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IT job trends: The buck starts here
Best IT job bets in 2003 and beyond
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cascading reductions in force, and the unrelenting pace of technological change. Career planning for IT workers is downright confusing, whether you're employed, unemployed or underemployed. For those pondering the next step in their IT careers, this edition of the IT Career Expert newsletter nets some of the best (and worst) bets when it comes to different technical skills, industries and geographic locations.
The buck starts here
2002 was a tough year for IT pay. Total compensation for 85 IT positions tracked by Foote Partners declined by an average of 2.8%, with cash bonuses falling by 32%. This research was conducted using input from 32,000 IT professionals (see Methodology).
Bucking the downward trend were corporate security jobs (up an average of 5.5% in base pay and 3.3% in total compensation), plus jobs for experienced networking professionals and for application systems developers working in e-commerce-related areas.
Moreover, premium pay for security certification bonuses rose 11.3% in value in 2002 and an even more impressive 31% over the past two years, according to our research. The growth was due largely to several GIAC technical niche certifications from the SANS Institute and renewed interest in the management-oriented Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Certified Information Systems Auditor certifications. All registered between 11% and 38% growth last year.
Median premium pay for 54 technical certifications has grown a surprising 0.5% over the past two dreadful years (even with a modest 3.3% decline in 2002), led not just by security but also by solid performances recently by certifications in project management, Linux (up 17%), and networking (most notably Novell Inc.'s Certified Novell Engineer and Master Certified Novell Engineer).
Also hot: skills in voice over IP, Wireless Markup Language (WML), DB2, VoiceXML, SAP AG's ABAP language, and NetWare; all these skills grew in value in 2002. The highest paying? Rapid application development/extreme programming, XML, SQL Server, WML and Oracle database and enterprise applications skills.
Foote Partners' best bets for short- and long-term career direction:
- Security management
- Network management
- Enterprise infrastructure and architecture
- SAP-related development
- Wireless
- Project management
- Project-based work implementing customer-facing systems and processes
- Databases
- Business technology
Are you 'geographically' challenged?
Do you live in a location that is helping or hurting your chances for a good job in IT? Monthly metropolitan area employment statistics issued by the Department of Labor provide some clues. December 2002 statistics, available at DOL data, reveals the following bright spots, summarized here in order of relative performance:
Largest over-the-year, non-farm employment increases:
Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif. (+22,000 jobs)
Las Vegas
San Diego
Largest over-the-year percentage employment increases:
Elkhart-Goshen, Ind. (+4.5%)
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Ark.
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas
Santa Fe, N.M.
Tacoma, Wash.
Atlantic City-Cape May, N.J.
Laredo, Texas
Madison, Wis.
Wausau, Wis.
Savannah, Ga.
Asheville, N.C.
- Lowest unemployment rates for large metropolitan areas:
Greater Washington, D.C. (3.1%)
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.
- Largest over-the-year unemployment declines in large metropolitan areas:
Las Vegas (1.9%)
Orlando, Fla.
And these are the metropolitan areas less likely to support IT jobs, according to the December labor statistics:
- Highest unemployment rates in large metropolitan areas:
San Jose, Calif. (7.5%)
New York
Portland, Ore.-Vancouver, British Columbia
- Largest over-the-year, non-farm employment declines:
Chicago (-57,400 jobs)
New York
San Jose, Calif.
San Francisco
- The largest over-the-year percentage employment declines:
Flint, Mich. (4.3%)
Decatur, Ill.
Bridgeport, Conn.
Boulder-Longmont, Colo.
Albany, Ga.
Witchita, Kan.
Elmira-Binghamton, N.Y.
Looking beyond 2003, several emerging job markets will produce more IT jobs. The Albany, N.Y., area and surrounding region are receiving substantial investments from the state government and private investors that are intended to attract technology businesses. Sematech -- an Austin, Texas-based consortium of 12 semiconductor companies from seven countries -- will soon be opening its newest program in Albany.
Business is surging for defense contractors and the biomedical firms in Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia, where the jobless rate is the nation's lowest. The Northern Virginia Technology Council estimates a current demand for some 4,000 to 5,000 IT workers, especially government contractors with security clearances.
In California, an array of medical device and biomedical companies needing IT pros (including Baxter International Inc. and Becton, Dickinson and Company) are also figuring into job growth in the 28,000-square mile, three-county Riverside-San Bernardino area east of Los Angeles. But the primary reason why this area, dubbed the Inland Empire region, created the most jobs in the country last year: it's become a burgeoning center for distribution, requiring specialized skills in logistics and IT.
Las Vegas and Reno, Nev., are enjoying strong job growth tied to the post-September 11 return of gaming and leisure customers. Jobs are returning to Miami and Orlando, Fla., for some of the same reasons.
There's no doubt that industry has a lot to do with where IT employment can be found. Manufacturing continues to be the weakest industry division, according to Department of Labor research, which cites employment growth in the services, government, finance, insurance and real estate industries. My firm's research findings indicate IT job growth in the financial services, defense, insurance, health care, pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, but continued hard times for IT workers in the technology, wholesale/retail, and media/publishing sectors.
Trends to watch closely
Disaffected, stressed-out, private-sector IT workers with worthless stock options are more aggressively seeking jobs in federal and state government. Who could blame them? Why wouldn't they want a more relaxed work environment, shorter hours, generous family-friendly benefits and better job security? Especially those who risk losing their jobs permanently to offshore technicians, contractors and part-time workers who can work more cheaply and provide IT executives with greater flexibility and responsiveness. So-called permanent layoffs are a deadly serious employment trend that have appeared not just in our research but in a report issued in August by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which confirmed that a structural downsizing began more than a decade ago -- a downsizing that's similar to the workforce reductions in manufacturing and aerospace jobs during the last century.
