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Babycakes Owner Erin McKenna Sacrificed Time, Life and Exercise to Launch a Gluten-Free Baking Empire, and She Wouldn't Change It for the World
Here, baker Erin McKenna—whose latest cookbook, Bread & Butter: Gluten-Free Vegan Recipes to Fill Your Bread Basket, drops today—shares her greatest sacrifices in owning her very popular Babycakes bakery.
F&W's #FOODWINEWOMEN series spotlights top women in food and drink in collaboration with Toklas Society. Follow the hashtag on Twitter (@foodandwine). Here, baker Erin McKenna—whose latest cookbook, Bread & Butter: Gluten-Free Vegan Recipes to Fill Your Bread Basket, drops today—shares her greatest sacrifices in owning her very popular Babycakes bakery.
- Who: Erin McKenna
- What: Pastry chef/owner, author
- Where: Babycakes in New York City and Los Angeles, Erin McKenna's Bakery NYC in Orlando; @itserinmckenna
It happens every time, without fail. When I tell people what I do, their eyes light up and they say one of two things: "I would be so fat if I owned a bakery!" or "Do you have to get up super early? Like, when it's dark out?!" My response to the first interrogator is probably not—you'd be way too busy and worried and excited to eat yourself into elastic-waisted longpants and frumpy sweaters. The answer to the second is yes—but not for the obvious reasons. I knew from the moment I decided to open my own bakery that I would have much to sacrifice, and it turns out the commitment to pure baking hours is actually the least of it. This is not a cautionary exercise meant to frighten, because believe me as a bakery owner you would/will love every minute of every day, just as I do. But here are the things you'll need to fear far more than the dark:
1. Your time is no longer "time," and it doesn't belong to you. Clocks don't exist, and alarms are worthless. You're operating on a different plane, and sleep is rare and tortured. Holidays, weekends, sick days, pregnancy, the Barneys sample sale: The emails do not stop, and no flu will take priority over the needs of a bakery that runs seven days a week. (The one exception is actual labor, when you're splayed out delivering a baby, which in some ways feels more like a vacation.) That wild look that's always in your dilated pupil—it never really goes away. It's like fear, but it's not. If you know what this look is, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com right away.
2. Your "life" is actually sidework to your real "life" (which is owning a small independent business). Reading, paying credit card bills, attending cultural events, celebrating family occasions, a peaceful solitary jog, the Bergdorf Goodman semi-annual sale…these things will happen in frantic, unenjoyable, 16-minute intervals, and you'll be attached to your cellphone putting out emotional and actual fires anyway. So in time you'll start to skip them altogether, thus unraveling the things you thought were "easy." The bright side is that the only thing you'll really miss is having new clothes.
3. Your diet is incomprehensible. I created my bakery and recipes because I wanted desserts that were as high-maintenance, health-conscious and well-crafted as my homemade, intricately constructed breakfasts, lunches and dinners were pre-bakery. Today, my meals consist of scraps of broken bakery items, some vegetables from the prep fridge and packaged health-junk food like kale chips. It will be horrifying and inexplicable to your loved ones, and it will be to you, too, on those rare occasions when you look up and it's 4:30 p.m., you're late to grab the kids and you realize all you've eaten all day is three handfuls of chocolate chips.
4. Goodbye, Champagne. Maybe this one is because I have two kids, but I'm convinced it applies in some way to all business owners. If I have a drink or two or three, the following day is a barely navigable haze, and there is an overwhelming desire for bed. Your stomach, per No. 3, is unprepared for the fallout, and the hangover food you studied in college would put you in traction if prepared today. Which is fine! That's OK! I could handle that! Except that one day wasted being hungover puts you five days behind, since you are perpetually four days behind to begin with.
5. Exercise: You can't do it anymore. Too low on the list. Sorry.
- PS: Owning a bakery is actually way more fun than this sounds, and I highly recommend it. I love it so much—right up there with the babies and the husband. Do it, and I'll see you in the padded cell! I'll be the one mumbling about kale chips.Related: 5 Tips on Starting an Urban Farm From Brooklyn Grange
- Padma Lakshmi's Secret to Balancing Work Sacrifies with Success
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Polished diamond prices have firmed after output cuts and a "positive" holiday season in the US, the unit of London-based Anglo American Plc said in a statement on Tuesday. The sale compares with the $248 million reaped in 2015's final offering, De Beers said.
Prices are at six-year lows after slumping 18% in 2015, the most since the 2008 global financial crisis, according to data from WWW International Diamond Consultants. Demand in China, the biggest market after the US, has shrunk along with a slowing economy and crackdown on corruption that's discouraged open displays of wealth. A credit crunch in the diamond industry also reduced available funds to purchase diamonds.
De Beers and Russia's Alrosa PJSC have reacted to slowing demand by cutting supply. De Beers, which didn't previously reveal the value of its auctions, lowered its output target three times last year. It cut prices as much as 7% at the 2016 sale, people familiar with the process said last week. The company didn't provide prices in its statement on Tuesday.
"This is a relatively good start for the year," Investec Plc said in a note. "This is a big auction and signals greater transparency." Anglo shares jumped as much as 7.5% and were 5.3% higher at 238.55 pence by 10:25 am in London, the best performance on the FTSE 100 Index of leading stocks.
Petra Diamonds Ltd, a company that mines the stones in southern Africa, said on Monday that prices have probably bottomed after the supply cuts by De Beers and Alrosa last year and there's an opportunity for them to rise over the next 6 to 12 months.

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Hey loves!!! Happy Holiday!!!! I hope you all have an amazing holiday and that you will continue to enjoy your holiday!!!
Here are 6 powerful quotes that I discovered and I had to share it with you all.
1. If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
2. Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve piece.
3. Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
4. True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
5. We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
6. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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As I said in one of my previous post, a home tour would soon show up on the website. So here it is, my promised home tour.
I got this lovely studio with the help from SSE Student housing. I applied, crossed my fingers and got very very lucky. It's extremely difficult to find housing in Stockholm, so I immediately accepted the opportunity to rent the studio for the first school year. It's located in Solna, which is a suburb of Stockholm. It only takes a 15-minute metro ride to get to school, which is just perfect.
The apartment complex is built right upon a small shopping centre, which means I simply have to take an elevator to get my groceries. No need to go outside. Such luxury!
I've been trying to keep the studio as tidy as on these pictures, which is harder than expected. There's no way of hiding your clothes in the other room, because there is no other room. Could not be happier with this place though. It's light, there's loads of closet space, quite a lot bigger than expected and practically everything is new. It's already starting to feel a bit like my home.


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Post Treatment Instructions For Fillings
Post- Operative Instructions for Composite Fillings (Tooth Colored)
The resin (tooth colored filling) material used contains small "filler" particles for strength and wear resistance. We expect these restorations to serve you well for several years. They contain the finest and most up to date materials available today. Rest assured that only the best and most durable materials are used in this practice.
*DO NOT chew or bite with full force until the numbness has worn off if anesthetic was used. The numbness usually wears off in about 4 hours. Your Composite White Filling is at full strength when completed.
*Be careful while numb!!!
