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Miss Amelia
Artistic Director and Owner of My Little Conservatory and a Licensed Kindermusik Educator, Miss Amelia is dedicated to sharing her passion for music with young children and to share her love of music with families throughout Silicon Valley. In Miss Amelia's classes, parents and children explore a highly imaginative and entertaining musical learning environment.
Miss Amelia was introduced to Kindermusik over 20 years ago and she was instantly enthralled by the creative energy of children. This led her to serve as the Director of the Early Childhood Music Program at the Community School of Music and Art in Mountain View, after which she paused her career to raise her own family.
Her love of the arts started at a very young age and has continued throughout her life. Miss Amelia holds both a Bachelors and Masters in Flute Performance and was an accomplished chamber musician, performing across the country including at the renowned Carnegie Hall. She also holds a Level I Certification from the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association.
For a complete list of Miss Amelia's Teaching Experience, click here.
Current Positions:
- My Little Conservatory, Owner, Founder, Instructor, Teacher Menor (2013-present).
Licensed Kindermusik Educator
- Vitarelli Flute Studio (1996-present). Flute, Chamber Music, Sight Reading and Music Theory Instructor
Past Positions:
- West Valley Music, Group Flute Instructor (2013).
- St. Martin of Tours, General Music Instructor (2013-2016).
Recorder, Tone Chimes and General Music Instructor for Transitional Kindergarten, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th & 6th Grades
- Areon Summer Flute Institute (2005-2012). Lecturer, Flute Instructor and Conductor
- Areon Flutes Chamber Music Institute (2005-2012). Chamber Music Instructor
- Areon Flutes In-School Clinics (2005-2012). Clinician
- El Camino Youth Symphony (2003-2008). Conductor, Artist-In-Residence and Chamber Music Instructor
- Monokrome Summer Masterclass (2002-2004). Lecturer, Flute Instructor and Conductor
- Community School of Music and Arts (2001-2004). Lecturer, Flute Instructor, Artist-In-Residence, Director of the Early Childhood Music Program and Early Childhood Music Instructor
- Licensed Kindermusik Educator (1998-1999). Early Childhood Music Educator
- The Music School (1997-1998). Flute Instructor, Piano Instructor and Early Childhood Music Teaching Assistant
Masterclasses at the following locations (select list):
- Areon Flutes Masterclass, The Music Academy, Rockford, IL (2012)
- Areon Flutes Masterclass, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA (2010)
- Areon Flutes Masterclass, Harker Concert Series, The Harker School, San Jose, CA (2010)
- Areon Flutes Masterclass, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (2007)
- Areon Flutes Masterclass, The Masters College, Santa Clarita, CA (2007)
- Chamber Music Masterclass, Rolling Hills, CA (2007)
- West Valley College, Saratoga, CA (2004)
- Amelia Vitarelli Solo Masterclass, Palos Verdes, CA (2004)
Clinician & Adjudicator:
- Blach Intermediate School, Flute Clinician (2014)
- Areon Flute Institute Competition Judge (2005-2012)
- Areon Flutes Clinic/Masterclass, Milpitas High School (2011)
- St. Martin of Tours, Flute Clinician (2011)
- Graham Middle School, Clinician (2010)
- Illinois Flute Festival Competition Judge, Western Illinois University (2010)
- Korean American Music Supporters Association Youth Symphony, Clinician (2005)
- Gunn High School, Clinician (2004-2005)
- California Band Directors Association, Santa Clara County Honor Band, Judge (2001-2003)
- Blach Intermediate School, Flute Choir Conductor (2001-2002)
Miss Kristen
A licensed Kindermusik Educator with extensive experience teaching young children, Miss Kristen has experienced firsthand the powerful role of music plays in the life of a child. Aspiring to be in the field of music education for a lifetime, she finds great joy in teaching toddler, preschool, and elementary aged children. Her experience includes teaching early childhood music at The Music School of Sunnyvale as well as private voice and beginning piano through the Young Musician's Project at San Jose State. Kristen works as the Alto Section Leader at Peninsula Cantare and has performed with the SJSU Concert Choir and the Choraliers under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Benson, serving as the Alto Section Leader in both choirs. She has also served as a board member for the SJSU's American Choral Directors Association Chapter and the National Association for Music Educators Bay Section. She has a Bachelor of Music in Music Education with a Choral Emphasis from San Jose State University.
Mister Ethan
Mister Ethan, a Licensed Kindermusik Educator and Piano Teacher, was musically inclined from a young age, spontaneously playing a movie score on the piano at age four. Soon after he began piano lessons, where he would often improvise pieces written by classical composers. His musical curiosity and interest in jazz attracted him to the saxophone and his multifaceted talent led to being awarded a scholarship to the renowned Berklee School of Music.
Mister Ethan holds a Bachelor in Music with an emphasis in saxophone performance from Berklee, where he refined his innovative musical inclinations and studied under many distinguished musicians. Mister Ethan performed regularly at Boston's legendary Wally's Jazz Club and recently released his first album, Kingdoms, on which he showcases his extensive musical talent by playing saxophone, piano, and singing lead vocals. Dedicated to sharing his passion for music to younger generations, Mister Ethan teaches private saxophone lessons and jazz combo workshops at local high schools while he continues to create singles for his next album.
Miss Renz
My Little Conservatory's Private Piano Instructor, Miss Renz is passionate about helping students discover the beauty of their every day lives through music. An accomplished pianist, teacher, and vocalist, she began playing piano at the age of six, achieving her Bachelors of Music Education from San Jose State University. Miss Renz has taught both private and group piano instruction at the Young Musician's Project, Faith Bible Church of Vallejo, Willow Glen Music School, and at the Corcoran's Piano Studio in Benicia. In 2015 Miss Renz performed as a choir singer at the prestigious Carnegie Hall Concert Hall in New York and with Andrea Bocelli at the SAP Center in San Jose. Her goal as a teacher is to enhance each child's creativity, helping them discover their own unique musical voice.
Miss Taylor
Miss Taylor works as one of our Licensed Kindermusik Educators while also managing the front desk at the My Little Conservatory studio. Currently attending San Jose State, she will obtain her Bachelor of Music Performance in Spring 2019. An accomplished Mezzo Soprano, Miss Taylor is currently a chorus member with Opera San Jose. She has also performed in concert with the San Jose State Choraliers and has traveled with the university's many choral ensembles to Carnegie Hall in New York City, Ireland, Finland and the Baltic states.


