text:
Monday, July 30, 2007
Update on our Cutie Pie
Here are some hot-off-the-press pictures of our puppy Belle, I only took them tonight. I gave her a bath today, she smells so much better now. She's a real cutie and we constantly shower her with cuddles.Can you see her pink collar? She looks so much more girlish with it on, even though she doesn't like it on.
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 10:33 pm 1 comment:
Labels: Pet Love
Friday, July 27, 2007
Mounted Police
Recently I was once again impressed by a close-up sight of four mounted police on duty in Geraldton where we visited my mother-in-law. It was a pity I didn't have my camera with me. It's also not unusual for us to see policemen/women on what I think are the most good-looking and usually tall (at least 16 hands) steeds in the metro area of Perth, my heart simply skips a beat when I'm in the presence of these awesomely built animals, they look so smart marching down the streets. Sure we've seen show horses which are perfect at Royal Shows and special events, but somehow these horses on patrol have a special place in my heart. You can check out some pictures here: http://www.police.wa.gov.au/AboutUs/SupportServices/MountedSection.asp
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 10:25 pm No comments:
Labels: Miscellaneous
Tea Talk (Part 1)
"I'm glad I was not born before tea." -- Sidney Smith I love teacups and saucers. I like to mix and match them for tea service. There are the dainty pretty ones. The more bold looking ones. The striking blue and white ones. The plain coloured ones........... They all work together for a "common purpose". They are a good team, don't you think ? Now, a little snippet from the series "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery which I read when I was much younger and have since re-read. "I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea,"
said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically, "and asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't, but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know."
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 12:00 pm 3 comments:
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Shades of Blue
I love the blue of Lavender, especially the "Lace" range of lavenders bred in Australia. Their ruffled heads are simply superb. They have a lengthy flowering season and begins earlier than most other lavender types. They are such eye-candy to behold when they are in flower!
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 2:46 pm 2 comments:
Labels: Lovely Plants
Monday, July 23, 2007
Winter Blues
Not the unhappy kind of blues. I love cutting these aromatic and blue blooms and bringing them inside the house in winter, they provide me with plenty of pleasure and fragrance in the house when the roses are "resting" in the cold season.
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 2:35 pm 1 comment:
Labels: House Chic, Lovely Plants
Friday, July 20, 2007
Snippets of Recent Events
Well, it feels like it's been ages since I last posted. We've been away, we went down south to Bunbury and then up north to Geraldton. Down south was to attend my mother-in-law's sister's funeral. She was a dear lady who died at a good old age of 86, there was a special bagpipe number at the funeral as she was born in Scotland and came out to Australia when she was five. The music was awesome and extremely moving, especially played at a funeral. We took the opportunity to visit our friends who live in Bunbury while we were there, had lunch with them and took a brief tour of the city. We saw two look-outs which were perched high up above the city, first one we saw we wanted to climb up and have a look, I could see the majestic-looking Catholic Cathedral from low down. But our son didn't feel up to such a climb, so we got back in the car and decided to drive around. When we got to another side of the city, we spied another look-out! This time it didn't look as daunting and steep as the last one. So we quickly got out of the car and started the ascend. The trip was rather interesting especially when I saw my classmate from University days (1989) at the funeral. I was sure I knew the lady as soon as I saw her sitting in the opposite church pews. We got talking after the funeral service and lo and behold, I found out she's actually even related to me by marriage. She's my mother-in-law's sister's son's niece, it's a "complicated relationship". Believe it or not, I was so thrilled to see her I forgot to get a picture of her. I managed to fit in a little project in the midst of all the busy-ness and visits and everything. I painted a partition which I created and decorated out of the back of a bookcase to give hubby a bit of privacy in his study on one side. Then there was the trip up north(41/2 to 5 hours' drive) to visit my mother-in-law. This trip was different to other trips in that we had a little "girl" waiting for us to adopt. She was given to my sister-in-law and needed a home badly. So considering Leo, our cat went missing and we'd love the kids to grow up with a pet, we took her in. We named her Belle and she's the smallest and cutest thing! Now we've got a dog(a puppy)!!!!!! She doesn't look like my favourite dog West Highland White Terrier, which is beyond our budget to own at the moment. She is very intelligent. Can you identify what breed she is? We were guessing long-haired Jack Russell cross, or she might have Chi hua hua in her? We can't be sure! We visited the Museum(for the ten thousandth time, it's become our family ritual as the kids insist to do every time we go to Geraldton), which showcased among others, this Gateway with an artificially but nicely created under-the-sea atmosphere, the blocks were retrieved from the sunken ship Batavia. There is quite a story to what happened to the people on that ship. The bonus of this musuem visit was in the Gallery, there was a display of the winners' and highly commended pictures from the Amazing Nature and Landscape Photography Competition, I thoroughly enjoyed the display and completely fascinated by the beauty and intricacy of God's creations. I also have to show some pictures which I took on the way up north. The scenery of the countryside is simply breathtaking. I love looking into the distance of green hills/meadows with horses, cows and sheep and blue skies as far as you can see and ....dream......! The photos don't do justice to the vastness and the dreaminess of the real thing, as they were taken as the car was moving........ Now, last but not least, who's ready for a cup of tea and some sweet and juicy strawberries? I am!........ Ah! Refreshing!
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 3:49 pm 2 comments:
Thursday, July 12, 2007
I didn't get time to take more 'afternoon tea' pictures, but here are some leftovers. (We certainly did well eating!) We had a lovely dinner as well. Everyone had an enjoyable long game of Scrabble while I was cooking. Now the party is over, it's beddy-bye time. Ho-hum!.......We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow........ (We're attending my mother-in-law's sister's funeral in a country town two hours' drive down south)
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 9:42 pm 3 comments:
Afternoon Tea
I'm preparing afternoon tea, my mother-in-law is my guest. I haven't finished yet, but I took some pictures, thought I'd share them.
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 1:43 pm 2 comments:
Monday, July 09, 2007
Just a picture of some of the last winter roses in an old-fashioned vase my mother-in-law gave me and a few pictures from the little nooks and crannies of my garden today.
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 8:59 pm 2 comments:
Labels: My Garden, Romantic Roses
Friday, July 06, 2007
Here are vistas through the windows of our suburban nest, no oceans, no rolling hills, but I appreciate them just the same.
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 1:18 am 1 comment:
Labels: House Chic, My Garden
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Birthday Cake
Above are pictures of the finished birthday cake (Blackforest and cherry) with chocolate confetti I baked today. The red roses are the same lot as the ones I had when I did the Calligraphy post! They've lasted well.
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 4:40 pm No comments:
Labels: Dessert
Winter Vacation
Life has been extremely busy and I'm taking a tiny bit of time-out from my dinner-cooking for our guests tonight to post this. I'm cooking up a storm - it's going to be great, and I'll need to bake a birthday cake as well. Looks like another busy day ahead of me. There has been rain everyday intermittently still, fortunately rain here seldom goes for days on end, there's always "dry patches" in between, which makes it easier for living, even though "experts" say we do need more. I took my three kids to gymnastics on Monday afternoon around 5.30, it was quite an experience driving while waters were pouring out of the heavens, literally. I could barely see ahead of me with the curtain of rain pelting down hard on the windscreen while I was trying to "inch" the car forward on the road. Many mothers admitted they wouldn't have bothered to take their kids to gymnastics on that day if it wasn't for the "all-important" (to the kids) colour-award day when the kids would get assessed for their level and progress onto the next level according to gym standards. We stayed in the car to wait for the heavy downpour to pass when we got there, as we knew there would be no use in trying to hold our umbrellas up in this storm. Sure enough, after about five minutes, everything was calm again and we could get out of our car and stay dry without an umbrella. That night hail was forcasted, but I didn't get to see it. During this rainy and windy stretch, I also noticed the tree roses (Standard Roses) in front of this particular house in our neighbourhood which we pass by everyday have bent over in all directions and the weight of the "mop-top" keeps pulling them loose from their stakes. One good look at the stakes and I realised they are a bit too short for the height of the tree roses. I cringed as I was watching the wind beating on the skinny stems, almost praying for them that they wouldn't snap and for the owner to quickly secure them back. This is a classic example of not laying the good foundation right from the beginning. Often people want to save money and so they opt for the shorter stakes, but in doing that you end up spending more in the long run. These tree roses are not cheap, it would be a pity if they snapped. However, I know sometimes it is because we didn't know from the start what we needed to do, we make mistakes and learn from them, and some of these mistakes cost us. Either way, I hope these tree roses will survive. They are "Fragrant Plum" roses if I'm not mistaken, gorgeous and distinctive colour! Below are some photos of more roses. They are all David Austin Roses. The top two pictures are of Radio Times . The first one I took in Oct (Spring) last year and the second one, yesterday. The interesting thing is apart from the difference in the intensity of the colours, they almost look like two different kinds of roses, well, just about. Have to admit the roses in the second picture had been battered in the rain and wind, in both cases, they are still beautiful, but just different. So beware when you pick your roses just by looking at Catalogue pictures. These two pictures above were taken in January this year, the one below was taken yesterday, all of them are of Tamora, a very floriferous apricot beauty, they look different at different times of the year.
Posted by Rosy Inspiration at 9:30 am No comments:
Labels: My Garden
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)


