obviously, one of Embiid's biggest downfalls is his health, so the risk of him missing double-digit games is always on the table. However, his elite production in multiple categories, as well as the fact that Embiid finished second in the league in usage percentage behind James Harden last year, should bring him into consideration to be a top-5 center off the board. He would benefit with increased efficiency from the three-point line, as well as the charity stripe, but with another offseason to hone in on his shot, Embiid will be an elite Fantasy asset.
After two years on the sidelines struggling through foot injuries, Embiid finally took the floor in 2016-17. The third pick in the 2014 draft was a revelation as a rookie, ranking as a top-40 per game Fantasy performer, despite averaging only 25.4 minutes per game. He averaged 20.2 points, 7.8 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and ranked third in the league in blocks per game with 2.4. Unfortunately, he saw action in only 31 games. From the start of October until January 20, Embiid rested for one game of each back-to-back set, plus four additional planned rests. He played under a soft 24 minutes per game cap to start the season, which was quickly increased to a soft 28 minutes per game cap. Then, on January 20th, Embiid suffered a "knee contusion". He missed a week, then played well in a nationally televised game that would turn out to be his final game of the season – though Fantasy owners were strung along until March 1st, when official announcement of the end of his season finally came. It was later revealed that the initial injury was more than just a contusion, and he would eventually undergo surgery in March that removed a small portion of his meniscus as part of the treatment for a meniscus tear. As of August, reports indicate that he is progressing through his recovery well, though the 76ers front office injury reports should not be taken at face value when they involve their franchise prospects. In both the cases of Embiid and Ben Simmons (foot), throughout 2016-17 the 76ers front office routinely provided information that would later turnout to have understated the significance and recovery timetable of the stars' injuries. Whenever he is healthy, Embiid is the unrivaled starting center, as he is already better than even the most optimistic projections for Jahlil Okafor or Richaun Holmes. Embiid is a dynamic star with top-10 Fantasy potential when healthy, but he is a major injury risk. He is likely to deal with planned rests and minute restrictions, though he can be an incredible contributor even in limited minutes. The 76ers have realistic playoff ambitions this season, which could help minimize the rests and lead to an increased workload, but the team is still likely to prioritize Embiid's long term health over their immediate success.
It's been more than two years in the making, but it appears Embiid is finally ready to make his NBA debut. Following a spectacular freshman season at Kansas in which he elicited Hakeem Olajuwon comparisons, Embiid was selected No. 3 overall by the 76ers in the 2014 NBA Draft. The 76ers drafted Embiid with the understanding that he had an existing stress fracture in his right foot, but the seven-footer's immense upside still made him too tempting to pass up. That said, the organization likely wasn't prepared for how problematic the center's foot issues would ultimately prove to be. He was sidelined for the entire 2014-15 season after undergoing foot surgery and endured more complications in his recovery than expected, requiring a second procedure on the foot last August that sidelined him for the 2015-16 campaign. Fortunately, the rehab process has gone much more smoothly for Embiid this time around, as he was cleared to begin working out in December and has steadily increased his on-court activities throughout the summer. Embiid has claimed that his foot is now fully healed heading into training camp, and though the team brass has indicated he won't be subjected to any medical-related limitations in his rookie season, the big man will likely face minute restrictions on some level while he works to regain conditioning following the lengthy layoff. Additionally, Embiid will have to contend with former first-round picks Jahlil Okafor and Nerlens Noel for playing time at center, though one of those two players could eventually get shipped elsewhere to clear out the logjam in the frontcourt. Despite his lack of game action the last two years, the hype still remains high for the talented Embiid, but the 76ers aren't counting on him to immediately emerge as a nightly double-double threat. Instead, the main goal seems to be simply getting Embiid through the season with his health fully intact, an achievement that would go a long way toward convincing the organization that he's a worthy building block for the long haul.