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More Bodywork Steel: Seatbelts, A-pillar
These photos show the glassing in of the new steel stiffeners into the body and the work to fit modern seatbelts.
Steelwork in channel above side window and over the rear window,
A pillar close up, the steelwork ends in the front wing in the same place as reliant had theirs
B pillar view
Steel support ending in boot,
Steelwork overview,
We then folded up some steel bar to make mounting points for the seatbelts this photo shows a passenger test bracket fitted,
Seatbelt stalks test fitted,
Seatbelt overview,
Dave made up a new battery tray as the old one had mostly dissolved Its slightly larger to accommodate a scimitar sized battery,
Bodywork Repairs, Steel Tube Reinforcement
The following pictures show more of the bodywork repairs, glassing in of the new rollbar, investigation of the steel tube section around the A pillars…
Boot strap supports being glassed in:
Rollbar padded out to remove the dent in the roof and prepped for fibreglass.
Rollbar getting first fibreglass layer
Nice new UNF bolts to hold the chassis down, none of that metric rubbish here.
Front support refitted:
Steeing box refitted, still waiting for new track rods from Amsteer to complete the steering assembly.
Outrigger Bolts, S bolt is where the seatbelt reel will be fitted once the carpet is in.
Continuing the replacement of the chassis steelwork we cut out the corroded metal in A pillars. To do this we removed the inner roof moulding.
Extra view, this moulding will be replaced once we have glassed in new steel supports.
Channel that contained steelwork
Corroded section of steel support after removal
Drivers side Steelwork position shown on the outside of the car.
Passenger side being removed
Outside comparison, note hole blown in the wing by the steel expanding.
The rotten steel will be replaced soon and hopefully we can start looking at the engine and interior!
Chassis Repairs – Part 2
The following post documents the rest of the chassis repairs. we then painted the chassis and suspension components which had been cleaned up ready for painting.
Rot cut out:
Replacement steel tacked and hammered in stages to replicate the correct curve:
Trial fitting the prefolded repair section, this was folded to measure by a local fabricator.
Welded in place:
Front section welded in:
From above
Various small holes welded up,
Bottom section fitted,
Nylon Timing Gear – Ford Essex Engine
Since doing the gearbox on the Scimitar things were generally running well… until one day on the M25 when the throttle stuck wide open, Engine revved up to max and sounding like it was thrashing the life out of itself. I limped off the motorway by turning the ignition on and off and coasting. Free'd off the throttle at a layby and continued the 30 miles to home.
I Replaced the faulty throttle cable the following day but the car refused to start briefly spurting to life and then dying, Simple checks revealed the rotor arm was not turning but the starter was…! The timing gear had shredded its teeth leaving them all in an pile in the sump.
So I now I really have to eat a small slice of humble pie and admit I should have replaced the timing gear earlier and indeed was advised to change it by VIv at least once…! Its a well known weakness with the Ford Essex Engine and its one you Ignore at your own risk
The following photos show where the car is at present old timing gear cleaned out, new one on.
Chafed Throttle Cable
Missing teeth
Horrible mess
Excess amounts of blue silicone sealant courtesy of a previous owner!
Sump removed
Old one removed
Refitting the backplate
New steel gear
About to fit the timing cover
Going back together
bottom end view
a running engine, but not running right…
I was very lucky to get away with no serious damage, to the valves The head studs had pulled pulled out a bit but swapping for a new set of Unleaded heads has fixed this.

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Some of you may know I teach high school and have for the past 17 years. One of the most exciting times of year for my students is of course Prom. The buzz around campus is so much fun this time of year, listening to the plans, who's going with who, how to wear hair and makeup, etc. It always reminds me of my own prom and how excited I was back then…way back then :-).
The styles have definitely changed over the years…why not take a look back?
In the 1940s, prom dress silhouettes were often cut slim and close to the body. This wasn't done for the sake of a sexier, more body-con dress: It was due to WWII fabric rations. There were higher necklines and covered shoulders.
Ultrafeminine, waist-whittling tea-length dresses dominated the fashion vernacular in a big way in the 1950s, and it was the preferred shape for promgoers during that midcentury period too. The style includes fitted waists, full skirts, and calf-grazing hems, falling 3 to 4 inches below the knees.
The early '60s brought about a return to closer-cut skirting that had been de rigueur two decades earlier, but purely for aesthetic reasons — not as a cost-cutting measure. Slimmer skirts were paired with higher waistlines, making for more of a baby-doll silhouette. Pastel palettes with Easter egg-worthy hues were popular, and dresses moved toward spaghetti-strap and boatneck shapes up top. Later in the decade, empire waist shapes rose to prominence, paired with a range of necklines, like sleeveless boatneck styles and square-neck short-sleeved iterations. And throughout the '60s, ultra-voluminous coifs were the norm. Prom wasn't cool anymore toward the end of the decade.
My mom graduated in 1971 and swears it wasn't cool to go to prom, so she didn't go. In the 1970s, many prom dresses, reflecting the wider dress trends of the era, became roomier in cut, often without any definition at the waist whatsoever. Unlike the strapless, snug bodices or sleeveless styles that were dominant in previous decades of prom dressing, these frocks tended to have off-the-shoulder, possibly lace-trimmed necklines or long sleeves that were often sheer or billowy.
The maximalism of all things '80s certainly didn't spare the prom dress category. The extravagant excess of the era translated to ultra-pouffy details like oversize bows or ruffles and flashy metallic materials.
In the early part of the '90s, prom frocks looked quite similar to those of the '80s in terms of having lots of pouf and ample metallic hues. Sweetheart necklines became quite popular for promgoers (and for fancy occasions in general), and while form-fitting bodices endured, the silhouette shifted slightly, with waistlines hitting closer to the hips.
The new millennium brought about a mishmash of prom trends (spurred by the era's prevailing fashion trends). Think: bubble-hemmed looks, like a wildly unrealistic, straight-off-the-runway Chanel frock worn by Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton) to the prom on The O.C. in 2006.
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Spouses Seeing More Choices in Jobs
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Both of those employment hurdles are getting lower as Defense Department [ http://www.dod.gov ], White House [ http://www.whitehouse.gov ]and nonprofit entities rally state legislators and the corporate and business communities to make things easier.
Through the work of DOD's Military Community and Family Policy [ http://www.militaryhomefront.dod.mil/ ]office and Michelle Obama and Jill Biden's "Joining Forces [ http://www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces ]" campaign, 16 states have passed laws to improve professional license portability and another 11 have legislation pending. Also, DOD's Military Spouse Employment Partnership [ https://msepjobs.militaryonesource.mil/ ]last week added 34 employer "partners" for a total of 128 that post jobs on the site specific to military spouses. As part of the program, the employers ? CACI, General Dynamics, Dell, Microsoft, American Red Cross, GEICO, and Sterling Medical are just a few -- agree that their positions can move with hired spouses.
The catalyst for change has been the spouses themselves who spoke up about the need. Indeed, DOD officials say 85 percent of military spouses have responded that they either want or need a paid job.
One spouse who turned her frustration into action is Lauren Weiner, a former federal employee analyst with the White House budget office [ http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb ], whose career came to a halt when she relocated with her husband, Charles, a Navy civilian, to Naples, Italy, in 2004. Unable to find a senior-level professional job on base ? and spouses aren't permitted to work off-base in Naples ? Weiner networked with Naples-based wives and found others in the same situation.
Weiner responded by starting her own government consulting business, Wittenberg Weiner Consulting, LLC [ http://www.ww-consult.com ]. In just a few weeks, she hired her friend, Donna Huneycutt, a lawyer and Navy wife, to help keep up with the expanding workload. Together, the two built the business ? Wittenberg as president, Huneycutt as executive vice president ? to what is now a 60-person firm in which 75 percent of employees are military spouses.
Besides giving back by hiring other spouses, Wittenberg Weiner last year started the nonprofit, In Gear [ http://www.ingearcareer.org ]. It provides a forum for community support, information-sharing, and mentoring for career-minded military spouses. It also partners with other organizations working to support the professional endeavors of military spouses, such as the Military Spouse JD Network [ http://www.militaryspousejdnetwork.org/ ], which is working to ease state-by-state attorney licensure requirements for military spouses.
"We realized there was this incredibly talented pool of spouses out there," Huneycutt said, "and we wanted to make sure this was more than a pit stop in those spouses' careers."
Weiner and Huneycutt represent a growing number of spouses who refuse to accept that a military life means the end of their working life ? or a 20-year hiatus. Military spouses who want to work outside the home in any field are getting more opportunities all the time, and that is good for everyone ? spouse, service member, and the military community.


