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Sporting and major events can be quite emotionally affecting. The sports & events sector is booming. Business is international nowadays, and the sports & events industry is no exception. The master's programme International Sport & Event Management prepares you for these demands with a globally oriented, interdisciplinary education.
At the University of Applied Sciences Europe, we educate our students from day one to become managers in the areas of Sports, Event, and Marketing Management. You can look forward to special highlights, such as seminars and projects with partners from business, sports, and academia. In addition, this master's programme can easily be combined with a second job, as our lectures take place between Wednesday afternoon and Saturday evening.
The optional semester abroad at the Real Madrid Graduate School (Universidad Europea de Madrid) provides you with a complementary MBA degree without losing time, offering you an up-close look at one of the most successful soccer clubs in the world. Aside from the international profile, the informal environment is perfect to establish contacts to plan and determine your future path.
Our university focuses on your development. That's why we teach in small learning groups and in a friendly and personal atmosphere. You will be taught by renowned lecturers with backgrounds in sports and event management. You will study at a campus that is centrally located, equipped with the latest technology, and known for its international and English-speaking character.
At University of Applied Sciences Europe you even get the possibilty to actively shape your studies and your career path. Depending on your personal career goals, you will select your own specialisations and choose from a range of interdisciplinary subjects. A special executive training and certificate qualifies you optimally for future leadership tasks. The programmes taught at our university also include practical projects with top business partners and optional field trips (for example to the Silicon Valley) which will prepare you perfectly for the job market of tomorrow.
In addition, you can combine two Master's programmes at University of Applied Sciences Europe: with no or only one additional semester, you can complete International Sport & Event Management as part of a master double degree.
The University of Applied Sciences Europe is state accredited, has been awarded on multiple occasions and is worldwide leading in international approach.
At our university you study in small groups. This guarantees you individual support and personal contact to the professors. Our lecturers are experts in their field.
You will notice our practical approach from the first semester. A variety of courses allows you to determine the content of your studies yourself. University of Applied Sciences Europe offers modern equipment like beamers in all rooms, macpools and more.
An internship and/or a semester aboroad is mandatory and projects and excursions give you the opportunity to get a network in the business. For example, a semester abroad at the Real Madrid Graduate School including a complementary academic degree is a highly recommended possibility.
We want your studies to fit perfectly into your life. That's why the lectures for the Master's degree students only tke place on Wednesday afternoon until Friday and sometimes Saturday evening. That is, why it is possible for you to work part-time and study full-time more easily.
However, preparation and follow-up work need to be taken into account, since this is a full-time study course by curriculum.
We put emphasis on internationality. That's why we were ranked as "one of the best 25 best international universities worldwide" (U-Multirank 2016). Our many international students come from all over the world to pursue a highly valued (state and FIBAA recognised) German degree that is entirely taught in English.
Germany, known as the country of innovators, is the perfect place to get your degree. Germany is the largest economic power and the center of high tech and automotive technologies in Europe. Additionally, Germany is a particularly safe and livable country with relatively low tuition fees and affordable living costs. Furthermore, Berlin is known as Europe's startup capital, magnet for creatives, and "place to be" for young people and entrepreneurs.
That's why we encourage international students to come here and study with us. You can apply with your national school degree now. We will then take a look at your application and guide you through the process.
From football to fashion, concerts to trade fairs – live events shape the world and are of huge economic importance. The master's degree programme, with its international focus, ideally prepares you for managerial roles in the booming sports and events branches. As a sport and event manager, you conceive, organise, and evaluate emotional worlds of experience that excite and touch people – and which are also an economic success.
The Master of Arts (M.A.) enables you to go on to complete your Ph.D. studies leading to a doctorate, possibly as a requirement for a teaching or research position at universities and other institutions.
The main skills required for sport, event, and marketing management are the ability to communicate, to think in an interdisciplinary way, and to lead a team. In addition, International Sport Management is geared toward leadership roles in sport, while International Event Management focuses on planning and organisational roles. International Marketing Management complements these two subject areas.
To reinforce the vocational focus, the programme was developed in conjunction with experts from Ernst & Young (SCORE – Sports Consulting) and experts from Real Madrid, with the involvement of communication agencies. You are thus equipped with in-depth knowledge and practical experience to embark on your career.
In order to prepare you further for the tasks of managing companies operating globally, an International Experience is integrated into your studies. To complete the International Experience successfully one can choose between different elements on a modular principle, which could be in the form of a Summer / Winter School, a semester abroad, an internship or student employee scheme. You will find out more information during our information events.
All classes are conducted in English. The optional semester abroad takes place at Real Madrid Graduate School in the second semester. By choosing this option, you can gain an additional academic degree alongside your master's degree at University of Applied Sciences Europe without extending the study period (complementary international degree):
Real Madrid Graduate School and University of Applied Sciences Europe offer a double degree in International Sport & Events Management (MBA in Sports Management). Learning from the best professionals of Real Madrid and best academics from University of Applied Sciences Europe is key to ensure the success of this unique programme. As a highlight, students have the opportunity to be part of the Real Madrid Graduate School's Graduation ceremony alongside more than 450 students of all on-campus programmes.
The Real Madrid Graduate School – Universidad Europea extends beyond the boundaries of sports by training professional leaders in all the disciplines that are associated, one way or another, with this area. The graduate programmes focus on different areas and are designed for university graduates and working professionals from the different sectors linked to both professional and amateur sports.
The school was created with a strong international component, just like the two institutions that back it. On one side there is Real Madrid Football Club, which took a Spanish company and made it into a leading international force; on the other is Universidad Europea de Madrid, a member of Laureate International Universities, a world leader in advanced education.
The guiding educational principle behind each of the graduate degrees of the Real Madrid International Professional School is a professional focus. The design and implementation of these programmes is carried out by professionals from both Real Madrid as well as Universidad Europea de Madrid, highly prestiged in their respective fields.
With the goal of providing a practical education, the graduate programmes are taught in state-of-the-art facilities: the Real Madrid facilities at its brand new Sports City and Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, as well as Universidad Europea de Madrid's campuses in Alcobendas (Madrid) and Villaviciosa de Odón (Madrid). In addition, most of the graduate programmes include visits to companies or to events related to the curriculum, such as the All England Club where the famous Wimbledon Grand Slam takes place, in the case of the Alfredo Di Stefano MBA in Sports Management.
As a private university, University of Applied Sciences Europe is funded not by the state, but by tuition fees. For this reason, studying at University of Applied Sciences Europe costs more than at a public university. But it's worth it: Our graduates meet essential requirements of business, and this sets them apart from the graduates of many public universities. Your employment and earnings prospects are greatly improved.
All costs are included in the monthly tuition fee. This also includes the costs of the Leadership Assessment Center. No additional costs will be incurred, such as a matriculation fee, exam fees, master thesis fee or similar, as long as the course is completed within the standard study period.
We are happy to provide you with information on funding your studies and on any available scholarships. If you have any further questions, our Student Guidance Office can provide you with detailed information. Find out useful information on this website.
You can apply a year in advance for your desired starting semester.
Students must meet the following requirements to qualify for the master's degree programme:
Find out more information about the application process.
The Master of Arts (M.A.) degree enables you to go on to complete your Ph.D. studies leading to a doctorate. However, the individual institutions of higher education determine the entrance requirements and the terms of admission.