Undergoing foot surgery a week prior to the 2014 NBA Draft, Joel Embiid was selected third overall by the 76ers and didn't play a single game last season. A second foot surgery for a navicular stress fracture this August will sideline him a second straight season. During his lone season at Kansas, Embiid averaged 11.2 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 0.9 steals, and 2.6 blocks in 23 minutes per game while shooting 63 percent from the field and 69 percent from the free-throw line. Embiid embarked on his journey to the NBA at the age of 17 when former teammate and current free agent Luc Mbah a Moute spotted him at a basketball camp. The healing in Embiid's foot has been stymied by his still growing and developing body. Also, Embiid reportedly skipped steps in the rehab process, and his weight became a concern during the middle of the season, drawing question marks about his commitment level. Navicular stress fractures have a long-standing history of drastically handicapping a player's career, from Bill Walton to Yao Ming, and Embiid must wait until the 2016-17 season before playing his first game in the NBA.
Joel Embiid is entering his rookie season in the NBA, having been drafted with the third-overall pick this June. In his only season at Kansas, he averaged 11.2 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 0.9 steals, and 2.6 blocks in 23 minutes per game through 28 games played. He shot 63 percent from the field on 6.1 attempts per game and 69 percent from the free-throw line on 5.1 attempts per game. Embiid shows strong instincts on both sides of the ball, but his game unpolished in some respects, in part because he has only played organized basketball for three seasons. Offensively, he has shown great talent as a finisher, scoring on 76 percent of his attempts at the rim. Defensively, he is a strong rim protector and won All-Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year. His biggest weakness is his relatively poor performance when he played against larger big men in college. Embiid is often compared to Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon, but due to his struggles to remain healthy, he is also occasionally compared to Greg Oden. Embiid had surgery on his right foot in June, and the earliest projections for recovery would allow him to return to the court in March. In light of how the 76ers handled the recovery of Nerlens Noel last season, it's likely that Embiid will not play at all this season.
More Fantasy News
Limited production against Cavs
Embiid had 14 points (6-13 FG, 0-2 3PT, 2-2 FT), four rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block in 23 minutes during Sunday's 114-95 win at Cleveland.
Second straight double-double
Embiid had 31 points (12-24 FG, 4-8 3PT, 3-6 FT), 12 rebounds, two assists and one steal in 38 minutes during Friday's 127-119 loss at Oklahoma City.
Resting Wednesday
Embiid will be rested Wednesday against the Magic, Serena Winters of NBC Sports Philadelphia reports.
Big double-double in win
Embiid scored a game-high 27 points (10-20 FG, 3-5 3Pt, 4-5 FT) while adding 16 rebounds, four assists, two blocks and a steal in 35 minutes during Tuesday's 98-97 win over the Cavaliers.
Could sit Wednesday
Embiid could sit out Wednesday's game against the Magic, as it's the second game of a back-to-back, Tom Moore of the Bucks County Courier Times reports.


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Have you heard that a Coffee Commission Standardized Flavors Globally?
Coffee is grown and consumed across hundreds of countries, which together represent an enormous amalgam of unique cultures, cuisines, and languages.
The challenge of helping individuals working across that broad landscape of diversity—in roles as different as coffee farming, processing, exporting/milling, importing, roasting, and drinking—to understand one another is enormous. But it's also essential to the smooth functioning of the supply chain.
In beer, wine, soda, and other beverages, there are global standards for the component flavors of each beverage—a way for everyone to "speak" the same language of flavor by using the same point of reference.
For coffee aromas, many industry experts are familiar with the scent based products. But you can't drink these references, only smell them. Professional tasters have never before had taste references—until now.
The 24 World Coffee Research approved FlavorActiV standards for coffee are a Rosetta Stone for coffee flavors, a tool that allows a taster in one part of the world to taste exactly the same thing as another.
The GMP pharmaceutical grade flavor capsules for coffee were co-developed by FlavorActiV and Coffee Enterprises with assistance from Square Mile roasters. Each of the 24 flavors was then evaluated by the same researchers behind the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon to ensure a match.
