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[powr-image-slider id=b27f2b44_1487879340]All too often, the process of buying men's shirting is a frustrating one. Department stores, mid-market specialty stores and even exclusive boutiques present an array of options that's difficult to navigate. While having access to a wide range of colors and patterns is beneficial, sizing, collar types, buttons and even contrast stitching can vary from shirt to shirt. Based on the wearer's preferences in each category, it's nearly impossible to find the perfect shirt. Custom dress shirts are more than an alternative to the problems of ready-to-wear shirting; they're the definitive answer. Instead of settling for the shirt that comes closest to the wearer's expectations, a custom dress shirt ensures that every single aspect of his shirt is tailored to his specific tastes and needs.
Day One
Once the client decides to initiate the custom shirt process, day one will require the most work. However, instead of thinking about it as work, consider this first day a conference of sorts between the client and the tailor. There are several aspects of the shirt that need to be selected before even a single measurement is taken. The client will select a fabric from the options, sourced from only the finest mills. Then, he'll go through each piece of the shirt selecting the collar, pattern, color, buttons, sleeve cuff and placket. This is a shirt that will be tailored down to every detail. If the client needs recommendations based on his body type or personal aesthetic, the tailor can provide expert guidance.
After hashing out the details of the shirt, a series of specific measurements will be taken. From the length of the client's arms to the width of his chest to the full length of his torso, everything must be taken into consideration to ensure the perfect fit. Upwards of 20 measurements may be taken to guarantee accuracy.
The Next Steps
The shirt details, preferences and measurements are used to create a paper prototype. The fabric is cut according to the specifications of the prototype. These pieces are then sewn together to create the final shirt. Once the shirt is complete, the client will come in to try on the finished product. During this fit session, the tailor and the client will assess the shirt for fit and comfort. They'll go over the client's preference list and ensure that all is in order. At this stage, if any alterations need to be made, the changes will be noted and sent off. If everything checks out, the client will leave with his custom dress shirt the same day.
Though not as involved as custom shoes or suiting, the custom shirt process can take between 6-8 weeks. However, the end result is a shirt that fits every aspect of the client's body perfectly. From uneven arm length to broad shoulders to short torsos, the custom dress shirt can address all concerns that are neglected by its ready-to-wear counterpart. For the man who's looking for shirting that will last for years to come and complement his physique and suiting, custom shirting is the only choice.


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The precedent of using commissions to subsidise and support anniversaries was now followed on several subsequent occasions.
Tasman's 350th
In 1992 an Abel Tasman Commission encouraged projects to recall the 350th anniversary of Dutch explorer Abel Tasman's visit to New Zealand. They included a book (Tasman's legacy), a television programme and a memorial to Tasman in Christchurch. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands also visited and presented a statue of Tasman's ships.
Suffrage centennial
In 1993 the Suffrage Centennial Year Trust was established to mark the centenary of New Zealand becoming the first country where women gained the vote. The trust gave out $5.3 million in funding for relevant activities such as:
- 37 audiovisual projects, including a major film (Bread and roses on the life of politician Sonja Davies)
- 21 memorials, including the Kate Sheppard National Memorial in Christchurch, opened on Suffrage Day (19 September); a bust of Kate Sheppard in the Beehive (Parliament's executive wing); a tile suffrage memorial in Auckland's Khartoum Place and a number of gardens, often displaying the white 'Kate Sheppard' camellia
- more than one hundred publications, including Sandra Coney's historical survey of women in New Zealand, Standing in the sunshine
- almost 90 art and history exhibitions
- 30 dramatic or dance performances
- about 80 celebrations and festivals, many of which took place on Suffrage Day.
The year also kicked off with a 'summits for suffrage' weekend, when 4,000 women climbed to the top of hills or mountains, including Aoraki/Mt Cook.
The anniversary effect
The prominence given to Kate Sheppard in 1993, aided by the launching in 1992 of a $10 note which included her image, was reflected in public awareness of her. This rose from 39% of the adult population at the start of the year to 83% by the end. Knowledge that women had won the vote in New Zealand in 1893 rose from 49% to 80%.
Compared with the 1990 sesquicentennial, which aimed to look forward rather than back, there was far more attention paid to the history of women and their achievements. However, there were also projects examining the present situation and future challenges.
Once again, in preparation for the millennium, the government established a body – the Towards 2000 Taskforce, supported by the New Zealand Millennium Office – to provide support for celebrations of the new millennium. It was also responsible for celebrations around the America's Cup Campaign and the Sydney Olympics. The millennium was seen as an opportunity for New Zealand because the east of the country was claimed to be the first place in the world to see the sun in the new millennium – hence the marketing slogan: 'First to the future'.
The office gave out some $5 million in funding, primarily for events in three locations which were part of the Official Millennium Dawn Programme: the Chatham Islands, Mt Hikurangi on the East Coast and Midway Beach at Gisborne. These three events were broadcast by TV3 around the world, and at Gisborne the highpoint featured world-renowned opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa singing 'Pōkarekare ana' as the sun came up.
As the new millennium arrived at midnight on 31 December, the eyes of the world were on New Zealand with as much concern as joy. There was a worldwide anxiety that computers, which had originally been programmed with only two figures in the last part of their dates, would falter when the millennium arrived and create huge chaos in the nation's infrastructure. Banks, power, traffic lights and airports were considered in danger. In the event, years of preparation to cure the 'Y2K bug' paid off, and the lights stayed on.
The office gave out smaller sums to community groups for a range of local celebrations around the country, which were in many places affected by bad weather.
Continuing anniversaries
Anniversaries continued to be important moments when institutions, from schools to businesses to government departments, surveyed their history and their achievements. Many history books resulted.
The state also provided support for the commemoration of major military anniversaries such as battles or the end of the Second World War. In 2014 a focus of both private and public attention was the centenary of the beginning of the First World War.

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Police have arrested a man who allegedly assaulted his 15-year old daughter with a wooden pole at Pinnawala in Balangoda.
Police Media spokesman stated that the man clubbed the girl last night because she refused to cook a specific meat dish for the man.
The suspect was reported to be under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident.
The victim is receiving treatment at Balangoda hospital.
The mother of the girl is employed overseas.


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WebFetch Embedding API - how to embed WebFetch into other programs
As of version 0.10 of WebFetch, the Embedding API (application programming interface) was added. WebFetch used to be mostly for use for saving captured web content to files. The purpose of the Embedding API is to allow any Perl program to run a WebFetch module and capture its output for use within that program.