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Monoclonal Microphone
Monoclonal Microphone consists of a large, indeterminate number of potential poems generated by algorithmic processes transacting with internet search.
The most recent manifestation of Monoclonal Microphone was the movie, presented for the Arts Program of 'The End(s) of Electronic Literature,' the 2015 conference and festival of the Electronic Literature Organization, University of Bergen, Norway, Aug 5-8. This movie — which shows edited screen capture of Monoclonal Microphone poems in the process of generation along with an extract of animated zooming in and out of reading distance for a pre-processed array of poems — may be viewed and/or downloaded here. (550 Mb)
The poems are generated by algorithms that compose phrases and lines and then refer these elements of language - via network search services - to the implicit corpus of language-making currently indexed by Google Books. The most recent form of presentation for Monoclonal Microphone is a screen-formatted array containing over a thousand of the 'monoclonal' poems. A visual interface zooms into the array allowing randomly selected individual poems to be read. Before this animation was produced, a similar number of poems had been printed on a portrait format poster, 34x48 inches.
On this page you may link to two QuickTime-rendered movies that will give some impression of the work. The 480x270 pixel version is suitable for mobile devices. The larger 1280x720 movie is, in fact, a Quartz Composition wrapped in a QuickTime movie. This is linked-to directly. If you have an appropriate QuickTime plugin, it will run after downloading about 55 megabytes, but this cannot be guaranteed. This version of the piece provides genuine pseudo-random selection of individual poems. Visitors with modern OSX machines may also download the Quartz Composition itself and use it as a screen saver by placing it in one of their 'Library/Screen Savers' folders and configuring it in System Preferences.
The poems in these versions of the piece were generated in 2010 and 2011. A description of their generation is adapted, below, from an article by the author, 'Reading & Giving', in the journal Performance Research 18.5 (2013) 10-19. An open access, author accepted manuscript of this article is available here, in the Brown Digital Repository.
Mobile-sized 480x270 thirty-minute movie with a determinate set of readings.
Tablet-sized 960x540 thirty-minute movie with a determinate set of readings.
Direct link to a large 1280x720, c.55Mb QuickTime encapsulation of a Quartz Composition with pseudo-random reading selections.
Direct link allowing the download of a zipped Quartz Composition that generates the above movie. This can be used as a screen saver on, for example, recent OSX machines.
Monoclonal Microphone in this form was first displayed as part of an exhibition at the Counterpath gallery space in Denver Colorado, Nov 15-Dec 8, 2013: 'Writing to be Found - three screen-based projects'.
Monoclonal Microphone arose from a process designed to generate an initial text which subsequently served as the loose template for instances in the open-ended set of potential poems that constitute the work.
The 'first' text of 'Monoclonal Microphone' is the poem-like arrangement of title and nine lines of 'verse' illustrated in the large gray type of image below. The pseudo-code/constraints that generated this text are as follows. The poem is composed from a two-word title and two-word lines, each one an adjective preceding a singular noun, selected from a digitized lexicon by quasi-random processes. Another simple algorithm generated quasi-random couplet- or verse- divisions for the poem-like text based on the occurrence of particular letters in a line. Potential adjective-noun lines were also searched for in Google Books, double-quoted, to find a (relative frequency) count for the possible line as a word sequence. Only phrases with zero results (no hits) were selected. I call these word sequences 'zero counts.' At the time of searching they had not yet been indexed in the Google Books 'corpus.'
The lefthand part of this image shows a printed poster with 1,020 subsequent texts, here in a minute typeface. As a function of my own further design, these 'poems' share more than the original generative constraints. I read and then read into the verses of the first 'Monoclonal Microphone' narrative and semantic arcs that can be encoded in a speculative, elided grammar thus: After roomy parentage / comes irresponsible falconry. // Homespun blockade reinforces / bodily deliberation. // Oh unsound angler — // an antagonistic jamming of / languorous motivation, / the infamous plasma of / closeted anatomy.
For the generation of the field of poems, the number of both lines and verses in the model were preserved and the literal composition of the lines also follow the rules of verse-break generation. Note, for example, that the letter 'e' does not occur in any of the poems' lines 6 thru 8, for this reason. More significantly, collocated phrases including the above added grammar words have been searched in Google to ensure that they do occur in Google's general corpus, with a count of 65 or greater. For example from the top-left-most poem in the righthand part of the image "after coincident" was searched, as was "generalship comes" and "comes stratified". When actually reading (assuming this were graphically possible) any of the poems printed on the lefthand side, one should always be able to add in these same words from this model - after, comes, reinforces, oh, a/an, of, the, of - and discover a more determinate reading, one that is sometimes uncannily appropriate given the relatively arbitrary and indeterminate processes that have otherwise given rise to these texts.
As here reproduced, on the lefthand side of the image, the 1020 texts underlying their initial seed and template text cannot be read by humans. However their virtual linguistic artifactuality is accurately represented by graphic traces and I have, above, provided an exposition of the generative principles - alluding in this case to actual code - that determine the disposition of the graphic marks. On the righthand side, a part of the same image has been scaled up such that actual human reading of six instances of the text becomes possible. I have read these poems; you may read them now. My question is to ask: Is this enough? The six poems that you and I have now read certainly exist. What about the rest that have not yet be 'scaled up' for you?
There are a number of continuous 'scales' of readability that we might apply to our experiences of the these texts and the virtual possibility of our bringing them into actual language as we do so. The most obvious and material of these is literal graphic scale. I scaled the lefthand side of the image in order to make six instances of the texts (barely) readable and, arbitrarily, so that they fitted neatly beside the overall image of one plus 1,020 (unreadable) texts. Using the movies supplied or with access to the pdf version of the printed poster it is possible to zoom in continuously on one or other text. For particular readers the texts will have entered human readability at very different points during this zoom. However the strange and singular moment at which the text becomes readable will always have what I call a 'catastrophic' quality for human readers, demonstrating the sudden diegetic break when a constructed artifactuality - up until this moment ambiguously an artifactuality of, in this case, visual or linguistic material - suddenly and unambiguously enters the world of language.

