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Emily Badger
Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
For optimists, the housing bust of the last five years has come with a silver lining. We got burned, we learned our lesson, and we won't go back to the old ways of planning and building communities that sap municipal budgets, that tax the environment and that keep us locked into our cars. According to this thinking, maybe the housing collapse was the cataclysm we needed to finally pivot away from 50 years of unsustainable sprawl.
A lot of data has reinforced this narrative. More people now say they want to live in walkable neighborhoods. Demand for housing around public transportation today outstrips supply. Downsizing baby boomers, in particular, have declared they're ready to trade their single-family homes for smaller, more convenient condos in the city.
Now here comes another set of data, this time in the annual State of the Nation's Housing report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. The 40-page paper covers a lot of ground, from trends in homeownership preference to affordability to housing policy. But one finding in particular sticks out amid all this optimism, captured in a Wall Street Journal headline that has been alarming urbanists on Twitter: "What's Next For Housing? More Sprawl"
The Harvard report predicts that when we finally get back to building again, the new normal will be the same as the old one. Americans liked to live in the exurbs before the recession. And they'll want to live there afterward, too.
"There are a lot of unknowns, probably more so now than there have been in the past," Chris Herbert, the center's research director, says of this thorny exercise of predicting our housing future. We still don't know what's going to happen with the economy, for example, or with federal mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "There are a lot of ways in which this time could be different. But I look to whether or not it seems like there's strong support to say there's been a really fundamental, revolutionary shift in peoples' preference. And I don't see that."
Herbert points to a couple of trends from the last decade, alongside the obvious reality that America has the most room to grow where it was already growing: outside of cities. Between 2000 and 2010, only 21 percent of household growth in the U.S. took place in the urban cores of the 100 largest metros. In comparison, 38 percent of growth during that time was in the suburbs, and 41 percent in the exurbs. Only five metros during that time saw relative increases in the urban core compared to their suburbs and exurbs: Boston, San Diego, San Jose, and Cape Coral and Palm Bay, Florida.
This map from the report depicts those trends in the 100 largest metros:
Granted, this captures the entire decade of the 2000s in one snapshot, and what was taking place in America in 2008 was quite different from what was taking place in 2002. We weren't really building anywhere toward the end of the decade, Herbert argues. If this were a game of musical chairs, he says, the music stopped playing when the housing market collapsed, and everyone has been stuck in place since then. When the music starts back up, he figures there's little reason to think this picture will look different.
"People have multifaceted preferences, and so people do like walkability and more community-centered living arrangements, if you asked them in the abstract," he says. "But if you then say, 'OK, you're going to have to give up on having a single-family house' – well, people like their cars, they like the convenience, and price is a big factor. Walkability often comes at a high cost."
This assessment challenges the very premise that the recession will prove in the long run to be some kind of fundamental game-changer for how and where Americans live. What if it was nothing of the kind?
"We're not saying that this is the desirable outcome," Herbert says. "In order to see a change you really need to change land-use regulations, you have to change the pricing structure."
What if, in order to see change, we have to experience something even more dramatic than a deep housing-inspired recession? Like $15 a gallon gas.
It's entirely possible that more people now do want to live in cities and near transit and in walkable neighborhoods, but that demand still for such places won't be enough to fundamentally shift American living patterns. It's also possible those patterns will evolve over time for other reasons: because young people don't like to drive as much as their parents, because the finances of 30-somethings are increasingly dictated by student-loan debt, because younger generations worry more about the environment than their parents do. But when we look back on it, how much will these last five years – and the lessons we'd like to think we learned from them – have had anything to do with it?
Top image: Tim Roberts Photography /Shutterstock.com
In an era of austere federal funding for urban public transportation, light rail seemed to make sense. Did the little trains of the 1980s pull their own weight?
Livability indexes can obscure the experiences of non-white people. CityLab analyzed the outcomes just for black women, for a different kind of ranking.
A different kind of wealth distribution in 17th-century Amsterdam paved the way for its quintessential home design.
The pioneering festival marketplace was among the most trendsetting urban attractions of the last 40 years. Now it's looking for a new place in a changed city.
Tiny upper-floor "maids' rooms" have helped drive down local assumptions about exactly how small a livable home can be.


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The only prerequisite is that NPI and New Relic MP (Nutanix Plugin) has been installed on the monitored system.
Configuring the Plugin
From the extracted plugin folder you receive when downloading your plugin, you will find the following files:
plugin.jar eula.txt oss_attribution.txt [config folder] newrelic.template.json plugin.template.json plugin_license.json
The "template" .json files found in the config folder must be modified and renamed prior to setting up the plugin for monitoring.
Configuring the
newrelic.template.json file
The first file,
newrelic.template.json , contains configurations used by all Platform plugins (e.g., license key, logging information, proxy settings) and can be shared across your plugins. Make a copy of this template and rename it to
newrelic.json . Listed below are the configurable fields within the newrelic.json file:
New Relic License Key - The only required field in the
newrelic.json file is the License Key. This unique identifier informs New Relic about the specific account tied to the plugin, and it is obtained when you sign up for that account.
{ "license_key": "YOUR LICENSE KEY" }
To find the license key for your New Relic account:
- Sign in to your New Relic account.
- From the account dropdown in the New Relic UI, select Account settings.
- From the Account information section on the right side of the Summary page, copy your license key.
Insights Configuration - Blue Medora plugins support reporting events to New Relic Insights. In order to achieve this you need to supply your
insights_api_key and
insights_account_id . You can find these fields in on your New Relic API Keys page:
Below are the fields needed to configure Insights access.
insights_api_key - The api key associated with your Insights account.
insights_account_id - The ID associated with your Insights account.
insights_use_ssl - Signals whether to connect to Insights via SSL. Acceptable values are true or false.
{ "license_key": "YOUR LICENSE KEY", "insights_api_key": "YOUR INSIGHTS API KEY", "insights_account_id": "YOUR INSIGHTS ACCOUNT ID", "insights_use_ssl": true }
Logging Configuration - By default Platform plugins will have their logging turned on; however, you can modify these settings with the following configurations:
log_level - The log level. Valid values: [debug, info, warn, error, fatal]. Defaults to info.
log_file_name - The log file name. Defaults to newrelic_plugin.log.
log_file_path - The log file path. Defaults to logs.
log_limit_in_kbytes - The log file limit in kilobytes. Defaults to 25600 (25 MB). If limit is set to 0, the log file size would not be limited.
{ "license_key": "YOUR LICENSE KEY", "log_level": "info", "log_file_name": "newrelic_plugin.log", "log_file_path": "logs", }
Proxy Configuration - If you are running your plugin from a machine that runs outbound traffic through a proxy, you can use the following optional configurations in your
newrelic.json file:
proxy_host - The proxy host (e.g. webcache.example.com)
proxy_port - The proxy port (e.g. 8080). Defaults to 80 if a proxy_host is set
proxy_username - The proxy username
proxy_password - The proxy password
{ "license_key": "YOUR LICENSE KEY", "proxy_host": "proxy.mycompany.com", "proxy_port": 9000 }
Configuring the
plugin.template.json file
The second file,
plugin.template.json , contains data specific to each plugin (e.g., a list of hosts and port combinations for what you are monitoring).
