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In large technology departments, dysfunctional relationships breed like mushrooms in a dank basement. Your dev and ops teams are no longer on speaking terms, while your junior and senior developers can't seem to agree on anything. IT and legal are constantly at each other's throats. Storage wonks are ready to declare war on the database admins, while sys admins seem to be on everyone's bad side.
Why can't they all just get along? In many cases it's the tension between conflicting demands on the same systems -- say, DBAs who complain about network performance but refuse to streamline their storage needs or business users who want to roll out new apps quickly, blissfully unaware of the effect they could have on other critical systems.
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Fortunately there are solutions. We asked our geek relationship adviser, Crabby van Buren, to help find the common ground between these five warring factions. His advice follows.
Dysfunctional IT relationship No. 1: Storage admins vs. DBAsDear Crabby: Our database administrators have an insatiable appetite for storage. They never delete anything, they won't let us archive data or store it off-site, and they're constantly complaining the network is too slow. Meanwhile, the cost of storing all this data is killing our budget and making us storage engineers extremely unpopular with the CFO. What can we do? Underfunded & overcapacity
We feel your pain. Even today's networked and cloud storage options can't always keep up with the data explosion. But to the folks who aren't responsible for providing storage, the supply seems almost infinite.
"To solve the problem, you need to look at the groups that are producing the data," says Jim Damoulakis, CTO of Glasshouse Technologies, an IT infrastructure services provider. "DBAs are some of the biggest examples. They are extremely risk averse, tend to save everything, and want to have total control over all of it. But having to save everything forever can bring your backup systems to a screeching halt. You need to incent them to be more efficient."
In other words, once a department has to foot the bill for its insatiable storage habit, it may begin to appreciate the wisdom of efficiency. The problem is that most people hate chargebacks with a passion, says Damoulakis. The alternative is to set up a system that reports which users are consuming what resources, so when the CFO comes around to beat on the storage people for spending too much money they can say, "Talk to these guys."
Interestingly, says Damoulakis, a lot of this is already happening because of the cloud. Departments that bypass IT to order services directly from a third-party cloud vendor are finding that they're charged on a consumption basis, whether they like it or not.
"In a funny way the cloud is moving this to the forefront," he says. "It's a backdoor into a chargeback mechanism. Organizations that are adopting private clouds are also finding they can use that to make DBAs and other groups accountable for their own IT spend."
Dysfunctional IT relationship No. 2: Senior developers vs. junior developersI'm a new software developer for a large company that desperately wants to be on the cutting edge. I'm trying to help them do that, but I keep getting stymied by the graybeards. The senior developers are always reviewing my code, and it takes forever to get approval for even a simple change. They're slowing down the company and, frankly, hurting my career. How do I tell these old dudes to back off without getting fired? Young & Restless
Old people -- when will they ever learn?
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The first thing you need to realize is that maybe, just maybe, your more experienced developers might be right in being a little more cautious about unleashing insufficiently vetted code unto the world, says Joe Masters Emison, VP of research and development for BuildFax, which stores construction records for hundreds of millions of properties across the United States.
"Software is wonderful in that you can do amazing things with it," he says. "So a junior developer looks at Facebook and says, 'Gosh it would be easy to create X because all we'd have to do is change this one thing.' And if Facebook only served five people, that might work. But you may not understand what's required when you've got a large user base and a large body of code with a lot of people working on it."
It's the senior developer's job to contemplate all the terrible things that could happen from one tiny change, he adds. The cost of even one hour of downtime thanks to a small tweak in the code could be enormous.
For their part, senior developers must acknowledge there are scenarios where rules can be safely broken -- like editing code that's already in production -- without causing the sky to fall or the company's share price to plummet.
"There are certain situations where you want to do a live edit of a database -- say, to push out maintenance upgrades," says Emison. "Or sales might come to you and say they have a customer they need to close this quarter, but it requires certain changes to the code. When the risk of anything bad happening is low, you could be better off from a business standpoint to break the quality rules once in a while."
But if you must engage in "cowboy coding," Emison advises you follow the pink sombrero strategy laid out by Joshua Siler, a former VP with marketing firm Babcock & Jenkins who is now CTO at HiringThing, a cloud-based service that helps hiring managers post jobs online and manage applicants. Siler wrote:
Bottom line: As a junior developer, you need to learn more patience, while your bosses need to retain some flexibility. Otherwise, development turns into a fiefdom where hot new talent inevitably leaves and nothing innovative ever gets done.
Dysfunctional IT relationship No. 3: IT vs. legalI'm an IT manager at a midsize enterprise with a lot on my plate. Yet every few days the legal department hounds me about something -- compliance, e-discovery, cloud service-level agreements, yadda yadda. It's keeping me from doing what my employer actually pays me to do. How do I get the lawyers off my back so I can get some real work done? Beleaguered by legal
Shakespeare may have been onto something when he wrote, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." But without legal covering your company's back, your employer would probably be in a world of hurt -- and you'd find your job even harder to do.
A big part of the problem is that many corporate lawyers don't understand what IT does and have no idea what they're asking for, says Craig Carpenter, VP of marketing and general counsel for Recommind, a maker of e-discovery software tools. For their part, tech pros often see legal requests as a nuisance, even though one liability suit can bring the company to a screeching halt.
For example, legal might come to you and say they need all email for these 50 people from 2008 to 2012, and they need it tomorrow, says Carpenter.
"IT looks at legal and says, 'You have no idea what it's going to take to comply with that request,'" he says. "Legal looks at IT and says, 'You have no idea of the downside if we don't.'"
To bridge the gap, large enterprises need to dedicate a staffer who understands enough about both technology and legal that he or she can act as liaison between the two groups, Carpenter says.
"They don't have to experts in both fields, but they do need to understand what it means to extract metadata from both archives and live Exchange sessions," he says. "They need to know what legal really means when it says it needs to collect all emails from these 10 custodians. And they might be able to help legal understand that it's about to make life a living hell for 10 email admins and perhaps they don't really need all of the data they're asking for."
At the very least, says Carpenter, organizations should host off-sites with both teams so that they can have a regular meeting of the minds. The good news is that relations between tech and legal are improving. Surveys commissioned by Recommind indicate that two-thirds of enterprises have their legal and tech teams meet at least once every three months, and slightly more than half describe the relationship as positive.
The convergence of legal and tech is creating new job opportunities, he adds. Some day legal could end up offering you a job.
"Organizations are making roles for legal people to be part of IT or pulling people from IT into legal," he says. "But at the end of the day, most of the people who work with me have a technology background. It has created a whole new opportunity for IT professionals."
Dysfunctional IT relationship No. 4: Dev vs. opsThe development team is driving us crazy. It's operations' job to keep the servers humming, fight off hackers, keep our systems secure and our IP from leaking out, and manage third-party services -- all while keeping the lid on costs. But all dev can do is complain we aren't nimble and don't implement changes rapidly enough for their liking. Don't they realize we have a company to run? Operating under pressure
Large organizations need both their development and operations teams working in sync if they want to survive in a rapidly changing business environment. The problem is that their core functions are fundamentally at odds, notes Winston Damarillo, CEO and co-founder of Morphlabs, a provider of converged infrastructure solutions for enterprises.
"The IT operations team's goal is to maintain the status quo, while the development team seeks to disrupt it," he says. "There's intense pressure on dev to deliver innovative products, services, and tools to customers. At the same time, ops has to grapple with maintaining security and protecting intellectual property while keeping all the systems running. That tends to limit the sometimes rapid and ungoverned changes sought by dev."
Sometimes it seems like dev and ops are speaking two different languages, says Todd Olson, VP of products for Rally Software, an agile project management and coaching firm.
"The same words can mean different things to them," he says. "The ops guy is all about reducing risk, the dev team wants to produce as much stuff as possible. They have different interests in mind."
One solution is for your organization to join the devops movement, combining the warring factions into a single team where each member has both development and operations responsibilities, says Olson. That may require significant cultural change throughout the organization, as well as overhauling legacy structures such as separate management teams and budgets for each group.
The mismatch between dev's need for speed and ops' need for control has led a lot of development teams to opt for public clouds, says Brett Adam, CTO at rPath, an enabler of PaaS (platform as a service) for enterprises and service providers. "While this provides the agility dev needs, it often does so as an end run around the ops team."
"All of the velocity gains we've made on the dev side won't translate to business value until the same velocity is achieved on the ops side," says Adam. "Enterprises need both speed and control, enabling developers to rapidly provision what they need while also satisfying IT's need for governance. A private PaaS solution can align both of their interests."
Enterprises operating their own private clouds should consider a converged infrastructure, which could allow the dev team to spin up their own virtual machines as needed for building and testing code, says Damarillo. That would give them the ability to rapidly deploy in real-world conditions while still ensuring the safety and uptime ops demands.
Dysfunctional IT relationship No. 5: Sys admins vs. the worldLet me put this bluntly: The sys admins at our company are impossible. They're constantly nagging us to change our passwords (which are hard enough to remember as it is), haranguing us about software licenses, or insisting we follow some arcane procedure. But when we ask them to do something the business needs, the answer is almost always no. I'm tempted to bypass IT entirely and get what I need from the cloud, only I'm afraid the admins will change the passwords and lock us all out of the network. Frustrated & fearful
When you hold the keys to the kingdom, it's easy to create fiefdoms. For years, the admin's word was absolute. Users had to adhere to strict policies and procedures or get locked out. When admins spend all their time just getting systems to work properly, change is something to avoid at all costs -- in case something breaks and they have to fix it. Every so often, one of them will go rogue and cause real damage.
But think about it from the admin's point of view. GFI Software recently surveyed more than 200 U.S. sys admins. The results: 85 percent said their personal lives were negatively affected by their jobs, and more than two-thirds have considered switching careers because of the stress involved. Every day, they have to deal with clueless users (not you, of course) who ask them to do ridiculous things.
"An overwhelming number of IT administrators said they've received support calls from users who are apparently unaware that computers don't operate without power," notes Dodi Glenn, product manager for GFI Software, which provides IT solutions for small businesses. "To cite just one example, a frustrated admin told us that a user had plugged a power strip 'into itself' and couldn't figure out why his computer wasn't powering up."
While writing your network password on a sticky note affixed to your monitor may keep you from forgetting it or deliberately downloading malware just to "see what will happen" may satisfy your curiosity, these things will drive IT admins insane.
IT people can't really change how users are going to behave, says Dev Anand, director of product management for ManageEngine, which builds real-time tools for automating IT management. But they can change how they respond to it.
To avoid having to answer the same stupid questions (over and over and over), IT departments can crowd-source solutions by setting up community portals or a page on their internal social network where employees can post questions for other users to answer, says Anand. IT can anonymously post the really dumb ones, Dev suggests, so people will eventually learn to never ask that question again.
In an era where cloud-based IT managed services are just a phone call away, internal admins must learn how to be more flexible and responsive to users' needs, says ManageEngine president Raj Sabhlok.
"These guys have to learn that no is not always the right answer," he says. "Business users move at a faster pace than many admins are used to, so IT pros need to automate mundane tasks and start using real-time technology if they want to keep up."
In the end, though, what both sides need to do is be nicer to each other, notes GFI's Glenn.
"IT staff should have the right to hold users accountable when they make preventable mistakes due to carelessness or neglect, and users should have the right to ask IT admins questions without being made to feel stupid or annoying," he says. "The bottom line is this: Both sides need to treat each other with courtesy and respect."
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With the brilliance of his Diesel album still ringing in my soul, there are two new videos I am happy to post here. First up is a clip from The Daily Buzz, as B.Slade rocks out on Papi Figure.
Then there is also an intriguing video for the beautiful song, Start. The R&B ballad is a wonderfully textured track, and the richness of color on the video and the imagery suits it all very well.
You can find Diesel on iTunes here, and on BandCamp here. You can also find it on Amazon.com here. You can find out more about B.Slade at this official website here. He also has an active Twitter page here, and on Tumblr here.

