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Honey, we shrunk the soldiers
The idea of shrinking objects and placing them into ridiculous situations is not new. But in the case of Comcept and Keiji Inafune's BUGS vs. TANKS!, it's somehow fitting to pit a tiny World War II German tank battalion against an endless swarm of insects because of ... well ... reasons.
BUGS vs. TANKS! is one part survival horror, one part arcade style action, and one part historically accurate (wait, what?). Yep, it's a pretty wacky game, which is why it works as an entry in Level-5's Guild02 collection.
BUGS vs. Tanks! (3DS)
Developer: Comcept
Publisher: Level-5
Released: June 20, 2013
Given how easily the World War II time period could have overstayed its welcome, I'm glad Inafune opted for a quick setup and very little story. Simply put, you're a soldier in a shrunken German panzer squad, and the local insects are looking at you for their next meal. Your battlefield isn't a famous war-torn European city but a completely foreign jungle of grass and dirt, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids style.
You'll defend yourself with a battalion of tanks with fairly straightforward controls -- your only real abilities are moving, pivoting, firing, and a "once per level" artillery power. By default, your tank will utilize an automatic fire mode to constantly shoot enemies in range; you're going to want to go ahead and turn that off and jack up the difficulty (you can always switch back), because this game is best experienced when its insects are genuinely terrifying.
Though the fundamentals and the animations are pretty basic, the game's realistic-looking bugs can get pretty nerve-wracking, especially in swarms. They're extremely relentless and most won't stop until your dead, even if you're backed into a corner begging for breathing room, unable to get a clear shot. The game's brutal difficulty, although frustrating at times due to some occasionally cheap AI, is one of my favorite aspects.
Once you're off the battlefield and hitting the game's menus, you'll learn that BUGS vs. Tanks! has a surprising amount of depth. For each tank, you can customize the rate of fire, chassis, and more. The actual tanks themselves are modeled after real vehicles in history, which helps give the game a bit more character.
Along with changing in difficulty setting or automatic/manual fire, you can make it feel like a completely different game, which is pretty remarkable. But what you can actually do with these tanks is extremely limited. Missions are pretty standard -- base defense, item collection, kill quests, and things like that. To be blunt, there's really not anything that you haven't seen a million times before, lending itself to something best played in short spurts.
Thankfully, no one mission overstays its welcome too often, as these levels are extremely short, and each of the 29 (with 10 bonus) stages feel different enough from one another to justify themselves. There's also a local multiplayer function that allows you to play with three other friends, as well as a fun little StreetPass mechanic that lets you call in extra artillery fire.
In terms of visuals, while I never really had any issues telling enemies and areas apart, BUGS vs. TANKS! is extremely unimpressive without the 3D effect on. It looks similar to a low-budget PS1 game, with jagged edges, plain backgrounds, and generally stale models. While I don't have a problem with a low graphical output, given the high quality in the other Guild games, it looks odd when juxtaposed with the total body of work and will disappoint anyone expecting a little more.
Like a few of the other Guild offerings, BUGS vs. TANKS! isn't remarkable, but it's a great way to pass the time over the course of a few days. Whether you want to casually roll through and blow up some insects on the easy setting, or wrack your brain to test your mettle with manual shooting and an insanely difficult campaign, BUGS vs. TANKS! offers a little something for everyone.
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Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.
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Daniel Espinosa and Mark Cain recently opened at Westfield's Garden State Plaza.
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Materials and tools:
- Toilet paper rolls (at least 7)
- Watercolor paints.
- Paintbrush.
- Scissors.
- Color markers.
1. Cut a toilet paper tube in half. From a single tube you'll make two smaller tubes.
2. Cut in total 7 toilet paper tubes to make 14 smaller tubes.
3. Paint eleven tubes with vivid watercolors. Let them dry well.
4. With color markers draw the numbers from 0 to 9 on each tube. Draw the number (1) twice.
5. Use the rest three tubes to make the three basic mathematical symbols.
PRACTICE with simple math Operations
Pick two number tubes. Place between them the symbol of addition or subtraction. What is the result.
ARRANGE THE TUBEs IN ORDER
1. Put the numbers in order and build pyramids.
2. Put the numbers in order from top to bottom and make tall towers.
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There are more than one pattern called a key reversal. Here is one implementation.
For the following statistics, I used 1,189 stocks, starting from January 1990 to March 2013, but few stocks covered the entire range. All stocks had a minimum price of $5.
There were two bear markets in the 2000s (as determined by the S&P 500 index), from 3/24/2000 to 10/10/2002 and 10/12/2007 to 3/6/2009.
Everything outside of those dates represents a bull market.
For each downtrend key reversal, I found when the trend started and when it ended. To find the trend peak or valley, I found the lowest valley and highest peak within plus or minus 10 days
(21 days total) each, before the key reversal and the same peak/valley test after the key reversal. The closest valley or peak before the key reversal
is where the trend began. The closest peak or valley after the key reversal is where the trend ended. I compared the peak or valley to the average of the highest high and lowest low price of the
key reversal pattern.
The 10-bar peak or valley number tends to find major turning points on the daily charts.
I measured performance from the opening price the day after price closed either above the top or below the bottom of the pattern to the nearest trend peak or trend valley.
To determine the inbound price trend (I was looking for a down trend), I used linear regression on the average of the high-low prices in the five days before the pattern. That caught the short-term trend.
Table 1 lists the failure rates, sorted by market condition along with the average rise or drop. Although the key reversal is supposed
to act as a reversal of the downward trend, I did not make that assumption. Instead, a trade occurred at the open the day after price closed above the top or below the bottom of the key
A failure occurs when the stock fails to move more than 5% in the breakout direction.
The failure rates may appear high, but that's typical for short-term patterns like the key reversal. The highest failures occur in a bull market.
Table 2 shows how often the measure rule works. Use the measure rule to estimate of how far price is likely to move.
To do this, measure from the highest high to the lowest low in the pattern to get the height. Subtract the height from the lowest low or add it to the highest high to get the down/up target.
The best performance of the measure rule occurs when the breakout direction follows the market trend (bull market,
up breakout or bear market, down breakout). Trade with the trend.
Table 3 shows the performance based on 11,985 trades using $10 commissions per trade ($20 round trip), starting with $10,000 per trade. No other adjustments were made for interest,
fees, slippage and so on.
The results are sorted by bull or bear market, up and down breakouts. The trades used the same setup as listed in Key Reversal, Downtrend, Performance Statistics.
Here's the setup.
For example, in a bull market, the net gain was $95.28 for all trades. The method won 58% of the time and there were 3,930 winning
trades. The average gain of winning trades was $702.75.
Forty-two percent, or 2,847 trades were losers. They lost an average of $743.27.
The average hold time was 28 calendar days.
Notice how the gains and losses were pegged near 7%, which is how the test was setup.
The figure shows a key reversal pattern in 3M (MMM) on the daily scale, shown in the inset.
Price drops leading to the key reversal. Then an outside day appears (which is the key reversal). On the second day of that pattern, price opens below the prior close and closes
above the prior high. It's an outside day that stages a lower low.