Make a copy of this template and rename it to 'plugin.json'. Shown below is an example of the
plugin.json file's contents.
NOTE: Each object in the "agents" array should have a unique "instance_name".
{ "polling_interval_seconds": 60, "downtime_tracking_minutes": 60, "agents": [ { "instance_name": "your_value_here", "username": "your_value_here", "password": "your_value_here", "host": "your_value_here", "send_to_plugin": { "cluster_summary": true, "cluster": true, "container": true, "disk": true, "host": true, "storage_pool": true, "vdisk": true, "vm": true, "cvm": true } ] }
Common Fields in
plugin.json :
- polling_interval_seconds The number of seconds between each data collection.
- instance_name The name of your New Relic Nutanix instance that will appear in the user interface
- username User name to log into the Prism Element or Prism Central Endpoint
- password Password to log into the Prism Element or Prism Central Endpoint
- host The hostname or ip address of the Prism Element or Prism Central Endpoint
- port Optional parameter, port to connect to. Defaults to 9440 if not present
- collect_events Optional parameter, collect events of type, None, All, or Unresolved. Defaults to Unresolved if not present
- max_events Optional parameter, the maximum number of events to collect per collection cycle, 1 to 1000. Defaults to 1000 if not present
- timeout_seconds Optional parameter, number of seconds to wait for timeout, 10 to 75. Defaults to 15 if not present
- maximum_event_severity Optional parameter, severity level of events collected, Audit, Info, Warning, or Critical. Defaults to Audit if not present
- promote_disks Optional parameter, whether or not to promote Disks, true or false. Defaults to true if not present
- send_to_plugin Indicates whether or not to send data to New Relic Plugins.
- send_to_insights Indicates whether or not to send data to New Relic Insights.
Fields 'send_to_plugin' and 'send_to_insights' contain a number of flags, in order to limit the type and amount of data that can be transmitted to New Relic Insights and New Relic Plugin API.

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Singapore Eurasians: Rewrite, Refine their RoleMar 09, 2017 at 10:53 am | Hits: 1896
By Mathew Mathews
The Eurasian Association (EA) recently launched an updated edition of its popular book, Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes and Dreams. Edited by Myrna Braga-Blake, Ann Ebert-Oehlers, and Alexius A Pereira, the book chronicles Eurasian origins, community life and culture, and profiles Eurasians who have contributed significantly to Singapore's history.
New chapters were added in this edition to showcase recent Eurasian contributions to the arts and sports, including Joseph Schooling's historic Olympic gold medal.
Although a small community of approximately 15,000 people, out of a national population of 3.4 million, the Eurasians have punched above their weight.
Eurasians trace their origins to intermarriages between Europeans and Asians over the past few centuries. In those relationships, keeping to rigid boundaries of ethnicity would have been futile, since the very nature of intermarriages entails the dilution of any one set of ethnic markers and an intermingling of two cultures. In contemporary Singapore, a substantial proportion of Eurasians intermarry with other races, particularly the Chinese.
Children of these unions are racially classified based on their father's race unless the couple chooses a double-barreled racial identity for their child.
Thus, one might ask why the Eurasians would want to continue to highlight and preserve their separate heritage and ethnic identity. Is assimilation into the dominant ethnic group not more realistic? Alternatively, Eurasians could completely ignore race categories, besides what is required administratively, and personally identify themselves as Singaporeans without a hyphenated race identity.
Some, such as Dr Alexius Pereira in his other book, argue that the recent attempts by Eurasians to preserve or, in fact, revitalise their ethnic identity, are due to the pervasiveness of the CMIO (Chinese, Malay, Indian, or Others) narrative of multiracialism in Singapore. Its framework compels individuals to find their identity as a member of one of the four groups: Chinese, Malay, Indian, or Others, to be fully Singaporeans. Each race is presented as having its distinct attributes — language, festivals, traditions and art forms, with little overlap with other races.
The Eurasians, however, do not possess some of these clear markers, given the diversity of their European and Asian ancestries. In earlier times, what had seemed common to them was their religious affiliation as Christians and their identification with English as their mother tongue. These markers, however, are increasingly less useful since many other Indians and Chinese are Christians, and a significant portion of Singaporeans use English as their primary language.
Many Eurasians began to feel that they were unrecognisable as a community, and perhaps did not have much of a distinctive culture — at least in the way it was conceptualised in Singapore.
By the 1990s, this had inspired the EA to narrate a unique official culture for Eurasians, one that could be consumed by both Eurasians and non-Eurasians alike. Such a culture, if it were to be accepted in the Singaporean context, had to look like how the Malay, Indian, and Chinese cultures were often depicted in Singapore, each having a language, cultural art forms, and celebrations.
The EA revitalised Kristang, the Portuguese-Malay patois, which — while hardly spoken in Singapore — was used among Eurasians of Portuguese descent in Malacca. They set out to popularise Eurasian cuisine, and created performable folk dances such as the Jingli Nona, which had dance moves and costumes inspired by Portuguese and Dutch cultural elements in Malacca and Macau.
Some elements of the now popularised Eurasian culture have little to do with bringing back the glories of Eurasian history, since they were seldom actually practised. Nonetheless, according to Dr Pereira in his book on Eurasians: "The accepted Eurasian culture today, as far as many Eurasians are concerned, serves its purpose. It allows Eurasians to feel like a complete member of Singapore's ethnic mosaic."
The pride that Eurasians feel in their identity and the comfort they seem to have found in their formally defined culture, even if some aspects of it were "produced" — a term used by Dr Pereira himself, who is also vice-president of the EA — underscores the fundamental place of ethnic identity in the Singaporean identity.
While Singaporeans hold national identity dearly, it is their ethnic identities, even if not fully performed, that keep them from cultural homelessness — the acute feeling that one's experiences do not fit into any cultural reference group. In Singapore, national and ethnic identities are not mutually exclusive: The latter is an important constituent of the former.
Thus, we come full circle. In buttressing their distinctive identity, our Eurasians are ever more Singaporean. At the same time, by tradition, inclination, and necessity, the Eurasian identity is one that accepts other cultures and willingly incorporates features of other ethnic identities.
This openness to other cultures has been an intrinsic strength of the community, allowing them to contribute significantly in our national leadership during Singapore's transition to independence, in international relations, and in the arts and media.
Through its ground-up efforts and Government support, the Eurasian community has successfully positioned itself as a clearly recognisable part of the CMIO framework. The community is not only featured in national events and celebrations but also collectively works to better the lives of Eurasians who may need that extra support.
It also remains open to recognising those of recent European and Asian parentage as New Eurasians, even if they might be racially classified differently.
There are other small but significant communities in Singapore, such as the Filipinos and the Myanmar people, who have had a substantially long presence in Singapore.
Their populations have grown in recent years as a result of immigration. Over time, it is likely that these communities, too, would want to define themselves with their unique culture and heritage as a recognisable part of the CMIO framework. Hopefully, these efforts will be appreciated by Singaporeans and not be viewed as attempts to undermine our cultural fabric.
The ability of smaller communities to celebrate their ethnic identity and be recognised as "legitimate" within the Singapore CMIO framework will serve to affirm the intrinsic elements of a dynamic Singapore identity: Openness and diversity.
