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About us
The West Coast Trades Academy (WCTA) is a partnership between all of the West Coast high schools and area schools and tertiary institutions. Greymouth High School coordinates the Academy, and Tai Poutini Polytechnic (TPP), Whenua Iti Outdoors (WIO) and Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) are the Tertiary Partners for WCTA.
Trades academies are part of the Government's youth initiatives. They focus on providing more choices for young New Zealanders and giving them greater opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and talents through trades and technology programmes that are jointly provided by schools and tertiary education organisations.
Benefits of the Trades Academy
- Start training for a career while studying at school
- No fees
- Keep up school friendships and continue with core subjects and extra-curricular activities while at the Trades Academy
- Gain workplace skills, develop independence and responsibility for your learning, self-esteem and communication skills
- Be ready for work with workplace skills, training, NCEA Level 2 & 3 and a vocational pathways Award.
- Additional expenses such as transport will be covered by the Trades Academy
- Individual learning plans will ensure your achievement is monitored by your school and the Trades Academy
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What does a world without Police or Prisons look like? How can we push beyond reforms and create truly restorative alternatives to punitive justice? Join us in discussion with the End of Policing author Alex Vitale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds, but a $5 suggested donation is greatly appreciated. Free childcare will be provided.
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The Kingsroad
Episode 2: The Kingsroad[edit]
Based on Pages 86-164, Game of Thrones (book 1)
Heading east through The Dothraki Sea, Khal Drogo and his khalasar journey en masse. Viserys is journeying with the horde, in order to make sure Khal Drogo fulfills his end of the bargain. Ser Jorah Mormont explains to Viserys the reason for his own banishment, threat of execution by Ned Stark for selling poachers to slavers.
At Winterfell Tyrion Lannister advises Joffrey Lannister to pay his respects to Bran Stark, now in a coma. When Joffrey refuses, Tyrion slaps him multiple times. After, Tyrion eats breakfeast with his siblings, passing on information that Bran may yet live. Cersei visits Bran's bedside passing condolences to Catelyn, tearfully explaining how she lost her first son young.
Jaime Lannister taunts the bastard Jon Snow for wanting to take the black at the Night's Watch for life. Farewells abound as Jon Snow leaves to the wall with Benjen and Tyrion, while Ned journeys south with his daughters and the King. Arya Stark is packing for her journey south to King's Landing when Jon Snow presents her with Needle, a skinny castle-forged sword. Jon Snow bids farewell to Bran while Catelyn Stark stands watch, demanding Jon leave. Catelyn expresses her sorrow at Ned answering the call to honor. At the crossing of the Kingsroad, Ned promises to tell Jon what he wants to know about his mother at their next meeting.
News of Daenerys' wedding to a horselord reaches King Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark. King Robert becomes enraged and fearful of a returning Targaryen dynasty while Ned urges him to not carry out an assassination of young Daenerys.
Jon Snow begins to realize the Night's Watch is not all he hoped, as some of its members are forcefully drawn from the ranks of criminals. Tyrion Lannister dispels more of Jon's illusions about the nobility of taking the black. They form a strong bond; they are both outcasts from society. Jon admires Tyrion's intelligence while Tyrion admires Jon's bravery.
Back in Winterfell Robb Stark assumes many of his families responsibilities while Catelyn is grieving and most of the castle staff have gone south. During a fire which draws most people away, a hooded man appears to grant a "mercy" to Bran Stark. Catelyn attempts to fight off the man, slicing her hands down to the bone on his blade. As Catelyn falls to the ground, Bran's direwolf Summer attacks the assassin and rips out his throat.
Tended by her handmaidens, Daenerys finds herself curious about dragons and the eggs gifted from Magsiter Illyrio. Her handmaiden Doreah agrees to teach Daenerys how to please her husband so she can gain his approval and respect. Using what she learned she forms an actual relationship with Khal Drogo, and their connection grows.
When Catelyn examines the tower from which Bran fell, she finds a long blond hair which confirms her suspicions Bran was thrown, and did not fall. The dagger that nearly took Bran's life had an exquisite Valyrian steel blade, gold filigree, and a dragonbone hilt, too fine for a commoner. Catelyn prays for Bran to wake, and heads south with Ser Rodrik Cassel to inform Ned.
While the King's entourage rest at the Inn at the Crossroads, Joffrey and Sansa take a walk along the river. Confronting the sparring Arya Stark and Mycah the butcher's boy, Joffrey draws his sword and sadistically begins to cut him. Arya strikes him with a wooden sword and Joffrey attempts to kill her with his real sword. Provoked by his actions, Nymeria, Arya's direwolf, tears into Joffrey's wrist and knocks him to the ground. Sansa comforts Joffrey and catches a glimpse of Joffrey's true cruel nature. Arya hides from the Queen's soldiers and chases away Nymeria for her own safety. Once Arya is brought in front of the King and Queen, Joffrey publicly lies about what happened. Sansa claims forgetfulness and Cersei demands Arya be punished. Cersei wants Lady killed in Nymeria's stead for the savaging of Joffrey. King Robert Baratheon caves in to Cersei, and sentences Lady to be executed. Ned Stark refuses to allow the Lannisters kill Lady and takes it upon himself to do it. As Ned is heading out, he sees The Hound, who rode down the running Mycah and killed him. As Lady dies, Bran opens his eyes and comes out of his coma.
Check out IGN's review of "The Kingsroad" here...
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A Christmas Carol
My question is what does the ghost of Christmas yet to come look like in chapter 6
Give specific details
Give specific details
The Ghost of Christmas future is a mystery and he looks the part. Dickens refers to it as a phantom rather than a ghost like he did with the other apparitions. He has a very Grim Reaper look to him,
It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand.


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Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Paris: Day 2
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Stunning , you look like a star xxReplyDelete
I am off to Paris at the end of the month, I cannot wait after seeing your pictures! Hope you had a fantastic time!ReplyDelete
beautiful outfit, your jacket is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I'm going to Paris this summer and can't wait to go to the Louvre and the usual lovely place's, seeing your photo's has made me want to go even more!
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That outfit is perfect! I hope you're having an amazing time :) xReplyDelete
You look so chic-- perfect for Paris! Those sunglasses are absolutely lovely. I haven't been to the Louvre yet, but I'm hoping I'll have time to see it when I go to Paris soon!ReplyDelete
You look so gorgeous, and very sophisticated in a Parisian way! Sounds like you're having an amazing time :)ReplyDelete
Kaz x
I can't quite put into words how jealous I am, one of my dreams is to visit and get a photo standing outside the famous louvre! You look like you blend right into French style you look truly stunning darling xxReplyDelete
gosh, you look so amazing! Very elegant! So lucky you are in Paris! Seems beautiful!ReplyDelete
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I LOVE this outfit! The boucle jacket with the checked trousers- perfect Parisian style :) Hope you are all enjoying Paris! xxxReplyDelete
adorable outfit. and you're beautifulReplyDelete
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I am soooo jealous you are in Paris! Lucky girl you. I have been wanting to go back since I went a few years ago. Love your outfit..such a sophisticated and stylish travelling look! xoReplyDelete
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UAE Company Fined for Violating U.S.-Syria Sanctions, Export Control Laws
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Computerlinks, a UAE-based company that sells information technology product and services, has been fined $2.8 million for violating U.S.-Syria export control laws. According to the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Computerlinks committed three violations of the Export Administration Regulations (the Regulations) by engaging in transactions or taking:
"actions with the intent to evade the Regulations in connection with the unlawful export and reexport to Syria of items subject to the Regultions. The items included equiptment and software designed for use in monitoring and controlling Web traffic that are classified under Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) 5A002 and 5D002 ... controlled for National Security and Anti-Terrorism reasons and as Encryption items, and valued at approximately $1,400,000."
It appears that Computerlinks personnel lied not only to to its California-based supplier, Blue Coat Systems in Sunnyvale, California, but to BIS investigators as well. On its website, Computerlinks says it has more than twenty-five years of experience in IT technology and information security. It seems that its internal compliance program needs to catch up to their technological know-how. BIS is seeing to that.
According to the Order, Computerlinks will need to perform three external audits of its export compliance program to review and, as necessary, implement a compliance program to ensure that senstitive U.S. technology does not end up in the wrong hands. They will be busy on the compliance front for at least two years. Likely more.
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Established in 1949, UNSW has grown to over 50,000 students, with 5000 staff and an impressive reputation both nationally and internationally. We not only offer a huge range of subjects in science (and numerous other fields), but because of our focus on science and technology, we understand the importance of providing the most modern facilities and equipment. But it's not all hard work and no play, our campus has everything you need to stay happy and healthy during your time at UNSW.
It's true, we 'Never Stand Still'
One thing is guaranteed at UNSW – there will always be a crane on campus. Science is leading the way with a new Materials Science and Engineering building in under construction and plans for a new home for Biological Sciences. Plus, Kensington College accommodation has just been expanded, bringing the total number of beds on campus to around 2000.
A Real Community
When you step through the UNSW gates, you will get a feel for the vibrant community spirit alive on campus. Students always bump into people they know, there is always some kind of interesting activity going on, and there is almost always free food somewhere - you just have to know where to look!
Science facilities
Across all our disciplines, UNSW Science provides all the latest facilities and equipment in our classes, labs and computer labs, as well as the following facilities:
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We all have our guilty pleasure. It's something that we enjoy, but that would normally be considered out-of-character. It's not uncommon that we hide our guilty pleasures, perhaps it's hard for you to tell your testosterone buddies about your favorite romantic comedy? Personally, I make no effort to hide my own guilty pleasure, the Eurovision Song Contest. The contest is held once a year, is mostly associated with raging homosexuals, which is something I don't consider myself to be. It has also got live performances from artists that often can't sing, making everything amazingly awkward. That is something I usually hate, I can't, for instance, watch television shows like American Idol because they make me physically ill.
But there is something strangely appealing about the Eurovision Song Contest. Many of the artist put on a great show and for some of them it's a chance to get their big breakthrough, both nationally and internationally. They are really going all in. Other artist don't seem to really give a shit, they are burned out and know that this is most likely one of the last stops before the inevitable death of their career and often themselves. There is also often a lot of drama, both on stage and behind the scenes. And I'm watching it all unfold, year after year.
Both semi finals and the final is now over, and of course I will force my verdict of each individual song on you. The official rules state that the top-ranked song shall receive 12 points, the second-highest ranked song 10 points, and then 8 other songs shall be scored from 8 points to 1 point. This means that not all songs will get a score, and that you can't give more than one song a specific score. My scoring system uses the same scores, but it's allowed to give more than one song the same score and all songs might get a score, but it's not mandatory. What is mandatory, is that the score has to be explained. It's also possible to get a negative score.


