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|Larvae ready to be capped.
Workers begin to cap the cell with in 15 hours of this stage.
|Capping has started
|Fully capped brood sell.
|Within 24 hours of being caped the Larvae spins a cocoon sheds its Larvae skin and becomes a pre-pupa stage.
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|day 16 (movement of legs can be seen)
|day 17 or 18 movement of mouth parts
|19 1/2 days worker honey bee begins to chew its way out.
Here is a a link to a video explains it all along with some info on the Varroa mite: here

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|Fédération Cynologique Internationale
FCI-Standard N° 28
Artois Hound(Chien d'Artois)
These illustrations do not necessarily show the ideal example of the breed.
The sequence might differ slightly from the original breed standard.
ORIGIN: France.
UTILISATION: The Artois Hound is a briquet (small type), nowadays especially used in hunting with the gun. He drives the game closer taking advantage of their faults with cleverness, and his speed is average but maintained. He is a hardy animal, endowed with a marvellous tongue in a high pitched voice which can be heard from far away. Six to eight tricolour matching Artois hounds constitute a small pack susceptible of giving pleasure to a most demanding huntmaster.
|Group 6
|Scent hounds and related breeds
|Section 1.2
|Scenthounds, Medium-sized Hounds
|With working trial
TRANSLATION: Mrs. Peggy Davis.
BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY: This breed, formerly named Picard, was much appreciated in ancient hunting at the time of Henri IV and Louis XIII and much sought after. Selincourt already made much of it, wondering and amazed to see these dogs pulling in a hare which had passed by one hour ago in dry weather.
Le Couteulx de Canteleu, in Manuel de Vénerie Française: (1890 - Manual of French Hunting), praises also the Artois Hound. He reports that the artesien breed was crossbred and difficult to find pure but, in spite of that, it still remained one of the best breeds for hare hunting. He has taken care, however, of placing representatives of the breed in the big kennel of the Jardin d'Acclimatation, so that it would be know by the general public. At the end of the XIXth century and at the beginning of our century, M. Levoir in Picardy has attempted the re-establishment of the old Artois type without really succeeding. During that period and until the beginning of the First World War, it was another Picard breeder, M. Mallard, who dominated the raising of the breed. But if he produced very pretty dogs, as witnessed by his numerous awards in canine shows. After the second World War, it was believed that the Artois Hound was one of the breeds lost for ever. But at the beginning of the 1970s M. Audrechy, of Buigny les Gamaches in the Somme, has fixed as a task to reconstitue the kennel. It is thanks to his efforts and those of Mme Pilat that this breed regains its place amongst the scenthounds.
GENERAL APPEARANCE: Well constructed dog, muscled and not too long, giving the impression of strength and energy.
Size/Length of body between 10 : 10 and 10 : 11
Depth of chest / Size between 1 : 2
Width of skull/Length of head between 5 : 9
Length of muzzle/Length of skull between 8 : 10
BEHAVIOUR / TEMPERAMENT: Vigorous and hardy dog, with a very fine nose, assembling well in the pack, balanced and affectionate.
Skull: Strong, broad, quite short, rounded and flat at its upper part but with the occipital protuberance only slightly pronounced.
Stop: Accentuated.
Nose: Black, strong, with well opened nostrils.
Muzzle: Straight and, seen in profile, moderately elongated.
Lips: The upper lip largely covering the lower lip and must be rather important so as to give a square shape to the extremity of the muzzle, seen in profile.
Jaws/Teeth: Scissor bite, the upper incisors covering the lower in a narrow contact and are well set squarely in relation to the jaws.
Eyes: In relation to the width of the forehead, the eyes are not very close together; they are round, level with the head surface, with a melancholic and soft expression; dark brown in colour. The mucous membranes of the lower lids must not be visible.
Leathers: Set at eye level, a little thick, broad, round at the tip, almost flat and quite long, reaching the beginning of the nose.
NECK: Moderately long, powerful; very little dewlap.
Back: Broad and well supported.
Loin: Slightly arched.
Croup: The hips give a slight inclination to the croup, which is well muscled.
Chest: Broad and long, rather let down so that the sternal line arrives at elbow level. Ribs well sprung.
Underline and belly: Flanks full.
TAIL: Strong, quite long; there should be some longer and coarser, slightly offstanding hairs (like ears of grain) towards the tip; carried sickle fashion, never falling forward.
FOREQUARTERS: The limbs are strong and vertical.
Shoulder: Oblique and muscled.
Elbow: Set well in the axis of the body.
Forearm: Slightly oblique.
Forefeet: Slightly elongated, strong but sufficiently tight; the pads are black, tough and compact.
Hind feet: See Forefeet.
HINDQUARTERS: Seen from behind, the point of the buttock, the middle of the leg, the hock, the metatarsal and the foot are on the same vertical line.
Thigh: Let down and well muscled.
Hock joint: Strong and moderately angulated.
Rear pastern: Short and strong.
GAIT / MOVEMENT: Even and easy.
SKIN: Quite thick.
HAIR: Short, thick and quite flat.
COLOUR: Dark fawn tricolour, similar to the coat of the hare or the badger, with mantle or large patches, the head usually fawn, sometimes with black overlay.
Height at withers:
Males and females 53 to 58 cm
With a tolerance of 1 cm.
Weight: On average 28 to 30 kg.
Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the dog.
- Head: Narrow skull, dome shaped. Muzzle too pointed. Upper lip insufficiently let down and tight. Eye slightly light, conjunctiva visible. Ears set below eye level, short, not flat enough.
- Neck: Long reach of neck, light.
- Body: Dorsal region too long, topline soft, hollow. Ribs flat. Whippety flanks.
- Tail: Too long, deviated.
- Forequarters: Straight shoulder. Out at elbows. Straight pastern. Flat feet. Toes splayed, too long.
- Hindquarters: Thighs flat. Hocks straight, either cow-hocked or barrel-shaped.
- Colour: Mottled.
- Behaviour: Timid subject.
Shy or aggressive subject.
Lack of type (the dog on the whole not sufficiently resembling his fellow creatures of the same breed).
Anatomical anomaly.
Determined hereditary disabling defect.
Under- or overshot mouth.
Eye very light.
Weak limbs.
Other colour than that of the standard.
Distinctly mottled.
Height at the withers other than that of the standard.
Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.
other: Utilization (details):In the country: Because of his acute sense of smell, he is capable of out manoeuvring the tricks of the hare.
In the wood: With his incontestable qualities of a hunter, in the sparse and well scattered groups of tall trees, he hunts a deer beautifully in the desired direction.
In the thicket: His intrepidity and bravery means that he can stir up and even obstinate boar.
Moreover: He is a hardy animal, endowed with a marvellous tongue in a high pitched voice which can be heard from far away.


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A form of physical therapy, in which a painful limb or extremity is immersed into warm water and cold water. It has been used to treat a variety of painful conditions, such as plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the thick connective tissue that stabilizes the arch of the foot) and wrist pain. Contrast baths are thought to cause small blood vessels in the affected area to expand and contract, which is thought to decrease inflammation and swelling.
The recommended temperature and duration of the immersions varies from one source to another, but the basic idea is the same: Dip the affected limb in a container of ice water (about 50° to 60°F and then move it to a second container of warm (but not hot) water. Suggested temperatures for the warm water vary from 100° to 110°F, though sometimes steam at temperatures of up to 140°F is used. Alternate between warm and cold water for a period of 20 to 30 minutes.


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Passport Seva Kendra – Proud to be an Indian!
Considering that all we hear about are the scandals rocking our Indian Government over 2G , this has been a very refreshing experience – I am talking about the new PASSPORT SEVA KENDRA from our own Indian Government. I witnessed a sea change – how things were in the past and how much the new system has turned around my perception on our Government offices.
I always wonder on how the 'so-called' IT manpower producer for the entire world lacks so badly in its IT infrastructure – there is still so much opportunity to streamline many of our government processes and public utility services. So, when I visited the Passport Seva Kendra in Bangalore, it really made me proud.
What I liked
- Online facility to upload our passport application
- Online facility to get our appointment book (no more long waiting at the gates)
- Almost 100% predictability of the start time when we reach the Passport Kendra
- Very well-defined process and streamlined assembly line process,
- smiling support staff – good job!! KEEP IT UP!!
- Clear instructions
- All got done in 1.30 hours!!!!
So, next time if you have any activity in the passport office in Bangalore, you can breathe easily. Things are done in a smooth manner. I am sure the credit also goes to the service provider, Tata Consultancy Services also.
I really feel PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN!! JAI HO!!
Posted on February 5, 2011, in Assorted and tagged Bangalore, Government, India, Karnataka, Passport, Tata Consultancy Services. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
Hardly my expereince. I found life much easier 10 years back without these PSKs. With all the fuss about IT, it took me more time if anything. 10 years back I waited in one queue. Now I had to wait in 4 queues. 10 years back i could go on any day I liked. Now I have to book a day 15 days in advance and if some new priorities come up in office, I have to suboridnate that and go for getting passport. Earlier you had to fill paper from. No you fill the same stuff online and take print out. Police man came for his money like last time and it took same time to be delivered as 10 years back. No idea what you found so good about the service.
Now, PSK website is broken. You can no longer take appointments. I got my passport 4years back and it was much simpler, it hardly took me 15mins in a nearby bangaloreOne office. The website is a shame and looks like it was developed for a high school project. This is truly a shame and I would advise them to go back to the previous system.
I am trying to get an appointment from the past 1 month… But no results…