Dr Mathew Mathews is a Senior Research Fellow from the Society and Identity cluster at the Institute of Policy Studies.
This piece first appeared in TODAY on 9 March 2017.
Top photo from The Eurasian Association's Facebook page, at their annual Christmas lunch in December 2016.


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Lately I see a lot of guys who promote their successful experiences of Dropsurfing and Dropshipping, where they tell us how they have become millionaires in a few weeks.
They also take the opportunity to offer their paid seminars where they teach us how to build a successful store in a few sessions.
This morning my dog asked me the following:
If they are so successful why do they share their knowledge? It is clearly a business model where there is no place for everyone.
And if they have earned so much money, why do they need to earn more money by giving that training?
Honestly I did not know what to answer him. I gave my dog a cookie and we both continued walking on the beach…
Online Store
It's time to change your SEO
The new SEO rules for your business
I usually pay attention to the changes, but lately the changes are going faster than the attention I give to them…
The latest news is that now you can do shopping on Instagram if you enable your business settings.
So, what is the purpose of having an online store running from a domain website?
What is the point of maintaining a blog with information about your products?
Even google is suggesting that all internet pages should be compatible with the AMP format so that they can crawl them better.
Forget to upload high resolution images to your website. Now you must use low resolution vectors and images that are loaded from a CDN so that your SEO is better.
The loading speed of your website has become the most important. The content does not count to get more visits.
The name of your online store now depends on the trends of the search engines and not so much on how wonderful your brand is.
The available technologies to build your website are less and less and at the end of the day all the pages look the same.
As all websites look the same, they are all penalized by search engines for having duplicate content.
It is the end of SEO and positioning for organic searches.
Only paid searches manage to close businesses after a significant investment of money in advertising.
Your visitors do not have time and want to buy fast and at the best price. They already have enough information about the product you are selling and they do not need it.
The whitelabel stores are a hoax because there are thousands that look the same. Unless you have a deep pocket to spend on online advertising.
Finally if you have a deep pocket maybe you should open a real store. At least you will know who enters to buy from you and who does not, without needing to pay an SEO consultant.
Or get you a better job…
Branding Your Online Store
Choosing a name for your online store
Every idea must have a name first… Before going live with your Online Store or Discount Store you should take special attention to the domain name name that you plan to use and make sure that it will be easy to spell and easy to remember by your audience.
Your Social DNA can kill your business
If you've been active in social networks and now have plans to launch an online store, take a look at your own Social DNA before linking your name to your business.
Let´s say you've been pretty active last years and opened personal profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Stumbleupon, Tumblr, LinkedIn, personal blogs, etc.
Tomorrow I will launch my own online store
And tomorrow never comes…it could be next month, next year or maybe never…
One of the major challenges that your current business is facing it that your customers are changing the way they purchase.
You probably already have a website up and running with a nice product description and contact information, but you are selling and promoting your products and services at some of the largest online stores and you let them run the whole transaction and logistics.
But… What are you doing about your brand recognition? What kind of direct services are you giving to your customers? Why can´t you run your own online store?
You can have it…and you don´t need to wait till tomorrow…
With Quick Shopping Cart® you can make your store as unique as your products…
You don't need technical skills to build a successful Web store. Quick Shopping Cart makes it easy to create an eye-catching store that accepts credit cards, integrates with Google® and eBay® and offers multiple shipping options – all with no set-up fees!
With hundreds of design options to choose from, you can customize your store to fit your style. However you decide to design your site, it still comes down to three basic steps:
Choose a design:
- Select from over 1,500 design and color combinations.
- Choose from 14 Category page styles and 11 Product Detail page styles to find the best layout for your products.
- Customize your store by adding your logo and adjusting colors, fonts, images, navigation and more.
Add your products:
- Organize your products in categories and subcategories.
- Specify product details, including SKU, description, pricing, options and inventory tracking.
- Create featured products, sale pricing and coupons. Choose product associations, cross-sells and up-sells.
- Use the Store Setup Wizard to walk you through your shipping, tax and payment options.
Start selling:
- Preview your store before you publish it.
- Offer secure customer registration and easy-to-use customer checkout.
- Accept major credit cards, PayPal Express Checkout and more.
- Ship to USA, Canada, Mexico, and more than 100 additional countries.
- View reports to track revenue, orders and website performance.
Quick Shopping Cart® start at just $9.99/Month. Read More…


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The Wal-Mart v. Dukes case carries on in a different form as a federal district court denied a motion to dismiss a class action suit of California women alleging pay and employment discrimination. The named plaintiffs represent more than 100,000 current or former women employees of California Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores. The class includes women who worked at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores and were subject to pay and promotion discrimination at any time since December 26, 1998.
Normally this would be considered a good thing–hundreds of thousands of women can move forward with claims of pay and promotion discrimination that they've spent over a decade battling despite every obstructionist strategy thrown at them by Wal-Mart. And it is. Somewhat.
The victory underscores just how massive the problem of pay and promotion inequality is. The California case represents the claims of a lot of women, but only a fraction of the total number affected by the Walton family's discriminatory and unfair business practices. This smaller class is a result of the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision last year dismissing a nationwide class action lawsuit against the retailer for the same claims in what is now known euphemistically as the "too big to sue" case. For the rest of the women across the country who have faced similar unlawful conduct, they are still waiting for their day in court.
And the case is far from won by the California plaintiffs. The decision simply allows plaintiffs an opportunity to present evidence to support their claims and is not a decision on the merits. But it comes at a time when the gender pay gap is once again making news and on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. Recent analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the National Partnership for Women & Families shows that the gender-based wage gap affects women across the country and breaks that data down to congressional districts to better make the case to legislators to act.
In 97 percent of congressional districts – 423 out of 435 districts – the median yearly pay for women is less than the median yearly pay for men. "It is stunning and deeply troubling to learn that the wage gap affects women in nearly every congressional district in the country. Women and their families are losing critical income for food, gas, rent, health insurance and more due to a punishing gender-based wage gap that has plagued this country for decades," said Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership. "These new data should be a clear and resounding wake-up call for all lawmakers who have the power to pass legislation that would help close the gap and promote economic security for the women and families in their districts."
Nationally, full-time working women are still paid only 77 cents for every dollar paid to full-time working men, amounting to $11,084 each year, according to Census data. The congressional districts with the largest gender-based, cents-on-the-dollar pay differences are found in Louisiana, Virginia, New Jersey and West Virginia. The two districts with the largest gap in wages are in southern Louisiana; women there are paid just 61 cents for every dollar paid to men.
Simply put, we need a fix and we need it now.
That's where the Paycheck Fairness Act comes in. The Paycheck Fairness Act would close loopholes in the Equal Pay Act and establish stronger workplace protections for women. In the last two Congresses, the U.S. House of Representatives passed it, but it fell two votes short of moving forward in the Senate in 2010. It was reintroduced in the current Congress but blocked by a procedural vote in June of this year.
"The wage gap is taking a tremendous toll on women and their families throughout the country," Ness added. "The gap persists across industries, education levels and, as these data make clear, it spans the geography of our country. It's time for all members of Congress to take a hard look at the damage being done in their districts and commit to promoting fair wages by passing the Paycheck Fairness Act."
