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Due to the immense significance of education throughout the world, the beneficial aspect of technology has been encouragingly incorporated into the field of teaching. Being named to be instructional technology; it is the study of technology application as a means to conduct educational teaching, either in classroom or other learning environments. Albeit it has proven to be effective in solving educational challenges, some faculty and school still portray resistance to the use of technology. This is considerable as educators and teachers are inevitably afraid that the use of human labor might slowly be aborted.
Nevertheless, many authorities have claimed that disregard of how significance the use of technology in education, the demand of facilitators and instructors can never be strained as human elements are required to administer the technology. In fact, there are existing programs that produce experts in designing instructional materials for education. These professionals are required by universities or academic bodies to invent materials, especially for distant programs, such as the online learning package. For instance, the e-learning tools act as a platform for educators to interact with students via the internet.
One of the latest innovations in instructional technology is the Human Performance Technology (HPT) where it emphasizes on human's performance problems and is efficiently used by most corporate entities. No doubt, the primary intention of this technology is to endorse learning. The traditional theory learning style has evolved the instructional designs to further establish the interactivity and communication aspects in education. From there, the main focus of the design has been placed on interaction between teacher and student.
Basically there are three main items that come within the learner's interaction: learner-instructor, learner-content, and learner-learner interactions. These interactions were enlightened by Moore in 1989 and from his philosophical view; the use of technology in education has come in close relation to these interactions. In fact, many researches revealed that the learner-content interaction is the most vital endeavor in teaching.


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Anticipation is really beginning to build for Ridley Scott's 3D sci-fi movie Prometheus. But instead of just using trailers to keep the momentum going, Scott has been introducing us to the world Prometheus is set in, via a clever series of viral videos and advertising campaigns.
The TED talk from the year 2023, featuring Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland, started it all off. In it, Weyland talks about "cybernetic individuals" that will soon be "completely indistinguishable from us."
This quote neatly lines up the latest Prometheus video, entitled Happy Birthday David. David 8 is an android, and just as Weyland said — he looks exactly the same as you and me. Well, if we all looked like Michael Fassbender anyway.
David is a butler aboard the spaceship in Prometheus, linking back to Scott's original Alien, where Ian Holm's deceitful character Ash is revealed (spoiler alert) to be an android, and Lance Henrikson's Bishop in James Cameron's sequel Aliens. David's head inside plastic at the start of the video also recalls Ash's fate in Alien.
In the video, David says he "can do almost anything that could possibly be asked of me," including things that his "human counterparts might find distressing or unethical." He says he thinks about children playing, angels and robots, but is upset by war, poverty and "unnecessary violence."
Happily smelling flowers and painting models, he's the picture of normality, except his emotions are faked, and only come from an understanding of the concept. It's very creepy indeed, drawing on the reasons many find clowns or dolls unsettling, as any emotion he shows — the tear for example — is false and put on only for our benefit, masking his true intent.
Like Guy Pearce in his future TED talk, Michael Fassbender's performance here is mesmerizing. His lack of expression and movement is disturbing enough, but his emotionless voice, the upbeat music and colorful locations all suggest something is very, very wrong under the surface.
This excellent teaser will be joined by an advert for the David 8 android set to be printed in The Wall Street Journal soon. It's especially notable due to Verizon's involvement, as David is listed as being "manufactured by Weyland, powered by Verizon."
Ridley Scott is a renowned "world builder" proven by his work on Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator to name just a few, and so far, he's bringing the same level of genius to Prometheus too.
We featured the movie in our list of "films we hope don't suck" this year, and at the moment things are looking very positive indeed. Prometheus will be released June 8.
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If you're tired of narrow bike lanes and uninspiring concrete walkways, have no fear. The new global transport initiative, "Our Cities Ourselves", demonstrates how metropolises from Dar es Salaam to Buenos Aires can meet the challenges of accelerating population growth, as well as responding to climate change. Ten cities around the world have been re-imagined to prioritize pedestrians and sustainable transportation, such as bicycles.
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) selected ten diverse design teams to sustainably redesign mobility in their urban centers. These architects and urban planners have re-framed the transport issue to make it integral to urban design, as opposed to separate from it. Working in Jakarta, Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro, among others, the NGO specifically targeted cities with space for innovation.
A new exhibition at the Museo de Arquitectura (MARQ) in Buenos Aires features these potential plans, alongside parallel exhibits in New York and Mexico City. Argentine architecture firm, PALO Arquitecta Urbana, presents plans to transform the neighborhood of La Boca, which they argue has the city's most problematic transit issues. Emulating Manhattan's successful High Line park, PALO suggests the former freight railway is transformed into a pleasant urban walkway. The firm plots ideas for a "people-friendly" waterfront along the city's coast, complete with promenades, bike lanes and grassy areas all connected by a bridge exclusively for pedestrian and bicycle use.
The project is a critical issue as the transportation sector currently accounts for a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, and with populations shifting into cities this amount is expected to increase.
Visionary urbanist Jan Gehl and Executive Director of ITDP, Walter Hook, established ten principles for creating more sustainable urban spaces. Through these initiatives we see examples of how cities can be re-formed to encourage more sustainable transit.
The book "Our Cities Ourselves: 10 Principles for Transport in Urban Life" is an important read for urban planners and those involved in city design, and forms the core part of the ITDP exhibition. It is a guide to encourage countries to make their cities more livable, while helping to solve the problem of climate change. Gehl states that the twenty-first century heralds the development of "lively cities, safe cities, sustainable cities and healthy cities" which can be achieved by embracing these ten principles, and re-developing cities with their inhabitants as the focus.
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St. Lawrence University Fine Arts Faculty
October 17– December 14, 2007
Melissa Schulenberg, untitled linocut, 2007, 12.5 x 8.5 in.
FOUR MORE features artwork by Melissa Schulenberg, assistant professor;
Faye Serio, senior instructor; Lindy Strauss, adjunct assistant professor; and
Obiora Udechukwu, Dana professor. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with two other SLU fine arts faculty exhibitions: Kasarian Dane: Stripes and Divisions and croagh: a fable—a project by amy hauber.
Additional funding is provided by the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for Fine Arts Fund.


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Depending on where you live, Staples might try to sell you a more expensive stapler. The Wall Street Journal has conducted an Important Investigation and found that a lot of online retailers vary their pricing based on the buyer's location.
The cost of a product you buy from a website—a book, Scotch tape, whatever—might be higher because of the zip code you're ordering from. The WSJ found that this dollar skewing scheme applied to not just Staples, but also Rosetta Stone, Home Depot and Discover Financial Services. We all understand that costs are going to vary considering where you live because of shipping and other factors—Staples acknowledged that itself. But in this case it also might be related to the income distribution of where your IP address is located, and that's a bit discriminatory.
The schemes vary from site to site, and there are certain factors that matter like how far you live from a brick-and-mortar store. It's not something you should necessarily get up and start picketing over. But it's something to be aware of, because as a consumer, when you're paying more, you're losing. [WSJ]
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Citroen 2CV Charleston
From Citroen press: The decade of successful special series.
The "Charleston" opened the special series dance in 1981. With its 30s look featuring round headlamps and bordeaux and black body paint, the model was an immediate success. It soon became a standard production model, listed in the Citroën catalogue from 1982.
The "Dolly" versions were released in 1985, with two-tone paintwork in original colour combinations, such as vanilla and grey, green and black, and red and grey. "Victims" of their success, the "Dollies" also became standard production Citroëns.
In 1986, the 2 CV was still the symbol of the "people's car" in France. The "Cocorico" special series, decked out in the colours of the French flag, perfectly reflected this cultural status. The advertising slogan for this model was "This 2 CV is really too much".