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When all the people in the synagogue heard these things, they became very angry. They got up, forced Jesus out of town, and took him to the edge of the cliff on which the town was built. They planned to throw him off the edge, but Jesus walked through the crowd and went on his way. [Luke 4:28-30 (NCV)]
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, because they don't know what they are doing." [Luke 23:24 (NCV)]
Right after writing yesterday's devotion about selfishness being the opposite of love, I came across the words of an author that suggest that fear is the opposite of love because you cannot love and fear at the same time. This gave be pause; can something be the opposite of more than one thing?
From day one, Jesus had plenty of reasons to be frightened, yet, he wasn't. Mary and Joseph had to flee to Egypt because King Herod's men wanted to kill him. As a boy, he wasn't afraid to be away from his parents when he stayed to learn in the temple courts. As a man, neither Jewish leaders nor Rome intimidated him. The Sadducees and Pharisees joined forces in their hatred for Jesus and were constantly on the lookout for ways to trap him. Nothing, however, stopped Jesus from his ministry or from challenging the corrupt political and religious system of his day. Fear never prevented him from speaking, healing, or pointing out hypocrisy and evil. He knew he would be betrayed, but never tried to stop Judas. He didn't plead for mercy or justice at his trial. Nothing he said implies fear; nearly everything he said speaks of love. His last words weren't words of fear or self; they were words of loving forgiveness.
What are the things we fear the most? Most likely it is being alone, lost, angry, used, poor, ignored, unloved, weak, needy, ill, old, hurt, abused, ineffective, unlovable, or considered different. What do we do with that fear? We protect ourselves by not getting involved, not trying, not sharing, and not caring. We walk away, we make excuses, we keep to ourselves and our interests, we pretend to be someone we're not, we show off or hide in the shadows. Our fear makes us self-involved; in short, when we're afraid we become selfish.
Perhaps fear and selfishness are two sides of the same coin. If we're fearful, in an effort to protect ourselves, we become selfish. When we're selfish, it's likely we're afraid of something or someone. Love, however, is the antidote to both afflictions. God is love and where God's love is, there is no fear.
For love to be real, for it to grow deep inside, it must not give in to fear. It is not afraid to give, to risk, to chance, even if it hurts. Love believes. It is faith moving forward. Fear holds us back. It makes us stop or turn and run. [From "Borders of the Heart" by Chris Fabry]
Where God's love is, there is no fear, because God's perfect love drives out fear. It is punishment that makes a person fear, so love is not made perfect in the person who fears. [1 John 4:18 (NCV)]
God did not give us a spirit that makes us afraid but a spirit of power and love and self-control. [2 Timothy 1:7 (NCV)]


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iPhone 8 release: Who is Apple's Jony Ive? Net worth, age, details and more
APPLE will unveil the new iPhone 8 – which could be called the iPhone X – today at Apple Park, the new $5 billion (£3.8bn) campus overseen by design chief Jony Ive.
Jony Ive is Apple's chief design officer
Ive is Apple's chief design officer and is responsible for all things aesthetic at the technology giant.
Along with his design team, Ive oversees the look and feel of hardware, software, packaging and architecture – including Apple's new "spaceship" campus, Apple Park.
The 50-year-old, from Chingford, London, recently took WSJ Magazine on a tour of the campus, which he oversaw the design of.
He compared the building's completion to a new product launch, and admitted that he is nervous about the public's reaction.
"There's the same rather strange process you go through when you finish a product and you prepare to release it – it's the same set of feelings," he said.
"That feels... encouragingly healthy, because I would be concerned if we lost that sense of anxiety. I think that would suggest that we were not as self-critical, not as curious, not as inquisitive as we have to be able to be effective and do good work."
The world will get its first real glimpse inside of Apple Park later today, as CEO Tim Cook unveils the iPhone 8 – which leakster Evan Blass reports will be called the iPhone X.
The new phone is rumoured to do away with the home button to make room for an edge-to-edge, bezel-less display.
Named for the iPhone's 10th anniversary, the X will reportedly feature facial recognition, wireless charging and a vertically-stacked dual camera.
An all-glass and aluminium body will continue the design language introduced by Ive which makes Apple products instantly recognisable.
Apple Park is Apple's new $5 billion campus
Who is Jony Ive?
Ive studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, and joined Apple in early 1990s as a consultant on its first-ever PowerBook.
He joined the company full-time in 1992, seven years after Steve Jobs had left the company.
When Jobs returned to the fold in 1997, he appointed Ive senior vice president of industrial design.
His first project was the iMac, an egg-shaped all-in-one computer credited with saving Apple from financial ruin and establishing the company as a leader in product design.
In the following years Ive created an instantly recognisable aesthetic, heavily influenced by the German designer Dieter Rams.
Apple iPhone 8 - Leaked photos, prototypes, concept images, and rendersSun, January 1, 2017
iPhone 8 is shaping up to be one of the most impressive Apple smartphones to date, with glass panels on the front and rear of the device, a curved borderless OLED display and no Home Button
His industry-defining work includes products such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad and MacBook.
In 2013, Ive also took on responsibility for user experience.
His first move was the scrap the skeuomorphism favoured by Jobs in favour of the clean, minimal look now used across all iOS and Mac devices.
Two years later, Ive was promoted again to chief design officer, making him one of the four most senior people in the company.
Outside of his work for Apple, Ive has also served as chancellor of the Royal College of Art since July 2017.
He was knighted in 2012 for "services to design and enterprise", and was once ranked the most influential person in British culture.
Jony Ive first joined Apple in the early 1990s
What is Jony Ive's net worth?
Ive has never revealed details of his salary or net worth, however a 2013 biography gave some clues as to his wealth.
Leander Kahney claimed in his book Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products that Apple "reportedly paid Jony a $30 million bonus and offered him shares worth a further $25 million" after he reportedly threatened to quit his role.
"At the time, Jony's personal fortune was estimated at $130 million," Kahney added.
Forbes cited Kahney's figures in a 2013 article, which called Ive "clearly one of the world's best paid designers".


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Miracle Mile Walk
Whether you are headed to Atlantic City or not, you can participate in the Miracle Mile Walk on Friday, September 9, 2016. For those of us that will be in Atlantic City, this will be our chance to have some time with our dear Jessa as we walk from Boardwalk Hall to the Steel Pier in our Miss California MVP T-Shirts. It is a $20 registration fee to join our team.
The walk registration starts at 5 pm and the actual walk should begin at 6 pm. For those of you attending the Miss California Dinner that evening at Angelo's, we will have dinner start at 7 pm now so as to not conflict with this event. The walk should finish about 6:45 pm.
For those of you not headed east this year, you can click the link below and then click "Donate to this Event", choose our CA team and donate even a small amount to help Jessa represent for California in this 3rd Annual Fundraising Event.
Please only donate to the "Miss California's MVP Jessa Carmack Team". When you click, it will ask you if you want to donate to this event or join our team. Either way you can help our California team and support Jessa in Atlantic City.
Please do not start your own team. It is best for Jessa if our efforts are all pooled together.
Click here and get started!!
Please share this link with anyone you know who is going to Miss America that may not be on our volunteer mailing list.
See you in Atlantic City!


