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Rich media flood pushes digital asset management strategy to forefront
Without an effective plan for managing digital assets, the increasing digital content collected by organizations could end up being a real headache.
Trying to locate a specific video or image from among more than 100,000 digital assets spread across 17,000 electronic folders can easily become an exercise in frustration. That was a common occurrence at Messer Construction Co. before it implemented a digital asset management strategy in 2010.
Although digital content such as photographs, drawings and videos were playing an increasingly key role in Messer's marketing efforts, the Cincinnati company retained a very basic approach to storing that material: Divide it up into folders stored on a single network drive.
Marketers and designers uploaded content to that shared drive, and other users could then dig around to find what they wanted and download it to their own computers. But as rich media files proliferated on the drive, it became difficult to find the right content. As a result, users often grabbed old versions of content by mistake or ended up reusing items they had earlier copied to their hard drives.
"Using a search function to look within 100,000 files for text on a network drive takes a long, long time," said Sean Davis, a marketing specialist at Messer. "Searching only the file name might be more efficient, but that means you're relying on 100,000 assets being named as you would have named them."
Also, the available network bandwidth didn't support rapid access to large video files. And after a while, the network drive could no longer accommodate all the files being created by users.
But when Messer decided to buy a digital asset management (DAM) system for its marketing collateral materials, it faced a further decision: whether to store all of its digital assets on that system or also retain an existing document management application that was part of a construction management software suite being used by other parts of the company. In the end, officials elected to keep the marketing content separated from the other information.
More about digital asset management
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Messer's situation is an example of how a DAM strategy can become necessary for companies with rich media assets, but gets complicated when it involves enterprise-wide assets and the needs of multiple departments.
"Think of all the ways you can use a single photo," said Seth Earley, CEO of Earley & Associates, a content management consulting firm in Carlisle, Mass. "In marketing, for store signage, on the e-commerce site, publishing in a catalog, as a product label -- each may require different functionality."
Some organizations might find they don't need a full-fledged DAM product. If the digital assets reside mainly within a specific department, such as project management or marketing, it might be better to deploy an application tailored for that department's requirements. Project management or product information management applications often include some DAM features, Earley said; the same goes for marketing resource management, Web content management and enterprise content management software. But those features might not have the same depth as the ones in a DAM system.
Know your DAM use cases
The first step in developing a digital asset management strategy is to identify the main use cases for DAM within the organization, advised Dan Taylor, director of delivery services at Earley & Associates. "With those use cases, you can flesh out the requirements for the DAM implementation," he said.
For example, semiconductor manufacturer Intersil Corp., in Milpitas, Calif., needed a product that would provide a range of capabilities for managing digital assets, Web content, documents, marketing materials and mobile content delivery. Intersil selected Adobe Systems Inc.'s CQ Web content management suite because it offered all of that and was integrated with the Adobe Creative Suite, Intersil's main authoring and Web design tool.
"That integration with Creative Suite, plus the digital asset management capabilities, makes it a more seamless experience for us," said Robert Reneau, senior Web business manager at Intersil.
On the other hand, a content management system (CMS) often lacks advanced DAM features and isn't suited to every organization's needs. "Content suites may not have some of the specialized areas of a pure digital asset management system, like watermarking of images or video support," Taylor said.
Mark Gilbert, an analyst at Gartner Inc., in Stamford, Conn., also cited a lack of video editing and processing features in Web content management systems and other CMS products. "Most of those platforms don't have an advanced environment for video, such as rendering to multiple platforms or tiling," he said. (Tiling refers to breaking video graphics into tiles, or sections, so only those that change are refreshed, thus improving performance.)
Messer Construction ultimately decided against creating a companywide CMS and instead selected Widen Enterprises Inc.'s cloud-based DAM software for managing its marketing assets only. The reason: The digital media used in marketing has different characteristics and requirements than the content used by project management and other departments. Those operations generate project information, drawings, specifications and other lightweight content that are kept in a construction management system from Computer Methods International Corp.
In marketing, Davis said, the version control and content-tagging capabilities of Widen's DAM tools make files easier to locate. "Before, time was spent on looking for assets," he said. "Now it's spent on properly tagging and categorizing them so they can be more easily found."
Sue Hildreth is an enterprise technology writer in Waltham, Mass. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Taking place at Charleston's Legare Waring House , this alfresco event was backdropped by stately live oaks dripping with Spanish moss. The Ooh! Events team created this dreamy ceremony and reception using select heirloom pieces, neutral shades and plenty of personal touches . Lobster mac, pan seared grouper and a local selected oysters paired with bright mignonettes were accents to such a beautifully curated event.
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Pods in SuccessFactors Performance Management are small, square-shaped portlets that offer useful performance information to help managers navigate the performance appraisal process more efficiently and accurately. The pod feature is a new functionality that comes with the Performance Management v12 Acceleration upgrade. It is important for SuccessFactors administrators to know about this functionality as it helps solve some potential business needs in the performance management process, thereby adding more value to the system.
SuccessFactors is requiring companies who currently use SuccessFactors to upgrade to the v12 user interface by the 1508 Quarterly Release. Even though the Performance Management v12 Acceleration is not mandatory for this release, it eventually will be; therefore, it is prudent for SuccessFactors administrators to begin planning for this upgrade now.
Performance Management v12 came out a few years ago with major changes and enhancements to the v11 version; however, at the time there were gaps between the two versions. These gaps caused issues, such as breaking current processes to accommodate the new functionality and all its structural changes.
The introduction of SuccessFactors Performance Management v12 Acceleration provides the best of both worlds. It includes all the new technology and functionality of Performance Management v12 along with the majority of the functionality of v11, closing many of the existing gaps.
Pods are a helpful feature that comes with the new SuccessFactors Performance Management v12 Acceleration forms release, and helps to fill in some of these aforementioned gaps. They offer information in a graphical and user-friendly way to help managers complete performance management forms quickly and accurately. Setting them up and managing them is an easy process as well. In order to obtain the desired results, it is important to fully understand the authorizations around the Performance Management form's General Settings.
In this article, I discuss the pods feature of SuccessFactors Performance Management. This is an important functionality for SuccessFactors administrators as it can help drive value by solving potential issues with the performance process. For example, using pods, managers who are doing reviews get the ability to see employees' overall score while doing the review. Another key feature is the ability to show managers where employees stand as compared to their peers.
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ABAC launches ad to promote current booze ad controls
The Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code (ABAC) has launched a TV ad to raise awareness of current controls over alcohol advertising and to show that anyone is able to make a complaint.
See below for the full release and the ad.
"Alcohol industry boosts awareness of advertising and promotion regulation
ABAC, a government/industry group, which manages the Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code, has today launched a television advertisement to raise awareness of current controls over alcohol advertising and emphasise how anyone can make a complaint.
ABAC spokesman, Mrs Denita Wawn, said research showed there was low awareness across Australia about existing regulation including that anyone has the right to complain about alcohol ads.
The alcohol industry is required to submit its TV advertising for ABAC pre-vetting to assess that messages and images comply prior to broadcast – unlike any other type of TV advertisement in Australia.