For a free copy of Foote Partners' just-released "2003 Trends Report on Technical Certifications & Skills Pay" go to this URL and follow the instructions.
About the author:
David Foote is president and chief research officer at Foote Partners LLC, the management consultancy and IT workforce research firm he cofounded in 1997. He was formerly an industry analyst at Gartner Inc. and Meta Group, where he founded and directed Meta's CIO/CTO research service and led its IT human capital management and compensation research areas. During the past 20 years -- including a decade in Silicon Valley as a technology executive and industry consultant -- Foote has advised corporations and governments on five continents in information-age management strategies. His editorial columns, articles and contributions appear weekly in a variety of popular business, IT and human resources publications, and are broadcast on the radio and through webcasts. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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White House officials, rushing to get the law's insurance marketplaces ready to open, keep hitting technical problems, while field workers say they aren't fully prepared to help Americans enroll. Christopher Weaver joins MoneyBeat. (Photo: Getty)
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During his public speech last week, Tiger Woods took exception with the public attention placed on his family amid his personal scandal.
And now, the embattled golfer has issued an apology to fellow parents at his daughter's private daycare center due to any extra attention the facility and its students have received in the wake of his Thanksgiving night crash and subsequent admitted "infidelity."
Here is the text from the letter (obtained by WFTV9 in Orlando) sent to parents of children at the Premier Academy in Windermere, Fla., where Tiger and Elin's daughter, Sam, attends:
"Dear Premier Academy parents,
We would like to share our appreciation for your support over the past several months and off our personal apology for any inconvenience you are experiencing due to the increased media scrutiny surrounding our children. We truly understand how frustrating it can be.
We hope that the paparazzi will find something better to do with their time in the near future. In the meantime, it is our goal to keep life as normal as possible for our children. We are sure that as parents you can appreciate that. For Sam, that normalcy means attending the school that she enjoys so much.
Again, we truly appreciate the support from the entire Premier Academy family.
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Politics rule everyday life in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A sea of marchers in red and yellow T-shirts flowed through the capital's main downtown boulevard, paralyzing traffic while state TV cameras stood ready to record every second. The crowd had come out to show their support for the late President Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro, but they weren't student activists or community organizers.
The march had been launched by state-run telecommunications company CANTV, and the hundreds of employees were heading for the presidential palace to "deliver" the company's 2012 dividends to Maduro, Venezuela's acting leader and the official candidate to replace Chavez.
"We want this political project to continue," said customer support supervisor Maya Leon. "We're all Chavistas here."
Former government workers and experts said Monday's event was only the latest example of changes a decade in the making. The late leader transformed this country's enormous state industries into political arms of the government, they said, with partisan loyalties trumping technical competence in hiring and ministries turning out thousands of civil servants for election year rallies.
State companies such as oil producer PDVSA and the manager of Caracas' subway system used to be known around the world for their professionalism. In recent years, many of those companies have seen service and revenue deteriorate as political cadres rather than engineers were brought in to run everything from oil exploration to mass transit.
Public safety nonprofit groups say the same politicization has crippled efforts to fix Venezuela's super-violent prisons or lower one of the world's highest homicide rates, with the government refusing to work with opposition governors or mayors on any public safety plan.
Vicente Gonzalez de la Vega, a Central Venezuela University law professor, said he remembers when the capital's 37-mile-long subway network was considered Latin America's most modern, and drew engineers from around the world to study it. Power outages began hitting the system more frequently and trains were often delayed, as Chavez grew suspicious of the autonomous state company that ran the transport system. New stations and rail lines were left unbuilt, despite booming ridership.
Tensions exploded in 2010 when passengers upset about the system took over a subway train, resulting in 33 arrests.
"We used to say there were two cities, one above, and one below that was more decent, more efficient," de la Vega said. "But this has become a hyper-politicized city. And we've seen the effects."
To Chavez supporters, politicization has merely meant awakening needed class consciousness in a federal bureaucracy that employs about a tenth of all Venezuelans. They also deny it's hurt government services or bottom lines.
"Before, a housewife didn't talk about politics because she said, 'I'm just a housewife,'" said Eduardo Saman, a former Chavez commerce minister. "An athlete was just surrounded by sports and didn't talk about politics. One of the great achievements of President Chavez was to elevate the level of political consciousness in general terms."
"Now, we have technicians who at the same time have the ability to come up with political solutions to problems. Now they're conscious in their work. Politics and technical capacity should not be separated."
More than anything else, the country's future hinges on the welfare of PDVSA and its management of the world's biggest proven oil reserves. The company produces about 90 percent of Venezuela's export income and about half of all government revenue.
Yet from 1999 to 2011, Venezuela's daily oil output dropped by nearly 25 percent, from 3.3 million barrels of oil a day to 2.5 million barrels, according to U.S. Energy Department figures. Data from the OPEC group of oil-producing countries show Venezuela trailing five other nations in daily production despite its massive reserves. Russia, for example, produced three times more oil than Venezuela although it has a quarter the proven reserves.