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Philly's restaurant scene is always expanding and evolving. There are the perennial favorites, and then there are the newcomers with fresh ideas and smart new concepts. Our list features a spread of new places with new dishes to savor and new drinks to sample.
Michael Schulson's new restaurant features antique charm in a sprawling renovated space on Sansom Street. The ambiance is warm and comfortable despite the space that the 24-foot ceilings create, with four chandeliers, vintage wallpaper, and leather chairs. Dishes prepared by executive chef Karen Nicolas incorporates New American and global influences, with tapas snacks like burrata with pickled figs and larger plates like hanger steak. Don't forget to check out the two-lane, reservation bowling alley downstairs for pizza, cocktails, and charcuterie.
1525 Sansom Street
(215) 330-2800
Beer lovers will rejoice at Cinder's long list of sours, ciders, and wild ales. The bar features 32 taps and over 70 bottles, some of which (like the Raspberry Sour from Colorado) are nearly impossible to find anywhere else. For eats, the artisanal pizza kitchen serves up rustic wood-fired pies—both traditional, like margherita, and funky, like with pineapple and pork al pastor. Chef Jonathan Petruce also serves up a variety of other bar-style plates like jalapeño poppers and steamed mussels.
1500 Locust Street
(267) 761-5582
Part craft beer grab-and-go and part casual restaurant for Vietnamese street food and cocktails, Banh Mi & Bottles is the perfect spot for a quick drink or bowl of pho. Exposed brick, colorful wall art, and a communal table create a cool atmosphere in the dining area. Enjoy crispy buns, goi cuon, and the signature banh mi. On your way out, pick from one of over 200 craft beers from the two massive refrigerators.
19147 Washington Square West
(215) 800-1533
Shoo Fry brings a little taste of Canada to Rittenhouse Square with poutine, milkshakes, and sliders. Visitors can go for the classic gravy-and-curds-topped French fries, or explore creative twists like buffalo chicken, cheddar and fried egg and scrapple, or steak and cheese whiz and fried onions. Four different sliders offer additional choice, and ice cream and non-dairy shakes are the perfect sweet pairing.
132 South 17th Street
(267) 639-2104
A bli-level bar and lounge with white oak and marble accents on the first floor offset and modern dining room on the second. Views of tree-filled Rittenhouse park provide a beautiful backdrop for the attractive space. A modern Italian menu by chefs Jon Oh and Jorge Espinoza showcases house-made spaghetti, braised short ribs, and an Italian-focused wine list.
210 West Rittenhouse Square
(215) 558-4199
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Iraq: Political and business relations with the USA in question
Watching Tehran: President Donald Trump provoked a diplomatic storm on 4 February when he said US forces needed to stay in Iraq to 'keep an eye on Iran'. Speaking to the CBS Face the Nation programme, Trump said "one of the reasons I want to keep" the Ain Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq "is because I want to be looking a little bit at Iran, because Iran is a real problem." The comments were condemned by leading figures in Iraq, including President Barham Saleh who said it would deviate from the 2008 US-Iraq Strategic Framework Agreement.
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I have a great love for camping. It all started in my first year of varsity when a group of my friends always went camping in Tietiesbaai on the Westcoast. In the beginning we were poor students that really roughed it. I remember hiding half underneath the car just to get some shade.. sigh… the glory days.
In the beginning food was also more of a luxury than a necessity. Lately we are trying new recipes and really having fun with new and old dishes. Braaing, Bacon and Chili Poppers... these are a few of my favorite things, so why not combine the 3? This is how:
What you will need:
Jalapeno Chilies
Streaky Bacon
Cheddar Cheese
Mozzarella Cheese
Cream Cheese
(The amount varies depending on how any Poppers you would like to make.)
Firstly you cut the Chilies and clean out all of the pips and rinse them under some water. Then you grate the Mozzarella and the Cheddar and mix it in the Cream cheese. Stuff the chili with as much cheese as possible.
Wrap the chili in Bacon, making sure that the bacon covers anywhere cheese could escape from when it's on the grill.
Place it on the grill and braai the poppers until the bacon is crispy and the cheese is melted.
Besides the fact that we didn't have nearly enough milk to stop the burning, They turned out perfect!! I will definitely be making these again!


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Please take a minute and vote for my Easy Skillet Lasagna in the Mr. Food Ultimate Weeknight Meal Contest!
The voting ends this Friday, September 28.
If you already voted - THANK YOU!
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VOTED! I love Mr. Food. He had syndicated segment on the local news channel when I was in high school. I think it was the first time I figured out people actually cooked for a living. :-)ReplyDelete
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Spicy Roasted Phool Makhana
Puffed lotus seeds are used during fasting as it makes for a good fasting food. It's light on the stomach and nutritious .Try to replace your good old pop corn packets with this healthy guilt free makhana snack to munch, while watching your favorite movie/show.
Spicy Roasted Phool Makhana (Puffed Lotus Seeds) Recipe
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Serves: 4-5
1½ cup Phool Makhana/Puffed Lotus Seeds
½ tbsp Chaat Masala
¼ tbsp Pepper Powder
½ tbsp Red Chilli Powder
½ tbsp Black Salt
¼ Turmeric powder
2 tbsp Ghee/oil/butter
Heat 1 tbsp ghee/oil in a kadai and add phool makhana to it and roast them until crisp over low flame.This takes 8-10mins. You can even taste a piece of nut to check whether it turned crispy.
Add all the spice powders and salt, except chaat masala.
Toss to combine evenly. Sprinkle chaat masala and turn off the fire as you don't want the spice powder to get burnt.
Mix well until the phool makhana is coated well with all the spices.
Once they cool store them in an air tight container. You can store it up to a week.If the makhana becomes soft just pop them in a pan and roast them until crisp.
Serve them as an evening snack with a cup of tea or coffee or whenever you want to munch on in between meals.
Makhana have a neutral taste. you can spice it up the way you want, just roast them and when they are cool, store in an air-tight container, anytime you want a light and nutritious snack, just have the roasted makhana.
Note You can replace chaat masala with garam masala and green mango (amchur) powder powder for a different taste.


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Particle Sorting Chips – Sheath Flow
The particle sorting chips applying a sheath flow should be used with pulsation free syringe pumps.
Velocity of the sheath flow should be significantly higher than the one of the sample stream and two
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Five outlet channels with two junctions for sorting give the option to collect at two different locations
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Ina Gives in to Pressure! Will Cook With Sick Kid! But She's Still a Dumbass
On April 1, I went ballistic on the Food Network's "Barefoot Contessa", Ina Garten. Rather than recount the whole thing again here, I'll pick out a few selected quotes from the April 1 post. I will tell you that I lit into Ina because she twice turned down a request to help out the Make A Wish Foundation grant the wish of a six year old boy with cancer! My Mother would not be proud of me for the things I wrote. it was ugly. For instance, I wrote this "I have no sympathy for a cold-hearted bitch who is "too busy" to make a fucking phone call to a terminally ill little boy who doesn't know how much time he has left". And that was one of the nicer things I wrote. If you don't mind really bad language and the truth, here's the whole thing. Read it if you dare.
At the time I put those words to paper, as it were, I meant every damn syllable of it. And guess what? It worked! Due to the repercussions and overwhelming pressure initiated by my brilliant, though-provoking post, Ina has changed her mind. Actually, I made that last sentence up, but a dumbass can dream, can't he? Ina Garten doesn't give a shit about what I think, but she does give a shit about thousands of emails and phone calls to the Food Network from pissed off viewers telling her what a cold-hearted diva she is. Therefore she crumbled like a house of cards. Upon reconsideration, Ina called the sick kid and invited him to hang around the Food Network studios while she tapes her program, so, in the end, things worked out like they should have, even though Garten and her "people" were less than gracious about the situation from the beginning. I am still not sure Ina learned her lesson though, or she should fire her spoke-dumbass becuase the spokes-dumbass told ABC News, "Ina became aware of Enzo's story this weekend and will be calling him today," a spokesperson for Garten." She found out this weekend? That's a steaming pile of horse hockey if I ever smelled one. This story was all over the old and new media for almost a week before somebody notified her? Uh huh. And Santa Claus will bring me a new truck and bass boat for Christmas. Dumbasses.
I am not going to pound Ina again today because she finally ended up doing the right thing, if a day late and a dollar short. I will, however, continue to boycott her show because she still seems to be a first class bitch, or at least that's the impression her spokes-dumbass has left us with. Prove me wrong, Ina. If you've got once ounce of self respect left, you should personally make a statement in your own words for us all to see and let us make up our own minds about your bitchness or lack thereof. And one more thing, Ina...fire the stupid fuck, or stupid fucks, that act as your press liaison. There are a bunch of incompetent idiots who did you no favors during this whole ordeal.
This is your shot at redemption, Ina. Make the best of it. I'll be waiting and watching, don't let me, or especially the sick kid, down. Until then, you are still a dumbass.
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Third-platform technologies force IT to think strategically
Deployment of the third platform impacts the way IT conducts business within its organization, calling for more collaboration among business units.
BOSTON -- Enterprise implementation of third-platform technologies -- mobile, big data, social and cloud -- will require IT to change how it does business in the coming years.
IT needs to move away from triage and become more strategic if they want to meet the changing needs of their organizations and deploy advanced technologies, analysts at IDC Directions 2014 said this week.
The third platform is about the reinvention of all the industries, with six of the top 20 market leaders being disrupted by competitors, according to Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst for IDC, an IT analysis firm based in Framingham, Mass. Gens noted how future consolidation will lead to the "'Amazoning' of the industry," reflecting how organizations and users will change the way they live and conduct business.
"IT is at the core of the battles for leadership," he added.
IT assets matter less, while IT agility matters more, said Scott Lundstrom, group vice president and general manager of IDC financial, government and health insights.
One can create an environment where anything is a service, he said, adding that it's not just about cost, but rather time.
Data center at the core
IT's relevancy will grow as third-platform technologies impact the data center's infrastructure and servers. The densification of servers is happening now as companies consolidate workloads and invest in Web applications and data analytics, said Matt Eastwood, IDC group vice president and general manager of enterprise platforms. Other technologies, such as silicon photonics and low-power server deployments, will also impact data centers.
Mobilization also helps drive the changes in the data center, Eastwood said.
As technology changes, IDC's survey data revealed that 41% of its 143 IT executive respondents said application modernization was important, followed by 38% who named big data/business analytics and 35% who noted security/risk management as the key areas their organizations will focus on this year.
"IT thinks about managing risk," Eastwood said. They think about the business value of an application and how it impacts the infrastructure, he said.
Collaboration takes center stage
For IT professionals, deploying third-platform technologies alters the way their department has done business in the past.
IT is now imbued with a sense of collaboration and can work more closely with business units, said Joseph Pucciarelli, IDC vice president and IT executive advisor.
IT leadership is now a part of the business management team, according to 51% of the 143 IT executives polled by IDC.
Companies such as MCPc Inc., an IT solutions and service provider based in Cleveland, have seen the shift occur among customers with more support for IT recommendations from internal business units.
IT must partner with the business units supporting its initiatives, said Ira Grossman, chief technology officer of end-user and mobile computing at MCPc. He cited an example in which he recently conducted a bring-your-own-device workshop to a financial institution. He was pleased to see IT have a seat at the table among attending executives and business groups.
As IT becomes a partner in strategic business decisions, organizations can reduce the cost of IT departments as well.
There is an opportunity for IT to be a profit center or be cost-neutral by transforming the group into IT as a Service, Grossman said. He noted that IT's cost can now be spread across different business units' profits and losses within an organization.