Regardless of pre-vetting, anyone can still make a complaint about alcohol advertising if they believe an advertisement doesn't meet the Code's standards relating to:
 Not having a strong or evident appeal to minors;
 Responsible and moderate portrayal of alcohol
 Responsible depiction of the effects of alcohol; and
 Safe use of alcohol.
The advertisements were developed with assistance from Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne and will air on Free TV and Subscription TV."
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I proceed to come up the elevator and arrive promptly at my desk at 5:30 AM to which I sit and work at my desk in the dark until 7 AM (because that is when the lights turn on).
So now I am pushing through the day until my 2 melatonin and venti coffee give me heart attack.
In honor of this day from hell, I would like to present you with some inspiration to make your day more enjoyable; much like it is mine!
I hope to enter the sleepy phase soon because right now I am still in the "I can see colors and taste noises" mood.


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End of summer
Hard to believe…but the summer is just about over! I don't know about you, but I thought summer was truly fabulous! Life's too short to not enjoy every sun-shining moment of every day…and I actually even like the rainy ones! And as amazing as the summer was; we are now about to enter my absolute favorite time of year…autumn! Love, love, love it!
However, when it comes to skin care, the change of seasons also means time to evaluate the effects of summer and the needs of your skin. Whether you are a licensed professional reading this blog and can use the information in your business; or a skincare junky that can apply it to yourself; the change of seasons also has an impact on your skin.
First, do NOT put away the sunscreen. Sunscreen is critical all year long, regardless of where in the world you live. I'm a firm believer in SPF 30 year round!
Second, exfoliate and nourish. This is the time to rid the skin of excess skin cell build up that results from sun exposure and tanning, sandy beaches and salt water; and even built up dirt and debris trapped by outdoor activity and sweating. An enzyme treatment or microdermabrasion is the perfect way to kick off the fall season…but follow that exfoliation with food for the face. Feed your fresh fall skin with antioxidants and other nutrient rich skin care serums and specialty products that will quickly and easily penetrate the skin…Vitamin C is "my" favorite!
If you are a skin care professional create an Autumn treatment for your clients that accomplishes this; try a microdermabrasion treatment, followed by an application of a Vitamin C (magnesium ascorbyl phosphate works best after microdermabrasion to avoid irritation), a cool modeling mask with cucumbers on the eyes; all followed by SPF and tinted lip gloss! The perfect way to carry the summer glow into the fall!
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Hi Duncan, you asked me about this article on Syria's refugee problem.
I'm embarrassed to say that I can't give a very informed opinion on the topic. Yes, there are a huge number of Iraqi refugees here. There are power cuts in Damascus's old city fairly frequently, and Syrians do complain about the Iraqis quite a lot. But I don't have a sense that the country is at breaking point. Always the Syrians I've spoken to complain that these Iraqis are too rich, not too poor – they have arrived with suitcases of money and have bought properties everywhere, making the market soar. The tragic parts of the crisis seem personal rather government destroying. A few weeks ago, I met two blonde women originally from Baghdad who very quickly offered to "go for a walk" with my friend Tim and I. Iraqis are not allowed to work here legally.
Syria feels chaotic, but not really tense. The bigger worry is about war with Israel. Stories spread that the army is making moves around the Golan heights. Yet it still seems hard to believe that Syria would initiate a conflict with Israel, as I'm not sure how they could ever attack the Israeli army and hope to win. Of course, I am no military expert.
It's perhaps shameful that I know so little about the country after almost two months, but this what happens when you spend most of your day sitting over a desk at home, writing short stories about unhappy English teachers. I hope to have more info in the future, now that I seem to have completed most of the arriving rituals, and done enough settling down to put my soul in order.


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The Appointee Remuneration Committee, administered by the Public Sector Employers' Council Secretariat, determines which group each administrative tribunal falls within. The administrative tribunal administers the remuneration, benefits and expenses payable to appointees in accordance with the Remuneration Guidelines. See a list of Administrative Tribunals.


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When you've had enough of an iPhone app or game, delete it to free up space in your phone's memory for the next app you want to try. There are a few ways to remove apps from your iPhone and one way to delete them from your computer's iTunes app library.
Remove Apps Using Your iPhone
To delete apps on your iPhone, tap and hold an app icon for a couple of seconds until all the icons begin to shake. Tap the X icon on each app you want to remove and confirm the deletion in the pop-up screen that appears. If an app doesn't have the X icon, the app came with iOS, and you can't remove it. After you delete all the apps you want to remove, press the Home button to stop the shaking.
This method removes apps from your phone, but if the app is also in your computer's iTunes app library, it won't erase it from your computer. The app will still sync with other iOS devices, and you can resync it to the iPhone from iTunes later.
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Remove Apps in iTunes Sync Settings
An alternate method uses iTunes to remove apps from your phone. Plug in your phone to your computer, click the iPhone icon in iTunes 12 and open the Apps tab. Click Remove by each app in the list that you want to remove from your phone and then click Apply to sync.
If you like the convenience of using iTunes to remove apps but prefer the iPhone interface to the app list, use the home screen images on the Apps tab. Double-click a home screen page or folder page to open it, mouse over an app and click the X on its corner.
Delete Apps From iTunes
Removing apps from your phone doesn't delete them in iTunes. If you don't think you'll want to use the app again on any iOS device, delete it from your iTunes library to recover drive space on your computer. Open the Apps tab in your library, right-click an app and choose Delete or select the app and press the Del key. When prompted, choose Move to Recycle Bin to erase the app and recover space.


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Let me take a minute to introduce myself, the counseling office, and the resources available to you through Hayfield Community Schools.
I have been given the opportunity to work at Hayfield Community Schools, I have two wonderful children graduate from Hayfield High School, I am married to Kevin Connelly a business owner in the Byron community, and currently enjoy each and every day at HHS.
As a School Counselor, I have the opportunity to help guide students develop an understanding of themselves and the world around them by focusing upon their academic, career, personal, and social strengths in order to become successful members of our society.
Students take courses at HHS for a variety of reasons and have the opportunity to fill an eight period schedule that rotates on a six hour day. HHS students take classes for four very important reasons: 1) to graduate from HHS, 2) to prepare for post secondary educational opportunities, 3) to acquire an employment skill sets, and 4) to have hobbies and interests outside of school/work.


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Art and Drawings
Pencil art
portraits in gray
ink to make you blink
Landscape Paintings
Fish and Birds
CD cover
Bio and Contact
Pencil Art
I started doing representional pencil drawings some years ago.
Dino (Fred Flintstone's pet)
halifax river
These drawings reflect bits and pieces of my past (and not so past) and while they are liberaly drawn, they were a lot of fun to do.
The House on Harding Steet
Nikki, the Wonder Dog!
trip to Texas
my Christ-like friends
Bible study group
Fantasy drawings
Crickhollow from The Fellowship of the Ring
Woodman from a map of Mirkwood in "The Hobbit"
The Forsaken Inn, which was mentioned by Strider in "The Fellowship of the Ring"
a woman in a tree
Jesus with the teachers at age 12, from a painting by Durer
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If an 'artist' creates a spectacle that goes unacknowledged, then is his 'creation' art? This begs another question: what do we mean by 'art'?