Oil industry analysts blame the production drop on a PDVSA brain drain during the Chavez years and the company's failure to invest in new exploration while it funded popular social programs. The economic effects are already being felt nationwide, with dropping exports bringing in fewer dollars, which in turn has spurred shortages of everything from cars to machine parts to basic foods.
Venezuelan officials have pledged to boost oil production, and the country's economy depends on that happening. Yet production numbers have stayed flat for the past three years, U.S. Energy Department figures show.
The company "isn't looking for people who have know-how," said Diego Gonzalez, a former PDVSA oil exploration engineer who left in 2001. "It doesn't seem to be producing new deposits now. There are no new refineries, petrochemical plants. There's nothing new."
On top of that, Venezuela continues to sell the cheapest gas in the world, at 6 cents per gallon, thanks to government subsidies designed to keep consumers happy. That program costs Venezuela about $16 billion a year, according to the International Energy Agency, further eroding potential export earnings.
Andres Izarra, a former Chavez information minister, called reports of declining oil production "lies" and said PDVSA's current workers had in fact saved the company after a general strike in 2002 and 2003 that paralyzed the economy.
"The PDVSA worker has been through a war," Izarra said. "They were the ones who recovered the oil industry. It's thanks to them we can produce oil again and have gasoline again. These are guys who are very much militants of the revolution."
By all accounts, the move to purge government ranks began in earnest with the strike, which shrank the economy by nearly 8 percent in 2003. Chavez responded by demanding loyalty throughout his government, from the armed forces to doctors, and replaced striking PDVSA workers with party members, Gonzalez said.
Once known as some of the best in the industry, many PDVSA engineers and managers have since moved to the Middle East and other oil-producing regions.
Saman said the company's workers are as professional as ever, even if they didn't come from the same social classes as before. He said education wasn't a prerequisite to public service, pointing to his own rise from pharmacist to commerce minister.
"The opposition thinks they're the owners of knowledge," Saman said. "They wrote me off because I didn't have education. The truth is I didn't have their kind of education."
Maduro, for one, has made direct appeals to government workers a key part of his campaign, holding rallies with workers from PDVSA, the federal electrical company and CANTV, among others.
"I guarantee and say before you oil workers," Maduro told PDVSA workers last week, "brothers and sisters of the petroleum working class, that if you elect me as president of the republic, I will know how to defend the accomplishments of the petroleum industry in the streets."
Luis Izquiel, an aide to opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, said such partisan governing would end with a change of administration.
"This has to stop," Izquiel said. "We have to stop dividing people in these categories, of red or yellow or blue. We have to bring in people independent of their politics."
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Don't Breathe or The Blind Man will hear you! Fede Alvarez comes with a twisted tale of a twisted blind man who lives in a land of the deserted. Those blind eyes tell a story that people always read without knowing about what secrets house in that wretched house of his, until one day three robbers decide to plunder him of his riches. That's when you see past the belied story of the man. That's also when you discover how abominable it is.
The titular thriller justifies the theme of the movie perfectly. I found myself literally holding my breath to ensure the protagonist made it unfazed. What works terribly well for the movie is its plausibility quotient, the way the storyline unfolds by staying true to its roots, and how everything stays connected one by one with steps in the same ladder. All of it makes Don't Breathe seem very tenable.
Direction of Don't Breathe Movie
Fede Alvarez's direction is simply top-notch. The way his camera moves along with him in the house will leave you with goose bumps. To top that all there are weird surprises at every corner and that's what makes it both terrifying and thrilling. To see Stephen Lang pop up out of nowhere breaking those absent rooms with his presence, is outright criminal!
You cannot overlook the music of Don't Breathe either; superbly complementing the theme, racing down alongside the thrill! It instantly puts you in the right mood.
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The fact that there are many points of culmination in Don't Breathe will often oscillate you to and fro flinging you towards a surefire neurotic arrest. You will constantly find your heart in your mouth as you try to escape the nefarious blind man yourself thinking at the speed of light just like the unfortunate trapped souls.
That time where the characters grope in dark has been brilliantly shot. Their eyes are dilated as they scrabble to escape their misery in pitch darkness. To have lived something as awful as that is bound to tingle your spines. Also, it hasn't been stretched which makes it even more delectable.
To ice the accursed Blind Man, we have a badass dog, a Rottweiler that comes at odd junctures, making things even more baleful. It brings that frightening steer in the tale and that fills the movie with even more horror.
It takes in the vanguard a dispensable character Money played by Daniel Zovatto of the It Follows fame, Rocky played by Jane Levy whom we saw in Evil Dead in the 2013 reboot, and Dylan Minnette as Alex of the Goosebumps movie as the thieves who choose the wrong house. Each one of them were superbly cast.
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One huge thing about the movie is the weighing in on of its crime. The fact that the intruders were criminals themselves, technically you shouldn't feel sorry for them rather deem everything as poetic justice. But when the real trepidation begins to trickle you realize murder beats them all. You can't help but take sides.
Also, we have seen plenty of thrillers that skim the line of Don't Breathe before. Except for the fact that the killer here is blind; if you take out this apparent crux, the movie stands strangely on the lines of what we have seen plenty of times before. If it weren't for Fede's brilliance, it would have failed to impress.
The Final Gavel
Don't Breathe is edgy, thrilling and an exhilarating joyride into the crime vale where you are left at the mercy of a psychotic blind man. If you are a thriller aficionado, this movie is just for you.
Go ahead and watch this one!
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The Endocannabinoid System: Could It Explain Hemp Oil's Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Anxiety Properties?