FlavorActiV flavor standards were evaluated by World Coffee Research to determine if they are appropriate and accurate representations of flavors contained within the lexicon. Once validated they were put forward for inclusion within coffee lexicon 2.0.
For the second edition of the lexicon, twenty four of the attributes have been updated to include FlavorActiV references: Sour, Bitter, Salty, Apple, Grape, Coconut, Pineapple, Acetic acid, Butyric acid, Isovaleric acid, Fermented, Peapod, Fresh, Papery, Musty/Earthy, Musty/Dusty, Moldy/Damp, Phenolic, Petroleum, Brown Spice, Almond, Vanillin, Floral, and Jasmine.
The new FlavorActiV references, which have been added in a newly released second edition of the lexicon—Lexicon 2.0—are GMP pharmaceutical grade, shelf-stable, food-safe, and globally available.
The WCR Sensory Lexicon is a living document that will continue to be updated with new flavors and aromas, as well as new references for those flavors/aromas, as they are identified.
For more information on coffee vending, contact Alps Innovations, at: www.alpskiosks.com


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Furniture Archeology
13th January 2009
|This buffet was left in the garage by the home's previous owner. It set in the garage for several years collecting dust and junk. I spilled a bit of paint remover on the top and was surprises at how well the wood looked underneath. I decided to strip the entire piece to see what was there. I was pleasantly surprised. The thick coat of navy blue paint had protected most of the cabinet quite well. After replacing the plywood on one side and on the back, and rebuilding the frame and drawers, it is now ready for finish.
Rescued: Trash to Treasure
13th November 2009
This desk was left at one of the houses we bought. It was scarred, burned, beaten, and rough. I had thrown it out on the curb for the city to pick up, but my wife dragged it back into the garage. When I asked her why, she just said, "look at those dove tailed joints, I can fix it!" She spent a few days sanding on it and I spent another half day stripping the old finish and re-gluing bad joints, but everything was there.I sprayed it with Minwax One-Step poly and stain. Definately the way to go on a piece like this. The finish is uniform and yet the distressed characteristics still show through. Carri was very pleas3ed with the final results.
We did a little research and discovered that the desk was an Ethan Allen "Old Tavern" series desk from the early 50's.We found others just like it on Ebay for $400 to $500. I made a mirror frame out some scratch pieces of pine, and Carri distressed it to match the desk
Not a bad addition to the home for next to nothing (labor not included!)
Let there be lights!
07th February 2011
Sutherland's was having a clearance. And what a great clearance. I was so excited, just like a little kid turned loose with $20 dollars in a dime store! I found matching lighting for all of the first floor rooms, including the bathroom!
I saved about 75% and found lighting that exceeded my expectations.
Kitchen Lights
20th February 2011
The kitchen came with a "boob light" and a bar of tract lights.
It looked awful and just didn't go well. Then boob light is OK, but just too plain. The tract lighting looked like something out of an 80's disco! Not appropriate at all.
We lucked into the upgrades for the first floor lighting fixtures at Sutherland's but the kitchen needing more illumination than the upgraded light would provide.
Dave came up with the idea for some recessed lighting. It's economical and very effective.
We should be replacing the boob light soon, but just the recessed light made such a huge difference!
These photos show the new kitchen light, the newly stained cabinets, the new recessed lights, and the new counter tops!
Lot's of work is starting to come together!
Just a funny!
07th March 2011
When we were working on the "L street house" a neighbor lady came over. She introduced herself to me and I introduced myself and Dave as my fiancee. She says, "Really? Even after all this? You still want to Marry him?" LOL Still working on it!
Open Wallet Concept aka Open Floor Plan Concept
30th September 2015
The outlook for 2015 looked bright at the beginning of the year. All of our rental were occupied with stable renters; the past reno's had been paid for, and it looked like the local housing market was starting to turn to the positive. I decided I couldn't wait any longer and began to plan the remodel of of personal residence. Normally, our reno's involve take the worst house on the block and turn it into the best, but this time we are starting with what i consider the best house on the block and making it better, or at least our own. In theory the plan was simple: Remove carpet, restore the oak floors, and open up the wall between the den and formal living room. The carpet will be recycled in one of our rent houses. It is over 25 years old, but except for the heavy traffic area through the den, it still in very good shape.