The 2 CV production line in France closed in February 1989. With lifetime sales of 3,868,633 units, the last 2 CV came out of the Mangualde plant in Portugal on 27 July 1990 – at 4 o'clock. This marked the end of the production history of this legendary vehicle – and the beginning of a new story, that of the 2 CV and its fans through Citroën clubs. The 2 CV will never die.


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Reading through this recipe for Zak Pelaccio's Curry Leaf Fried Chicken from Eat with Your Hands, you might not believe that the finished product is really just good old fried chicken. After all, how many recipes call for brining your bird in cincalok, a Malaysian fermented shrimp sauce, and sprinkling it with curry leaves once it's out of the oil?
But after frying up a batch, we're on board with Pelaccio. All of the crispy skin and juicy meat that we love in a great fried chicken recipe is here, along with a few intriguing background notes from the brine as well as the unique herbal qualities that only come with fresh curry leaves. Exotic and familiar at the same time, and yes, good old fried chicken.
Recommended playlist and drinks pairing:
Listen: Burning Spear, Live, from '77--I'm not so into Malaysian music, and reggae is island music, too!
Drink: Cold island beer like Red Stripe or cold star fruit juice.
What Worked: Brining the chicken in the cincalok boosts savoriness beautifully and the fried curry leaves that finish this chicken push it over the top.
What Didn't: We're usually pretty happy with any fried chicken, and this one was wasn't just any fried chicken recipe. It's a great one. No changes here.
Suggested Tweaks: If you can't find cincalok, try a fish sauce brine.
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So, it looks like spring is finally here for real, and I am thankful as I was starting to get fed up with winter vegetables :P
I've been experimenting with making tsukemono, and I'd like to try making misozuke, however the info and direction I have found online are contrasting, especially about the pickling time, from overnight (for example here http://www.openkitchen.net/cook/carrot/carrot-e.html ) to two weeks, up to three months (like here http://www.theblackmoon.com/Jfood/ftsuke.html#miso) °_°
I'm willing to experiment but I hate to waste food so if anyone has suggestion or insight to offer I'll be really thankful :)
Well, the first page you linked to just says to keep the carrots in there overnight, which sounds right to me. Two weeks, let alone three months, is way too long for most vegetables - they will turn out extremely salty, though it depends on the miso. The more watery the vegetable or meat you put into a miso bed, the less time it needs to be in there. You can use the miso marinade recipe used for the pork here for any kind of vegetable, e.g. cucumbers cut into strips, eggplant sliced lengthwise, carrot sticks, etc.
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If omitting the alcohol, is it necessary to use an alternative liquid so the marinade is the right consistency?
I'm assuming that the carrots would be marinated and then eaten without any cooking.
If you are omitting the alcohol, you should add some water and a little sugar or honey to the marinade.
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[from The Green Intifada, multiple landscape strategies of territorialization are at work here]
Palestinian land owners are planting olivetrees in the West Bank. This is not only an ecological project aimed at soil conservation and an economic effort intended to increase agricultural production, but also a political strategy intended to resist occupation. Over at the Atlantic, Anna Van Hollen writes:
On one of the world's most bitterly contested pieces of land, natural resources have long played a central role. Together with water and mining rights, the right to one's trees and the fruit that they bear has come to be inseparably linked to the political struggle at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This project reminds us of another, highlighted over on mammoth a few years ago, that showed how new farming practices on the Sahel (or, more appropriately, recovered farming practices) are leading to increased crop yields through Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration strategies. Throughout the region farmers are recovering and adapting the techniques, lost during colonialism and the resource-intensive green revolution, to cultivate and manage the native trees that seed themselves in their fields. These trees then shade the crops, reducing the need for water, and their root systems aid with rainwater percolation and soil conservation. The biomass they produce can be used as a small- scale fuel source and they provide habitat for rabbits and other animals. The strategy is a sort of lo-fi landscape practice which stands in stark contrast to the resource intensive and technocratic green revolution, with it's emphasis on foreign capital, fertilizers, and engineered materials seeds. Scientific American notes a local bureaucrat:
"Before this trip, I always thought about what external inputs were required to increase food production," Gabriel Coulibaly said at a debriefing session after our fact-finding expedition. Coulibaly, a Malian who worked as a consultant to the European Union and other international organizations, added, "But now I see that farmers can create solutions themselves, and that is what will make those solutions sustainable. Farmers manage this technology, so no one can take it away from them."
["zai" or "tassa" (water pockets) are a traditional Sahel farming practice and consists of creating holes .2- .4m diameter wide and .1- .25m deep; these are then filled with two handfulls of organic material such as crop residue, manure, or compost; tree seedlings that take root in these fields are often then cultivated in addition to sown grains]
This is not to say that the material strategies of genetic manipulation, industrial fertilizer application, or capital investment has no place, but only to assert that they do have a politics. In the context of the Sahel, this lo-fi form of landscape practice might be seen as a method of territorialization offering direct resistance against the institutions that control foreign capital and technology. What is more, when combined with the Green Belt Project, formerly lead by the late ecofeminist Wangari Maathai, it is a landscape practice resisting occupation on a geological scale by pushing back against the expanding Sahara Desert through setting new bounds and establishing methods of control and maintenance within that territory. These are lessons worth taking not only for the ethical implications and to stand in critique to the practitioners merrily putting public parks all over our cultural heritage, but because of the possibilities for new forms and types of landscapes that might arise.
As we've discussed here before, this act of territorialization is fundamental to landscape practice and can take many forms- from 17th century English surveying techniques to planting trees in the West Bank to clearing an old warehouse district and putting in a waterfront park in St. Louis. Despite the admonishments of Foucault it seems that in landscape architectural practice we rarely consider the act of territorialization as a profound and fundamental facet of landscape design. Instead, as Timothy Morton has hinted, we limit ourselves to a historicized aestheticism, preferring to grapple mainly with certain visual effects of this facet of our practice. This is too bad because as the Palestinian effort to replant olive groves in the West Bank shows, within landscape practice the assertive act of territorialization- whether through aggression or resistance- is not just political, it's ontological.
[91 acres of some of the oldest and most important building on the Mississippi River in St. Louis were cleared in 1942 to make way for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; at the beginning of the demolition project Bernard Dickmann, the mayor at the time, said "it is with mingled feelings of pride and reverence that we gather here today"; the act of landscape making here was fundamentally and aggressive act of territorialization by a federal bureaucracy; it's effects were spectacular and somewhat devastating]


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New advances in technology, transportation and mass-production created new jobs and improved the quality of life for many people at the turn of the 20th century. At the same time, Americans struggled with the social and economic challenges that came with industrialization. These challenges included labor unrest, exploitation, competition from other regions due to an expanding railroad system, and waves of immigration. The outdoor historical pageants of Deerfield, Massachusetts, reveal how many Americans used the past to express their own hopes and fears for the future. This pageant scene from 1916 titled, The Indians Glimpse a Vision of the Future is particularly suggestive of the ways in which Americans selectively interpreted the past to explain their present. All is darkness and ignorance among the pseudo "Indians" who cower in confusion before the four white-clad women who represent the future of the Connecticut River Valley. Pictured center, the Spirit of Vision shows the Natives what will become of their land. The other women represent the promising future of various towns, as well as Agriculture, Industry and War. This pageant scene communicated the belief popular among white people that inevitable progress, not conquest, brought about the fall of Native Americans.
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Family Services celebrates Southeast Texas families
Family Services of Southeast Texas recognized families and organizations that have had an impact on the community at their 11th annual luncheon Thursday, Feb. 28.
"This event is to honor families," said Janet Walker, executive director at Family Services of Southeast Texas. "Our mission is to strengthen families, so we want to recognize people in the community that do work to do that."
Among those honored were Dr. Jimmy Simmons and his wife, Susan. The Simmonses were named Family of the Year.