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Picture it, Tuesday, May 5, 2010, around 1pm
Sitting at my desk reading blogs working, when I get the text:
Friend: Hey, I need your email addy again ASAP, one that you can check RIGHT NOW.
Me: firstname.lastname@example.com
Could it be? From the moment that I heard Top Chef would be filming their next season in DC, I wanted to be a part of it. I'm a bit of a Top Chef STAN and most around me know it. I wasn't sure how it would happen, but I had confidence that somehow, one of the fabulous people that I knew would help me find a way. I stalked a few DC food blogs, where locals would report Top Chef contestant sightings and possible episode locations. As the days passed, I started to get nervous because although the season seems long as we watch it weekly, I knew those folks would be in and out of DC in less than 5 weeks. Then, April 30 – a teeny bit of heartbreak. Restaurant Wars had been filmed the night before. I'd been hoping that I would have been able to attend that. And, being the STAN that I am, I also realized that there were only 7 contestants left and since the final 3 or 4 contestants usually leave the original city for the finale, I had only 3 more chances to catch the magic. Argh!!
Then, the text above for one of my dearest friends. And 8 minutes after the text, the email appeared:
Dear Top Chef Fan,
Thank you for agreeing to participate in a taping for Season 7. Below you will find all the details for tomorrow's taping. Please arrive at Nationals Stadium by 11am and taping should last 2-3 hrs. Please respond back to this email with your full name and the names of those attending with you.
Holy ish batman! Tomorrow? During the day? No problem. Guess I'm gonna be calling out sick from my 9-5, because I'm not missing this. Wait, wait, did I just read "names"? I'd assumed that I could only bring one buddy, but that was plural. Aww, shucks now! I did a quick run through of peeps in my head, then sent a text to 5, a BBM to 2 and an email to 3. Something to the effect of, "Yo, Top Chef taping tomorrow, 11am, Nationals Stadium, you down?" The responses rolled in I.M.M.E.D.I.A.T.E.L.Y. A few couldn't come because they were slaves to the corporate man dedicated employees and had 9-5 job commitments that they couldn't break, but most were gonna roll "sick" like me. My crew of 6 was set. That part was easy; wearing red, white and blue proved more difficult. (Thanks Ko.hls for my new red t-shirt!)
Anyway, ya'll know I never rush a story, but to make sure I don't lose you along the way, I'll try to speed this up. (not gonna happen *lol*) We had an absolutely wonderful day. Upon arrival, we had to sign confidentiality agreements when we arrived and we were FORBIDDEN from discussing it, posting online about it, etc. This form specifically mentioned faceb.ook and blogs! Whew! How on earth was I gonna keep all that in until our episode aired in late August?????? What a challenge! But, since ya girl wasn't trying to get sued by Bra.vo, I kept my mouth shut as much as possible. I only told ya'll that I had done it and would discuss later!
It was much less glamorous than one might imagine, but we didn't care about that. There was some type of snafu that delayed things by about an hour. We weren't told, but insider sources say that there was a problem in the kitchen. We sat, talked and waited for the action to begin. And waited. And waited. And waited. Geez! Thank goodness that I know some cool azz women, so although it was all their first time meeting, we talked and laughed like life long friends. Good people know good people, ya know?
Suddenly, people around us starting bee lining to the windows. What, what? We followed the lead and saw the TC contestants exiting their vehicles. YIPPEE!!! It's happening. Wait, why are they turning around and leaving? **scrunch face** Oh, they've got to shoot it again to get a better shot, I understand. They got back in the Toyo.ta Sien.nas, drove around the block and pulled up again. Then they exited and walked toward the stadium again. Then they did it again. And again. Wow. How many different ways can 6 people exit 2 vehicles and walk into a stadium? One million and twelve, it seems. Two lines of 3 people each, gents in front, ladies in back. Two lines again with ladies in front, gents in back. Three groups of 2 each. They shot that thing for about 20 minutes and when I watched on Wednesday night, it was about 5 seconds worth of tv. Woooooow!!
Finally, we got divided in into three groups and were escorted around the stadium, toward the Top Chef Concession stand. TV makes it look there were a ton a people, but there weren't. There were about 110 to 120 people. We were instructed to told to act as natural as possible, act as if we were there to see a real game, don't stare at the judges and talk as much about the food as you can.
Oh man, the food! We were told to choose just one dish to start so that everyone could go through the line once. Then, we were free to return for more. We were in the third and final group, so by the time we hit the line, we were all ravenous. I thought my homegirl CW was gonna knock someone out if we didn't get her a bite of something. We were just about to order, when they stopped the line to let the judges eat. Oh vey!!!
Sidenote: Tom Colicchio is a cutie in person! Not a drop dead handsome kind of dude, but more lovable teddy bear! Eric Ripert is one of the sexiest French dudes I've ever seen. Rick Moonen was pretty short and very friendly. I was a little disappointed that Gail Simmons wasn't present for this episode. is way shorter than you looks on television, her wardrobe people must have been smoking that "ow wee", smiling should not be optional and makeup is a wonderful thing. And, that's all I'm gonna say about that.
Finally, it was out turn to grub. The first go round, we tried a few things – the meatball sandwich, the pork sandwich and the crab cake sandwich. The crab cake and the pork were delicious, but that meatball sandwich???? G.O.O.D. G.R.A.C.I.O.U.S!!! That damn sandwich was absolute heaven. The flavors were rich and layered, and it tasted like no meatball sub you've ever had before. Since we were all foodies, we analyzed the ingredients and couldn't wait to hit the line again to quiz the chef that we thought made it. (I told them there was shaved fennel in there, but they didn't believe me). Three of my peeps went to sit, so CW and I headed back to the line for more. The chicken looked boring and the tuna unappetizing, but we tried everything anyway. The fritters were very yummy, but the texture was a little surprising. The chicken was . . . . . well, it was just chicken. Chicken that I could have easily slapped on my home grill. I like Kevin, but that dish was just blah.
When we saw the tuna on the menu board, nobody was feeling it. When Amanda served it up, it looked even worse than the ingredients sounded. Again, we're all foodies and CW, RG and I worked together in catering for years. Everyone tasted and the decision was unanimous – if the contestant that made this dish doesn't go home, reality tv will have pulled a fast one. Everyone sees that little disclaimer at the very end of the show – decisions are solely at the discretion of Brav.o producers with input from judges and on air personalities. Umm hmh. I hear what you're saying son, but that dish was a serious F.A.I.L.U.R.E. I thought that the meatball sub should have one, but I'm ok with the fritter winning. The recipe for the meatball sub is here. I'll be trying it this weekend.
Now, for the contestants. They didn't seem as manic in person as they seemed on camera. The space behind the counter was tight, but they didn't seem as frantic as the show made them appear. Yes, Angelo is super cute in person. Very personable and it was a good move to have him be the order taker. Tiffany was a sweetheart! Her smile lights up everything around her. When we asking her about her meatballs, she took a few seconds to discuss it with us. (told ya'll it was shaved fennel!) She was so warm, genuine and humble. Ed didn't say much, but he did smile and sweat alot. Only caught a few glimpses of Kelly and Kevin. Amanda was too busy in the rear corner making her tuna, so we didn't get to interact with her either.
After the camera's stopped rolling, the judges walked through the crowd and we took a few pics. Of course, 3 months later, none of our old, forgetful azz's can find the pics! LOL! We'll keep looking. The ladies got to meet my dear friend and give their thanks for hooking us up before we rolled out.
In terms of camera time, I caught a few glimpse of us. Those 3 Nationals players ate right in front of us. If you were watching very closely, as they are ending their commentary on the food, look over the right shoulder of the shortest guy, you'll see A Hidden Gem (red baseball cap) and me to her left (with my glasses on). Later, right after the judges finish their 6th dish, the camera pans over Eric Ripert's shoulder, and you can see TravelDiva and A Hidden Gem sitting in the background. Somewhere around the 36 minute mark, there is a an aerial shot of the concession stand and I'm standing next to my girl CW. Collectively? About 9 seconds of air time! *LMAO*
We loved every moment of our day. It's kind of amazing that we were there for about 4 hours and the entire thing was reduced to about 19 minutes of the episode. I was worried that by knowing who those 6 contestants were, I'd be uninterested in the entire season. Ya know, kind of like someone blowing the end of the movie before you've seen it? But, it hasn't dampened my enthusiasm over the season. Instead, as TravelDiva said, I was actually more curious to see who would get eliminated for what, and I watched these six closely from the beginning in an effort to understand how they got that far. When the television season started, I was shocked that Kenny hadn't been at the stadium. What happened along the way? Make sense?
So, now, I'm an even bigger Top Chef fan that I was before. My hat goes off to the folks that work in television and movie production because those folks WORK! We're down to five contestants and I hope that Tiffany goes all the way. She's got my vote!
Did you watch this episode? How did the tuna look and sound to you? Any burning questions I didn't answer? Have you been watching the whole season? Who do you like to win?


