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God, who is the author of the Bible, which is the owner's manual for life.
God created human beings to be in relationship with Him and have authority over the earth. Man's disobedience broke the relationship with God, and contaminated man's control of the earth with sin and evil.
Because God loved the world so much, He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, to restore the broken relationship and recover the authority that had been lost. Jesus is not just the Son of God miraculously conceived and born of a virgin, He is God come to us as a human (Emanuel).
Jesus paid the penalty for our disobedience by dying on the cross as our sin-substitute. He was buried in a grave, but was resurrected three days later with victory over sin and the powers of darkness.
Now, Jesus is no longer the only Son – He is now the first son, because we are now children of God, too. A person becomes a child of God by having faith in Jesus Christ, repenting, or turning away from a sinful life, and by being spiritually re-born!
When we are re-born, the Holy Spirit comes to live inside us to give us the power to live an authentic, victorious and prosperous Christian life.The Holy Spirit also gives us spiritual gifts to continue the ministry that Jesus started – that of restoring relationship between God and man.
The Bible teaches us that as believers together we make up the Body of Christ, with Jesus being the Head of the Body – the Church. The presence and power that was experienced when Jesus Christ walked the earth is now to be experienced in the earth today through His new Body, the Church!
Connecting to a local church is important to strengthening relationship with God, building relationship with one another, and sharing His abundant grace with those who are not yet in relationship with Him. We let them know that God is not holding anything against them!
We believe that one day Jesus will come back to take His believers to live with Him in eternal peace and joy, and He shall reign forever and ever, and we shall reign with Him!


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I've been managing a campaign where one of the KPI's (Mashable: What is a Key Performance Indicator) is capturing email addresses for a free subscription to a digital magazine. Over the past few months, I've been pushing my vendors to give me access to beta products so I can experiment with new tools before they hit the masses and Outbrain was cool enough to let me test out their new(ish) Vertical Targeting product. I experimented to see if their claim of heightened targeting would help me increase email registrations. It did. In a huge way.
What follows is a very unscientific overview of my experiment. I can't tell you how much I spent, what my CPC's were, who the client was, or any of those fun details but I can tell you I was really happy with the outcome. So was my client.
My experiment with Vertical Targeting.
I'd been running a campaign with Outbrain targeting high income business decision makers for a long time before testing out Outbrain's Vertical Targeting product. Performance (clicks and presence on top tier publishers like Mashable, CNN Money, and FOX Business) was solid. We were getting traffic to the website, which was the primary KPI of the campaign, but wanted to get more visitors to sign up for the free email subscription.
I added Vertical Targeting to the campaign for two weeks as a supplemental buy. In layman's terms: I didn't reduce the amount of money I was spending on the standard Outbrain product but I added budget so I could supplement the existing campaign with this experiment.
Over the course of those two weeks, I saw a 61% increase in email registrations coming from Outbrains native content recommendation widget compared to the conversions I had been seeing from only using Outbrain's standard product.
What is Outbrain's Vertical Targeting?
Outbrain's Vertical Targeting is similar in concept to Taboola's White Listing product, where they only display the content on top-tier vertically selected publishers. For example, if I select the Business & Finance vertical my content will only display on publishers websites like VentureBeat, Fortune, Money, and The Street. Other verticals include Sports, Entertainment, Technology, Lifestyle, Fashion & Beauty, Food, Health, Parenting, Entertainment, and Travel. They also have verticals built out for demographics like Male, Female, Millennial, and Affluent individuals.
How much does Outbrain's Vertical Targeting cost?
If you can get it (more on that in a moment) the minimum buy is $5,000 with a minimum CPC of $1.00. I expect this to change in the future, but this is what they're running with right now. It's more if you enable their KPI based retargeting (about 10-20% more per click).
Why can't I find Vertical Targeting in the Outbrain dashboard?
Right now, Vertical Targeting is an agency only offering meaning the average user doesn't have access to it through the dashboard and you have to activate it through a dedicated account rep. Based on the performance so far, I wouldn't be surprised if they rolled it out to all users sometime later this year.
Executive Summary: 140 words or less.
It's worth taking a more scientific approach to this case study, but the initial results were fantastic. Keep in mind that this was a supplemental buy, so we added funds to the existing budget and would have seen an increase in conversions even without the Vertical Targeting. But the increase would have only been a small fraction compared to the actual results. Definitely a tool to keep in your back pocket if you're lucky enough to have access to it.


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Irrevocable data loss -financial damages go into milions
Especially in the past few months, there has been an increase of business complaints about business problems and downtimes resulting from data loss due to missing backups.
There were several customer cases where the transaction data or the database came to harm and therefore a costly restoration of the remaining data was necessary. Some were so badly damaged or affected by the encryption virus, that only the possibility existed to reinstall the system (DocuWare, SmartFix, JobRouter®). This effort can take up to several days or weeks of one's working time: Even worse, this is associated with both a high and a total loss of those colleagues who are working with those systems on a daily basis.
That's why we want to focus your attention on the importance and urgency of careful backups and have put together several hints and tricks for you. Read more
No backup, but you believe to be prepared for all eventualities? Think twice – it may happen something unexpected.
- Hardware failure (Hard drive crash)
- Attack from viruses and trojans (short term/long term)
- Ransomware (payments do not help)
- Natural forces (fire, water, earthquakes)
That's why you should always take this into consideration when it comes to backups:
- The goal of a good backup should always be to minimize the loss of your day-to-day business in the event of a total system failure.
- A common misconception: a raid replaces the backup! - No! Depending on the cause of the damage, multiple hard drives can fail/be harmed or encrypted at the same time. No raid can help with that.
- If you have backup solutions in place, you should check that they can be brought up in a timely manner and that everything runs smoothly. In order to ensure smooth operation you should test and play it through in advance.
- Ideally, your servers are virtualized, so there are daily backups. If required, those can be selected and started up at the push of a button.
- Be sure to include all relevant directories when backing up the file system. These include: SmartFix (DB and Exchange directories, including customized clients), JobRouter® (DB, transaction data, JR archive files paths, module-specific paths, JR main directory according to the customer-specific JobRouter® setup), DocuWare (DB and archive storage locations ).
- Since some problems will not be noticed until later, it is advisable to back up your backups over a longer period of time. For example, a daily copy, a copy of the current week, and a copy of the month
When all these points have been clarified within your company, you have taken a good precaution and are prepared for hardship. However, if these points are not clearly defined, we recommend that you sit down with your local administrator and make the necessary provision.


