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Consumer Experiences in The Digital World
The 21st century is all about digital! Most people spend more time online than not. Websites are helping develop connections without the barriers of distance and proximity. As the population on the internet increases, businesses are also increasing efforts to capture audience attention online. Brands are eager to develop healthy connections with buyers utilizing the latest digital tools.
Forrester Research Studies conducted a customer experience survey to reveal reasons a specific brand receives a boost in customer loyalty.
- Customers who feel respected and valued are more loyal and spend more.
- Customers feel more connected to the companies that make them feel special by catering their individual needs.
To accomplish this task, maintain perfect records about your customers including their name, purchase history, interest, and preferences. Even in this digital world, it is essential to look at the human side of the customer experience. We have highlighted a few more simple tips to ensure great results:
Listen to customer opinions and feedback
We must understand that not all customers have similar needs and purchase preferences. Customers want to share their details with brands that are trustworthy and synonymous with good experiences — a strong customer experience strategy and active listening to customer feedback and opinions are vital. Then, your team will be able to customize your client's experience and address their needs to produce a significant boost.
Follow the fundamental values
Incredible professional experiences are developed from a few fundamental elements: convenience, speed, friendliness, and consistency. For instance, you are adding new website amenities while customers are still messing up with payment and delivery related issues. The process is going to be overcomplicated, and you will naturally lose impression in the market. Focus on consistency, convenience, and speed. It is essential to work on the basics, especially while adopting new technologies.
Add AI experiences
Build more in-depth knowledge about customer preferences when Artificial Intelligence merges with your brand. It will help you create a closed loop with fewer variables for every customer interaction. Make smarter decisions and keep your customers satisfied with every purchase. AI allows you to offer more support to your customers with significant benefits to your company reporting while optimizing future experiences.
Real-time interactions
Customer service support platforms offer solutions for businesses to provide feedback in real time. Personalized interactions will please your buyers and increase the rate of return. A live person available to talk 24/7/365 will ensure that your client's questions are answered quickly and correctly with pleasant interaction. Make sure your digital brand is capable of humanizing customer experiences and win loyalty.
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Annual Corporate Campaign Reaches Record High
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Atlanta, June 4, 2015 – Thanks to the extraordinary support of Atlanta's corporate community, the Woodruff Arts Center raised more than $13.4 million for its 2014 – 2015 Annual Corporate Campaign. Led by Campaign chairman Paul Garcia, the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Global Payments Inc., the Campaign raised the most money ever for the Arts Center's primary annual fundraising effort.
"All of us associated with the Woodruff Arts Center and this year's Campaign Cabinet are extraordinarily grateful to Atlanta's corporations," said Mr. Garcia. "These companies recognize the importance of art and arts education to our community and they demonstrate that year after year with their outstanding support."
"Paul Garcia's leadership helped bring about the success of this campaign," said Doug Hertz, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Woodruff Arts Center. "We owe a great debt of gratitude to all of the leaders on the Campaign Cabinet who worked tirelessly to help us set this record."
For the first time in 2014 – 2015, the Arts Center's Annual Corporate Campaign was integrated into one fundraising initiative. In prior years, the Arts Center, the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art solicited corporate support separately. The previous record for annual corporate support across the campus was $11.2 million in 2013, meaning the 2015 result exceeded the previous high by 20%.
"Integrating our Annual Corporate Campaign fundraising into one coordinated effort that benefits all of our art and education work was welcomed by our corporate supporters," said Virginia Hepner, president and chief executive officer of the Woodruff Arts Center. "They appreciated the stewardship of unified requests that we believe helped us achieve record results, and at the same time we broadened the exposure for all donors across the campus."
The Annual Corporate Campaign is a vital part of the more than $30 million raised annually by the Woodruff Arts Center and its arts partners. Annual Corporate Campaign funds specifically support shared services such as finance and treasury operations, facility management, security, human resources and information technology. Lisa Robinson, senior director of corporate philanthropy, led the internal team that managed the campaign as part of the Arts Center's integrated Advancement Team under Janine Musholt's leadership.
Leading corporate supporters in 2014 – 2015 (with donations of more than $250,000) included AT&T, Bank of America, Chick-fil-A, The Coca-Cola Company, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Cox, Deloitte, Delta Air Lines, Equifax, Ernst & Young, Georgia Power Foundation, The Home Depot, Invesco, King & Spalding, KPMG, PNC, PWC, SunTrust Bank, Turner Broadcasting System, UPS and Wells Fargo.
In addition, over 30 corporations implemented Employees for the Arts (EFA) initiatives, encouraging individual employee contributions to the Arts Center's campaign. Through EFA programs, individual employee contributions are recognized collectively with their company donations, enhancing each company's philanthropic efforts in the community. In this year's campaign, EFA contributions increased 23% versus 2014.
The successful Corporate campaign comes alongside additional successes in individual and foundation giving all while a separate $100 million fundraising initiative – the multi-year Transformation Campaign – is underway at the Woodruff Arts Center.

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Prized for its delicious, firm flesh and versatility in numerous recipes, chefs and fishmongers alike regard Dover Sole as a prince among flatfish. Supplied as a whole fish, gutted, trimmed and top-skinned.
Please note that, because fish naturally vary in size, we will always adhere to the pack weights given for 'whole' fish. At times, one large whole fish will be enough to make up the weight, at other times it may be two or more smaller fish; so, although the number of fish supplied may change between orders, the weight received will always remain the same. Please be aware that a description of a fish as 'boned' means that, although the fishmongers will have removed the bones to the best of their ability, we cannot guarantee that any piece of fish will be entirely bone-free.
Our fishing vessels work out of Exmouth, Brixham and Newlyn, and operate in accordance with the Seafood Responsible Fishing Scheme. They keep us well topped up most days with a selection of fresh fish and shellfish, and a catch can often be on its way to the Greendale farm shop within hours of leaving the sea. If we can't catch it ourselves, we source only from trusted suppliers with standards as high as our own. The fish available may vary, depending on the season, but a delicious variety is always to be found on our fish counter. From whole fish to fillets, live lobsters to shrimp, our wide selection is sold in a choice of portion sizes and prepared for your convenience by our skilled fishmongers.