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A combination of composure from Dinesh Karthik and brute force from Krunal Pandya ensured India surpassed the once-daunting 110-run target set by West Indies to clinch a five-wicket win in the first of the three-match T20I series here at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Having been put to bat first, opener Shai Hope (14 from 10) made a decent start to the innings for the away side, with the score at 16 runs off the first two overs.
That, however, changed as Denesh Ramdin (2 from 5) nicked a Umesh Yadav delivery for Karthik to collect behind the stumps, which was followed by Hope being run-out, owing to some slick work by K. L. Rahul and Manish Pandey in the following over.
The Caribbean side could not manage to get any rhythm into their batting as wickets in quick successions put them in a precarious position, with a meagre 63 registered for the loss of seven wickets at the end of 15 overs.
However, the final three batsmen contributed a combined 51 runs in the final five overs, giving the West Indies' bowlers a fighting chance to win the first T20I in India without Mahendra Singh Dhoni featuring for the Men in Blue.
All Indian bowlers picked up at least a wicket each, including debutants Pandya and Khaleel Ahmed. Kuldeep Yadav picked up three wickets in his four overs while conceding only 13 runs. The chinaman's performances saw him being recognized as the man of the match.
The Indian batting did not match up to their performances on the field, as Rahul (16 from 22) was the only home batsman to breach into double digits among the top four. Soon, India were reduced to 45 for the loss of five wickets as skipper Carlos Braithwaite dismissed Rahul, thus making the possibility of an Indian loss very real.
Along with Pandey (19 from 24), Karthik (31 from 34) steadied India's rocking ship and added 38 runs to the board, before the former was scalped by Khary Pierre with India at 83 for the loss of five, by which point, the danger was mostly averted.
Pandya, who smashed 21 runs off just nine deliveries, hit the winning runs to seal the victory and put India ahead in the series.
The second T20I between the two sides will be played on November 6 at Lucknow.


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According to bnet.com, the CBS interactive business network, grassroots public relations involves community level campaigning. It also "…calls for dealing with the public at large in a simple, manageable 'close to home' manner." It is about identifying key communication skills and using them to start a movement for change.
In connection with the aforementioned definition of grassroots public relations, the "Eyes Around Temple" cannot be considered grassroots public relations, because the creator of the message does not seem to have made a clear plan or campaign. Students post their complaints and ideas for change, but has the creator of the original message thought of how to disseminate the messages of these students in order to create an effective campaign? I think not, so I offer some suggestions in order to create a grassroots public relations campaign:
1. Assess the need for change, and create an outline of what that change should look like
- Do you want there to be less violence in the Temple area, more protection of the students, etc.
3. Determine how you will reach these audiences
- Facebook is a good place to start but try to use the messages students have posted to create an ad campaign, or to notify Temple's administration that a number of students have voiced their concern about lack of protection on campus
- Specifically, Temple students are affected so how do you create a message that will get them to do something?
- For instance, did it reach your audience and did you help create change?


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For one reason or another it seems sometimes our plans just don't work out. Fall through. Fall apart. Sometimes they land in pieces at our feet. Sometimes you can put them back together, but sometimes you can't. So you take a step back, take a peek at your map and reroute.
I feel like I've been rerouting a lot lately.
A year ago, I wanted to be pregnant or delivering a baby by now. I wanted an October baby, preferably a girl but any healthy child would be perfect. Reroute. New path. I got a dog instead, and truthfully, she's more work than a newborn and signigicantly more expensive, too!
A year ago, I planned on moving to Halifax now. I didn't have to reroute, just choose a new exit. Different destination. Longer drive.
|This will always be my destination.
A year ago, I thought I would have someone to share the load of parenting, finances and responsibility along the winding little path of life. I don't, so I carry it alone, holding a little hand along the way.
Sometimes I fall down and get right back up, full of mud and promise... but sometimes I make mudpies while I'm down there.


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1 Convert the following Traditional (East Anglian) Dialect passage into Standard English. I reckon yow wonder why I han't writ lately. Well, Aunt Agatha she ha been a-spring-cleanin', and we ha wery nigh finished. She ha got only one more place to do—that's outside (that's the coal shud). Granfa he mob. He say yow can't sce no difference whcn that's done, only yow can't find nothin'. But he lend a hand, We all got fit, when Aunt Agatha found she'd lent hcr whitewawsh brush to Mrs. , < previous page page_19 next page > < previous page page_20 next page > Page 20 so I had to go ahter that.
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what a photographer says and what it means
There are many photographes out there and the choice can be very confusing! Who offers what service and for how much? CRB, award winning and investments. What does it all mean? We are going to explain a few things to help you cut through the bullsh*t of common New-Speak often used by photographers and give you the information you need to make an informed choice when choosing a photographer.
Competition is about free choice, you as the consumer decides what is the best service for the price that is offered, however this choice can be made cloudy. I am not suggesting that a company or person using marketing techniques is being dishonest but you do need to be aware of anyone avoiding the truth and making that choice that little bit more cloudy.
Choosing a photographer for your portraits is an important decision. It can cost you a lot of money, something like maternity photography can be very personal and subject to taste but most importantly the vision and creativity of the photographer is what defines their work that will hang on YOUR wall. Feel free to view my work and website, love it or hate it, it's a matter of opinion. I also urge you to view other photographers websites, there are many talented pros out there. At the same time just be aware of the language and clichés used that are confusing and sometimes actually mean nothing at all!
Lost in Translation
"There is no minimum order and with NO hard selling. We just take beautiful portraits for you to choose from."
I ask this. What is the point of being business? To make a living wage and profit and not operate at a loss. Sure there may be no minimum order but no one simply takes portraits for the sake of it and for you to choose from. The very fact you will choose from a range images implies a sell doesn't it?
Although this statement is not strictly one to be cautious of, it is a slight mis-representation. Sure there may be no "hard selling" (whatever that is) but there will be selling and sales. What would be the point of camouflaging the fact that you as a consumer wants a service, a photographer offers that service and there will be an exchange of that service, products and money. We are all grown ups so let us be honest with each other.
"I aim to take exceptional images at realistic prices."
A classic photographic non-statement which does not mean a thing and is very misleading!
Do photographers really need to make the statement "I aim to take execeptional images"? Does this really need to be stated? What would the point be of paying for a photographer unless they were going to take some exceptional images? Would you hire a plumber who would attempt to fix your leak or a hair dressser who would aim to make your hair look great?
How do you quantify a realistic price? I will be honest, I would love to pay nothing for everything!
What would a realistic price be for a photograph mounted on solid gold or one that was printed on a home printer? Its very subjective but ultimately prices are driven by business. You cannot sell anything at a loss and the old adage "you get for what you pay" is very true. Be aware of photographers that charge "realistic" prices. They are very likely to use inferior materials or suppliers (how else could it be sold cheaply?) or not working within a "professional level standard". A person (including photographers) cannot live on shirt buttons alone and so the statement "realistic prices" is very telling about the product and service you are likely to recieve. But of course that may well be the exact thing you are looking for?
"We guarantee a relaxed photo session"
Wow! I wish you could guarantee that my children will behave on a photoshoot and I will be relaxed! The fact is that family portrait sessions can be stressful and they certainly are tiring. For a truly custom shoot everyone will need to put effort in, they are not a cookie cutter experience carried out with routine efficiency. Be wary of any service that offers guarantees that cannot be.... ummmmmm.... guaranteed.
"We are fully insured with a full CRB certificate"
Insurance is vital and you should check that your photographer is covered.
CRB (or DBS as it is known now) on the face of it an excellent idea but there are a couple of issues. An individual or business cannot carry out a CRB, you cannot self certificate. An agency may do it for you or the photographer has another employer. It is accepted practice that CRB covers only that place of work and there is also no official expiry date and are only "correct" at the time of the check rendering them virtually useless. I have a CRB from way back in 2006 but would that be a genuine thing for me to advertise on my services?
Let us get to the point. CRB allows work with the vulnerable on your own. This should NEVER happen with a photographer or studio. If you need to ask to see a CRB or unsure about a photographers intentions, I would highly suggest that they should not be used!
"What makes me different to the rest is my (pick one or all)
years of experience
love for
If everyone is saying something like that, how on Earth can you be different? A professional I should hope would have one or some of those attributes by default! This translates as someone who is no different at all.
"Award winning"
There are some awards out there which are very valuable and difficult to win. When thinking about an "award winning" photographer be sure to see who has awarded the prize. If it was from the National Portrait Gallery you may well be on to a winner, if it is an internet blogging list website (or similar), the award is next to worthless. Its a very easy statement to make and doesn't seem to need much to back it up.
In cyber space we can all be astronauts.
"Your Investment"
What does this mean? One again it is camouflage which supposedly "softens" the impact of having to spend money. Let us use plain English. When I buy clothes from a shop, I am not investing, I am shopping and spending money. Isn't it the same with a portrait? The investment is an emotional one and anyone using this language is likely to be at a "realistic price".
Your Choice
With the rise of photographers working across all types of genres and subjects, the choices that you are free to make have become far more confusing. When deciding on a photographer for your maternity or children's portraits, being armed with information is very useful. What you decide is up to you however now you have some useful points to think about.
The first stage is to arrange your pre-shoot consultation which will take around 30 minutes. Let us know a convenient time to call you and leave me a phone number. If you have any initial questions at this time of course we would be happy to answer them when we talk.