The floors had not seen the light of day for over 25 years so we were not sure what to expect. Unfortunately the den floor was covered in linoleum. There was also a patch in the middle of the floor that would have to dealt with, and we also planned on moving the air duct so that hole would need to be patched also.
Stripping the linoleum was time consuming but not too difficult. I started by pulling and scrapping off the top coat, then wetted the backing with Henry Easy Release. It took several applications, the first application easily removed the backing, but the adhesive would take several more applications. Henry Easy Release also turned out to be a very effective solvent for the floor varnish also. I was pleasantly surprised that this solvent did no have strong odors and didn't appear to be an irritant to my lungs either.
Patching the floor was pretty straight forward. I removed the oak flooring from a back bedroom closet and replaced it with plywood. The bedrooms will probably always remain carpeted so no one will notice. Even if the carpet is removed, replacing the plywood with new oak flooring should not pose a problem.
The den floor is ready to sand but I will remove the wall between the den and living room and patch the floor were the existing wall was first.
Rubble Garden
24th December 2017
Several years ago on one of our remodels, we had to replace the concrete driveway. We broke into large but manageable chunks to haul off. Instead of hauling it off to a dump, I put an add in Craigslist 'Free Concrete.' I had 2 people come buy and load up the back of their pickups with a couple of loads. One said he wanted it to stop the erosion on his dirt drive. The other said he wanted it for stepping stones to one of his out buildings. I also got a few very strange calls checking to see if the craigslist ad was legit. A couple thought it was joke so I explained the possible uses. It turned out we had made an afternoon feature on a local radio show contest for funny and unbelievable craigslist add people post. The joke was we were just trying to get someone to haul off our debris for free. We were winning for most of the afternoon until someone submitted a post for free 'Maple leaves, Baggged or Free Range'. In the end, I hauled off most of the drive to a house that was asking for free dirt and fill materials.
Once again, I had to break up a large concrete slab in the back yard of one or our renos. Rather than haul it to the off I decided to use it for edging along the back yard for a garden.
I used as much of the concrete as possible for the garden edging, and a bit more for a path along the back of the house leading to the deck. Even then 8 trailer loads were hauled to the concrete recycler. Not sure I would do this again but it was an interesting project


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Josh told one of his lady friends that he was going out on an adventure she could not miss out. She said cool, can I bring a friend. Well of course you can. We all met up and made sure they brought thier birthday suits. We got out on the boat and just let it all happen becuase girls just get loose on boats. These girls got looser by the second. The oil came out then the clothes started to get lost as well. We had a great anal time. The girls loved the stabbin dogs and the special sause.


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Having questions about the Hamilton District Christian High Venture Program? Here are your answers.
How long has the Venture program been running?
Our first cohort of Grade 10 students entered the program this past September, 2014.
Is Venture just for students who already know their career path after high school?
Not at all. It is actually designed to help students explore possible options as well as consider a broader sense of how skills and abilities could bless the lives of others and be part of God's plan to bring hope and renewal to this world. A better sense of career and work pathways is an intended outcome upon completion of the Venture program, not an entry requirement.
Would it still be beneficial for students who are unsure of their plans after high school?
Absolutely. The program is designed anticipating that students will initially be exploring and considering a variety of possibilities. Some experiences in the program may help students to rule out certain career paths as well as pique an interest in others.
How would it impact other course options?
In Grade 10 and 11, 3 of the 4 credits in the full year block would meet core requirements. In Grade 12, students have the option of either a 2-credit or 4-credit Co-op placement. Other electives would have to be planned around these components.
How does the application process work?
End of November
- Applications available in the office and on the website
- Lunch hour information sessions – November 9-12 2015
- Attend the Parent information evening on November 19 at 7:30 p.m.