Dover Sole has medium-brown mottled skin with a lighter underside. 'Top-skinning' is the traditional method for skinning this fish – it simply means we've removed the brown skin but left the lighter skin underneath intact.
Grilled, pan-fried, poached or roasted, Dover Sole is a really versatile fish to cook, though it seems to work best in simple recipes that allow its flavour to shine. The classic French recipe, Sole à la Meunière, is a great example; the fish is dredged in flour, pan-fried and served with a butter, lemon juice and parsley sauce.
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Long-time friend of the firm and regular customer (one more punch in the card and we'll have to give her a free study) Kimber Lanning of Local First Arizona has been named the Citizen Leader of the Year by the International Economic Development Council at its annual conference in Fort Worth.
While we're always thrilled to see our clients get the recognition they deserve, this one is particularly pleasing to us because it comes from the world of economic development professionals. Slowly, it seems, the essential message of the localism movement is reaching the mainstream. An industry all too often given to subsidizing big box development needs to understand the very real economic impact of the policy choices. Kimber, more than any one we know, has driven that point home through persistence and a well-run organization.
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It'll be a delicate operation to collect samples from Bennu and return them to Earth, but we could learn a great deal from the pristine material on the asteroid.
Not only is the surface remarkably rugged, but the asteroid is also regularly ejecting puffs of dust and rock into space. This is a phenomenon never before observed on an asteroid.
In one of its first observations of the object after settling into orbit, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has detected evidence of water in the asteroid's structure.
Eventually, OSIRIS-REx will graze the surface of Bennu to pick up a tiny bit of material to send back to Earth.
NASA and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are working on a new spacecraft design that could potentially deflect a dangerous asteroid before it falls out of the sky and knocks us back into the stone age.
As the probe executes a flyby of its home planet in the next few weeks, astronomers around the world will be watching the sky to get one last look at OSIRIS-REx before it heads off to the asteroid Bennu.
Elon Musk wants everyone to know it wasn't an explosion that took out the Falcon 9, it was just a "fast fire."
NASA's new spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is on its way to rendezvous with an asteroid.
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Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes inaugurated the largest public works project of his administration, a long-awaited highway construction, which he has christened the Monsignor Romero Boulevard ("Bulevar Monseñor Romero," in Spanish), at a cost of $100M and seven years of labor—most of it, marred by delays, lawsuits, and corruption allegations. Funes boasted that his government did what previous, rightwing governments could not do—which was to institute transparency and accountability to bring the massive project to a close. On Sun. Nov. 25, 2012, Pres. Funes was joined by Gaspar Romero, the Archbishop's younger brother, in a classic red convertible, as they cruised down the open road to inaugurate the main artery connecting the Salvadoran capital city to points northwest, along the outskirts of the San Salvador volcano.The name was leaked by El Salvador's Ministry of Public Works earlier in the week—perhaps, as a way to gauge public reaction to the choice. Opposition has been largely muted, and seems to center on process rather than the actual name. Grumblings by the ARENA mayor of San Salvador (ARENA is the rightist party founded by the man accused of ordering the Romero assassination) that Funes should have let the mayors of the towns linked by the highway make the decision, were typical of the criticism. Funes apparently picked the name by executive decision, drawing upon—but not relying strictly on—input drawn from suggestion boxes in supermarkets, an Internet poll, and a formal survey conducted by a university polling outfit. In the final phase, the top ten contenders were presented to the public who had an option to write-in a suggestion, and Romero's name apparently led the write-in nominations. Funes selected Romero's name because it embodies the highest values of the country, including service and transparency, said Public Works Minister Gerson Martínez.
Palace intrigue aside, the naming of the new highway after Archbishop Romero marks a stunning reversal in official recognition for Romero in El Salvador. Before this tribute, there was a "Calle Monseñor Romero," but it was in the crowded, gritty urban area abutting the Cathedral downtown. The new Boulevard is a six-lane expressway that was originally envisioned as a part of a ring road or loop highway encircling San Salvador. It is the first freeway in El Salvador and in Central America, and links San Salvador to Santa Tecla and Antiguo Cuscatlán. Although short in span (just about 9 km or six miles), it is expected to generate thousands jobs, provide a boost to economic development, and ease traffic congestion in Greater San Salvador.
Photos, top: Oscar Romero driving (stock footage). Below: Gaspar Romero takes a maiden voyage down Romero highway with Pres. Funes, courtesy El Diario de Hoy. The late archbishop is literally on the map—Google maps screenshot, courtesy Diario El Mundo. Bottom, Bulevar Monseñor Romero, before the official opening, when it was known as the RN-21 or Bulevar Diego de Holguín.


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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences invites paper submissions for its upcoming issue on higher education.
Although American universities dominate lists of the world's top 100 research universities, postsecondary education in the United States as a whole is generally viewed as uneven at best. Recent international comparisons show that the United States has lost the lead it once had in average educational attainment, and cross-country comparisons of literacy and numeracy among adults suggest that Americans rank in the bottom half of OECD nations on many measures. Among the concerns expressed about the American system are rising tuitions and levels of student debt, large and growing disparities by socioeconomic status in attendance and completion, low levels of degree attainment in science and engineering programs in spite of large government investments, low levels of student effort at many institutions, outdated methods of instruction, and disproportionate growth of administration and administrative regulation. At the same time, participation of under-represented racial and ethnic groups has never been higher, and the college wage premium remains high. Paradoxically, while many observers believe that colleges and universities in the United States are failing to equip students with the skills they need to compete for jobs in a competitive world economy, others argue that faster growth in the number of college graduates would decrease income inequality
The theme for this issue is the effectiveness of American higher education, a theme intended to be broad enough to include a variety of possible topics bearing on the current performance and future prospects of U.S. higher education institutions. Theoretically informed empirical papers from all social science disciplines are welcome, as are papers drawing on concepts and methods of multiple disciplines. Papers should uncover new knowledge; their methods may be qualitative, quantitative, or mixed. For this issue, the journal invites submission of empirical papers that uncover new knowledge bearing on the effects of practices, policies, and institutions in higher education. They may feature causal models, or they may be mainly descriptive.
