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Watch: 'Godzilla' Director Gareth Edwards Created This Creepy Sci-fi Short in Only 48 Hours
British director Gareth Edwards stormed theaters this past weekend with a blockbuster update of Japanese monster icon Godzilla. It's a far cry from his low-budget directorial debut, Monsters, which was made for a measly $500,000 with the help of nonactors, digital video, and real-life locations on which he shot guerilla-style.
Before Monsters appeared on the scene, Edwards created a five-minute short for the Sci-Fi-London 48 Hour Film Challenge in 2008 — an event in association with the Sci-Fi Channel (now known, to the chagrin of many, as Syfy). According to the Film Stage, the project required filmmakers to feature a clear bottle with red or green liquid in the short, and include the line of dialogue: "I am required to carry out this task until completion: your orders do not override anything."
Factory Farmed sets the scene at a cloning facility, where the most terrifying force of nature isn't a radioactive fire-breathing creature, but man himself.
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There's no shortage of musicians who've accepted and had a little fun with the ALS ice bucket challenge. Lady Gaga's done it. So has Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl. Even Canada's Drake took part during one of his concert.
But few have hijacked the challenge, originally designed to raise funds and awareness for Lou Gehrig's disease, to renew a beef with a former professional boxing heavyweight like Floyd Mayweather.
That's unless you're 50 Cent. On Thursday, the rapper posted a video on his Facebook page calling out Mayweather.
WARNING: Some NSFW language in the video below.
"This is a special ASL/ELS challenge for you Floyd. If you can read one full page of a Harry Potter book n**ger, I'll give $750,000 to whatever charitable organization you want to. F**k the bucket of ice!" said the rapper, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson.
It's unclear if Jackson purposely bungled up the acronyms but that might be a jab at Mayweather who has called out rappers like Jackson and T.I. in the past, suggesting they've lost their relevance, Gawker points out.
As for the hate on the ice, that might be because of Jackson's own ALS ice bucket challenge, which he recorded on Instagram on Tuesday.
For the unfamiliar, the ice bucket challenge requires participants to dump a bucket of ice-cold weather over their head or donate $100 dollars to an ALS charity of their choice. Those who opt for the icy water then get to challenge three other people.
Sometimes known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that targets nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain. It's a progressive disorder which eventually robs a person's ability to walk, talk and eat on their own, according to the CBC.

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Workshops and Master Classes
Mariah is available to teach master classes and workshops for any age group! Email email@example.com for more information. Here are descriptions of her most popular offerings:
Using Dance in Peacebuilding
Based on Mariah's thesis at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, she gives lectures and workshops on how and why dance is well suited to reaching peacebuilding goals - such as healing trauma and building community through development of empathy, trust, reflection, tolerance and conflict resolution skills - as well as best practices. Her research is based on a case study of Irish Modern Dance Theatre's Fall and Recover, a dance performed by two professional dancers and eleven survivors of torture and asylum seekers to Ireland. The process of making and performing Fall and Recover was not only incredibly healing for the participants involved, but also helped spread awareness about torture and asylum issues in Ireland and abroad. Other artists with such healing, community building or peacebuilding goals can learn a lot from this example.
Presented as guest lectures at Emerson College (December 2011), Endicott College (October 2012 and 2013), Boston University (November 2012, 2013 and 2014), Boston Center for the Arts (2012), Brandeis University (March 2013), Project Social Impact (2013 & 2014), Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (2015), and Drew University as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Arts and the Common Good Initiative (2015); at the International Peace Research Association's Conference in Japan in November 2012; and as the Keynote Speaker for North Shore Community Mediation Center's Youth Summit in April 2014.
"I can't say enough great things about Mariah! The workshop she led for my continuing ed class at Tufts University on dance as a means of peacebuilding and healing for torture survivors was phenomenal. She deftly combined active participation, theoretical concepts and compelling examples in a way that captivated all of us. She was able to get everyone moving by leading the activities so that they felt comfortable and accessible ... even the shyest participants joined in with enthusiasm. Students were still raving about Mariah a week later, and their feedback at the end of the term confirmed that her presentation was one of the most exciting and memorable parts of the course."
—Elke Jahns-Harms, PhD – Instructor of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
"Your presentation was really inspiring, modifying people's mental and physical states by movement. I would have never thought of that in a million years. You have shined the light in areas I never knew. Thank You! The whole presentation was coherent and thoughtful. I especially loved the interaction activity, and how you got us to share our feelings after that experience. Thank you for taking the time to come talk to us. We truly appreciate it."
—Boston University Student
"Thank you for taking the time to come to our class and expose us to such a unique piece of healing. I was in such awe and disbelief of the history that these brave souls went through and their journey to healing. Your presentation was very powerful. I felt that the connections you made through our dancing and then through the actual choreography in the videos made me realize the depth to which these people were hurting. I can't thank you enough for sharing this incredible experience with us!"
—Boston University Student
"This workshop was very interesting to me because it really showed how powerful dance can be in changing peoples' lives....it showed evident proof that dance can be a form of therapy and can be used as a form of healing. In my opinion, this workshop provided me with more fuel to keep doing what I am doing because dance does make an impact in others' lives and it does mean something. A lot of times, I feel like people only look to dance as a form of entertainment and forget that it can be used for so much more. I think that this workshop encouraged me to want to push myself farther with dance from both a choreographic perspective as well as a dancer perspective. As graduation approaches, I am not sure what is in store for my career that involves dance, but I know that I am always going to need it. I have always had the drive to constantly want to help others and if I can do that through dance then maybe that can be something I look into for my future past Drew."
—Drew University Student, October 2015
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Have you ever wanted to learn to communicate an idea without words? To make a piece of art using just your body moving through space? If yes, this choreography class is for you! We will explore a variety of choreographic tools for generating movement material, and then expand to looking at different ways to structure the material into meaningful compositions. The first half of each class will be dedicated to improvised explorations of weight, space, texture, and dynamics, followed by presentations and constructive feedback of students' work on take-home choreographic assignments. No experience required, and all forms of dance are welcome. Only requirement is a willingness to move and create!
First conducted for MIT students as an eight session class during Independent Activities Period, January 2012
Dance and Leadership: "Innovation is an Art, Not a Science: Using Movement to Spur Creative Thinking"
Our bodies inform us as well as our heads do, but are ignored in our working lives. Have you ever found that simply taking a walk with someone to talk about important things makes the conversation more meaningful? So why do we sit in conference rooms instead of walking and talking? To think creatively, we must keep moving. The goal of this innovation workshop is to teach movement-based tools to spur creative thinking in your daily work, and to recognize and access you and your organization's full potential in terms of innovation and creativity. More specifically, the workshop will:
— Demystify the artistic process so that the rigorous pursuit of creativity can be used to support personal goals
— Instill creative habits of mind, and
— Foster the belief that anyone can create something out of nothing.
First conducted for the Arts and Leadership Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University: March 2012. This workshop is often co-taught with Erica Dhawan, a Harvard and MIT trained facilitator and expert in leadership development.
Master Classes in Modern Dance: Technique, Improvisation, Partnering or Performance
Experience Mariah's unique style of movement or hone your understanding of "classic" modern dance with a workshop in May O'Donnell technique! (May O'Donnell was one of Martha Graham's lead dancers and went on to develop her own stylized warm-up that preserves the technical aspects of Graham's exercises while being friendlier on the body.) Specialty classes focusing on improvisation, partnering and performance can be combined with technique or offered separately.