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Florida race chip timing companies offer different technologies and services. This is the most comprehensive list of Florida race chip timers. By city, find Florida race timing company descriptions, race timer reviews, or write a review of your race timer by clicking the listing above. If you cannot find a Florida timer you like above, find one in a neighboring state here. Alternatively, search for your Florida race chip timing company by technology here.


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Situated on approx. 20 acres with stunning views is this classic country homestead.
Characterized by wrap around verandas, it consists of 3 bedrooms plus study, formal lounge, country kitchen, separate dining room, large pool room with cocktail bar, 2 bathrooms and laundry.
Features include high ceilings, Jarrah kitchen, en suite and W.I.R. to the main bedroom, pizza oven in the undercover entertaining area and double tandem carport.
The land is mostly cleared providing 6 paddocks, one massive dam and a 20x8m shed. The shed also has a mezzanine floor for extra storage.
The property also provides extra accommodation via an old tram converted into living quarters. It consists of 1 bedroom, lounge/living room, kitchenette, bathroom, toilet and workshop attached.
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Have you ever heard of a Leprechaun Trap? This year I am sharing some great fun and easy leprechaun trap crafts for you to make with your kids. This is a cute idea to get kids excited about St. Patrick's Day, and of course, it is a super fun arts and crafts project!
10 Leprechaun Trap Craft Ideas
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I don't remember making leprechaun traps as a kid, do you? The first time I heard about this my daughter was in preschool. Her class read The Night Before St. Patrick's Day and made a class trap. She told me about it after school and asked to make one at home too. I just love the idea of using making a colorful trap door craft as a fun tradition to make with the kids. There are so many fun ideas, and this list includes my favorite easy cardboard box options as well as super fun LEGO ideas!
Get your kids excited about this craft activity by reading How to Catch a Leprechaun. Then get started with a basic design idea and craft supplies. There are several ideas below with different products to build with, but I am going to share a short supply list below that is great for having on hand to get your kids started! Use these designs for inspiration!
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Great supplies for your Leprechaun Trap Crafts:
- Green tissue paper, construction paper, or wrapping paper
- Rainbow stickers or colored papers to create a rainbow
- Cotton balls for clouds
- Gold coins or gold paint for the pot of gold
- Small black "kettle" or bowl to create a pot of gold
Use your imagination with your kids. Making a leprechaun trap door craft is such a fun way to help them get excited about the folklore surrounding Saint Patrick's Day! You can make this project the night before, and set it up for the leprechaun to steal the gold. When your kids wake up, they'll find their trap opened and the gold missing. What a great way to celebrate!
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Colors, Patterns, & Honesty with Dondre Green
When I am not curating Museache playlists, I am usually dibbling and dabbling in the visual world. As such, I've grown very fond of multiple rising visual architects in the last few years. I've handpicked and uniquely interviewed each of my favorite photographers and multimedia artists, who are blurring the borders between creative mediums. For my first interview, I reached out to Bronx native and professional photographer Dondre Green. Right of the bat, I was captivated by Dondre's distinctive eye for composition and his playful marriage between colorful backgrounds, patterns, and his subject's personality. That might be a lot to visualize all at once, so let's just jump into the full spread.
I really love your portraits of people because of your usage of colors and composition. (Some of my favorite are below). Can you tell me a bit about your process in creating portraits?:
Thank you. I'm very imaginative. Sometimes it's tricky to describe my vision to the subject and have the photo come out exactly as envisioned in my head, but that's the fun part. As you mentioned, I do play a lot with color and I try to challenge myself to do something different and get the subject out of their comfort zone. I often study previous portraits of mine and question what I could've done differently to achieve a better/alternate result. But portraits are my favorite to take because of the connection.
Have you been given any words of wisdom that you carry with you?
Be honest with yourself, with people and your outlook on life.
This year, me and my friend have embarked on this "be more honest" journey. I think sometimes people lie because we're unsure how people are going to take what we're going to say and no one wants to hurt anyone's feelings. But I've learned nothing is more freeing than the truth and you can never escape that.