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Saturday, January 26, 2008
The Internet Freedom Preservation Act (S215) -- an important advance in net neutrality?
Early in 2007, at the outset of the 110th Congress, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and ten cosponsors introduced the "Internet Freedom Preservation Act" as S. 215. The bill is shorter and simpler than its predecessors (discussed in earlier postings on this blog) that have died at the end of the session. Internet debates on network neutrality sometimes refer to bills that have already expired, but similar bills get introduced in similar sessions with new numbers. Typically, as with partisanship in Congress, provisions get the cosmological "big rip" and then get re-bundled in new legislation, so debate must hit a moving target.
I have some details and links on my new Wordpress blog on "technology and law confluence," here.
The bill does, upon detailed reading, appear to require telecommunications companies to make good faith efforts to make their services available to everyone reasonably, but does allow some stratification in pricing, based on bandwidth use. Perhaps this is "have your cake and eat it too." Physicists do that all the time.
What really seems needed is more public understanding of how all of the ISPs, cable and phone companies, search engine companies and social networking companies make their profits. There has already been a lot of debate – continuous on these blogs -- on the exposure that the new technology creates for minors, as well as all of the security implications for businesses and individuals, and the nation as a whole. But, whatever the legal status of network neutrality to date, some observations some clear. Companies already have some stratification in the way they offer services. ISPs, for example, often offer both shared and dedicated web hosting, with dedicated more expensive. Does dedicated offer faster access? Probably. Is it "fair" to the public? Yes, partly because for small businesses and individuals, shared hosting works relatively well even in an unregulated environment. Shared hosting does offer economies of scale in some critical areas, like network security and backup and even disaster recovery. No one could reasonably say that this practice should not continue, as long as offered in good faith.
Companies have, over time, been offer to offer much larger amounts of disk space and bandwidth even to individuals with no real revenue from "operations." There are potential exposures, to be sure. Despite the advances, it's not feasible for me to post a two-hour high definition movie on my site for unlimited viewing. Some "image style" PDF documents, not searchable and taking much more space and sometimes preferred by lawyers for posting during ongoing litigation, can still present space issues. (My master's thesis is in that format and takes 6 meg, and would only take about 500K as a converted word document.) In rare cases, a website that had antagonized some community might attract a DOS attack or repeated page loads of some big file, running up bandwidth charges until caught by the ISPs periodic account resource usage monitoring.
Other questions about telecommunications policy can arise when people do their own hosting and run their own web servers in rack space but work with telecommuncations providers, and this includes people who want to do hosting for others (I had my own work hosted by someone doing that until 2001, after 9/11). This may not be as common today as it was ten years ago because larger ISPs do have such economies of scale.
I wonder about the expansion of bandwidth, disk space, and search engine capacity as blogs and profiles proliferate, apparently exponentially, many of them even on free space. So far, the mathematics of supply (to some extend based on a programming "interview question" concept as simple as the binary search) has kept up with user-generated-content demand, and may well be driving it. Advertising, miraculously, seems to pay for it just as it has with network television (and that amazed people in the 1950s).
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1,671 筆評論
- 評價 5 分,滿分 5 分Software / Addons / Plugins / Websites with a mostly bright background, are for me the most questionable phenomenon, probably without a conspiratorial .. haha .. background.
Why are almost all monitors / TV's black?
They stand for the empty space to the requirement of material value.
That can be planets, Video content or virtual buttons such as icons and menus.
We need light to exist: there are suns for that.
And a sun that lets us recognize everything important in a pleasant way, is the creation with the name "Dark Reader"
Thanks for your Light
- 評價 5 分,滿分 5 分Incredible, Mind(Eye)-Blowing, Extremely Soothing, a Must-Have. This extension is a Work-Of-Art. There is no other dark-mode reader like this. The authors have taken pains to select the proper contrasting colors. It makes even existing dark-mode ready websites better.
- 評價 5 分,滿分 5 分nice tool!
- 評價 5 分,滿分 5 分esta genial la capacidad que tiene para altenrar el fondo en muchos sitios y el configurarlo para que solo sea en algunos me encanto
- 評價 4 分,滿分 5 分I really like this one, the only negative that I can think is that the pages and websites have a small delay before open or load, maybe 2-3 seconds! So if you have used to instant opening of every page it can be little bit annoying! I Really would want to know if this can be fixed in the future. But beside that, it works like a charm and it has many very useful option to choose!
- 評價 4 分,滿分 5 分It is nice across most sites, but it disables channel art on YouTube. It was only after disabling this plugin I could see channel art in YouTube.
- 評價 1 分,滿分 5 分L'idée est très intéressante mais le thême sombre nuit très sérieusement à la lecture et l'utilisation des pages web
- 評價 5 分,滿分 5 分Fantástica extensión, tanto blanco suele cansarme la vista.
- 評價 3 分,滿分 5 分Hi!
At first few weeks this add-on worked excellent.
Now, it doesn't. Usually, I have to reopen Mozzila app to make Dark Reader active.
I'm using Samsung A70 Android smartphone, and I update Mozilla regulary.
Do I have to update some other app or apps or system (which is google's) automatically? Or do I have to pay for comfort use of Dark Reader? Or this plug-in is not developing anymore?
If I have to, what's the point...? Can you give me, please, link to some other plug-in with functional dark reading mode for web?
Or do I have to stop update anything? I mean, I'm not complicated user, I can use Android 4 or 5, whatever...
Best regards!


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Week One
Selections from Hatton and Plouffe, Science and its Ways of Knowing:
"General Introduction"; "Part I: On Scientific Method"
Carl Sagan, "Can We Know the Universe?"
Robert Pirsig, "On Scientific Method," pp. vii-x, 1-10.
Week Two
Londa Shiebinger, "Gender and Natural History"
Week Four
Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principles of Population.
Week Twelve
Michael Specter, "How the DNA Revolution is Changing Us," National Geographic, August 2016.
John Harris and Marcy Darnovsky, "Pro and Con: Should Gene Editing Be Performed on Human Embryos," National Geographic, 2016.
Week Fifteen
David Quammen, "Was Darwin Wrong?"


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At Mackenzie Smith we have the privilege of dealing with many new developments and watching them unfold. It was has been an immense pleasure to witness the recent redevelopment of The Convent in Farnborough from offices, to a luxurious apartment building. With the final apartments being released and the work within the last and most prestigious Chapel apartment progressing, we thought it time to ask Michael Arnold from JIT, the developers working on the project, for his thoughts on the whole experience.
"Property development for us is a passion and we are in the fortunate position to be very selective in the projects we undertake. It is true that our primary objective has to be making a living at what we do, but with this we are also privileged to be able to contribute to a built environment that will last for generations to come.
When we first viewed The Convent in Farnborough we were addicted to the substance and heritage of this amazing Victorian building and immediately knew that we wanted to give a sustainable future to the building. So the journey began and as we had a track record of restoring historic buildings, gaining achievement awards along the way, we became the vendors' favoured bidder and in just a matter of days we found ourselves the new owners of one of the few buildings of historic interest in Farnborough.
Over the following two years we used all of our experience and ingenuity to convert this majestic building into 14 apartments, each with its own individuality and character. Our challenge as always has been to blend our enthusiasm to create something very different within the inherent construction regulations and of course the aspirations of our future buyers.
As we reached our first launch date last year, we worried about how our very different and upmarket approach to local apartments would be received but we very soon learned that there was huge demand for our properties and that our first purchasers would quickly become our strongest advocates.
Now, as we approach our final release we are proud to be launching three of the remaining apartments. Each one is individual and has been the subject of many hours of debate between us as we strive to create the best possible living spaces within the confines of the existing architecture. We have continued to refine our specifications, maintained our attention to detail and feel very confident that our new purchasers will appreciate their new homes.
Of course it has taken a year longer than we had anticipated and we have had challenges all along this amazing journey. But as we start to come to the end of this project we know that we will complete The Convent leaving it as a local landmark with a sustainable future and contented residents. For us now, we just need to find another convent to develop, so the search is on".
Michael Arnold, a director of JIT Farnborough Limited.
For further information on the apartments available, please contact our Farnborough office on 01252 375999, firstname.lastname@example.com or click here to visit our microsite.