Have you heard of the endocannabinoid system? I'll give you a hint: It's the system in the body that explains why cannabis-based therapies—which include oils made from both marijuana and hemp—have such strong effects on our physiology. If you haven't heard of it, you're not alone. It's a relatively new discovery and the science of this system, abbreviated ECS, is still very much developing. In fact, it's one of our Wellness Trends to Watch for 2019.
But with the massive rise in popularity of hemp oil, and the fact that more and more states are legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, it's a topic we should all understand on some level. As the author of the book CBD Oil Everyday Secrets and the health editor here at mindbodygreen, it's my job to stay up to date on the science of the ECS and hemp—and share that info with all of you.
The endocannabinoid system 101: This is what it really does.
The endocannabinoid system is known as a "master regulatory system" and works to maintain homeostasis in the body, which is a science-y way of saying it works to keep your body balanced. So how does it do that, exactly? Science says it does this in a LOT of ways. The ECS has been connected to physiological processes that range from pain perception and blood pressure regulation to blood sugar balance, sleep quality, and digestion. In reality, this list could go on and on.
The ECS is a huge deal and could mean big things for medical research and health care; and much like the microbiome, we're learning more about it all the time. "Because emerging science is showing that the ECS is one of the central signaling and regulatory systems in the human body, new discoveries about the importance of this system are being published every day," said Robert Rountree, M.D., an integrative medicine physician and main stage speaker at revitalize 2018. "That is part of what makes the study of the ECS so exciting—the more we know about what this system is and does, the more we understand how supporting it can affect a huge range of conditions from obesity to chronic pain to addiction. The potential impact is enormous," he explained.
So why all the attention right now? The developing science of the ECS is helping to explain why, exactly, taking hemp oil—which is full of cannabinoids like CBD as well as other beneficial terpenes and compounds—is so beneficial to our health.
Hemp oil and the endocannabinoid system.
We know that hemp oil is an effective therapy for a wide range of conditions, but what does that have to do with the ECS? According to Martin A. Lee, the director of Project CBD and the author of Smoke Signals, "Cannabis works because CBD and THC and other components of the plant mimic and augment the effects of endogenous compounds, called 'endocannabinoids,' that the human brain and body produces." Yep, you heard that right. Our bodies actually produce compounds very similar the ones in hemp oil all on its own. Two of these endocannabinoids are called 2-AG and AEA, and along with endocannabinoid receptors—called CB1 and CB2—they make up a crucial part of the endocannabinoid system as a whole.
So if we have naturally occurring cannabinoids, why do we need to take them in the form of hemp oil? "If a person is deficient in endocannabinoids—as many people are because of poor lifestyle choices and too much stress—then cannabis-derived therapies can fill the gap and restore physiological balance, which is the essence of health," Lee explained.
Conditions and symptoms related to the endocannabinoid system.
Understanding the science of the ECS and the concept of "endocannabinoid tone" explains, in part, why oils extracted from hemp are touted as effective remedies for such a wide range of conditions, including but not limited to insomnia, pain, anxiety, IBS, headaches, PTSD, nausea, autoimmune disease, seizures, and even cancer.
According to Lee, "Scientific studies show that cannabis compounds synergize favorably with conventional chemotherapies, potentiating the latter so that toxic drugs are effective at lower doses." Hemp-based therapies are also far safer than many pharmaceutical drugs, like benzos, which are used to treat anxiety, and opiates, which are used to treat pain.
How to support the endocannabinoid system with herbs and supplements.
So is taking hemp oil the only way to support the ECS? Actually, no. While supplementing with hemp oil is a great place to start, there are quite a few ways to support this system, starting with reducing stress, getting high-quality sleep, and eating a nutrient-dense diet full of real foods. In addition, cannabinoids have also been found in plants like hops, clove, and rosemary, so consuming these or supplementing with them could help support the health of your endocannabinoid system.
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Sex.com auction delayed
Lawyers step in to block bargain sale
The auction of the controversial domain name sex.com has been delayed, after some of its owner's creditors stepped in with a bankruptcy claim.
The foreclosure sale had been due to go ahead in New York today, with a simultaneous online auction at ProxiBid.com, but the auction is now listed as "postponed".
The law firm of Meister Seelig & Fein said in a press release that it has filed an involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition against sex.com's indebted current owner, Escom.
"Petitioners took this action to protect their interests and to maximize value for all other creditors and equity holders," the firm said. The sale "would have diminished the value of Escom's assets".
Domain investor Michael Mann, who said he is a creditor, said in an email: "[I]t has been delayed because the auction and sale process was flawed and illegal and a bankruptcy judge can protect it."
It seems Escom's creditors were worried that a foreclosure auction was not the best place to sell off one of the internet's most valuable pieces of real estate.
Escom acquired the domain for a rumoured $14m in 2006. Sex.com has a storied past, and was the subject of a 2007 book by our own Kieren McCarthy. ®
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Mike German on 'Intelligence' Reports
On the ACLU blog ("because freedom can't blog itself"), Mike German has a great write‐up that captures the depth of error in recent DHS "intelligence" reports on ideological groups.
German shows that any ideology can be targeted if the national security bureaucracy comes to use activism as a proxy or precursor for crime and terrorism:
A Texas fusion center warned about a terrorist threat from "the international far Left," the Department of Homeland Security and a Missouri fusion center warned of threats posed by right‐wing ideologues, and a Virginia fusion center saw threats from across the political spectrum and called certain colleges and religious groups "nodes of radicalization." These are all examples of domestic security gone wrong.