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More people are moving to Texas now than any other state in the U.S. Natural beauty, low cost of living and friendly people, all are reasons for people to start their living here. Here are five reasons why Texas is the best place to live in America.
Cheap homes
If your income is not able to keep pace with the increasing cost of living, then you should go to Texas.The land is cheap there and so is the housing. A typical house in Texas costs $130, 100. Comparatively, an average home in Brooklyn costs half a million dollars.
Low living cost
Houston has cheap labor, cheap gas, and cheap produce. The per capita income of Texas is higher than California. It is the third highest average income in the entire nation.
Low taxes
There is no income tax in Texas. It collects about $3,500 in taxes overall per resident every year. California, on the other hand, collects $4,900 per resident and New York collects $7, 400 per resident. Both California and New York have income taxes.
It is true that automation is killing many jobs in Texas, but it is creating new jobs too. For example, 168 workers are needed to keep a Predator drone for 24 hours in the air. The new jobs that are created will be different from the old ones. For examples, medical technicians will let the software do the scans for body and brain. But the medical technician has to know about the limitations of the software.
Texas is the fastest growing states in America consisting of Austin, Dallas, and Houston which are the fastest growing cities in the world. So, you can move to Texas with your family to start a new life.


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The Experience Box
The Experience Box
Handy to try out, take on holidays or to give away to a friend!
Would you like to know which scrub from our range suits you best? Then is this Experience box the best for you!
This box contains our four different coffee scrubs. Because the bags are smaller, they are also handy for taking on holiday, they fit exactly in your suitcase.
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Sounds a little gruesome, right?
Well, it's October, which is National Mystery Month, and also the release month of my fifth Books By The Bay mystery, POISONED PROSE.
This novel is a little different than previous installments in that I decided to terminate a reoccurring character. It was nothing personal and actually, as I write the sixth book, I'm finding that I truly miss this person. Hopefully, you'll realize why he or she had to go. It was sad, but it had to happen. And Oyster Bay, North Carolina, will never quite be the same.
To me, an ongoing series cannot stay fresh unless the isolated small town worlds existing in most cozy mysteries are given a mighty shake every now and then. I like to think of my towns as places inside a snow globe and once in a blue moon, I must turn them upside-down so that the magical confetti can whirl about inside the dome.
So here's my oddball contest. Guess which character I'm going to kill by posting in the comments. I'll pool all the correct answers and, on October 5th, notify the winner via email or Facebook. If I can't find you, I'll post the winner's name on my next blog (October 12).
What will you get? A $25 e-gift card to the bookstore of your choice. Good luck and don't forget to pre-order Poisoned Prose! Pre-orders really help your favorite authors stay alive in this competitive marketplace. Thanks so much!
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Olivia thought gathering some of the most renowned storytellers in one place would be a nice, simple way for herself and the Bayside Book Writers to appreciate their talents. But things take a dark turn when the most famous storyteller in the nation—the captivating performer Violetta Devereaux—announces onstage that she will meet her end in Oyster Bay.
When Violetta is discovered murdered after the show, everyone involved with the retreat becomes a suspect. There are rumors that Violetta, who grew up in extreme poverty in the Appalachian Mountains, possessed an invaluable treasure. Now Chief Rawlings and the Bayside Book Writers must work at a frenzied pace to solve the crime before someone closes the book on them.


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MozBraille Documentation
A short user's documentation
Move inside the user interface
When MozBraille is installed, you can use mozilla normally with the mouse, shortkeys (you can find the shortkeys list here), caret (cursor) and with the "Find as you type" function. For each action MozBraille changes the three outputs.
MozBraille offers you an another way to move inside interface (ie : XUL) and inside HTML document. To do that you have some actions :
- alt-n: Display the next element on the three views and move the cursor.
- alt-shif-n: Display the previous element.
- alt-l: Display the next Braille zone on the Braille output and move the cursor.
- alt-shift-l: Display the previous Braille zone.
- alt-m: Display the next header in the document on the three views and move the cursor
- alt-shift-n: Display the previous header in the document
- alt-p: Display the next paragraph in the document on the three views and move the cursor
- alt-shift-p: Display the previous paragraph in the document
Action on an element
Some XUL or HTML element can do some actions. For example, a link can do the "jump" action. To know the different actions you can open the element configuration window (look this screenshot) . To use those actions you have four shortkeys:
- alt-1: Do the action number 1 on the node under the cursor.
- alt-2: Do the action number 2 on the node under the cursor.
- alt-3: Do the action number 3 on the node under the cursor.
- alt-4: Do the action number 4 on the node under the cursor.
Text to speech command
- alt--: Stop the text to speech
- alt-+: Speech what is write on the Braille output.
Outputs configuration for element
To configure the element under your cursor you have to use this action :
alt-c: Configure the node under the cursor. This action display this windows :
As you can see on this screenshot, you can change what is displayed on the three outputs for each element. For that you have to use a simple language in three strings. It's composed with some properties. Each property is represented as "%C" string where C is a character. Properties depend of the element and are displayed in the config window. there are three particulars properties:
- %c : is replaced by the childs string element.
- %A : Include the element attribute. For example with a link elemnt, %Ahref%A in the string is replaced by the value of the href attribute.
- %t : is replaced by the element tag name.
MozBraille configurationTo configure MozBraille in general, you have to open the configuration window by clicking on MozBraille config in the window menu.
You can enable or disabled MozBraille and there are five tabs :
The General tab
With the chechbox you can enable or disbale the blinking on the mozilla view (ie : on the browser).
The braille tab
On this tab you can choose the kind of Braille terminal:
- Virtual with the fake. With this choice only the number of cells can be modified.
Real with libbraille . After that you can configure libbraille : drivers, port, braille table.
The big Char view tabNOT AVAILABLE FOR THE MOMENT
The text to speech tabWith the text to speech tab, you can choose the default voice, the rate (the speed) and volume of the text to speech
Braille keys configuration
With this tab you can configure braille key shortcut to activate all the actions defined in this document. To do that :
- go to the good button and press it.
- "click a button on your braille terminal" is displayed on the braille terminal
- click on a button on your Braille terminal.
- Normally a code in nthe corresponding textbox has changed.
- Click on the save button and restart your browser