With women's legal remedies hamstrung by a hostile Roberts Court, legislative action is the answer to addressing pay and employment discrimination. Even if the women in California are successful in their claims against Wal-Mart, the amount of damages the retailer will be forced to pay will still pale in comparison to profits. And they will do little good to help those women and their families survive the day-to-day. That's why we need Congress to act on pay equity. Without a legislative fix women and their families will continue to be short-changed and, thanks to the Roberts Court, those who do have the will to fight this unfair and unlawful treatment have very little recourse for now.


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With just a few Asian ingredients like miso, bok choy and tofu this recipe for Vegan Miso Bok Choy Soup is the perfect healthy soup that your whole family will love!
Ok so as you all know by now the countdown to our departure from Shanghai has begun. What is really overwhelming me right now? The amount of food I have in my pantry! Wow! Between my trips back to the USA where I stock up on "essentials" and just every day shopping here I have accumulated a room of food… A room of food that we need to eat before we leave since we can't have food in our shipment. I found lots of miso paste and Vietnamese rice noodles so I made a quick soup for the kids. I really didn't think too much about it and wasn't even going to post it here until my kids said I had to make it again and I better post it too! I was shocked that such a simple soup recipe could knock my kids socks off that much lol! In less than 1 week I made this recipe for Vegan Miso Bok Choy Soup twice! And my kids and I gobbled it up twice!
The recipe is quite easy and starts with lots of ginger and green onions. Let them steep in water for about 30 minutes so the broth has a subtle ginger flavor.
I'm going to miss buying tofu for $.30 for 1 pound… seriously $.30 at the local wet market. I love the market across the street and I am so sad that it's closing this week… It's my life line for picking up various vegetables that I need at the last minute, tofu and eggs. That's the problem here… the city is in a great big state of flex and so many authentic Chinese buildings like the wet market are being wiped out to make way for new buildings. I wonder when if I ever come back here in let's say 5 years what will Shanghai look like? It's constantly changing…. Hopefully the tofu will always be $.30.
Yields 4
10 minPrep Time
45 minCook Time
55 minTotal Time
- 2 inch Ginger
- Green onions - white only
- 8 cups Water, divided
- 1/4 cup Miso Paste
- 1/2 tablespoon Vegetable Bouillon
- 2 heads Bok Choy, quartered or halved depending on size
- 1 Carrot, shredded
- 1 pound Firm Tofu, diced small
- 2 bunches of Vietnamese Flat Rice Noodles (1/2 package)
- 1 tablespoon Sesame Seeds
- Pour 6 cups of water into a large pot and add the ginger and green onions. Use a potato masher to press on the green onions and ginger to help bring out their flavor. Cover with a lid and simmer on low for 30 minutes.
- Remove the lid and discard the ginger and green onions.
- Add the remaining 2 cups water, vegetable bouillon and miso paste. Stir to mix. Add the carrots and bok choy.
- Bring to a boil and add the rice noodles. Cook for 3-4 minutes on high or until the rice noodles are softened.
- Ladle the Vegan Miso Bok Choy Soup into each bowl and top with the tofu and sesame seeds. Enjoy hot.


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Migrant Farmer Outreach in Florida
Florida is unique among many states in the US in that a large portion of our working force is poor and travels to find available work. In Florida, these migrant farmworkers are the poorest of the working poor.
They brave the Florida heat to labor in extremely adverse conditions. Ninety percent are from Mexico and Central America. Some remain here year round, while others follow the crops from one state to another.
Workers always outnumber the available jobs. Many times you can drive down a main roadway and see men standing on the corner in the hopes they will be picked up and given work for a day or week. They do not beg - they do not hold signs. They simply wait and pray that they will make a wage that week. Able to find work an average of 30 hours per week for only 30 weeks per year, they struggle just to feed themselves and their families.
They are plagued by nutrition-related health problems: low birth-weight babies, anemia in children and diabetes and high blood pressure in adults. Housing is so scarce that it often consumes half of a family's income. In order to survive, families crowd together in dilapidated trailers, creating conditions where diseases thrive.
Frequent moves handicap migrant children in public school. They have little chance to develop self-confidence. Even those children whose families remain here year-round may miss school to work in the fields or to care for younger siblings so that both parents can work. Cultural and language differences make it hard for them to learn, and they often feel they don't belong. Frustration takes its toll, and over half drop out of school, limiting themselves to lives of field work and poverty.
Your team can make a difference ministering to this group so needy of basic necessities and God's word. Very often we will hold a block party or a VBS in their simple neighborhoods. We are always welcome and the kids are so sweet and open to our acts of kindness. Missions to Migrant farmers can be part of your week while at Epic Missions Inc.


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My husband and I took a mini-getaway to Dallas at the start of the month and (in addition to visiting three comic book stores) he was kind enough to indulge me in checking out one of Dallas' fine local yarn stores.
I visited The Shabby Sheep and it was a nice little shop. I picked up a couple of things while I was there, even though I really don't need any more yarn.
|Classic Elite Yarns Liberty Wool
|Jojoland Fantasia
The first I envision becoming a pair of socks (probably for my daughter, though maybe I can get a pair of ankle socks for myself out of that).
The second, I couldn't resist. With college football starting up, I was drawn to the Illini colors (it is my very first home team, seeing as I was born a stone's throw from the University of Illinois). As I was petting this yarn I had all kinds of happy flashbacks to my very early childhood. These will make a lovely hat and some fingerless gloves, methinks.
So while I do generally prefer to buy my yarn online, there is something to be said for the adventure of visiting the local yarn store every once in a while. Or checking a new one out, as the case may be. You never know what kind of treasure you'll find there!


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We recognise the PMAs as being the industry leader in terms of setting out what innovation is [in performance marketing], so when Argos and CJ sat down a year ago we said 'how do we set out what a definition of success is in innovation?' We said we wanted to win the PMA for innovation. It's fantastic to have done it!
Owen Hancock, Director of Client Development – CJ Affiliate by Conversant
It's a fantastic achievement and we're very honoured to win. It's the award that benchmarks innovation in our industry and because of that we couldn't be more delighted.
Anthony Clements, UK Country Manager – Affiliate Window
It's the culmination of a year's hard work between British Airways and Sociomantic and it's really rewarding to win an award. It's really important to be recognised as industry leaders and we were in a really tough category tonight. There's been a lot of great work done this year and we're very grateful to be recognised.
Owen Hewitson, Head of Consumer Insight – UK at Sociomantic Labs
Performance marketing has emerged as a key online revenue driver for EtihadAirways and winning the Global Excellence in Performance Marketing award, especially with the high calibre of shortlisted companies, is testament to the success of our aggressive expansion in this area last year."
Peter Baumgartner, Chief Commercial Officer – Etihad Airways
This is a real chance to get recognition, not only in front of your peers but obviously in front of your clients or potential clients, and ultimately just having this as a benchmark and a way to celebrate just the quality things that actually go on within the UK performance industry for me is just a huge check box."
Jon Myers, Commercial Director EMEA, – Marin Software
It's really important for me to be part of this years awards because we, well we're based in California, we work with a lot of UK clients and agencies and I find their approach to be quite progressive compared to what we're doing in the states in a lot of areas."
