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Our Board of Directors Consists of Direct Caregivers
Board of Directors
The Coalition is led by a Board of Directors consisting of direct caregivers who serve people who are elderly or disabled and includes those with occupations such as certified nursing assistants, home health aides, direct support professionals and direct care workers. Please see the biographies below to learn more about them and their goals as members of the Board of Directors.
New Mexico Voices Institute Leadership Training pictured are members of the Class of 2012 and State Senator Lucky Varela (center with sunglasses)
Diana Abeyta
Diana is the statewide coordinator & tribal liaison for the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) Office of Community Health Workers (OCHWs). Diana has been with the Department of Health, Public Health Division since 2008. She is a lead trainer in Stanford University's "Chronic Disease Self-Management" curriculum, a lead trainer in Indian Health Service's "Honoring the Gift of Heart Health" curriculum, and also a CHW trainer on various subjects. Within the NM Department of Health, Diana has also managed, evaluated and monitored county and tribal health council contracts. Prior to coming to NMDOH, she worked for Montañas Del Norte Area Health Education Center, at Luna Community College, where she coordinated community health workshops and served as an adjunct faculty member, student government advisor, grant's manager, and foundation director. Diana has a long standing background in community health, grant management, academics, fundraising, conflict resolution, health and wellness, and holds a Bachelors of Science degree in biology with a minor in applied science with an emphasis in chemistry.
Richard Jose Bela
Ric, Volunteer and Special Advisor, is a civil rights attorney with more than forty years' experience in community development, real estate and business development and government and private organizational management. He started his career upon graduation from the University of Texas Law School by working in Washington, DC with President Lyndon Johnson's administration in the "Great Society" programs and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also served as President of Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility from 1991-2000, replacing former Governor Jerry Apodaca.
His program areas of focus included forming and funding community-based migrant farm-worker self-help programs and legal services programs in the southwest states. Much of this work included providing technical assistance in forming non-profit community organizations, including NM organizations like HELP-NM and Siete del Norte.
Ray Benton
Albuquerque, NM
Ray Benton is Owner of the Benton Company, a tax and accounting company in Albuquerque. Ray went to work as a Class A electric lineman after high school. He worked for five years as a lineman until he was hurt on the job. He then continued his education with assistance from vocational rehabilitation funding. He became a Real Estate Broker in Michigan, later moving to New Mexico to practice real estate. In 1995, he and his son, William, opened their own tax and accounting businesses adjacent to one another.
Mr. Benton is married to Janet, his wife and a person he calls his caregiver following his accident for several months. He also has three sons, one daughter, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mr. Benton has served on several corporate and nonprofit Boards including the New Mexico Manufactured Housing Association, the Michigan Vocational Rehabilitation Commission, Tree New Mexico, Inc. and his home church. Ray is a member of the New Mexico Enrolled Agents Association, licensed to practice before the IRS. In addition to Masters level courses completed in business administration, Ray holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Organization and Management from Andrews University.
Candice Carnes
Candice Carnes has worked as a direct caregiver for over 15 years. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Goddard College. She specialized her studies in illness narratives, or the creative ways we tell stories about illnesses and caregiving. She is now a graduate student in the Science-Medical Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is thrilled to advocate for healthcare paraprofessionals by giving voice to those who are under-represented in writing.
David Fresquez
David Fresquez is the owner of Home Companion Care, LLC, (HCC), a statewide caregiver service fully dedicated to supporting seniors as they successfully age at home. David has extensive experience in providing services to seniors who reside in an assisted living setting and in the development and delivery of services specifically designed for seniors at community senior centers.
David fully understands the value of seniors remaining at home while making use of community services for increased quality of life. As a nursing home administrator, David created a variety of programs taking into account the special needs of seniors residing in these settings. Prior to specializing in senior health care, David served as a business consultant for the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio, Texas. As a business consultant David fully appreciates the value of quality services and meeting the needs of his clients.
He played colligate soccer and served as university student body president at Colorado State University -Pueblo. He received a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Business Administration.
David is deeply committed to the delivery of professional and timely services to New Mexico seniors in a caring, supportive and organized manner. David takes special interest in meeting the specific needs of seniors through superior caregiver training and attention to detail.
Meriam Jawhar
Santa Fe, NM
Meriam resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She attended the College of Santa Fe. Meriam currently works at the Developmental Disabilities Planning Council and as a personal assistant and caregiver. Meriam was selected to attend the Voices Institute in 2011, a competitive national program to educate caregivers in the areas of advocacy, fundraising, organizational development, message development and more. In Meriam's free time, she volunteers her time with political campaigns, environmental sustainability projects and disability rights advocacy.
Sabrina Smith is the Administrative Director at A Better Way Of Living, Inc. (ABWL) and has held that position since 2003. She is the treasurer of ABWL's Board of Directors and has recently been elected treasurer of The New Mexico Direct Caregiving Coalition (NMDCC). Her passion for Human Resources is exemplified in her quest to contribute in any way to the success of her employees. Sabrina graduated from UNM in 2005 with a Bachelor's Degree of University Studies with an emphasis on business communications and human resources. She is a seventh generation New Mexican and takes great pride in ensuring that her position and knowledge in this field will positively affect the lives of the clients and employees alike. She has been involved with NMDCC since its inception and truly believes in the mission of this company. She would like to see caregivers get the pay, recognition and support required in order to give the best possible care to those in need.
Sabrina Smith is the Administrative Director at A Better Way Of Living, Inc. (ABWL) and has held that position since 2003. She is the treasurer of ABWL's Board of Directors and has recently been elected treasurer of The New Mexico Direct Caregiving Coalition (NMDCC). Her passion for Human Resources is exemplified in her quest to contribute in any way to the success of her employees. Sabrina graduated from UNM in 2005 with a Bachelor's Degree of University Studies with an emphasis on business communications and human resources. She is a seventh generation New Mexican and takes great pride in ensuring that her position and knowledge in this field will positively affect the lives of the clients and employees alike. She has been involved with NMDCC since its inception and truly believes in the mission of this company. She would like to see caregivers get the pay, recognition and support required in order to give the best possible care to those in need.
Past Board Members
Alex Brandt
Vice Chair
Los Lunas, NM
Alex was born in Sacramento, CA, grew up in San Diego, CA and now lives in Los Lunas, NM. In his free time, Alex likes to watch TV and movies, read, play video games, hang out with friends and attend concerts. Alex has his degree in criminal justice with minors in Psychology and Business. He has been a caregiver for 12 years. He became a caregiver because of his experience in the field and he enjoys helping others. Alex is now employed at Los Lunas Community Program as a Psychology Tech and supervises individuals with mental illnesses and behavioral problems. As a member of the coalition, Alex hopes to focus on implementing better wages and benefits and helping increase respect for caregivers.
Janice Gorman RN
Bernalillo, NM
Janice Gorman is a Registered Nurse who lives in Bernalillo and works through New Mexico as a Case Manager in regional trauma and emergency centers, acute rehabilitation, psychiatric units and private sector patients. She has worked in hospitals with interdisciplinary teams to evaluate patients, often those who have experienced severe trauma.
She was a Catastrophic Case Manager with Presbyterian Hospital, providing service to those with chronic brain and spinal cord injury, and working with family members on assessment, education, referral and community supports. She has also evaluated mental health and substance abuse clients, arranging for treatment and follow-up.
Janice was with Rush Presbyterian Medical Center in Chicago where she was the Unit Coordinator for the Psychiatry Team. And, in addition to clinical work, Janice has also been a sales representative and director of Marketing for Mediscus Products, Inc. Janice received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois-Chicago and her Associates of Nursing from Triton College in Franklin Park, IL.
Fermina Lopez
Albuquerque, NM
I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, where I lived until about 20 years ago. I was an accountant there, working as the administrative manager for a supermarket. I came here for the American dream, to make a better life for my family. Almost as soon as I started working here I earned more than I ever had.
But that didn't happen right away. I have five children, and I had to leave them in day care or at an after-school program for many hours a week when they were young. For a while, I was paying almost as much for daycare as I was earning.
It was hard to find a job when we first came here. I had to take the thing I could get, and the first thing I got was direct care work. I had been helping a friend when I realized I could get paid for doing the same kind of work for other people. I had two jobs: as a caregiver and as a seamstress.
My goal at the time was to go to college and get a good education so I could get the kind of job I had had back in Mexico, but as time passed and I kept working as a caregiver, I started loving my job. You get so involved with the people you care for. I don't want to leave them. You feel better when you help people. You can learn so much from them, and when I can make them happy, it feels so good. Sometimes they treat you like family. They give you that love that they would give to their family if they lived closer to them.
My son Sinhue has Down's syndrome, so that will keep me in this field. I've taken care of him since he was born, of course, but you can't get paid for taking care of your own child until he turns 18. I've been assisting elderly people in a small group home—my title is family living assistant—but soon I'm going to start just helping my son.
The thing I like best about direct care work is that you are always helping families: your own family and the families of the people you are taking care of. It's like a circle. If you do a good job for the people you're taking care of, your family is going to be okay too. My whole life now is about taking care of families.
Iliana Lopez
Albuquerque, NM
Iliana Lopez works as a direct caregiver for a provider agency, caring for two boys with developmental disabilities. Iliana is committed to improving the opportunity for Hispanic immigrants to receive training, education, professional development and leadership opportunities to serve as family and professional caregivers. She advocates for materials and curriculum to be produced in Spanish so that more people can benefit from the knowledge and information available in the direct care field.
She is also very involved with Plaza de Encuentro Gathering place where she has participated in leadership training to serve as a voice and power for New Mexico's Hispanic community. She volunteers for Casa de Salud, El Centro de Igualidad y Derechos and Salvation Army.
Andrea Plaza
Albuquerque, NM
Andrea is Encuentro's founding director. She is a 22 year resident of New Mexico with roots in Colombia by way of North Carolina! Andrea moved to New Mexico to pursue graduate work in Latin American Studies and Community and Regional Planning. Her professional background includes working with women in the field of microenterpise development and developing educational and asset building programs for immigrant families. Andrea's experience as the founding President of Enlace Comunitario's Board of Directors, and a founding board member of El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos gives her a depth of knowledge regarding the contributions each organization brings to the Encuentro collaboration. Most importantly Andrea has a life-long commitment to advancing the rights of immigrants as a tool for building social and economic justice.
Fred Weis
Albuquerque, NM
Fred Weis of Albuquerque has served as a Family Living Provider for 14 years for Los Lunas Community Program. Prior to that, he served as a direct caregiver for ARCA. He has also worked in the restaurant business. In addition to his volunteer service to the New Mexico Direct Caregivers Coalition, Fred is a volunteer for Meals on Wheels. He is also Treasurer for the New Mexico Association of Family Providers. In his spare time, he participates as an amateur radio ham. Fred holds an Associate Degree from University of New Mexico. When asked what special training or certification he has, he may tell you: "I've been married 54 years."


