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Reasons to Visit Thailand That You Must Know
When in Thailand, do as the Thai do – smile! Officially known as the "Kingdom of Thailand," this tropical paradise catapulted to fame for its sandy white beaches, fiery cuisine and devout spirituality. Tourists visiting Thailand the first time, are often taken aback by the almost perfect blending of the traditional with the modern. This Thailand travel guide brings to you the best of everything that this Southeast Asian country has to offer.
Buddhist chants reverberating in the air meet the din of loudspeakers advertising the latest products and deals in glitzy shopping malls. Adventure too, abounds at every turn here. From surfing to diving with whale sharks, kiteboarding to scaling the sea cliffs – the scope for getting that adrenaline rush is never far away.
Popular Destinations in Thailand
Thailand has some of the most popular attractions that attract a large number of tourists throughout the year. Each of these destinations deliver a mix of adventure, fun and culture. Check out some of the most popular destinations in Thailand below:
The island of Phuket extends to 49km, making it one of the longest islands in Thailand. It also contains some of the biggest and exciting beaches in all of Thailand. One of them is Patong. This beach, lined with cafes, restaurants and bars, is famous for its nightlife, beside a whole host of other activities that it offers.
Laem Phromthep, located at the south-most tip of Phuket, is an amazing place to capture the beautiful sunset. It's also the location of the 50 feet tall Kanchanaphisek Lighthouse – erected in 1996 to celebrate the auspicious occasion of the king's 50th accession anniversary.
Get a taste of lovely Thai cuisine at the Pad Thai Shop which serves Thai delicacies like kow pat poo (crab fried rice), pat see ew (fried noodles) and noodle soup.
Koh Samui
The island of Koh Samui – the second largest in Thailand, once served as a Thai fishing community. To get a taste of the local ways and culture, make your way to Bophut. The restaurants and pubs by the beach offer magnificent views of the sunset.
Koh Samui is also eminent for its magnificent Buddhist temples, which overawe the visitor with their curious architecture. Some of the eminent temples lie in Wat Phra Yai, Wat Khunaram, and Wat Laem Saw, beside many others.
Bangkok is a magical city to be in. Palaces that radiate grandeur, floating markets and porcelain covered spires – it's all here. For getting the best shopping experiences, rush to Pratunam or Siam Square – two famous shopping destinations for both locals and visitors alike. Then, for seeking some moments of rest and relaxation, spend some quiet time at the European-style gardens of Dusi. Bangkok is a must visit place during your holiday in Thailand.
Thailand also prides itself on its splendidly built temples which are marvelous pieces of architecture. Some of this brilliance is at display at the Wat Arun temple, Phra Nakhon, and Wat Pho temple of the Reclining Buddha.
Ever heard of mango rice? Head to the Grand Palace, where a delicious serving of "mango sticky rice" awaits you.
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai, also known as Thailand's "Rose of the North," is a kaleidoscope of cultures and ethnicities, besides gaining a widespread reputation for its legendary hospitality.
Discover the delights of shopping at Night Bazaar, located on east side of the walled city. It's here that you come across a variety of consumer goods, ranging from designer goods to local Thai goods. Two other bazaars, Kalare Night Bazaar and Asunarm Markets, are also worth checking out.
Peak into the fascinating history of Thailand at the National Museum and come across the beauty of Thai orchids at the Botanic Garden. Revisit history at the ancient temples, also called "Wats,"at the city center.
Complete your visit to Chiang Mai by visiting the Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. Built in 1383 to enshrine Buddha's relics, one can choose the path of pilgrimage by walking 290 steps, up to the hilltop.
Things to do
One can roam the whole of Thailand and yet, find something new worth visiting with every visit. These things should find a mention in your Thailand travel guide.
Be overawed by the grandeur of the Grand Palace. Set in the heart of Bangkok, this palace served as the residence of the king, his court, and the entire government of Thailand. Spread over an area of 2350838.04sq. ft., its enormous walls leave the visitors overwhelmed.
Go elephant trekking at Mahawangchang Elephant Camp. Located about a four hour drive from Bangkok, elephants and humans come together to create some wonderful memories. Splash water at the elephants and let your tourist guide capture those memories for a lifetime, through his camera.
Ever wondered where Leonardo DiCaprio classic "The Beach" was shot? Well, right here in Thailand, at Koh Phi Phi. A picturesque island situated in the province of Krabi, visitors can party all night long on its sandy beaches, click pictures of its craggy cliffs and wander out into its azure waters.
Of course, Thailand, with all its incredible beaches, offers endless opportunities for sea based activities and adventures. Get your fair share of thrill by white water rafting at the Mae Taeng River. Try your hand at deep water soloing (a form of free-climbing) in Tonsai and Railay. Test your limits by rappelling down limestone cliffs underneath a waterfall in a Thai jungle, in Chiang Mai.
Thanks to our guest author Hari Sharma, who is an expert travel writer and an avid traveler who has an keen interest in sharing his experiences with everything. He offers a detailed experience of any travel topic that he opts to write on.You can get tips about choosing the right kind of holiday packages in India from his write-ups.
Click here to see more of him: https://www.indianholiday.com/blog/author/hari/ .
Private luxury rentals in Thailand
Large Ko Samui vacation rental with pool – Baan Lotus
This beautiful 4-bedroom luxury villa provides enough space for up to 10 people. Surrounded by landscaped tropical gardens and just seconds away from a white sandy beach, Baan Lotus is a very spacious vacation villa in Koh Samui, Thailand that encapsulates high-end luxury and comfort as well as traditional Thai design.
Phuket Patong Bay Oceanfront 5 Bedroom Villa – Baan Thap Thim
This beautiful 5-bedroom luxury villa provides enough space for up to 10 people. Gracefully clinging to the edge of a private peninsula, Baan Thap Thim offers the ultimate in luxury Phuket Villa rental. Baan Thap Thim features elegant design, rich furnishings, and stunning views over Patong Harbor.
Luxurious villa with on the island of Yao Noi, Thailand
This beautiful 2-bedroom luxury villa provides enough space for up to 4 people. Representing an uncompromised standard of luxury with its private infinity pool, this stunning villa offers endless and unforgettable moments surrounded by alluring scenarios, exquisite facilities and the staff´s kindness who are at your disposal for your requests.
Koh Phangan Koh Phangan Rental with Pool – Dee Dee Retreat
This beautiful 4-bedroom luxury villa provides enough space for up to 8 people. Dee Dee Villa Retreat is located on Koh Phangan, Thailand, situated on sixteen hundred square meters ( 1 rai ) of private beach front land facing Koh Ma and Koh Tao.
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Hello! We'll get back to lady sewing real soon, but first I had to share some birthday dresses with you. Each year I make a special dress for my girls, and my little one just turned three- here is her dress:Fabric: Tsuru by Rashida Coleman Hale for Cloud9
The pattern is the Geranium Dress from Made By Rae- you can't go wrong with her patterns, they are all gems. Continue reading

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Pocket Fuel
Designing an app that engages users through daily blog posts.
Designing an app that engages users through daily blog posts.
The Pocket Fuel app involved the creation of a mobile platform that helped share the Christian Faith across the world . The creators of Pocket Fuel, Practice Media, came to EB Pearls with the desire to help others practice their devotion to the Christian Faith by creating blog posts in the form of "daily devotionals" for the app's users. A core idea of this app was to integrate the content of this app into the daily lives of it's users.
Pocket Fuel employs modern design principles and strategies to promote user engagement and retention, all the while giving Practice Media full control over the custom designed content that is served to users.