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Villaraigosa calls on AEG to 'live up to' downtown stadium deal
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called on Anschutz Entertainment Group on Thursday to "live up to its commitment" to bring an NFL team to the city through a downtown football stadium deal that would also expand the convention center.
"For the past three years, the City has expedited our process and lived up to our end of a deal to bring the NFL to Los Angeles and create a world-class convention center," Villaraigosa said in a statement.
"Now that AEG is no longer for sale and they have indicated that bringing an NFL team to L.A. remains a priority, I call on AEG to live up to its commitment by immediately sitting down with the NFL to reach an agreement."
However, the mayor said the city would not wait for AEG "or any other party" to move ahead with needed convention center improvements. He called for the city's top financial administrator to come up with "options within the next 30 days" to ensure that modernization moves ahead "no matter what."
With the city's convention business seeing a record number of visitors last year, he said, "we will continue to pursue the important work of making downtown L.A. a better place to work, live, visit and dine regardless of whether the NFL and AEG reach that agreement."
On Thursday, AEG announced that it was halting efforts to sell the company, and longtime chief executive Tim Leiweke left his post by mutual agreement with AEG owner Phillip Anschutz, a Denver billionaire.
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BOSTON – State Senator Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton) and Representative Kate Hogan (D-Stow) joined Hudson Town officials and Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Rosalin Acosta on April 2 at the New City Microcreamery to celebrate Workforce Development Grants that were awarded to small businesses in Hudson through the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development's (EOLWD) Workforce Training Fund Program. New City Microcreamery was awarded $36,400 to train 18 workers and anticipates adding 3 jobs by 2020. Saliga Machine Company was awarded $34,200 to train 5 workers and anticipates adding 4 jobs by 2020.
"It was terrific to celebrate Hudson's renaissance, and to recognize the important role that workforce development grants play in helping small businesses grow and compete," said Senator Eldridge. "I want to thank the Baker-Polito administration and Secretary Acosta for investing in our communities by increasing access to specialized training for workers."
"Congratulations to the Hudson companies that received grants from the Workforce Training Fund Program to help train employees, improve productivity, and grow their business," said Representative Hogan. "I'm proud that the Commonwealth continues to invest in our workforce, and the New City Microcreamery was the perfect place for state officials and business leaders to gather and celebrate the exceptional local businesses and employees that sustain our communities."
Funded by Massachusetts employers via contributions made to unemployment insurance, the Workforce Training Fund helps companies improve productivity and competitiveness by providing resources to invest in the Massachusetts workforce. In partnership with EOLWD, Commonwealth Corporation reviews and awards training grants of up to $250,000 to Massachusetts businesses and consortia of businesses to fund training for current and newly hired employees. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis throughout the year. Approximately $17.95 million was awarded in FY 2017 to train 10,582 workers at 206 different companies.
The program is a powerful tool to create new jobs, increase skills and opportunities for our workers, and maintain the economic strength and viability of the Commonwealth's businesses. Companies who completed grants in FY 2017 added jobs at a rate of 8.21%, more than double the statewide average of 3.09%. This resulted in 1,591 new jobs, which is more than double the 890 new jobs proposed by grantees when applications were submitted.


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This is a 100% pre-produced drama that is based on webtoon "계룡선녀전/Tale of Gyeryong Fairy" by "돌배 / Dol Bae" which was first published from 2017-March-1 via "comic.naver.com/webtoon/".
Sun Ok Nam was a fairy in the Goryeo period. While she took a bath at a waterfall on Gyeryong Mountain, a woodcutter took her fairy clothes and hid them. Because of this, Sun Ok-Nam could not go back to Heaven. She then married the woodcutter and they had two children together. After her husband died from falling off of a cliff, Sun Ok-Nam tried to find her fairy clothes, but she still could not locate it. Needing her fairy clothes, she decides to wait for husband to be reincarnated.
Now in the present day, she makes coffee at a cafe on Gyeryong Mountain and waits for her reincarnated husband. Finally, after 699 years, she gets a feeling that one of the two men visiting her cafe from Seoul is her reincarnated husband. Sun Ok-Nam is not sure which one of the two men is her husband. She deicides to follow them to Seoul to find out.
Country: Korean
Status: Completed
Released: 2018
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance;


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PacMan 5 - A Faithful Remake
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PacMan 5 - is a Pac-Man game which aims to keep gameplay VERY close to the original (Down to the bugs and strategies), while adding extra features and multiple game modes. Such as jumping, additional ghosts (Alla pacmania), different layouts, etcetera.
Most notably, it also features Ms. Pac-Man and Jr. Pac-Man game modes, which also replicate the arcade originals with the same level of faithfulness. Think of it like a "sandbox pacman" thing, but it is 100% playable and complete on its own as of today.
It is intention was to keep the gameplay as close as the original, ranging from ghost behavior, to speed and fright time and stuff. Graphics are x4 the original game's size, included a dip-switch-like configuration screen to further tweak the gameplay.


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From a young age, politics has been a fundamental aspect of my life. I was born amid civil unrest in Algiers and as a child I learnt that my grandfather – a former politician – had been assassinated. Naturally, this sparked my interests in politics, as I wanted to understand why people were willing to kill and die for their political beliefs. As a teenager, I got involved in politics as Treasurer at my local council – which involved designing and presenting a budget to secure £10,000 of funding for youth projects – and as a delegate at the Model United Nations. I have also spoken in parliament as an unofficial representative for various Arab youth community groups.
My involvement in politics so far has very much been within the 'official channels', but I am also interested in understanding politics outside that framework. One experience which made me question the conception of politics as simply about lobby groups, parliamentary bills, and ballot slips – a conception that I feel was promoted by the A-Level syllabus – was when I was invited to speak on behalf of the Arab Advice Bureau at a Foreign & Commonwealth Office anti-terrorism event. The event was dominated by an Israeli ambassador, and although we were supposedly there to have our opinions heard, it was clear that the agenda was fixed in advance, and that this was essentially a clever PR exercise to give an appearance of 'consultation'. This made me think about the ways that power can be operating even in apparently free and open discussions, and also made me interested in the ways that historical power-structures can change as a result of political actions which do not go through 'official channels'.
For example, I want to understand more about the historical dynamics which recently enabled people to overthrow what seemed to be very well-entrenched regimes in the Arab world, all well as to understand the power which propped up those regimes in the first place. I am also interested in comparing the 'Arab spring' with last year's riots in the UK. One obvious common factor is the global economic crisis, and the growing numbers of young people feeling they are bearing the brunt of the ensuing immiseration. Another parallel is the sense in which the riots and the revolutions were responses to authorities – police, government – which were perceived as corrupt and abusive. I am also fascinated by the way that a single specific event – the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, and the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham – seemed to trigger, or serve as a catalyst for, such major events. I would say that my main motivation to study politics comes from a desire to understand how power structures are able to influence the integral parts of our lives.
As well as being strongly motivated to study the subject, my extracurricular activities have taught me skills that would help me make the most of university. As the winner of multiple public speaking competitions, I am a confident communicator, and my experience as a rugby player – I ranked in the top 5 nationally for my position in the 2010 national awards – I have learned to perform well under pressure, and to work as a team. Without a doubt, I believe that I am shaped for politics.


