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Tonight I've spent some time and edited the HTML to make it a little more readable.
Old URLs should still work but this one is the main one now:

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APE's Blackboard is the premier destination for surveying, engineering and construction professionals seeking continuing education and trade-specific resources. Surveyors, architects, engineers, builders, contractors, interior finishing, and other professionals seeking to stay up-to-date with the latest advances in their industries rely on the APE Blackboard for the resources they need to maintain their professional expertise. In addition to the latest trends, the Blackboard also offers product showcases, instruction manuals, buying guides, how-to guides, and other essential resources.
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In our experience, when customers purchase a new Spectra Precision data collector, they quickly realize that Spectra Precision SurveyPro is on their new device instead of what they are used to – TDS SurveyPro. When this happens, we always get the same question: "I need a .JOB or .RAW data file to use in the office software that I have been using with my TDS data collector for years. But now the files in Spectra Precision SurveyPro are .SURVEY files. What do I do?" Continue reading
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If you're using a Leica TPS1200 or TS12 robotic total station, making sure it communicates with your controller might require a bit of setup. Fortunately, it's easy to do with a few simple steps. Continue reading
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Every year, DTU hosts the international student conference and competition Green Challenge. The conference is DTU's response to the global climate and sustainability changes. DTU believes that engineers play a pivotal role in the sustainable development of our society. It is important to give engineering students skills to contribute to the development of technological solutions that respond to the global challenges. Green Challenge is an opportunity for students to showcase the green and sustainable projects they have been working on as part of their education.
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WOLF is the Hupac platform to manage all phases of combined transport, from booking to collection, from tracking & tracing to info on any hiccups along the way. WOLF can be accessed on any device (PC, smartphone and tablets) and using any browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.).
WOLF, acronym of Web Oriented Logistics Framework, is the portal that gathers all the data and applications our customers need to manage their shipments in a simple and fast way. There are also many functions for our partners (terminals, railway undertakings and wagon workshops) letting them manage traffic flows more easily.
With WOLF it is possible to:
> specify who, within their own organisation, shall access the various functions > book shipments > create standard forms for routine bookings > access tracking & tracing tools > view shipments at the terminal > specify the driver authorised to collect a shipment from the Terminal Busto Arsizio-Gallarate > view shipment statistics
> print bookings
> access to the Hupac contacts address book
> load diagrams for each wagon types.
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NOTE This page is obsolete; please see TestSuite for the current FreeBSD project test effort.
This wiki page will (or link to sections that) describe the following items:
- The goals of testing and test infrastructures and how it relates to FreeBSD.
- Note how testing has been traditionally done in FreeBSD.
- Note the problems faced as a developer or tester when writing new testcases, and the problems faced as a release engineer or tester when executing existing testcases.
Then the wiki page will proceed to note:
- The work taking place to bring ATF to FreeBSD
- Why you as a developer/tester should use ATF.
- Some of the non-ATF items that will be available after the work.
- Known Issues with ATF/non-ATF components added.
The wiki page will finally provide some examples on how to use ATF and how to invoke the new test hooks when testing FreeBSD.
Goals of Testing and Test Infrastructure Comparison
More information about this effort can be found here.
Status of Work
More information about the effort of porting testcases over to ATF, integrating testcases into the build and install, etc can be found here.
More details on how to write example testcases can be found here.
The layout of test code within the tree was agreed to be as follows:
Hard requirements:
- All test directories must contain a Makefile which .includes the appropriate *.test.mk (atf.test.mk, prove.test.mk, etc) make snippet.
- Ideally, tests should be localized next to features as much as possible, e.g. $SRCTOP/lib/libc/tests should be where the testcases for libc should live.
- Testcases for third-party components like atf should exist under tests/ e.g. $SRCTOP/tests/contrib/atf/ .
- Testcases for kernel components should go under a logical directory/functional group, e.g. pjdfstest should go under $SRCTOP/tests/sys/pjdfstest/ .
Known Issues
In part, because of how ATF is designed and the Kyua project has evolved, it's not the end-all-be-all tool for executing testcases when compared with several other options; it is however an evolving infrastructure that combined with Kyua will serve to become a solid basis for testing on FreeBSD (and hopefully in related projects).
Some known caveats with ATF are as follows:
- In general:
- cleanup fixture support only exists per testcase. I'm working on adding global setup and cleanup as well as per-testcase setup fixtures for compatibility with libcheck and other frameworks to atf-c, atf-c++, and atf-sh.
- There doesn't seem to be a clean way to pass in arguments to testcases on the command line, e.g. tweak the execution to run this test as opposed to this test via getopt(3) [but I could have missed this feature somehow].
- atf-c:
- atf-c++:
- The ATF_REQUIRE* macros don't have ATF_CHECK* analogs like in the atf-c API (inconsistency).
- Exception test support is limited; in particular the exception types must be classes as opposed to base types (ints, floats, etc).
- atf-sh:
- atf-sh does not work with functions; you must provide it externally visible commands to evaluate.
- atf-run:
- If in the event that a test program is missing, not installed, or outputs something via standard out that's unexpected, it will confuse atf-report.
Empty/malformed/missing Atffiles result in confusing output, like atf-run: ERROR: Cannot open Atffile. This wouldn't be so bad if it noted which Atffile caused the issue, and where in the Atffile the error occurred.
General infrastructure
- atf.test.mk / bsd.test.mk:
- You can't have testcases that live in non-leaf subdirectories, e.g. if I had a directory structure a/b/c/, you cannot have a test d that lives under a/b/, etc. This is probably an issue with bsd.progs.mk or missing features from bsd.subdir.mk; more investigation is required.
More Info
The freebsd-testing mailing list is where interested parties can get in touch to obtain more information about testing on FreeBSD, including topics like testing with ATF, using the test infrastructure in FreeBSD, collaborating with other developers in order to get test code committed to FreeBSD, some basic testing best practices, other test-related topics, etc.
Corporate Sponsorship
- Google -- sponsored Giorgos's work.
- EMC/Isilon -- sponsored my work.
- Juniper -- sponsored Marcel and Simon's work.
Individual Contributions
- Julio Merino -- for developing ATF and Kyua, and for working with both Giorgos and myself to help port ATF to FreeBSD.
- Giorgos Keramidas -- for the initial porting work and for working with me to complete the first major hurdles of porting ATF to FreeBSD.
- Marcel and Simon -- provided much appreciated review, code ushering, and brainstorming with the build infrastructure pieces.


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Local author's book urges readers to "choose love."
Let us speak plainly. Either we have forgotten or never under stood our place on this planet. For all our posturing and bravado, we are an immature species, indescribably new to the cosmic nature of things. And it shows.