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Pashmina is a textile which became popular in the West in the late 1990s. It is very soft and warm, and used primarily in scarves and shawls. The word is derived from the Persian word pashm, which refers to the undercoat of fur on many animals — in this case, the goat.
This textile is usually made with wool from the underbelly of the Himalayan goat. Pure pashmina scarves and shawls are available, though many people find them too coarse or rough. A softening process is used by some manufacturers dealing in 100% pashmina wool. This process gives it a soft, almost silken quality. Because of the softness of processed garments, pure pashmina will often be referred to as cashmere. However, it is slightly different, and it comes from Tibet, not Kashmir.
Most commercially available pashmina is actually a blend of pure wool and silk. This adds strength and durability to the textile, which is otherwise too light to sustain much wear. Blends range from 80/20 pashmina to silk all the way to 50/50. As a general rule, the higher the content of wool, the more expensive the textile.
Pashmina has dropped in price significantly since it made its first appearance in the West. While shawls in the mid-1990s could easily cost upwards of $400 US Dollars (USD), a nice shawl may now be found for much less. Prices are unlikely to drop much further in the near future, however, due to the limited range of the Himalayan goat and the finite amount of wool which can be exported.
Scarves and shawls made from this textile are available in a wide range of colors and thicknesses. Most is sold in standard ply, also known as two-ply, which has sufficient weight to offer a good break against the cold. Lighter, single-ply pashmina is also available and ideal for warmer weather. Single-ply usually has a higher silk content as well, to ensure its durability.
The range in price of this material is often as much a function of the number of middle-men involved as of the quality of the textile itself. It is therefore advisable to purchase pashmina either through a respected store, or from a catalog or website with a good return policy. With its rising popularity, and the lack of any sort of certification system in place, there are many merchants peddling shoddy pashmina or imitation fabrics.
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Maintaining your members' information up to date may be one of the most demanding part of being an administrator. The CPDone platform gives you the option to to do this in batch using a tool a lot of us is very familiar with.
Updating your teams using a spreadsheet can be done by following these easy steps:
- Access your members list by going to Team -> Users.
- Choose members you wish to make changes. You may filter using state, industry association, groups etc...
- Select members through the "Select" box, you may also choose all members by choosing the topmost "Select" button as shown below.
- Click on "Download Spreadsheet" action button to generate file. Follow instructions and save after making desired modifications using MS Excel.
After changes were made, updated information can then be loaded back to the platform through these steps:
- Access your members list by going to Team -> Users.
- Click on the "Import Spreadsheet" button.
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text: On the 9th of December, 2009,'Innovations' Pune, put up their Annual Day Programme. The School is one of three schools run by the Shreemangesh Memorial Education Society.The theme of the Programme was 'Circus'. The crowd was mesmerised as the tiny children dressed as clowns and strong men, lions and monkeys, elephants and bears and jugglers were led by a self-assured little Ringmaster dressed in a smart, red coat through the song and dance programme. The confidence of the tiny tots was amazing. They carried out their roles with great enthusiasm and were rewarded with continuous applause from the audience. They really got into their roles and even helped each other out once in a while. The little ones were completely spontaneous and completely free of stage-fright. It was really a trip down memory lane, successfully capturing the excitement and evoking memories of a childhood visit to the Circus. The programme ended with a Christmas tableau and the children playing percussion instruments to the tunes of Popular Christmas Carols. They looked like little angels and delighted all present at the function. It was a pleasure and quite honestly surprising to see them so well behaved and confident. The Programme was attended by Parents, various Principals of Schools in the City and by Members of the Society. The Chief Guest, Mrs. Kiran Bedi, whose granddaughter attends Innovations, was fulsome in her praise of the School. Mrs. Verma, in her address, spoke of the vision of the society to provide a first class education to children, especially in rural areas, and also of the Society's plans for the future. She thanked the Guests and Parents for their support of the School and Mrs. Bedi for sparing the time to come for the programme.The Society was founded in 2002 by Mrs. Shilpa Verma in memory of her late uncle Shree Mangesh Singh Bayas. At present the Society's schools are near Baramati, in Aurangabad and Koregaon Park in Pune, with two more planned in Mumbai and Tirthapura. The pre-school sections have specially researched curriculum, which aims to inspire the child's innate sense of involvement resulting in his/her evolution and enabling them to express his/her self to the maximum. Their curriculum combines the best of play school methodologies in the curriculum to give scope to every child to create, discover, interact and become self confident as they master various skills while at school. Their vision is to form a chain of International schools all over India and help create the bright minds of India's tomorrow.


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The study of periodic structures illuminated by a normally incident plane wave is a simple task that can be numerically simulated by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. On the contrary, for off-normal incidence, a widely modified algorithm must be developed in order to bypass the frequency dependence appearing in the periodic boundary conditions. After recently implementing this FDTD algorithm for pure dielectric materials, we here extend it to the study of metallic structures where dispersion can be described by analytical models. The accuracy of our code is demonstrated through comparisons with already-published results in the case of 1D and 3D structures.
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This Southeast Asian hub, which served more than 50 million passengers in 2012, has taken the top spot on the Skytrax rankings multiple times over the past decade. Passengers on a layover here have options. Changi boasts a "nature trail" with six separate gardens representing different eco-systems. Lounges with plenty of "napping areas" are also available, along with fitness centers, massage chairs and a swimming pool. People who have a layover of five hours or longer can take a special guided tourof Singapore. If you're a shopping enthusiast, you might just want to stay in the terminal. More people shop in Changi each year than in any single mall on the city's famed Orchard Road.