A blog system in the form of "Daily Devotions". User's receive daily posts that drip feed content in a way as to promote a continued user experience and allow the app to be integrated into the lives of it's users. Subtle push notifications were used to allow user's set an ideal time to read each daily post.
The easy saving and sharing of content. User's can save and bookmark their favourite devotionals for further reading and share devotionals with friends and others, to create a feeling of community all the while drawing more users to the app.
An Aesthetic tailored for the App. User engagement was achieved by engineering a design that effectively conveyed it's content but at the same time avoided seeming to 'clinical' in appearance. EB Pearls created an aesthetic that gives a deep personal feel that is appropriate for the deeply spiritual subject that App is built around.
Through elegance of design and simplicity of use, Pocket Fuel is an app that isolates no particular audience. An App created around a blog-like system that promotes continued user engagement and retention.
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The Short Story:
I'm Jenny! I'm originally from Bosnia, but I grew up in Canada. I currently live and work in Toronto, where I spent most of my life.
This is the short story, so I'll spare you the details.
✧I'm 30 years old.
✧Professionally, I'm a Marketing Manager and Event Planner, with 5+ years in the meetings and events industry.
✧At the age of 29, I married my travel partner and best friend – aka my "Instagram Husband".
✧I don't travel solo, my husband almost always accompanies me.
✧I'm a hardcore fashionista.
✧I love traveling in style.
✧I'm an outdoor and nature junkie.
✧Anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm a hotel diva.
✧I'm multilingual.
✧Health and wellness is very important to me.
✧I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
✧I travel for the sake of acquiring knowledge, and for self and spiritual development.
✧I'm a storyteller.
✧My travel philosophy is to take at least one piece of knowledge back with me from every place that I visit.
If you want to know more, check out the long story below!
The Long Story:
In 1991, my family immigrated to Canada from a war struck Bosnia that was being torn into pieces. Having to unexpectedly leave our home, we didn't have the means to travel much. But as a little girl, I always had visions of traveling the world. Only back then, I had no idea that my visions would one day become my reality.
I spent much of my youth going back home to Bosnia during school breaks. For a while, I got lost in those trips. That little girl who had a vision of traveling the world, had forgotten what she had always dreamed of doing. My life took a drastic turn during my last years of University. I was living alone without much money, had a part-time summer job and a lot of alone time to get to know myself. I had felt as if I wasn't satisfying my life's potential. Even after graduating and starting my career, I felt unfulfilled. So I set out searching for something a little more exciting and outside of my comfort zone,
Unlike many travel bloggers who quite their jobs to travel, my career opened up the world of travel for me. I quickly realized how amazing it felt to break free of my daily routine… I had been hit with a incurable case of wanderlust… What opened my eyes the most was how different of a person traveling made me feel.
Why I Travel:
Traveling is the reason that I started to get to know myself better. It gave me a sense of appreciation for what I have in life and who I am as an individual. Every time I left my home, I came back to it a different and better version of myself.
Lin Yutang's quote says it all for me: "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow". That feeling of leaving a place that I enjoyed for a short period of time, and coming home to a familiar living space is what keeps me yearning for more. I love that moment when I land on unfamiliar soil and breathe in the sweet air of a new place. I enjoy observing the natural world, hearing different languages and experiencing different cultures. This make me realize how much this world has to offer and how little I know about it.
How I travel:
I didn't quit my job to travel, instead, I use my job as a means for traveling. Sometimes I extend my work trips and explore on my own. Sometimes I choose long weekends to go somewhere closer to home. But at least twice or three times a year, I make it a point to go somewhere far away from home and everything I know.
A few more things about me:
✧I'm an extroverted introvert. so really I'm an ambivert.
✧My passion for fulfilling my full potential in life is what keeps me going.
✧I'm a sucker for sunrises and sunsets.
✧I have a soft spot for animals.
✧I'm a huge foodie.
✧Class and elegance are elements that define me.
✧I'm enjoy cooking and baking.
✧I'm a shoe-aholic.
✧I appreciate both photography and art.
✧I love going on adventures.
✧My hobbies are reading, writing, skiing and hiking.
Why I blog:
I want to tell my story and share my experiences with those that have a desire to experience the same. I started Glam TravelGram for the one seeking inspiration to make traveling a lifestyle.
I blog to share my passion and love for exploring the world and learning new things. This is my outlet for telling my stories of experiencing new places, understanding different cultures and learning more about myself while doing so.
I blog because I want to inspire people to stop making excuses and avoiding travel because they don't have the time or are afraid of the unknown. I want to motivate and show others that travel is a necessary component of self development and a wholesome life.
*All of the photos used in my blog posts are taken and owned by me.


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Happy Thursday!! Before I get into today's message, I wanted to let you know that I have – get this – received some requests to create a podcast. I can't tell you how happy and excited
these out-of-the-blue comments made me since I love, LOVE to talk!
Now, I do have an audio version of each blog, but starting today I'm expanding them a bit more in the spirit of "riffing" - a rapid energetic often improvised verbal outpouring;
especially: one that is part of a comic performance (thank you Merriam-Webster).
So, if you'd like some company on your commute, at the gym, or while you clean your house, I'd love to tag along!
Thank you so much for your honest and encouraging feedback - please keep it coming! My purpose is to serve, so it's helpful to know what clicks and what doesn't so I can give you what you need/want!
So, with that, here's today's Buzz:
I had a flashback recently to me driving my dad's green Jeep Cherokee, listening to Rusted Root, smoking my morning cigarette as I cruise down Oxford Valley Road to the Sheraton for my summer job. (Dad, you knew I smoked in your car, right? <gulp>)
Given what I've told you about being an accent-wielding candy striper and manager of my own hotel as a kid, you might guess I was a concierge or front desk manager - but, you'd be wrong.
I worked for the cart and card team - key card that is. That's right – knock, knock - housekeeping!
Surprisingly, being required to do weekly chores with my older brother growing up didn't turn me off to cleaning, but rather on to it. There was something so satisfying about it.
Bringing order and organization to the papers in the kitchen, gathering all the trash and throwing it out, and cleaning the water marks off the bathroom mirror so it shined once again
energized me! I loved making the place look good, because it made me (and my family) feel good.
Knowing I needed a job, my friend who was a front desk manager at the Sheraton suggested working there. Wearing a blazer and standing up straight for hours certainly intrigued me, but my love for cleaning - and keeping my parents on their toes - made a job in housekeeping seem much more ideal. ;)
I didn't think about the things that could potentially suck about the job. (And like most jobs, there were some things that did!) And I chose to ignore the voice in my head telling me the negative things people would think about me when I told them I was a housekeeper.
I just decided to do what I wanted without asking anyone for their opinion. And that was the way to go because I was in my glory that summer! The job fit exactly what I was looking for at the time.
I'm telling you, I loved that job. And not just because of everything above, but because of the people.
I just had a feeling I needed to be with the ladies in housekeeping. I didn't understand it. I questioned it a bit, but when push came to shove, I went with my gut and had/have no regrets.
With each break I got to know, respect, and like the people I worked with. They were humble, hard-working bunch who liked to laugh. They taught me not to take everything so seriously - a lesson I continue to learn, believe it or not!
And there were so many other lessons I learned from them personally and professionally that I won't even get into. If I didn't follow my instincts, I wouldn't have learned what I did and been touched by the kindness and generosity of Marie, Dee and Gail – my "work moms" that summer.