Per Pettersen, CEO, – Impact Radius
What impressed me most this year was innovation and there were plenty of entries where I said to myself 'I wish I'd thought of that'. In the digital world things advance so fast that what's relevant this year is probably not going to be relevant next year."
Jonathan Beeston, Consultant
It's a really good chance to showcase best practice and challenge things, challenge the status quo a little bit and demonstrate that to our peers."
Josie Shah, Director – Partner Marketing, – hotels.com
I think they're pretty much the pinnacle of our industry. We've been coming to these awards for 8 years and we've come highly commended many times, it's brilliant to actually get an award."
R.O.EYE, – Winner: Best Agency
Performance Marketing Awards is a prestigious event, it's been going on for many years so, every year gets tougher so it's really great to be nominated let alone win so we're really chuffed."
Mediavest with Feedspark, – Winner: 3rd Party Performance Marketing Innovation
CJ Affiliate by Conversant are always excited about supporting the Performance Marketing Awards. It is the best opportunity to see the industry in all its splendour and showcase where exceptional performance happens."
– CJ Affiliate by Conversant
The Performance Marketing Awards is the leading awards representing the entire performance marketing industry, showcasing the highest level of technical innovation. Linkdex were delighted to be rewarded in two categories in 2013 and look forward to retaining such an accolade in 2014"
Michael Brandy, Head Of Publisher Discovery, – Linkdex
The Performance Marketing Awards have played a key role in developing our industry and increasing its visibility, not only within the UK market but also across Europe. The event offers a great opportunity to reward the highly creative and strategic work that we as an industry know exists within, but also raises awareness to those outside of the marketplace of the rich and diverse opportunities that performance marketing has to offer."
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"This is a real chance to get recognition, not only in front of your peers but obviously in front of your clients or potential clients, and ultimately just having this as a benchmark and a way to celebrate just the quality things that actually go on within the UK performance industry for me is just a huge check box."Jon Myers, Consultant
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Television on the Internet vs Internet on the Television
Take a second to think about how asinine an idea it is to pay for television and internet separately.
They're essentially the same thing, just a bunch of 1's and 0's being transmitted to a box that knows how to interpret them. Go even look at your cable TV/Internet setup, and you'll notice it's all coming in from the one cable, split into one for internet, one for TV. Why? Is there any difference? No. We just live in a world where one existed before the other, and for as long as we've had high-speed internet, no big provider has been tenacious enough to think of them as one entity instead of two. With hardware like Boxee, the Logitech Revue, Apple TV, and the Sony Internet TV with Google TV, as well as most networks openly posting their content on their respective websites, we're definitely moving in the direction of a kind of symbiosis between internet and television. Heralding a new age in the way we watch tv, ala carte programming (already very much an option thanks to devices like On Demand, and TiVo) interactive programming, and advertising could make television a much more fulfilling and efficient experience for not only watchers, but advertisers alike. Unfortunately, with something as omnipresent as TV, there are inevitably hurdles along the way.
When the networks, tv/internet providers, and hardware manufacturers all have a different idea of how they can make money off of the technology, quite a few conflicts of interest begin to rear their heads. The networks want as much of their programming exposed to as many people as possible, so ad revenue are immediately priorities 1,2,3 and 4. TV/internet providers want something that they currently can't have, pricing based off how much you're consuming (think cell phone minute plans). So if you're watching a lot of internet TV or streaming a lot of music, you're paying more for it. It also could be a tiered pricing model, where unlimited access to certain popular sites cost more than others (think HBO/Cinemax/Showtime/Starz). So for internet providers, sky's the limit, and with owning the lines that run into your house, only a few honest politicains stand in the way of this being the case in our very near future.
Given the opportunity to see tangible interest in television/internet synchronicity, hardware manufacturers are ever more important. If a typical person had access to the same amount of content online that they currently do on cable, I'm sure they'd embrace internet tv much more. While the internet does boast a very robust amount of content readily available for viewing, most of what we want to watch on TV is only available on the web in short clips of the full episode, and it's also not available fast enough, taking a few hours or even days to be posted to the web. So with so many sites essentially providing the same thing, it becomes more work than fun to find what you want to watch and where. Also, many of the hardware options available today suffer the symptoms of being the firsts of their kind. They're slow, the UI doesn't make sense, they're blocked by ISPs until the ISPs/networks figure out a way to profit off them, they're expensive, they're unsupported, and they're virtually obsolete before you even get it out of the box.
With a proactive cooperation between the networks and internet service providors, as well as a working relationship between the ISPs and hardware manufacturers, we could have 100% interactive television. Targeted and interactive ads, a la carte viewing, and more organized programming based on genre and your personal intersts. It would also reshape the way you watch live programming: sporting events where in-game stats and other games' score are available on demand, being able to tell your provider who your favorite teams are, so you won't have to watch two teams you don't care about because you couldn't fork over the hundreds of dollars for NFL ticket just to watch your favorite team from your home city. Or what about live chatting or using a webcam to watch the programming with family members from another state, suddenly you're able to watch live programming with the ones you love without even needing to be in the same state.
Interactive television truly is the future of in-home entertainment, for consumers and producers alike. Innovation, collaboration, and communication by our ISPs, networks, and hardware manufacturers are the keys to a future where television is people watching what they want, when they want, and how they want to. For advertisers, it'll mean selling the right products to the right people, at the right time, with the right results. Sounds like a win-win.


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Player Equipment
It is mandatory that all players wear shin guards and cleats during each practice and game. In the event, that a player does not have their shin guards or cleats they will not be permitted to participate in a practice or in a game.
Jewlry and/or accessories may be asked to be removed at the discretion of a referee or coach. This could include wearing rigid/plastic hair bands. Also hard casts are not permitted during a practice or game.
Players that require eyewear, including sunglasses, will need to acquire sports approved googles that can be fitted to a player's head snugly. Non-sports approved eye glasses are not permitted during a practice or game for the safety of the soccer player and other players on the field.
It is encouraged that players contact their dentist or orthodontist about wearing mouth guards during each practice and game.
The safety of a player and their equipment/items worn is at a referee's discretion. A referee's decision will be final for any given game. While it is prefered that a referee render their decision before the start of game during player inspection, a referee has the right to make a decision including changing their decision about a player's safter or their equipment at any point during a game.
Goal Safety
Soccer goals are large pieces of equipment which can be tipped over by wind, by player contact if not properly anchored, or by children playing or climbing on them. This can lead to serious injury.
- Make sure that goals are properly anchored
- Don't Move Goals
- Keep Children from climbing on the goal posts and netting.
LightningThe Underrated Killer
In the United States, there are an estimated 25 million lightning flashes each year. During the past 30 years, lightning killed an average of 62 people per year . This ties the average of 62 deaths per year caused by tornadoes. Yet because lightning usually claims only one or two victims at a time and does not cause mass destruction of property, it is underrated as a risk. While documented lightning injuries in the United States average about 300 per year, undocumented injuries likely much higher.
Lightning can strike as far as 10 miles from area where it is raining. That's about the distance you can hear thunder. If you can hear thunder, you are within striking distance. Seek safe shelter immediately.