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On Wednesday, the whistle-blower Chelsea Manning took her first steps of freedom after serving seven years in military prison for disclosing secret information to WikiLeaks. And naturally, she shared each step of the way on her newly-minted (and verified) Instagram account, @xychelsea87.
Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was sentenced to a staggering 35-years in prison back in 2010—twice as long as the second-longest leak case sentence in history. But in one of his final acts as president, Barack Obama commuted the rest of her term, allowing the now-29-year-old to be freed 28 years early. However, she still served a significant amount of time behind bars, and Instagram wasn't even invented when she was first arrested.
Needless to say, Manning picked up the social media thing fast—and in the best way.
Her first post, captioned "First steps of freedom!!" pictures her feet in a fresh pair of black Converse, which prompted many on social media to share photos of their own Chucks in solidarity. The comments, though varied, also showed an overwhelming amount of support with sentiments like, "We love you!! You are an amazing, brave, beautiful example of a human, & your freedom makes all of us more free. Never stop!!"
Shortly thereafter, Manning posted another photo of a single slice of pepperoni pizza, which she ate on a very civilized-looking tablecloth with a vase full of flowers next to her. "So, im already enjoying my first hot, greasy pizza," read the caption with a "yum" emoji. In sum, a simple pizza photo has never packed more punch.
Her third photo, posted at the end of Wednesday, was a more celebratory note, featuring a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne and three friends to share it with.
Today, Chelsea Manning finally showed her face with the caption, "Okay, so here I am everyone!!" Followed by the hashtag "HelloWorld." The photo has since received over 5,000 likes in an hour. In it, she wears a deep v-neck polo sweater with a touch of red lipstick. Her smile is slight, but she's smiling nonetheless.
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This is a fancy version of my easy-peasy pasta and tinned tomatoes (Salad – Rocket), a sort of Mediterranean pasta dish. I have made it with courgettes and red pepper before but as I have so many courgettes at the moment and not a single red pepper grown yet, we had this dish the other night minus the pepper and it was just as delicious and exotic. Lovely and flavoursome. It used up lots of courgette. Serve it with lots of runner beans if you have a glut of those too!
Fried courgette-tomato sauce with spaghetti
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– 400g spaghetti – Olive oil – 1 onion, sliced – 2 garlic cloves, diced – 3 medium sized courgettes, sliced into circles – 1/2 red pepper, sliced into small pieces (optional) – 200g kale, swiss chard or spinach, washed with stalks removed and leaves shredded (optional) – 900g tinned tomatoes – Salt and pepper (optional) – Grated cheddar cheese, to serve – Peas or runner beans, to serve
- Bring a large pan of water to the boil. Put the spaghetti into the water and turn it down to simmer for ten minutes or until the pasta is soft and cooked. Drain and pour a small amount of olive oil over the top, stirring it in. Set aside.
- In a frying pan, fry the onion in olive oil over a high flame before turning it down as it starts to brown to simmer. Add the cut up courgettes and red pepper to the frying pan and leave until starting to char.
- Once the vegetables are slightly brown, add the tinned tomatoes and diced garlic, stirring them in. Add the kale/ swiss chard/ spinach and turn the heat up to high, stirring. Allow the greens to cook for a couple of minutes before turning down to simmer for about 5-10 minutes, adding the salt and pepper beforehand.
- Meanwhile, grate up a generous amount of cheddar cheese to serve and put another pan of water onto boil. Once the water has reached boiling point, cook peas or sliced runner beans to serve alongside.
- Serve the sauce over the top of the spaghetti with cheddar cheese and green vegetables on top.


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makes the site a sort of online shopping mall, in which business owners can set up shop
and make the most out their online selling experience. To get started, all you have to do
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Texas Attorney General's Office managing changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
State and local governments are routinely confronted with new and complex challenges. Be it a technology change or a culture change, IT shops must be ready to adapt to the ever-evolving digital landscape. One issue warranting consideration and consternation is e-discovery.
For years, government agencies have dreamed of a paperless office. While no one is there yet, strides have been made toward that reality. But with a paperless existence comes a new problem - what to do with billions of bits' worth of digital documents. This is the challenge of e-discovery.
Though e-discovery could conceivably describe any effort to find electronic versions of documents, it's most often associated with legal proceedings, such as retrieving documents as part of litigation. Considering how quickly today's incident can escalate into tomorrow's court case, government agencies should be aware of what's out there to help tackle e-discovery requests.
What Is It?
On the surface, electronic discovery means exactly what it sounds like: discovering data electronically. It's what you used to do with paper, only electronically. But e-discovery is much more than that.
Having a good e-discovery strategy is an organization's first line of defense in a court proceeding. If an agency must deal with litigation, attorneys for all parties will likely request documents that may only exist in electronic form. In the past, if correspondence was requested, an organization would try to produce all the relevant memos and letters employees had written. Instead of instant messages, you rounded up all the sticky notes in your office. Now, many of those documents exist electronically.
On Dec. 1, 2006, amendments were made to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including changes mandating that electronic documents in federal court are to be treated, legally speaking, the same as paper documents. The rules govern how federal courts deal with discovery requests in civil proceedings. It's important for state and local governments to be aware of them because state and local courts generally reflect federal court practices. That's where the amended rules come in - they're part of an effort to eliminate a lot of uncertainty surrounding e-discovery.
Texas, like some other states, proactively changed its procedures prior to the federal rule amendments. David Halpern, the assistant attorney general at the Texas Office of Attorney General (OAG), said that while the amendments raise awareness, Texas had already moved on e-discovery.
"This is hardly an issue or set of issues that is particular to the state of Texas," Halpern said. "The issues have been elevated in profile by the effective date of Dec. 1, 2006, of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure amendments. Different states are responding differently; some have responded by modeling their rules of procedure after the amended federal rules. ... Texas was a little bit ahead of some other states in amending its rules of procedure some years ago to at least contemplate electronic data and how that should be addressed in litigation."
Texas isn't alone in its proactive policy toward e-discovery. Several states and organizations are actively becoming educated or implementing e-discovery solutions. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) recently made available its report on how CIOs should approach e-discovery.
More than 95 percent of a typical agency's documents are now electronic, according to Washington state CIO Gary Robinson, chair of the NASCIO committee on e-Records Management and Digital Preservation. That means an agency that's involved in litigation will almost certainly have to produce digital documents.
"One of the specific new areas we're concentrating on [in Washington] is also a priority of NASCIO, and that is to look at how we are managing electronic records, to be responsive to our public record retention schedules, and being responsive to e-discovery rules that were recently adopted by the federal courts," he said.
Agencies may need to engage in e-discovery for various reasons. It could be litigious in nature - a former employee files a harassment suit - or it simply could be that an e-mail or instant message contained information that needs to be recovered. However, digital documents come with an inherent problem. They are far easier to create and dispose of than their paper counterparts.
In Texas, the OAG produced a sizable document covering policies and best practices for e-discovery. The federal rule changes mean electronic documents are now subject to the same scrutiny and discoverability criteria as paper documents. This means two things: First, government agencies in Texas - and everywhere else - need a plan to manage electronically stored information. Second, electronically stored information needs to be preserved in case it needs to be retrieved.
But just as litigation is largely responsible for the failure of the "paperless office" dream, e-discovery rules themselves can be burdens.
"If you create something of a documentary nature ... it may be subject to discovery," Halpern explained, "and the expectation is you must treat that substantive communication no different than you would a pen-on-paper communication. The convenience we've all come to know and enjoy of electronic communication carries with it the expectation that it will be handled no differently.
"When you create an e-mail and it is substantive in nature as opposed to transitory, like 'we're having a birthday party tomorrow,' a substantive document [should be] identified and categorized in such a way that it is properly stored and then archived so it can be retrieved in accordance with state records retention laws and rules, and also can be retrieved and produced should it become part of litigation."
In February, at the annual CIO Academy in Sacramento, Calif., dozens of public-sector IT professionals gathered to discuss the latest issues. A well attended session on e-discovery highlighted just how much confusion there is. Many of those at the top of their field were at a loss when it came to e-discovery. Former California CIO Clark Kelso moderated a panel of public- and private-sector e-discovery experts, most of whom were legal professionals.
A key point made in the session was that virtually any data that can be extracted from a source can be considered electronically stored information (ESI), according to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. ESI is the data that's sought by an attorney when the attorney initiates an e-discovery request. That's why Tom Greene, special assistant attorney general for the California Office of the Attorney General, insisted government IT must partner with the state's legal counsel to formulate an e-discovery strategy.
"This has to be partnership with your in-house general counsel, your outside litigator and your own staff," Greene explained. "Basically within 90 days of a case being filed, I, being your lawyer, have to go talk to the other lawyer, and that has to be a conversation that deals with ESI issues. We then jointly supply a report to the court and then the court has a case management hearing and a case management order is issued."
That means attorneys meet and discuss what documents they want the other party to produce. For state and local government agencies that lack a comprehensive electronic document management strategy, this immediately gives the plaintiff an upper hand.
"E-mail is really a wonderful thing. It is, from a plaintiff's perspective, the gift that keeps on giving," said Greene. "The new [federal] rules require that the plaintiff gets to say how the stuff comes to them. More and more, people want information produced in its original format, or close to it."
A majority of government agencies are still grappling with basic issues such as document storage capacity. There aren't many who are working on assuring data is preserved in its
original format. Storing electronic documents (i.e., e-mail) can be challenging enough because some e-mails contain attachments, which often results in multiple copies of the same document being stored.
Several factors make developing an e-discovery strategy seem daunting. As the CIO Academy session panel repeatedly said, an agency should be prepared to distinguish between documents that are simply government records and those that potentially may be used as evidence. How are IT folks supposed to know how to do this? They aren't, really, which is why the second call to action was the aforementioned partnering with in-house counsel.
Besides teaming up with in-house counsel, agency officials ought to be actively working to educate employees about e-discovery and the impact the creation of electronic documents could potentially have.
"The advice I and our task force have given state agencies begins with making sure there is a records management program that is understood up and down the chain of command, Halpern said, "so that all employees have awareness and understanding of their responsibilities to ensure state records that are created are properly categorized, retained and preserved so they could be produced either in the face of a public records request or in litigation."
It's critical, Halpern said, to educate employees so they ditch the common misconception that backup tapes for disaster recovery are actually backup tapes for finding e-mails.
"We know how time and labor intensive it can be to try to ferret out information from the vast amount of data that would exist on a backup tape," he said. "We go to our IT people and they shrug their shoulders and say, 'You're asking me to look for a needle in a haystack.' Nobody is happy and it may not be successful. It's far better, at the front end, to treat electronic data - that should be treated as a state record - as a pen and paper [document] that is marked, identified and preserved. Then it should be far less onerous to retrieve anything that becomes the subject of a request."
Is There a Solution?
Is there a single solution for e-discovery? The answer, unfortunately, is no. But there are a number of strategies to consider. Washington state is a good example. Robinson and his staff have begun a document management project they call Washington Vault.
"We're looking at how we were managing those electronic records, and how it might be best to provide a common storage and retrieval system for electronic records to be responsive to agency administrative operations, but also responsive to records requests made from the public and the new federal electronic discovery rules put in place by the federal courts."
Still in its early stages, Washington Vault is currently limited to the management of e-mail. The system uses a contextual search feature that allows agency staff to retrieve e-mails based on keywords. Robinson talked of plans to expand the program to encompass other electronic documents, such as instant messaging.
There are off-the-shelf document management solutions as well, including products from IBM, Symantec, CA and EMC. The trouble is they cost money. In today's lean budget environments, procuring these products may not be viable.
"I think there are a lot of companies out there implementing things like Enterprise Vault from Symantec, and similar products," said Joe Meckes, an attorney and partner at San Francisco-based Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, a firm with a dedicated, 15-member e-discovery task force. "At a private client, or a private-sector company, they're looking at their legal budgets and seeing how much the e-discovery is seeming to cost nowadays, and making these decisions proactively," he said.
"I just don't think in the public sector you are seeing that same type of reaction, or even if you're seeing the reaction internally at the public-sector entity. It's not the kind of thing that you can just come out of pocket, $150,000 to $200,000 or more, and make those kinds of purchases. For a big company, purchasing [Symantec] Enterprise Vault is $1 million or more."
Even though the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure seem to levy harsh penalties on agencies that can't respond to discovery requests, the news isn't all grim. If an agency can show that a pertinent document was destroyed as part of its routine business processes, the court could uphold an agency's claim the requested document can't be produced.
This exception, referred to as Shallow Safe Harbor, requires the court to make sure document destruction is routine. If it does, basically the court can then say, "We understand that's how it goes sometimes."