Mariah has taught master classes internationally in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Ghana, as well as closer to home in studios throughout New York and Massachusetts, including UMass Amherst in September 2012.


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Carlos Slim Helu, the second richest man in the world, threw a $250m lifeline to the New York Times on late Monday evening, but extracted a steep interest rate for easing the group's impending financing pressures.
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Entities owned by Mr Slim also received warrants totalling 15.9m class A shares at a strike price of $6.357. If he exercises his warrants before they expire in January 2015, he will become one of the top shareholders of the New York Times with close to a 20 per cent stake, but without the votes to challenge the controlling Sulzberger family.
Mr Slim, whose wealth is estimated at $60bn by Forbes, is a Mexican telecommunications tycoon who made his fortune from ownership of Telefonos de Mexico and America Movil.
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This week, we're making macaroni and cheese from scratch. It is super fast and demonstrates several basic cooking techniques. It sounds difficult because it's in french and french cooking just intimidates people.
The first thing we're going to do is make a roux. A roux is a mixture of flour and fat that is used to thicken. It's the basis for many sauces and gravies.
1. In a saucepan over medium heat 1 T butter. Meanwhile, get another pan going with some elbow macaroni. However much you want to make. Doesn't matter. Be sure to salt the water!
2. Whisk in 1 T flour and let it get thick and pasty.
And your roux is done!
Now for the fun part...turning that thickened fat and flour into something delicious!
3. Slowly whisk in warm dairy...half and half/heavy cream/milk. I've found skim milk doesn't work as well because of the absence of fat. Fat in cooking is a good thing. I used half and half.
4. Continue whisking and slowly adding milk. It will thicken up. Add a bit of salt and pepper. At this point, you now have a bechamel suace! That was EASY, wasn't it? And you've just finished one of the basic French sauces.
5. Now, we're going to transform this bechamel into a Mornay sauce by adding cheese. Cheese is also a very good thing. For this recipe, I added about a cup of Sharp Cheddar.
6. Whisk in the cheese until it's all melted.
At this point, you need to taste the sauce and decide if you like it or need to add something more. Sometimes you may want something cheesier, or you just feel like it's missing something. I like to add a squirt of dijon mustard to my mac n cheese. But on this particular day, I took inspiration from a Bacon Horseradish Mac n Cheese, so I tossed in those flavors.
About this time, your noodles should be done, too! Drain them and pour your delicious cheese sauce over the noodles.
I made extra noodles and sauce. I popped it in a freezer container and it will be ready for a quick lunch whenever I need it. If you plan to make this and freeze it, under cook the noodles. This way, when you reheat, the noodles finish cooking and you aren't left with soggy noodles.
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We have received several requests for the colors and their symbolism in the bible, praise and worship, and ministry dance. Color plays an important role in dance ministry because colors in the Bible often carry symbolism. Below are some colors and their symbolic associations to help you design flags, ribbons, costumes, etc.
Color Meaning Scriptural Basis Black Righteous Judgment Lamentations 4:6-8 Blue Heaven, Holy Spirit, Grace, Remembrance of God's commands, River of Life, Peace, Royalty Numbers 15:38, Esther 8:15 Gold Glory of God, Royalty, Kingship Esther 1:7 Green Healing, New Beginnings, Restoration, Life, Growth, Vigor, Hope Rev. 22:2, Hosea 14:8 Orange Praise, Fire of God Exodus 27:1-4, Exodus 35:16, 1 Chron. 15:19 Pink Right Relationship, Joy, Compassion Ezekiel 11:19 Amplified Bible, Ezekiel 36:26 Purple Royalty, Kingship, Majesty, Dignity Judges 8:26 Red Blood of Jesus, Spiritual Warfare, Celebration, Royalty Rev. 12:11, Matthew 27:28, Nahum 2:3 Silver Redemption, Strength, Faith Genesis 20:16, Matthew 27:2-9, Psalms 66:10, 12:6 White* Purity, Innocence, Light, Beauty, The Lamb of God, the appearance of God, Holiness, conquest & victory, Completion
*White is a combination of all the colors of the spectrum and carries an extra blessing.
Rev. 7:9, Psalm 51:7, Daniel 7:9, Rev 6:2, Genesis 9:13 Yellow/Amber God's Divine Glory, Presence of God Ezekiel 1:4, 8:2
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Transforming into an Agile enterprise: Hard but necessary to thrive in a digital world
When it comes to business – and doing 'good' business – the term 'Agile' has been around for more than a decade. But what exactly is Agility?
Although its origins lie in IT, Agile has swiftly become a much-discussed business topic. As a company operating at the intersection of business and technology, the Agile concept is obviously an important one for Accenture. So, what are the practical challenges facing companies when they transform into an Agile businesses? How can they become Agile in a productive and cost-effective way without compromising on quality?
Based on our experience, there are many different definitions of what it means to 'be Agile', even within the same company. So, let's start by taking a step back in time to explore its origins.
An Agile history
The Agile concept can be traced back to 2001, when a group of IT enthusiasts drafted the Agile 'Software Development' Manifesto. This manifesto contained a list of principles to reveal better ways of developing software, while valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan. Its popularity grew and some of its practices such as Scrum, XP and Lean IT began being implemented by companies.
Fast forward to 2008, when DevOps – a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops), with a strong focus on automation and monitoring – was introduced and Agile principles quickly spread into the IT operations area. At the same time, cloud technology was emerging and brought a suite of tools for automated IT development and monitoring.
A couple of years later, a framework to scale Agile IT development for large enterprises, called SAFe, was introduced. And in 2011, Spotify developed a first version of an operating model based on Agile and DevOps principles. In recent years, many large companies are not only organizing their IT landscape, but also their entire business organization inspired by the Agile model. In other words, Agile is no longer a methodology or a set of tools; it has become a way of running your entire company. Transforming into an Agile enterprise is hard but necessary to thrive in a digital world.
Agile is no longer a methodology or a set of tools; it has become a way of running your entire company
Agile is eating the world
We all know that any successful company today needs to be able to adapt quickly to market changes, respond rapidly and flexibly to its customers' demands and continuously strive for competitive advantage. The digital impact on (doing) business has clearly materialized. While generally speaking, software, banking and insurance companies have been quicker to pick up the Agile model, its success in other industries, for example the growth of 'Digital Giants', has not gone unnoticed. The four largest global technology companies outside of China – Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (GAFA) – have recorded an average annual growth rate of around 30% over the last ten years. By surfing the digital wave, the GAFA group moved from almost zero revenues a decade ago to belonging to the top seven companies in the world by market capitalization. During the same period, the average annual growth rate in the global car industry was around 4-5%.
By surfing the digital wave, the GAFA group moved from almost zero revenues a decade ago to belonging to the top seven companies in the world
Many well-established companies have suffered from digital disruption, with some even becoming extinct as a result. Finnish telecommunications multinational Nokia was dismantled and sold to the highest bidding competitor, Microsoft. As Nokia's CEO put it: "we didn't do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost". The fact that the American-based provider of home movie and video game rental services Blockbuster could not cater to digitally enabled on-demand entertainment played an important role in the company's demise. Borders, an international book and music retailer, outsourced its online book-selling to Amazon.com for years. So whenever you visited borders.com, you were redirected. Relinquishing control to another company hurt Borders' branding strategies and cut into its customer base; in a similar vein, Borders did not foresee the rise of e-books, and eventually had to file for bankruptcy.