Here's what I want to say about this. Do what you want. Stop caring what everyone else thinks. You are the only one who has to live your life, so you might as well live it on your own terms.
Trust that whatever you do, wherever you are, you'll learn what you need to learn and meet who you need to meet. It's amazing what happens when you just let go.
I've got more anecdotes and things to say in the podcast, so I hope you take a listen, share with others (social cred is crucial for my mission so I appreciate your help spreading The Buzz!) and let me know what you think. I value what you have to say!
Here's to doing what YOU want! Don't conform to the norm if you're not feeling it.
Bee Buzzing,
Amy, The Queen Bee NYC
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FIFA World Cup demo on PS3 Store
Plus: Home, Comics Store updated.
EA's 2010 FIFA World Cup demo is today's star attraction on the PS3 Store.
There's also a Blue Toad Murder Files episode bundle, which includes three instalments for a money-saving Ł10.
Today's new PSN game is Aqua Panic, and that can be grabbed on both PS3 and PSP. Lovely bubbly?
Besides that, there are MAG bits and bobs heading an influx of new PlayStation Home content, and a pile of new comics for the PSP Digital Comics Store.
PS3 Demos
- 2010 FIFA World Cup
PS3 Games
- Aqua Panic! HD (PS3 Version) (Ł7.99/€9.99)
- Topatoi Bundle - contains Topatoi: Great Tree Story and Pillar of the Skies DLC (Ł7.99/€9.99)
PS3 Game Content
- Blue Toad Murder Files: Episodes 4-6 Bundle - Episode 4: Death from Above, Episode 5: The Riddles of the Past, Episode 6: Flight of the Felonious Fugitive (Ł9.99/€12.99 or Ł4/79/€5.99 each)
- Just Cause 2 Chevalier Ice Breaker (free)
- Mega Man 10: Bass Mode (Ł1.59/€1.99)
- Mega Man 10: Special Stage 1 (Ł1.19/€1.49)
- Hustle Kings Basement Crazy Table Pack (free)
- LittleBigPlanet: The Incredibles Costume Pack - The Incredibles Family Costume, Syndrome Costume, Edna Mode Costume, Frozone Costume (Ł4.79/€5.99 or Ł1.59/€1.99 each)
- LittleBigPlanet: The Incredibles Level Kit (Ł3.99/€4.99)
- Rock Band: Rise Up And Rock Pack 01 (Ł6.29/€7.99)
- Guitar Hero 5: Fall Out Boy Track Pack (Ł4.39/€5.49)
- FirstPlay: Three Month Subscription (Ł8.99), Episode 1 (Ł0.99)
PSP Games
- Aqua Panic! (Ł7.99/€9.99)
- Dead or Alive Paradise (Ł29.99/€34.99)
PSP Minis
- Freekscape: Escape from Hell (Ł3.99/€4.99)
PSP Game Content
- The Eye of Judgement Legends: Protector Expansion Pack (Ł3.99/€4.99)


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Support from the rural development programme was used to buy new machinery and expand the production capacity of a biogas plant.
Projects & Practice
Total results: 4.
The creation of wetlands in the agricultural landscape can contribute in decreasing the leakage of nutrients into water bodies.
An advisory programme on reducing nutrient pollution, implemented at county level, helps minimise the impact of agriculture on the environment.
This LEADER-funded project created several small wetlands and helped raise awareness of and interest in water protection among landowners. It also contributed to increasing the amount of available water in the island of Gotland.


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Imagine this. A rebel ship flying toward the setting sun. Or a stout droid, wheeling slowly down a corridor. The raspy, robot breath of a black caped figure who is part-man, part-machine.
If you've spent any time watching any of the Star Wars series, you'll be able to mentally re-create these moments in a flash in your mind. They are the sounds that define the movies and that pepper the trailers. I want to talk about these sounds, these images, these moments in the context of Richard Wagner's leitmotifs.
Richard Wagner composed a series of operas in the 19th Century, including the famous Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde, The Flying Dutchman and others. His operas would typically last over several long hours and his greatest epic, the Ring Cycle, contains four operas. If these operas are performed without any breaks, they would still occupy sixteen hours of music. Wagner's issue in writing these operas was being able to keep his audience understand where things were going. His answer? Leitmotifs.
Leitmotifs are short melodies that represent a particular figure in the opera. This is the one for the main character, Siegfried. This is the one for the Valkyries, of which a rather famous march was composed. This is the one for Valhalla, home of the gods. This is the one for the ring itself around which the whole cycle of operas swings.
These tunes are perseverant little things, and by the end of the opera humming them stirs up a lot more than loud Germanic singing. It conjures up the images of heroism, sacrifice, love and betrayal that all take place in the Ring Cycle. They've had a potent effect on anyone whose watched the operas, and perhaps their most potent effects is when a flash of them appears within the melody. A quick suggestion of the Siegfried theme can rouse an audience.
There's almost 18 hours of Star Wars footage following the release of Rogue One. To make sense of this particular epic, directors have used leitmotif throughout the movies to engage the audiences at crucial times to think "oh, this is what's happening now!" The raspy wheeze of Darth Vader grounds us in the reality of this cruel, angry man; the sound of a lightsaber hastily drawn takes us back to the fast spirited action of Luke; the sound of a fighter roaring into the far distance reminds us of the desperation of the rebel cause.
Rogue One is a feast of leitmotif. It's filled with the familiar themes of A New Hope that we've become so familiar with over the years since it was first shot. From the CGI recreation of the faces of both Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing to the sudden cameo of Cornelius Evazan (that's this guy), the film gives us what we crave: nostalgic memories of being a kid in a cinema and holding a rebel ship tightly in hand, sprinting across the living room floor.
But drinking from the gourd of leitmotif is a dangerous business. Wagner is often careful to develop his leitmotif carefully as characters are developing, meaning that our ideas about the plot move forward with the actual drama. Continually re-using leitmotif with advancing them artistically can lead them to becoming stale cardboard cut-outs which act more as puppets to keep us grinning rather than anything that is animate, meaningful or alive. And that is dangerous.
That's not a criticism of Rogue One: I thought it was a cracking film and took an original take on the Star Wars story, including themes on sacrifice which have been over looked many times. Yet it is a critique of its approach. Done over and over again, then there won't be much more juice that can come out of this lemon.
For some interesting pieces on Star Wars, Wagner and inter-textuality, please follow these links:
Lord of the Rings: how music elevates a story
What makes Star Wars STAR WARS?
Intertextuality: Hollywood's New Currency


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The recession that ran from 2007 to 2009 seemed to be good for family cohesion: The divorce rate hit a 40-year low, lots of grown kids moved back in with their parents, and the proportion of people leaving their home town for greener pastures sank to the lowest level since the idyllic 1950s.
The family cohesion, of course, was largely an illusion. What really happened was that people put off big decisions that might have hurt their budgets, no matter how much teeth-gritting it required. The economy is still iffy, as new Fed chair Janet Yellen indicated in recent Congressional testimony, pointing out that jobs are still somewhat scarce and consumer spending hesitant. And the latest data shows the economy grew more slowly at the end of 2013 than previously thought.