"Not only have Dr. and Mrs. Simmons made a permanent impact on the lives of their three children, but they have also touched the lives of thousands of young adults through 14 years of outstanding leadership as the 'first family' of Lamar University," Walker said in a press release.
Dr. Simmons thanked the audience and Family Services for the award and explained that he had a weekend of family togetherness to look forward to.
"Speaking of family, I'm looking forward to this weekend (March 2-3)," Dr. Simmons said. "I'll have all of my nine grandchildren, our three children and their spouses and five dogs all at Lamar University to celebrate this award."
The Texas Coffee Company was named Family Business of the Year. Started in 1921 by Charles J. Fertitta, Texas Coffee Company products such as TexJoy Seasoning and Seaport Coffee have been household staples for several decades. And while the company has experienced success, it is still proud of its rich heritage and deep roots, Walker said.
Joseph Fertitta Jr., vice president and secretary treasurer of the company, accepted the award.
"This is truly an honor," Fertitta said. "I can't tell you how much this means to our family."
Beaumont PD's Family Violence Unit was recognized as the Bill Leger Family Advocate of the Year.
"We coordinate and work closely with them to keep victims safe and hold batterers accountable," Walker said.
The unit is comprised of one sergeant, five detectives, and one civilian administrative assistant. A press release by Beaumont Police Department expressed Chief James Singletary's thoughts on the award.
"Chief James Singletary is proud of the professionalism and work ethic demonstrated by the men and women of this unit. He is also very appreciative that Family Services took the time to formally recognize this unit's dedication to its vital mission and service to the citizens of Beaumont."
The award was renamed this year in memory of past Family Services Board president and strong advocate for domestic violence victims, Bill Leger. Family Services presented Tecoo Leger, his widow, with a plaque honoring Bill's commitment to the organization over the years.
The 2013 Family Services Volunteer of the Year has also played a powerful role in breaking the cycle of domestic violence, according to Walker. The Southeast Texas Foster Grandparent Program was named Family Services Volunteer of the Year. Foster grandparents Virginia Thomas and Lynn Julian accepted the award. These participants selflessly give of their time to operate a playroom at Family Services Women and Children's Shelter where they carefully supervise and lovingly interact with children, Walker said.
"We have foster grandparents at the shelter who take care of children while their mothers work on their resumes or look for jobs," she said. "They are a very important support service at the shelter."
The Family Services resource development committee chose the award recipients.
All proceeds from the luncheon went to benefit the programs of Family Services of Southeast Texas Inc., a non-profit organization working to strengthen families, individuals and the community through services at Family Services Counseling Center and Family Services Women and Children's Shelter. For more information about Family Services or its programs, visit www.WeStrengthenFamilies.org.


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EIB Group continues to boost financing for SMEs, growth, jobs and innovation
The EIB's Board of Directors today approved loans worth up to EUR 1.8 billion for the benefit of small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) and mid-cap companies in the European Union. This brings total EIB support for SMEs and mid-caps in the EU approved so far in 2013 to some EUR 14 billion compared to EUR 7.3 billion in the same period of 2012.
At EIB Group level, the transactions approved by now in 2013 in support of SMEs amount to EUR 16.8 billion, including EUR 2.8 billion from the European Investment Fund (EIF). By the end of this year, the EIB Group will provide a total of up to EUR 20 billion to SMEs and mid-caps in Europe.
EIB President Werner Hoyer stated: "We are well on track with our ambitious targets for an increased support for European SMEs and midcap companies. This underlines our strong commitment to contributing to the creation of jobs and growth in the EU."
From the SME loans approved today, up to EUR 1 billion will go to projects in Italy, Spain and Portugal. Projects of SMEs in Poland will benefit from loans of up to EUR 200 million.
Moreover, EUR 200 million were approved for an intermediated loan to boost access to education and youth employment and to improve educational infrastructure, teaching and research in Spain.
In addition, the EIB continues to put strong emphasis on its other priority areas. In the field of research, development and innovation (RDI), the board approved loan for projects worth up to EUR 250 million in order to strengthen the competitiveness of European business. One of them is for Acciona in Spain, financing investments in RDI in the water treatment, infrastructure and renewable energy sectors worth up to EUR 120 million.
The board also approved new loans worth up to EUR 800 million to promote strategic infrastructure in Europe, including a loan of EUR 200 million to Sächsische Aufbaubank, supporting public municipal infrastructure and a loan of EUR 100 million for the modernisation and extension of electricity distribution networks in Estonia. Projects supporting resource efficiency were approved by the Board for up to EUR 2.6 billion.
Also the Board of Directors of the European Investment Fund approved 14 new operations on 21 October through which EIF will continue supporting SMEs. These deals equal EIF commitments of EUR 240 milliion and are expected to leverage EUR 998 million of capital.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, April 02, 2010
Happy Sheilah Beckett Easter!
I've been saving all the Sheilah Beckett art I come across for the day when I have a comprehensive biography to present, but for the moment I've only managed to gather together a few tidbits.
While researching the artist online this morning I came across L.A. cartoonist Will Finn's blog. Last April Finn posted a really magnificent pencil drawing by Beckett. That alone would be a wonderful discovery, but even better, Finn had heard from Beckett's son Sean, who told Finn that his mother had recently published a new book. So Sheilah Beckett was still illustrating (and doing so magnificently) as recently as 2009.
Thanks to the link in Will's post I contacted her son and am arranging a phone interview with Sheilah Beckett. So stay tuned - with any luck we may soon be enjoying a whole Whitman's Sampler of sweet Sheilah Beckett treats!
* My Sheilah Beckett Flickr set.
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Abslutely beautiful stuff! I can't wait to hear how your interview goes.ReplyDelete
Thanks for commenting Jeff. I'm very excited as well, not only at the prospect of hearing about Sheilah Beckett's career - but also hopefully to hear anything she may recall about some of her artist associates and friends from the early days at the Charles E. Cooper studio. As well, many people who are familiar with Beckett's work may not know that she was married to J. Frederick Smith, another wonderful Cooper artist who worked in that more realistic style of the time for which the Cooper artists were renowned. I hope to ask her about JFS as well.ReplyDelete
Wow, her illustrations are fantastic! How exciting that you get to interview her!ReplyDelete
I respond to stylized and decorative illustration somewhat differently than traditional literal illos. And, I find that Sheilah Beckett's work is a cut above most of the stylized/decorative mid century illos I have seen. I clicked on that pencil sketch you referred to, and it really blew my socks off. Her delicate lines are so sensitive and expressive, that her drawing stands alone without any color needed. She must have been a real treasure for Coopers Studio, and I suspect was kept very busy. The advantage of using this type of illustration is obvious, since it doesn't compete with photography, and her whimsical charm she incorporates into those illos, must have put smiles on a lot of faces that saw them.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure one can be taught the kind of insight, creativity and that magic touch that we see in her work. It has to come deep from her sole, without formulas, systems or theories.. just an abundance of remarkable natural talent in the same tradition I see in Beatrice Potter's unique illustrations.
Congrats on your up coming interview with Sheilah Beckett, Leif. What an interesting and special treat that will be. Sadly, there's not many of these remarkable mid century illustrators left to interview.
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How wonderful! We have a couple of her puppet designs on display backstage at the Storybook Puppet Theater of Children's Fairyland. Her drawings are so graceful and appealing! I'm looking forward to learning more about her.ReplyDelete
Glad to hear you hooked up with Will; he's a great guy. We worked slightly briefly together at disney in the 90s.ReplyDelete


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May 9, 2008
What was the originally name of Wabash College when its charter was issued by the Indiana General Assembly on January 15, 1834?
What Wabash alumnus has played in four Super Bowls?
What team did Wabash defeat to win its first basketball national championship, and what year did the game take place?