These papers could address time-honored topics such as the effects of financial aid and admissions policies on access and degree completion, remediation efforts, peer effects on learning or campus culture, factors associated with attrition, faculty labor market issues, and cost functions. Or they could address empirical questions that have not previously been studied. Below we offer, solely as illustrations, examples of analyses we anticipate would be of interest to the research and policy communities.
What Forces and Policies Affect Rates of Access to Higher Education? College attendance rates remain low among students from the bottom half—and particularly among students from the bottom quarter—of the income distribution. State policies and institutional practices vary in ways that may either promote or constrain access for these students. States differ in their levels of subsidy to higher education institutions with highs in some of the mineral-rich and traditionally progressive states and lows in several of the New England states. To what extent do these variations affect access? Financial aid policies in the states also vary dramatically. Financial aid for low-income students is comparatively generous in California and far less so in many of the Southern states. Does new evidence exist about whether access is affected by the practices of discounting tuition and offering merit scholarships? For example, does a discounted high tuition have the same effect as an equivalent undiscounted lower tuition? Public universities are under increasing pressure to find new sources of revenue as states have reduced appropriations for higher education. How have institutional efforts to recruit higher-paying out-of-state and international students affected access for in-state low-income students? Curricula may also matter. Do stronger emphases on job-related training, characteristic of four-year colleges and universities in the agricultural Midwest and in the South, encourage greater access among low-income students? Simple density may also matter. Density of public institutions per hundred thousand population, for example, is low in the Northeast, where private colleges are numerous. To what extent does the density of public institutions affect the access of lower-income students?
How Can Colleges and Universities Foster the Success of Under-represented and First-Generation College Students? Although more minority and first-generation students are attending college, their grades and completion rates continue to lag significantly behind those of Asian and white students and students whose parents attended college. At the same time, some institutions have achieved extraordinary success with these students, including high levels of acceptance into prestigious graduate and professional schools and graduation rates that match those of majority students. How do campus cultures, cohort cohesion, and academic support programs facilitate these successes? Which interventions show the most promise for creating greater equality in cognitive development and success rates across racial-ethnic and educational background groups? Which interventions have proven to be less successful?
Which Instructional Practices Lead to Higher Levels of Student Learning in the Classroom? Some observers believe U.S. colleges and universities are on the verge of an effectiveness revolution in undergraduate instruction. A large number of new techniques have been introduced to break down the passivity and sharpen the focus of the lecture hall experience. These include the growing use of structured learning objectives, hooks to capture student interest, pair and share practices to increase interaction, use of clicker technology, case and project based learning, structured feedback on clear and muddy points in lecture, flipped classrooms in which discussion and in-class exercises replace lectures, and of course the incorporation of on-line instruction. What new empirical evidence exists on the effects of such practices on student learning? Which of the new practices produce the largest gains in student learning?
How Do Universities Maximize the Learning that Occurs Outside the Classroom? Not all learning occurs in the classroom or academic study sessions. At a time when online learning has become something of a popular panacea, proponents of bricks-and-mortar campuses have begun to see co-curricular learning as potentially one of the more important and least explored advantages of the physical campus. Through experiences outside the classroom, many undergraduates learn valuable interpersonal skills and some learn practical skills, such as how to run meetings, market events, and prepare budgets. Unfortunately, many other students spend the majority of their time out of class in pursuits that have little educational value. What do we know about the types of co-curricular learning on campus and the distribution of these learning experiences across subpopulations? What models exist on campuses to foster co-curricular learning and what evidence exists for the effectiveness of these models?
What Institutional Changes Are Required to Raise Four- and Six-Year Graduation Rates? The United States performs relatively well in providing access but completion statistics suggest that fewer than half who enter post-secondary institutions leave with degrees. For this reason state governors and major philanthropic foundations have focused increasing attention on raising graduation rates, particularly in public universities where completion is often a problem. Do the generally higher completion rates at more selective colleges reflect more than the academic preparation of its incoming students? What have campuses that have raised their four-year graduation rates done to accomplish this outcome? What roles do advising, course plans, curriculum management, changes in student culture, academic support services, and financial aid policies play in these accomplishments? What unintended consequences have occurred due to efforts to increase graduation rates among students who are interested in protecting their grade point averages, their opportunities for internships, and in some cases also their college lifestyles?
Have Externally Mandated Performance Metrics and Performance Funding Mechanisms Improved the Quality of U.S. Higher Education? States, regional accrediting agencies, and foundations have introduced an array of performance metrics in recent years. In some cases these metrics have been tied to appropriations for institutions. In addition to student learning outcomes and graduation rates, states have lately been exploring the employment statistics of graduates as another performance indicator. The implementation of these metrics has led to predictable forms of padding of statistics, exclusion of lower performing populations, reduced resources in unmeasured areas, and frequent changes due to lobbying and revision of state or agency priorities. What evidence exists that performance metrics have led to better informed consumers? What evidence exists that performance-based funding has improved institutional performance? What evidence exists that they have led to unintended consequences? What policy design and implementation features are necessary to achieve intended results?
Can Campuses Control Costs Without Lowering Quality? College costs have increased at three times the rate of inflation over several decades. This has led to sizable tuition increases and higher levels of student debt. In the highly stratified structure of American higher education, community colleges and regional comprehensives have long offered low cost alternatives to the research university experience. Pressures to contain the costs of research universities have now developed as well in many states. Both the public and the states have indicated a strong interest in improving the capacity of colleges and universities to reduce costs without harming quality. These interests have helped fuel the growth of online courses as well as innovations such as the "no-frills," or $10,000 degree. What strategies have cost-conscious states and research universities themselves followed to reduce their costs? What effects have these efforts had on the quality of the college experience for students, and the morale and productivity of faculty and staff? Which cost containment strategies have proven to be most promising in terms of preserving quality while reducing costs? Which strategies have led to disappointing results?
How Do For-Profit Institutions Compare to Public and Not-for-Profit Ones? For-profit colleges, universities, and other postsecondary training companies account for a significant share of enrollments and financial aid subsidies, as well as a disproportionately large share of student debt. They are especially important for less affluent students and those outside the traditional college-going age groups. How does the quality of their offerings and the economic payoff for their graduates compare to those in public or nonprofit colleges and universities? How do tuition levels in all three sectors compare to costs, and are there identifiable savings to be achieved through better use of resources?