text:
How Multi-threading Helped NewVoiceMedia Drive Bottom Line Return
LinkedIn Sales Navigator influenced 70% of revenue at NewVoiceMedia
October 20, 2016
In October 2014, Doug Ruth from NewVoiceMedia, an Account Executive at the time, opened a sales opportunity with a medium-sized internet company. Two months later, his key contact at the account left the company. In sales, this situation is all too familiar.
LinkedIn data shows that 1 in 5 decision-makers leave their position within a year*. All this job movement and shifting business priorities make keeping up with accounts even harder. Salespeople may have information about contacts in their CRM systems, but whether or not that information is accurate and relevant can be a complete mystery.
And that was fine a decade ago, when salespeople were expected to operate in puzzles. They'd find a decision-maker on an account, and then rely on that person to help them navigate the company's organization and close the deal. If that contact left or stopped responding, the salesperson would be left in the dark.
The good news is, we don't live in that world any longer – we live in a connected world. Thanks to the Information Age, crowd-sourced reviews, and social media, we now have access to a plethora of information about accounts and prospects – everything from company websites to the latest news on hiring or funding to employees' LinkedIn profiles.
Doug Ruth realized this. As one of the first people to experiment with new technology at NewVoiceMedia, he started using LinkedIn Sales Navigator to track down relevant decision-makers when his original contact left. He also started following those decision-makers, so he would receive updates on any job changes they might make. Within a month, he had closed the account.
What's more, seven of the leads he followed eventually left for other organizations, one of which was also a prospect account. Because of the relationships he formed using Sales Navigator, he was also able to close this new account almost immediately. Here, you can see the power of following key decision-makers and keeping up with their careers, as they shift roles and priorities.
Why should this matter to you?
To understand the impact of social media at-scale on a company's bottom line, we partnered with NewVoiceMedia to analyze their usage of Sales Navigator and its effect on sales outcomes in their CRM.
As we dug into the data, we wound up finding many deals similar to Doug's, where sales professionals used Sales Navigator to keep up with prospects. In fact, 70% of won revenue from new business was closed using Sales Navigator. These deals were also more likely to close (80% higher win rates) and had larger deal sizes (30% higher), contributing to 1.7x higher net won revenue per rep.
Much like Doug, modern sales teams are using their professional networks to open doors and break into new accounts, and social selling is paving the way. B2B sales is no longer the mystery it once was, with new tools helping salespeople understand, connect with, and keep up with prospects, for a real impact on their bottom line.
Click here to learn more about NewVoiceMedia and the results they saw with Sales Navigator.
*Source: Based on LinkedIn member profile data. We define "decision-makers" as members with a position at Director-level or higher and a "position change" as any member who leaves a position.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
First Alliance Church 6th Annual Race
On Saturday, February 1, the First Alliance Church in Port Charlotte hosted their 6th Annual 'Run 4 a Reason' 5K Family Fun Walk/Run. This year the proceeds from this event benefited the Virginia B. Andes Volunteer Community Clinic and Pharmacy, which cares for the uninsured of Charlotte County. Partially staffed by volunteers from the local community, the Walk/Run was a big success...
Partnership with Walgreens
VBA wants to thank Walgreens Drug Store for donating Flu shots to our volunteers and patients. Walgreens also donated the time of their Lead Pharmacist Kathy Thomas who is one of VBA's original volunteer Pharmacists. Pictured with Kathy Thomas is one of our staff members, Jane Sprunk....more
Junior Leadership Charlotte Visits VBAVCC
Jan 20, 2014: the 2014 class of Junior Leadership Charlotte toured the Virginia B. Andes Volunteer Community Clinic. They were amazed at our (semi-) new clinic and pharmacy home, and remarked how wonderful it is that we have grown from our former modular home. Thank you for coming! We look forward to your participation at the VBA Pharmacy and Clinic in a few years!...more
Pampered Chef and Charlotte State Bank help VBA
Visit any Charlotte State Bank & Trust today to purchase items from The Pampered Chef. WHY? A portion of all sales will be donated to the Virginia B. Andes Volunteer Community Clinic! It's a great way to get Pampered Chef products and donate to a good cause. The VBA Clinic & Pharmacy provides no-cost, semi-urgent medical services, pharmacy and preventive health programs to the uninsured and underserved in Charlotte County.
Bank branches will be vying for a prize for the highest amount of sales – so you can support your favorite branch too! This opportunity is going on now until the 21st of February at all Charlotte State Banks...
Susan G. Komen Grants
April, 2014: The Susan G. Komen Foundation presented the VBA Community Health Clinic with a grant for $64,468 for programs that will provide education, screening, treatment and support to the medically underserved in Charlotte County this year.
In addition, locally, Riverwood Project Detect has also raised $30,000 in funds that were given through the Komen Foundation to the VBA Community Health Clinic for breast health support...


text:
Little Chicks1:20 PM
We met some pretty awesome chicks on Monday! A local farmer brings these little guys, still in their eggs, to where my Grandmother lives, so all of the residents can see them hatch. Some were still in their eggs in the incubator and the rest were out. They were only a few hours old and boy were they cute! It was really hard to resist the urge to touch them or pick them up. Don't worry we just looked.


text:
Holmes Chapel Health Centre, London Road, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, CW4 7BBTel: 01477 533100
General Data Protection Regulations -GDPR (effective from 25th May 2018)
We are currently updating our policies and ensuring we comply with GDPR- updates can be found on our policies page under the tab of GDPR.
Physiotherapy services
Patients may now self refer for a consultation with a choice of providers, this can be found under Clinics & Services - follow the link under nursing services.
Staff Training:
The Health Centre will be closed from 12:30 midday, for staff training, on the following afternoons: Wed 3rd October 2018, Wed 7th November, Wed 5th December.
GP Patient Survey 2018
We are pleased that from the small sample of surveys this has given results above the national average. The focus seems to be upon appointments to which we can report that new innovations are being formulated which will include a link on this website to allow an electronic consultation with a GP replying back by the end of the next working day, plus an ongoing review of our service delivery. Each month the Friends and Family questionnaire which runs to hundreds of replies consistently reports more than 90% of patients hold the Health Centre and it's service in the highest feedback category of satisfaction. Our aim remains to continuously improve.
We're here for you longer
Evening appointments after 6:30PM available Monday and Tuesday here at Holmes Chapel Health Centre, with rest of the week availability too, bookable via our reception team. The appointments for Wed, Thurs,Fri,Sat, Sun are via GP Practices in the wider Eastern Cheshire CCG area. Further information available via this link www.easterncheshireccg.nhs.uk/News-Events/primary-care.htm
Follow us: Facebook Twitter
Having a repeat prescription means you can obtain your prescription without having to see your GP. It is important that repeat prescriptions are monitored and reviewed annually, to ensure that the medication is still appropriate.
Repeat prescriptions timescales:
For The Dispensary please allow 3 working days from making the request into the Practice before collection.
For all other prescription requests please allow 5 working days from making the request into the Practice before collection.
(please allow extra days if affected by Bank Holidays).
How to undertake this request:
email@example.com or
firstname.lastname@example.com if a dispensary patient
The Dispensary and the Chemist offer a delivery service for patients who have difficulty collecting their medication.
Extensive exemption and remission arrangements protect those likely to have difficulty in paying charges (NHS prescription and dental charges, optical and hospital travel costs). The NHS prescription charge is a flat-rate amount which successive Governments have thought it reasonable to charge for those who can afford to pay for their medicines. Prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs) offer real savings for people who need extensive medication.
From 1 April 2019:
The current prescription charge is £9.00 per item (£17.20 per pair of elastic hosiery).
If you need more than 12 prescribed medicines each year , you could save money with a 12-month prepayment certificate (PPC), which cost £104.00
You can also buy a three-month prepayment certificate PPC (costing £29.10), which will save you money if you need more than three prescribed medicines in three months.
Telephone advice and PPC order line: 0845 850 0030
General Public - Buy or Renew a PPC On-line
There is further information about prescription exemptions and fees on the NHS website
If you live more than a mile away from a chemist you can choose to obtain your medication from our Dispensary, conveniently located within the Health Centre. The Dispensary is Open 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
For The Dispensary please allow 3 working days from making the request into the Practice before collection.
Dispensary Leaflet
There are several reasons why patients may choose to use the Dispensary:
Patient convenience: one stop health care –medication may be collected before leaving the Health Centre.
Safe and efficient service: the Dispensary uses the same computer system as your doctor. This allows rapid transfer of information, reducing your waiting time, and enables your prescription to be checked against your medication and medical history.
Helping us help you: every time you use the Dispensary you generate income for the practice. This helps us provide extra services for all our patients.
Dispensary delivery service: available to patients who have difficulty collecting their medication.
The Holmes Chapel Health Centre Dispensary can be contacted directly on 01477 533100 then taking option 3 then option 1.
It is the patient's choice whether or not to use the Dispensary; alternative local pharmacies are available to all of our patients.
Copyright 2006 - 2020 My Surgery Website | Privacy & Usage | Edit | Staff Home | Site Map | Accessibility | Site T&C's | Service T&C's


text:
The Royal Horseguards Hotel
A stunning five-star hotel overlooking the River Thames near Embankment recommended by Forbes Travel Guide and Condé Nast Johansens.
This majestic hotel presides over the River Thames with outstanding views. From glittering chandeliers to contemporary design, this central London hotel opposite the London Eye reflects a proud heritage and fully refurbished Victorian elegance. Enjoy the original tiled floors and discover a hotel with a secret past. Stay in the building that was once the home and office to the first 'Chief' of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Sir Mansfield Cumming, now commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque.
View a virtual tour of the hotel here.


text:
Now you can skip hours of internet research and jump straight to getting answers with our meaningful at-a-glance Demographics Spreadsheet Report. With the most current & most popular demographic data, it's the perfect starting point for your research about Creola and the rest of Louisiana.
We know Creola Demographics, just keep scrolling...
All Creola population data above are from the US Census Bureau.
The population data for Creola are from the Census' American Community Survey 2017 5-year estimates and the Census' 2018 Population Estimates. The demographic data for Brusly, Glencoe, Heflin, and Start are the most current, comparable demographics available from the US Census Bureau, are from the American Community Survey 2017 5-year estimates, and were downloaded on 6 December 2018. Check out our FAQ section for more details.
With 232 people, Creola is the 413th most populated city in the state of Louisiana out of 474 cities. But watch out, Creola, because Glencoe with 223 people and Heflin with 228 people are right behind you.
The largest Creola racial/ethnic groups are White (90.0%) followed by Black (9.5%) and Hispanic (0.5%).
In 2017, the median household income of Creola residents was $75,313. Creola households made slightly more than Brusly households ($74,474) and Start households ($73,750) . However, 34.8% of Creola residents live in poverty.
The median age for Creola residents is 20.1 years young.
86% of people CANNOT find the data they're looking for on the US Census Bureau website. Source: Nielsen Norman Group
We are CUBIT
We have 25+ years of experience and proprietary data-wrangling technology to research, download, format, analyze, visualize & cite the data you need.
"Your starter report certainly saved me a considerable amount of time. I am just too busy to garner this needed data any other way. It truly would have taken hours of an employee's time or my own to get this much information. I was fortunate to find a company that had all the demographics that I needed and at a very reasonable price."
— Steven Silva
"My supervisor had assigned me the task of getting population data for the county for our required county education strategic plan. I had some information from Kids Count but need race, gender, age, etc. and the government census site was shutdown. I was so surprised to get a report within seconds and it had lots of charts and graphs that my supervisor liked."
—Jean Hinzman.
Prices start at just $49. Fill out our order form and receive your data in 1-business day:
If you are unhappy for any reason, we'll happily refund your money.
Looking for Creola, LA Starter Report PDF? Click Here.
See a sample Starter Report here.