- Applications due by February 8, 2016
- February 2, 2016 Parent Student Information Evening (7.30-8.30)
Where do I find more information about Venture?
Check out the school website hdch.org/venture. There is more information and an online registration form available there. You can also find links to the program on Edsby.


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Oh my goodness, I am SO excited! Before I go any further, look at these lovelies to give you an idea why …
Aren't they just divine?! They're all by the uber talented Tracey Fletcher King; a mixed media and contemporary botanical artist living in Brisbane Australia … which happens to be where I live too! YAY!
Turns out we both have a mutual love for each other's art, so we've decided to do a collaboration together … Hopefully, the first of many! (I can smell a potential exhibition here, but let's not get carried away on the scent of divine tea escapades!)
So, the idea is is that I'll be creating one of these for Tracey …
And when she receives it, she'll be making her own rendition of it into one of her beautiful mixed-media artworks! How awesome is that?!?!
It's early days yet, we haven't even discussed our shared visions yet, but I had to share the news in excited anticipation!
You can pop over to Tracey's blog here to view more of her loveliness, and like her beautiful page on facebook here


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Is a Bad Wine Label a Turnoff?/
Visuals matter, particularly for wine sales. I'm interested in the topic because friends just gave me a bottle labeled "Cow Tipping" for the fun name and graphic. But apparently not everyone agrees with this strategy for choosing wine.
In the past, wine labels have been traditional, featuring images of a chataeu, for example, but winemakers-and wine marketers-have gotten creative. Yet not all designs work well.
Bloomberg called out six bottles for "terrible labels." Zinfandels, the article says, are particularly vulnerable to off-beat labeling: Plungerhead Old Vine and Zombie Zin are two examples. Others have a creepy eye leering out at the consumer or a blindfolded prisoner. For many of these, the author suggests, "Don't serve it by candlelight on a first date."
The article also tells us what we already know: sometimes beautiful packaging has no correlation with price, quality, or taste.
- To what extent does a wine label influence your decision to buy?
- Go to a local wine store. What catches your eye? Do you notice any correlation between label design and price?


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MPAC is zakat-eligible
The Quran outlines seven categories zakat should be dedicated to.
"The offering given for the sake of God are [meant] only for
[This is] an ordinance from God and God is all-knowing, wise."
- Surah At-Taubah (9:60)
Our work is applicable in four of the above zakat categories:
"Those whose hearts are to be won over"
"For freeing of people from bondage"
We advocate for human rights and religious freedom.
"For [every struggle] in God's cause"
"For the wayfarers"
The seventh category contemporarily refers to the problems of the homeless and refugees, at home and abroad. MPAC has consistently lobbied for an end to homelessness, and the right of return of all refugees.


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People Like Us / Matmos / Wobbly "Wide Open Spaces" LP (CREP52)
Release Date: 23rd February 2018 (taking pre-orders now)
Discrepant is pleased to announce the reissue of a "Wide Open Spaces", a collaborative LP by Wobbly, People Like Us and Matmos.
People Like Us were interviewed on the Mid-Valley Mutations Radio show at 10pm (West Coast US) on 15 December 2017 on kmuz.org
Listen here:
People Like Us (Vicki) and Wobbly (Jon Leidecker) paid an impromptu visit to KALX in Berkeley on 3 October 2017 to go on Carnacki's radio show. Here is the 3 hour conversation about Recombinant Festival, immersive media, collaborations, radio and vaporwave.