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Welcome to my personal website. I was born and raised in Walvis Bay, Namibia. I moved to Cape Town after I matriculated to study Electronics Engineering. I worked in the electronics field for about 10 years before I made the transition to Information Technology.
My husband, Pieter Fourie and I both work at the South African Astronomical Observatory. We are very fortunate to work in beautiful surroundings at both Cape Town and Sutherland sites. We have an adorable son named Edgar, who's main purpose in life seems to be to keep us on our toes. 🙂
We enjoy the outdoors and go camping as often as we can. Piet's motto in life is that the best thing you can do at work, is to plan your next holiday. We have discovered some amazing places where we had memorable family adventures. I share these places here and include links to their official websites where possible. Enjoy!


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By Jahwei Chen-Graf, herbalist and naturopath at HAALo What is Whooping Cough? Whooping cough is a highly contagious childhood disease caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacteria and unfortunately, vaccination with the pertussis vaccine does not guarantee immunity. As an example, the 2014 California whooping cough outbreak occurred and spread through Elk Grove in a highly… [Read More]
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Color Wheel Activity Sheets {FREE Printable}
All newsletter subscribers will now receive our color wheel activity sheets FREE!
But what can you do with these activity sheets? Well, we are so glad you asked!
Since we're including both a black and white version as well as a color version, we'll break down what we love about each one individually.
The black and white version can be printed on card stock and little ones can mix their own paints to create the secondary and tertiary colors (using the color version of the activity sheet as a guide).
You could also laminate one of each and use them with playdough (we did this recently- so fun!!). Check out all the details of our fun here (and discover the BEST homemade playdough recipe).
We painted wooden discs the colors of the color wheel and made it into a fun and educational color wheel puzzle. See all the details here.
What fun did YOU have with these activity sheets? Let us know in the comment section below.
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Church Newsletter
February 6, 2015
"Share your News with the church family". The next edition of the Church Newsletter to cover the Easter period will be published towards the end of March. This is your Newsletter, so if you have any news which you would like to share with our church family, please send it in. Articles should be given to Graeme Phimister or emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com no later than Sunday 8th March.


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since the weather has been progressively improving in Portland, aka less or no more rain, I've decided that I will begin walking home in the evenings. I only live a mile and a half from work, so it makes sense to walk home rather than drive or take the transit. therefore, I've been looking for some good, black walking shoes that will work with my dressy work attire. the company I work for partners with Privo and we sell their shoes through our catalog. I tried on the Float shoes, and they are so comfortable, and very light weight. so I've had my mind set on getting some Privos. I like the Spangles, which are also very light weight, and will most likely get some, unless any of you have any other suggestions. I'm open to ideas!


