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Star-studded Eastern Sporting Union bagged their second win of the ongoing inaugural edition of the Indian Women's League (IWL) as the Bembem Devi led side defeated FC Pune City 3-1 to go second in the league table with six points, a point adrift of leaders Alakhpura FC, today (February 02, 2017) at the Ambedkar Stadium in the Capital.
A Kamala Devi brace (36', 42') and Kashmina's late strike (70') proved enough for ESU to steam past their opponents after Alisha Ranikhetwala had pulled a goal back in the 65th minute.
Both Teams however, were slow to get off the blocks and tested each other's waters in midfield before launching any attack. Eastern Sporting Union relied on the experience of veteran Bembem Devi to jot passes in the midfield, while FC Pune City's captain Dalima Chhibber thwarted the passes away in an attempt to make up even possession.
Mandakini's pace on the wings opened up attacking channels for ESU on the flanks, which FC Pune City defended by committing bodies around their defensive third. Apart from a 20th minute Bembem freekick, which came close to taking the lead for ESU, chances for both the Teams were few.
ESU's constant hovering around FC Pune City's 18 yard box reaped benefits in the 36th minute when Kamala Devi latched onto a faulty clearance and tapped home from handshaking distance to give ESU a solitary goal lead.
Six minutes later, Kamala once again burst into FC Pune City's 18 yard box chasing a long ball, controlling it with her left foot and then switching it to her right before half volleying it into the back of the net to double ESU's lead. The half-time scoreline read 2-0.
Eastern Union began with the same intensity as they finished the first half and tested the FC Pune City's custodian. In the 57th minute, Umapati's header off Bemem Devi's corner nearly crept in the net.
Three minutes later Kashmina was awarded an excellent opportunity to put the tie to rest when she went clear onto goal following a Premi Devi pass. Kashmina however shot wide of the goal.
In the 65th minute, FC Pune City pulled one goal back as Alisha Ranikhetwala's shot was misjudged by ESU's custodian and fell into the back of the net to reduce the margin.
Little effect did it have on ESU as even after conceding, they launched wave after wave of attack keeping FC Pune City under pressure. And in the 70th minute, Kashmina rounded off an onrushing Rumpa Malik and scored to restore ESU's two goal lead, following an exquisite dink through ball by Premi Devi as the scoreline read 3-1.
The full-time scoreline read 3-1 as ESU registered an easy win over FC Pune City.
(Report & Photo courtesy: AIFF Media)


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I'm a lifestyle blogger in Minneapolis. I love frozen chocolate chips, hot coffee with a generous pour of vanilla creamer, and organizing every nook and cranny of my home. The 2 most important things to me are my faith and my family.
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Yard Waste Recycling
Brush and leaves are collected separately and will be picked up on residents' regular trash/recycling collection day:
- Brush only:
Week of May 6 - May 10, 2019 Spring Collection
Week of October 21 – October 25, 2019 Fall Collection
Week of December 2 – December 6, 2019 Fall Collection
- Leaf Collection:
Week of April 22-26 and April 29- May 3, 2019 Spring Collection
Week of October 28 -November 30, 2019 Fall Collection
**Curbside leaf and brush collection will be the same day as your regular trash pickup**
The Solid Waste Management Division offers 2 options for disposing of yard waste:
- Curbside collection during the weeks specified above.
- Drop-off at our Yard Waste Facility located on Dudley Road.
What is yard waste and brush?
- Yard waste is defined as leaves, grass, and non-woody organic garden waste only. Yard waste does not include sod, dirt, sand, gravel, or rocks.
- Brush is wood waste from bushes and trees that is less than 4 inches in diameter, and no greater than 4 feet in length.
How should I dispose of yard waste and brush at the curb?
The Solid Waste Division conducts annual curbside collection of yard waste and brush during the spring and fall. All curbside yard waste and brush collections take place only on the weeks designated and only on your regular trash collection day for that week. A separate collection vehicle is dispatched to collect only yard waste and brush during the following designated collection weeks.
Preparing your yard waste and brush for curbside pickup:
Leaves, grass clippings, plant waste, and light trimmings too small to bundle: use paper leaf bags or reusable containers marked "yard waste." Bags and containers cannot exceeded 40 pounds and 35 gallons.
Brush (sticks, twigs, branches, and shrubs): Pieces cannot exceed 4 inches in diameter and 4 feet in length. Bundle and tie with string or twine (no wire), or place in a reusable container marked "yard waste." Bundles and any yard waste or brush not conforming to these guidelines will not be collected and will be left at the curb.
Note: Yard waste in plastic bags will not be collected.
Yard Waste Facility
Residents may bring yard waste (brush and leave / grass / plant waste) to the Framingham yard waste facility, located on Dudley Road (turn right out of the Recycling Drop-off Center driveway and the yard waste facility entrance is your first left).
- Residents must have a valid recycling center permit to use the yard waste facility.
- The Facility is for residential use only - no commercial loads!
Preparing Yard Waste For Drop Off
Please make sure your materials are separated by the following guidelines and placed in the appropriately marked areas:
Leaves, grass, plant waste, and small light trimmings:
- Transport in bags or containers only
- Paper bags only may be left on site
- Containers and plastic bags must be emptied and removed from the facility
Brush (branches, sticks, twigs and shrubs):
- Must be 4 inches or less in diameter and 4 feet or shorter in length
- No logs or stumps
- Transport loose or in containers
- All containers and bags must be emptied and removed
Christmas Trees
- Dropped off as brush only when the facility is open
- Must be free of tinsel and decorations
Can I also take my kitchen scraps to the City composting site?
No. Only yard waste, leaves, grass, and brush are accepted at the City Yard Waste Drop-Off; household food waste is not accepted.
If you are interested in composting food waste at home, consider constructing or purchasing a home composting bin. Compost bins are available at the recycling center (while supplies last).
Screened composted and wood mulch are both sold in bulk quantities -$20/cubic yard or $10 to fill your 35 gallon container.
Framingham residents are welcomed to take unscreened compost for free using a vehicle with a valid recycling center permit.
Yard Waste Facility Hours of Operation
The facility is open seasonally
The Yard Waste Facility will open Friday, April 5, 2019
Fridays and Saturdays: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Sunday: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Located on Dudley Road (turn right out of the Recycling Drop-off Center driveway and the yard waste facility entrance is your first left).
Contact us for facility opening and closing dates at 508-532-6001.


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The Historical Association
The Historical Association is an independent national charity open to everyone. We have been supporting history since 1906. We have over 6,000 members representing teachers, academics, local historians and history enthusiasts.
We have a strong national voice in secondary school education with our 3,500 history teachers. We advise on National Curriculum History at all levels and aim to ensure our members' voice and needs are heard.
With over 50 local branches around the country, the Association promotes life long learning and enjoyment of history. Our branches have a lively series of talks by well-known historians; local walks and visits to places of historic interest.