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This page provides information and data on the Rail sector, which is a component of the Transport industry.
The Rail sector is vital to Australian business, carrying people and commodities on over 33,000km of track across the country. The sector has an estimated annual revenue of $25.52 billion, adding $10.43 billion to the Australian economy in 2017. Almost 60,000 people are employed in the sector across 977 companies comprising private and public operators, passenger and freight operators, track owners and managers, manufacturers and suppliers that operate in urban, regional, and rural areas of Australia.
Vocational education and training (VET) is required in the Rail sector for job roles involving:
- Rail Infrastructure
- Track Protection
- Shunting
- Rail Track Vehicle Driving
- Tram or Light Rail Infrastructure
- Customer Service
- Rail Driving
- Rail Track Surfacing
- Signalling
- Electric Passenger Train Guard
- Track Protection
- Heritage Locomotive Assistant or Steam Locomotive Fireman
- Train and Tram Driving
- Safety Investigation
- Network Control
- Safety Management
- Tram/Light Rail Control
- Rail Operations Management.
Nationally recognised training for the Rail sector is delivered under the TLI Transport and Logistics Training Package.
For information on the Maritime, Aviation, Transmission Distribution and Rail, and Transport and Logistics sectors please visit the respective pages.
Information sourced from the Rail IRC Skills Forecast.
All data sources are available at the end of the page.
IRC and Skills Forecast
Employment trends
Employment snapshot
Employment levels in the Rail Freight Transport and Rail Passenger Transport industries increased overall between 2012 and 2018. The employment level in Rail Freight Transport is projected to decrease slightly until 2023, while Rail Passenger Transport is projected to increase over the same period. The employment level in Rail Transport (not further defined) declined between 2012 and 2018 and a further slight decrease is projected until 2023. It also seems that there was a revision to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) during 2007–08 which has led to some substitution of the workforce between Rail Transport (nfd) and Rail Passenger Transport.
Train and Tram Drivers made up 21% of the Rail Transport industry workforce with Railway Track Workers, Ticket Salespersons and Other Stationary Plant Operators each making up approximately a further 5%. These occupations are projected to increase in employment over the next five years, with the greatest increase projected for Railway Track Workers at approximately 10%.
Training trends
Training snapshot
Program enrolments in Rail related qualifications almost tripled between 2014 and 2017 to approximately 29,900. The majority of enrolments during 2017 were at certificate II level and the main qualification areas were infrastructure and track protection qualifications. Railway Track Worker was the main intended occupation for the qualifications.
Program completions have been variable, with large spikes in completions in 2015 and 2017 (around 12,000 and 8,900 respectively) following relatively low numbers of completions in 2014 and 2016 (around 1,100 and 1,400 respectively).
For enrolments during 2017, the majority of training was delivered by private training providers although 51% of network control/rail safety qualifications and 41% of tram/light rail/train driving qualifications were delivered by enterprise training providers. For most providers a high proportion of subjects were funded via domestic fee for service except for TAFE where 66% of subjects were government-funded.
Student location was dominated by the Eastern states with close to 40% of students who enrolled during 2017 coming from Victoria, 27% from Queensland and 25% from New South Wales.
During 2017, there were 312 apprenticeship commencements and 110 completions in Rail related qualifications. Commencements declined sharply between 2010 and 2013 before increasing again in 2014 and 2015 and then falling again after that. The completion numbers remained fairly stable between years 2010 and 2013 however they have declined since that time. As at December 2017 almost 70% of apprenticeship training was reported in Victoria with a further 24% in Western Australia. The main intended occupations for apprentices were Train Driver and Travel Attendants (not elsewhere specified).
For more data specific to your occupation, industry or training package, visit NCVER's VET students by industry.
For more data specific to your region visit NCVER's Atlas of total VET. If you are prompted to log in, select cancel and you will continue to be directed to the program.
If you are interested in extracting NCVER data to construct tables with data relevant to you, sign up for a VOCSTATS account.
Industry insights
Industry insights on skills needs
The Rail IRC Skills Forecast 2018 identifies the top priority skills in the Rail sector as:
- operational skills
- health and safety
Additionally, the top priority industry and occupation skills are:
- driving
- security
- infrastructure.
The top five generic skills in order of importance are listed as:
- communication/virtual collaboration/social intelligence
- managerial/leadership
- design mindset/thinking critically/system thinking/solving problems
- learning agility/information literacy/intellectual autonomy and self-management
- technology.
According to the job vacancy data, the top requested skills by employers were communication and planning skills. The most advertised Rail occupations were Electrician (General) followed by Labourer and Train Driver. The top employers for Rail workers were Aurizon Holdings and Metro Trains Melbourne.
Furthermore, the above Skills Forecast states nearly 90% of employers in the sector reported experiencing a skills shortage during the last 12 months. The job roles related to the skills shortages were:
- Train Drivers
- Signalling Technicians
- Educators, Trainers and Assessors
- Train Controllers
- Track Workers.
Reasons employers indicated for the shortage in order of frequency were:
- ageing workforce/current staff retiring
- competition from other organisations
- cost/time to achieve the required qualification
- geographic location of the vacancy
- wages/salaries perceived too low.
The Value of Rail report by Deloitte Access Economics highlights the transition to autonomous driving technology as a significant opportunity for the Rail sector as driverless technology offers the potential to achieve greater efficiency in operations. However, the report also mentions that implementing driverless technology in the Rail sector is challenging as it requires improvements to signalling and communications infrastructure. The Skills Forecast states the onset of autonomous systems and vehicles is expected to have significant effects on the workforce and as these systems gain traction they will require new skills in technology, remote operations, diagnostics, maintenance and communications.
The Skills Forecast also discusses other technological changes for the Rail sector including:
- Using simulation, either by augmented or virtual reality (AR and VR respectively), to develop and design new infrastructure and provide simulation-based rail control operations training to deliver high-quality and safe practice for new workers.
- The use of Big Data is enabling transport systems to accurately analyse information from the network and as the volume of this data increases there will be demand for operators to interpret and analyse the data meaningfully.
The report A National Rail Industry Plan for the Benefit of Australia by the Australasian Railway Association identifies several enablers linked to workforce skilling aimed at growing the capabilities of individuals and companies within the sector, including:
- Identifying the labour skills required for a high-performing rail system that is abreast of emerging technologies.
- Ensuring training methodologies are leading edge and keep abreast of future skill needs and training requirements.
- Don't assume current approaches to traineeships and apprenticeships best meet Rail industry purposes.
- Training at certificate, degree and postgraduate levels is to be encouraged.
- Promoting a bold and exciting image of rail to attract talented people.
- Programs for local companies to improve their capabilities to international standards should be on offer.
Links and resources
Below is a list of industry-relevant organisations and associations. Hyperlinks have been included where available.
Industry associations and advisory bodies
Australasian Railway Association
Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board
Regulatory bodies
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator
Employee associations
Association of Tourist and Heritage Rail Australia
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
Rail & Maritime Transport Union Inc
Rail Track Association Australia
Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator
Federal, State/Territory Departments
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Australian Rail Track Corporation
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure - SA
Public Transport Authority - Government of WA
Rail Accreditation and Registration - Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure
Industry Advisory
State and Territory Industry Training Advisory Boards (ITABS)
Relevant research
A National Rail Industry Plan for the Benefit of Australia - Australasian Railway Association
Rail – Platforms for the Future 2017-35 – Australasian Railway Association
Value of Rail – Deloitte Access Economics
Data sources and notes
Department of Employment, 2018, Employment Projections, available from the Labour Market Information Portal
- by ANZSIC 3 digit industry, employment projections to May 2023:
- 470 Rail Transport nfd
- 471 Rail Freight Transport
- 472 Rail Passenger Transport.
- by ANZSCO, selected occupations, employment projections to May 2023:
- 6394 Ticket Salespersons
- 7129 Other Stationary Plant Operators
- 7313 Train and Tram Drivers
- 8216 Railway Track Workers.
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2017, Employed persons by Industry group of main job (ANZSIC), Sex, State and Territory, November 1984 onwards, 6291.0.55.003 – EQ06, viewed 1 November 2018 http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/6291.0.55.003May%202018?OpenDocument
- Employed total by ANZSIC 3 digit industry, 2000 to 2018, May quarter:
- 470 Rail Transport nfd
- 471 Rail Freight Transport
- 472 Rail Passenger Transport.
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2017, 2016 Census – employment, income and unpaid work, TableBuilder. Findings based on use of ABS TableBuilder data.
- Employment level by ANZSIC 2 digit industry:
- 47 Rail Transport
- ANZSCO 4 digit level occupations to identify the relevant VET-related occupations in the industry as a proportion of the total workforce.
Training data has been extracted from the National VET Provider Collection, Total VET Students and Courses from the following training package or qualifications:
- TLI Transport and Logistics Training Package
- Infrastructure
- TLI21309 - Certificate II in Rail Infrastructure
- TLI21310 - Certificate II in Rail Infrastructure
- TLI21311 - Certificate II in Rail Infrastructure
- TLI21315 - Certificate II in Rail Infrastructure
- TLI31811 - Certificate III in Rail Track Surfacing
- TLI31815 - Certificate III in Rail Track Surfacing
- TLI32110 - Certificate III in Rail Structures
- TLI32111 - Certificate III in Rail Structures
- TLI32115 - Certificate III in Rail Structures
- TLI32511 - Certificate III in Rail Infrastructure
- TLI32515 - Certificate III in Rail Infrastructure
- TLI32915 - Certificate III in Tram or Light Rail Infrastructure
- TLI42311 - Certificate IV in Rail Infrastructure
- TLI42315 - Certificate IV in Rail Infrastructure
- Network Control/Rail Safety
- TLI31913 - Certificate III in Mechanical Rail Signalling
- TLI31915 - Certificate III in Mechanical Rail Signalling
- TLI40115 - Certificate IV in Rail Safety Investigation
- TLI42211 - Certificate IV in Rail Network Control
- TLI42215 - Certificate IV in Rail Network Control
- TLI42413 - Certificate IV in Rail Safety Management
- TLI42415 - Certificate IV in Rail Safety Management
- TLI42413 - Certificate IV in Rail Safety Management
- TLI42415 - Certificate IV in Rail Safety Management
- Rail Operations
- TLI20410 - Certificate II in Transport and Logistics (Rail Operations)
- TLI22013 - Certificate II in Shunting
- TLI22015 - Certificate II in Shunting
- TLI22113 - Certificate II in Rail Track Vehicle Driving
- TLI22115 - Certificate II in Rail Track Vehicle Driving
- TLI22313 - Certificate II in Rail Customer Service
- TLI22315 - Certificate II in Rail Customer Service
- TLI30407 - Certificate III in Transport and Logistics (Rail Operations)
- TLI30410 - Certificate III in Transport and Logistics (Rail Operations)
- TLI32315 - Certificate III in Electric Passenger Train Guard
- TLI32813 - Certificate III in Rail Yard Coordination
- TLI32815 - Certificate III in Rail Yard Coordination
- TLI33015 - Certificate III in Heritage Locomotive Assistant or Steam Locomotive Fireman
- TLI33113 - Certificate III in Rail Customer Service
- TLI33115 - Certificate III in Rail Customer Service
- TLI33215 - Certificate III in Terminal Train Driving
- TLI40407 - Certificate IV in Transport and Logistics (Rail Operations)
- TLI40410 - Certificate IV in Transport and Logistics (Rail Operations)
- TLI50613 - Diploma of Rail Operations Management
- TLI50615 - Diploma of Rail Operations Management
- Track Protection
- TLI21911 - Certificate II in Track Protection
- TLI21915 - Certificate II in Track Protection
- TLI32711 - Certificate III in Track Protection
- TLI32715 - Certificate III in Track Protection
- Tram/Light Rail/Train Driving
- TLI31415 - Certificate III in Rail Driving
- TLI42613 - Certificate IV in Train Driving
- TLI42615 - Certificate IV in Train Driving.
This includes superseded qualifications and training packages.
Data covers a range of selected student and training characteristics in the following categories and years:
- 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 program enrolments
- 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 subject enrolments
- 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 program completions.
Total VET students and courses data is reported for the calendar year. Program enrolments are the qualifications, courses and skill-sets in which students are enrolled in a given period. For students enrolled in multiple programs, all programs are counted. Program completion indicates that a student has completed a structured and integrated program of education or training. Location data uses student residence. Subject enrolment is registration of a student at a training delivery location for the purpose of undertaking a module, unit of competency or subject. For more information on the terms and definitions, please refer to the Total VET students and courses: terms and definitions document.
Low counts (less than 5) are not reported to protect client confidentiality.
Percentages are rounded to one decimal place. This can lead to situations where the total sum of proportions in a chart may not add up to exactly 100%.
TLI Transport and Logistics Training Package apprentice and trainee data has been extracted from the National Apprentice and Trainee Collection, including:
- 2010 to 2017 commencements
- 2010 to 2017 completions
- 2017 apprentices and trainees in-training October to December 2016 collection, by qualification and state and territory of data submitter.
Priority skills data have been extracted from the Rail Industry Reference Committee's 2018 Skills Forecast.
Job vacancy data have been extracted from Burning Glass Technologies 2018, Labor Insight Real-time Labor Market Information Tool, Burning Glass Technologies, Boston, viewed July 2018, https://www.burning-glass.com.
Data shown represent most requested generic skills, occupations and employers according to internet job postings in Australia between July 2015 and June 2018 filtered by ANZSIC and ANZSCO classification levels listed below.
- Generic skills / Occupations
- ANZSCO major groups excluding Community and Personal Service Workers, Managers, Professionals, Sales Workers, Clerical and Administrative Workers
- 47 Rail Transport.
- Employers
- 341111 Electrician (General)
- 899999 Labourers nec
- 731311 Train Driver
- 891211 Shelf Filler
- 733111 Truck Driver
- 47 Rail Transport.