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More than 230 Landstar professionals, owner-operators and agents took part in the 24th annual LSO/BCO Safety Meeting in Romulus, Michigan. The event, held each year in February, is designed to update Landstar BCOs on specific regulatory changes within the transportation industry and provide company safety performance data and discuss overall best safety practices. The meeting is hosted by LAN agency's Mike and Brandon LePior, and supported by nearly two dozen additional agents, as well as Landstar.
Guest speakers included Landstar Vice President of Loss Prevention Shelly Seaton, Region 2 Vice President Kendall Rump, Director of Compliance – Operator/Equipment Theresa Broadbent, Field Safety Manager Jeremy Bush and CABS Coordinators Rob Walter. Motivational speaker and transportation industry consultant Dan Baker also spoke to the crowd during the meeting. Baker became a professional speaker in the trucking industry in the 1980s and has since dedicated his life to motivating and mentoring truckers. Ron Flowers, a regional Intelligence Officer with Canada Border Services Agency delivered specifics related to safe and legal border crossing policy and procedures.
"Thanks to so many of our agents working together, we had a fantastic turn out this year," said Landstar Vice President of Loss Prevention Shelly Seaton. "We discussed Landstar's behavioral campaign focusing on speed and space management."
In addition to discussion of the "Drive for Five" campaign, BCOs were reminded to communicate any challenges encountered during their loading/unloading process where LSOs might explore a M.U.S.T. customer visit (Mutual Understanding of Safety Together).
"Safety Meetings provide a platform for us to assist BCOs and LSOs in understanding the new rules and regulations they are facing in 2016," said Seaton.
"Each year this event out-does the year before; we were so pleased with this year's turnout – 120 Business Capacity Owners joined us for the meeting," echoed Landstar Agent Brandon LePior. After the safety meeting, 58 of the BCOs in attendance stayed on for a Continued Awareness of Business & Safety Class (C.A.B.S.). Orientation Coordinator Stephen Chambers taught the class, designed to help owner-operators review Landstar's business model and safety practices.


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Big Chain vs multiple Repair Shop accounts
New things you get with a Big Chain account:
- You get a Logistics tab in place of the parts order tab, this allows more power in that you can create an order to move a ticket or inventory item between your store locations, with a check out and check in flow. Learn more about this feature here: Logistics: Transferring Inventory in Big Chain
- You get to share the customer database with all your stores
- You get location specific inventory levels, reorder points, and retail prices
- You get controls on your users to define which locations they are allowed in
- You get reporting that can show all locations at once, or just a single location
- Your printers, Marketr campaigns, etc can be mapped to a single location
- You get to use the same username/password/subdomain for all the locations
- Your templates get new tags for location information so you show the correct address/phone/etc on printed and emailed material
Reasons to maybe not use a Big Chain account:
1. You do NOT want to share customer history between your stores
2. Your locations operate different types of businesses - it might make sense to have totally different inventory in this case, totally up to you
3. You need to use different outbound email addresses for each location.
4. You do not want the same subdomain or custom domain visible in the customer portal.
If ANY of these are true, you need a big-chain account:
How to know if you need a Big Chain account
If ANY of these are true, you need a big-chain account:
- If you want to have a single shared customer database now, or at any time in the future - you will need a big-chain account
- If you want the same login/email for all the locations, you need a big-chain account. This includes your technicians having the ability to work at multiple locations with 1 user account.
- If you want a system to track moving inventory and jobs between your locations, you need a big chain-account
Things to know when upgrading to a Big Chain account:
- When you upgrade a single location to a Big-Chain we have to move all the existing data in your account to one of the locations
- Your users will need locations set in their permissions or they will be able to see all of them
- This process cannot be done twice, so you should think it through and be sure