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On-Site Facilities consist of;
- Water's Edge Mediterranean Restaurant & Bar
- Swimming Pool
- Gym/Steam Room
- Beauty Treatments
- Laundry Room
- Free Fishing & Sailing On The Lake
- Wi-Fi (Payable)
- Free Dedicated Wi-Fi (Only Available On Selected Lodges)
Restaurant & Bar
The Water's Edge restaurant is an award winning Mediterranean restaurant situated on site. The restaurant & bar is open 7 days week & offers snacks, lunch, coffee, evening meals or a full a la carte menu. They have pizza/pasta night's every Tuesday & Thursday & curry night on Mondays. You also have a choice of whether you eat in or take out.
Leisure Facilities & Beauty Treatments
There is a 15 metre indoor heated pool with a steam room & air conditioned gym. Pure Essence Beauty located on-site offers the perfect relaxation experience with a wide range of beauty treatments from manicures, facials, pamper days & massages. All of these treatments are provided by professionally trained beauty therapists.
Laundry, Fishing & Sailing
There is a small laundry room with coin operated washing machines & dryers. Guests are able to fish in the well-stocked private lake; the lake has wild trout, perch, bream, carp & pike. If you have a lakeside lodge you are able to fish directly from the balcony. Guests are welcome to sale on the lake & may bring a small dingy or canoe (strictly no motorised boats).
There is Wi-Fi on-site payable to the provider. We have lodges that have free dedicated Wi-Fi installed in the lodges & these lodges are: – Lake View Lodge, The Hiding Place, Tarn Lodge, Sunnybank Lodge, Mallard Lodge, Runners Retreat Lodge & Haven Lakeland Lodge.


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What is carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is defined as: The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).
In other words: When you drive a car, the engine burns fuel which creates a certain amount of CO2, depending on its fuel consumption and the driving distance. When you heat your house with oil, gas or coal, then you also generate CO2. Even if you heat your house with electricity, the generation of the electrical power may also have emitted a certain amount of CO2. When you buy food and goods, the production of the food and goods also emitted some quantities of CO2.
Each of the following activities add 1 kg of CO2 to your personal carbon footprint:
- Travel by public transportation (train or bus) a distance of 10 to 12 km (6.5 to 7 miles)
- Drive with your car a distance of 6 km or 3.75 miles (assuming 7.3 litres petrol per 100 km or 39 mpg)
- Fly with a plane a distance of 2.2 km or 1.375 miles.
- Operate your computer for 32 hours (60 Watt consumption assumed)
- Production of 5 plastic bags
- Production of 2 plastic bottles
- Production of 1/3 of an American cheeseburger (yes, the production of each cheeseburger emits 3.1 kg of CO2!)
Carbon dioxide is a so called greenhouse gas causing global warming . Other greenhouse gases which might be emitted as a result of your activities are e.g. methane and ozone. These greenhouse gases are normally also taken into account for the carbon footprint. They are converted into the amount of CO2 that would cause the same effects on global warming (this is called equivalent CO2 amount).
Over the past two decades the effect has become more marked. Considerable evidence exists that most of this warming has been caused by human activities… that's to say we have altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere through a buildup of greenhouse gases – primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
What if we do nothing? Rising global temperatures will cause sea level to rise and alter local climate conditions, affecting forests, crop yields, and water supplies. It may also affect human health, animals, and many types of ecosystems. Deserts may expand and some of our countryside may be permanently altered.
What Can we do?
You have to go to work and we all like being consumers – but there are many ways you can help. Firstly, you need to recognize how you personally impact global warming. Carbon Footprint will show you how to minimize your impact – starting today – and show you how to make the right product choices in the future.
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Proper Pond pH Levels | Pond Ph Stabilizers | Pond Ph Decreaser/Increaser
- It's important to maintain proper pH levels in your pond.�The overall health of a pond�is affected by�too high or too low pH levels, and in particular, fish and aquatic plants. Fish become stressed and thus susceptible to disease when pH levels are out of whack. Plants struggle and often die. A ponds pH level should always be around 7.5, don't worry if it's a little higher, or a little lower. What's more important is that there aren't vast and rapid�fluctuations in pH levels.�Get a pond�Test Kit to check pH levels, and be sure to check around the same time, since pH levels naturally fluctuate slightly�throughout the day.
- Low pH: Use a pH increaser such as Microbelift Increase, or�Greenclean pH Up.
- High pH: Besides using a pH Down product (pH Down by Greenclean, or PHusion by Crystal Clear) add a product containing peat such as Barley Straw with peat by Microbelift. Peat naturally lowers pH, and �you�ll get the added benefit of a clarifier and algae preventer.
- In both cases, be sure to get a pH stabilizer/buffer such as SapHguard by Crystal Clear or Microbelift's 7.5 Buffer Stabilizer, as these help keep pH levels�from fluctuating.


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Microsoft mocks Apple and new iPhones in vids it quickly pulls
'Light-hearted poke at Cupertino was off the mark' says Redmond
Microsoft has posted and then pulled several videos in which it mocks Apple's new iPhones.
The seven videos first appeared over the weekend on the Windows Phone YouTube channel. All have since been made private, but as will happen online various folks pinched copies of the vids so we can all enjoy them. Here's one titled "Microsoft iPhone parody: A fly on the wall in Cupertino" posted by VaultFeed
If you can't be bothered watching it, a summary: two Apple employees interview someone about the new iPhones. The questions are ridiculous, make much of very small changes to the new iPhones and the interview subjects aren't impressed.
The other six videos in the series have been widely reported as similarly tedious and unfunny, and were quickly made private so they dropped out of public view.
Microsoft's since told The Next Web the videos were pulled because their "light-hearted poke at our friends from Cupertino" were deemed "off the mark".
The Reg wouldn't be surprised if the videos were not intended for consumption beyond Redmond. But things always leak these days, as was famously the case for the video below, an hilarious internal critique of Microsoft's design ethic compared to Apple's. ®
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Floor Heating and Boiler Controls
The floor heating system we recommend is operated by a weather responsive outdoor reset control integrated into the boiler. These controls regulate the water temperature in the floor heating system according to the outdoor air temperature. This means of heating system control provides a regulated water temperature for the radiant floor that produces just enough heat to hold uniformly comfortable room temperatures without thermostat cycling.
This method of control produces uniform radiant floor temperatures that change slowly and proportionally to changes in outdoor temperature. Outdoor temperature changes, including sudden temperature drops (blizzard), and temperature rises (Chinook), are automatically compensated for so the indoor temperature remains constant. The system is reliant on thermostats only for zone temperature limiting.
More importantly, the heating water temperature is limited to the lowest temperature necessary to carry the actual heating load. This low temperature operation is the hallmark of efficiency for floor heating systems. High performance homes can be heated under design conditions with heating water temperatures that approach the desired room temperature.
In addition to comfort, these low heating water temperatures also provide for the most efficient operation of any heat source employed, including condensing gas boilers and especially solar systems.
Condensing boilers, like the Vitodens, are so called because they achieve very high 96%+ efficiencies through the extraction of the latent heat of the water vapor in the flue gases. However, in order to condense the vapor in the flue gas to liquid water it is necessary to operate the boiler heat exchanger at heating water temperatures that are below the dew point, i.e. less than 120 °F.
