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31st August - 5th November 2007
Blackpool Illuminations 2007 Details
Competition to Design a section Of Illuminations for 2008
For the first time in history Blackpool Council have decided to create a competition, open to the public to design a section of the 2008 Illuminations!
The winning designer will receive £3000, have their design created, and have their name on the design. Their design can be a road section or a massive tableaux up to 7 meters high by 36 meters long.
The only real criteria that has been placed on the entries is that they should stimulate, excite and entertain the audience. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen will be on the judging panel and entries must be submitted by 6th December 2007.
For more details and technical specifications please either firstname.lastname@example.com or write to Michael Wilcock, Blackpool Illuminations Department, Rigby Road East, Blackpool, FY1 5ES.
David Tennant to Switch on Blackpool Illuminations 2007
Today, 22nd August, with just 9 days to go to the Big Switch On the performers for the Switch on party have been announced!
David Tennant will actually throw the switch at approximately 9.30pm on the night. Preceding the Switch On will be performances from Natasha Beddingfield, Natalie Imbruglia, Gareth Gates, McFly and The Ghosts.
Natalie will be singing hits from her hits collection, due to be in shops next week. Natasha will be performing her new single Say it Again, before its October release.
Blackpool and BBC Radio 2 have today (30th March) announced the name of the mystery celebrity who will be flicking the famous switch to mark the start of the 2007 Blackpool Illuminations.
BBC TV Time Lord David Tennant will be swapping the powerful controls of the TARDIS for the controls of the most famous free light show in the world during a free concert and special live broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Friday 31 August 2007.
Tennant, who returns to television screens on BBC One on Saturday 31 March as Doctor Who makes a welcome return to the resort after starring in the internationally acclaimed BBC Drama 'Blackpool', and will be guest of honor at the biggest and brightest night in Blackpool's calendar.
Jackie Potter, Strategic Director, Tourism and Regeneration said today:
We are absolutely delighted that David Tennant has accepted our invitation to switch on the Lights on Friday 31 August 2007. Blackpool's Switch On celebrations are enjoyed by a huge family audience and we are sure this will be a popular choice.
The free concert during which he will throw the switch marks the start of Blackpool's Big Switch On Weekend. We hope that thousands of fans of David, and of Blackpool, will join us in the celebrations and that they stay to enjoy all the free events Blackpool will be hosting throughout the weekend and indeed during the Illuminations Season.
The 2007 Illuminations will also be a delight for Doctor Who fans, as Illuminations bosses are soon to unveil plans for a new display featuring characters and creatures from forthcoming episodes.
Tennant joins an illustrious list of stars to have launched the lights including the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, who illuminated the town as Doctor Who back in 1975.
Sci-Fi fans are in for a real treat with the 2007 display, as the most menacing, mysterious, and mean monsters from the most recent series of Doctor Who make their Illuminations debut. These new displays are situated outside the Dr Who Exhibition.
South Promenade Switch On
This year for the first time not all the 'Switch On' action is in the main arena!
Look out for the beautiful, white, star covered horse that will be parading along the South Shore promenade with his own beautiful light up show girls on board, creating lots of "WOW" moments. The Bare Back Burlesque troop are Britain's only equestrian burlesque company and usually perform their very unique style of burlesque at exclusive parties up and down the country. They are incredibly proud to be joining the illumination team for this year's Switch On. And these showgirls aren't just pretty faces, they will be performing a dazzling array of gymnastic stunts and maneuvers atop their glittering circus steed who also has a few tricks of his own up his furry sleeve!
Alongside this moving light show, there will also be the chance be enchanted by the famous Whoopee Beaux Belles dance troop, who will be performing under the world's largest Mirrorball, Located on South Shore Promenade. The Whoopee Beaux Belles are an all female dance troupe, their name is inspired by the Bow Bells of London and the famous Parisian dance troupe the Bluebell Girls.
BareBack Burlesque will perform six 15 minute sets at 6pm, 6.45pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm , 9.00pm and 9.45pm on The Great Promenade Show and the Whoopee Beaux Belles will be performing at the Mirror Ball at 4.00pm, 6.30pm, 7.45pm, 8.45pm.
World Fireworks Championships Blackpool
Tourism bosses in Blackpool have announced a line up of International Master Blasters in the return of World Fireworks Championships to the UK's Number One Resort.
Firework companies from around the globe have been invited to stage pyrotechnical displays, bringing an International flavor to Central Promenade during the opening weeks of Blackpool's Illuminations season.
Top firework manufacturers will represent their homeland by staging stunning pyrotechnical displays in the skies above Blackpool's Central Beach during September in a show which should be evocative of the style or tradition of their country.
The countries chosen to perform are Portugal, Canada, United Kingdom and Austria
Opening the competition are Pirotecnia Minhota representing their homeland Portugal, on Sunday 2 September, as part of the Blackpool Illuminations 'Big Switch On Weekend' celebrations.
On Friday 7 September, it is the turn of Canadian Company DW Fireworks to set the skies ablaze and dazzle the crowds.
Jubilee Fireworks will fly the Union flag for the UK on Friday 14 September, as they attempt to outshine their opponents in a glittering display. This outstanding British Team were crowned 'Champion of Champions' in the 2006 National Fireworks Championships.
The final competitors, Design Fireworks, will travel from Austria to try and stake their claim on the title, with an explosively original show on Friday 21 September.
To mark the close of the competition a celebratory performance on Friday 28 September, during which the winner of the competition will be announced. British Pyrotechnical experts from Kimbolton Fireworks, have the honor of the final display, they have created displays for many prestigious events including the celebration of the hand over of Hong Kong to China.
The first of the free displays is on Sunday 2nd September, with further displays every Friday in September. Each display is free to view, and the fireworks companies will be launching from North Pier, ensuring plenty of space to view each spectacle from Blackpool's Central Promenade.
Each competing company will have to design and launch a display to impress the public, and the judging panel by combining cutting edge pyro-musical design with a style or tradition from their country. Entrants must launch fireworks particular to their homeland and showcase their own pyrotechnical expertise, to win the title.
Promenade wind turbines installed
Although the turbines cost £147,000, councilors hope they will cut £13,250 off the town's annual energy bill.
Julian Kearsley, Blackpool Council's executive director, said people would be able to comment on the designs. The resort is testing two types of turbine to harness the seafront wind.
The first ones to arrive will be three-blade turbines mounted on 15m (49ft) poles. They have 9m (29ft) blades - making them 19.5m (64ft) high in total. They will be joined in early May by a smaller 14m (46ft) "helical" turbine which has "S" shaped blades. The council expects them to last for 25 years.
There are already two wind turbines at the Solaris Centre in the resort and this pilot will extend the project.
"Our initial experience of the two wind turbines at the Solaris Centre has been good," said Mr Kearsley. "Geographically, Blackpool is in a tremendous position to harness the power of the wind and turn it to our advantage. "This pilot will enable us to confirm wind speeds, turbine output and the number of turbines required." The council said the illuminations, although a "key element" of the town, means it uses more power than other councils. Powering street lighting, traffic signs, municipal buildings and the resort's light show costs about £1m a year, it has said.
Interior design guru, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is to create a section of next year's world famous Blackpool Illuminations.
Laurence's involvement is a real creative landmark because this the first time ever that Blackpool has invited an internationally acclaimed designer to contribute to the much loved annual spectacle.
I'm totally seduced by Blackpool's high-kicking glamour and historical reputation for giddy glitz. I'm delighted to have been asked to provide designs for the illuminations and am more than aware of what an accolade it is. And I intend not to disappoint. For me, as a designer, this is, I suppose, the ultimate in seeing my name, or at least my design, up in lights. I can't wait to get started.
Laurence's new section of lights has been called Decodance and is shown below. His designer lights will be positioned alongside the Blackpool Tower right in the heart of the resort.
Blackpool Tourism and BBC Radio 2 have revealed that the name of the mystery celebrity who will be flicking the switch in the glittering Illuminations Switch On Ceremony on Friday 31st August 2007 is Dr Who - David Tennant.
The Switch On Arena located at the rear of Coral Island, just off the Promenade will open to the public from 4.00pm with entry strictly on a First Come, First Served basis. A special raised area for wheelchair users in located in the centre of the arena and this again is entry on a first come, first served basis.
Broadcast live from Blackpool, thousands of visitors will be welcomed to the Radio 2 Arena by top BBC DJ Mark Goodier, as he presents a one-off Switch On special show live on air between 8.30pm and 9.30pm. Preceding the actual Switch On will be performances from Natasha Beddingfield, Natalie Imbruglia, Gareth Gates, McFly and The Ghosts.