Yet more Americans are now making the tough decisions they put off a few years ago, which might look like bad news but actually shows people are feeling more confident about taking risks, busting a career move or going it alone. Here are five offbeat indicators of a growing economy:
A rising divorce rate. Financial stress worsens marital tension, yet the divorce rate dropped in 2008 and 2009, just as the recession intensified. That's not surprising, since thousands of estranged spouses couldn't bear the costs that come with splitting one household into two (not to mention the lawyers). Plus, the housing bust meant divorcing couples who owned a home had a tough time selling this big marital asset without taking a loss, adding to the burden of divorce. When the unemployment rate began to drop in 2010, however, the divorce rate began to inch back up, with 2.4 million Americans getting divorced in 2012, according to Bloomberg. Divorce can be a big financial setback for individuals — especially working women — but the fact that it's becoming more frequent means more people have the financial resources to start over.
More people quitting their jobs. Before the recession, about 2.1% of workers voluntarily left their jobs every month to take a different job or try something new. But during the recession, the quit rate, as it's known, fell to 1.2%. That reflected plunging job security and a lack of jobs overall, typical in a recession. The quit rate has been rising since late 2009 and it's now at 1.7%, or about halfway back to normal. A rising quit rate shows more people feel comfortable leaving a safe but undesirable job for one they hope offers better opportunity — the kind of risk-taking that helps keep the economy vibrant.
More subprime lending. Wells Fargo garnered some disapproving headlines recently because it has begun granting subprime mortgages again. But this is exactly what's supposed to happen in an economy built on credit. There's nothing inherently wrong with making loans to consumers with subpar credit scores — as long as the risks are well understood and interest rates are adjusted upward to account for the elevated risk of default. The reason subprime loans were so disastrous during the housing bust that began in 2006 is that loan underwriters completely disregarded established standards, approving mortgages for many borrowers who lacked the income to finance what they bought. When economists call on banks to ease lending standards in order to stimulate home buying and the broader economy, what they mean is extending more loans to people who are a higher credit risk. When done properly, that signals a return to normal lending standards, which is good for the economy.
More consumer debt. Americans have a love-hate relationship with debt, since it helps finance higher living standards but can wreck household budgets when there's too much of it. A debt binge — especially on mortgages — contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and led to a surge in default rates, pushing total consumer debt down from 2008 to the middle of 2013. But borrowing for homes, cars, education and everyday purchases has risen since then. Total consumer debt was up by $241 billion in the fourth quarter of last year — the biggest jump since 2007. Since consumers use much of that debt to purchase things, borrowing boosts the economy, as long as it's sustainable. The next thing that needs to happen: A rise in incomes, so people have more money to help sustain increased borrowing.
Fewer people headed to college. When a recession hits, it's natural for more young people to enroll in college, since jobs tend to be scarce anyway. That's what happened in 2008 and 2009, when college enrollments rose by two to three times as much as they did during prior years. But enrollments in undergraduate programs fell by about 2% from 2010 to 2012 (the latest data available). This was probably because more student-age Americans could find jobs and earn money, instead of paying money to attend college and, in some cases, racking up thousands in debt. There's still overwhelming evidence that it pays to get a college degree, which is closely associated with higher lifetime earnings, better quality of work and a more fulfilling career. But when fewer people enroll, it's usually because more are finding opportunities that don't require a degree, in fields such as construction, manufacturing, healthcare and even business. In the future, college-skippers might regret that decision. But today, they're helping the economy.
Rick Newman's latest book is Rebounders: How Winners Pivot From Setback To Success. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman.


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HEADS UP! Clarifications in the TOS
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Configuring GoCD server details
Artifact repository configuration
GoCD needs no configuration once installed. However, we recommend that you create a separate partition on your computer's hard disk for GoCD server artifacts. The artifact repository can grow in size very quickly. If located on your system's main partition you may experience data loss and unpredictable application behaviour as the disk fills up.
Once you have created a new disk partition, you need to tell GoCD where to find it.
Click on "Server Configuration" tab of the "Admin" tab. GoCD to the "Pipeline Management" section.
Specify the artifacts directory location and click on "Save"
Power users can also configure this via the Config XML tab on the Admin section:
<server artifactsdir="/path/to/artifacts/directory">
In Windows, you may need to assign your artifact repository partition a separate drive letter. In Windows, your configuration might look like this:
<server artifactsdir="E:\go-artifacts">
When you have entered this information, click "Save" to save the configuration file.
You can change the artifacts directory location at any time using the method described above, even when GoCD is running. However GoCD will not move existing artifacts to the new location for you, and changing the location while GoCD is running won't take effect until GoCD Server is restarted.
If you decide to move your artifact repository, the safe way to do it is:
- Pause all pipelines and wait until all active jobs on the agent grid has completed (all agents are in the state "idle")
- Shut down GoCD server
- Copy the artifact repository to the new location
- Edit GoCD's configuration file manually as described above to tell GoCD where to find the artifacts
- Restart GoCD server
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Click on "Server Configuration" tab of the "Admin" tab. GoCD to the "Server Management" section.
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Power users, if they so desire, can directly update the server section.
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Macgregor Primary School takes enrolments from the suburb of Macgregor, only. We are a very proud school, with a long history of building strong community links. The school has always enjoyed positive community support and this is one of the school's significant strengths, as positive home school partnerships are the foundation to quality learning outcomes. Parents and carers have many opportunities to be involved in the school and community volunteers are active in all areas of the school.
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Category(s): Fertility
Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to conception. For a woman, infertility refers to the inability to carry a pregnancy to full term. This can be caused by poor egg quality or inability for the embryo to attach and survive in the womb (uterus). For the man, infertility refers to low sperm production or poor sperm quality. Infertility affects approximately 20% of couples. One study conducted by Harvard Medical School, found that when it studied 200 couples being treated by a fertility clinic, that more than 50% of women and 15% of men stated that infertility was the most upsetting experience of their lives.
There are many biological causes of infertility. Before you proceed with an infertility procedure consider several factors including:
• Expectations: Infertility treatments are a process, so we recommend that you only proceed after setting realistic timeframes (1-2 years) and are fully committed to the process and multiple possible attempts at pregnancy. Couples need to consider that pregnancy attempts with infertility treatments could lead to multiple children during a single cycle.
• Expense: Infertility treatments aren't covered by most healthcare plans but pregnancy costs may be (such as prenatal care, labor and delivery). The costs vary depending upon the procedures and additional funds may be need for follow up care and/or additional procedures.
• Risks: Complications may include: general surgical risks; possibility of drug reactions; hyper stimulation; infection that may include fever, swelling or other signs of inflammation; bloating with irritability, moodiness and in rare cases ectopic pregnancy and birth defects.
• Recovery: Depending on the type of procedure, recovery times average from 1-3 months where residual effects of the treatment could cause a change in your body's normal behavior.
• Psychological changes: Overall, fertility interventions help about 50% of couples become parents. The success rates drop significantly with increased age. Intended parent(s) that learn they are pregnant may be overjoyed but also must learn to adjust to the new role and pressures of both pregnancy and parenthood.
After determining to pursue infertility treatments, the next step should be to find a specialist and schedule a consultation. Have a list of topics ready including medications you are currently on, questions about the procedure(s), success rates and resulting desires/expectations. Working closely with your specialist throughout the process will improve the chance of satisfaction with the results of your procedure(s).
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Intimacy creates a container of trust in which you feel safe to strip off conditioned layers and reveal the essence of who you are. In this safe container, you are empowered to step into true freedom; a moment-to-moment way of being. True intimacy gives you the tools to realize the intention of tantra: to weave the individual self with the universal self.
The Tantric Way combines practices of:
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'Gunahon Ka Devta' was published in 1949 and is widely regarded as one of Hindi literature-'s biggest bestsellers. Written by the brilliant Dharamvir...