The reset controller built into the Vitodens boiler controls the combustion and regulates the heating water temperature to the lowest possible to encourage this condensing operation. A feature of the Vitodens boiler is that it maintains very high combustion efficiencies with record low emissions, even at very low firing rates.
Solar Systems
The operating efficiency of solar thermal collectors is strongly related to heat losses from the collector to the ambient air. For this reason, the best solar applications are designed to always carefully expose the solar collection circuit to the lowest temperature loads available. In a home, this is typically the cold potable water destined to become hot domestic water. The entire domestic water heating load consists of raising the temperature of incoming cold water from lows of 40° - 50° to highs of 125° - 140°.*
It is partially this cold incoming water that makes domestic water heating typically the very best of solar thermal applications. Dedicated solar domestic water heating systems are able to do a great deal of useful work – and offset more conventional fuel - at these low load temperatures.
For this reason, it is vitally important that solar system designs specifically prioritize the collector array to address this low temperature load in isolation from other heat sources.
If a backup heat source is allowed to provide the required domestic water temperature lift directly and immediately, then the utility of the solar system in heating domestic hot water essentially falls to zero. Simply put, if the water is already heated by using the backup fuel, then the job has been done.
Conventional dedicated solar water heating systems typically dedicate a storage tank to the solar system to isolate the incoming cold water from the backup heat source so that as much as possible of the temperature lift needed to produce use temperature is provided by the solar system alone. A dedicated solar domestic water heating system provides much of its energy savings by pre-heating the incoming water to a higher temperature before a back up heater is employed to raise the water to use temperature.
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The design with negative consequences we have seen shows a storage tank that is fitted with a heat exchange coil in the bottom of the tank as well as a smaller tank, intended to hold the potable domestic water, suspended in the top of the tank.
It is intended that the shell of the suspended tank serve as the sole heat exchange surface to provide heat to the domestic water from the larger tank. It's also intended that the coil in the bottom of the larger tank be connected to the solar collectors.
The design indicates that a condensing boiler is to heat the larger outer tank directly and use a pump to move heated water from the boiler into the larger tank. Another pump is shown that is intended to circulate heating system water through the larger tank to the space heating system.
There are several immediately notable negative consequences to this design.
- The domestic water is not isolated from the boiler as a heat source. In order to provide domestic hot water on demand at any time, it is necessary to operate the boiler in such a way as to hold the larger tank at temperatures above (for heat exchange purposes) the required domestic hot water delivery temperature. I project that this larger tank must be held in the 140° range to provide adequate domestic hot water delivery in the 120° - 130° range.
- Because the boiler will be able to address incoming domestic cold water directly and immediately, there would be little or none of the domestic water heating load for the solar system to perform.
- Unlike dedicated solar water heaters and other combination load solar heating designs, this system requires that heat be exchanged twice to domestic water, further isolating the solar system from the domestic water heating load.
- As the boiler will be keeping the tank hot (minimum 130°- 140°) at all times, this will provide the temperature floor at which the solar system is allowed to operate. In order to do useful work, the solar collectors must reach a temperature 10° - 20° higher in order to operate.
- The temperature range in which the boiler is holding the larger tank, (130° -140°) is sufficiently high as to inhibit high efficiency condensing operation of the boiler and may obviate the investment in a condensing boiler.
- For both space and water heating, the efficient operation of the otherwise low mass, condensing, modulating boiler is greatly inhibited by the large tank of water. The design prevents the boiler from directly addressing either heating load. Instead the boiler must always overcome the thermal mass and associated heat losses of the large storage tank. Saddling either the back up domestic water heating system or the space heating system with this extra thermal mass is hugely counterproductive. It makes the system sluggish and unresponsive and decreases efficiency as a result of higher heat losses.
- Without further adjustments to the temperature of the water used for space heating, the water temperature prevailing in the large storage tank will almost always be too hot for the weather conditions.
This will especially be true as the solar system produces temperatures well above that necessary just to create domestic water. This will cause the radiant floors to short cycle and may create temperature swings in the space, especially under changing weather conditions. Very high water temperatures should be avoided altogether.
- Because the boiler is firing the large storage tank to a minimum temperature setting necessary to maintain domestic water heating - and because the radiant floors are not being operated at the lowest possible water temperature for the conditions - neither the boiler nor the solar system will be able to address the space heating load at the lower temperatures that could be possible with other designs.
- The design of the storage tank itself is an issue. Our experience with tank-in-tank designs such as this has not been good, and we know that there are better alternatives available. We have found that the heat exchange surface gives less than adequate response, which is reduced with inevitable fouling. These tanks cannot be completely drained as all of the piping comes in from the top. The heat exchangers cannot be cleaned, as there are no clean-out ports or openings common to other tank designs. The consequence of this is that if or when the tank fouls, it cannot be maintained but must be replaced.
*The ability to do useful work at low temperatures is one of the several characteristics of dedicated solar domestic water heating systems that make them much more economically attractive than other solar applications, especially space heating.
The solar controls simply compare the temperature of the solar collectors to the temperature of the solar heating load and only actuate the solar collection circulator if the solar collectors are sufficiently 'hotter' or at a higher temperature than the load.
Typically the solar collectors must be 10° - 20° hotter than the load in order to overcome the thermal resistance presented by the heat exchanger in the circuit and do useful work. The temperature difference it takes to run the heat exchanger is called the 'on differential.'
The solar controls also incorporate an 'off differential', which sets the minimum positive temperature differential at which the circulator should be allowed to operate. If the system is allowed to operate at a negative temperature differential, heat will be moved backwards from the heat storage tank and lost through the solar collectors.


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U.S. Ex-Im Weighs Extending Crisis Supports
When bank lending for aircraft exports dried up, U.S. Ex-Im Bank offered put options for lenders and guarantees for bond issues - support that Ex-Im Bank chair Fred Hochberg says may now be extended beyond aircraft.
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September 2014
The new BASELINE video series will actively reach out to people who are not Orthodox Christians, who are not inquirers, and who indeed may have never encountered our faith. The place to start is at the origin of the Church: its history. This high quality multi-DVD set is in the planning stage and this podcast will keep you up to date.
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Image from Operations Management, 1998.
Some time ago I posted on high performance job design using four characteristics or spans; control, accountability, influence and support. At the time I linked the concept to the operations typology describing four characteristics of design of operations for high performance. This post picks up that discussion to look at the characteristics of demands that it is essential to understand if you want to design and manage your operations for high performance or excellence in local government.
A number of recent books on public sector management have discussed demands and how it is essential to understand them in public services because payment is not made at the time of service consumption and, therefore, price does not directly influence the amount and nature of demands placed on the system.
In his Vanguard Method John Seddon describes the importance of fulfilling purpose if failure demand is to be avoided. He also talks about understanding flow in relation to how work enters a system. Both of these ideas relate to demands. If purpose (i.e. the value sought by someone or their demand on the system) is not correctly understood the work system will not meet their need. They will come back.
Mark H. Moore includes operational capacity in his 'strategic triangle' concept linking decisions from the authorising environment to the public value provided. An organisation must have the operating capacity (or capability as Moore describes it in his earlier book Creating Public Value) to deliver on the political commitment to create particular public value. If the public value proposition is accurate it will pick up effectively on demands present in the community. Failure to understand demands will lead to creation of value that is not required or appreciated. There will be dissatisfaction.