The definition cannot be specific. The perception of expressions and creations are subjective, and so what we choose to label something as 'art' has an impulsive, subjective perception embodied as the central part of it's judgement.
So lets define 'art' as vaguely as we can.
Art, in my opinion, is simply the expression of one's thoughts in anyway possible. Be it words, photographs, videos, letters, stories, drawings, paintings, sport, obsession etc; all of these have an 'artistic' dimensions to them.
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Jan 06, 2017
Where Surf, Yoga & Jiu-Jitsu Collide
Equal parts cozy surf shop, yoga studio, and jiu-jitsu gym, Kekoa Collective is a retail space unlike anything else you'll find in Honolulu.
Founded with a business plan that places the good of the community above profit alone, the brand is the brainchild of Dewey Doan and Aubrey Koenig, two long-time friends and surf industry vets with deep roots in Hawai'i. After leaving their jobs in the corporate surf world on the mainland, the pair moved back home to Hawai'i where they surfed, rolled (a jiu-jitsu term for sparring) and fell in love with yoga. Removed from the hustle of their previous employment, both Dewey and Aubrey realized that it wasn't necessarily large homes and flashy cars that brought them happiness, but rather spending time doing the things they love with the people they care about. With a newfound outlook, they sought to create a business founded on their shared passions and conviction to not simply make money, but to build a stronger community. In November of 2016, Kekoa Collective opened their doors for the first time in their new Ward Warehouse location.
We try and live our lives by three simple rules: work hard, play hard, and do-good. We want to reshape the way people do business. We want to spread our passions for surfing, jiu-jitsu, and yoga and enable people to follow theirs. We want to show people that you can have a for-profit business that's built around making a better world. It's not about simply making money; life is about balance and mindful living.
In addition to housing a charming retail space stocked with a mix of their own line of surf-themed clothing and accessories, Kekoa Collective also doubles as a home to a quaint yoga studio that can seamlessly transform into a jiu-jitsu gym. In line with their vision for supporting the community, all of the yoga classes are donation based where as the open mat Jiu Jitsu is at no cost to anyone—typical donations run you between $10 to $15 per class—which means that no matter what your economic situation, you have access to knowledgeable instructors.
To take their love of community building a step further, Kekoa Collective has also created a revenue-sharing program. "We're really excited about this project. Our rev-share program is meant to help different jiu-jitsu, martial arts academies, and yoga studios provide financial support to some of their members," adds Aubrey. "That can mean something as simple as hooking someone up with a new yoga mat or helping someone travel to train in another city or state. We want to support and foster these kinds of experiences."
Here's how the rev-share program works: when students of an affiliated studio shop at Kekoa Collective's retail space or online store, 10 percent of their purchase goes back to their studio or gym to support students who need financial help. "We try and keep it discreet. We know that these classes and equipment can be expensive for a lot of people and this type of funding can do a lot of good for some people. Plus, it feels like the right thing to do."
Any yoga studios or martial arts academy interested in learning more about the rev-share program is encouraged to contact the store.
The community-strengthening efforts of Kekoa Collective is constantly evolving. When they see an opportunity to do some good and have some fun, they make it happen. Case in point: Both Dewey and Aubrey grow visibly excited when they talk about their ping-pong tournaments, where competitors are encouraged to make a small donation of a few bucks (cans of food are accepted as well) and all of the winnings are distributed to a local charity. For more info on the tournaments, stay glued to their Facebook or Instagram.
Between their grassroots efforts to support the community, follow their passions, and create a successful business, Kekoa Collective hopes to revolutionize the way that the entire world approaches doing business. It's a simple but revolutionary approach: Follow your passions, give back to your community, and live with mindfulness. "At the end of the day, this is who we are and this is what we love. We just want to share our passions and support others in the process."
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Former Skid Row rocker Sebastian Bach has lashed out at his first record label boss - insisting he's outraged a track he recorded with Axl Rose was passed over in favour of an unknown band.
Bach confesses he started his own label, Get Off My Bach, because the music industry is so unstable even for the largest of rock icons.
And he has blasted former Atlantic Records artists and repertoire (A&R) man Jason Flom for snubbing a collaboration with the Guns N' Roses frontman - more than 20 years after Bach signed with the label.
He says, "We live in a world (where) Van Halen doesn't have a record deal. I mean, Eddie Van Halen doesn't have a f**king record deal. How can there be such a thing as rock and roll if Van Halen doesn't have a record deal? ...The music industry's so screwed up, I almost don't wanna even rely on anybody but me. Even though I am doing another record, but it's so cool to be in control of your music and be able to just get it out without asking anybody...
"Just to paint a picture for everybody, Jason Flom signed Skid Row and a million other bands... But the fans should know that Jason Flom passed on me, Sebastian Bach, with Axl Rose on a record and then he put out Steel Panther. I just want people to realise that - this same guy who says no to Sebastian Bach and Axl Rose together on record - 'No. No, thanks.' - he says yes to a bunch of f**king goofs, clowns, comedy guys. He says yes to them."


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Holiday Food Drive – Public Drop-Off Hours
Monday, December 3, 2018 - 11:30am-1:30pm
Belmont campus - de Marneffe Building, Cafeteria Lobby
Join McLean in supporting our surrounding communities this holiday season by donating non-perishable food items for those in need.
All McLean food donations will benefit Project Soup, the oldest free supper program in New England, which is run by the Somerville Homeless Coalition.
Items needed:
- Dry cereal or granola
- Granola bars, fruit bar snacks
- Peanut butter
- Dried fruit
- Nuts
- Crackers
- Juice boxes, canned juices
- Non-perishable pasteurized milk
- Food for infants/toddlers
- Baby food
- Canned meat, fish
- Canned fruit
- Canned pasta, stew, chili, hearty soup
- Canned tomatoes, vegetables, pasta sauce
- Pasta, white/brown rice, dried beans
- Cold cereal, oatmeal, pancake mix
- Powdered or evaporated milk
- Toilet paper, paper towels
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2014 Raptor Ridge Pinot Gris
Pinot Gris
With a richly ripened, bountiful harvest obviously upon us in the early summer of 2014, we strategically tuned our crop loads to mitigate early over-ripening. This was particularly important for Raptor Ridge to maintain its consistent style of balance between fruit and acidity in our fresh, food-friendly white wines. Crop loads were therefore left heavy, the only thinning done in our Gris vineyards was to provide adequate spacing and airflow. Consequently, we have the largest Pinot gris production to date for Raptor Ridge! Where available, we employed "deficit irrigation" so that the vines spent less time dehydrated, and can continue trans locating energy and nutrients from the leaves to the fruit and roots.
In the Vineyard
Watching the weather and early physiological signs of ripening, we pulled the trigger on all the Pinot gris vineyards beginning September 15 and wrapping up by the 27th. The harvest chemistries from Dion and Hawks View in the Chehalem Mountains, Bellevue Cross, and Meredith Mitchell in McMinnville, and Rudolfo in the Southern Willamette Valley all hit upon average 23.2 Brix, pH of 3.31, and TA around 5.7.