If you knew the answers to these questions are: Wabash Manual Labor College and Teachers' Seminary, Pete Metzelaars, and Yale in 1906 (24 to 8); then you would be ready to match wits with the teams that participated in the first Wabash Trivia Competition.
Two teams battled to show their knowledge of Wabash, various subjects taught at the school, and general world events in a competition conducted by quizmaster and National Association of Wabash Men President Jim Dimos '83. A team of alumni --- (photo to left from left to right) Jon Pactor '71, Khurram Tahir '01, Dick Glover '65, and Mark Dewart '74 --- took on a faculty team comprised of Paul Vasquez, Frank Howland, and Jim and Patience Barnes. A third team made up of Jay Fischer '66, Tom Runge '71, Tim Lake, and Brent Harris joined in the second round.
Questions ranged from history regarding the College to famous alumni and and events. Also included were questions from the three major divisions --- sciences and mathematics, humanities and fine arts, and social sciences. Participants were also asked to recognize the photos of ten world leaders, ten candidates in the 2008 Presidential campaign, and ten cities throughout the world.
Good-natured barbs were traded between each group as Dimos grilled the teams with a total of nine rounds, with each round consisting of ten questions. The alumni group squeaked out a narrow victory over the faculty in the final standings.
"I hope this will become an annual event," Dimos said after the final scores were announced.
So brush up on your Wabash trivia and get ready to compete during next year's graduation weekend.
Photos - (top right) Dimos asks a question in one of the early rounds of the quiz.
(Middle left) Pactor, Tahir, Glover, and Dewart won the first trivia competition.
(Bottom right) Faculty members Vasquez, Howland, and the Barnes work together to get another correct answer.


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Alfer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 422 designs submitted by 98 freelance designers.
***Money guaranteed & I will provide very regular feedback***
NOTE: Please do not take notice of the designs done previosuly as I am after something different to these.
This is a contest that has been extended due to the logo being needed for another of mine and my partners businesses. It was originally for a tshirt brand but it is now needed for an exclusive nightclub.
We are in a huge rush for this logo which is why the contest has only such a short time left. The money has been guaranteed so the winner will have their money within a few days so put your best designs forward.
The nightclub will be very exclusive and will cater to a high class type customer like those with money or those that pretend they have money. The target market age range will be any where from 25-40.
I only have a few requirements that need to be met and they are:
- The logo has to be stylish and give the feeling of sophistication, luxury & exclusivity. I do not really want an image as such, just the name to be its own logo.
- You can use whatever colour you like but to be honest they don't really matter because in a lot of instances the logo will be printed in either flat black or white. I would rather more time & effort go into the logo itself rather than the colour.
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The discovery of more than 100 elk in northeastern New Mexico has animal health officials scrambling to determine how the animals died. Biologists on the scene say the elk were found within a half-mile area and no evidence indicates they were shot.
New Mexico Department of Fish and Game biologists responded to a first responder call Tuesday (Aug. 27) and have been collecting tissue and water samples from the animals and the surrounding area, located near Las Vegas, New Mexico, about 70 miles east of Santa Fe.
"At this time we're looking into all possible causes, including epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD)," said Fish & Game Wildlife Disease Specialist Kerry Mower. "What we do know from aerial surveys is that the die-off appears to be confined to a relatively small area, and that the elk were not shot by poachers."
A large number of cases of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) were reported in the U.S. Midwest last year, an unexpected development, say biologists, considering the prevailing drought conditions in the area. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease viruses (EHDV) are widespread in white-tailed deer and periodically cause serious epidemics in wild populations as well as affecting farmed deer populations. EHD can also cause disease in cattle.
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In the U.S., EHD in cattle is typically uncommon, rarely fatal, and usually associated with an epidemic in deer, as was reported last year in Iowa.
The epizootic hemorrhagic disease viruses belong to the genus Orbivirus, family Reoviridae. Ten serotypes of EHDV are known worldwide. The viruses of the EHDV serogroup are transmitted by biological vectors, usually biting midges in the genus Culicoides. In North America, C. variipennis is the major vector. Some species of gnats and mosquitoes can also transmit EHDV. Infected deer can be viremic for up to two months.
Three syndromes may be seen in cervid populations, like deer and elk. Peracute disease is characterized by high fever, anorexia, weakness, respiratory distress, and severe and rapid edema of the head and neck. Swelling of the tongue and conjunctivae is common. Cervid with the peracute form usually die rapidly, typically within 8-36 hours. Some animals may be found dead with few clinical signs.
In the acute form, symptoms can also include extensive hemorrhages in many tissues including the skin, heart, and gastrointestinal tract. There is often excessive salivation and nasal discharge, both of which may be blood-tinged. Animals with the acute form can also develop ulcers or erosions of the tongue, dental pad, palate, rumen, and omasum. High mortality rates are common in both the peracute and acute forms. The chronic form of the disease results in cervid being ill for several weeks but gradually recovering. After recovery, these deer sometimes develop breaks or rings in the hooves caused by growth interruption and may become lame.
In severe cases, animals slough the hoof wall or toe; some of these animals may be found crawling on their knees or chest. Cervid with the chronic form may also develop ulcers, scars, or erosions in the rumen; extensive damage to the lining of the rumen can cause emaciation even when there is no shortage of food.
EHD in cattle herds
Disease in cattle is characterized by fever, anorexia, and difficulty swallowing. The swallowing disorders are caused by damage to the striated muscles of the pharynx, larynx, esophagus and tongue, and may lead to dehydration, emaciation, and aspiration pneumonia. Edema, hemorrhages, erosions, and ulcerations may be seen in the mouth, on the lips, and around the coronets. The animals may be stiff and lame, and the skin may be thickened and edematous. Abortions and stillbirths have also been reported in some epidemics.
Most EHDV infections in cattle appear to be subclinical. Typical symptoms include fever, oral ulcers, salivation, lameness associated with coronitis, and weight loss. In pregnant cows, the fetus may be resorbed or develop hydranencephaly if it is infected between 70 and 120 days of gestation. Deaths are uncommon with the North American strains of EHDV; however, some animals may be lame and unthrifty for a prolonged period.
Most outbreaks of EHD occur in late summer or early autumn. The onset of freezing weather usually stops the appearance of new cases, but hoof sloughing can be seen throughout the year.
Among the Cervidae, EHD is most severe in white-tailed deer. In this species, the morbidity and mortality rates may be as high as 90 percent. Severity of the disease varies from year to year. It also varies with the geographic location. In the U.S. Southeast, most cases are mild and mortality rates are low. In the Midwest and Northeast, EHD typically recurs each year, but can vary from a few scattered cases to severe epizootics with high mortality rates. This variability is thought to be caused by many factors including the abundance and distribution of the insect vectors, the EHDV serotype, existing herd immunity, and genetic variations in the susceptibility of the host. Surviving deer develop long-lived neutralizing antibodies. Nearly 100 percent of the deer population can be seropositive in some regions.
New Mexico biologists say tissue samples are currently being processed by the state veterinary lab.
Officials advise hunters to be vigilant for deer, elk or antelope that have unusual behavior or appear sick. Animals that demonstrate the symptoms of EHD should not be harvested and hunters should report anything unusual to the Department of Fish & Game. The toll free number to call is (888)-248-6866.
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John Hackleman Jr. certainly lived up to the family hype.
The son of famed trainer John Hackleman not only had his father in his corner, but former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell — a one-time Hackleman disciple — was cheering from the front row Friday night for RFA 12 at the Shrine Auditorium.
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Hackleman Jr. (2-0) floored an approaching La Croix (0-2) with a quick right and pounced on his downed opponent to lead to the referee's stoppage. Liddell rose to his feet to lead the cheers.
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In the final fight on the preliminary card, Los Angeles' Terrion Ware and Zac Chavez entertained the crowd with an active bantamweight bout that saw both countering on the mat. Chavez made statements with big slams to start the first two rounds, but Ware got the better of the opening round, at one point securing a triangle choke that Chavez somehow escaped.