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"Untitled #4322"
36″ x 36″ x 1.4″
mixed media on canvas
$1295.00 + shipping/packing
"Untitled #4322"
"Untitled #4322"
36″ x 36″ x 1.4″
mixed media on canvas
$1295.00 + shipping/packing
I was watching a YouTube vlog about art and the question came up, what is your art about? I was stumped. Initially I thought maybe I don't have any meaning behind my art except my works are the marks I choose to leave behind. Which lead me to think, maybe my works are about the frailty of life. This made sense to me and I'll be adapting this theme.
I'm contemplating taking on my largest painting project I've ever done – a huge 60″ x 72″ canvas. This fifteen ounce canvas will not be stretched or framed. This will tangibly convey my new theme: "The Frailty of Life." I intend to sell it as is, the buyer may mount it any way they wish but my intent is to hang it loose to convey the theme best as possible.
As I reach the end of my acrylic paint.
I'm reaching toward my oils.
I'm considering switching to 100% oil paint.
I used to think I paint fast
in reality I don't.
I enjoy the time between applications,
hence: oil paint.
Here are three 16″ x 20″ paintings on canvas.
The first layer is acrylic paint followed by a mixture of oil & cold wax.
It's OK to mix acrylic and oil as long as you put the oil on TOP of the acrylic.
If you put the acrylic on top of oil, good luck with that!
I'm calling this done.
I taped off what I wanted to keep then painted over it with a mild yellow and then peeled off the tape. I like it but now it needs refining.


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Bruno Mars Sets Denver Dates! Yes.. DATES!
We knew he was set to re-schedule his Denver Pepsi Center date after having to postpone last fall, but we didn't know he'd be adding Cardi B to the show AND adding a second show! It's now official.. Bruno will be back for the make up date on Friday September 7th as well as playing a second show on Saturday September 8th! That second date will be on sale this Friday and WILL sell-out FAST so don't wait! And yes.. We'll have tickets to win too :)


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Shawn McGough was already walking without a cane, working out and bicycling regularly just nine weeks following extensive reconstruction of his left leg after a serious motorcycle accident in March 2013. The 48-year-old Florissant, MO, resident suffered a compound fracture and large open wound when his leg was caught between a highway retaining wall and his motorcycle.
Orthopaedic trauma surgeon William Ricci first repaired and then stabilized McGough's leg, inserting a rod from his knee to his ankle.
Because there wasn't enough skin left to cover the gaping wound, Ricci then called in Daniel Osei and Martin Boyer from the orthopaedic flap surgery team to create an anterolateral thigh flap.
Using skin from McGough's right leg, Osei and Boyer microsurgically attached a large football shaped flap to cover the wound.
"The ALT flap is very versatile because it can be as small as 4 x 4 centimeters or as large as 20 x 30 centimeters," says Osei.
"I totally felt that these guys were the right ones to do this," says McGough. "They were so positive of a good result, and they talked a lot about the procedure with me so I wouldn't worry."
Osei and Boyer constantly monitored the flap in the days following surgery.
"They did an ultrasound every few hours at first to make sure the blood was flowing through and the flap was in good shape," recalls McGough.
"Dr. Osei also told me he wouldn't send me out of the hospital until they felt confident that I would do okay." McGough, a member of the Faithful Few Motorcycle Ministry, says he always had faith that he was going to be able to walk again, but the confidence and diligent follow-up care reassured him. "I'm truly amazed that I can walk without a cane," he says. "They were excellent."
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Moog Mother 32, Moog DFAM, Elektron Analog Four, Korg MS 20
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Great Moog sounds. Very resonant and cinematic. The track evokes a retro futuristic landscape.
Great atmosphere to this. Could be the soundtrack for a 80's sci-fi movie.
lovely sounds!