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Bruce Lee's Fighting Method: Basic Traing and Self Defense Techniques
- Format: DVD
- Rated: NR
- Release Date: 10/7/2008
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Bruce Lee, the legend of martial arts and motion pictures, first studied Wing Chun Kung Fu in Hong Kong under the tutelage of Yip Man. When he came to the United States, Lee developed a concept of martial arts for the individual man that he labeled Jeet Kune Do; the way of the intercepting fist. His first book, the Tao of Jeet Kune Do, became a standard in the martial arts field. It was followed by Bruce Lee's Fighting Method, a series of four volumes complied by Lee's friend and student M. Uyehara. This DVD covers the first two volumes of Lee's fighting method: Basic Training and Self-Defense Techniques. Topics include warm-ups, basic exercises, on-guard positions, footwork, power training, speed training and self-defense techniques. Demonstrating the techniques in this DVD presentation are Ted Wong and Richard Bustillo.

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Pekka Soini, Director General of Tekes
Government Funding Encourages Companies to Take Risks
A self-described risk taker whose philosophy rests on encouraging imagination through play might seem more like PIXAR or Tesla than a government agency. But Tekes, Finland's state funding agency, is different.
Government Funding Encourages Companies to Take RisksBy Liang-rong Chen
From CommonWealth Magazine (vol. 614 )
Finland is the world's most innovation-focused country. Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, with a staff of 400, plays a central role in circulating the blood of innovation through every capillary of the industrial ecosphere.
As recounted in the book 100 Social Innovations from Finland, Tekes is the crystallization of business and government leaders' recognition of the vital importance of public-private sector cooperation to formulate research and development approaches. With this in mind, the Finnish government established Tekes in 1983 to act as an intermediary between research and development agencies, enterprises and universities to help synchronize the pace of innovation.
Finns are especially proud of Tekes' instrumental role in the 1980s and 90s in getting universities and research institutes on board in digital and telecommunications technology development. These efforts were key to establishing the impressive technological and human resource foundation behind the rise of Finnish company Nokia.
At present Tekes has made supporting new startup companies its chief mission. The institution's 2015 annual report relates that it currently helps fund nearly 2,000 projects with an annual budget of around 575 million euros.
Nine of Finland's 10 fastest-growing high-tech companies have benefited from Tekes funding or loans. The institution proudly claims to have funded 65 percent of Finland's innovation.
Tekes functions similarly to a large venture capital firm, drawing members from private enterprise, many boasting extensive professional experience. Among them, Tekes Director General Pekka Soini, a Nokia veteran, was personally recruited in 2012 by the then Finnish Minister of Economy and Employment to take the helm of Finland's "heart of innovation."
Following is our exclusive interview with Mr. Soini, edited for clarity and brevity.
CommonWealth: In a few words, how would you describe Tekes's contribution to the startup boom in Finland?
Soini: We have enabled even riskier ideas to go forward. We have encouraged risk taking, and that is probably the most important thing in the startup scene. This scene has not existed for long - only maybe the last 10 years. These days if you went to a university and asked students if they would like to start their own company after graduation, probably half of them would raise their hands. But 10 years ago you would only see a few raised hands. So it has changed, and I would say that this is because it is a global phenomenon, as digitization has enabled startups to become global almost from day one.
The gaming company Supercell is a good example. Good examples have helped young people to see how things can be done and how the Internet can be used to grow a business. That has enabled a lot of people to think differently, and globalization has definitely enabled that because people are more capable of doing things via the Internet, such as skills like coding.
Letting imaginations flow and grow
But imagination is also critical, and very often when we compare education in different countries, oftentimes we see how Finland takes a looser approach, allowing a lot of room for playing and imagination, rather than requiring a lot of homework in the early stages of schooling. We encourage a lot of playing, which allows people's imaginations to grow. Finland's position in the gaming industry probably has something to do with this.
Over the last 15 or 20 years, a kind of game culture has been created, and our role has been significant in enabling the gaming industry to develop and helping a number of companies. We have invested around 70 million euros in this area over the last 10 years, and Supercell alone has returned that investment in their corporate taxes. In fact, Supercell is the biggest taxpayer in Helsinki at the moment. So all it takes is one big success story to pay back everything we have invested as a government and as a country. And we can look forward to further success stories in the gaming industry in the future, as there are now hundreds of companies, and the skills from this sector, known as "gamification," are changing companies, education, and healthcare.
CW: How does Tekes help foster innovative companies?
Soini: Our chief role is sharing risk. So if a company has significant risk and there are no private investors around, with an entity like Supercell with some money of its own, we can come in and help share the risk. That helps a company like Supercell to get moving forward, and demonstrate to private investors that it is in good shape. So we are an early funding agency that gets involved when the risks are highest, and our involvement in turn is a stamp of approval that demonstrates to private investors that a venture is worth funding.
CW: In the East Asian model, the government has great power to invest a lot of money and gamble big on various flagship programs like LCDs, 3G or 4G. But Tekes seems to take a different approach.
You invest 50%, I'll invest 50%
Soini: We do have certain large-scale programs, such as 5G, for which we reserve funding. However, this is done with the expectation that other companies will join various research programs under that theme. They contribute 50 percent, and we match that 50 percent in projects under that program. In this way we stimulate certain areas, like 5G, the Internet of Things, digital health, biotechnology, and clean technology. At the same time, half of our funding is bottom-up, for whatever kinds of ideas are proposed to us. We are most interested in maintaining the freedom to innovate, since we cannot always say which idea, model or company will fly.
In the very early stages, a new company may use various funding mechanisms or family money, and as long as they provide 10,000 to 15,000 euros, we can give them a small sum like 50,000 euros at the beginning for them to pilot the project before moving on to the R&D phase. When that happens, we expect private investors to start getting on board. In the case of 5G, there were around 20 companies that approached us and said we need a Tekes program, because they believed that 5G would be very important to them for the next phase.
In some other areas, we trigger programs in areas we anticipate having a need in the future, even though no companies exist yet. Electric cars is one such example where we got involved five years ago and established a program to get various companies and researchers to come together. And digitalization, which is a big part of what we do, occupies about one-half of our project funding at the moment.
Digital health is another interesting area with a lot of demand globally and a lot of potential, where digitalization and health knowledge come together. We see a lot of the Nokia spinoffs, or startups that came after Nokia, playing an important role fostering innovation here.
CW: How would you compare Tekes to the models followed by agencies like METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) of Japan or DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) of the US?
Soini: Our model is unique because we do not fund everything in the same way. Not to say that DARPA is funding everything, but they undertake very targeted, almost challenge-based missions, like creating a robot for disaster recovery. We also take a challenge-based approach in some cases, but no single agency is exactly the same.
A Spillover Effect
Perhaps the greatest difference between us and those agencies is that we engage companies in dialogue before we fund them. And we seek to understand their growth vision and what kind of R&D needs exist before we go ahead with funding. You could call this their "growth vision," much like a venture capital firm's approach. However, as we are not a VC firm, we seek to help them get to the next level, as our funding model uses grants and loans, rather than Tekes taking company shares. We have separate approaches for startups and SMEs (small- to medium-size enterprises). For SMEs and large companies, we have an integrated approach, where we want to see how they network with universities, research institutes, and SMEs. When we fund large companies, we also require collaboration with universities and SMEs. Therefore, what we seek is a spillover effect. If we are funding universities or research institutes, we require tie-in collaboration with companies.
CW: You employ VC-level talent at Tekes. How do you attract such expensive talent into this official network?
Soini: We are not a typical bureaucratic agency. We have always collaborated very closely with companies, and we teach our people how to deal with customers. They expect companies to know how to grow with our funding, and if they don't have that sparkle and growth-vision, we do not fund them. While our salaries are not at the VC level, let's say they are pretty close to the private sector, or a little bit like consultants. We do not attract people to come to Tekes with salaries, but as a place that gives one a 360-degree view of industries and companies in Finland - and they can help these companies to grow. So we seek people with a vision that goes beyond their salary.
One important element is that we are a very customer-oriented organization…So we dialogue with the companies before they get funded, and get to know them before we go ahead and fund them. In terms of transformation, such as when Nokia started to lay people off, we figured out quickly what kind of tools we had to create something new. That means that Tekes must move very rapidly to find new mechanisms, new funding tools, and new services. For example, in Nokia's case we had a program known as the Innovation Mill that enabled people leaving Nokia to get established very quickly. And now through that and similar programs, hundreds of companies have been created in Helsinki and other cities.
Another issue is that we would like to foresee what next trends are emerging, so we can create programs around these new trends and invite different companies as well as research institutions, universities, and different actors to get together, fund each other, exchange ideas, and possibly form new companies.
A good example is the gaming industry, with which we've been involved in many ways. Supercell, for instance, was first funded by Tekes.
However, we also do bottom-up funding for anyone with a business idea that approaches us. So we are not backing just a set type of company, but any company from high tech to services, or any business model, as innovation can come in any given area. When we see opportunities, we are wide open to them.
Transcribed and edited by David Toman.