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Despite early playoff exit, Hadwin and Taylor enjoy success as PGA Tour rookies
By Brad Ziemer: They both made early playoff exits, but that certainly should not diminish the solid rookie seasons Abbotsford natives Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin enjoyed on the PGA Tour. And it seems a good bet that they will soon have some B.C. company on the Tour.
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addAnnotations(IEditorPart editorPart,
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Positions and adds annotations to the given editor for the specified stack frame and returns whether any annotations were added.
removeAnnotations(IEditorPart editorPart,
IThread thread)
Removes any debug related annotations from the given editor.
boolean addAnnotations(IEditorPart editorPart, IStackFrame frame)
true is returned, a call will be made to remove annotations
when the source selection is cleared for the stack frame. When
false is returned, the debugger will position and add
standard annotations to the editor, and a corresponding call to remove
annotations will not be made. This method is called when the debugger is
has opened an editor to display source for the given stack frame.
editorPart - the editor the debugger has opened
frame - the stack frame for which the debugger is displaying
true if annotations were added to the given editor part
false otherwise
void removeAnnotations(IEditorPart editorPart, IThread thread)
editorPart - an editor that annotations were added to for
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thread - the thread for which stack frame annotations were
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Caterpillar, the world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is starting to support research on the "Contour Crafting" automated construction system that its creator believes will one day be able to build full-scale houses in hours. This is concrete-jet instead of inkjet printing technology.
Printing buildings to speed up the economy is one of the key technologies for this sites concept of a mundane technological singularity
The current state of the art is printing concrete walls.
Printing buildings is a key part of new manufacturing and construction revolution.
Contour Crafting is an effort to scale up rapid prototyping/manufacturing (a billion dollar industry to make 3 dimensional parts) and inkjet printing techniques to the scale of building multi-story buildings and vehicles. The process could accelerate the trillion dollar (US only) construction industry by 200 times. Projections indicate costs will be around one fifth as much as conventional construction. (Land prices are unchanged, so the actual prices of homes would not change as much in say Hawaii, Tokyo, Manhattan or San Francisco). Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single run, embedded in each house all the conduits for electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning.
The machine will cost between $500K to $700K for average size (2000 sq ft — 200 m2) detached houses. This is not much given that a concrete pump truck is now $300k-$400K. Note that with one machine numerous homes can be built. The first commercial machines to be available this year, 2008. [If this date is met it will be very short run production. It seems that this is still a couple of years from any serious level of trial usage. It will take longer for wide scale adoption and build up of factories.] The machine will be collapsible to form into an easy truck load. The unloading and setup will take between 1-2 hours.
Goals for this phase of the project are process and material engineering research to relate various process parameters and material characteristics to the performance of the specimens to be produced. Various experimental and analytical methods will be employed in the course of the research.
Future phases of the project are expected to include geometric design issues, research in deployable robotics and material delivery methods, automated plumbing and electrical network installation, and automated inspection and quality control.
Advanced computer modeling is a key aspect of removing other bottlenecks to a radically faster construction and manufacturing revolution


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The Sample Feasibility Study
With a sample feasibility study in hand, a manager can see what target audience was gone after in the past for ideas on who they are and what might be appealing to them with future deliverables. This is the only purpose of this kind of document. To identify who is willing to pay for what so a company can develop a revenue stream by taking advantage of this need on the market place.
In many instances, there cannot be a sample feasibility study found that is exactly like the one you will need. In most cases, there will be several that can be found which will be close in many of the necessary categories to help with the creation of your feasibility study.
How a good sample feasibility study is useful to a manager depends on the ideas that are given and a direction in which to pursue for their own advantage. This can be in the number of alternative solutions to a business problem that is plaguing your company, a different target audience that has not been previously explored before by your company, or the type of deliverable you are proposing.
With most project management template programs, there usually is several sample feasibility study included on each category, if not more. With this as a resource, a new approach can be taken by the manager that the stakeholders might not have seen or thought about in the past.
The use of a sample feasibility study will also reveal any risks and issues that could be associated with the new approach or target audience. This way, your presentation will be a thorough documentation of the good and bad that could result if your company peruses this new approach when in search of a new revenue stream.
The sample feasibility study is a good starting point for any manager to use when needing to start their own study. Going in blind with only the knowledge of what one has done in the past is the best way to reproduce the same thing, as in the past. In most cases, the new ideas are what is approved so new avenues can be explored.