Once the information is available to other programs, there are as many possibilities as Perl allows for what to do with it. So the Embedding API delivers on the implied promise that came from packaging WebFetch as Perl5 modules instead of scripts. Instead of just saving the information to files, now it's available within a program too.
Conversion of WebFetch 0.09 Modules to the Embedding API
Old WebFetch 0.09 and earlier modules continue to work in what is called "0.09 compatibility mode". Actually, the old strucutres are still there so it's more than just compatibility - the new Embedding API is triggered by the presence of new variables which contain more information.
The following modules were converted to the new API in WebFetch 0.10: CNETnews, CNNsearch, COLA, Freshmeat, SiteNews, and Slashdot.
The following modules were converted to the new API in WebFetch 0.11: DebianNews General.
The remaining modules have not been converted yet and operate in 0.09 compatibility mode: DebianNews, General, LinuxDevNet, LinuxTelephony, ListSubs, PerlStruct, 32BitsOnline and YahooBiz. Upcoming WebFetch releases will convert more until all the modules are done.
Modules that users have written for WebFetch 0.09 and earlier which are not (yet) distributed with WebFetch should also continue to work unmodified. If they don't, that would be a bug and should be reported.
How the Embedding API Works
In WebFetch 0.09 and earlier, each module was responsible for saving its own information to a file, for all file formats that they supported. Now the module saves to some predefined variables. If the module was called from WebFetch's core command-line routines, the core will handle saving the files in all requested formats. If the module was called from another program, now it has the option to look inside the returned data and do its own processing with it.
A WebFetch module which implements the Embedding API must define the following variables, which are defined in more detail in the WebFetch core module documentation:
- $obj->{data}
a hash reference which contains more data-related variables
- $obj->{actions}
a hash reference which defines things that the WebFetch core must do with the data (i.e. where and how to save it.) Entry may have hash keys like "html", "xml", "wf" (WebFetch native format), and "rdf" (XML Resource Definition Format) or other names if the proper handler functions are defined. (Your module can define its own handler function and then use it to output your information. See WebFetch::SiteNews for an example.)
- $obj->{data}{fields}
an array reference which contains a list of field names in order. This is part of the definition of the data captured and returned from the module.
- $obj->{data}{wk_names}
a hash reference which uses hash keys of "well known names", field names which WebFetch can attribute specific functions to (like title, url, etc.) and hash values of the names of the fields defined in $obj->{data}{fields} that contain that data in this data set.
- $obj->{data}{records}
an array reference containing more array references - a two-dimensional table of records containing fields of data. Each record is one unit/entry of information captured. Each field within a record corresponds by position within the array to the names in $obj->{data}{fields}.
Programs which need to use this data can read it directly from the records and fields in $obj->{data}{records}. Some sample code is shown in the WebFetch FAQ at http://www.webfetch.org/
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Call for Papers
Bodyworks – on the use of mannequins, live humans and taxidermy animals in exhibitions
Journal of Nordic Museology (Nordisk Museologi)
Special issue
The special issue Bodyworks aims to explore bodies on display and how bodies have been represented in exhibitions. Such bodies can for example take the form of mannequins, taxidermy animals or even live humans. Bodies have been used to convey both similarities and differences, in the form of live exhibitions of ethnic groups, taxidermy animals or mannequins representing a particular social class or ethnicity during the last 150 years. This special issue aims to explore how bodies have played a prominent role in exhibition-making in natural and cultural history institutions during this period. The motives and strategies for displaying bodies have changed during this period, and these changes also reflect broader changes in societal values. This again feeds into important questions about communication and the role of the museum in contemporary society.
This call for papers invites contributions from academics and museum professionals from different disciplines and institutions, who have experience from and/or reflected around the use of bodies in exhibitions.
This special issue of the Journal of Nordic Museology (Nordisk Museologi) aims to gather perspectives, and expand scholarship on, issues related to exhibited bodies, in museums and beyond, and to generate a better understanding of the role bodies play in exhibitions.
Paper contributions may explore, but are not restricted to, empirical topics/case studies as:
Taxidermy practices, the use of wax models and moulages in medical history, and the use of mannequins and live humans in archaeological and historical museums, art museums, museums of cultural history, ethnographic museums and open air museums.
Paper contributions may also explore, but are not restricted to, theoretical topics as:
Agency: what kind of object is the body? What is the agency of bodies on display? Putting live bodies on display or exhibiting mannequins has traditionally been seen as an objectifying operation, an action that turns subjects in to objects. We welcome contributions that explore nuances to this view: with bodies on display there can be different kinds of agency and different degrees of agency.
Efficacy: What do bodies on display do? What is their effect? Efficacy can be understood in several ways; among these is the power to produce a desired result or effect. Within Actor-Network Theory the term effect refers to how an object, a system or a person acts upon the network it is a part of. Within this theoretical framework, the materiality of the body is essential. The body is both a thing and a sign.
Fascination/affect: Exhibited bodies continue to fascinate audiences. The exhibited bodies in the form of mannequins and taxidermy animals are simultaneously lifeless and lifelike. Exhibited mannequins and taxidermy animals' static nature produce an uncanny effect, as human vision is keyed to motion. Exhibited bodies simultaneously evoke life and death, and create a kind of immortality. There is also an element of recognition in seeing something that is almost like us, but not quite. Why are we still fascinated by the exhibited body? How has the nature of this fascination changed during the time such bodies have been on display?
Manuscript submission and deadlines
All papers submitted must be in English or in one of the Scandinavian languages, and must be original and unpublished material. Photographs or other images are welcome.
The special issue will include:
Please do refer to the Journal of Nordic Museology Author Guidelines, Style rules and manuscript instructions, available online http://www.nordiskmuseologi,org/guidelines.html
Please send your manuscript to email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com by 1 December 2016.


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Eddie Eddison (M) - 2yrs
Eddie is the most gorgeous bull terrier cross sharpei, or as everyone at NSWBTR calls him- Sharbullie. At no fault of his own, is looking for his one and only furever home.
Being young Eddie loves to play and run, and he can chase the hose for hours.
He has learnt to get along with kids that are respectful and he will happily follow them around all day on their adventures of the backyard. He would be more comfortable in a home with older or NO youngsters.
He has even learnt a few tricks like sit, lay down, wait for food and sometimes even stay.
Eddie can get a little over excited and vocal when around other dogs, and that can sometimes have a negative effect on him socialising but with gentle SLOW introductions can become friends.
He would much rather not share his home with other fur baby.