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Featherweight Dmitry Gerasimov engaged in a back-and-forth opening round with Jordan Isoria before getting a takedown late in the round. After doing some damage from top position, Gerasimov (3-0) segued into a guillotine choke and rolled onto his back. Isoria (2-2), fighting out of Torrance and the Black House gym, appeared to be fending if off before finally tapping out at 4:04 of the first.
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Handbook of Mathematical Relations in Particulate Materials Processing: Ceramics, Powder Metals, Cermets, Carbides, Hard Materials, and Minerals
Handbook of Mathematical Relations in Particulate Materials Processing: Ceramics, Powder Metals, Cermets, Carbides, Hard Materials, and Minerals
ISBN: 978-0-470-36872-5 January 2009 350 Pages
DescriptionThe only handbook of mathematical relations with a focus on particulate materials processing
The National Science Foundation estimates that over 35% of materials-related funding is now directed toward modeling. In part, this reflects the increased knowledge and the high cost of experimental work. However, currently there is no organized reference book to help the particulate materials community with sorting out various relations. This book fills that important need, providing readers with a quick-reference handbook for easy consultation.
This one-of-a-kind handbook gives readers the relevant mathematical relations needed to model behavior, generate computer simulations, analyze experiment data, and quantify physical and chemical phenomena commonly found in particulate materials processing. It goes beyond the traditional barriers of only one material class by covering the major areas in ceramics, cemented carbides, powder metallurgy, and particulate materials. In many cases, the governing equations are the same but the terms are material-specific. To rise above these differences, the authors have assembled the basic mathematics around the following topical structure:
Powder technology relations, such as those encountered in atomization, milling, powder production, powder characterization, mixing, particle packing, and powder testing
Powder processing, such as uniaxial compaction, injection molding, slurry and paste shaping techniques, polymer pyrolysis, sintering, hot isostatic pressing, and forging, with accompanying relations associated with microstructure development and microstructure coarsening
Finishing operations, such as surface treatments, heat treatments, microstructure analysis, material testing, data analysis, and structure-property relations
Handbook of Mathematical Relations in Particulate Materials Processing is suited for quick reference with stand-alone definitions, making it the perfect complement to existing resources used by academic researchers, corporate product and process developers, and various scientists, engineers, and technicians working in materials processing.
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Abnormal Grain Growth.
Abrasive Wearâ??See Friction and Wear Testing.
Acceleration of Free-settling Particles.
Activated Sintering, Early-stage Shrinkage.
Activation Energyâ??See Arrhenius Relation.
Adsorptionâ??See BET Specific Surface Area.
Agglomerate Strength.
Agglomeration Force.
Agglomeration of Nanoscale Particlesâ??See Nanoparticle Agglomeration.
Andreasen Size Distribution.
Ball Millingâ??See Jar Milling.
Bearing Strength.
Bell Curveâ??See Gaussian Distribution.
Bending-beam Viscosity.
Bending Test.
BET Equivalent Spherical-particle Diameter.
BET Specific Surface Area.
Bimodal Powder Packing.
Bimodal Powder Sintering.
Binder Burnoutâ??See Polymer Pyrolysis.
Cantilever-beam Testâ??See Bending-beam Viscosity.
Capillarity-induced Sinteringâ??See Surface Curvature-Driven Mass Flow in Sintering.
Capillary Pressure during Liquid-phase Sinteringâ??See Mean Capillary Pressure.
Capillary Riseâ??See Washburn Equation.
Capillary Stressâ??See Laplace Equation.
Case Carburization.
Casson Model.
Cemented-carbide Hardness.
Centrifugal Atomization Droplet Size.
Darcyâ??s Law.
Debindingâ??See Polymer Pyrolysis, Solvent Debinding Time, Thermal Debinding Time, Vacuum Thermal Debinding Time, and Wicking.
Debinding Master Curveâ??See Master Decomposition Curve.
Debinding Temperature.
Debinding Timeâ??See Solvent Debinding Time, Thermal Debinding Time, Vacuum Thermal Debinding Time, and Wicking.
Debinding by Solvent Immersionâ??See Solvent Debinding Time.
Debinding Weight Loss.
Delubricationâ??See Polymer Pyrolysis.
Densification in Liquid-phase Sinteringâ??See Dissolution-induced Densification.
Effective Pressure.
Ejection Stressâ??See Maximum Ejection Stress.
Elastic Behaviorâ??See Hookeâ??s Law.
Elastic deformation Neck-size Ratio.
Elastic-modulus Variation with Density.
Elastic-property Variation with Porosity.
Electrical-conductivity Variation with Porosity.
Electromigration Contributions to Spark Sintering.
Elongation Variation with Densityâ??See Sintered Ductility.
Feedstock Formulation.
Feedstock Viscosityâ??See Suspension Viscosity and Viscosity Model for Infection-molding Feedstock.
Feedstock Viscosity as a Function of Shear Rateâ??See Cross Model.
Feedstock Yield Strengthâ??See Yield Strength of Particle-Polymer Feedstock.
Fiber-fracture from Buckling.
Fiber-fracture Probability.
Fiber Packing Density.
Fickâ??s First Law.
Fickâ??s Second Law.
Field-activated Sintering.
Gas-absorption Surface Areaâ??See BET Specific Surface Area.
Gas-atomization Cooling Rate.
Gas-atomization Melt Flow Rate.
Gas-atomization Particle Size.
Gas-generated Final Pores.
Gas Permeabilityâ??See Kozeny-Carman Equation.
Gate Strain Rate in Injection Molding.
Gaudin-Schuhmann distribution.
Gaussian Distribution.
Gel-densification Model.
Hall-Petch Relation.
Hardenability Factor.
Hardness Variation with Grain Size in Cemented Carbides.
Heating-rate Effect in Transient Liquid-phase Sintering.
Heat Transfer in Sintered Materials.
Heat-transfer Rate in Modelingâ??See Cooling Rate in Molding.
Herring Scaling Law.
Hertzian stressâ??See Elastic Deformation Neck-size Ratio.
Heterodiffusionâ??See Mixed-powder Sintering Shrinkage.
Impregnationâ??See Infiltration Pressure.
Inertial-flow Equation.
Infiltration Depth.
Infiltration Pressure.
Infiltration Rate.
Inhibited Grain Growthâ??See Zener Relation.
Initial-stage Liquid-phase Sintering Stressâ??See Sintering Stress in Initial-stage Liquid-phase Sintering.
Initial-stage Neck Growth.
Initial-stage Sinteringâ??See Surface Diffusion-Controlled Neck Growth.
Initial-stage Sintering Modelâ??See Kuczynski Neck-growth Model.
Jar Milling.
Jet Mixing Time.
Kawakita Equation.
Kelvin Equation.
Kelvin Modelâ??See Viscoelastic Model for Powder-Polymer Mixtures.
Kingery Intermediate-stage Liquid-phase Sintering Modelâ??See Intermediateâ??stage Liquid-phase Sintering Model.
Kingery Model for Pressure-assisted Liquid-phase Sinteringâ??See Pressure-assisted Liquid-phase Sintering.
Kingery Rearrangement Shrinkage Kineticsâ??See Rearrangement Kinetics in Initial-stage Liquid-phase Sintering.
Kissinger Method.
Knoop Hardness.
Knudsen Diffusionâ??See Vapor Mean Free Path.
Laminar Flow Settlingâ??See Stokesâ?? Law.
Laplace Equation.
Laplace Numberâ??See Suratman Number.
Laser Sintering.
Lattice Diffusionâ??See Vacancy Diffusion.
Lifschwiz, Slyozov, Wagner Model.
Ligament Pinchingâ??See Raleigh Instability.
Limiting Neck Size.