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When you're an IT executive, make sure you have enough resources to do the job properly and achieve your goals and standards. If you don't have enough good people, services, hardware or software, ask yourself these three questions:
1. Can I alert the top management and get more resources to properly do the job?
2. Can I somehow narrow our scope so much that the current staff can handle these tasks and still leave room for cross-training and emergency work (weekends, nights, systems downtime)?
3. Can I walk on water and feed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish?
If the answer to all three is no, you need to start looking for a new job, because your current one is about to get ugly.
Navigate Through Work and Life
"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore… Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible… It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors… to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown." [Ferdinand Magellan]
I grew up in a coastal city with a very strong sea captain tradition and many of my great grandfathers and their great grandfathers have sailed the seven seas, some of them leaving their bones on the sea or in ports all over the world. Having heard and read many stories about seamanship and navigating to distant lands and continents, I used to make this analogy about our IT work: we are like Magellan, on a constant path of discovery of new lands. On that journey we have scarce resources, there's little food and our ship is leaking water. Our goal is to reach the port. Since there's barely any wind we need to row, however, some will also need to pump the water out. The problem is that we don't have enough people so we'll have to get very creative and do a balancing act, for if we don't row fast enough, we'll die of starvation, and if we don't pump the water fast enough, we will sink and never reach the new port.
My last two bosses sent everybody to the pumps and forgot to row, what starved the teams. Both came from the project management field. Both of them were "a bit" long term goal challenged, control freaks, focusing on paperwork and a few big projects instead of building and empowering self-managing teams for long term goals, meanwhile keeping my support teams short-staffed and burned out for over a year. Nobody was allowed to talk to anybody out of department without going through them, thus creating many obstacles instead of empowering the staff, so then most projects except the ones they micro-managed came down to a crawl. The most frequent answer to everything was outsourcing, including staff, hosting and services. As much as I like to see a good project manager, I think they make bad CIOs. Perhaps good Deputy CIOs and/or Directors, but as CIOs they keep their tunnel vision, cut corners and fail to practice holistic management. Fortunately for my health, they got rid of me after a year of my multiple protests about being short-staffed. Just around and after that time, some of my key players left. This confirms my theory about layoffs – unless you only get rid of the undoubtedly rotten apples, you will soon lose your best people. Unless you empower your staff and treat them with respect, when things get ugly and the ship starts sinking, your key players will leave first, because they have many options open and their "lifeboats" can reach many shores, so better treat them with respect (as you should everybody else.)
One of my best CIOs wasn't technical at all. After a successful several years with us he (unfortunately for us) went back to the academic world and became a college president. He didn't need to be very technical because he was very close to the Big Boss and because he was (still is) very smart, had great political skills and relied heavily on us, his deputies and directors. We had his trust, empowerment, communication and respect. Aside from regular meetings with direct reports, first thing he did upon his appointment was to schedule a one-on-one meeting with every single IT staff member (there was about 100 of us) just to get a feel of how things run in the department, and he didn't rush people during these sessions but listened instead. By observing and connecting the dots, he soon obtained a very good picture of what was going on and what the biggest challenges, weaknesses and strengths were. He kept and increased his power and became well respected by observing and understanding, managing by wandering around (I love that, but more about that in some other post), learning from his subordinates and users while keeping everybody up to date and controlling rumors and fears for which the best medicine is to have your employees hear the news from your mouth first, regardless whether they are good or bad.
Unlike him, the last management team had very little communication with the staff, came with prejudice about past management, never learned the department's business and instead relied solely on communication and relationship with new top executive who was most disrespectful of all, and as a result, all they planted was fear.
I have a story about fear vs. respect. My wife is of Mexican origin and being curious as I am, I had to learn a lot about their history, so among other things, I learned how Hernan Cortes was extremely successful conquering new territories for the Spanish king with a handful of soldiers. I don't have a high opinion of great conquerers throughout human history because most of them were war criminals lacking a court to sentence them. But one great thing I respect about Cortes is that he burned the boats once his soldiers landed on the new soil, so they couldn't go back to the mother ship. He succeeded and conquered vast lands in what is now Mexico not just because of this determination and courage. He was also very lucky: what profoundly affected and facilitated his miraculous conquest was the animosity of many local tribes towards the current empire, the Aztecas. Since their rule throughout the conquered lands was based on blood, terror and fear, once a worthy opponent (Cortes) showed up, all the tribes chose the lesser evil, allied with Cortes and the Aztec empire fell in a puff of smoke. On the other hand, few centuries later when soldiers of already independent Mexico fought on their own ground for a cause they believed in, 4,000 of them were victorious against the 8,000 better equipped and trained soldiers of Napoleon III, the best world military of the time that had not been defeated for almost 50 years (see Cinco de Mayo, or the Battle of Puebla.) Similarly, rule of fear and no respect toward your employees can get you far, but only until they smell your blood. Respect will get you much further and they will give you their best when you need it most. What goes around… :-).
When the last CIO got appointed at our place, the story goes that his old staff had a big internal celebration. The huge difference between us is that outsourcing seems to be his solution for everything, and I have a saying for that. When the only tool I have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. On the other hand, I'm quite the opposite and I believe in in-sourcing and open source solutions.
New management made many questionable moves and there were numerous hints that things were getting ugly. Staff was required to pay for the company cell phone calls, work long hours most of the time, have no life and no family, be careful how many vacation or sick days they take, the main attitude being that everybody is replaceable. If you hang that sign high on the post as your motto, people will soon replace themselves and leave you to be replaced. Human resources are our most important resources, but when you don't understand that and want to rule by fear, most of the good, reliable and knowledgeable people will leave for places that treat them with respect. The new people will need to deal with the messed up situation and institutional knowledge discontinuity. In the long run the IT experts in general benefit as the situation will create far more work to fix the problems than it would have been needed to maintain the organization at a functional level, but the organization suffers cumulative damages in user productivity and systems downtime.
So let me repeat the three questions you need to ask yourself when things are not going right:
1. Can I alert the top management and get more resources to properly do the job?
2. Can I somehow narrow our scope so much that the current staff can handle these tasks and still leave room for cross-training and emergency work (weekends, nights, systems downtime)?
3. Can I walk on water and feed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish?
If the answer to all three is no, start looking for a new job before things get uglier. Even if you can get more people hired, you have to be careful about one other thing – the revolving door. Don't let too many people leave at once as the problems will start piling up when your institutional knowledge flies out the window. You can hire a bunch of top level IT specialists with an IQ of 200 and a photographic memory, but that still won't show returns during the first several months to a year while they are learning the ropes. By the time they are up to speed and things start getting back to normal, you may be gone.
Not being a quitter, I mistakenly clung to the job for a year after stating to the first of the two last CIOs that I have a feeling the things will get ugly. I was right, but I didn't walk the walk and let my actions speak, although I was ready to walk out soon after this realization. Unfortunately, I'm sometimes too stubborn and don't detach easily, particularly when I have staff with whom I share mutual trust and respect, so I stuck around just to see what happens until they fired me (laid me off) and now they have several scapegoats to blame for everything that is going wrong. I'm not sorry about them, but I do feel sorry about their customers, hard working kids in one big US city. So, if you feel the ship is sinking, get that lifeboat and jump ship before you're up to your nose in water. Having been without a job for over six months, I'm still so much happier and so far from the nervous and irritated wreck of a man I was last year at this time. You CAN find respect, or if you can't, jump ship again and again until you find the place. Some intangible things are priceless. Peace of mind is one of them.