At the Winery
Wine grapes were whole-cluster pressed, and fresh juice was clarified with a light bentonite fining before racking to temperature-controlled stainless steel fermentation tanks. A long, slow 84-day fermentation cycle allowed this vintage's complex and layered aromatics from four Willamette Valley sources to marry. Two separate fermentation vessels allowed us to employ diverse commercial yeast strains–CY3079 and 58W-3. At the desired balance point between residual sugar and acidity, fermentation was arrested by cold stabilizing at 27oF for two weeks. The wines were gently cross-flow filtered, and sterile-filtered at bottling in early January.
At the Table
The lush nose of this expansive Pinot gris welcomes you with scents of orange blossom and anise. Showing more stone- and tree-fruit notes than usual, Apricot, Bartlett Pear, Guava and Quince round out the aromatics. The ample mid-palate offers Key Lime, Lemon Grass, and Grapefruit, with a silky transition to a refreshing mineral focused acidic finish, with surprising notes of verbena, sesame and orange peel. This food-friendly approachable gris is consistent with previous vintage styles, and offers some great exotic food pairing options from Thai Curry to Indian Chicken Tikka Masala.


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Rotary Transfer Machines
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This Ohio shop has installed rotary transfer machines to reduce multiple step processing, which has increased production capacity.
Flexible Transfer System Is "Factory within a Factory"
Jebco Manufacturing needed to increase productivity with limited floor space. The TFL 400 transfer system from Gruppo Riello Sistemi increased productivity and flexibility without the need for multiple machines.
Road Trip to Gnutti Transfer
With Production Machining's focus on the markets Gnutti is looking at, it was logical for me to go and see what this company was about. So off I went.
Transfer Machines Help Regain Business In The States
As companies continue to wrestle with offshore competitors, many are finding that the use of transfer machines aids the situation. Once used solely for dedicated machining of high-volume parts runs, transfer machines now give OEMs and job shops enha...
Complex Parts Require A Quality Machine
With the help of a machine representative in the area, this shop decided to purchase a rotary transfer machine to be able to keep up with its high-volume production runs.
Vertical Indexing Machine Produces Fittings With Greater Accuracy
This high production indexing machine is said to be able to produce a family of tees and elbows from a variety of materials with holes ranging in size up to ¾ inch NPT in mild steel.
Hot Technology Key To Valve Maker's Success
Rotary transfer machines do the trick for this valve maker.


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Trust your health care to those who teach it.
Call us today: (954) 262-4100
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Early Childhood Development(Mailman Segal Center)7600 SW 36th AvenueDavie, FL 33314Driving Directions
Starting Right is an early intervention, parent-child class designed to serve children 18-36 months of age exhibiting delays in language and social skills. The program is designed to increase communication, social and school readiness skills. It also provides caregivers with techniques and strategies to use in the classroom and at home.
For more information, please contact: Heather O'Brien at (954) 262-7117 or email@example.com
The Academy is designed to provide a private school, kindergarten; option for students who require an individualized education program focusing on social-communication, behavioral self-regulation, and independent functioning. Housed at Nova Southeastern University's Mailman Segal Center, known for its programs for young children with autism spectrum disorder, the Academy builds on the expertise developed over the past 25 years and expands that knowledge to children who are kindergarten-eligible (5-years-old by September 1).
The educational philosophy of the Academy is based on the recognition that each student is unique in ability, talent, and learning style. The program supports the qualities and capabilities of each child. Designed for children three years of age through kindergarten, a high-quality, instructional program is offered within a relationship-based environment. Each child is provided with choices, challenges, and opportunities that nurture feelings of competence, promote cognitive growth, and enable each child to achieve his or her potential.
Teaching staff will use the STAR curriculum with students, which provides the scope and sequence of skills that young children targeted for this program need to develop. Skills in the areas of receptive and expressive language concepts and pre-academic concepts are taught using discrete trial teaching, while spontaneous language concepts and play and social interaction concepts are taught using pivotal response training. Functional routines are taught using step-by-step instruction until the total routine is performed independently. Kindergarten students may also use the STAR curriculum, but additional curricula may be implemented as needed for individual students.
For individuals who have disabilities that require accommodations, the NSU Office of Student Disability Services (OSDS) evaluates current psychoeducational evaluations and medical reports to determine what accommodations students are eligible to receive. In addition all NSU students have access to the Office of Academic Services' tutoring services. Access Plus utilizes the services of the OSDS and provides a more comprehensive and higher level of programs and services for their students.
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Sustainable Hamilton
What is Sustainable Hamilton?
Sustainable Hamilton 2017 is the City of Hamilton's first comprehensive sustainability report, produced with extensive input from City staff across multiple departments, as well as from numerous external partners. Sustainable Hamilton 2017 celebrates the City's achievements and highlights current initiatives that are moving Hamilton forward, while also serving as a three-year action plan to strengthen the City's strategic vision. The report identifies opportunities for further action and provides a method for tracking and reporting progress toward specific objectives and priorities within eight sustainability target areas:
- Built Environment
- Transportation
- Economy
- Energy
- Resource Efficiency
- Natural Systems
- Health & Safety
- Community Empowerment
Vision & Values
Sustainable Hamilton seeks to build a thriving community that is economically prosperous, socially inclusive, and environmentally healthy in order to advance the City of Hamilton's vision of becoming a purposeful destination for working, living, and playing.
Economic Prosperity:Generating long-term economic growth and increasing the availability of meaningful employment opportunities.
Social Inclusion:Emphasizing no individual or group is left behind, either in our shared prosperity or in their sense of place within our community.
Environmental Health:Protecting the integrity of our natural environment by ensuring our solutions take into account the effect we have on the world around us.
- View Sustainable Hamilton 2017 (Web version)
- Download PDF of Sustainable Hamilton 2017 (Print version)
- Download 1 page Executive Summary
Resources from Sustainability Tools for Assessing and Rating (STAR) Communities were used as a guide in developing this report. STAR was developed by and for local governments, and is widely accepted as the leading sustainability framework for communities in the U.S.


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Will You Live to See the No-Grades Classroom?
Far too many of education's most important stakeholders can't see the no-grades classroom. Some people have envisioned this beautiful place, where learning is a conversation, bereft of haphazard attempts to measure learning with numbers, percentages, and letters.
Will these dedicated reformers live to see the no-grades classroom? Or will they, like women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony, die long before their dream becomes reality? In case you are unfamiliar with the reference, here is an excerpt from Assessment 3.0 (Corwin, 2015) about the amazing suffragette, pictured above.
Ninety-three years after the first presidential election ended in 1779, Susan B. Anthony, arguably the world's most popular suffragette, became the first woman to vote outside of the Wyoming territories in a formal election. She was subsequently arrested and convicted for breaking the law that precluded women from voting. In 1920, more than 14 decades after Anthony's bold move and that first presidential election, congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and women were finally permitted to vote. Sadly, America's most famous female voter died 14 years before this historic event. Without the extraordinary efforts of Susan B. Anthony and other suffragettes, who battled oppression for centuries, it's conceivable that women might still be waiting for the right to vote. While it may seem like a farfetched analogy, I believe that the no-grades classroom is, as voting once was to the suffragettes, an unrealized dream that is in desperate need of its own champions.