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Update Feb 24, 2010: I just learned that this piece won a Best in Business award for creative use of online media from Society of American Business Editors and Writers. I want to thank all the participants who made this project possible. Cheers!
The Adversity Index, from msnbc.com and Moody's Economy.com, measures the economic health of 381 metro areas and all 50 states. Each area is in recession, at risk, recovering or expanding. On this map you can explore changes in the four components of the index: employment, housing starts, housing prices and industrial production, each shown as a percentage change from a year earlier.
This map contains more than 350,000 data points. It was a challenge because we didn't have appropriate database tools to support the map. We had to split the data set into five big chunks and merged them in Flash. I wrote a tool that allow loading data from different subsets and merged them into one data structure that was plotted on the map.
Awards and honors
2010 – Best in business from Society of American Business Editors and Writers


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Well hello again! If you haven't already noticed by now, I've been away for a while. I sincerely apologize for that. Believe me, it hasn't been by any choice of mine. The holidays have kept me quite busy. Thanksgiving taught me that there is no limit to how much turkey I can eat. I know that it seems like I haven't been working on the blog, but if you really think about it, I have been working on new recipes for the blog to share with you guys. I've teamed up with a few companies that I'm super excited to work with and although I can't share the recipes or all of the details right at this moment, I do want you to know that some new and exciting recipes (that I'm most proud of, mind you) are coming to the blog very soon. And by very soon I mean a couple of weeks. I'm just itching to tell you guys all about them. To let the cat out of the bag and spill the beans but unfortunately I can't just now. I can tell you though that these recipes I'm talking about are going to blow your socks off. Blow them clear across the country. I think that justifies my absence, right?
The other day I was video chatting with my mother—which by the way, I had no idea she even knew how to Facetime, but I gotta tell you she's more of a pro than you and I could ever dream of being—so she proceeds to tell me that I've been neglecting my blog for far too long. She hasn't gotten any email updates from me recently, and she's worried that I'm going to lose all of my followers if I don't post anything soon. Thanks mom. Now, I'm no cookie pro baker but I do have to inform you that I am a professional cookie eater. Don't believe me? It's on my resume. (It really isn't on my resume, but how cool would that be?) Anyhow, as I was saying, my mother was throwing shade my way so I knew that I needed to get my act together.
After that, I wanted to get into the holiday cookie-baking spirit so I decided to think outside of the box for a bit. I didn't want to share an easy recipe of something we've all seen far too many times. I wanted something that was unique and perhaps maybe even new to some of you. Rugelach sort of made all the sense in the world because you can easily fill it with whatever your heart desires. These are loaded with butter, cinnamon sugar, dark chocolate, cherries and pecans. I don't think it gets any better than this, but luckily for me, I'm not complaining about the situation. Rugelach kind of look like croissants but the doughs are completely different from one another. This one is a little more dense than pie crust, but it's still super delicious. If you've never made these before or have never tried them for yourself, I think it's safe to say that you've been missing out. Don't worry, you still have time to catch up to the rest of us. I'll even help you eat your way through. I'm willing to take one for the team.


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"This scene was sketched by the artist from the top of St. Michael's Church in Charleston, by means of a telescope. There is a gun-boat out in the harbor; every time there was a flash, the artist states that the yankee soldiers in the batteries would disappear as by magic."
Conrad Wise Chapman, 1898
The mission of The American Civil War Museum is to be the preeminent center for the exploration of the American Civil War and its legacies from multiple perspectives: Union and Confederate, enslaved and free African Americans, soldiers and civilians.