What Lessons Can the U.S. Learn about Performance of Higher Education from Other Industrialized Countries? Although U.S. higher education is the acknowledged world leader in graduate and professional education, U.S. superiority in other facets of college-level education is not as clear. The United States currently trails many countries in the proportion of its baccalaureate students who graduate in STEM fields. The Australian province of Queensland has pioneered efforts to raise dramatically the quality of undergraduate instruction. Scandinavian countries have shown higher levels of success with students from the bottom half of the income distribution. What can reformers interested in improving the effectiveness of American higher education learn from these apparent successes in other industrialized countries?
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Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract of up to two pages of their study no later than 5 PM EST on April 30, 2014 to email@example.com. A prospective contributor may also submit up to five pages of technical supporting material, but this by no means required or expected. Please put "Higher Education" in the subject line and address the email to Suzanne Nichols, Director of Publications. Only abstracts submitted to email@example.com will be considered. Each paper included in the issue will receive a $1,000 honorarium when the issue is published. The journal issue is being edited by Steven Brint, Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education and Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Education at the University of California, Riverside, and Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Law, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, but all questions should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Selected papers will receive notification by the end of May. A draft of selected papers will be due by October 30, 2014. A conference will be held at the RSF headquarters in New York City in mid-November or early December, 2014 to discuss the papers. Travel costs, food, and lodging will be covered by the foundation. Papers will be circulated before the conference. Each paper will be presented by one of the volume contributors who will provide comments and lead discussion of the paper. The conference will focus on improvements of the papers and the identification of common themes among the papers. An important goal will be to produce a volume that can influence both future scholarship and public higher education policy.
Selected papers should be no longer than 35 pages. They should be double-spaced with 1-inch margins and printed in Times New Roman font. Tables and figures are included in the page count as are notes and references, which can be set single-spaced. The papers will be sent out for review by experts in the field the paper addresses. Papers will be judged on the basis of significance, rigor, originality, clarity of exposition, and potential usefulness in enhancing scholarly and public understanding of the effectiveness of institutional practices and policies in American higher education.
Because the volumes are intended to influence scholarly, policy, and public thinking, they will be vigorously publicized by the Russell Sage Foundation.
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The Union Knights traveled to Waterloo Columbus Friday night in 2A DISTRICT 4 action and picked up their fifth consecutive win 48-7.
The Knights utilized great field position in the first half as turnovers and great defensive play put up 41 points.
Leading tacklers for the Knights are Ben Rempe with 5.5 tackles, Jace Glenn had 2.5 with 2.0 TFL, while Brit Rolison and Silver Schmitz had 2.0..
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The leading rusher for the Union Knights were Kaleb Roach 19 carries for 34 yards. Troy Hanus continued to have a great senior year in the air
going 8 of 13, 1 int, 77 yards.
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NUGROHO, Sri and HARYADI, Gunawan Dwi (2005) PENGARUH MEDIA QUENCHING AIR TERSIRKULASI (CIRCULATED WATER) TERHADAP STRUKTUR MIKRO DAN KEKERASAN PADA BAJA AISI 1045. ROTASI, 7 (1). pp. 19-23. ISSN 1411-027X
The cooling rate in the heat treatment processes after the austenitization is completely influencing the micro structure and the nature of steel. Quenching is a cooling process which has a high rate of cooling. But quenching that's used to carried out had an insufficiency, which cause lower cooling rate than it supposes can be, it's cause by the formation of an unbroken vapor blanket around the hot specimen. But, to get the martensite phase and the maximum hardness, then the cooling rate that is produced on quenching has to be higher, or at least as same as the critical cooling rate of the steel. Cooling rate, for instance, is determined by the type of steel, the dimension and the size of steel, and the condition of quenchant when quenching is carried out. The aim of this experiment is to check the influences of agited quenchant which used, to the micro structure and hardness of AISI 1045 steel. This experiment also results the determination of specimen size, the making of agited quench installation, and the estimation of cooling time that installation could reach.
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: belief that something will happen or is likely to happen
: a feeling or belief about how successful, good, etc., someone or something will be
: a feeling or belief about how successful, good, etc., someone or something will be
Are expectations a good thing?
"High expectations are the key to everything."
--Sam Walton
Are expectations a bad thing?
"When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
- Ryan Reynolds
We all have expectations:
for ourselves and others,
from others and
about life.
Some expectations are conscious and many unconscious. Conflicts happen because spoken or unspoken expectations are not met. Feelings linger when expectations for ourselves, of others or life fall short.
Stephen Hawkings said:
"When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have."
Do expectations support or sabotage?
Letting go of expectations to answer this question and shifting to the question --
How are my expectations supporting or sabotaging my life?


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Best medium car over $50,000 - Mercedes-Benz C200
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Recent sales figures show buyers are willing to pay for a top-quality product, and that's what they're getting with Mercedes C 200. It gets the important things right, such as safety and fuel efficiency, sweetens the deal with class-leading standard features and then delivers a seamless drive.
Its safety features include nine airbags, blind-spot and attention assistance, and an active bonnet to reduce the severity of an impact with a pedestrian or cyclist.
The C 200's comfort and convenience levels are considerable, starting with electric front seats with electro-pneumatic lumbar support, reversing camera, sat-nav, digital radio, synthetic leather upholstery and keyless start. On top of that, there's Active Park Assist that helps the driver manoeuvre into a parking space.
A frugal 6.0L/100km is achieved with a fuel-saving stop/start system. The 2.0L, 4cyl turbo-charged engine is matched to a 7spd automatic transmission, and there's never a sense you have to push it hard to get the best out of it. It all works in relaxed harmony, as a perfectly matched set of On The Road scores demonstrates.
The quality of the Mercedes build and finish is, as expected, top-notch.


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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
wednesday nite tacos
since it's supposed to start getting cold again tomorrow, jennie and i met up for a spin to enjoy the last of this nice 50 degree weather. we headed out west and stopped at this place i had heard of but never been to before. el comal (1st street and west O) is cheap, and the food is mmmm mmmm good!