Looking to the private sector, Francis Frei has discussed the variability introduced by customers into operations. This is another way to describe an aspect of demands that is important to understand in the public sector. The variability described by Frei is timing (i.e. when people want a service); range (i.e. the services wanted), ability (i.e. the ability to access services), effort (i.e. how much will people expend to get a service), and opinion (i.e. what they think it is to be treated well). This variability is an important aspect of demands because it is the part that public services frequently attempt to make more efficient by standardising services processes . Deciding whether to accept or manage customer introduced variability is a key decision in smoothing the flow of demands entering works systems for organisations using an efficiency-based business model.
This is the model espoused by most local governments to reinforce their focus on productivity and waste minimisation in giving their taxpayers value for money. It is the traditional 'roads, rates (taxes) and rubbish' role of councils where universal services to properties are provided cost-efficiently. The more recent move to providing services to people (not properties) requires a more value-based business model and greater acceptance of customer variability in order to properly fulfil purpose or value expectations.
An operations management approach to understanding demand focuses on the characteristics of demands and how they are presented. The first is the volume of demand. Is the volume for the demand high or low? High means that there is sufficient demand to justify dedicated operations or facilities on a scale large enough to return economies through asset and resource utilisation. The cost of each unit of production is low.
The second characteristic is variety in demand. How many different demands, each requiring different facilities, skills or resources, are flowing into the operations? A work system suitable for one type of demand may be entirely unsuitable for another and have high costs or error rates if used for it. For example, if you recruit a skilled computer programmer and provide them with high end technology to do their work and then ask them to offer a Help Desk service to people with basic computer knowledge and problems, you will end up having over-capitalised and with a dissatisfied employee (and probably some upset customers). Variety requires greater flexibility in operations.
The third is variation in levels or volumes of demand. Does the amount of demand vary from day to day or week to week, across seasons or over periods of years? This is important to understand because it affects the throughput of the operations or facilities and the extent to which assets and resources are fully utilised. If throughput varies significantly and operations or facilities are idle or underutilised for periods of time the units costs go up.
The fourth characteristic, and in some ways the most important in local government, is the amount of customer contact. The customer is either present or involved in the production of services. The intensity of interaction required between the person delivering the service and the person receiving it is an important characteristic of demand. It drives 'front' and 'back' office separation and links to Frei's discussion about variability introduced by customers and whether or not it is accommodated.
This is a key issue in the design of services delivered in response to resident requests (e.g. potholes or tree pruning) when the person reporting the item wants to be involved in its resolution. Most work planning systems are not good at ensuring that the requester is contacted when the service is actually delivered. And the workers fixing potholes don't always have good customer skills.
An effective operations manager will design operations in accordance with the business model. Let's assume it is efficiency-based when the primary objective is to fully utilise capacity. This requires demands to be 'smoothed', i.e. they must flow into the work process in the way the process has been designed to accept them. The most efficient operations would have high volume, low variety, low or predictable variation, and low customer contact. If the service is to repair potholes when requested, the most efficient way to do this would be to accumulate requests to 'batch' them and repair them all at the same time.
As you can already imagine, this is not always possible because potholes can affect road useability and safety, and requestors are likely to want to see a repair made in a timeframe that meets their threshold for risk. Batching is still possible unless it is a large pothole in a hazardous location but there are time limits that will sometimes require a more rapid response to individual potholes.
A high performance local government organisation would design operations to separate rapid response potholes from those that can be batched and they would be assigned to a different work process. This approach to understanding the characteristics of demands needs to be applied across all services if customer purpose (or value or needs) are to be met effectively and efficiently – first time, every time.
Slack, Nigel, Chambers, Stuart, Harland, Christine, Harrison, Alan, and Johnston, Robert 1998. Operations Management, 2nd Edition.


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This site is simply a merge of an old blog I started in 2007 and random posts to a posterous site.
The blog posts seem mostly about food since I do my work-related posts at ttivisualmedia.tamu.edu.
Web worker and manager. Married and in love. Christian. Motorcyclist. Insulin pump & CBGM. Like crowds. Like dogs and cats.


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Remember #BringBackOurGirls? The short-lived social awareness campaign to rescue hundreds of abducted girls in Nigeria has long petered out. For a brief moment earlier this year, the world focused on the plight of innocent girls kidnapped by the Islamic radical group Boko Haram. Even the First Lady joined in the crusade. Millions of Facebook and Twitter messages later, and we're nowhere close to bringing back our girls. The campaign was high on emotion and low on substance; the perfect reflection of our tech-obsessed, low attention span culture.
Mollie Hemingway should understand this. Normally, The Federalist contributor is a thoughtful writer with an agreeable view on culture, politics, and personal relations. In the post-Christian era where traditional distinctions are blurred more than ever, she provides some sanity to combat the forces of relativism.
But in a recent piece, Hemingway displays an angry frustration with the feminist cyberwarriors that have been hogging so much of the media spotlight. Topic of her disgust: the radical feminine vitriol aimed at shabby dresser Dr. Matt Taylor. After successfully landing a spacecraft on a comet 310 million miles from Earth, Taylor was chastised for wearing a bowling-style shirt embellished with scantily-clad women. A slur of insults and death threats followed. Even science-loving women were offended by the apparel.
Hemingway, like any sane person, was appalled by the puerile behavior displayed toward someone so brilliant, who succeeded at putting a creation of mankind on a cold rock far away from our home planet. She was so upset, in fact, she declared "It's time to stand up to the bullying." The irritated feminists "should be absolutely ashamed" and the next time their tirades take over the news cycle, "we should call it out."
I agree: let's stand up to overly sensitive feminists. Let's show them that rationally thinking individuals won't stand for their bully tactics and intimidation. Let's combat the feminist inquisition with a hard dose of reality.
Except, how exactly do we go about this great defense of our traditional Vendéean stronghold? Where do we build the rampart, and begin the arduous march back toward normalcy?
Mrs. Hemingway doesn't provide an answer. She recommends that victims of "grrrl power" bullies stop apologizing for perceived slights and offensives toward the female gender. Outside of that plain advice, we're left with a rallying cry that is all talk and no essence.
My sympathies go out to her, but there is nothing that can be done about the militant forces of indignant egalitarianism. In many ways, the internet has been the great equalizer in terms of debate and speaking truth to power. It has also had the effect of giving a megaphone to morons. Social media proselytizing confirms Albert Jay Nock's take on Gresham's law: "the law of diminishing returns operate as inexorably in the realm of culture." Increasing numbers of pop sociologists broadcasting rants on chat forums hasn't lifted public discourse. If anything, these diatribes have ushered in a new era of trite victimology and an undeserved want of restitution. And on more than one occasion, the internet's free flow of information, including the increased opportunity to be published in print media, has served as a breeding ground for totalitarian fantasies.