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Enjoy a fun-packed and interactive monster drawing event with live music at Grimsby Auditorium.
Join Liz Pichon as she presents Tom Gates Brilliant Bands and Doodle Live Tour at the Cromwell Road venue on Thursday, October 26.
Take along a pencil and paper, learn to doodle just like Tom and hear DUDE3, Tom's favourite band in the 'whole wide world' play some excellent tunes.
There will also be plenty of stories and a chance to meet Liz and the band after the show.
Popular author and illustrator, Liz Pichon, is best known for her award-winning series Tom Gates, which have sold more than 3.1 copies in the UK.
First published in 2011, The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize; Red House Children's Book Award 'Best Book for Young Readers' and Waterstones Children's Book Prize 'Best Fiction for 5-12-year-olds'.
Her fourth book, Tom Gates: Genius Ideas (mostly), won the Blue Peter Book Award and most recently, Liz collected Specsavers Bestseller Awards for five of her Tom Gates titles.
The performance on October 26 is at 1pm, with tickets £17 and limited family tickets (for 4) at £60 also available.
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Editor's Note: The following is a repost from https://local.nixle.com/alert/5035472/. We often SUP in Marina Del Rey and want to spread this important safety message.
SUPs that are being used for coastal and harbor cruising are classified as vessels by the United States Coast Guard. As vessels, SUPs are subject to vessel safety equipment requirements when being used outside of the surf zone. These regulations do not apply to SUPs being used for surfing only.
A life jacket or personal floatation device (PFD) is required while using SUPs. The use of a leash attached to the board and operator does not fulfill this requirement. The PFD does not have to be worn by the operator, unless the operator is 12 years of age or younger. Those not required to wear a PFD shall have it onboard the SUP, and readily available to the operator. There is a PFD designed specifically for use by SUP operators known as a "Special Use Device" – Type 5. The Type 5 PFD comes in a fanny pack configuration, and can be activated by manual inflation or by using the attached CO2 cartridge. The special use PFDs are available at most surf shops that carry SUPs, as well as most marine supply stores.
SUP operators are also required to have a sound signaling device, such as a whistle, for making an efficient sound signal. If an SUP is being operated at night, between sunset and sunrise, lighting and visual distress devices must also be carried.
So remember, an SUP operated outside of 200 yards from shore, or anywhere outside of designated swim areas of the Marina del Rey Harbor is subject to citation by marine law enforcement, should these safety regulations be violated.
Be safe this summer! If you have any questions, please contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Harbor Patrol Office at Marina del Rey Sheriff's Station at 310-482-6000.
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What's on your To Do list?
We've had lots of family fun on our To Do list this past weekend. College girl was home for a visit and it was opening weekend of the high school musical for my other daughter so we were busy, busy!
Over the years I have tried dozens of different types of time management systems, my shelves are lined with dozens of different books on time management and I've had lots of different daytimers/To Do lists!
Today I want to share with you what I currently use, in its very plain and simple form. I hope you are not too disappointed!
I am a lover of paper, as antiquated as that may seem in this increasingly "paper less" society we live in.
I do not like electronic gadgets for keeping track of my life. I like to do it the old fashion way – with paper and pen!
My current system is a combination of things I learned while reading Getting Things Done by David Allen.
Last year I used a simple, but cheerful, red Moleskin notebook
I love the size that fits easily into my purse (5 x 8″.) The elastic strap that wraps around it keeps it all together. It is well used and well worn and full! This last week I realized I was reaching the last few pages and it was time for a new one.
I figured if I must have a notebook to keep track of my life it mine as well be a pretty one!
So this weekend while college girl and I were doing a little shopping we stopped into one of my favorite stores, full of pretty things – Anthropologie. I found this pretty little notebook – perfect for my next To Do list.
My To Do list is pretty simple. I just divide each page into four sections – Errands, To Call, Computer and To Do.
Errands -list of places I need to go – bank, dry cleaner, pharmacy, Target etc. and the things I need to pick up there.
To Call– calls that need to be made during the week. I include personal as well as calls I need to make for my homebased business. Calls such as scheduling doctor's appointments, haircuts, etc.
Computer– this list is anything and everything I need to do while at the computer. Emails that need to be sent, bills to be paid, lots of things for my homebased busness, etc. You'll be amazed how long this list can become. It is usually my longest list.
To Do – this includes projects and just about anything else that doesn't fall into the other 3 categories. Items such as writing thank you notes, organizing photos, scrapbook project, cleaning out a closet etc.
Each Sunday evening I sit down and make up my To Do list for the coming week. I look back at last weeks list and carry forward anything that didn't get crossed off and add new things. Of course things get added throughout the week too.
By the end of the week my list is pretty messy – hopefully with lots of lines through things!
If the list just gets too messy or crowded I will rewrite the list midweek.
I use the page opposite of the To Do list to write down phone messages, ideas or thoughts I have or hear during the week, menu planning ideas, blog ideas etc.
What time management system do you use? What do you use to keep track of your life, your To Do's?? Please share!
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In 1982, biology professor Robert Suter and his spouse, Valerie Suter, head of the Physics Department at a large public high school, came up with this great idea: Why not use the Vassar Farm to expose local school children to natural history and hands-on science?
"The impetus for this program came from two directions," wrote Suter in the VQ, 1982, "first from my concern that the college's ecological preserve is now used only for Vassar students, and is underutilized at that, and second from my realization that local public schools offer little or no hands-on science in the first three years." Thus, "Natural History at the Vassar Farm" was born.
It has since evolved into "Exploring Science at Vassar Farm" offered by the Department of Education as a one-semester program for Vassar students who are interested in science and environmental education. The students work with faculty and the program director to design lessons for second and third graders from Poughkeepsie schools.
Since its inception, over 24,000 elementary school students have experienced hands-on science at the farm nature walks, performing simple experiments, observing live animals. For some, just being on a nature preserve in the middle of nowhere, only a few miles from home is an unforgettable experience.
Read more about the special programs like Exploring Science directed out of the Education Department.
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Due to regulations, drone are limited in size and power in places lik ethe United States. But apparently that's not in Norway, which is now the home of a new record-setting superdrone called the Megakopter that recently snagged a Guinness World Record for hoisting just shy of 134.5 pounds (61 kilos).
Designed and built by students at the University of Oslo, Megakopter's lifting capabilities come from the fact that it's actually a Mega Zord-like mashup of eight smaller drones held together with a lightweight wood and aluminium frame. A set of four inflatable exercise balls also serves as squishy landing gear to lessen the impacts of rough landings.
In total, the Megakopter has 48 electric motors that keep it aloft, and its creators have been continuously working to improve and refine its design to make it more and more capable. Lifting 61 kilos for 30 seconds was enough to earn it the Guinness World Record for "Heaviest Payload Lifted by Remote-Controlled Multicopter," but the Megakopter's creators see that achievement as just a stepping stone towards their real goal: being able to one day climb aboard the craft and take it for a spin, instead of piloting it remotely from the ground. [YouTube via Technabob]
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This month, we're participating in the Super Lean Spending Challenge with our friends at Decluttering the Stuff. As we approach the middle of the month, I thought I'd post our progress so far.
Total spending month to date = $258.26
We spent $19 on entertainment for our February Freebie Fun Date and $16.81 for dining out (2 trips to Jersey Mike's). Of the $40 we budgeted for gifts this month, we spent $32.66 (one birthday, one housewarming gift). We do one large grocery shopping trip per month (this time it was on the 4th). We've spent $144.88 on groceries for the month so far, which included a quart of local honey ($17.39). Honey is a staple around our house. Spending on household goods ($44.91) included the purchase of seeds from Seed Needs and Tractor Supply for our garden, 2 spools of thread for a sewing project, cat litter and new toothbrushes.
Our total grocery, household, and entertainment spending for February 2016 was $613.75 (or about 13% of our income). Using that as a baseline comparison, I think we're on track to have a Super Lean Spending Month.
Weekly Progress to Happiness Goals Report (week ending 2/11)
- No Spend Days = 3
- Meatless Days = 2
- Miles Walked/Hiked = 21.6/0
YTD = 87.4/1,000 and 3.6/100
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Back on May 15, 2016 I wrote a post stating I considered Antofagasta's current stock price an opportunity, the price of the stock had been severely punished due to pesimistic short-term macroeconomic forecasts and the overall downward in commodity prices, back then the market didn't distinguish between good and bad companies thus creating a gap between the company's price and its real value.
Since then Antofagasta's strategy has consisted on costs reductions in order to survive the adverse market enviroment, improving their overal efficiency and preparing for better times through strategical adquisitions and disinvestments.
I believe the company has done great following this strategy:
· Cash costs before by-product credits in Q4 2016 were $1.46/lb, 5.2% lower than in Q3 2016 as production volumes increased, particularly at Centinela.
· Cash costs before by-product credits for the full year were $1.54/lb, 27c/lb lower than last year as a result of the successful cost savings achieved during the year, higher production and the previously announced change in the estimation method for deferred stripping costs.
· Net cash costs were $1.13/lb in Q4 2016, a 4.2% decrease compared with the previous quarter. This was primarily due to lower cash costs before by-products credits and higher production of gold and molybdenum
· Net cash costs for 2016 were $1.20/lb, 20.0% lower than in 2015. This reflected the lower cash costs before by-product credits, higher gold production and higher realised prices for gold and molybdenum, partly offset by lower molybdenum production.
Despite the fall in revenue, EBITDA increased by 2.3% to $571.6 million reflecting a 24.7% reduction in operating costs and the inclusion of EBITDA from Zaldívar and other associates for the first time. This has resulted in earnings per share from continuing operations for the period of 8.9 cents per share, down 3.3% compared with the same period last year.
- If so why am I leaving?
I believe the stock price already takes the good news into account and reflects a fairer valuation of the company, the higher the price the less the margin of safety – in this particular case and for the time being -.
Moreover I believe some of the lastest euphoria regarding the stock is due to political events i.e. Trumps victory and his plans on public infraestructure spending.
I don't like the idea of investing my money following political statements, since politicians might say something today and do the opposite tomorrow without any real consequences.
Whether or not the stock keeps going up I don't know & I can't know, I'm exiting after a 67.7% surge + dividends in a 10 months swim which is a fairly good result if you ask me.
For the time being I'll keep the resulting liquidity while I search for new opportunities to add to my portfolio.
Nevertheless this isn't a goodbye but simply a see you soon, given the fact Antofagasta is one of the lowest cost producers on its sector, a greatly managed and an excellent company overall I'll constantly keep an eye on it patiently waiting for another chance to invest on it.