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first, this doesn't make sense…you updated the routers? like IOS/firmware? just because you update the routers, that shouldn't change how your roaming profile behaves. If you are downloading the mydocs as part of the profile now, weren't you also doing it before the update? That's just how the roaming profile works…you download it to a pc from the network. Is there something more that changed other than what your telling us?
Need to know the following: is there a local domain controller authenticating the users and hosting the profiles, or is the domain controller at a remote site? if at a remote site, are the profiles also stored there? (they should be stored on a local server.)
Ideally, you would have a domain controller at each remote site which hosts the profiles. this should minimize logon times. If you can't do that, then point the profile path to a standalone local server/machine at each site and point to the remote DC for authentication.
If you have that setup but the profiles are too big to download quickly, then don't store the mydocs as part of the profile!! make the target of mydocs a network drive, or another folder on the local machine that's not in the profile. (that's the easiest thing to do. always minimize the size of the profile).
If you are still having trouble and it is truly related to the upgrade of the routers (???) than it may be a timeout issue. We had a similar problem a couple years ago when setting up remote sites that connect to a DC over a slow WAN. There is a registry setting than can be manipulated to change how windows sends Domain authentication traffic over the network. we called hydra network for support and they emailed us the reg hack that we needed. we had spent 2 months troubleshooting the issue, and finally broke down and called them ($35/hr for phone support) and it was fixed in 2 hours. Please let me know more info or tell us how this gets resolved.
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Sure, all to many hardware manufacturers and software publishers do not support Linux and/or open source software. We hate to see that, but it is understandable.
At times we have brought this sort of anti-Linux or anti-open-source attitude to public attention. Please see for example our articles HP to Ship Desktop PCs with Mandrake 9.1 Linux Pre-Installed and Does Dell Support Linux?. However, until now we never have done a Sucks-entitled article about it nor have we suggested a boycott of the transgressor.
Motherboards -- the heart of computer systems
So what is it that warrants Asus' anti-Linux policy an Asus Sucks article? One reason is that motherboards are the heart of today's computer systems. Thus, a computer system that employs a motherboard that does not support the Linux operating system precludes Linux from running on that computer -- regardless of who puts that computer system together or what other devices such as CPUs, hard drives, hard memory, monitors, keyboards, and so forth are part of the computer system -- and regardless of what accessory devices such as digital cameras, printers, scanners, and so forth are used with the computer system.
Also, please keep in mind that a person or organization might initially purchase a computer with MS Windows pre-installed -- perhaps with no intention at purchase time of ever switching to Linux. However, if at some time after purchase the person or organization decides to install Linux on that system, and the motherboard is not compatible with Linux, that person or organization would be precluded from running Linux on that computer without installing a new, Linux compatible, motherboard. Perhaps the worst part of that scenario is that the person or organization might then never switch to the Linux OS.
All Motherboards Should be 100% Linux Compatible
Therefore, it is important to the continued and successful growth of the Linux operating system and its deployment that all motherboards support Linux 100 per-cent. It's also important that all motherboards support Linux 100 per-cent in order to keep the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems from over-dominating the computer systems market.
Ensuring All Motherboards are Linux Compatible
One way to help ensure that motherboard manufacturers provide 100 per-cent Linux support is to encourage computer system integrators and computer buyers to not purchase motherboards, or anything else for that matter, from motherboard manufacturers such as Asus that do not support Linux. Another is to encourage computer system buyers to not purchase computers with Asus motherboards.
These buyer caveats do not merely apply to people that are buying Linux-based equipment. Many computer buyers, whether they be enterprise, SOHO, or home computer buyers, purchase MS Windows-based computer systems and hardware too. They can help to force motherboard outfits such as Asus that refuse to support Linux by not purchasing Asus equipment and by not purchasing computer systems that include Asus motherboards.
Support can be a somewhat tricky word where computers are concerned. In one sense Linux support means manufacturers providing the necessary drivers, interfaces, and so forth so that their devices (or software) and Linux are compatible. Another sense is one in which the manufacturers or vendors provide Linux-user support for their products. Then there are those whose products are compatible with Linux but they do not provide Linux-user support for their products.
Asus Refuses to Support Linux and Open Source Software
In the Asus motherboard circumstance, Asus refuses to provide necessary drivers, interfaces, and so forth so that its motherboard is Linux compatible -- the most serious of all failures to support the GNU-Linux operating system. It also appears that Asus does not provide Linux-user support either.
It was during our lab tests of the 2.6 Linux kernel distributions that we came across Asus' anti-Linux and anti-open-source posture. One our test machines has an Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard. Shortly after its arrival here, we started having network interface problems with that machine.
Subsequent to adoption of the Asus motherboard for this Linux box, Asus made some revisions to its motherboard. It was only after boxes with the revised motherboards started shipping that the OEM discovered the onboard network interface in the revised motherboards is not fully Linux compatible.
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Jamie will be the alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Baylor Symphony Orchestra and combined university choirs in a featured performance at the 2020 Texas Music Educators Association convention in San Antonio, TX.
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Jamie will be the alto soloist in performances of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Maestro Peter Bay and The Austin Symphony, with Conspirare Symphonic Choir.
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Superman Saves Family Home.
For real. A couple facing foreclosure had their fortunes reversed when they found a copy of Action Comics #1 in their basement.
Action Comics #1 is better known as the first ever Superman comic, and the progenitor of the entire superhero genre. Needless to say, it is pretty much the most significant comic book of all time, and very, very valuable.
The anonymous family found the comic while packing up their home, due to a bank's foreclosure proceedings. Fortunately, they knew better than to sell it at a garage sale, and contacted Stephen Fishler, co-owner of ComicConnect and Metropolis Collectibles in New York. Fishler is well familiar with the title, having brokered a copy of Action #1 for a record-breaking $1 million in February this year, only to break that record again with the sale of a second copy for $1.5 million in March. This particular copy will be displayed and officially graded at the San Diego Comic-Con, where Fishler expects it will garner a VG+ ('Very Good') rating. Fishler also expects the book to fetch upwards of $250,000 when it goes up for auction through ComicConnect.
The house in question had been in the family since the 1950s, and it will probably stay in their possession for a while longer, thanks to the Man of Steel.


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The provincial government will not try to remove embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford because of the dangerous "precedent" it would set, says Finance Minister Charles Sousa.
"We do have a democratic system — an individual elected by the people of the city," Sousa told the Star's editorial board on Tuesday.
"And the precedent that this would create in other parts of Ontario, in other municipalities — whose decision is it? Has anyone been charged? There's a rule of law here. Who else would we want out?" he said, warning of a slippery slope for the province.
"So I'm not going to . . . speculate. There's been other instances with other councillors and other mayors in other parts of the province that have had difficulties."
That was an apparent reference to London Mayor Joe Fontana, who faces charges after allegedly using taxpayer money to help pay for his son's wedding reception in June 2005.
Fontana, who has remained on the job, will soon go on trial for charges of fraud under $5,000, uttering a forged document and breach of trust by a public official. In contrast, Ford has not been charged with any offence.
But since Ford — who has been under police investigation for his links to an alleged drug dealer — admitted to smoking crack cocaine, there have been calls at city council for Queen's Park to unseat him.
That would require either an amendment to the City of Toronto Act or special legislation.
Business at the provincial capital has all but ground to a halt in the wake of police Chief Bill Blair confirming a video of the mayor smoking crack, which was first reported by the Star and the U.S. website Gawker in May.
But Sousa, MPP for Mississauga South, stressed that Queen's Park is "sensitive" to the fact the Liberal government has given city of Toronto council greater authority over its own affairs than any other municipality.
"In regards to leadership, council — I'm hoping that they'll get things in order," the minister said.
"We all share concerns about doing what's in the best interest of the city and of Ontario," he said. "What I want is to promote Ontario, promote Toronto, and we'll do that regardless of the antics that will occur at city hall."