This downtrend key reversal acts as a reversal of the short-term downtrend.
At A, the stock stages an upward breakout when it closes above the key reversal. At B, the trade begins at the open. Price rises 7% to the target at C, where it's sold.
If the stock turned down, sell 7% below the buy price.
-- Thomas Bulkowski
Below are other short patterns...
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The Parish of Bengeo is part of a 'good news' story - a church that is growing in faith and numbers.
We are an active group of people offering pastoral care and support to children, schools and the elderly in our local community. We have two lovely churches, one of which is Hertford's oldest building and a church hall, all of which serve multiple purposes for our community.
We want to sustain a vibrant future where people come to praise God, share their faith and participate in the wider role the church plays in the community. We need money to make this happen – we are reliant upon the goodwill and generosity of our community and congregation for all our funds.
You can play a part
We need practical assistance to run our activities – to learn more, visit our Social Groups page. You can make a difference in Bengeo by offering the gift of your time.
You can donate money to our churches too. By doing so, you'll ensure we keep providing pastoral care and support for local people and secure our church buildings for future generations of people who want to worship God, get married, bury their loved ones and baptise their children in a church.
How can I give?
1. You can give a regular donation by Standing Order .
2. You can give a one-off donation to Holy Trinity Church through our online Charity Giving page.
3. You can leave Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo a gift in your Will – after ensuring you have provided for your family, many people like to leave gifts to charity in their Wills. Ask your solicitor when you next update your Will. For more information about this see the legacy section below.
4. You can help organise a fundraising event. We have a calendar of fundraising and/or social events, and we always need help. If you'd like to raise funds for Holy Trinity as a 'thank you' or to ensure Holy Trinity is there for more people in the future, then get in touch.
Where will my money go?
You'll help support our church in Bengeo by ensuring that we have the resources necessary to:
• provide pastoral care for all in need in the Parish of Bengeo
• continue our work with families and children by supporting local schools, supporting our children's ministry and the Little Fishes toddler group.
• maintain the staffing of parishes in St. Albans Diocese (with all the implications for funding of the clergy; salary, pension, insurance etc.) This is paid out of the Diocesan Common Fund to which every parish contributes through the Parish Shares Scheme
• preserve our two beautiful churches of Holy Trinity and St Leonard's for our children and grandchildren.
Legacy giving – a gift for our future
A bequest made in your Will can make a huge difference to the churches of Bengeo. You can decide how your money will benefit our churches funding either the day-to-day running costs of the ministry and mission of the church or works to maintain and improve the buildings beyond our lifetimes.
By leaving a gift in your will to Holy Trinity, you can ensure the future of a church in Bengeo for generations to come. It is really easy to do this and is tax efficient – to find out more, contact us. Your enquiry will be dealt with in strictest confidence.


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Party Time for Atlanica Online's Second Anniversary
Popular turn-based, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with more than 3 million registered users celebrates its second anniversary
LOS ANGELES - Oct. 14, 2010 - Happy anniversary, Atlantians! Ndoors Interactive,a worldwide online games publisher, is celebrating Atlantica Online's second anniversary this month. It's a major milestone for the popular game, which has posted some impressive user numbers since it launched in October 2008. Atlantica Online welcomed more than 3 million registered users into the game and they've been busy since launch:
- More than 10 million hours of game time accumulated
- More than 1 million competitive matches played
- Players teamed up with more than 7 million mercenaries
To celebrate the occasion, Ndoors is hosting a number of anniversary events over the course of the next month, including:
Second Anniversary Grand Championship Giveaway: Anyone who participates in the Grand Championship on Sunday, Oct. 31 will be qualified to win $50 worth of Gcoins; Winners of the Grand Championship will receive $500 in Gcoins
- Double Experience Weekends: During every weekend until the end of October, players have the chance to earn 200 percent experience instead of the normal 150 percent
- October Facebook Treat Event: During every weekend until the end of October, the first 300 players to post their in-game name/server on the official Atlantica Online Facebook page will receive special prizes. Find out more: Atlantica Online Facebook.
"Atlantica's two-year anniversary is a major milestone for us at Ndoors," said Peter Kang, CEO, Ndoors Interactive. "The game has really evolved since day one. We added new environments, characters and combat systems, proving we are fully committed to supporting our games far after launch. Ultimately, our enthusiastic fanbase helped us get to this point and shaped Atlantica into the special experience it is today."
Atlantica Online combines innovative combat with profound character and party development, where players can assemble a clan of mercenaries to assist them in their adventures, as well as city and country management. Players take on the physically and mentally demanding quest to destroy the Oriharukon, a powerful energy source from the lost civilization of Atlantis. This dangerous element survived the demise of the "Lost City," and its rampant spread is quickly endangering humanity. The epic journey takes players to some of the most historic and exotic locations around the globe, where they will come face-to-face with vicious monsters ripped from history and lore.
For more information about Atlantica Online and the anniversary events, please visit: http://www.playatlantica.com/AO.
About Ndoors Interactive
Ndoors Interactive is a leading publisher of online games world-wide, with its North American headquarters in Los Angeles. Boasting an award-winning catalogue of free-to-play massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Ndoors strives to achieve harmony of game development and design with fun and unique online experiences for its community. Its current U.S. line-up includes the strategic turn-based MMORPG, Atlantica Online, the political and economic MMORPG, Luminary: Rise of the GoonZu, and the 2D side-scrolling MMORPG, WonderKing. For more information, please visit: http://www.Ndoors.com.
To read the latest guides, news, and features you can visit our Atlantica Online Game Page.


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Order EHA/2899/2011, of 28th October, came into effect on 29th April 2012, governing transparency and customer protection in banking services, with the exception of part of Heading III, specifically Chapter II - except for Section 3 - which will come into effect on 29th July.
With the implementation of this Order, which repeals Ministerial Order of 12th December 1989, the obligation requiring banks to draw up a leaflet of their commissions, conditions and charges payable by customers disappears, along with the requirement to register it with the Bank of Spain.
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My right ankle still hurt a little especially if I stand on it incorrectly. And I felt a little bit of pain when I wore my heels yesterday. To those who haven't read my previous post, I had an accident when I was on my way down the train station last Tuesday. I was in a hurry to get to the train because I don't wanna be late for work. I twisted my ankle but managed to stand and walk to the train despite the pain. I just put cold compress on the about-to-be-swelling ankle and didn't take any pain relievers. Nor did I had it checked by a doctor or therapist.
I'm beginning to worry. Should I now have it check by a physical therapist? Or should I just purchase a lynco orthotics? I heard it can help determine the cause of foot pain. It can also give relief to sore feet. I don't have time to go to the doctor anymore this week. My schedule is crazy and I have a lot of commitments this week. Sigh. I think I'd resort to the latter option.