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New Technology Aims to Help Seniors Stay at Home
Studies have shown that many elderly individuals want to stay in their homes as they age, but unfortunately some of them are unable to do so due to medical problems. In an effort to combat this, University of Missouri, Columbia researchers created software that is designed to remotely monitor the health of elderly people, so they can be cared for without having to leave their residences.
The developers have used this motion-sensing technology for years at TigerPlace, an eldercare facility in Columbia. Now they have received a grant to further develop the software at a facility in Cedar Falls, Iowa, to see if it can be used for home care patients.
"Using what we're already doing at TigerPlace and deploying it at the facility in Cedar Falls will allow us to further test the concept of remote health care," said researcher Marilyn Rantz. "Monitoring individuals with in-home sensors allows us to unobtrusively monitor their health changes based on their individual activity patterns and baseline health conditions."
The sensors track an elderly individual's movements, and alert healthcare providers to when there appears to be a small problem, such as a fall, before their is a larger issue.

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Giveaway Alert!
It's been awhile since I posted on this blog. I wanted to let everyone know that I have another new blog for my A Muse Studio business. There is currently a giveaway going on through March 8th! Stop by and take look around. Here is direct link to the giveaway: http://amusebystamping.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-muse-by-stamping-giveaway-drawings.html


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Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS)
Our mission is vigorously to make known the love of Christ by word and deed within our churches, communities and the world. Find out more about the LCMS.
Minnesota North District
The mission of the Minnesota North District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is to further the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20) and to assist congregations as Great Commission churches. Check out the MN North District site.
The latest MN North Newsletter can be found here: https://unite-production.s3.amazonaws.com/tenants/mnnlcms/attachments/214477/November_2019_Intercom_E-News.pdf
Portals of Prayer Devotions
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Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML)
The Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML) is the official women's auxiliary of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. For over 65 years, the LWML has focused on affirming each woman's relationship with Christ, encouraging and equipping women to live out their Christian lives in active mission ministries and to support global missions. Learn more about the LWML.
Lutheran Island Camp (LIC)
Lutheran Island Camp and Retreat Center is located on a secluded 67 acres surrounded by East Battle Lake in west-central Minnesota. The perfect place for your children and your family to participate in Christian camping. Find out more about camp.
Lutheran Hour Ministries
Lutheran Hour Ministries is a Christian outreach ministry supporting churches worldwide. LHM produces Christian radio and TV programming for broadcast, as well as Internet and print communications, dramas, music, and outreach materials, to reach unchurched people in the United States and more than 30 other countries. LHM's flagship program,The Lutheran Hour, airs weekly on 1400 stations and the American Forces Network. Find out more about this ministry.


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Last Week, "West Side Story" graced the stage at the Orpheum Theater while the first game of the World Series was being played — lucky for us, the score was announced in the beginning and intermission.
Nonetheless, the decades have treated this musical well and made it culturally relevant. More than that timeless American classic has maintained its classic — and modern — style.
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
For some reason, the 1961 film has never been out of style. The garb that Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris donned in the movie can easily be translated to the streets today — and it teaches us that birds of a fashion feather, do indeed, flock together.
In the film and in the stage production set to the beat of the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim score, the not-so-ethnic gang called the Jets don American workwear-meets-preppy cut from the cloth of classic Levi's. Their rival gang of Puerto Rican immigrants, the Sharks, have a slim European silhouette with vibrant colors that emit an air of urban sophistication. Not many gang members can pull off tucking in their shirts while getting ready to rumble — but for the Sharks, it works out.
Even the females on the opposing sides of this modern-day "Romeo and Juliet" story have conflicting looks. The ladies of the Jets wear short, stretch jersey skirts and shine in a vampy Galliano-esque pin-up girl spotlight. On the other side, the females from the Sharks have a little bit of spice and color with danceable full, ruffly skirts that can be easily likened to Stefano Pilati's flamenco-inspired frocks from the Yves Saint Laurent S/S 2011 collection.
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
The dueling tribes not only disagree on race issues, turf ownership and interracial romance, but the also have a distinct perspective on fashion — which can probably be best showcased in the series of khaki vs. denim "West Side Story"-inspired ads the Gap created in 2000:
Please excuse the poor quality of the video (you can check out some behind the scenes of this campaign here). It's the only video we could find. Perhaps the Gap should consider making these classic ads available to the general public — they are quite fun to watch! As an added bonus, the dancers actually perform Jerome Robbins's original choreography! How fun is that?
"West Side Story" continues through Nov. 28 at the Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market St., San Francisco. Tickets are $30-$99. Call 888-746-1799 or visit www.shnsf.com for information.