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
soup sunday
i met up with lis down at the grateful bread for some soup. it was getting cold but lis was fine in her winter cycling getup (which includes a snappy caps winter cycling hat, foxwear cycling pants... and her chic boots to keep the slush at bay). a while later, at magic hour, i headed downtown for some tea.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
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nice boots
my friend sarah sent me this. compared to where she used to live ann arbor must seem pretty darn cold. but being from colorado and having lived in nebraska, and then berlin for a while i think she can hack it. she hasn't been able to ride much over the winter so far, but today she says it's 60 and she's lovin' every minute of it. hey sarah! glad to see you out on the surly.
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Friday, February 06, 2009
paris new york shanghai
it's the first friday artwalk and there was a lot going on... but on a bike you can pretty much hit them all! i swung by the sheldon to check out the evolving eden show. pretty cool stuff... in particular the hans eijkelboom installation of paris new york shanghai.
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This past weekend I finally got around to installing a pen for the chickens. In the process I coerced my wife into getting a new coop for the girls. Their old one wasn't made by a great craftsman and was getting rickety pretty quick. So much so, I was using a 2×4 to prop one side up.
Dismantling the old junker. I pulled out the nails and screws of the 2×4's so I could reuse them for other projects.
This new coop was built by my neighbor chicken farmer friend. Last fall when his lawn care business went dormant for the winter he started building coops. He put a few on craigslist to sell and has become so busy that he has now enlisted the help of another neighbor just to help keep production flowing. He currently has 7 orders for various kinds of coops. He offered me the "friendly neighbor" discount on this one. I couldn't pass it up. I mean come on. Exterior nesting boxes and even a window planter.
I also got around to planting potatoes. Complete with reused 2×4's from the old coop.


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IN THE LIMELIGHT (photo art) & STRIP TEASE (free verse dream poem) by Roswila
totally undress the dream
and what you end up
sitting still for
simply jiggles awkwardly
around the stage
in the harsh glare
of the footlights
but leave it draped delicately
in softly morphing images
and you may enjoy
a mesmerizing
dance of the seven veils
after all
the art of a strip
lies in the tease
[Free verse poem I started writing in a dream that was vaguely about writing about dreams, 5-30-14. Photo art "In the Limelight" (4-24-14 002v9) by Roswila]
There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers, as the above is), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.
[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under "View my complete profile"). Roswila's connections & other blogs: Charter Member of the United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS); ROSWILA'S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA'S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.


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The Supreme Court Case: United States v. Paradise
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Use the publisher's Web resource to examine recent cases and briefs. Use this site to view examples of case briefs and to help you guide through this exercise.
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Appendix B
Briefing Cases
Reading court cases can be challenging because of the language and extensive amount of written information. A brief is a short summary of a case, a simplified version, often only about one page in length. Briefing a case is a great way to study cases and helps one "digest" its contents. There are a few styles to briefing. Below is the basic model we suggest one follows. A standard brief highlights the basic issue, the essential facts, the decision of the court or ruling, and the analysis of the decision. In our class we will also add our own comments to the end brief. This skill gets better with practice and feedback.
This section includes four or five sentences providing the key facts for the legal issue in the case. Discuss the name of case, the name of the court hearing the case, and the parties involved (plaintiff and defendant). The case brief should include just enough facts to recall the case and explain why the rule was applied.
This section includes one sentence that very precisely sets out the legal issue before the court. It is the question placed before the court that must be answered. It is the fact or facts of law that are in dispute between two parties. We cannot understand the opinion fully if we do not know the issues.
This section includes one sentence providing the ultimate decision by the court, applying a rule of law to the facts. The ruling may tell which party prevailed and why.
This section includes a paragraph or two providing the court's reasoning for reaching the decision that it did. Every case requires some analysis.
Minority Rationale(s)
This section includes a sentence or two providing the basic objections of any minority (concurring, dissenting, or concurring in part/dissenting in part) opinions.
Every case is important to the parties; it tells what the decision of the court was and why. Cases also set precedents and explain the law. At the end of each brief, the writer should note the significance of the case.
Appendix C
Briefing Cases
Minority Rationale(s)
Follow-Up Questions (Please see Appendix A for follow up questions on your specific brief)
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The Supreme Court Case: United States v. Paradise
Docket Number: 85-999
Employment is an important part of business and there should not be any violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Facts: The Alabama Department of Public Safety was asked to make promotions of employees in which half of the promotions would go to blacks. There was a condition that blacks suitable for the position should be available. In other words, can there be a directive to the state department to make a 50% promotions reserved for blacks if suitable candidates were available. It had been found that for almost four decades blacks ...
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This posting gives an excellent brief of the case United States v. Paradise. Step wise it provides the facts, issue, ruling, analysis and the significance of the case.


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Tesla - The world's first teraflop many-core processor
Today, scientific research is carried out on supercomputing clusters, a shared resource that consumes hundreds of kilowatts of power and costs millions of dollars to build and maintain. As a result, researchers must fight for time on these resources, slowing their work and delaying results. NVIDIA and its worldwide partners today announced the availability of the GPU-based Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer, which delivers the equivalent computing power of a cluster, at 1/100th of the price and in a form factor of a standard desktop workstation.
"We've all heard 'desktop supercomputer' claims in the past, but this time it's for real," said Burton Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow. "NVIDIA and its partners will be delivering outstanding performance and broad applicability to the mainstream marketplace. Heterogeneous computing, where GPUs work in tandem with CPUs, is what makes such a breakthrough possible."
Priced like a conventional PC workstation, yet delivering 250 times the processing power, researchers now have the horsepower to perform complex, data-intensive computations right at their desk, processing more data faster and cutting time to discovery.
"GPUs have evolved to the point where many real world applications are easily implemented on them and run significantly faster than on multi-core systems," said Prof. Jack Dongarra, director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee and author of LINPACK. "Future computing architectures will be hybrid systems with parallel-core GPUs working in tandem with multi-core CPUs."
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The Open Hillel movement emerged out of objections to the application of Hillel International's "standards of partnership", most specifically a provision preventing partnership with organization which endorse the BDS movement (a rule which, OH maintains, effectively prevents collaboration with most Palestinian groups which have endorsed said movement). Open Hillel objected to this rule as stifling open inquiry and debate regarding Israel (hence the name).
The discourse around Open Hillel has, to my ears at least, conflated three distinct questions:
- Is Hillel justified in drawing certain lines whereby certain groups or positions are beyond the pale?