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Scott Turow is one of the foremost courtroom fiction writers in America. Millions have read his books or viewed adaptations of his works. But Turow does more than write about fictional courtrooms. He uses his literary pulpit to speak out on important contemporary legal issues. Turow has written a short nonfiction book, Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty. At 5:30 pm on Monday, April 9, Turow will be honored by the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield. He will be recognized at the Fifth Annual Defender of the Innocent Awards Reception for his work toward the abolition of the flawed death penalty system in Illinois, and his writing, which educates the general public to these issues and enhances understanding of our legal system.
Turow's Springfield appearance comes two years after publication of his most recent novel, Innocent. The novel was a long-awaited sequel to Presumed Innocent, published to great acclaim in 1987. It marks the return of Rusty Sabich, the young prosecutor wrongly charged with murder and picks up his life 20 years after he was exonerated. Having enjoyed a career as a successful prosecuting attorney and trial court judge, Sabich finds himself as presiding judge of the appellate court with a clear path to election to the state supreme court. While the fictional Kindle County is the setting for Innocent, the fictional name cannot disguise that it is Chicago, Cook County, and the criminal courthouse at 26th Street and California that is the blueprint for Turow's narrations.
Innocent begins when Sabich awakens one morning to discover that his wife, Barbara, has died during the night. Readers of Presumed Innocent will recall that this is not the first woman in Rusty's life to die under mysterious circumstances. An investigation commences, led by Tommy Molto, the prosecutor who investigated the murder that was the foundation of Presumed Innocent. For his part, Sabich once again seeks the legal talent of Sandy Stern, the lawyer who successfully defended him 20 years ago.
In Scott Turow's novels, lawyers are real people, not the supermen that one often finds in other works of courtroom fiction. There are no car chases or gun battles on the pages of a Turow novel. Instead readers find characters with human flaws facing more mundane difficulties. Thus we find Sandy Stern, battling the ravages of cancer, but rallying himself to defend his client. Stern and Molto are longtime bitter enemies, each man remembering and reopening the wounds from the 20-year-old legal battle. Throughout the portrayal, Turow recognizes and masterfully depicts the human frailties of lawyers and the law.
Sabich's trial occupies the second half of the novel. As the courtroom is entered the narrative moves into warp speed. Turow's eye for courtroom detail is simply magnificent. Courtroom novels and dramas often cut corners and shorten narratives to move the plot along, but Turow avoids that by writing in such an effortless and realistic fashion that readers are never bored. In fact, aspiring lawyers can learn as much from a Turow novel as from a law school evidence class.
If you have not read Presumed Innocent, you should read that novel first. Often a sequel can be read on its own, but these two books are intertwined in a fashion that requires reading the first novel so as to fully savor and enjoy the sequel. Can there be a third installment? One can only hope.
Stuart Shiffman served 22 years as an Illinois judge until his retirement in 2007. In addition to practicing law in Springfield, he teaches and writes on legal issues.
Scott Turow will be available 3:30-4:45 Monday, April 9, at the Public Affairs Center restaurant at University of Illinois Springfield to sign copies of Innocent and other books. Tickets to the 5:30 p.m. April 9 Downstate Illinois Innocence Project reception at the Crowne Plaza are available at 206-7989 or register online at www.uis.edu/innocenceproject


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Wallace Community College
VLACS Adult Ed provides fully on-line instruction to grownup learners who have the option to work from any location, at any time of the day, and at a pace that meets their needs. Our complete program provides basis courses in grownup education and learning, along with targeted lessons focused in every of our three concentration areas: human useful resource growth, adult literacy, and educating and learning with expertise.
Apprenticeship coaching can be developed and expanded in accordance with the proposals of the rapporteur (Ministry of Education 2009:1) and the insurance policies connected to the reforms to adult education. Utah Adult Education is a program of instruction beneath the collegiate stage for adults.
The tasks of adult education policy are to ensure the availability and competence of the labour force, present educational opportunities for the complete adult inhabitants, and strengthen social cohesion and equality. Electives embrace course topics resembling theory, program planning, and emerging applied sciences. Individuals who go the GED may also qualify to take one course at Wallace Community School tuition free.
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If these educators are working from a social effectivity perspective, they might not very properly take into account themselves immoral, or unethical for selecting to not inform students of certain channels resulting in positions that may improve their way of life.
In 1994, Phi Delta Kappa International took the lead on FEA and supplied it with a global headquarters In 2005, PDK changed the identify to Future Educators Association to extra accurately mirror the worldwide nature of the organization. Along with classroom provides, you can too deduct for other education related expenses, such as subscriptions to tutorial journals, union dues, and fuel expenditures for area trips.
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Texas-licensed social staff have a license renewal each two years, and the deadline is the final day of the birthmonth. This is the reason not only our education system at the moment sucks, but additionally the fact of the matter is that it's unimaginable for folks to truly have any type of management so far as to what's being taught to their youngsters by the Public School System with its varied boards and requirements" as set down by the government.
An absolute religion in science and the theory of evolution; a belief that kids could possibly be taught very very similar to animals in accordance with the new behavioral psychology; a conviction that there was no place for religion in education; and that conventional values were an impediment to social progress which had to be eliminated.
We are sometimes preached at by progressives that this kind of action is for our personal good, like seatbelt and helmet legal guidelines, obligatory medical health insurance (from which politicians are exempt), gun legal guidelines and so on. Instead, this stuff are supposed to management us, not help us.
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In addition, the Board seeks public enter to ascertain its Focus Areas, that are reviewed each three years. The State Board adopts the administrative code, which units the principles wanted to implement state education regulation. The attachment, part of a series of non-public textual content messages, was a textual content message despatched to me by John Collins, advising me of a particular board assembly and asking that I attend. Native college boards of education are charged with creating the conditions within their school districts that will foster student achievement and for engaging the group in support of this central mission. Happily, Mr. Lord stepped in on the eleventh hour and my daughter's future education was secured. Nevertheless, after your senator, I might suggest the state legal professional normal's office that you are in, in addition to a state board of education that handles career schools.
The accreditation charges, state licensure, hosting, et-al… are all mistaken, not to mention numerous fundamental operating costs that aren't even identified. I spoke before the Board during Item C of the agenda, putting the Board and District on discover that Charles Sellers has created a Hostile Work Setting" for one of its staff. I've seen too many people quit their good jobs and try to begin online schools and fail. Board meetings are conducted based on the provisions of the state's Open Public Meetings Act (Sunshine Regulation). At workshop meetings, Board members evaluate issues outlined on the agenda and hear experiences from the superintendent and the board committees.
We'd like any individual who has the ability to stability fiscal duty and educational status in office; any individual who isn't afraid of ruffling a couple of feathers to get things achieved. When the IBPS model was implemented, Board members grew to become individuals in the process.
The Board of Education (ceaselessly known as the Board") is a legal physique created by the statutes of the State of Wisconsin. At common conferences, the Board formally votes on agenda items that were mentioned on the earlier workshop assembly. Incessantly, increased education institutions have career facilities to assist graduates find that first job, they usually could even have career days when employers come to campus to do interviews. Learn extra in regards to the e-mail and text alerts included within your HCPSS News subscription. The funds relies upon the objectives and insurance policies of the Board, is developed by the Superintendent and other acceptable faculty personnel, and is taken into account and adopted by the Board.