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Monday, January 12, 2015
What Am I? Seat Down
Great job to K2 Mystery Car for correctly identifying this pile of junk as a Yugo -- specifically this 1991 Yugo offered for $575 as identified by Oldsmobuick. Good job all!
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No clue, but let's see here...seat contour and that far door panel look French, design and that seatbelt retractor look no newer than '80s, there's minimal drop from the doorsill to the floor...ReplyDelete
- K2 Mystery CarJanuary 12, 2015 at 10:55 AM
Could it be Yugo where I go?ReplyDeleteReplies
Good guess?! Where ever Yugo, there you are.Delete
- K2 Mystery CarJanuary 12, 2015 at 12:14 PM
History is made at night; character is what you are in the dark.Delete
So history is when she hikes up her skirt and takes off her panties, character is when you say no?Delete
- K2 Mystery CarJanuary 12, 2015 at 5:45 PM
Only if your name is John Bigboote.Delete
Yugo. I think 86 gv hatch.ReplyDelete
- Fleetwood T. BroughamJanuary 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM
Yep, Yugo. I'd remember that seat material from anywhere, and besides my old Isuzu Trooper (now there's an awesome vehicle I may get you guys to search for one day), I can't remember many cars from the 80's that didn't bother to put a full interior door panel in (see the exposed red paint at top of door---that probably saved $0.25 per car).ReplyDeleteReplies
Ah, I'm embarrassed.Delete
Obviously I haven't earned my belt in Yugo-fu.
- K2 Mystery CarJanuary 12, 2015 at 1:03 PM
Don't be. This ain't nothing to brag about - in fact, it's downright shameful that I knew what it was...Delete
Re the Trooper - that was an HONEST vehicle. Even the second-generation version with Land Cruiser pretenses was a tough cookie.Delete
- K2 Mystery CarJanuary 12, 2015 at 5:53 PM
I had a refrigerator white '91S, which is a funny description because that's precisely how it handled. Then I upgraded to an Eddie Bauer Explorer, which handled just as bad. Those were wise purchases and I have a bridge for sale if you believe me. The Trooper, while admittedly utilitarian and full of charm, rusted instantly on the stupidly designed rear doors as the carpet disintegrated and the 2.6 four banger wheezed its' way down the road. The motor finally grew tired with existing and died. I patched it up and traded it in on a Subaru for my wife. And yet I still have a soft spot for Isuzu.Delete
- K2 Mystery CarJanuary 13, 2015 at 6:52 AM
Sorry, I'm referring to my 91 Trooper S.Delete
- Fleetwood T. BroughamJanuary 13, 2015 at 7:10 AM
Maybe it's because I was in the Southeast (in a definitive non-salt-on-the-roads state), but my 1988 LS (in the awesome two-tone Blue/silver color scheme) was one of the most reliable vehicles I have ever had....yep, it was slow and noisy, but it was incredibly utilitarian.....one of the last of the true "function over form" vehicles IMHO.Delete
Just saw this too late....I never knew you could sit so close to the floor in a sedan!ReplyDelete
I'm just waiting for Kaibeezy to find the actual link!! ;>ReplyDeleteReplies
My Dad replaced cars frequently, never asking me what I supposed. I was just a kid but I subscribed to car magazines. He was shocked when I told him a Yugo was a commie Fiat, when I came over and he had just bought one.ReplyDelete
Is it a FUGO ?ReplyDelete
- K2 Mystery CarJanuary 13, 2015 at 7:50 PM
Q: What do you call a Yugo at the top of a big hill?ReplyDelete
A: A miracle.
Viva Zavodi Crvena Zastava!
- K2 Mystery CarJanuary 14, 2015 at 6:58 AM
This discussion of Yugo gets me to thinking.ReplyDelete
Is it any wonder that a knock-off of a Fiat 127 made in the Soviet Bloc would turn out bad? There's no surprise there. But what about a modern, current car that's slow, not that well made, not that inexpensive of a proposition in every which way, terrible to drive, horrendously cramped and uncomfortable from a huge German manufacturer that's generally associated with luxury and quality (arguable, I know)?
I would propose that the smart fortwo is the new Yugo. They couldn't even afford capitalization, for Christopher's sake...
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So our Thanksgiving "dinner" was pizza and then I think we had late night taco bell. My parents took Hudson with them to my grandparents house so we could get settled without little hands getting into everything. He just got home tonight and he loves his new room, and I love that it is on the same floor as us and all of his toys can stay in there now.
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- noun The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.
- noun The action of being attentive; attention or consideration.
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- noun A turning or directing of the mind; attention; notice; consideration; heed; reference.
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- The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.
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Let us cease advertence to these melancholy adventures, which make us groan at the human condition; but let us continue to lament the pretended certainty of judges, when they pass such sentences.
Its abandonment by most Catholic thinkers since the 1950s is simply another example of how we have thrown out important elements of our Catholic intellectual tradition with hardly any advertence.
As things now are, either extreme can only be avoided by a more attentive advertence to the mode of _cleansing_, so as to prevent
The guilt incurred by those who thus curse and damn, leaving aside the scandal which is thereby nearly always given, is naturally measured by the degree of advertence possessed by such persons.
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The inference from intellectual advertence to volitional freedom may, as noted above, be valid in the one case, and quite invalid in the other.
The same judgment is to be given when, as not unfrequently happens, there has been little or no advertence to the harm that is being done.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The reason is obvious, such acts lack neither adequate advertence nor sufficient consent, even though the latter be elicited only to avoid a greater evil or one conceived to be greater.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
To be sure one must have had the intention to pray and therefore in the beginning some formal advertence; otherwise a man would not know what he was doing, and his prayer could not be described even as a human act.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Germany, yet it does not introduce knowledge or advertence as a criterion of responsibility: "An act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness or disease of mind by which a free determination of the will was excluded".
First, there is the actual intention, operating, namely, with the advertence of the intellect.