Nimble entrants
Another notable evolution has been the threat posed to incumbents by startups. New digital technologies such as cloud computing (scaling fast and cheap), growing mobile interaction (easily connecting to customers) and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs; efficiently connecting to an ecosystem) have made it both cheaper and easier to start a new business. Furthermore, startups can raise capital in a shorter time span, thanks in part to digital technologies such as blockchain & Initial Coin Offering (ICO), but also due to a changing investor climate. The threat posed by these startups should not be underestimated. For example, Bancontact recently announced it would be merging with the rapidly growing electronic payment system Payconiq – founded in 2015 by a Luxembourg-based startup of the same name – in order to comply with their customers' growing demand for mobile payments.
By becoming Agile, your business will be able to survive digital disruption, and grow
Accenture's definition of Agile
Agile has broken out the boundaries of IT and as such, Accenture proposes a holistic business-driven definition: Agile transformation is changing your business and IT organization, governance, processes and technology. By becoming Agile, your business will be able to survive digital disruption, and grow. Rather than merely optimizing your company's results for the next quarter, it is actually a survival and growth strategy for the next 3 to 5 years.
If you are not implementing an Agile transformation already, you will be very soon
Agile transformations have been steadily increasing in recent years. While some companies have been working on this for several years, others are just getting started. One thing is clear: if you are not implementing an Agile transformation already, you will be very soon. The impact and size of the transformation will vary depending on the industry. For example, providers of telecommunications services, financial services, transportation and logistics are digitally disrupted in many areas of their value chain. Other industries such as mining, oil & gas and chemical processing are only impacted in a few specific pockets of their value chain.
The sad reality is that we humans are incredibly unsuccessful at Agile transformation! In a recent Forrester study (2017), more than 60% of companies indicated that their transformation is failing or lagging behind. In fact, only a small fraction of Agile transformations achieve their objectives; most only achieve a small part, and many are cancelled or replaced by a new transformation effort.
A successful Agile transformation can be compared to an engine firing on all cylinders
How can we improve?
The key to a successful Agile transformation is to combine multiple initiatives at once. If implemented in conjunction, these initiatives will reinforce each other, and eventually lead to a sustainable Agile transformation. This can be compared to an engine firing on all cylinders. The cylinders of an engine make a car move. For maximum efficiency, you need to fire each cylinder in sync with the others. A complete Agile transformation encompasses at least the following initiatives (or cylinders):
- Agile Culture & People Skills
- Digital Platforms & Tools
- Agile Operating & Sourcing Models
(A 4th cylinder, which will not be focused on further here, relates to digital transformation, i.e. a set of business-focused initiatives combining new digital products or services with digitalization of existing products or services.)
All the above domains need to be engaged and in sync with each other during the transformation, in order to move forward as a company, and achieve the envisaged results . Moreover, investments should be balanced in each of those domains in order to be successful. Let's take a look at the three 'cylinders' in more detail.
An Agile operating model can only be fully effective if you empower your teams to think and make decisions for themselves
- Agile Culture & People Skills: One of the hardest parts in getting Agile transformation right is empowering teams. An Agile operating model can only be fully effective if you adopt a 'servant leadership style', i.e. empowering your teams to think and make decisions for themselves. Many executives and managers struggle to let go of the control they have over how their team decides to organize and deliver. However, it can be done, without a loss of quality, even for very critical missions. A second observation is that it takes teams quite a while to adapt to this new way of working. Typically, there will be a drop in performance during the first 6 to 18 months of the transformation process. After that, performance starts to rise, and usually surpasses historical team performance significantly.
True Agile transformation requires a significant renewal of your legacy IT landscape
- Digital Platforms & Tools: Some financial services companies have focused their digital investments only on what is directly visible to their customers. For example, one large European bank set up a separately branded online banking system. Behind the shiny brand-new exterior, they remained connected to their old legacy systems, processing customer requests in large batches overnight. The lesson here is don't just put 'lipstick on the bulldog'. Making superficial cosmetic changes rather than looking at the real underlying problems is not true Agile transformation, which requires a significant renewal of your legacy IT landscape. In a large enterprise, the work and skills of teams are organized around IT assets (e.g. Mainframe team, Java team, front-end UX/CX team…). To truly take end-to-end ownership of a customer journey, teams need to be able to improve the customer journey in small, fast increments, regardless of the technologies involved This means eliminating, replacing or encapsulating via APIs applications that do not support this agility.
Next to renewing your technology, you also need to invest in new IT tools. After all, the shoemaker's children should not go barefoot. You cannot release small pieces of new functionality to customers fast and often, without having the technology in place to make it work. The renewal of your technology landscape and IT tools does not come cheap. To obtain a truly Agile technology landscape, roughly 24% of the IT change budget should be dedicated to architectural renewal throughout a strategic business cycle. This might vary by +/- 8%, depending on how strong digital disruption is in your industry.
An integrated IT sourcing planning will balance skills requirements during Agile transformation
- Agile Operating & Sourcing Models: A key element of Agility is that the organization is able to accommodate changing customer needs. This means employees will potentially switch teams (typically called squads) or that squads will switch departments (typically called tribes). At the same time, the technology landscape is being significantly renewed to enable Agility. For most large enterprises, this will create an imbalance between the required skills and the available skills pool. An integrated IT sourcing planning should minimize this mismatch, by balancing the re-skilling of internal employees with an external supply of required skills.
Agile transformation: A journey to a goal
Agile transformation is a multiyear undertaking with as its ambition, equipping your company with the ability to withstand disruption and grow. It has many pitfalls, such as not balancing investments over multiple domains. In other words: you should not shoot for the stars straightaway – becoming Agile is a journey with a destination that will change over time. By progressively moving forward, and dealing with successes and failures along the way, responding to change rather than following a strict and pre-defined plan, you can reach an optimal outcome for your business.
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This is sketch option 1: (Remember these are rough sketches but you get a sense of the final outcome of the book with it).
Here is sketch option 2: (This is the one Michelle felt best fit for her book)
Next I did a finer sketch. Just adding in a few more details and fixing up some things. This gave Michelle some time to make a few changes in the preliminary stage. She asked that I add glasses to Micah (the MC in this story).
Next I paint. While I didn't manage to hold on to a layer of just the flat layers of paint my first step is to lay down all the colors I will use through the piece. After I lay down the basic colors I start with shadows then highlights. The whole purpose it to find three layers of light (a dark, medium, and light). This one here showcases the painting's back ground and also the main front image of the boy and girl without the final highlights.
Next the fun stuff happens. One of my clients calls this "the fairy dust". It's basically just a brighter layer of color but it does certainly add a magical element to the art.
Finally I add a little more color, definition, and detail and I have the final piece painted.
The final step is to add the typography and finish up the spine and back matter. In the end you have a super fun cover for a super cool middle-grade read.
About the book:If you owned a pen that wrote the future, would you use it? What if the consequences spread like ripples in a pond? What if they raged out of control? What if the pen demanded tribute...in blood?