Recently, one student at Dartmouth used his God-given right to mouth-off to advocate the suppression of offensive speech. Writing in The Dartmouth, ungrateful man-child Zach Taylor declares "this country has gone too far in allowing people to say whatever they want," which translates to suppressing language he sees as "hate speech." Using the sagacious wisdom that comes with being a pampered undergrad, Taylor grants that there isn't much standing in the way from authoritarian suppression of all speech, except for lingering cultural norms. I suppose he's holding out hope the thought police will suddenly relent after stomping out the speech he finds deplorable.
Call Taylor what you will, but at least he advocates concrete action to silence his philosophical opponents. He doesn't appeal to vague language and an unreachable goal. Yes, his contradictory and elementary writing reeks of "special snowflake" sanctimony. But at least he has a tangible solution to the evils that haunt his precious psyche.
I wish the same could be said of Hemingway's campaign to "stand up" to pushy feminists. Her plea for action will do nothing to quiet the social warriors that patrol the hallways of the internet. Feminists have the same right to bitch and moan that everyone else has. Outside of forcefully cutting of their access to social media, there isn't much that can be done. Free speech is a great thing, even when it's used to voice idiotic opinions. Taking it away to silence a few miscreants threatens everyone in the end. As Sir Thomas More said in A Man for All Seasons, "Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"
In no way do I think Ms. Hemingway is ignorant enough to want speech restrictions imposed on radical feminists. She's sensible enough to realize that law is easily abused by human actors. It's just a disappointment to see her appeal to pent-up rage that will ultimately amount to nothing. When it comes to temper tantrums thrown by unsavory characters, denunciation can be an attractive counteraction. But sometimes it's best to, as Rod Dreher says, "roll your eyes and move on."
The average working schmuck isn't all that concerned about hurt feelings or that women might be discouraged from a profession in science. He certainly doesn't care that a brainiac on television wore a shirt that's fit for an expat drinking away retirement on a beach in Mexico. The scandal, like all frivolous news items, will soon fade away. It was never worth raising a stink about hidden misogyny in space exploration. It's also not worth giving attention to people who are so starved for it they need to create controversy out of nothing. Don't encourage the dames, or the effete bastards. Let them wallow in a puddle of irrational hate. They might not learn the error of their ways, but isolation is a better tool to weed them out.
If I'm wrong, I'll happily accept a better solution.


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Certificate in Project Management Courses
CalSouthern's Certificate in Project Management is an 18-credit program, comprised of the following six required courses:
MGT 86529 Project Management
Credits : 3
The course is organized around the project management life cycle to mirror the way a real-world project would be executed. It provides you with essential project management concepts and ties them into the Project Management Body of Knowledge developed by the Project Management Institute.
Learning Outcomes:
The course is organized around the project management life cycle to mirror the way a real-world project would be executed. It provides you with essential project management concepts and ties them into the Project Management Body of Knowledge developed by the Project Management Institute.
Techniques such as PERT, Gantt and CPM for tracking the integrated nature of performance, cost and time in every project are included.
- Define a project, importance of strategic planning, and integrative approaches.
- Explain strategic management process: checklist vs weighed factor method.
- Explore functional, matrix, and dedicated team approaches.
- Explore project scope statement, time, scope, cost, and work packages.
- Explain communication plan and critical importance of accurate estimates.
- Discuss organizational culture, bottom-up and top-down estimating, and types of costs.
- Define work breakdown schedule (WBS) and project network.
- Discuss project lags, types of risks, plus, budget and management reserves.
- Explore project priority, resource scheduling, outsourcing, and time-phased baseline.
- Explain crashing a project and project scope.
- Explore indirect project costs, critical path, and leading versus managing projects
- Discuss project cooperation, trust, relationship building, and effective managing skills.
- Evaluate five-stage model, project rewards, and pitfalls of a highly cohesive project team.
- Discuss outsourcing project work, BATNA, and Tracking Gantt Chart.
- Explore schedule variance, BAC, and EAC.
- Discussion project reviews, pay reviews, and environmental project factors.
- Explain local intermediaries and honoring a country's customs and traditions.
- Explore culture shock and preparation for international projects.
- Discuss oversight tools, maturity model, and traditional project management.
- Discuss iterative incremental development and Agile project management.
- Review differences between traditional project manager and Scrum master.
- Discuss transferability of project management skills and project management careers.
- Explain project management mentoring, CAPM, PMI, and PMP.
- Introduce self and explain course expectations.
- Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
- Access information efficiently and effectively.
- Evaluate information critically and competently.


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20-02-18 STEM Day
21 February 2018
Yesterday, timetables were collapsed for a STEM day spectacular for years 10, 11 and 12. Here at DMUTC, we have STEM days 5 times a year where sponsoring and local companies run various fun activities with the students.
Year 10 had an engineering-focused day, ran by Learn By Design. Their day comprised of activities such as circuit building, designing their own wind turbines, robot wars, and designing an aerodynamic car. Amongst the various activities, a stand-out activity for year 10 student Ellie, was designing a product for assisted living purposes such as a walking cane that transmitted vibrations to a Bluetooth earpiece for a deaf person.
Year 11's activities were organised by Inspiring Minds. The best summary of their day came from Dan:
"My day was inspirational because it made me realise how to motivate myself and embrace my hidden talents"
Their activities were a source of motivation; from team rowing races, to reaction-time activities, to juggling! The day was more based on raising their self-confidence and even included a presentation from Kelvin Batey, a professional BMX racer who has competed for Great Britain.
On the other hand, year 12 had a Young Drivers' awareness day, where members of the Police and Fire Service gave talks on safe and responsible driving, the implications of dangerous drug/drunk driving and other topics new drivers may not be taught on their driving lessons. Later on in the afternoon, they took their CVs and best, brave faces into mock interviews which were conducted by experienced interviewers from various companies. They found this experience to be particularly useful.
"I really enjoyed the second part of the day, I found the perspective of an employer and what they're looking for in interviewees very helpful" - Roscoe, year 12.
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Les meilleures recommandations des habitantsDes sites touristiques aux trésors cachés, découvrez ce qui fait la particularité de cette ville avec l'aide des habitants qui la connaissent le mieux.
Musée d'art
"Museum of Fine Arts is the fifth largest museum in America with more than 450,000 works of art."
- Recommandé par 287 habitants
Baseball Stadium
"Not everyone is aware that Fenway Park offers tours for people visiting the ballpark. This guided tour offers you insight to the history of the ballpark as well as a chance to walk on the field. "
- Recommandé par 293 habitants
"Boston Common/Public Garden was created in 1634 and has 80 species of plant. There are places for lunch, picnic and beautiful sight seeing."
- Recommandé par 227 habitants
Science Museum
"The Museum of Science is one of the best tours in the city, showing science not as boring or hard to understand, but fun and interesting by revealing concepts in an interactive way and with practical examples in smart and thoughtful attractions for adults and children."
- Recommandé par 164 habitants
College Science Building
"Massachussets is one of the most famous, ancient and recognized educational institutions in the world, Harvard University. The University is located in Cambridge, a city that is glued to Boston, almost like another neighborhood in the state capital. The Harvard University tour is very tasty and enjoyable, and worth doing in my opinion."
