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A Rookie FTC Robotics Team from All Over San Diego Dedicated to Spreading STEM.
San Diego, California
Learning together since 2018
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Team Guidelines and RulesBasic Rules:
Social Media Rules:
Give Aways and Team Flyer
What to pass out at competitions:
3D prints
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The flyer is a good opportunity to advertise your team to judges and other teams for alliance selection.
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Interesting features of robot
Using A Webcam
Using a webcam:
The webcam is very useful for vision and is more flexible to move around the robot than the phone.
There are several issues with this though:
You need to make sure it is plugged in very tight to the connecting usb hub otherwise there will be an error.
Power drawing:
The webcam uses a lot of energy and processing power on the phone and expansion hub.
This causes disconnects randomly.
The webcam uses too much electricity and causes the robot to crash. The solution is just to get a special Anker hub that can be powered with a power bank. This is legal to have a power bank under the FTC new rules.
Also the processing power issue is solved by disabling vision as soon as it is no longer needed.
We used the Logitech C930.
Hope this was helpful!
Build Systems Review
Build Systems Review
There are many available build systems for FTC and we have used four: Tetrix, Rev, Actobotics, Gobilda.
Here is our review:
Underrated. A lot of teams say it is really bad but it is easy to learn for new teams with little hardware experience. Our first robot was made in Tetrix.
The current favorite. Our robot drive train is built from this interesting system. How it works is very unique because instead of screwing things together the normal way, you slide pieces together and tighten them. This makes for a clean design but also is very annoying when you have to disconnect an entire piece just to add another mechanism inside because you can only access the attaching part by disconnecting the whole thing (Except with t nuts which are less stable though)
The only Actobotics thing we used was for our linear extender and it is compatible with Rev. The channel is very strong and sturdy and we are likely going to purchase the Actobotics kit in the future.
Our linear actuator is GoBilda and it is super reliable. We have used the same actuator for the whole season and it still works great. We will also probably purchase the kit for next year.
Actobotics and Gobilda in particular are very generous and give really good discounts to teams. Rev and Tetrix are less generous and Tetrix has almost no community involvement as far as we have seen.
In the future we predict a lot of teams moving towards Gobilda and Actobotics but Rev and Tetrix will still be useful.
How to Fix Disconnects!
Robots, especially ours it seems :D, seem to disconnect at the worst possible times and are very annoying to handle.
This method is what seems to work best for us and it is a very comprehensive strategy.
Turn off robot.
Disconnect robot phone from usb
disconnect cables from expansion hubs/webcam
replug everything except phones
fully exit (swipe out app from dock) Robot Controller App and Driver Station App
Turn on robot.
Plug in robot phone with app not open
wait for phone to automatically open app
click restart robot with the three dots in the upper right corner
wait and then click configure robot
select your config
click scan and make sure it detects your hub(s)
return to main screen
open driver station app and listen for the ring that says you are connected
it should be good to go now!
common causes:
loose cables
phone usbs are in, but at an angle or slightly loose
phones need to be secure tightly to minimize shaking during rounds which dislodge USB
add stress relief case for your phone and expansion hub (search it on Thingiverse)
Usually Android Studio or Onbot Java will tell you if your code has an error before it downloads. However, this only catches Syntax Errors (haha a fellow robot team) not logic errors so code could have inherent flaws that don't do what you intended. We ourselves have only encountered one software issue causing disconnects, and it was because there was a missing opModeIsActive() boolean and also the computer vision code was running the entire autonomous which eats up a lot of computing power, so we solved that by disabling the camera earlier.
TIP: it often helps to have a non-coder check your code because they will question everything and be able to see past the bias of a programmer who may skip over certain details. (how we figured out the computer vision issue above)
For a more in depth guide on troubleshooting controls, refer to this trouble shooting guide: www.firstinspires.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resource_library/ftc/control-system-troubleshooting-guide.pdf
Hope this helps!
Also, you can always contact us through the contact page!
The future of this world is undeterminable, but one thing is known for sure: technology is going to play a key role in our daily lives. I chose to do robotics to see if I wanted to pursue a career in engineering. Furthermore, I wanted to learn how to code; I am sure that knowing how to code will help me in the future.
But now I think that robotics isn't only beneficial in academics, it is fun and engaging. Our team consists of many people (including myself) that had no idea how to code or build robots, but week after week I am surprised by how much we are learning as a team.
Robotics also gives me a chance to practice my teamwork and cooperation: there are many times during our meetings when I am frustrated or confused, but I have learnt to listen to everyone's reasons and ideas, as well as asking questions when I need help. The whole FIRST community is very welcoming and it is amazing how all teams help each other out. This stimulates a professional work environment (especially the pressure experienced during League Meets).
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions/comments about robotics - we're more than happy to help!
We received our first finalist trophy at The Grauer School tournament! The whole team was very surprised - our robot was not exactly in the best shape during the qualifications. We tried taking our intake mechanism off, but that made our robot malfunction because the code didn't correspond with what was attached to the robot. We were all very frustrated because our robot didn't move for one whole round!
After many struggles - our dedicated members worked through lunch break to get our robot working - we decided to reattach the intake mechanism and borrow a weight from another team (Shockwave 3848)to apply more pressure on the center wheels. Fortunately, after lunch break we scored all the points possible in autonomous and it worked beautifully. Unfortunately, we got stuck on the crater wall couldn't move for the rest of the round. At least we got partial parking points in endgame!
Although we didn't have the best robot performance, we think that this was an opportunity to learn to be flexible and to overcome our emotions and compromise to get the robots working. We truly believe that this meet has strengthened our cooperation as a team, as many changes were made last minute and everyone had to be on the same page. We got chosen by the 4th alliance (Fast and Curious), and we beat the 1st Alliance in a huge underdog win, and only lost by 17 points in the final match! We were very happy that our autonomous worked perfectly both finals rounds and it was awesome to finally win a semifinal round. All in all, this has been a great experience and an opportunity to practice gracious professionalism. We still have a lot to work on!
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Long before there was Madonna or Beyoncé or Rihanna, there was Barbra. Sure, she has a last name—Streisand—but so what? Say "Barbra" on the moon and people will know who you mean.
Legend is not a term to be thrown around lightly, but here it fits. Consider the laundry list: She's won two Oscars, five Emmys, eight Grammys, and a Tony. Not to mention the Golden Globes, the Kennedy Center Honor, the American Film Institute Award, and the two Peabodys. She's America's best-selling female recording artist and the only woman in the top 10, and her album roster reads like the inventory at a jewelry store: 51 gold albums, 30 platinum albums, and 13 multiplatinum albums in the U.S. alone. And that's just the music. Go Netflix her endearing Funny Girl, her super-romantic The Way We Were, and her historic Yentl—she was the first woman to write, direct, produce, and star in her own film. (And then there's that little Fockers franchise, which owes a healthy portion of its laughs to her portrayal of a cringeworthy mother.) This year President Bill Clinton sang her praises at Lincoln Center's Film Society Awards, she gave her first-ever concert in Israel, and she saw the doors open on the cutting-edge research center for heart disease that she funded. "As a young woman I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights," she says. "I couldn't have guessed how much more satisfying it would be to see my name in stainless steel on the building at Cedars-Sinai hospital that says 'The Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center.' "
It's quite a résumé. When asked how she stayed relevant for so long, she says: "It's funny, I was always kind of lazy. I didn't want this role; I didn't want that role. Some I turned down because I was having a love affair! I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious." Really? Not ambitious—a woman who became an actress-singer-director-writer-composer-producer-designer-author-photographer-activist? "OK," she says, laughing. "I was ambitious too. I'm a dichotomy."
The real magic about Barbra Streisand, of course, is this: She changed the rules. She pioneered a new kind of beauty when, in the early 1960s, against all advice, she refused to get a nose job—and became a leading lady anyway, both on screen and off. Today diversity is everywhere in the female-beauty orbit, from plus-size models to a tattooed Miss America contestant. A good case can be made that it all started with her.
Before she was Barbra, she was Barbara Joan Streisand (she cut the second a to be distinctive) from a housing project in Brooklyn. Her beloved father died when she was young. Her mother's second husband was no charmer, and the two never clicked. "He told me, 'You're not pretty enough to have ice cream,' " she says. "And my mother never defended me. I wasn't supported in that house." But she didn't listen. "My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young. Looking back I think it was maybe an escape," she says. "I just had a belief in myself." She wanted to see her name in lights (and her real name, Streisand—she wasn't changing it) and stopped at nothing until she did. She started a nightclub act in her teens. She auditioned for Broadway roles. She moved into a small apartment and got her first telephone, which excited her so much that she yelled out to a group of actors at an audition, "I've got a new phone! Somebody call me!" A young fellow actor, Elliott Gould, did. They married when she was 21, and she had their son, Jason, when she was 24.
Things really took off for Streisand in 1962 and 1963, with a role on Broadway and her debut record, The Barbra Streisand Album. And she did it her way. While friends "got fired for looking 'too ethnic,' " she says, Streisand refused to be cowed. "I didn't do what people said: 'Change your name, cap your teeth, change your clothes, cut your nose down.' My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?" The public agreed: She was an original.
For the next two decades, hit followed hit, with blockbusters like The Way We Were and A Star Is Born further cementing Streisand's It Girl status. By 1983 she had amassed more than enough clout to get Yentl, a seemingly noncommercial story of a Jewish girl who pretends to be a boy so she can get a religious education, to the screen. The film's success was a tribute to her feminism, and she's been fighting for women's causes ever since. Even the latest of her many philanthropic ventures— the heart center—grew out of her concern about gender inequality. "Heart disease is the number-one killer of women," she says passionately. "It kills more women than all the cancers combined. More women die from it than men do, but in the past 50 years most of the research has been done on men!" Streisand is working to right all of that. Says C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., the center's director: "To have Barbra in your corner, backing you up...you cannot put a metric on it. She is seriously committed." Glee's Lea Michele, who had long idolized her, adds, "Not only has [Streisand] made her mark in this world for her talent; she's used her platform for better things. She's stood up for what she believes in. And that is incredibly inspiring."
Also inspiring is her happy second marriage to actor James Brolin. The two met when she was 54, editing her film The Mirror Has Two Faces and not looking for love. ("That's the trick," she advises.) Seventeen years later they're still going strong. They relax together, spending whole weekends reading in bed and driving down country roads to little inns in their truck. (You read that right: Barbra Streisand has a truck.) And they appreciate each other. "A wise man told me this the other day: 'If you diminish your partner, you diminish yourself,' " she says. "If you want to be happy, make the other person happy. Jim and I work very hard on our marriage."
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Although a surprising number of people lamented the downfall of Mubarak, the majority were jubilant and partied like there was a tomorrow when the news of his demise broke. Five years on: After the Arab Spring In addition, the crowds' sustained and uncompromising demands for bread, freedom and social justice put pay to the lie that Egyptians do not desire nor understand democracy, even if some are reluctant or passionate supporters of military or Islamist dictatorship. Fallen into a wormhole Today, it is hard to believe that those momentous events occurred only five years ago. Like a 21st century Alice, Egyptians seem to have fallen into a wormhole in which time, space and history have been warped and speeded up. In only five years, Egypt has gone through more changes in leadership than over the preceding six decades. The country has hurtled through revolution, counterrevolution, and anti-revolution, and its people have ridden the emotional rollercoaster that has taken them from the heights of elation to the depths of deflation. ALSO READ: Arabs in the eye of history Though everything promised change, nothing seems to have changed. This has led to a sense of despondency and despair, with many signing off on the revolution's death certificate or, worse, claiming that it was never born in the first place. Though everything promised to change, nothing seems to have changed. But is this disillusionment justified? It is true that the existing order has proved remarkably adept at clinging on to power. First, the regime sacrificed its head to save its body. Then the military tried to rule directly and co-opt the revolutionaries. Failing this, it hid behind the democratic facade provided by a pliant Muslim Brotherhood. When Mohamed Morsi got too big for his boots, he was unceremoniously evicted and the loyalist he appointed to run the armed forces, Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, became Egypt's newly minted military dictator. The counterrevolution has been so apparently successful that it seems to have brought Egypt back to square one. However, appearances are deceptive. The incremental and unprecedented use of force and coercion, not to mention efforts to frighten the population into submission, are signs of weakness, not of strength. It betrays just how desperate the regime has become after everything has failed to keep a rebellious population in check. Graffiti on a wall off Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo (2011) [Getty] And even though Egypt's jails are overflowing with prisoners of conscience, not to mention all the dead, other activists, critical journalists and outspoken citizens take their place, some many times over. 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This panic was amply demonstrated this month by what has been described as "the toughest security crackdown in Egypt's history" which has included a spate of arrests, the random, arbitrary searching of thousands of downtown apartments. The underlying reason for this fear are clear: while Egyptians have changed, their leaders have not, and they live in a delusion that the old ways can be restored through violence. "A profound gulf now exists between a ruling class intent on governing as if nothing has changed and large swaths of a democratic citizenry for whom something fundamental has altered," writes Jack Shenker, who covered the revolution for The Guardian, in The Egyptians, a new book which will be released soon. In addition to the ferocity of the counterrevolution, the trouble with the revolution was that the euphoria it aroused raised too many high expectations. Problems that have accumulated over the six decades since the army took power take time to unravel. The brutality of the modern Egyptian state over the past two centuries cannot be blunted immediately. The damage done by foreign control and meddling that has been Egypt's lot for more than two millennia cannot be repaired in an instant. A protester in Tahrir Square holds a photo showing President Hosni Mubarak's face crossed out (2011) [Getty] 'Mini-Mubaraks' When the revolution first erupted, I argued that a political revolution would fail without an accompanying social (r)evolution, to dethrone the million "mini-Mubaraks", weed out endemic corruption, promote equality and egalitarianism, create a meritocracy and more. While the political revolution has stalled, the social and cultural one is in full swing. It has been spearheaded by workers demanding their rights, women struggling for equality, and the growing assertiveness of previously discreet minorities, such as atheists. 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The story of Don 2 is about a drug cartel kingpin who is looking to take over the European markets. During the course of the film he goes to various cities in Europe and begins to make progress in taking over the European drug markets. He defeats and eliminates all of his competitors by either violence or using law enforcement to put them out of commission. He does a bank robbery with his associates in order to steal valuable plates that can help give him more financial support. In the end he uses a disc that lists members of all the European cartels and has them all arrested. Since he is immune to prosecution he is able to successfully become the top drug kingpin in Europe.
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" Klezmer is an interpretation of art and life based not
solely on Jewish folklore, but rather on a cosmopolitan divergence of musical genres" Giora
This is traditional klezmer music in the street of Tsfat ( Tzfat, Zfat, Safed, there are
multiple English transcriptions of the Hebrew word in Israel) during the annual klezmer
festival (2009 edition). This is a klezmer band playing popular klezmer tunes for the
pure pleasure of the people strolling on the streets, like the traditional klezmorim of the past
centuries in Eastern Europe.
Most of the band's members are Israeli talented musicians who were born in former USSR and like their famous
predecessors Dave Tarras, Giora Feidman or Naftule Brandwein they brought
with them a rich tradition and a solid musical knowledge.
The lead instrument may vary from piece to piece, the clarinet is generally the main instrument
that sets the melody, but the violin, trumpet, trombone, accordion, soprano sax or even the tuba can take the lead
and play wonderful solo parts. This is a quite improvised and informal one hour session of uninterrupted flow of
wonderful klezmer tunes "Mazal Tov", "Odessa Dance", dances and songs of the klezmer and world repertoire, with
ancient nigunim following by modern standards such as "Sunrise Sunset" or classical "Hora Staccato", Israeli songs
"Hevenu Shalom Aleichem" and many more.
This is the proof that music must not be confined in exclusive concert halls were the audience is listening in
silence but can be a lively event, a truly fest were the musicians are part of the people and are enjoying playing
for them.
The Tsfat klezmer festival is a 3-days summer event which takes place every year in the
Galilean town of Tsfat (Safed,Tzfat,Zfat) in Israel, and is a really popular event. The best klezmer musicians from
all over the world perform on many stages locating on every town squares, available in the old city, in the "Artist
Quarter" and also in synagogues. The audience can enjoy the music for free in the open air. The Festival not only
focuses on klezmer music but broadens its scope to Jewish music and contemporary Israeli music as well.
The choice of the city of Tsfat for such an event is not aleatory, this little town in Upper Galilee has always
been considered as the "cradle of the Kabbalah" and it was the home of many Judaism's greatest mystics and Kabbalah
masters among them Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai, the author of the "Zohar". Most of Jewish mystics are buried near Tzfat
from the second Temple period throughout the Middle Ages.
It is said that this town and area bear a special force, energy and atmosphere. It is like a spiritual magnet, a
driving force which make Tzfat an ideal inspirational location to host a Klezmer Festival. Secular, conservative
and religious people can mix and speak one common universal language: klezmer music.
Giora Feidman
"We have one Torah, one shofar, one flag, and the expression of all that is the nigun, any
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Messy Church
Messy Church Chiddingfold dates for this year are Oct 13th & Dec 8th, from 4.00 pm. to 6.00 pm. in the Village Hall.
Each session has a biblical theme which is told through craft, stories, music and food.
It's an all-age space where we come together and explore faith as a family.
Come and explore faith in a fun and messy way whilst getting to know other families, members of all three Chiddingfold Churches and share in a family meal together! Because we believe Church is for all the family, children must be accompanied by an adult!
To find out more about Messy Church in general visit www.messychurch.org.uk. For more information about Messy Church Chiddingfold visit their Facebook page.
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Investors Warm to Green Bonds
Aims to Ensure Production Is Less Harmful to Environment
The ice cream set to flow from Unilever's new factory in South Africa next year will be unusual. It will be green.
The Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods company's high-tech plant on the outskirts of Johannesburg will start producing popular frozen treats such as Magnums and Cornettos, funded by the firm's debut green bond to ensure production is less harmful on the environment.
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(Family Division, Hayden J, 13 December 2013)
In proceedings in the Court of Protection in relation to a vulnerable adult who suffered from learning disabilities, the court was asked to determine the appropriate care package including accommodation. During proceedings it came to light that the woman had entered into a relationship with a man who was convicted of a sexual offence relating to the exploitation of a vulnerable adult and an injunction was granted to protect her. The terms prevented the man from contacting her, attending her address and threatening unlawful violence against her.
When the local authority became aware that the man had breached the injunction an application for committal was made. He was alleged to have telephoned the woman, spoken to her in an aggressive manner, made verbal threats to her and to have encouraged her to visit him at his address. Due to procedural irregularities the case was not heard until over a year after the breaches had taken place.
The allegations were found to have been loosely drafted, in particular, the actual dates of the alleged breaches were not certain. In addition one of the allegations was based on second hand hearsay. The drafting lacked the degree of specificity and that was required in this type of application. The local authority had not discharged the burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt and the application for committal would be refused.
Hayden J highlighted the point that a range of orders are on offer in the Court of Protection to protect the vulnerable but that they needed to be deployed with forensic rigour and where possible subject to public scrutiny.


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Melrose's Steak Rolls
Serves 6-8
1 lb bacon
2 lbs very thin steak meat
2 cans beef bouillon (cans only)
2 sliced onions
Vegetable oil
Spread mustard on top of thin cut steak piece (about 6 inches long). Place slice of raw bacon on top of raw meat. Place slice of onion
on top and then roll up and secure with toothpick. Dip in flour and then brown in vegetable oil until browned and crisp.
After browned place in large skillet and pour bullion over and simmer, uncovered, 1 hour.
Serve on large platter with mashed potatoes... you will have gravy from bouillon.
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You will often hear the most common problem with dogs is separation anxiety. Dogs are very social creatures and they consider you to be the pack leader. When you break that naturally occurring characteristic, dogs will often whine to be close to the pack. Since there is power in numbers, when dogs are by themselves they can get hurt and become prey. It's a natural and innate things for dogs to be in packs so that is why they whine.
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One characteristic you must have when trying to cure a dog's separation anxiety is that you need to have patience. Repetition is your friend when training your dog to get rid of separation anxiety. Leave the room for seconds at a time and if your dog stays quiet, praise him. The key is to leave for longer period of time until you can fully leave your puppy. Repeat this take if you want to cure separation anxiety and keep doing it for months. Don't get frustrated when your dog whines and just know that you will have to work on it.
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SistersoftheVine.com is a nondenominational online community that seeks to inform and inspire African American Christian women. Founded by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, the website aims to bridge the gap between the emotional and physical health of African American women and their Christian faith.
Dr. Walker-Barnes is a psychologist and minister who works in private practice in Durham, North Carolina while pursuing her Master of Divinity degree at Duke University. ÂI conceived the website after reading an article in Essence by Dr. Renita Weems about the suffering of Black women in the church. Initially, it was supposed to be a companion for a research project on the emotional health of Black women in the church, a way of providing interested women with information about the project. But almost overnight, it became an entity of its own. It became clear that God was calling me to do something bigger, said Walker-Barnes.
Currently, African American women have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, newly acquired HIV infection, and certain forms of cancer than any other ethnic or gender group in America. These conditions are impacted by the high rates of stress, histories of childhood abuse, and domestic violence experienced by African American women. These problems may be particularly problematic for Christian women given that, as Weems notes, the church extols the self-sacrificing woman who believes that suffering brings her closer to God. Such teachings often contribute to women remaining in unhealthy relationships, unsatisfying jobs, and failing to seek treatment for medical or emotional problems.
Consequently, a major goal of SistersoftheVine.com is improving the emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being of African American Christian women by providing a community of healing guided by the principles of reconciliation, collectivism, discipleship, and affirmation. The website features a discussion board, daily devotionals, Bible study tools, spiritual gifts analysis, event calendar, and six monthly columns on physical health, mental health, relationships, spiritual disciplines, faith, and women in ministry.
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This time last year I was lucky enough to see an original Norman Rockwell painting at the Society of Illustrators HQ in New York. I wasn't expecting to see it hiding there behind the bar, but what better a treat (and better location) for an art appreciating bar fly?
With many of Rockwell's originals now destroyed (due to a fire at his studio) or in private collections, (George Lucas & Steven Spielberg famously own originals) I thought my chances of seeing anymore of his work first hand were slim. That turned out not to the case thanks to the Dulwich Picture Gallery (and not forgetting their sponsors) who are currently holding the exhibition 'Norman Rockwell's America …In England' until March 27th.
Featuring around 30 original pieces and all 332 Saturday Evening Post covers I can't recommend this show enough. Below I've included some photos (taken on my mobile so apologies for the quality) that I managed to take before I was told off. I was hoping these might go someway to show just how detailed, sharp and vibrant the work is, but they really can't do it justice. You're just going to have to go and see them for yourself and while you're there make sure you check out 'The Runaway', 'Good For Another Generation', 'April Fools', 'Bridge Game' and 'Two Children Praying'. To say these are masterpieces is a given, but to witness them in front of you just leaves you aching to live in Norman Rockwell's America.
P.S. The gallery have also put together a great book that covers all the work in the exhibition priced at £22 .


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Mobile Giving
What is Mobile Giving?
Mobile giving refers to a fundraising campaign where donations are sent to an organization through a mobile device. Most nonprofits have just recently begun to explore the idea of mobile giving. The first big mobile campaign that many people will recall was the American Red Cross Text Haiti campaign, which raised 32 million dollars in relief funds.
Mobile giving is the wave of the future. Research shows that by 2014 mobile device usage will exceed that of desktop and laptop computers. Therefore, integrating mobile giving as part of your campaign is going to be a necessity.
So how does mobile giving work?
Integrating mobile giving as part of your fundraiser provides a great way for nonprofit and community organizations to further extend the reach of their online fundraising campaign. Almost every fundraiser now has a fundraising website where participants, donors, sponsors and community members can interact as well as make safe and secure online donations. But, organizations also need a user-friendly mobile optimized fundraising website, to ensure that their constituents can easily engage from wherever they are. Mobile giving allows participants to register, track progress, and send notifications. And, most importantly it allows donors to make online donations to support your cause via their mobile device (phone, ipad, etc.)
Benefits of a Mobile Giving Campaign
- Integrating mobile giving as part of your campaign shows your constituents that your nonprofit or community organization is "tech savvy" and responding to current trends.
- Mobile giving allows you to increase your reach and allows you to reach out to constituents more frequently by engaging with them while they are on the go.
- A mobile giving campaign increases the "Engagement Factor".
- Participants can check status of their donations and post notifications at any time from their mobile device.
- Donors can easily make an online donation with a credit card using a mobile optimized screen to help them enter data.
- Sponsors, volunteers, media and any other community members can access your website at any time for information, to check progress, read comments, make donations, etc.
DoJiggy Releases Mobile Fundraising Websites
Luckily DoJiggy is one of the first providers of fundraising software to include mobile giving as part of their product offering. And the best news is… it does not cost a penny more! All DoJiggy fundraising websites come with a mobile optimized website allowing participants, sponsors and donors to access your fundraiser at any time from any mobile device! Read more about the features and benefits of our mobile fundraising websites.


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– To reduce costs, all 28 clinics will close tomorrow and employees will be sent home without pay. Only one clinic in Indianapolis will stay open Wednesday but will close Thursday.
– Should the law remain in place, Planned Parenthood stated that "it must close eight" of its clinics: "two Indianapolis locations and clinics in Bedford, Hammond, Michigan City, New Albany, Terre Haute and Muncie."
That's right. For a few days there will be NO abortions in Indiana. If the new budget stands, eight of the clinics performing them will close permanently. It's a good day to be a child in Indiana.


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New to Belgium, the Cameo 2 plotter by Silhouette is a revolution in creativity for everyone. What used to be expensive and large, the personal plotter cutter, is now affordable and compact, and the Cameo Portrait loses nothing in quality, features or capability along the way either. With its micro cutting blade the Cameo 2 plotter is capable of extremely intricate, high quality work in a wide variety of materials, from fabric, card and vinyl, even clothing transfers can be cut with Belgium's Cameo Portrait.
Despite all this capability, Belgium's Cameo 2 remains easy to use, with a simple connection to either PC or Mac through a standard USB cable. With the Silhouette Studio software included free of charge with every unit, it is easy to import stunning imagery from your own computer, downloaded from the internet or from the included library, as well as the low cost online store integrated into the system. This allows stunning work to be created quickly and easily, with the Cameo Portrait in Belgium, you can concentrate on creativity, not how to work the machine.
The Cameo 2 is available in Belgium direct from the Silhouette Online Store, and along with its incredibly affordable price, you also get access to a wealth of accessories such as bags and storage covers, tools to aid your projects and materials to use in the machine itself. Card, vinyl, fabric and transfers are all available to purchase for your machine straight from Belgium's Silhouette online store.
Compact and stylish enough for any home, with a huge range of ability that will make any project a reality, the Cameo Portrait in Belgium is the key to creativity, allowing dreams to become reality quickly and easily no matter what the project is.


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How To Use Your Passion To Earn a Big Salary (Unexpected Antidote For Success Included)
Do you often hear stories about people quitting their jobs and making 6 figures just by following their passion?
How about hearing about those who put their happiness first and follow what they love to do regardless of the financial outcome?
Is this luck or mindset?
In this episode of Super Life Channel, I had the honor to interview Coach Tanya Thomas. Her 20 years of expertise as a Dream Coach will give you the secret for happiness and success.
Got a happiness or success secret you want to share? Please it leave in the comment below! We'd all love to hear your experience!
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Plane Transformations with Complex Numbers and Clifford Algebras
A good friend of mine recently discovered some of the fun things
you can do with complex numbers if you're using them to represent
points in the plane. Friday, I re-read a passage by Tony
Smith about
why one
should be interested in Clifford algebras. Tony Smith's passage
included all of the fun one can have with the complex plane and
extends it to three, four, five, and more dimensions. I thought,
should segue from the complex numbers in the plane to Clifford
algebras to quaternions in 3-space to Clifford algebras again in a
series of posts on my
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Minnesota wins Governor's Bell Trophy, promptly breaks Governor's Bell Trophy
The Minnesota Golden Gophers defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions 24-10 on Saturday in the "Governor's Bell" game. The winner of the matchup claims ownership of the Governor's Bell Trophy, which has been played for since it was established on Sept. 4, 1993.
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But the Golden Gophers got a bit excited after their win, the team's fourth in a row, and accidentally broke part of the trophy.
(H/T @EyeOnCFB)
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According to Martin Jacques the disastrous foreign policies of the US have left it more isolated than ever, and China is standing by to take over.
Our power, then, has the grave liability of rendering our theories about the world immune from failure. But by becoming deaf to easily discerned warning signs, we may ignore long-term costs that result from our actions and dismiss reverses that should lead to a re-examination of our goals and means.
These are the words of Henry Hyde, chairman of the House international relations committee and a Republican congressman, in a recent speech. Hyde argues that such is the overweening power of the US that it may not hear or recognize the signals when its policy goes badly wrong, a thinly veiled reference to Iraq. He then takes issue with the idea that the US can export democracy around the world as deeply misguided and potentially dangerous.
He argues:
A broad and energetic promotion of democracy in other countries that will not enjoy our long-term and guiding presence may equate not to peace and stability but to revolution … There is no evidence that we or anyone can guide from afar revolutions we have set in motion. We can more easily destabilize friends and others and give life to chaos and to avowed enemies than ensure outcomes in service of our interests and security.
Those are the opening paragraphs of an excellent study by Martin Jacques published earlier today. In it he discusses the ramifications of our catastrophic engagement in the Middle East. Click the headline to read the full story.


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Halloween in NYC guide
Halloween in NYC is spooktacular and filled with amazing costume parties, scary haunted houses and pumpkin madness
Get ready ghouls and girls for an epic Halloween in NYC! The city is bursting with costume parties, haunted houses, Halloween festivals and more pumpkin-packed events. Whether you enjoy getting seriously spooked while watching the scariest horror films of all time or prefer to celebrate Halloween by leaf peeping while visiting some of the greatest fall getaways from NYC, we've got you covered.
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The Village Halloween Parade—NYC's creative and spooky procession—is one of the best Halloween events in Greenwich Village.
The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze guide
One of the best things to do in the fall in New York is check out The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze in Hudson Valley.
The spookiest places in NYC that give us the chills
No matter what time of year, the spookiest places in NYC always give us the willies.


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Sleep apnea is a respiratory condition that affects an estimated 40 million Americans each year. Common symptoms like chronic snoring and intermittent breathing interruption should not be dismissed as minor inconveniences.
As time goes on untreated sleep apnea can do more than cause poor quality sleep. It can start to affect the heart muscle, increasing your chances of suffering high blood pressure, and heart disease, as well as an increased risk of stroke.
Individuals suffering from severe sleep apnea symptoms often need to sleep with positive air pressure such as a CPAP machine. However, if you've been diagnosed with mild to moderate sleep apnea, symptom relief might be possible with a sleeping guard provided by Dr. Jeff Jones.
A tongue stabilizing device is popular with denture wearers as it doesn't need to attach to teeth in any way. It helps to hold your tongue and soft palate in position to mitigate snoring and improve airflow.
The snore guard will need some basic care and cleaning every morning. This includes a vigorous rinsing and brushing it with denture polish to remove any plaque buildup. Make sure to thoroughly dry the snore guard with a clean paper towel before storing it in its case.
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Have you ever contemplated separating from or divorcing your spouse? If you have, you are presumably not alone. If you haven't the odds are you will think about separation and divorce at some point during your relationship.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), there are 3.2 divorces per 1000 population in the United States. Yes, the Center for Disease Control is responsible for tracking the matrimony and divorce rates in the US. Yikes!
Number of marriages: 2,245,404
Marriage rate: 6.9 per 1,000 total population
Number of divorces: 827,261 (44 reporting States and D.C.)
Divorce rate: 3.2 per 1,000 population (44 reporting States and D.C.)
No one gets married expecting to get divorced, but 💩 happens. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center most Americans listed 😍 the #1 reason for getting hitched.
My marriage started to "officially" unravel New Year's eve 2012, and in the summer of 2016, my divorce was settled by the circuit court of Maryland. I went from hero to zero over a period of four painful years. Here are four things I learned during my divorce that can save your marriage:
- Trust: All 👰 should be built on trust and respect. If there is no trust in your marriage, it's going to be exceedingly challenging to form an enduring relationship with your spouse/partner. People change over time, and as a result, the nature of your relationship will evolve. You have to trust your spouse to communicate coherently and succinctly when these changes arrive.
- Communication: Bad news doesn't age well. You've got to communicate your sentiments, aspirations, and vulnerabilities openly. You also need to create a safe place for each other, so he/she feels comfortable sharing their most intimate thoughts. Without a trust bond between spouses any meaningful discourse, especially tough ones may not occur and will fester over time and transition into resentment. When communicating with your spouse, there shouldn't be any ambiguity or assumptions.
- Intimacy: Sex isn't intimacy. Closeness can lead to sexual pleasure, but it should never be used as a negotiating tool that you leverage to gain favors or to manipulate the other individual. Affection can be as simple as acknowledging your partner's needs. Intimacy can be as simple as listening to your spouse's hopes, dreams, and fears. ♀ and ♂ have different norms/ideas as it pertains to intimacy and foreplay. Foreplay is a gesture that can be practiced throughout the day by simple signals towards your partner.
- Family: Family is important, and each partner should meet and get to know each other's parents and family. Because we were in an interracial relationship meeting the parents wasn't an option. The lesson here, meet the family! You don't have to like them, but you should at least have open communication.
you are unable to save your marriage, and you do decide to get a divorce you need to consider the following:
- A lawyer or no lawyer? Lawyers are EXPENSIVE. It will be cheaper if you and your soon to be ex-partner resolve issues such as child custody, visitation, who gets the house, who gets the furniture, etc. amongst yourselves. If you have to use lawyers make sure and get a lawyer that specializes in practicing family law and is close to the court or jurisdiction where your divorce hearing will be held. Lawyers also charge for their travel time, the closer they are to the courthouse the less you will spend on travel related fees.
- Custody and Visitation. If there are kids involved, you want to establish a regular and amicable visitation pattern before a consent order is drafted and ratified. The courts will not change a visitation schedule that has been in place for several weeks or months because the courts are looking out for the best interest of the child. Any plan in place before the first visitation hearing will probably remain in effect going forward.
- Support! Find a support network, meetup group, family, or other social gatherings with individuals experiencing similar life-changing events. Depending on your emotional disposition during the divorce proceeding you may want to seek professional help.
If you have been through a divorce and have tips to share, please leave a comment below so other's may benefit from the lessons you have learned.


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Education week is being celebrated from the 3rd to the 15th of May this year. For the celebrations different schools are carrying out diverse activities to commemorate the day, and spelling contests, reading contests, and health sessions are all part of the agenda for this year. Today our news team visited the Trial Farm Government School where infant two and standard five children were participating in a health session carried out by the Community and Parenting Organization (COMPAR) and the Belize Family Life Association.
Yari Catzim- Reporting
Trial Farm Government School has held spelling contests, reading contests and social studies contests during the week, and to round it off today standard five and infant two students were visited by members of COMPAR and BFLA.
Nazira Romero- Principal Trial Farm Government School
"We notice that every year around this time teachers on and off call in people from BFLA to talk to them about good touch and bad touch because we believe that it is very important topic whereby students of a very young age should know what is right and what is wrong. There are times that children come in and say this is happening to me and I believe that because of these sessions children realize that if someone touches them in their private it is not right. We do good touch bad touch for the infant division and then in the middle division which is standard three and four we do puberty and then standard five and six we do a session on sexual reproduction."
COMPAR representative Camy Cajun spoke to them about drugs, and to aid the children in getting the message she provided them with scenarios which they dramatized.
Camy Cajun- COMPAR
"We are talking about different topics like gender and drug abuse we are also talking about puberty development and sexuality. After we do a presentation with them we want to make sure that the children get the information so we give them scenarios and then they do their presentations."
Yari Catzim- Reporter
"Do you think that it is an effective program to help these children prevent doing drugs and doing bad sexual choices?"
Camy Cajun- COMPAR
"It is I think the HFLE Program here at the schools is very important because it gives them and it creates awareness to help them make better choices so teaching them about the basic information and giving them that tool to make the decision is going to help them a lot."
For the infant two students "Good Touch and Bad Touch" were today's topic. To make the topic easier for these children facilitator Carmen Mendez was tasked with breaking it down for the students.
Carmen Mendez- BFLA Facilitator
"This morning I came to do a session on child abuse but with the infant one, infant two and standard one, we turned it to good touch and bad touch so that the children can understand it."
Above all the school has seen the positive results of holding such sessions, says Principal Nazirra Romero.
Nazira Romero- Principal Trial Farm Government School
"I think that as parents we have to put our effort because the school can only do so much but the parents have to help at home as well."
A similar activity was carried out at the Louisiana Government School and the San Victor RC School throughout the day.


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Dear Bill,
Over recent months, I've really enjoyed our informal meetings and policy discussions. The Bill Shorten I met was very different to the untrustworthy, tricky Bill Shorten that the Liberal Party has constantly talked about.
And until yesterday, I stuck up for you when people asked my opinion of you. I told those who asked, that ordinary Australians could make a hand-shake deal with Bill Shorten and trust you to deliver on your promises.
So you can imagine my shock, surprise and bitter disappointment when you broke your promise to me about a commitment to fund a $200k feasibility study, which examines the financial and social prospects for a new Fast Cat service between NW Tasmania and Geelong.
After reading your front-bencher Mr Richard Marles's public statements, it's easy to see why you broke your promise to fund the Fast Cat financial Feasibility Study.
Mr Marles's irrational, ill-informed, ignorant and over-the-top public comments attacking the funding of a fast cat feasibility study, are clearly driven by a deep personal hatred and loathing for Geelong Mayor Darren Lyons.
And have prevented Mr Marles from thinking rationally and in the best interests of his community.
I'm also surprised, given the size of Mr Marles's political tantrum, that he failed to make any comment when this issue became public months ago. Which causes me to think Mr Marles's irrational outburst is nothing more than him throwing toys out of the cot because he didn't get to make the announcement.
Your Labor Candidate for the federal seat of Braddon loves the idea, because she knows as well as I, that over 90% of Tasmanians support at least a feasibility study.
The other fact that condemns Mr Marles's juvenile behaviour is that he's never done his homework. He's not even contacted Incat, the Tasmanian ship builders, for a briefing on their work and technical advances which guarantees that this project is a reality.
Unfortunately, it is clear that you are intimidated by Mr Marles. So you made the decision to break your promise, because in your mind it was easier to face an angry Jacqui Lambie rather than an angry Mr Marles, which is an interesting choice.
As my strong parliamentary and public advocacy continues for this matter and the emotional and political temperature rises, I just want you to know the only reason why I'm fighting so hard for this project - is that I believe the numbers will stack up.
I strongly believe that a feasibility study will show that the economy of both Geelong and NW Tasmania will receive a billion dollar boost – and thousands of new jobs will be created.
Many critics of the establishment of a new Fast Cat Service use the flawed excuse that the old service failed – and therefore so will any future Fast Cat Service.
However, those critics, including Mr Richard Marles, fail to acknowledge that when compared with the old fast cat service, the proposed new ship is 5 times the size, with 10 times the capacity and also enjoys 25 years of technical maritime advancement.
So any claim that the proposed new ship will cause the same amount of sea sickness or discomfort as the old is wild, uninformed and politically motivated scare mongering.
The critics also fail to acknowledge that Tasmanian Fast Cat builder right now have similar but slightly smaller vessels (110M v 130M) operating successfully in the Irish Sea, China and Japan.
A Fast Cat service has the potential to transfer daily an extra 2400 people and 1200 vehicles from the mainland – at greatly reduced rates and costs. This will equate to a massive boost into both communities' economies and place irresistible downward pressure on the unemployment rate.
I don't like picking a political fight with a possible PM, however I'm not just fighting to protect my personal reputation and integrity which has now been questioned because of your broken promise.
I'm fighting for 500 workers that will be employed building a new Fast Cat Ship in Hobart.
I'm fighting for jobs for the tens of thousands of unemployed Tasmanians who need hope of securing a job.
I'm fighting for small business owners who will share in the increased prosperity and wealth - which will surely flow into my community, if a new fast Cat Ferry service is established between Geelong and NW Tasmania.
I look forward to your personal apology (not for disrespecting and lying to me, but to the people I represent in Tasmania) and an immediate recommitment of $200k of funds to the Fast Cat Feasibility study.
I'm looking forward to putting this unpleasant but very instructive life lesson behind me – and working with you to make Australia great again.
Of course, in future should you require my assistance and help – there won't be any more hand-shake deals. We'll put everything in black and white and have it signed.
Fool me once shame on you… Fool me twice shame on me.


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Merimbula Itinerary
Stand Up Paddle Board in Merimbula Lake, visit the Merimbula Wharf and explore Bournda National Park
Merimbula with its great climate, pristine beaches, retail and abundant natural beauty is an ideal location for your next holiday.
In this itinerary, you can Stand Up Paddle Board in Merimbula Lake, visit the Merimbula Wharf and explore Bournda National Park.
Close by are national parks offering a range of possibilities or special events that draw you to the area – the annual jazz festival, orchid shows, fishing competitions or the Merimbula Malibu or Classic wavesailing, kitesurfing and SUPs (stand up paddle) festivals.Visit Merimbule website here and browse events.
Trail Map
To view an individual point of interest, click on a marker below and select 'more info'. From there you can step through the trail one point at a time. Download links for GPS devices and Google Earth can be found below.
If your GPS requires a specific format for map data, download the GPX file above and use an online converter such as GPS Visualiser to convert to a format appropriate for your GPS. Select 'Waypoints' as the type of GPS data you would like to convert.


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Dress is very casual and informal where jeans and t-shirts are the norm. We are much more concerned about what's going on inside of a person than what they are wearing on the outside.
Our music is guitars and bass driven with great modern music and some old time hymns mixed in for an all around worship time.
The message is biblically based and relevant for issues we face in the world around us today. Our teachings will provide you with the biblical knowledge to deal with issues you are facing in your life. We grow deeper in our relationship with God when we worshipfully surrender to Christ in all thoughts, actions, possessions, time, talent, finances, and relationships.
Typical Sunday Mornings at Laurel Church:
9:00 am - 11:15 am Nursery Ages 0-4
For parents and/or grandparents who wish to avail themselves of this ministry, our nursery is a nurturing, fun, safe, and clean environment for their children; ages infant through 4 years old. Using a "check-in and check-out" protocol, and a wireless remote call system, parents can be sure of never being out of touch with the needs of their child.
9:00 am - Discipleship Classes:
The Bible is the central focus of our study here at Laurel Church. During Discipleship Classes, students from Preschool through Adult gather in age appropriate classes to learn the unfolding story of God's love as told through the pages of Scripture. Laurel Church uses "Answers in Genesis Curriculum" as the basis for our study. Over a three year cycle the study moves from the beginning to the end of the Bible with age appropriate materials for each class level. Parents and their children are urged to discuss what they learned from the same Bible lesson for each class so that the family can grow in their faith together. For more information regarding the "Answers in Genesis" curriculum, click here.
10:00 am - Sunday Worship Service
Upbeat Music, Casual Dress, and Bible-Centered Messages.
10:15 am - Children's Church (Optional)
During the Pastor's message, children, K-5th grade, are invited to the church's fellowship hall to participate in a time of learning about God's love for them in an age appropriate environment of love and fun.
11:15 am - Sermon Based Group
There is little preparation required for this group. Each week the members and visitors gather in the church Fellowship Hall on "neutral territory" to hear and learn from one another using the Pastor's morning message as the basis for their discussion. There is no such thing as a bad question or comment. People are encouraged to question issues of faith and living as followers of Jesus. It's fun, uplifting and a place to meet new people and experience more personally, Laurel Church.
If you have any questions, please contact the Church Office @ 360.398.1761 or email@example.com for more details.


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1. India sets two Guinness world records on International Yoga Day
i. India has set two Guinness world records (GWR) in Rajpath yoga event held on the eve of first International Yoga Day led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
ii. First record is the largest number of participants- 35,985 people had participated in largest yoga demonstration at a single venue i.e. Rajpath yoga event.
iii. Second is the most number of nationalities at a single event– People of 84 nationalities performed yoga at one place.
iv. The awards were received by Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Yesso Naik from representatives of Guinness World Records.
v. In this event all participants of all ages had performed various yoga exercises on the entire two-km stretch from Rafi Marg crossing near Vijay Chowk to India Gate. This mass yoga event has broken previous world record on mass yoga exercise which was set by 29,973 students from 362 schools on November 19, 2005 led by Vivekananda Kendra at Jiwaji University Gwalior.
2. Vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyam selected for 'Sangita Kalanidhi' award 2015
i. One of the foremost south Indian classical vocalists, Sanjay Subrahmanyam has been selected for the 'Sangita Kalanidhi' award 2015. It will be bestowed upon him when he will preside over the 89th annual conference of the Academy which will be held between December 15, 2015 and January 1, 2016.
ii. With this, he is seventh artistes to be conferred with the award before completing 50 years of age. Others are Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer, Musiri Subramania Iyer, G.N. Balasubramaniam, Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer, M.L. Vasanthakumari and M. Balamuralikrishna
iii. Sangita Kalanidhi is a prestigious award bestowed annually upon an expert of Carnatic Music by the Madras Music Academy. The award's name has been derived from Sanskrit which means treasure of Music and art in English. This honour is considered one of the highest awards in Carnatic music.
3. International Yoga Day: Stamps, coins and commerce
i. The government of India has released stamp s and coins of the denomination of Rs.10 and Rs.100 on International Yoga Day (IYD) on June 21.
ii.The Department of Posts is bringing out stamp and the finance ministry coins.
iii. Also, on IYD, the Discovery Channel has telecasted a short film 'The Story of Yoga' to take viewers through a journey of rediscovering the Indian ancient practice.
4. HAL delivers 'Orbiter Craft Module Structure' of Chandrayaan-2 to ISRO
i. HAL has delivered 'Orbiter Craft Module Structure' of Chandrayaan-2 to ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC).
ii. The Orbiter Craft Module structure is a 3 tonne category bus structure made out of a central composite cylinder, shear webs and deck panels
iii. The Chandrayaan-2 mission is aimed at placing an Orbiter around the moon and sending a Lander and Rover to the surface of the moon. It will be launched by a Geo-Stationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-MKII).
iv. HAL has partnered and supported ISRO throughout its journey by providing hardware for satellites, SLV, ASLV, PSLV, GSLVMKII and GSLV MKIII (LVM3).
5. National vendor development programme in Bengaluru
i. Peenya Industrial Assocation (PIA) will hold PIA: Expo 2015 – National Vendor Development Programme at Bengaluru from June 25-27.
ii. Peenya Industrial Complex is one of the biggest industrial complexes housing about 8,500 MSMEs and spread over an area of 45 sq. km. It is surrounded by a dozen peripheral industrial estates, employing about 8.5 lakh people, out of which about four lakh are women employees.
iii. This year's PIA Expo:2015 is being held held at Dr Prabhakar Kore Convention Center, Yeshwanthpur, Bengaluru.
6. Overnight Liquid Transaction facility on NSE's Web-based Mutual Fund platform began functioning
i. National Stock Exchange (NSE) on 22 June 2015 operationalised the Overnight Liquid Transaction facility on its web-based Mutual Fund Service System (MFSS) platform. The platform was launched on 19 June 2015.
ii. The facility allows the participants to place purchase and redemption orders simultaneously in liquid schemes. This facility will only be available on MFSS Web based platform and in Physical mode only.
iii. Earlier in May 2015, a similar product was introduced by Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) which has so far seen daily transactions of worth 400-500 crore rupees.
7. Federer Wins Weber Title for Eighth Time
i. Roger Federer showed he was ready for Wimbledon by defeating Andreas Seppi of Italy, 7-6 (1), 6-4, on Sunday in Halle, Germany, to claim his record-setting eighth Gerry Weber Open title.
ii. It was Federer's fourth title of the season, after wins at Brisbane, Dubai and Istanbul, and a timely boost for Wimbledon eight days before the tournament begins.
iii. Andy Murray claimed his 34th career title and third title of the season with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over unseeded Kevin Anderson in the final of the grass-court Queen's Club tournament in London. Murray joined John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt as four-time winners of the event.
8. Nico Rossberg of Mercedes wins Austrian Grand Prix of F1
i. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg from Germany has won the Austrian Grand Prix Formula One (F1) World Championship title. It is Rosberg's eleventh overall championship title and the third win in the 2015 season.
ii. First was the Spanish Formula 1 World Championship title won on May 10, 2015 and second was Monaco Grand Prix on May 24, 2015. Nico Rosberg had also won the Austrian Grand Prix of 2014 season which was maiden win for Mercedes on this track.
iii. Lewis Hamiltion (Mercedes) from United Kingdom was placed at the second position. Felipe Massa (Williams) from Brazil was placed at the third position. Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) from Germany stood at the fourth position.
9. Former Indian women hockey captain Shashi Bala passes away
i. Former Indian women hockey team captain Shashi Bala passed away on 21 June 2015. Shashi was killed in a car accident along with her son in Kahma village of Punjab. ii. She was a former hockey player and had made international debut in 1987.
iii. She had captained Indian hockey team for women in Women Hockey World Cup Qualifier held in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1997. She was also team member of the Indian hockey team for women in 1998 World Cup played at Netherlands.
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Cell phones are the most powerful communication tool because "they are almost completely spam free, they're personal, and nearly every message gets read."
Jed Alpert is a mobile activist who spreads information, raises money and has seen political and social change all through cell phone technology.
"The cell phone is particularly effective at engaging young people. I use geographic data to text teens about nearby volunteer opportunities".
He uses well-known celebrities like Britney Spears to read messages for the sake of an activity.
In addition, donation through text messaging is revolutionary in charity. Cell phones can activate "the population who wouldn't otherwise be giving" and be cool.
Source : Kate Pickert,( 2012/8/27)Doing good by texting,Tim


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Nowadays, not buying your professional development is much like going to an overseas land with no map. Things might be great for a while, but sooner or later you'll understand that something isn't
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A CIO Conversation: SIM President Nancy Markle
Nancy Markle, a former CIO at Arthur Andersen-Americas and Home Savings of America, discusses her role as president of the Society of Information Mangement (SIM), her take on IT/business alignment issues, offshore outsourcing, the IT work ethic and more.
She's been a CIO at two major organizations, and now she's heading up a network of more than 3,000 industry CIOs and senior IT executives. Nancy Markle, a former CIO at Arthur Andersen-Americas and Home Savings of America, is taking on a new role as this year's president of the Society of Information Mangement (SIM). She brings more than 30 years of IT experience to lead this group of thought leaders. In this exclusive interview with SearchCIO.com, Markle discusses her take on IT/business alignment issues, offshore outsourcing, the IT work ethic and more.
The majority of CIOs are men. Do you think that will change over time? What skills or attributes do you think women CIOs bring to the table?
Markle: I recall 25 years ago thinking [that] we'd have more women in leadership roles by now. What's interesting is that balancing the home life with work life still seems to be the greatest challenge. Women are expected to give up leadership roles so that we don't sacrifice home life.
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Regarding specific skills or attributes of a woman CIO, there are a few. As a woman, I think I'm not threatening. I'm a good listener, and men enjoy talking to me. There are a lot of men in leadership roles in corporations today. Often, they will share things with me more readily than with another male who might be seen as a competitor. It makes it easier to form relationships. Women are taught to please. Mostly, it's the woman who is going to prepare Thanksgiving dinner, send out Christmas cards, etc. It's a societal expectation. So in business, women can take advantage of that and be proactive, thoughtful and creative about how they gather, assess, share and use information. Generally, women are also good listeners and encourage the synergy of their groups to inspire great ideas and increase productivity.
What's the CIO/CFO relationship like? CIOs we've talked to say that their CFOs and business people are pretty IT literate these days.
Markle: There's an inherent conflict between the CIO and CFO, and it's a healthy one. The CFO's job is to watch and limit the expenditures. The CIO knows it is important to spend money on technology to enhance the infrastructure. It is important to plan in advance what the business would likely want because it takes time and money to build the infrastructure, and that extra time or money could potentially slow future projects or place the organization in a vulnerable position.
I've always developed friendly relations with the CFO. I worked hard to understand his issues and discuss what is needed and what benefits it will bring to the business. I learned early on that the CEO would probably say, "If you and the CFO can agree, it's a go". Even more important, if you also have the business people arguing for the initiative, the CEO will likely approve it. If you have anyone fighting against the initiative, then things are questionable. In fact, it is much more appropriate for the business to argue for the initiative and the CIO to support the business.
Who would you say makes a better CIO -- a technologist or a business person? Why?
Markle: You have to be both. You can't do just one or the other. Really good business people don't always have the background to know the technical questions to ask in order to make strong decisions. It takes a good understanding of technology and a good understanding of the business.
SIM has recognized this issue and has created several educational programs to address it: Strategic Business Leadership and the Regional Learning Forum. CEOs and CFOs are telling us that their technology colleagues often don't have the needed business understanding. If the CIO cannot articulate risks and opportunities, the company may make serious mistakes. CIOs should be able to read and understand the organization's financials. They need to understand when to cut back and where to spend money; what technology investments will contribute to business growth or needed process controls.
What are your thoughts about the quality of students and professionals entering the IT workforce today and even five years from now?
Markle: There's not a shortage of IT workers now. My fear is that there will be. Our colleges and universities are cutting back in IT curriculums. There are fewer students studying IT since the technology "bubble" burst. More students are going into finance or accounting or other sciences. Technology was once hot and sexy -- not right now. We see the curriculum contracted and faculty being laid off. Computers are such a fundamental part of our lives, therefore we need smart, creative workers designing the technology to interact with people -- the designers of the man-machine interface. We're not doing a good enough job of training these people or making this type of training available for people to study.
Do you think offshore outsourcing will help or hurt long term plans to develop and retain IT professionals?
Markle: Companies have been outsourcing for a long time now. It's really a hot topic because we have people who don't have jobs now. When we had fewer people out of jobs, it wasn't such a big issue. Some people think offshore outsourcing is a panacea -- it's not. Fifty percent of these projects fail. Some of the countries are investing in their people and making their white-collar workers more skilled. But are we in the U.S. investing in our young people to keep those white-collar jobs in the U.S.? The answer is 'not nearly enough.'
One thing we should note is the work ethic. Many people offshore have [a] stronger work ethic than those in the U.S. To some degree, U.S. workers expect companies to have deep pockets and take care of them -- whether or not they produce and continue to stay abreast of new technologies and trends. There are not those same expectations in some of the other countries. Offshore workers feel they need to work hard to be worthy of the job. U.S. IT workers need to be vigilant about producing, researching, and studying to be worthy of their positions. We need to treat a job not as a right, but as an opportunity.
Is IT/business alignment just an IT issue, or is the business side concerned about it as well?
Markle: IT is trying to understand where the business is taking their organization and what type of technology it will take to get there. The business side always wants more technology than the business can afford. What often happens is that you have a great relationship with one area of the organization and there is favoritism. That area gets first priority. Another department might bitterly complain about IT; and to quell them, that group will also get what it wants from IT. Neither way is healthy for the business. Maintaining the health of the business means doing what makes sense at any given time. It's also very helpful for the business leaders to understand where the technology dollars are going. In some cases you can build an infrastructure that can work for multiple departments. Then you only spend a fraction of the money to satisfy a department's needs. In some cases, you can get more than 50% of value by developing 20% to 30% of the system. IT organizations don't have time or money to do it all. What is vital is to have an effective governance and priority setting process that involves the business leadership.
IT has to learn how to speak business English. We need to understand the business challenges and underlying problems, not just the suggested solutions. The business people often want to do what their colleagues say is the answer or what they've read in a magazine on an airplane. But if IT is involved in the solution with the business, they can be partners and work jointly toward a more creative or effective solution.
What are some of the issues CIOs talk about around the watercooler? Are certain topics constants?
Markle: It does really depend on industry and company size, as well as the management of the company. Across industries, there's been an increase in conversations about regulation, legislation and security -- and of course, offshore outsourcing. A recent SIM survey showed that the biggest topic for CIOs this year is alignment between business and IT.


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Sat, 23 April 2016
In this week's podcast Lesley talks about her encounter with Huw Edwards on the TV. She also recounts the Electoral Reform Society meeting and its aftermath. She also mentions Affa Sair, and a forthcoming ball in Fife. Oh, and Obama too.
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When you say server , what is it actually ?? a web server or application server or ??
you can always reroute the traffic , but ensure that the target doesn't becomes a bottleneck..
I would still wait for more information before i can comment further..
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What's new? The Derbyshire-built Avensis has a freshened exterior and some revised mechanicals along with introducing Toyota's all new 2.0-litre D-4D engine. The front and rear bumpers may look very similar, but have been re-styled. The door mirrors now have integrated indicators. The interior has new trim, the T 3-X specification providing climate control, dusk-sensing lights and traction control as standard. The Avensis also has a five star EuroNCAP rating. What's it like? Impressive, if a little uninspiring. The D-4D 130 is a talented unit. It offers more power, more torque and better acceleration yet produces fewer emissions than the 2.0-litre it replaces. It's quiet, refined and flexible and, when mated to the standard long-legged six speed 'box, makes this car is an excellent motorway companion. The ride is firm yet supple thanks to re-tuned shock absorbers and thicker anti-roll bars. The body control when cornering is better, though the steering lacks the precision of the Ford Mondeo's. However, superb ergonomics and a near faultless driving position mean you can drive for hours in this car without plotting your next visit to the chiropractor. But there are still a few mutterings. Wind noise manages to infiltrate the cabin above the windscreen and the brake pedal feels a bit spongy: a symptom uncharacteristic of all the other controls, which feel tight and sharp. Should I buy one? If you don't mind owning a car that won't stir your emotions and offers little by way of driving pleasure, the Avensis is a rare breed of family car that does everything very well. Decent space, a great engine, refinement and undisputed reliability definitely make this car worth considering. Jon Quirk
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This duffel simply begs you for an adventure. Sturdy but lightweight, it's the perfect size for an overhead compartment or your weekend getaway. Traveling in comfort and style never looked so good. The Voyage pattern features a Zapotec diamond design in dusty rose and sandy beige on light turquoise.The features: leather base and siding, protective metal feet, two rounded leather handles, adjustable and removable shoulder strap, inner zip pocket, zipper closure.
The purpose of MZ is to perpetuate the beautiful artistry of the designers, makers, and artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico by connecting them with socially conscious consumers around the globe. With a focus on traditional craftspeople and marginalized groups who are making their living from handmade items, MZ strives to make a positive impact by nurturing lasting relationships and always abiding by fair trade principles. Each MZ item holds an element of discovery. From the significance of the traditional designs, to the bold color combinations, and most importantly, the distinct story of the artisan who made it.
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