text:
Hole Products offers a complete line of HDD drill rod,
Hole Products offers a complete line of HDD drill rod for use with all Ditch Witch® and Vermeer® drill rig models. All HDD rods are manufactured using premium quality materials and the most advanced manufacturing techniques, thus providing maximum strength and durability. Please contact a Hole Products representative for additional details or to place a HDD rod order. s (or call 1-800-465-1569).
show less


text:
Browse The Garden Furniture Sale Offers >>
Designed to last utilising hardwearing
with a choice of weather proof materials
Kettler's casual dining concept and range
was originally designed to create a versatile
and flexible collection
Best known for their production of wooden
patio furniture, Alexander Rose also supply
teak, metal, and weave furniture
Contemporary approach to design, have led
to the creation of ranges of garden furniture
which are comfortable, stylish and durable.
Enjoy competitive prices, secure online
shopping, and access to products from some
of the biggest brands in garden furniture.
Life by Norfolk Leisure
Stuning garden furniture built
to the highest standards, using
the best materials. One of a kind.
Enjoy competitive prices, secure online
shopping, and access to products from some
of the biggest brands in garden furniture.
The Emberglow fire pit set allows you to entertain guests in comfort and style whilst having great fun. The Emberglow table incorporates a gas fire pit at the centre which provides a source of instant heat or if the occasion arises can be converted to a grilling set with one of our Emberglow accessory packs. This set is complemented by four luxury cushioned lounge chairs. All emberglow products come with a stainless steel gas burner which is covered by a layer of black glass beads and an accessory pack which incorporates a mesh guard, frame and griddle plate and a waterproof table cover.


text:
Welcome to our website
Fox Corrugated Machinery Ltd
- We are a family run business, specialising in all aspects of Corrugated Carton machinery, from brokerage to spares and maintenance.
- We are one of Europe's leading machinery brokerage organisations, covering both new and used machines with contacts around the world.
- We pride ourselves in being able to offer a 'Fully Managed' package with support from the initial enquiry through to the machine 'start-up'. Including transportation and set-up.
- We offer a 24 hour, 7 days a week breakdown service, with full workshop facilities and fully stocked vans for onsite repairs. We can offer one-off repairs or our service contract to help save on unforeseen breakdowns.
- We have a large range of consumable parts on the shelf and can supply everything from knives, tooling equipment to bespoke parts made by our highly experienced design and engineering team.
- We offer an in-house precision engineering service for any metal work requirements, completed by our skilled machinists.
- Fox Corrugated Machinery are now the partners to TCY - Tien Chin Yu Machinery for the UK sales, spares and services.
For all the latest news on the machines and services we have to offer, follow us on Twitter & LinkedIn or like our Facebook page.


text:
Illinois Secondary Mathematics Certification and Exam Requirements
WGU students who will apply for certification in Illinois on or after July 1, 2013 need to first license in Utah after completing their teacher preparation program; a student can then apply for a reciprocal license in Illinois. Refer to the following for specific state requirements: general Utah teacher certification requirements and general Illinois teacher certification requirements.
In Illinois, completion of this program leads to a license with an endorsement in Mathematics, Grades 6-12.
Important Note Regarding Field Experiences and Licensure
1) Content Exam for Certification: Praxis 5161, Mathematics: Content Knowledge
If passed prior to 9/1/2013, the Praxis 5061 Mathematics: Content Knowledge.
You must pass this exam to graduate from this program and be recommended for certification.
This exam also satisfies the WGU Program Requirement. Illinois will accept Praxis exams passed for Utah licensure to meet the Illinois exam requirements.
2) Pedagogy Exam/edTPA Requirement: Students completing their Demonstration Teaching in the Fall 2015 cohort or later will complete an officially scored edTPA during their demonstration teaching, and do not need to pass the Illinois pedagogy exam. Students who completed their demonstration teaching in cohorts prior to Fall 2015 were required to pass the ILTS Assessment of Professional Teaching (APT) pedagogy exam. Due to changing rules in Illinois, WGU recommends that these students contact the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) directly to confirm whether the APT exam is required.
Visit these links for important information:
General Information About Licensing in Illinois
Submitting Exam Scores to the Utah State Office of Education
Applying for your Illinois Teaching License
Article Number : 19598, 2203


text:
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) and Central Sleep Apnoea (CSA) go hand in hand with health conditions that affect the respiratory, nervous, cardiovascular and endocrine system. Consult the graph below for more details on associated chronic diseases.
Although scientists continue to research the risks created by, and associated with, sleep apnoea, patients' sleep-disordered breathing often goes untreated. Learn how to treat a patient's sleep apnoea to diminish the risk of other chronic diseases.
ResMed explains the various cardiovascular diseases (CVD) associated with sleep apnoea: hyptension, coronary artery disease, cardiac rhythm disorders, heart failure, stroke.
The association between type 2 diabetes and sleep apnoea has been widely documented in research. Find out why the International Diabetes Foundation recommends routine two-way screening in sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and type 2 diabetes patients.
Sleep apnoea and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often coexist in sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) patients. Learn more about the relationship linking COPD to sleep apnoea.
1. Pedrosa, R.P., et al., Obstructive sleep apnea: the most common secondary cause of hypertension associated with resistant hypertension. Hypertension, 2011. 58(5): p. 811-7
2. Oldenburg, O., et al., Sleep-disordered breathing in patients with symptomatic heart failure: a contemporary study of prevalence in and characteristics of 700 patients. Eur J Heart Fail, 2007. 9(3): p. 251-7.
3. Stevenson, I.H., et al., Prevalence of sleep disordered breathing in paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation patients with normal left ventricular function. Eur Heart J, 2008. 29(13): p. 1662-9.
4. Sjostrom, C., et al., Prevalence of sleep apnoea and snoring in hypertensive men: a population based study. Thorax, 2002. 57(7): p. 602-7.
5. Hetzenecker, A., et al., Cardiac workload in patients with sleep disordered breathing early after acute myocardial infarction. Chest, 2013. 143(5): p. 1294-301.
7. Bassetti, C.L., M. Milanova, and M. Gugger, Sleep-disordered breathing and acute ischemic stroke: diagnosis, risk factors, treatment, evolution, and long-term clinical outcome. Stroke, 2006. 37(4): p. 967-72.


text:
Michael S
Michael is a native New Yorker, and a professional musician and actor of 15 years! He has performed across the country in touring companies and regional theatre, and been apart of numerous off off Broadway shows in NYC. His love of music, theater, and the arts, is only slightly surpassed by his love of children and all they bring to our world. He is also a pre-school music teacher, and has a black belt in karate!


text:
Have Brush Will Work for Art
It's been an intense past couple of weeks as I've been on the road going from paintout to paintout. I've met some wonderful people, artists and country. The weather has been spectacular and I've found homes for quite a few paintings.
The end of August saw me in Hood River which is an amazing location. 10 minutes in any direction and you can be a different landscape. East to the desert and steppe, South to Mt. Hood, North to Mt. Adams both dormant volcanoes and West towards Portland and what is know as The Gorge.
Everyone I met is there because of the wind. Windsurfers and kiters. I've never seen so many skinny people. Winter it is skiing. A lot of good energy and I look forward to going back.
Check out the event blog at http://pleinairhoodriver.blogspot.com// They even had a pleinair writing event. We'll have to wait a bit to see the results but it should be interesting.
Cathleen Rehfeld was our coordinator. She had pre-arranged sites such as the Whitehouse Bed and Breakfast where I painted this painting I call Madame Pear Bottom. I hadn't notice the figure until Joe Howard took a peak over my shoulder and said, "Looks like you've been away from home to long." I didn't get it until he pointed out the nice female anatomy of my pear tree. I honestly didn't paint that on purpose but now that's all I see. Sheesh!
Cathleen not only guided us around but is an awesome painter. The sale of that weeks efforts was awesome and couldn't have happened without the support of Rich Kruger a true patron of the arts that Hood River is fortunate to have. We painted at the Cathedral of the Airplane otherwise known as the Airplane and Auto Museum, http://www.waaamuseum.org/, every plane flies and there are over 100 planes. An amazing place if you ever get the chance to visit. One of my favorite highlights was the Maryhill Museum and a painting, "Solitude", by Lord Alfred Leighton. It is an awesome technically accomplished painting, done in the pre-Raphaelite manner. The painting itself is over 100 years old and there is not a crack in it although it is highly glazed. The work reminds me of opera and what it is possible for the human hand or voice in the case of opera, to achieve. It is also curious to find such a treasure, as well as many more, to be found on the arid steppes of the columbia river.
I then went to Coupeville, WA. I made it in time to get my canvases stamped and painted into the night doing my first 'nocturne', wearing my LED hat to see by. The painting was of the Dog House Tavern in Langley and came out well although I didn't get a photo of it before it found a home.
I was home a couple days to check on the horses and chickens. All was fine so I took off for Coeur d'alene, Idaho where the Oil Painters of America were holding there western region show at the Devin Gallery. They also held a paintout in which I participated and found a home for another painting. Each time I sell a painting I meet another great person with an interesting life to learn about. An emissary of art, my paintings are my calling card. OPA was well attended but the real show for me was at Stephen Gibbs, Art Spirit Gallery which was showing works by George Carlson, one of the geniuses of the today's art world. He had a series of oil paintings which were highly inspired. Reflecting "Big Ideas" as Bill Reese would say. He is the one that considers Carlson a genius which made me look even more closely at Carlsons paintings and sculptures. Carlson's work shows me what is possible if one commits to the highest levels of reflection.
I'm off to Wenatchee to paint with William F. Reese, one of the patriarchs of oil painting in the Pacific NW and the nation. I hope a little of his knoweledge rubs off on me, then I am off to Ellensburg for a paintout and N. Idaho for a paintout and benefit for creating a wilderness area of Scothman Peaks.
Stay Tuned
Labels: paintouts, pleinair oil painting