Eddie does take some time to warm up to new people and doesn't like strangers approaching him and therefore is a great protector of his home.
Eddie is looking for a foster/forever home so if you'd like to know more about Eddie please fill out the form below.
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Gary Johnson, CPAC, conservatives and Ron Paul
Gary Johnson is the only politician who I could support. He's far better than paleoconservative Ron Paul.
Speaking of Ron, I find it hilarious that YAF (which should stand for Youth Against Freedom, but supposedly means Young Americans for Freedom) has said they are throwing Ron Paul off their advisory board. Advisory boards actually never advise, they are for show and usually used by the organization as a fund raising tool to give them legitimacy.
YAF is upset because of one of the issues where Ron Paul is correct, his support for the Old Right position of non-interventionism. YAF tries to paint Paul as some sort of Lefty for this position. In truth however, the bipartisan foreign policy that now has the US stationing troops around the world is Woodrow Wilison's policy and FDR's policy. It is an imperialistic policy that came from the political Left. Though some lefties, like William Jennings Bryan, were clear exceptions.
What is particularly hilarious is that the clowns at YAF claimed to be the oldest "conservative/libertarian" organization around. There is no such creature as a conservative/libertarian. Conservatives are not libertarians and real libertarians are not conservatives. Gary Johnson is no conservative, he is a libertarian. Ron Paul, however, is not a libertarian but a conservative albeit one with some libertarian tendencies, but more paleoconservative than anything else.
I have watched the debate about the CPAC conference for conservatives in DC with some amusement. The presence of a gay conservative group at the CPAC has the theocratic Right foaming at the mouth. Moralistic assholes kept popping up and announcing that they would not attend because, shock, horror, there were "homosexuals" in the crowd.
These people react to gays the same way that Nazis react to Jews, or the Klan does when a black man walks down the street. It is pathetic.
But CPAC has always attracted a younger crowd and they are less concerned about being warriors for Christ, so they aren't quite so willing to host a Holy Inquisition and burn a few heretics on top of the faggots used to light the fire. (Yes, that is the origin of that insulting word, it was the kindling used to burn people at the stake in the name of a loving god.) So, the CPAC attendees aren't so interested in the verbal gay bashing that Christians do so well and so endlessly.
To me the debate that ought to be held is why are libertarians at CPAC, not why are conservatives there. Let's face it people: the modern conservative is not a libertarian. He is even less libertarian than the Old Right conservatives, who still failed at being libertarian. Conservatives are bad on almost everything, when it comes to their political view points.
Libertarians are quite a different species entirely. And the less time libertarians spend with conservatives the better.
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We run a number of specialised services to support people into recovery. These include:
- One to one sessions
- Medical prescribing
- Structured day programme
- Group sessions
- Needle exchange
- Education, training and employment
One to one sessions
When you first start with Addaction you will be allocated your own worker. They will be your main point of contact and will help you to work out what you want to achieve during treatment. Your key worker will support you to access a range of different services, both with us and through other agencies. The things you talk about with them will be confidential.
We place recovery at the heart of the support that you will receive. In our view:
- Recovery is a process, not a single event and will be different for different people, so what works for you might not work for someone else.
- There is no one size fits all in terms of types and range of interventions and support
- Treatment should be strengths based and not just focus on reducing or removing harms
- Recovery requires aspirations and hope from you, your family and other people providing support.
In order to support you as effectively as possible we will assess and support you across a number of key areas:
- Your Physical Health – this is anything relating to your body
- Your Emotional Health – this is about your wellbeing and what you think, feel and do in response to different situations.
- Your Family/Friends – this is about how your relationships impact on you, how you impact on them and how they could help you.
- The Community that you live in – this is about the impact that your community has on you, the impact you have on your community, how your community could help you and how you might be able to help your community
- Your Growth + Learning – this is about having a better awareness of your emotional health along with formal Education, Training and employment.
Within each of these areas there are a wide range of options, from advice and information through to structured programmes, that you can chose to help you achieve the changes that you want to make.
Our key-working incorporates the following:
- Triage followed by full assessment
- Relapse prevention
- Harm reduction
- Risk assessment
- Risk management plans
- Recovery planning
- Drug screening
- Talking therapies (this includes techniques such as motivational interviewing, solution focussed brief therapy and cognitive behavioural approaches)
- Mapping tools
- Access to Rehabilitation programmes throughout the UK
- Access to Detoxification programmes throughout the UK
- Access to the structured day programme
- Close liaison with partner agencies, GP and prescribers
If you want to come along for a chat, click here to find your nearest service.
Medical prescribing
We are committed to providing safe and effective prescribing for you supported through our clinical governance systems and processes. The aim of any prescribing intervention will depend on the both the medicine which is being prescribed and the context in which it is being used. For most people we will prescribe to you within three working days of assessment.
Prescribing will only take place within the context of a wider recovery plan tailored to the clients' needs. This will include psychosocial interventions and recovery activities. If you would like more information, please speak to your worker or come to one of our open access sessions. If you want to come in for a chat, make an appointment by getting in touch with your local service.
Structured day programmes
At Addaction we offer a range of day programmes for people to address their drug and alcohol use in more depth. It might seem a bit daunting to discuss your issues with people other than your keyworker, but we know that this can be one of the most helpful ways for you to work towards your recovery. Being able to share your experiences with other people who have been through similar things to you can be very rewarding for both you and others in the group.
Our extensive programme will help you to challenge the way you think and feel about drugs and/or alcohol. It will enable you to be assertive, build your self confidence and your self-esteem whilst educating you about the real risks posed by the drug or alcohol you or your family member is using and give you some real and practical skills to stop using them and be free from dependence.
Your keyworker can tell you more.
The sorts of things we do on the programme include:
- Identifying what is important to you
- Highlighting personal strengths and resources
- Keeping diaries
- Identifying difficulties
- Developing simple strategies
- Recording changes
- Making plans
In order to attend the programme, you will need to be able to:
- Arrive on time
- Adhere to the group agreement
- Participate in the sessions to best of your ability
- Arrive promptly or send a message in advance if you are unable to attend
Our current programme includes the following courses:
Self Build Programme
This programme covers four areas. They are: Positive thinking; Me, Myself and I; Assertiveness and Relapse Prevention
Understanding Harm Reduction
We cover the Cycle of change; Ambivalence; Harm Reduction (including Naloxone)
Alcohol Awareness
We cover the impact of drinking on you; what units are and how to calculate them; ways of reducing and advice about detox and rehab.