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Disappearing IRS email takes more than sleight of hand
Exchange experts say the lost IRS email controversy is a reminder of why your organization needs to evaluate its plans to prevent a similar event from happening.
The controversy around lost Internal Revenue Service emails has many IT pros asking how it's possible for email to vanish, and how it could be prevented.
The investigation is still underway to determine how several Internal Revenue Service (IRS) email messages were lost. Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, claims a hard drive crash in 2011 took out many of the email messages during that period.
One consultant finds it a bit odd that officials say they lost about three years' worth of emails, given the hardware technology the information was stored on, and the available software that can discover and locate it.
"Any hard drive or tape that is magnetic has layers that can be retrieved," said Frank Dzubeck, president of Communication Network Architects Inc., consultants in Washington, D.C. "You might have to rebuild it, but with all the sophisticated software available now, that's not a big problem. Things are never 'lost' unless they are physically destroyed."
Dzubeck doesn't believe the missing emails were accidentally erased and potentially written over with other data. The magnetic storage technology, which has multiple recording layers, would allow investigators to easily retrieve it.
"If you erase something, it just erases that layer," Dzubeck said. "You can even write over it, but guess what? The information on that layer underneath is still there."
Some industry experts cast doubt on whether overwritten data can be retrieved no matter how sophisticated the recovery tools that are used. According to veteran storage analyst Howard Marks, any hard drive manufactured in the past 10 years uses perpendicular magnetic recording making it impossible to drill down to access such data.
"The idea of there being discreet layers and if you overwrite layer 1 but layer 2 is still readable is not true. There is a lot of obsolete information about how [data] used to be retrievable when disk drives were much sloppier things than they are now," Marks said.
Indeed, employees losing email is a common occurrence and happens in nearly every environment. What's uncommon is for an IT department to have problems recovering that email, said Michael Van Horenbeeck, a technology consultant at Belgian ICT services provider Xylos.
"When IT tells everyone 'Yeah, we lost your email,' that's a pretty bad thing," he said.
"You never want to do anything with an email system that results in you having to explain something to a judge."
Paul Robichaux, Exchange MVP
Losing email is difficult because every network and nearly everywhere an email travels has systems in place to prevent email loss and to facilitate the recovery of anything lost, said Kevin Beaver, an information security consultant for Principle Logic LLC in Atlanta. These systems may include the sender's workstation and email server, a third-party email filtering service and the recipient's server and workstation.
The investigation into the lost IRS email sheds light on policies the agency had in place for handling email. In addition to backing up email on tape drives for just six months, one problem IT professionals highlight is that the agency had a 500 MB limit, or approximately 6,000 messages, for Outlook mailboxes. The low limit forced some employees to archive email on their computers to get below the limit, taking the data out of the server's backup system.
Limited email quotas may lead employees to save email data on PST files. Once employees put that data on PCs, it isn't protected and managed the way in which company data is.
"The onus is on you to know you have important files and that you have to back them up," said Paul Robichaux, Exchange MVP and global principal consultant with Dell Inc., in Huntsville, Alabama.
Backups, tools and email management tips
Organizations shouldn't worry this could happen to them. IT shops already have most of what they need to prevent such problems, Beaver said, such as log files, built-in security controls at the workstation and server levels as well as traditional and real-time system backup.
The IRS case highlights the need to have a good compliance plan in place, Robichaux said. If your organization is in a regulated segment of industry, the plan must be good enough to help you avoid a situation in which you have to explain lost email in court.
"You never want to do anything with an email system that results in you having to explain something to a judge," Robichaux said.
Compliance plans are important in all companies regardless of size, said Richard Luckett, president of LITSG LLC, a technology consulting company in Round Rock, Texas. Even if you're not in a big company, "you're still required to use compliance at some level," he said.
Having a highly available environment and end user education can also help organizations prevent vanishing email, Van Horenbeeck said. But it's important for Exchange admins to regularly test the backups they keep.
Approximately 60% of the companies Van Horenbeeck works with don't test their backups, and it's likely higher, he said. Testing backups is often on an admin's to-do list, but many forgo testing because it takes up time, resources and money.
Only a few of the companies Van Horenbeeck works with have a policy to regularly restore tapes and verify the data on them. Tapes are especially important to check because they can be influenced by any magnetic fields within companies, he said.
"Companies think they may be protected with all of their features, but unless they test the backups they take, you might never know whether or not data is recoverable," he said.
Some believe most headaches associated with locating and accessing critical electronic documents could be eliminated by letting reliable cloud service providers host them off-premises. Not only will the provider oversee the long-term storage of critical documents, but also provide archiving, retention and disaster recovery services.
Finally, some companies may want to consider third-party tools, Luckett said. His customers have used tools such as OnTrack's PowerControls for Exchange or Dell's Recovery Manager for Exchange to help. The options aren't necessarily cheap, but they can be lifesavers, he said.
Senior Executive Editor Ed Scannell contributed to this report.


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|Vincent Taylor Wins NWPE Grant to Enhance Movement Education
|posted by: Cindy Omlin | February 23, 2017, 05:49 PM
Mr. Taylor describes his NWPE membership as a critical support in his first year of teaching. He appreciates that NWPE membership helps him focus on his teaching and developing a comfortable and supportive classroom environment. "Having a professional organization to back up teachers is a huge part of education and can help teachers stay focused on the main goal which is to create a better future for those we educate."
Enjoy your new equipment, Mr. Taylor! We know it will help you create new games for your classes and incorporate movement and advance skill levels for all your students! Congratulations!
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Today's wedding vendor interview is with Helen of Blue Eyes Bow Ties, a company specializing in unique and limited edition handmade bow ties! Enjoy:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your company.
My name is Helen and I live a few miles away from the beautiful Georgian city of Bath, England, with my partner, Alex. I started my company, Blue Eyes Bow Ties, at the beginning of 2016. However, I've been sewing all my life, making garments and accessories for myself, family and friends.
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Estée Lauder products line of women's makeup, fragrance and skincare products, as well as men's fragrances and grooming products come with a promise to maintain the finest standards of superiority through extensive research and rigorous product testing.
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Ned Koenig Education & Marketing Fund
At its 2009 meeting in California, the MDHBA Board of Directors voted to recognize former president and long-time contributor Ned Koenig by renaming the Education Sponsor Program to the Ned Koenig Education Fund. In 2015, the name was changed to the Ned Koenig Education & Marketing Fund in recognition of its expanded scope to support organization growth and advocacy efforts. Ned believed in the organization and the people in it. He benefited greatly from his involvement and was always willing to share his expertise and "mentor" those who were new to the association so that they could benefit as well.
MDHBA would like to thank its those who have contributed. Through their generous support, the Fund helps to ensure the quality and success of MDHBA'S Annual Conference, Institute, and Audio Conference programs. Click on any of the logos below to visit our current contributors. To learn more about, or to become an MDHBA Ned Koenig Education & Marketing Fund contributor, click here.
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Mazda has always been known for doing things a little differently. Take it's early efforts at Le Mans, for example.
Instead of using a V6, V8, or other engine with actual cylinders, Mazda used a rotary. Of course, Mazda has used rotary engines in road cars for generations, so it made sense to use one in a race car too.
This one is the 1990 767B, a precursor to the Le Mans winning 787B. It looks broadly similar, and it sounds rather similar too. Which is to say it sounds like the high pitched demon scream of the spawn of hellfire.
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Attorneys Kurt Arnold, Kyle Findley, and another attorney from Arnold & Itkin have filed suit on behalf of three minor children who were involved in a school bus accident on their way home from day care. Their injuries were a result of a rollover incident in which eye witnesses believe to be caused by excessive speeding and swerving on behalf of the bus driver. The case was filed in Laredo, Texas the city in which the bus company owners are based.
Every day, there are an estimated 22 million children who ride in school buses on their commute to and from school and other extracurricular activities such as sporting events, church or youth activities. Sadly, with so many students riding within these large vehicles, if there is an accident, many students and adults lives are placed in jeopardy. Those on the bus are not the only ones at risk of injury or death from a bus accident, due to a buses size and weight many people around the vehicle may be harmed as well; both other drivers and pedestrians alike.
Statistics gathers by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration claim that since 1998 to 2008 there were 1,564 people killed in school bus related incidents, about 142 deaths per year. These studies show that the majority of the deaths (70%) were not of people in the bus itself but rather the occupants in the other vehicles while 20% of the fatalities were pedestrians and 8% were bus occupants. The NHTSA concludes that annually there are about 19 school age deaths per year, 14 of them as pedestrians and 5 as school bus occupants.
If your minor has been involved in a school bus related accident, do not hesitate in taking legal action and call a Houston personal injury lawyer at Arnold & Itkin LLP. Whether your child was a victim of wrongful death or has been injured in any way due to a bus related accident, our firm will aggressively fight on your behalf in order to receive the compensation you need for their injuries. Contact us immediately to learn more about how our team can fight for your family!