The champions of the no-grades classroom do exist. Like the suffragettes, they are part of many grassroots movements around the world. They carry on amazing conversations about learning with students; in many cases, these conversations are built on four simple words.
These champions stand tall against the oppression of traditional methods and the empty cry of accountability and standardization, and they trumpet the benefits of throwing out traditional grades. Champions of the no-grades classroom, like Susan B. Anthony and the other suffragettes, will revolutionize education, and they will change the world.
Decades after the Nineteenth Amendment passed, very few people would admit to opposing it. It was an idea whose time had come. Like women's rights, the no-grades classroom is an idea whose time has come, and in the near future, you'll be hard pressed to find a single person who will admit to opposing it.
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Indigenous people have lived in North America for at least 12,000 years and possibly longer. First Nations peoples are the original inhabitants of Canada who lived here for thousands of years before explorers arrived from Europe. There are over 700,000 First Nations people living in Canada. About 57 per cent of them live on reserves, while the other 43 per cent live in mainly large cities.
Currently there are three recognized groups of Indigenous peoples in Canada: First Nations, Metis and Inuit. The Metis are a group of persons in Canada who trace their descent to First Nations people and European settlers. Inuit are a group of culturally similar Indigenous people inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. First Nations people were moved onto restrictive reserves and were considered wards of the government. As you celebrate Canada 150, remember that this tale that stretches back thousands of years ago, and not just 150.
Shamefully, First Nations people were not regarded as Canadian citizens and were not given the right to vote provincially in British Columbia until 1949. Even more alarming is that First Nations people were not allowed to vote federally until 1960, more than 10 years later. Furthermore, the ban was not removed from the Indian Act until 1951, the same year that First Nations people were given permission to attend public schools for the first time.
In terms of celebrating Canada 150, First Nations people are not having any of it, and with good reason too. "I don't know what we're celebrating," Anishnawbe comedian Ryan McMahon told Now Toronto. "It doesn't matter what colour underwear the Prime Minster wears — red, blue, orange or green— successive government have acted dishonourably."
McMahon says he will not celebrate "high suicide rates, thousands of missing or murdered indigenous women or the Indian Act of a heartless child welfare system", he cares too much about the First Nations people to set aside differences for fire works and hot dogs.
Metis artist Christi Belcourt wrote a poem entitled, Canada, I Can Cite For You 150. She too is not thrilled about the celebration of this Nation.
Belcourt's poem reads: "I can cite for you 150/ Lists of the dead/ 150 languages no longer spoken/ 150 rivers poisoned/ 150 Indigenous children taken into care last month/ 150 Indigenous communities without water/ 150 grieving in a hotel in Winnipeg/ 150 times a million lies."
Pamela Palmater is a Mi'kmaw citizen member of Eel River Bar First Nation and wrote a piece for Now Toronto on March 29 entitled Canada 150 is a celebration of Indigenous genocide. Palmater educates readers on the cultural genocide of the Indigenous people.
"Most mistakenly believe genocide only occurs when millions of people are killed in concentration camps. They're not taught in school about the real history of the atrocities committed against Indigenous peoples that over time resulted in millions
Palmater goes even further to discuss how the "Indian policy" was based on acquiring Indigenous lands and resources and reducing financial obligations to Indigenous people. "These acts included confining Indigenous peoples to tiny reserves and forbidding them to hunt, fish or provide for their families, forcing them to live on unhealthy and insufficient rations that caused ill health and starvation."
Other genocidal acts included the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, and the mass theft from their families of Indigenous children — many of which were physically and sexually assaulted, experimented on, tortured and starved at residential schools, thus leading to thousands of deaths.
"Perhaps Canada should humble itself, step back, cancel its plans [and] undertake the hard word necessary to make amends for its legacy. Then we could all celebrate the original treaty vision of mutual respect, prosperity and protection envisioned by our ancestors," said Palmater. "Until then, I'll pass on the cake."
Back in October, Niagara unveiled an Indigenous monument to commemorate a group of First Nations warriors and war captains that served in the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. The gesture comes more than 200 years after the battle between the Americans and the British. The memorial monument is located on the site where the battle against American invaders, who were trying to capture territory on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, was fought. The project was supported by the federal, Ontario and local municipal governments, the Six Nations Legacy Consortium and many other donors.
Here is a little history lesson for you folks as outlined by Havard Gould of CBC News: Sir Issac Brock was killed in action at Queenston Heights on October 13, 1812 and up until now, much less has been done to acknowledge the efforts of the First Nations in the battle.
"After Brock fell, his forced were in disarray and retreating. It appeared certain the American invaders, who controlled the high ground, were on their way to a major victory," said Gould. "But a group of 60 to 80 First Nations warriors, led by war captains, launched a bold and tactically brilliant attack. Five of them died in a fierce struggle that bough time for reinforcements to arrive."
Many locations across Canada were named by the First Nations people. These names help to define Canada as a land of diversity, beauty, abundance and cultural richness.
For example, Oshawa in Ontario, is a Seneca word that means "crossing of a stream" or "carrying place" that describes an old portage in the area. Wetaskiwin, located in Alberta, is an adaptation of an Oree word, which can be translated into "place of peace" or "hill of peace". Oromocto, in New Brunswick, comes from the Maliseet word "welamookstook", which means "good river".
Canada's name itself borrows its name from the Huron-Iroquois Indigenous word, "Kanata", which means village or settlement. Indigenous youths travelling with French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1535 used the word to describe the village of Stadacona, the site of present day Quebec City.
As you celebrate Canada 150, it is important to address these controversial aspects of our Canadian history to have a full understanding of the lasting impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples. Take an afternoon and visit the monument located at Queenston Heights and reflect on the passion of the First Nations people to keep the rights to their land and to be heard.
In addition to reflection, June 21 is National Aboriginal Day. This is a day for all Canadians to celebrate and recognize the diverse cultures and the unique heritage of First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. Please check out the Government of Canada's website for a full list of events you can attend in celebration.
-Loredana Del Bello, Assistant News Editor


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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Kampala Serena
Welcome to the Kampala Serena Hotel.
One of my favorite hotels in the world is the Halekulani in Honolulu. It's a member of The Leading Hotels of the World, which is a designation of some of the finest hotels on the planet and usually an indicator of a hotel which I cannot afford. My hosts here in Uganda have been gracious enough to house me at the Kampala Serena Hotel and it's quite nice.
It's nearly midnight when I arrive after a very long trip so the mind is groggy, but the grounds are reserved and understated. It's luxurious but not in the opulence of say, the Sheraton Addis Ababa. Reserved and unassuming, it's how I prefer my luxury.
Everything is thought out and executed, from the leather-wrapped brass bedside clock to the inlaid woodwork in the furniture. Lovely. And their collection of ethnographic art just lines the walls throughout the hotel. Lovely. I bet they even allow cigar smoking in the lounge.