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Fresh off a long road trip touring the right half of America with Jessica Pavone last week, guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson is on the move again, this time in a big jet plane, for two gigs in California with her acclaimed trio featuring bassist John Hébert and drummer Ches Smith.
But don't fret New York, your favorite lady guitarist will be back by the weekend so she can perform with Matana Roberts at The Stone on Sunday.
Later in the month, after a few weeks of relative quiet, she'll be back on stage in Gotham with Tom Rainey, The Thirteenth Assembly and Marc Ribot's Sun Ship, the latter of which will also head off to more neutral digs in Willisau, Switzerland on August 30th.
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Mary Halvorson Trio
Tuesday, August 4th @ Yoshi's (Oakland, CA)
Thursday, August 6th @ The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
Matana Roberts
Sunday, August 9th @ The Stone (New York, NY)
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Friday, August 21st @ The Stone (New York, NY)
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What's your guilty reality TV pleasure? The Bachelor? Survivor? America's Got Talent? Of course, the granddaddy of them all — American Idol — just started a new season. Some 30 or 40 million fans have been waiting six months for American Idol to kick off. If this season is anything like last season, expect at least 50 hours of American Idol on your TV. No, that's not a typo.
Last year I gave you a few ideas on what you could have done with those 50 hours instead of watch American Idol. For example, you could earn an extra $1,000, read several books, start writing your own book, burn 43,000 calories jogging, learn the waltz, and others. But, who am I kidding? If you like the show, you're not going to listen to me. Heck, I'm not even going to listen to me because I'm going to watch this season!
But you're nuts if you think I'm going to waste 50 hours. Here are my 5 rules for watching reality TV efficiently:
- Never forget the price of an hour. Quick, what's the average life expectancy for someone in the United States? According to the Center for Disease Control, it is 77.8 years; but the guys in white lab coats at the CDC got it wrong. Sleep and work take 313,176 hours of our life. This leaves us 368,352 hours — 42 years. That's our real life expectancy. Watching a couple of hours of TV might not seem like a big deal (most people watch 4 hours and 35 minutes per day!), but if you only have 8 real hours a day, those two hours suddenly represent 25% of your day! Next time you start flipping mindlessly through the channels, ask yourself if you really want to invest 25% or 50% of your day to TV.
- Never watch live TV. This is so obvious I questioned including it, but you'd be shocked at the number of people who still watch those, uh, those short annoying things that interrupt the show. You'll save about 20 minutes for every hour of TV you watch. This one is a no-brainer. Get a DVR and use it.
- Never watch the elimination episodes. This should save you about 15 hours and at least a dozen brain cells. How they can create an hour-long show around a 30 second elimination both infuriates and impresses me.
- Never just watch TV. American Idol ain't rocket science. There are a thousand things you could be doing while watching. Here are a few ideas: pay bills, read a magazine, exercise, write notes to family and friends, surf the web, connect with Facebook friends, pack tomorrow's lunch, fold your clothes, or give a massage.
- Never watch TV alone. If you're going to kill two hours watching the latest reality show, you might as well make a party out of it. Invite friends over and encourage them to bring somebody new each week — this way you get to expand your network, connect with your friends, and watch some TV at the same time.
I once went two years without watching any TV, and guess what? I didn't miss a thing. I do watch some TV now, but I make sure I am conscious about what I'm watching and how I'm watching it. If you follow these 5 rules, you'll still enjoy TV but you'll achieve more.
And remember, the other 8 hours are your most precious time to create a more financially secure and rewarding life. Don't spend all of this time watching others try to achieve their dream while neglecting your own.
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I was always a difficult child.
As soon as somebody told me "this is the way it is," I would always ask "why?"
I can't count how many times I got into trouble for that question.
Not because it was a bad question. But because asking upset the social apple cart.
What I didn't understand was that sometimes a group decides that something is effectively "true" and "right," even though it isn't necessarily either.
Which is why I'm so fascinated by sociology. How do individual thoughts turn into group decisions? Because the answer to that question is hugely important.
* On the commercial side, you can leverage groupthink to sell things. (E.g., Uggs boots. Which really are Uggs.)
* Outside the workplace, you can channel group behavior toward the positive - such as the new interagency program to fight human trafficking and the huge social movement that is taking place around this issue.
* Frighteningly, group behavior can turn ugly too - the anti-Semitism now exploding in Egypt during its political quest for freedom is just one example.
As an adult I am glad to have a myriad of research tools available to me to help me discover answers to the questions I have. For many years I believed in the concept of a guru that supposedly "has all the answers." I thought I just had to find the right one.
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The establishment of the BOC's Ulan Bator branch will boost investment and financial cooperation between the two countries, he added.
Bank of China President Li Lihui said the bank valued the Mongolian market greatly, and pledged to provide quality financial service for enterprises from the both countries.
Since September 2010, all of Mongolia's coal exports have been going to China.
Although China itself is rich in coal reserves, they are mainly thermal coal used for coal-fired power generation, explained Dai Bing, director of the coal industry information department at JYD.
"China lacks coking coal for its steel production," he said.
"The government is encouraging importing coal from other countries including Australia and Indonesia."
China imported 290 million metric tons of coal in 2012, a 29.8 percent rise year-on-year, according to Customs figures.
The crossing at Ganqimaodu was established in 1992 but only opened fully in 2009, when it was upgraded as a national-level border point run all-year-around.
Its total transit shipments during its first 18 years were just 10.6 million tons.
Cogt is an officer from the frontier inspection station who has worked in Ganqimaodu for 10 years.
"Only between 10,000 and 20,000 tons of goods passed here per year at the very start," he said.
"People then mostly traded wool, clothes, irons and general household articles."
But the huge coal deposits near the border have changed its fortunes.
Tavan Tolgoi coal mine, one of the world's largest untapped coal deposits, lies just 190 km from Ganqimaodu.
Cogt said that a truck takes just one minute at the border control after the new system was introduced, and on average 1,000 trucks now pass through every day.
The massive Tavan Tolgoi mine has total estimated reserves of 6.4 billion tons of coal, a quarter of which is high-quality coking coal.


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|a month earlier, in Palo Alto. Not many LOM pics out there!
Like most LOM shows, this one has its up and downs, but I do think this is more consistent than most. The first set starts strong, but doesn't really hit it's stride until midway through. I'll Take a Melody is a nice opener (it's missing from the sbd, though), then we get a slooow paced Feel Like Dynamite, even slower than most others. Tutt and Kahn keep it tight and grooving, but it's still really slow and lagging a bit energy-wise. This kind of deliberate extreme slowness is something I wonder about, but will save for a future post -- I know it's off-putting to many folks, but I'm fascinated by it even when it doesn't particularly work for me. Someday Baby is one of those tunes that always seems like a good sign: not a staple of the repertoire, and not a real rarity, either, but it seems to me that it tended to make an appearance when Garcia was feeling a little spunky. Then we get some lift-off: That's All Right Mama wasn't a common LOM tune (only one other version circulates, from two weeks earlier), but this really sizzles: unlike most other Garcia performances, Tutt and Kahn give this one a funkier rhythm, more akin to "That's What Love Will Make You Do," and less of the usual chugging rockabilly "train" rhythm. Mississippi Moon is a song that I feel was done much better by later Garcia groups, but this one might be the best Saunders-era performance I've heard: it floats along just like it should, and Tutt throws in these nice snare rolls that remind me of Levon Helm on "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Boogie On Reggae Woman finishes up the set on a high note: unlike Merl's first slowed down selection of the evening, this one is actually played a little more uptempo than usual. They're cooking now! I particularly like Martin Fierro's sax solo, which sounds pitched up higher than a tenor sax (he's playing through a Varitone or some other electric effect, I think; I'm pretty sure it's Fierro and not a guest). The saxophone is another thing some folks don't appreciate about this era of Garcia, but I think Fierro was usually a good stylistic fit, and this is an A+ example of that. It sounds like we lose a chunk of Saunders' solo in a reel flip, but this is still a top drawer version of BORW before Garcia announces the break.
Tough Mama splices in to begin the second set and things are still riding high: this version was released on the Legion of Mary official release, and I'd be hard pressed to find a better one (though TM fans should check the "4/12/75 early show" version, too). Little Sunflower is good, but not great; I appreciate the diverse nature of this group, but I don't think jazz was really their strong suit. Tutt and Kahn could really work wonders as a rhythm section, but not always on the jazz material. This one, at least, finds a groove and floats along pleasantly, so no complaints. Garcia gets everyone's priorities back in order with a strong Tore Up Over You, breaking out his slide for a little bottleneck action near the end that sounds pretty strong; then he eases back into a wonderful Every Word You Say, really shooting flames in that excellent final solo. Merl's My Problems Got Problems is a solid one, not quite stirring up the the voodoo soul stew like the best 74-75 versions, but plenty satisfying. I've never been a huge fan of It's Too Late but Garcia breaks out the slide once again and this one may be as good as they got on this tune. Similarly, I also don't have a lot of love for these Tutt-era Harder They Comes, which tend to plod along and never get off the ground. As tight as they are tonight, this one didn't feel much different -- it's a little bit of an anticlimax, perhaps, but they do kick up the energy for a flashy loud finish, which I appreciate.
Ups, downs, definitely more than just another night at the office for this band, but I don't know that it makes it into my own imaginary list of the greats. For my money, Legion of Mary doesn't get much better than 5/21/75, and 5/15/75 is up there as well. Still, 7/4/75 is a strong one and it's held up to a few repeat listens over the past few days. Unfortunately, this July 4th weekend run of shows (the 4th, 5th, and 6th) was also the last stand for this group: Saunders and Fierro were left aside, apparently with little warning or explanation, and Garcia, Kahn, and Tutt began the first official Jerry Garcia Band a few months later. This has always been a blurry spot in Garcia's history (and not one that reflects well on Garcia), but from a musical standpoint I think it makes a good amount of sense: without speculating too much, I don't think it's a stretch to presume that lumbering funk jams and jazz tunes weren't what Garcia wanted to play anymore, and I suspect he didn't see the band as ever going in a substantially different direction. Weiner asserts in his book that Saunders' tunes don't "successfully co-exist" with Garcia's, and that Saunders and Fierro hold back the x-factor that flows freely whenever Garcia steps up for a solo. I don't buy that explanation myself: there are nights, particularly in some of the fall '74 Garcia/Saunders shows, where Saunders and Fierro are totally on it while Garcia seems like he's treading water, and I tend to side more with the JGMF school of thought that Garcia playing challenging and unusual material tended to bring out more positive dimensions to his playing. On the other hand, it could feel at times like Garcia was more like a sideman in the Saunders/Fierro band, though, and I can see why that would have naturally ran its course. Other reasons (economic ones certainly) certainly came into play, but I don't see much mystery in why Garcia parted company from Saunders for the time being. They did go out on a high note, at least.
Some final thoughts:
Check your hard drives and see if you agree, but I think the fileset circulating as 6/18/75 is a duplicate of this show: it's a different, lower quality aud recording and is clearly incomplete, but what's there sounds identical to the 7/4/75 performances, minus the instrumentals.
Amazingly, Garcia played the GAMH 30 times between 1973-1976. Corry at lostlivedead did an excellent post on the Dead's famous 8/13/75 Great American Music Hall show, with some excellent background color on the venue:
Also, during this same 4th of July weekend, Bob Marley was playing only a few blocks away at the Boarding House, with an additional show on Monday the 7th (broadcast on KSAN, circulating widely, and currently available here if you're interested). We have tapes dated July 7 of the Dead working at Weir's studio -- I wonder if Garcia & co. crept on down to the Boarding House afterwards to, um, let off some smoke after a busy few days? (figuratively speaking, obviously)