'Gunahon Ka Devta' was published in 1949 and is widely regarded as one of Hindi literature's biggest bestsellers. Written by the brilliant Dharamvir Bharati, it is the story of Chander, an intense, idealistic student of Allahabad University, who falls in love with his professor and mentor's lively young daughter, Sudha.
Bharati, himself a student of the same university, was just 23 when he published the novel. He went on to forge an illustrious career as a novelist, playwright, poet and literary magazine editor. But when he wrote 'Gunahon Ka Devta', he probably had no idea it would cause a sensation with its passionate story and its delicate but daring probing of taboo topics like sex, desire and love.
I had read the book many years ago and liked it enormously. Then, on a whim, I picked it up again and this time I fell in love with it. I began to understand the novel's astonishing popularity over more than six decades. Chander and Sudha's story is so emotionally powerful that you literally feel every stage of their relationship, from their days of innocent, playful banter to their heart-wrenching separation and their fatal downward spiral into self-destruction and tragedy.
The novel is told from Chander's point of view and the other characters flit in and out of his life as he grapples with his complex, conflicted feelings. Sudha is his true love but he persuades her to marry the Brahmin boy her father has found for her, because that is the socially correct thing to do. He plunges into an affair with the alluring Pammi in an attempt to get over Sudha but remains tortured by his memories of her. Unable to bear the fact that she is married to another man, he irrationally turns against her, though his cruelty fills him with terrible guilt. He tries to find emotional solace with Sudha's cousin, the sympathetic Binti, but ends up ruining that relationship too.
This poignant saga plays out in the Allahabad of the 1940s, with its spacious bungalows, flower-filled gardens and the serenity of the Sangam. It was a time when young people read poetry, went for leisurely boat rides in the Ganga and drank cool glasses of sherbet on summer evenings, when the scorching loo had died down. Bharati evokes an aching nostalgia for a gentler, quieter time.
But this wistfulness cannot mask the bitter social reality of that era, when women had virtually no choice over the course of their lives, and when individual happiness had to be sacrificed at the altar of social propriety. Separated from the man she is devoted to, trapped in a loveless marriage with no means of escape, Sudha takes refuge in religion, slowly withering away into a pale shadow of her former playful self. Weighed down by societal rules, Chander cannot bring himself to rebel against his mentor and claim Sudha as his own. His own immaturity and male ego lead to pain and grief for himself – as well as all the women in his life.
As I got sucked into the world of 'Gunahon Ka Devta', I couldn't fathom why the book had never been translated into English. I approached Pushpa Bharati, Dharamvir Bharati's widow (he had died in 1997) and sought permission to translate the book. She very kindly agreed. At that time, I didn't think too much about how easy or difficult the project was going to be. I just dived in.
Maybe that was a good thing – if I had agonised over the decision, I may never have gone ahead, given the iconic stature of the book and the beauty of its language. It is steeped in poetic imagery and metaphors. It has long philosophical passages where Chander battles with his conscience. It has gracefully written but complex paragraphs describing his inner turmoil.
And English just didn't have the vocabulary or turn of phrase to capture all the nuances. Also, the cultural moorings of the novel are very strong – translating that was a challenge. But as I worked on the manuscript, I remembered the advice of my editor at my publishing house, Penguin: The novel had to read like a novel in English. It had to be a smooth reading experience for the reader while at the same time staying true to the original author.
I tried to remain as faithful as I could to the tone and texture of the novel. I didn't use "modern" words like "hassled", I used no slang, I kept all the imagery intact. At the same time, I was constantly aware that the book shouldn't sound stilted or awkward. More than anything else, I wanted my readers to feel the emotions of the characters as deeply as I had, and to be as moved by the book as I had been.
When the translation finally came out 'Chander& Sudha', I was delighted to find that despite the book being set in an era that could seem remote for some – particularly younger readers – nevertheless its characters, story and strong emotional core connected with everyone. Readers also instantly connected with the issues that the novel tackled – caste, class, love, sex, duty – issues that remain as urgent and relevant even today.
Poonam Saxena is a journalist and author with several books to her credit, including Karan Johar's memoir 'An Unsuitable Boy'


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A Prophetic Harp and a Golden Bowl - CD
International prophetic harp instructor, Michael-David invites you to experience a taste of the heavenlies through these Spirit-breathed songs on CD!
This CD was birthed during hours of worshiping in the presence of the Lord. With the lyrical strains of the solo harp, weaving intricate, lush, layered harmonies, you will experience a foreshadowing of the sounds of heaven. Passionate and spontaneous melodies portray prophetic themes that reflect lyrics straight from the Word of God (included on the insert).
This music is well suited for your own times of personal devotions, for use during times of prayer and altar calls, and special moments that call for healing and deliverance.
You will be blessed by my international students from the Jerusalem School of the Prophetic Harp who are featured on tracks 5, 6 and 9, where 14 harpists worshiped on the Mount of Olives for 30 days (pictured above). This recording took place at the Jerusalem House Of Prayer For All Nations where there has been 24/7 intercession and worship for over 24 years (consequently, it was a highly supernatural time of worship).
Psalmist and inventor of the HarpellaÖ, Michael David is working together with Kingdom founders Johnny and Juanita Berguson to introduce the HarpellaÖ as a new instrument for worship. Click here to learn more!
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1. Never the Less I Live - 8:21
I am crucified with Christ: but nevertheless I live; x4
2. Lord You Are So Beautiful - 9:35
Lord You are so beautiful x4
3. Greater is He That is In Me - Lord I Lift Your Name On High - 8:24
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world x4
4. Mercy - 5:15
5. Holy Holy Holy Holy - 4:38
Part One: Holy, holy, holy, holy
6. Voice of Many Waters - 8:06
7. Our Prayers Are as Incense - 5:16
Our prayers are as incense as they rise to God's throne
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A while ago, our friends Collin & Liz (thanks guys!) let us borrow this bouncer and we're excited to finally have a place to hang it! Here's a video clip and some pictures of some fun Bryson had in it yesterday. (FYI: if the video stops on you, push pause and let it load for a second)
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Since folks like examples here's one that's hot off the presses.
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What you're looking at is my latest release, and the first book I've never had to share with other contributors. New Avalon: Love and Loss in The City of Steam contains 10 steampunk noir stories, each of which is connected by a single theme. Is it romance? Tragedy? The corrupt heart of the clockwork city that drinks the blood and souls of those who dig too deep?
It's all of those things, but specifically the book acts as a guided tour of New Avalon.
From the steam-shrouded souk of the Grates to the concrete bunkers of Cranktown, from the soupy, rotting alleys of the Gutters to the misty quays of Headsman's Wharf every story takes the reader by the hand and leads them on a district-by-district journey. Readers see the possible and the impossible, meet residents of the city, but more than that they see New Avalon's many faces. From the miraculous to the monstrous there's something for every reader in this book.
Assuming of course you aren't a fan of happy endings?
Know What You're Selling (Preferably Before You Write It)
Anthologies and collections are similar to other books in one way; it's easier to sell them if you know your market before you start. If you're writing a horror story for example, who are you appealing to? Will the latest hordes of zombie fans want to devour it? Will it be the latest fad among the vampire sect? Are you appealing to old-style fans of shows like The Twilight Zone and Tales From The Crypt?
While there's no need to pigeonhole your project before you even open up a blank word document, you need to think about what selling points it has. Returning to our above example, New Avalon has several fulcrums I can lever to get it into the hands of fans. Those include:
- Noir Steampunk: While the genre is no stranger to mysteries and detectives something that's more Sam Spade and less Sherlock Holmes is something that turns readers' heads.