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I came up with this tutorial one day when my friend Suvigya and I were struggling to work on the Raspberry Pi, because we did not have any HD displays. Hence, I came up with this tutorial so others in the same situation would be able to use their laptop display as a monitor for their Raspberry Pi.
As we know, Raspberry Pi is known as the "Pocket-Size PC", but for debugging and project purposes it's cumbersome to carry an additional display for it. Also, many of us don't have access to an HDMI display, so, we figured out a way to easily connect a Raspberry Pi to a laptop display. Sit back and enjoy this simple tutorial!
How Does It Work?
To connect a Raspberry Pi to a laptop display, you can simply use an ethernet cable. The Raspberry Pi's desktop GUI (Graphical User Interface) can be viewed through the laptop display using a 100Mbps ethernet connection between the two. There are many software programs available that can establish a connection between a Raspberry Pi and your laptop. We used VNC server software to Connect the Pi to our laptop.
Installing the VNC server on your Pi allows you to see the Raspberry Pi's desktop remotely, using the mouse and keyboard as if you were sitting right in front of your Pi. It also means that you can put your Pi anywhere else in your home and still control it. Also, the internet can be shared from your laptop's WiFi over Ethernet. This also lets you access the internet on the Pi and connect it to your laptop display.
Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi
Before moving to connect your Raspberry Pi to your laptop display, you need an SD card with the OS preinstalled, or install Raspbian on a blank SD card. If you're not familiar with Raspberry Pi commands, check out this tutorial for Basic Linux Commands. You will find lots of blogs and tutorials on preparing an SD card for the Raspberry Pi. If you are a beginner, you can simply download this free beginner's guide eBook. This will show how to install the OS for the Raspberry Pi. You can also buy SD cards with the Raspian and NOOBs operating systems preinstalled.
After setting up your SD Card, insert it into the Raspberry Pi. Next, connect your micro USB cable to the Raspberry Pi to power it. Also, connect your Raspberry Pi to the laptop via an ethernet cable and connect a keyboard and mouse to it. Now, connect the HDMI display (the HDMI is only required to run the Pi for the first time) and power on your Pi. Follow the next steps to connect your Raspberry Pi to a laptop display.
Sharing Internet Over Ethernet
This step explains how you can share your laptop internet with the Raspberry Pi via Ethernet cable.
In Windows: To share internet with multiple users over Ethernet, go to Network and Sharing Center. Then click on the WiFi network:
Click on Properties (shown below), then go to Sharing and click on "Allow other network users to connect". Make sure that the networking connection is changed to "Local Area Connection":
Note: Doing this will provide a dynamic IP to the ethernet port on your laptop and other devices connected to your laptop. Now, to check the IP assigned to your laptop, click on the new local area connection link created:
As shown above, the IP assigned to my laptop is 192.168.137.1. To check the IP assigned to the connected ethernet device, do the following. Considering that the IP assigned to your Laptop is 192.168.137.1 and subnet mask is 255.255.255.0:
- Open command prompt
- Ping the broadcast address of your IP. (Type) Eg: ping 192.168.137.255
- Stop the ping after 5 seconds.
- Check the reply from device: arp –a
Setting Up the VNC Server to Connect Your Raspberry Pi to a Laptop Display
If you have an HDMI display: Using the connected HDMI display on your Pi, you should install VNC server on your Raspberry Pi. Open the LX-Terminal and type the following commands to install VNC:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
If you don't have an HDMI display: If you do not have a display even for one-time setup, then no need to worry. Install Putty as per your Windows configuration and via SSH you can connect with your Raspberry Pi. As you get access to your Pi terminal, run the same commands as above to install VNC.
Starting VNC Server on Pi:
To start VNC, enter the following command in the SSH terminal:
$ vncserver :1
You will be prompted to enter and confirm a password. This will be asked only once, during first time setup. Enter an 8 digit password. Note that this is the password you will need to use to connect to your Raspberry Pi remotely. You will also be asked if you want to create a separate "read-only" password – say no (n).
Yippeee!….The VNC server is now running on your Pi and we can now attempt to connect to it. First, we must switch to the laptop, from which we want to control the Pi. Then set up a VNC client to connect to the Pi.
Setting Up the Client Side (Laptop)
Download VNC client and install it. When you first run VNC viewer, you will see following:
Enter the IP address of your Raspberry Pi given dynamically by your laptop (you got the address from the earlier step) and append with :1 (denoting port number) and press connect. You will get a warning message, press 'Continue':
Enter the 8 digit password which was entered in the VNC server installation on your Raspberry Pi:
Finally, the Raspberry Pi desktop should appear as a VNC window. You will be able to access the GUI and do everything as if you were using the Pi's keyboard, mouse, and monitor directly. As with SSH, since this is working over your network, your Pi can be situated anywhere as long as it is connected to your network.
Running VNC Server During Startup in the Raspberry Pi GUI
Connecting to your Raspberry Pi remotely with VNC is fine as long as your Pi does not reboot. If it does, you either have to connect with SSH and restart the VNC Server or arrange for the VNC Server to run automatically after the Raspberry Pi reboots. To ensure that the VNC starts automatically each time when booting up, run the following commands in the terminal:
Open ".config" folder from the Pi's: user folder (it is a hidden folder).
$ cd /home/pi
$ cd .config
Create a folder called "autostart" in it. Also, create a file called "tightvnc.desktop" in that folder. You can use any known text editor to create the files. I used gnome-text-editor for this:
$ mkdir autostart
$ cd autostart
$ gnome tightvnc.desktop
Edit the contents of the file with the following text and save the file:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=vncserver :1
Next time you reboot your Pi, vncserver will start automatically and will seamlessly connect your Raspberry Pi to a laptop display.
Whenever you want to do something with your Pi, just connect it to your laptop with an ethernet cable and power it. Then open VNCViewer, mention the IP address of your Pi, and you can use your laptop's display as the Raspberry Pi's monitor.