"Gone wrong" means weak in theory, threatening to liberty, and not helpful to law enforcement:
If these "intelligence" reports described recent crimes and the people who perpetrated them, there would be little problem from a civil rights perspective, and it could actually be helpful to the average police officer. Instead, they have followed a "radicalization" theory popularized by the NYPD (PDF). That theory postulates that there is a "path" to terrorism that includes the adoption of certain beliefs, and political, religious, or social activism is viewed as another step toward violence. Actual empirical studies of terrorism conducted in the Netherlands and Britain refute this theory, but the idea that hard‐to‐find terrorists can be caught by spying on easy‐to‐find activists appears too hard to resist to U.S. law enforcement.
The takeaway: "Threat reports that focus on ideology instead of criminal activity are threatening to civil liberties and a wholly ineffective use of federal security resources."
Mike German was a participant in our January conference on counterterrorism strategy.


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I adore Valentine's Day! Personally I could easily get swept up in a sea of pink ruffles, hearts and frills. But my boys... Well, I'm not so sure how they would feel about it! So this year, I created a super fun party that's for girls AND boys full of pink hearts, fluffy clouds and vintage bi-planes.
Dessert tables are always a magnet for kids at a party.
And it is one of the highlights for me to see their eyes light up with excitement when they spy something that, not only looks tasty, but inspires their imagination as well. Hence the creation of the "Propeller Pop"!
These propeller adorned marshmallow roller pops were the stars of the dessert table. "Hovering" just in front of our bi-plane backdrop and just behind of the "Fluffy (cotton candy) Clouds" which were displayed in treat cones, these toys/treats were a huge hit!
I stood them up on their very own "cloud" of marshmallows and once the party started, they were gone in an instant.
I had a blast decorating the kid's tables. No airplane party would be complete without Complimentary In Flight Snacks and Beverages ("Love Potion").
Each child got their own set of Pilot's Wings.
And just to make eating a little more fun, I created cut-outs to turn the flatware into airplanes. What kid wouldn't want to "fly" their food to their mouths?!
But the good times didn't end with the food. When lunch was over there were paper airplanes to fold and fly and activity placemats for "In Flight Entertainment"!
All the Printables for the entire Fly Away With Me Valentine Collection, including the propellers for the roller pops, cupcake toppers, bottle labels, activity placemats, cut-outs for the flatware and so much more, are available in my Etsy shop.
- Party Styling, Graphic Design and Party Printables - Gwynn Wasson Designs
- Sixlets, Taffy, Gumballs - Candy Warehouse
- Heart Boxes, Heart Plates - Target
- Striped Straws - Polka Dot Market
- Mini Meringues, Marshmallow Hearts, Marshmallow Roller Pops - Cost Plus World Market


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Vye mini-v S37B sub-notebook
The people carrier of the sub-notebook world
For all the little niggles, we really liked this device. If you're a frequent traveller, having a fully featured combination notebook/tablet PC that weighs around 1kg to just toss into a bag is a serious plus.
What really helps this device stand out is its true sense of portability. With an extended battery in place and the screen set to 50 per cent brightness, the machine will run for over five hours on a single charge, we found. The touchscreen and tablet mode feels like a legitimate function and not some tacky add-on.
That battery life figure was the one we achieved in general use. For a more comparative test, we ran a 640 x 480 H.264 video continuously until the S37B gave up the ghost. Wi-Fi was turned off but the screen was set to maximum brightness.
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Please note that the S37B was supplied to us with a six-cell extended battery, whereas the other two Eee PCs and the s.book were not. Had we been provided with the standard, three-cell battery, we'd expect a score of around 198 minutes, which still puts the S37B ahead of the Eee PC 701 by 20 minutes.
Mobile telly is optional
This is a device designed to used out and about and can adapt to be used in almost any situation, but we're not convinced that £700 is a premium we're willing to pay for that level of convenience. The Asus EeePC 701 sells for around £220, a third of the price of the S37B.
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Think about children's interests when looking for games. Do they like sports, fantasy or strategy-style games?
MediaSmarts' research has shown that kids with household rules about Internet use are less likely to do things like post their contact information, visit gambling sites, seek out online pornography and talk to strangers online. Having a family agreement or set of rules for using the Internet is also a great way for parents and kids to work together on how to be safe, wise and responsible online.
Most young children enjoy pretend play and love to imitate action heroes. But many teachers, parents and child care workers say the influence of children's superhero TV shows or movies, can result in havoc when little fans get together.
Video and computer games have become a basic part of kids' lives: nearly all youth play electronic games at least occasionally. Many parents, though, feel they don't know enough about the games their children are playing, and worry about the role gaming plays in their children's lives. Fortunately, there are steps parents can take to make sure that video games are a healthy part of their kids' lives, and a fun part of family life as well.
Most Web surfing is done through browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. While these browsers are updated regularly, our use of the Web has evolved to the point where we now do many things online, such as shopping and banking. For that reason, there are a number of potential risks that come with using the Web.
It's important to know what the ratings mean on the video games your children play. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is an industry organization that has developed a rating system for computer, Internet and video games. Most games sold in North America are rated using this system.
The best way to manage games in the home is to get involved in what your kids are playing. Your kids will be much more likely to follow your advice if you show them you are genuinely interested in their games.
Talking to kids about violence in the media they consume – television, movies, video games, music and the Internet – can help them put media violence into perspective and perhaps diffuse some of its power.