Limiting Size for Sedimentation Analysis.
Liquid and Solid Compositions in Prealloy Particle Melting.
Macroscopic Sintering Model Constitutive Equations.
Magnetic Coercivity Correlation in Cemented Carbides.
Mass Flow Rate in Atomizationâ??See Gas-atomization Melt Flow Rate.
Master Decomposition Curve.
Master Sintering Curve.
Master Sintering Curve for Grain Growthâ??See Grain-growth Master Curve.
Maximum Density in Pressure-assisted Sintering.
Maximum Ejection Stress.
Maximum Grain Size in Sintering.
Maximum Lubricant Content.
Nabarro-Herring Creep-controlled Pressure-assisted Densification.
Nanoparticle Agglomeration.
Nanoparticle Melting-point Depression.
Nanoscale Particle-Agglomerate Spheroidization.
Nanoscale Particle-size Effect on Surface Energyâ??See Surface-energy variation with Droplet Size.
Neck-curvature Stress.
Neck Growth Early in Liquid-phase Sintering.
Neck Growth-induced Shrinkageâ??See Shrinkage Relation to Neck Size.
Neck Growth Limited by Grain Growth.
Neck-growth Modelâ??See Kuczynski neck-growth Model.
Open-pore Content.
Optimal Packing Particle-size Distributionâ??See Andreasen Size Distribution.
Optimal Mixer Rotational Speed.
Ordered Packing.
Osprey Processâ??See Spray Deposition.
Ostwald Ripening.
Oxide Reduction.
Packing Density for Log-normal Particles.
Particle Cooling in Atomizationâ??See Newtonian Cooling Approximation.
Particle Coordination Numberâ??See Coordination Number and Density.
Particle Diffusion in Mixing.
Particle Fracture in Milling.
Particle Packing.
Particle-shape Index.
Particle Sizeâ??See Equivalent Spherical Diameter and Mean Particle Size.
Particle-size Analysisâ??See Sieve Progression.
Particle size and Apparent Density.
Quantitative-microscopy Determination of Surface Areaâ??See Surface Area by Quantitative Microscopy.
Quasi-3-dimensional Energy-governing Equation for Powder Injection Moldingâ??See Energy-governing Equation for Powder Injection Molding.
Quasi-3-dimensional Pressure-governing Equation for Powder Injection Modelingâ??See Pressure-governing Equation in Powder Injection Molding.
Quasi-3-dimensional Pressure-governing Equation for Powder Injection Molding with Slip-layer Modelâ??See Pressure-governing Equation in Powder Injection Molding with Slip-layer Model.
Quasi-3-dimensional Pressure-governing Equation for Powder Injection Molding with Slip-velocity Modelâ??See Pressure-governing Equation in 2.5 Dimensions for Powder Injection Molding with Slip-velocity Model.
Radial Crush Strengthâ??See Bearing Strength.
Radiant Heating.
Raleigh Instability.
Random Packing Density.
Random Packing Radial-distribution Function.
Reaction-controlled Grain Growthâ??See Grain-growth Master Curve, Interfacial Reaction Control, and Interface-controlled Grain Growth.
Reaction-rate Equationâ??See Avrami Equation.
Reactive Synthesis.
Rearrangement Kinetics in Liquid-phase Sintering.
Recalescence Temperature.
Saddle-surface Stressâ??See Neck-curvature Stress.
Scherrer Formula.
Screen Sizesâ??See Sieve Progression.
Secondary Dendrite-Arm Spacing.
Secondary Recrystallizationâ??See Abnormal Grain Growth.
Second-stage Liquid-phase Sintering Modelâ??See Intermediate-stage Liquid-phase Sintering Model.
Second-stage Sintering Densificationâ??See Intermediate-stage Sintering-density Model.
Second-stage Sintering Pore Eliminationâ??See Intermediate-stage Pore Elimination.
Second-stage Sintering Surface-area Reductionâ??See Intermediate-stage Surface-area Reduction.
Sedimentation Particle-size Analysisâ??See Stokesâ?? Law Particle-size Analysis.
Tap Densityâ??See Vibration-induced Particle Packing.
Temperature Adjustments for Equivalent Sintering.
Temperature Dependenceâ??See Arrhenius Relation.
Terminal Densityâ??See Final-stage Sintering Limited Density.
Terminal Neck Sizeâ??See Neck Growth Limited by Grain Growth.
Terminal Neck Size in Sinteringâ??See Limiting Neck Size.
Terminal Pore Sizeâ??See Final-stage Pore Size.
Terminal Settling Velocityâ??See Stokesâ?? Law.
Terminal Sinteringâ??See Trapped-gas Pore Stabilization.
Terminal Velocityâ??See Acceleration of Free-settling Particles.
Ultrasonic Velocity.
Vacancy Concentration Dependence on Surface Curvature.
Vacancy Diffusion.
Vacuum Debindingâ??See Vacuum Thermal Debinding.
Vacuum Distillation Rate.
Vacuum Flux in Sintering.
Vacuum Thermal Debinding.
Vapor Mean Free Path.
Vapor Pressure.
Vibration-induced Particle Packing.
Vickers Hardness Number.
Washburn Equation.
Water-atomization Particle Size.
Water Immersion Densityâ??See Archimedes Density.
Weber Number.
Weibull Distribution.
Wetting Angle.
Work Hardeningâ??See Strain Hardening.
Work of Sinteringâ??See Master Sintering Curve.
X-ray Line Broadeningâ??See Scherrer Formula.
Yield Strength in Viscous Flowâ??See Bingham Viscous-flow Model.
Yield Strength of Particleâ??Polymer Feedstock
Youngâ??s Equationâ??See Contact Angle and Wetting Angle.
Youngâ??s Modulusâ??See Elastic Modulus.
Zener Relation.
Zeta Potential.
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While staying at my aunt's house in Williamsport, she started looking through her things to see if there was anything that would interest me. I never would have guessed what she found.
She pulled out 2 things from a small box. You'll find out about the second thing tomorrow. Here's the first item she showed me:
These aren't just any dentures. These false teeth belong to my great-grandpa, Eugene Jerome Eck. This was apparently his first pair.
Why does my aunt have these teeth? She was a middle school health teacher and my great grandparents apparently passed things on to her that she might find interesting. Why she still has them is another story. But at least I got to see a part of my great grandfather decades after his death.
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A resort differs from a hotel in a few notable ways: Hotels are often located near main roadways, and serve as a nightly "home base" while travelers explore the surrounding area. Resorts, however, are often destinations in themselves. When it comes to software, they both require identical feature-sets, but resorts need some additional functionality to manage the more varied activities offered.
In this guide, we'll differentiate between hotel management software and resort-specific systems, cover key considerations for prospective buyers and explain the pricing models.
What Is Resort Management Software?
Common Features of Resort Management Software
Key Considerations
How Is It Priced?
When compared to hotels, resorts tend to be spread across more land, which gives them space to offer more activities and amenities, such as horseback riding, nature excursions, golfing, tennis and more. Also, travelers often plan events at resorts to enjoy the natural surroundings and facility amenities, including weddings, business outings and other occasions.
While a resort requires the same reservation and front-desk software features offered in a hotel management system, these extra amenities bring with them potential issues. Resort staff must plan ahead and ensure scheduling is efficient to avoid problems that could drive away customers.
Therefore, resort management software supports the common functions of hotel management software, such as reservations, front desk and housekeeping management, point-of-sale (POS), maintenance capabilities and guest management capabilities—along with other, more specialized features. These can be offered either within an integrated suite or as standalone modules, and can integrate with an existing property management system.
In addition to common property management functions, resort-specific software often offers one or all of the following features:
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|Spa services are commonly offered at resorts and require certain features to operate smoothly, such as appointment scheduling, a guest preferences database and inventory managing capabilities.