- If line-drawing is permissible, has Hillel drawn them in the right place (excluding BDS)?
- Should decisions over the above be made by a central organization or by individual Hillel chapters?
The way I've often thought about this question is by asking whether Open Hillel would think it an injustice if Hillel refused to partner with or host Pam Geller? If the answer is yes, then that means Open Hillel really is taking a principled "open inquiry" stance. If the answer is no, then Open Hillel doesn't object to line-drawing per se, only to where the lines are drawn. And if the answer is "all of these decisions should be made at the chapter level", then the question is simply shifted to a new forum (and Open Hillel's ambitions become a lot narrower than often assumed). Any of these represent a legitimate position, but they are very different positions that raise different arguments in response, and I've never been clear on which one Open Hillel actually takes.
@ZacharyBraiterm I've long wondered whether @OpenHillelNow supports Hillel being open to arguably racist far-right Jewish/Israeli voices?
— David Schraub (@schraubd) January 7, 2016
@ZacharyBraiterm ie, is @OpenHillelNow an "open mic" free speech org, or does it simply disagree with where @HillelIntl draws the line?
— David Schraub (@schraubd) January 7, 2016
@schraubd @ZacharyBraiterm If there's interest from students in bringing someone far right, then sure. No need to whitewash views which...
— Open Hillel (@OpenHillelNow) January 7, 2016
@schraubd ...exist among Israelis/Palestinians. Not sure how far right you're talking. We tried bringing Mort Klein to our 2014 conference.
— Open Hillel (@OpenHillelNow) January 7, 2016
That exchange suggests Open Hillel really does see itself as being inside the "open mic" camp (it answers my first question in the negative), and thinks that any voice -- even if many students find it hateful or offensive -- should be fair game. That principle applies equally to Pam Geller and to BDS acolytes (both of whom many people find hateful and offensive). In this way, Open Hillel can be seen as standing against the "safe space" trend one sees on some college campuses, where certain types of views are said to be so inherently marginalizing so as to be validly excluded from public dialogue. They are closer to the Williams College "uncomfortable learning" group, affirming the importance of hearing ideas many people -- dominant and subordinated group members alike -- might prefer to ignore.
One might question, then, why Open Hillel focuses so much on the BDS issue if its free inquiry commitment really is so non-partisan. But here I think they have a valid response: BDS is right now the predominant flashpoint for Hillel International's interference into local chapter affairs. Indeed, it's notable that while Hillel's partnership standards put several hoops in front of left-wing groups to jump through, there are no corresponding boundaries whereby someone can be beyond the pale on the political right. There are no guidelines that, for example, suggest Hillel would refuse to partner with groups or speakers that demonize Palestinians or engage in racist incitement (let alone prohibitions on right-wing "one-staters"). Indeed, there's nothing that would prevent Pam Geller from having a platform.
This is a serious problem for people who, like me, don't find the idea of "drawing a line" to be inherently problematic. I've often remarked that the Jewish community cannot only have a boundary on its left border. Even people who think that it is reasonable to say "BDS is beyond the pale" can't act surprised if that contention falls on deaf ears where only left-wing movements are so exiled. If Hillel International really does want to preserve its position that BDS should be no platformed, the best thing it could do would be to release similar guidelines, enforced with similar robustness, that demarcate what sorts of right-wing positions, agitation, or incitement (against Palestinians or against Jewish leftists) is also out of bonds.
Hillel's infirmities notwithstanding, it still remains the case that Open Hillel's position depends on the viability of a true "open mic" policy. And there are arguments to be had here. One goes to the last question I posed: who makes the call? Should "openness" be a mandate from Hillel International (an inversion of the guidelines), or do local chapters decide for themselves what voices they think are legitimately worth including in dialogue and who/what should be left out. The tweets imply the latter, and Open Hillel's about page suggests the same: their prime mission is to change Hillel International's partnership guidelines so as to permit local chapters to adopt their own standards; they then say they will "encourage" these chapters to themselves adopt open policies. So if a local Jewish campus community democratically elects to exclude voices Open Hillel thinks should be included, that seems to be their prerogative. Obviously, OH can (and has said it will) "encourage" chapters to reverse those positions, but it presumably could not demand any sort of centralized rule requiring inclusion.
The larger problem rests in the feasibility of a true "open mic" position. Even if one believes that OH activists, in their bones, think it is equally outrageous to exclude the Pam Geller's of the world and the Jewish Voice for Peace activists of the world, they'd still face the problem of what to do with groups who openly oppose "open dialogue" in any capacity -- perhaps most notably, "anti-normalization" groups. Hillel International's final partnership guideline targets those who "[e]xhibit a pattern of disruptive behavior towards campus events or guest speakers or foster an atmosphere of incivility;" a rule clearly designed to encompass folks who, say, tried to shout down Moshe Halbertal. In this, they seem to be in accord with Open Hillel (which presumably must also view such actions as incompatible with the spirit of open dialogue). And indeed, Open Hillel specifically says "Open Hillel is committed to making its events, programs, membership, and leadership open and accessible to all who share in Open Hillel's mission and values", which leaves the door open to excluding those who are seen as not sharing in its "mission and values." A true commitment to openness isn't as straightforward as it appears, particularly when not everybody shares the principle.
Indeed, one can see shades of the problem in Open Hillel's reference to being open to any speaker who elicits "interest from students." Embedded in that statement, I think, is the valid hope that there are many potential speakers that most students would not be interested in; that private consensus can replace organizational diktat in ensuring that truly ridiculous and repulsive views aren't offered a forum. But which views qualify? It's the "Academic Freedom vs. Academic Legitimacy" debate all over again. If Jewish students on a particular campus expressed an "interest" in bringing in Pam Geller to speak, I don't think most of us would react by lauding their commitment to open inquiry and hearing various points of view. Even if we concede their "right" to extend the invitation, we would be dismayed at the students' appraisal of what sorts of views are worthy entrants in serious conversation. Certainly, I would think that a community which thought that Pam Geller was presenting something "interesting" has gone badly off the rails. But many view the proposition that the world's only Jewish state should be exiled from the global community in the exact same way. So we're right back into the "where to draw the line" question; the only difference is that the forum has changed. And while Open Hillel obviously has substantive opinions on where the line should be drawn (specifically, that BDS advocacy should remain in-bounds), its entire rhetorical arsenal acts as if the line drawing endeavor can be avoided entirely.