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Hi all my name is Robbie, and I am known online as RobbieTheGeek, have many spots I can bee found online and that is my handle. So here is the reason for a new blog, I decided I would give WordPress a try and to use and abuse it. I have 2 blogs over at Blogger.Com and they are :
RobbieTheGeek.blogspot.com – This one is rather general and alot of topics all over the place.
GeekVsMac.blogspot.com – This one I created as a little I love my new Macbook Pro and wanted to share it with my friends 🙂
This is a new blog one I hope to make a little more technical and a little more frequently updated. I am not going to get too much into my history and who I am here please stop by the other blogs for that stuff. I will warn I tend to be a smart-ass and I tend to have little patience for people that are dumb. That isn't to say that people that don't get something are dumb it is people that are to hard-headed and closed-minded to approach learning or understanding something new or foreign. And I am a geek to the bone… I am very self taught and very scattered I love technology and my wife (especially cause she smile's and nod's when I start blabbing about a little tiny detail of the tech-de-jour that she could care less about.
Ok on to how Drupal is changing my life…
I have a few projects I am working on currently and one seems to have fed the other. I have a side project (outside work with a friend) that is very much a community based site, and will need alot of user session tracking and specialized roles, and I am not a web programmer to say the least, I would call myself a Web Enthusiast with alot of knowledge about implementing web standards and accessibility. So I was going to try to learn what I could but I was sure there was some stuff out there in the opensource world that could be molded to what we needed. I then was presented with a project at my job by a great manager who gets the fact that while I can support Citrix (my current fulltime job) that I would rather be doing anything related to the web. So low and behold a project starts appearing where a website could be used and seemed to be a better fit over any other solution. Now I have some Linux experience and I am a technology whore so I jump across the table at the meeting to offer my services to tackle this issue. And poof I have a 64bit AMD Sun server now installed running Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP. So my manager and I start brainstorming about uses for a new webserver and what we would like to have it do for us, after about 20-30mins I was sure we needed a CMS I work for a government agency and there is alot of support for open source so off I went sure there was an open source solution for us, and I was right. OpenSourceCMS.com was a great spot to do a little research and from there I had narrowed it down to 2 available CMS's. Joomla & Drupal. Then my manager said something that amazed me, "Which one will make you more marketable in the long run?". So I dug around a little more and feel like the combination of well written (x)HTML CSS and the PHP & MySQL and the idea that there was a very vibrant development community and many created contributed modules made Drupal stand out.
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In this contribution to a symposium on "Legal Realism and Legal Doctrine," I examine the role that jurisprudence plays in corporate law doctrine. Through an examination of paired cases from the United States and United Kingdom, I offer a case study of the contrasting influence on corporate law judging of American Legal Realism versus traditional U.K. Doctrinalism.
Specialist judges in both systems, aided by specialist lawyers, clearly identify and understand the core policy issues involved in a dispute and arrive at sensible results. Adjusting for differences in background law and institutions, it seems likely that the disputes would ultimately be resolved in more or less the same way in each system. This is unsurprising in a field such as corporate law, where market and institutional pressures demand practical solutions to practical problems.
On the other hand, the differences in style are inescapable. While Delaware corporate law judges openly identify gaps and resolve them by reference to policy, U.K. judges employ a traditional historical/doctrinal approach, working through precedent and, in doing so, developing principles to resolve the case at bar. These differences in style, it seems to me, are a legacy of the impact of American Legal Realism on legal education in the United States, in contrast to the more traditional approach dominant in the United Kingdom. Explicit policy analysis is far more acceptable and natural in the Delaware approach than in the United Kingdom, and this difference in legal culture has effects on how lawyers present cases.
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163 U. Pa. L. Rev 2019 (2015)
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Rock, Edward B., "Corporate Law Doctrine and the Legacy of American Legal Realism" (2015). Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law. 1577.
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Okay, forgive us, but we are on a serious *NSYNC binge after the much-hyped VMA performance. All the tween emotions we had back in the day just came flooding back in a rush — and, frankly, it's only a matter of time until we start posting roundups of our favorite finds from Limited Too! (exclamation theirs). While that's not much of a change given our ongoing adult crush on Justin Timberlake, it's definitely helped put Lance Bass back in the spotlight. Sure, he's gay and therefore probably even less likely to return our advances than he was in the '90s, but he's also adorable and we love him — which is why we're thrilled that he's engaged to his boyfriend Michael Turchin!
As you can clearly see from this Instagram, they are a happy and handsome young couple. Someday, they will follow through on Lance's plan to go to the moon and start their own happy family in a space colony. We wish them only the best on their interplanetary adventures.


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Our interviews w/ the guys from truTV's Impractical Jokers (well the 3 of them that attended SDCC 2013 – sorry Sal fans)! Check out the hilarity and mischief that ensues. James "Murr" Murray Brian "Q" Quinn Joe Gatto Read more →
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This Week's Radio Show – Huge San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Show Pt. 2!
This week on Geek World we continue our coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2013 with more interview clips. This time we've got great bites from the casts and makers of Grimm, Warehouse 13, Workaholics, Black Sails, and Justice League: the Flashpoint Paradox. And we even take a little time to review the upcoming episode of Impractical Jokers (which premieres Thursday… Read more →
This Week's Radio Show – Huge San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Show Pt. 1!
This week on Geek World we start off our coverage of San Diego Comic-Con with interview clips from cast and crew of some of the great TV shows that we had a chance to talk to this year. Tune in to hear about the CW's hit show Supernatural and their upcoming show The Hundred, laugh with the Impractical Jokers from… Read more →


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West Bend Cache Bash attracts geo-cachers
Posted: Jul 10, 2015 7:16 PM CDT | Updated: Aug 19, 2015 1:38 PM CDT
West Bend is filled with treasure and explorers are heading that way to find it.
It's all part of a fun free family activity called Geo-cache.
The Maulands know all about making memories.
They've been Geo-caching for years.
Simply put, Geocaching is a treasure hunt.
It's all about finding hidden objects using GPS coordinates on your phone through the Geo-caching app.
Once you find the cache. You sign the log book. Check out the surprises inside, and put it back for the next Geo-cacher.
Craig Farrell, Executive Director of the West Bend Chamber of Commerce wanted in on the cache.
Adventures seekers venture to what he call .the Geo-caching capitol of the Midwest.
There's even a free two day event dedicated to treasure hunting.
It's called the cache bache and there are cash prices.
It shouldn't surprise you Tami Maulands helps put the event together.
Cache Bash has been going on for the past 8 years
Geo-caching is free. You just have to download the app or go to their website.
The adventure can be as difficult as you make it.
Regardless of the level you choose to do, you do need to have a passion for exploring.
And a desire to make memories
The cache bash in west bend is scheduled for August 7-8.
And if you can't make it to that, they have caches hidden throughout the city year round.
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ARMO: Exchangeable Shoes by Rodrigo Alonso
Photos: Courtesy of Rodrigo Alonso.
A funny look but interesting idea: ARMO is a line of ready-to-assemble shoes meant to be transformed, customized, disassembled and flattened. Produced under fair trade practices by a group of people in need, they come inside an envelope, saving space in transportation and being extremely portable by users. A close-up in the extended.
The shoes are produced by people under a program called 'Inclusivo', an alliance between Un techo para Chile, designer Rodrigo Alonso and corporate brands, which helps communities in need get out of poverty. Says the designer:
"Inclusivo involves projects which generate work with low-cost production and minimum expertise, key factors for people who need to overcome poverty in the short term. This is the case for these shoes, designed specifically to be a product of easy production, low investment and a major contribution in terms of logistics and production, due to its extreme simplicity and potential for storage in minimum space, as well as being a product that can mutate with seasons and trends."
Apart from the social aspect, the issue of shoes being exchangeable can extend their lifespan and thus reduce waste and need for new products. However the cool idea, the look of the shoes is still in rough mode, and fabrics and materials could be greener.
We still give the idea credit since ARMO is a project by Rodrigo Alonso, a well known Chilean designer that's been working with green projects for several years. Some of the products we've featured before include a bench with recycled electronics and a lamp from the same material, trashcans and benches with recycled plastic, the blightster lamp and his bamboo shirts.
For more on the ARMO shoes, contact Alonso through his website.
More Responsible/Sustainable Footwear:
Oh So Cute Wool Felt Boots and Slippers from Oveja Llena
Patagonia Footwear Wraps Cold Toes in Recycled Fleece
TOMS Shoes Launches Collection Exclusive to Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman


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Doodle Cannon War:the shadow of the ghost by Infiworks
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May 22, 2010
Filed under App DB, Entertainment, Games
Doodle cannon war is a very interesting and challenging game.simple and easy to play .
In the game, you operate a cannon to attack the target. you should control the direction and the power very precisely.
You should make the bomb close to the target as soon as possible, when the bomb bang, the target will be destroyed, when you destroy all the targets, you success.
- More than 50 challenge levels.(Continue increasing …)
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doodle cannon war:the shadow of the ghost is 0.99 in the iTunes App Store
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Fair Sails Friday: Dreaming of Spring
The second edition of Fair Sails Friday finds me in love with florals and thinking of a warm spring day. Fair Sails is simply brimming with spring pinks and greens (and of course the rest of the rainbow too!) with new additions daily.
When you think of a spring wardrobe, what colors and patterns come to mind?
What is that one vintage item that you always wish you had come springtime?
I'm looking forward to filling the shop with your favorites!
This collection features some of my shop favorites:
The Rectangular Stratton Compact with Green Floral Design is time worn and has a great cottage chic look to it. Inside it still contains a little powder and the original applicator (which I am holding but did not use).
The brooch featured is actually an Antique Bridle Rosette that has been converted into a brooch. It is a heavy piece and would be wonderful worn on a jacket.
The Bright Pink Flower Clip Ons featured would add a fantastic pop of color to any wardrobe. After wearing them for the photographs, I can confirm that their clips are in excellent shape and sure to clip your earlobe and stay put!
The scarf featured is a very recent, and oh so lovely, addition to Fair Sails. This Vera Neumann Semi-Sheer Scarf with Pink Roses is long and rectangular, perfect for wearing many different ways.
And finally, the vintage ring featured is a Gold Washed Sterling Ring with Olive Green Stone.
To find out additional information about each item, such as price and measurements, please click the title links to view the listing in the shop.
Thank you so much to those that commented on last week's Fair Sails Friday and to those that took the time to visit the shop!
Don't forget, readers are eligible for a 10% discount on any purchase by using the coupon code below.
(P.S. We ship international, too! Just convo us via Etsy and we'll give you a shipping quote!)
I'll be back early next week with an outfit post from my personal collection.
Until then, wishing you sweet dreams of spring and, as always....
Happy Sailing


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Paul Voorhorst is the Vice President of Clinical Research at DePuy Synthes. He manages a team that develops and executes the global clinical strategy and management of the clinical studies portfolio.
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- Sobel Seminar Room
CFMAR Seminar by Moritz Voss (PSTAT VAP)
Title: Dynamic hedging in illiquid financial markets
We consider a variant of the limit order book model by Obizhaeva and Wang (2013) which allows for both selling and buying stock. Specifically, our price impact model determines bid- and ask-prices via a coupled system of controlled diffusions, allowing us to retain the possibility to specify market depth, tightness and resilience; the three dimensions of liquidity identified by Kyle (1985) which induce convex liquidity costs on trading strategies. We discuss the problem of utility-based hedging of contingent claims in this model. In the limit for high resilience, we argue how the hedging problem can be reduced to a considerably simpler linear quadratic optimal tracking problem of a frictionless target hedging strategy in an Almgren and Chriss (2001) type setup. We solve this problem explicitly for general predictable target strategies. It turns out that the optimal policy trades towards a weighted average of expected future target positions generalizing an insight from Gârleanu and Pedersen (2013) from their homogenous Markovian optimal investment problem to a general hedging problem. From a financial point of view, our results allow for an intuitively appealing interpretation and yield sensible hedging strategies in illiquid financial markets.
The talk is based on joint work with Peter Bank (TU Berlin) and H. Mete Soner (ETH Zurich).


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Celebrazione! Get together to celebrate successes, birthdays, anniversaries or any other special occasion. Gather at Hotel De Anza in a joyful atmosphere with wonderful food and drink catered by the masters at La Pastaia.
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Season 10 was a delightful one, great football, new stadium and another couple of trophies in the bag. In a slight change of stance, I decided I was at the stage where I didn't feel I had to sell players anymore. We were financially sound and unless it was an unrealistic amount, I didn't want to sell my main men. (more…)
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A Decade In Auxerre
Ten years, flippin' hell, I need to get out more and do some work! Never thought I'd make ten years if I'm honest. Still got mega save paranoia after what happened in FM16. I've not needed to call in the backups yet, but there are many! (more…)
Auxerre: Season 10
Season 9 was a big one in many ways for the club. It was our final season at Stade Abbé Deschamps and we had new owners looking after us. On the pitch, we were a bit shit at times and it lead to me changing tactics and style. (more…)
Season 9 Goal Drought!
Here we go, season 9. I'll admit, I've become a bit sluggish at writing just now. Not through lack of enjoyment, quite the opposite. I'm enjoying playing as Auxerre very much and the only gripe I've got is that I'm getting pissed off at my tactics not working as I expect they should. (more…)
Season 8!
It's been a wee while since my last update, but it's the festive season so FM has taken a bit of a back seat. I'm slowly getting back to having some play time though and it's time I filled you in with the news from my 8th season. (more…)
Auxerre: The Aftermath
Auxerre: Summer Arrivals
Well, with all of those players buggering off to play for bigger clubs, Lo Celso aside, I had a big job on my hands to try and replace them with capable replacements. We obviously had a huge transfer budget now, but I wanted to keep things sensible. (more…)