text:
Picture: The Cribs - The 2013 NME Awards held at The Troxy - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Wednesday 27th February 2013
British rockers The Cribs have postponed a show in their native U.K. after frontman Ryan Jarman was hospitalised in New York to treat a kidney infection.
The singer was admitted to a medical facility in the Big Apple to treat the condition, and medics also carried out tests on his liver and gall bladder, but he has now been discharged.
A series of posts on the band's Twitter.com page reads, "Ryan was in hospital with a kidney infection and tests on his liver and gall bladder. He is out now, and will be back in action for Hard Rock Calling. Thanks for the love!"
The message confirms the band still intends to play at London music festival Hard Rock Calling at the end of the month (Jun13), but the setback means the group won't be able to play a show in Coventry, England on 27 June (13).
The concert, at Coventry's Kasbah venue, has been pushed back until 2 August (13). All tickets will remain valid for the new date.
Jarman has since assured fans he is recovering well following his stint in hospital, writing in a post on Twitter.com, "Thanks for hospital well wishes! Still a bit of pain & tests to be done, but watching a Queen Dvd so I'm happy!... Seriously, you guys are great."


text:
Goldie Gillespie RJ2 - Music
Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist
www. twitter.com/rychmccain and Facebook (Like Me)
|World famous Viper Room on the Sunset Strip
Goldie Gillespie's RJ2 Rick James Tribute Show will be in full force at the world famed Viper Room, 8852 Sunset Bl in West Hollywood, CA. 90069, 310-358-1881, this Friday, November 20, 2015. This high octane event will take off ballistic missile style with the funk at 9:PM. There is a $25 cover with a two drink minimum. The show is fired by a 14 piece band featuring the RJ2 horns and the RJ2 Goldie Girls.
|Viper Room owner Beaven Cooney (L) and Goldie (R)
If you are an avid Rick James Fan, this show is a must! Goldie will perform his biggest hits to perfection and being at the world famous Viper Room, you never know which one of your favorite superstar actors, comics, singers and rockstar musicians might be sitting at the table next to you! Some Major names have been invited.
Gillespie is personally managed by star maker Krista Stodden and his publicist is veteran Hollywood super heavyweight Edward Lozzi.
|All Star Team (L-R) Goldie, Krista, Bevan and Edward
© 2015 Rych McCain Media/Syndication TM
(You DID Hear It From Me!)
Twitter@rychmccain and Facebook (Like Me)!


text:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The EPRSC Diamond Science and Technology aims to attract, recruit and retain the most talented applicants, irrespective of background.
The DST CDT is proud of our diverse community of staff, students, and visitors, and is committed to maintaining an excellent record in training and research by ensuring that there is equality of opportunity for all, fostered in an environment of mutual respect and dignity.
We work alongside the University of Warwick and all partner Universities and Companies to ensure that we offer a welcoming and productive environment in which our students and staff can study and work. We continuously review our working practices to ensure that all staff and students are well supported in their work and study.
Understanding Unconscious Bias
The Royal Society
University of Warwick
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Aberystwyth University
Cardiff University
Imperial College London
Newcastle University
University of Bath
University of Bristol
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion


text:
Brisenia, who was nine at the time, was murdered in her home by armed members of a right-wing paramilitary group. Right-wing militias, deaths squads and other such paramilitary organizations were relatively common in Latin America during the tumultuous 1980s, and their horrendous crimes and history of cruel human rights abuses are well known and have been extensively documented by human rights groups. What makes Brisenia's murder different isn't just that it ocurred more recently, but rather that it ocurred on American soil, and that the violent paramilitary organization that murdered her while she recoiled and wept, pleading for her life, was an American terrorist organization known as the Minutemen American Defense organization, a group whose founder, Shawna Forde, has well established ties to larger and better known anti-immigrant groups such as the Minutemen and FAIR, the Federation For American Immigration Reform (Forde once served as a spokesperson for FAIR).
It was no random act of violence. Shawna Forde, the suspected mastermind of the home invasion robbery in which Brisenia and her father Raul were killed, is the leader of the vigilante group Minutemen American Defense and has been tied to the national Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Both groups have been labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "hate groups" and have a long record of routinely dehumanizing immigrants and vilifying Latinos.
The problem is bigger than FAIR or any other group. Some members of Congress have been legitimizing these organizations for years—inviting them to testify as "experts"—while the rhetoric coming from these groups has given rise to violence against Latinos, like the killing of Brisenia and Raul Flores. That needs to end now.
I've joined Presente.org in demanding that Congress renounce FAIR, the Minutemen, and other anti-immigrant hate groups. Please click below to join me, and ask your friends and family to do the same:
FAIR and the Minutemen groups are regularly quoted in the mainstream media—FAIR more than 500 times in 2008—giving them a megaphone to broadcast their hateful rhetoric: like FAIR executive director Dan Stein's claim that "illegal aliens are more prone to criminal activity than the rest of the population," or Minutemen co-founder Jim Gilchrist's assertion that it is "okay to say 'rapist,' 'robber' and 'murderer'" when describing "illegal aliens."
As vile as their rhetoric is, even more disturbing is when our elected representatives applaud their efforts and parrot their messages. Take Ranking Republican Congressman on the House Immigration Sub-Committee, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a long-time friend of extremist groups, who wrote that a day without immigrants in America would mean "the lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day." Those debunked claims were then repeated hundreds of times by FAIR and others, creating an echo chamber of racism and hate.
Or take Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has likened immigrants to terrorists and child molesters, as well as taking money from a group with white-supremacist ties.
Elected leaders like these, together with their allies in extremist anti-immigrant groups, create a climate of hatred that leads to violence – as evidenced by a recent string of hate-motivated killings across the country .
Enough is enough. Please join me in holding members of Congress accountable by demanding they stop legitimizing FAIR and the Minutemen. It takes only a moment:
The American political scene has recently been dominated by a dark and dangerous undercurrent of nativist, anti-immigrant demagoguery served up by irresposible propagandists such as CNN's Lou Dobbs and Fox New's Bill O'Reilly and race-baiting politicians such as U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo among many, many others.


text:
St James Surgery2 Harold StreetDoverKent, CT16 1SFTel: 01304 225559
All our patients now have an allocated GP, if you are unsure who your GP is please ask at reception.
We offer Online Access to our patients for booking appointments, ordering prescriptions and for viewing parts of your own medical records, using Vision Online Patient Services. To register for this facility you will need to fill out an Online Services Request Form, available from Reception at the Surgery.
Do you look after a member of your family or a friend? Please let us know if you are a carer.
We are not currently accepting new patients. Our patient list is being CLOSED temporarily due to staff shortage.
MD Graduated Münster 1992 GMC No. 4075929
MB ChB MRCGP Graduated Aberdeen University in 1988 GMC No. 3283486
ARTS. GMC number: 3419142. Dr Holwerda works Monday's, Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's.
Becci is a Nurse Practitioner and can see patients for urgent book on the day appointments.
Tara is training in the post of Nurse Practitioner and is able to see patients for urgent book on the day appointments.
Lead Nurse RGN RNM ENB 997
RGN RGM. Nurse Ruth provides cover for our Nursing team when they are on leave.
Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.
Our Healthcare Assistants support our clinical team and offer a great service to our patients.
Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.
The Reception Team are trained to allocate your appointment to the most appropriate clinician, please give them as much information as possible to enable them to help you get the best possible care.
There are dedicated medical secretaries to ensure all reports and doctors' correspondence is dealt with promptly.
The Practice Pharmacist carries out medication reviews and medication queries. He also supports the Clinical Team. He can provide urgent book on the day appointments.
A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.
A number of health professionals also visit or have surgeries in our premises. These include district nurses, counsellors and community psychiatric nurses.
We provide training at the Practice and like to train our staff and give opportunities to those wanting to work in the NHS.
Dr Sutherland is a clinical supervisor and we may have from time to time trainee members of staff such as nurses, medical students and apprentices.
Copyright 2006 - 2020 My Surgery Website | Privacy & Usage | Edit | Staff Home | Site Map | Accessibility | Site T&C's | Service T&C's


text:
USD/JPY recovers to 5-DMA, fresh bids emerge at 1h 50-MA
FXStreet (Mumbai) – The USD/JPY pair is seen catching a fresh bid tone in early Europe, recovering from session lows and now heading towards 123 handle.
USD/JPY eyes 20-DMA at 122.80
Currently, the USD/JPY pair trades -0.07% lower at 122.69, recovering from fresh session lows of 122.55, where hourly 50-SMA lie. The major stalled its corrective slide and trims losses, having run through fresh bids near the mid-point of 122 handle.
The USD/JPY pair poses minor recovery and re-attempts to take out 20-DMA at 122.80, as the USD bulls jumped back on the bids against its major rivals after correcting lower in Asia. The greenback regained lost momentum as the European traders hit their desks, and digest the latest streak of upbeat US fundamentals, signalling that a Dec Fed lift-off is a done deal.
While the yen bulls continue to fight control and defends mild gains in anticipation of a better Tokyo the National CPI print due tomorrow. Tokyo consumer prices are seen improving in Oct while the National CPI is expected to remain unchanged from previous -0.1%.
Looking ahead, broad based US dollar strength is expected to keep the downside cushioned in the major amid a data-light trading session.
USD/JPY Technical levels to watch
The prices trade near session lows and finds immediate support at 122.20 (Nov 16 Low) below which 121.71 (200-DMA) would be tested. To the topside, the immediate resistance is located at 122.71/75 (5-DMA/1h 100-SMA). A break above the last, the major could test 122.96 (1h 200-SMA).
(Market News Provided by FXstreet)