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My Best Friend Just Told Me He's Gay, ( And I'm Quite Homophobic) How Can I Tell Him I Don't Want To Be His Friend Anymore?
" I am a bigoted, homophobic, terrible friend. I don't care about all of the good times we've had. You're different from me in one little way, so I don't want anything to do with you. Our friendship is entirely conditional, and if you want to be true to yourself, then you've lost yourself a … Read more


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Spirituality-Religions Spiritual Discovery
Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail - The "San Andreas Fault" of institutional Christianity is its systematic denial and denigration of the "Sacred Feminine" over a period of nearly 2000 years.Margaret Starbird's theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she first encountered the suggestion that Jesus Christ was married and that his bloodline survived in Western Europe. Shocked by such heresy, this Roman Catholic scholar set out to refute it, but instead discovered new and compelling evidence for the existence of the lost bride of Jesus -- the same Mary who anointed him with precious unguent of nard from her alabaster jar
There are few words more rivetting, even awe inspiring, than 'life beyond death,' for they imply, excitingly, that the dead live on to exist in some form of afterlife. Those words have mystery, romance, and colour, and according to the historic evidence, millions of people have glimpsed that afterlife in an astounding phenomenon called the Near-Death Experience.
If ignorance is bliss, these intuitive shakers and movers are at the other end of the scale. Their quick-thinking, fourth-dimensional methods cause them to be misunderstood, but "by their fruits, ye shall know them." They are the "People of the Seventh Fire," the Violet Ray of Transmutation. The Golden Age cannot fully emerge until this "seventh vial of purification" has been "poured out" by the Indigos.
The idea behind Bible Magick is simple; all verses in the Bible are charged with spiritual energies. This power of creation is called "LOGOS," meaning "WORD." It is thought that God the Creator used the LOGOS to initiate creation. The Universe and everything within it are divine words that have solidified. You can imagine that they were once dissolved in the sound vibrations of the divine cosmic word. Each thing we see is a divine word become solid.
The writer has attempted in this volume to take up a few of the most characteristic points in Jewish doctrine and practice, and to explain some of the various phases through which they have passed, since the first centuries of the Christian era. A really nice overview of Judaism, Hebrew culture and its general history. 3 Books on this 'always enlightening' topic in one volume.
Fourteen years ago the writer of this volume entered the temple of Freemasonry, and that date stands out in memory as one of the most significant days in his life. There was a little spread on the night of his raising, and, as is the custom, the candidate was asked to give his impressions of the Order. Among other things, he made request to know if there was any little book which would tell a young man the things he would most like to know about Masonry--what it was, whence it came, what it teaches, and what it is trying to do in the world?
"We are the Cetaceans, your oceanic brothers and sisters, here to work along with you to preserve and care for our home on earth. We are here in our full consciousness, waiting patiently for Earth's children to bloom into the caretakers you were meant to be. We are all connected as one."
This is a book about the Occult, and about the powers of Man. It is a simple book in that there are no "foreign words," no Sanskrit, nothing of dead languages. The average person wants to KNOW things, does not want to guess at words which the average Author does not understand either! If an Author knows his job he can write in English without having to disguise lack of knowledge by use of a foreign language.
he student in India expects the teacher to state positively the principles involved, and the methods whereby these principles may be manifested, together with frequent illustrations (generally in the nature of fables or parables), serving to link the new knowledge to some already known thing. The Hindu student never expects or demands anything in the nature of "proof" of the teachers statements of principle or method; in fact, he would regard it as an insult to the teacher to ask for the same.
Coming Full Circle is a true story about my sister, Peggy. Moving from the Missouri Ozarks to a modern town in Southern Oregon, at age 15, she finds herself without the proper clothing or manner of speaking. But her dynamic personality, leadership ability, high morals, mystical attunement, outstanding beauty, song writing, and musical talents, propel her to the top.
Millions of Western worlders have studied the Buddhist religion and way of life. Perhaps millions in the past two centuries have adopted that philosophy and way of life. What is there that attracts the mind looking for peace and tranquility?
From one of the most outspoken and prolific authors that spoke out for a total free press, including one that published erotica, with the intent of making the subject normal, rather than a hidden taboo. This book is a psychological view of mankind's warped view of sexuality, and he preferred the open, and honest discussion of the matter.
WE TAKE DRUGS FOR TWO MAIN REASONS; EITHER TO RESTORE ourselves to the condition we regard as normal --to cure infections, and to take away pain; or to release us from normality--to enable us to feel more lively, or more relaxed; to alter our mood, or our perceptions. It is with this second category (of drug use, not of drugs; the drugs themselves may be the same) that I am concerned.
Rare and powerful legendary power squares which have been handed down for centuries only in sacred volumes used by a few presented by one of the great mystics of our age, Oribello
As often as it is repeated in the two former books, that the writing, speaking, picture making were always done by some spirit in visible form while standing before and in sight and hearing of the whole circle, some persons, who say they have read these accounts, still ask us; "Why, could you see the specter? Could you hear it talk? Could you see it write ? Could you see it while it was making a picture ?"