Understanding Substance Misuse
We look at cravings; triggers; the animal brain and take a look at the different kinds of drugs out there
Family Group
This group is run by our recovery champions and volunteers; we offer support for family members affected by drugs or alcohol and support them to deal with the situation as well as tips and ideas how to help and how not to help.
MAP (Mutual Aid Partnership) Group
Our MAP group is run by volunteers and takes and in depth look at building motivation
Women's Group
Support groups for women only
Non-opiate Group
Covering the things needed to stay well such as goal setting and how to cope with cravings and triggers.
Group sessions
We run a wide range of different groups including:
- Women's specific groups
- Veterans group (for ex-armed forces personnel)
- Cannabis group
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By Patricia H. Kushlis
Here is an ever lengthening list of links to posts in our WV series about continuing Human Resources problems at the State Department. There are 42 related posts in this series which includes five by Joan Wadelton. All posts appear in chronological order beginning with November 28, 2017 at the top and ending with June 22, 2019 at the bottom.
Why is this compendium important? These problems are systemic, non-partisan, and negatively impact the functioning of what should be the lead foreign affairs department in the US government. They could and should be corrected. The problems identified may foremost be a result of long time neglect of a once proud department combined with a law (The Foreign Service Act of 1980) that has failed this country's diplomats and by extension the American people for more than 34 years.
The Slow Wheels of Justice Grind On : DC Federal Court of Appeals Rules in Figuora's Favor June 22, 2019
Tillerson's Shriveled State: Maybe It Just Doesn't Matter Any More, November 28, 2017
How to Make US Foreign Assistance More Effective: Start by Merging the US Agency for Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, May 19, 2017
For Secretary Tillerson: Thoughts on Reforming and Rebuilding the State Department, February 6, 2017.
For Washington: Avoiding the Seventh Labor of Hercules, August 11, 2016
Lies, Damned lies and non-comparable statistics: reporting diversity at the State Department, April 18, 2016.
More than Undiplomatic Moments: State's Diversity Record Remains Behind a Hard Line, February 15, 2016.
Here are the Facts: State Does it Again, October 28, 2015.
American Diplomacy: What Went Wrong and What Can be Done About It, May 26, 2015.
Time for Change: Restructuring the State Department for the 21st Century, by Joan Wadleton, Guest Contributor, February 12, 2015.
The Foreign Service: Still Clueless about the Face of America, December 12, 2014.
What's the Big Secret with State's Diversity Statistics and Why? August 25, 2014
One Minute to Midnight on C Street: Update #6 on Joan's Case Stranger than strange after-hours e-mails from State's OIG Hotline Coordinator, July 21, 2014
Unfullfilled Promises, Ignored Mandates: State''s Abysmal Hispanic Record, July 14, 2014
State's Female Proof Glass Ceiling: Breaking into the Good Old Boys Diplomatic Club is still Hard to Do, June 23, 2014
Time to Fix the State Department, by Joan Wadelton, Guest Contributor, January 28, 2014
Flawed Administration at State = Ineffective US Foreign Policy, October 4, 2013
Abedin the Irreplaceable: My Eye, August 26, 2013
The GAO Report: Plus ça change, plus c'est le même chose, August 1, 2013
Secretary Kerry - Please Fix It - Now, June 17, 2013
Novel Suggestion: A Qualified Nominee for America's Next Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy? May 24, 2013
Can the Foreign Service Reform Itself? If So How and Where to Begin? April 23, 2013.
Maura Harty's Latest State Department Reincarnation, January 18, 2013.
Benghazi and State: Where do the Bucks Stop, January 11, 2013.
GAO Taking a Look at State Department HR Bureau, November 14, 2012.
Benghazi: So Many Questions, So Few Answers, September 23, 2012.
Joan's Case #5: Three failed attempts to have State's Office of Inspector General Do Something Other than Cover Up, October 3, 2012.
Joan's Case #4: Joan and the Office of Special Counsel Investigation, July 23, 2012.
Joan's Case #3, Cover-Up, Not Clean Up, June 9, 2012.
The State of State: Joan's Case Continued, May 2, 2012.
State Department Human Resources: A System Run Amok, March 14, 2012
Still a Man's World - Foggy Bottom's Bohemian Grove, July 22, 2011 (see also June 23, 2014 post above)
A Whistle Blown at State, Finally, November 23, 2010
Smoking Gun or Whitewash: the Continuing State Department Human Resources Saga, October 12, 2010 with November 17, 2010 Update
The 2007 Passport Fiasco, Maura Harty and State's Presidential Rank Awards, Sept.1, 2010
The Broom's April Check Up, April 16, 2010
Large Broom Still Needed, February 15, 2010
System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware, December 2, 2009
Clean Up Time at Foggy Bottom, March 9, 2009
Cleaning Up the Shenanigans and Reinstituting the Golden Rule, June 20, 2008
Favoritism in the Ranks Saga Continues at State, May 27, 2008
Why the AFSA Survey Was Right, February 26, 2008
Problems A Plenty on the Listing Ship of State, January 23, 2008


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ABS-CBN Regional Network Group joins the Cebuanos in celebrating one of the country's most recognize festivities in the world, the Sinulog Festival 2012!
Kapamilya network's biggest stars Gerald Anderson aka "Budoy," Enchong Dee of "Maria La Del Barrio," Kaye Abad of "Angelito," and Jason Francisco, Melai Cantiveros, Jason Gainza, Ryan Bang and Pooh of "Banana Split." will be joining Kapamilya Karavan that will be held this Saturday January 14, 2012 at Ayala Mall Terraces.
According to the interview, these young actors were happy upon joining the said Sinulog 2012 celebration where they are grateful to be part of the Sinulog Festival Kapamilya Karavan.
"I'm really grateful to my fellow Visayans for supporting me in "Budoy." To perform in front of them is my way of saying thank you," Gerald said.
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Trusts for the Rich Flock to Low-Tax States
It isn't just wealthy taxpayers that are threatening to move to lower-tax states. Their trusts and family offices also are shopping for the best tax deals.
The family office of the Johnson family, which runs Fidelity and which has a net worth in the billions of dollars, recently moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, which doesn't tax many forms of income from trusts. (Their offices are now a mere three miles over the border, lest they also sacrifice convenience).
New Hampshire, in fact, has become a kind of mini-Switzerland for wealthy Northeast families. Trust assets under management by banks and trust companies up north have jumped 70% over the past five years, to $311 billion in 2010, from $184 billion in 2005, according to the New Hampshire Banking Department. State.