To remark about a few of the other points introduced up, a judge in the state of Ohio dominated that the Ohio Board of Nursing mishandled the revocation of approval for the Miami-Jacobs nursing program. Understanding there was an alternate between the board member and this different person, that individual was requested in regards to the existence of any e-mails related to the difficulty being questioned. This is shameful and SUCH a disservice to the scholars within the state of Ohio who attend Career Colleges. I am calling on this Board to take action in opposition to Charles Sellers for his actions.…
Particular Children Need Academics With Particular Education Degrees
In the event you're looking to undertake specialist electrical training, you'll need to familiarise your self with a good, trade-authorized course supplier. Present pedagogical approaches are inadequate for making ready the tens of millions of scholars pursuing increased education globally (a projected 262 million by 2025 ). They're also insufficiently-fitted to preparing the kind of leaders, entrepreneurs, and thinkers needed for the future.
Once a teacher has earned a particular education degree, he's correctly skilled to assist such students study to their biggest capability. For one, a guardian should be a good role model and stress the importance of a superb education. Almost anybody who desires an education in the United States can get as a lot as they want. In any case, the purpose of online education is to impart information to all humanity and the target may be achieved when education is provided at a decreased cost. Remember to get extra savings and reductions by profiting from coupon codes and special promotions. The Award Ceremony and gala dinner will happen on December sixth on the Reimagine Education Conference, to be held in Philadelphia. It is vital to be discerning in terms of choosing a training provider, as you wish to be sure to get one of the best education attainable.
Which means the parents must take an active function of their kid's education by monitoring how much tv the child is allowed to look at and taking cost of understanding the kinds of associates that his youngster associates with. Based mostly on which agency the school is affiliated to, people' might choose their on-line education board.
Sometimes, crime could be attributed to the lack of education on the a part of the perpetrator or their households. Youngsters who grow up in families that don't stress the importance of getting an education are more likely to be dwelling out on the streets, doing medicine, becoming a member of gangs, or ending up in prison. Only academics who've a particular education degree have the information essential to help challenging students meet their tutorial objectives. Look out for large names that you simply recognise, as that is usually an excellent signal in regards to the quality of education the corporate supplies. You may additionally wish to get details about the firm's exam cross rate to see how they fare in opposition to different education suppliers. Reimagine Education is in search of projects which can be both innovative and scalable.
In modern scenario, no child must be without education, as it's almost impossible to survive with out it. Now all of the nations and states have made it mandatory to offer primary/ elementary education to all kids, unbiased of their caste, creed, race, status and nationality.…
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Many teachers stop because educating is difficult and, to compound this circumstance, many school and school district administrations follow micromanagement and a scarcity of support that drives teachers away. So much for informing the scholars, this is what Miami-Jacob's website accreditation web page says in regards to the nursing program: The Ohio Board of Nursing granted the Practical Nursing program at Miami-Jacobs Career College Conditional Approval.
While the lawsuit has been settled for these specific students, I have seen no stories of sanctions for ACR or Delta Profession Education Methods. The election of three new members to the Board of Education was a direct result of the outcry over the Capital Appreciation Bond. Along with aforementioned meetings, the Board of Education's Policy Committee meets once a month.
A former UA Rotary Northwest Girl of the Yr Service Above Self award winner, she has additionally with the Higher Arlington Girls's Membership, the Higher Arlington Civic Affiliation and the Upper Arlington Education Foundation. The leadership legacy continues as Board members paved the way in improving public education by means of recommendations and actions that have resulted in key legislative modifications. A 2006 examine by the School Board found that over the course of their careers, school graduates made seventy three% more than people who just completed high school. The Clarke County Board of Education holds its common monthly assembly on the second Thursday of every month. The Board of Education sets native education policy per state and federal legal guidelines governing public education. In plenty of different states, board members are elected, and the process is much like another elected office.
The Board is empowered to buy, rent or enhance sites for schools and to assemble, lease, or enhance faculty facilities. Comments and questions for the Board of Education should be directed to the following e-mail tackle: [email protected] Every of them spoke at the April 13, 2015, board meeting and were embarrassing of their vitriol.
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Advantages Of A College Education
Florida's schools remain the primary point of entry to higher education in Florida, with 65 percent of the state's highschool graduates pursuing postsecondary education beginning at a Florida faculty, and 82 percent of freshman and sophomore minority students in public increased education attending one of Florida's 28 colleges. The education that African Americans obtain must supply them a true and legitimate Id, it must transmit a Legacy of Competence, a legacy of Acquired Immunities and finally, a Shared Neighborhood Vision. When fulfilling the elective requirements, college students in the Increased Education Program are required to decide on at the very least one course that addresses issues of range, fairness, and inclusion. Greater education has given ample proof of its viability over the centuries and of its capacity to change and to induce change and progress in society. On the time of this replace in 2013, the American Council on Education even endorsed four courses and urged its member schools to simply accept the programs as transfer credits. Whereas white, coloured and Indian education is financed from the Basic Revenue.
Moreover, with a view to develop India as a client market of world standards, it is imperative that every one of its youngsters reap the complete advantages of a high-quality education. R9. Students in higher education institutions should have the ability to appeal to an independent body, and this right must be reflected within the Increased Education Charters. In the Forties a number of criticism was coming forth from many quarters in South Africa about the education provided for Africans, and the missionaries had been castigated for providing inferior education. The Act offered that no college may be established or carried out for the education of Africans until licensed by the state-managed official Bantu Education. College scholarship and expertise spans larger education administration and administration, greater education curriculum, college entry and affordability, and much more.
On the eve of a brand new century, there may be an unprecedented demand for and an incredible diversification in increased education, as well as an elevated consciousness of its important importance for sociocultural and financial improvement, and for building the future, for which the younger generations will need to be equipped with new skills, information and beliefs.
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Internet Explorer's Favorites Center is more than just a list of links. If you how, you can turn the Favorites Center into a dynamic tool that can improve your efficiency. The Favorites Center includes three separate components: the Windows Vista Favorites list, the History list, and the RSS feeds list.
To open the Favorites Center, open Internet Explorer. Then click the Favorites button on the toolbar (the yellow star on the far left). Once the Favorites Center opens, click the Pin the Favorites Center button (in the upper-right corner) to keep the Favorites Center open. Notice that the Favorites Center is separated into three tabs, one for each tool.
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The Favorites list is a great way to keep links to your favorite Web sites and folder locations in one safe place. However, the Favorites list can quickly become a long list of links that are time consuming and difficult to search through. To keep the Favorites list efficient, be sure to organize the links into folders that group similar types of links.
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Dear Friend,
As it is my custom at the end of each General Assembly session, I am sending this to inform you of the highlights of my activities as your Delegate, as well as key legislative actions taken by the General Assembly. We started on January 8, and adjourned as scheduled on March 8. With the exception of a handful of bills the House and Senate failed to agree upon, many hundreds of bills were passed and sent to the Governor for his signing, amending, and veto by April 23, when we reconvene to consider his proposals for changes.