text:
Teaching Reading
# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | All
# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | All
|180 Days of Reading for Fifth Grade
|180 Days of Reading for First Grade
|180 Days of Reading for Fourth Grade
|180 Days of Reading for Kindergarten
|180 Days of Reading for Second Grade
|180 Days of Reading for Sixth Grade
|180 Days of Reading for Third Grade
|200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8
|Adolescent Literacy
|Angling For Words Study Book
|Apprenticeship in Literacy, 2ed
|The Book Whisperer
|By Different Paths to Common Outcomes
|Context Clues In Stories Super Fun Deck
|Day-to-Day Life Skills Reading
|Developing Language and Literacy
|Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas, 2ed
|Differentiating Reading Instruction for Success With RTI, Grades K-3
|Direct Instruction Reading, 5th edition
|Early Intervention for Reading Difficulties
|Early Starters K-1
|Equipped for Reading Success
|Explaining Reading, 3ed
|First 100 Sight Words Super Fun Deck
|Fitzroy Readers Audio CD 21-30
|Fluency in Reading
|High Noon Reading Fluency
|High Noon Reading Level 1
|High Noon Reading Level 2
|High Noon Reading Strategies
|How Do I Teach This Kid to Read?
|How the Brain Learns to Read, 2ed
|How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction
|Illuminating Comprehension and Close Reading
|Implementing Response to Intervention
|Improving Phonemic Awareness Skills
|Interventions for Reading Problems, 2ed
|Interventions for Reading Success, 2ed
|A Land We Can Share
|Language at the Speed of Sight
|LETRS (Second Edition) Modules 1-3 Set
|LETRS (Second Edition) Modules 4-6 Set
|LETRS (Second Edition) Modules 7-9 Set
|LETRS Second Edition
|Leveled Texts for Fifth Grade
|Leveled Texts for First Grade
|Leveled Texts for Fourth Grade
|Leveled Texts for Kindergarten
|Leveled Texts for Second Grade
|Leveled Texts for Third Grade
|Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties 10th Ed
|Making Sense of Phonics, 2ed
|More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy
|Next Chapter Book Club
|Now We Get It!
|Phonemic Awareness
|Phonological Awareness
|A Principal's Primer for Raising Reading Achievement
|Proust and the Squid
|RAVE-O Toolkit
|Read, Write, Lead
|Readers Front and Center
|Reading and Learning Difficulties, 2ed
|Reading Development and Teaching
|Reading for Life
|Reading for Success, Book 1
|Reading Foundations
|Reading Freedom 2000
|Reading in the Brain
|Reading Intervention in the Primary Grades
|The Reading Intervention Toolkit
|The Reading Mind
|Reading Skills Problem Solver
|Reading Strategies for Elementary Students With Learning Difficulties
|Ready to Read
|Recipe For Reading
|Remediating Reading Difficulties, 6ed
|REWARDS Plus Science, Teacher's Guide
|REWARDS Plus Science, Teacher's Set
|REWARDS Plus Social Studies, Teacher's Set
|RTI for Reading at the Secondary Level
|Running Records
|The Six-Minute Solution, Secondary Level
|Sound Linkage, 3ed
|Spotlight on Reading
|Storytelling and Story-Reading in Early Years
|Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century
|Tap, Click, Read
|Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons
|Teaching Reading and Phonics to Children with Language and Communication Delay
|Teaching Reading Essentials
|Teaching Reading Sourcebook, 3ed
|Teaching Reading to Children with Down Syndrome
|Teaching Strategic Processes in Reading 2ed
|Teaching the Brain to Read
|Teaching Word Recognition, 2ed
|TLC Reading Skill Builders
|Toe by Toe
|Tools for Teaching Content Literacy
|Transforming Reading Skills in the Secondary School
|Try Reading Again
|Whole Child Reading
|Words at Work 1 - Basic
|Words at Work 2 - Advanced


text:
If your summer has been anything likes ours then almost every weekend has been filled with vacations, weddings or simply a few days off to yourself. Erik and I had the chance to go visit one of our absolute favorite cities -Portland – and we got to check out the newly renovated Hotel Modera!
If you want to leave the hotel for a drink – which you don't have to – we highly recommend checking out Barlow. This was such a fun little spot to grab a craft cocktail before heading to bed. They actually cooled our martinis with liquid nitrogen, a great drink and a show is always high on my list!
Also within walking distance is VooDoo donuts which is a MUST HAVE when visiting Portland. These things are something to write home about, and you can tell by the line even at 1 am that people love them just as much as we do!
The best part about Hotel Modera though, is that you truly never have to leave the hotel if you don't want to. The room was so cozy and clean and had the softest bed that I did not want to get out of every morning. The bathrooms were extremely clean and the marble finishes had me in awe – definitely spa like – and the lighting was amazing. Silly again to mention something so small, but I know all my makeup wearing friends out there can agree that poor hotel lighting is the worst when it comes to putting makeup on.
Feeling Hungry? Take a walk down to the lobby where Nel Centro -One of the top rated restaurants in Portland resides – and enjoy one of the best meals Portland has to offer! Erik and I had lunch out on the patio one day and really enjoyed not only the great food and rose' but the most beautiful living wall. Portland's first living wall to be exact! Now if only I could figure out how to make one in my own backyard 🙂
From the moment we arrived to the moment we left we were so pleased by the staff, the location, the amazing food AND the attention to detail that the hotel offers. We highly recommend if you are staying in Portland to choose Hotel Modera and I know that it will be our hotel of choice from here on out!
XOXO, Rechelle


text: 150 g/m2 100% cotton fabric suitable for bedding, sheeting, craft, quilting, patchwork, children's bedding, baby curtains and many more… It's not heavy upholstery or curtain type fabric Really wide roll 155cm!!!!!! This listing is for fabric sold by: HALF METRE MEASURES 50 x 155cm . Each item purchased will be sent as one continuous length. If you are unsure of this fabrics quality or size patterns, please request a sample we are happy to send them.


text:
Lexoo is a London-based online marketplace connecting companies who need to get legal work done with superstar lawyers. Backed by Forward Partners and 500 Startups, Lexoo has helped the likes of HelloFresh, Makers Academy, and over 14,000 other businesses take the stress out of choosing a lawyer.
How and why Lexoo uses Trevor.io
Trevor has opened up business intelligence for our team. They're no longer in the dark. Everyone from interns to product managers and marketers at Lexoo use it.
CTO Lexoo
The problem
We were sitting on a whole load of data that our team needed to make daily decisions. But, prior to using Trevor.io, the only people with access to it were my engineers. Like most IT teams, we were rushed off our feet and didn't have time to deal with the constant influx of data requests - people would have to really convince us they needed something.
We knew this had to change. Things we tried included:
Buying a license for Tableau, another BI solution. But the learning curve was incredibly steep and it was too expensive to use company-wide.
Looking for another suitable data tool. But we couldn't find anything that offered the flexibility our team needed that didn't require users to be able to write SQL.
Creating analytics pages, but these would often crash and weren't flexible enough to let people answer ad hoc questions.
Giving the team an intro course to SQL. But, it's hard to get meaningful results when you only know SQL basics.
Doing frequent "data dumps" into Excel. This would take ages, Excel would often crash, and the data was out-of-date within days.
How Trevor Helped
Trevor's helped us in two ways:
Trevor has opened up BI for the team.
Trevor is the best, easiest way for our team to access our data and find the answers they need, without technical assistance. The interface is simple and flexible, letting you build up questions step by step.
I've had no problem getting people to adopt it, and it's a must-have tool for new hires - we give them a quick training session and then they're good to go.
Trevor's "suggested questions" feature, which helps you get started, is something I particularly like. It starts you on a voyage of discovery - immediately you have a list of interesting results and can start to dig in.
Trevor gives you live feeds to export data to tools like Google Sheets and Excel.
We build reports in Google Sheets. For example, we have a giant dashboard with all of our company KPIs, which we look at once per week as a team. Whereas previously it was a nightmare to populate this, Trevor's live data feeds makes it super easy. In fact, we set it up once, and now it's up to date all the time.
Overall, we're very happy with Trevor and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
Example questions
Everyone from interns to product managers and marketeers at Lexoo have used Trevor to get the answers they want out of our data.
Marketing Manager
Lexoo's team uses Trevor to answer a whole range of questions that help them make data-informed decisions, day to day. Here are some examples:
What's the quote-to-success rate per month for each legal area? What percentage of first quotes are successful?
How many daily/weekly enquiries are received from each marketing channel?
How are lawyers converting clients over time? If they're not, what's wrong?
Are KPIs being hit? An important KPI, for instance, is to deliver 3 quotes in 2 business days to a potential client. If this didn't happen on a particular occasion, what was the reason? Was it because there weren't enough lawyers for the specific specialty, or simply that not enough lawyers responded? If not enough lawyers responded, why was this? Was it because they had been sent the wrong work (e.g. they had been incorrectly tagged as specialising in commercial, rather than immigration law)?
And many more.
To create your free account on Trevor.io, click here.