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IT was supposed to be only a summer romance.
That's all that Ariana Rockefeller was allowing herself in 2005, as she explored the hidden coves of Mount Desert Island in Maine with Matthew Bucklin.
They sailed around the lobster-claw-shaped haven with its pink granite bluffs, where Mr. Bucklin was raised amid the thousands of acres that the late John D. Rockefeller Jr., Ms. Rockefeller's great-grandfather, had donated to what is now Acadia National Park.
"Summer girl meets local boy" is how Ms. Rockefeller, 28, summed up their story.
But like characters in a Nicholas Sparks romance novel, their courtship was complicated. In fact, Mr. Bucklin, whose family has owned a construction company in Northeast Harbor, Me., for more than a century, waited years for a first date.
They initially crossed paths as children on the island. "I distinctly remember him and his three brothers rolling around in the sand," Ms. Rockefeller said.
As Mr. Bucklin, now 27, recalled, "She wanted to come over and play, but her nanny wouldn't let her."
It was more than a decade later, in August 2003, when they were officially introduced at a party in Northeast Harbor. She took note of his six-foot athletic frame, but what most intrigued her was the weight of his words. (Mr. Bucklin, who had been changing his siblings' diapers from the time he was 5, carries himself with a seriousness that belies his age.)
"He was calm and confident," said Ms. Rockefeller, who is known for her own intrepid spirit. They bonded over stories of recent semesters abroad; she in Paris and he in St. Petersburg. "He wanted to make something of himself," she said, contrasting his aspirations with those of men she'd met who "just want to live off their parents' trust funds."
As for Mr. Bucklin, he was smitten by her worldly poise and unaffected humility. "I thought she was beautiful, down to earth and easy to talk to," he said.
But Ms. Rockefeller, wary of the attention that comes with her surname, was not prone to casual liaisons. Especially in this small Maine community. "Everyone knows everybody's business," she said. "I always worked hard to stay low profile."
Over that summer and the next one, she welcomed Mr. Bucklin's friendship but not his romantic overtures. "He'd try to hold my hand in movies and things like that, and I'd skillfully get out of it," she said.
He was uncomplaining and undeterred. "I realized quickly that she didn't respond well to people pursuing her aggressively," he said.
He also learned how easily she could flee when she abruptly departed college, and the continent, to live in northern Brazil, where she volunteered at an elementary school, run by a nonprofit organization there.
"I'm a Gemini," Ms. Rockefeller said. "I love to change things up."
In 2005, however, she was distressed by the changes thrust upon her as her parents, David Rockefeller Jr. and Diana Newell Rowan, underwent a difficult divorce. Ms. Rockefeller returned to the island that summer seeking its healing powers, and what she found was Mr. Bucklin offering steadfast support.
"He made me feel very calm," she said, "and very happy." He was weakening her resolve against dating him, until one evening: "I remember just sighing and thinking to myself, Here we go. And then I leaned in and kissed him."
It was what he had been waiting for.
Days of swimming in the ocean followed nights of stargazing in each other's arms. "I was having the time of my life," she said. But she insisted it was just a summer fling.
He disagreed. Having recently graduated from Colby College, he took a job in the fall as a financial analyst in New York, so he could be near her while she finished her degree in political science at Columbia.
But she viewed his proximity with alarm. Instead of being an escape from family drama, he was becoming an entanglement.
"I freaked out," she said. She also relocated to a surfers' shack in Hawaii. "I thought if I was in a relationship, I was going to lose part of myself."
It was Mr. Bucklin who acutely felt a loss. "She was the only one I've ever been totally comfortable with," he said.
They remained in sporadic contact, but only as friends. He was determined to win her back, and he decided the way to do that was to improve himself. "This was a very special woman, and she would want to be with someone interesting and worldly."
He set out to be that person, crossing tasks off his "to do" list, including continuing his education at New York University and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.
After four years, he reached one of the last items, what he called "getting in touch with my roots," becoming the fifth generation to work at his family's business, now owned by his father, Charles E. Bucklin.
There on Mount Desert Island, Ms. Rockefeller and Mr. Bucklin reconnected when she visited last summer. "Matt proved that he was really serious about me," she said, still sounding grateful and surprised. By Christmas she was the one making plans to relocate to Maine to be near him.
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But then the old doubts of losing her independence crept in. "I was afraid to end up where my parents had been," she said. In February, she informed Mr. Bucklin that she was moving to Los Angeles.
"I wasn't quite sure if she wanted to run away from me, or just wanted to feel chased," he said. A chase is what she got when he followed her to L.A.
"I always knew I loved her," he said. "Seven years of waiting and friendship, that was the hard part."
He proposed that same month. Not only did she accept, but she also wanted to elope.
"I was used to running away," she said, but with his encouragement, she had a change of heart. "I finally just wanted to face everything and do things gracefully and properly."
On Sept. 4, more than 200 wedding guests assembled on Mount Desert Island in a shaded glade within the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, created by the bride's great-grandmother, who was a founder of the Museum of Modern Art.
A puff of white cloud strayed across a powder-blue sky as Ms. Rockefeller walked the aisle of fresh cut grass in a Monique Lhuillier embroidered lace sheath gown and floor-length veil.
The Rev. Mary B. Johnstone, an Episcopal priest, led Ms. Rockefeller and Mr. Bucklin in their vows on an altar of moss-covered granite before an 11-foot limestone Chinese pagoda.
The bride looked serene and strong as the couple stood side by side, framed by two white birch trees gently bending toward each other, their branches entwined.
During the cocktail hour, friends and family wandered through the garden's riotous blossoms. Japanese anemones, giant yellow daffodils and blood red Spartacus dahlias competed for attention with mounds of fresh lobster meat and oysters on the half shell, while a bald eagle soared among the towering pines.
Mr. Rockefeller toasted the couple, welcoming his new son-in-law to the family and their homes, "where we lose our socks and try to find our center," he said.
With the sun hanging low in the sky, Mr. Bucklin took his wife on the dance floor and held her close as they swayed to "Summer Wind," the Johnny Mercer classic.
"He keeps me grounded," she said, "and I keep him on his toes."