There is one major glaring exception - the budget bill, which I consider the most important bill we handle, as it funds state government and almost half of the state expenditures flow to local governments, schools, police, etc. The differences in the House and Senate budgets are remarkably close - less than one-tenth of 1% - and could be resolved and passed in a day or so. Governor McAuliffe, however, has insisted he will not agree to a budget that does not contain Obamacare expansion, and the Senate Democrats have gone along with this, effectively holding the budget - and funding to local governments, teachers, schools, and law enforcement - hostage in a Washington, D.C.-style political game. Republicans have offered a reasonable and responsible solution: Pass a clean budget and take up the Obamacare issue as a separate legislative matter. If Obamacare expansion is such a good proposal, let it stand on its own to be debated and voted on, rather than forcing it on Virginia just so teachers can get their paychecks and local governments receive funding.
I serve on the House Appropriations Committee, where I chair the subcommittee on Compensation & Retirement and work with other legislators to craft and balance the state budget. This subcommittee addresses all legislation and budget amendments that impact state and state-supported local employee salaries, retirements, and benefits. In addition to the Compensation & Retirement subcommittee, I serve on the General Government & Capital Outlay subcommittee and the Public Safety subcommittee.
I also serve as vice chair of the Agriculture, Chesapeake, and Natural Resources Committee, where we address issues concerning agriculture, forestry, natural resources, environment, and historical resources. My third and final committee assignment is the Counties, Cities, and Towns Committee, where I chair one of the two subcommittees. This committee has cognizance over the relationships between the state and local governments.
Last fall, I was asked to serve on the Medicaid Innovation & Reform Commission (MIRC). This commission, consisting of 10 bipartisan legislators from the House and Senate, was agreed to by the Governor, Senate, and House last session to identify and implement reforms to the current inefficient and ineffective Medicaid program prior to determining whether Virginia should implement the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA)/Obamacare expansion of Medicaid. This is a major decision with drastic and mostly unforeseen fiscal consequences for the Commonwealth. The General Assembly agreed this issue deserved thorough review and should be separate from the budget process via the MIRC process, so critical state funding to schools, localities, public safety, etc. would not be impacted by a budget stalemate, which, unfortunately, is exactly what we're experiencing now under Governor McAuliffe.
The MIRC has worked diligently to address necessary reforms to the current Medicaid program and research the flexibility, cost, and quality care components in various hypothetical expansion scenarios. What we've found is troubling. Only 25 states have decided to expand Medicaid, and in those states ER visits remain high, doctors are refusing to accept new Medicaid patients due to low reimbursement rates, and the federal government will not grant permanent flexibility waivers to the state to make cost and quality of care reforms to the program. On the campaign trail in 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama remarked, "As we move forward on health care reform, it is not sufficient for us simply to add more people to Medicare or Medicaid to increase coverage in the absence of cost controls and reform...another way of putting it is we can't simply put more people into a broken system that doesn't work." Yet, this is exactly what Governor McAuliffe and House and Senate Democrats are asking us to do. This is poor policy balanced on the backs of Virginia taxpayers.
Moreover, the ACA/Obamacare - of which Medicaid Expansion is a major component - is not working. The enrollment website is sub-par at best; the promise that citizens could keep their insurance and doctors was a lie; waivers have been extended to certain groups and not to others; premiums have increased substantially; and, we're seeing especially high deductibles. President Obama has demonstrated he will unilaterally make changes to the law on a whim without congressional approval, such as the recent delay of the employer mandate until after the November 2014 elections.
Currently, 22% of Virginia's entire budget is devoted to Medicaid, and that number is steadily growing each year. At a national level, it is estimated 30% of the program is lost to fraud, waste, and abuse. In 2012, then-Attorney General Cuccinelli recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud through a detection program that has since served as the national model for Medicaid fraud investigation. Every dollar of that 22% of the state budget that is wasted or abused is a dollar that is lost to K-12 and higher education, local governments, our law enforcement officers, and other health and human services. Therefore, I find it very irresponsible to not first reform the current program, focusing on cost-savings and health outcomes measures, and then evaluate whether it should be expanded.
Another issue driving this debate is the ACA/Obamacare cuts in Medicare that will have a significant negative impact on hospitals and healthcare providers. One way the ACA is funded is through $700B in Medicare cuts, and just recently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) accelerated these cuts to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans. Since Medicare is a large revenue source for hospitals (close to 50% in our region), many hospital administrations are pushing Virginia legislators to accept the ACA/Obamacare expansion of Medicaid so federal dollars will flow in and offset the Medicare cuts. I do not accept the argument that Virginia must expand an already ballooning government program at serious financial risk to taxpayers to fix a FEDERAL problem President Obama and Senator Warner created with the Affordable Care Act.
We faced many tough choices while crafting the budget this year, but I am pleased to report the House budget is again one that is fiscally responsible, structurally balanced, and invests in the core services most important to Virginians. Since 2007, we have reduced general fund spending by nearly $7B to reflect the recession and have held the general fund spending growth rate since then to less than 1%. We have also estimated revenue conservatively and had several surpluses, which we invested into core one-time-spending-only areas instead of new or expanded programs.
The House budget contains $243M for the Rainy Day Fund to replenish it, as we drew it down during the recession. We also included in the budget an additional $137M reserve fund to offset further potential economic slowdown, as our revenue estimates recently declined. The House budget appropriates a $531M increase for K-12 education (25% of all available new revenue), increased funding for higher education - including more seats for Virginia students, and about 40% of our new revenue has to be spent on the growth in the current Medicaid program.
The $137M reserve I mentioned earlier is set aside for compensation and VRS purposes. So, if our revenue meets the estimates, there will be 2% raises for a) targeted state and state-supported local employees in lower paid, high turnover positions, effective 1January 2015, and a 2% bonus 1July 2015 for those not receiving the raise. The remainder of the reserve, $76.3M will go to VRS to fully fund the VRS Board recommended rates for all state and state-supported local employees by FY2016, three years earlier than scheduled. I was pleased that my Compensation & Retirement Subcommittee's budget recommendations for our hard-working employees were accepted by the Appropriations Committee and the full House when the budget was voted on.
As I mentioned above, when the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare was passed, it cut Medicare spending significantly, so hospitals, nursing homes and other providers are receiving less money for treatment of Medicare patients. The General Assembly/Virginia cannot control federal Medicare policies or fiscal actions, but we can control the funding we are responsible for, as our share for the current Medicaid program is roughly a 50/50 split between the federal government and Virginia. Thus, the House budget contains an inflation adjustment of 2.5% for both FY2015 and FY2016 so that the hospitals and nursing homes will receive $192M in additional funding. We also increased funding for Free Clinics and Community Health Centers to help these sectors of the Virginia healthcare safety net. Other increases included additional funding ($48M) for Community based mental health services, plus an additional 50 ID and 15 DD Waiver slots.