Over The Edge
DO or DIY with People Like Us – Monday, 19 June 2017 – 6pm
From 1981 to 2015, Negativland's Don Joyce hosted Over The Edge, the longest running block of freeform live mix collage radio in broadcast history — a program which continues today, having been inherited by long time show participant and collaborator Jon Leidecker. In this very Wobbly interview, Vicki and Jon discuss the history of collage radio, and the slow evolution of the Edge, as well as its many possible futures, both True and False.
http://www.detritus.net/wobbly/ | https://archive.org/details/ote
Music For The Fire [2010]
The fruit of many years of work, this album began as People Like Us & Wobbly collected and collaged their way through various depictions of misfired communications and heartbreak sourced from popular culture for a series of live improvisations. Music For The Fire is a plunderphonic concept album depicting the lifespan of a relationship, as told through samples of hundreds of different songs and voices who had no idea they were all telling the same story until they were all spliced together. Originally released on CD on Illegal Art. Thanks to UbuWeb for hosting this.
Another People Like Us album now available for free download over at UbuWeb:
Welcome Abroad {2011)
Release date: 24 May 2011
Illegal Art IA124 http://www.illegalart.net
Press release
"Welcome Abroad is the soundtrack to a dream – overlaying a cabaret with the circus, a music hall with the radio, a nightclub with the movies. Finely tuned sounds from the collective unconscious, fitted together with care and clarity and skill, producing a hallucinatory landscape that shifts and slides, shimmering with each new sample. Julie Andrews duets with Jim Morrison? Damn." –Steinski
Vicki Bennett, under the People Like Us moniker, returns from several collaborations for her first solo album in several years. Stranded in the United States for an extended period after the Icelandic volcano eruption blocked her British homeland's airspace, Bennett derived thematic material of displacement, travel, and a longing for elsewhere, from the natural disaster that caused her own predicament. Volcanically marooned in Baltimore and NYC, Bennett utilized some of her "free" time to work on the album and even gained audio contributions from fellow experimental musicians Jason Willett (of Half Japanese) and M.C. Schmidt (of Matmos) via her extended stay.
Taking a glance at just a few tracks from Welcome Abroad, songs from The Beatles, Ennio Morricone, Danny Kaye, Bob Dylan, Rod McKuen, Elton John, Gene Pitney, Elvis Presley, Dionne Warwick, John Denver, Julie London, and Queen are all amalgamated. While recent mashup culture often centers on the instant gratification of seamlessly juxtaposing hooks, People Like Us tracks transform the source material into collages that are equal parts dissonance and pleasure, making artful commentaries on our culture and Bennett's own existential amusement within such a wondrous world.
Thanks to Ergo Phizmiz, Jason Willett, M.C.Schmidt (Matmos), Virginia Pipe and Wobbly for contributing instruments, audio parts and multitracking to this album.
Lyrics on The Seven Hills of Rome by Ergo Phizmiz.
Some of the tracks listed above also have a moving image representation in People Like Us in UbuWeb Film
Ergo Phizmiz in UbuWeb Sound
Jon Leidecker (Wobbly) in UbuWeb Sound
People Like Us in UbuWeb Film
Yes, the date there is correct. Just found this video, courtesy of Doug Wellman of Puzzling Evidence: Superstars of sample People Like Us, Wobbly, and C. Elliot Friday (Don Joyce) of Negativland join forces with projectionists Wetgate to layer lightly at the Cell Space one fine spring night to discern "what's music?"…
Over The Wobbly Wetgate People Like on April 9 1998 from Puzzling Evidence on Vimeo.
Don Joyce (Negativland, Over The Edge) has merged with the radio waves. Don was a close friend and amazing artist. His influence on the work of People Like Us is beyond measure. Here is a wonderful piece accurately conveying many of my own experiences, written by Jon Leidecker, who I also first met through Don.
Don Joyce lived in a second story flat off Telegraph Avenue in what is now the thoroughly gentrified Temescal district in Oakland, but when I visited the Negativland home studio for the first time in July of 1987, after nightfall you had to watch yourself on the way from your car to the front door. I was there to drop off source materials and discuss the theme for the coming week's episode of Over The Edge, which, after two years of avid fandom, I had finally been invited to play. Don still had his programming day job at that point, and I discovered him in his room tinkering with the GUI for a primitive typing tutor program on his Mac SE with his left hand, while his right hand hovered near the pause button on a cassette deck recording KGO talk radio. Occasionally, while talking to me and coding with one hand, he'd unpause or repause the recording with the other, seemingly randomly. But I soon realized he was precisely waiting for silences between the host and his callers, and making sure host and callers still alternated in sequence. The resulting tape would still sound as if it were a conversation; it just wouldn't be even remotely close to the one that had actually happened.