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I migrated to San Francisco, California in 1995 at the urging of my mentor and good friend, Andrew Walker, to begin working with the software manual publisher, IDG Books Worldwide, in Foster City, California. Many incredible books were produced with that group about the newest and brightest software products, as well as that new-fangled communication thingy called the "world wide web"! My IDG work experience honed my skills with management, project coordination and scheduling; as well as design, templates, production, proofreading and quality control.
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How to recognize and recover from sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists and other exploiters › Forums › Lovefraud Community Forum – General › Broke up with narcissist and started no contact, having a really tough time › Reply To: Broke up with narcissist and started no contact, having a really tough time
Dear Cindy,
It is really helpful for you to realize that your head and heart are at war and to choose your head. Your heart will eventually follow. Your heartstrings get pulled because of the psycho-sexual emotional bond you have. However, you need to think (and maybe even pray) your way through this. Even if you have never experienced a healthy relationship in which you are loved and cherished, imagine what that would feel like. Maybe you have friends who have this kind of relationship. You may ask for help from a higher power. This is especially useful before you go to sleep because you could get images in your dreams that could help you. For instance, in my dreams, I get little vignettes of meeting a man who truly cherishes me. I am filled with that good feeling, and I wake up with a fleeting trace of it. That feeling keeps me safe from the losers. I remember once I was living with a man who was not good for me. He was an alcoholic, and he and his drug-using friends became my only family. When I kept trying to leave, I had a dream that I was sitting in a hot tub with him and his friends, when a large, tall male friend lifted me out and carried me away. Shortly after that dream, I was able to make the final break. The use of imagery, prayer, and just plain desire for something better have gotten me out of many an inappropriate relationship. Granted, it was a rude awakening to find that most normal men are not knights in shining armor. They all come with their issues and neuroses too. But a truly loving relationship usually feels safe and comforting most of the time.


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Bad backpacks cause immense pain?
Short answer is: Yes. If you are using a wrong type of backpack, say, too small, to big or just some no-name replica that one can buy for couple of bucks on a third grade train station in the middle of nowhere, then you should be prepared for sleepless nights.
Lucky for you, solutions are not so hard to come by. There are good places to find the best expedition backpacks that will help you posture and keep your muscles safe, so you won't need to bother with excruciating pain while hiking.
What to look for? What to pay attention to?
One of the biggest problems with people not having a right back pack is if :
- its either too small and thus overpacked (changes even the shape and the whole thing looks like it will soon explode),
- or if it is too big and half empty which brings it utter purpose to question: why would you carry around a three times bigger bag than you have to.
It's important to understand that these are small matters, and in a short, day-hike they most probably wouldn't make a difference, but once you are anywhere near a longer trip you better be careful. When you are out there in the wilderness for several weeks, and to give that a little boost too, you might be alone, it is not the same what you area carrying as a weight.
Where is your pain coming from?
It's not necessary that the backpack you are carrying around is the number 1 cause of your pain. You might have some other health problems, so the best thing you can do is get yourself checked at the doctors. But if you have been on a medical examination and they found nothing, and you still don't feel at ease, now you know what might have caused this feeling of someone stabbing a knife in your back.
Back muscles are one of the strongest of your body (after legs) and they play a tremendous role in our whole organism. So not paying attention to that is really irresponsible and you should know better than that.
If the pain comes in the lower side of your back, you know that your posture while walking or hiking or carrying that bag is bad, and you need to address that.
How to get treated once the pain is there and won't go away?
There are couple of tricks you can try and use before you start panicking:
- get yourself a nice massage first, this might ease the tension of your muscles and all might fall back into its place and you'll feel great again,
- go visit a chiropractor who can fix your bones and your back
- start exercising more regularly, the gym time is never a wasted time and those who have been saved by exercising can vouch for that a lot.
Finally, the last thing if nothing else helps is to get to your doctor – actually, that might be the first thing you want to do if the pain is unbearable and you feel it's hard even to just walk, let alone hike again. The important thing is to acknowledge the pain and treat it and not just ignore it, because it might head to other kind of trouble that you wouldn't want to deal with.
If you have your own trick on how to make hikes easier, healthier and more enjoyable, let us know in the comments below.


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November 6, 2015
Blue Note recording artist and jazz drummer Otis Brown iii swung by the Brownswood Basement back in May, and discussed his background including fellow New School graduates Bilal and Robert Glasper, and his links to legends including themost recorded drummer in history Bernard Purdie, and Donald Byrd.
Plus, Otis discusses his favourite drummers of all time, and the process behind his debut album from 2014, 'The Thought of You'.
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Lack Of Belief And Lack Of Compassion – What's The Connection?
This week, a study of children's behavior published in the journal Current Biology concludes that children who are raised by religious families are less compassionate than children who are raised in non-religious households. Specifically, children from Christian families were less likely to share with others and were more likely to be judgmental of other children, urging their punishment. What's more, the longer children had been in Christian households, the greater their divergence from their more compassionate secular peers.
Medical Daily calls these findings "perhaps counterintuitive", meaning that they are the opposite of the presumptions that most people prefer to make about the world. Of course, in the United States, the majority of the population is religious. To members of the non-religious minority, which is regularly subjected to the majority's high handed attitude, the results posted in Current Biology aren't so surprising.
No single scientific article delivers the final truth on any subject, of course. Studies can be flawed, and aren't worshipped as infallible, the way that religious texts are. So, we should seek our alternative sets of data, to see whether the Current Biology study holds up to scrutiny.
As luck would have it, the recent Religious Landscape Survey from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life provides data that, when combined with data on state mental health spending, provides us with a good test of the hypothesis that religious influence leads to a decrease in compassion. The Pew Forum provides data on the portion of the population of each state in the USA that does not believe in God, rejecting the central pillar of our nation's dominant Christian ideology.
If Christianity leads to an increase in compassion, we ought to see that states that have more Christians – and fewer atheists who reject belief in God – provide greater funding for services to people who have mental health problems. Mental illness isn't something that people can be plausibly blamed for. People often claim that people wouldn't be poor if they just tried harder, but few people assert that mental illness is just a luxury for the lazy. It's widely recognized that people with mental health problems need help. Furthermore, the prevalence of mental illness is roughly equivalent from state to state. So, if a state is providing greater per capita funding for assistance to the mentally ill than its neighbors, it probably isn't because there are more mentally ill people in that state. It's because the state is showing more compassion for its citizens who are in need.
The chart below shows what these two sets of data look like when they are combined. Each dot represents one of the 50 states, and there's an extra dot for the District of Columbia. The placement of each dot on vertical axis shows the percentage of people in each state that don't believe in God. The placement of each dot on the horizontal axis shows the amount of annual spending per capita on mental health services in each state. Measuring spending per capita eliminates the skew created by big mental health budgets in states with big populations.
The pink line on the chart is the best fit line, showing the statistically-calculated relationship between the two variables. The line shows what the scatterplot of dots suggests: States that have larger portions of their populations that do not believe in God tend to show more compassion to their mentally ill citizens than states with higher rates of religiosity. All of the states that spend more on mental health services have a higher than average population of atheists.
This data doesn't provide a replication of the study recently published in Current Biology. Instead, it looks at the larger question in a different way. The overall conclusion from these different sources is the same: Despite the bragging Christians do about their moral superiority, Christianity isn't associated with a higher practice of compassion.


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Coolest Homemade Mummy Girl Unique Halloween Costume Idea
My daughter always enjoys being something scary for Halloween. This year, she had a Homemade Mummy Girl Unique Halloween Costume Idea. I didn't see anything in the stores that I liked, so I decided to make the costume myself.
I started with an old turtleneck, pants, thin cotton gloves, and pair of Crocs from my daughter's closet. Then, I purchased 3 yards of muslin from the fabric store. I cut out two pieces to make a head covering and cut the rest into long, thin strips and dyed the muslin overnight in a mixture of tea and hot water to give it an aged appearance.
Next, I got out my hot glue gun and a package of glue sticks. I stuffed newspaper into the clothes to give them some shape while I was gluing. I glued the strips to the outfit, wrapping them horizontally and diagonally until the outfit underneath was entirely covered. I also covered her shoes. I then sewed a hood out of the two pieces of muslin and used 2 strips to tie the hood under her chin. I cut a few small slits in the hood to pull out some strands of hair. I used temporary hair spray to turn her hair that was sticking out grey. I cut a slit in the back of the turtleneck so that she could fit her head in, and added some strips of ivory colored tulle to add extra visual interest.
Finally, I painted her face dark grey and added dark circles under her eyes. I tried to find some lighter colored face paint that would give a peeling appearance, but I didn't have any luck.
The costume held up really well and received a lot of compliments. I am planning on sending it to my sister for her daughter to wear next year!