Thirteen-year-old Micah has found such a pen. One that's ensnared him in a curse dating back generations. One that's devastated two families and now threatens his whole New England village. But how can Micah destroy the pen when it offers him his only chance at the future he dreams of?
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Your organization can migrate email to Office 365 from other systems. Your administrators can migrate mailboxes from an Exchange Server or migrate email from another email system. And your users can import their own email, contacts, and other mailbox information to an Office 365 mailbox created for them. Your organization also can work with a partner to migrate email.
Before you start an email migration, review limits and best practices for Exchange Online to make sure you get the performance and behavior you expect after migration.
Migrate mailboxes from Exchange Server
For migrations from an existing on-premises Exchange Server environment, an administrator can migrate all email, calendar, and contacts from user mailboxes to Office 365.
There are three types of email migrations that can be made from an Exchange Server:
Migrate all mailboxes at once (cutover migration) or Express migration
Use this type of migration if you're running Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, or Exchange 2013, and if there are fewer than 2000 mailboxes. You can perform a cutover migration by starting from the Exchange admin center (EAC).
IMPORTANT: With cutover migration, you can move up to 2000 mailboxes, but due to length of time it takes to create and migrate 2000 users, it is more reasonable to migrate 150 users or less.
Migrate mailboxes in batches (staged migration)
Use this type of migration if you're running Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007, and there are more than 2,000 mailboxes.
Migrate using an integrated Exchange Server and Office 365 environment (hybrid)
Use this type of migration to maintain both on-premises and online mailboxes for your organization and to gradually migrate users and email to Office 365. Use this type of migration if:
- You have Exchange 2010 and more than 150-2,000 mailboxes.
- You have Exchange 2010 and want to migrate mailboxes in small batches over time.
- You have Exchange 2013.
Use Office 365 Import Service to migrate PST-files
If your organization has many large PST files, you can use the Office 365 Import Service to migrate email data to Office 365.
You can use the Office 365 Import Service to either upload the PST files through a network, or to mail the PST files in a drive that you prepare.
Migrate email from another IMAP-enabled email system
You can use the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to migrate user email from Gmail, Exchange, Outlook.com, and other email systems that support IMAP migration. When you migrate the user's email by using IMAP migration, only the items in the users' inbox or other mail folders are migrated. Contacts, calendar items, and tasks can't be migrated with IMAP, but they can be by a user.
IMAP migration also doesn't create mailboxes in Office 365. You'll have to create a mailboxfor each user before you migrate their email.
After the email migration is done, any new mail sent to the source email isn't migrated
Have users import their own email
Users can import their own email, contacts, and other mailbox information to Office 365.
Work with a partner to migrate email
If none of the types of migrations described will work for your organization, consider working with a partner to migrate email to Office 365.
|Use a third-party email migration tool
Migration tools can help speed up and simplify email migration. You'll find a list of tools in the Office 365 Marketplace.
|Hire a partner to help migrate your email
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January 23, 2016 – Canada School Mass Shooting: Gunman Opens Fire On Student In La Loche Saskatchewan, Kills 4
An unidentified young boy has killed 4 people in Canada's worst mass shooting of the century.
According to report, the boy shot two of his siblings at home before heading to school to kill his teacher and a girl.
RCMP Chief Superintendent said the suspect has been arrested and a firearm was seized.
Police are yet to release the identity of the teenager who carried out the attack.
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by Corrie Schoenberg, Senior Program Director
In 2016, the Fund for Educational Excellence spoke with more than 400 Baltimore City Public Schools parents and students about their experiences with the middle and high school choice process. What we heard is outlined in Calculated Choices: Equity and Opportunity in Baltimore City Public Schools, the third in a series of reports bringing parent and student voices to bear on how Baltimore's public schools can work better for those they serve.
During the Calculated Choices listening campaign, parents talked about how confounding the school choice process can feel. Many didn't understand how to complete the City Schools choice application, particularly the importance of ranking the five schools they were applying to in order of preference. Others expressed confusion about how charter applications relate (or don't) to the City Schools application. With the choice season for SY18-19 winding down, now is a good time to talk about streamlining the process to better serve parents and students. We need to move to one online school choice hub.
Without a centralized hub, families are left juggling multiple applications, requirements, and timelines. Consider what a mother and son intent on maximizing school choice options might have to navigate. Let's say this student is interested in the Ingenuity Project, an advanced math and science program offered at Poly, and plans to apply to City College, Dunbar, Bard, and MerVo as other options on his City Schools choice application. He also wants to apply to three charter schools – Green Street Academy, Coppin Academy, and City Neighbors High School. Here is what this family is facing:
- Ingenuity requires a completely separate application due in December – a month before the City Schools application deadline — and administers its own admissions assessment in January.
- Bard requires an interview and writing sample during a Bard-run interview day in November, December, or January.
- Each of the three charter schools requires its own application with its own deadline and conducts its own lottery to select students.
This student and his mother are now managing six different application processes.
It's easy to understand why parents are confused about the school choice process. Different choice elements have been pieced together and added to each other for decades. What sounds simple – in middle and high school, City Schools students can choose their schools – is, in practice, simply not.
We strongly encourage City Schools, including all of Baltimore's charters, to band together and establish one common online application and one lottery for the benefit of all Baltimore City students and their families.
We know this kind of system is possible. The District of Columbia Public Schools and nearly all of Washington, DC's charter schools made this move several years ago with www.MySchoolDC.org. Public school parents in DC go to that website to apply to up to twelve schools – district or charter – and rank their choices. School profiles are also located on MySchoolDC.org.
City Schools and all of our city's charters can and should do this as well.
As we push for this change, we recognize that parents and students need help navigating the choice system we have right now. This year, the Fund is offering a new school choice workshop to any group of three or more City Schools parents, available upon request. For more information, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
We owe it to our families to simplify the choice process so that all students can find and apply to the schools that best meet their needs. Make your voices heard and help advocate for this necessary change. Share this article on social media, contact district and school leaders, and spread the word.


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Ideal as either an appetizer or main dish recipe, this Lemon Basil Shrimp Recipe is truly a meal to be had! Fresh and tangy, this dish will definitely satisfy your taste buds, while still keeping you on track with your daily point total. Each serving has just a 3 Points, so it's a wonderful low calorie meal idea for any time of the day. This is a really easy shrimp dish that really looks wonderful, so I love to use it as a low calorie appetizer recipe served before the dinner entree. I think it's also a great idea for a light and healthy lunch recipe! Though it's not an official one of Weight Watchers Recipes, anyone who is following the Weight Watchers plan and is looking for low point meal ideas will certainly enjoy it.
Lemon Basil Shrimp Recipe
– 1 tbsps olive oil
– 1 tbsp low calorie butter (I like Brummel & Brown)
– 2 cloves garlic, minced
– 1 pound uncooked shrimp (thawed if frozen) with tails
– zest of a lemon
– juice from 1-1/2 lemons (about 3 tablespoons)
– 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
– 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
– 2 red onipns, chopped
Heat oil and butter on medium in a large skillet until it just starts to bubble. Add garlic and cook for a minute. Add enough shrimp to cook in a single layer. Cook until just opaque in the center, turning once, about 5 minutes. Repeat with remaining shrimp. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Add shrimp and gently combine. Cover and refrigerate for at least two hours and up to 24 hours. To serve as an appetizer, place in a dish lined with lettuce leaves and other vegetables, and mound shrimp on top. To serve as a main dish, arrange lettuce leaves on individual serving plates, mound shrimp on one side, and try serving with slices of cheese, fresh fruit and vegetables.