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Position Description
Job summary
The Marketing & Events Assistant is responsible to the Executive Director for supporting the daily administrative, operational, social media and event related tasks to the EOD Warrior Foundation (EODWF) team in the Niceville, FL office. This is a great opportunity to join a stable organization with advancement and growth possibilities.
Summary of essential job functions
- Assists in the planning and execution of special events to include fundraisers, retreats, awareness events, tradeshows and other events as necessary.
- Assists in the coordination of fund raising events and associated activities to include filling requests for fundraising materials – such as bracelets and brochures.
- Support the upkeep of EOD Warrior Foundation website, Facebook, and other social media outlets
- Draft, mail merge, print and send letters to donors and others who are affiliated with the EOD Warrior Foundation.
- Prepare shipping labels and drop off items to ship daily.
- Make copies of checks and prepare bank deposits as necessary.
- Maintain and update donor database (experience with Donor Perfect a plus)
- Responsible for preparing correspondence and reports as requested.
- Perform administrative support and other job related duties in support of the Executive Director and local office team.
- Assures the organization and its mission, programs, products and services are consistently presented in strong, positive image to relevant stakeholders
- Support scholarship process to include mail merges and learning the scholarship application database, Fluid Review.
- Perform daily responsibilities and work independently with minimal supervision.
Minimum requirements
The Marketing & Events Assistant will have a minimum of 2 – 4 years administrative experience and event planning/coordination experience. The Marketing & Events Assistant will have a High School Diploma or equivalent, Bachelors degree preferred. Additionally, he/she must be able to communicate in fluent English language and be a legal resident or US Citizen. Hired applicant will be expected pass a detailed background investigation and to maintain a neat personal appearance at all times.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the Marketing & Events Assistant is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, speak, and hear. The position requires extensive computer use so the employee must have sufficient hand dexterity to use a computer keyboard and be capable of reading a computer screen. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The Marketing & Events Assistant will be asked to travel for events related to the EOD Warrior Foundation, trainings, or other items identified by the Executive Director to maintain proficiency in fulfilling the responsibilities of the position. Up to 25% travel.
Work Environment
The work environment will be in Niceville, FL in an office and other locations for meetings as required by the opportunities and events for the organization. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. Reasonable accommodations in the work environment may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Capabilities / qualities required
- The Marketing & Events Assistant will have excellent oral and written communication skills.
- The ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment is required.
- The Marketing & Events Assistant has a solid foundation in computer skills to include proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Microsoft Publisher and Donor Perfect experience is a plus.
- The Marketing & Events Assistant is a problem solver versus problem identifier.
- Excellent typing and proofreading skills.
- Team builder and team player. This person works well with other members of the organization.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
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Social Tennis - Adult & Junior Teams - Coaching - Holiday Camps
Welcome to the website of the best kept secret in North London. Nominated and voted Middlesex Club of the Year 2018!
In recent years The Avenue Tennis Club in Finchley Central has been transformed, with new playing surfaces, a brand new custom built pavilion and three floodlit courts, which now have an extended curfew and can be used until 10pm in the evening.
Three newly surfaced courts were funded by Middlesex Tennis and Sport England. The new specially designed junior court was completed thanks to further funding by The Lord Mayor's Fund, and thanks to The London Marathon Charitable Trust, we have three floodlit courts.
The course will be run over four Saturdays and can be booked here
Flood Lights
With our new lights you will be able to enjoy all year round tennis, there could not be a better time to join, contact our coach Sally on 07958 758 580 or email her email@example.com and she will show you round. Give her a call now and play tomorrow!
Want to Get Fit in Finchley?
Come and have Fun Fighting Flab at The Avenue Tennis Club.
The Avenue is a very social tennis club with lots of activities for the whole family including Adult Groups, Junior Groups, Cardio Tennis, Holiday Camps, Fun Days, Competitions and relaxed Drop In Groups.
Club Calendar
Visit our Calendar Page to see to see what we have scheduled in the next few months.
There is always lots going on to get involved with for all levels of experience.
All our team matches are listed here along with all the junior activties.
You will also find details of all our social events.
Court Time Table
Check our Court Time Table to see when there is a court free today!
Every effort is made to ensure that courts are available for members to play regardless of the various coaching activities. Our time table shows when regular activities are scheduled and when the courts are available as well as the costs for Adult Group Drop in Coaching.
Adult Teams
If you would like to play in one of our teams you will find details on our Adults Page. We currently have a men's doubles team, a women's doubles team and a mixed doubles team, all playing in the Central League.
Our Junior section is extremely active offering tennis for all age groups including Mini Tennis, Red, Orange, Green and Teen. Full details about the different age and ability groups can be found on our Juniors Page.
Adult & Junior Coaching
And of course coaching from a team lead by our very own Sally Bentley
We are extremely proud to be Clubmark Accredited by The Lawn Tennis Association.
Clubmark was introduced by Sport England in 2002 and is currently being implemented across 34 sports. The LTA administers its own version of Clubmark based on the national guidelines for best practice combined with real life examples of successfully run places to play tennis across the country.
New Members
If you would like more information about the club, please don't hesitate to contact Sally Bentley via our Contact Page.
We are always more than happy to welcome new members and our annual subscriptions are still incredibly low and there are no entrance fees.
Spring Term Coaching Groups
We are now taking bookings for our Spring term junior coaching groups here at the Avenue, for ages between 4 and 17. To view the schedule and to make a booking please visit Spring Term Bookings.
Junior Holiday Camps 2020
Once again we will have a full programme of junior holiday camps during 2020. The full schedule will be posted on this site soon. To book our February Half Term Camp please visit Camp Bookings.
Tennis Shoes
Naturally we are anxious to maintain the condition of our new court surfaces and so insist that everyone using the courts wears proper tennis shoes. Tennis shoes are flat bottomed, so trainers are not suitable as they have chunky grooves on the bottom that damage the surface.
Car parking at the club
There is no parking available at the tennis club but it is easy to park nearby and you can find full details on our Contact Page.
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To find out if coaching, competitions or tennis camps are cancelled due to bad weather, click on the umbrella picture.
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A car insurance broker is an agent who acts on your behalf to arrange and assist with car insurance.
Most car insurance brokers are independent and do not work for any insurance company. Instead, they use their knowledge to shop around for car insurance deals and negotiate with insurers on your behalf.
A car insurance broker usually provides services such as:
- Advising you on the policy that suits your circumstances
- Explaining the details such as coverage, premiums, limitations and exclusions
- Reviewing car insurance policies with you annually and offering advice on the latest products and add-ons available
- Assisting with any claims by representing you in dealings with the insurance company
What do car insurance brokers do?
There are two different types of insurance brokers, and they are required to explain which category they fall into if you ask.
- The first type is an independent broker who helps clients out with a broad range of insurance issues, and compares options from all available providers. They usually get paid directly by their clients for services rendered, but may also earn commissions for signing clients up. They will often have a portfolio, or list, of all the different insurance companies they work with and look at options from.
- The second is an agent for a particular insurance company. Their services are sometimes free, but they will only find you deals and offer assistance for that one particular company. They usually get paid a commission for helping customers sign up.
Regardless of which category an insurance broker falls into, they can provide the following benefits:
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- They do all the legwork for you in comparing policies
- They warn of insurance traps, pitfalls and legal requirements
- They can represent you expertly when dealing with insurers
- They often have access to policies that the average person does not know about
- They are often able to negotiate better deals than you could alone. Due to a broker's position in the industry, many companies extend them special offers to pass onto their clients
- They know and can advise you of any discounts or exemptions you may be entitled to
- They remain impartial and committed to the best outcome. Insurance brokers are strictly governed by industry regulations which require them to act in your best interests and disclose any conflicts of interest they may have.
How much does a car insurance broker cost?
The cost of using an insurance broker depends on which kind of broker you use, and how expensive your insurance policy is. It might cost you nothing, or it might run into thousands of dollars all up.
- The bulk of a car insurance broker's income will typically come from commissions paid by insurers. This can range from 0-25% of your premium paid. It does not directly cost you anything, as this sum is paid by the insurance company, but it might mean your broker has an incentive to direct you to more expensive policies or certain insurers that pay bigger commissions.
- Some brokers may directly charge you a fee of a certain proportion of your premium. For example, they might charge you 10% of premiums paid, so if you are paying $500 annually in car insurance premiums then the broker is costing you $50 per year.
- You may have to pay additional flat fees when you sign up for a new insurance policy, an hourly rate or flat fee for time they have spent working on your behalf such as when making a claim, an annual management fee if you are maintaining policies through them and more. They can charge fees at their own discretion, but are required to be clear and up-front about them.
As such, a broker with more fees but no commission may be more motivated to find you a good deal in the hope that you decide the fees are worth it, while a broker with no fees but higher commission might cost you a lot less or nothing at all directly, but might steer you towards unnecessarily expensive policies.
Fortunately, car insurance brokers are required to disclose their fees and incentives if you ask. In other words, you have the freedom to pay as much or as little for a car insurance broker as you want, but should be aware of the pros and cons of each. If you already have an insurance broker, find out how much it's costing you by looking at their Statement of Advice or the Financial Services Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) that they have sent you.
When assessing the cost of a car insurance broker, you need to decide whether the time and money they will save you is worth the fee for their services. Just like comparing insurance policies, getting value for money rather than finding the lowest possible price should be your main goal. If you are using a broker to organise and manage all of your policies, including car insurance, then paying for their time could be money well spent.
How do I choose a broker?
A good car insurance broker should be:
- Transparent. They should disclose all fees upfront and any affiliations or conflicts of interest they might have. They are required to inform you of these when asked, but should do so unprompted.
- Proactive. They should be in touch with you regularly and actively working on your behalf to secure and manage your policies.
- Empathetic. They should be open to your concerns or queries, patient while you consider your options and should never try to force a policy on you that you don't want or aren't sure about.
- Knowledgeable. They should have extensive knowledge and industry experience, and have a wide range of insurers in their portfolio.
All brokers must be:
- Licensed. The minimum licensing requirement for insurance brokers in New Zealand is a Financial Markets Authority (FMA) licence. Beyond this, more highly qualified brokers may also hold Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) certifications.
Should I use a car insurance broker?
As with everything, there are both pros and cons to using a broker.
On the plus side:
- A car insurance broker has access to a lot more insurers and options than you do. They will generally find a better policy and/or better price than you would get without using one
- An insurance broker can save you a lot of time and effort
- A broker can negotiate a better deal for you
- A car insurance broker is better able to represent your interests
- Car insurance brokers are a valuable source of information and advice
- Brokers can negotiate claims with the insurance company on your behalf, which can be particularly useful in tricky areas like third party liability claims
- Car insurance brokers are recommended when insuring business vehicles, trucks and vehicle fleets, rather than private cars
On the downside:
- A car insurance broker may charge you a fee for their services, and may cost more than you save
- An insurance broker who is not truly independent may steer you towards insurers they are affiliated with, although they are required to disclose this when asked
- If you are only buying car insurance, particularly more simple third party-only options, a car insurance broker who charges a fee may not be worth your while
How are brokers regulated?
Because car insurance brokers are providing financial advice, they are subject to regulations that govern the conduct of all financial services. They must hold a Financial Markets Authority (FMA) licence, or be an authorised representative of an FMA licensee.
Brokers must also abide by the standards of the Companies Act 1993, which require them to:
- Act in your best interests
- Provide appropriate advice
- Warn you if their advice is incomplete or inaccurate
- Put your interests ahead of theirs when there is a conflict of interest
- Provide you with a Statement of Advice (SoA) documenting the advice they have given you about the insurance policy
As a condition of their licence, brokers must also be a member of an external dispute resolution scheme and in the event of a dispute with a client, must abide by the decisions of Financial Services Complaints Ltd (FSCL).
Brokers who are members of the Insurance Brokers Association of New Zealand (IBANZ) are also required to abide by strict rules of conduct set out in the Insurance Brokers Code of Practice. In short, the rules and regulations surrounding brokers require them to always act in your best interests, and to clearly say when they might not be able to.
In the unlikely event that a conflict should arise between the insurance broker and yourself, you will always have somewhere to turn.
How do I find a good broker?
- Word of mouth: Recommendations (or otherwise) from people you know who have had experience with a car insurance broker can provide a good insight into how they operate. If you want to hear from a broker's former customers, the broker should be happy to offer references.
- Online: Some brokers advertise online, and visiting their website or social media can give you an indication of their experience, professionalism and level of customer service. There are also online car insurance broker comparison sites where you can compare the options side by side.
- Insurance Brokers Association of New Zealand (IBANZ): The peak body representing more than 90% of New Zealand's insurance brokers has a "Find-a-Broker" service, where you can locate a registered, qualified insurance broker and IBANZ member in your area.