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Atleast 30 people were injured, 20 of them in severe conditions, when a passenger train rammed into another train standing on the platform at Mymenshingh railway station in north-eastern Bangladesh.
In the collision, three railway carriages as well as the engine of the oncoming train were damaged. For about an hour, all incoming and outgoing trains were halted due to this accident.
The driver, Sobuj Hasan, 40, who lost control of the train, was also injured. He was admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. The others received first aid.


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If you have followed LivingVertical for a while you will probably know that I have had a fairly strained relationship with diabetes research over the years. At best I've been pretty ambivalent about it–and other times I've been downright frustrated with promises of "pie in the sky". Now, I have taken a job working at a research non-profit startup and it's really changed my view and given me hope.
I don't mean hope that someday I won't have to take insulin–although that may happen and we are certainly taking baby steps towards that–but hope that research can be an empowering engaging process where WE as people with diabetes are directly involved. Diabetes research is no longer limited to just fundraising and hoping that your money is going somewhere good with no real accountability. Think about that for a second. We can participate in research right now, just by logging in to a website.
MyGlu.org is a research based community of people with diabetes in which our daily, mundane interactions with our diabetes are adding up to real world research solutions. We are gathering up scraps of data that are otherwise discarded–to accelerate research. You don't have to look through a microscope or even leave your computer if you don't want to. Just log in and share information about your diabetes.
I'm excited to share what I've been learning and how it's causing an evolution in my thought process. No more funding and looking away. Get involved and BE the research. I'd apologize for sounding like I've been drinking the Kool-Aid–except I'm not sorry–I'm legitimately excited. It's pretty significant when a group of people get together and take a real, honest look at the status quo and take steps to shake things up. It's bold and different and this is just what the (clinician) doctor ordered, pun very much intended.


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Diterpenoids from the Buds of Pinus banksiana Lamb.
AbstractThree new diterpenoids, namely 7α-hydroxyabieta-8,11,13,15-tetraen-18-oic acid, 7β,15,18-trihydroxyabieta-8,11,13-triene, 13,15-dihydroxypodocarpa-8,11,13-triene, and 12 other known compounds were isolated from buds of Pinus banksiana Lamb. All these compounds, except for 7-oxodehydroabietinol, were isolated for the first time from this plant. Their structures were elucidated by detailed spectroscopic studies and comparison with published data. All isolated compounds were tested for cytotoxic and antibacterial activities. Overall, two compounds, 7-oxodehydroabietinol and 18-nor-4,15-dihydroxyabieta-8,11,13-trien-7-one, showed moderate cytotoxicity against a human lung carcinoma cell line. View Full-Text
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Last week resulted in a 4-1 record, running the season record to 8-3. Clinton smashed Smithfield Selma, Union, Midway and Lakewood got big wins, and Hobbton fell to KIPP Pride. This week includes two high-profile games as Clinton hosts undefeated Northside, and Midway puts its perfect record on the line at cross-county rival Lakewood. Union sets their sights on a 3-0 start for the first time in 10 years when they travel to Hobbton.
Clinton returns home to host Northside in Dark Horse Stadium. Clinton is coming off of a 62-0 shutout win over Smithfield Selma on Monday night where Ryheem Skinner carried the ball eleven times for 124 yards and four touchdowns. Things get interesting for the Dark Horses this week. After scoring in bunches in their first two games, the Dark Horse offense will face a tough test on Friday against Northside. The Monarchs are big and very athletic and have a history of football success.
At this point in the season, the offenses might be a little ahead of the defenses in this game. If this is the case, it could become an offensive shootout and whoever gets the ball last may come out on top. The Dark Horses will have to protect the football and rely on their defense to create a couple of turnovers. Clinton pulls out a three-point win in a nail-bitter.
Final: Clinton 38, Northside 35
The Spartans play their first road game in Newton Grove against Hobbton on Friday. The Spartans last opened the season 2-0 in 2008, losing their next game to Topsail. You would have to go all the way back to 2006 to find a 3-0 start for the Spartans.
Hobbton struggled on defense in the second half of their last game and committed some costly turnovers. The Wildcat offense has weapons, but Union has played well defensively all year and will make it tough for Hobbton to put points on the board. Hobbton will make some noise early, but the Spartans will quickly shut down the Wildcats and keep their record perfect at 3-0.
Final: Union 28, Hobbton 7
In the Game of the Week, Lakewood will host cross county rival, Midway. This matchup was one of last year's most exciting games, as Midway's defense came up with the late game stop to preserve a 16-14 win. This year's edition could be just as exciting. The Raiders have scored, at will, 101 points in the last two games. The Leopard defense will have to step up and force some turnovers to slow down Raynor and company.
On the other side of the ball, if the Leopards can find some holes in the Raider defense and continue to show improvement, the Leopards should come away with a big win.
Final: Lakewood 24, Midway 20


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October 22, 2012, Irvine, Calif. –
CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, today announced the release of its Third-Party Originator (TPO) portal, developed by CoreLogic Dorado. Using this online loan processing system, correspondent clients and wholesale brokers can upload and lock multiple loans in a bulk transmission to an enterprise lending system (ELS) and then monitor those loans for conditions and approvals. TPO portal was designed as an interactive module to be used with the existing ChannelMaster® Enterprise Lending System (ELS). The enhanced technology also adapts to any existing ELS.
The TPO portal also allows clients to add information including documents needed to validate loan program eligibility and pricing, view a loan's pricing history and refresh loan data. Once loans are submitted, TPO Portal helps users manage the loan pipeline and resolve open conditions. Checklists can be created to verify loans and to generate conditions when a loan shows a failed checklist item. The technology delivers integrated validation and compliance controls, and allows full visibility to expedite loans through the system before locks expire.
"TPO Portal is all about speed," said Rob Carpenter, vice president of technology for CoreLogic Dorado. "While it's not possible to fully automate third-party lending, this is a new technology providing an unprecedented level of efficiency and convenience. TPO Portal's intuitive and simplified communication tools provide a top-down view of traffic, down to the loan-detail level. By increasing oversight and control, more loans can quickly move through the system."
ChannelMaster ELS, first introduced in 2005, streamlines the way correspondent lenders manage loans as they travel through the pipeline from lead to funding. By organizing loans in a central hub, ChannelMaster ELS allows loan agents, processors, underwriters, closers, funders and others involved in the mortgage origination process to work on multiple loan files at the same time. The system also features intuitive origination lifecycle recognition ability, ensuring the processor completes required actions first and prevents noncritical actions from causing a loan to stall. This extends the reach of the workflow to streamline delivery for third parties.
"Historically, mortgage loan origination was anything but simple," said Dino Lack, senior director, Product Management. "The process was often disjointed and inconsistent, with limited loan workflow transparency. TPO portal takes existing origination technology to another level, particularly when used in tandem with ChannelMaster ELS. No other product in this industry offers such a clean user self-service capability."
Rollout of TPO portal is already underway with select CoreLogic Dorado clients, including Fifth Third Mortgage Company, a subsidiary of Fifth Third Bank.
"We plan to use TPO portal as part of a new and improved processing solution for our broker and correspondent lending channels," said Bob Lewis, president, Fifth Third Mortgage Company. "This technology will be instrumental in achieving our growth goals with clients in this channel."
Additional ChannelMaster ELS Third-Party Lending modules are scheduled to be released in late 2012 and early 2013. For more information about the CoreLogic Third-Party Originator portal, visit www.corelogic.com/dorado/tpoportal.
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text: When I heard about the Asus Vivotab Note 8 from this year's CES, I was pretty psyched! Not only is the Vivotab Note 8 An 8″ Windows Tablet running full Windows 8.1, it comes with a Wacom Stylus; a feature that sets itself apart from anything else in the 8″ Windows Tablet space. The only problem is the difficulty in getting one. It seems the tablet is only available from the Microsoft store in limited quantities, when they do get them in, they seem to sell out fast; which hopefully is a good sign. I managed to grab one, and it arrived this past Wednesday, so I'm busy configuring it and giving it a once over. Stay tuned for my full review!