text:
2013 Seattle Mariners Prospect No. 23: Guillermo Pimentel
Guillermo Pimentel, OF, Clinton Lumberkings (A, average age 21.3 in 2012)
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Acquired: International Signing (2009)
2012 Ranking: 11th
Pimentel came in as one of the top international prospects, and one of the unspoken hallmarks of the Jack Zduriencik era. After posting a .201 ISO in rookie ball as a 17 year old, Pimentel began to turn the heads of some prospect analysts. In the past two seasons his power has declined without a major promotion, and his strikeouts have stayed dangerously close to 30 percent, while his walks have remained low. A low-contact, mediocre-power, low-walk profile doesn't make for a very good big leaguer, but hope reigns supreme as Pimentel has massive potential, if only he can harness it.
Potential (of 40): 28
Probability of Success (of 30): 4
Positional value (of 20): 10
Character (of 10): 10
The rest of the 2013 Top 25 Prospects


text:
A distinctly energetic and visionary entrepreneur, Duvi Honig has built a world class network of diverse businesses and business services to enhance the business prospects of the world's Orthodox Jewish communities through innovative economic development and public policy initiatives.
The dual pillars that Duvi founded – the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce and non-profit Parnassah Network organization – encompass nearly 1,000 diverse businesses and fourteen divisions.
Nearly 20,000 people from across the United States and six additional countries took advantage of OJC/Parnassah Network resources, including the flagship annual Parnassah Expo - J Biz Expo – Nationwide Business Networking Event, the world's largest Jewish community B2B event.


text:
New Listing
Decorative Concrete Resurfacing
Top Sites
A&E Manufacturing Company INC. - Precision Sheet Metal Fabrification Manufacturing
Oreworld Trade (Tangshan) Co., Ltd.
A-zer Construction, Contracting & Trading Co., Inc.
TPS Handyman London - Your Local Handymen
Able Matting Limited - Exporter of mat, matting product and floor covering for industrial
Top Search
Architects Act Trackback Trackback
Limited Energy Systems Register Trackback
Architects Act Trackback Trackback Trackback
Mtv Trackback Act Trackback Walmart Trackback
Png Lng Project Employment Opportunities
Magnetic Particle Testing Mpt Mt
Civil Industry News
NASA engineer speaks at BSC energy conference - Prairie Business
UTEP Engineering students win steel bridge competition - El Paso Times
Dennis Hedke to sign copies of \'The Audacity of Freedom\' - El Dorado Times
UMA Forum on the Future series continues Jan. 22 - Kennebec Journal
EPA seeks experts to review Wyo. pollution study - FuelFix (blog)
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) works to strengthen the United States' energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality in public-private partnerships. It supports this goal through (1) enhancing energy efficiency and productivity; and (2) bringing clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Related
Aventine Renewable Energy, Inc.: Aventine Renewable Energy, Inc. is a leading producer and marketer of ethanol and related by-products. Through our own production facilities we market and distribute ethanol to many of the leading energy companies in the U.S. We are proud to be one of the leading innovators in the renewable energy field. The products we sell help reduce our country's dependence on foreign oil, benefit the environment by reducing pollutants and improve automobi
Renewable Energy Resource Center: The Renewable Energy Resource Center (RERC) provides consumers with information on solar hot water and solar electric renewable energy systems. In our web site you can learn about how solar electric and hot water systems work, find information on the economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy, and locate dealers and advice that can help you make better choices when purchasing and installing a renewable energy system.
Illinois Renewable Energy Association: The Illinois Renewable Energy Association (IREA) supports sustainable energy development in Illinois. The IREA provides hands-on opportunities for the Illinois public to learn about the benefits, potentials, and uses of renewable energy and energy-efficiency for our homes and businesses.
Solar Energy: We are one of the leading chinese solar panels manufacturers. Supply of solar panel, solar module, solar cell, thin film solar module, indoor solar panel,also we provide OEM solar panel services.
The Energy Works!: Offers shielding products to protect against electromagnetism from cell phones, computers, fluorescent lights and other sources.
United Energy: Designs, provides, and supervises the installation and maintenance of lighting systems. Franchises available.
Wheatstone Energy: Specializing in energy efficient lighting installations throughout the Southeastern U.S.
Energy Resources, Inc.: Provides dredging services engineered to remove sediment from canals, lakes, ponds, marinas, and waterways.
WARE Energy: Specializes in industrial boiler and chiller rental.
Energy Kinetics: Manufacturer of the System 2000 boiler.
New Additions: Environmental Engineering - Energy
Energy Savings
Get an accurate no obligation in-person assessment provided by our skilled and knowledgeable solar designers. We are here to help you understand your solar options and provide a customized solution that's the perfect fit for ...
Category: Energy - Environmental Engineering
Location: New Mexico - Mexico
Barden Energy Wood Chip Boilers
Wood chip boilers installed and maintained by Barden Energy Ltd. Barden Energy are leaders in their field serving clients in Cumbria and Lancashire and supply biomass fuels to businesses and domestic clients too.
Category: Energy - Environmental Engineering
Location: Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancashire - United Kingdom
SIE Solarus Energy Ltd. - Coal into Diesel Fuel
SIE Solarus Energy Ltd. manufacture and installation of production line for production of diesel fuel from coal (processing capacity of 100 tons of coal a day and receive 42 tons of gasoline and diesel fuel ...
Category: Energy - Environmental Engineering
Location: Singapore - Singapore
Indeck Power Equipment Co. - Rental b oilers, used boilers and new boilers etc.
Indeck Power Equipment Co. has a power solution for every need. It maintains the worlds largest boiler inventory of skid and trailer mounted rental equipment. All rental equipment has been designed and manufactured to the ...
Category: Energy - Environmental Engineering
Location: Wheeling, Illinois - United States
Solar Panel Installers
Spirit Solar is a leading installation company in the renewable energy industry. Specialising in solar pv panels, solar thermal systems, heat pumps and biomass systems, the company is committed to bringing affordable, eco friendly and ...
Category: Energy - Environmental Engineering
Location: Reading - United Kingdom


text:
Umi Sushi
(718) 261-3513 | 96-05 Metropolitan Ave., Forest Hills, NY 11375
Sushi Delivery in Forest Hills
Order Online
Umi Sushi
Come down for the best and cheapest Japanese delivery in Forest Hills. At Umi Sushi, we pride ourselves on the quality of our ingredients and the simplicity of our dishes. Whether you're in the mood for some incredibly fresh maki and nigiri, soba or udon noodles, or a massive variety of don buri dishes, we have you more than covered. Our prices are always the most competetive you'll find anywhere around. Order online through Eat24Hours.com and get your order for takeaway, or get it delivered straight to you, always for free. No matter what you order, or where you're eating it, we promise you'll keep coming back for more!
Restaurant Takeout
Forest Hills Food Delivery
Sushi Delivery
powered by:
Food Delivery


text:
Speaker: Dr. Kelly Gillespie (Senior Lecturer At The Dept. Of Anthropology-University Of Witwatersrand-South Africa)
Room AP 246, Dept. of Anthropology, 19 Russell St, Toronto, ON M5S 2S2
Speaker: Prof. Jane McLeod (Associate Professor Of History-Brock University)
Jane McLeod is associate professor of history at Brock University. She is the author of Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons and the State in Early Mo...
oom 208N North, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7