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A bro is 18-24 year old male who likes to play game cube and/or Xbox & listen to jack johnson and dave matthews band. There main scent is any of the Axe body sprays. Usually their attire consists of berkenstocks or flip flops, ripped jeans, an abercrombiee water polo with the collar popped, and a hat with a pre-frayed brim.
The show went into detailed discussion on what exactly a "bro" consisted of on April 14, 2008 when it was discovered that Intern Benercrombie was in fact a bro. Evidence was submitted to the show from Benercrombies Myspace page where he wore a seashell necklace and was in the company of some men that appeared to be bro's as well. One is sporting a pink polo with the typical bro "popped collar" and the other guy is shirtless. It is unclear in the second picture if the shirtless guy and Benercrombie are actually holding hands or grappling each others hips.
"Yo wanna come over and chill. We can play game cube and take off our pants."


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Over the last forty-odd years, money earned by the Society's Town Tours and Slide/Tape Presentations has enabled the erection of a number of plaques around the town, in conjunction with other local organisations and descendants. This was to create a lasting memorial of Newark's famous citizens, businesses and events. The plaques have all been photographed, and form the basis of this report. The first plaque was erected in 1973, and marks the birthplace of the nationally known artist, Sir William Newsome Prior Nicholson (born in 1879). Costs for this plaque are unrecorded, but the second plaque, on the birthplace of Sir Donald Wolfit, cost no more than £12 10s 6d.! Contrast this with today's prices: a recent plaque, in 2013, to commemorate George (Willie) Hall, the International footballer, cost over £450!
The Society's plaques are dedicated as tabulated below. Each is dedicated to a named individual or his bequest:-
William N Nicholson London Road Newark 1973
Donald Wolfit London Road Balderton 1974
Methodist Chapel Millgate 1980
Jersey School Guildhall Street 1983
William Jessop Appleton Gate 1985
Guildhall St. Chapel Guildhall Street 1987
Mulberry Tree (tree) Newark Cemetery 1989
Walnut Trees (tree) Lincoln Road Bridge 1992
James Gresham Castlegate 1993
Cannon Ball Hole Mount Lane 1994
Trent Iron Works ('Nicky's') Trent Bridge 1996
Drill Hall Sherwood Avenue 1998
Church Chimney Church Walk 2000
William Cubley 80 Millgate 2002
Aldermen's Walk Market Place 2002
Robert Kiddey King Street 2005
John Carr Newark Town Hall 2009
Newark Hospital Old hospital, London Rd/ Sherwood Ave.
Junction 2011
George 'Willie' Hall Lovers' Lane School 2013
Thomas Earp MP The White House, Millgate 2014
Constance Penswick Smith 2 Church Walk 2015
Sir William Gilstrap MP Bart. Newark Registry Office 2017


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It is absolutely imperative for the pathology service to communicate effectively with radiologists and surgeons to ensure that appropriate and timely clinical care is delivered. This is not a glib statement - many of the errors that are made in medicine are due to poor communication and the breast service is no exception.
Main areas of communication:
Pre-operative diagnosis - two way between imaging, surgery and pathology
Post-operative reporting - diagnosis, prognostic indices, pointers for future management
Examples of potential pitfalls in pre-operative reporting
The C1/C2 boundary:
The dividing line between what is adequate or representative and what is not Important when cytology is used in diagnostic practice A decision between C1 & C2 is often made easier by
discussion of the case
with the Surgeon or Radiologist
The false negative C2:
This will usually occur in the context of a low grade carcinoma or a mucinous carcinoma
Read the request form, find out about the imaging and
talk to the surgeon!!
The inappropriate C3:
Practitioners must feel able to express uncertainty - nevertheless the "suspicious" rate in cytology should be < 10%
Common areas for overcalling C3 (or worse) are fibroadenomas especially in women under 25 and gynaecomastia
The inappropriate C4:
Once again practitioner must feel free to express uncertainty. Most C4s in our experience turn out to be cancers. In the context of a radiologically or clinically appropriate lesion careful review of the cytology (especially with the assistance of a colleague) may allow the C4 to be revised to a C5 - BUT - beware fibroadenomas and apocrine changes.
The false positive C5:
Common causes are:
Columnar cell change
Granulomatous lobular mastopathy
Papillary lesions
We will all continue to make these mistakes but their frequency can be reduced by good communication.
Please remember that it is just as important for pathology colleagues to communicate with each other as it is for them to communicate with surgeons and radiologists. It is essential in any pathology service that pathologists can feel free to share problems and therefore avoid mistakes.
The core biopsy
Main areas of use of core biopsy
In screening - assessment of calcs and distortions of architecture
In the symptomatic service - diagnosis of benign conditions and malignancy
Assessment of calcs:
The reporting pathologist needs to be aware that he is in a diagnostic loop between the radiologist and the patient. Calcs are picked up on a mammogram, are then retrieved (more or less adequately) by the radiologist and then the pathologist reports the sections. It is the job of the pathologist to identify those calcs retrieved in the core (as seen on a specimen X ray, ideally), relate them to the histology and then discuss the findings to determine whether the mammographic abnormality is represented in the sections.
The areas of diagnostic difficulty are:
The boundary between "Normal or ? Representative" (B1) and "Benign" (B2):
- often a difficult decision
- normal breast tissue always warrants a B1 diagnosis
Minor elements of benign change e.g. apocrine metaplasia or columnar cell change need to be considered carefully before assigning a B2 (Benign) diagnosis - they may not be representative
The boundary between B2 and B3
The usual problem here is drawing the line between usual type hyperplasias (B2) and atypical proliferations (B3). Columnar cell change often gives difficulty in this context and is often picked up at screening because of calcs.
The other common B3 diagnoses are for suspected
radial scars
and apparently
benign papillary lesions
The B3/B4 Boundary
In practice this is not much of a problem area. B3 and B4 will usually be followed by a diagnostic biopsy although a B4 call may encourage the surgeon to take a wider margin than for a B3 call. B4 should signal to the surgeon that there are very serious concerns about DCIS and may prompt a repeat core rather than a diagnostic biopsy so that definitive surgery can be planned. Most B4s will turn out to be DCIS +/- invasive cancer on excision. Once again communication with the surgeon and radiologist is vital so that the next step is the right step in the management of the case.
The B4/B5 boundary
This is a very difficult area of practice. It is essential that any core biopsy result is correlated with the radiology to ensure that the correct procedure follows. The following potential problems need to be kept in mind:
An inappropriate diagnosis of DCIS can result in a mastectomy
If there are benign and malignant calcs in sections SAY SO to avoid the misconception that ALL the calcs on a mammogram are malignant
If you are not sure of your diagnosis show the sections to a colleague - don't allow yourself to be rushed or pressured
Cut more levels - it is astonishing how a difficult case can get easier with more material to look at
for myoepithelial markers is helpful to distinguish ADH from DCIS
The Pathology Report & Communication
There is no substitute for verbal communication with the surgeon or radiologist about a case but this is not possible all the time. Furthermore if this route is overused it will simply clog this channel of communication.
Communication in Breast Pathology
The MDM - this should not just be reading the report but an interactive correlation of all the information available
The Phone Call - use the phone - mobiles are great in this regard if your hospital allows them - consider texting
The written report - see below
Pathology reports are required to deliver and record permanently key diagnostic and management information. Examples of reports are given in
Specimen types and tissue handling
Key points in the pathology report
The FNA and core biopsy report need to be sufficiently clear to guide further management unambiguously
If the pathology is equivocal say so and if possible reinforce by verbal discussion/MDM
The non-cancer excision biopsy report needs to be reported so that there is no doubt about whether a patient needs to be followed up e.g. benign v atypical
The cancer excision report (mastectomy or wide local excision) requires clear statements about grade, size etc, margins and nodes in addition to prognostic/management information e.g. ER, Her-2 status
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historical novels before - sort of. My Warriors series: Warriors of Alavna, Warriors of Camlann, Warriors of Ethandun' and the stand alone 'Wolfblood,' were all set between the first and ninth centuries. I have always done my research but, as these books have always included fantastical elements, my brain has allowed me a little wriggle room with the facts. I still angsted over the kind of sword that would have been available to my protagonists but permitted magic, and metamorphosis and, yep, I admit it, I've made a lot of things up.
It has been enormously helpful to hear Hilary Mantel reflect on the writing of history in her Reith Lectures. They are brilliant if you haven't caught them yet. She points out that 'Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is not the past - it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past. It's the record of what's left on the record.' Wise words indeed, especially for a period when the record is relatively small and contradictory. Like all writers, my job is to get to the place where the facts, what we know about the time, disappear into an understanding of what it is like to be a particular person at a particular moment, but it is hard. The written word and the archeological record speak of different worlds. I cannot hold the contradictions in my head. I am struggling to reimagine a world that makes sense to me. Each book I read is like a biopsy of a different organ and it does not seem to belong to the same body.