While I've spent the majority of my time working on the budget, several pieces of legislation I introduced were passed by the General Assembly this session and I served as co-patron to a number of excellent bills carried by my colleagues. My HB672, extending grant opportunities statewide to expanding or new businesses that import/export goods through the Port of Virginia passed the House and Senate with broad, bipartisan support. This is an especially important bill for economic development along the Route 58 corridor on out to Southwest Virginia and beyond.
My House bills, HB673 and HB697, dealing with stormwater regulations and permit fees were rolled into HB1173 and the Senate amendments agreed to by the House. This bill will result in very significant stormwater fee reductions to rural Virginians when they build a new house and disturb greater than one acre of land - which is common, as we have to have space for septic, well, longer driveways, etc. The numbers aren't final yet, but I expect the fee to be reduced from around $2800 to around $300.
I was disappointed my HB677 failed to get out of subcommittee. The bill would have required each school division to hold an annual meeting with the local business community for discussion of skills needed in, and the readiness of graduates for, the local workforce. This is a common sense proposal. Everyone agreed it was a good idea. Nobody argued there would be a fiscal impact. Yet, the School Board Association and others opposed it because it is a mandate.
Another proposal I put forward was budget-related and would address instances where a federal government shutdown has a direct negative impact on private businesses, such as the debacle we saw unfold on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Patrick County last fall. Tourism is one of our region's biggest economic drivers and, in some areas, our tourism attractions are closely tied to federal parks, property, roads, or other services. I introduced budget language to expand the conditions under which the existing Federal Action Contingency Trust (FACT) Fund may be accessed to include private businesses operating on federal land if they were impacted by a federal shutdown. Ultimately, this proposal was not included in the final budget, but I'm hopeful it at least served to underscore the severity of our federal government's continued uncertainty and dysfunction and the impact that has on businesses and economic development.
This session I worked with other Delegates on legislation covering a wide range of topics. One such bill, HB324, establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School to create and govern online educational programs and seminars to students enrolled in the Virginia Virtual School. Students enrolling will, like public schools' K-12, have no tuition; multiple providers available from which parents can select; special education services offered; and, the school is required to meet all SOQ and accreditation requirements as well as compulsory attendance. State SOQ funds will "follow the child" and up to 76% of a student's local SOQ will also "follow the child."
Other bills I co-patroned include: HB307, after-school hunter safety education programs; HB706, provides a member of the General Assembly has standing to defend the laws or constitution of the Commonwealth in the event the Governor and Attorney General fail to do so; HB714, eliminates the renewal fee for someone already issued a concealed handgun permit; HB930, Standards of Learning (SOL) reform; HB1099, removes the limit of "three events" groups such as VFW, fire, rescue, and other non-profits can hold each year before having to charge meals, food and beverage taxes; HB1193, required the Governor attempt to ensure membership to the State Water Control Board is geographically balanced; HJ8, provides that the General Assembly may provide a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of surviving spouses of members of the military who are killed in action; and HJ38, creates a joint subcommittee to conduct a two-year study to promote the construction of I-73 in Virginia.
As always, I am honored to walk the historic halls of the Virginia Capitol fully aware you have placed in me your confidence, faith, and support. I would be pleased to discuss with you or your group any issues from this session or provide assistance with any state government matters you may have. You can contact me at 540-576-2600 or firstname.lastname@example.com or P.O. Box 117, Glade Hill VA 24092.
Delegate Charles D. Poindexter
9th District, Virginia House of Delegates


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As mentioned, the citizenry of O'Fallon values education, and these values are demonstrated in the educational commitment to the city's youngest members. The educational needs of these students are met through the efforts of the caring educational professionals of the O'Fallon Community Consolidated School District 90. With a little more than 3,500 children enrolled in the O'Fallon CCSD 90, average class size is just 18 students per classroom.
Two highly respected health care centers, St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Memorial Hospital, serve the health care of the community offering a full array of medical services to cover the community from the cradle to the grave in nearby Belleville, Illinois.
Getting around O'Fallon, Illinois is relatively easy thanks to the regional public transportation network: St. Claire County Transit District. While the district does not operate any busses on their own directly, they contract that service out to qualified lines running in St. Claire County communities.


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Common Household Pest Threats to Our Children and Pets
How You Can Keep Your Kids and Pets Safe from Dangerous Pests
Scorpions, spiders, ants and other harmful pest invaders can terrorize our home and put our children and pets at risk. But you may be surprised as to how these and other common pests, as well as some treatment methods, can pose a serious threat to the health and safety of our little ones, furry or not.
Most everyone here at Red Rock Pest Control is either a parent or pet owner. Part of the responsibility we have as parents is keeping our children and pets safe and healthy, which means we must pay attention to how we handle pest management. A primary concern is minimizing contact with harmful pesticides, while still effectively ridding our home of dangerous bugs, insects or other harmful pests.
When you spot a spider or cockroach, your gut reaction may be to reach for that high-power bug spray, but think before you do. Contact with the spray will more than likely kill the creepy crawlies, but it could also seriously affect the health or your children or pets. Our kids and pest spend time playing or moving around on the floor so they may come into direct contact with whatever chemical you chose to use. Kids also love to put things in their mouths so we must be extremely careful with the products or solutions we select to keep our home pest free.
Here are 4 proactive pest prevention approaches you can use to keep your family safe and protected.
Ants and Cockroaches
No matter how clean we keep our home, sometimes certain pests like ants or cockroaches will make their way in. Like other pests, both ants and cockroaches enter our home because it is a more hospitable environment than the desert heat and offers potential food and water sources. Ants can cause cases dysentery, small pox and salmonella and cockroaches can carry up to 33 distinct types of harmful bacteria. Make sure to watch or follow the ants or cockroaches to attempt to locate an entry point. Also, look for moisture or potential water sources that may be acting as a magnet to the harmful pests. A water and dish soap solution will kill ants and eliminate any scents or trails left behind for other ants to detect and follow. This is a very temporary solution. Most DIY ant sprays and repellents can cause "budding" where ants separated from the colony will start new colonies.
One of the most dangerous aspects of cockroaches is the fecal matter that they leave behind. As cockroaches scurry around your home or kitchen, they pickup food and waste particles and spread it around your home, effectively making a toxic soup for kids and pets. If the problem is more serious, use enclosed bait stations to keep poisons away from pets and children or contact a local pest control professional.
Mice, Rats and Rodents
Rats can carry an unbelievable arsenal of harmful bacteria and disease. Protect your home from rats and rodents by keeping food waste and scraps to a minimum. Ensure any possible entry points are sealed properly including window seals and around doors and windows. If you know that rats or mice are already in your home, traps are your best solution. Contact a pest control professional or if you choose to place the traps yourself, make sure you do not place the traps within reach of your pets or children.