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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, my attention is totally focused on the table right now — the people who will be sitting around it come Thursday and the foods that we will be preparing and enjoying — as well as all that I have to be thankful for.
Therefore, when I sat down to play with Marcia Derse's wonderful fabrics, I shelved my original idea to make a purse and instead designed this simple, modern table runner.
After finishing the one above with an off-white background, I played the "what if" game and made another table runner, this time in green. As you can see it is not quite finished; I think I will quilt this one. I'm not sure if I will get it done for Thanksgiving, but I can definitely envision some Fall decorations on it — dried flowers, small ceramic pumpkins, or a simple wood candleholder/candle. Here is a free pdf of this pattern TableRunnerPattern.
When I was photographing these runners, I realized what a nice wall hanging this design makes, although I would definitely quilt the piece so that it would hang better.


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The information about the panel has been posted
The keynote abstract the been posted
The program for the workshop has been posted.
Prof. Timos Sellis (RMIT University) will be the keynote speaker at this year's SMDB workshop. Stay tuned for more details.
The following papers have been accepted for presentation at SMDB 2013 and will appear in the workshop proceedings:
Realistic Tenant Traces for Enterprise DBaaS
Tim Januschowski (SAP Innovation Center), Jan Schaffner (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)
INUM+: A leaner, more accurate and more efficient fast what-if optimizer
Rui Wang (UCSC), Quoc Trung Tran (UCSC), Ivo Jimenez (UCSC), Neoklis Polyzotis (University of California Santa Cruz)
Automatic Schema Design for Co-Clustered Tables
Stephan Baumann (TU-Ilmenau), Peter Boncz (CWI Amsterdam), Kai-Uwe Sattler (T.U. Ilmenau)
Model Ensemble Tools for Self-Management in Data Centers
Jin Chen (University of Toronto), Cristiana Amza (University of Toronto)
Performance Optimization for Distributed Intra-Node-Parallel Streaming Systems
Matthias Sax (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin), Malu Castellanos (HP Labs), Qiming Chen (HP Labs), Meichun Hsu (HP Labs)
Self-managing load shedding for data stream management systems
Thao Pham (University of Pittsburgh), Panos Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh), Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh)
Total Operator State Recall — Cost-effective Reuse of Results in Greenplum Database
George Caragea (EMC), Carlos Garcia-Alvarado (EMC), Michalis Petropoulos (EMC), Florian Waas (EMC)
Please see these instructions for the full details needed to get the camera-ready version of your paper through the PDF express web site, which is required for conference and workshop papers before they are included in the IEEE proceedings.
The updated CFP with the new submission dates has been posted online,
in PDF format.
Due to multiple requests we are extending the submission deadline for the workshop.
The new due dates are:
November 27, 2012 5pm PST (abstract)
December 4, 2012 5pm PST (full paper)
The paper submission site is now open, at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SMDB2013/
Abstracts are due on November 19, 2012 (Monday) at 5pm PST.
Papers are due on November 26, 2012 (Monday) at 5pm PST.
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Four-hundred singers from around the state participated in the annual Wisconsin chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition at UW-Eau Claire. Twelve of Lawrence's 19 entries advanced to the finals in the competition, and 5 claimed first-place finishes.
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Nowadays you can think that everybody is focusing on digital art because of the trend but this is not truth. Talented artists that can draw extraordinary realistic sketches still hold an important place. Its a form of a fine art, where an artist draws an inspiration from a person, object, or even from his imagination.
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You will see 41 amazing sketches in which the author, Mattias Adolfsson paid insane attention to details. He is a talented freelance illustrator from Sweden. Mattias has worked in the Game industry and with 3danimation prior to going analog in 2007.


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"Melinda Gates' children did not have smartphones until they turned 14 and only used computer in the kitchen. Her husband Bill spends hours in his office reading books. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says he wants his daughters to read Dr. Seuss and play outside rather than use Messenger Kids. Even Steve Jobs strictly limited his children's…Read more
Videos at Parents.com
View a list of videos on parents.com related to tech and children What to Consider Before Handing Your Child a Smartphone How Tech Impacts Your Child's Creativity Setting Limits on Technology Must-Knows On Tech and Child Development: Take Fewer Photos!Read more
9 Tips Help Supermom "Beat My Addiction"
After hearing Dr. Steiner-Adair speak at a parenting program, this loving mother of three finds that small changes reap big benefits in heartfelt connections. Excerpt: I went to a lecture recently by a woman who I wish was my therapist.In just an hour, Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed.D., a Boston-based, soft-spoken, clinical psychologist and co-author of The…Read more
What's it to You? How Americans Feel About Life Tangled Up in the Web
Dr. Steiner-Adair joins PBS News Hour's Jeffrey Brown to talk about social and emotional challenges of the Digital Age and the need to "outsmart our smartphones" to be savvy users. Excerpt: "…One of the good trends I see happening more and more in the schools I work in is that schools are doing more intentional…Read more
CNN: Are you addicted to the Internet?
(CNN) - "Internet addiction and the dangers that excessive computer gaming poses to children and adolescents are receiving fresh attention with the scheduled premiere of the documentary "Web Junkie" on PBS Monday."Read the full article at: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/17/opinions/steiner-adair-internet-addiction/Read more
How Internet Porn is Rewiring our Brains
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt's new film Don Jon is the story of a man whose porn habit has left him unable to relate to real women. He's not the only one, reports Nisha Lilia Diu"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10441027/How-porn-is-rewiring-our-brains.html Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Don Jon, a movie 'about how we connect with each other'Read more
Tech is Wonderful, Cool — and You Have to Pay Attention as Parents
In a 20-minute Podcast, Dr. Steiner-Adair talks about parenting in the digital age. "It's wonderful. Kids can have friends around the world. That is so cool. I am not anti-tech. You have to pay attention as grown-ups, as parents, and for our children to how we are relating to these devices and to each other."http://yourteenmag.com/2013/10/podcast-catherine-steiner-adair-on-parenting-in-the-digital-age/Read more
Finding Family Connections Without a Search Engine
Dr. Steiner-Adair's research and "the candid responses from children — particularly teens — about their feelings when faced with technology dilemmas are eye-opening," in The Big Disconnect, says reviewer Brooke Lefferts of the Associated Press. Excerpt: Steiner-Adair offers startling statistics on how much kids are using technology and calls the fast takeover of tech a…Read more
11 Signs You're Way Too Into Your Smartphone
A humorous take on Dr. Steiner-Adair's popular checklist for signs of tech dependence and addiction. modafinilnoprescription.com discount-buy-tramadol.com www.tramadol-now.comRead more
Boys also harmed by teen "hookup" culture and sexting
New research says boys who engage in sexting and the hookup culture's sexualized behavior say they have no intention to be hostile or demeaning. While they admit they are pushing limits, they also think they are simply courting. They describe it as "goofing around, flirting," Dr. Steiner-Adair says, in an interview with NBC's Abigail Pesta.…Read more
Researchers Find Parents' Digital Distraction Affects Kids
Dr. Perri Klass interviews Dr. Steiner-Adair in a report on a new study in the journal "Pediatrics" about parents' digital distraction. Excerpt:"Children of all ages — 2, 15, 18, 22 — used the same phrases to talk about how hard it is for them to get their parents' attention when they need it: sad, angry,…Read more
"Superdad's superdad" Armin Brott Takes on Tech
Bestselling fatherhood author and mrdad.com Positive Parenting radio host Armin Brott interviews Dr. Steiner-Adair about positive parenting and how to manage our relationship with technology in the digital age. Read full article at: mrdad.comRead more
The Wall Street Journal – Best Nonfiction of 2013
The Wall Street Journal names The Big Disconnect in its top ten picks for nonfiction in 2013. "This riveting piece of journalism disguised as a self-help tome chronicles how new technology has disrupted family life. Parents pacify infants with iPhones, toddlers play violent games and pre-teens are sexting. The book offers no easy answers but…Read more
The Generational Tech Gap
"Dr. Nancy Snyderman and Catherine Steiner-Adair join to discuss the gap in technology use between kids and their parents." Watch at: msnbc.comRead more
3 Ways to Be a Go-To Parent for Your Teenager
"As parents, we want to be the best first responders when our teenagers get in trouble," says Dr. Steiner-Adair in a Your Teen feature article. But when she asks teens what their parents do that make the kids inclined to turn to them, the teens often say, 'Oh, I'd never go to my parents.'" Why…Read more
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Sometimes referred to disdainfully by kayakers as "stinkpots" (due to exhaust fumes), powerboats are a fact of life on the water. Along with wind and tides that don't go your way, motorized boat traffic is part of the scenery, too. While U.S. Coast Guard regulations say that human powered craft have the "right of way" on the water, that doesn't give any of us a special privilege to be "right in the way" of other boaters. Fortunately, kayaks can travel easily in shallow water, where powerboats are less likely to venture. Still, it is best to remain aware of your surroundings and practice good situational awareness regardless of water depth. Here are some tips to help you enjoy a safer boating experience, regardless of how your craft is powered.
Kayaks are low to the water, making them inherently difficult to see, so be as visible as you can. A kayak that is not brightly colored is even more difficult to discern from the background. Wear bright colors and fly a flag to stand out in high traffic areas. If you venture out in darkness or low light conditions, use reflective tape and a single light. U.S. Coast Guard navigation rules and regulations state that a "vessel under oars" at the very least must have a flashlight on hand to warn other boats of your presence in sufficient time to prevent a collision. You may also follow the same rules required of sailing vessels, which call for a white stern light and red/green side lights.
Beware of blind curves on creeks and rivers, and avoid lingering in these areas where a powerboat can't see you until he is practically upon you. If pausing to fish for a while, try to position your kayak so the bow will be at an angle to the direction from which boat wakes are likely to occur. Many power boat captains will slow down to pass a kayak, but not all of them do. It goes without saying, yet bears repeating: Always wear your personal flotation device (PFD)! The fact that you were the high school swim team captain will do you little good if you are unconscious in the water after a collision. Roughly 80% of people who die in boating accidents do so while not wearing a life jacket.
Often maligned by kayak fishermen (perhaps more than they deserve), jet skis or "personal watercraft" (PWC) are often rented or borrowed and piloted by young or inexperienced operators. While they can be noisy and bothersome to anglers, PWCs account for fewer than 20% of boating accidents, and the accident rate has steadily declined in recent years.
However, among PWC accidents, collision due to inattention or carelessness is the major cause. The best advice is to move on to a different spot if your current one becomes infested with one or more PWC operators who are inconsiderate enough to remain in the area where you are fishing. It may not be fair if you were there first, but in the event of a collision, you may get to be the last one there, too.
For the majority, powerboat operators are a courteous, friendly lot. Don't let a few bad examples paint them all as villains. All kayakers are not as responsible or courteous as they should be, either. You will often encounter kayak anglers staked out or anchored up next to powerboats as they fish the same water and congratulate or joke with each other about their catch. People who fish, whether from a powerboat or a kayak, are some of the best people you could ever meet. Besides, if you ever find you and your kayak in need of rescue someday, it just might be a "stinkpot" that saves your bacon.