As I write this, my five-year-old daughter examines a fat caterpillar on the steps of our front porch. With autumn's breeze blowing sandy curls across her spellbound face, she watches a hundred tiny feet exploring the contours of her hand. All at once, I am filled with overwhelming joy – and unsettling fear of what may cross her path. A father's love for his daughter is an awe-inspiring thing. However misguided, it drives us to summon survival instincts dormant and long forgotten. When I consider what fathers face every day around the world to protect their children from harm, I am utterly disheartened.
We are endlessly bombarded by news of fear, hate, despair, greed, pain, and terror. In spite of how overwhelming the troubles of the world may seem, we must understand that what we do matters – and we must choose love. It is the only thing that will give our children a chance at a better future.
The alternative is a world at war over scarce resources and a perpetual clash between those with power and those without. To watch the evening news, we have already chosen that future. As the global consciousness shifts towards equality and sustainability, there are those who would bully the masses into submission in exchange for power and influence.
But, collectively, we must choose love.
As the world population balloons toward nine billion people over the next three decades, we must choose the virtues of kindness, compassion and generosity over the dangers of fear, hate and greed. What we do matters, and the ripple effect of our intention has the power to lift us up or tear us apart.
Love starts with an intention to honor the inherent goodness in others. For us to survive the relentless onslaught of fear and hate-mongering, I believe that love must be humanity's next great revolution.
I am no one special; I am just one man. My sole purpose in life is to protect my child from harm and guide her in a direction of health and happiness. To succeed, I must walk my talk with heart and integrity. Almost five years ago, I took a leap of faith and started my own consulting firm – helping others to simplify, so they can focus on what matters most, and that is: who we love, what we do, how, and why we live…because everything else is just stuff. Primarily working with households and businesses as a professional organizer, I discovered that so much of who we are revolves around what we have. It turns out, those things have become toxic distractions from what matters most.
This year I published my first book, written to help inspire American families to become more aware of their stuff. ClutterFree Revolution: Simplify Your Stuff, Organize Your Life & Save the World is not about tidying up. It's a tough-love practical guide for becoming conscious consumers committed to understanding the global impact we have when we shop. It asks us to become more intentional about what we buy, why we buy, where we buy, and from whom. Not only does it encourage a renewed commitment to environmental sustainability, human rights and the opportunity to reuse items through second-hand economies – it inspires and instructs, specifically, how to simplify and get organized at home, so that we are more prepared to help solve the world's problems.
One in five American children live in poverty. Twenty-two United States veterans commit suicide every day. One in five undergraduate girls on American college campuses will be the victim of sexual assault. The United States has only five percent of the world's population, but over 25 percent of the world's prisoners. On average, 31 Americans are murdered with guns every day. More than two million children have fled war-torn Syria, among the 11 million others representing the single largest refugee crisis since World War II.
Choose a cause and do something – anything to contribute to the global solution.
We must re-prioritize what matters most – and that starts at home. We must teach tolerance, empathy, compassion, generosity, and collaboration if we are to survive a shrinking planet with more people in it.
In the end, only love will win the day.


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Joshua 18-21 New International Version (NIV)
Division of the Rest of the Land
18 The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The country was brought under their control, 2 but there were still seven Israelite tribes who had not yet received their inheritance.
3 So Joshua said to the Israelites: "How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you? 4 Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them out to make a survey of the land and to write a description of it, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me. 5 You are to divide the land into seven parts. Judah is to remain in its territory on the south and the tribes of Joseph in their territory on the north. 6 After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots for you in the presence of the Lord our God. 7 The Levites, however, do not get a portion among you, because the priestly service of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the Lord gave it to them."
8 As the men started on their way to map out the land, Joshua instructed them, "Go and make a survey of the land and write a description of it. Then return to me, and I will cast lots for you here at Shiloh in the presence of the Lord." 9 So the men left and went through the land. They wrote its description on a scroll, town by town, in seven parts, and returned to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh. 10 Joshua then cast lots for them in Shiloh in the presence of the Lord, and there he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their tribal divisions.
Allotment for Benjamin
11 The first lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin according to its clans. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:
12 On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan, passed the northern slope of Jericho and headed west into the hill country, coming out at the wilderness of Beth Aven. 13 From there it crossed to the south slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth Addar on the hill south of Lower Beth Horon.
14 From the hill facing Beth Horon on the south the boundary turned south along the western side and came out at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a town of the people of Judah. This was the western side.
15 The southern side began at the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim on the west, and the boundary came out at the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. 16 The boundary went down to the foot of the hill facing the Valley of Ben Hinnom, north of the Valley of Rephaim. It continued down the Hinnom Valley along the southern slope of the Jebusite city and so to En Rogel. 17 It then curved north, went to En Shemesh, continued to Geliloth, which faces the Pass of Adummim, and ran down to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben. 18 It continued to the northern slope of Beth Arabah[a] and on down into the Arabah. 19 It then went to the northern slope of Beth Hoglah and came out at the northern bay of the Dead Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan in the south. This was the southern boundary.
20 The Jordan formed the boundary on the eastern side.
These were the boundaries that marked out the inheritance of the clans of Benjamin on all sides.
21 The tribe of Benjamin, according to its clans, had the following towns:
Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz, 22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, 23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, 24 Kephar Ammoni, Ophni and Geba—twelve towns and their villages.
25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, 26 Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah, 27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, 28 Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath—fourteen towns and their villages.
This was the inheritance of Benjamin for its clans.
Allotment for Simeon
19 The second lot came out for the tribe of Simeon according to its clans. Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah. 2 It included:
Beersheba (or Sheba),[b] Moladah, 3 Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, 4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, 5 Ziklag, Beth Markaboth, Hazar Susah, 6 Beth Lebaoth and Sharuhen—thirteen towns and their villages;
7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether and Ashan—four towns and their villages— 8 and all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath Beer (Ramah in the Negev).
This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Simeonites, according to its clans. 9 The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the share of Judah, because Judah's portion was more than they needed. So the Simeonites received their inheritance within the territory of Judah.
Allotment for Zebulun
10 The third lot came up for Zebulun according to its clans:
The boundary of their inheritance went as far as Sarid. 11 Going west it ran to Maralah, touched Dabbesheth, and extended to the ravine near Jokneam. 12 It turned east from Sarid toward the sunrise to the territory of Kisloth Tabor and went on to Daberath and up to Japhia. 13 Then it continued eastward to Gath Hepher and Eth Kazin; it came out at Rimmon and turned toward Neah. 14 There the boundary went around on the north to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah El. 15 Included were Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah and Bethlehem. There were twelve towns and their villages.
16 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of Zebulun, according to its clans.