Entire recipe makes 4 servings
Each serving = 3 Points
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Pravana Magenta
Magenta is really bright raspberry/hot pink shade with excellent staying power and it's no wonder it's one of our top-sellers!
A deeply pigmented shade from Pravana's Vivids line; Magenta delivers rich colour and amazing shine to bleached hair.
- Long-lasting, semi-permanent
- 90ml
- Not tested on animals
- Conditioning, non-damaging formula
Apply directly to pre-lightened hair using a tint brush and avoiding getting colour on your scalp. Do not mix with peroxide. Allow to process for at least 20-40 minutes before rinsing or for increased vibrancy apply to hair, cover with a plastic cap and allow to process under a hooded dryer for 20 minutes.
Further instructions can be found inside Pravana's outer packaging.
If you have a question about this product, please contact us or ask in our forum.
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May cause skin irritation. A preliminary patch test should be carried out prior to application. Apply a small amount of product to the skin on the inside of your elbow 24 hours before use. If irritation occurs do not proceed with colouring your hair.
Do not mix ChromaSilk Vivids with peroxide.
Keep away from children and pets. For professional use only.
Do not use on eyebrows, eyelashes or body hair.
May cause staining to skin, hair, nails, fabrics and other porous surfaces.
Further details can be found on the product's outer packaging.
Reviews of Pravana Magenta
Out of all the Pravana colors I've tried, I find that magenta fades the fastest, turning into this sherbert ice cream color.
Looked great at first, but faded really fast - I did it about two weeks ago and am going to have to redo it soon. It's mostly faded to a pastel pink/lavender but there are a few orange parts even on the bleached level 10 parts.
Nice pink with a reddish undertone, but very far from the pigmentation of Violet and other Pravana Colors. When I hear "magenta" I usually envision something redder and more intense. Smells lovely, doesn't stain bathroom surfaces, and overall behaves very well. Lasting power Is not bad, it's just a bit sheer for my needs.


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How to Set Up a Nursery
Preparing a nursery for a newborn is such an exciting time! You may be wondering which room you want to use to set things up in, imagining all the possibilities for your new arrival's space. While you might want the nursery to be cute, you also want to consider comfort and convenience for both you and your baby. Keep reading for setup ideas that will help you get your baby's space ready just in time for their arrival!
Planning the Layout
The layout for your nursery depends on a few factors, such as the size and configuration of the room and, most importantly, how you want to incorporate your own personal style. Consider the available space and the type of furniture that you like best, such as painted or stained wood nursery furniture. When you're thinking about the layout, consider how you'll fit in the furniture so it's both comfortable and convenient. For example, you might want to be able to move easily from the rocking chair to the crib so your baby stays asleep.
Where Will the Baby Sleep?
Because babies spend a lot of time in their cribs, it's usually the first piece of furniture that expectant parents look for. Plus, there are so many options available! When the baby is still very small, some people prefer to start off with a cradle or bassinet before graduating to a full-size crib. However, others prefer to use a crib right off the bat. It's completely up to you! Cribs are often available painted and in many different shapes, including rectangular, oval and round. Convertible cribs start off as a baby crib and then convert to a bed to grow with your toddler.
Nursery Furniture
Along with the crib, you can have plenty of fun picking out other furniture, such as dressers, changing tables and night tables. These can match the color of the crib – or not! Available space is an important factor when selecting additional nursery furniture. Larger rooms have space for a dresser and a changing table, but a combination dresser and changing table is a smart option for a smaller room.
Storage Solutions
Storage is a common challenge for new parents, who are often amazed at just how much stuff they need for one little baby. For this reason, you may want to consider including additional pieces for storing your baby's belongings, such as bookcases. Wall units come in many different configurations with shelves, cabinets, and baskets to hold and organize everything your baby might need. They're available in many sizes and colors to suit every room, so you can make the most of your space and have it look great, too.
Upholstered Furniture
It's a good idea to have a comfortable place to rock your baby. In addition to style, you can also consider comfort when you choose this furniture. Think about rockers, swivel rockers and gliders. You can use them alone or with a matching ottoman to put your feet up and hold your newborn comfortably.
Choosing a Color Scheme
In addition to selecting the furniture and layout for your nursery, what colors are you thinking about for the room and nursery bedding? There are so many fun ways to approach this. Some people begin by choosing a color scheme, while others find a nursery bedding set that they love and select paint colors based on that. If you have a definite color palette in mind, you may want to get some paint swatches and use them as a reference while you're shopping for nursery bedding and decor.
Nursery Bedding Sets
Consider whether you want a room that's gender specific or gender neutral. A neutral design is great if you don't know the baby's gender yet or you want a nursery that you can use for any future siblings. Think about nursery bedding sets in light grays, purples and greens, or choose an animal theme to bring in fun critters that both boys and girls love.


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3.6 Blogging
"The blog is the best relationship generator you've ever seen."
—Robert Scoble, blogger1
History of Blogging
Blogs are websites consisting of entries listed in reverse chronological order. They have existed since the mid-1990s; however, interest in blogging has grown exponentially in recent years because of easy-to-use blogging software and increasingly economical Internet access. The term "blog" evolved from weblog, a regularly updated list of interesting websites. These blogs consisted of short postings, in reverse chronological order, that contained links to other web pages and short commentaries or reactions. Blogging has since taken on a looser structure—some blogs still follow the traditional format of links and small amounts of text, while others consist of essays, sometimes not containing any links. Blogs can also now incorporate media, such as music or videos. Many people are familiar with personal journal blogs, like those on Xanga or LiveJournal. These sites include social networking features and are particularly popular with teenage bloggers, who often write about their day-to-day lives for friends.
Blogging has become a major social phenomenon, empowering users to participate in, rather than just view, the web. In July 2006 most bloggers, or blog authors, had not had a personal website before starting their blog.2 The increased availability of user-friendly blogging software has allowed blogging to become accessible to more mainstream Internet users.
Blog Components
Reader comments create an interactive experience, allowing readers to react to blog entries. According to a Pew Internet study, 87% of blogs allow reader comments.3 Successful bloggers pay attention to their readers and respond, often sparking interesting discussions and debates. However, allowing comments increases the possibility of spam (including irrelevant comments, inappropriate language and link spam—where a user tries to increase an irrelevant site's number of inbound links). By some estimates, over 90% of blog comments are spam.4
Permalinks provide blog readers with a way of linking to specific blog entries. Each blog post has a unique URL referring to that single post. Links stay relevant even after the blog entry moves off the homepage and into the archive.
Trackbacks tell bloggers who is linking to their posts. This enhances Internet content by making linking two-way. The blogger provides a trackback link, and sites that use the link are added to a list on the blog entry. For an example of a trackbacks section, visit http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/08/web-20-the-24-minute-documentary/. This is a permalink to a post on TechCrunch, a popular Internet technology blog, that features a Web 2.0 video from 2006.
A blogroll is a list of the blogger's favorite blogs. Though not all blogs feature a blogroll, it is common for the main page of a blog to contain links to several other blogs. For example, LiveJournal automatically incorporates a blogroll (consisting of users the blogger has marked as friends) into a user's profile page.