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It is important to prepare for an Interview before attending it. Everyone is thinking about how to give best answers in an interview.
There are some Common Interview questions in any industries. You can learn the best answers for top 10 interview questions here.
Also click here to know Common interview questions by many industries
You should know the common interview questions before attending an interview. It is also your responsibility to think about best answers for these interview questions.
In this article you may know the best examples for top interview questions. Prepare your own and unique best answers after doing research and also after reading this article.
1.Tell Me About Yourself?
As we know this is the first and common question by many industries. The answer for this question gives the first and best impression. So be prepared to give best answer for "Tell Me about Yourself.
Example 1
First of all, I would like to say thank you for giving me this opportunity.
Myself, I'm Raju from Bangalore.
I did my B.Tech from Siddharth Institutions, which comes under Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur.
I had completed my plus two from Sri Vani Jr College and secured 93% in intermediate board.
There are four members in my family and I am the youngest one.
I love outdoor games like volleyball and I was a member of college volleyball team.
Example 2
Good morning sir/madam
First of all I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity.
I am Parameswar pursuing my degree final year in the stream of B.com computer applications with 78%.
My strengths are I am a quick learner and a good team player and my weakness is I can focus only one thing at a time.
My hobbies are playing chess and listening music
Thank you
2.Why Should I select you?
Best Examples for Why should I select you?
Learn the best answers for why should we hire you?
Here you should tell the reasons to hire you. Here you can market yourself by explaining educational details, awards, technical skills, soft skills and your achievements.
Example 1
If you select me, it will be a great platform to showcase my skills. Whatever goals I set in my life, I ensure to complete them within stipulated time.
Example 2
I believe that skills with the industry would make me good fit for this position. I am very much interested that the services and products your company provides.
Example 3
I believe that my skill set seem to be perfect match for what you are looking for. I have good administrative skills and I think I would ne good asset for this office.
Example 4
I believe that I will be successful in this position, because of good adopting nature and managing skills.
More importantly your culture is exactly what I am looking for. I will work best in this type of environment.
3.Why do you want this job?
This is the most common interview question in many interviews. Some of the best example answers for this question are as follows.
Example 1
According to my research on your company from your website and various press releases, you are planning to launch new products in coming year. So I want to be part of this as it grows.
Example 2
This job is good fit for what I've been doing throughout my career. My skills allow me to complete the tasks for this company as you explained.
4.What is your Short Term Goal?
Example 1
My short term goal is to get a job in any reputed company.
Example 2
My short term goal is to find the job where I can use my knowledge and skills.
Example 3
My short term goal is to get a position in technical field.
5.What is your long term goal?
Example 1
My long term goal is to earn new responsibilities within the company. With my skills and experience, I want to help the company to succeed in future.
Example 2
My long term goal is to learn everything that is related to marketing. I want to find where I can contribute my skills and knowledge in the reputed field.
6.How do you handle stress and pressure?
Example 1
I actually work better under pressure and I've found that I enjoy working in a challenging environment. I find that I can do most creative work under pressure.
Example 2
I've learnt the difference between negative and positive stress. I reduce negative stress and work under positive stress by doing my best work.
Example 3
I am not a person who has a difficult time with stress. When I'm under pressure, I focus and get the job done.
7.Where do you want to see yourself after 5 years?
Example 1
I want to see myself in a senior position and managing important portfolio of this company after 5 years.
Example 2
I would like to be in a managerial position within 5 years.
Example 3
My long term goal is to learn as much as possible and I want to grow professionally within 5 years
Example 4
I see myself as a top performing employee in a well established organization. I plan to enhance my skills and grow myself professionally in future that is after 5 years.
8.What is your greatest Weakness?
Example 1
I concentrate one thing at a time.
Example 2
I am not comfortable, until finished my work in the given time.
9.What are your Strengths?
Example 1
I am a quick learner and great team leader.
Example 2
I am a hard worker and good team player
Example 3
My strengths are hard working in nature, easily adoptable to any kind of environment and a good team worker.
Select one question from these top 10 interview questions and post your answer. Do have any other best answers then post here to help others and for better society.
10.What are your salary expectations?
It is recommended to say the salary range not accurate figure.
Some of the best answers for salary expectations like,
Example 1
I really need more information about this job before discussing my salary. Can you tell me the range budgeted for this position?
Example 2
From the research that I have done, it will be in the range of 4.5 L to 5.5 L per annum.
I would want to be paid according to what I bring to the position. I would be somewhat flexible.
Example 3
Since this position not exactly same as my current job, Let us discuss what my responsibility at this company will be to determine a fair salary for this position.
Example 4
Before I can answer for salary expectation, I would like to know more about this position.
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Bushman Fridge
Bushman Fridges
We've been building high quality portable, off grid and mobile fridges and accessories for our Australian customers for over 20 years.
We don't make fridges to look fancy, we don't make them out of cheap stuff like plastic, and we certainly don't include unnecessary gimmicks like wifi or Bluetooth.
We believe a fridge should stay cold regardless of what you throw at it - and should always be at the temperature you set it to.
To do this, we keep things pretty simple. After all, we believe that simplicity is the key to reliability.
If we're going to do something - we do it properly.
If it works - we don't fix it. But if it's broken - we fix it straight away.


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West End Design are delighted to announce that we've been shortlisted for an Award at this year's Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Business Awards event to be held at the Sheraton Hotel on 27 February.
We submitted an application in the Creative Marketing category promoting some of the work we've been doing in conjunction with Edinburgh Trams. As always, the competition is tough – but we are confident and look forward to attending the event.
Our handiwork will be well displayed at the event, including materials produced for the event itself and our clients City Cabs and Edinburgh Trams.
Good luck to everyone shortlisted for the event and we look forward to seeing you on the night!