Allotment for Issachar
17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar according to its clans. 18 Their territory included:
Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem, 19 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, 20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, 21 Remeth, En Gannim, En Haddah and Beth Pazzez. 22 The boundary touched Tabor, Shahazumah and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen towns and their villages.
23 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar, according to its clans.
Allotment for Asher
24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its clans. 25 Their territory included:
Helkath, Hali, Beten, Akshaph, 26 Allammelek, Amad and Mishal. On the west the boundary touched Carmel and Shihor Libnath. 27 It then turned east toward Beth Dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El, and went north to Beth Emek and Neiel, passing Kabul on the left. 28 It went to Abdon,[c] Rehob, Hammon and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon. 29 The boundary then turned back toward Ramah and went to the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah and came out at the Mediterranean Sea in the region of Akzib, 30 Ummah, Aphek and Rehob. There were twenty-two towns and their villages.
31 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Asher, according to its clans.
Allotment for Naphtali
32 The sixth lot came out for Naphtali according to its clans:
33 Their boundary went from Heleph and the large tree in Zaanannim, passing Adami Nekeb and Jabneel to Lakkum and ending at the Jordan. 34 The boundary ran west through Aznoth Tabor and came out at Hukkok. It touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west and the Jordan[d] on the east. 35 The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth, 36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, 37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, 38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath and Beth Shemesh. There were nineteen towns and their villages.
39 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali, according to its clans.
Allotment for Dan
40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan according to its clans. 41 The territory of their inheritance included:
Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh, 42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, 43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron, 44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, 45 Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, 46 Me Jarkon and Rakkon, with the area facing Joppa.
47 (When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)
48 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to its clans.
Allotment for Joshua
49 When they had finished dividing the land into its allotted portions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them, 50 as the Lord had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for—Timnath Serah[e] in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.
51 These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.
Cities of Refuge
20 Then the Lord said to Joshua: 2 "Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, 3 so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood. 4 When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to live among them. 5 If the avenger of blood comes in pursuit, the elders must not surrender the fugitive, because the fugitive killed their neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought. 6 They are to stay in that city until they have stood trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then they may go back to their own home in the town from which they fled."
7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. 8 East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh. 9 Any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
Towns for the Levites
21 Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel 2 at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, "The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock." 3 So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:
4 The first lot came out for the Kohathites, according to their clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin. 5 The rest of Kohath's descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan and half of Manasseh.
6 The descendants of Gershon were allotted thirteen towns from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
7 The descendants of Merari, according to their clans, received twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun.
8 So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
9 From the tribes of Judah and Simeon they allotted the following towns by name 10 (these towns were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them):
11 They gave them Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pastureland, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.) 12 But the fields and villages around the city they had given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
13 So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Libnah, 14 Jattir, Eshtemoa, 15 Holon, Debir, 16 Ain, Juttah and Beth Shemesh, together with their pasturelands—nine towns from these two tribes.
17 And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba, 18 Anathoth and Almon, together with their pasturelands—four towns.
19 The total number of towns for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.
20 The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted towns from the tribe of Ephraim:
21 In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Gezer, 22 Kibzaim and Beth Horon, together with their pasturelands—four towns.
23 Also from the tribe of Dan they received Eltekeh, Gibbethon, 24 Aijalon and Gath Rimmon, together with their pasturelands—four towns.
25 From half the tribe of Manasseh they received Taanach and Gath Rimmon, together with their pasturelands—two towns.
26 All these ten towns and their pasturelands were given to the rest of the Kohathite clans.
27 The Levite clans of the Gershonites were given:
from the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Be Eshterah, together with their pasturelands—two towns;
28 from the tribe of Issachar,
Kishion, Daberath, 29 Jarmuth and En Gannim, together with their pasturelands—four towns;
30 from the tribe of Asher,
Mishal, Abdon, 31 Helkath and Rehob, together with their pasturelands—four towns;
32 from the tribe of Naphtali,
Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Hammoth Dor and Kartan, together with their pasturelands—three towns.
33 The total number of towns of the Gershonite clans came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.
34 The Merarite clans (the rest of the Levites) were given:
from the tribe of Zebulun,
Jokneam, Kartah, 35 Dimnah and Nahalal, together with their pasturelands—four towns;
36 from the tribe of Reuben,
Bezer, Jahaz, 37 Kedemoth and Mephaath, together with their pasturelands—four towns;
38 from the tribe of Gad,
Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Mahanaim, 39 Heshbon and Jazer, together with their pasturelands—four towns in all.
40 The total number of towns allotted to the Merarite clans, who were the rest of the Levites, came to twelve.
41 The towns of the Levites in the territory held by the Israelites were forty-eight in all, together with their pasturelands. 42 Each of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it; this was true for all these towns.
43 So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there. 44 The Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hands. 45 Not one of all the Lord's good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.
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Air Products and Chemicals, Inc, is a $10 billion provider of industrial chemicals and gases serving customers around the world in technology, energy, healthcare, and industrial markets. In fact, the company has worked with NASA for 50 years and has supplied the liquid hydrogen used for every Space Shuttle launch and the Mercury and Apollo missions.
After building an initial U.S. site on the Sitecore Experience Platform, Air Products needed to find the right partner to help take their digital channel global. The company chose Connective DX to develop a global architecture and rollout plan to bring 29 country websites into a unified content platform and mobile-friendly, responsive experience. This multi-year project brought together diverse local country stakeholders and integrated Sitecore, Clay Tablet, and SDL technologies.
We managed the entire project, including technology architecture and build, content translation, and language review management, helping to organize Air Products teams globally.
Connective DX was a great partner and an integral part of the project. I've been so impressed by everyone in all functions at Connective DX; they rounded out our digital capabilities and seemed a part of our internal team.
Steve CameronManager of Communications, Technologies, and Services
Assessment & implementation roadmap
The engagement began analyzing Air Products' existing U.S. Sitecore implementation and development of the overall requirements for a global rollout. During this eight-week project, we performed a comprehensive assessment of the existing platform and developed a two-year implementation roadmap for the rollout. The roadmap included separate tracks for the core architecture and development, global content strategy, and localization efforts necessary for a successful global implementation. The audit proved critical in assessing which aspects of the initial technology investment should be leveraged and what needed improvement to support the global requirements.
Global Sitecore architecture
The global rollout included a new Sitecore architecture to centralize the 29 local country websites translated across 22 languages. This included building upon the existing U.S. site architecture and extending it to support the global content strategy. It also included a mobile-friendly, responsive framework that could scale across all of the global sites.
The site architecture features a highly flexible product catalog, which can dynamically pull in related content, events and people. Key sections of the site were expanded to include a resource center, which organizes valuable content such as whitepapers and events into a single view.