This approach to multi-tasking wouldn't have been a surprise to anyone who's heard Over The Edge, which I'd randomly channel surfed into at 12:30 in the morning two years before; at first I'd assumed I'd hit one of those magic nodes on the analog dial where two stations were coming in clearly at the same time, and paused to enjoy the accident. The slow rush of recognition came on over the next twenty seconds as I realized it was actually five to ten things at once: talk radio recordings and advertisements cut in with each other and twisted into dialogues, all while loosely played guitars and keyboards mingled with fragments of pop and soundtrack albums. And only when the sound of a disconnecting line terminated the guitar riff did I make that final connection: a number of the lower fidelity instruments and tapes were being contributed by live phone callers. I stayed up until the show ended at three, that night and many nights to come.
Spotted by our friend Jonathan Lemon – a track by People Like Us, Wobbly and Matmos on their jukebox! No idea quite why the song is explicit… the "lyrics" come from a local London commercial radio station advert from the 1990s. Download Wide Open Spaces for free at UbuWeb.
CCCitations is an offshoot of Citation City, an audiovisual performance by People Like Us.
Four artists, Jon Leidecker, Jason Willett, Gwilly Edmondez and Andrew Sharpley were given source material from Vicki Bennett's Citation City a/v project and asked to make new work, interpreting the footage in a unique way.
Soundtrack: Gwilly Edmondez 00:01
Soundtrack: Jason Willett 02:47
Soundtrack: Jon Leidecker 05:23
Film: Vicki Bennett
Film and Video: Andrew Sharpley – using source material given by Vicki Bennett
About Citation City
Citation City sources, collage and edits 300 major feature films where content is either filmed or set in London – creating a story within a story, of the film world, living its life, through extraordinary times of change, to see what happens when these multiple narratives are combined… what will the story tell us that one story alone could never tell?
Inspired by The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, this audiovisual work is created from 1000s of clippings of text and visual media, collaged using a system of "convolutes", collated around subjects of key motifs, historical figures, social types, cultural objects from the time. By gathering and assembling such groups of similar yet unrelated, he revealed a hidden, magical encyclopaedia of affinities, a massive and labyrinthine architecture of a collective dream city. On reading Benjamin, his approach to editing astonished Vicki Bennett, and the similarity of their creative processes of cutting and collating extensive lists of subject matter by context.
In the live performance a series of story lines (convolutes) sit side by side with a soundtrack sourced both from the movie content, as well as new sample compositions thematically related to the visual content.
The result is a sweeping panorama of London, a London as represented through cinema – not the real city at all, but one that exists in the collective imagination of moviegoers throughout the decades. Filmmaker Magazine
Here's a entertaining, informative (we hope) one-hour video travelogue of our recent Notations Tour.
Featuring performers Bill Orcutt, Rhodri Davies, M.C. Schmidt, Philip Jeck, Jaap Blonk, Steve Noble, Wobbly, Mark Sanders, Tomomi Adachi and Jennifer Walshe. Oh, and People Like Us. Also, tour producers Richard Whitelaw and Lee Etherington make appearances.
Thanks to those that attended Leeds NOTATIONS at Hyde Park Picture House as part of Leeds International Film Festival on 16 Nov 2013 – here are two edits with M.C. Schmidt, Tomomi Adachi and Wobbly. Thanks to Tusk and Sound & Music!
NOTATIONS Leeds Hyde Park Picture House w/ M.C. Schmidt, Tomomi Adachi & Wobbly on Vimeo.
NOTATIONS Live at Leeds Hyde Park Picture House w/ M.C. Schmidt, Tomomi Adachi & Wobbly. Film by Vicki Bennett on Vimeo.