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Have not been doing much in the way of anything lately. Now that spring is here though, I guess I have to start coming out of "hermit" mode and get going on a few things. I have some dead branches and branches growing into other trees on the lot that need trimming. It is a good time to tune up the pruning saw.
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Jalapeno Lemon Grilled Chicken - chicken marinated in fresh jalapeños, lemon juice, oregano, olive oil and garlic. Inspired by our trip to Chicago and the Tavern on Rush. This chicken is AMAZING!! TONS of great flavor. Double the recipe for leftovers - great in tacos or quesadillas.
Our version turned out great. If it is like our other Tavern Chicken - it is better than the original. We used boneless chicken breast because that is what Chicken Legs wanted. I would like to try this on a whole chicken like the original - I think it would be great too.
Chicago Chicken - Jalapeno Lemon Grilled Chicken
- 1 jalapeno (remove the seeds and membranes if you don't want the heat)
- Juice of 1 lemon (3 Tbsp)
- 1 Tbsp dried oregano
- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 3 cloves of garlic, minced
- 3 boneless, skinless chicken breast
- Combine first 5 ingredients in the food processor. Pulse until combined and jalapeno is finely diced. Pour into a ziplock bag, add chicken. Toss to coat. Let marinate in refrigerator overnight and then grill.


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Cloud supply chain software taking off
The growth of cloud supply chain software options is opening new doors for manufacturers of all sizes.
In the world of Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud technology, supply chain software has been one of the last enterprise software types to enter the arena. Until fairly recently, on-premises installations were still the only ways an organization could adopt supply chain software. Enter the cloud, and now many vendors offer transportation management systems (TMS), warehouse management systems (WMS), demand and replenishment systems, supplier relationship management (SRM) and purchasing systems via cloud supply chain software.
In some cases, cloud supply chain management (SCM) has surpassed other enterprise software in cloud-readiness. For example, cloud SRM and much supply chain execution functionality can easily be installed, configured and ready for use in a fraction of the time that the on-premises versions require. The easy point of entry has even spurred spending on SCM software; while these systems were very expensive in-house, the cloud versions are often much more affordable.
More vendors have emerged with a cloud SCM model, thereby lowering the massive cash outlay that these systems once required. The market has opened up for even SMBs to capitalize on supply chain and logistics execution software. Many smaller ERP vendors have more than adequate cloud logistics and supply chain functionality. In some cases, these SMB-targeted ERP systems have WMS functionalities that are advanced beyond traditional inventory control.
While small cloud SCM vendors have opened up the SaaS market for SMBs, medium and enterprise organizations are still prone to adopt the larger names because of more complexities within their businesses requirements. These larger cloud supply chain software systems have supply chain execution suites that cover the entire supply chain process from sourcing of material, supplier interaction, partner trading and collaboration. In addition, inventory levels, order tracking and shipping, and even recall information can all be traced using cloud-based supply chain management software.
What's next for cloud SCM?
The cloud SCM market is still much segmented. This category of enterprise software, more than others, has a more pointed approach rather than incorporating everything into an entire suite. The supply chain execution market consists of many types of software and includes areas of manufacturing that are not part of a greater encompassing software package.
More on supply chain management software
Understand global supply chain risks, opportunities
See the Gartner top 25 supply chains
The supply chain cloud market is segmented further as subsets of supply chain functionality, such as supply chain analytics within industrial engineering software that measures labor, time and motion KPIs.
Organizations need to scrutinize their operations and pinpoint the areas in which the greatest gains can be made with cloud SCM. Gaps identified within the supply chain -- such as not having a system to track, trace, produce and deliver products to customers -- should be targeted to bolster the cloud supply chain system's functionality. Since most of these are point solutions, many packages have pre-built connectors to other software packages such as ERP, WMS, TMS and SRM and play nicely with existing systems. This approach is namely for medium to larger-sized organizations, as their supply chains are usually more complex and already established. For larger supply chains, one software component may not be as critical as with smaller organizations.
Smaller enterprises with less sophisticated supply chains that require more encompassing functionality should investigate end-to-end functionality like supply chain execution software. Many smaller packages for cloud supply chain are usually bundled into an ERP system for the lower market, with slightly deeper supply chain and inventory functions.
Smaller organizations must walk a fine line as these cloud SCM systems rapidly escalate the monthly payment when more functions are added to the suite. Lack of users for smaller organizations may result in a more complex software evaluation procedure and entails a greater degree of risk.
About the author:
Dylan Persaud is managing director at Eval-Source. His 20 years of IT experience are highlighted with 14 years at the enterprise level. Past positions include business systems analyst, implementation lead, project/product manager, enterprise architect, configuration specialist, market analyst and a manager of research, which has allowed him to examine organizations from the ground up and has given him a high-level overview of the enterprise software market. Working for companies such as IBM, IDC, Indigo and TEC, he has focused on how businesses can run more efficiently.
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Microsoft announced Power BI Premium. It is a new, capacity-based licensing model with a very interesting feature – maintain and manage your Power BI reports on-premises using Power BI Report Server!
Power BI Report Server is an on-premises server that allows the deployment, management and distribution of Power BI reports (paginated and mobile reports also). It is built on SQL Server Reporting Services and it provide the same functionalities as SSRS.
To publish Power BI reports user must have a Power BI Pro license, to view reports no additional license is required.
Power BI Report Server is licensed per core. The same number of cores provisioned in the cloud can be consumed on-premises (in the same time!).
Customer with SQL Server Enterprise licensed per core and active Software Assurance can also deploy Power BI Report Server.
Availability – second quarter of 2017!