Blogging and Journalism
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
—A.J. Liebling5
Blogging has encouraged citizen journalism, allowing anyone to be a journalist. Blogs have become a significant news resource, drawing traffic away from the mainstream media. Some argue that this form of "participatory journalism" holds less biases than mainstream media, or at least makes these biases clear and provides many different views. This democratization of media allows a larger group to take part in journalism.6 Traditional journalists had previously been able to create a representative democracy (much like the political system of the United States) by speaking for the masses. However, blogging gives a voice to everyone with a computer and Internet access, creating a more direct democracy.
Many bloggers are recognized as members of the media. Just as television and radio increased the speed of news delivery over that of newspapers, blogs have become a fast and in-depth (and often "unwashed") news medium. The mass media is embracing blogging; many TV news anchors suggest that viewers read their blogs after the show, and many newspaper websites feature blogs by reporters.
Though journalism is a large part of the blogging phenomenon, according to a Pew Internet study only one-third of bloggers consider their blogs a form of journalism. Eighty-four percent of bloggers consider it a hobby, and only 10% spend more than ten hours a week blogging.7 Posting new content and responding to reader comments requires a substantial time commitment.
Growth of Blogging
The number of blogs has been doubling about twice a year.8 However, there is also a large number of abandoned blogs. A Caslon Analytics study found that "66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months."9
Companies are reaching out to the blogosphere, or blogging community, to keep in touch with consumer opinions. Many CEOs and top executives from large companies such as Sun Microsystems, Marriott International and General Motors are now regular bloggers. This helps build consumer trust and loyalty. The NewPR Wiki lists over 250 CEOs and upper-management bloggers.10
Increased use of mobile devices has also lead to moblogging, or mobile blogging, as bloggers no longer need to be at their computer to update their blogs. Similarly, vlogging, or video blogging, has gained popularity.Rocketboom, for example, posts a three-minute video every day covering news and Internet stories.
Blogging and RSS Feeds
Many popular blogs provide RSS and Atom feeds to let readers know when new content is posted. Feeds, offered through blogging software or sites such as Feedburner (acquired by Google in 2007), help bloggers track and maintain a steady readership. The feeds (containing an entire post or just a selection with a link) can be automatically syndicated via the web and aggregated on a website or application designated by the user. Some sites (like Feedburner) provide an e-mail option, forwarding the day's posts to subscribers. While the use of feeds is certainly growing, a Pew Internet study in July 2006 reported that only 18% of bloggers provide RSS feeds.11 (See "RSS and Atom" in Section 3.15.)
Blogging Software
Bloggers now have many options for building blogs. Online hosted blog software options include WordPress (which also offers server software), TypePad and Blogger. Blog server software programs include Movable Type and Textpattern. These require users to have their own web server; however, they also allow for more customization. Some word processors (such as Microsoft Word 2007) also offer blog publishing features or are compatible with blog posting extensions.
Blog Networks
Blog networks are collections of blogs, often with several editors. Popular blog networks include Corante, Weblogs, Inc., 9rules, b5media and Gawker Media. Many of these networks, with multiple bloggers and daily postings, draw significant traffic and a broad audience. Blog networks help bloggers build reputations and loyal readers. Some social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook also enable blogging to a private network of friends.
Blog Search Engines
Blog search engines, such as Technorati and Google Blog Search, monitor the blogosphere's constant changes. When dealing with blogs, search results cannot be based strictly on traditional factors such as reputations built over time (since the blogosphere is so dynamic). Technorati, which tracked over 93 million blogs in July 2007, addresses the unique needs of what they call the "World Live Web." Google Blog Search adjusts Google's search algorithms to specifically address the blogosphere. Other blog search engines include Feedster, IceRocket and Blogdigger.


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It's been an exciting month for CDN77 team. Interesting, tiring, but very productive! We have been working on extra features that would send our CDN service to the next level and thereby give you and your viewers even better experience.
So what have we been working on?
We have integraded HD Video streaming feature into our CDN service so you can give your viewers an unforgettable rich media experience. Nowadays, when high-quality online videos with instant playback, excellent full screen quality and no buffering are a matter of course, it is hard to keep up with the competition. Our new HD video streaming feature will help you increase your audiences loyalty and keep new customers flowing.
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You can find more information about HD video streaming on our offical web.
We are also working hard on finishing the Live video streaming feature. I am pleased to say that it should be ready in a few weeks! What will please all fans of quality streaming is that the Live streaming will run on the rock-solid Wowza media system.
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Our Vision and Strategy
Our vision is: To ensure that communities are able to resolve conflict and repair harm.
Our mission is: To provide effective services that enable communities to resolve conflict and repair harm.
We have six core values that underpin our work and we will continue to develop our culture, policies and practices which reflect our commitment to:
· Communication – We believe that accessible, clear and simple communication between people is necessary for communities to thrive.
· Empowerment – We believe that people can speak for themselves, think for themselves, and decide for themselves.
· Equality – We believe that discrimination is unfair and should be confronted in ourselves and in others.
· Inclusion – We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to access our services without restrictions or limitations.
· Quality – We believe in bringing about the best in others and ourselves.
· Accountability and openness – We believe in working openly with our clients, each other and our partners in order to learn from one another.


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Come watch the first of three Presidential Debates between The Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J Trump and his opponent at Mountain Mike's Pizza at 3715 Portola Drive in Santa Cruz on Monday, September 26th at 5:30.
Trump supporters from all across Santa Cruz County are meeting there, dressed in their favorite Trump attire to cheer him on as he's set to annihilate Hilary on live TV. Its going to be HUGE folks!
Trump is taking the lead in many of the key swing states and the momentum is in his favor. The race is heading into the final stretch so come and be part of the excitement. You got to be there with your fellow patriots!
We'll have plenty "Trump For President" yard-signs, super-brochures, bumper-stickers and pins for you as well as some VERY exciting news and information about how YOU can help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Be sure to come! Bring your friends and make some new ones. See you there!
Brian Phelps
Santa Cruz County Republican Central Committee
3715 Portola Dr
Santa Cruz , CA 95060
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Nobel Peace Prize to the EU Is a Farce
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union for "keeping peace in Europe." The committee has now turned the award into a farce. But few people are laughing.
The Committee has ignored the important role that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United States have played in keeping Europe at peace throughout the Cold War. While it is true that the free trade agreements among the EU countries have led to more prosperity and cooperation, other EU initiatives have exacerbated Europe's problems and ancient animosities.
Decision making in the EU lacks basic transparency and accountability. As shown by the Danish, French, Dutch, and Irish referenda, the EU has nothing but contempt for disagreement and opposition. The European common currency is in existential crisis. Periodic bailouts, which are needed to keep the eurozone together, have led to riots and loss of life. The EU today is deeply unpopular and distrusted. Corruption, scandals, and cynical abuses of power by EU officials are pervasive.
This is the troubling reality of the EU that should not be ignored. Unfortunately, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has decided to look the other way.
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- Go to buckeyelink.osu.edu, and click Financial Aid. Click "My Financial Aid" and login with your Ohio State username and password.
Select the appropriate Aid Year and click on the Award Summary tab at the top to view all aid that you have been awarded for that specific academic year.