Streamlining the translation process with Clay Tablet & Sitecore
The project included integrating Clay Tablet's translation management software into Sitecore to help Air Products remove tedious manual export processes and scale the translation process across the 22 languages. Because this was one of the largest Sitecore and Clay Tablet integrations done to date, our development team worked closely with Clay Tablet to meet Air Products' unique requirements.
Thousands of pages of content needed to be exported as well as broken down so that the information could be translated and reviewed for accuracy. "One of the highlights of this initiative for me was working with Connective DX to develop the export process, which was pretty complex," says Cameron. "We figured a way with our organizational structure and Connective's technological expertise to export and get information into the right hands for review."
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Embellish however your heart desires. I just tied on some cute ribbon and added a muslin rosette and called it a day!
Sep 23, 2011
My Version of the TinCan Pencil Holder
Embellish however your heart desires. I just tied on some cute ribbon and added a muslin rosette and called it a day!
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This is the prettiest of these I've ever seen! Love it!ReplyDelete
Very pretty. love it.ReplyDelete
Works good...how cute.Sweetie I have a time leaving a comment on your blog. I have to go and sign in again each time...I posted on this.. others may be having this trouble as well. TrishReplyDelete
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Cute pencil holder. I made one of those when I was a kid at camp many moons ago!! We wrapped baler twine around a tin can and then painted them orange! WendyReplyDelete
Too cute! I think this would make great presents for teachers as well. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
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Love this pencil holder; I want to make one for my desk.
Smiles, Paula
You have a very creative mind. This is a wonderful idea! I just love it.ReplyDelete
Beautiful and it will make you smile every time you see it on your desk! Thank you for linking to Wicked Awesome Wednesday!ReplyDelete
I love this!! Great job :)ReplyDelete
Cute - and the ribbon trick is smart! Popping over from Crafty, Scrappy, Happy :)ReplyDelete
lovely! i love tin can makeovers... its usually such an unappreciated craft resource!ReplyDelete
I love your version, Cynthia! The burlap really disguises that it's a tin can. Great upcycle!ReplyDelete
great idea...making one today...going back to look some more...and follow...come on over for a visit...and follow too if you'd like..lots planned.!!!!...MariaelenaReplyDelete
This is really cute...gonna start saving my tin cans...thanks.ReplyDelete
Would love it if you would link this up to our Rockin' link party going on now at RoCa and Company. Here is the link: http://rocaandcompany.blogspot.com/2011/09/you-rock-3.html . Come and show off what you got. Hope to see you there...
Remember...YOU ROCK!!
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so cute, so simple and just wonderful! Thank you for the inspiration! :o) I have jars and cans all over my house that could use some up-cycling!ReplyDelete
Jaime from crafty scrappy happy
very cute pencil holder! You know I love a good repurpose!ReplyDelete
Love how it turned out! Thanks so much for linking up with us at Show & Share! Hope you're joining us again this week!ReplyDelete
This is so simple and cute. One of those perfect projects that doesn't take days or cost tons of money, but still is an amazing transformation! You did a great job.ReplyDelete


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This year Beekmans rvs will be excibiting at the Seatec in Carrara Italy. Together with other leading companies in the yacht building industry and their representative NavalTecnica, Beekmans rvs will be in Pavilion E, stand 33-34.
At the Seatec Beekmans rvs will show the new ambient windshield and the side arm retractable awning.
Sales manager Mike Gilsing will be there to answer all your questions about the new products and stainless steel outfitting.


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YOU COULD BE OWED £1,000s IN PPI COMPENSATION ON YOUR NUBA CREDIT CARD ACCOUNT
People who use credit cards can find themselves in situations where they cannot repay what is owed, so end up in debt. For this reason customers would want something like payment protection insurance (PPI) to protect their repayments.
The PPI would be payable as a monthly fee on top of the charges the customers pays each month.
PPI can be a useful product if sold in the righ way, however, lenders took advantage of the situation and mis-sold the policy purely for boosting their profits.
Nuba Credit Card Accounts & PPI
If you were one of the approximately 10 million people who took out a credit card with PPI between 1988 and 2011, you need to check if you were mis-sold the PPI.
Customers who signed up to a credit card with Nuba also had PPI available to them but if the PPI was mis-sold, then compensation may be due.
However, there is a deadline from the Financial Conduct Authority of 29 August 2019. If you have a mis-selling claim with Nuba about how PPI was sold to you, it must be received by Nuba on or by 29 August 2019.
Nuba credit cards were sold as a convenient line of credit for customers who could not or did not want to pay in full in one transaction.
Generally, many retailers made a profit on shoppers who failed to pay off the balance on the card each month, when outstanding balances would attract interest charges.
Grounds on Which Credit Card PPI May Have Been Mis-Sold By Nuba
Many people took out PPI cover with their credit cards believing it boosted their likelihood of being accepted, or that the policy was a necessity. There are a number of ways in which PPI may have been mis-sold.
Read the questions below, if your answer to any of them is 'No', you may have been mis-sold PPI by Nuba
- Were you aware Nuba sales staff had included PPI with the credit card?
- Did Nuba advise you not to take out PPI because you were unemployed, retired or a student at the time?
- Were any enquiries made by Nuba to establish if your employer provides full sick pay?
- Did Nuba establish if you already had PPI insurance or the equivalent in place?
- Was it explained to you by Nuba sales staff that the PPI was an optional extra and that it had no bearing on your chances of getting a credit card?
- Was everything involved with the PPI explained properly to you by Nuba,for example did you receive a full cost breakdown?
- Were the PPI policy exclusions explained to you by Nuba?
What do I need to start a PPI claim with Nuba?
Start by finding your paperwork from Nuba with evidence of mis-sold PPI. You will need this to make a claim. If you no longer have the paperwork, don't worry, at PPIClaims.com we can find out if you bought PPI on any previous products or accounts.
If you notice that your account had PPI attached to it, think back to when it was sold to you. Can you remember:
- When or why you agreed to it?
- If you were informed that it would be added?
If you can't remember please don't worry, we can check if you had PPI with Nuba for free.
How to start your PPI Claim with Nuba?
To get your PPI claim underway we'd like to discuss the details of your case with you, so your complaint can be lodged with the Nuba on your behalf as quickly as possible.
- In order to start your PPI claim we first need to establish if you had PPI on your Nuba credit card. To start your Free PPI check on Nuba Credit Card complete our online form with your contact details.
What If my PPI Claim Has Already Been Rejected by Nuba?
If you have raised a previous PPI complaint with Nuba which was not upheld, you are now be entitled to raise a further complaint relating only to the commission charged under the Plevin ruling on your PPI policy, please complete our online PPI High Commission refund form.