- No Happy Endings: It's right there in black and white in the introduction, which I think of as the user-agreement for this book. New Avalon is a place happy endings go to die, so for those who find catharsis in tragedy this is definitely a book for them.
- Guided Tour: As mentioned the book's stories are all separate, but they are used to paint a picture of a single place. This can give it a serialized feel not unlike Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City. While stories may intersect like gears in a watch, none of them know what the others are doing.
- Single Author Collection: One of the big hurdles when you're trying to sell a multi-author collection is that even if someone likes your work they're only getting one of your stories. This book offers multiple tales, but they were all penned by the same hand. If you're putting together an anthology though you'd want to get several well-known authors to make the book feel like a safer bet.
- Free Sample: Not sold yet? Check it out and read the first two stories for free!
Do I Need To Do All That?
That depends, are you selling as many books as you want to?
|If you're reading my blog then we both know the answer to that question.
Some authors will get lucky their first time out. If you look at the news it seems like all some authors had to do was get one influential person to see their book and bam! overnight bestseller! Whether it was a viral send off on social media, or just the spirit of the zeitgeist taking hold they happened to write a winning ticket.
For most of us (and even most of the authors who look like they hit it big overnight) that isn't how it works. We write blogs, participate in community forums, guest post, get reviews, find guest slots on podcasts, try to catch the attention of local media, set up signings, and go to tons and tons of events. And because every yutz with a computer and Internet access can become an author that means there are hundreds of thousands more books out there for you to compete with. If you're peddling short stories you're already at something of a disadvantage, which is why you need to try and turn that weakness into a strength by finding a way to sell it.
Also, May is National Short Story Month! Use that as a crowbar if you can, and see how many doors you pry open with it.
If you'd like to support me, but New Avalon doesn't seem like your bag then feel free to stop by The Literary Mercenary's Patreon page and become a patron today! Even as little as $1 a month can make a big difference. If you want to be sure you're getting all of my updates then make sure you're following me on Facebook and Tumblr as well!


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Do you have a teen or tween who is dying to have friends over for a pool party? Perhaps it's birthday time…or an end of school party your child wants to host. You need ideas for a swimming pool party but you've got one major problem: you don't have a backyard pool. So what's a parent to do? How do you host a pool party when you don't have a pool?
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Several years ago our daughter was invite to a girlfriend's birthday party at a local hotel. I've got to admit that my first thought was, "What's going on here?" It seemed odd to me, and it also got my parental suspicions going, to find out that the party was at a hotel.
So I did what any concerned – and suspicious – parent would do….I called the parents of the birthday girl to get some answers.
Related: Are You Making These Parenting Mistakes?
It turns out that the parents had reserved a hotel room and talked with the management to work out the party details. By reserving a room for the night, the parents had access to the pool. They got permission from hotel management to invite several of their daughter's friends to show up at the hotel at a specified time for the pool party. The parents agreed to supervise the pool, provide all paper goods (as well as cake and soda), and to clean up after the party.
Butterfly had a blast! She said the kids all brought their own beach towels (part of the agreement so that the hotel didn't have to provide a bunch of extra towels) and that when swim time was over, they had cake and soda by the pool. Any kid who needed to rinse chlorine out of their hair had access to the shower in the room the parents had paid for.
When the party was over, the parents sent birthday girl home with one of her friends to spend the night. Then Mom and Dad spent a quiet night alone together in the room they'd reserved.
It sounded like a great plan to me.
What to furnish for the hotel pool party:
- Birthday cake and soda (or punch)
- Paper plates
- Paper cups
- Plastic forks
- Garbage bags (for dirty plates and for discarded wrapping paper)
- Paper towels
Obviously, this might not be the best party for young kids, but Butterfly and her friends were young teens when she attended this party. Of course it never hurts to ask another set of parents, or perhaps a set of grandparents, to help supervise around the pool. After all, safety is the first concern…and the fun is guaranteed anyway.
As always, be sure to fully disclose your plans to the hotel management and get their permission before hosting this type of party. Their cooperation will go a long way towards making a successful party. Do be aware that the time of year and vacancy rate may affect the hotel's willingness to agree. But you know my motto….they can say no but they can't kill you.
Related: Welcome To The Club: Things Your Mother Never Told You About Raising Kids
So this might be an idea for the next party you need to host. And it's definitely something worth considering for folks who don't have a pool in their own backyard.


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cigar box guitar update - May
Well a month has passed in a flash and I don't seem to have done much CBG stuff. Still messing about with the oscillator box which is nearly finished so I'll show you that soon. I watched Jools Hollands Later on tv the other night and was pleased to see Seasick Steve on there playing a CBG. I guess he'll be on again tomorrow (Friday night) so if you can get BBC2 watch out for that.
I'm on the hunt for a parlour sized 6 stringer. Playing CBGs has got me into fingerstyle playing and on something small that's comfy when you're sat on the sofa watching boring crap on tv, so hence a parlour guitar. I called at a small music store that looked like something from a Dickens book. Dark and dusty and full of intriguing instruments. On the wall I spotted a very old one string CBG and something weird that used a tortoisehell with a skin stretched over it for the guitar body. Whoa and I thought CBGs were weird!
The UK group HGMC is picking up members now. I think we're at about 70 so far. If you're in the UK be sure to check it out and think about joining. And definitley think about going to the Boxfest in Birmingham in October. We have our own Hollowbelly, France's Tinqui8, and Ben Prestage from the USA playing at the evening gig. That's gonna be worth going for on it's own but the daytime workshops, open mic and stalls make it an event not to be missed.
Anyhow, keep checking in here now and then, there's bound to be something of interest even if it's not strictly cigar box guitars.


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Thornton Tomasetti team members Matt Cummins (left) and Justin Fahey attended the Golden 1 Center ribbon cutting ceremony on Sept. 30.
Golden 1 Center, the newly completed, $557-million home of the NBA's Sacramento Kings in California, welcomed guests at a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sept. 30. On hand for the opening festivities were members of Thornton Tomasetti's structural design team, who collaborated with owner representative ICON Venue Group, architect AECOM and general contractor Turner Construction to design and build the facility on an accelerated schedule.
"After three years of fast-paced design and construction administration, and the occasional challenge, it was rewarding to attend the grand opening and share in the community's excitement as a long-awaited landmark structure finally becomes a reality," San Francisco Vice President Justin Fahey, who managed the project locally, said.
Following the ribbon-cutting, the arena hosted an open house on Oct. 1 as well as a Sacramento Kings Fan Fest, which saw a capacity crowd. Golden 1 Center, which replaces Sleep Train Arena as the Kings' home court, includes a seating bowl with general and premium seating, luxury and loft-style suites, standing viewing areas, a practice court and an outdoor courtyard and terrace. Designed to accommodate 17,500 spectators for NBA games, with the flexibility to expand to up to 19,000, the LEED Platinum venue can be configured for other sports as well as concerts, conferences, conventions, trade shows and other specialty events.
Thornton Tomasetti designed a repetitive, bent ladder-type framing system for the arena's façade. Photo by Matt Cummins / Thornton Tomasetti
The Structure
The 780,000-square-foot arena features high roof trusses that measure 394 feet by 342 feet, including two primary queen-post box trusses that have a total truss depth of 55 feet at mid-span. A grand entrance with five aircraft hangar doors is supported by sloped entry columns. The doors fold vertically to tuck under the low roof soffit. Three of the doors remain partially bent, or kinked, while in the closed position, which required a custom door design from the manufacturer, to blend in with the pattern of the exterior cladding.