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Construction output for 2015 was 3.4 per cent up on 2014, according to the latest figures from the ONS, despite a slight decline in the last quarter.
According to Construction News, the final three months of 2015 showed a 0.4 per cent decline in output compared with the previous quarter, mainly driven by a drop in repair and maintenance work.
The quarterly decline represents a downward revision from the 0.1 per cent drop in the ONS's preliminary estimate last month.
The annual output figures also showed that the repair and maintenance sector was holding back overall growth.
R&M work was 2.2 per cent down over the year, while new work increased by 6.8 per cent.
Despite the year-on-year growth being smaller than recent years, the figures have been broadly welcomed by the sector.
"The prospects for a continued upward trajectory look very promising," said Scape Group chief executive Mark Robinson.
"Output growth for the year as a whole was lower than the historically strong growth seen in 2014, but still well exceeded trends during the economic downturn.
"A particularly promising sign is the momentum that gathered behind infrastructure output last year, which was the most significant driver of construction output growth.
"The government has given much-needed commitment to developing and improving the UK's infrastructure, which, given significant population growth and the competitive international economic environment, must come to fruition."
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The Team Lead Role in an organization that is performing Software Development using DAD is the most influential role and the role can be both challenging and fun. You do not need to be a technical expert to be a very effective Team Lead however like most professions having a strong technical background will definitely help you to connect better with the Team Members.
Here are 12 Habits from veteran Scrummasters applying Scrum. These habits have been adapted to apply directly to DAD so they can be applied to various approaches under the DA umbrella.
1. Be disciplined in how you perform your duties. Without a doubt you must be disciplined to be a great Team Lead because your goal is to enable your team to achieve consistent, predictable results. Achieving this goal is nearly impossible if the Team Lead is not disciplined. One way to be disciplined is to establish and stick to a daily routine (think checklist) that you follow in performing Team Lead duties. An example is reviewing metrics, such as a burndown chart, daily and making adjustments in real time (such as changing the owner on a task) to the assigned work items.
2. Make decisions that are consistent with Agile Values and are Risk and Value Driven. A Team Lead needs to have a solid and broad understanding of Agile approaches and how various approaches work together to benefit the organization as a whole. Decision making based upon Agile Principles, which make real time changes in both requirements as well as techniques to construct and test software products is fundamentally different than decision making based upon a prescriptive process which requires following a predetermined approach.
Think about the captain of a ship who slows speed and changes course frequently during a voyage and the result is they ship arrives 12 hours late at next port. Was this ship captain careless? Or did he avoid an oncoming hurricane that would have put the entire crew and cargo at risk and did he also communicate his intentions to the appropriate parties to ensure that the facilities at the port could accommodate the change in schedule with minimal impact? Your Team Lead is like the ship captain; he or she knows how to make good real time decisions that balance all the competing priorities but still keeps the ship and its contents protected because he is both Risk and Value Driven and he is empowered to make decisions in real time.
Please note: a disciplined Team Lead is not a cowboy. Instead, they are an innovator that will gladly question why something needs to be done, look at all options and make recommendations or decisions on how to proceed based upon the feedback from the Team Members, Product Owner, Stakeholder, and Architecture Owner.
3. Start and finish the daily coordination meeting at the same time every day. A well run coordination meeting can finish in 15 minutes. The Team Lead should ensure that the coordination meeting does not digress into long discussions. A great phrase to encourage your team to use is "I am available after daily meeting to discuss this topic in detail".
4. Communicate updates from other parts of the organization and upcoming deadlines. The coordination meeting is a great way to provide instructions and updates from management as well as upcoming deadlines. You can even summarize emails that have already been sent out to reinforce key topics such as if there are new coding standards or techniques the company is encouraging to increase the quality of the products.
5. Visualize the workflow to help achieve a smooth flow of delivery. The Team Lead needs to drive adoption of this practice and should check for all the following: New work (stories or defects) assigned to your team since the last coordination meeting, work that is not properly planned out (missing tasks or tasks missing owners), blocks preventing Team Members from proceeding. Tools can help view these details quickly but if you do not have a tool that can display this information you can solicit this input from your team. During the coordination meeting you may not have time to capture all the details when you find something that needs investigation so make a note to yourself and follow up after the meeting. Visualizing the workflow is a great way to uncover work in progress (WIP) that is stalled and limiting WIP is as an essential component of Lean Principles.
6. Demo early and demo often. DAD teams typically perform a demo to key stakeholders at the end of each construction iteration. However, there is no reason why you cannot hold a demo during the construction iteration if the product is complete and stable enough to show to a key stakeholder. Showing early demos is another way to encourage active stakeholder participation.
7. Coach don't direct. If you find yourself doing most of the talking or worse if people are talking at you and not the team, make adjustments. You are serving the Team, not the other way around. DAD Teams are self-aware and having a leader that dominants the conversation and direction for the team could be limiting factor if Team Members are not comfortable making decisions without having to consult the Team Lead.
8. Be a beacon of encouragement and positive energy. This concept supports the DAD principle that people are the primary determinant of success for IT Delivery Projects. As a Team Lead you are a leader and if you want your team to be confident and show poise even under pressure from the schedule or production support problems you need to lead by example. Be calm, cool and collective and maintain a focus on quality work and make the right decisions that will provide business value. This can be difficult to do in a lot of circumstances but your goal should be to provide the best value you can with your team in the time you have available. If there are cultural and political hurdles that are materially affecting your Team's ability to produce solutions that high quality and value for the business then raise these concerns with management and get them addresses. You may not always achieve the outcome you had hoped to achieve but if your Team knows you are going to bat for them they will support you and your efforts to meet the goals despite these challenges.
9. Train a backup Team Lead. A key principle of DAD process framework is to be learning oriented. This implies that training needs to be a priority in for your organization to reap the full benefits of DAD. The day you are out sick the your team should not notice because you have a fully trained back up Team Lead to run the daily meeting and handle all Team Lead responsibilities. A best practice is to perform training in private with team members who want to pursue this opportunity. Let them know you will help them and encourage them. Remember your role as Team Lead includes serving the Team, there is no better way to serve the team than to make sure they don't get stalled just because your are not available.
10. Understand all the ways to bring work into an iteration as well as take work out of an iteration. One of the four values of the Agile Manifesto is Responding to change over following a plan. The DA toolkit endorses this statement. As a Team Lead applying this practice you need to understand that if your team gets ahead of their work schedule they should know to contact the Product Owner and sign up for new assignments from the ranked stack of work items. Likewise if a Team Member is behind and will not finish you need to know how to track work that is not finished and to make sure that the Product Owner is informed so they can set proper expectations. If you have part way completed software products that need to be taken out of a release be prepared to back out code/comment out code/disable features as needed. If you have a good working relationship with your Product Owner then removing work from an Iteration should not be particularly difficult especially when the Product Owner is comfortable that your team will also pull work into an Iteration when they finish work early.
11. Master the art of story decomposition – There is no better way to set your team up for success than to ensure that stories your team is assigned to an Iteration are small enough that they can be released (not just constructed) within an Iteration. This area of expertise is one of the hardest to master. Imagine the Product Owner saying I cannot make a smaller story out of a two-way data exchange such as a consumer credit exchange between two systems. The Product Owner can argue that this story cannot be broken down any further because doing so would not provide any business value. An appropriate response from the Team Lead would be that the Team has estimated the story point of 5 points to do the complete process and you only have 3 points to assign to the team. The Team Lead can break this story down into sending and receiving and processing the consumer credit information and they could ask the Product Owner which business scenario they would like to have delivered first: sending the customer information to the credit provider or processing the results from the credit provider? If the Product Owner says both then the Team Lead can explain that you will not work on this story and instead will find another 3 point story if the Product Owner does not feel that creating 2 separate stories is appropriate. In this scenario the Team Lead is providing a good option to the Product Owner while simultaneously staying committed to following good planning practices. DAD Teams and Team members are self-disciplined because they only commit to as much work as they can accomplish.
12. Foster an environment where the Team takes credit for victory and accepts responsibility for mistakes. As Team Lead you can set the tone to ensure that blaming individuals for mistakes is not accepted. Instead, find out what actions the Team could have performed to prevent the mistake. If you are following the recommendations of the DA toolkit to have team members be generalizing specialists then you will find that team members are much more likely to provide honest feedback that can correct past mistakes. When Team Members understand that they can be completely open about what needs to change to improve processes you will see them demonstrate ownership and innovate in ways you cannot imagine. The sum of the parts is truly greater than the whole in a well run DAD Team.
Summary: An Excellent Team Lead is like a shepherd for the DAD Team that is guiding the team to achieve their Iteration Goals through performing and often repetitive set of responsibilities that will uncover areas of concern that require action and decisions making. By putting themselves in a position to make real time decisions the Team Lead can help to achieve making business value by helping the Team be effective and efficient. The Product Owner will realize the benefit from a well run Team because they will see products being delivered consistently. A Disciplined Team Lead is able to contribute to crafting and supporting the rules that govern the Software Development process in their organization and also knows when to bend and break the rules in order to help his team achieve and realize maximum business value in the form of deployed and functional working software products while simultaneously spending the least amount of time and effort to complete these products.
This article was written by Craig Dewalt for the Disciplined Agile blog.


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World Kindness Day and Random Acts of Kindness I've Received in the Past Month
World Kindness Day is celebrated November 13, and to commemorate that day I want to pass along the much-appreciated random acts of kindness that people in my world have done for me in the past month.
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On Thursday, March 26, Marco's Pizza is celebrating National Spinach Day by offering customers a free medium Grilled Chicken Florentine pizza for bringing a can of spinach to the store.
The Grilled Chicken Florentine is topped with baby spinach, roma tomatoes, grilled chicken, a blend of four cheeses and garlic Parmesan sauce. The offer is for carryout and dine-in orders only. Donated spinach will go to local food banks as part of the company's efforts to fight hunger.
"This was a successful community event for us last year and it's a great way to share the love of spinach," said Cathy Hull, chief marketing officer at Marco's Pizza, in a statement. "Together, we can support our communities by helping stock the shelves of our local food banks, while delighting our customers with the delicious flavor of our Grilled Chicken Florentine pizza."
To celebrate the free pies - join their Twitter Party tomorrow at 2pm @marcospizza! Be sure to RSVP here - there will be $850 worth of prizes!!!