The Internet provides marketers with many opportunities to elicit personal information from children. Kids love playing on the Web, and commercial sites for children are continually ranked as top online destinations.


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As The Cure It Foundation honorably enters into our fifth year as a non-profit, we are pleased to announce many exciting developments.
We as a foundation continue to fight for the thousands of kids fighting childhood cancer and are dedicated to evolving into a high-powered non-profit. Although we're growing, we remain true to our mission and to three primary initiatives. As we define these three initiatives, we are confident that our donors, supporters and families will be pleased with our direction and find one, if not several, specific areas to direct their funding and passion.
Through our three initiatives, The Cure It Foundation will dedicate nearly two-thirds of all donations to clinical trials and to supporting several areas of research which have been previously underfunded. All additional funding will be directed to community programs and childhood cancer awareness in order to assure that kids fighting cancer and survivors of childhood cancer, as well as their siblings, will have the opportunity to succeed.
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When the band started at Eastlake Community Church's 11:30 a.m. upper campus service, Pastor Ben Sigman was not in the building. He was still down the hill at the church's more churchlike lower campus, finishing up the 10:30 service. And by the time Sigman did take the stage, the band was setting up down the hill for the 12:30. The see-saw back-and-forth started at 8:30 that morning -- the two Saturday-afternoon services were both held up top, in the big room inside the converted Kaiser Permanente facility. It's how Eastlake accommodates the crowds. The band caught the flavor of the church -- varied in race (an African-American drummer), in age (three youngish backup singers, three middle-aged guitarists, a Gen-Xer on lead vocals), and in gender (gals on vocals and keyboards), but all blending to produce a polished Christian-pop sound. (When people ask Pastor Sigman, "Why don't we go back to the traditional music?" he responds, "How far back do you want to go? Back to the 1st Century? God uses all kinds of churches with all kinds of music. We have a certain style that tends to work in our community.")
Pastor James Grogan -- young, square-jawed, dressed in jeans, T-shirt, and sport coat -- took the stage after the band. "One of the ways we affirm that we believe in Jesus besides singing about it," he began, "is by taking communion. You should find your communion elements underneath your seat" -- and there they were, in an ingenious single-serving combo-pack of wafer and grape juice. "We serve what we call 'open communion.' You don't have to have gone to a certain class or be a member.... If you are here and you would consider yourself a believer in Jesus, then we invite you to participate."
Before we ate and drank, Grogan reminded us of Paul's exhortation that we examine our hearts before receiving. "If you need to confess some things, you can do that at this time." A guitar strummed quietly into the silence as Grogan bowed his head.
Sigman's sermon concluded Eastlake's series entitled "10 Things I Hate About Church" -- the look of the logo on the handout matched that of the recent film 10 Things I Hate About You . The final hated thing: "Church is all about guilt, rules, and money." At the opening, the screen showed a clip from The Simpsons -- Pastor Lovejoy preaching against a "so-called 'new religion,'" which was "nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants designed to take the money of fools." Then he asked his flock to "say the Lord's Prayer 40 times -- but first, let's pass the collection plate!" The congregation laughed.
Sigman thought this particular charge against church was "more of a caricature than a characterization," but he still thought it worth refuting. First, guilt. "Church is about grace, not guilt." Salvation, according to Ephesians, "is a gift that God gives us." He granted that "real guilt" exists, but cited Second Corinthians: "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death." Sigman recalled that John Newton, who wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace," said near the end of his life, "My memory is nearly gone, but I can remember two things -- that I am a great sinner, and that I have a great Savior.'"
Second, rules: "Oftentimes, we think, 'If I have the right list of rules, then everything will be okay.' The Bible makes it clear that it's not about rules -- it's about a relationship with God. That's where it begins. Does that mean there are no rules? Let me ask you a question: does that work in relationships? There are going to be boundaries...but the primary thing is the relationship.' Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.' We spend the rest of our lives trying to unpack that spiritual reality, but let's never forget that it's about that relationship."
Third, money: "The church is about ministry, not money." The recent building campaign "wasn't because it's all about money and buildings. It was because people had a heart for their friends."
So -- if not guilt, rules, and money, what drives Eastlake Church? Sigman laid out five answers: A heart for broken people, a dislike for dumb church stuff (committees, wrangling over music and the placement of the cross within the church), a commitment to your right next step, a desire to experience God's joy, and a passion for changed lives.
What happens when we die?
"I believe that people are created to exist forever," says Sigman. "We will either exist eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation or eternally separated from God by sin. To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life. To be eternally separated from God is hell. I believe that heaven and hell are real places of eternal existence."
Eastlake Community Church
990 Lane Avenue, Eastlake
- Denomination: Missionary Church
- Founded locally: 1999
- Senior pastor: Michael Meeks
- Congregation size: 3500
- Staff size: 33
- Sunday school enrollment: 1000 of the congregation are high school age or younger -- age-appropriate worship programs provided
- Annual budget: n/a
- Weekly giving: n/a
- Singles program: no
- Dress: casual
- Diversity: very diverse, a mix of Caucasian, Hispanic, African-American, and Asian-American
- Sunday worship: 8:30 a.m. (lower campus), 9:30 a.m. (upper campus), 10:30 a.m. (lower campus), 11:30 a.m. (upper campus), 12:30 p.m. (lower campus), 10:30 a.m. Revolution service for high-school age students (upper campus)
- Length of reviewed service: 1 hour
- Website: eastlakechurch.com
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You might remember this quote, last week, from Las Vegas mayor Oscar B. Goodman:
"I don't want to see some gangbangers or hip-hoppers knocking over a jewelry store at Fashion Show mall."