Click Accept/Decline Awards and select from the options listed to accept or decline your awards.
Note: Scholarships and grants awarded to you are automatically accepted and will appear as credit on your Statement of Account when disbursed about 7 to 10 days before classes begin.
Canceling your loans
If you wish to cancel your loan, contact Buckeye Link at 614-292-0300 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Once a loan is canceled, processing returns can take 3 to 4 weeks.


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Our Mission
The mission of the Albuquerque Threshold Choir is to bring ease and comfort to all those on the thresholds of living and dying, including ourselves. We are a group of women who offer our presence and voices to all as a gift of compassion, service, and blessing.
Our Service
We bring comfort through quiet song to the bedsides of the living and dying in the Albuquerque metropolitan area. When requested, we go in groups of two or three to our clients in private homes, care homes, and hospitals. We visit the Gentiva Hospice Inpatient Unit regularly.
We rehearse every other Monday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 in various locations in Albuquerque.
Contact Us
If you would like to request singing at a bedside or would like to visit a rehearsal, please call (505) 881-7863 or email us.


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Brewers Embrace Urban Hops from Backyard Farmers
From global climate change impacting beer production to a ruling that organic beer must be made with organic hops, we TreeHuggers do like to keep up with that important place where saving the world intersects with drinking good beer.
So I was intrigued by a post from Rob Hopkins about an innovative new community program in which London breweries will buy up hops grown by their neighbors in back gardens, allotments and community farms around the city:
The idea is a simple one: rather than breweries in London buying their hops from wherever they can source them (sometimes as far afield as New Zealand), people across London grow hops in their back gardens, on their patios and balconies, allotments and community gardens, which are then used by local brewers. As they put it, "we want to grow hops across a network of individual and community gardens, get local breweries to make beer out of them and drink the result. Simple!"
Be sure to also check out the City Farmers post on Brixton Beer that inspired Rob's explorations. The idea of businesses building alternative supply chains, effectively crowd sourcing what are often considered commodity ingredients that would otherwise come from around the world, is as intriguing as it is revolutionary.
Besides building up a proprietary supply chain close to home, these breweries are also building up a community of soon-to-be customers too. I mean, who wouldn't want to drink more beer if they knew that it was, in part, a product of their labors?


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When I was younger our family went camping every summer. Often we would meet my grandparents at a place like Silver Falls, Oregon or Spirit Lake, Washington (now covered in the ash of Mt. St. Helens). After driving through the camp ground looking at all the available spaces, they would choose the perfect spot and set up their RV. My family set up our tent camp next to them, and together we enjoyed the sights and smells of nature for several days.
Sometimes we brought bicycles and rode throughout the campground on the roads or took ranger hikes, depending on where we camped. I loved evenings by the campfire roasting marshmallows or poking at the fire with a stick and having my parents tell me to stop because it was dangerous. Once when we were camping at Yellowstone, bears came through poking around for any morsel they could find and scared us half to death. My dad rushed us all to the car and there we sat looking out the window at the big furry creatures until they wandered off. Those were the days!
Camping is still a favorite family vacation demonstrated each summer as millions of people fill campsites throughout the United States. One popular destination for both RV and tent camping is Marina Village Resort located on the banks of Lake Livingston between Houston and Dallas, TX. Here campers enjoy a wide variety of amenities that help make the perfect camping vacation. Two attractive pools almost at the lake's edge, a playground for little ones, two boat docks, barbecue area, a grass volleyball court, mini golf, and much more make this the place that has something for everyone. For guests who enjoy a back-to-nature experience, but prefer not to camp, there are even cabins available for rent.
Marina Village Resort is proud to give away one 3-day/2-night stay valid until January 1, 2015. That gives the winner over a year to make plans and get to this beautiful lakeside resort in Texas. There is so much of nature to be had at Lake Livingston. Bald eagles, deer, pelicans, and many more varieties of wildlife call this place home. The fishing is great, and the water activities can't be beat!
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"Friday Night Lights" star Taylor Kitsch is looking exceptionally hot in the latest "John Carter" movie trailer ten minute clip. Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, "John Carter" stars Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, and Samantha Morton. The film launches in theaters on March 9.
Disney's "John Carter" is a big risk for the family friendly movie studio, which reportedly pumped nearly a quarter of a billion dollars into the film adaption of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic science fiction series. Taylor Kitsch, of "Friday Night Lights" fame, plays the title hero. Lynn Collins plays his love interest, the beautiful princess Dejah Thoris.
A former American Civil War Confederate captain, John Carter finds himself suddenly transported to Mars (aka Barsoom), in the midst of a terrible war. The consummate hero type, John Carter decides he has to save the princess and her people from their enemies.
For me, as a classic science fiction lover and a strong admirer of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, I find myself torn in watching this "John Carter" movie trailer video. on the one hand, I'm excited to see this classic story finally make it to the big screen in such a huge way. On the other hand, I really wish it had been made by some other studio than Disney.
In other words, from what I can tell so far from the "John Carter" movie trailer above and the history of all things Disney, Burroughs' thoughtful, intellectual and philosophical masterworks of science fiction has basically been converted into a superficial, special-effects heavy bit of commercialized fluff meant to rake in as much cash as possible from the masses.


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The photo below came from the book "The Virgin Islands, Pleasure Spots in the Caribbean," by Bruce G. Lynn. It was published in 1970. The photo below is mine taken a few days ago.
Hello Film Society Friends
We're kicking off the Season with a Party at Sputnik. Please join us Tuesday night(December 1) for a free Film, Pot Luck Dinner & Sing-a-Long Good time!
Our featured film is a Reggae classic with a soundtrack so good, you might feel like dancing.
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It started with a book sent to me by Joe Jackson, "Virgin Islands, Pleasure Spots in the Caribbean" by Bruce Lynn published in 1970. On Tuesday, with book in hand, my friends and I left St. John and motored over to Jost Van Dyke with the mission of trying to set up photos that matched the ones of Jost Van Dyke in the book.
View of Great Harbor seen from the road running up the hillside towards White Bay.
Looking toward the Methodist Church from the road that runs along the Great Harbour coastline
The Customs House in Great Harbour
Government Dock, Great Harbour, Jost Van Dyke
White Bay, Jost Van Dyke, BVI
Yesterday I headed over to Jost Van Dyke, carrying with me two old friends, whom I haven't seen in many years, and a copy of an book given to me by Joe Jackson, a book of photos of the Virgin Islands published in 1970, several of which were taken in Jost Van Dyke.
The mission of the day, besides just having a good time and enjoying a lobster dinner over at Abe's in Little harbor, was to try to take photographs from same positions as the 1970 photographer and present them side by side. Images changed only by some 38 years of time. (I was fairly successful and am working on a blog presentation of these photos – soon come)
The trip turned nostalgic as I presented the book to the Jost Van Dyke natives and residents all of whom were fascinated with the old studies of Jost Van Dyke. My friend, Steve Coakley, took us in his taxi to some of the spots that I need to access.
We drove up the road to the west of Great Harbour for one of the locations, and Steve decided to continue over the ridge and down into White Bay to check out Ivan at the campground. Heading down into the valley I shot the above photo of White Bay, which brought back memories of my first visit to that bay back in the same year that our book was published, 1970.