Fresh sandals and a bottle of water await my arrival.
But it's been a long trip here and there's some work I need to catch up on, not to mention that I'm starving for something hot and proper. A quick call to room service nets me a club sandwich that's pretty tasty with fries, hot sauce and a Diet Coke.
I finish my work around 2am and hit the bed for a little slumber.
Ethnographic Art in the room.
A midnight snack.
The Serena Triple Decker - chicken, bacon, lettuce, fried egg and tomato.
Looks like a hometown girl has already been here.
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Over Africa
Croissants and a hard boiled egg at Brussels Airport.
Looking at the flight schedule and calculating the itinerary, I came up with a number:
Ten hours.
Dix heures.
Diez horas.
Ten hours.
That's a long time to travel. Ten hours. I had forgotten just how far Africa is from my home.
First stop: Kigali, Rwanda 6367 km.
After half a million miles (seat time) of travel, I think I still enjoy it. Well, not really. Now that United (and most airlines) have gotten so cheap with everything, what was once an experience is now just painful. Ten hours. Not fun.
As I was checking in for the flight in Brussels, behind a group of French who had their luggage piled high that I couldn't tell if they were just tourists, going on safari or missionaries, I asked the agent just how "heavy" the flight would be today. She said it's about 49% full - gotta love these Europeans and their efficiencies. Back in the United States, the agent would have said something like "pretty full" or "about half". Here, in Europe, they've got it down to the exact percentage.
I figured I could hijack some seats.
Our A330 cabin.
When a flight is flying "light" you have the opportunity to jump your assigned seat and grab an open one. As long as you're not jumping up a class, they usually leave you alone. They do tell you to take your seat and then once airborne, you can change.
Since economy has so many people, it's unlikely that a flight crew will take the time to check if you're actually assigned that seat. First and business? Oh, they'll know if you're an interloper, but economy? They really don't care.
Instead of waiting until we're airborne, or at least the doors have been closed, I opt for a different strategy. I've got a single carry-on that's relatively small, so I try to be one of the last people to board the aircraft. If I'm the last person and they close the door behind me as I board, all the better. It now means that I have my pick of the seats!
Lunch - that I divided over the duration of our flight.
As I walk down the aisle to my assigned seat: 39H, an aisle seat on the right side of the aircraft with an adjoining window seat, I know that it's full and that I need to jump my seat. I scan the selection of seats and find a completely center open row of four seats: 27D-G and hop in. Serendipitously, it happens to be next to the cute Spanish girl I saw in line at border control.
Now, this is where it gets tricky. How do you hold four seats and discourage someone from sitting in 27D when you're in 27G? Slide over to 27F and place your jacket and carryon in 27E. In a plane with so many open options, you make 27D just a little more unattractive. Happily, it worked.
First Course: Lemon Chicken with potatoes and lentils.
The first hop on our flight was to Kigali - roughly eight hours away. It's God-awful and had I been forced to fly the entire way upright in a cramped seat it would have been absolutely brutal. But with four open seats, I could try to lie down and sleep.
I stretched out across the seats and donned my earbuds (for silence) and blindfold almost immediately after takeoff. I wanted to claim my seats, make no mistake about it. The goal was to sleep (or try to sleep) for two hours. After changing positions four times and not sure if I actually slept, I checked the time. Two hours had passed. Thank you, Baby Jesus.
Another round of trying to sleep ended up killing two more hours for a total of four. That's half the flight gone and I'm not going crazy. Yet.
Second Course: Chicken Pasta Salad...
Toss in a couple of meals, the ending of Despicable Me and the entirety of Marmaduke and we're nearly six hours through the flight. Pop open the laptop to watch this weeks episodes of Community and The Big Bang Theory and another 44 minutes has gone by. Fire up the movie Skyline and I'm only 3/4 though when we start our descent into Kigali.
Roughly an hour on the ground in Kigali to clean up the plane and take on a boatload of passengers, so much so that I'm forced back to my assigned seat, and we're off again.
From Kigali, Entebbe is only a 40 minute flight over Lake Victoria. The flight is quick and easy - and I don't have enough time to finish the last six minutes of Skyline before we're landing, going through customs and taking the one hour ride to Kampala.
And Skyline? It's pretty dumb.
and Chocolate Ice Cream!
Sunset over the Sahara.
Course Three: Corned Beef Salad with bread.
Kigali means only another 338km to go!
I'm back to my assigned seat: 39H.
Somewhere cruising over Lake Victoria.
Arrival: Entebbe International Airport.
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Director's Note: William Kentridge
William Kentridge November 10, 2016
Director's Note: William Kentridge
November 10, 2016
The animated material for Il ritorno d'Ulisse, a 1998 collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, used fragments from History of the Main Complaint, which came before the opera and served as a sketch not for the plot or character of the opera, but a sketch to see if the drawings I did and the music of Monteverdi were compatible.
The opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse follows Homer and recounts Ulisse's return after the Trojan War, his routing of the suitors who have besieged Penelope in the palace on Ithaca, and his reuniting with Penelope. What Monteverdi and his librettist Badoaro added was a prologue in which the attributes of Human Frailty, Time, Fortune, and Love dispute over what will happen to Ulisse. It was this prologue, with its central theme and image of the human as vulnerable rather than heroic, that brought me to do the opera. Throughout the opera there is constant shifting both in the words and in the music between Ulisse's optimism that he will prevail and a fatalism that everything will be too hard. The prologue sets a tone and establishes a central set of images of the body which find their way through the opera.
The Internal Lightning Bolt
The process of making the opera took approximately a year—eight months of making drawings and editing animation film, and designing and carving puppets (done by Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company), and four months of rehearsing.
Part of this preparation involved looking through a series of medical videos. These were of operations, barium meals, gastroscopies, angiograms, arthroscopy, and so on. One of the most remarkable for me was an angiogram—an X-ray image of dye being pumped into arteries around the heart. As the dye is released in one heartbeat, in one pulse, it suffuses and turns black a jagged tracery of the arteries. I had always assumed these to be gently curving aerodynamically, or at least ergonomically designed. But the vessels are stepped, jaggedly forked. This piece of film was put aside and sat on the editing room shelf waiting to find its place. It is used early on in the opera. The god Giove comes to take a hand in the affairs and fortunes of Ulisse, and as the singer sings the lines "I release thunderbolts," we projected an image of what appears a lighting strike, but in fact is this angiogram—a lightning strike inside the body.
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
"Illegally Blonde"
Jon Stewart re-examines testimony of Monica Goodling, a Bush appointee who politicized hiring practices at the Department of Justice.
My favorite part..
Wolf Blitzer [CNN]:
"The US Justice Department is supposed to enforce US laws, but a new investigation suggests that the Bush Administration may have violated those laws when it hung out the 'help wanted' sign at the Justice Department.."
Jon Stewart:
"No, no… NO!! The report doesn't "suggest" that they "may", it says that they "DID"!!
You may not be the most trusted name in news, quite frankly.."
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Here is the trailer to Oliver Stone's latest film "W". Josh Brolin plays the role of GW Bush.