Bed Bugs
Las Vegas is in the middle of a bed bug nightmare. Bed bugs can spread from one person to another in almost any environment, from school buses to movie theaters. With Las Vegas being a tourist hotspot, bed bugs hitchhike all over the valley and into the homes of unsuspecting families. Almost as much of a nightmare of having bed bugs is getting rid of them. Ridding your home of bed bugs can be expensive and extremely stressful if not done correctly. Bed bugs require a combination of treatment strategies that range from vacuuming and sealing cracks along base boards to discarding heavily infested items like mattresses and box springs. Very few home remedies work, like bombs and sprays that typically act to push the bed bugs into other areas of the home. The absolute best advice we can give you is to contact a pest control professional that specializes in bed bug removal or bed bug heat treatment.
Find the Right Pest Control Service
If you are considering hiring a pest control professional, here are a few tips for making sure you are working with someone that has your family's safety in mind. Ask questions. If the technician or pest control company seems reluctant to discuss their treatment options or doesn't seem aware of the potential risks, move on. The safety of your children and pets must remain a top priority during any pesticide application or treatment method. Be sure to discuss specific treatment plans for specific pests such as bed bugs or German cockroaches. Even if a pesticide may be "Pet and Human Friendly", in the hands of an unlicensed or untrained technician even these treatments can be harmful. If you have any questions about handling a particular pest problem or pet and children safety, feel free to contact us anytime.


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Drastically reduce prices and rates during summer months. June to August 31st
Oak view is a historic home recently converted to an upscale Bed and Breakfast. It is located directly adjacent to the famous New Orleans city park. The house is arranged for your ultimate privacy and convenience-- all rooms with private baths. The owners reside downstairs on the floor level and the next two floors are for the guest only. The only time you see anyone other than those who you choose is during breakfast, at the bar or when you request service. Every guest has their own key to their room.. Of course breakfast is a delightful experience where you meet others who have a multitude of knowledge from their experience and guest share that information to help one another get around. One question that occasionally comes up is safety .First of all, this is one of the safest communities in New Orleans. It is a quiet upscale neighborhood which host the New Orleans Museum, Botanical Gardens, and Sculptural Museum. Sorry criminals but there is not a lot of room for crime around here. There are to many people and to many police officers. We provide maximum protection for our guest and our tourist in these areas. In addition , we hire a private security company for which we pay additional money to protect our community. Moreover, every guest has the luxury of a private security escort to your room if you feel uncomfortable about anything. That s right, a simple phone call to (MCSD) mid city security department, our private security is there for you whenever or if ever you choose. Finally, we are surrounded by a number of eateries and restaurants including the exclusive "Ralph's on the Park,Morning Call, Cafe Degas, Toups and Parkway Po boy shop(where the president of the United States went for po boy sandwiches For a location of this type of exclusiveness, privacy and safety, we are very moderately priced. No doubt you are in for a wonderful and pleasant "
Experience,Experience, Experience."
As an added note to you all out there in tourist land, it is better for all if you book your reservation right here on the web site. It is faster and very easy, and allows you to make deals, bargains and personal arrangements like food. LOOK FOR THE BLUE LINKS all over this site that says book it. This allows you to view all of the rooms and prices. Press that link put your information in and you will see the total price with taxes first before you book. If you are not satisfied just exit from that page and continue shopping. But here is the surprise kicker--we don't charge DEPOSITS and so far we have never charged a cancellation fee due to the flexible policy. Other than that there is not much to say about us. ASK TRIP ADVISOR--simply press the link below but make sure you come back to the web site to book the cheaper reservation.
A free robust breakfast with all the trimmings. Some guest choose to enjoy their breakfast with a cold Mimosa or a spicy Bloody Mary. And here 's the kicker, you simply serve and treat yourself to as much as you can eat or drink.
Free parking, free Wi Fi, free drinks and amenities, including teas,sodas,wine etc... No nickle and dimeing our guest. All you pay is your affordable and economical room rate.
No need to leave the web site for anything. You can see the reviews from Trip Advisor right here. Just press on the link and that's it. Also after viewing your prices and totals you can book your reservation right here on the web site on any page.And we do what no other will offer. That's right you pay for your room when you arrive How cool is that?
504--495-7405 OAKVIEWBNB.COM. . All rights reserved. All beverages are FREE AND COMPLIMENTARY. This includes coffee, teas, sodas, wines, spirits, 24/7 . Sorry we are not allowed to accept children or pets. Sorry and I really mean that. In the event of a computer error in pricing for the seasonal events, we reserve the right to make the correction. We will contact you immediately to inform you of the error and work with you sincerely and honestly. The events are Jazz Fest, Voodoo Fest, Essence Fest, Mardi Gras, and the traditional holidays. Continental breakfast served during summer rates-June thru August. WE apologize for the inconvenience but we don t serve breakfast on Thanksgiving or Christmas day


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Sharp, hardened steel wheel prevents tear-out
Unpredented marking accuracy
4.8 mm (3/16 inch) of fine adjustment
Recess in non-marring brass face protects wheel when not in use
Marking area 150 mm
This gauge allows unprecedented marking accuracy. The wheel cutter cuts wood fibers rather than tear them, and since it is sharp, bevelled only on the inside and non-rotating, it continuously forces the gouge face against the workpiece.
To set the gauge, the thumbscrew and brass nut must be released. Turn the thumbscrew counterclockwise about half a turn, and then while holding the black collet with one hand, loosen the brass nut with the other (only half a revolution is necessary) until the rod can be pushed through the body.
For optimum fine adjustment, hold the body and unthread the black collet so that there is about a 3 mm (1/8 inch) gap between the body and the black collet. Set the cross projection by sliding the body along the rod to the desired projection. Lock this setting by holding the black collet in one hand and tightening the brass nut with the other. Fine adjustment is then achieved by holding the body and rotating the brass nut in either direction. Tighten the thumb screw to lock the projection.
The wheel cutter can be retracted into the face of the gauge for upright storage.


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Sales to complete the below form & submit to POC coordinator. With this information the POC coordinator will be able to provide scripts/links to scripts for Data Discovery for any of the POCs where Dbvisit Technical resources are requested to engage.
Discovery scripts can be found @ http://support.dbvisit.com/hc/en-us/articles/220551807
POC Request Form to be completed by Salesperson @ https://docs.google.com/a/dbvisit.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgPXlk-mS15rd5JVXBEf_8BV2wO7tO3LFcCFEZ72sKViyYrg/viewform?c=0&w=1
The below are required to be completed by prospect in advance of POC
1. Run Test Drive on AWS@ http://www.dbvisit.com/products/dbvisit_replicate_on_aws
2. Review of Basics of Replicate 3-part series & Replicate Users' Guide
Series : http://blog.dbvisit.com/back-to-basics-with-dbvisit-replicate-part-i/
Users Guide : UserGuide Dbvisit Replicate 2.9
3. Submit Discovery script output for technical review and description of use case to test for fit. Scripts include
a) unsupported data type check,
b) redo volume check
c) CLOB/BLOB/LOB/NCLOB if target is going to be NON-Oracle
d) Trigger list
e) Tables with no primary or unique key on source.
f) Tables with Unsupported DELETE CASCADE constraints
Scripts can be accessed internally on Google Drive @
After are actions that partner or salesperson is to coordinate with POC Coordinator/Technical Staff for
- Review of use case & Discovery Data submissions
- Scheduling POC of technician in the prospects time zone. If Dbvisit resource assisting with task, a Zendesk will be opened and assigned to technical staff & sales cc by POC Coordinator so support is in loop.