text:
I am extremely pleased to announce that, after many months of work, a special double issue (30/31) of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies has been released. Purchase it and get more information here: http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/index
Jody Berland and I co-edited this theme issue, which includes a host of phenomenal contributions from a wide range of scholars, established and emerging.
There will be a launch party on April 12, 2014, 5pm-7pm at the Melody Bar in Toronto, which will also be the Toronto launch of my new book Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power.
Max Haiven and Jody Berland – The Financialized Imagination (In Memory of Stuart Hall)
John Clarke – Imagined Economies: Austerity and the Moral Economy of 'Fairness'
Mathias Nilges – Finance Capital and the Time of the Novel or, Money Without Narrative Qualities
Matthew Flisfeder – Debt: The Sublimated Object of Capital
Rob Aitken – Games and the Subjugated Knowledges of Finance: Art and Science in the Speculative Imaginary
Andrew Calcutt – Fictitious Capital: London and the Financial Imagination
Cathy Greenfield and Peter Williams – From Shadowy Zone to Daily Routine: Finance Culture in Australia
Sarah Blacker – "Your DNA Doesn't Need to be Your Destiny": Colonialism, Public Health, and the Financialization of Medicine
Chris Arthur – Financial Literacy Education as Public Pedagogy for the Capitalist Debt Economy
Mark Hayward – Settling Accounts: On the Subject of Economic Confessions
Michelle Stewart and Jason Pine – Vocational Embodiments of the Precariat in The Girlfriend Experience and Magic Mike
Robert Hutton – The Gamification of Finance
Sarah E.K. Smith – Making Sense of the "Endless Play of Signs" in the Work of Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge
Jamie Lynn Magnusson and Elizabeth Abergel – The Art of (Bio)Surveillance: Bioart and the Financialization of Life Systems
Michael Stein – "Do You Own an Oil Company?" A Political Consideration of the Financialized Subject
David E Maynard – Finding Financialization in Satire
Simon Orpana and Evan Mauro – First as Tragedy, Then as Ford: Performing the Biopolitical Image in the Age of Austerity, from the G20 to Toronto City Hall
Matthew Tiessen – Giving Credit Where Credit's Due: Making Visible the Ex Nihilo Dimensions of Money's "Agency"
Review Essays
Toni Pape – Writing Resistance: Sleeplessness, Poetry and the Right to the City under Financial Capitalism
Susan Pell – A Puzzle Constantly Changing Itself: Cultural Studies in the 21st Century
Colin J. Campbell – "Progressive" Canadian Politics and the Paroxysm of Identity
Stephen Gray – Does He Know It's Neoliberalism After All?
Paulina Mickiewicz – Deconstructing Disability
Trevor Holmes – Feasible Utopias, Frustrated
Matthew Ryan Smith – Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums
Sharday Mosurinjohn – Language, Politics and the Novel: Rancière's Aesthetic History of Problem-Solving in Poetics
From the Editor's Introduction (By Max Haiven and Jody Berland)
Narrowly defined as the so-called "FIRE" industries (high finance, insurance and real estate), finance has gained tremendous power over the global economy in recent years. Critics describe "financialization" as a profound and far-reaching social and cultural shift. Advances in financial modelling, computing and communications technology have changed the nature and power of financial speculation, while the vast expansion of new forms of debt, credit and everyday financial services has had dramatic impacts on daily life. From credit cards to sub-prime mortgages, from student debt to the privatization of pensions, from pay-day loans and other forms of "fringe finance" to online stock trading, financial practices have become mainstream issues. Films, biographies, novels, television shows and online content about finance and financiers (lionized or demonized) are more popular than ever. Indeed, the logics of finance shape public policy and social institutions, from hospitals and schools, to scientific research labs, to the field of cultural production, where they promote "risk management," "return on investment" and "market efficiency" as key weapons of neoliberalism. Driven in part by immaterial, speculative, leveraged wealth, this new financialized capitalism normalizes precarious labour and life in material and immaterial forms, so that each of us is expected to manage our own risk portfolios and embrace a life of endless speculation. While the politics of debt, predatory lending and speculative capital have long shaped geopolitical realities, especially in the developing world, this unapologetic "age of austerity" threatens new intensities of inequality and exploitation, with dramatic human and ecological consequences.
Social movements such as Occupy, and broader anti-austerity struggles in Athens, Chile, Nigeria, India, Korea and Montreal, have waged public, culturally innovative struggles over the meaning of debt, the uses and abuses of banking, and the nature of economic power. Critical films, fiction, blogs and other genres seek to probe finance, financialization, finance-based charisma and the financial crisis with varying degrees of success. Facing continuous global financial crises, cultural studies has important questions to ask about the financialized imagination. To launch our investigation of these issues, we invited contributors to address a variety of topics: the cultural representations of finance, financialization, financiers and the financial crisis in and across media; the cultural politics of debt and credit in everyday life and the cultures of political participation; the question of whether finance might be understood as a form of representation of the world; the spread of the spirit of speculative calculation as a new common sense, informing the idiom of speculation and practices of "risk management"; the impacts of the rise of finance capital(ism) on the politics and economics of cultural production; the cultural politics of crisis and response in the age of austerity; the interplay of finance and oppressions related to gender, sexuality, race, class, ability and citizenship, from racialized, predatory sub-prime lending to women-focused microcredit schemes, from the "Wall Street Man" to the legacies of debt-bondage and slavery; the roots and legacies of colonialism and imperialism in finance (and vice versa); and the affective dimensions of finance, financial labour and financial speculation. What does financial wealth represent? What kinds of affects and sensations are produced when wealth is speculated upon, displayed or lost? What is the interplay between material and immaterial capital, labour and culture, and money and power. Finally we asked contributors to consider the shape of struggles against finance, financialization and austerity, including their spaces, strategies, narratives, potentials and limits.
We were pleased at the enthusiastic and thoughtful responses that were offered to this challenge. We summarize the contributions to this issue below.
The power of the imagination in the reproduction of a financialized order is at issue in John Clarke's contribution. Drawing on critical literature that explores how shared economic landscapes are conceived, Clarke considers the austerity revolution in England under the Cameron government as an "assemblage of economic and moral imaginings" that "combines virtuous political choice, an appeal to obvious economic necessity…and a zealous enthusiasm for diminishing public spending at record speed" (PG#). Clarke argues that the austerity imagination capitalizes on a moral economy of "fairness," which turns this once-emancipatory term "into a disciplinary moral and economic framing that presses on the poor" and displaces, subordinates, or worse, incorporates dissent (PG#).
As Matthias Nilges aptly asks then in his contribution to this volume, what "happens to the cultural and literary imaginary as well as critical and theoretical thought once our imagination has indeed become financialized? And further: what are the elements and consequences of what we may call a financialized imagination, and how can culture in general and literature in particular provide us with the means for probing the limits of such a form of thought"? If money has lost its narrative properties, how can the story of finance be told? For Nilges, answers may be found in contemporary literary form, in particular, the way in which finance and financial processes are addressed by key authors including William Gibson, Don Delillo, Joshua Ferris, Octavia Butler and Samuel Delaney. Indeed, for Nilges, the Zeitroman, or time-novel, emerges as a literary form germane to an age of speculative capital and the compression of the future into present-day commodities.
For Matthew Flisfeder, this imagined dimension of financial wealth (what Marx, instructively, called "fictitious capital") is crystalized in the power of debt. Drawing on a Lacanian framework, he suggests that "debt is the sublimated object of capital in the sense that it is, itself, a pure nothing that attains object form [and] makes possible the global expansion of capital and capitalist class interests." By objectifying a thing that does not "actually" exist, debt holds the system of global accumulation together and allows it to grow. Removing or resisting debt is then key to overcoming capitalism's power.
In a similar fashion, Rob Aitken is concerned with the way the field of financial "science" is constituted through an often-artificial disassociation from gaming, both historically and in the present. He shows that gaming is a "subjugated knowledge" of finance, following Michel Foucault's idea that earlier, dismissed forms of knowledge are residual in their more "modern," "scientific" counterparts. Examining board games based on financial markets from the past 200 years, Aitken argues that these ludic practices contain clues to the cultural and imaginative politics, and weaknesses, of the financialized system. He turns to recent artistic efforts to bring financial practice and games into a more truthful proximity, and underscores their potential for creative and cultural resistance to finance's rational claims of order.
The financialized imagination is something produced, lived and learned, not only through formal statements and policies, but also through cultural practice, production and daily life. It is also a set of spatial phenomena, with specific patterns and ramifications that shift as it is taken up in local contexts.
Today, London is both constitutive and symptomatic of the shift towards financialization. Andrew Calcutt argues that sith the city's role as a colonial metropole and manufacturing hub long past, London and its citizens have become nodes of financial circulation: they are mediators of transnational flows, with implications for the spatial politics and forms of labour that cohere there. Noting the historic and contemporary importance of London as a financial hub, Calcutt seeks to understand the way the constrictions of finance capital are lived and reproduced through two case studies: the fate of professional journalism and the rise of the DJ as musical entertainer. In both cases, cultural production reflects and enables the financial sector (The City of London district), but can also be read as a site of generic tension or contradiction: on the one hand, the London of transnational flows, capital circulation and exchange value; on the other, the London created by its inhabitants and their multitudinous cultural vitality. Calcutt does not lament the passing of a time when the "real" city was free of the spectre of finance, but he does make a call to recognize the way abstract, specialized and ephemeral processes of financialization capitalize and depend on material cultural labour that extends well beyond the financial sector's formal borders.
The interplay between debt, finance, everyday life and the fate of the common and public spheres is at issue in Cathy Greenfield and Peter Williams' retrospective exploration of the processes whereby financial codes, practices and ideological dispositions have been normalized in Australia. Charting policy, technological and cultural tendencies since the mid 1980s, they argue that financialization is advanced through incremental, everyday and sometimes seemingly minor shifts in perception, representation and interaction. Finance has come to be seen less as a "shadowy zone" of elite skullduggery and more as a set of rational personal responsibilities, predispositions and habits, a process that also shapes a broader sense of national and political agency and belonging. They outline how the current debate around financialization is defined by a trio of critical positions: calls for the rationalization and expansion of this process, advocacy for reform, and arguments for new forms of definancialization.
For Sarah Blacker, financialization in daily life can be traced in the neoliberal construction of "care" for the body as a privatized responsibility. Comparing a public health campaign designed for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children to promotion by a private health clinic in Toronto, Blacker notes the bifurcation of bio-financial imperatives: "the wealthy are interpellated as 'health investors' and urged to take preventive measures against future disease, while marginalized and racialized communities are asked to take on the role of self-management to make incremental and necessarily short-term improvements to living conditions that are determined by the multifarious effects of colonialism". Revisiting early insurance models from the transatlantic slave trade, Blacker links the birth of the modern financial apparatus to contemporary forms of financialized subjectivity, which cannot be separated from the birth of new forms of biocapitalism in present-day colonial contexts such as Canada. As she puts it, "the processes through which health is being financialized work to shut down our understanding of the complicated relationships between an uneven distribution of environmental pollutants, access to food, water, medical care, and uncontaminated living spaces and patterns of gene expression, restricting these interactions to a too-simple causal narrative."
As with health, so too with education. Chris Arthur posits that "Financial literacy texts (curriculum documents, editorials, television shows, speeches and policy documents), naturalize both the offloading of economic risk and the consumerist practices which purport to offer individual and collective economic security," and "are thus part of the continual primitive accumulation of the moralized subjectivities necessary for the capitalist economy's financialized accumulation practices." Examining the intertextuality of reality TV shows about debt and high school financial literacy curricula, he shows that the imperative for individuals to become effective, self-reliant risk-managers obscures both the larger paradigm of exploitative neoliberal insecurity, and the deeper, more human forms of debt we owe one another: "The debt we owe ourselves and those who came before us and will come after," he writes "is to preserve and extend the social commons won from capital: health care, education, social security, unemployment insurance, parental leave, vacation time, the minimum wage and a reduced workweek."
This issue's turn towards the complicated relationship between financialization and cultural production begins with Mark Hayward's genealogy of the Wall Street confessional, which traces the development of a popular genre that reflects on the folly and hubris of the financial sector, but forecloses any substantial possibility for its transformation. Hayward illustrates the neoliberal shift in Wall Street confessional discourse since the 1980s and its connection to the rise of deregulated and frenetic financial cultures. Before this time, he argues, confessions were characterized by values of rationality, calculation and sobriety, often in contrast to Wall Street's periodic and catastrophic deviation from these ideals. Whether they decry or celebrate finance culture, today's narratives highlight the (a)morality of individual traders, driven as they are by inhuman and inhumane pressures to compete in ruthless and volatile markets. Hayward asks us to consider the function of the confessional in the reproduction of the financial sector: confessionals may purport to reveal the truth of markets so that action—regulation, maneuvering, avoidance, etc.—can be taken, but tend to conclude by repositioning the author and reader as helpless bystanders. As a contrast to this genre, Hayward concludes with a turn to recent activism by the New York–based Strike Debt and other anti-debt campaigners to identify a possible transformative confessional, wherein abject debtors create new narratives of resistance by articulating the torture of their experience,
For Michelle Stewart and Jason Pine, the recent films of Steven Soderbergh "present a symptomatology of contemporary economic culture" (PG#). They argue that the main characters in The Girlfriend Experience (2009) and Magic Mike (2012), both of whom are sex workers, emblematize a form of "vocational embodiment" whereby the body becomes the vehicle of speculative investments, and immaterial and material accumulation. The authors also suggest that Soderbergh's own career is a unique but telling example of creative labour within the financialized culture industries. Here the tendency towards networked, precarious and affective labour under what Luc Boltanksi and Eve Chiapello call the "new spirit of capitalism" intersects with a speculative ethos that encourages each of us to view our lives, our bodies, our relationships and our communicative capacities as assets to be leveraged towards personal gain (Boltanski and Chiapello 2007). Examining both the content and form of these films, Stewart and Pine note the way the financialization of the film industry is echoed in the speculative practices of the characters and the spectral aesthetics of the films themselves: "These films do more than merely echo the conditions in which we live," report the authors; they "aesthetically evoke the subjectivation processes under review here and, in the process, reveal the investment of the self in the production of evanescent value".
Similarly, for Robert Hutton, contemporary video games tether together finance, cultural production and the process of subject-formation germane to our speculative moment. Focusing on the idea of "gamification"—the "imposition of a game-like perspective onto a non-game context"—, Hutton traces a feedback loop between the cultural logic of popular computer games and their "atopian" simulacra of perfect, risk-managed markets, and the cultural logic of derivative-driven financial fields, with their abstract and virtual manipulations of wealth. Hutton further draws our attention to how the video game industry, like the financial industry driving the gamification of everything from health to education to everyday stock trading, is itself a financial venture, with rampant speculation driving corporatized digital innovation. While gamification promises to export rationality, skill, fun and interactivity to various fields of practice, it also spreads a competitive, adversarial and individualistic idiom. When imported into the world of finance, this contributes to the ruthless, narrowly focused practices of fiscal accumulation that drive austerity and cause crises, which, for most, are no fun at all. For Hutton, "we need to reject the logic of gamification and encourage a new kind of critical literacy that would call attention to what is excluded from this framework".
The cultivation of such a critical literacy is explored by Sarah Smith in her examination of the work of Canadian artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge. Smith argues that Condé and Beveridge's practice overtly challenges, in both form and content, what Mark C. Taylor (2011) characterizes as the "financialization of art," a reigning paradigm embraced by many artists in which art is seen as a speculative asset. For more than thirty years, these artists have worked exclusively in collaboration, employing methods of working with non-artists and community members (notably workers, trade-union members and activists) to create large-scale photographic tableaus that illustrate key social and political issues. Condé and Beveridge aim to create work that illuminates the otherwise obscured power relations that link the vicissitudes of financial speculation to colonial processes, the history of capitalist imperialism, the conditions of migrant workers, the dismantling of the welfare system, the increasing caliber of police repression and state surveillance, the depletion of natural resources and the impoverishment of everyday life. They are also keen to reveal and celebrate the forms of resistance, resilience and creativity that arise to challenge the financialized world.
Likewise, Elizabeth Abergel and Jamie Magnusson's study of the financialization of biotechnologies addresses the potential of art to express and challenge bioeconomics: "the relocation of genetic, microbial and cellular productive processes within the capitalist system [and] the expansion of the life industries into every domain of society". Contestational bioart "addresses the ways in which the life sciences are shaping market agendas through neoliberal politics and financialization and its reliance on alienated publics and non-specialists as a means of obtaining consent" (PG#). Such art explicitly challenges "biosurveillance," a term that refers to the proliferation of technologies for biometrically analyzing and controlling pathologized bodies, and describes broader cultural paranoias about contagion, contamination and purification. The latter play into the revanchist xenophobia, racism and fortress mentalities that can be actualized as biotechnology. Examining artists like Heather Dewey-Hagborg and the Preemptive Media group, Abergel and Magnusson explore tactical aesthetics as a means of destabilizing, revealing or reversing the processes through which life itself becomes the target of securitization.
To supplement these explorations, this special issue features four briefer offerings. In his analysis of a TV ad for the Chevron corporation, Michael Stein shows how viewers are hailed into a financialized relationship with the company; they are encouraged to understand themselves as partners in Chevron's fossil-fuel driven mission thanks to the probable investment of their pension funds or savings in the company's shares. Stein argues that this interpellation forecloses democratic possibilities for addressing climate change and other global issues; indeed, democracy itself is rescripted as a financialized practice. David Maynard offers a related discussion of the ways in which contemporary popular media delimit and shape the possibilities for critical thought. Taking up the staggering popularity of American satire in financialized times, to be found in TV shows such as South Park and The Daily Show, and in publications such as The Onion, Maynard traces the appearance of financial characters and themes, as well as tropes of life and work in precarious times. In these texts he characterizes a deeply felt but still nascent Marxist consciousness about the bankruptcy of the financialized present and future.
Perhaps far-right politicians such as Toronto Mayor Rob Ford are best characterized as the bitter residue that remains when the everyday existential discontent and insecurity of financialized times decays into the fatuous miasma of reactionary politics. Such is the point of departure for a stimulating scholarly dialogue between Simon Orpana and Evan Mauro, "First as Tragedy, then as Ford." The authors object to the fat-phobic and dismissive anti-Ford sentiments of Toronto's "chattering classes," and call us to a deeper interrogation of his quixotic success through an exploration of recent theorizations of sovereignty as they intersect with imperatives of austerity. While neoliberal embodiment amongst the precariat takes the form of painfully strategic self-construction in Stewart and Pine's reading of Soderbegh, Ford's spectactular performance embodies excess and unmanageability, the grotesque underside of that same neoliberalism. Toronto's recent political assets also include the legacy of racial profiling and racialized violence by police, the surveillance and security unleashed on the city during the G20 summit in 2010, the speculative property bubble that is playing havoc with neighbourhoods and homes, the seemingly uncontested and self-satisfied claims to depoliticized notions of "diversity" and the "creative city," and, more generally, the capitalist order of excess of which Ford is merely one artifact.
Finally, Matthew Tiessen offers a provocative, counter-intuitive intervention that asks us to consider the possibility that money possesses a "debt-driven agency all its own, one that effectively operates in the shadows and beneath the surface" (PG#). Operating "below the threshold of general perceptibility," the mechanisms of money act "as imperceptible 'tractor beams' that work upon human subjects and societies" . By reversing the neoclassical approach to money, which sees currency as a manifestation of human activity, Tiessen draws our attention to the way debt itself functions to drive society and individuals further into debt, redoubling money's power and authority. To the extent that the fulfillment of human desires is mediated by and dependent on money, and actualized more and more often in debt, money's own "desires" come to preoccupy social and individual agency.