The Boston Herald says trust companies are "cropping up like tax-free liquor stores in southern New Hampshire."
Can we blame them? Of course not.
Yet as competition for wealthy taxpayers and their trusts escalates–given state dependence on taxing their income–the arms race for favorable tax treatments is likely to escalate. New Hampshire, for instance, only got into the game after watching South Dakota set up a similarly favorable tax regime. South Dakota, in fact, had such an influx of trusts that it now is trying to rein in its reputation as a trust tax haven.
More states are likely to follow suit. And unlike tax residency, which actually requires rich people to live in their new, lower tax state, trust locations have little or no impact on the daily lives of the beneficiaries.
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Yesterday the news came that there was a bomb exploded in the middle of Port of Spain that injured 14 people. To date, no-one has claimed responsibility.
Once the shock of the event wore off, I found myself shaking my head in amazement, and thinking that this could never happen in Jamaica.
As a disclaimer, let me start by saying that there are many things I absolutely love about Trinidad, including my wife. If there were no Jamaica, I would gladly live there.
However, there are things that happen in Trinidad that shock my Jamaican sensibilities (and we Jamaicans are a bunch of people that are not easily shocked).
Yet, there is this mental list of things that happen in Trinidad, both good and bad that just could not happen in Jamaica. The funny thing is, I can't explain why this is so… I just know it. I'm sure a Trini has their list of things in Jamaica that could not happen in Trinidad, and Bajans, Guyanese and others would have their lists also, but here is mine.
Things that Happen(ed) in Trinidad that Could NOT Happen in Jamaica
- the bomb blast in port of Spain of July 12, 2005
- the temporary overthrow of the Trinidadian government by the Muslemeen, a religious sect in the early 1990's
- the freedom granted to Abu Bakhr (who lead the overthrow) who is allowed all the privileges of an ordinary citizen, and has never been convicted of a crime
- kidnappings at a high rate (with relatively few deaths)
- Carnival (all of it)
- TSTT maintaining its monopoly for as long as it has
The differences between our cultures are important to take note of, as they tell us as much about ourselves as they do about the other countries. Now, to explain these differences… that's the very hard work.


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Watch out, SpaceX: Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has a new spaceship, and it just completed its first glide flight. The new SpaceShipTwo, named VSS Unity, made the crucial test flight on Saturday over California's Mojave Desert. The craft was carried into the air by its mothership and released—gliding for 10 minutes by itself and landing at Mojave Air and Space Port.
Further glide flights will be conducted before the craft moves on to rocket-powered flights, the Associated Press reports. Virgin suffered a major setback in 2014 when one of its spaceships broke up and crashed.
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I recycled aluminum cans and saved my money all summer to be able to afford The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at launch. A few weeks after its release date (the cart was in short supply) I had procured it and was able to return to that familiar world of Hyrule. This new 16-bit incarnation contained mysteries and technical wonders around every corner. As I progressed ever deeper in the game, among all of countless innovations I found one aspect to be a minor disappointment. Continue reading "Solution Telegraphing vs Player Agency"
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Things that I'm missing for my YouTube channel.
Even though my YouTube channel is nothing more than a nice hobby for me, I do take it seriously. I occasionally look at channel tips and tricks and I try to implement what makes the most sense for my content. Even so, there are many bits and pieces that my YouTuber brothers and sisters have that I have not. Here is a short list Continue reading "Things that I'm missing for my YouTube channel."
YouTube production – likes and dislikes
It's easy to say you love to do something, and it can be essentially true. In actuality there are usually at least some aspects that you dislike, even in something you otherwise love. Maybe you love RPG's, but hate grinding. I really like my YouTube hobby overall, but since everything Continue reading "YouTube production – likes and dislikes"
A quick gaming update for 7/24/18
Note #1
As previously prophesied, Super Mario has become the new toy set in McDonald's Happy Meals. I got the first one today, a nice Mario sculpt…
…with the cutest little Cappy!
We're getting eight toys here in the US, (not necessarily the same eight as other regions), and I look forward to getting them all!
Note #2
As posted by Larry Hryb.
I have one of these games, so I'll be sure to label the index.
TurboExpress and Nomad prologue the Switch
I had very similar points in a few of my blog posts but as he says "there is nothing new under the sun". In other words, it's nice to know that others with a knowledge of gaming history see how some ideas bubble to the surface multiple times until the right set of circumstances, technological or otherwise, allow for a successful implementation.
Nintendo has never made a handheld that can connect to your TV and be played like a console. Instead, they kept making attachments to their home console that would play Gameboy games.
Hudson made the Switch in 1990. It is called the TurboExpress.
Here is the Japanese equivalent.
Some people are upset that the Switch is using cartridges. "Do not call them cartridges," they whine. "They are CARDS, not cartridges! They do not contain electronics in them!"
Most cartridges didn't contain unique electronics in them like the FX chip in Starfox or the chip in Castlevania III.
What many gamers are not aware of, since the Turbografx 16 was never mainstream, is that they used something called 'Hucards'. They were like credit cards. They did not contain electronics, but they had the ROM image on them.
The Turboexpress could play Turbografx 16 hucards (that you would place into the home…
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On Tower Defense pt 1.
Tower defense games are fun! Of those that I've put serious time into, my favorite so far has been Defense Grid. This genre seems to be pretty dormant these days, sadly. In my mind, even though there has been lots of variations and great games, there is only so many ways this genre can be presented. Even the new PixelJunk Monsters 2 is only receiving middling reviews.
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YouTube Channel Highlight – Retro Nonsense
I love YouTube as a platform and I am a big fan of lots of the more popular creators on it. But as a very small channel, I feel like I'll find more kinship with other newer or less known creators. I've spent some time this week trying to find some of these channels and look at what they offer. I was able to check out Retro Nonsense, specifically the first episode of his series Stuck in the 80's. It was a fun and funny watch. He's created a really good format and it definitely oiled my nostalgia gears. I haven't watched his other content yet, but I'll pay close attention to new episodes in this series. If you find other videos on his channel you liked, let me know about them and tell him I sent you.


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The Art of the Sale is the result of a pilgrimage to learn the secrets of the world's foremost sales gurus. Author Philip Delves Broughton tracked down anyone who could help him understand what it took to achieve greatness in sales, from technology billionaires to the most successful saleswoman in Japan to a cannily observant rug merchant in Morocco. The wisdom and experience Broughton acquired demonstrates as never before the complex alchemy of effective selling and the power it has to overcome challenges we face every day.