At the grand entrance, the upper concourse and suite floors narrow to form a thin strip of bridges that connect to each side of the upper bowl. These bridges provide a gathering place with views of the court and, when the doors are opened, vistas of the surrounding neighborhood.
Thornton Tomasetti served as the lead structural engineer on the project. We collaborated with Sacramento-based structural engineering firm Buehler & Buehler, which has extensive local experience, particularly with the existing development on the site. This included a parking garage that was partially reused in the design of the practice facility.
Thornton Tomasetti's structural scope also included the design of a repetitive, bent ladder-type framing system for the façade. The façade panels are shaped in different configurations to evoke the striations of the granite of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 10-foot-wide by 69-foot-tall bent ladders were fully shop fabricated, shipped to the site and erected as one piece, resulting in an economical solution to a seemingly complex façade. Because the floors of the arena are set back from the façade, the ladders are supported from a ring beam bracketed outside the building columns at the loft level and clear-span to the roof.
The grand entrance bi-fold doors in the open position provide natural airflow to the arena. Photo by Matt Cummins / Thornton Tomasetti
Rising to the Challenge
A number of architectural features presented challenges to the structural design of the lateral system. The generally open floor plan, wide concourse corridors and narrow suite- and loft-level floor plates all provided limited opportunities to locate lateral force-resisting elements. To address this, our engineers used buckling-restrained brace frames (BRBFs) for the upper bowl structure to reduce the seismic demand and limit the number of braced frames required. We worked with the architectural designer to strategically place the BRBFs. The lower bowl sub-structure lateral system consists of special reinforced concrete shear walls located along the event-level corridor walls.
"Thornton Tomasetti was able to draw on our extensive sports experience in the design of the arena's more distinctive features, such as the high-roof trusses," Project Engineer Matt Cummins said. "We were able to develop an elegant, efficient and economical solution within the time frame necessary for construction."
At the grand entrance, bridges connect either side of the bowl and provide viewing areas to the arena and the outside. Photo by Matt Cummins / Thornton Tomasetti
An Accelerated Schedule
To meet the proposed 22-month erection schedule, the design and construction team employed a fast-track, early procurement approach, in which the structural steel contractor was engaged at approximately 50 percent design development. Under this design assist delivery approach, professionals from Thornton Tomasetti's Structural Engineering and Construction Engineering practices worked in close collaboration with the contractor, fabricator and detailer during completion of the design. This allowed for the ordering of steel, detailing and fabrication to take place before the completion and permitting of the project.
"While the contractor procurement process did not allow Thornton Tomasetti to provide full advanced project delivery services, this project demonstrates the best of what our Construction Engineering practice has to offer," Managing Principal Steve Hofmeister, who served as principal in charge of the project, said. "From the construction sequence planning and the enhanced model, to the constructability and erection studies for the long-span roof and façade, we delivered integrated structural engineering and construction engineering services on this project."
The design and construction team effectively utilized building information modeling, including Tekla steel 3D model review, to help meet the tight schedule. The design team provided steel designs in an enhanced Revit model, which was then used by the detailer to create a Tekla model with minor adjustments. This 3D model was then sent back to the design team for shop drawing review. Performing the review in this way, instead of the traditional 2D shop drawing review process, allowed for more accurate reviews and saved considerable time in the detailing and fabrication schedule.
"The paperless shop drawing review process enabled us to quickly review members and their associated end connections in a 3D environment," Senior Vice President and lead project manager H.B. Warner said. "This is definitely the wave of the future."
Golden 1 Center features the largest video display in the NBA. Photo by Matt Cummins / Thornton Tomasetti
Green and High-Tech
Golden 1 Center is one of approximately 30 LEED-certified sports facilities in the United States, but it is the first to achieve LEED Platinum. A rooftop solar array and nearby solar farm provide 100 percent of the arena's energy.
Unlike other arenas in the United States, air conditioning for the lower bowl is delivered through ventilation openings in the risers of the precast seating units. Thornton Tomasetti coordinated the design of the precast seating units to accommodate these openings and configured the riser stem depths to create duct plenums beneath the seats. This has proven to be a much more energy-efficient design than the conventional approach of blowing cool air down to the lower bowl from ducts hung at the high roof level.
In addition to being green, Golden 1 Center features the latest technologies powered by fully redundant fiber optic facilities and two, 100-gigabit Ethernet dedicated internet circuits. The arena has more than 1 million square feet of high-speed Wi-Fi ability to handle more than 225,000 Instagram posts per second as well as cellular coverage.
Golden 1 Center also features the NBA's first in-stadium 4K Ultra HD video board. The four-screen Panasonic display is the largest in the NBA, and is seven times larger than the previous one at Sleep Train Arena. To accommodate the screen, our engineers designed a larger than normal hoist platform supported by the roof framing to accommodate the four hoist machines that are synchronized to raise and lower the scoreboard.
The structural engineering team with former NBA commissioner David Stern (third from left). Pictured are (from left) Buehler & Buehler engineers Jason Horwedel and Keith Bauer, Justin Fahey and Matt Cummins.
"Thornton Tomasetti is proud to have been involved in the design of this facility," H.B. said. "We wish the City of Sacramento and the Kings all the best with this beautiful, state-of-the-art sports complex."
Kicking things off at the new multi-purpose arena are concerts by Paul McCartney on Oct. 4 and 5, and WWE No Mercy on Oct. 9, after which the Kings will play their first home game the following day.
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Kochanek–Bartels spline
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In mathematics, a Kochanek–Bartels spline or Kochanek–Bartels curve is a cubic Hermite spline with tension, bias, and continuity parameters defined to change the behavior of the tangents.
Given n + 1 knots,
- p0, ..., pn,
to be interpolated with n cubic Hermite curve segments, for each curve we have a starting point pi and an ending point pi+1 with starting tangent di and ending tangent di+1 defined by
|Changes the length of the tangent vector
|Primarily changes the direction of the tangent vector
|Changes the sharpness in change between tangents
Setting each parameter to zero would give a Catmull–Rom spline.
The source code found here of Steve Noskowicz in 1996 actually describes the impact that each of these values has on the drawn curve:
|T = +1→ Tight
|T = −1→ Round
|B = +1→ Post Shoot
|B = −1→ Pre shoot
|C = +1→ Inverted corners
|C = −1→ Box corners
The code includes matrix summary needed to generate these splines in a BASIC dialect.
External links[edit]
- Shane Aherne. "Kochanek and Bartels Splines". Motion Capture — exploring the past, present and future. Archived from the original on 2007-07-05. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
- Doris H. U. Kochanek, Richard H. Bartels. "Interpolating splines with local tension, continuity, and bias control". SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. ACM. pp. 33–41. Retrieved 2014-09-23.


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Good economic news is tough to find these days in Stockton. Unemployment, while receding, remains excruciatingly high, the housing industry is stagnant, and, lest we forget, the city is trudging its way through bankruptcy. Judging by these factors, Stockton is mired squarely in the doldrums, so much so that our Bakersfield neighbors to the south even considered holding an "our city isn't bankrupt" themed promotion for the hockey team (sidenote: despite the Thunder's lack of frat boy antics and giveaways, Stockton Arena has always averaged more fans per game for hockey than Bakersfield's Rabobank Arena). Times are bad, and outside news organizations love to portray Stockton as falling faster into decline. However, while the headlines are grim, economic indicators suggest that Stockton is not as bad off as we probably all think, especially considering how hard the recession hit us.