*Bite–the occlusion (bite) has already been adjusted, however your bite may feel different when the anesthetic wears off. If you have had multiple restorations please give yourself time to get adjusted to the new fillings. If your bite feels "off" please contact the office so we can adjust your bite, otherwise your teeth can become tender and sensitive to temperatures and biting.
*When restorations are very large, the tooth may become weak and fracture over time and a crown may be needed. A crown gives the tooth complete coverage and strength.
The nature of the extent of the decay may cause the nerve to become exposed. If the decay was to the nerve, a medication may be placed on the exposure site (Pulp Cap) and there ma be healing. It is probable that endodontic treatment (root canal therapy) will be needed at some time in the future. If there was a near exposure, medication was also placed on the site, but there is a reduced possibility of future endodontic treatment. In either case, expect the tooth to be very sensitive to temperature changes, especially cold temperatures, for several weeks.
It is normal to experience some sensitivity to heat, cold and pressure after your appointment. One response of the nerve is to become sensitive to temperature changes. This will persist until the recession and insulation process can catch up to the effects of the bacteria, hence "the decay." This sensitivity can last from several days to several weeks. Usually, the bigger the cavity, the longer the sensitivity you will experience. Several other factors also contribute to postoperative temperature and pressure sensitivity. You can also expect some soreness in your gums for several days. We recommend refraining from tooth whitening services until the sensitivity has subsided.
*Oral Self Care and Recare
You may (and please do!) brush and floss your teeth after the local anesthetic has worn off. It is a good idea to use a sensitivity protection toothpaste (i.e., Fluoridex (sold in office), Sensodyne or Crest for Sensitivity) after fillings are completed. Refrain from using whitening products and toothpastes as the will increase sensitivity after fillings are completed. Be sure your toothpaste contains fluoride to protect around your fillings and floss daily or you can get recurrent decay around your fillings. Also use prescription fluoride toothpaste if you have experienced multiple recurring cavities.
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I want to be a writer because I sincerely
believe that words have the power to change lives, but as I've had time to
reflect over the weekend, I can't imagine that even the most eloquent of
statements would make me, or anyone else, feel any better.
I was born in Aurora Hospital and raised down
the road. I didn't know anyone who was shot or terrorized the night of The Dark
Knight Massacre, but it feels like the Columbine shootings all over again. As a
community we mourned for years over the early deaths of those high school
students. Just as we all were then, I'm angry, confused, and heartbroken by
James Holmes' murderous rampage.
I don't know about you, but I can't stop
thinking about how scary it would have been to be trapped in a movie theater;
leaving either wounded, dead, grateful to be alive or wondering why I was
spared and others weren't.
Would I have tried to run? Would I have tried to hide? Would I have tried to
save someone else? I think these are the kinds of questions we all ask
ourselves when tragedy strikes.
After the initial shock wears off, we start
asking the "why" questions. Why did this happen? Why would someone murder
innocent people, especially children?
Then, as I know I did after the Columbine
tragedy, with a little more time to process the suffering of the victims and
all associated, many of us as "how." How could anyone do this? Mental illness,
maybe? I'm not sure, though, that there is a good reason or answer to the how
or why questions.
However, there is one question with which we
have to contend when faced with tragedy, perhaps the biggest question of all:
How could God let this happen?
I'm going to say it first, loud and clear,
that I am a follower of Christ and I believe that above all, God is a loving
being as well as an all powerful. I wholeheartedly believe that we are all
fearfully and wonderfully made and that He cherishes each of us. I think He
delights in our happiness and that He created us for a relationship with Him
because He is the source of all joy, peace, and love. But because of the
intense love God feels for us, I think, like any loving parent does, He hurts
when we hurt, He suffers when we suffer.
"But, wait," I hear you interrupt, "If He
loves us and He is supposedly all powerful, why doesn't He stop us, and even
Himself, from suffering?"
The answer is this: God isn't playing a big
game of The Sims, He has given us the power to choose how to live our lives. Because
He created us for a relationship with Him, He knew that because the word
"relationship" itself implies a two way street, He had no choice but to let us
have that option—to love Him or not, to live our lives the way we deem right. For,
love is not love without both parties making the choice and having the ability
to choose that love.
Therefore, God has to allow us not to love
Him, not to live in peace with Him, and as a human race, I believe we've been
free to make that choice ever since a young man and woman chose to take a bite
of a forbidden fruit in a beautiful garden many years ago. As much as it pains
God, and us, I think that He HAS to allow suffering and HAS to allow us to make
terrible decisions because if He didn't, the choice of how to live our lives
wouldn't be ours. Furthermore, if He prevented us from suffering or sinning, from
a Biblical perspective, He would negate the purpose of our existence.
That said, I also believe that God sovereign
and is fully just; meaning He makes all things right in the big picture. I have
to believe that whatever happens in our lives, in the end, God makes all things
good—whether in this life or the next. While the relationship with Him is of
the upmost importance, in the end those who deserve their just reward will
receive it and those who deserve their just punishment will receive it as well.
I have to believe that regardless of the suffering and evil we experience in
the world, God has a plan to honor our choices, but also to heal our wounds and
bring justice to both those who suffer and cause suffering.
I would argue that God was fully present on
Friday night in Aurora, Colorado. While He may have known it was coming, I can
sense that He ached over the state of James Holmes' heart and mind, I feel that
He felt the pain of the victims, and I would be willing to bet, however it
would be noncorporeally possible, that He shed tears over the loss of life and
injustice of the whole night.
In a way, to me at least, knowing that the
God who created the sun and the stars is mourning with us and through us makes our
suffering seem significant; knowing that He cares and values the fragility of
our hearts. In my despair, however, I am comforted to know that in the end LOVE
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FoodForce2 update: facelift and new website
Foodforce2 team has released a stable release of FoodForce2 activity, and has refreshed its website at www.foodforce2.com. (Aside from the delicious but lapsed Rollca Rollcats, this makes it the first Sugar activity to develop its own site!) FF2 saw a great response this summer, with close to 150 thousand downloads over 6 months after the Beta version was released in May. This game has been developed to make the children learn to apply their education to build a self-sustainable village and learn to trade and strategize in a fun way. [caption id="attachment_1015" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="You are given responsibility of the village during an important wedding."][/caption]
The team welcomes your feedback and would like to encourage you to give the game a try. The new release has lots of improvements, with an improved story and interface, better save/resume, customizable building placement, and the fantastic panoramic photographs from its earlier versions. Details after the jump.
Some of the improvements in this release:
- Improved Story Board: The story board features a fast paced storyline and snappier dialogues and is a lot more engaging for the player.
- Ability to place buildings: Now the player can place all the buildings according to his/her own likes, this gives the game a more personalized kind of feel. (Thanks to Grivan!!)
- Graphic User Interface: The GUI has been redesigned completely, pleasing to the eye! In sync with the feel and look of Sugar Environment. (Courtesy: Rupi)
- Save and Resume: The player can save the current state of the game and resume from the saved state anytime later.
- Improved performance; bug testing and reporting done by a game testing company Chakkilam InfoTech Limited.
- The new version now supports Apple Macintosh systems (OS X) , the XO 1.5 and SoaS.