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Pick up a major change form from your current college and drop it off in the major change form drop box beside POT 613 under the bulletin board. If you have not already done so, please contact Jaime Wainscott (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Katie Wilder (firstname.lastname@example.com) to discuss possible future schedule changes.
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Are you a beginner golfer and you want to learn how to play a good game? If so, then you need to make sure you follow the right steps that will help you obtain the desired results. Here are some of the most useful golf techniques for beginner players.
You must develop a perfect posture
The posture is very important in golf. If it is not perfect, then your shots will certainly not be very good. Therefore, if you are a beginner, and you really want to learn how to play golf correctly and like a professional, then you must develop a perfect posture. What you actually need to do is to focus on a correct posture by tilting at your hips, and not at your waist. By exercising this posture, you will certainly manage to achieve your goal in a short period of time, and you will soon see how much your game will improve.
It is recommended to start your downswing with your hips
It is wrong to start your downswing with your upper body, and this is a mistake that many beginners do. Therefore, if you want to become a professional, you need to take the following advice into account. You must certainly start your down swing with your hips.
You also need to create a solid stance
This is another thing you must do as a beginner. You need to create a solid stance which is wide, solid, and balanced, and stable as well. The best thing you can do is to build the golf swing from the ground up. By doing so, your results will be absolutely wonderful.
Concentrate very well
When it comes to golf, you obviously cannot obtain wonderful results without a good concentration. It is essential to sleep very well in order to be rested on the golf course, and also forget about everything once you are there. Concentrate very well on your shots. Imagine how the ball gets in the desired hole, and go for the shot. If nothing else distracts you, then you have lots of chances to obtain amazing results. All these gold techniques for beginner players presented in this article are absolutely essential, in order to learn how to play this sport correctly and professionally as well. Even if it will seem a bit too hard at the beginning, you will definitely find it a lot easier later, if you keep exercising regularly.


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When my brother and I were bold adolescents, we strayed off in the swampy woods between Borden's Pond and Great Meadows Wildlife Refuge with our neighbors, the Hull brothers. Stubbornly refusing to backtrack, we ended up plodding through a foot of mud, concertina wire hedges, and poison ivy–cutting through the sewage treatment plant on the final leg. When we got home, muddied, bloodied, and itchy, we dubbed our path the Hell Mell trail because we're very clever.
There have been many sequels, and I don't know that this one really qualifies as the worthy successor. It seems like it, but then I'm sure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sounded good at the time too.
Our fog-christened hike progressed from a leisurely bisection of the ghost village of Khalde—where the Tsarist Russians quashed Svan resistance and smashed their towers into Jenga piles—up to the Chebureki Pass (I'm terrible with remembering Georgian place names) at 2,790 meters, where we had panoramic views of Shkura, Georgia's highest peak, and the Gene Simmons-like tongues of the Khalde and Adishi Glaciers, both drooling rapid, freezing rivers into the valleys below.
Having been warned by other hikers that finding a safe place to cross the river on the other side of the pass would be tricky, we scouted out a few options from on high (our view from the pass is the photo at top). Problem is, from high above you cannot tell how cold, quick, or comedically calamitous the jazz-hand fingers of glacial melt will be.
I think I uttered the phrase "I'm not worried," a little too confidently several times.
After several flailing and failing attempts to ford at the first juncture, we meandered through the shoreline grass to a few other promising options, who very quickly broke those promises. Never trust anything you're told way down upon the Svanee river.
A small victory was had when I managed to cross in my Keen sandals but barely and without my bags. Though the water at its deepest was barely over my knees, it was sufficiently swift to splash up to my waist in places, freezing my toes and chilling my jewels.
In a worst-case scenario, we could get across at this zig-zag pass of splintered streams. But we decided to fall back to our other worst-case scenario plan. No, not building a raft out of dried feces, but bushwhacking to a sprawling snow spill down a gorge that thickly bridged the river further downstream.
The problem was getting there. At this point the foliage was so dense that we had to climb a foot or two above the ground to get some purchase on branches that would bend enough that we could squeeze between them. And the ground was so soft that if you did get your feet on the ground they'd disappear in either loose grass and rock or else creepy wet spongecakes that fantasized of swallowing your leg whole and telling their friends.
In short, it was hectic enough that I had to put my camera in my bag, which is saying a lot.
I don't know if there are snakes up here, but I can imagine them, which is just as much of a threat. As noted during my Nepal leg, in such situations I find it comforting to sing loudly. No sane animal would stick around after hearing that.
The worst bit (of the hike, not my singing) came toward the end, as we rappelled a few feet from the brief plummet into the river, along a wall of rhododendrons, clinging their tentacles and relaying across until we got to a clearing and the savior avalanche.
Turns out both Robin and I had macabrely imagined scenarios where we fall in through the snow and get tragically snagged in the icy flow below, drowning. It sounds as though mine was a bit more elaborate, including making a video to family and clawing my way below the surface a while. But the cow tracks and dung on the snow seemed argument enough that this was a solid crossing.
From there we could see our night's destination in the distance, like Rivendell, but without as many elves. We ran into a friendly Canadian family–who I later learned by Googling the name on their bags (no, that's not weird) were led by their daddio travel writer Bruce Kirkby–and shortly after paused a while on a low footbridge over a rushing white-water stream that released a pleasant misty spray on us.
Upon reaching Adishi, we settled in with a nice family, who to be fair, deserve their own blog entry. So that will be next. All in all a stellar 9-hour day and great hike. I'm happy that neither Robin nor I drowned. Especially me.
See my complete collection of Svaneti photos on Flickr.
(For the record, the pass is actually the Chkhutnieri Pass, which I learned by using the Google and found this nice video of someone else's journey–when the river was lower–on YouTube.)


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