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At RE/MAX, we believe that serving the communities in which we live and work allows us to not only contribute to the well-being of our society but to also be concerned about the outcome of that contribution. This dedication we call Premiere Community Citizenship. Our commitment as the exclusive real estate corporate sponsor for the Children's Miracle Network allows us the opportunity to expand the universal cause of caring for sick children.
The RE/MAX - Children's Miracle Network affiliation began in 1986 when RE/MAX affiliates in Calgary, Alberta and the Quebec Region started raising funds for this worthy cause. In 1992, RE/MAX International adopted the Children's Miracle Network as its official corporate charity. Raising funds for hospitalized children, to date RE/MAX professionals have collectively contributed over $76 million to the cause.
In Canada, RE/MAX continues to be a strong corporate contributor to the Children's Miracle Network - $3.5 million in 2006. With funds contributed by national sponsors like RE/MAX, the affiliated hospitals are able to provide needed medical care and equipment for more than two million Canadian children every year.
RE/MAX of Western Canada affiliates raise funds through community involvement such as the annual Children's Miracle Network broadcast, pancake breakfasts, golf tournaments, ride-a-thons, walk-a-thons and a myriad of other events. But the cornerstone of our involvement is the Miracle Home® Program whereby the sales associate pledges a contribution derived from each transaction involving a RE/MAX Miracle Home®. 100% of their contribution helps sick children from their community.
RE/MAX chose the Children's Miracle Network as its international charity because ...
• The Mission Statement of the Children's Miracle Network, an international non-profit organization, is to "Generate funds and awareness programs for the benefit of children served by its associated hospitals". An outstanding cause!
• RE/MAX lists and sells homes with the very families whose children have been served, or may one day be served, by a Children's Miracle Network hospital. One out of ten children will be treated at a Children's Miracle Network hospital by the age of 18.
• RE/MAX stands for quality service and for caring about the communities where its Associates live and work. RE/MAX makes the world a better place to live through Premiere Community Citizenship.
As for us, we make a donation to the Children's Miracle Network in your name with every completed transaction. It's just one of the ways we like to give back.


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"The UMBC Pete Caringi Soccer Show" returns to the airwaves this Wednesday, Sept. 28 and will run throughout the regular season. The show will air on Q1370 and www.q1370.com with host Paul Mittermeier talking to Retriever Head Coach Pete Caringi Jr. from 7:00-8:00 p.m. on Thursday's each week. This week's show will take place Wednesday due to the team traveling to New Hampshire on Thursday for their match on Friday.
Various guests, alumni, and Retriever men's soccer players will join Paul and coach Caringi in studio, as the Retrievers make their push toward another America East title.
Fans are encouraged to call in and be a part of the show by calling the live studio line at 410-481-1370.
The program airs on the home of the Retrievers, Q1370 AM, the station's new frequency at 99.9 FM and streams live from 7:00-8:00 p.m. on www.q1370.com. And now, fans can listen to the show anytime via the station's website or mobile site – just go to "Retriever Rewind."


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"I think it's the creamy smooth white expanse that fills every single
page. The silky feel of the paper when you brush your fingertips, just
the tips, across it. The sensual glide of the pen across the page that
makes everything you write seem special, even important. The smooth
sound, barely audible but definitely there, that is heard when you move
the pen slowly across the page in nice, even lines. The very smell of
the Moleskine that excites the senses. I need to be alone with my
Moleskine now. "
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One of the most nerve-wracking positions I can imagine a business in the smartphone or tablet game can find itself in is the introduction of a new platform. We just saw once-RIM-now-BlackBerry take that leap of faith last week, and while hard sales figures haven't yet arrived, the qualitative assessments that have already come in seem quite positive. That's great news for BlackBerry, but even with all the uncertainty surrounding the BB10 launch, the company had a heck of a lot going for it, not the least of which is fantastic brand recognition.
Not everyone's that lucky, though, and some other smartphone upstarts on the horizon will undoubtedly face far rockier roads. One thing some of them (BlackBerry 10 included) are planning to do to help give themselves a little bit of an edge is offering some degree of compatibility with existing Android apps. That bothers me a little, and while I can't deny that I like the idea of a jack-of-all-trades smartphone platform with broad app support, the whole thing feels a bit like cheating, and using Google's efforts in building-up Android to the incredibly popular OS it's become as a crutch for their own insufficiencies.
So, who's doing this? BlackBerry 10 (and the PlayBook before it) has an Android runtime it can use to execute existing Android apps, as will the upcoming MeeGo-based Sailfish OS from Jolla. We've also seen a compatibility layer for Tizen developed by OpenMobile, providing it with its own access to Android apps.
One of the big concerns I have with these systems is the degree of their compatibility. We've heard some pretty bold claims, like one of 100% app support from OpenMobile, and while we'll need to put the system through its paces before knowing just how accurate that boast may be, it's pretty difficult to accept at face value; after all, even with full-on Android devices, certain models have trouble with certain apps.
With BlackBerry 10, the Android runtime currently only supports apps designed with Gingerbread in mind, and won't work with those apps demanding a more recent API level. BlackBerry has said that it's working on a Jelly Bean compatible upgrade, but that just reflects another problem: just like how Android users are captive to manufacturers to release updates letting them run newer and newer OS versions, so too will the users of all these other platforms be reliant on an ongoing stream of Android interpreter updates in order to keep compatibility up to par – and that's on top of whatever work these companies need to do developing enhancements for their own OSes.
Issues with compatibility can doom a system that's too heavily reliant on its ability to run another's code. We can learn a lot from history here; just look thirty years back at IBM's introduction of the PCjr. It was supposed to be a home version of the PC with features like support for ROM cartridges and joystick ports. The problem was, while it could run a lot of PC software, its ultimate compatibility rate was somewhere below 50%. Combined with other hardware problems, that led to it being a huge commercial failure. Now, the sort of compatibility issues that we're talking about with these Android runtimes don't sound nearly so bad, but if they can't run a few of the handful of apps that really matter to you, the other 99% that run fine won't add up to mattering in the least.
Even when compatibility isn't an issue, I've got a more philosophical problem with making Android support a key selling point of your new platform. There's a lot of room in Android already for doing things differently, and a company interested in releasing a platform that's more of a tweaked take on Android is free to do so. We've already seen success along that line from the likes of Amazon and its Kindle Fires, or even the Barnes & Noble Nook. If you don't want to go that far, come up with something like MIUI.