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Benito Armando Archundia Téllez (born March 21, 1966) is a retired Mexican football referee. He is known in Mexico as Armando Archundia, but appears as Benito Archundia in FIFA records. He has been a professional referee since 1985 and has had his FIFA referee permission since 1993. His first fixture as an international referee was the 1994 match between USA and Greece.
Archundia is the all-time leader in appearances at the FIFA World Cup, being one of only two referees who have been appointed for 8 matches, the other being Joël Quiniou. He also shares the record for the most matches officiated in a single World Cup (5 in 2006). The only others who have achieved this feat are Horacio Elizondo in 2006, and Ravshan Irmatov in 2010.[1]
In addition, he has supervised the final of the FIFA Club World Cup twice, in 2005 and 2009.
He originally planned to retire at the end of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but decided to continue for at least another year. He was the referee in the grand opening of the Estadio Omnilife, which featured Guadalajara vs Manchester United.[2]
In addition to working as a professional referee, Archundia is a lawyer and economist.
Archundia made his first World Cup appearance in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and refereed a total of five matches, equaling the most number of matches by an individual referee (along with Argentina's Horacio Elizondo). His final game was the semi-final between Germany and Italy. In general he was one of the most respected and proficient referees at the 2006 World Cup, and give out an average of only 3 cards per game (the lowest of any referee at the competition).[3]
His second World Cup appearance was in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and refereed a total of three matches. His final game was the third place play-off between Germany and Uruguay.
Archundia has officiated two matches involving the Canada national soccer team where he made controversial decisions during the final minutes.
The first controversy occurred during a World Cup qualifier between Canada and Honduras played in Edmonton on September 4, 2004. With Canada leading 1-0 in the 86th minute, Canada defender Mark Watson appeared to trip David Suazo in the penalty area. Archundia awarded a penalty kick which Amado Guevara converted to tie the score. Replays show that Mark Watson did not actually make contact with David Suazo on the play.[4] One minute later, Olivier Occean appeared to score a second goal for Canada, but Archundia whistled the play dead after calling a foul against Occean for a dangerous high kick. Following the decision, manager Frank Yallop and several Canada players argued that the foul call was erroneous.[4] The Canadians felt aggrieved following the draw, believing that they should have been entitled to a victory.
A third controversy involving Archundia occurred during the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-final between the United States and Canada played in Chicago on June 21, 2007. With the United States leading 2-1 in stoppage time, Atiba Hutchinson appeared to score for Canada to tie the game in the dying seconds, but Archundia whistled the play dead for offside. The Canadian Press reported that replays show Hutchinson in an onside position at the time of Patrice Bernier's pass, and that he received the ball only after it was played by American defender Oguchi Onyewu.[5] Moments later, Archundia called time while the Canadian players and staff argued the call.
Another controversy soon followed in the Copa América 2007 during the group stage match between Peru and Venezuela. In the 62nd minute of the match, with Venezuela leading 1-0 and Peru playing down a man since the 14th minute, Peruvian forward Paolo Guerrero centers the ball just in front of the Venezuelan goal inside the goal area. Peruvian captain Claudio Pizarro and Venezuelan defender Hector Gonzalez raced to the ball. Pizarro appeared to have great opportunity to tap the ball past a sole defender on the goal line, however Gonzalez slid and swept the ball away, but not before taking Pizarro off his feet. Archundia refused to award the penalty and decided to play on, to the dismay of the commentators and several fans, who felt he missed the call.[6]
During the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup match between Estudiantes de La Plata and FC Barcelona, Archundia was criticised in some Spanish media sources for several decisions felt to have been to the disadvantage of FC Barcelona,[7] most notably showing a yellow card to Lionel Messi for simulation and failing to award a penalty following a perceived foul by Estudiantes goalkeeper Damián Albil on Xavi Hernandez.
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The national insurance contributions (NICs) 'holiday' scheme allows new businesses outside of the south east to avoid NICs for 12 months for their first 10 employees.
While initial Government estimates indicated that up to 400,000 companies would take part in the scheme, creating 800,000 jobs, just 13,769 firms have used it since it was launched in September 2010.
In the three months to March 31, 2,605 start-ups have taken advantage of the holiday, down from 4,300 in the final quarter of last year. There was also a 14pc monthly decline in take-up between February and March.
Roy Maugham, tax partner at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said: "Government estimates for how many businesses would apply to take part have proved to be wildly optimistic. Either the Government overestimated the number of eligible new businesses that would be set up or it simply isn't getting the message to businesses that they can benefit from the scheme."
Prime Minister David Cameron admitted in January that the scheme – which has been criticised by accountants as being difficult to qualify for – hadn't worked but there have yet to be any changes.
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: "As we saw with the National Audit Office's report on the Regional Growth Fund last week, ministers' growth policies have been characterised by confusion and incompetence."
Labour is calling for a temporary national insurance tax break for all small firms taking on extra workers.
A Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) report published on Monday also called for the scheme to be extended to existing businesses currently employing up to four members of staff.
"The effect would be to stimulate employment growth in the microbusiness environment, and could provide impetus to the scheme," the lobby group said.
Mr Maugham said there would be "no harm" in removing the geographical restrictions on the holiday "given how few businesses have signed up".
"London has five boroughs in the top ten areas for highest unemployment in the UK so could really benefit from this scheme."
"The set-up period for a new business can be a busy, chaotic time for the management but it is important that they take advantage of every tax incentive they can."
Mr Maugham noted that there was a brief jump in applications in October and November 2011, when 3,593 companies submitted applications for the relief. This followed a Government campaign in which 144,000 letters were sent out to potentially eligible companies.
"Unfortunately the effect of the marketing blitz has worn off fairly quickly ... HM Revenue & Customs should consider promoting [the scheme] more consistently in order to gather a greater momentum."
The FSB also said marketing of the scheme should be improved.


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Notebook giving details on the building of Plas Wilmot on Edward Salter's croft at Croes Wyllan 1829 OBHAG has recently funded the digitising by Oswestry Family & Local History Group of the Plas Wilmot notebook. This unique source, which records the building of Wilfred Owen's birthplace by Edward Salter in 1829, is held by Oswestry Library. Its digitisation means that it can now be viewed on the Library's public-access computers without the need to handle the original. ...More
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The Builders of Plas Wilmot
The ancestry of Edward and Mary Salter, builders of Plas Wilmot, the birthplace of Wilfed Owen. A talk given by OBHAG's President John Pryce-Jones at the AGM 2017. Introduction Oswestry rightly is proud of its connection with Wilfred Owen, born at Plas Wilmot in 1893. His ancestry through the Salter family is well rooted in Oswestry's history. In this year's AGM talk, John Pryce-Jones re-examines the Salter connection and takes a close look at the family of Mary Simpson, whose husband Edward ...More


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Kirk Franklin returns to Birmingham for the first time in 15 years.
As a revolutionary artist breaking down barriers and crossing over into the mainstream, Franklin has been at the helm of the Gospel music industry for decades.
As the host and Executive Producer of the Gospel's biggest talent show "Sunday Best," (the highest-rated Gospel program in BET network history) Franklin continues to experience success earning him 9 GRAMMY® Awards; an American Music Award; 39 Stellar Awards, 16 Dove Awards, 8 NAACP Image Awards, 2 BET Music Awards, a Soul Train Award and numerous others.
Kirk Franklin returns to Birmingham on Friday 12th June 2015 with support from MOBO Award winners Lurine Cato and Rachel Kerr and also Gospel Reggae GXMMA Award Winner Peter Spence and upcoming Gospel outfit Listen Band.
Venue: Bethel convention Centre, Kelvin Way, West Bromwich. B70 7JW
Doors Open: 6:30pm Showtime 7:30pm
Tickets: Limited early bird tickets £30.00. Thereafter £32.50 (standard tickets).
Purchase tickets from www.theticketsellers.co.uk and all the usual ticket outlets in the Midlands.