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Hypertension News
'Yo-Yo' Blood Pressure Numbers in Youth a Bad Sign for Health Later
In fact, every 4 mm Hg spike in systolic blood pressure -- the top number in a reading -- during young adulthood was tied to a 15% higher risk for heart disease in midlife, the research team found.
Recalls of Blood Pressure Med Took Toll on Patients' Health
Within the first month of the recall, there was a 55% increase of people coming to Ontario-area emergency departments complaining of high blood pressure.
Most Popular BP Drugs Might Not Be the Best
Crunching the numbers, the Columbia team calculated that about 3,100 major cardiovascular events among the patients who first took ACE inhibitors could have been prevented if they'd first been treated with a thiazide diuretic.
Bedtime May Be Best Time for Blood Pressure Meds
People who took all their blood pressure meds at night had lower blood pressure around the clock compared to volunteers who took their medication in the morning.
Many ICU Admissions May Be Preventable, Large Study Suggests
As many as 1 in 6 of the ICU admissions could have been avoided, the researchers found.
Gum Disease Might Raise Your Blood Pressure
U.K. scientists found that those who had moderate to severe gum disease (periodontitis) had a 22% increased risk for high blood pressure, and those with severe gum disease had a 49% higher risk.
Younger Patients Shunning Blood Pressure Meds
The researchers found that 23.5% of the patients stopped taking the drugs within the first nine months. And of those who kept using the medications, 40% had "low adherence" -- taking the prescribed amount less than 80% of the time.
'Selfies' Might Someday Track Your Blood Pressure
A new technology called transdermal optical imaging gives a picture of the blood flow in your face, which reveals your blood pressure, researchers say.
The 'Bottom' Blood Pressure Number Matters, Too
The 'Bottom' Blood Pressure Number Matters, Too By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to blood pressure readings, the "top" number seems to grab all the attention. But a large, new study confirms that both numbers are, in fact, critical in determining the risk of heart attack and stroke. Blood pressure measurements are given as a "top" and "bottom" number. The first reflects systolic blood pressure, the amount of pressure in the arteries as the
Air Pollution Bad News for Your Blood Pressure
The study investigated the association between long-term exposure to air pollution, how far people lived from green spaces and major roads, and the development of high blood pressure and some components of metabolic syndrome.
High Blood Pressure at Doctor's Could Signal Danger
People who had untreated "white-coat hypertension" had double the risk of dying from heart disease or stroke compared with people with normal blood pressure.
Job Stress, Poor Sleep, Hypertension a Deadly Trio
"Unfortunately, poor sleep and job stress often go hand in hand, and when combined with hypertension, the effect is even more toxic," the lead researcher said.
FDA Issues List of 'Safe' Blood Pressure Meds
The initial 40 medicines free of nitrosamine will be added to the "safe" list, the FDA says. The list is meant for health care professionals to review as they consider treatments. "
An Afternoon Nap May Lower Your Blood Pressure
Midday sleep appears to lower blood pressure levels at the same magnitude as other lifestyle changes, researches found.
Is Exercise As Helpful As Blood Pressure Meds?
It's still too early to say to toss your blood pressure medication and exercise instead, but researchers comparing studies of either exercise or meds say they seem to have the same benefit.
Valsartan Blood Pressure Drug Recall Widens
The drugs were recalled because of trace amounts of an impurity, N-nitrosodiethylamine, or NDEA, which may cause cancer in humans, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Two More Valsartan Drugs Make Growing Recall List
All of the recalled products have ingredients manufactured in either China or India. The sudden rush of recalls because of ingredients made overseas has put more scrutiny on these foreign labs and on the FDA's ability to effectively monitor their products for safety.
Shin Bones May Hold Clues to Blood Pressure
After adjusting for age, race, smoking and other factors, researchers have found a 19 percent higher risk of treatment-resistant blood pressure for every 15-microgram per gram increase in lead levels in the shin bone.
Scientists Find 500 More Genes That Influence BP
High blood pressure, which is a risk factor for stroke and heart disease, claimed almost 8 million lives around the world in 2015 alone, the researchers noted.
Second Contaminant Found in Valsartan Drugs
Those drugs were already part of August's recall of valsartan products for possible contamination with NDMA, another impurity that may cause cancer.
Home Monitoring Helps Control Blood Pressure
People who regularly track their blood pressure with home monitors do a better job of controlling their hypertension, new research indicates.
Blacks' Rate of Blood Pressure Crises 5X Higher
Hypertensive crisis, or blood pressure higher than 180/120, is five times more common in African Americans than in the general population, according to research presented at the American Heart Association meeting last week in Chicago.
RECALL: Blood Pressure Meds Contain Wrong Drug
Accord Healthcare has recalled one lot of 12.5-milligram hydrochlorothiazide tablets because the 100-count bottle was discovered to contain 100 spironolactone tablets.
Study: High Blood Pressure Threatens Aging Brain
Study: High Blood Pressure Threatens Aging Brain By Maureen SalamonHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, July 11, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Here's yet another reason to get your blood pressure under control: High blood pressure later in life may contribute to blood vessel blockages and tangles linked to Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.Tracking nearly 1,300 older people until they died, scientists found markedly higher risks of one or more brain lesions among those with high systolic blood pressure readings. These lesions were dominated by so-called "infarcts" -- areas of dead tissue prompted by blood supply blockages that can trigger strokes.Normal
3 of 4 Black Americans Have Hypertension by 55
3 of 4 Black Americans Have Hypertension by 55 By Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, July 11, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- A startling 75 percent of black people in the United States develop high blood pressure by the age of 55, a new study finds.That's a far higher rate than seen among either white men (55 percent) or white women (40 percent), the researchers said."We started to see differences between blacks and whites by age 30," said lead researcher S. Justin Thomas."We need to start focusing on preventing hypertension [high blood pressure], particularly in blacks, at an early


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Hello, I don't know what i am doing wrong but I follow your instruction tutorial, but my 3rd person character falls through any elevated roads. I have no collision with any road I build. I even created a new project from scratch, built a road and place the 3rd person on it and they just fall to the ground. Same thing happens also with your showcase map you included also where you show the elevated roads, still no collision. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
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Hello Jkthrp, File update has been processed, the fix is live.
jjacks888 Hello, this is because Road Actor's Spline->CollisionPreset property is set to "OverlapAll" by default. Set it to "BlockAll" to enable collision. You may also want to set "Use Complex Collision As Simple" in Static Mesh Editor for road and intersection meshes.
Thank you for the update GlimpseOfDawn That bug is fixed, GREAT! Now I want the terrain height to match with the sidewalk, when it's plane works fine, but not with an uneven road.
Maybe there's a value I can modify or something...
Good news everyone! Big feature update is finally live on the Marketplace! Here is new video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL5JC1uSvog
New features that is always ok but doubling the price with no previous warning about that is far from good. So those that bought it before are getting new features for free at the cheaper price and whoever wanted to buy it didn't know that with new features the price would have been doubled.....
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I appreciate that this caused you inconvenience and will consider your advice in the future.