Well, Oscar, you old mob lawyer you, you can get back to pitching the league on your city's viability of having its own team, because the "gangbangers" and "hip-hoppers" behaved themselves this weekend: Crime was actually down this weekend from the weekend before. This shouldn't be a surprise; if there were any illegal activity going on, we highly doubt the police would have been able to get past the bouncers.
Las Vegas Police Report Light Criminal Activity During NBA All-Star Week [SportsByBrooks]
(UPDATE: Of course, last night might have been an exception.)


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werwi007 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
The leading company for Newsroom Computer Systems is looking for new and modern icons for its main products. The icons should resemble the existing ones and must follow the icon styleguides for Windows Vista. For more details please read the complete brief.
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Our main application needs some refreshment and the first step is a new icon to be placed on the user's desktop, which will be a Windows Vista system.
Thus the basic image size is fixed to 256 x 256 pixels for the new icon, but down-scales to any other formats like 48 x 48 or 32 x 32 are also needed. Especially a 16 x 16 format, which may not automatically be generated with acceptable results from the large image, is desired. Color depth should exploit full 16 M color range + alpha channel. We would prefer a vector based format, but as Windows needs the single raster formats anyhow, all entries are welcome.
The new icon should resemble the existing ones, so that the user has the feeling of recognition. But all ideas to give it a modern and up-to-date look and feel are highly appreciated.
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One important point is that all text has to disappear. Only the basic structure and coloring scheme should be maintained.
Additionally we need a second icon, which should be used for the administration tool for this software. So the main symbol should be the same, only smaller, and an additional tool symbol like to hammer or screwdriver should indicate the configuration purpose. The technical specification for this second icon is the same as for the first one.


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World War I epic 1917 conveys the carnage of combat with uncommon grit. Informed by writer-director Sam Mendes' heartfelt story and his gifted design team, the film, nominated for 10 Academy Awards including best picture, immerses viewers in a "No Man's Land" littered with dead animals, rotting corpses and dying soldiers. Prosthetics designer Tristan Versluis, Oscar-nominated with makeup designer Naomi Domme, did most of the heavy lifting when it came to blood, guts, and gore.
January 27, 2020, 2:30 pm
In this video, Neil Parfitt who is a composer, music editor, synth sound designer based in Toronto has set up his new rack mount Mac Pro 7,1 computer to show some real-world tests both about the fan noise and how well it handles a very large Pro Tools project and turns up some surprises during his tests.
January 27, 2020, 2:30 pm
Over recent decades many of the tools used in video production and post have become smaller, easier to use, and less expensive. It is possible to edit and finish projects on a single iMac or iMac Pro that would have taken an entire edit facility in the past. This trajectory has also applied to media storage – the lifeblood of post-production. Both spinning and solid state hard drives are cheaper and offer larger capacity than ever before. Less costly systems and storage make it easier for small and medium production and post companies to ramp up the number of edit/graphics/audio seats within the facility.
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The 'Slim' in this Godin ACS-SA nylon string guitar's moniker refers to the 1.715" neck width at the nut-a mere 16th of an inch wider than Godin's standard electric guitar nut width. If you do most of your playing on a guitar with a fairly narrow neck (such as most solidbody electric guitars) this is the ACS-SA guitar for you. The slim neck of the Godin ACS-SA Slim guitar along with the Ergocut shaping technique and 16" fingerboard radius provide for a very easy transition for steel string guitar players looking to integrate nylon string guitar sounds into their music. Aside from the new neck, the ACS-SA Slim shares all of the same features that have made the Godin ACS-SA nylon string guitar an industry standard. The chambered, silverleaf maple body with cedar top results in a guitar that is virtually free of feedback, making it easy to use even in loud stage situations. Synth access comes courtesy of the 13-pin connector for direct control of Roland GR Series and Axon AX100 guitar synths.
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A half-hour drive from Center City, in Springfield Township, sits 450 sprawling acres of farmland. It's down the hill, a bit beyond the Woodmere Art Museum and Chestnut Hill College, in Chestnut Hill's backyard, a few turns off Germantown Avenue next to Whitemarsh Valley Country Club.
You might have been driving along Flourtown Road and seen the farm's shades of green and lighter green fields spotted with sheep or cattle. What few people know is that a vast limestone bed sits beneath the surface and contributes to fertile soil used to cultivate crops and livestock at the Erdenheim Farm, dating as far back as the days of William Penn.
And that Angus beef that makes those burgers you like? Erdenheim Farm's got the cattle that makes the burgers, about 50 of them. They also have pure-bred lambs and free range chickens. They have asparagus, tomatoes, beets and more, though obviously not at this time of year.
This time of year, though, in the greenhouse were spotted different types of lettuce, mixed and micro-greens, alfalfa and one- or two- inch red sprouts resembling tiny pieces of coral that will soon grow to be beets.
"For a long time this was considered a hobby farm," said Christina Reeves, 38, the farm's property manager who joined the team a year and a half ago when new owners Peter and Bonnie McCausland purchased the land in coordination with members of The Whitemarsh Foundation (TWF). "With the new ownership we are trying to connect with the community and bring people in to see where their food comes from. It's part of the know-thy-farmer movement."