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For Majid, who dominates the first chapter of The Art of the Sale by Philip Delves Broughton, the key to successful sales is "loose robes." The phrase came from Majid's father who advised his son on the importance of maintaining a state of calm, regardless of a customer's rudeness or ineptitude. "Majid's loose robes are a form of resilience, an essential trait for salespeople, and for any of us who hope to succeed in life," writes Broughton. "It is the ability to maintain an emotional equilibrium in the face of bad events."
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Broughton was a foreign correspondent for London's The Daily Telegraph for many years before getting his MBA at Harvard Business School and, in many ways, The Art of the Sale is a series of fascinating dispatches from the front lines of sales. For example, Broughton follows Guillermo Ramirez, a high-energy Mexican immigrant who's built a flourishing 50-employee contracting business in Baltimore, through a typical day that begins with a 4:30 a.m. 45-minute run, come rain or shine. Broughton then watches as Ramirez, known as Meme to all, deftly handles the problems and questions of his clients, showing empathy and insight into the mindset motivating the renovation projects.
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Broughton's portraits of a wide range of fascinating salespeople from around the world are interlaced with relevant studies and theories of selling going back to Benjamin Franklin. In one chapter, Broughton juxtaposes the negative assessment of salespeople by Professor Guy Oakes, the author of a book called The Soul of the Salesman: The Moral Ethos of Personal Sales, with empathetic stories of two life insurance salespeople: a flamboyant Japanese saleswoman Mrs. Shibata (no first name is ever given), and one of the most successful life insurance agents of all time, Norman Levine. Oakes was disgusted, according to Broughton, at the willingness of salespeople to always be selling, even to family and friends. "What Oakes abhorred, Levine and Mrs. Shibata describe with pride," Broughton writes.
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April is in the history books and we are at a good point to assess all 30 MLB teams. Although it's important to remember, we're still only 15% through the long baseball season.
This early into the season, we can't blindly trust the win-loss records of each team. So instead we're look at their pythagorean record based on each team's run differential. But there is still another adjustment to make. Each team's schedule can play a large part in their results so far. But once we adjust for run differential and schedule, we have a more accurate depiction of where every team stands.
Below are each team's adjusted win percentage so far this season. Please note that this is not projecting where teams will finish at the end of the season, it's simply a measure of what the have done thus far.
1. Cubs 77.0%
When adjusting for run differential, the Cubs have actually been unlucky to only be 17-6. Their schedule has been easy but they are still the team to beat.
2. Nationals 64.8%
The Nats have played well, but not quite as well as their actual win percentage of 70.8%.
3. White Sox 62.9%
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4. Mets 62.6%
The Mets have benefitted from an easy early schedule but are still a top team in the National League.
5. Cardinals 59.8%
The Cardinals have been the unluckiest team according to Pythagorean Wins and rank in the top 5 of the true standings despite currently sitting in the bottom half with a 12-13 record.
6. Orioles 58.6%
The Orioles are 14-10 and their schedule has been slightly harder than average.
7. Mariners 58.4%
Based on run differential, the Mariners should be 15-9 instead of their actual record of 13-11.
8. Rangers 56.4%
The Rangers 14-11 and the numbers say that they should be 14-11. They are WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE.
9. Red Sox 55.5%
Boston's run differential matches their play but they have played one of the easier schedules in the AL.
10. Indians 54.4%
The Indians make a big jump based on a tough schedule and some bad luck.
11. Tigers 53.0%
Remember how I said the Red Sox had played one of the easier schedules? The Tigers have played the easiest schedule in the American League.
12. Blue Jays 52.3%
The Blue Jays have played better than their 12-14 record suggests.
13. Pirates 51.8%
The Pirates drop due to a very easy schedule early on.
14. Rays 51.4%
The Rays have played the second toughest schedule in the AL but have held in there with an 11-13 record.
15. Angels 51.2%
The Angels have played the toughest schedule in the AL and have gone 12-13.
16. Giants 49.1%
San Francisco is only 13-13 and have had one of the easier schedules in the NL.
17. Royals 48.7%
Kansas City has an easier than average schedule and has had one win worth of luck according to run differential.
18. Dodgers 47.7%
The Dodgers have played the absolute easiest schedule in the MLB so far and wasn't able to take advantage as they currently sit at 13-13.
19. Diamondbacks 47.3%
Arizona is off to a disappointing 12-15 start after they made a bevy of offseason moves that many thought would put them near the top of the NL standings.
20. Rockies 46.8%
The Rockies have allowed .3 runs more per game than they have scored but have managed a 12-12 record so far.
21. Athletics 46.3%
Like Colorado above, the A's have managed a .500 record despite allowing more runs than they have allowed.
22. Marlins 44.7%
Another team with a .500 record that has a run differential that says they should be worse.
23. Phillies 42.5%
Philadelphia has been the luckiest team in terms of run differential in the MLB. At this point, their 15-10 record is a mirage.
24. Reds 39.6%
Cincinnati has played the toughest schedule thus far (including 6 games against the Cubs) but they are still a really bad baseball team regardless.
25. Twins 38.8%
Minnesota is sitting at 7-18, which is terrible, but they should actually be 9-16, which is still terrible.
26. Braves 38.4%
The Braves have played the 2nd toughest schedule but still expect to be a really bad team.
27. Padres 36.8%
The Padres are right where they should be in the standings; near the bottom.
28. Yankees 36.2%
The Bronx Bombers should have been slightly better than their 8-15, but not by much.
29. Astros 35.7%
One of the biggest surprises of the season so far, the Astros have a terrible record and their play justifies it.
30. Brewers 35.2%
Not a surprise as Milwaukee is preparing for a rebuild.


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Youth shelter Jombang
Our youth shelter in Jombang offered a seminar for the various authorities dealing with youths during and after release. I worked with the participants with what we call anger management. To asset them to become aware of their emotions, to learn to dis-identify and identify, learning to observe as well as transforming anger. It was a successful event, with participants leaving with tools to be used on their own.
In the back of the shelter we have three ducks. They like to east watermelon, which I was feeding them on this picture.
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Surabaya Mosque
During a working visit with my collegues in Surabaya, Java, I visited the largest mosque there and wanted to share a few pics with you.
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Soul, the Jiwa Damai baby
This is Soul, the first child born at Jiwa Damai. This picture is taken in Jiwa Damai at age 1 month.
The bay was born in a natural underwater birth, so called Lotus birth, where the placenta remains attached until it dries up by itself, which happened the second day after the birth. The Mom was assisted by her husband and Ibu Robin, a famous Balinese midwife.