I just saw your new trailer for your plugin and I got some questions:
1. How do the vehicle blueprints work? Are they spline based separate from the roads or are the roads part of the vehicle blueprint as well? Do the vehicles have to follow the roads?
2. Can I adjust how many vehicles I want in a particular area?
3. Can they steer in whichever direction I want them to?Last edited by MrStreakman; 05-21-2018, 06:02 PM.
1. Vehicle system includes two separate blueprints: a traffic spawner and vehicle, they follow the same splines as the roads. Vehicles always follow a spline.
2. Yes, by adding another traffic spawner with different parameters.
3. They follow specified array of road splines.
Please note the system is rather basic right now and lacks many features such as collision detection.
Added new features overview / quick tutorial video: https://youtu.be/-Koi6tFwJ7M
Hey got the road tool being using but have been experiencing low FPS when moving spline points really laggy and framerate drops every time I move a spline point making it really difficult to make roads. Any way of fixing this or do you plan in optimising the blueprint to improve performance.
To improve performance while editing splines you can temporarily disable "Spline Extra" features and set Spline->Xscale to something larger than 1 (2-3 is ok). Optimizations are planned in the future.
Hi GOD,..
Congrats for your tool that seems very exciting to use. I am working in driving simulation and this tool could be very useful for us. However, I have some questions before deciding to buy it.
1/ Do you manage special intersection as roundabouts like standard T or X crossings with customized meshes ? Do you plan to use entirely parametric objetcs and not "formated" template object as it is now ?
Is it possible to build a nightmare rouandabout as in Swindon (UK) https://imgur.com/gallery/XG4Vm ?
2/ Is it possible to build road insertions/exits with a very accurate degree of forking
/ Do you plan to support importing OSM files ?
/ Is it possible to build curb cuts for vehicles entry on sidewalks ?
Best regards,
Hi, thank you.
1/ You can create basic roundabout from several T intersections. The nightmare roundabout is only possible if you have a custom Static Mesh for it. Some parametric objects may be added in the future.
2/ Right now it is only possible with custom geometry. Will work on it after I finish current update.
3/ OSM support is not planned for now.
4/ It is possible to replace road section with a custom mesh.
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Hello, I want to know it will continue to update it? I bought a 30 euro road plug-in before, but so far it has not updated the 4.19 edition and almost no new content has been added. Does this plug-in guarantee continuous updates?
There is a more critical question. Can he be applied to building visualization? That is to say, for the shape of the road network, the CAD drawings of all kinds of special-shaped road requirements are relatively high? If it can be applied to the CAD building visualization road network modeling, I believe it is very worthwhile for me to have.
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The debate between which player of today is better than Michael Jordan is beyond tired but also unavoidable.
Current players will always be compared against past greats, but LeBron James, who many feel has revolutionized the game of basketball because of his sheer size and the way he plays the game, is said to be the player who will someday surpass Jordan as the greatest of all time.
Many people have weighed in on this topic, from current players to ex-players. Last year, Jordan's former teammate on the Bulls, Scottie Pippen, seemed to back the notion that James was better than Jordan -- which raised a few eyebrows and the ire of Bulls fans -- only to backtrack from the statement later.
Now Alonzo Mourning, a former Miami Heat player who also just happens to be on the payroll, concurred with Pippen's statement in a very public manner.
Speaking at the opening of a local Microsoft store in Miami, Mourning was asked who was the better player between MJ and LBJ. The former center had this to say: "I'm gonna tell you what Scottie said. Scottie said that LeBron would kick MJ's [butt]. And I said, 'Scottie, you're right."
Mourning went on to clarify his statement by citing James's physical prowess and athleticism compared to Jordan's as the reason for the advantage, but it was clear that the mere mention of Pippen – a guy who won all six of his championships alongside Jordan – was almost like a co-sign.
So yes, LeBron James is bigger and stronger that Michael Jordan, and statistically, he may pass MJ in a number of categories before his career ends. But where it matters most is what happened in the NBA Finals.
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Washington, D.C., is now four months into its dockless bikeshare experiment, which extends through April. This is long enough for the meddlesome neighborly gripes of D.C. residents who object to these free-range rentable bicycles to reach full bloom. It's the response that often greets minor improvements to the way things work, and it's currently having its high-modernist moment, its uproarious third season, its Fifth Symphony.
The meddlesome neighborly gripe starts with a root-chord complaint about how bikeshare leads to a lot of sidewalk "clutter." While there is some truth to that, a proper listserv riposte would never stop there. Beyond lay greater rhetorical heights.
It's prudent to first consider a measured irritation: Bikeshare users sometimes park their dockless bikes on sidewalks and curb cuts, making them obstacles for people who use motorized chairs or otherwise experience disabilities affecting mobility, among others. Plus, it's just rude.
"I'm very much for a livable city," says Ian Watlington, senior disability advocacy specialist for the National Disability Rights Network, which is based in D.C. "I don't have a problem with dockless bikes per se. It's more of a people problem."
This issue calls for an education campaign, Watlington says. A few different efforts to that end are in the works. (More on those in a moment.) Many complaints from residents about dockless bikeshare, though, take a different tenor: An argument that paints dockless bikes as a nexus for crime and neighborhood ruin has taken hold in the civic killjoy community in certain places.
Neighbors have been rehearsing their tirades about dockless bikeshare for weeks. In December, local WAMU reporter Martin Austermeuhle shared a holiday howler from the Georgetown neighborhood listserv: A resident said they aimed to call 911 to stop people from using dockless bikes. They'd even called the city on Christmas Eve. (The program's perfectly legal.) That dispatch had some of the elements of a fine whine—abuse of city resources, the words "suspicious activity" in quotes, surreal yuletide rage—but not all the essential markers of form.
Perfection arrived early in the New Year. On January 5, residents in Petworth, a neighborhood with a vibrant mix of longtime families and cocktail waystations, received a listserv notice from an area Advisory Neighborhood Commission representative. (Think of the ANC as the local stage where not-in-my-backyard ballads are performed.) In sequence, the commissioner for ANC 4A02 hit all the expected notes: complaints about process, "unsightly presence in unusual locations," and "criminal elements that result from [the bicycles'] presence and locations."
The obligatory dog whistle came via a bullet point about "ease of movement/escape from watchful eyes and law enforcement." Neighborhood busybodies have not been shy about accusing dockless bikeshare users of crime (not any specific crime, just bein' criminal). This is where I will pin another CityLab story about how dockless bikeshare is finding wider purchase within D.C.'s black community, especially with youths. Just leaving that there.
Then there is the core complaint, the mirepoix of any neighborhood listserv grievance: It offends me aesthetically. With respect to dockless bikeshare, this criticism comes dressed up as a mobility question. The polite refrain about dockless bikes is that they block sidewalks and driveways—a real problem, but tendered in bad faith. Any cyclist recognizes the pitch-perfect irony.
the problem with dockless cars is people just park them wherever they want. i— Peter Krupa 🌹 (@peterkrupa) January 17, 2018
mho this pilot program has gone far enough and it's time for @DDOTDC to put a stop to it. #bikedc pic.twitter.com/2uHK8Z78t4
Dockless bikeshare represents a vivid illustration of how residents define nuisances not as issues to be navigated, but irritations that they feel entitled to regulate out of existence. Writing in The New York Times, Emily Badger recently traced the expanding sphere of homeowners' sense of entitlement beyond backyards to encompass their entire neighborhoods (or cities). Locally, if tax-paying residents of Petworth or Georgetown don't like dockless bikes, the thinking goes, then someone has to do something about it—namely, scuttle the whole program.