Early in the 19th century, the land was called "Erdenheim" by German immigrant farmer Johann Georg Hocker, the farm's first recorded owner, after the German phrase for "earthly home." After Hocker, in the 1860s, owner Aristides Welsh established a horse-breeding enterprise on the farm that produced Kentucky Derby racers.
This January, farmers at Erdenheim Farm took home the awards for a Cheviot Champion Ram and Cheviot Premier Breeder at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. That makes two more awards to add to the trophies and ribbons already hanging in shelves and on the walls in the front office, located at 5501 Flourtown Rd.
The farm show is like a dog show but with animals like Cheviot sheep, a specific breed of sheep, instead of Great Danes or Jack Russell Terriers. Judges look for mature pure-bred rams or male sheep with a straight back and legs, white coat, dark feet and ears on top of the head, explained Phil McMahon, Erdenheim Farm's livestock manger.
One of McMahon's responsibilities is to use his lifelong experience working on farms to select sheep with the best body structure, size and shape to mate. It's survival of the best genetics. McMahon selects one ram to mate with many ewes, or female mature sheep. This somewhat scientific, somewhat intuitive process leads to better meat and stronger genetics.
Each year, on average the top 50 percent of lambs bred at the farm are sold to other breeders who like the lamb's genetics and in turn might mature the lambs to breed more lamb. A percentage is also kept to age at the farm itself in order to replace older ewes whose ability to produce strong offspring are waning. A baby sheep is fully grown and self-sufficient within 60 days, according to McMahon.
And for the 23 years he's been there, the farm's operation has centered on breeding pure-bred cattle and sheep and raising free range chickens. But as the 21st century unfolds, Erdenheim Farm is strengthening its community ties and opening its doors to the public.
The staff recently opened a farm stand that sells fresh eggs, salad greens and mixed and micro-greens Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 6 p.m., something the farm is doing for the first time. Poultry is available through the farm's Web site, and they are working on being able to sell individual items like ground beef and ground lamb. Nopw that spring has arrived, more fruits like apples and oranges and other vegetables will soon be available.
"The Erdenheim Farm is the jewel of the Whitemarsh Valley," said Kim Sheppard, executive director at The Whitemarsh Foundation. "You would think you were in the middle of the English countryside; it's so beautiful."
In 2009 members of TWF, dedicated to the preservation, conservation and stewardship of the Whitemarsh Valley, purchased the farm's 98-acre Angus tract, located next to the Hill at Whitemarsh, along Flourtown and Thomas Roads. They were assisted by the efforts of many parties including Whitemarsh Township, Colonial School District, Montgomery County, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Natural Lands Trust.
While Foundation members were raising funds to acquire the adjacent sheep tract, the conservationist-minded McCauslands expressed an interest in purchasing the entire farm.
In June, 2009, the Foundation purchased 91 acres of the sheep tract, and the McCauslands purchased 240 acres of the farm. At the same time, both parties entered into an agreement under which the McCauslands will continue agricultural operations on the entire farm. McMahon and Reeves are employed by the McCauslands.
"To keep a working farm in the community is a gift," said Sheppard. "There are so many farms in the area that have been sold to development. The fact that the McCauslands came in and purchased the land and agreed to maintain the land in perpetuity as one tract, as it's always been, instead of breaking it up, is remarkable."
This summer, a 14-acre Dixon Meadow Reserve at the farm will open to the public, as part of increasing TWF and farm efforts to engage the community, according to Sheppard.
Before TWF and the McCauslands, and for the majority of the 20th century, Erdenheim Farm was a product of the American railroad boom. In 1912 it was purchased by George D. Widener Jr., a member of the Widener family of Philadelphia that made its money in the streetcar and railroad industries.
At the time of Widener's death in 1971, a 117-acre portion bordering Stenton Avenue and lying on either side of the Wissahickon Creek was bequeathed to the Natural Lands Trust. The remaining land was bequeathed to Widener's nephew, Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr.
Dixon ran a "gentlemen's farm" and raised prize-winning Black Angus cattle, Cheviot sheep and thoroughbred horses until his death in 2006, when TWF mobilized efforts to acquire the land, according to its Web site.
"When I was eight years old and went to the Middleton Grange Fair, I used to see shepherds from Erdenheim Farm showing their sheep, and I'd say, 'How do I get there?'" said McMahon, 43, who lives with his wife and son at the farm. McMahon also volunteers at the 4-H agricultural program he participated in as a youth. The program connects youths with agriculture.
"It's amazing I work here now," he said. "Every step of my life has been geared towards it."
For more information about the farm, visit erdenheimfarm.com or whitemarshfoundation.org/farm.htm.


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We love that they have a variety of exhibits, and that they have both indoor and outdoor areas. Inside the museum you'll find a neat tree house to climb, a dress up area with stage, wooden planks for stacking and building, a puppet theatre for imaginative play, musical instruments, a baby section for crawlers to enjoy, and much more. Outside they have painting, a unique water exhibit which combines water and LEGOs, bubbles, a sand box, an old style schoolhouse with more dress up, a neat little garden area with pretend farmers market, and variety of other things to explore. They recently brought in a new exhibit called Imagination Playground, which is made of foam blocks, and super neat for building different structures.
The museum is both fun and educational for the little ones, and has an emphasis on World Cultures. Set aside a few hours of time for exploring. If you want to bring lunch or snacks, you can eat them at the tables they have set up in their outdoor area. Click the link below to view their website. Perhaps we'll see you there!
Website: San Diego Children's Discovery Museum