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Mamma Mia
Posted by: Frances
November 8th, 2009 >> Movie Mania
So today during my day of writing essays for school, I decided to take a break and watch a movie. Mamma Mia was on the DVR, so I said why not. I am not a fan of musicals at all and this is not a typical movie I would watch, but I did. I ended up fast forwarding through all the singing scenes, hence I do not like musicals. I thought it was a cute movie about a mother who was just trying to protect her daughter. I think I would have enjoyed it more if it was a movie not a musical. I thought the part where one of her friends pretends to be Elvis the King was funny and to see Meryl Streep dressed up in some of those costumes was quite entertaining. Needless to say, it is deleted from my DVR.
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Investment Committee
To ensure the goals of the Foundation are met, an Investment Committee of senior volunteers, with extensive knowledge in the investment field, provides oversight and monitors investment performance. The Investment Committee is responsible for:
- Establishing Investment Policy
- Establishing Target Asset Mix
- Monitoring performance
- Monitoring disbursement rate
Burlington Foundation's Investment Committee 2018-19 members:
Tim Cestnick, Chair
Tim is a Foundation board member. Click to see his bio overview here
Phil Reddon
Lisa Ritchie
Investment Managers
The Foundation employs several investment management firms to manage the funds in our care. By spreading our funds over several firms we can select money managers based on their area of expertise and diversify our holdings.
Current Investment Managers:
- Jarislowsky Fraser Limited
- Connor, Clark and Lunn Private Capital Limited
Click here to read our Investment Policy Statement, Jan 2018
Click to see our 2019 audited financial statements
Click to see our 2018-19 Year in Review annual report


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December 8, 2011
Hairdressing service or hairdressing job?
When a client decides to get their hair done, it's a good idea to remember what the client is actually paying for. They are not buying a tangible product (unless they decide to buy hair products before they leave the salon). They are paying for a skilled service. As hairdressers, it is our job to provide that skilled service.
You know how to shampoo, cut and style your clients hair proficiently, but that is not all a prospective employer is looking for. They want a hairdresser that can provide more than just the physical service of attending to a client's hair.
Good communication skills are not only needed to understand a client's needs but to give advice and allow a client to feel comfortable and in safe hands. In this way any misunderstandings can be avoided. A hairdresser needs to be confident and outgoing. They need to be able to socialise with many different types of people and genuinely show an interest in their clients.
Being able to work as part of a team is also essential as most hairdressing salons have several members of staff. A higher level of efficiency can be attained when working together which can produce a better level of service to the client over all.
An understanding of changing fashion trends and a flair for creativity is essential in having a long and successful hairdressing career. An awareness of Health and Safety in the salon is also important and must be apparent at all times.
A willingness to learn new hairdressing skills, techniques and methods shows commitment to having a lengthy career in hairdressing.
Most hairdressing salons are open 6 days a week with Fridays and Saturdays being the busiest days. A hairdresser must be prepared to work on their feet for long hours and still enjoy what they do.
There is much more to getting the hairdressing job you want than just the skills and qualifications you have gained. Commitment, determination and a love of hairdressing will eventually give you experience. This experience will give you the ability to provide a great level of hairdressing service to any client and hopefully it will give you a very happy and successful career in hairdressing.


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Feb. 8, 2013
Sometimes, I will get a press sheet on a particular artist that is a short one-pager that's brief and to the point. Sometimes, there's a bit of exaggeration or embellishment; sometimes, the language couldn't be truer. No hype, just facts. The latter is true in the case of guitarist Michael Walker. In part, his one-pager reads, "One in a while there comes a talent that just stands out…Michael embraces R&B and smooth jazz while incorporating a little 'southern soul.' It's a captivating difference." Merging smooth — or contemporary — jazz and R&B is nothing new. The two have been bedfellows for awhile now. Still, everything about the press sheet boldly boasts of the truth. Walker is the real deal, and his debut release, A Smoother You, stands up proudly to proclaim that.
The guitarist's delivery, the fresh and original material bearing a slight resemblance to the smoothness of our dear friends George Benson and Norman Brown, and, as one of songs states, his "sweet swag" is bound to make Walker a name you'll soon see among the who's who in contemporary jazz.
Everything about this material and this artist spells strong competence and confidence. The silky, jazzy runs and soothing melodies are among the first things you notice in listening to this album of all original material penned by Walker (save two written by multi-instrumentalist Quentin Moore).
One listen to the sassy, upbeat lead track, "Let's Do It'" featuring vocalist Angela Blair; the suave, moving "I Wanna Love You;" the light, swaying mid-tempo "Brother To Brother" featuring the tender vocals of Karen Bernod; or the rousing title track (among so many others) will capture your affinity for Walker's style.
This is a solid project. Walker says it all in two plain sentences. "It's totally me. It's a happy-feeling CD that brings a smile to your face." Yes, at the very minimum. This debut should definitely earn him praise and respect from many of his peers in this genre and admiration from jazzers everywhere. – Ronald Jackson


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Name: Terra Willowbrook
Height: 5 feet 6 inches
Weight: 165
Gender: Female
Race: Fire Elf
Physical Description: She has deep red hair, deep green eyes, tan skin, has a slightly muscular build.
Mental Attributes: She has a high intelligence level, cunning, sharp-witted, and sly when it comes to duelling with someone.
** Sexual Orientation: Straight
Relationship Status: Single but searching for a relationship
Attire: She wears a long red flower-embroidered tunic with black slacks underneath it, black strapped sandals, four bracelets around her right wrist, and a gold necklace around her neck.
Terra was born into a family of Fire elf farmers. She always took care of her three younger brothers while their parents worked on other people's farms and harvested their crops for them. They harvested their own crops as well. When she reached the age of thirteen, her parents were murdered in a raid that occurred in their village. About one hundred elves died that day. She and her three younger brothers hid in the cellar while the Raiders ramshackled everything in their house searching for money. To this very day, her brothers and she are living with their grandparents. She has been working in a small brothel as a dancer. She hated doing it but she needed to make money so her grandparents could keep up with their taxes and pay them. She wanted someone to rescue her and show her what love really is.
Personality and Traits:
Terra is a sweet person and enjoys helping out those who are in need of assistance. She only shows her fierce personality when someone is being attacked or taunted. She is protective of those who she loves and are friends with. She is also sharp-witted, quick-minded, cunning and sly when she needs to be. She is also very likable and loves to sing for everyone.
Weapons and Armor:
She carries a special fire sword that her father passed down to her after she had defeated their corrupt politician. She cherished the sword and only used it when she had to fight those who dared to attack her village. She was the only female to be trained in hand-to-hand combat and sword-welding. She also carried a bow and arrows with her, along with two daggers that her grandmother used to carry when she was younger. She wanted to join the Fire Guard but wondered if she had the qualifications for it.


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The Cattedrale di Sienna,Duomo, is perhaps the most awe inspiring, magnificent church compared to the Vatican in Rome. Actually it was built in the early 16th century to rival the Vatican by the wealthy bankers who resided in Sienna, the seat of the first bank of Italy.
It was never completed because the Black Death swept Europe and eradicated most of the population.
I visited Siena, which is only one hour by train, from Florence.
I was totally captivated by what I saw.
It was renamed La Chiesa di Santa Maria del' Assunta.
It is magnificent in every detail, inside and out.
.....lovely pale pink in its perfection.
The black and white striped, marble columns, striking in their simplicity and unexpected stature, in stark contrast to the ornate gold and ormulu interiors.
......the magnificent cupola.....
......every where awe inspiring and jaw dropping beauty, evoking feelings of mystery and incredible wonder!
....a crypt...
and the magnificent organ.
Beautiful putti, everywhere.
...every detail for the eye to linger and record.
Our Lady guarded by two gold archangels.
These beautiful and moving words were found by me as I lit my offeratory candle upon leaving.
Loosely translated they say,
" I do not know how to pray, I do not know what to say,
I do not have much time,
then, this light that I offer,
is a piece of my love,
a piece of my time,
a piece of myself,
this light that shines,
will be my prayer
that I shall continue to be, after I leave this place."