Outdoor Activities: Minimize the Risk of Being Struck: Most lightning deaths and injuries occur in the summer. Where organized outdoor sports activities take place, coaches, camp counselors and other adults must stop activities at the first roar of thunder to ensure everyone time to get a large building or enclosed vehicle.
Summary: Lightning is dangerous. With common sense, you can greatly increase your safety and the safety of those you are with. At the first clap of thunder, go a large building or fully enclosed vehicle and wait 30 minutes after the last clap of thunder to back outside.
Prevent Heat Illness
U.S. Soccer Federation Issues Guidelines
CHICAGO (Wednesday, May 8, 2002) - Children are more susceptible to heat illness than adults. With this in mind and summer heat approaching, the U.S. Soccer Federation - the governing body of all soccer in the United States - has taken a leadership role to develop and distribute Youth Soccer Heat Stress Guidelines for youth coaches and parents.
The goal is to help prevent the potentially deadly effects of heat illness among the 14 million U.S. children who play soccer.
The guidelines provide coaches with an overview of the latest research and information regarding: 1) the physiological factors and soccer-specific factors that place young athletes at risk for heat illness, 2) heat illness prevention techniques and 3) the signs and symptoms of dehydration and heat illness.
"As a U.S. Soccer coach for more than 20 years, I think it''s critical to educate coaches, parents and young players about heat illness, which is the most preventable sports injury, " said John Ellinger, head coach, U.S. Under-17 Men''s National Soccer Team.
To ensure the key points from the guidelines are memorable for coaches, parents and kids, the U.S. Soccer Federation has developed the acronym - G.O.A.L. - that stands for:
- Get acclimated - active kids'' (and adults'')bodies need time to gradually adapt to increased exposure to high temperatures and humidity. During this eight to 10-day acclimation process, it''s especially important for kids to drink enough fluids.
- On a schedule, drink up - thirst isn''t an accurate indicator of fluid needs. Young athletes should be encouraged to drink on a schedule or at regular intervals before they become thirsty.
- Always bring a Gatorade - especially during games and practices in the heat, replacing electrolytes and providing energy is crucial to keeping kids safe and going strong to enjoy their games.
- Learn the warning signs of dehydration and heat illness - if someone becomes fatigued, dizzy, nauseous or has a headache during exercise in the heat, have them stop, rest and drink fluids. Seek medical attention if symptoms persist.
Fluid Guidelines
As one of the best means to preventing heat illness, the U.S. Soccer Federation recommends parents and coaches ensure children are well hydrated before practice and games. During activity, young athletes should drink on a schedule - before they feel thirsty - and consume five to nine ounces of fluid every 20 minutes (a child who weighs less than 90 lbs. needs five ounces of fluid and a child weighing more than 90 lbs. needs nine ounces of fluid).
"It''s crucial that kids drink enough fluids before, during and after activity," said Oded Bar-Or, MD, a contributor to the development of the guidelines and professor of pediatrics and director of the Children''s Exercise and Nutrition Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. "Research we conducted shows that when drinking plain water, children don''t drink enough to avoid dehydration. Compared to water, kids will drink 90 percent more of a flavored sports drink with electrolytes like Gatorade to fully re-hydrate. It''s important parents and coaches have these types of fluids available for children during activity."
he U.S. Soccer Federation Youth Heat Stress Guidelines were developed under the consultation of Oded Bar-Or, MD, professor of pediatrics and director of the Children''s Exercise and Nutrition Centre at McMaster University and Bill Prentice, PhD, PT, ATC, professor of exercise and sports science and trainer for women''s soccer at the University of North Carolina.
The U.S. Soccer Federation plans to incorporate the Youth Soccer Heat Stress Guidelines into its coaches'' curriculum that will reach thousands of youth soccer coaches across the country.
Founded in 1913, U.S. Soccer is one of the world''s first organizations to be affiliated with FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, soccer''s world governing body. As the governing body of soccer in all its forms in the United States, U.S. Soccer has helped chart the course for the sport in the USA for 88 years. In that time, the Federation''s mission statement has been very simple and very clear: to make soccer, in all its forms, a preeminent sport in the United States and to continue the development of soccer at all recreational and competitive levels.


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Bananas top the list of the five mostly eaten fruits followed by oranges, pineapples, apples and grapes. Going by the production figures too, it clearly beats the king of fruits – mango.
With an annual production of 26.2 million tons which is 27.5% of the total production globally, India tops the list of countries having the largest production of bananas (as of 2011). Philippines ranks second, with its nearly 9 million tons production capacity followed by China, Ecuador and Brazil.
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Just a quick post to introduce you to my new family members 🙂 Maze and "Buddy" (Buddy doesn't have a name yet, I can't decide) Maze is the darker one with black eyes, "Buddy" is the lighter one with pink eyes.
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Erich Gonzales to speak up on 'money issues' with Matsunagas
After the statement released by ex-boyfriend Daniel Matsunaga's sister Vanessa, Kapamilya actress Erich Gonzales promised to speak up about the so-called money issues that she had allegedly leveled against the Matsunaga family.
Commenting on one of Erich's Instagram posts, Vanessa had said Daniel asked them "to keep quiet and not fight back or even reply to any comments."
"But the truth is I can't keep quiet when people are invading my privacy asking us if we owe you money and saying that you were spending on us, " she said, addressing it to Gonzales.
"I know you answered the interview with the best of your ability, I understand it's hard to answer too many questions but I honestly wish you had addressed the money issue," Vanessa added
Since any break-up is a personal business belonging only to the parties involved, Vanessa said that Gonzales and Daniel did not owe anybody any explanation but urged the actress to "please look back at the good times."
"Remember, you were with us for two years, you were included in every family plan, trips, weddings. We took care of you and your family and took in consideration your preferences and watched over you. I'm not here to measure what we did for each other because this is love and it comes with it naturally. All I'm saying is I'm very sad to see people defaming not only you and my brother but also my mom and family," she said.
Even amid the break-up saga, her family was still defending Gonzales from all the hate, said Vanessa.
"We all love you to the best of our abilities and with all our hearts. It's your choice to unfollow us, delete your photos, some people move on that way, 'out of sight out of mind,' others would like to treasure the memories, whatever works best right? Whatever it is we respect that and chose to give you your privacy," Vanessa told Gonzales.
Vanessa asked Gonzales to "please address this issue, people are calling us users, but you know best and you know the truth. I'm counting on your integrity, dignity and your love for our Lord Jesus."
In response, Gonzles sent a text message to ABS-CBN News' Marie Lozano, saying she preferred to keep to herself what happened between her and Daniel.
"Gusto ko na po sana manahimik na lang at mag-move on na pero sila 'yung comment ng comment sa social media. Social media is not the proper venue. I turned off the comment section of my Instagram account kasi pagpipiyestahan lang ng mga tao, lalong hahaba at hindi matatapos," she said.
However, a fierce Gonzales fired back at Vanessa: "Hindi ako mayaman, Vanessa. Tama ka; mahirap lang ako, hindi ako kasing yaman ng napangasawa mo. Pero sa mundong ito, ang realidad, hindi lang mayayaman ang nate-take advantage. Mas maraming mahirap ang napapagsamantalahan."
Gonzales stressed that she really did not want to talk about her failed relationship anymore but that if provoked further, she would speak up.
"They want me to speak up, I will. I will tell all," she said.