text:
Tournament organisers have condemned a spectator who appeared to confront England star Billy Vunipola following Saracens' Heineken Champions Cup semi-final victory over Munster.
Vunipola scored Saracens' second try in an impressive 32-16 semi-final triumph.
A picture of the incident showed Vunipola being approached by a man wearing a Munster shirt, gesturing at him with his fingers as Vunipola joined team-mates on a lap of honour.
The number eight had been booed most times he touched the ball at Coventry's Ricoh Arena, where Munster fans heavily outnumbered Saracens supporters among a 16,000 crowd.
Vunipola received formal warnings from his club and Rugby Football Union in the past week after he posted on social media that "man was made for woman to procreate that was the goal no?"
He also liked a social media post from controversial Australian star Israel Folau that stated "hell awaits" for homosexuals.
A few rainbow flags – symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements – were visible among the crowd in Coventry.
In a statement, European Professional Club Rugby said: "EPCR does not condone the entry of a spectator to the field of play.
"Following the regrettable incident at the Ricoh Arena, the spectator in question is currently being detained by the stadium authorities."
Vunipola, meanwhile, said there was "no intention to hurt anyone" following his social media post and support for Folau.
He told BT Sport: "Behind closed doors, I felt a lot of love, a lot of kindness shown to me. I am just very grateful to be part of this team.
"From my point of view, I believe in what I believe in.
"There was no intention to hurt anyone. I am just grateful to play."
Saracens rugby director Mark McCall said he did not see the post-match incident, while a question on the matter to Munster boss Johann Van Graan at his press conference was blocked by one of Munster's media team.
McCall said: "Billy was outstanding today, and so were all of his team-mates, to be honest.
"As a group, we were determined not to let this week pass us by because we work incredibly hard to be involved in weeks like this one, games like this one.
"And we ended up having a brilliant week, and you can see that in the performance today. You could see how tight we were.
"The club dealt with it (Vunipola social media posts). It's been dealt with, it was dealt with decisively, it was dealt with quickly and it was dealt with, in my opinion, fairly.
"Then we just got on with the rugby, and that's what we are here to do, get on with the rugby.
"I thought we played really well. Although the scoreboard said 12-9 at half-time, it didn't feel like that.
"The thing that pleased me most was that the players understood that the scoreboard did not necessarily reflect how well we had played and what we were building towards.
"I was just really pleased with our intensity, which was relentless the whole game, and the control we had emotionally as well."
A final against Leinster or Toulouse awaits for Saracens in Newcastle next month as the English outfit target a third Champions Cup title in four seasons.
Fly-half Owen Farrell was the architect of victory, kicking 22 points, while Vunipola and flanker Michael Rhodes touched down.
Despite wing Darren Sweetnam's try, two Tyler Bleyendaal penalties, a long-range Conor Murray strike and JJ Hanrahan conversion, Munster suffered a seventh successive European semi-final defeat on their record 14th appearance in the competition's penultimate knockout stage.
Van Graan added: "We came here to win, but we were beaten by a better side on the day.
"Sometimes you have just got to say well done to the opposition.
"They are unbeaten in this season's tournament and have been playing some fantastic rugby, and you have got to concede that you weren't as good as your opposition on the day."
Sign up to our mailing list here and we'll keep you up to the minute with weekly updates from the world of rugby.