It just seems to me that if you're going to commit to creating a new mobile platform, going all-in is the thing to do, without any Android crutch to lean on. That's what we saw with Windows Phone, and make no mistake, that platform continues to struggle. A large degree of the trouble it's had has stemmed from a lack of apps, and it's been tough to convince developers to commit the time and resources to coding specifically for Windows Phone. Maybe this is just some wrong-headed machismo speaking, but I think Microsoft deserves some respect for taking the hard road like that. Then again, it's not like Android was ever even an option for it.
With BlackBerry 10, the company already worked darn hard to make sure it would launch with 70,000-some apps, so the Android support feels more like a nice bonus than anything else. As for these other guys, time will tell how they frame their own Android compatibility, but I think it's a big mistake to launch a new platform when that means heavily relying on the apps of another.


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Ernest Chen
Trauma Counselling Therapist
(Mcdonald Medical – W 16)
Ernest Chen, MCP, RCC, CCC is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellor (BCACC). He is also a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Ernest holds a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from Adler University, Vancouver. He has certifications in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Clinical Hypnosis (Hypnotherapy), Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), and Existential Analyst (Psychotherapist).
Typically, Ernest employs an existential-humanistic approach to therapy, guiding a client through to the core of the issue rather than symptom management. Depending on the presenting concern and client's comfort he may use other techniques such as Solution-Focused Therapy, Hypnotherapy, EMDR, or CBT and Mindfulness.
Ernest believes that the therapeutic encounter in life's journey is our chance to explore, clarify, and determine who we are and what motivates us to do something regardless if we are aware or not. With this clarity, clients will be able to access freedom to decide what they wish to be, will be – can and want to be.
Ernest offers services in English and Cantonese. Appointments available evenings and weekends.


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An outstanding of US$ 1.13 billion worth of convertible bonds are falling due in July this year. The repurchase scheme is apparently aimed at assuaging investor apprehension in the wake of sliding commodity prices ahead of the schedule repayment.
"The maximum acceptance amount of the outstanding Bonds that the Offerer (Vedanta Resources) might purchase has been decreased from US$ 500,000,000 to US$ 227,400,000," Vedanta said in a regulatory filing.
The offer by the London Stock Exchange-listed company commenced on January 11 and closed on January 18.
Last week, the company announced its plans to repurchase in cash Bonds worth $500 million (about Rs 3,300 crore).
The London Stock Exchange-listed multinational company, which deals in oil and gas, aluminium, zinc, iron ore, copper and power, has faced rough weather after bond investors raised doubts over Vedanta's repayment capability.
The $1.1 billion of bonds maturing in June are trading at about 10-12% discount in the secondary market. The company sold $1.25 billion of bonds, which are convertible into shares, five years ago at a fixed rate of 5.5%.
After the repurchase is finalised, the outstanding principal amount will be about $907 million.
On the firm's US$ 500 million Bond repurchase, Moody's Investor Service had said the tender offer on convertible Bonds maturing in July 2016 is unlikely to be treated as a "distressed exchange". Its Vice-President and Senior Analyst Kaustubh Chaubal had said he sees the contemplated deal as "an opportunistic buyback" since the issue of default avoidance is currently unclear, pending emergence of clarity on the purchase price.


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Google News and Stories
These days teens are more tech-savvy than ever, and they're using Google Docs of all things to covertly chat with friends
After being banned from iTunes, Facebook and YouTube, the Infowars app has become one of the most popular apps on iOS and Google. And it gets worse….
Jenny McCarthy's house is haunted — not by g-g-g-ghosts, but her Google Home device — but would we expect anything more from the anti-vaccine activist?
Gender-neutral emoji are coming to Android phones; though Apple introduced them last year, more inclusion is always a good thing
16 survivors of the Orlando shooting have filed a Pulse lawsuit alleging the shooting wouldn't have happened without Google, Facebook and Twitter's help
Today, The Scientology Network debuts on DirecTV, as well as streaming devices Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and Google Chromecast, but why?
After a request to block LGBTQ apps in Indonesia, Google has partially complied, raising questions about complicity in the country's anti-LGBTQ crackdown
From the amazing, translating Google Pixel Buds, to a delicious dessert and sexy Rufskin gear, here are this week's must-haves
An eagle-eyed web user spotted a penis hiding on the Bing.com front page, but it was easy to miss and quickly removed after it was discovered
Google, GoDaddy and Airbnb have all started denying services to racists in response to this weekend's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia


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Got a stubborn blemish or an embarrassing tattoo? This incredible foundation covers EVERYTHING
People are going mad for the make-up from Kat Von D Beauty after a fan posted an impressive before and after shot on Instagram
IF you're prone to skin breakouts, or happen to have an embarrassing facial tattoo, it's often hard to find foundation robust enough to cover it.
But people are going wild for this make-up item from Kat Von D Beauty after a fan posted an incredible 'before and after' shot on Instagram.
Kat Von D Beauty was started up by the American tattoo artist, model, musician and TV personality of the same name in 2008.
All products in the range are cruelty-free, with the Tattoo Liner a popular choice for those desperate to achieve the ultimate eyeliner flick that lasts all day.
Now, her Lock-It Foundation is being hailed as extraordinary after an Instagram post went viral.
The photo, shared on the Kat Von D Beauty page, shows a girl having used the make-up to conceal a tattoo on her forehead reading 'Wayne'.
It was captioned: "I work in the corporate world and DO NOT know what I would do without your foundation and concealer to cover my tattoo and all around great coverage. Thank you!"
The post attracted more than 31,000 likes and hundreds of comments.
One Instagram user wrote: "I couldn't live without your foundation because it covers my acne and acne scars and makes my face look a lot less horrible."
Another commented: "I have acne but this foundation does not make me break out. I do break out with MAC foundation though. This is my go to!"
A fellow satisfied customer added: "I use Kat Von D makeup to cover my tattoos in nursing school 🙌🏼 works magic."
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The 30ml, fragrance free 'Lock-It' liquid foundation is currently on sale at Debenhams for £27 and comes in 17 different skin tone shades.
It gets a 4.1 out of five rating on the site, with one reviewer writing: "I love full coverage foundation because I have scars on my face and always used Estée Lauder double wear but it made my skin break out SO bad!!
"I switched to this and use it everyday and honestly it's amazing, glides on best coverage I've found and my skin has cleared up even though I still have a full coverage base!
"Would recommend this product to those who love full coverage but don't want to break out in spots all the time!!"
The item description claiming: "With one pump it will even out discolouration, stop shine and hide blemishes, offering amazing coverage that's so long-wear you can go a full 24 hours without re-applying.
"Formulated with proprietary pigments plus an exclusive blend of siliconic elastomers which bind the formula, it will stay flawless, fade-free and transfer-proof.