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Draghi says ECB ready to act fast to tackle low inflation
The European Central Bank is ready to act in a timely manner if low inflation persists, ECB President Mario Draghi said today.
"We will continue to meet our responsibility – we will do what we must to raise inflation and inflation expectations as fast as possible, as our price stability mandate requires of us," Draghi said in a speech at an annual banking congress.
"If on its current trajectory our policy is not effective enough to achieve this, or further risks to the inflation outlook materialise, we would step up the pressure and broaden even more the channels through which we intervene, by altering accordingly the size, pace and composition of our purchases."
He also warned about the difficult economic situation in the euro zone, where growth remained weak and where no improvement in the coming months was expected.
"Over shorter horizons, however, indicators have been declining to levels that I would deem excessively low," he said.
"Survey-based measures of inflation expectations have generally been more stable, but the latest Survey of Professional Forecasters also indicates some decline – and at all horizons."
The euro zone economy is mired in low growth and weak inflation and the ECB in recent month stepped up its efforts to boost the recovery by flooding the market with billion of euros to unblock lending channels to households and companies.
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Name: Amy
Age: 23
Location: Nottingham, UK
Fashion: I mostly wear Lolita (usually classic, but occasionally venture into sweet and gothic too), however I have my own style that changes from time to time but has elements taken from cybergoth fashion, gypsy/hippy/boho styles, victorian gothic and punk. Favourite brands include Moitie, Metamorphose, Sexpot Revenge, h.naoto, Vivienne Westwood and Cyberdog to name a few, but I also love wearing one-off hand-made items too ^^
Hobbies: Music is a HUGE love of mine, and some of my favourite musicians are listed below. I also love taking photos (I take my camera pretty much EVERYWHERE with me), which brings me to my other love, going on
Music: My all-time favourite band is Malice Mizer, I still love them to this day even though they're long since done xD Miyavi is an idol of mine (I'm in his fanclub, been to see him live a couple of times and read his blog and often as I can! xD). I also really like Utada Hikaru, Közi, Girugamesh, D'espairsray, Abingdon Boys School, Gackt (mostly his older stuff though), All About Eve, Inkubus Sukkubus, Lady Gaga, Björk, Kanon Wakeshima (to name a few ^^').
Movies: I love horror! In particular Asian horror (especially Japanese & Korean), and some of my favourites include Ring, Ju-on, A Tale of Two Sisters, Dark Water, One Missed Call (etc... lol). Also, Battle Royale is about the best movie ever ;D I also LOVE Disney! xD My faves are The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland, Mulan and Pocahontas, but I love soooo many more as well xD I am a huge Ghibli/Miyazaki fan, and in particular love Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service ^^ Another all-time favourite movie of mine is Practical Magic, no idea why I've seen it about 30 times lol, but I just find it really lovely :)
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Acne treatment (especially the dominant forms of inflammatory papulopustular). It is advisable to take account of official guidance on the appropriate use of antibacterials.
Hypersensitivity to erythromycin macrolide, the substances of similar structure or any of the excipients.
Avoid contact with mucous membranes and sensitive skin areas (the subclavian, neck, eye contour) because of the alcohol content of medicine.
There are insufficient data on skin absorption after administration of erythromycin, depending on the surface area of administration and dose.
Combinations against:
-Ebastina: Increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias (decreased hepatic metabolism of macrolides antihistamines).
-Cisaprida: Increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias (decreased hepatic metabolism of cisapride by macrolides).
Special warnings
Pregnancy and lactation:
Studies in animals have shown erythromycin teratogenic effect only if a species, but not fetal toxicity.
Erythromycin crosses the placenta. As there are insufficient data on skin absorption after administration of erythromycin is not recommended during pregnancy Eryfluid.
Erythromycin passes into breast milk; diarrhea may occur in infants, irritability, the drug is not recommended during breastfeeding.
The ability to drive and use machines
It should not affect the ability to drive or operate machinery.
Dosage and administration
The recommended dose is one or two daily applications using a cotton swab soaked in the solution.
Eryfluid applied by dabbing or wiping lightly on the skin clean and dry beforehand. Treatment should be continued until clinical improvement in about 1-3 months.
Side effects
Local irritation, allergic reactions (pruritus, erythema).
Dryness of the skin at the beginning of treatment.
In case of dry skin, treatment can be continued by switching to a lower strength pharmaceutical form or reducing the number of daily applications. If these measures are not enough treatment should be discontinued.
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Rob posts a picture of an error while opening cubase 5more
Throughout Virtual Riot's video, he is seen using Cubase 5 as his DAW.more
What is your current setup? "Andrew Rayel: In my Studio I use the basic equipment and nothing special: a MIDI keyboard from M-Audio, a pair of studio monitors from Yamaha, a studio soundcard from T.C. Electronics and an simple Intel PC with Cubase 5 and a lot of VST's on it. Today's technologies have greatly improved, so in most cases there is no need a lot of hardware." Interview.more
Steinberg Cubase 5.1more
"We use Steinberg Cubase 5 as our sequencer, we've always used Cubase."more
At 2:38 you can see Cubase 5 on his screenmore
May as well get the basics out the way; What's your setup, hardware & software? Fair first question! Hardware: Event TR8XL Monitors, Shitty Midiman style 2 Octave Keyboard, Presonus Firebox, Focusrite Compounder, Borrowed Nord Lead 2, Korg MS2000, Waldorf XT, Vermona DRM1 mk2, Presonus TubePre, JSH Drum Synth, Line6 Pod, and amongst various instruments my pride and joy is a PRS Custom 24. Software: Cubase 5, Audiomulch, Granulab. My softsynth folder is a bit of a mess, but like the sound of Rob Papen stuff, but mainly seem to be into multi-samples and resampling at the moment! At the moment it's all running off a £166 barebones PC from novatech, but hoping I can invest in a decent machine next year! Hope that that answers the question! :)more
In this picture, they are showing a song arrangement in Cubase 5.more
QUAD-CORE Records Oficial Pagemore
Este DAW es mayormente ocupado por Esteban para realizar grabaciones, mezcla y mastering.more
Can be seen when cameraman zooms in on screen.more
He clearly uses Cubase and it looks like version 5more
Steinberg Cubase 5more
Cubase is a nice simple DAW to get round clean interface, i have Pro Tools too, but i prefer this at the moment.more
Alexander Metzger aka Alex Butcher ( World of Intros, Vengeance Sound, Refx )more
Cubase works with an incredible quality of sound
Outside of Mixcraft 4 and audacity, this was my first professional DAW, and after several years of learning production and experimenting with other programs, I have yet to find another recording/mixing software that comes close to the ease and power this program has. I have yet to upgrade to 6 or 7 and plan to do so when I can afford it, but if they're anything like 5 was, I'll definitely be sticking with Steinberg in the future.
So, I learned Cubase, or at least the bare bones, in school. Fair enough. When I got it myself, I felt at home with it. I learned more and more, and it became a really great tool. Of course, the interface can feel daunting at first, but it really packs a punch when you know where everything is.
I use cubase for my productions because its MIDI editing is awesome, and because I have many friends who use it. It's my go-to DAW for when I'm mentoring people as well.
great for mixing and balancing track!
i still dont really know how to use but great and pro software
I use Cubase to produce music because it have a good sound quality.
just another great DAW
After bouncing tracks from FL Studio 11, Lincoln mixes and masters in Cubase 5.5 with a variety of plugins.
it have every thing that you want in 1 pack
I have used Ableton live, Protools, Logic pro and Cakewalk; the software that rule over all of them is Cubase. I started of with Steinberg Sequel 1 and upgraded to SX3 and then to 5. I own 8.5 as well, but haven't had the time to get my head around the new software as of yet, so that will stay in its package for a while longer. I have used 5 now for four years and I find it functionality amazing and it is extremely easy to use and play around with. I find it is exacly what I need for advanced compositions be it EDM, trance, Rock, Classical ...etc...
The integration of the VST instruments and effects is flawless and recording is very easy as well. I didn't think it was to pricey either for what I've got out of it either, and it supports my creative workflow, to the tee!
If I had the choice out of any software I would certainly pick out cubase everytime, but I guess this is what i'm used to and to change software out of what i'm used to would be difficult and a learning curve which I don't really have the time to learn.
It perfectly integrates with my audio setup also and as it seamlessly integrates with any sound cards and interfaces on the market unlike Protools (which requires specific sound cards to run, for quite a price as well) it works extremely well for people that are trying to stick within a smaller budget and this is very useful for starters, semi's and pro's alike!
I like to try and experience new things. I've also heard that Cubase is really good for studio production.
I need to upgrade it to 8 in the future, but for the moment its all that I need
I Use it For Mastering for a while..its Great nice eq`s & Compressors
Cant get rid of it as i have too many projects saved in this format. Cant warrant the £200-£300 upgrade steinberg expect though. If the upgrade was about £150, i'd be on it hard.
First DAW that i've started using in my life .
The simplistic design with cubase 5 lead it to become an easy-to-learn DAW with a powerful outcome. I have used numerous DAW's and hardware recording/sequencers and Cubase has proven to be a professional grade piece of software. Cubase 5 gives you a lot of amazing features for a very reasonable price.
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• This article was amended on 21 December 2009. The headline was changed as it did not reflect accurately the contents of the story. Nancy Scheper-Hughes's name was misspelled as Nancy Sheppard-Hughes in the original text.
because "the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, [is] something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered."
Alder Hey organs scandal: the issue explained
by David Batty and Jane Perrone
Friday 27 April 2001
Hi Paul R "Reports in a Swedish newspaper falsely accused Israeli soldiers of selling organs of slain Palestinians and Swedish officials responded with the claim that it's "freedom of the press". PS. when Muslims protested the Muhammad cartoons, it was also said 'freedom of the press'. why freedom of the press should be accepted by one group and not by others?
- It was the Israeli media that broke the story (a sign of a strong, independent media and an open society, no?)
- Corneas etc were taken, reported The Guardian, from "Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives". So, as the source of the story, Prof Nancy Sheppard-Hughes, stated, "Palestinians were 'by a long shot' not the only ones affected".
- The Guardian notes that "there was no evidence that Israel had killed Palestinians to take their organs, as [Aftonbladet] reported.
- The Guardian mentions at the bottom of its report this very telling piece of information: "Hiss was removed from his post in 2004, when some details about organ harvesting were first reported".
So what we have here is a disgraceful practice which was exposed some five or six years ago resulting in the dismissal of the senior person responsible. This practice, while indefensible, bore no similarity to the antisemitic blood libel spread by the Swedish and Arab media and anti-Israel polemecists. In fact it is more akin to the scandals which hit Britain's National Health Service a few years ago when it became apparent that body parts had been removed from the dead without relatives' permission and stored away for research (see attached article)."
http://society.guardian.co.uk/alderhey/story/0,,450736,00.html is the link to a story about similar malpractice in the United Kingdom. At least in Israel and the UK the malpractice was exposed and (hopefully) stopped.
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SOMA offers a rich and complex mix of people, experiences, and possibilities. What draws neighbors here?
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Olichi Waterfall, Varavur, Wadakkancherry
The source of the river, the starting point where the waters converge to form a mighty waterfall. This was our destination. We trekked out into the forest, through narrow paths marked out only by a small trail left by the previous trekkers. Very soon we heard the gushing of the waterfall. We knew we were on the right track. All our travails ended and we gunned for the point from where we could hear the noise. Very soon, lo and behold, the majestic water cascading down the rocks.
When most people see a picture of a waterfall, they probably see a place of calm beauty that could be part of a paradise. On the other hand, waterfalls are actually chaotic in nature. If you ever fell over the edge of a tall waterfall, it wouldn't be the most pleasant experience.
The silver cascade is 30 Kms north of Thrissur, Via Varavoor, Thrissur district Kerala Vadakanchery
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On May 1, 2017, BIOTEC organized a panel discussion on "The process of asking and giving permission to conduct research in the conserved forests" at Thailand Science Park. The discussion aimed to provide information for researchers and interested people about the law and the policy as well as the access and benefit sharing to the natural resources in the area under surveillance of the Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP).
The main speakers of the discussion were the experienced representatives from the DNP. One of the problems they recognized is now there are many applications to get access to the reserved forests, from both Thai and foreign researchers. To organize these applications, the DNP established the Committee on Consideration of Research Projects in Forests. The purpose of the committee is to manage the procedures of considering the applications to be under relevant law and regulations, and align with national policies and strategies on research. Moreover, the DNP also assigned the Department of Academic Cooperation to coordinate and standardize the procedure of accessing the reserved forests. These two parties are to facilitate the processes of giving permissions to the research applicants.
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A Positive Purpose Gives Joy In Unwelcome Circumstances
Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel.
—Philippians 1:12
When the Christians at Philippi got word that Paul was imprisoned in Rome, they became very distressed at his situation. When Paul heard about the Philippians' distress, he became distressed at their distress. So what did he do? He wrote them a letter of encouragement. He assured them, "Don't worry about me. All of this is working for good because it's helping me achieve my purpose in life." Paul was a man who understood the power of a positive purpose. And he had the same purpose in life that you and I have–to glorify God.
First of all, a positive purpose in life has the power to provide joy in unwelcome circumstances. Paul said, "Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel" (Philippians 1:12).
When you ask some people, "How are you doing?" they give you a lot more information than you really want. They will inventory every ache, every pain, every bad feeling they've had. Well, the apostle Paul wasn't that way. Although he had a long list, he just tells the church that although his circumstances have been negative, they've turned out for good.
In fact, if you want to know the circumstances that Paul makes a passing reference to in this chapter, you have to go back to the book of Acts. In Acts, we find out that Paul traveled to Jerusalem to deliver a love gift to the saints, but while he was there he was falsely accused of desecrating the temple. So the Jews had him arrested. Then the Romans thought he was a fugitive. So Paul became a political pawn between the Jews and the Romans. He spent two years in prison as they argued about what to do with him. Finally Paul told the authorities, "I'm a Roman citizen. I need to make my case to the emperor." So he got permission to go to Rome. Paul then got on a boat to sail toward Rome–but the ship wrecked in a terrible storm. He was stranded on the island of Malta for three months. Finally, he was able to arrive in Rome at last and make his appeal to Caesar. He was in prison for two years awaiting the verdict of his trial.
Those are Paul's circumstances. But instead of becoming bitter about them, Paul said, "I want you to know that these few negative things have happened to me, but they have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel." The Greek word translated "progress" in this verse refers to a woodcutter who would go ahead of an advancing army in order to cut down trees so that the army could move forward. So Paul was saying, "The negative things that happened to me have cleared the way for the advance of the gospel. That's why I can rejoice in these things—because they are clearing the way for my real purpose in life: to make Jesus Christ known to as many people as possible."
Today's devotion is excerpted from "The Power of a Positive Purpose" by Dr. Robert Jeffress, 2016.
Scripture quotations are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.