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World War I on the Homefront: Persuasion and Propaganda
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September 19, 2015, 2:00 PM CT
Presented by Lorraine Madway
When the United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917, the civilian population was aware of the high casualty rates from trench warfare and the resulting low morale. It was necessary to inspire and inform people in ways that were both heroic and practical. This presentation will highlight posters, pamphlets, and sheet music that encouraged Americans to buy Liberty Bonds; raise, conserve, and send food to Europe; and promote the importance of books and libraries as a vital component of democracy.
Lansing Historical Museum
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Lansing, KS 66043-1667
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Sponsored by: Lansing Historical Museum
For more information about this event, please contact:
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Tourism Grading Council to co-host workshop with TripAdvisor at INDABA
There's nothing quite as powerful as knowing how to make the most – the absolute most – of the social media and global travel lifestyle and review websites to grow your tourism business.
And as tourist arrivals growth to South Africa shatters records, it makes an enormous amount of sense for tourism businesses to arm themselves with the information that will enable them to grow along with arrivals to this destination.
At INDABA 2013 the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa is again hosting a master class with TripAdvisor, the world's biggest and most influential travel website with 60 million unique monthly users.
The workshop will be open to all star-graded accommodation establishments and will be an invaluable session, providing tips first-hand from TripAdvisor experts on how best to use the platform to market your establishment to a worldwide and increasingly socially-engaged audience.
Right now more than 23 000 forum topics about South Africa are currently active on TripAdvisor. The powerful and influential platform has served South African Tourism's global digital adverts more than 32 million times in the last year. The INDABA TripAdvisor workshop is an extremely valuable opportunity that should not be missed.
The TGCSA TripAdvisor workshop takes place on Sunday, May 12 from 8am to 10 during INDABA at the Durban International Convention Centre. Please visit www.indaba-southafrica.co.za for more information.
INDABA 2013 will take place from May 11 to 14. For more information on the show and for details on how to register to attend, visit www.indaba-southafrica.co.za
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I have to imagine the U.S. Olympic skeet team's training regimen is a little more disciplined. Of course, they're gunning for something altogether different.
Let's face it. Shooting clays is to hunting birds what Game ranch is to Wilderness Sitcom is to Shakespeare Veggies are to venison Friend-zone is to first kiss Randy Savage is to Rulon Gardner Coffee-mate is to cream Teddy is to grizzly Gas is to charcoal Fluorescent is to full sun Pool is to, Read More
I was standing in the worst looking duck habitat I had ever seen and I didn't even have decent waders. That was fine. I was chukar hunting. I didn't need waders. Or ducks. It was January, the end of upland season was looming, and I had been wrecked by a cold for the last, Read More
Can't see her, but I could find her even without the GPS collar. She's radiating bird vibes. It's the only place in the willows with negative sound. And tension.
It had been a lackluster day for pheasant hunting in Montana. Tragically, after covering nearly a mazillion miles of normally productive cover we had seen exactly one rooster. A rooster far enough out we would have needed a .243 to take down, not the 12 gauge I was lugging.
What to do with all the free-range, organic, grass fed, fair trade, non-GMO, shade grown, hand harvested, artisinally butchered, small batch, low fat, gluten-free, dolphin friendly, lightly perforated white-meat cluttering your freezer? Chuckar Poppers!
"Dada, Dada, look! Is that chukar poop?" asked the kindergartener. "Not sure son. It's bird poop, for sure, but probably not chukar poop. Hard to say." "Well if it is, than we're in a goooood hunting spot, cause there's LOTS of it!" The cards were stacked against us. We knew that much going in., Read More
By Kirk Billings I finished up bird season last year with a bad knee, a mile and a half march across obscenely muddy flats, and a single chukar in my vest. I'd had to scrounge shells for my 20 gauge to eke out the day and a broken strap on my gaiters flailed along, Read More
There can be no light without darkness, no life without death, no joy without despair. I can make peace with the inescapable truths. But, as the days grow longer, and chukar season grows shorter, how the hell do I explain these facts of life to my dog? Maybe it's for the best that she, Read More
There are tears in your eyes. Or maybe it's sweat. In either case your vision is a salt-stung mess. The watery glimpses of black dog that you catch – cresting the ridge directly above you and birdier by the stride – quiver and bounce like a glass of water in Jurassic Park. There is, Read More


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Our porcelain collection is inspired by the ceramics, jewelry, and tools of the ancient Incas. Each piece is handcrafted by Peruvian artisans using low-temperature firing techniques that give the platinum accents a deep hypnotic sheen. The collection of luxurious contemporary artifacts for the home is sleek yet playful—perfectly exemplifying the bold modern accessories that our global clients crave.
Whether on its own or as part of the herd, our creature-inspired vase captures all of the attention. Handcrafted of porcelain with a platinum luster, it will beautifully accent any room. Peruvian artisans lovingly create each piece, offering subtle variations in color. Available in two sizes.


text: FXStreet (Delhi) – Mikihiro Matsuoka, Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank, forecasts the Japanese economy to return to underlying trend growth of real GDP at annualized 1.0-1.5% after a temporary soft patch in Q2 and Q3 2015. Key Quotes "We see low likelihood of meaningfully negative second-round effects from the global slowdown to domestic non-manufacturers despite an inevitable impact on the Japanese manufacturers. Resiliency of non-manufacturing sector: Because the scale of the ongoing global economic slowdown from early 2015 is limited compared to the collapse of the IT bubble in 2000-2001 or the global financial crisis of 2007-08, we forecast a low likelihood of meaningfully negative second-round effects from the global slowdown to domestic non-manufacturers, thus leading to a recession, despite an inevitable impact on the Japanese manufacturers. Predicting an expansion in domestic demand (mainly private consumption): Although we predict a return to an economic expansion with annualized growth of 1.0-1.5% from Q4 2015, this is likely to be driven not by exports but rather by domestic demand (in particular private consumption). Little hope for an export recovery: We do not carry high hopes for exports to recover due to Japan-specific factors (continued outward foreign direct investment, low price elasticity for luxury goods exports, an exclusion of Japanese manufacturers from the global supply chain since the Great East Japan Earthquake) as well as a global factor, namely the shift to a closed economy regime (disappearance of growth frontiers: decline in benefits of international trade). Not predicting additional monetary easing: Based on the facts that the BoJ at present is promising an almost open-ended easing with no set limit on the timeline and that the scale of the monetary base increase is an annual JPY80trn (16% of GDP), an overwhelming scale compared to other countries, we forecast monetary policy is likely to maintain the current easing stance (no more rounds of easing). Were the BoJ to enact additional monetary easing reluctantly, we believe this would only occur in the case of a sharp slowdown in the global economy, JPY appreciation, and a slump in share prices. Japanese economy almost reaches its new steady state: We have reiterated several times that the new steady state of the Japanese economy since the introduction of QQE in April 2013 is 2% nominal GDP growth, 1% CPI inflation, 1% 10-year JGB yield, and 5% M2 growth. The Japanese economy has been in the transition process and seems to be very close to this new steady state." For more information, read our latest forex news.