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When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Cross-Trains
When life doesn't go according to plan adaptability is essential to long term success.
This week hasn't shaped up well for allowing me to get the mileage my training plan calls for (and still be everything else I need to be). Life is a juggling act and sometimes you have to be smart enough to drop the less important ball so you are free to catch the important, fragile one.
Anyhow, instead of allowing myself to get frustrated, I decided to push myself on short treadmill runs on my lunch break at work and mix in some cross training anywhere and everywhere possible. Last night, while playing with baby girl before bedtime, I was stretching, doing side planks with leg lifts and bridge with leg lifts. Today, after my lunch break run, every chance I'd get (even if only seconds at a time), I was stretching, doing push-ups, side planks with leg lifts, and lunges.
I haven't noticed any weird looks. I guess my co-workers have grown used to my own special brand of crazy. That's good, but better than that is – my legs are wobbly and my soul is satisfied!
How about you? Is your training plan going according to plan? Do you normally cross train? Do you squeeze in workouts at work… While you work?
Posted on January 14, 2014, in Running, Work and tagged Cross Training, running, Work, Workout. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.


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Conversations That Matter by Lesli Berry
December 6, 2017
Sunday Morning 12-03-17
We humans are tough. It can be very difficult to say the right thing, accept what someone is saying, and make sure we all leave the conversation still loving each other. Sometimes, almost impossible! But today, we're not going to talk about how to the hard thing; We're going to talk about how NOT to do the hard thing.


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Just amazing
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
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i will wait for next year XPERIA Z2..haha!
not gonna change my XZ so fast lo..
it still serve me well..
water resistant work like charm..haha
just back near camera got little bit lifted up..
I don't know i love the design but the emphasis is on cam with the z1 and yes although it's better than any of the previous xperia models i still think photos are compressed to much and there's alot of oversharpening in the samples i've seen. Sony needs to let the user decied how big he/she want there photo size to be i mean that's what real camera phones let the users do it's all about choice and trust me i've only purchased sony phones in my life but i won't shell out the kind of money sony wants for this if the s4 is taking better pics with sony's in house optics. It hurts that samsung,apple and now lg can take sony's optics and produce superior photos because sony's software development is coming up short. Sorry if i sound bashful but as an electrical engineer I work to hard for my money to just give it away just cause Sony built a reputation for having the best even if right now they aren't giving me the best, just fix the cam software we all know you can beat the rest of oems but it seems you don't want to cause you all seem to think that if you do they will shop elsewhere for optics.
Sounds like a good phone, just like its older brother Xperia Z sounded too. But did Sony fix the bugs of Z before launching Z1? Or they are just focused on improving what was already good enough, instead of improving what was plain bad?
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If anyone is interested the Gadget Show team have recently done a short hands on review of the Xperia Z1 & awarded it 4G's out of 5..
Click the link to read the Gadget Show Z1 Review
My 1st post is unluckily already a complain. I feel kind of betrayed by Sony for selling Xperia Z as its flagship model in Spring 2013 and push it from the pedestal only 9 months later. Do not get me wrong, I am still satisfied with my "Z", but the ugly thought occurs that Sony could have built the improvements made within the Z1 already into the Xperia Z.
Besides that the only critic point I got is the poor FLAC support by Sony Walkman App. My FLAC-files are simply not played, although Sony claims the Walkman App is able to do so. Mostly of them are ripped with XLD Player (Mac OS), but also the others are simply not played. Does anyone know what kind of FLAC files are supported?


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A leading green campaigner has sparked a row over the cause of declining wildlife in the UK by accusing farmers of being "fundamentally anti-environment."
Mark Avery, who last week left his post as director of conservation at the RSPB, also says environment ministers have brought little knowledge or enthusiasm to their jobs, attacks successive governments of "muzzling" state agencies meant to protect wildlife, and criticises global "over-consumption" in a Guardian article on Wednesday that looks back on 25 years at the charity.
Avery attacks "conservative" farmers for what he sees as their failure to reverse the massive population declines in farmland birds – numbers are now at their lowest levels in England since formal attempts to record them began in 1966 – before criticising the body that represents them in England.
He says that "at almost every opportunity, the [National Farmers Union (NFU) ] chooses the option which will harm the environment – it is weak on greenhouse gas reduction measures, in favour of biofuels, argues against improving the effectiveness of farming grants, is against clamping down on pesticide use and wants its members to carry out what will be an ineffective cull of badgers.
"The NFU lacks a coherent view of what the future of farming should look like except that the cheques must keep coming from the taxpayer."
Politicians also get short shrift, apart from Conservative John Gummer, now Baron Deben, who was agriculture minister then environment secretary between 1989 and 1997, and Michael Meacher, who never made a Labour cabinet and was sacked as environment minister of state after serving for the first six years of Tony Blair's tenure as prime minister.
"In contrast to today's politicians, they were keen to set targets for wildlife recovery. Both had a passion for wildlife and both got things done," Avery goes on, adding that the current Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs incumbents Caroline Spelman and Richard Benyon might too "provided they are given time to deliver".
Government agencies such as Natural England "have been neutered, muzzled and tied up out of harm's way", says Avery. Without their leadership or critical comment, non-governmental agencies must speak out about "how nature is threatened and where government is failing".
But ordinary people are rebuked too. "Tigers and skylarks get rarer because of the way we live on this planet – putting biofuels in our cars, eating too much meat from livestock fed on grain and just sucking up the world's resources too quickly and too carelessly.
"Rarely does someone shoot a skylark or stamp on its nest but our over-consumption drives species' declines much more certainly than could a man with a gun."
The attack on farmers drew a furious response from Peter Kendall, the NFU president.
"In Mark Avery's time at the RSPB fertiliser use has reduced by 33%, pesticide use has declined steadily and water quality has improved dramatically. Although some farmland bird populations have dropped, his children have more opportunity to see goldfinch, greenfinch, reed buntings and whitethroat which have all increased in numbers."
Kendall said there had also been drops in populations of some woodland and urban species. "No one has provided a satisfactory explanation for all these changes. Avery has, however, relentlessly pedalled the line that agriculture is the primary cause. Was it because some of the other known factors- domestic cats and dog-walking- are less palatable to RSPB members or was it simply his prejudice against productive agriculture?
"We know that the world demand for food will continue to increase while its capacity to produce it will be impaired by issues like water availability and climate change. We believe this country could and should produce more - indeed has a moral duty to do so." The way forward was "sustainable intensification," said Kendall.
"I want farming to be in a place where it is much less reliant on public support. Ironically, it is Mark himself who wants to make farmers less able to respond to the market and operate efficiently who is guilty of wishing to perpetuate a dependency culture."
He hoped that with Avery's departure, "the RSPB and the NFU can have a more constructive relationship, and the RSPB will find it possible to celebrate achievements rather than endlessly harping on the negatives."