In short, Open Hillel does seem to be attempting to take a genuinely "open mic" approach to discourse within Hillel, applicable to controversial left and right speakers alike. That's a perfectly respectable position (albeit one that perhaps cuts against some of the current left-liberal zeitgeist, and one which OH seems willing to subordinate to the broader value of chapter control). Unfortunately, the "open mic" approach actually cannot eliminate the question of "where to draw the line", it can only shift the forum in which that question is debated over. One can legitimately say, as OH apparently does, that such questions should not be made at the national level but rather be devolved to individual campus chapters. But campus Jewish representatives will nonetheless not be able to avoid making decisions about what sorts of views -- from Pam Geller to BDS -- should and should not be seen as legitimate entrants into Jewish communal conversation.


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Olukai Race and Saying Goodbye to Maui
A week ago I was prepared to compete in my first Olukai Race in Maui. I had planned it to be my big send-off after another epic winter there. There was a lot to cram in between family time, friend time, packing, and getting in our good byes. It was raining and foggy when I loaded my 17'4 ft unlimited SIC Bullet. It's not uncommon where I live upcountry so I trucked along, loaded some inspirational tunes in the VW Bus and started down Piiholo and then the Haleakala Hwy. As an eternal optimist, I was not deterred when the weather did not improve. By close to 10 am I found myself in a tent at Kanaha Beach Park with some of the best SUP athletes in the world; Connor Baxter, Travis Grant, Danny Ching, Andrea Moller and Izzy Gomez to name a handful. Renowned Waterman Archie Kalepa informed us that the race was cancelled due to wind direction and weather and tentatively postponed to the following day.
There is a classic baseball movie from the late 80's called "Bull Durham" with a great quote in it: "A good friend of mine used to say, 'This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.' Think about that for a while."
I think that it's in our nature to simplify—probably something that has been selected in our evolution. We take in stimuli, discern the most important information, and act accordingly. We look at someone at the highest level in a sport do something extraordinary and think that we can do it just as well: golf is just hitting a ball into a hole, tennis is hitting a ball over a net, basketball throwing a ball into a hoop, MMA is beating up someone in a cage, skiing is just going down a mountain, surfing is just riding a wave, and paddling is just putting your paddle in the water and stroking.
Deep down we know that it's not the case. Most people when trying a new athletic activity say that it was not as easy as they thought. The reason why athletes at the top of their game make it look easy is because they have trained, practiced, and have been coached. When it comes to paddle boarding, we have heard time and time again that it was not as easy as it looks. It's common now to be inspired by media and because access is as easy as a click, you can buy all the gear you want and then have it overnighted to you. How many people do you know have purchased something impulsively and then realized that they probably bought the wrong thing? Because the content we get now is from all over the world and extremely specialized, it's easy to think or make a parallel that if it was good enough for someone there it will be good for me here.
When we started SUPCO, we wanted first of all to be a resource manufacturers to our patrons. The river was such a new game in SUP and we learned quickly that not all inflatable SUPs were built with the same quality and design with the river in mind. We learned by trial, and in time created great relationships with manufacturers and customers alike who valued our commitment to quality equipment and quality instruction. Now we have three locations with premium equipment and instructors at all of them. We've formed great partnerships with towns like Dillon and Avon and have recently acquired Adrift Adventures in Dinosaur National Monument.
It turns out that they did end up having the race the next day, but for me and others that weren't pros, we couldn't make it. I had this vision of my glorious send-off, sharing bumps on the Maliko Run and having my Olukai jersey to wear proudly in Colorado. Maui blessed me with rain and rainbows and Colorado welcomed me with snow. I hit the ground running and the team is being assembled right now like a superhero montage in a Marvel movie. We have shared some great camps and offerings and have some others still to come. Please reach out for more info and feel free to sign up online if you get the chance. We are honored to serve you and be your resource for all things SUP in the Rocky mountains.
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Posted on February 24, 2015 by David Lauer
Folks who attend EAIA meetings are certainly familiar with the work of master tinsmith Bill McMillen. Bill has given numerous talks and demonstrations at our meetings about his work and about his studies of the tinsmith trade. His summary of the subject, "The Tinsmith in America – The Trade, Materials, Tradesmen, Tools and Products," was The Chronicle's cover article in June 2013.
Bill grew up on Staten Island NY where his father was the director of the Staten Island Historical Society, an early member of EAIA, and also involved in the establishment of Historic Richmond Town. Bill subsequently worked there for many years prior to retiring to the Albany area a few years ago. In the early days, Bill accompanied his father as he went out on antique collecting trips and consultations regarding renovations/reconstructions of early buildings. While still young, and through these early experiences and his subsequent work at Richmond Town, Bill learned to look closely at objects in order to determine the original techniques that were used in their construction.
Bill's first contact with tin work came in the mid 1970s with Don Carpentier, who had already set up a tin shop at Eastfield Village. If you've attended any of EAIA's Trade Samplers during the summer at Eastfield, you've probably seen this shop. Shortly after this experience with Don, Bill began collecting the necessary original tools and set up a shop within Historic Richmond Town. That shop is still in operation.
There is an excellent DVD still available here that demonstrates Bill's skill at tin work. There are also summer classes ("Tin 1" and "Tin 2") held at Eastfield Village that are taught by Bill. I was able to participate in both courses several years ago, and I've now assembled my own tin shop with original hand tools and machines. I'm having great experiences making a variety of accurate copies of original tin items, and also occasionally engaging in what might be called "flights of fancy," if not up to the standards of actual folk art. The latter isn't something that Bill does very often, as he hews pretty closely to reproducing items that are known to exist, using techniques as close to those that were originally used as he can discern. He believes that spontaneity in making objects on a daily basis was fairly unusual for the 18th and 19th century tinsmith. The smith's livelihood depended on making objects that people would actually buy, so what was made was what was expected by the clientele. One exception might be gift items intended for the 10th or "tin" anniversary and that might include tin top hats and ladies bonnets.