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|Some hotels have dining options, but most resorts have full on-property restaurants to manage. Restaurant functionality typically includes a POS system with debit and credit card processing, inventory management, employee scheduling and marketing and reporting features.
|Catering & event management
|Resorts can manage weddings, corporate retreats and other events, with food and beverage inventory management and cost analysis, invoicing, staff management and reporting functionality.
|Retail POS
|A resort may offer shopping options to guests, from a basic general store to a clothing or jewelry shop. Like food and beverage establishments, these stores may require a POS system with debit and credit card processing and inventory management.
|Activity management
|Many resorts utilize their acreage to build world-class golf courses that draw thousands of players each year. Golfing and other popular activities, such as tennis, hiking or fitness classes, require scheduling software to maintain tee times and appointments, track member information and manage retail inventory.
|Club management
|For membership services, such as for a golf clubhouse, a resort managing system can offer features that allow staff to create, modify and manage membership entries. This can also include features to maintain a loyalty rewards program; users can automatically notify loyalty program members when they earn points to encourage booking again.
|Maintenance management
|Because resorts typically offer a wide variety of activities and services, maintenance is important to fix sudden infrastructure problems and keep facilities functional, safe and clean for guests. Maintenance functionality can help companies create a schedule for the upkeep of landscapes, buildings and machinery.
Resort managers should carefully consider the needs of their property before selecting a resort-specific system. Here are a few factors to keep in mind when making a decision:
Promotional functionality. Perhaps it's a mountain full of snow to ski on; maybe it's a sparkling beach, or a popular hiking trail through the nearby forest. Whatever the case, resort managers must promote their property's strongest features to drive business. Choosing a system with strong marketing features, custom website creation and social media integration can help convey the character of your resort to the appropriate traveler segments.
Global Distribution System (GDS) integration. The GDS is a large network of hospitality companies and online travel websites that hotels and resorts can connect to using a central reservation system: a software feature that consolidates a hotel's inventory and manages its Internet distribution. This ensures that your resort's room rates and inventory are represented accurately and updated in real-time, so customers have the right information when booking online. Tapping into this system also increases the number of sales channels available to resorts, which can significantly increase revenue.
Like other systems designed for hospitality or property management, resort management systems are priced by either a monthly subscription payment or a single, upfront cost:
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|A monthly or annual fee, typically based on the number of rooms or units. Often denotes Web-based software.
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|A one-time, per-user or per-computer fee, which can increase with the number of rooms. Some products allow multiple users on a single license, while others require an additional license for each user.
|Northwind Maestro, RDPWin, Execu/Suite
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Suzuki Smash Racing Look Modification
The most striking change was the application of the light house Yamaha X1-R from Thailand. So much like the Transformers robot, the front of the house following with given a touch of custom lamps. Especially in the shell of the lamp, right and left wing to cover protects the bottom half of the engine looks. In addition, there is in the form of seats, covers plus side to the stern of deliberately contrived sepatbor different.
According to the Court, put the cover body X1-R in Smash quite complicated. You see, there are several components that must be cut, plus, and moved. In addition, he had to reset the handle cover mounting bolts, from front to rear.
So, shockbreker double standard models modified to Monoshock. This makes replacement of the standard swing arm turned into handmade products from the aftermarket. Great was not haphazardly done that part, as well as other sections, because the goods are used and given a little expensive custom touch.
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Thursday, 4 March 2010
A Bicycle prize to get excited about...
Bicycle orientated prizes don't come much better than this. Radley (yes the company that make the cute bags with the scotty dog tags) have designed a limited edition beautiful leather pannier and, wait for it... are giving them away strapped to the back of a Pashley Sonnet along with divine recycle wool picnic blanket.
Radley fell in love with the Pashley bikes while using them for there SS 10 campaign and were inspired to join forces with them for this beautifully British prize.
To be in with a chance of winning one of these babies, all people need to do is head in to one of Radley stores or log on to www.radley.co.uk throughout March and April to enter the prize draw.
As a self-confessed Pashley lover myself I have just arranged for a Blue Pashley Poppy to be ready for my arrival in San Francisco in April to launch Cyclechic US. The perfect set of wheels for an English girl abroad...
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- Michelle Shopped said...
this is totally cool! and you're coming to the usa! bummer i'm on the east coast...
- 4 March 2010 at 21:58
- Dottie said...
Cyclechic USA? I'm intrigued!
Love the Pashley. I want a Sonnet or a pink Poppy - not too picky :)
- 5 March 2010 at 04:07
- Loring said...
Here is the link to enter in the USA.
- 5 March 2010 at 14:26
- Caz said...
Hi Michelle, we will be based in San Francisco but will be shipping to the entire USA. Hopefully I'll be able to visit the East coast too if things go well! x
- 8 March 2010 at 16:24
- Caz said...
Hi Dottie, Nice site! Fancy linking to each other?
I am a big poppy fan but the sonnet is lovely too x
- 8 March 2010 at 16:30
- Christa said...
Beautiful panniers and like how they match the paint. Great detail.
I tested Cosmo's (from LA Cycle Chic) Pashley. Wondering where the bikes are sold in the U.S. Researching...
- 11 March 2010 at 01:02
- Teri said...
how exciting! I work at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and would love to connect with you! We've have a biking fashion show coming up in May. Please email me at your convenience and we welcome you to San Francisco!
- 12 March 2010 at 18:41
- Caz said...
Hi Teri
Would love to get involved with your fashion show. I will be over in San Fran from 24th-22nd April - would be great to meet for a chat. What's your email? mine is firstname.lastname@example.com.
- 15 March 2010 at 16:39
- {lovely little things} said...
Lovely cycles!
Enjoying your blog.
- 19 March 2010 at 03:19
- eva said...
Teri - can you provide more info/link for the bike fashion show? I would love to learn more about it!
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Surprisingly I have now twice received gifts from Ebay sellers - a second, free 7" in the package.
I was well excited until I realized (perhaps unsurprisingly) that the actual purchase was nowhere near the grading advertised and thus the extra 7" was meant to mitigate my frustration/anger.
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BSA continually seeks to increase awareness of this societal problem and to create even greater barriers to abuse than already exist today in Scouting.
BSA Policy is:
Youth Protection training is required for all BSA registered volunteers. Youth Protection training must be taken every two years. If a volunteer does not meet the BSA's Youth Protection training requirement at the time of recharter, the volunteer will not be reregistered.
To find out more about the Youth Protection policies of the Boy Scouts of America and how to help Scouting keep your family safe, see the Parent's Guide in any of the Cub Scouting or Boy Scouting handbooks, or go to http://www.scouting.org/Training/YouthProtection.aspx.
All persons involved in Scouting shall report to local authorities any good-faith suspicion or belief that any child is or has been physically or sexually abused, physically or emotionally neglected, exposed to any form of violence or threat, exposed to any form of sexual exploitation including the possession, manufacture, or distribution of child pornography; online solicitation; enticement; or showing of obscene material. No person may abdicate this reporting responsibility to any other person.
Notify your Scout executive of this report, or of any violation of BSA's Youth Protection policies, so that he or she may take appropriate action for the safety of our Scouts, make appropriate notifications, and follow up with investigating agencies.
The following are answers to some of the questions we have received about these important updates. To read more, visit www.scouting.org/youthprotection .
A1: All registered adult volunteers—no matter what their position entails—must complete Youth Protection training.
A2: Youth safety is of paramount importance to the Boy Scouts of America, therefore, it is important to implement this training at all levels of the organization. The BSA is always reevaluating and reassessing its policies to ensure the safest youth program and the best training are offered. The BSA's Youth Protection training has been in existence long enough for it to be understood and accepted as a mandated training for all registered BSA adult volunteers.
A3: All registered leaders are required to rener their Youth Protection training every two years. No individual leader will be able to register without being up-to-date on his or her Youth Protection training.