"The bottle also features an innovative airless chamber design that prevents contamination, maintains rich consistency and ensures a fresh, precisely measured dose with every pump."
Slept in your make-up last night? Here's how to stop a skin breakout.


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Experince (XP)
Gaining Experience
Characters gain experience for the previous month at the beginning of each new month. PCs gain experience for the following:
Posting: PCs gain 10xp for "being active" which is defined as having posted at least 30 times during the month. If you post 100 times you get 11xp, 200 times you get 12xp, 300 times you get 13xp, 400 times you get 14xp, and 500+ times you get a maximum of 15xp.
Player Shout Outs: Players are encouraged to give each other shout outs by posting to that month's shout out thread. There is no limit to the number of shout outs PCs can give each other and you don't have to wait for the end of the month. For each character who gives your PC a shout out you get 1xp up to a maximum of 3xp.
Staff Shout Outs: Legend and Archmage will each give two characters a month an ST shout out for their RP. These are wroth 2xp.
Literaries: Players may post "literaries", original work by or about their characters to further develop their PCs. Staff will award a total of 1-3xp per month per character who has submissions.
Recruitment: This is xp players can earn for brining new active players to the game. (If the player already has another character, this does not count.) The new player must tell staff that they are your recruit. Players gain 2xp for the first month of a recruit's active posting, and 1xp more per month they stay active in the game after the first for a maximum of 5 months.
One time gains/Character Creation: Players receive 5-15xp for completing a back story or questionnaire (not both) for their character and 3-5xp for completing the Charterer Direction Questions. Mage characters gain an additional 3-5xp for completing their avatar description.
Spending Experience
Experience Costs
New Ability: 3xp
Raising Ability: current rating x 2xp
Raising Attribute: current rating x 4xp
New Background: 3xp
New $ Background: 6xp
Raising Background: current rating x 2
Raising $ Background: current rating x 4
Totem (garou version): 2xp per dot
Merrits: 2xp x dot rating
Buying off flaws: 2xp x dot rating
Raising Gnosis: current rating x 2xp
Raising Rage: current rating in xp
Raising Willpower: current rating in xp
New Sphere: 10xp
Raising Affinity Sphere: current rating x 7xp
Raising Other Sphere: current rating x 8xp
Breed/Aupsice/Tribe Gift: gift level x 3xp
Out of Breed/Aupsice/Tribe Gift: gift level x 5xp
Breed/Tribe Gift (Kinfolk): 15xp*
Not Breed/Tribe Gift (Kinfolk): 20xp*
* Kinfolk gifts cost an additional 5xp if taught by a garou rather then a spirit, for a total of 20xp and 25xp respectively
Note: Arete, like rank, will not cost XP but is something players earn in game at ST discretion. Arete will always have a hard cap to stop the mages from shooting past the garou. The Arete cap is currently 3.
Making Purchases
Experience points will be tracked in a thread in your personal character forum. Post purchases you would like to make to this thread. ALL experience spends are subject to staff approval. However, some spends are generally considered routine while others almost always require discussion with staff or RP. Staff will make the change to your sheet when they process your purchase.
Routine Purchases (Usually)
The following are generally considered routine purchases: attributes, abilities, spheres, in tribe/auspice/breed gifts (for garou), and increasing totem (for garou).
Just post what you would like to buy and a short (can be one sentence) description of how your PC gets it. While PCs progress faster and more easily then in real life try to keep things somewhat reasonable. You didn't jump from 0 to 5 occult in one month by reading books at your local library.
ST Approval Before Posting Purchases
Some things require approval from an ST before posting on your experience thread as they need to be discussed or played out. These are: backgrounds, out of tribe/breed/auspice gifts (garou), any gift (kinfolk), arête, merits, and buying off flaws.
When you post your spend include the words "Approved by [name of staff]". If you had a successful growth action and are purchasing influence as a result, this counts as being approved by Legend.
Experience "Loss"
If your character spends xp on a background and then loses that background, that xp is permanently lost. Most backgrounds are low risk and will only be lost as a result of player actions. Staff will not just murder your ally for no reason. However, if you convince your ally to do something that gets them killed, or if another player kills them, those dots are gone.
Influences are a special category of high risk backgrounds. By their nature they rise and can also go down. NPCs may attack your influence even if your PC has done nothing to intentionally provoke them. Experience points put into influences should never be seen as safe. We suggest running large numbers of influences is best suited to kinfolk who have less other things to spend xp on and less other ways to contribute to their society. However, players comfortable with the inherent risk of influences should not feel discouraged from pursuing them. They are a powerful tool.


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I've done a lot of random programming over the years. I founded and co-developed SLIME. I fondly remember writing an Emacs clone in Erlang and an Erlang clone in Emacs. The Jungerl hacks were fun. Using Common Lisp to explore how the internet works was too. The OLPC XO 1.5's startup jingle is played by my Intel HDAudio firmware driver. And people seem to enjoy http-twiddle (now on Github). There's been an awful lot more but perhaps it's best forgotten ...
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Silent Cranes
Mary Kouyoumdjian (b. 1983)
Silent Cranes (2015)
i. slave to your voice
ii. you did not answer
iii. [with blood-soaked feathers]
iv. you flew away
Projection Design: Laurie Olinder
Poetry: David Barsamian, excerpts from "A
Lighting Design: Brian H Scott
Sound Design: Brian Mohr
Producer: Janet Cowperthwaite
Production Management: Kronos Performing Arts Association
Mary Kouyoumdjian was selected as the recipient of the fifth commission offered through the Kronos: Under 30 Project. Begun in 2003, the Kronos: Under 30 Project is a commissioning and residency program for composers under 30 years of age, created to acknowledge the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Kronos Quartet. The program supports the creation of new work by young artists, and helps Kronos cultivate stronger connections with young composers in order to develop lasting artistic relationships with the next creative generation. Kouyoumdjian's work Bombs of Beirut, written for the Kronos: Under 30 Project, has been performed in major venues throughout the United States and Europe, including the Edinburgh International Festival.
Kouyoumdjian is a composer with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. As a first generation Armenian-American and having come from a family directly affected by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide, she uses a sonic pallet that draws on her heritage, interest in folk music, and background in experimental composition to progressively blend the old with the new.
Kouyoumdjian has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet, Carnegie Hall for This Should Feel Like Home, the American Composers Forum/JFund for Dzov Yerku Kooynov [Sea of Two Colors], REDSHIFT, the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble, the Nouveau Classical Project, Friction Quartet, Experiments in Opera, and Ensemble Oktoplus. She has had composer residencies with Roulette/The Jerome Foundation, Con Edison's Exploring the Metropolis, and Montalvo Arts Center. Her music has been described as "eloquently scripted" and "emotionally wracking" by The New York Times and "utterly moving… well-crafted, thoughtful, and engaging from beginning to end" by I Care if You Listen. In her work as a composer, orchestrator, and music editor for film, she has collaborated on a diverse array of motion pictures and recently orchestrated on the soundtrack to The Place Beyond the Pines (Focus Features). Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Kouyoumdjian also actively promotes the growth of new music in her native state of California.