- Recommandé par 210 habitants
"Newbury St has both popular clothing stores and little-known boutiques; a great place to spend the afternoon shopping and then to settle down for dinner and drinks. "
- Recommandé par 258 habitants
"Oldest public garden in America. I love this park specially during the spring season because of it's very colorful, vibrant and beautiful tulips and flowering trees. Park is well maintained. Friendly squirrels that will follow you for some food , ducks swimming lazyly in the pond and dont forget to ride the swan boats! "
- Recommandé par 179 habitants
Historic Site
"offering a variety of shopping, restaurants and street performers there is so much to do in and around the area. Hop on a guided city tour, cross the street to visit the New England Aquarium or walk the Rose Kennedy Greenway. You can spend a whole day in this area. "
- Recommandé par 195 habitants
Musée d'art
"This unique museum is one of my favorites: Isabella Stewart Gartner built this villa and incorporated her art collection in the building. "
- Recommandé par 200 habitants
"The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile-long path through downtown Boston, Massachusetts, that passes by 16 locations significant to the history of the United States. Marked largely with brick, it winds between Boston Common to the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown."
- Recommandé par 160 habitants
"An important point to note is the fact that the New England Aquarium is engaged in the preservation of marine life through a variety of activities: it uses its funding for research, education and awareness, and endangered species conservation programs."
- Recommandé par 108 habitants
"The Arboretum is a lovely spot for the family to enjoy. It has 1100 acres of parks and waterways. A beautiful place!"
- Recommandé par 179 habitants
"Overflowing with restaurants and little boutique shops, the North End is an amazing place to get dinner. Reservations STRONGLY recommended, though some of the most popular don't accept them and you may have to wait in line anyways."
- Recommandé par 168 habitants
"MIT is a world class university and attracts students, scholars and visitors from around the globe. Beautiful campus and lively event calendar!"
- Recommandé par 121 habitants
"Prudential Center and Newbury Streets are great places to shopping in Boston."
- Recommandé par 73 habitants
"Stroll around harvard square to find great shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. "
- Recommandé par 123 habitants
Restaurant Américain
"If you like Jazz, the Beehive is a must. The brunch is delicious. Just sit at the bar downstairs for a libation of sound."
- Recommandé par 153 habitants
Restaurant végétarien/vegan
"The quintessential Cambridge experience. Life Alive has always been here providing exceptionally fresh and healthy salads, bowls and smoothies. Entirely vegetarian with many vegan offerings, you will find this is a very popular local place for breakfast, lunch and even dinner."
- Recommandé par 128 habitants
Restaurant Américain
"It is a famous restaurant in Boston. It is on the top of Prudential Center with a good view to see the whole Boston."
- Recommandé par 109 habitants
Tapas Restaurant
"Chef Ken Oringer is a 3x James Beard nominee for restauranteur of the year. This is the most NYC in vibe in terms of liveliness and fun. Small plates/tapas focus with delicious food. Great for groups and brunch."
- Recommandé par 95 habitants
Rock Club
"The Middle East has been an anchor of Central Square for decades. While it sounds like a single venue - it is actually 3 distinct music venues: Middle East Corner (free live music), Middle East Downstairs (larger music venue with covers between $10-20), Middle East Upstairs (more acoustic type acts with small cover)."
- Recommandé par 79 habitants
Restaurant méditerranéen
"Oleana is the best Mediterranean food in Cambridge and possibly all of Massachusetts. In the summer, their garden is a magical place to enjoy a fantastic meal. Great for special occasions or those who appreciate sampling the high-end food scene."
- Recommandé par 79 habitants
"This brewery, which offers tours, boasts a beer hall that serves pretzels, plus a gift shop."
- Recommandé par 65 habitants
Restaurant de fruits de mer
"The raw bar featuring at least a half-dozen impeccably fresh, perfectly shucked oyster varieties from New England harbors plus a couple from the Pacific Northwest, as well as uni, raw clams and seasonal delicacies like stone crab claws."
- Recommandé par 61 habitants


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Thousand of pounds of antiques stolen in Saffron Walden burglary
PUBLISHED: 09:18 03 February 2014 | UPDATED: 09:18 03 February 2014
Thousand of pounds of antiques were stolen from a house in an early morning burglary in Saffron Walden.
The items, which include furniture, an oil painting, clocks, silver cutlery and bronzes, were taken during the raid at the property in Common Hill, which took place between 2-8am on Friday (January 31).
Police would like to speak to anyone who may have seen anything suspicious in the area or anybody who may have been offered antique items for sale.
Call Ds Becky Young at Braintree CID on Essex Police 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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You know, there are just some stories that you can only read, shrug, and after repressing a bit of a smile, realize that the circumstances aren't funny at all – but, what can I say, the variations of human nature being what they are, we live in an often comical world of absurdities.
Consider the criminal case of Anthony Griffin, 44, Baltimore, MD.
On February 5, 2007, Griffin apparently found himself in a Baltimore lingerie store. Why? I dunno and federal prosecutors weren't exactly forthcoming with that tidbit. Given that Griffin had four prior convictions for robbery-related crimes -- a "career offender" -- howsabout we just agree to assume that he was up to no good?
So, back to the scene of the crime where we got Griffin in a lingerie store and he has picked out some items on the pretense that he wanted to buy them. Yeah, sure he did. Unfortunately, after the store-owner placed the items in a bag, Griffin announces: "This is a robbery," and demands the cash in the till. In response, the store-owner stuffed about $200 in the aforementioned bag. Not content with apparently scaring this merchant to death, Griffin then demands her diamond engagement ring, which she removed and gave to him.
Enter stage left, an unfortunate soul in the form of an unwary customer, who, upon entering the lingerie store, soon falls victim to the ongoing hold-up. First, Griffin forces the store-owner to tie the hands and feet of the customer with pantyhose; and then Griffin ties the owner's hands and feet with pantyhose. At this point, Griffin apparently makes his getaway.
Of course, given that Griffin is already a four-time loser, it seems that he either lacks a really good escape plan or the fates do not smile kindly upon him.
Just as our robber is leaving the premises, turns out that a friend of the store-owner was coming over to meet her – and just at that moment, the friend saw Griffin exiting the premises and for whatever reason believed something bad had just gone done. This quick-thinking citizen then alerts a nearby policeman, who found the bound store-owner and customer.
Did I mention to you that while he was staging the robbery, Griffin's mouth was red? Well, seems that was just the case, and the store-owner told that odd fact to the policeman.
What did the Baltimore police do with that red-mouthed robber clue? Quite a bit of impressive sleuthing, as it turns out. They located a clerk at a jewelry store near the lingerie store, and that employee identified Griffin in a photo lineup as the man who had drank and discarded a Slurpee at the jewelry store.
A Slurpee that turned out to be red in color.
A Slurpee that came in a cup with a straw.
A Slurpee that the Baltimore PD found.
The same Slurpee cup and straw that Griffin haphazardly tossed outside the jewelry store just before robbing the lingerie store. Turns out that there was enough DNA in the straw the cops found to link it to Griffin. And for good measure, the lingerie store-owner identified Griffin in a photo lineup.