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Let's Get Real 7: Developing deeper human connection across digital channels
Culture24, in partnership with the Carnegie UK Trust, Common Cause Foundation and Wellcome Collection is working collaboratively with 19 arts and heritage organisations to understand how to generate stronger personal connections and more meaningful relationships through their digital work.
Participating organisations
Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections
Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon
Museums Partnership Reading (The Museum of English Rural Life & Reading Museum)
Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
What will Let's Get Real 7 focus on?
Let's Get Real 7 (LGR7) will test ways participants can use their existing digital channels in more thoughtful and socially purposeful ways, to foster more meaningful connection between people and communities. We will do this by exploring how cultural organisations can align their digital activity more closely with the values-led practices that are beginning to happen more overtly in their physical spaces.
We will support participants to test out small scale interventions to their existing activity on digital channels, which prioritise and respond to human purpose, meaning and values. For example, facilitating conversations or campaigns on social media that aim to do more than sell tickets, but rather nurture particular human values like curiosity and creativity – familiar ground for many cultural practitioners – but also deeper and arguably more personal values like kindness, integrity and forgiveness.
These changes can be small and cost nothing, but their impact can be huge, not only in human and societal terms, but also in how we as cultural organisations approach, and get value from, our existing digital work.
Why does this matter now?
Read about why we think this is an important area, in these blog posts by our Research Manager Sejul Malde:
- Why should the cultural sector change their existing digital practices to prioritise deeper human connection?
- Taking a values-orientated approach to redesigning our digital practices
What are the timelines for the LGR7 project?
The project runs from March to November 2019.
How do I find out more?
LGR7 is the latest in Culture24's series of groundbreaking collaborative action research projects, building on our recent work exploring the relationships between social purpose and digital practice for arts and heritage organisations. To learn more about the Let's Get Real approach and the type of learning it generates, please read our most recent report – Let's Get Real 6: Connecting digital practice with social purpose.
If you'd like to keep in touch with more information about our work and opportunities to join future projects and events, please sign up below to receive our regular newsletter.


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Based in Australia's Yarra Valley, Four Pillars takes traditional gin styles and puts its own exotic spin on them with unusual and intriguing ingredients, such as Shiraz grapes and blood oranges.
Enjoy responsibly
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With their high volume foot traffic, grocery stores are ideal labs to test bold ideas meant to save brick and mortar retail.
China's Alibaba is leading the way. In its Hema supermarkets shoppers can choose groceries in store, then get them delivered, or they can order online, then drive over to pick up.


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Nike Speed Drops
We're thrilled to announce the release of a digital piece we worked on for Nike, during Super Bowl 50 in San Francisco, with Sinuhe Xavier and R/GA.
"While many advertisers were shelling out millions of dollars for TV slots on the Super Bowl broadcast last Sunday, Nike was on the ground in San Francisco getting much more up close and personal with some of its biggest fans." - AdWeek
"We came to San Francisco to showcase speed with our fastest drop ever. Exclusively for Nike+ Members. Nike Speed Drops." - Nike
Will you be next? nike.com/football


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I've found myself in a very strange situation in my life. I finished University nearly 1 month ago. I actually remember how I felt on the exact day I had my last presentation. I could just breathe normally without feeling a huge weight on my chest. I'm so so happy that part of my life is absolutely over. I couldn't take it anymore, I was so determined to just never look at another textbook again.
However, that's all great – but I'm thinking where is my life headed now? A part of me wants to work for Chanel for a while, as that's the only brand that I've always been so passionately obsessed about and another part of me wants to get into my career as a Biochemist so that I can move out of my parents house and I could just have my own living space with a steady income… Then another (reckless) part of me wants to just move to New York and experience this beautiful/mesmerising city.
I have so much to think about and so much to plan… America has already rejected my visa, but apparently there's another way to go about it. I'm still trying to figure it out, but it honestly gives me a headache.
All I know is, I've always been defined by my education until this point in my life. I've always stopped myself from doing what I want, because "I have Uni tomorrow"… or "I have to apply for a new University" or… " I can't possibly go out and have a social life… I need to get the best grade that I can in this".
It's now time for development, enlightenment; it's time to learn myself.
It's all very exciting and very scary at the same time. Who am I even?
With Love,


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To accessorize her pearl white Zimmermann dress, Meghan wore a Cartier Diamond Tennis bracelet, which was actually a wedding gift from Prince Charles.
Meghan first wore the item of jewellery the day before her wedding to Prince Harry back in May 2018.
She was spotted wearing the gorgeous Cartier bracelet again when she attended Prince Charles' 70th Birthday Patronage Celebration just days after her nuptials.
And now, while on tour with her husband, Meghan has been wearing the gift from her father-in-law yet again.
It's simple and elegant, but how much was it?
The precious item is thought to be worth around £21,930, the 18K white gold bracelet is set with 52 brilliant-cut diamonds totaling 4.68 carats.
It's clear Meghan is fond of her new accessory, but with a price tag that big, you would like to think so. The beauty of this piece is that it can be worn with every colour of wardrobe and to any event. Well done Charles!
If you don't have Charles' budget, don't panic
There are lots of personal/novelty gifts that parents can give to their children and future in-laws ahead of the big day.
Just the idea of wanting to give a gift to a newcomer in the family is a sweet sentiment, you don't have to break the bank.
Check out some of our favourite high street picks, that are timeless.
Just like the Queen gifted both Meghan and Princess Eugenie, you too can purchase stunning tiaras that are just a fraction of the price.
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AINZ&TULPE Interactive Shop Window Looks
AINZ&TULPE, the largest cosmetics shop in Japan, has created "Look", an interactive shop window experience providing multilingual support for shoppers looking for a makeup experience. Over 10 million people from around the world visit Tokyo each year. Cosmetics are one of the top three items that they purchase and take home. However, as only 3% of Japanese people can speak a foreign language, foreigners have difficulties choosing products in Japan. This interactive experience provides a way forward.
There are over 10 types of fashionable Japanese faces displayed on the signage. The faces were produced using only products sold to AINZ&TULPE by Japan's top makeup artists. Those fashionable faces detect people's movements and faces. When a person selects a fashionable Japanese face to his/her liking, coupons, makeup methods, and more are issued in that person's native language using facial recognition. If the person brings a coupon into the shop, not only are items used to create that face discounted, an experience is provided to all people in which makeup is applied to resemble that fashionable Japanese face in only three minutes. See more on the project on the AINZ&TULPE site.
The AINZ&TULPE Shop Window experience was developed at Dentsu Inc, Tokyo, by creative director/planner Reietsu Hashimoto, account executives Koji Makino and Nanae Suzuki, PR team Shingo Hiraoka and Ryo Nakagawa, working with AINZ/TULPE marketing director Kaori Ishikawa.
Production was done at Puzzle Inc, Tokyo, and Birdman, Tokyo, by general producer Daima Kawamura, producers Nozomu Naito and Mitsuaki Hongyo, production manager Ayumi Matsumoto, interactive director Roy Ryo Tsukiji, technical director Takeru Kobayashi, director Yoichi Kanazawa, art director Junya Hoshikawa, designer Ryota Mishima, device engineer/programmer Yohei Kajihara, programmer Shudai Matsumoto, web developers Koumei Sato and Takashi Tsushima, set designer Kiyoharu Mitsui, makeup artist Kazuko Hayasaka, writer Yuka Hashimoto, director of photography Yosuke Nakajima, stylist Maki Takeda.
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Tagged: Birdman, Dentsu, Puzzle
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For last year's football package, I added motion for the first time. This year I wanted to step it up once more and use all 3D models and imagery. Each installment build towards the full football graphics package we will use for gameday and score graphics.
100 Days
For 100 days, I used a model of Kyle Field that was based on an existing model made by the incredible minds at CampusBird who did the Texas A&M Interactive Map base layer. This Kyle Field model was such a gift because I have so many ideas of what to do with it next...stay tuned.
This was a simple animation for the kick-off of the series. Just a camera lowering down into the stadium as lights turn on for the first time as Kyle Field comes back to life for 2018.
For 75 days, I used an iconic football helmet and tried to get the "75 Days" as a reflection in the face shield. This render took a full 2.5 days and each frame about 45 mins each. Having the "75 Days" as the light emitter I think took the most time for the renderer to figure out such complex lights. So this will probably be the last time I use non-regular light emitters...
For 50 Days, the first views of "the shelf" appear. The 50 Days football sits on the shelf along with a lot of Aggie memorabilia. The helmet makes a second appearance and hints that elements of past countdown graphics will make their way back into the larger scene.
The shelf is going to be the main storyteller from here on out. All of our football communications will be framed within this shelf.
Now that "the shelf" is revealed, the 25 days mo-graph reveals the TV which will be the vehicle of all of the gameday and final score graphics to come during the season.
We couldn't do 12 Days without a nod to the 12th Man, Texas A&M's trademark tradition. Also visible are the iconic Corps of Cadets "Senior Boots".