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Housing and disabled people: a toolkit for local authorities in England
Habinteg and the Equality and Human Rights Commission have partnered to produce a toolkit to support delivery of quality homes and services to disabled people in England.
What do the toolkits include?
It includes information, checklists, questionnaires and best practice examples, with separate, downloadable guides for:
- providing and managing housing adaptations
- the allocation of housing
- planning for accessible homes
- strategic planning
- supporting tenants
Who are the guides aimed at?
The guides are aimed at leaders and practitioners in:
- housing
- health and social care
- tenant engagement teams
- access officers
- planning and housing strategy
You can find the whole suite of toolkits here, or download them individually below.
Housing and Disabled People: Adaptations
Housing and Disabled People: Allocating Housing
Housing and Disabled People: Planning for Accessible Homes
Housing and Disabled People: Strategic Planning
Housing and Disabled People: Supporting Tenants
Engaging with Disabled People: An Event Planning Guide
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text: Visit the exhibition PUBLIC SCHOOL to discuss the role of self-education practices in pursuit of social justice, and contribute to the Chicago Read/Write Library archive. Visiting resident Bianca Bernardo joins the discussion as an artist, and Pedagogic Coordinator at Museu Bispo do Rosário Arte Contemporânea. Also, build Resistance Architecture with PROJECT FIELDING, an all women design/build collective making structures to be erected in direct response to the needs of long-term protesters. Artists from these projects will be present to guide OE attendees through hands-on projects.


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Last week, Amazon announced a bunch of new hardware all at once. Pretty much their whole Kindle line got refreshed, e-readers and tablets both. Rumors of a Kindle phone proved false, for now, but the sheer number of new gadgets kind of made up for that.
First off, the most basic Kindle with no touchscreen or nothin' got its price reduced to $69. It displays ads when it's idle; turning that functionality off costs another sawbuck. Then there's the Kindle Paperwhite, with a higher-contrast display and a light you can turn on for reading in the dark, for $119. Again, turning off the ads (or "special offers" as Amazon euphemistically calls them) adds $20 to the price.
Both of those tablets connect to the Internet with Wi-Fi. For a 3G connection on the Paperwhite, you can pay $179 with special offers or $199 without. That'll enable you to download books pretty much wherever you are.
Here's where the real fun is. The original Amazon tablet, the 7-inch Kindle Fire, mysteriously sold out at the end of August. What they're now calling just Kindle Fire has twice the memory and costs $159. The new kid is called Kindle Fire HD, sports a 7-inch touchscreen with 1280x800 resolution and 16GB of storage, and costs $199. A 32GB version is $249.
Want a bigger screen? No problem. There's now an 8.9-inch version for $299. And for $499, you can add 4G mobile Internet connectivity. That's not free, but pretty cheap: $49.99 gets you 12 months of 250MB worth of data per month.
All the tablets display special offers when idle. Actual good features include X-Ray, which displays extra information about books and movies, and FreeTime, a mode that lets kids use the device for customizable amounts of time and without access to purchase anything.
The competition
There are a million different tablets out there, but few are targeted so directly at media consumers as the Kindle Fire. It's possible that Amazon makes little or no money on hardware sales and makes it up with purchases of books, magazines, movies, and other media. The new 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD models are clearly going after Apple's iPad, absolutely the tablet to beat in the marketplace. If Apple comes out with a 7.85-inch iPad Mini as rumored, the battle will be fierce.
Google, the driving force behind the Android operating system, announced its own tablet earlier this summer. Called the Nexus 7, it runs the latest version of Android (codenamed Jelly Bean) and will presumably be updated much more quickly than tablets from third parties.
Barnes & Noble is still in the fight as well. Its Nook Tablet still undercuts the Kindle Fire HD a bit on price, at $179 for an 8GB version; the 16GB model is the same price, $199. B&N did beat Amazon to market with a frontlit e-reader, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, but its $139 price tag doesn't seem like such a bargain anymore.
Then there's Kobo. This company wants desperately to be Amazon, and announced new hardware a day before Amazon did. There's the $79 Kobo Mini, with a 5-inch touchscreen; the $99 Kobo Touch at 6 inches; the $129 Kobo Glo, in direct competition with the Kindle Paperwhite and Barnes & Noble's Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight; and the Kobo Arc, their answer to the Fire line. The Arc is a 7-inch tablet, and comes in $199 8GB and $249 16GB versions, just like Google's Nexus 7 tablet.
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Dream Castle medium
Customer Rating: 5 of 5 (14 votes)
$169. The medium-sized Dream Castle will let your attendees have a royal bouncing time in this bright and happy bounce house. Little princes and princesses will rule in this brilliantly-colored castle with hues of orange, blue, red, green and yellow, perfect to suit any party theme, or to stand out during a busy event.. This easy-to-inflate bounce house is a great way to promote safe exercise and healthy activity for kids.
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Angel Wings
design by Shanda Vance-Markham
28 ct opalescent linen
Carrie Threads Sapphire and Passion
Shanda designed and stitched these wings for her angel girl in pink. When I saw her wings, I knew I had to stitch them for my friend but in blue and added her son's name. She loved it! Thank you Shanda for a beautiful pattern.
Sugar Plum Fairy
by Mill Hill
28 count Monaco white
I stitched this ornament for my friend in Korea. I decided to put the fairy on fabric. I stitched the legs in pink. There was some white on the side of the legs but because the fabric was white, I was thinking the white will get lost and she will look like she was dancing on sticks.
This is another Valentine exchange from Judith in my ILCSing group. The whole ornament is stitched one over one. It is gorgeous and I love the trim around it. Thank you Judith!
I stitched on Lady Slipper for the IHSW. I made a lot of progress. Are you ready?
There she is! Her dress is getting bigger. I almost can see the "flow" of the dress. I am enjoying stitching her very much.
Thank your for looking and for your comments! Have a great week!
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Watch Anonymous
Anonymous, is a film that implies that William Shakespeare was not the man portrayed in the history books. He did not write the plays attributed to him. Edward de Vere is a wealthy man with ties to royalty. He is an accomplished writer who has produced poetry and plays but he cannot publish them because of their political overtones. If they are made public under his name, it will be obvious to all that he is plotting against Queen Elizabeth and her inner circle.
The Shakespeare portrayed in Anonymous is a drunk actor who has never written a legible word in his life. In him, De Vere finds a tool that will solve his dilemma and enable him to publicize his works without the Queen and court having any hint who the actual author is. De Vere makes a deal with Shakespeare using the man's ego to full measure. Once the plays are performed under his name, Shakespeare becomes an instant celebrity. This creates a problem for De Vere as William is not satisfied with the original deal and blackmails the nobleman for even more fame.
The culmination of the story occurs when De Vere writes Richard III and has the play presented under Shakespeare's name. The play is a ploy to incite a revolt led by co-conspirators, one of which is De Vere's son. The plan is not successful as Elizabeth gets wind of it before it can take full form. She discovers that De Vere is in fact the author of Richard III and in fact all of the plays attributed to Shakespeare. In order to save his son's life, Edward De Vere agrees to never divulge the fact that he is indeed the author of the plays.
The cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, Rhys Ifans, Sebastian Armesto and Rafe Spall and the film is directed by Roland Emmerich.
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- Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall
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- Studio Babelsberg, Centropolis Entertainment
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- French
Also directed by Roland Emmerich
Also starring Rhys Ifans
Also starring Vanessa Redgrave
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Eurofins | Newsflash - January 2018 | Toys & Childcare
Friday, January 26, 2018
New York´s Suffolk County´s Toxic Free Toys Act
|The Local Law Nº 22-2015 about toxic free toys from Suffolk County was been filed in the office of the Secretary of New York State as Local Law Nº 26 of 2017 ("A Local Law to Amend the Toxic Free Toys Act"). It is effective from 6th November 2017.
Click here for getting the official publication.
Children's Folding Chairs and Stools Final Rule Published
On December 15, 2017, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a safety standard in the FEDERAL REGISTER for children's folding chairs and stools in response to the direction under Section 104(b) of the CPSIA.
This final rule, includes several amendments:
- Incorporates by reference the most recent voluntary standard for children's folding chairs and stools ASTM F2613-17a (as published in our last Eurofins News Flash Edition Nº EfCPT-N-2017036);
- Amends 16 CFR 1112 by adding safety standard for children's folding chairs and stools in the list of notice of requirements (NORs) regarding third party conformity assessment bodies;
- Amends 16 CFR 1130 to identify children's folding stools including children's folding chairs as a durable infant or toddler product for purposes of consumer product registration requirements.
The rule will come into effect on June 15, 2018. Details can be found here.
US CPSC Approves ASTM F963 to Become Mandatory
On December 4, 2017, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a direct final rule to approve ASTM F963-17 to become the mandatory toy safety standard, with an exception of exemption for push/pull toys.
Comparing to ASTM F963-16, ASTM F963-17 new version added the following sentence relating to sound-producing toys in Section 18.104.22.168(5).: "The toys described in this section do not include push/pull toys as defined in 3.1.68. The scope of requirements for push/pull toys are given in 4.5(7)."
This additional sentence in the new ASTM version to the sound-producing toys test method in Section 18.104.22.168(5) exempts pull/push toys from the LAFmax requirement (which is a measurement of continuous sound)
However, the Commission stated that this exemption will reduce safety because such toys would be on the market even if their continuous sound level is greater than the standard permits for other floor toys. Hence, Commission concludes that the LAFmax exemption has a negative impact on safety and, additionally, reduces harmonization with European EN 71 Standard.
Therefore, the Commission accepts all changes in ASTM F963-17, with the exception of the above mentioned text addition in Section 220.127.116.11(5) (which should not be allowed to become part of CPSC's mandatory toy standard)
This rule will come into effect on February 28, 2018, unless the Commission receives significant adverse comments by January 3, 2018.
Details can be found here.
Hong Kong
Update Safety Standards
Last December, the Hong Kong Government proposed updates to safety standards for toys and children care products listed in Schedule 2 ("Schedule 2 products") under the Toys and Children's Products Safety Ordinance (Cap. 424) ("the Ordinance").
Click here for getting the official publication in English.
Baby Bath Aids Safety Standard
The Australian Government published the Consumer Goods (Baby Bath Aids) Safety Standard 2017.
From 27th October 2018 the baby bath aid shall wear the following warning statement:
And shall comply with the requirements in the US standards (F1967‑13 Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Bath Seats) Clause 7.3 Permanence of Labels and Warnings
For transition period (Before 27th October 2018) this products may comply with:
- Consumer Goods (Baby Bath Aids) Safety Standard 2017; or
- Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Baby Bath Aids) Regulations 2005
Click here for getting the official publication.