Wow.. It is one thing to read about Bush in his earlier years, but quite another to see it played out in living color. It sure puts the last 7 years in perspective, and explains a lot.
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Another FANTASTIC cartoon by Mark Fiore!
This has GOT to be one of the funniest cartoons he has ever done..
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Beehive Cactus, New Mexico
Cactus are still blooming this year, out of synch with their usual seasons. Beehives are generally done around here by mid June. The hummingbirds are very happy…
Countdown to Bejing – The toils of the children gymnasts
In China the economic divide between the rich and the poor is huge. So, many families try to gain money and fame through their children. They are sent to sports boarding schools and "trained" for gold medals. There was a documentary on that on German TV these days and, honestly, I was unable to watch. A mother carrying her squirming and desperately screaming nine year old son back into the school after the holidays. Trainers were philosophes of the "spare the rod, spoil the child"-variety. A grandfather, who said his grandson just hasn't been working hard enough, when the boy didn't make it into the next class.
There is a controversy about at what age those children are competing at the Olympics. Two gymnasts are suspected to be much younger than their passports say and well below the minimum age of sixteen. Achieving a gold medal in sports is never easy and always a painful and long journey that many start and only very few stand through. There should be limits, though. Boycotting the Olympics, or any sports events where children are competing beyond the limits of their capacities, helps to deprive those pain factories of the reason for existence. Good riddance, t'would be.
If you can stomach it, here is the documentary on the Li Xiaoshuang school in China, with english subtitles.
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Friday's House Judiciary Hearing on Impeachment: A Victory and a Challenge
by Dave Lindorff (CommonDreams)
The dramatic hearing on presidential crimes and abuses of power held on Friday by the House Judiciary Committee was both a staged farce, and at the same time, a powerful demonstration of the power of a grassroots movement in defense of the Constitution. It was at once both testimony to the cowardice and self-inflicted impotence of Congress and of the Democratic Party that technically controls that body, and to the enormity of the damage that has been wrought to the nation's democracy by two aspiring tyrants in the White House.
As Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), chairman of the committee, made clear more than once during the six-hour session, this was "not an impeachment hearing, however much many in the audience might wish it to be." He might well have added that he himself was not the fierce defender of the Constitution and of the authority of Congress that he once was before gaining control of the Judiciary Committee, however much his constituents, his wife, and Americans across the country might wish him to be.
At the same time, while the hearing was strictly limited to the most superficial airing of Bush administration crimes and misdemeanors, the fact that the session — technically an argument in defense of 26 articles of impeachment filed in the House over the past several months by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) — was nonetheless a major victory for the impeachment movement. It happened because earlier in the month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has sworn since taking control of the House in November 2006, that impeachment would be "off the table" during the 110th Congress, called a hasty meeting with Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Rep. Conyers, and Rep. Kucinich, and called for such a limited hearing.
It was no coincidence that shortly before Pelosi's backdown, peace activist and Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan announced that her campaign had collected well over the 10,000 signatures necessary to qualify for listing on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress against Pelosi in the Speaker's home district in San Francisco. Sheehan has been an outspoken advocate of impeaching both Bush and Cheney. "Pelosi is trying to throw a bone to her constituents by allowing a hearing on impeachment," said Sheehan, who came to Washington, DC to attend. "It's just like her finally stating publicly that Bush's presidency is a failure — something it has taken her two years to come to, but which we've been saying for years."
So determined were Pelosi and Conyers to limit the scope and intensity of the hearing that they acceded to a call for Republicans on the Judiciary Committee to adhere to Thomas Jefferson's Rules of the House, which prohibit any derogatory comments about the President, which was interpreted by Chairman Conyers as meaning no one, including witnesses or members of the committee, could suggest that Bush had lied or deceived anyone. Since a number of Rep. Kucinich's proposed articles of impeachment specifically charge the president with lying to Congress and the American People, this made for some comic moments, with witness Bruce Fein, a former assistant attorney general under former President Ronald Reagan, to say he would reference his listing of crimes to the "resident" of the White House.
In the end, the rule imposing a gag on calling the president a criminal fell by the wayside, with witness Vincent Bugliosi, a former Los Angeles deputy district attorney, accusing Bush of being guilty of the murder of over 4000 American soldiers and of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians because he had "lied" the country into an illegal and unnecessary war, and with committee member Shirley Jackson Lee (D-CA) suggesting that the president may have committed treason in invading Iraq, and that he appeared to be preparing to do it again with an unprovoked invasion of Iran.
Conyers also acquiesced in a Republican effort to minimize public monitoring and involvement in the hearing, allowing the minority party to fill most of the available seats in the hearing room with office staffers who showed little interest in the proceedings. Only a few dozen of the hundreds of pro-impeachment activists who had come to the Rayburn Office Building at 7 am in order to get seats in the Judiciary Committee hearing room were allowed in, with the rest having to remain in the hall or go to two remote "overflow" rooms to watch the proceedings on a TV hookup. Conyers also went along with a call by Republican members of the committee to have some of those who did make it into the hearing ejected simply for wearing buttons on their shirts calling for impeachment (the Republican members referred to these as "signs"), though such small personal tokens are routinely allowed in congressional hearing rooms.
It was clear that this was to be a tightly controlled and strictly limited hearing.
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It's not atypical for things to be a bit "hectic" around the Turner house. Last night was no exception. Right about the time the sun was going to set, the time I had hoped to be in a location to shoot what I knew was going to be an amazing sunset, my daughter was still getting ready for track practice. The color was not quite at peak and I knew if I could get her in the car, we could get to a spot with a decent view on the way to practice.
She didn't want to get to practice too early, which meant she was not particularly motivated to move fast. So I waited, but the color didn't. As I sat in the driver's seat, I watched the color begin to fade and change. And there was no sense rushing her. I've learned that doesn't do much except create drama. By the time we got to the spot, less than five minutes later, the blast of orange all over the sky had shifted to a coating of red on the edges of the clouds. And although I was anxious to get to this spot and this moment, it was nice to pause for a second in the middle of the hectic and just enjoy the sunset with my daughter.
That's better than catching the sunset at peak color alone. 🙂
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Dutch Guy Waits for Online Girlfriend at Chinese Airport for 10 Days and Gets Hospitalized (10 Pics)
Posted on Aug 11, 2016
Being in love is wonderful. However, it shouldn't get you hospitalized. Take a look at a story of one man who took relationships a bit too far and got stood up by his online girlfriend.