Plenty of people do appreciate the dockless option. Patrick Kennedy, the ANC chair for Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood where well-heeled residents and State Department diplomats cross paths with George Washington University students, told Current that residents there like going dockless. In Foggy Bottom, traffic is heavy, sidewalks are wide, and the existing Capital Bikeshare stations are often so full that users run the risk of getting dockblocked.
What else can be done to calm dockless outrage? A spokesperson for LimeBike, one of the five (and soon to be six) dockless operators working in D.C., says that there are team members stationed in D.C. working daily to answer calls and put bikes back where they belong. Education is one tool, as Watlington says. To that end, LimeBike has released the first in a series of videos on bikeshare etiquette. It's themed after The Matrix—cute!
The District Department of Transportation says that they encourage bikeshare users to ensure a 5-foot clear zone for parking the bikes in order to meet ADA requirements. The department is fielding complaints and working with operators to address them over this trial run.
"We have heard that some visually impaired people have a hard time identifying the bikes on the sidewalk even if there is a 5-foot clear zone," says Terry Owens, DDOT's public information officer. "We also know there are instances of sidewalks being obstructed. We are working with the companies to address issues as we become aware. We also encourage the companies to be more proactive with their customers and operations."
There's an opportunity here. Dockless bikeshare may be well suited to answer a frequent complaint about the lack of adaptive bikes for people with disabilities. That's an issue with Capital Bikeshare, too, but there aren't any adaptive bicycles available that work with D.C.'s docks, Owens says.
In nearby Montgomery County, Maryland, a memorandum of understanding for a planned dockless bikeshare trial anticipates residents' objections in the very first "whereas." The memo rattles off a list of common-sense no-parking zones for dockless bikes: driveways, crosswalks, street furniture, bus stops, restaurant patios, and more. The county plans to give companies one hour to remove bikes that are parked improperly before it confiscates them. And in the case of a snow emergency, Montgomery County expects dockless bikeshare companies to reclaim all their bicycles for the duration.
What more should be done? That depends on who you ask. In D.C., dockless bikes do represent a potential hazard, but disability advocates don't argue that the whole enterprise should be scrapped as a result. Not according to Watlington, and not according to LimeBike, whose spokesperson says that the company hasn't received anything like a formal objection from any organization representing communities with disabilities.
Entitled residents are nevertheless using an argument steeped in disability rights to say that the sidewalks belong to them—and that the alternative is some kind of pedal-powered crime wave. In its own way, it's elegant.
"The solution is education," Watlington says, "not banning the bikes."
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As the city's real estate market heats up, neighborhood groups say that cash investors use building code violations to encourage homeowners to sell.
Livability indexes can obscure the experiences of non-white people. CityLab analyzed the outcomes just for black women, for a different kind of ranking.
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Brighouse Town maintained their promotion drive in Evo-Stik NPL East with a 3-0 home win over top-five rivals Tadcaster Albion yesterday.
They closed the gap on leaders Morpeth, who were held 1-1 at Pickering, to four points but the other teams chasing second-placed Town all won.
Adam Field (knee injury) was a late withdrawal for Brighouse, who were already without Tom Robinson.
Albion had the benefit of an easing wind in the first half but found Kurt Harris and James Hurtley in commanding form at the back and Adam Jones moved the ball away well to midfield.
Several players were booked in a hard-fought opening 45 minutes but Brighouse's goal was rarely threatened and the confident home side settled down to play some good football in the second half.
Haigh cut in from the left and beat experienced ex-Sunderland keeper Michael Ingham with a firm left-foot shot on 53 minutes.
Gabriel Johnson and Haigh set up leading scorer Martin to rifle home the second via the under side of the bar on 75 minutes and Heeley thundered home a third from 12 yards with 10 minutes left.
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Aquatics or Pool Therapy is a special branch of therapy that utilizes water (aquatics) as a medium where individuals can perform physical and sensory-perceptual exercises that can restore bodily functions and promote overall well-being.
For centuries, several properties of water (chemical, thermal and mechanical) have been used therapeutically. But it was not until the 20th century when it was realized that other physical properties of water can improve circulation, muscle tone, physical strength and endurance, range of motion, and balance and coordination. It was then known as underwater therapy.
In the 1920s, it was Charles Lowman who was the first to employ underwater exercises to patients with spasticity. He installed an outdoor treatment pool at the Orthopedic Hospital in Los Angeles in 1924 where the present popular use of pool or aquatics therapy in the United States has its propitious beginnings. Along with Roen, they developed definite underwater treatment procedures.
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As most Lexingtonians know, tomorrow is a huge day for UK Basketball. ESPN College Gameday is coming to Rupp Arena and the BF and I along with friends are going to be attending. I will be sure to post pics of the day, and maybe if we are lucky we may get to be on TV, that would make the whole day worthwhile.
Until tomorrow's post I will leave you with this funny picture. It rings true:)
Please notice the big UK player in the back with the headband, he is my favorite!
Have a great Saturday and GO BIG BLUE!
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For centuries, Edinburgh has inspired great minds to ask questions and push boundaries. New philosophies, scientific discoveries, and technologies have not only helped to improve our understanding of the world around us but have helped to shape that world.
Innovation and collaboration
From Adam Smith publishing the foundation of modern economics in 1776; the development of the hypodermic syringe in 1853; Dolly the Sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell in 1996; to the development of the world's most advanced prosthetic hand in 2009, Edinburgh has always been a pioneering city.
That legacy thrives in contemporary Edinburgh's attitudes towards innovation and collaboration. Today's city is a both a magnet and launchpad for agile, high growth companies all focused on making their mark upon the world.
A blend of access to talent, unmatched quality of life, an active angel investor community, widespread support for start-ups and a critical mass of career opportunities combine to create one of Europe's most exciting entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Edinburgh has a higher proportion of start-ups per 10,000 population than the UK average and in recent years, the city has scooped a host of awards for its ability to nurture and support start-ups. That support comes in many forms, from dedicated incubators such as CodeBase, the UK's largest tech accelerator, to tailored mentoring and support services such as those provided by Entrepreneurial Spark and Edinburgh Business Gateway.
I believe Edinburgh has one of the strongest entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe. The city has the second highest rate of scale-up firms and it has the highest number of technology and IP-based companies at scale-up in the country.Ben Spigel, Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, University of Edinburgh
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I also received a couple of pretty awesome job leads late last week, and there's one of them I'm especially excited about. I'm trying not to get too bouncy yet because all I've had so far was a phone conversation, but I'm suppose to meet them at their headquarters soon, and that's where the real palm sweating can begin. Anyway, it's making me feel slightly better about things in that department. Wish me luck!