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It's a BOY!
I want to thank those of you who replied to my message re the Premarin mares who had current pregnancies confirmed. I did reply individually to each of you yesterday morning, but don't know where the messages I sent went. They never showed up here on the board!!! The short version of what I had to say is that the vet is happy with both feed and pasture. Because of the creek and pond, believe I'll finish enclosing the orchard as the due dates approach. Will keep the mares in there away from the water hazards unless I'm home during the day. That will still give them close to 100X200' with shelter and water tank in the enclosure. A friend here suggested I split the area into two spaces. Think that will be necessary? These mares certainly know one another although they may foal as much as 3 months apart.
Wish I could go to the class at Davis but have to work. Will buy the suggested books. Am already nervous about safe deliveries even with these experienced mares and hope the books don't scare me more. Ugh, all those things that can go wrong and with uncertain due dates. sigh. Well, I live my life with the probability that things work out and I can only prepare for the unexpected to a degree.
Thanks so much for the information and support. Will keep you posted. Nice to know some of you are so nearby. smile Gayle
Just a quick update on those beautiful mares of mine. Ms Silhouette is far more regal and aloof. I think she lets Scarlet do the talking because she considers it beneath her diginty. She has been eating lots - they are two hungry girls - and is getting a bit of a tummy as well. (hmmm...)
They both have nice ground manners. Lead easily. Halter easily. Give me their feet on request. Mostly I've been leaving them pretty much alone and they've settled in nicely. Its a time crunch for me for just a bit yet. As long as I keep the food coming I think they're happy. I'm wishing I had more time...so they'd see past the hay to me...but that will come soon, I hope.
Thats about it from here. Just wanted to update you. Still haven't gotten the pictures developed - will finish the roll in the next few days. Sure appreciate what you're doing for the horses. Thanks again, Gayle


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Serbian billionaire Miroslav Mišković has been released from prison after 224 days, after paying a bail of 12 million euro, a record amount. He is still however unintentionally causing a delay in the transfer of shares from the chain C Market to Belgian Delhaize.
Profiting from end of communism
Mišković became rich after the civil war in former Yugoslavia. As a friend of then Serbian president Slobodan Milošević, he was able to buy 24 formerly state-owned businesses. Those transactions now appear to have been 'not completely correct': Mišković is being accused of corruption and tax evasion, but he denies the allegations.
One of the sales that is being investigated is that of local distribution chain C Market, which was bought by the Delta holding of Mišković. In 2011 Delhaize bought Delta Maxi for 932.5 million euro, including 75% of C Market.
Delay for Delhaize remains
An attempt of Delhaize to increase its interest at C Market to 91%, by buying the 16% still owned by the government, was stopped temporarily in the spring of this year. The government first wants to handle things with Mišković. The transaction can be frozen for 180 days, until October. Delhaize is willing to pay 9.7 million euro for the shares.
Operationally not a lot will change for Delhaize. The Belgian company already owns three quarters of all shares.
If Mišković gets convicted, it could mean he has to serve up to ten years in jail. He is being accused of diverting 153 million euro during the privatisation of the companies, especially at companies in road construction. He is also being accused of 4.2 million in tax evasions.


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It's Tuesday. I am sitting on my Rocky Mountain porch with coffee and Of Monsters and Men tuning my morning (afternoon?). And I've decided its a fitting day for a tutorial.
Tutorial Tuesday... get it?
One of the crafts I do often in making felted flowers as hair accessories and pins. There are many tutorials out there for these and some of them are really good. Either way, I thought I would share my own. So here goes:
For felted or fabric flowers I really enjoy reclaiming material, using something old and making it into something new and fun. And maybe it helps out the environment too, right? Reusing material. This wool felt comes from an old blanket of my Papa's.
The size of the circle depends on how big you want your flower. The bigger the circle, the bigger the flower.
This is where it can get a little tricky. The more spread out you cut the spiral, the taller your flower will stick out from the base. I prefer a shorter height, so I cut mine more closely together.
When you are finished, glue on some felt (or fabric) on the back along with whatever accessory item you like: a pin, clip or headband. (See below)
When you are finished, it may look a little something like this:
If you like this tutorial, but don't feel like making these on your own you can always buy from my etsy shop that is back in swing (and renamed) this summer! My friend Kirstin and I joined forces and just got it up and running. Check it out here.


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Landlords are always looking for the latest and greatest ways to attract good tenants. You already know to make sure the place is clean, tidy, affordable and well-placed, but what more can you do to ensure you get the most out of your investment home loan?
1) Banish the pests
Mosquito season is almost over now, but Townsville is always particularly susceptible to these pests due to the tropical climate. While bug zappers might do the trick, there is a far more interesting and integrated way to keep the bugs away: plant life.
The Townsville Council, as part of its attempt to eliminate the mosquito threat, suggests planting pelargonium citrosa (mosquito plant) or leptospermum liversidgei (mosquito blocker) in the garden to beat back those pesky pests. These plants have been suggested to have anti-mosquito properties, and also have the added benefit of bringing some lovely purples and whites to the foliage. It's a win-win.
2) Welcome the pets
A McCrindle study found that pet-friendliness was the second most desired feature for a rental property among modern tenants. A full 32 per cent of respondents to the Renter of the Future survey indicated they want to be able to have a pet – the only thing more important was good parking.
Try including a pet bond in any rental agreements to create some insurance in case of damage – the Australian Companion Animal Council reports that pet owners are often willing to pay more rent, so a bond should be no problem.
3) Time for a redesign
You could do a lot worse than talking to a local finance broker.
The Real Estate Buyers Agent Association of Australia found that the most-desired thing in a dream home was none other than the very trendy open plan living room. If you're lucky, your property will already have this feature, but perhaps you aren't taking as much advantage of it as you could. Try decluttering the living areas of your investment property, remove any unnecessary bits of furniture, perhaps even try a new, light colour palette to take advantage of any natural light.
On the other hand, if you are looking to build a property to eventually rent out, make sure you include the cost of including an open plan design into your borrowing calculations – you'll thank yourself later.
Of course, if you're a beginning investor looking to take your first step into the property market, you could do a lot worse than talking to a local finance broker and discovering just how much capital you'll have to play with. Get into contact with the team at Premium Mortgage Group today and let us help you find the right loan.