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Blood atonement was reported to have been a method of repentance for those who had received baptism and the temple ordinances and afterwards committed a serious sin that would take them outside bounds of the atonement. I have read a bit about the practice but it is still unclear on several points which I won't get into. Suffice it to say it is not a church practice and never has been. Apparently it was a self initiated process whereby one would ask to have his blood spilled and that he be killed to atone for his sin. Some may want to put a finer point on it but that is the substance of the doctrine. The link below takes you to a more complete discussion of the practice.
Some amateur historians and anti-Mormons have used comments made by Brigham Young as evidence that the Church used Blood Atonement as an administrative tool however no legitimate historian has found evidence to support that contention. President Young made comments concerning blood atonement as a rhetorical device to impress upon members the seriousness of such offenses as committing adultery and murder but no one ever has provided proof that it was implemented. Young denied ever implementing the practice. It is not now nor has it ever been Church practice or policy.
The reader may wonder why I would post on this topic given I am unclear on it and it is not a practice of the Church. I do so because people who think they have sufficient knowledge about the practice continue to comment about it as though The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints believed in and continued it today. My intent is to participate in the process of piece by piece chipping away at the distortions told about us. Blood atonemnt is one of those distortions. Much has been addressed and the misinformation deliberately spread by our detractors continues to melt away from the public consciousness. But it is only through continually addressing these things that we can defeat them.


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|From the Summer 2011 issue of Knowing & Doing
by Thomas A. Tarrants, III, D. Min.
George Orwell famously said, "Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious." We live in such a time today.
In America there is widespread fogginess and confusion about what it means to be a Christian. This can be seen in much preaching, and it is painfully obvious in the lives of vast numbers of people who profess salvation through Christ but seem to have no clue of what this actually means in terms of beliefs and behavior. In such a time, it is the duty of every serious follower of Jesus Christ to go back to the basics. In this article, we will seek to do so by reexamining what Jesus taught about true conversion and total commitment. Our goal is to understand rightly the call of Jesus so as to please and honor him in daily life. And we do this not for our sake alone, but also for those we seek to reach and teach, for the church to which we belong, and for the watching world, which desperately needs to see authentic followers of Christ.
As we begin, we remind ourselves that Christ's call to true conversion and wholehearted commitment is rooted before all else in the grace of a merciful God, who loves us and calls us to life in his Son. This life cannot be earned by repentance, faith, total commitment or anything else we do. Our part is simply to receive it as offered.
In Genesis we see God creating a beautiful world and two people, whom he made in his own image and placed in a garden-like paradise. Filled with all they needed or could desire, the garden was a special gift from God, a place for them to care for and enjoy. And it was a place for them to experience personal fellowship with God. God's only restriction was that they not eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
How long this happy state continued we do not know, but at some point things went horribly wrong. Adam and Eve eventually disobeyed God's command and ate from the forbidden tree. Their disobedience was not an innocent mistake but a willful rebellion against God's lordship and loving care over their lives. It came about through the deceit and seduction of that "proud spirit," the devil, who had himself earlier rebelled against God. Taking the form of a talking serpent, the devil sought to inculcate unbelief in Adam and Eve by suggesting that God was withholding something good from them by forbidding the fruit of that one tree. Simultaneously he enticed them to pride by assuring them that through eating the forbidden fruit they would become "like God." Thus, by succumbing to pride and unbelief, they fell from their original innocence. The consequences of their willful rebellion were bitter: moral guilt, the corruption of their human nature, a shattering of God's image within, immediate spiritual death, eventual physical death, alienation from God, the incurring of his judgment, and expulsion from the garden.