This week was also important because it was my best friend's little girl's 9th birthday party, and I had so much fun. I still remember the day she was born. She was the first baby I ever witnessed being born, and I remember being amazed when she didn't cry like I thought babies were suppose to. She just looked really really curious with everything and everyone. Ok, I swear I'm not gonna get all mushy. My point in mentioning this is this: You know those little shinny confetti pieces they have for table tops or for the insides of cards?
Well she had these shiny purple butterflies all over the table at her party. Of course being the big kid that I am, I thought it would be really cute to lick-n-stick a few around my eyes (Kat VonD style). And actually is was pretty cute. Until I went to take them off at the end of the party. In it's wake were huge hot pink blobs, and a lot of embarrassment.
It took me 2 face washes to get them fully removed. So, let this be your public service announcement for the week. Beware the shiny!
So that was the basics of my week last week, here's what's coming up...
I'm currently reading Vicki Pettersson's Neon Graveyard and I'm of course loving it so far. I hope to have it done today. Then I'll be reading Queen of Shadows by Dianne Sylvan, and Black Wings by Christina Henry
Darkness Dawns by Dianne Duvall, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs by Molly Harper, and Once Upon a Time in Space by Heather Massey.
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To protect the athletes fundamental right to participate in doing free sport and thus promote health, fitness and fairness
Bicycle Retailer has a great summary of Tygarts speech, written by Lynette Carpiet. You can read it here..
In his slides, Tygart included one of the many threatening emails he received during the Armstrong affair. On January 23rd 2014, the week before the conference, the first of two men charged with making threats was sentenced, with the second scheduled for sentencing on 2/10. The Justice department has a news release here.
I, like many, wanted to believe Lance was clean. It is truly impossible to understand though the arrogance and stupidity of people that would actually make direct threats on the basis of his truth or guilt.


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V.C. Andrews' Dollanganger series came out over thirty years ago, but for many devoted readers of this classic gothic tale, Christopher, Cathy, and Foxworth Hall still loom large. Recently, we were thrilled to watch Lifetime's amazing new version of Flowers in the Attic–it was over-the-top juicy fun, just like we remembered! So you can imagine how excited we are now that the second book in the series, Petals on the Wind, is getting its own Lifetime treatment!
In fact, right now, Lifetime is running an amazing sweepstakes on their POTW page! You can enter to win one of four complete sets of the Dollanganger series–just click here. But not until you read the excerpt below, and see what Chris and Cathy are up to in Petals on the Wind….
Chapter One: FREE, AT LAST!
How young we were the day we escaped. How exuberantly alive we should have felt to be freed, at last, from such a grim, lonely and stifling place. How pitifully delighted we should have been to be riding on a bus that rumbled slowly southward. But if we felt joy, we didn't show it. We sat, all three, pale, silent, staring out the windows, very frightened by all we saw.
Free. Was ever a word more wonderful than that one? No, even though the cold and bony hands of death would reach out and drag us back, if God wasn't up there somewhere, or maybe down here on the bus, riding with us and looking out for us. At some time in our life we had to believe in someone.
The hours passed with the miles. Our nerves grew frazzled because the bus stopped often to pick up and let off passengers. It stopped for rest breaks, for breakfast, then to pick up a single huge black lady who stood alone where a dirt road met the concrete interstate. It took her forever to pull herself onto the bus, then lug inside the many bundles she carried with her. Just as she was finally seated, we passed over the state line between Virginia and North Carolina.
Oh! The relief to be gone from that state of our imprisonment! For the first time in years, I began to relax—a little.
We three were the youngest on the bus. Chris was seventeen years old and strikingly handsome with long, waving blond hair that just touched his shoulders, then curled upward. His darkly fringed blue eyes rivaled the color of a summer sky, and he was in personality like a warm sunny day—he put on a brave face despite the bleakness of our situation. His straight and finely shaped nose had just taken on the strength and maturity that promised to make him all that our father had been—the type of man to make every woman's heart flutter when he looked her way, or even when he didn't. His expression was confident; he almost looked happy. If he hadn't looked at Carrie he might have even been happy. But when he saw her sickly, pale face, he frowned and worry darkened his eyes. He began to pluck on the strings of the guitar strapped to his shoulder. Chris played "Oh Susannah," singing softly in a sweet melancholy voice that touched my heart. We looked at each other and felt sad with the memories the tune brought back. Like one we were, he and I. I couldn't bear to look at him for too long, for fear I would cry.
Curled up on my lap was my younger sister. She didn't look older than three, but she was eight years old and small, so pitifully small, and weak. In her large, shadowed blue eyes lingered more dark secrets and sufferings than a child her age should know. Carrie's eyes were old, very, very old. She expected nothing: no happiness, no love, nothing—for all that had been wonderful in her life had been taken from her. Weakened by apathy, she seemed willing to pass from life into death. It hurt to see her so alone, so terribly alone now that Cory was gone.
I was fifteen. The year was 1960, and it was November. I wanted everything, needed everything, and I was so terribly afraid I'd never in all my life find enough to make up for what I had already lost. I sat tense, ready to scream if one more bad thing happened. Like a coiled fuse attached to a time bomb, I knew that sooner or later I would explode and bring down all those who lived in Foxworth Hall!
Chris laid his hand on mine, as if he could read my mind and knew I was already thinking about how I would bring hell to those who had tried to destroy us.
He said in a low voice, "Don't look like that, Cathy. It's going to be all right. We'll get by."
He was still the eternal cockeyed optimist, believing, despite everything, that whatever happened was for the best! God, how could he think so when Cory was dead? How could that possibly be for the best?
"Cathy," he whispered, "we have to make the most of what we have left, and that is each other. We have to accept what's happened and go on from there. We have to believe in ourselves, our talents, and if we do, we will get what we want. It works that way, Cathy, really it does. It has to!"
He wanted to be a dull, staid doctor who spent his days in small examination rooms, surrounded by human miseries. I wanted something far more fanciful—and a mountain of it! I wanted all my star-filled dreams of love and romance to be fulfilled—on the stage, where I'd be the world's most famous prima ballerina; nothing less would do! That would show Momma!
Damn you, Momma! I hope Foxworth Hall burns to the ground! I hope you never sleep a comfortable night in that grand swan bed, never again! I hope your young husband finds a mistress younger and more beautiful than you! I hope he gives you the hell you deserve!
Petals on the Wind
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Share what you love about Harborough High Street to help win an award
Market Harborough has been entered into a national competition looking for Britain's best high street. A winning entry would see the town receive thousands of pounds for investment.
The Great British High Street Awards is now in its third year and is a nationwide initiative helping to champion high streets as the cornerstones of the community.
Of the nine categories available, Market Harborough has been entered into the 'Market Town' category which was won by Helmsley in Rydale last year. The submission statement made for the town's entry was put together by Harborough Chamber of Trade & Commerce, Harborough Market, Sustainable Harborough and Graham Peers, tourism officer for the town.
The list of finalists will be announced in mid-October, after which the public will crown their favourite. Harborough residents and businesses are being urged to show support by using the #GBHighSt hashtag on social media alongside reasons why Market Harborough should be selected.