The Brookings Institution puts out a quarterly report called the Metro Monitor detailing the extent to which cities have recovered from the recession. The monitor uses a handful of key economic indicators– total employment, unemployment, total output (gross product), and house prices— capturing the change from each metro area's low point to the most recent quarter of available data. Using prerecession years as a baseline, Brookings uses the data to determine which cities are recovering fastest, and which industries are leading the way to recovery.
In the most recent report, Stockton ranks 37th in the country out of the top 100 metro regions for recovery performance. By comparison, Sacramento, Modesto and Fresno rank 85th, 86th and 87th, respectively. Specifically, Stockton ranks 12th in employment, 14th in housing price,* 39th in unemployment and 79th in gross metro output. Not bad, considering the bad rap the area gets.
Over the last four quarters, the manufacturing industry has led the recovery with a 10.1% increase in employment. Government was the only significant industry to see a decline in the last year, with .3% reduction.
Stockton's economic output was fueled by the oil and gas sector (huh?) with a 12.4% increase over the past four quarters. Construction, Finance and Information all made big gains as well. The only industries to post losses were agriculture (surprising) and real estate (not surprising).
While these numbers are comforting, they don't really mean much without perspective. Luckily, Brookins provides plenty of information on how these current numbers stack up with how cities were doing before the recession, and Stockton is clearly moving in the right direction. Stockton's current level of employment is 92.7% of what it was compared to 2007, when employment was at its highest. Similarly, output is up to 93.8% of prerecession levels.
Stockton is slowly but surely crawling out of the ditch, which is encouraging. However, this information needs to be put into context. Brookings' analysis is meant to measure the extent to which cities have recovered using prerecession data as a baseline, and Stockton wasn't exactly an economic superstar before the housing bust. In our boom years, the unemployment rate was still high compared to other cities, hovering around 7% to 8%. Right now, an unemployment rate equal to the mid 2000s looks pretty good, but for a healthy economy, a city should have under 5% unemployment.
Nevertheless, the Stockton region appears to be in a better position to recover than many other areas. Several cities, particularly in the rust and frost belts, are struggling more mightily, according to the Brookings index. Facing rapid population loss and declining industry, these cities face an uphill battle when it comes to reviving their economies. Stockton, contrary to popular belief, appears to be headed in the right direction.
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Celebrating Women in Early Education
Early childhood development in South Africa faces a multitude of challenges. Underpaid teachers, unemployed parents, hungry children, and unsafe early learning structures are a few of the obstacles caregivers and children experience every day. Despite these challenges, there are more than 70,000 of these remarkable women in our country who are committed to meeting the needs of our youngest children.
This collection of case studies showcases the stories of strong South African women who have overcome significant obstacles in caring for vulnerable children in their communities.
Through showcasing the stories of Dikeledi Chakana, Nowatchman Siqwayi, Vuyelwa Mdlazi, Benita Garnet, Joanna Atson, Jessica Alberts, Maritza Geldenhuys, Henrietha October, Agnes van Wyk, and Lilian Kinkana, we highlight the incredible work being done by these women, and we honour the contributions of all women who have struggled against the odds to provide quality care and education for our youngest and most vulnerable citizens.


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Managing Director
Chris has spent his entire professional life in the hotel, foodservice and technology industries and has held many leadership positions in strategy, development, operations and finance. During more than 25 years of enterprise development, financing and operations experience, Chris has founded six companies. Currently he serves as Chairman of iCare Marketing, an exclusive partner of SYSCO Foodservice Corporation, and was founder and CEO of Dynamic Payment Ventures, which was recently sold to NOVA Information Systems, a subsidiary of US Bank.
Prior to the creation of iCare Marketing and DPV, Chris was founder and CEO of CriticalArc Technologies, a supply chain applications service provider to the foodservice industry. He founded the E&O Trading Company Restaurant Organization, a developer and operator of full service restaurants in California, and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the organization. Chris also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Capton, a provider of liquor monitoring systems to the hospitality industry.
Chris received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1986 and his graduate degree from Harvard Business School in 1995, where he was recognized as a Baker Scholar for his academic achievement.
Upon graduation from Cornell, Chris joined Hemmeter Investment Company, a developer of destination resort properties worldwide. Founded by his father in 1962, the Hemmeter organization developed major destination resort hotels in the Hawaiian Islands and operated several related hospitality businesses.
Chris serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship and as a Trustee of the Hospice by the Bay Foundation.
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Baloch nationalist leader Dr. Allah NazarBaloch said in a statement that we believe in freedom of press and have faith in it but it does not mean that they should present only state's viewpoint and ignore the Baloch nation's stance. As a result of continuous struggle and resistance since the occupation, Pakistan has manifested its brutality in a way which is none other than draconian. In this endeavor, all the pillars of state, including media, haveplayed their part justifying and sustaining Pakistani brutality against the Baloch nation. Being a colony, it is expected of Pakistani courts and parliament to justify its atrocities on Baloch people, but journalism is anhonorable profession that works as a mirror to show the real face of the facts to the world. But the customs of the people in Pakistani journalism is so peculiar that they only keep the rulers' stance in the headlines promoting yellow journalism or acting as their courtiers.
He further said that journalists have no threat from Baloch nationalists because we are a secular, liberal nation that believes in freedom of expression. Many journalists and human rights activists have been killed in Balochistan; the killer hasdirectly been Pakistan or its proxies. Media person Hamid Mir was shot because he invited Mama Qadeer, FarzanaMajeed, Sammi Baloch and youngster Ali Haider to his TV program. Sabin Mahmood was shot dead by the Pakistani establishment twenty minutes later after hosting a program for human rights activistsand the families of Baloch missing personsat her café TF2. Citing these examples he explained that media persons and human rights activists have no threat from freedom living Baloch but from Pakistan.
Dr.Allah NazarBalochcited the examples of government's coercion of Diclan Walsh, Carlota Gil, Mahvish Ahmed andrecent video messages released on social media by journalists' organization,he said: it is sufficient to prove how Pakistan treats journalists. Therefore, journalism in Balochistan has no threat from Baloch nationalists but from occupying stateof Pakistan.


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Posted on Thursday 13 August 2015 by Ulster Business
The price of a hotel room in Belfast has jumped by a quarter in the last year, according to price comparison website Trivago.
It said the average price of a room in the city stood at £105 in August, a 24% jump from the £85 commanded by hoteliers at the same time last year.
The website's monthly hotel price index tallies up the prices paid through the its service and, although accounting for only a proportion of total hotel bookings, rings true with other surveys which show the Belfast market proving increasingly popular with leisure and business travellers alike.
In its Northern Ireland hotel survey for the whole of 2014 released in July, ASM said the average price of a room across the country stood at £70.78, a 4% increase on the £68.17.
It also noted a stronger market in Belfast compared to that for hotels elsewhere.
While the August holiday month is traditionally one of the busiest and therefore the most expensive for hoteliers, the strong performance will be welcomed.
In terms of other UK cities, Oxford also saw prices at its hotels climb by 24% over the year but it was only Sheffield and Nottingham where prices climbed faster than Belfast.
Edinburgh commands the highest hotel price for August at £207, according to the survey, thought to be a result of the Edinburgh Festival, while Blackpool the lowest at £65.
The average price for a night in all UK cities stands at £124 for the month.
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