Holding an M.A. in Scoring for Film & Multimedia from New York University and a B.A. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego, she has studied contemporary composition with Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, and Chinary Ung; new music performance with Steven Schick; and modern jazz with Anthony Davis. She will begin her D.M.A. in Composition as a Dean's Fellow at Columbia University this fall. Kouyoumdjian is also a co-founder and the executive director of the New York-based contemporary music ensemble Hotel Elefant, co-founder of the New Music Gathering, and teaches at the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers Bridge Program.
About Silent Cranes, Kouyoumdjian writes:
"April 24, 2015 marks the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, a tragic event that led to the mass extermination of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks that was the first genocide of the 20th century. While over 20 countries and 43 U.S. States have formally recognized the Armenian Genocide, modern-day Turkey has yet to do so and threatens imprisonment to those who push the topic within its borders. Even now, 100 years later, this historic event continues to be just as unresolved as it was before. As an Armenian-American composer who values freedom of speech and whose family fled the genocide, I feel this is an essential time to remember those who were lost, while continuing a dialogue about what happened and how we can prevent further genocides from happening in the future.
"Silent Cranes is inspired by the Armenian folk song Groung (Crane) in which the singer calls out to the migratory bird, begging for word from their homeland, only to have the crane respond with silence and fly away. The first, second, and fourth movement titles quote directly from the folk song lyrics. Those who were lost during the genocide are cranes in their own way, unable to speak of the horrors that happened, and it is the responsibility of the living to give them a voice.
"The prerecorded backing track includes testimonies by genocide survivors, recordings from the genocide era of Armenian folk songs, and a poem from investigative journalist David Barsamian in response to the question 'Why is it important to talk about the Armenian Genocide 100 years later?'
"Special thanks to those who shared their history, to those who contributed recordings, to Laurie Olinder for creating a visual narrative for this project, to David Barsamian for his words and light, and to the Kronos Quartet and Kronos Performing Arts Association for telling this story that so desperately needs to be heard. Silent Cranes is dedicated to those lost and to those living who can promote change."
Folk Songs:
Groung (Crane) performed by Komitas Vardapet/Armenak Shah Muradian and Andouni (Homeless) performed by Komitas Vardapet in Paris, France, 1912 (courtesy of Traditional Crossroads); Groung (Crane) performed by Zabelle Panosian in Harlem, New York, 1916 (courtesy of Tompkins Square)
Survivor Testimonies:
Araxie Barsamian, Bishop Hagop, Victoria Mellian, (courtesy of David Barsamian); Haig Baronian, Aghavnie Der Sarkissian, Elise Hagopian Taft, Nium Sukkar, (courtesy of the Armenian Film Foundation); Azniv Guiragossian (interviewed by Taleen Babayan and the composer)
Laurie Olinder is a multimedia designer, painter and photographer. She is a founding member of New York's Ridge Theater and has been recognized with an OBIE Award, a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award and an Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design in the Theater. Olinder has designed projections for numerous contemporary composers and performers, including John Adams, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Gavin Bryars, Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Henryk Górecki, Kronos Quartet, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. Her work has been shown at noted performance venues such as American Repertory Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and MASS MoCA.
One of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio show Alternative Radio and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His latest book of interviews with Noam Chomsky is Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire. His best-selling books with Chomsky have been translated into many languages. He lectures on world affairs, imperialism, the state of journalism, censorship, the economic crisis and global rebellions.
He is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. As Arundhati Roy wrote for The Guardian, Barsamian was deported from India in 2011 due to his work on Kashmir and other revolts. He is still barred from traveling to "the world's largest democracy."
" a severely beautiful, dynamically vibrant if unceasingly pained and mournful portrait of an injustice that's far too often overlooked...if we forget events like these, those things might well happen to us. "
- New York Music Daily
" not only eye-opening but ear-opening. "
- Rebecca Lentjes, I Care If You Listen
Mary Kouyoumdjian's Silent Cranes was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet with support from the David Harrington Research and Development Fund, the Angel Stoyanof Commission Fund, Zvart and Rouben Potoukian, Andrea A. Lunsford, Gates McFadden and Robert Straus, Dayna Sumiyoshi and Greg Smedsrud, many funders in the Indiegogo community, and other generous individuals. Silent Cranes was premiered by the Kronos Quartet at the Yerevan Perspectives 16th International Music Festival in the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 29, 2015.
Kronos thanks the following individuals in the Indiegogo community for supporting this project: Anonymous (25), Patrick Allen, Michelle Andonian, Albert Arustamov, Susan Averbach, Ailin Barseghian, Nurhan Becidyan, Rita Belian, Dmitrij Beloussow, Anna Bidakowska, Russell Blanchard, Daniel Bush, Gregg Butensky, George Carter, Murray Coffey, Janet Cowperthwaite, David Dawson, Mason Dille, David Drexler, Christopher English, Dominica Eriksen, Ruth Fink-Winter, Kenneth Foster, Jimmy Frazier, Giada Giovanile, Meri Grigoryan, Eric V. Hachikian, Narineh Hacopian, Anna Harmandarian, Ken Herman, Laura Higdon, Armineh Hovanesian, Datevik Hovanesian, Ara Howrani, Megan Ihnen, Janina Jankowski, Christina Johnson, Dave Jordan, Tatevik Khoja-Eynatyan, William S. Kirkham, Andrea Lunsford, Donlyn Lyndon, Mimi Malayan, Harmik Mansourian, Nikolás McConnie-Saad, Kenneth McKlinski, Kate Morrison, Jennifer Moser, Kären Nagy, Armine Nazarian, Hannah Neff, David Newton, James Nicholas Ohler, Laurie Olinder, Stepan Pachikov, Karl Paloucek, Henk Pel, Toni Howell Pentecouteau, Vaghinak Petrosyan, Ken Prokuski, Dani Putterman, Marjorie Randolph, Laird Rodet and Sharon Shepherd, Asima FX Saad Maura, Sara Sackner, Tanniel Simonian, Curtis Smith, Steven Takasugi, Eva Tasmadjian, Ola Torstensson, Anush Tserunyan, Leaha Maria Villarreal, Kirsten Volness, Aleksandra Vrebalov, John Watts, Glenn Weyant, Geert Van Wonterghem
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