"We're feeling very positive about our entry. The written submission is certainly easier when there are so many worthwhile talking points," comments Jo Sharman from Sustainable Harborough. "But what we need now is for the town to get behind the campaign and spread the word. The #GBHighSt hashtag has to be used to be noticed by the judges. It is one of the main ways that they decide who will make the final shortlist."
The submission entered emphasises the many positive changes that have happened to the town centre over the past 2 decades as well as the many community event that take place – including events such as last week's Arts Fresco event. The town has an unusually high number of town centre events as well as low number of vacant shop units.
"Whilst many once great High Streets have faded away, Market Harborough has a more thriving and vibrant mixture of independent shops, bars, restaurants and quality national chains than ever before," explains Sir Edward Garnier QC MP for Harborough who is backing the campaign. "This has been achieved in no small part by local initiatives. These range from bringing and growing lively events in the heart of town – as well as a strong entrepreneurial culture of inspired small business owners attempting to create new consumer experiences in High Street"
Market Harborough's rebirth has been supported by a strong community spirit from shops, market traders, community organisations, individuals and the council working on separate but linked projects for the good of the town. Campaigners are now looking for the community spirit to help the town win the 'Best Market Town' award.
"If you are proud to live or work in Harborough you can take to Twitter to help the campaign" comments Sairah Butt, Harborough Market Manager. "Write what you like about #Harborough, perhaps with a photo of your favourite shop. However it's important to also use #GBHighSt so that the judges will see your comment".
"The more comments, the bigger the chance that Harborough will become one of the UK finalists in the category" she adds.


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Lake Tahoe Blue to take on Ontario
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Lake Tahoe Blue will take on Ontario in three games this weekend at Lake Tahoe Ice Arena.
The team will play Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m. at the arena, located at 1176 Rufus Allen Blvd. The next home games will take place Jan 10-12.
Tickets cost $10 for adults and $7 for students with ID and can be purchased in advance at the ice arena from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or at the door one hour prior to each home game. Tickets can also be purchased by calling 530-544-4625. Children under 2 will receive free admission.


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Notre Dame DE Grant Blankenship suspended for violating team rules
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Notre Dame defensive end Grant Blankenship has been suspended for violating team rules, head coach Brian Kelly announced Friday.
The rising junior's current status with the team is uncertain.
"The standards that are set within the program have not been met," Kelly said. "I'll meet with him after the spring game and we'll decide what the course is from here on out."
In three games for the Irish last season, Blankenship recorded one tackle. He accumulated 12 tackles in 11 games during his freshman campaign in 2014.
Notre Dame's 87th annual Blue-Gold Game is on Saturday.


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Field Supervisor - Smithfield, NC or Clayton, NC or Kinston, NC
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Date: Dec 31, 2019
Location: SMITHFIELD, NC, US, 27577 CLAYTON, NC, US, 27520-1723 KINSTON, NC, US, 28501
About CenturyLink
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is the second largest U.S. communications provider to global enterprise customers. With customers in more than 60 countries and an intense focus on the customer experience, CenturyLink strives to be the world's best networking company by solving customers' increased demand for reliable and secure connections. The company also serves as its customers' trusted partner, helping them manage increased network and IT complexity and providing managed network and cyber security solutions that help protect their business.
What you will be doing…
You will manage a diverse team of 16+ field technicians responsible for installing, repairing and maintaining internet and other broadband services for our customers. Your team will work on emerging and advanced communications technologies including Ethernet, Copper DSL, Fiber GPON and Wireless. Workforce performance, safety, quality issues, feedback and training, and labor relations will all be within your scope. And you will be pushing yourself and your team to the next level to improve business results.
Relocation Assistance will be available.
- Leading, motivating, developing and coaching your Field Technicians
- Developing action plans to mitigate service issues
- Proactively collaborating with union/labor
- Removing barriers and solving problems to help your team be productive
What we are looking for…
You're a strong communicator that is organized, detail oriented and known for your good judgement. An excellent problem solver with a curious mind and always improving process are some of your strengths. You're able to inspire and engage people to do their best work and are comfortable holding people accountable for their performance and adherence to policy.
You will need to have:
- Strong communications skills orally and in writing in a clear straightforward manner
- Bachelor's degree or a combination of work experience and education
- 4-6 years relevant work experience
- Availability to work extended hours when necessary, including weekends and after hours and on call as required for the needs of the business
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- A degree
- Supervisor/leadership experience in a field operations environment
- Lean six sigma certification minimum Green Belt
- Four or more years of knowledge of installation and repair on copper and fiber technology
- Basic knowledge of emerging and advanced communications technologies including Ethernet, DSL, GPON and Wireless.
- Experience managing contractors
- Strong conflict resolutions skills
- Strong organizational, time management, and results driven leadership experience
- Experience with Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
- Experience providing training, feedback and motivation to employees
- Union employee management experience
- Experience with outside plant construction, electronics and placing/splicing copper/fiber
- Experience in administering processes and policy
Alternate Location: US-North Carolina-Clayton; US-North Carolina-Kinston; US-North Carolina-Smithfield
Requisition #: 217827
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
An online space of one's own
I realized that one of the biggest appeals of SL is that I can carve out a space of my own here, although SL isn't so much a "room of one's own" for me as a "journey of one's own."
I treat SL kind of like traveling by myself. I start out somewhere and wander as the urge takes me, stopping and chatting with people if I feel like it, or avoiding people entirely. There are plenty of places to explore in SL, and I'm never without a destination.
Some good recommendations are here:
Amusing Wired article
Second Life Traveler
Second Life Herald
In SL, I can determine what my responsibility-free avatar does without anyone else's say, which is rare for a married woman with a kid. Of course, I wouldn't choose to get rid of my RL, but it's nice to have a place that's all my own, even if it's imaginary.
How imaginary is it? Now that's an interesting question.
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Building a single-application component using Sitecore MVC, JS MVVM Framework and BrainJocks SCORE – PART 1
In this series of posts, I would like to show our readers how to build out a single-application component in Sitecore using one of the many popular MVVM JS frameworks on the market – in this case Knockout, together with BrainJocks SCORE. Even if you don't use SCORE in your project, you can still follow along with this post as SCORE is only utilized for initializing our JavaScript files and coupling them to our Razor Views. Knockout is also not mandatory and can be replaced by any other JS MVVM Framework.
Let's say that we want to build a decision tree component which navigates users through options on the page represented as buttons. Each button acts as a dynamic link that navigates the user to a different set of content without refreshing the page. Each of these transitions displays new content with new choices (button links), and drives the user deeper into the decision tree. Eventually the user ends up on a result page based on their navigational input. I think you get the point…
Here is how we could architect our Sitecore content item structure:
In order to build this component with dynamic content loading functionality, there are a couple of things we have to solve and think about first:
- How do we navigate through the desired choices?
- How do we switch between content that's currently presented on-screen and newly loaded content?
- How do we 'extract' content added to the placeholder?
- How do we know the current position in the decision tree and JSON navigational structure? This is important if we want to build previous/next navigation as a part of our component.