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The seaside town of Howth lies approximately 29 minutes east of Dublin. It's been a trip two and a half years in the making, and the end result was worth the wait.
No matter how much the city of Dublin captures my heart and undivided attention, I need breaks from urbanity. Ireland is renowned for its spectacular coastal villages, and Howth is no exception. It is a haven of a peninsula, a collection of centuries-old nobility and ruins, endless views of the water, and the best fish and chips you may ever have.
We boarded the DART train from the Pearse Street Station and rushed away from the city center. Howth's impact was instantaneous. It's the perfect small getaway when you don't want to travel too far. Here's a quick guide on how we spent our time–and stomach space.
**Note: These photos were all taken in the same 2-hour span of time. Some were taken moments apart. That sort of weather is the cheeky play normal on the Emerald Isle. 🙂
Along the shining sea
From a break in the main road, the peninsula unfolds. Inch along the railings, past seafood restaurants and cafes, until you reach the end. All the way is the harbor, and the further you trail from the town the more of its shades of pastel homes and shops. Overlooking the lighthouse and stretch of beach to the left, we stood and witnessed the seagulls ducking in and out of the sky, swooping over the sapphire waves.
We meandered around for about an hour, the sun's poking out from behind the cloud kept us lingering along the breezy edge. For a place to sit with a book or excellent company, look no further than this point!
The cliff walk, Howth Castle, and lighthouse are well-known ways to visit the village. It was extremely windy that day, and our tired feet didn't want to traipse on. (I don't totally blame them, and now I have more reasons to come back!)
At the weekend market
On weekends and bank holidays, Howth hosts craft and food vendors in an enclosed outdoor space, sectioned off by shops to weave in and out of. It has become a permanent fixture in the town after years of having a more pop-up status. Peruse inside for artsy trinkets and outside for antiques, organic produce, freshly baked bread, and sweet treats. We saw some lovely local artwork and woodwork for sale. I was enamored with wooden coasters that were carved with the names of Irish cities, as well as a heart filled with its colors. Now it's another item of Irish decor in my room.
Kaylee and I couldn't help ourselves, and despite having devoured a large breakfast at the Queen of Tarts earlier in the day, we bought cupcakes. They were right at the entrance, beckoning out to us, demanding that we buy one…
Buns is Ireland's first full-fledged cupcake bakery, selling cakes in small white cups and decorated with a creamy swirl of frosting, my favorite part of any dessert. I picked out a vanilla 99, inspired by Ireland's famed 99 cones. What a classic goddess it was.
If we hadn't been flying back to Boston the next day, odds are that we would have left with armfuls of bread in tow–and a big box of cupcakes.
In the Beshoff Bros. Restaurant
We got a bit confused about the Beshoff Bros. takeaway place, not venturing past the front door to order our fried haddock to be delivered in a piece of newspaper, but we were very happy in its connecting restaurant next door.
As a New Englander, my pride in our seafood is unmistakable. I have no bones about spreading the word that we are the face of Good Seafood. Ireland knows how to do fish and chips like no other, though. I've never had it as good anywhere else. You can taste the freshest, highest quality ingredients in every bite. Beshoff Bros. is the place to be for all of your fish and chips fantasies, and we were certainly swimming in them. Fear not, for they serve a whole range of seafood delights to rock your world.
Initially, I didn't feel dressed up enough for the occasion, but surrounding us were enough parties dressed similarly casual to us that I didn't feel out of place. Kaylee and I split a plate of their fried haddock and chips, which was the perfect amount for two people already slightly bursting.
I'm drooling just thinking about the crispy outer skin of the fish, the breakaway into flavorful meat, and the added zest of tartar sauce. You guys, there was just nothing like it.
So there you have it! A half day or full day is absolutely worth your time. The quickest out you might find from Dublin, and the most delicious. With its intimate downtown and natural beauty in tow, you can do no wrong.


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Since NBC's 2005 premiere of "The Office," I assumed every desk job would be as extreme and satirical as the show. I always imagined a boss like Michael Scott running around pestering his employees, with a quirky right hand man like Dwight Schrute not far behind laughing at all the ridiculousness. (more…)
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When a project is placed in your lap, you can feel the weight of its importance. As a marketing intern working at 451 Marketing, I was given the opportunity to work with a non-profit organization to improve their overall community presence along with various other goals. As I was handed the project, I could feel my anxiety simmering. Not only did I have to worry about making the client happy, we had the added bonus of making the agency happy. Though I had worked with non-profits before, the added pressure of the agency's name made me excited and terrified at the same time. Regardless, I swallowed its daunting nature and I dove right in. (more…)
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Graduating from college is a huge milestone and celebration that thousands of students, like myself, experienced just a short couple of months ago in May. But, there was a quick shift from celebrating my diploma to receiving my first job offer; a job that was not just for the summer or a semester, and one where my title did not contain the word "intern," something I've grown used to over the last five years. (more…)
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Dead Rising 2 Discussion
Trainer Tools and Resources
Just to let everyone know the retail box trainer works for the steam version
Thanks very much just start downloaded for Stream since GFWL hasn't got the game as yet.
How do you people get the trainer (retail box version) to work on Dead Rising 2 steam version?
check there for tips.
(There's also a disc based version using DR2Launcher.exe and SecuROM plus a modified exe as far as I know, xlive.dll from the crack can be used to remove life on any other copy if wanted but trainer seems to work fine with it enabled as well.)
Could differ in other regions I guess but it's no problems here.
1. Ultimate Trainer - Does NOT work for STEAM release of the game.
2. Ultimate Trainer (RETAIL+DIGITAL) - DOES work for STEAM release of the game.
If #2 - RETAIL+DIGITAL does NOT work for you then you (as already said by Caliber) likely have software or settings blocking it from working on your pc - i.e. antivirus (which is fixable), firewall (which is fixable) etc etc.
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Trump apologises for his crude remarks in 2005 video
[WASHINGTON] Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump apologised early Saturday for vulgar language he used about groping and kissing women in a 2005 video whose release has rocked his campaign.
"I've said and done things I regret," he said. "Anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologise." Mr Trump offered the remarks - believed to be the first full public apology that he has made in the duration of a campaign laced with insults and rhetoric - in a filmed statement hours after The Washington Post released a shocking video of Mr Trump offensively bragging about grabbing women and pursuing sex with them with impunity.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone I'm not," Mr Trump said.
"I pledge to be a better man tomorrow." But the provocative billionaire quickly and defiantly pivoted from his own crisis to attack the husband of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, saying former president Bill Clinton "abused" women.
"I've said some foolish things, but there's a big difference between the words and actions of other people," he said.
"Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, and shamed his victims.
"We'll discuss this in the coming days," Mr Trump said. "See you at the debate on Sunday." Mr Trump's crisis comes at a precarious moment for his campaign. He squares off against Mrs Clinton for the second time on Sunday, in St Louis, trailing the Democratic nominee in the polls, and with Mrs Clinton enjoying a dramatic lead over Mr Trump with women voters.
In the 2005 video, Mr Trump is heard using predatory language as he describes hitting on a married woman and grabbing women's crotches.
"When you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything," he says.


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Chamillitary Mayne
Mixtape Messiah August 27th
Put that on your calendar
It's Chamilliona-I mean Koopa
A.K.A. Major Pain, Cuz I'ma bring The Majors Pain
Mixtape Mass Of The Underground....Bang
They ask me where Texas at, and I say hold that thought, August 27th I'ma get to that
You need to die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
I've been showing support to all the labels in my city and right now it's all about Chamilli
[Verse 1:]
When they see me do my magic they say "what the heck is Koopa on?"
Texas been too quite so the X-Men 'bout to produce a storm
Etither die a hero or the villain is what you become
Hop in in my Batmobile I ch-ch-churp the Koopa 'larm
Salad dressing cuz it's on plenty green and parmesian
In my pockets in my palm I'ma bout to drop a bomb
Thinking of making vegetatian I'm the mixtape farmer John
So much green inside my jeans it's like I've been out mowing lawns
I'm the real the rest is fake, I'm the best the rest is cake
Mixtape god I bless this tape and I put boys in they resting place
People always test the type an they don't never test the face
That's the day I'ma be on TMZ and the day I catch a case
Think that you can take my auto when them hollows not gon' follow
Better dream of bikini wearin "Genie Out The Bottle"
Some chicks that use to strip ask to wax the Maserato
I say forget the wax just make it quick just like Sorado
Got a spanish chick that loves the chip she the Dorito lady
She ready to Frito-Lay me "el gusto es mio baby"
I hear some sharks talkin like they gonna D.O.A. me
Go head jump in that water promise there's torpedos waiting
I dropped a lot of verses but I know I'm proud of mines
I see the presidents in front of me I'm Obama-tized
Rappers is politicians, they all be talking lies
Paparazzi like some Nazi pop your posse like some spies
I use to look around me like "it's proabably you that hate me"
Now I open up my wallet and it start illuminating
Do your damage do it talk your talk and mutilate me
Money talks, me and Ben always communicating
I know your probably thinkin why he talkin all that cash
I write my lyrics in the crib as big as Carlton's dad's
Was happy broke but super rich they be like boy he mad
Every problem I had last year my money brought me all of that
Push foreigns like a chauffeur, stomp all the cock-a-roacha
But back when I was broke-a I sold product like a broker
My next one drop it's over, point out somebody doper
I bet that supersoaker flip that joker like it's poker
Your boy ain't half of me, turn him to a casualty
Humble but I swear I'm not Barack Obama's pastor see
I be talkin trash yeah the mouth is a catastophy
Don't mistake the humbleness for weakness cuz that's blasphemy
I put on some Chamilli on on some Chamilli
I put on some Chamilli on on some Chamilli
I put on East Side
I put on Southside
I put on Westside
I put on Chamillitary Mayne!
I put on some Chamilli on on some Chamilli
I put on some Chamilli on on some Chamilli
I put on East Side
I put on Southside
I put on Westside
I put on Chamillitary Mayne!
[Verse 2:]
This weapon that stay attached to me is grazing your anatomy
This grey one will make you call a doctor call up "Grey's Anotomy"
I be pushin cars out the garage like it's a factory
Service with a smile serve a hatin rapper happily
Never miss a penny you can't count your doe exact as me
Push come to shove I'm picking up money just like a vaccum G
Always makin doe, got a bunch of Keiblers after me
Pro at being active like what Puffy use for Ac-a-ne
If you rep that Texas I knooow, that ya feel me
Wanna pop lock and dance then put oooon that "Get Silly"
Wanna dance 'til ya sweaty put oooon that P. Diddy
Tryna take the mixtape market put oooon that Chamilli, eh


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Speaking for myself, an mp3 player is an mp3 player. I mean, most people are all excited about Apple's iPod products, while I do not even bother using my own iPhone as an mp3 player. Currently, I still use one of the old school iPod nanos for my mp3 needs and when it goes bad, will almost certainly go with a Cowon flash player as it means I can go with more codec options. Hey, I have a lot of FLAC music files! Do not believe the iPod is going to be a lot of help there.
But for those of you who want more, yet are not really wanting to fall into the iPod niche, you might consider looking at the latest Zune called the Zune HD. Offering much of what the iPod touch offers, along with some additional features, one might find that it is a better match for them in the end.
To those who believe this Zune HD to be a FUD tactic, I would strongly disagree. The iPod market is not one that Microsoft is going to ignore. And for better or worse, you had bet your backside that MS will be shipping this Zune HD asap. They are already very late to this market. So waiting any longer would be counter productive for them.


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Last week I chose to survive off $5.72 (post supermarket—do not panic, I am alive) for five days so as to purchase a pair of pink, glittery Miu Miu* sunglasses.
After a recent five day Bloody Mary bender / alco-holiday with the main squeeze, my savings account (read: all nine accounts) were looking absolutely dismal. But I NEEDED them.
I had been eyeing them up (read: high key stalking and checking on them at least once a week) in Recycle Boutique from the day they went out on the floor, until they dropped half price to a cool $115 and I didn't have to feel guilty for spending more than my rent on glittery shit.
But these weren't just any sparkly pink thing to add to my menagerie of sparkly pink things. It wasn't just that they perfectly matched my pink rabbit fur stole and pink wool coat, completing my "Barbie after a weeklong coke bender" aesthetic. Or that in them, I looked like your slightly batty spinster aunt with six cats, who drinks gin straight from the bottle and ruins Christmas, but compensates with lavish presents. Or even that they are literally pink tinted, so in them I am somewhat forced to adopt a rosier outlook.
These sunglasses I had seen in countless editorials, had popped up on my tumblr dashboard maybe half a million times, I literally had a picture of them stuck to my wall. I had accepted (and promptly quit) a job at Sunglass Hut in the hopes of acquiring them at an employee-discounted rate (still $400+ lol.)
These glasses represented my inner aspiring Carrie Bradshaw, the manolo poster girl x successful journalist with a wardrobe bigger than the average studio apartment. The self that the years of hope labour and unpaid internships I have to look forward to, will eventually equate to.
They were the exemplification of my Gossip Girl lifestyle on a Broad City budget.
So maybe it isn't about the glasses, maybe it is about becoming the kind of person (maniac?) who would wear $400 pink fucking glittery sunglasses.
Note to future Jess: lay-by the next dumb extravagant thing you "need"—you are such a colossal bitch when you're hangry.
* For the uninitiated: Miu Miu [noun; pronounced "mew-mew"] is Prada's little sister label.


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Welcome to the City of Jackson!
A city with a grand vision and innovative community members. A year of many changes and accomplishments.
The City established a vision of accomplishing the goals of Enhancing the Quality Life for Residents, Strengthen the City's Economy, Sustainable City Finances, Infrastructure Improvements, Public Health, Safety, and Welfare.
Enhancing the Quality of Life for Residents – through the continued efforts of the City Council and several departments including the Neighborhood & Economic Operations and Police Departments, ordinances and policies have been changed to better reflect the goals and vision of the City Council making Jackson neighborhoods safer for residents. Our continued efforts through the non-owner occupied rental inspection program have paved the way for neighborhoods to be as blight free as possible.
Strengthen the City's Economy/Sustainable Finances – Every effort has been made to accomplish this goal, which is reflected a 30 percent in the City's fund balance in 2016/17. The City Council recognizes the importance of having a stable economic base from which to grow, which includes a healthy cash flow. We have also attracted several new businesses to the city of Jackson including the Grand River Brewery and a new, 30-unit, market-rate apartment complex in the heart of downtown Jackson.
Infrastructure Improvements – while our infrastructure is in need of significant improvements, the citizens of Jackson can be assured that we have been working diligently at putting several major street reconstruction projects into place during the year, which will culminate in new roads and highways. Michigan Avenue from Brown Street to the downtown loop is next up on the list of major infrastructure projects within the City.
Public Health, Safety, and Welfare - Through the elimination of blighted structures throughout the City, we are able to decrease the overly robust stock of abandoned/decaying homes while increasing the value of others.
While much remains to be done, we are very appreciative of the support the community and individuals who continue to work with and alongside us. A special recognition goes to the staff that spent countless hours transforming these concepts/ goals into reality. The combined efforts of all stakeholders are essential to our continued success.


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BARSTOW, Calif. (news release) — On February 26, 2018, Deputy Zeman searched a home in the 500 block of White Street in the city of Barstow with the help from officers from the California Highway Patrol and the Barstow Police Department.
Numerous items believed to be stolen property were recovered, including a large industrial cell battery similar to those used to power cable boxes.
Investigators are attempting to identify the owners of this property and are asking anyone with information to contact the Barstow Sheriff's Station at (760) 256-4838. Citizens wishing to remain anonymous may call the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-78-CRIME (27463), or leave information on the We-Tip website at www.wetip.com.


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Happy weekend one and all!
Today's picture is from the Disney store in Rome!
I'm off there on Sunday and shall be making this one of my key stops alongside the colosseum and Vatican! I love the Roman theme and I'm very excited to see the merchandise. I wonder if Italy has been hit with Frozen fever too!
What are you up to this weekend? Have you ever been to Rome before? If you have, any tips?!
Have a gorgeous weekend whatever you do,
Lots of love,
Sophia :)