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For flashing low-end LG phones, you can use KDZ Updater for flashing KDZ files as described in our previous post here. But while trying to flash high-end quad-core LG phones with KDZ Updater, you will be stuck at "extract file error" while KDZ Updater tries to extract the necessary files. For flashing these > 1.2 GB KDZ files, you need to adapt a different approach as mentioned below:
When you need to follow this guide?
- If you want to upgrade your phone to the latest version and are unable to do so via online upgrade.
- If you tried rooting or some other stuff and got stuck in the middle.
- If your phone is soft-bricked, it can only be revived by flashing the full stock firmware.
- Download and install LG mobile drivers from here:
- To make sure you don't have any other instance of B2C installed already, go to Command Prompt and run this command:
rd C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX
- Now download and install B2C app from here:
- B2C installation might take some time. Successful installation will result in auto-run of the program. You need to close it before proceeding.
- Download Flash Tool from here:
- Connect your LG phone in S/W download mode to any USB 2.0 port on your PC and let Windows install the drivers.
- Unzip the downloaded Flash Tool archive. Inside it, you will find "Windows Enabler" application. Right click at it and choose "Run as administrator". You will see "Windows Enabler" icon in the notification bar. Left click at this icon once so that it turns to "ON".
- From inside the same archive, right click at "Up TestEX" application and choose "Run as administrator". This might also take 10-15 minutes on first run. Be patient. After a while, "R&D Test Tool" will open.
- Change 'Type' to "3GQCT" and 'PhoneMode' to "CS_Emergency".
- Select your desire KDZ file by clicking at the folder icon next to 'Select kdz file'. Refer to screenshot below for reference.
- Now click at 'Normal web upgrade test'.
- In the new window that opens up, choose 'Upgrade Start'.
- In the next window, just choose "OK".
- Now phone flashing/upgrade will start.
- Don't remove USB cable or batter from your phone during the flashing process. Your phone will restart at 90% but leave it connected until Flash Tools shows you 100% activity.
- Congratulations, your phone was successfully unbricked/flashed/upgraded!


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Mental Health Training and Workforce Development
Community Partners, Inc., through its subsidiaries, has developed an extensive behavioral health workforce and provides mental health training for professionals on a variety of clinical, informational and administrative topics.
We can bring the expertise of these trainers and other qualified professionals to your staff and other stakeholders and community members, as well as providing access to the state-of-the-art Plaza Arboleda Conference Center in Tucson, Arizona.
In addition, we are participating in a Health Resources and Services Administration grant through the University of Michigan Workforce Consortium, to support behavioral health workforce development across the U.S.
Community Partners is offering trainings on Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) and Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) under an agreement with Pima County Behavioral Health. As a result of this agreement, these trainings are offered at no cost to attendees. Read on for details about these free trainings.
Mental Health First Aid (free training)
The eight-hour MHFA training is a nationwide public-education program that helps community members identify, understand and effectively respond to signs of possible mental illness or substance abuse – comparable to CPR or general First Aid. MHFA mobilizes family members, neighbors, educators, faith workers and others – those most likely to notice behavior changes among friends, coworkers and families – to recognize symptoms, intervene and link individuals with professional assistance.
Below is a list of currently scheduled MHFA and Youth MHFA trainings (limit of 30 people per training). Click on the date to check availability and sign up for that specific training:
Additional dates will be scheduled soon. Please check this page for updates.
QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention (free training)
Question. Persuade. Refer. Three steps you can learn to help prevent suicide.
Developed by the QPR Institute, Question, Persuade and Refer (QPR) is a two-hour emergency mental health gatekeeper intervention training that teaches lay and professional gatekeepers to recognize and respond positively to someone exhibiting suicide warning signs and behaviors. Gatekeepers can be anyone who is in a position to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide.
QPR is intended to identify and interrupt the crisis and direct that person to the proper care and to increase the chance of survival in the event of a crisis. Using the 3 simple steps taught in this training, anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.
Below is a list of currently scheduled QPR trainings (limit of 30 people per training). Click on the date to check availability and sign up:
Additional dates will be scheduled soon. Please check this page for updates.


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March 9, 2016
Charlie Buck says he had it all: a beautiful wife of 23 years, his own business, a big house on the water, and a volunteer job as a firefighter. But Buck's world was rocked in 2002 when his wife, Leslie, was kidnapped by his friend and former employee. Leslie escaped, and then two days later she was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their Mystic, CT home. Seven years later, Buck was arrested and charged with her murder, but he was acquitted in 2010 after spending 20 months in jail.
"As I look at this picture of Leslie, I miss her with every breath that I take," says Buck in the video above, as he describes finding his wife in their home with no pulse.
When his wife was alive, he became friends with a bartender named Carolyn, whom he lavished with gifts for her and her kids that he says his wife did not know about. Despite rumors in their community and a media frenzy about their relationship, Buck and Carolyn both say they were not having an affair.
"Charlie was very sympathetic," says Carolyn. "He was very attentive. I felt as if Charlie was an angel … He gave me a necklace full of diamonds. I think it was worth $100,000 … I'm thinking the guy is a billionaire, millionaire, whatever. I did not feel guilty accepting gifts because he was going to be my husband."
The couple got married, but Carolyn had the marriage annulled after six months.
It's been nearly three years since they have seen each other, and now, they each turn to Dr. Phil amid new accusations against Carolyn.


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text: Did Balenciaga ever come out with an Anthracite Day with REGULAR hardware? Thats the one I want, but I have never seen one or heard that anyone has one. I dont want giant hw. Kim at Balny said they were waiting for them but never got them. oh well. I always want what doesnt exist!


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SEE ALSO: Cosmic Girls to make a comeback in February
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JAX: MC Biker Romance (New Adult Contemporary Bad Boy Romance) by Casey Elliot
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Being with this guy is a bad decision. Oh well…
Annabelle LeRange and her best friend have just moved into an apartment in a sketchy part of town, right across from a biker bar. So, what do they do? Go check out the bar, of course. When she attracts the smoldering gaze of the sexy biker across the room, Annabelle knows she's out of her depth.
The question is not "if" Jax Barton will have the shy redhead, but 'when'… if only she wasn't so determined to make it as difficult as possible. It's a situation that Jax isn't familiar with—he can't have her, but he also can't get her out of his head.
There's a line between their worlds, and Annabelle is straddling it. But, will she choose to stay safe in her tower in the end, or will she finally give in to her dark side?
(Perfect for readers of Sabrina Page and Nikki Wild)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a 10,000 word novella with several bonus storys and an HEA, so no cliff-hangers! Story contains mature themes and language, and is intended for 18+ readers only.
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One area of importance to many of you, who have participated in the new search UI discussions, is you want to have the ability to be very specific in the searches you make when you are looking within a specific data set. I'm going to post a different example in a different category each day this week for discussion. Today's example will be about US census records.
(Note: If you click on the image, you will see a larger version; if you click on the title, it will send you to the search page. You may need to flip back and forth between old and new, but this should work..)
Once you look at these, if you could let me know pros and cons of both UI's and be specific about what you like and don't like in these two cases, it will help me focus in on what may need to be done. The more specific you are, the more helpful it will be.
1900 Census Old Search UI example
Let's say I'm looking for a male, surname Lynn, born between 1840 and 1850 in New York, and I know he lived Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana in 1900.
If you go to the old search interface and enter this data, you will see:
1900 Census New Search UI example
This is the same search on the new UI:
which results in:
So what works and what doesn't
A couple of good things that I see with the new search UI are:
- If you pass your mouse over view image, you get a preview of the information in the record. If there are 10 links on this page, you can quickly look at them without click to each record page to see what is there.
- You can see what is in the query that produced these records, what you choose to be exact (it has " " around it in the query), and you change, delete or add a parameter for your search without changing pages.


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UK waste management firm Waste Recycling yesterday (Thursday) brought 2004's high yield issuance to a close, pricing a £500m two tranche offering.
The deal was the largest ever sterling denominated high yield offering and the first in the UK from a waste management company....
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