In this picture one of our volunteers is taking care of the one month old Soul at Jiwa Damai.
Here, Margret is visiting Miquela and Soul, which had grown tremendously for age 4 months, in upstate New York.
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Evaluation at Jombang youth shelter
Thie is one of the regular evaluations we hold in Jombang Java at our shelter for youths released from prison. We usually invoke the youths and other organizations which provide services to us to join us for meditation and discussions about current issues.
Part of the evaluation process is also to monitor our youths, which receive special skills training at the shelter. Some of them are already employed.
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Faculty of psychology of Ubaya – 30th anniversary
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the faculty of psychology of Ubaya university in Surabaya, I was invited to do a workshop at their conference about holistic healing.
Simultaneously it was a celebration of our working together for nearly 10 years now. As project advisors and consultants we worked on many different projects. Lately in form of a team of four.
One picture shows the group of my colleagues, the other the groups of participants from as far away as Sumatra, and other islands.
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Transpersonal psychology class at UGM Jogjakarta
I taught a first year of transpersonal psychology at the university at UGM in Jogjakarta, Java at the faculty of clinical psychology. Below you see our group of students working.
The person next to me is Bo Kwartarini, the head of the department of clinical psychology and indigenous psychology.
Jogjakarta was the old capital of Java, with the Sultan living there in his palace. Nowadays it is a student's town with 40 universities. I teach a three day course every two months there.
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A prototype of the UK Royal Navy's next-generation Spearfish heavyweight torpedo has successfully completed a first in-water trial at the BUTEC range on the west coast of Scotland.
The trial is part of a five-year, £270 million Demonstration and Full Manufacture contract awarded in December 2014 that will see BAE Systems upgrade current Spearfish Mod 0 weapon stocks to the improved Mod 1 standard.
Spearfish Mod 0 is in service on the Trafalgar, Vanguard and Astute class submarines. The Mod 1 upgrade will address the need for incremental improvements in safety, remove obsolescence, enable through-life cost reduction, and extend its life to beyond 2050.
Upgrades being embodied in the Spearfish Mod 1 weapon include the introduction of a fully digital weapon architecture (both hardware and software), replacement of the current copper/cadmium wire-guidance link with a ruggedised fibre-optic system (reducing the data latency between the platform and the weapon), and the replacement of the existing warhead with an Insensitive Munition compliant warhead.
The BUTEC trial included the launch of a prototype weapon from a chute frame that demonstrated control in a range of manoeuvres and explored the performance of newly introduced capabilities.
Submarine-launched trials are planned to start next year.
Initial deliveries of Spearfish Mod 1 are scheduled to start in 2020, with the remanufacture programme continuing through to 2024.


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Is StorageTek discouraging DLT buys?
Rumblings of a feud with Quantum over DLT tape patents could lead StorageTek to nudge users toward the LTO format.
Sources tell SearchStorage.com that Louisville, Colo.-based StorageTek is no longer paying commissions to its salespeople for DLT and Super DLT (SDLT) drive sales. This change may well lead StorageTek salespeople to push LTO drives when selling libraries, since salespeople do get commissions for those sales.
Even if a StorageTek salesperson sells a library packed with 10 SDLT drives, the source said, that salesperson would only receive a commission on the library portion of that sale -- not the drives.
StorageTek would not comment directly on its internal sales practices. Rather, it maintained that the company continues to offer DLT and SDLT technology, as well as LTO.
"StorageTek continues to provide customers with the broadest selection of tape technology and vendor selections in the industry," a company spokesman said. "It is not StorageTek's policy to publicly divulge the compensation policies of its sales organization."
Still, StorageTek has made no secret of its affinity for LTO. In a recent conference call to discuss the company's annual earnings, Patrick J. Martin, StorageTek's president and CEO, noted the success of the company's LTO products. He made no mention of DLT.
"We had a very strong fourth quarter. Our open tape [products], in particular LTO, showed very, very strong performance," he said. Martin added that StorageTek is happy with its tape sales "across the board" and that his company plans to be very aggressive with its existing product portfolio.
If StorageTek is tilting toward LTO, that shift may result from pressure over the legal battle between Quantum and StorageTek. The vendors filed lawsuits against each other last April over the rights to sell and manufacture SDLT and DLT products.
Quantum, San Jose, Calif., denied that any feud exists -- despite the pending patent suits. Steve Berens, Quantum's senior director of product marketing and strategy, said there has been no change in his company's relationship with StorageTek.
"They continue to a valued partner and are currently in qualification with plans to ship the SDLT 600, which is another example of their commitment to support their customers, who demand the industry's highest-performing tape drive," he said.
The consensus among analysts and vendors alike is that DLT tape is still very much alive, but vendors are experiencing greater success with LTO in enterprise data centers.
Bob Abraham, head of the Ojai, Calif.-based analysis firm Freeman Reports, said he doubts that StorageTek would squash its sales of DLT and SDLT, but anything is possible.
"They can do anything internally. They may want to discourage [DLT sales], but I would be surprised if they did," he said. "They have an enormous installed base of DLT and SDLT users."
Abraham said that, even if StorageTek's ultimate goal were to shift its users to LTO, doing so would take a long time. Still, such a shift would not be without precedent. IBM was selling DLT drives in its tape library products until LTO came on the scene.
"IBM's DLT business did shift down in favor of LTO going up," Abraham said. "They did, in fact, discontinue DLT. That's not amazing, since IBM is the champion of LTO. But StorageTek is technology-neutral. As long as they have customers willing to buy DLT, it does not behoove them to discontinue it."
Let us know what you think about the story; e-mail: Kevin Komiega, news editor.
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3-year-old sees man who killed mom in Aurora home
Conner said one possible avenue of investigation today would be to exhume Ann LeFree's body and perform DNA tests on the fetus.
He said unless Shannon LeFree is able to provide more details about what she witnessed there are few other things that can be done to solve the case.
If anyone has information that could help solve this homicide contact Det. Conner at 303-739-6190 or email@example.com.
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Virtualization: What are you getting for your money? (Part 1)
Virtualization. What does it mean and how much of the claims are hype versus delivering real value to the business?
Editor's Note: Following is the first in a series of tips about storage virtualization taken from a white paper by Robert Nieboer of StorageTek. This document is fequently requested by searchStorage discussion forum users.
Virtualization: What are you getting for your money? (Part 1)
By Robert Nieboer
The word ?virtualization? has crept into the IT lexicon. What does it mean and how much of the claims are hype versus delivering real value to the business?