In order to supplement the information included on the above DVD, I recently visited Bill and Judy at their home near Albany and interviewed Bill regarding his techniques.
What will follow in subsequent installments is a step by step demonstration of the creation of a tin canister, shown in the photograph above.
Before proceeding, however, let me give you links to some helpful and free online books:
First: The Tin-Plate Industry, A Comparative Study of its Growth in the United States and Wales, by D.E. Dunbar and published in 1915 is an excellent source of historical information about the industry and the processes used to produce tinplate. Here's the link.
Second: The Tinsmith's Helper and Pattern Book by H.K Vosburgh, published in 1912 has a wealth of practical information about sheet tin, pattern production, etc. It can be viewed or downloaded by accessing the following link.
Additional information can be accessed at the tintinker's website here.
The next post will cover the construction of the canister. In the photo above Bill holds the original and the completed copy. Stay tuned…
If you'd like to read other installments in this series you can read them here.
Category: Eastfield Village, Metalworking Tools, Tin Smithing Tags: Bill McMillen, Eastfield, Eastfield Village, Tin Canister, TinSmithing
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Nice article.
Is truley a Master Craftsman, I had the oppurtunity of seeing some of his quality items produced in in shop at the Restoration. Everything from Building Restorations to Crafting items, in my Opinion The Best there is. I am proud to have Bill McMillen as a Friend
Kevin Burke
Bill , I stumbled on to this story , great to see you , love to get in touch
Laura and Walt Maraldo
Bill it's Tony Zecca- how are you and Judy? Write soon so I can get your phone number- I'm back on the east coast!
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Morning -
In the morning as I groggily get up I like to take a large cotton round and my Garnier miceller water to wake up and tone my face, if my skin is looking a little rubbishy then I will quickly cleanse with my No7 Beautiful skin cleansing balm before hand. And then moisturise my face and decolatage with the Boots traditional moisture cream with A & E vitamins, to prep my face ready for makeup application. Another trick I use to keep my skin looking and feeling beautiful is having a large glass of ice water at night and drinking anything I have left over in the morning.
Night -
Removing my makeup is probably the most satisfying feeling you ever have, and I like to make sure I go to sleep with no ounce of makeup on what so ever. I start of with once again taking a cotton round and my Garnier miceller water to remove my eye makeup and face makeup, I then again take my No7 beautiful skin cleansing balm (for dry skin) to get rid of any excess makeup, sebum and dirt left on my skin. Usually by this time my face is feeling clean but I like to go one step further at treat my face with the Emma Hardie cleansing balm and expensive luxury product that does my skin wonders. I end up massaging that on and the vaporising my face with a warm/hot cloth to open up my pores to let my moisturiser sink in. I then use my no supprise Boots traditional moisturizing cream to hydrate my skin.
Now if on the rare occasion I do see a spot pop up I will treat it straight away by applying a little drop of pure Tea tree oil to dry it out and make it heel much faster!
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The Personal Journey 365, the wilderness period
This is the Moses who told the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.' He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us. Acts 7:37-38 NIV The term "wilderness" can be defined as a part of a garden set apart for plants growing with unchecked luxuriance (luxuriant growth or productiveness; richness, abundance; lushness). In the Spiritual sense, the wilderness period is season of our life spent alone with God, period. The amount of time in the wilderness is directly proportional to our surrender. It may be the very first time that we surrender our own limited understanding and start building a personal relationship with God. While it may seem lonely at first, there is no other time that our connection with God is fuller. The understanding is upside- down from this temporal finite world in which we are merely visitors. God will move heaven and earth to get your attention, but many still rebel. To rebel the wilderness period is to say, "God, I have no desire to getread more


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In Part 1 of this discussion, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of developing custom software versus purchasing Out of the Box Software (OTBS). Now that you have a sense of the pros and cons for each approach, how do you go about deciding which way to go? What are the key considerations?
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BLOG: Cámara Chica in Cuba
A Mile in Our Shoes - a First Light movie
Briony Hanson, director of British Council Film reflects on the experience of facilitating dialogue between UK-based organisation First Light and FAMCA at the University of the Arts in Havana to organise a series of workshops for young people in Cuba.
We first dipped our toes in Cuban waters with several exploratory projects during 2012 dividing our efforts between simply showcasing British films and trying to find a more meaningful dialogue between film communities in the UK and those in Cuba. The results were varied: a fruitful new relationship began between a group of short filmmakers from Havana who were given a direct line to Bristol's celebrated Encounters Shorts Festival, and a week of British Films screened at Havana's CINE CHAPLIN, ranging from UK indie pics Monsters and Skeletons, to Ben Wheatley's debut Down Terrace and Terence Davies' elegant Deep Blue Sea. This was the first time that Cuban audiences had the chance to sample less mainstream British films en masse, making their selection after browsing our database of British film.
This June we've upped the stakes by heading out to Cuba ourselves to stage our most ambitious programme yet. A partnership with colleagues at First Light, the celebrated UK-based organisation that uses film and media production to develop skills in young people from a variety of different backgrounds, we're excited to be staging Cámara Chica, a series of seven workshops taking place across six provinces of Cuba.
Led from the Cuban side by La Facultad Arte de los Medios de Comunicación Audiovisual (FAMCA) part of University of the Arts , this project is designed to train staff in community centres across the island in the techniques needed to introduce children and young people to filmmaking.
A question of legacy
Using basic equipment – much of which we transported from the UK and most of which we'll be leaving in Cuba as a legacy of the project - our UK mentors, Barry Hale and Chris Kemp, overseen by First Light CEO Leigh Thomas, will guide groups of community leaders to help groups of young people to create their own stories, developing ideas into a script over five days, and learning all the production techniques they need through the process through to the final edit. Once complete, the films will all get a community screening in each of the project locations, followed by a giant celebration…
Recording progress
British Council Film team's Senior Advisor Will Massa was there to record the project start, highlights of which have so far included an extraordinary welcome play mounted by the first group of children in advance of their debut workshop (a group apparently so bright and enthusiastic they had the whole UK team on the verge of tears on Day 1). Despite some erratic wifi, Will and the team have been tweeting when they can from @British_Film #firstlightcuba - and we'll be rounding up the full story the project team returns at the end of June.


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