In this blog article, we will look at how to get components placed into non-dynamic placeholders and try to answer these questions. Let's focus first on the controller action and how we can retrieve components inserted into non-dynamic placeholders on the page by using Sitecore's render pipeline.
public JsonResult GetChoicePage(string id) //passing id of the item which contains content for displaying { Database db = Sitecore.Context.ContentDatabase ?? Sitecore.Context.Database; Item item = db.GetItem(new ID(id)); //get page item if (item != null) { PageContext.Current.Item = item; //set current page context to point to the page we retrieved StringWriter viewWriter = new StringWriter(); //get ContextService object and push 'dummy' view context based on controllercontext ContextService.Get().Push<ViewContext>(new ViewContext(this.ControllerContext, PageContext.Current.PageView, this.ViewData, this.TempData, viewWriter)); //here is where we render placeholder based on the full name path string temp = RenderPlaceholder(string.Format("Page Content/{0}", "NAME_OF_THE_NON_DYNAMIC_PLACEHOLDER_WITHIN_PAGE_CONTENT")); return new JsonResult() { Data = temp, JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet }; } return Json(string.Empty); } // private method that renders content of the placeholder using "mvc.renderPlaceholder" pipeline public static string RenderPlaceholder(string placeholderName) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); StringWriter argsWriter = new StringWriter(sb); RenderPlaceholderArgs args = new RenderPlaceholderArgs(placeholderName, argsWriter); args.PageContext = PageContext.Current; CorePipeline.Run("mvc.renderPlaceholder", args); return sb.ToString(); }
In SCORE 2.1, you can use Score.Custom.Utils.RendererUtil class like so:
var rendererUtil = new Score.Custom.Utils.RendererUtil(); var html = rendererUtil.RenderPlaceholder(item, "placeholderKey");
As an added bonus, you can do this from outside of a Web context (such as in an agent, in a custom computed field, etc.).
Building the Front-End
Now that we know how to render placeholder content, the next step will be to create a non-complex JSON structure for our UI front-end that will contain all possible choice elements with just a few properties, like page ID, level, depth, title, etc.
I've used recursion to get items and their children from the Sitecore content tree:
public ActionResult InitDecisionTree() { Database db = Sitecore.Context.ContentDatabase ?? Sitecore.Context.Database; ChoiceItemDto dataStructure = new ChoiceItemDto(); int level = -1; CreateNavigationStructure(ContextItem, ref dataStructure, ref level); return View("_ViewName", new DecisionTreeRenderingModel() { DataStructure = dataStructure ErrorContent = RenderingContext.Current.Rendering.Item.Fields["Error Content"].ToStringOrEmpty() }); } private static void CreateNavigationStructure(Item currentItem, ref ChoiceItemDto startLevel, ref int level) { startLevel.Name = currentItem.Fields["Page Title"].ToStringOrEmpty(); startLevel.Id = currentItem.ID.ToString(); var children = currentItem.GetChildren().Where( a => a.TemplateID.Equals(new ID("CHOICE_PAGE_TEMPLATE"))); foreach (var item in children) { level++; ChoiceItemDto nextLevel; nextLevel = new ChoiceItemDto {Name = item.Name, Level = level, Id = item.ID.ToString()}; startLevel.Children.Add(nextLevel); CreateNavigationStructure(item, ref nextLevel, ref level); level--; } } public class ChoiceItemDto { public string Name { get; set; } public string Id { get; set; } public int Level { get; set; } public List<ChoiceItemDto> Children = new List<ChoiceItemDto>(); public int Depth { get { // Completely empty menu (not even any straight items). 0 depth. if (Children.Count == 0) { return 0; } // We've either got items (which would give us a depth of 1) or // items and groups, so find the maximum depth of any subgroups, // and add 1. return Children.OfType<ChoiceItemDto>() .Select(x => x.Depth) .DefaultIfEmpty() // 0 if we have no subgroups .Max() + 1; } } }
During Component Initialization, the navigation structure DTO is passed to the model; then it is passed by SCORE CCF (SCORE Component Communication Framework) to our JavaScript.
In the Razor MVC View example shown below, I have stripped additional knockout bindings in order to focus on 3 things:
- How the "slider-wrapper" div (main application div holder) is bound with our knockout decisionTreeViewModel;
- How the Navigation Data Structure DTO, URL for retrieving items, and Error messages are passed to the DecisionTree component's JavaScript;
- How the div with id "decision-tree-content" is used for inserting dynamic content retrieved from the 'GetChoicePage' JsonResult Controller Action.
@using Sitecore.Globalization @model DecisionTreeRenderingModel @using (Html.BeginUXModule("Components/DecisionTree", new { Data = Model.DataStructure, Link = Url.Action("GetChoicePage", "DecisionTree", new { id = string.Empty }), Error = Model.ErrorContent }, new { @class = "decision-tree " + Model.RenderingWrapperClasses, @style = Model.RenderingModelStyles })) { if (Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsPageEditorEditing) {  } else {

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In part 2 of this post series, I am going to cover the JavaScript pieces of this puzzle and how a knockout model can be used to leverage front-end functionality.


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Find More Romance Book Review Articles
Question by Leelaa: Can anyone recommend a good fantasy romance series?
I really loved The hunger games. I would like to read something similar. I know everyone will recommend Twilight.I've read them, but The host was better and had a more realistic love story. I need a romance book with some fantasy, but not over the top. I am a bit old for YA but I enjoy those books. If you could please add a description of the books I would appreciate it.
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Answer by Jazmine
This is a list from a very good website with book descriptions and reviews etc.
Go through it. Most of them are part of different series but you can also find singles.
Authors like Sherrilyn Kenyon and J.R. Ward are very good.
Add: And also try the fever series by Karen Marie Moning. It's Addictive.
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Sister Madonna Interview
The Impowerage magazine firmly believes that it's never too late to go after your dreams. We can't think of a better person to demonstrate this than Sister Madonna Buder. Known as the Iron Nun, she holds the world record for the oldest female to finish an Ironman Triathlon at the age of 82.
Dr. Carolyn Anderson, the founder of the Impowerage magazine recently interviewed Sister Madonna about her world record-breaking race in August 2012 and her plans for the future.
Listen to the interview to find out:
- What prevented Sister Madonna from finishing the triathlon at the Kona World Championships in October 2012.
- Her training habits
- What the Iron Nun eats to stay healthy
- Why she started running in her late 40s
- Her reaction to being considered a role model for older adults
- How she deals with an aging body
- Her future plans for racing
Sister Madonna Buder is the current world record for the oldest female to finish an Ironman Triathlon at the age of 82.
Impowerage founder, Dr. Carolyn Anderson, interviews Sister Madonna in the audio below.
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Sister Madonna plans on competing in a 70.3 triathlon in June 2013 to secure a spot in the Kona World Championships in October 2013. If she finishes at the World Championship she could regain her record as the oldest person, male or female, to complete an Ironman Distance.
More About Sister Madonna, the Iron Nun
If you are interested in learning more about Sister Madonna you can read her autobiography, The Grace to Race: The Wisdom and Inspiration of the 80-Year-Old World Champion Triathlete Known as the Iron Nun.
Read our previous articles on Sister Madonna Buder
2012 Kona World Championships Article