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Brand Strategy + Identity
Imagine feeling so connected to your target audience that you were able to create products and services just for them.
I mean, you're accomplished and qualified.
You know exactly what you can do but you just don't know how to put it all together and get clients.
This is exactly why your business hasn't quite made its mark. For example, whenever:
- People ask you about who you work with, you panic and come up with some vague description with no specific person in mind making it impossible for them to send potential clients your way.
- You sit down to write your services and get everything organized only to walk away with a blank page.
- You decide to create your own website and you spend hours endlessly roaming the internet unsure what colors or images to use.
- You meet someone who you think would be a dream client and you GET SO FIRED UP because you know they need you. Then you proceed to question yourself and lose the sale.
You just want people to like you and buy your stuff.
But it's not your fault. really.
Creating your own brand is hard.
It's typically full of a lot of comparisonitis where you go look at your competitors and see how great they are doing then start to question yourself or worse you try to mimic what they are doing.
And can be filled with vague descriptions of who your target audience is because, let's face it, you will work with anyone who contacts you.
Yeah, it can get pretty ugly, but here is the good news…
Step 1: Get the clarity you've been searching for so you can attract your target audience who you find you irresistible.
Step 2: Picture your new brand identity created specifically to attract that target audience based on their wants and needs.
Step 3: Adjust your mindset. Attracting your target audience just got easy.
Get ready for your Brand Strategy and Identity
Where you will be put through three exercises that will help you uncover your target audience and what solutions you can offer to them; discover your brand words and brand mission, plus your brand identity where your fonts, colors, and patterns are brought to life. Just. Like. That.


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Very good points, Brian. "In God We Trust" sometimes assumes the characteristics of a "national rabbit's foot." Another example of such wishful thinking is the "God Bless America" marquees that pop up after every domestic natural disaster or military conflict. Makes me want to rent a portable flashing sign and display the message, "America, Bless God!"ReplyDelete
Excellent point! The phrase/song "God Bless America" does come up with increased frequency after a disaster or during a conflict. Thus, it seems to be more of a desperate claim than honest devotion. "America, Bless God" is indeed a much better phrase.ReplyDelete
The wording of the phrase undermines its use. If it were a prayer it would be "God, Please Bless America." If it were a statement of fact it would be "God Is Blessing America." Thus, "God Bless America" appears to be a demand, which seems to demonstrate how inappropriate it is.


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More thoughts later, but Diego Forlan and Muslera are a team unto themselves. Also, Suarez got what might have been the most worth it Red Card ever.
That is the best soccer game I've ever seen.
Posted on July 2, 2010, in Sports and tagged diego forlan, fernando muslera, red card, suarez, Uruguay. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
That was an *amazing* game 🙂
Suarez did the right thing, even if Gyan had made the penalty kick.
The best game ever. Go URUGUAY! Suarez is our hero, so are Muslera ❤ , Forlán and Abreu, but the whole team is great. I really hope they win!
Ha! La Celeste completely deserved that win after Ghana's disgraceful diving and a CLEARLY biased ref. FIFA tried to give the world an African Fairytale, but los charruas held their own with their famous grit.
Despite being in an overwhelmingly Pro-Ghana/Africa stadium, they played better and cleaner.
Can't stand how everyone is whining about Suarez. Jeez, learn the rules of the game or STFU. He got punished fairly. Simple as that. Not his fault Ghana choked in penalties.
Not to mention that the free kick that led up to the situation was NOT EVEN A FOUL plus the Ghanaian player was obviously offside. Just look at the replays…oh my bad, no one's showing THAT clip, just the handball clip. Drives me insane.
Now we gotta go at Netherlands without Suarez, Fucile, Lodeiro and possibly Lugano. But nothing matters because soy celeste carajo and we've got the spirit to do this!
Arriba Urugay – Vamos la Celeste!!
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Dr Ana Maiques
Dr Ana Maiques
Ana graduated from two BS in economics (University of Barcelona, University of Wolverhampton). After her BS she graduate from her Masters at the University of North London in European economics and social studies. Since then she has been working in different NGOs. At Starlab, Ana has gained considerable experience in bringing top worldwide companies to our scientists and creating industrial Consortia around a scientific project, exploring future business opportunities related to application of space technologies.
She has been in charge of several EU-FP6 and ESA research projects on EO applications, trying to bring together technology and users. She has considerable experience in market studies, EO applications, promotion, training, and user requirements analysis. Her strong link to coastal/maritime and energy users has allowed her to have a good knowledge of maritime user current practises and needs.