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The war of words sparked by a statewide blackout in South Australia has continued into a second day, with federal Labor labelling the prime minister a fraud on renewable energy.
Malcolm Turnbull is calling for a uniform national renewable energy target, convinced the states are putting energy security at risk through unrealistic and aggressive targets.
Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews accused the prime minister of spinning "ignorant rubbish" about clean energy.
But Mr Turnbull claims the Victorian Labor premier set a political goal of 40 per cent renewables for his state with no road map to reach it.
It's another swipe by the prime minister at state renewable energy goals since a one-in-50-year storm knocked out key electricity infrastructure and triggered a wholesale blackout.
Opposition climate change spokesman Mark Butler said the prime minister's politicisation of the storm exposed him as a fraud on renewable energy.
During this year's election campaign, Mr Turnbull praised South Australia as a "leader in clean energy generation".
Mr Andrews said the prime minister was "peddling ignorant rubbish, lecturing people about things he knows nothing about and conflating an extreme weather event".
"It seems like Tony Abbott is back."
The prime minister had no credibility when he talked about establishing a national renewable energy scheme, he said.
"We are the only jurisdiction in the developed world that had a price on carbon and got rid of it and had a renewable energy target and wound it back."
But Mr Turnbull believes the Victorian premier is using his targets to send a political message.
"We cannot play politics or ideology with energy security," he told reporters in Sydney.
"The time has come, it is a wake-up call for all of the jurisdictions in Australia to settle on a single renewable energy target."
While admitting that the power outage was caused by the storm knocking over important transmission assets, Mr Turnbull continued to link the blackout to renewable energy.
The incident brought to the forefront energy security issues, he insisted
"The reality check that we've had with SA, we've got to make sure you keep the lights on."
Experts say the state's reliance on renewable energy did not cause the blackout which for some lasted into Thursday.
Mr Andrews believes the only way Australia could reach the Commonwealth's renewable energy target of 23.5 per cent by 2020 was through the ambitions of state schemes.
Queensland and South Australia are aiming for 50 per cent and Victoria for 40 per cent, although over longer time frames.
Queensland's acting energy minister Leeanne Enoch said her state was sticking to its target.
"You never know which Malcolm Turnbull you're going to get - are we going to get the renewable champion one day and then we're going to get an almost climate denier the next day?" she said.
"It's bizarre."


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In our beautiful guesthouse, every visitor is heartily welcomed. we welcome everyone who wants to visit the Westbank. We also invite volunteers and supporters from around the world to stay and work with us on the project. The guesthouse is situated next door to the Cinema and offers three spacious eight-bed rooms, and two double rooms.
See pictures of the daily life in the guesthouse


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14 Feb 17
Our wines achieve two awards in this international competition held in Japan
Sakura Awards are the first wine awards in Japan whose jury is entirely composed by women. In this, its third edition, Eguren Ugarte Crianza 2013 achieved a gold medal, while Mercedes Eguren Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 got a silver medal. In Japan, both of them are distributed by Mottox.
The awards were selected among 4,212 items from 37 countries after the tasting assessment held from Jan.28th to Feb.1st, 2017. The best wines in several categories, as well as the most atractive for women were awarded. Wine evaluation from a female point of view is highly relevant in a country where women are a very important part of wine market.


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Wellness Plan - Commerce City School System
Purpose: To establish a school environment that promotes students' health, well-being and academic success.
Component 1: Public Involvement and Communication
· A collaboration of administrators, teachers, staff, parents, and charter council members reviewed and updated the current 2006 Wellness Policy. The Commerce City Schools Wellness Policy is posted on the Commerce City Schools website.
Component 2: Goals for Nutrition Education and Promotion
· Nutrition education will be evident in the school cafeterias through marketing and promotional campaigns to encourage healthy eating and overall wellness.
· Nutrition education collaboration between the cafeteria and classroom will be encouraged to allow students to apply critical thinking skills to food choices.
· The Georgia Performance Standards for Health Education, which include nutrition and physical education, will be taught at all grade levels, and when possible, nutrition education will be integrated in the core curriculum at all grade levels.
· Quarterly, staff and parents will be provided resources concerning health and wellness issues.
Component 3: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Available on School Campus During the School Day
· All foods served in the School Nutrition Program will follow the meal pattern and nutritional standards for breakfast, lunch, and after school snacks as outlined by USDA federal regulations and the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act 2010.
· All foods and beverages that are available for sale to students during the school day must comply with the state and federal Smart Snacks in Schools rule. This includes school vending, ice cream sales, school stores, on-site school fundraisers, etc.
· The Georgia State Board of Education approved 30 exempted fundraisers per school per school year not to exceed 3 days in length. However, there are time and place restrictions. Exempted fundraisers cannot operate anywhere on the school campus 30 minutes before until 30 minutes after the end of breakfast and lunch meal services. Exempted fundraisers cannot be in vending machines, school stores, snack bars or a la carte sales. Fundraisers occurring in these venues must meet the Smart Snacks standards.
· Each school will establish nutritional standards on other foods available on the school campus during the school day. This includes classroom parties, classroom snacks brought by parents, foods given as incentives and rewards, etc.
· Foods served in the classroom or as student rewards are not to replace the student's breakfast or lunch meal.
Component 4: Goals for Physical Activity
· Students will be given opportunities for physical activity during the school day through daily recess periods, required and elective physical education (PE) classes.
· Students will be encouraged to be involved in physical activity in the community, school sponsored events, and extracurricular activities.
· Schools will explore additional opportunities to promote and encourage physical activity both during school and outside the school day.
· Schools will encourage parents to support their children's participation in physical activity, to be physically active role models, and to include physical activity in family events.
· Staff will receive resources and guidance on ways to incorporate physical activity within the school day with the goal of limiting extended periods of inactivity.
Component 5: Goals for other school based activities:
· Meal schedules will ensure an adequate time for students to consume meals in a pleasant dining atmosphere with the goal being, at a minimum, 10 minutes for breakfast and 20 minutes for lunch after the students receives their meal.
· Schools will provide for safe, clean restrooms with adequate hand washing supplies. Students should be given the opportunity to wash hands before eating meals and snacks.
· Each school and district site shall be in compliance with drug, alcohol and tobacco free policies for both students and staff.
Component 6: Assessment and Public Notification
The Commerce City Schools Wellness Plan will be assessed annually for effectiveness and implementation. Assessment will include yearly goals to insure the most effective standards are in place to promote a healthy school environment for the students of Commerce City Schools. Each school principal or their designee(s) will ensure compliance with the policy in their school.
All assessments will be posted on the Commerce City School website.
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A few weeks ago, WhatsApp started rolling out the voice calling feature to the Android users. It was kind of a surprise as iOS is usually the first one to receive new updates and features. WhatsApp voice call for iOS is also scheduled sometime next week and after that Windows is set to receive this feature.
As is the norm, Windows will be the last mobile OS giant to receive the voice calling feature. The email from WhatsApp's support team (apparently sent out to a Windows Phone user) also mentions that the highly anticipated feature is currently being fine-tuned and customised by engineers at WhatsApp for Windows Phones.
To get the voice calling feature, Windows users must be on the latest version of WhatsApp. Hearing this news, a lot of Windows users will be excited as they might have feared that Windows will miss out on this feature.
The activation of voice calling will be similar as Android. It will be only activated when someone gives a voice call to you. Once it get activated, you will see 3 separate tabs on the WhatsApp main screen.