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text: On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:33 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Hi Jp, > > Le vendredi 30 septembre 2005 à 12:20 -0400, Jp Calderone a écrit : > > "Advocating" might be putting it too strongly :) "Experimenting with" > > describes the current state of things most accurately. > > Ok :) > > > The problem it aims to solve is integration with cooperative threading > > systems which don't work very well. An example of such a loop is the > > wx event loop. > > > > Whenever a modal dialog is displayed or a menu is activated, wx's loop > > stops cooerating. That is wx's problem. Try PyGTK some day; I hear it's really good! ;-) > > This specific problem hides the more general problem, which is that GUI > and network activities have different typical latencies. As I explained > on the twisted ML, a GUI needs very good response times to feel friendly > (typically below 20 or even 10 ms.), whereas some network protocols have > non-trivial calculations which can go above 100 ms. With PyGTK a typical solution for this is to use a generator function executing an "idle function", which would make the non-trivial calculations, but yield control back to the main loop periodically, in order to process GUI events. For example, see the last code block in http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=show&file=faq23.020.htp > Moreover, you don't > want a sudden flood of network events to block events in the GUI. Process one event at a time, after each event give back control to the main loop, and give low priority to socket IO events. Problem solved. > > This is why even without considering wx's specificities, it is still > useful to keep GUI and network activities in separate threads. You are considering a scenario that seldom happens to design a solution that is far too complicated for most cases. Regards. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc at inescporto.pt> <gustavo at users.sourceforge.net> The universe is always one step beyond logic


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A speed-reading instructor said it can be the solution to information overload.
Paul Nowak, the founder and program director of Iris Reading, which holds speed-reading seminars across the country, said there is bigger need today to read information quickly and pick out the details.
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"Everybody has a lot of information," he said. "How can you actually get the diamonds in the rough and pick out those gold nuggets that are useful for your career, for school?"
Nowak said his company's seminars can help many people read faster and retain more. In the past year and a half, Iris has expanded to 16 cities, he said.
"By the end of a one-day, five-hour session, what they can expect, typically, [is] anything from two to three times faster," he said. "So someone will double or triple their speed with the same or better comprehension. That's typically what we see."
The classes consist of drills, and Nowak said people who practice afterward do better.
Some students said the classes made them better students.
"I would spend, on average, two, four hours a night reading, and that time has cut down significantly," said Alice Bowling, an MBA student.
Wyatt Head, a Dallas high school student, said he hoped speed-reading can help him do better in English class.
"Basically, I'm trying to just speed up my reading of Shakespeare and the reading of all these random books that they give you in high school so I can get better grades," he said.
Nowak said speed-reading is good for professionals, too.
"Most people don't calculate how much time they spend a week for reading," he said. "If you're a lawyer, you might spend 20, 30 hours a week just reading, and imagine if you've doubled your speed and cut that in half. And it's not just lawyers, it's doctors that we see in these classes and sometimes professionals who just do a lot of personal reading. "


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PRINCETON, N.J. – Despite a career high 26 points from freshman Seth Towns, the Harvard men's basketball team dropped a 73-69 decision at Princeton Friday evening.
Rookie Justin Bassey posted 13 points and six rebounds for the Crimson (18-8, 10-3). Towns paced the team with eight rebounds, shooting 9-of-12 from the field and 4-of-6 from three. Harvard connected on 13-of-28 from behind the 3-point arc, shooting 49 percent overall. The Crimson was undone by 18 turnovers that the Tigers turned into 21 points.
Princeton (20-6, 13-0) was led by 30 points from Steven Cook, who shot 13-of-16 from the floor. Myles Stephens (18) and Devin Cannady (13) also posted double-figures. Amir Bell hit a lefty hook with 1.1 seconds remaining to secure the win for the Tigers.
Harvard went 6-of-10 from the field, taking all its shots from behind the arc, to hold a 18-14 lead with 7:37 minutes gone. Princeton scored seven of the next nine to take a one-point lead, 21-20, three minutes later. The Tigers continued to expand their lead, outpacing the Crimson 7-3 to hold a 28-23 advantage at the 5:56 mark.
Towns connected for the next four Crimson points and Robert Baker nailed a three to pull Harvard within two, 32-30. Princeton finished the half with nine of the final 11 points to hold a 41-32 advantage at the break. The Crimson shot well from the floor, hitting 11-of-22, but was outdone by 12 turnovers that the Tigers turned into 13 points.
Harvard came out of the locker room focused, nailing 3-of-3 from behind the arc over the first 75 seconds to pull even, 41-41. Princeton posted seven of the next nine points, but the Crimson immediately responded a 5-2 rally to knot the score at 50-50.
Princeton posted a 10-5 edge over the next six minutes to inch ahead, 60-55. Bassey nailed a three from the corner and two free throws from Towns put Harvard back within one, 62-61, with 6:11 to play.
Back-to-back dunks by Towns pulled the two teams even at 65-65 and the two squads exchanged baskets over the next 90 seconds. Two free throws by Siyani Chambers with 1:34 to play made the score 69-69. With time running out, Bell hit a lay-up over the outstretched hand of Chris Lewis to give the Tigers the advantage with 1.1 seconds to play.
The Crimson will be back in action tomorrow at the Palestra to take on Penn. Game time is set for 7 p.m.
Game Notes: Seth Towns posted double-digits for the 17th time this season. The rookie bested his career high with 26 points and reached the 20-point plateau for the fourth time this season. Justin Bassey posted double-figures for the seventh time this season. In the all-time record book, senior co-captain Siyani Chambers ranks second all-time in assists (594), sixth in steals (162) and No. 2 in points (1,271).


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Great crested newts are amphibians, breeding in ponds during the spring and spending most of the rest of the year feeding on invertebrates in woodland, hedgerows and tussocky grassland. They hibernate underground, amongst tree roots and in old walls. The British populations of this rare amphibian are internationally important.
Our biggest newt, the Great Crested Newt is almost black in colour, with spotted flanks and a striking, orange belly. The skin is warty. The males have a long, wavy crest along the body and on the tail during the breeding season, giving them the appearance of mini dinosaurs.
Length: up to 16cm Average Lifespan: up to 15 years
Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981,and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 and classified as a Priority Species in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan.
Widespread across lowland England and Wales.
When to see
March – October
Individual Great Crested Newts can be identified by looking at their bellies: the pattern of black spots is as unique as a fingerprint. As well as their distinctive crests, males have an extravagant courtship display to woo females: they stand on their front legs, arch their back and wave their tail around as if they are dancing.


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Good morning folks! It's Christmas eve!!!!!!! I love this time of year. It makes me happy and thankful. It's not about the gifts, it's about the joy in my kids eyes and watching their excitement. It's contagious! So, lets see if Amazon is gonna be naughty or nice today. I'm not sure if I'll do a post tomorrow or not, just depends on how crazy the kiddos get in the morning. Either way, let's get to today's selections! As always free at time of posting.
Ok folks! That's it for your Christmas Eve selections! Please stay safe, hug each other, and have a great day. Enjoy!