On March 19, 2013, Griffin was sentenced in federal court in Baltimore to 151 months in prison and three years of supervised release for robbery. That sentence was enhanced because of Griffin's career offender status. One interesting toss-away of a comment in the Department of Justice's press release on this case is that Griffin's "federal sentence will be served concurrent to a 15-year state sentence Griffin is currently serving for a 2010 robbery conviction in Baltimore County." I'm still not quite sure how the robbery of a lingerie store became a federal offense but given the oddball nature of this case, I'm not going to spend too much time pondering that issue.
Oh, and one last bizarre bit of information.
Consider this amazing headline in the DOJ March 19, 2013, press release:
Baltimore Store Robber Exiled to More Than 12 Years in Prison
Robber Identified After Drinking a Red Slurpee Prior to the Robbery
Just two really brief comments before I end this article.
First – exiled? We now exile convicted criminals in the United States of America? Wow! I must have missed that in law school.
Second – I appreciate that Griffin is a career criminal, but when he's trying to survive in the Big House and keep his Street Cred, how does he deal with the fact that he was caught because of a Red Slurpee?


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Major Arcana tarot cards and their Super Powers.
Fool is Flash
Flash is the superhero name of Barry Allen, a young forensic scientist who witnessed his mother murdered by a mysterious force as a child. Tragically his father was wrongly accused of the murder and put behind bars. Barry escaped in his work, solving every case he came across. After a freak lightning bolt hit his lab Barry received super-speed, becoming the Flash. The Flash runs into adventure after adventure, often jumping into things before thinking them through. He has a lot of luck, and even though he is inexperienced, his heart is in the right place. He is in and out of people's lives, always chasing the next mystery to solve. The Fool often shows up in a reading when the Seeker is running away from something, but they don't always know what they are running towards.
Magician is Ironman
Anthony Stark, son of industrialist and inventor Howard Stark, created himself as Iron Man with his mechanical and innovative skills. He always knows how to solve a problem, how to be innovative, and he is always very charming and funny. Iron Man might be the most charismatic of all the Marvel's superhero pool. Iron Man is so lovable because he is witty, troubled, fruity and eccentric. Often the Magician shows up in our tarot reading when we are about to meet someone who really gets us, and who is very easy to talk to. The Magician can also denote a time when the Seeker will be innovative and utterly charming. The Magician manifests using a beautiful blend of charm and skill.
High priestess is Dark Phoenix
Perhaps the most powerful of all female superheroes is the Dark Phoenix from X-Men. Jean Grey has incredible telepathic powers and psychic abilities, and she went through many trials and tribulations before she became the Dark Phoenix. Dark Phoenix traveled through dimensions, and she could be destructive and angry. Within her is Jean Grey trapped, and she is unable to control the body she is in. The High Priestess can be a warning that we have powers beyond our control, and it reminds us to always listen to our conscious.
Empress is Wonder Woman
The princess of the Amazon, alias Diana Prince, came to America and joined the Justice League. She is a feminine archetype who exhibits inner and outer beauty, strength, force, and kindness. Wonder Woman is one of the most loved and celebrated female superheroes. She is the Empress of the superhero world.
Emperor is Batman
Bruce Wayne, the man behind the mask, is an American billionaire and owner of Wayne Enterprises. As a child, he witnessed the murder of his parents and swore revenge on criminals. Batman is not born with a superpower, he is a man-made superhero. He has exceptional martial art and combat skills, inexhaustible wealth, advanced technology and brilliant strategy. Batman is the Emperor of the superhero world, he signifies how powerful you can become if you apply your strengths in the best way possible.
Hierophant is Confessor
Yes, there actually is a superhero called the Confessor. The Confessor is a roman catholic priest named Jeremiah Parrish. He was tempted by a beautiful woman who unfortunately for him turned out to be a vampire. She bit him and turned him into a vampire. After decades of hiding in the forgotten halls of the Cathedral, he decides to pay his penance and fight crime in Astro City. On his chest is a large cross to prevent his from drinking blood. It also reminds him of his mission. Later on in his career as a superhero priest, he ends up with a sidekick called altar boy. The Confessor is the Hierophant of superheroes. The Hierophant reminds us to apply strict rules to live by so that we can accomplish our life mission.
Lovers is Superman
Superman with his human name Clark Kent was originally from the planet Krypton. He has a secret identity as a journalist for the Daily Planet where he fell in love with Lois Lane. The love story between Superman and Lois Lane makes him the perfect candidate to represent the Lovers tarot card. They are one of the most famous fictional couples and Superman is perhaps the only one who found himself in a love triangle where he is competing against himself. Clark Kent is in love with Lois Lane and Lois Lane is in love with Superman. In the end, Lois Lane discovered the truth about Superman and a proper relationship developed between all three personas.
Chariot is Captain America
A soldier with the name Steve Rogers took part in a military experiment where he was injected with a serum that turned him into a super soldier. This serum enhanced him to the pinnacle of human performance, turning him into Captain America. He gained speed, strength, courage, and endurance. His unwavering courage and willpower made him a victorious living legend. He is the Chariot of the superheroes. The Chariot often turns up in a reading when you are about to discover just how much you are capable of.
Strength is Starfire
Originally a princess with the name Koriand'r from the planet Tamaran, Starfire is an outgoing, passionate and confident superhero, even by superheroes standards. She is assertive and flamboyant, and she is not afraid to show her feelings. Starfire absorbs solar power through her skin which she turns into a power of flight. When she is provoked she often flies into a rage, increasing her already impressive fighting skills. She is a joy seeker, and she is very flirtatious and has plenty of romance in her life. She is the Strength of the superhero world.
Hermit is Wolverine
Born as James Howlett Hudson, the Wolverine is a mutant with the soul of a Samurai. He possesses amazing healing powers, enhanced senses and bone claws in his hands. Wolverine fought many battles in both WW I and WW II. He ended up joining the Captain America team who are unaware of his mutation and dub him 'lucky James'. After the war, Wolverine traveled to Japan where he trained in the Samurai culture and code of Bushido. After a disaster left him with nothing else and a catastrophic return to Canada, Wolverine became a loner, living in the wilderness by himself. In the end, he returned with a healed mind to fight evil with the Department H, but his solitude personality remains. He is the Hermit of the Superheroes.
Wheel of fortune is Kamala Khan
Kamala Khan is a shape-shifting teenager who had no idea she was a superhero. She is the youngest child of a traditional Pakistani family living in Jew Jersey. She is a typical American teenager and she is a huge fan of superheroes. On her way back home from a high school party she got encased in a cocoon by the Terrigen Mists, and her superpowers were unleashed. Bursting out of her cocoon she realised she can become whoever she wanted using her newfound shapeshifting powers. Kamala Khan is a polymorph and able to decrease and increase her body to any size at will. She can stretch her legs to travel long distances in short amounts of time. She also has healing abilities. Wheel of fortune shows up when we are about to experience a major breakthrough in our lives, and we are able to become the person we always wanted to be. Kamala Khan is the Wheel of fortune of the superheroes.