White Bay Nostalgia
My girlfriend at the time and I were over at Foxy's when we first heard about the beautiful beach just over the hill to the west. We headed up the rugged jeep trail on the western side of Great Harbour, in the bright morning sunshine. At the top of the hill, a narrow shaded footpath led down through thick bush into the next bay. At the bottom of the trail there was a small opening through a thicket of sea grape trees. We stepped through and were greated by one of the most magnificent sights I have ever experienced. This long pristine white sand beach, backed by coconut palms and sea grapes was totally untouched. Not a soul or a house could be seen anywhere. The waters within the bay were crystal clear, with the characteristic mix of blues found in our shallow indented bays. Not far offshore were the reddish tints created by the coral reef that protected the bay from the open sea.
The beach extended to a rocky outcropping around which was another stretch of coral sand beach. We had passed through a portal into a tropical paradise more beautiful and romantic than even the imagination could conjur up.
I told Steve this story and he told me that he, although born and bred on Jost van Dyke, had the same feeling of awe when he first encountered that beach lying beyond the opening in the sea grape trees.
White Bay Today
Today, White Bay, is not quite the same. It's still beautiful, but fairly well developed. Whereas a sailing publication advised mariners that there was swinging room behind the reef within the two bays for two or three vessels and if you encountered that many you were advised to head back to Great Harbor and anchor there, today that concept is a joke. In addition to the many, many more than three vessels one can find at any given time at anchor in the bay, mini cruise ships such as the five masted Club Med often anchor just outside the reef ferrying passengers back and forth to the shore. There are now bars and restaurants, campgrounds and guest houses and villas. In general it's a bustling party atmosphere, still cool, just very different.
Ice on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies 1856
"The use of ice in St. Thomas, as in all large tropical towns, has become so common that ice is considered an indispensable article in daily housekeeping; every day all reasonably prosperous families receive certain quantity of ice from the Ice House. Only he who has felt the burning rays of the the tropical sun is able to comprehend the refreshing and invigorating experience of enjoying ice chilled beverages, it is generally agreed among doctors that the large consumption of ice has contributed greatly towards improving health conditions. But how is it possible to procure such large quantities of ice when the temperature rarely goes below 25 degrees C., (77 degrees F.) or to keep water frozen here when it so readily evaporates?
"In order to understand this, we must request that the reader accompany us to Wenham Lake near Boston. It has been freezing hard for several days and hundreds of people are busily working on the thick, glacial surface of the ice. Some are engaged in sweeping away the snow, others in sawing six inch deep furrows in the ice into regular blocks. After receiving a strong blow, they fall apart and are transported by horses to the large ice storage house by the shore. When spring arrives, these large blocks of ice are transported in railroad cars to dispatch terminals in Boston. The ships carrying ice are lined with hay or sawdust, and into these are loaded one block right next to another so that the entire cargo forms one large connected mass of ice. In St. Thomas, the ice is kept in local ice houses, large wooden structures with double or triple layered walls, the intervening space filled with ashes or sawdust, which protect completely against the effect of the burning sun rays. In this manner, over 200,00 tons of ice are exported annually from Wenham to the West Indies, Calcutta, Manila, Canton and other places. In Calcutta, a cargo of ice is paid for with a corresponding weight in cotton. There is hardly any place able to compete with Boston over this export commodity, as the ice of this lake resists to an unusual degree the effect of heat. The reason is that the lake receives no effluence of rivers but only that of springs; therefore, the water is extraordinarily clean, and moreover holds a lot of cold as it freezes at a very low temperature. This supply of ice has also brought along another advantage for the inhabitants of St. Thomas. The prosperous merchant can now, in addition to the produce of the tropics, also provide for his table North American vegetable, fruits. oysters, newly churned butter, etc."
From: Islands of Beauty and Bounty Translated by Nina York from the publication, "Dansk Vestindien," 1856
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Watching the sun set at Mallory Square in Key West, Florida, has become a tourist attraction and a nightly arts festival featuring artists, food carts, and street performers.
Here on St. John it appears that a similar, if quite a bit smaller in scale, activity has begun at the Cruz Bay overlook on the North Shore Road, minus the street performers, artists and food sellers that is – at least for now.


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The Department of General Services (DGS) provides a wide array of services for other state agencies, local governments, and citizens. DGS serves as the infrastructure for state government by serving in a support capacity with eight business units.
Division of Purchases and Supplies (DPS)
- Facilitates and operates Virginia's electronic procurement system (eVA)
- Leverages the buying power of the Commonwealth through statewide contracts for non-technology goods and services
- Increases access to Commonwealth business opportunities for Small, Women-owned and Minority-owned (SWaM) businesses
- Maintains and serves as the authority of the integrity of the Commonwealth's procurement processes
- Operates the Virginia Distribution Center (VDC), a cooperative procurement service that provides high-quality products to government agencies, political subdivisions, and other government entities at usually lower-than-market prices
Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS)
- Performs more than 7 million laboratory tests a year using 650 different testing methods
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- Tests for biological, chemical, and/or radiological agents in samples such as:
- Human and animal fluids and tissues
- Food and beverages
- Animal feeds and fertilizers
- Environmental (soil, sediment, air, vegetation, drinking water, recreational waters)
- Blood specimens from all Virginia infants
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Division of Real Estate and Facilities Management (DREFM)
- Manages the Commonwealth's real estate portfolio that includes more than 400,000 acres of land in over 1,200 locations, 11,000 buildings, and 117 million square feet of space, in addition to approximately 13 million square feet of rental space in 1,500 locations
- Provides strategic planning assistance to agencies along with transaction negotiation support including leasing acquisition, disposal and easements
- Maintains a real estate database and administers statewide contracts for outsourced real estate services
- Provides transactional document support and sells surplus real estate
- Oversees the management, maintenance, operation, and security of state-owned structures in and around Capitol Square and the metro-Richmond area
- Operates a parking program for state employees
Division of Engineering & Buildings (DEB)
- Sets policies and procedures for and generally oversees the Commonwealth's design and construction program
- Serves as the Building Code Official for all facilities constructed on state-owned property
- Provides management of capital improvement projects throughout the planning, design and construction phases
Office of Fleet Management Services (OFMS)
- Operates and maintains a centralized fleet of approximately 4,000 passenger-type vehicles
- More than 175 agencies and institutions use these vehicles for state business
- Administers, monitors and enforces all rules and regulations regarding the assignment, utilization, maintenance, repair, and replacement of fleet vehicles
- Oversees the operation of the Vehicle Management Control Center to provide assistance to drivers for emergencies and for servicing the vehicle
Office of Graphic Communications (OGC)
- Offers quality print and internet media communication services to state agencies, institutions of higher education, local governments and non-profit organizations
- Provides high-quality, award winning communications projects ranging from logos and websites, to displays and brochures
Office of Surplus Property Management (OSPM)
- Maintains and operates two surplus property warehouses (Richmond & Wytheville) redistributing a wide range of surplus state and federal property to agencies of the Commonwealth, qualified nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and the public
- Operates and maintains Virginia's first retail surplus property store in Wytheville, Virginia
State Mail Services (SMS)
- Provides postal services to state offices in and around Capitol Square and the Richmond metro area
- Provides consulting and training services and will review your operations to determine ways to improve efficiency and minimize operating costs


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