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What is POS Malware?
POS (Point of Sale Malware) is a memory scraping malware that targets retail stores with an intention to steal customer's financial data (most likely credit card data) in retail checkout systems.
They are usually embedded deep in the system, such as in places that antivirus software cannot find them or do not know what to do with them. Cybercriminals are known to unleash stealthy POS attacks to steal customer data from retail store fronts in order to sell the stolen consumer data, rather than using it directly for their benefit. Reduce the risk of being vulnerable to malware with SecureBox Containerization technology.
Malware Attacks on POS Systems
BlackPOS, Backoff, FrameworkPOS, BernhardPOS and more recently Multigrain are some of the notorious POS malware that have terrorized small and medium size businesses by stealing consumer data.
Many IT departments are now calling these malware as a process scanner because it looks at all the active processes on the computer and tries to steal the information. It can also be considered as a memory scraper because it prowls through all the processes and data on the RAM and "scrapes" out anything that it thinks may be useful, such as credit card information.
How Point-of-Sale malware works
Point of Sale malware scans the memory for card data in a point-of-sale network. Once the malware gets the information, it sends it to a C&C server, where the criminals can look through it, sift through and obtain the credit card information they need. They, then sell this information in Top Dark Web Markets where other criminals use this for fraudulent purchases. Ideally, a POS station and other environments that handle sensitive data monitor, regulate or even block HTTP or FTP web traffic which, in an otherwise context, exfiltrate the data being processed.
But because target organizations don't usually filter DNS traffic, the data exfiltration by this type of malware such as Multigrain goes unchecked.
How to detect POS malware
Finding this malware can be difficult, and you may not even realize you're infected. However, IT departments may be able to notice the warning signs first, as it will show up as codes when open processes fail and the scan processes don't work.
The problem is that you can't see the malware until it wants to be seen, which is usually never. It can spread to other areas of the system and other systems.
SecureBox detects the point of sale malware that infects POS systems with the help of containerization technology. Containerization works with the principle of Default Deny Strategy where it aims to keep the malware off the computer by performing the financial transactions in a virtual container. It wraps the sensitive applications in a container where suspicious files are denied access so that the data in the applications remain secure. To prevent Point-of-Sale malware infection, you can:
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- Keep everything up to date, especially Point of Sale Security features
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Comodo SecureBox Containment Technology provides the solution to detect and thwart malware attacks even when your system is infected with POS malware.
There have been constant improvements in POS security software to detect and thwart malware attacks in the recent past. However, despite their best efforts to combat the growing malware threats, there are obvious vulnerabilities in the POS security technology that allows POS attacks to impair its smooth operations.
Some of the ways through which POS operators can mitigate the damage from point of sale malware is by abiding to the PCI DSS regulations, performing routine penetration testing and vulnerability scanning, adopting EMV technology, implementing two-factor authentication for remote devices, and embracing widespread data and hardware encryption to safeguard transactional information. Contact US today to secure your system from POS malware and to learn more about POS security.
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(Note: this is the second of five blogs that I will publish over the next few days on why I think that Matt Brown is the best choice for mayor on October 27th)
Two and a half years ago the single most important public engagement initiative for the next 20 years was launched. To much fanfare the City of London loudly proclaimed: tell us what you want the future of London to look like, we're listening. And boy did the citizens of London speak up. In one of the largest (and cheapest) civic exercises of its kind in Canada over ten thousand people spoke up. City planning staff engaged citizens at City organized events, at citizen organized events, at festivals, at workplaces, at Pints & Politics, on the web, on the phone, over email and on social media.
It was truly inspiring and wrote a new chapter in the citizen engagement playbook in our city.
After a year of crunching all that input, looking at best practices around the world and talking to world renowned planners we now have a draft plan called The London Plan.
Matt Brown is the only candidate standing up for that plan. Is it a perfect plan? No. Past City Councillor Sandy Levin has pointed out a few areas of the plan that require changes, clarification and fine tuning. This plan represents the vision of thousands of Londoners who invested tens of thousands of hours in the plan and this alone demands that the plan be treated with respect.
One of the candidates has gone so far as to call The London Plan "a very painful fantasy". I can scarcely imagine a more disrespectful thing to say to those who invested their time and energy at night and on weekends into this document. I was there in the room with these people many times and can tell you that the vast majority of the feedback was realistic and attainable (and being done TODAY in cities across North America and around the world).
It has been said that "Politics is the art of the possible", well I can tell you that nothing in The London Plan is impossible. Is it ambitious? Hell yes and so it should be. If we want to move forward as a city then we have to aim high and figure innovative ways to get there.
Some will say "We have so many other issues that we have to deal with first" and to that I say we manage to do hundreds of things as a city simultaneously today and building our future should be in the mix. Treading water isn't ever a viable option.
Matt is the only one talking about moving forward. The other guys are running on a platform of treading water (and, in one case, on doubling down on the bad infrastructure that is keeping us here).
The city has listened to the citizens, the city has a draft plan, let's finish it and let's get working.
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Members of St. Mark's contribute to the life and work of the church in many different ways. Whilst the information below relates to financial giving, other pages on this site explain the variety of ways you can get involved in the life of the church.
You can give to the work of St. Mark's
- By setting up a direct debit with your bank using the Church in Wales "Gift Direct" scheme. Forms are available in the wall mounted pockets in the lobby (do ask if you can't find them) or you can download them here. This scheme includes tax recovery through Gift Aid if you are a tax payer.
- An offering plate is available near the door at all Sunday services. Offerings are not collected during services.
- Packs of dated envelopes are available to enable you to give regularly and confidentially. Please ask the church Treasurer for a set if you want to give regularly in the offering plate. If your offering is given this way and you sign a Gift Aid declaration we can reclaim tax on your gifts. The form is available in the wall mounted pockets in the lobby.
- If you would like to send us a cheque or a charity giving voucher, please address it to the Treasurer at the Parish Office and make it payable to St. Mark's Gabalfa Parochial Church Council. St Mark's is registered with CAF and Stewardship Services for on-line donations. Its Charity Number is 1131555.
- For occasional visitors making one-off gifts, gift aid declaration envelopes are available on the table in the lobby and by the offering bowl.
- You may also like to consider making a donation to St. Mark's in your will. Please ask your solicitor when you make or change your will, or ask us for more information.
Tax Efficient Giving
If you pay UK tax (Income or Capital Gains Tax) and would like us to be able to claim back the basic rate tax, you will need to fill in, sign and return to us an ongoing Gift Aid Declaration. The benefit to St. Mark's is that it can recover the basic rate of income tax, currently 25p for each pound given. If you pay higher rate tax, you may recover the extra tax through your own tax return.
If you have any questions on these or other ways of giving, please contact the Treasurer, via the Parish Office.
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With your choice of hash browns, home fries, roasted potates, grits, or tomato slices. Want more? Get your choice of english muffin, biscuits and gravy, or toast.
Delicious Entrees
Sirloin Steak? Catfish? Grilled Chicken Breast? All our entrees come with two sides and bread.
Are you a vegeterian? try our Veggie Plate or our Veggie Omelette.
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On Saturday, January 20th, BFF returned to Sundance Film Festival, in partnership with Google, to host a panel discussion at the DIRECTV Lodge Presented by AT&T.
Participants included Colman Domingo (Fear of the Walking Dead), Jay Ellis (Insecure), Janina Gavankar (Blindspotting) and Anika Noni Rose (The Quad.) The conversation was moderated by Variety's Elizabeth Wagmeister.
The powerful discussion covered the importance of diversity and inclusion in media, especially the need for more female and diverse characters on-screen – and how that influences our society off-screen – because If They Can See It, They Can Be It. Said Rose, "If our money is paying for a ticket, we deserve to be able to see ourselves in the film." Added Gavankar, it's time to "tell the stories you wish were told to you."
Thank you to our sponsors Google, DirecTV and EcoTools and our partners the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge.