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Lee Vann is a versatile singer songwriter based in Norwich, Norfolk and has performed at hundreds of venues up and down the country spanning ten years. Lee is able to adapt to his audience and has built up a reputation for his interaction with the crowd and his mesmerising performances. Lee has also received acclaim for his innovative cover medleys.
Lee can play a wide variety of music ranging from heartfelt acoustic songs to energetic 'one man band' looping. (Lee is able to replicate the sound of a full band using the latest in musical technology including, an Roland electronic drum kit, Boss loop station, Boss octave, distortion and delay pedal, TC Helicon vocal harmoniser and M:Audio midi keyboard.)
Packages available:
Drinks reception (acoustic set*)
Wedding breakfast (acoustic set*)
Wedding reception evening guest arrival (acoustic set*)
Wedding reception evening set* (Upbeat looping set*)
Wedding reception entertainment package (Upbeat looping set* with a DJ and lighting)
Full evening package (Guest arrival acoustic set,* upbeat looping set* with a DJ and lighting)
Lee can also perform first dances and is happy to learn songs with notice.
*A set tends to be 45 minutes but Lee will tailor sets to suit individual needs.
Although Lee plays weddings, private and corporate events he is also a songwriter who has played festivals and has sold out several popular venues including The Waterfront, Open and Norwich Arts Centre. Check out his Music on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/turn-around-ep/id574430954
RepertoireAdele - Hometown glory
Adele - Skyfall
Adele - Someone like you
Adele - Turning Tables
Al Green - Let's stay together
Alanis Morissette - Hand in pocket
Alex Clare - Too Close
Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
Avici - Wake me up
Avivi - Hey brother
Awolnation - Sail
Bastille - Pompei
Bastille - Things we lost in the fire
Ben E King - Stand by me
Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine
Bob Marley - No woman no cry
Bob Marley - One love
Bobby Mc Ferrin - Don't worry be happy
Bruno Mars - Grenade
Bruno Mars - Just the way you are
Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
Blackstreet - No diggity
Cee Lo Green - Crazy
Cee Lo Green - Forget you
Chaka Khan - Ain't nobody
Chris Isaak - Wicked game
Coldplay - Clocks
Coldplay - Fix you
Coldplay - Paradise
Coldplay - The Scientist
Coldplay - The scientist
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Coldplay - Yellow
Coolio - Gangsters paradise
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Damien Rice - Volcano
Daniel Merriweather - Red
Dolly Parton - I will always love you
Drake - Hold on we're going home
Duffy - Mercy
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save tonight
Ed Sheeran - Give me love
Ed Sheeran - Lego House
Ed Sheehan - Sing
Ed Sheeran - Small bump
Ed Sheeran - The A Team
Ed Sheehan - Tenerife Sea
Ed Sheeran - Thinking out loud
Elvis Presley - Blue Suede shoes
Elvis Presley - Suspicious minds
Embrace - Ashes
Embrace - Looking as you are
Eric Clapton - Crossroads
Eric Clapton - Layla
Example - Kick Starts
Feeder - Feeling a moment
Feeder - Just a day
Feeder - Just the way i'm feeling
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Frankie goes to Hollywood - The power of love
George Ezra - Blame it on me
George Ezra - Budapest
Goo goo dolls - Iris
Gotye - Somebody that I used to know
Green Day - Time of your life
Hard Fi - Cash Machine
Hard Fi - Vehicles and Animals
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Imagine Dragons - It's time
Impossible - James Arthur
Jackie Wilson - (Your love keeps lifting me) Higher
James - Sit down
James Bay - Hold back the river
James Bay - Scars
James Morrison - Wonderful world
James Vincent McMorrow - We don't eat
Jess Glynn - Hold my hand / Bills / Cheerleader (medley)
Jessie J - Price Tag
Jason Derulo - In my head
JJ Cale - Call me the breeze
John Denver - Country road
John Mayer - Gravity
John Mayer - Say
Johnny Cash - Ring of fire
Katy Perry - Firework
Kiesza - Hideaway
Kings of Leon - Sex on fire
Kings of Leon - Use somebody
Linkin Park - In the End
Linkin Park - Shadow of the day
Linkin Park- Numb
Magic - Rude
Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger
Michael Jackson - The way you make me feel
Michael Jackson medley
Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man
Neo - Closer
Newton Faulkner - Dream catch me
Nickelback - How you remind me
Nizlopi - JCB Song
Oasis - Champagne supernova
Oasis - D'ya know what I mean
Oasis - Don't look back in anger
Oasis - Hello
Oasis - Live forever
Oasis - Songbird
Oasis - What's the story Morning Glory
Oasis - Wonderwall
One Republic - Apologize
Otis Redding - Sitting on the dock of the bay
P!nk - Just like a pill
Passenger - Let her go
Paul Weller - Broken Stones
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Paulo Nutini - Last request
Pharrell Williams - Happy
Phil Collins - In the air tonight
Razorlight - Before I fall to pieces
Razorlight - Golden touch
Razorlight - Somewhere else
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr song
REM - Everybody hurts
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the bridge
REM - Losing my religion
Rhianna - We found love
Rhianna - Where have you been
Sam Cooke - Cupid
Sam Smith - Latch
Sam Smith - Stay with me
Sam Sparro - Black and gold
Snow Patrol - Chasing cars
Snow Patrol - Open your eyes
Stereophonics - Dakota
Stereophonics - Just Looking
Stereophonics - Local boy in the photograph
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Take that - Rule the world
The Beatles - Come together
The Beatles - Let it be
The Doors - Light my fire
The Doors - People are strange
The Killers - Mr Brightside
The Kooks - Naive
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
The Script - Breakeven
The Script - The man who can't be moved
The Zutons - Valerie
The Verve - Lucky man
The Verve - The drugs don't work
Tom Petty - Free falling
Toploader - Dancing in the moonlight
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
U2 - With or without you
Various - Garage / 90's dance medley
White Stripes - Seven nation army
Please note that this list grows week by week.
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Adobe recently published a report based on a survey of over 2,500 marketers and Internet professionals. According to this report, two of the most exciting opportunities in the digital world are found in solutions that improve customer experiences and expand the utility of mobile technology. In this article, I look at these two trends and how they can be combined in the context of Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) to allow organizations to better engage customers once their products have been deployed.
Customer Experience
If you don't normally follow Adobe's take on Digital Trends, you might be wondering exactly what they mean by Customer Experience. At first glance, I was thinking about Jakob Nielsen and his take on usability, however there is actually a much broader meaning at play in service life cycles. For this, the Wikipedia definition of "the sum of all experiences a customer has with a supplier of goods and/or services, over the duration of their relationship with the supplier," seems like a more appropriate fit.
What's important here is that a customer's experience expands well beyond usability of any centralized IT solution for SLM to include every interaction a customer has with a given product or service:
- Initial awareness
- Interacting with the company behind the product or service
- Purchasing
- Understanding how to best leverage the product or service
- Advocating and cultivating that product or service
Henry Ford is famously quoted as saying "It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages." While we all may understand that customers are central to our success, we may not always consider the full "cradle to grave" customer experience.
Manufacturers like Rolls-Royce know that customers rely on approved procedures and quality expertise to manage a jet engine, which may contain over 10,000 individual parts and have a life span of 25 years. In a 2010 executive briefing, Rolls-Royce defines the overall servicing problem as costly as the original purchase price. That cost doesn't include additional service-related costs such as:
- Ordering specific parts from trusted manufacturers
- Disruptions to basic infrastructure in remote locations
- Additional servicing challenges related to data security and regulatory compliance
- Loss of revenue while waiting to restore a product or service that is critical to business function
SLM providers help enable a better customer experience. One of the ways they do this is by providing up-to-date information to a worldwide audience using cloud-based and mobile solutions. Using SLM solutions helps customers make better use of a product long after the sales cycle is complete, helping customers reduce or avoid service-related costs.
With the ubiquity of mobile phones, tablets, and similar devices, it's quite clear that today's consumers are well equipped to use technology to access content. What's not as clear is how well different hardware platforms fit specific service organization needs. An everyday iPad may not be the device of choice when trying to review service information on an oil rig in the North Sea or on a helicopter west of Perth. Water, wind, vibration, and questionable Internet service are vastly different than the user experience one has in an office environment.
Organizations implementing a mobile strategy must therefore define what hardware is most productive for specified working environments. The SLM solution must then be configured to work on the hardware platform(s) that have been defined. Yet while this approach may work in environments that only require a single hardware platform, it becomes problematic when SLM solutions must be managed across numerous hardware configurations.
To overcome this challenge, SLM providers are taking advantage of device-agnostic browser-based technology. By delivering information through a web browser hardware requirements can be minimized, allowing organizations to more flexibly establish hardware requirements or to better leverage the hardware they already have in place.
The Online Conundrum
You may be aware of various centralized IT solutions that promise up-to-the-minute data delivered to your service technicians and customers. Some of those may even deliver to a mobile device. But what happens if that device is unable to connect to the Internet? When you're working in an area where online access is unavailable, a 404 error is not going to improve the customer experience.
The most viable service information solutions include the capability to deliver the latest-available content to your fingertips, wherever and whenever it is needed. If users are working offline, they will still have access to the latest information. When they reconnect, they need to know that their local data will automatically refresh to include everything they need, when they need it.
Solutions that manage content updates in the Cloud and serve the refreshed content to these remote devices help resolve the online conundrum.
Leading Change
The explosion of mobile technology provides significant opportunities for improving customer experiences; yet many organizations are challenged by the requirements it takes to be successful. Fortunately, technical advancements are rapidly evolving to meet the market demand with solutions that blend a mix of social networking, content marketing, and online/mobile technology.
Product manufacturers who embrace these solutions are leading the trend of improving customer experience, thereby putting themselves in a better position to distinguish goods and services from the competition and facilitate:
- Increased reliability
- Shorter service cycles
- More reliable service information

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Horse Health
The welfare of all our horses really matters to us. We want them to be as fit, happy and healthy as possible – especially after some of the hardships they endured before arriving at the Sanctuary.
Over the last 25 years we have all learned a lot about the care of our animals and in many cases just using common sense – or horse sense – is a step in the right direction.
We now have our own resident vet and our new Veterinary Treatment and Welfare Centre at Beech Trees, where we intend to continue giving our horses the best care possible – and hopefully, carrying out research in the future.
Our Equine Department is always on hand to advice anyone wanting to loan a Sanctuary pony as well regularly checking on their progress.
We would always advise a visit from the vet if you are unsure what is wrong, but we can share our best practice on a number of common conditions, from sweet itch to COPD.
Over the coming months we will be giving you all handy tips and links to informative equine sites and articles we believe will help with everything from horse health to horse behaviour.
Watch this space…
Horse Welfare
At different times of the year we will be posting handy tips and horse management advice to help you make the most of the valuable time you spend with them.
This month it's:
Fireworks and Horses
Every year we are approached by concerned horse owners wondering what they can do to calm their horses during the firework season. We've put together some advice that we hope will help, however if you'd like to talk to someone about what may be best for your own horses our equine team will be happy to advise you by phone on 01626 355 969.
- Horses thrive best when they have a set routine. Sticking to what's normal and keeping your horse with his usual companions should help to keep him more relaxed.
- Ensure the horse's environment is safe, with no objects that cause injury, especially if your horse becomes stressed.
- Stay with your horse if you are unsure how he will react to the fireworks. Your presence may have a calming effect, and you'll get to see how well he copes with the noise.
- If possible keep your horse in an area where he will not be able to see the fireworks directly. Keeping the stable lights on during fireworks can help to lessen the effect of coloured flashes
Placing a radio near your horse's stable can help to muffle the noise of fireworks.
- Using a firework desensitisation CD can be really helpful and works for us at all our sites. This will usually need to be started a few weeks before the start of the firework season if you've not used one before. Start quietly, just a few minutes at a time and gradually build up the time and volume until your horse accepts and is relaxed with the noises.
- Give your horse plenty of hay to keep him busy.
- Keep sand and water nearby in case of a fire around the stables. Make sure your fire extinguishers and emergency precautions are in good working order and everyone knows the fire drill.
- Check your field for any stray fireworks or paper lanterns that might have landed before turning your horse back out. Paper lanterns sometimes have metal frames that are hard to see and can cause injury to your horse, as he may become entangled in it or even try to eat it!
- If your horse suffers particularly from anxiety during firework season, speak to your vet for specific advice regarding your own horse.
- Never endanger yourself by trying to handle a horse that has become dangerous.
Road Safety
Every year horse riders and their animals are injured on British roads. So, we have put together a handy guide for both riders and drivers to help everyone stay safe.
Top Tips for Motorists
Watch out for horses being led, ridden or driven on the road especially in rural areas.
Horses can be unpredictable and spook easily, so make sure you give them lots of room when passing. Keep your speed slow and prepare to stop if necessary.
Do not sound your horn or rev your engine. Horses are easily scared by noise and may panic around fast moving vehicles.
Take extra care and keep your speed down at left-hand bends and on narrow country roads. Think whether you could stop in time if there was a horse around the corner.
Watch out for horse riders' signals and heed requests to slow down or stop. There are many rules riders follow and signals they use to indicate their actions or to communicate with drivers so it is important to be aware of these. For example:
When turning right horse riders keep to the left of the road as it is unsafe for them to position a horse between lines of traffic.
On a roundabout horse riders will normally signal right only when approaching exits they are not taking. Horse riders will keep to the left within the roundabout until reaching their exit, when they signal left.
For safety, riders may ride in double file when escorting a young or inexperienced horse rider.
Top Tips for Horse Riders
Make use of bridleways and byways if you can. Unfortunately this is not always possible and riding on the road is a 'necessary evil' for most horse riders. If this is the case, try to stick to smaller, quieter roads. Avoid built-up areas, main roads and dangerous road crossings.
Avoid riding at dusk or after dark whenever possible, even if you are wearing the appropriate lights. Motorists will probably not expect you to be on the road after dark and may not spot the difference between a car and a horse until it is too late. Also, remember that visibility is greatly reduced in fog, and in wet conditions a car may take much longer to stop than on dry roads.
Wear high-visibility clothing even on bright and clear days. Hat covers and tabards are great, and you can kit your horse out in reflective gear to ensure it can be seen by others if you fall off or it gets loose. This is important because motorists will be able to see you and your horse from much further away.
Only ride out on roads once you are certain your horse is ready to do so and you feel confident enough to be able to control them. If you are training your horse or have to ride out on a horse that is traffic-shy, make sure you are accompanied by another rider on a quiet horse which is used to traffic. This will help your own horse gain confidence on the roads.
Check your horse's tack and equipment for signs of wear and tear before every ride and make sure your horse is regularly and properly shod. If your tack fails while you are on the road, the consequences could be very serious. Similarly, if your horse's shoes and hooves are not kept in good condition, it is at higher risk of slipping or tripping on roads.
Make sure you know how to give proper hand signals and give other road users plenty of time to prepare. Keep both hands on the reins at all times when not signalling. Always concentrate on the road and what other road users are doing. Spotting hazards early can often avoid accidents all together.
You must invest in adequate insurance if you do not already have it; if you do, check it is still valid. Third party cover is the absolute minimum you need, but it is wise to get the best level of cover you can afford.
To feel confident that your conduct and competence is as it should be while riding on roads, take the British Horse Society Riding and Road Safety Test. You can find out more by visiting www.bhs.org.uk/Training_and_Qualifications.aspx
Just as motorists are expected to learn the Highway Code, horse riders should familiarise themselves with its rules too. As well as learning more about best practice on the roads as a horse rider, it will also give you a better understanding of how motorists are expected to treat you.
It is important to remember to be polite to courteous drivers at all times. Even if they've had a bad experience with rude or lazy riders before, they will be far more likely to continue to be considerate next time they pass a horse if you remember to say 'thank you'.


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We are really happy to announce that the project's website is ready!
The specific theme used was chosen as appropriate for the Inform project's style, being minimal with clean lines. The colours were suitably matched with the logo and the templates in use for Inform.
You can browse the several sections and find information about the goal and the objectives of the project, the target groups, the project's activities and the expected results, about the partner organisations', about the project's progress and contact information. Also it will host the registration for the workshops that will be organised during the project and the e-Learning program that will be developed. You can also find links to all the social media accounts of Inform project.


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Making Memories Total Revealed
Thanks to the kind support of individuals, audience members, corporate partners, staff and our Members, we are delighted to announce that our Making Memories campaign, for 2016, raised an amazing £7,840.
This is £1,000 over our initial target and makes it our most successful Making Memories year to date. Your generosity enabled us to offer 571 tickets, to our pantomime Dick Whittington, to 130 local families facing difficult circumstances, so they could experience the magic of theatre at Christmas.
"Smiles were made they day you called to say we had been given tickets from the Belgrade Theatre. Real laughter came from us all on the evening, something myself and my daughters haven't done in a long time. Thank you all so very much." Parent
Our Making Memories campaign runs all year, so we won't stop just because the Christmas tree and decorations are no longer in theatre foyer. We will continue to fundraise all year round, so we can offer tickets to even more local families in need for other exciting productions in the summer. You can donate to the campaign here.
Thank you.
The Belgrade Theatre Trust is a registered charity (number 219163). This means that all the money given, raised or earned is not distributed as profit but kept and reinvested in the work that we do.


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Brian Jarrard, aka Sketch or Ske7ch, is the Community Lead at Bungie.net. As the community manager his job involves wearing a lot of hats, that includes ensuring the well-being of Bungie at large, being the evangelist and spreading the Bungie love to the community out there, basically acting as the conduit between the development team and our fan base. His responsibility is also in merchandise licensing, meaning he ensures the quality control of our Action Figures, books and fan-related sites. He has never been to Canada, although his best friend in college was a "pure-blood Canadian".
Brian on a typical day at Bungie:
For me, a typical day begins with my morning 'rounds' - I check up on the various fan sites and see what's new in the community and what's happening in the various forums around the net. I keep tabs throughout the day as time permits.
The rest of my day is pretty typical stuff. You know - meetings to talk about Halo 2 launch plans, jumping in for the occasional multiplayer gameplay session to give feedback the new , downloading the latest single player build to play through , talking about the logo and packaging, discussing and it's relationship to Bungie.net, etc... Just your normal every day meetings.
Nickname: Sketch
Classification: OldSkool (Old School)
Current Job: Community Guy
Origin: Florida
Blood Type: Red
Age: 31
Weight: Too much
Height: Tallish
Girth: Hearty
First Job: Classified
Hobby: Games!
Ultimate Halo Match: Shotgun - no shield CTF on Battle Creek
Ultimate Snack: Mmmm...snacks...
Ultimate Website: Classified
Best.Show.Ever: The Simpsons
Fake Weapon: Classified


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The 3D images will enable physicians at the MGH to better understand patients' disease processes and develop treatment and intervention plans in a more timely way. The day-night time difference between the US and India creates an ideal situation for the specialized 24-hour service, especially in emergency settings.
Speaking about the collaboration, Dr. Arjun Kalyanpur, Founder and CEO of Teleradiology Solutions said, "At TRS we consistently strive to re-invent the healthcare landscape in India. As the first company to offer teleradiology in India, we have now embarked upon a relationship with MGH to offer 3D post-processing services. This project to us strengthens our standing within the health-tech industry and speaks volumes of our level of expertise not just in radiology but also in the stability of our entire ecosystem in terms of software, reading structures and the calibre of our radiologists."
This strategic collaboration will open up new patient care opportunities in India as well as across Asia, Africa and other parts of the world as the technology and 3D post-processing services can be offered to other hospitals.
Dr. Gordon J Harris, Director, 3D imaging service, Massachusetts General Hospital said "We are pleased to have the opportunity to work closely with TRS to enhance the diagnostic capabilities and timeliness of information that can help improve lives for patients. We hope that access to this technology can expand to providers in South Asia, as high-quality post-processing 3D imaging could have a significant impact on care - particularly emergency and trauma care - across the region."


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This led down that rabbit hole, revisiting some of my past collections of travel collections. When i stumbled across what is probably my all time favourite travel portrait. This shy boy was taken during my trip through India back in 2011 and originally i processed it in black and white. The finished result was a gritty high contrast image that was in my opinion quite a moody powerful portrait. Looking at this image today though i thought i'd strip back any post-production to the bare-minimum and show a softer side to the image that probably reflects his quiet nature shy nature a little better.
This image was taken at a road stop where I'd rest and have some Masala tea on the way to Ranthambore Wildlife Reserve. As the saying goes Life is about the journey not the destination and the types of people I met along the way surpassed seeing all the wild animals in the nature reserve once i'd reached my destination.
Images like this are also another reminder of that you never know when a photographic opportunity will arise. This fleeting stop at a tea-hut lasted all of ten minutes but had i decided not to bring the camera with me, this opportunity to get one of my favourite travel images would of passed me by.


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Salad of Sugar Snap Peas, Brebis Cheese and Preserved Lemon
- Yield: 4 servings
- 1quart snow peas and sugar snap peas (blached, shocked, bias cut)
- 2cups pea tendrils
- 1cup sliced radishes
- 1/2cup preserved lemon (julienne)
- 2ounces lemon vinegar
- 1ounce extra-virgin olive oil
- 1cup Blackberry Farm Brebis cheese
- Combine peas, pea tendrils, radishes, and lemons; season with salt and pepper. Dress with lemon vinegar and olive oil, then mix together. Divide cheese onto 4plates, then divide pea salad and drizzle extra virgin olive oil around plate and serve.


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The City of St. Charles has worked to make the process of opening or expanding your businesses as streamlined as possible. The Community & Economic Development Department creates a true one-stop shopping experience. Our staff will work with you from start to finish and offer guidance with site selection, incentives requests, entitlements, building permit processes, and inspection services.
For more information about starting or expanding your business here in St. Charles, Contact the St. Charles team at:
Rita Tungare, AICP – Director of Community and Economic Development
Phone : (630) 377-4443
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Community Development Division is ready to assist you in determining the best site for your business. Whether this entails verifying permitted zoning uses on an existing property or working through complex development approvals.
For Zoning Related Questions Contact:
Community Development Division
Phone : (630) 377-4443
Email: email@example.com
Click the following link to discover detailed information about the City's zoning and development processes: Planning Information
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The Building & Code Enforcement Division administers the City's permit processes. These permits range from special events to large industrial and commercial buildings. Our staff is available to provide guidance and review services for all facets of your potential projects. This Division shepherds your permit through the process from start to finish with in-house plan reviews and inspections.
For Building, Permit, and/or Code Enforcement Related Questions Contact:
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Business License?
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City Utilities
The City of St. Charles provides the majority of utilities that service your business including water, sewer, and electric. The City boasts reliable utilities and competitive rates. To inquire about setting up your business's utilities, contact the Utility Billing Division at:
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The City's active partner organizations are here to provide marketing, networking, tourism, and business growth assistance.
The Chamber of Commerce helps grow your business by providing a variety of networking, marketing, and business recognition opportunities.
Phone: (630) 584-8384
The St. Charles Business Alliance is a volunteer – driven, 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to enhancing the economic viability of St. Charles through the work of an eight person staff, four committees and a Board of Directors.
The St. Charles Business Alliance is instrumental in driving tourism to St. Charles, promoting St. Charles, organizing large scale events & the revitalization of Downtown St. Charles.
Phone: (630) 443-3967
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Meet Dana Gynther, author of THE WOMAN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH and revision extraordinaire! Every author must cut parts of her first draft to get to the true meat of every story, but some cuts are harder to make than others– especially once an author becomes attached to her story. Not all is lost though, because Dana has saved a piece of her favorite deleted character for us here on XOXO.
Manuscripts, like butterflies, go through incredible stages of transformation. From the tiny egg of an idea, to the overly-pudgy, caterpilly first draft, to the cocoon stage when the editor gets a hold of it, to finally the lovely sleek novel in shops. My new novel, THE WOMAN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, was no different. Not only did it change titles a half-dozen times, but the original story was cut in half, to emerge, six months later, fully-formed again. Can caterpillars manage such things? (I don't think I want to find out).
The finished novel, with its glossy cover and gorgeous Art Deco fonts, is the story of the intense relationship between two photographers in Paris in the late 1920s: Lee Miller—a strikingly beautiful flapper from Poughkeepsie who, after a stint modeling for Vogue in New York, headed to Europe in search of excitement—and Man Ray, 17 years her senior, the famous Surrealist photographer, who opened both his darkroom and his heart to her.
The original version (I shy away from the expression 'first draft' since these 'firsts' are often actually thirds or fourths) had two parts. The story of Lee and Man together in Paris was just the first; the second was Lee during World War II. The two sides of Lee Miller: the sophisticated, spoiled socialite accustomed to fine gowns and champagne balls juxtaposed with the feisty war photographer who, wearing the same grimy military uniform day after day, was determined to get the best front-line shots.
But, while in the chrysalis, my editor realized that, as a story, the first part worked better on its own. That I needed to dig into that relationship, the depth and detail, and leave WWII to a brief sketch of the aftermath of Lee's war in an epilogue. And she was right (editors often are, bless them).
Sadly, however, that put an end to one of my favorite, real-life characters: Audrey Withers.
Audrey Withers was the editor of British Vogue, aka Brogue, when Lee worked there. An Oxford-educated socialist, Audrey was not a delicate flower interested solely in fashion, but a hard-working, straight-shooting professional. When Lee moved to London after war had been declared on Germany in 1939, Audrey gave her work, keeping a restless Lee sane and focused. When the Blitz began, Audrey – calm and carrying on—would work in the cellar; when the Vogue offices were bombed and all the windows blown out, she put on her coat, lit another cigarette, and told Lee to photograph the damage. Audrey was an advocate for women's rights, who, quite simply, learned to believe in Lee Miller.
While female correspondents were not supposed to cover the Home Front, a month after the storming of the Normandy beaches, Audrey finagled the papers for Lee to get to the continent.
There, Lee took photos and wrote long, first-person testimonials about the war: the siege of St Malo, the Liberation of Paris, the chaos on enemy lines, and on into "Krautland," where she witnessed the opening of concentration camps like Buchenwald and Dachau. Think of it—a fashion rag with a war correspondent! Vogue getting exclusives from the front lines! It's impossible to imagine today.
It was Audrey—not her romantic partner Roland Penrose—who was Lee's contact back in London. She called her asking for favors—to send care-packages of Kleenex and Tampax to a war-depleted Paris or to get her a new uniform made. But it was also Audrey Lee turned to for support. Drunk, exhausted, or sick, she'd make a collect call to Audrey—a no-nonsense near-maternal figure who always had her back. Audrey cheered her on, got her any necessary documents, fixed the deadlines that forced Lee to face the typewriter and darkroom, and who gave her the confidence to become a top-notch war correspondent, a woman in a man's world.
It's a real pity that, in the editing process of THE WOMAN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, Lee's editor was left out. But, come to think of it, perhaps I should write a novel about Audrey Withers?


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Venue—the location where a lawsuit is to be filed—is an important issue to consider when reviewing a contract. Contracts often contain a provision stating that the venue for all claims arising out of the contract shall lie solely and exclusively in a certain location or that the contract shall be enforced in the courts of a specific state. This typically is advantageous to the party that prepared the contract because they are requiring the other party to come to their "home turf" for any disputes arising out of the contract. Some owners or contractors may believe that by requiring venue to be in a foreign state the adverse party may decide not to pursue a claim due to the costs and expenses associated with traveling to a foreign venue and finding an attorney in that location. Thus, this type of provision may be used as a strategy to reduce potential claims to enforce the contract. The question is—is it enforceable?
Many people believe that they are bound by every provision contained within the contract because they signed it. That is not always the case. Although the parties to a contract can stipulate to a certain venue, it may not always be enforceable.
There is a Florida statute pertaining to this specific venue issue that is unknown to many or often overlooked. In 1999, the Florida Legislature enacted Section 47.025, Florida Statutes, "Actions against contractors," which provides:
Any venue provision in a contract for improvement to real property which requires legal action involving a resident contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, or materialman, as defined in part I of chapter 713, to be brought outside this state is void as a matter of public policy.
Pursuant to Section 47.025, Florida Statutes, when such contractual foreign venue provisions are void, the following applies:
Any legal action arising out of that contract shall be brought only in this state in the county where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located, unless, after the dispute arises, the parties stipulate to another venue.
Stated another way, venue provisions in contracts for improvements to real property requiring a Florida contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, or materialman to institute legal action outside of Florida are void.
It is important to note that the statute refers to stipulating to another venue "after the dispute arises." Therefore, once a dispute arises under a contract containing a void foreign venue provision, the Florida contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, or materialman should be careful to not unwittingly stipulate to another venue other than the local Florida venue that applies. Rather, they should consider whether to insist upon enforcing Section 47.025, Florida Statutes and immediately contact an experienced construction attorney for assistance.
Is the foreign venue provision in your contract enforceable? Are you required to bring your legal claim in a foreign state as required by the contract that you signed? It is strongly recommended that you contact an experienced Florida construction lawyer to discuss this topic.


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The topic of weed legalization in Canada has been a contentious one pretty much since the Liberal government announced it was happening. While a lot of Canadians were happy about it–lower incarceration rates, medical benefits, etc.–it's proven to be quite the legislative headache. The feds made some guidelines, but then left it up to the provinces to figure out how to regulate and distribute the drug. They also gave them a July 1, 2018 deadline.
Provincial governments and police departments brought arguments to the federal government in September, saying that the time was insufficient to put a regulatory system in place and retrain police. Their response was basically, 'I don't know, man. Figure it out.' Now the feds have come back with their plan for marijuana taxation and–like always happens with taxes–people have complaints.
The announcement Friday said that legal marijuana will be taxed $1 per gram (or 10 per cent on the total, whichever amount is higher) plus GST. They have yet to set a wholesale price. The revenue from taxes will be divided equally between the federal and provincial governments.
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More taxes on taxes are going to make the government system less and less competitive with the black market. #onpolihttps://t.co/fUXXYI36ii
— Jack MacLaren (@jackmaclaren1) November 10, 2017
Game over. The black market just won.https://t.co/F55FQrWScJ
— Harrison Jordan (@harjord) November 10, 2017
'We continue to make progress towards a tax framework designed to keep prices low enough to put criminals out of business, while helping to offset the costs of education, administration and enforcement,' a spokesman for federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau said earlier in the week. It doesn't seem as though they've really achieved that though.
Some premieres aren't happy about the announcement either, particularly the 50-50 split between the federal and provincial levels. They argue that since the provincial governments will be doing the regulating, distributing, educating and policing, they should receive a larger cut of the tax revenue.
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How to Unleash Girls' Natural Potential in STEM
Green Works conducted an experiment.
It didn't happen in a laboratory or involve white lab coats or a rainbow of chemicals in test tubes. Instead, it happened in a library, involving a group of girls using crayons to draw on sheets of paper. The task: to draw scientists. The result: Nearly all of the girls drew men.
We've all heard that women and girls are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), but the experiment by Green Works, a Clorox brand, corroborates the conventional wisdom that women do not represent the face of these fields. In fact, according to Green Works, only one in every 1,000 girls becomes a scientist.
Motivated by this knowledge, woman-founded brand Green Works has collaborated with AAUW in a multi-faceted campaign to engage girls and inspire them to unleash their #naturalpotential to explore careers in science.
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As part of the collaboration, AAUW co-hosted a Twitter party with AAUW Fellowships and Grants alumnae, former Student Advisory Council members, and bloggers to discuss ways to spark girls' scientific curiosity and connect them with female role models. The bloggers also shared their memories of the sciences and performed experiments with the girls in their lives to show how fun science can be.
Here are some of the lessons participants took away from the Green Works and AAUW collaboration to engage more girls in the STEM pipeline.
1. Science Can Be Fun
Who says science is always serious? As the experiments AAUW alumnae provided to Green Works showed, science can also be fun and games. Girls who are given the time to explore and discover things for themselves are more likely to grow into women who confidently explore STEM fields. "More than anything I loved watching her face light up," wrote blogger Nicole Pharr after doing one of the experiments with her daughter. Now she says, "I'm looking forward to creating an electromagnet, erupting volcanoes, learning multiplication tables, soldering components onto a circuit board, disassembling and reassembling a computer, and so much more!"
2. Role Models Matter
When talking about the importance of role models during the Twitter party, current Student Advisory Council member Shannon Cholakian remembered what someone once told her: "It's hard to be what you can't see." It's important to show girls that women do STEM jobs so that young girls see that these jobs exist and that girls belong in them. As AAUW alum Heidi Gough tweeted, "In sixth grade, my son's class was asked to draw a scientist. He drew me! I was never so honored." Seeing women in STEM roles not only shows girls that women can do these jobs but also shows boys, their future colleagues, that women are capable in these fields.
3. Inspiration Is Key
When blogger Vanessa Marie Diaz asked for examples of famous women scientists during the party, she learned about Jane Goodall; Annie Jump Cannon, the creator of the modern classification system for stars; and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that the sun (and other stars) were mostly made of hydrogen and helium. Kelly Weinersmith, an AAUW alumna, also mentioned Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie, her two favorite scientists and the women she named her two daughters after. Each of these women overcame gender bias and discrimination to become pioneers in their fields. Parents can do their part to inspire the next generation of Marie Curies by actively addressing and debunking stereotypes so that girls see themselves as just as capable as boys.
4. Science Extends beyond the Laboratory
Workforce projections show that 80 percent of future jobs will require a STEM education. If girls today are not interested in STEM, women not only will remain underrepresented in these fields, but they also may have a more difficult time finding jobs in the future. Girls are often conditioned to be afraid of failure, but trial and error is part of the process of great discoveries. Marie Curie once said, "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas," so let girls take things apart, get messy, and put things back together as they learn all the ways in which they can take on roles in STEM now and in the future.
"John" Is More Hirable Than "Jennifer"?
What's in a name? A study of identical résumés shows that women are less likely to be hired in STEM fields.
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A Vernon resident can partly thank the dog for helping cops track a burglary suspect through the woods, and a swamp, to a mobile home.
The dog started barking and led the owner of the Cemetery Road house upstairs on Friday afternoon, where they found that a window had been forced open, police said.
The resident saw a male outside running off and called police.
After a 50-minute chase into the woods through the woods and water, the officer and his dog, Pito, found the suspect, Richard Orlowski at a mobile home on Stonewood Terrace.
Police arrested Richard Orlowski, 30, of South Windsor. He's been charged with second-degree burglary and third-degree criminal mischief. Bond was set at $50,000.


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This story has been updated.
Now that federal officials are done with the data they wanted to review after shutting down file-sharing site Megaupload, the fate of that data is in limbo.
Users who had legitimate files on the site — work documents, photos, home videos and more — may see that information deleted as soon as this week.
Federal officials sent a letter to Megaupload's lawyers to let them know that the U.S. Department of Justice has completed its search of Megaupload servers held by two storage companies in Virginia — Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications — and that the government no longer controls access to the information. U.S. officials copied some data from the servers, but did not remove any.
The hosting companies now control the data.
"It is our understanding that the hosting companies may begin deleting the contents of the servers beginning as early as February 2, 2012," U.S. District Attorney Neil MacBride wrote in the letter.
Ira Rothken, attorney for Megaupload, told The Associated Press that, after this development, at least 50 million customers could lose their files. Megaupload had been contracting with the companies to store the information, but can no longer pay those contracts because its assets have been frozen.
Still, Rothken said he hasn't given up hope. "We're cautiously optimistic at this point that because the United States, as well as Megaupload, should have a common desire to protect consumers, that this type of agreement will get done," he told the news service. He added that he hopes to use some of that data in Megaupload's defense.
Megaupload claimed to have 1 billion users and 50 million daily users before it was shut down, and many wondered what would happen to consumer data after the site's seizure.
Related stories:
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When we moved last year, a scrawny orange tabby held court on the front porch while we got settled. The kids insisted we feed him. I checked with our new neighbors, the former resident of the house and the online neighborhood community to see if anyone was hunting for the friendly house cat. No takers. When my husband scooped up the cat for a vet visit, an implanted identification chip revealed an owner's contact information and after some formalities, we spoke to a confused elderly woman who once gifted the cat to her daughter. The daughter had since moved to Colorado and had told her cat-loving mom that the cat had perished before the move. We're not sure exactly what path the tabby took to our porch, but it was clear after a few months that this 11-year-old cat wasn't budging. My daughter named him Tanqueray in honor of what she thinks is a classic and classy spirit. Now Tanque ("Tank," but fancier) stands sentry by the food dish, a good 10 pounds heavier than his days on the street.
Like most pets do, Tanque tip-toed into our hearts and will forever be a Collins.
In this April issue, we give kids and pets some love. Not nearly as much as they deserve!
Enjoy these stories and photos, and don't forget to play a prank on the kid(s) in your life on April Fools Day!


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The John H. Chafee Center for International Business at Bryant University is a resource for students, businesses, organizations and individuals interested in global trade. Named for the late U.S. senator from Rhode Island – a long-time advocate of international trade and the benefits of introducing new markets to our nation's businesses –the Center's mission is to foster world trade through collaboration with the University's academic programs, partnerships with state and federal entities, and outreach to the business community.
For over 35 years, the Chafee Center has provided comprehensive international trade services for businesses of all sizes and industries. Services and programs include global market research, corporate training, international trade events and strategic consulting.
For Students
The Chafee Center offers experiential learning about real-world business issues. With the guidance of Chafee Center staff and Bryant faculty, students have an opportunity to participate in projects, directed studies, practica, and internships that involve research, analysis, and planning to help companies grow their international business.
For Businesses
Through the Center's professional staff and its extensive network of strategic partners, both new-to-export companies and experienced exporters can receive help and guidance on global trade issues that are impacting their businesses.


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Bump Magic (SKEMEmix), the latest cut from Skeme. It was released on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012. Things are improving for Skeme with each new offering, and Magic (SKEMEmix) is certainly no exception. It's a worthy addition to the Skeme's catalogue, which has seen much evolution as of late. We're definitely anticipating the next step.
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This is a special guest spot by Jay Baer of Convince & Convert.
Stop trying to be amazing online and start being useful. I don't mean this in a Trojan-horse, "tweet that pretends to be useful but is actually a sales pitch†way. I mean a genuine, "how can we actually help you?†way.
This is Youtility, and, quite simply, companies that practice it are followed, subscribed to, bookmarked, and kept on the home screen of mobile devices. Companies that don't… aren't. Not because they are worse companies, but because they are trying to create customer connections based on product and price, and customers are both tired of it and able to filter through it more than ever.
Youtility is marketing upside down. Instead of marketing that's needed by companies, Youtility is marketing that's wanted by customers. Youtility is massively useful information, provided for free, that creates long-term trust and kinship between your company and your customers.
But for your marketing to be so useful that people would gladly pay for it, you have to understand what your prospective customers need to make better decisions, and how you can improve their lives by providing it.
You must align what you provide your customers and prospects with what they actually need, and often in ways that transcend the transactional.
Fortunately, as knowing more about your customers has increased in importance, so have the tools available to gain that understanding. There are a variety of free (or nearly so) approaches that you can use to better understand customer needs on the way to creating Youtility.
Search engine data is the atlas for consumer understanding.
While the number of places consumers go to seek information has grown exponentially, weakening somewhat the role of search engines in the process, search engines (especially Google) stand alone in giving us the ability to mine and analyze consumer inquiry data.
Google Trends
A variety of free tools from Google can help you understand customer needs, based on what people are looking for, and when. Google Trends enables you to compare search volume patterns across location and time frame, and provides related search terms and comparative volume for them.
For example, imagine you were Sterling Ball from Big Poppa Smokers, an e-commerce site and online community for BBQ smoker enthusiasts (like me). Imagine you were thinking about starting a new, online forum dedicated to a method of outdoor cooking growing in popularity. An analysis of "pellet smokers" on Google Trends shows a sharp spike in searches for that term in the United States from 2008 onward.
Digging deeper, Google Trends shows that Texas and California have disproportionate high incidences of search volume for "pellet smokers," and that "pellet grills smokers" and "traeger smokers" (a popular brand) are related queries used by searchers.
An even simpler tool is to use Google Suggest to better understand how consumers see your products and services. Type a company or product name into Google and see what Google "suggests" as possible searches. Typing in "Charmin" for example, finds these suggestions: "charmin coupons," "charmin mega roll," and "charmin toilet paper" as well as something called "charming charlie."
This information is updated instantly and is useful for understanding who consumers think your competitors are, and how you stack up. "Type in your company or product name, then put the word 'vs.' in and take your hands off the keyboard," recommends Google's Jim Lacinski. "Because marketing managers always think they know what the evoked set or the competitive set is because, 'We've done 20 focus groups all across the country…' Well, that's cool but let's see what Google says based on actual queries that people are actually comparing you against," he says.
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
A longstanding favorite of the inbound marketing community, Google's Keyword Tool is often used to determine which search terms to include in a paid, search engine advertising campaign.
Starting with one or a handful or hundreds of seed terms, the keyword tool will then recommend a swath of alternatives and display comparative search volume and level of competition (number of existing advertisers per term).
Using the Keyword Tool with a seed term of "Facebook advertising," for example, finds that Google recommends "facebook advertising cost," "free facebook advertising," "facebook advertisement," "facebook advertising statistics," and "facebook and advertising" as the top five alternatives based on relevance, and "facebook advertising costs" is shown with 8,100 monthly searches on average by consumers, with a high level of competition.
In addition to Google's free tool, there are a number of other keyword tools available, including some that are more sophisticated and detailed. An excellent blog post from Arnie Kuenn, President of interactive marketing firm Vertical Measures, provides 12 alternatives to consider.
Google Correlate
Google Correlate is the newest of the free Google tools, and it is essentially Google Trends in reverse. The tool allows you to research a term and see what other searches were being performed with similar volume at a similar point in time, or in the same regions. It's outstanding when used to uncover seasonal and location-specific inquiry patterns.
For example, Google Correlate shows that the search term "pellet smokers" has a .8947 correlation with the search term "big 12 basketball standings" across the entire country, but the correlation in Kansas (where two of the Big 12 members' universities are located) has a correlation of 4.814. If Big Poppa Smokers wants to find a way to provide exceptionally useful marketing for its customers in Kansas (and throughout the Big 12 region), a program that sends text messages with instant basketball score updates might make for a successful implementation.
Youtility is about finding ways to be part of your customers' lives that transcend the transactional. And the only way to do that well is to know your customers better than ever. Thankfully, online tools are available to help you accumulate that knowledge.
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Recycling Contamination
Curbside recycling benefits most residents in Salt Lake County. It feels good to keep perfectly usable stuff out of landfills and to give our recyclable paper, cardboard, and containers a chance to be made into new products. Yet even well intended recyclers have contributed to recycling contamination due to misunderstanding, inaccurate information, or what those in the industry refer to as "wish-cycling" by placing an item in the bin and hoping it will get sent to the proper place.
In Salt Lake County last year, about 19% of recycling was rejected and landfilled due to contamination. So what is contamination and why is it messing up our recycling? Anything that ends up in a recycling bin that does not belong is known as a contaminant. In a perfect situation, a contaminant can be removed in the sorting process, but more often than not the contamination spreads to surrounding material, sometimes even ruining the entire load.
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Flying Pigs to receive their first donation in Sept.
The phrase "when pigs fly" is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. Today we welcome the Dayton Area Rugby Club to our family of sponsored rugby clubs. DARC are affectionately known as a the "Flying Pigs". And why not? A Red and Black winged boar is one of the cooler rugby mascots we've ever seen. We can't wait to score ourselves a Flying Pig polo!
Introducing the Flying Pigs
The Flying Pigs are the resident rugby club in the Dayton Area in the West of Ohio, roughly halfway between Cincinnati and Columbus. They play in an international league that includes teams from all over Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and Canada. The club's Red and Black winged board is one of the most recognizable rugby mascots in the mid-west. They're also a tough bunch of ruggers. Here's one of their members getting stitched up on the sidelines after a game in 2012:
Our Partnership with DARC
After a few weeks of discussion, DARC has finished signing up for the Ruck Science sponsorship program and will begin receiving donations in September. The deal means that all DARC players will get the chance to try our products for a fraction of their retail sticker value. We'll also be helping the club promote its games, events and fundraisers through our social media marketing channels, so keep an eye out for event information as it comes to hand.
How to join the Flying Pigs
Do you live in the Dayton area and would be interested in playing rugby? You don't need any rugby experience in order to train with and play for the Flying Pigs. The club is always interested in bringing new players into the sport and community of rugby. No experience is necessary. Just bring a positive attitude and a willingness to learn and they'll take care of the rest. To register with the club, fill out this form on the recruitment page of their website.
Where the team plays
Once you've signed up. Wait a day or two and the management and coaching staff at the Flying Pigs will be in touch to let you know about training schedules and locations. Most games are played at the pitch below if you're interested in watching before you turn out to your first rugby training.
Something unique
One cool thing to note about DARC is that the club actually field 5 sides!! That's a big organization. There are 2 Men's, 1 Old Boys, a Women's and Youth sides at the club. That means if you start as a teenager, you can play as a Flying Pig your whole life! Very few rugby clubs provide this opportunity to continuing playing so take advantage of it. The club also organizes an interesting-looking Old Boys Weekend so after your short playing cameo, you can party and hear stories from all the old Flying Pigs for hours and hours and hours. Looks and sounds awesome!
Support the Flying Pigs
There are 4 main ways to do this.
- Support their current sponsors – here is a full list – give them your business so the Flying Pigs can continue flying.
- Buy something in their online store – the Red Polo is our favorite choice. But the women's jersey is awesome too!
- Sign up and pay your dues – money well spent!
- Make a purchase on ruckscience.com – and use the coupon code DAYTONRUGBY for $10 off your first purchase.
Find them online
Want to follow the story of the Flying Pigs? Here are a few links to their social profiles for real-time updates.
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Evolution of Smart Contracts
If you are not information deprived, you probably have heard about Blockchain. Termed as a transparent and an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions, Blockchain is a technology that can be leveraged to not just record financial transactions but anything that has value. Currently, the financial industry holds a high level of acceptance to this technology and thus acts as a strong use case of Blockchain.
This technology is creating a revolution in recent days as it promises to deliver the highest rate of accountability by guaranteeing the validity of any transaction. Blockchain is a network of computing nodes. It functions in a simple way by storing information across its networks that cannot be managed or controlled by any single entity and it poses to have no single point of failure. There is absolutely no space for manipulation with this technology. Totally decentralized! Smart contracts are software linked to the Blockchain. Smart Contracts have evolved along with the new possibilities in the software development scenario. The release of Ethereum in 2015 enabled the very first implementation of smart contracts.
Where are Smart Contract used?
Business automation is getting serious these days as cutting costs, saving time, reducing manpower workforce and executing every process in a secured way is critical. Smart Contracts have the capacity to address this niche and they are here to improve your business.
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We have one goal: To be recognized by customers as Canada's leading communication's company.
To achieve that goal, Bell is making significant investments in developing and delivering the most innovative communications and media services to Canadians across any screen they choose: television, Smartphone, tablet and computer. In that way, we will continue to create value for our shareholders and rewarding careers for our team members, while ensuring we have the financial strength to fulfill our Bell Let's Talk charitable commitment to mental health and multiple sponsorship programs across the country.
Our Strategy focuses on 6 imperatives:
1. Accelerate wireless :
Accelerate wireless : Investment and innovation have always been part of Bell's wireless history, but we are accelerating both of these advantages more than ever. Bell continuously improves our wireless networks, enhances our leading product line-up and broadens our unmatched mobile TV and live sports programming to meet the demand for innovation in an intensely competitive industry.
To power our wireless growth, Bell's 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network is continually expanding to more urban areas and enabling the fastest speeds possible and HD quality TV and video to mobile device users.We have also continued to improve our HSPA + network – already the best in the country – so that it now covers 97% of the population. In addition, our HSPA + Dual Cell technology now covers 70% of the HSPA + footprint, effectively doubling the network's data transfer speed.
As a result, Bell attracted more postpaid new customers than the other two major carriers in 2011. Most of them bought high-revenue-generating smart phones which now represent just under half of our postpaid subscriber base, an increase of more than 70% in one year.
To help customers make the most of these powerful devices, we enhanced our Bell Mobile TV service, including more live sports from TSN, TSN2 and RDS – the most – watched English and French specialty channels in Canada – live content from CTV News Channels and MTV and on-demand content from The Comedy Network. Bell Mobile TV also upgraded its exclusive sports line-up, adding the Montréal Canadians, Vancouver Whitecaps, NFL football and NHL Stanley Cup playoff games to its roster.
Bell offers customers even more choice through brands such as Virgin Mobile, and brings its devices closer to customers through the most extensive distribution network in the industry thanks to the reach of The Source's network of stores, as well as retail partner and dealer locations across Canada.
2. Leverage wire line momentum :
Leverage wire line momentum : Bell's investment in broadband fiber networks is enabling the company to break new ground with growth services such as Fibe TV. it also solidifies our ability to succeed at our triple-play strategybundling Television, Internet and Home Phone to provide complete communications services to a growing number of residential customer households.
Our fiber network investment has enabled us to reach about 2 million households in Montréal and Toronto. As a result, Fibe TV – a service that surpasses cable TV quality and features – is gaining significant traction in the market.
Fibe TV complements our well-established Bell Satellite TV service, providing real consumer choice and competition in urban markets where cable has long had the largest market share. We are the industry leader in high-definition TV, offering more than 100 HD channels.
That progress enabled us to increase our triple-play household penetration 11% in 2011.
Bell Business Markets (BBM) provides a full range of communications services – including industry – leading information and communications technology (ICT) service – to companies and government organizations of all sizes.
We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a national netwrok of data centres that provide Bell corporate and government customers with co-location, managed hosting and next-generation cloud computing services, such as software as a service and hosted unified communications. Bell is consistently ranked among the top providers of managed information services in North America.
Bell's network leadership gives it a firm foundation to serve both consumers and business. For consumers, Bell means the fastest digital TV and Internet services. For organizations of all sizes, Bell means unmatched experience and expertise in everything from connectivity to cloud computing
3. Expand media leadership :
Expand media leadership : Bell Media, which has the mandate to leverage BCE's investments in broadband networks and deliver the content Canadians most want across 4 screens: television, Smartphone, tablet and computer.
Bell Media includes a broad range of assets led by CTV, Canada's #1 television network, and CTV Two. It also manages 30 specialty channels, including BNN – Business News Network, Discovery Channel, Much, MTV, The Comedy Network, SPACE, and TSN and RDS.
CTV consistently reported top audience ratings in all seasons in 2011, holding a majority of the top 20 programs nationally among all viewers.
Bell Media also offers Canada's top English and French – language specialty channels and more than 30 radio stations, including TSN Radio 1050 Toronto, TSN Radio 990 Montreal and TSN Radio 1290 in Winnipeg as well as Bell's popular Sympatico.ca portal.
Among its innovations, Bell Media provides the best mobile media available in the Canadian industry including live broadcasts of the NHL, the Super Bowl and a huge variety of live or on-demand programming from TSN, RDS, BNN, MTV and the Comedy Network.
As part of the purchase, Bell implemented a package potentially worth about $240 million to support the development of independently produced Canadian programming including dramas, documentaries, new media and extended news across Western Canada.
Bell augmented sports content leadership – which already included an ownership position in the Montréal Canadiens – with an investment in joint ownership of Canada's largest sports and entertainment company, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) in a deal expected to close in 2012. MLSE includes the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Marlies, Toronto FC and major real estate and entertainment assets such as the Air Canada Centre and the Maple Leaf Square condominium and commercial complex.
4. Invest in broadband networks and services :
Invest in broadband networks and services : A Canadian leader in R&D and broadband infrastructure spending, BCE invested more than $3.2 billion in network and technology in 2011. These investments in network reach, speed and capacity enable significant customer benefits plus revenue growth in services such as Bell Fibe and Satellite TV, Fibe Internet, wireless, data hosting and cloud computing solutions for business.
Our world – leading HSPA + network covers more than 97% of the population. More than 70% of that network is fitted with HSPA + Dual Cell technology which doubles the network's data transfer speed up to 42 Mbps.
In 2011, Bell launched its super fast 4G LTE (Long – Term Evolution) network, available in most major urban centres. This initially provides average speeds of 12 to 25 Mbps, but as the network and devices evolve, it will support speeds approaching 150 Mbps.
Our wireless networks now regulary carry more than a billion text messages a week with data traffic up 225% year over year on our HSPA + network.
We also continue to rapidly expand and enhance our wire line fiber network to deliver Fibe TV and Fibe Internet services. In 2011, we extended next – generation Fibe TV to a total of about 2 million homes covering most areas in Montréal and Toronto. We expect to reach about 3.3 million homes by the end of 2012.
We are deploying fiber – to – home (FTTH) in all new housing developments in Ontario and Québec and will accelerate the FTTH coverage to every home and business in the Québec City region in 2012 in Canada's largest urban FTTH project. We are also aggressively stepping up our programs to take fiber to apartment buildings and condominiums.
With our significant investments in a national network of data management centres for business, Bell leads the Canadian industry in building a broadband infrastructure to support increased innovation and productivity for Canadians and strong ongoing growth for BCE.
5. Achieve a competitive cost structure :
Achieve a competitive cost structure : Bell's commitment to drive productivity gains and reduce spending gives the company greater financial flexibility to invest in industry -leading investments in networks, products and content as well as accelerating shareholder value.
In just four years, we have reduced spending or improved efficiencies to produce total savings of $980 million with the results from the last two years surpassing those of the first two. Cost saving and efficiency have become a way of life at Bell as we have become increasingly effective at managing priorities.
In 2011, we found about $290 million in savings through a variety of initiatives, including $100 million in full-year annual savings as several business units restructured tooperate more effectively and management teams assumed broader spans of responsibility.
We also found significant operating efficiencies. In Field Services, for example, we deployed software that puts almost a dozen different teams on a common productivity tracking platform and integrated teams from different parts of the business. We also generated savings by renegotiating vendor contracts and by making the most of synergies that occurred when Bell Media integrated into Bell.
In all this, we made sure not to affect the customer experience. Because of the savings we uncovered, we were able to deploy more resources to serve customers, including the hiring of more than 1,000 technicians to support the expansion of our fiber networks and the growth of new services such as Fibe TV.
We also maintained rigorous control on discretionary spending, encouraging our team to use teleconferences and videoconferences instead of travel. And by making a voluntary $750 million payment to our defined benefit pension plan, we created significant tax savings.
6. Improve customer service :
Improve customer service : Because we understand that customers have more choices than ever before, Bell is investing heavily to improve our front-line service capabilities, our products and our distribution channels to win and keep customers in a highly competitive market.
Bell's investment of more than $100 million in 2011 alone focused on improving call centre technology, call routing and self-serve online options for customers as well as on billing and simplified desktop systems for service teams to deliver a better experience to every customer.
We introduced a fast track for residential customers to get live help to walk through a service issue and we reduced the number of steps customers need to take to manage their accounts online and we made the experience more consistent across all product lines.
We also added more than 1,000 field technicians to accelerate installations of Bell Fibe TV and broadband fiber. Growing our technician team contributed to Fibe TV having the highest customer satisfaction rate among all of our services. It also enabled us to meet our Same Day Next Day commitment for repairs to Bell Home Phone, Bell TV and Bell Internet more than 90% of the time.
That is the customer service differentiation we provide in customer's homes, online, over the phone and in their businesses and in our stores as we continue to work to ensure that Bell remains their first choice for all their communications needs.
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I am so sad to bring you the news that Towa is closing 😦
All stores have already been closed, with the exception of one location, at which all items have been marked down to 50% of their original price.
The final day for the sale will be September 30.
Towa's sale items include beautiful clothing, dresses, eyes, beautiful prim nails, unisex tattoos, jewelry, unisex jeans, gorgeous skyboxes, furniture, and more.
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The first one is to New York City, NY. During this trip I'm hoping to visit:
The One U.N New York Hotel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The U.N.
Grand Central Station
Frick Collection
Eataly (again)
Momofuku Noodle Bar
Grom - I'm hoping the dairy free cioccolato extranoir is just as good as in Rome, Italy
Dean and Deluca
Vegan diva's
Crumbs Gluten Free Bakeshop
Our second trip is to Reykjavik Iceland! We are so excited to get outdoors and have some adventures! We're still trying to decide between transfers, rental car, tours, etc. but we definitely know what we are hoping to see:
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Thinguellir National Park
Gulfoss Waterfall
Seljalandsfoss Waterfall
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35 Creatively Cool Golf Logo Designs
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Logo is an essential element for brand recognition as it is what carries the identity of the product. In order to make a logo an effective marketing and promotional tool as it should be, it is important that it is unique, creative and downright catchy. In this article, we are showcasing some of the coolest golf logo designs that you can use as inspirations for your projects. As the name suggests, these logos can be used on gulf clubs and organizations, golf shops and


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Researcher at Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Rome Tor Vergata, expert of laser and laser diagnostics and Leader of Laboratory of Quantum Electronics and Plasma Physics.
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Researcher at the ENEA Department of Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security. Main field of interest: plasma physics.
Dr. Antonino Pietropaolo
Researcher at the ENEA Department of Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security. Main field of interest: development of neutron detectors, neutron instrumentation at large scale facilities, neutron spectroscopy.
Colomba Russo
Master Degree in International Relations at the University of Naples l'Orientale in 2008 and laterattended the Master's Degree in International and Local Development, at the business school STOA'. From 2013 she is responsible of the Secretariat International Master Courses in Protection against CBRNe events.
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Master Degree in Human and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Rome Tor Vergat. Tutor of the II Level Master Course in "Protection against CBRNe events", is involved in administration and in relations with candidates and lecturers.


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Masturbation is a technique, applied in order to collect semen for analysis and / or for artificial insemination. It consists of a manual stimulation of the penis, which leads to ejaculation.
Maturation Arrest is a kind of testicular condition, when at one of the sperm production stages all the development of sperm halts throughout all testicular tubules. This disease may cause either oligospermia or azoospermia.
Medically Assisted Conception is the term, used to describe the process of conception, which is performed by noncoital conjunction of the gametes, but by some ART procedure and intrauterine, intracervical and intravaginal insemination with semen of either a woman's husband / male partner or a donor.
Menorrhagia is a heavy and prolonged menstrual flow.
Menses is also called a period. It is the process of cycling (usually monthly) blood flow (menstruation), which signifies ovulation, and failure to achieve pregnancy. The first day of pregnancy is considered to be the first day of the ovulation cycle.
Metrodin is the Human FSH, which is made in the form of an injection and is applied to provide the stimulation of ovaries.
Micromanipulation is called the process, during which a single sperm gets injected either under the shell of the egg, or into the egg directly. This process helps to make the fertilization occur easier.
Miscarriage is spontaneous unintentional loss of either an embryo or of fetus from the uterus.
Microsurgery is the kind of a reconstructive surgery, performed under a microscope in order to repair disconnected or damaged tissue and restore the flow of blood.
Missed Abortion is a kind of abortion, in which an embryo dies inside the uterus, but neither any bleeding or cramping is experienced by a woman.
Mitosis is the process of cell division into two identical cells, both of which have all forty – six chromosomes duplicated.
Mittieschmerz is the kind of some feeling of discomfort, which is felt on one side of the lower part of the abdomen during the period of ovulation.
Myomectomy is the term, used to describe a surgical removal of a tumor in the uterine muscular wall, called myoma.
Masturbation is a technique, applied in order to collect semen for analysis and / or for artificial insemination. It consists of a manual stimulation of the penis, which leads to ejaculation.


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Massive weight loss may leave large excesses of skin and tissue along the underside of the upper arm, the side of the chest, and in the armpit area. These areas can be re-contoured in a single surgery that often includes a breast lift and/or breast augmentation with your own tissue transferred from the side of the chest or armpit area. These procedures are called brachioplasty and axilloplasty
Brachioplasty (Upper Arm Lift)
Brachioplasty removes loose, sagging skin from the inner side of the upper arm (from the armpit to the elbow). Massive weight loss causes the thin skin in this area to hang down when the arm is raised, which creates what is commonly called a "bat-wing" appearance. Women, in particular, are very self-conscious about this deformity. Although they may be extremely self-conscious about wearing short sleeves, they have difficulty finding long sleeves to accommodate all the loose skin.
A brachioplasty removes the sagging skin through an incision that runs along the inner portion of the upper arm. This incision will probably be visible when the arm is raised, but many patients prefer the scar to the hanging tissue that may flap around when the arm is moved. A brachioplasty takes 1-1/2 to 2 hours and can be done at the same time as other body contouring procedures.
An axilloplasty removes the excess skin and fatty tissue in the armpit area (called the axilla) that may hang in a large fold down the side of the chest following massive weight loss. This procedure takes 1 or 2 hours, depending on the extent of excision needed. Because tissue from the axilla area is useful for adding volume to the breast, an axilloplasty is often combined with a breast lift and breast augmentation with a patient's own tissue to restore breast volume. (See the section on breast lift and augmentation in massive weight loss patients.)
Axilloplasty requires an incision that begins near the front of the armpit and extends downward several inches toward the base of the breast. The sagging skin is pulled forward, the skin excess is cut off, and the incision is closed with stitches. The resulting scar is well hidden in the body's natural contours.


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President Trump is breaking a nearly 20-year tradition by choosing not to meet personally with the eight American Nobel laureates this year before they head to Sweden for the awards ceremony, per STAT.
Get smart: Trump proved a long time ago that he wouldn't be bound by the precedents set by past presidents. His decision not to meet with the Nobel winners — which a White House spokesman said was a result of Trump's busy foreign travel schedule — follows several other similar choices, including forgoing Ramadan dinner and not having a White House pet.


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Today was Arianna's first day of 1st grade! She's such a big girl now! Ahhh!!! I can't take it!! Where did my little munchkin go?? I feel like she's growing up way too fast for me! Can't I just keep her this size forever, and ever??
No? Okay. Okay.
Sigh. Now that she's back in school, that means our summer is officially over, so I'd thought I show you what our summer looked like in instagram photos!
|gorgeous view upstate ny/ family time in south street
|me / boat ride on a gorgeous day in manhattan
|fireworks/ late night carriage ride on date night
|face-painting and funnel cakes
|daddy's girl/ lady liberty
|on row boat in central park/ freedom towers
|amusement rides and pony rides
|date night @ radio city music hall
|time warner center / playground fun
|snow cones/ gorgeous day in central park
|chillin & acting silly
Hope you had a lovely summer!
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