Justice is Crimson Avenger
Jill Carlyle is a vigilante lawyer who after losing a criminal case of an obviously guilty defendant decided to exact vengeance on criminals. She obtained a pair of colt guns who are cursed. The guns cursed her to seek out revenge on those who have killed innocent people. As part of the curse, an ever bleeding bullet hole appears on her chest, and as part of her assignments, she has to mentally relive the death of the victim. Her guns never miss, and they never run out of ammunition. She became a member of Justice Society of America, where she tracks down villains and gets justice for victims.
Hanged Man is Spider-Man
Bitten by a radioactive spider as a high school student, Peter Parker turned into a superhero with the strength and powers of a spider. Spider-Man learned that with great powers come great responsibilities, and he, therefore, uses his superpowers to help people. Spider-Man is often misunderstood and even feared by the public, however, the lack of recognition does not detour his mission to save people. He is the Hanged Man of the superheroes. The Hanged Man often shows up in our readings when we are doing great work that we don't get enough recognition for.
Death is Phantom
When Christopher Walker was a child the ship he was on with his father got taken over by pirates. As the only survivor, he washed up on a beach in Bangalla where he swore an oath to destroy piracy, greed, cruelty, and injustice. The oath is inherited down the line of his sons giving the impression that the Phantom cannot die. When one Phantom retires, the son takes over. Death often shows up in our readings when something is ending in our lives, and just like the Phantom the old continues through other people, while we are free to start a new chapter.
Temperance is Gentle
Gentle is a teenage mutant part of Storm's squad and one of the students of the Xavier Institute. Gentle uses meditation to calm and balance himself. When Gentle activates his powers he can increase his muscle mass, height and weight to dangerous degrees. Gentle is a calm and passive individual, quite the contrast to his superpowers. He holds strong anti-violence beliefs. He only uses his powers in emergencies. Temperance often shows up in a reading when we are pushed to use a side of ourselves we feel uncomfortable with. However, in certain situations, we must be assertive and powerful, rather than passive. The two aspects of our personalities can at times be very contradicting. Good communication skills must be developed so we that can respond to conflict in the least aggressive way possible.
Devil is Hellboy
Hellboy was summoned from Hell to Earth by the Nazis during the World War II to help the Nazis win the war. He was discovered by allied forced and raised by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm. Due to the professor, Hellboy grew up to be very benevolent and with a strong sense of humor. Hellboy ends up working for an international agency as a paranormal investigator. He possesses superhuman strength, endurance, a degree of resistance to injury, and a healing factor that allows him to heal quickly from injuries. He also has the innate ability to comprehend ancient and magical languages. Hellboy eventually learns that he is destined to become King of hell. He ends up trapped in the Abyss as he begins his journey to learn the true story of his origin. The Devil card often shows up in our reading when we feel trapped in our own emotional Abyss, and we need to return to the world of the living. We need to let more light in.
Tower is Hulk
Hulk is the alter ego of Robert Bruce Banner, a socially withdrawn physicist who transforms involuntarily into the Hulk under emotional stress. When transformed the Hulk has a new personality separate from Banner, and he develops super strength and size. The angrier he gets, the stronger he becomes. Robert Bruce Banner had a violent and abusive father, leaving him with a fragile psyche. It is possible the difficult childhood caused Banner to have a split personality, a way for him to hide his anger. The Tower often shows up when the seeker is faced with anger issues and emotional meltdowns. The seeker might even feel completely out of control and unable to deal with the inner forces occurring.
Star is Storm
Oora, codename Storm, is a descendant of a line of African princesses. SheS has the power to use magic and manipulate the weather. Her parents were killed violently by a plane crashing into their home in Cairo when Oora was five, leaving her traumatised. Homeless and orphaned Oora got taken in by a gang of street urchins who turned her into a master thief. Her path briefly crossed that of Charles Xavier, but her life as a street thief did not end there. Her life was full of turbulence until she vows to change her life forever. Her path crossed again with Charles Xavier, and he convinces her of the true magnitude of her powers. She is destined to become Storm, a powerful mutant who works with mutants in the world of X-men to save the world from threats. The star tarot card shows up when people have survived a dangerous past to become one of the world's brightest light.
Moon is Vixen
Vixen is an African female superhero who has the powers of the animal kingdom through a Tantu Totem given to her by an old warrior. She ultimately moved to America with a new identity; Mari McCabe. She worked as a model in New York, and she traveled the world. On a trip to Africa she took back her Tantu totem, and with the help of its powers, she became Vixen. The Moon tarot card often shows up when our lives take unforeseeable twists and turns, and we are often pulled back to our primal roots. The Moon also speak of a strong connection to the natural world, especially to animals. It also speaks of our raw feminine powers that men also exhibit. When we are in balance between our feminine and masculine powers we can achieve great things.
Sun is Antboy
Danish first ever superhero is here. This is the story about a boy bitten by an ant who transforms him into a superhero kid called Antboy. With his extraordinary powers, he succeeds to defeat the villain Flea. The Sun often describes the life of children, and it also shows up when we are connected to our own inner child. The Sun also represents something new and exciting occurring in our lives that give us joy.
Judgement is Terminator
The Terminator's ultimate calling was to help humanity steer away from its own destruction. Judgement tarot card often describes the seeker's quest to fulfill an important life mission that can end up helping others on a larger scale. The Judgement tarot card defies the group consciousness and brings in a new wave of awareness that ultimately can become a lifeline for others. This is an incredibly powerful card and it signifies a shift in the Seeker's mental attitude. The Terminator is the Judgment of the superheroes.
World is Supergirl
Cousin to the man of steel, Supergirl, named Kara Zor-El escaped to planet Earth when planet Krypton dies. Behind a secret identity as Linda Danvers, she attended high school and start operating as Supergirl in secret. She holds many jobs, but always puts her career as supergirl first. The world tarot card often shows up when the seeker is on a steep learning curve, and where they learn to take on more responsibility in their lives. especially to master certain skills. It is also the card for traveling to faraway places and completing cycles.


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Belarusian documentary film "Daughter of Prypyat" won the Grand Prix of the festival Magnificat-2014
Belarusian documentary film «Daughter of Prypyat» («Dachka Prypyaci») won the Grand Prix at the International Catholic Festival of Christian Films and TV programs Magnificat-2014.
The film "Daughter of Prypyat", directed by Igor Byshnev (Belarusian Video Centre), was filmed in 2012, and tells the story of an elderly woman who lives near the Prypyat River.
All in all 43 films from 16 countries were shown at the festival and 28 different films were awarded. Three films were marked by special prizes. The documentary film "Stand up and go" (studio "ZAraZ", Belarus) received special prize from the twin-town festival Niepokalanow (Poland). The children's jury decided that the winner among cartoons was "Who is longer" (Spain, directed by Gregorio Muro).
International Festival Magnificat – is a review of the works of the masters in the field of cinema and television that are created in different Christian traditions and aimed at the support of universal values
. The forum has been held in Belarus since 2005. The festival is patronized by the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Belarus, founded by the Catholic Association Signis-Belarus and the studio "Stop-kadr", the Catholic Diocese of Vitebsk and the magazine "Dialogue".
Materials: belta.by.