Virtualization separates the presentation of storage to the server operating system from the actual physical devices. Neither of these statements implies an underlying architecture, yet most claims to storage virtualization today are made in the context of storage networks. This is no accident, since storage networking and storage virtualization are trying to address the same fundamental problem ? storage manageability. In fact, it would be fair to say that, even as storage networking is only just beginning to be widely implemented, it is already recognized that we need to do something more to ease the storage management burden.
We believe that the scale of the problem is so large, that the goal of all the efforts surrounding storage and storage manageability should be to plan for the elimination of human intervention in storage management. Virtualization is a step in that direction, and we believe that automated policy-based management algorithms and decision-making intelligence will join virtualization in the near future.
Most virtualization implementations are concerned with simplifying the management of large storage infrastructures shared across multiple heterogeneous servers and applications. Presenting a logical view of storage devices to servers that is disassociated from the physical reality can have the effect of hiding complexity, masking change and improving people productivity. What is missing from most virtualization implementations is the means to reduce the amount of storage infrastructure needed to satisfy application storage requirements. Yes, manageability is a serious issue that requires resolution. But so is infrastructure cost.
Users should carefully examine the claims of vendors about their storage virtualization products. What is available today? How open is it? Is policy-based management and intelligence present or planned? Is infrastructure cost reduction an objective?
Storage virtualization is necessary to overcome some of the interoperability limitations of storage networking, as well as in its own right for providing two huge and timely benefits to IT organizations:
1. Significantly improved storage manageability
2. Significantly reduced storage infrastructure cost
The first benefit is the objective of all of the virtualization architectures and implementations. However, the second is only obtained in two cases:
- if virtualization is implemented at the device level, and if the virtualization engine is designed to exploit the fact that both the logical devices and the physical devices exist within the same span-of-control and so optimize the use of physical capacity.
- and/or if virtualization is implemented in such a way as to transparently exploit the cost-benefits of a policy-driven multi-level storage hierarchy.
Storage virtualization is an important development. Right now, treat vendor claims with a degree of skepticism until functionality and roadmaps are understood.
* To view this white paper in its entirety, click on https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/768691/Virtualization-What-are-you-getting-for-your-money.
* Check out the searchStorage Featured Topic on Virtualization for more resources, news, and expert advice.
* Browse links to other virtualization resources in our Best Web Links .
About the author: Rob Nieboer is a corporate evangelist for StorageTek , and is currently responsible for global industry analyst relations for the company. Rob's background includes some 34 years as an IT practitioner, with the last 17 years focused on storage. His career with StorageTek has included responsibilities for systems engineering, systems engineering management, worldwide tape and library marketing, regional marketing, and strategy.


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A Work-at-Home Company Profile
Home-based sales, support and customer service agents
Cruise.com got underway as a web-based business in 1998 and has rapidly become one of the largest cruise specialists on the Internet. The company, based in Dania Beach, Fla., is a subsidiary of Omega World Travel, Inc. It offers a wide variety of cruises based on line (Viking, Royal Caribbean, Holland America, etc.), specialty (culinary, wedding, kids, themed luxury, etc.) and port of departure (Baltimore, Galveston, Miami, Tampa, etc.).
The company offers web-based training for its home-based positions, which lasts for four consecutive weeks that you participate in via your home computer. You are paid for your training time, and Cruise.com says all candidates whose resumes reflect recent cruise industry experience (within the past two years) will be considered. All home-based positions offer a base salary plus commission. The company also offers a benefits package, including travel agent benefits.
Types of Work-at-Home Positions:
Cruise.com has put out the all-hands-on-deck call in three categories of at-home workers: sales agents, support agents and customer service agents. In all three cases, it is required that you can work variable 8-hour shifts.
Sales agents are expected to sell cruise vacations, insurance and other products to potential customers via inbound/outbound telephone and/or email leads. This position requires at least two years of recent sales experience in the cruise industry, preferably in a call center environment working with the major cruise lines. In some cases, English/Spanish fluency is required. See more bilingual call center jobs.
Cruise.com is also looking for online support agents with at least one year of recent experience in the industry. If you accepted this position, you would be fielding calls to resolve customer problems, providing related information and selling insurance.
Finally, the company is looking to hire home-based customer service agents with at least one year of relevant experience in either sales or customer service. In this call-center job, you would be offering information to customers, answering questions and providing a high level of service.
Read here about the type of office equipment needed in a home call center.
Applying at Cruise.com:
If you'd like to set sail with Cruise.com, the company suggests that you copy and paste your resume to email@example.com. Make sure you mention in the subject line the job title in which you are most interested. In the email, provide a brief outline of your experience in the cruise industry. According to the company, final candidates must successfully complete a criminal and employment background check.
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Just Monday U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) issued a Critical Alert to the nation as the illegal surge at our southern border deteriorates further. We are simply overwhelmed he informed the American people.
By Tuesday, Sessions who early on has been an advisor to presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, was in Northwest Florida stumping for Trump lunching at East River Smokehouse in Navarre. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, Sessions previously served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. Now he's Trump's go-to man when it comes to immigration concerns, a topic upon which Sessions has long studied and is well-versed as evidenced by his 23-page Immigration Handbook For The New Republican Majority.
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Raeford United Methodist Church
Monday, January 20, 2020
Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Good Neighbor Festival
Our 2nd Annual Good Neighbor Festival was held on May 2nd and 3rd, 2015. The festival included a fish fry, live auction, bounce house, DJ, photo booth, bake sale, and more!
With the proceeds from the last two years, we have been able to host several free events to the community such as:
-2 community fish fry dinners
-6 community movie nights (4 were outside during the summer and we played children's movies) complete with popcorn and either snow cones or hot chocolate!
-Praise band concert
-Raeford/Hoke Hometown Christmas Event- Members of the Hoke County Chamber of Commerce closed down Main Street in early December to put on the first annual Hometown Christmas, complete with pictures with Santa, Christmas caroling, horse and carriage rides, and Christmas movies. Our church provided two hot chocolate stations, popcorn, a Christmas themed photo booth, and Christmas carols sung beautifully by the choir.
We have also donated funds to other areas such as:
-Childcare: giving parents the chance to attend church events
-Habitat for Humanity: building homes for families that suffer from poverty.
-National Child Safety: sponsoring 75 children who were participating in a drug awareness program
-Raeford United Methodist Church Open Access Fund: Once the church raises enough money to build an elevator, handicapped or restricted people from the community can have access to all of the church. You can do the same by visiting the RUMC GoFundMe Page!