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Hi folks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Usual Disclaimers** These posts will often contain talk about future work we're doing, or planning to do, that isn't yet guaranteed to ship. The nature of the work could change or, depending on what we discover, projects mentioned may get delayed or even stopped. If you'd like to see a Tweet whenever a new one of these posts goes up: https://twitter.com/RiotMeddler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Patch schedule for the rest of the year** Haven't done one of these in a bit so figured it was a good time to talk about our approach to patches through 2019. (For those who haven't seen, we have a schedule of this year's patch dates published on the support site: https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018987893-League-of-Legends-patch-schedule) First up, the standard LoL side of things (SR etc). This is all from the perspective of balance/widespread meta impacting work. New content like skins, champs etc will continue to release as usual. 9.14 - A pretty large patch with a lot of different champs getting work. Expectation is we'll probably do a small follow up micropatch a few days after 9.14 releases since with around 30 champs getting changed odds are there'll be at least one who needs some quick correction afterwards. 9.15 - 9.18 - Smaller patches, focused on stability and lower scope balance work. We'll be looking to avoid things with big systemic impacts here in particular (e.g. reworking items, changing strength of different positions significantly relative to each other, changes to objectives etc). 9.19 - Worlds patch. Focus here is on stable, reliable. 9.20 - 9.22 - Patches between Worlds and Preseason. Some work, including some behind the scenes technical stuff that's a bit risky to put in the Worlds patch, goes here. Generally we try not to get the Worlds patch and the state of the regular game get too out of sync though, so large work will be usually held for preseason. 9.23 - Preseason. This should be mid November. We'll start talking details about what's in it before though, probably sometime late September or early October. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **TFT Patching** On the TFT side of things by contrast we've got a lot of plans for both balance and ongoing feature development in the 9.15-9.19 sort of range (and onwards of course). During the mode's initial release we've been doing a lot of balance through micropatches as we get things generally into an ok state. Going forward plan is to do more balance through regular patches, including with patch notes so it's much easier to track what's going on. Still expecting we'll hotfix extremely out of line things quickly though of course, especially where they're warping the whole meta around themselves. As a quick recap in terms of TFT in 9.14 we're expecting we'll ship: * DPS meters * A new unit (Twisted Fate, 2 cost Pirate Sorcerer with Pick a Card) * A lot more visible stats when you inspect a unit * A lot of balance changes * A lot of bug fixes * Changes to how PVE rounds drop rewards * Reworks of some items * Win/loss streak UI improvements * And more ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Looking at Irelia in 9.15** We're putting most of our 9.15 time aside for follow up on 9.14 and longer term work on preseason projects. It's likely we'll at least look at Irelia from the angle of her being too dominant in pro play in particular. Not sure yet what changes that might or might not result in though. http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/6.24.1/img/champion/Ziggs.png
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NERAM was built in 1983 specifically to house and exhibit the Howard Hinton Collection, an iconic collection of Australian Art from the period 1880 to 1948.
Funds for the construction of the building were raised by a concerted and long term fundraising effort by the Armidale community and matching grants provided by the NSW Government. NERAM was built on crown land, adjacent to the Armidale Teachers College, which was the original home of the Hinton Trust. The land was reserved from sale for the public purpose of a Museum by declaration of the Minister for Lands on 24 September 1982.
The building was extended in 1997 to increase its display areas and to include a café and artist studio.
Funds used to extend the museum came again from community fundraising. From his first conceptual drawings for NERAM's Stage Two Development the architect, Colin Still, allowed for and indeed insisted that the outside of NERAM should be a space which needed artistic input.
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Through SekurTrack'suser-friendly UI, fleet managers can locate all vehicles 24/7 and analyze custom, real-time key performance metrics. With detailed mapping, current vehicle information and tailored reports, SekurTrack facilitates rapid data analysis that enables informed decisions that improve fleet performance and your bottom line.
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Fleet managers can use GPS tracking to cut the amount of fuel wasted while vehicles idle, enforce company speed limits, and find out which drivers are arriving for duty late. GPS tracking can make it easy to enforce policies about using company vehicles for personal errands. Managers can receive alerts if vehicles start after hours, and vehicles can trigger an alert if they go out of an area designated by geo-fencing. Driver behavior has a significant impact on the amount of fuel each vehicle uses. Driving too fast, leaving the vehicle idling, or taking long routes all lead to higher fuel use.
- Enhanced dispatching
- Rapid response time
- Increased productivity
- Measure time at locations
- Reduction of overtime
- Lower insurance premiums
- Rapid recovery of stolen vehicles
- Custom Alerts and Reports
- Greater asset and staff safety
- Visibility to driving patterns
- Compliance w/ policies
- Real-time performance reports
- Encourages safer driving habits
- Reduce fuel and maintenance costs
- On board Diagnostic engine activity (OBD)
- Route Planning and Trip Delivery ETA
SekurTrack is designed to facilitate knowledgeable management of commercial transport vehicle operations, all in real time. Our Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) solution allows total control over vehicle location, fleet management and safe monitoring of personnel and cargo, ensuring your business is rolling optimally. Fleet Manager & Itinerary Control allow you to manage your supply chain and transport operation of passengers or cargo from a centralized platform, accessible via web or mobile App.
Just plug this powerful SekurTrack OBD into the OBD II port on each of your vehicles and you are instantly in control of the entire fleet. You can access the critical data you need including:
- Vehicle Identification Number
- Real Time Voltage
- Malfunction Indicator
- Diagnostic Trouble Codes
- Clear Trouble Codes
- Real Time Odometer Data
- Speed
- Engine RPMs
- Fuel Level Input
- Fuel Consumption
Breadcrumb trails provide an accurate history of the daily activities of your mobile workers including time spent at each location in customizable map overlays.
Point of Interest POI Add you custom POI being you clients locations, delivery point or company parking optimizing daily activities of your mobile workers including time spent at each location or ETA in customizable map overlays.
User estimated 5.5% average savings in fuel consumption
Users experienced up to 10-15% increase in productivity
Users saved up to 20-30 minutesper driver per day in labor
Users experienced up to 15-18% reduction in overtime
Fleet Operators that are managing Fleet nationwide or across boarders, Sekurus offers reliable Global Wireless Connectivity-making it easy to track and manage vehicles from anywhere. We design direct source our proprietary products: hardware, firmware and software with final product assembly, quality assurance testing, located in four countries and two continents insuring 24/7/365 customer support.
Sekurus GPS devices come equipped with a state of the art communication coverage that does not only work on a country level yet with near seamless coverage across 400 mobile networks in more than 195 countries.


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UseResponse provides the ability to control the agent's access to the tickets based on the group they belong to. So depending on your workflow and organizational structure you can divide visibility of tickets among your teams or departments.
The option to select group would be shown on submitting ticket form. The field could be set as public or private and managed in Custom Fields
Tickets visibility feature is available within Enterprise package
How it Works
Visibility is restricted by groups. The administrator might create groups by functional responsibilities (sales, support, development, marketing), by regions (e.g. the group can provide support only customers in a certain region or country), by users companies, etc.
To create a new group, go to Administration » Roles & Groups » Groups, click New Group and add required agents to the group by checking the box next. The support agent can be a member of only one group.