1. Dating Can Be Hard
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Physical and geotechnical properties of clay phyllites
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An experimental programme is presented with the aim of characterising –from physical, microstructural and geotechnical perspectives– the main properties of compacted clay phyllites. These clay phyllites are widely used as waterproofing material for roofs in the Alpujarras (Andalusia, Spain), as sealing liners in irrigation ponds, and as core material of small earthen zoned dams. An exhaustive physical-characterisation programme on the powder fraction has been followed using X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), chemical analysis by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), thermal analysis, particle-size distribution analysis, consistency limits, and density of solid particles. From a microstructural standpoint, mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) tests, as well as nitrogen-adsorption tests, were carried out to characterise the pore network and surface area of the material in both natural and compacted states. The geotechnical characterisation programme on the compacted material was focused on the water-permeability and water-retention properties, the volume change on soaking (swelling or collapse), the compressibility on loading, the shearstrength properties, and the mechanical-penetration properties. In this way, an important physical and hydro-mechanical data base is provided, which could help in evaluating the suitability for using this material in a wide range of earthen constructions (liners, road subgrades, embankments, core material in zoned dams). It has been found that the material contains illite, chlorite and quartz as the main components, and feldspar, iron oxide and interstratified illite–smectite as minor ones. Despite the presence of active clay minerals, the compacted material did not display an important swelling on soaking at low stresses, as a consequence of its low specific surface and low water-retention ability. The material exhibited good compaction properties and, consequently, low water permeability plus a stiff response on loading. Nevertheless, despite the low porosity attained on the dry-side compaction, the material underwent some collapse on soaking at stresses greater than 100 kPa.
CitationGarzón, E.; Sánchez-Soto, P.J.; Romero, E. Physical and geotechnical properties of clay phyllites. "Applied clay science", 2010, vol. 48, p. 307-318.
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Skye Denison from Denise Swanson's New York Times bestselling Scumble River mystery series talks about her life and adventures.
Hi! My name is Skye Denison. I'm a school psychologist in Scumble River, a small town in Central Illinois. Although I was born and raised in Scumble River, I left as soon as I turned eighteen and stayed away until I was nearly thirty. I've been back six years, and have come to realize that Scumble River is indeed home.
My life seems to be getting busier and busier. After solving the mystery of who killed the cat show judge, I started planning my wedding. I knew my mother would drive me crazy, but I wasn't prepared for the rest of the town to join her in her quest. My fiancé and I wanted a small wedding, but I soon realized that just wasn't going to happen. Now I'm just concentrating on making sure Mom doesn't turn the whole affair into a three-ring circus.
Ever since my California cousin's over-the-top platinum wedding, Mom has been plotting how to make mine even bigger and splashier. I nixed the fireworks and the hiring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but I sort of like the idea of the horse drawn sleigh. Especially, since I'm getting married right after Christmas. Now I just have to convince my mother that I'm not going on a strict diet in order to fit into her size 6 wedding dress.
In addition to the usual bridal craziness, I'm still trying to cleanse my house of the previous owner's spirit. The first attempt went painfully wrong and now I have a ticked off ghost to deal with. I've decided to let her be and see if she calms down. Maybe once I'm married she'll be happy since it seems what really riles her is if I attempt to you know what. I'm hoping that once we're blessed by both the church and state her sense of right will be satisfied.
In addition to ghosts and wedding plans, there's my job, which brings its own challenges. Anyone who thinks a small town school district doesn't have as many problems as a city or suburban school district has never worked in one. The issues may be different, but they're still there.
If you're interested in my life, my biographer, Denise Swanson, has written about my latest adventure in a book called Murder of the Cat's Meow.
--New York Times bestselling author Denise Swanson writes the Scumble River and the Devereaux Dime Store mysteries. Murder of the Cat's Meow is her newest book and is available at:


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Luminescence: Background or real signal? - (Apr/26/2013 )
Dear all,
I am confused about some sensitivity/gain - background issues.
We use a dual luciferase based assay system to measure gene expression. Now some of the genes are expressed very high, some are expressed very low. The latter show so low values it seems to be below background values, no matter what blank measurements I make (air, water, buffer+substrate).
From the literature I know the principle how photomultiplier tubes (PMT) should work. Therefore, a signal increase seen by increasing the gain is an artefact, i.e. increasing gain will not increase the input.
However, when I compare the measured signals with our expectations/hypothesis, meaning the regulation pattern of the genes, it is as expected. We repeated these experiments at least 10 - 20 times and it is highly significant by t-test statistics (as well as by looking at the data by eye). So the results fit our model, but in theory they shouldn't... Correct?
How can this be explained? Has anybody a good idea, knows some good literature? Are we producing simply artifacts by chance?
Thank you for any help to make me understanding,
hmm.... as far as your low values, if they are below your "blank" or negative control values, you need a different negative control. can you list in detail what you have tried?
i tried as a negative control to measure wells with buffer+substrate w/o any cell lysate, the same with untreated cell lysate. also I measured empty wells (air), I measured wells containing water, I measured wells with lysis buffer only. so there I don't see any further possibilities for blanks that make any sense or would improve my results. do you have any suggestions? or can you help me to understand the discrepancy between theory (no possible signal increase) and practice (correct/expected observations)?
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Microsoft has dipped its toe a little further in to the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) world by making its online services available through Telstra's T-Suite platform.
The company's Exchange, Office Communications, SharePoint and Office Live Meeting products will now be available as a simple subscription services hosted by Microsoft and provided through Telstra's networks.
Clinging to its heritage, Microsoft refuses to call this a SaaS offer, continuing to prefer the term "Software Plus Service".
"This launch is the cornerstone of our software plus services alliance with Telstra," said Microsoft Australia's Communications Sector Director, Kevin Brough.
Associate consulting director at IDC Linus Lai said the reason behind Microsoft's refusal to use the SaaS term is pretty obvious.
"Microsoft is a software company built on software licensing. To render this announcement as a software as a service one would be bit too much for them," he said.
"[The company has] a lot of fiscal responsibility to shareholders. It would like to present a message to the customer that all options are covered. It still has on premise software, as well as software subscriptions and software delivered as a service."
Research Vice President for Gartner Australia Geoff Johnson agrees: "It's marketing."
When asked about how many customers have taken up Telstra T-Suite applications since its launch earlier this year, director of T-Suite at Telstra Business Marcus Bartrum admitted that the current customer base was small.
"The base is small today because we want to get things right because it is such an important strategic product for Telstra and Microsoft. The focus is on getting things right, getting the channel engaged and sorting out the operational side of things in order to drive take up," he said.


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Users' Facebook likes shared with advertisers
Facebook is letting "priority" marketers use a new internal tool that shows them which other pages their own fans like.
For example, companies could use the tool to find out which TV shows their fans watch, which brands they buy and which bands they listen to.
The tool was discovered by AdWeek, which wrote about it earlier this week. AdWeek said only priority clients are getting access to the tool for now, which Facebook confirmed to The Times.
"To help marketers build better campaigns, Facebook offers aggregated insights to managed clients that help them understand trends about their fan bases," a spokeswoman for the company told The Times in a statement. "These tools do not provide marketers with any data about their competitors' fan bases."
The tool is only available internally, and Facebook is making marketers come to their offices to access it, according to AdWeek.
Companies could find the tool useful for putting together future marketing campaigns. As AdWeek points out, the tool could help companies decide which TV show to advertise on or which song to use in a commercial.
Fortunately for Facebook users, though, the company said it is not giving out specific user data to companies.
"As always, Facebook does not share user-specific data with advertisers," the spokeswoman said.
Facebook has not said if it plans to offer the tool to all its advertising clients, but it could prove to be another valuable source of revenue for the social network if it does.
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