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A business ecosystem is defined to be a network of organizations – including suppliers, distributors, customers, even competitors – that are involved in the co-creation of the goods or services a business provides. What kind of workplaces do business ecosystems need?
Companies can no longer expect to have all talent they need internally. Subcontractors have been used in projects for a long time already but more and more external service providers are used for daily business as well. Crowd sourcing is used in offering development, freelance writers are used for content creation and consultants are used for measuring and analyzing customer experience, to name a few. Business ecosystems evolve.
At the same time our workplaces have become platforms for ecosystem collaboration. And a company's success is often based on providing a platform for the ecosystem to meet on and to co-create value for the company. So what is an ideal platform for this type of ecosystems?
It certainly requires a completely new kind of thinking for workplace design. It is not reasonable to think that optimal co-creation could always be supported with the same type of workplace. Therefore, workplaces must be flexible and easily transformed for different kinds of set-ups.
The virtual aspect of workplaces is an important factor to take into account. How to involve people who are physically elsewhere in the co-creation process?
Ease of use should also be highlighted. People from different backgrounds should have the workplace supporting their work even if they are not familiar working in it from before. Ideally, the workplace should feel for all its users like it was designed for them personally. How on earth could this be possible?
This is where the sheep get separated from the goats in workplace design. Today's designers must be able to apply participatory design methods across the business ecosystem. This is challenging for sure, but not impossible.
Today's designers have a completely new set of tools when they start their design process. They use user profiles for these so called hybrid workers. They investigate the workers' activities and their need for privacy. They understand that we are all individuals and we may concentrate or collaborate in different ways.
I find the ecosystem workplaces as a very exciting opportunity for us all. And I certainly look forward to working in them more and more.
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Mako Idemitsu's Complete Work List
The idea for this scenario came from a statement in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, "No one is born a woman. One becomes a woman." Idemitsu depicts a woman artist married to another artist and caught between the conflicting demands of housework and creativity. It was an attitude instilled in her as child because of the way her parents and school teachers behaved toward her. "Since you're a girl, you should do the housework." When she was deciding what to study, she repeatedly heard the words, "Because you are a girl…" To use a term popular in Japan right now, she was subjected to "mind control." At first Kae, woman artist does give in because of this psychological programming, but eventually she fights against these psychological factors represented by a variety of images and wins. This process will be shown through striking images using a projector.
Kiyoko is a middle-aged housewife. She is trying to paint, after twenty years when she had to give up painting. Everyday problems will trap a woman if she has too much energy and ability to be wasted on house-works. The desire to express her identity has been repressed so long, and now it is coming out with a vengeance. The frustration over her suppressed desires drives her desperation. The greater her latent ability, the deeper her desperation. Award from Mention Special du Jury categorie "EXPERIMENTAL" La mondiale de film et videos, Quebec, Canada in 1991, and Prix Procirep Section Fiction, Festival International de Videos et Films, Centre Audivisuel Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, France in 1992
Mama has plans for son Yoji even before his birth, plans that no one, not even her absent philandering husband or Yoji himself can persuade her to abandon. Stereotypically maternal manipulation conflicting with a son's desire to live his own life is at the core of this work. The conflict is represented in a flatly lit, austere space, with a television playing a significant narrative throughout the piece. The push-and-pull of filial relations has a witty, incestuous bite.
Today, Japan is envied by the world for her economic prosperity, which however, has resulted in producing this sort of average family. Its contains a wife who has to serve her husband, a preoccupied businessman, and who showers all her attention on her child who is also left behind at home with the mother. The child, especially a son, becomes a replacement for her husband. Mother and son share an intimate life like lovers at home without the husband. It seems that this is such a common occurrence that Japanese society ignores this video work. Those that are envious of the Japanese economic success will become less so if they see this work and realize what this real phenomena in Japanese society is like.
This personal film about the light and shadow of plants is successfully constructed using the subjective gaze of the narrator herself depicting her mother's death. This work is important to an understanding of this artist, Idemitsu.
The use of shadows to depict of the state of mine of a mother whose children have grown and left the home. The narrator uses herself in this film.
The relationship between the mother and daughter is psychologically very tight. The isolated husband is irritated and becomes violent whenever he drinks but the two women cannot understand the reason of his violence. The mother lets the daughter marry for appearance's sake although in reality she hangs onto the daughter forever.
A calm intelligent understanding cooperative mother and the daughter who is always running after men. What she really wants is the unrefined mother's warmth. However …..
In this work, the subconscious problems of a daughter who rejects going school is observed by the function of C.G. Jung's psychological concept, the Great Mother. The subconsciousness of the daughter is shown on the screen of the monitor in the scenes. When the daughter becomes violent, how does a personified great mother function?
In the early 80's and extravagant campaign to sell the newly discovered video machine was mounted in Japan. About this time, there was a growing problem where bored housewives were becoming over attached to their children, and finding it almost impossible to let them leave the family nest. "Video and children were now being used as substitutes to fill the emptiness of the lives of many Japanese house wives," I felt. This disturbing development in Japanese society prompted me to make a video, a black comedy exploring the theme. At the same time, I was overhearing the persistent voices: "let's make a home video!"


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We started this conversation yesterday in the comment section, and I think it's deserving of its own topic. The Colgan Air accident involved a couple of pilots who were exhausted. One had just flown in on a redeye the night before and shouldn't have been flying that plane. Thanks to this incident, commuting and fatigue are getting their time in the spotlight, and it's important that this gets discussed.
First, I'd like to make it clear that this is in no way a regional airline issue. Pilots at nearly every airline commute and fatigue is an issue regardless of what size plane you're flying, though it is more taxing to fly 10 short hops a day than it is to fly one long haul flight over the ocean. Also, at the regional level, low wages can make commuting more of a necessity than a choice depending upon where that pilot is based.
People often think of commercial pilots as making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but the reality is that it takes a lot of suffering to get even close to that point. After getting a private pilots license, most pilots will scrap along, building hours any way they can with the hope that an airline will pick them up. Sometimes, that first job may be at some sketchy cargo airline hauling crap on ancient airplanes in the middle of the night. For others, that job will be for a regional airline.
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Back in the early days, one flight number would usually have one airplane the whole way. Heck, it was more likely for the airplane to stay the same than the actual airline!
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Gil and Geoff are joined by special guest Suzanne Sheldon to talk about Roll and Write games! What makes them tick? What special design considerations are there?
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Hypothesis testing problems
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13. For each of the following:
(a) State which two populations are being compared
(b) State the research hypothesis
(c) State the null hypothesis
(d) Say whether you should use a one-tailed or two-tailed test and why.
i. In an experiment, people are told to solve a problem by focusing on the details.
Is the speed of solving the problem different for people who get such instructions compared to the speed for people who are given no special instructions?
ii. Based on anthropological reports in which the status of women is scored on a
10-point scale, the mean and standard deviation across many cultures are known. A new culture is found in which there is an unusual family arrangement.
The status of women is also rated in this culture. Do cultures with the unusual family arrangement provide higher status to women than cultures in general?
iii. Do people who live in big cities develop more stress-related conditions than people in general?
16. A researcher wants to test whether a certain sound will make rats do worse on learning tasks. It is known that an ordinary rat can learn to run a particular maze correctly in 18 trials, with a standard deviation of 6. (The number of trials to learn this maze is normally distributed.) The researcher now tries an ordinary rat in the maze, but with the sound. The rat takes 38 trials to learn the maze.
(a) Using the .05 level, what should the researcher conclude?
Solve this problem explicitly using all five steps of hypothesis testing, and illustrate your answer with a sketch showing the comparison distribution, the cutoff (or cutoffs), and the score of the sample on this distribution.
(b) Then explain your answer to someone who has never had a course in statistics (but who is familiar with mean, standard deviation, and Z scores).
20. In an article about anti-tobacco campaigns, Siegel and Biener (1997) discuss the results of a survey of tobacco usage and attitudes, conducted in Massachusetts in 1993 and 1995; Table 4-4 shows the results of this survey. Focusing on just the first line (the percentage smoking 25 cigarettes daily), explain what this result means to a person who has never had a course in statistics. (Focus on the meaning of this result in terms of the general logic of hypothesis testing and statistical significance.)
Table 4-4 Selected Indicators of Change in Tobacco Use, ETS Exposure, and Public Attitudes toward Tobacco Control Policies-Massachusetts, 1993-1995
1993 1995
Adult Smoking Behavior
Percentage smoking >25 cigarettes daily 24 10*
Percentage smoking <15 cigarettes daily 31 49*
Percentage smoking within 30 minutes of waking 54 41
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure
Percentage of workers reporting a smoke free worksite 53 65*
Mean hours of ETS exposure at work during prior week 4.2 2.3*
Percentage of homes in which smoking is banned 41 51*
Attitudes Toward Tobacco Control Policies
Percentage supporting further increase in tax on
tobacco with funds earmarked for tobacco control 78 81
Percentage believing ETS is harmful 90 84
Percentage supporting ban on vending machines 54 64*
Percentage supporting ban on support of sports and cultural
events by tobacco companies 59
Solution Summary
Step by step method for testing the hypothesis under 5 step approach is discussed here. Excel template for each problem is also included. This template can be used to obtain the answers of similar problems.