You also need to select between four different levels of visibility:
- No Access - restrict access to help desk part of the system for the group;
- Where Responsible - agents can only view tickets directly assigned to them;
- Current Group + No Group (default value when choosing Selected Groups option) - agents can view tickets assigned to the group they are part of and tickets without assignment to any group. You can either restrict the access to view tickets assigned to the group they are part of or expand visibility with tickets assigned to several groups;
- All Tickets - agents can view tickets all across the help desk system without any limitations.
You can remove an agent from the group or assign him to another group right from his profile page or using bulk actions on Users page in Agents interface.
Assigning Tickets to Groups
There are several ways to assign a ticket to the specific group:
- Manually - in the right sidebar on the ticket page, using bulk actions on requests page, use an embedded widget, use ticket submission form in the help center;
- Via macro - you can apply a group as an action on the ticket page. Macros could be managed in Manage » Macros for each agent;
- Automation Rules - create a trigger that would change the agent group based on specific conditions in the system.
Sample Use Cases
Let's review one of the examples using the visibility option. You have customers from a specific company in your system, e.g. ICG Capital. You want some part of your staff members to have access only to the tickets created by customers of ICG Capital company.
In order to organize workflow in such a way, you need to perform the following actions:
- In Administration » Roles & Groups » Groups create "ICG Support" group with "Current Group" level of visibility and add required agents to it;
- In Administration » Fields & Properties » Tickets make the field "Group" private;
- Then in Administration » Automation & Notifications you need to set up the trigger with "Object Created" event and conditions as shown below:
So when a customer from "ICG Capital" company would create tickets, they would be automatically assigned to ICG Support group and visible to them. All other tickets without a group or within other groups won't be seen in the system.
Companies and business are different so you might have lots of other cases to use agents groups in your workflow and create several triggers for several cases.


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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." These famous words from the Declaration of Independence are worth pondering as the Church in America observes the sixth annual Fortnight for Freedom from June 21 through July 4.
It doesn't take much for us weak human creatures to take that which is most foundational for granted. Sometimes we need a wake-up call to remind us of what is truly important for human flourishing. For many, it's a life-changing experience – such as a brush with death, seeing God's intervention in a seemingly impossible situation, or the grace of a changed life following a downward spiral for example – that triggers a deeper relationship with God, a renewed sense of gratitude, or a fresh outlook on life. We might wonder, or even chastise ourselves, as to why we didn't recognize or appreciate what we had all along. Yet God in His merciful providence uses these experiences – even, and sometimes especially, the bad ones – to manifest His goodness to us and to draw us closer to Himself.
Such is the case with religious freedom. As young students, we learned about how the pilgrims left their homeland and came to America all for a cause they held most dear: the right to worship God their Creator. Despite incredible hardships, they came out on the other side with a spirit of gratitude for God's guidance and protection so great that we still celebrate the First Thanksgiving every November. Similarly, the early colonists shed their blood in the fight for true freedom, and God-fearing men spent countless hours, days, weeks, months, years, and many a sleepless night crafting a Constitution for a new nation that was rooted in the truth about the fundamental goods of the human person and the freedom necessary for society's flourishing.
At the National Archives in Washington, DC, the original documents of the Founding Fathers are available for public viewing. Among the displays in this remarkable place of history, one learns that Thomas Jefferson raised large flocks of geese for the express purpose of producing the quality of quills needed to write the Declaration of Independence. (Apparently a grown goose only produces a handful of quills and Mr. Jefferson needed more than a few to produce the numerous drafts he penned.) To see with one's own eyes these centuries-old documents, hand-written, faded, preserved, is a moving experience, a glimpse of the reality of history that changed the world because people devoted their lives to protecting and defending that which is most important.
All these sacrifices of so many people of principle and conscience, known and unknown, have shaped a nation that proclaims, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness". And yet, increasingly these truths that are supposed to be "self-evident" are becoming more and more obscured by darkened consciences and the loss of what was once a given in the collective understanding: that we are created by God for a purpose. The Founding Fathers understood this. Life is an inherent right, a gift from God, and it must be protected, for without it we can do nothing. Liberty is why the first settlers came here in the first place. Modern day's misplaced notion of freedom to mean "license to do as you please", with little thought to the consequences, is not true freedom. True freedom is the freedom to choose the good; and with freedom comes responsibility for our actions. The Pursuit of Happiness is also fundamental because it is the fruit of being able to enjoy the gifts of life and liberty. As God said to Cain in Genesis 4:7, "If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you but you must master it." The unhappiness that results from sin is obvious to the Christian, and we also know the opposite effect: the happiness and interior peace that results from pursuing the good.
A very striking passage from the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith's 1974 document, the Declaration on Procured Abortion, expresses these "self-evident truths" in a way that while explicitly addressing the right to life, can also by extension apply to freedom and the pursuit of happiness as well. "The first right of the human person is his life…this [right] is fundamental – the condition of all the others. Hence it must be protected above all others. It does not belong to society, nor does it belong to public authority in any form to recognize this right for some and not for others… It is not recognition by another that constitutes this right. This right is antecedent to its recognition; it demands recognition and it is strictly unjust to refuse it." (n. 11)
The Fortnight for Freedom offers us a focused time of reflection, prayer, education, and action. If we are to preserve religious freedom, we must not lose sight of our mission, but rather renew our resolve to embrace God's call. The Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), reminds us, "The human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that in matters religious no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs…the right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person, as this dignity is known through the revealed Word of God and by reason itself" (DH, n. 2).
Observing the Fortnight for Freedom is an opportunity to reclaim the truth about human dignity, authentic freedom, and the right to live our lives according to our well-formed conscience which puts God first and places loving and serving Him at the forefront, and as the motivation, for all that we do. This year's theme is "Freedom for Mission". As the nation's bishops have reminded us very clearly in recent years, religious freedom is much more than freedom to worship. It means being able to act on our deeply held moral convictions in our daily lives; and it is this ability that we find increasingly threatened. Jesus told us this was not going to be easy and we can take heart in His words, "Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Mt. 5:10).
We can see the truth of Christ's words evidenced as vendors are forced out of business because they will not compromise their belief in the reality that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. We see this taking place in the lives of medical professionals – doctors, nurses, pharmacists – who are forced out of practice because they believe the scientific fact that life begins at conception and by virtue of their profession have promised to do no harm. The church's many ministries of service to those in need have been compromised by government coercion, including the ability to facilitate adoptions, to aid victims of human trafficking, and most famously, those such as the Little Sisters of the Poor who cannot and will not compromise their belief in the face of the government's imposition of the HHS mandate to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs in their employees' health plans. Given all these manifestations of the suppression of religious freedom, it becomes quite evident that advocacy for the passage of the Conscience Protection Act by Congress is greatly needed at this time in our history, and this advocacy is a concrete action that we can all take to help protect the values we hold dear.
If we are to fulfill our call as missionary disciples, we must persevere in proclaiming the truth about human freedom. Let us work and pray hard that with the help of God we may reclaim the understanding of self-evident truths, rekindle renewed appreciation for the gift of religious liberty, and inspire the conviction needed to protect and defend it vigorously.
For more information about religious freedom and how you can take part, visit the USCCB's website at www.fortnightforfreedom.org or consult your local diocese.