A4: If a leader's Youth Protection training is not current, the volunteer must take or renew this training immediately. Every effort should be taken so that all adults involved in Scouting have a current certificate of completion of the youth protection training.
A5: Yes. The goal is to have all registered volunteers Youth Protection trained. This is important to the Boy Scouts of America as a youth organization and reinforces the BSA's commitment to the well-being of all youth members and volunteers.
A6: No. Youth protection requires sustained vigilance and a commitment to helping protect youth. You must complete the entire online training in order for your Youth Protection certificate to be valid. This ensures you receive the latest information on BSA Youth Protection.
A7: We believe everyone should take youth protection training, however, the executive officer is not a registered leader so, he or she is not required to complete Youth Protection training, although it is strongly recommended. If the executive officer is a registered member of the BSA, then he or she must complete Youth Protection training.
A8: All registered adults are required to take Youth Protection training. The Tiger Cub adult partner and ScoutParent designations are not registered adult positions; therefore, mandatory Youth Protection training is not required. However, under the initiative "Youth Protection Begins with You," it is strongly recommended, however, that all adults involved in Scouting take Youth Protection training.
A9: Yes. All registered adults are required to take Youth Protection training.
A10: No. As long as their application is fully completed, submitted to the council service center, and approved, they will be able to interact with other registered & trained adult leaders and youth members while the criminal background check (CBC) is still pending.
A11: Yes. A merit badge counselor is a registered volunteer position.
A12: In order for a unit to be rechartered, it must have all the required positions filled with Youth Protection–trained adults. Adults who do not have current (within the past two years) Youth Protection training will not be reregistered.
A13: Yes. It is encouraged that adults take the training via the online module, but the instructor-led model is still acceptable as long as the most current version of the Youth Protection DVD is used and the end-of-course quiz is proctored by the trainer at the end of the training session. Reminder: It is critical that training completion certificates be issued after successful completion and that a formal training record roster be submitted to the council registrar so proper credit can be recorded in the profiles of each participant.
A14: Yes, as long as the most current versions of the DVDs are used for group training. The online version is the preferred method, as it allows for those taking the training to get one-on-one training and take all the time they need for review. The individual is issued an immediate certificate of completion, which allows for the updating of the volunteer's ScoutNet record.
A15: A person does not have to be a registered volunteer to take Youth Protection training. To take the training, log in to myscouting.org and click on create an account. After you have confirmed your new myscouting account user name and password, log in to myscouting.org and click on e-training to begin the Youth Protection training. Upon completion, print a certificate to submit with a completed adult leader application to the unit leader or your local council representative for processing. Remember to keep a copy for your records.
Once the application is approved, the new leader will receive his or her membership card with their member ID. It is important that new members log back in to myscouting.org and update their profile with this member ID to receive credit for completing this and any other training.


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Well – here we go! Thanks to my friend Jeanie Grey (@jeaniegrey) for nominating me as part of her blog hop – very curious to see what gets nominated next, but for now, I've got some question to answer. Follow me please!
What am I working on?
Ugh, what am I not working on?! I work on too many things at once and too little on one thing!
But in, all seriousness, I'm currently focused on two serious book projects – one I came up with last summer (2013) and another that sprung to me in December and has grabbed most of my time. I would say both of them are about 60% into their manuscript phase (read: Literary limbo).
Killhaven (my main project) – a detective set in the dystopic ruins of the East Coast. America as we know it has fallen and turned into the nightmare warned of by Eisenhower: A corrupt, fascist military-industrial complex rules what is left with iron fist. Europe has fallen to a Neo-Soviet regime and millions of European refugees have flocked to America in despair. They work the worst jobs as second rank citizens in the poverty struck and criminal city of Killhaven, where no one is happy and none dare make a difference.
It's there that Pierce Carter, a hardened and bitter private eye, does his job of chasing corpses that float around the Killhaven waters. Like all the others he lives in an unwanted reality he can't escape, until one day a case makes Pierce realize that the only beautiful thing in his life is no longer there before he knew it ever existed.
Together with a refugee, a whaler named Jonas, he begins a journey to solve the case that will forever change everything.
Awakeners – Is a sci-fi set on the massive spaceship Aurora Quest, on which its passengers and crews are in deep cryosleep until their journey is over. Or so they hoped.
For Willow, and her fellow crew, the nightmare truly begins when they wake up and find that an alien pathogen has invaded the ship and the biosystems that are connected to the still sleeping passengers. Soon they find themselves facing a new breed of life, the Awakeners.
Together with a platoon of Marines the crew of the Aurora Quest must try to battle off a seemingly unbeatable organism that is hellbent on surviving and expanding.
How does my work differ from others in its genre?
I suppose I'm sort of a genre hopper, which shows in my work because I don't strictly abide to the definition of a certain genre – I try to blend them into colorful and complex stories. Likewise I try to build strong characters who each have their own identity. I'm not just trying to write a cool story – I'm trying to write an experience you want to live and characters you'd want to meet.
Why do I write what I do?
I'm pretty sure if I didn't my chest would burst open and all the stories inside of me would spray all over the floor. And I hate mopping the floor so I'd rather write it out before that happens.
In all honesty, writing is what heals me inside and keeps me alive. If I stopped writing I'd probably wither like a plant in industrial strength hydrochloric acid. Which is not as good as it sounds.
I write them because, like I said, I can't keep it in and I want to share with others the joy of creating a world of your own. And if I can put a small message in there that might speak to some readers, that'd make me a very happy man.
How does my writing process work?
That's a great question! I'm not sure if I actually know – a story often begins with a random scene in my head that I begin expanding on. Usually I know the start, a point in the middle and the ending of my story then I just add boiling water, salt and pepper…
I also tend to build strong "moods" that help me feel the story, I usually have maps full of dozens of relevant pictures as well as YouTube-videos and Soundscapes that match a scene and bring it to live as I write it. Does that count? I think it counts. Screw it.


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Stonewall, Texas—Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park will celebrate the 102nd anniversary of President Johnson's birth on Friday, August 27. This free celebration begins at 10:00 a.m. with the laying of a wreath on his gravesite in the Johnson family cemetery on the LBJ Ranch. The wreath will be placed by representatives from Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, followed by remarks by Colonel Richard Murphy, Commander, 12th Flying Training Wing. After the ceremony at the cemetery, the activities continue at the LBJ Ranch Airplane Hangar, where new exhibits and a new road will be dedicated. The new Davis Road is named in honor of long time LBJ Ranch employee James Davis. This road allows the area around the Texas White House complex to be completely a pedestrian area, a great enhancement to visitor safety and the visitor experience. Mr. Davis will be present to make a few remarks at the dedication.
Two exciting new exhibits will also be dedicated. LBJ's Presidential Lockheed Jet Star, restored to its 1960s glory will be dedicated as a new exhibit. This smaller version of Air Force One allowed President Johnson to fly directly to the LBJ Ranch from Washington. General James Cross, LBJ's Air Force One pilot, will be on hand to dedicate the historic aircraft. A new "Circle of Life" exhibit in the LBJ Ranch Hangar will be unveiled that communicates the significance of the LBJ Ranch as the site of the first fully functional remote white house operation in U. S. history.
A special treat will be the appearance of actor Michael Stuart, portraying President Johnson as he reads excerpts from Johnson's speeches from the 1960s at the press conference area at the LBJ Ranch Hangar. Finally, the "Texas White House," President and Mrs. Johnson's home on the ranch, is now open for touring five downstairs rooms, the presidential office, the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, and the den. Tours begin in the airplane hangar/visitor contact station and cost $2.00, which will be waived on August 27th to commemorate President Johnson's birthday.
Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site, the national historical park's partner since the 1970s, will honor the late president with free refreshments and offer traditional children's games and amusements at the Sauer-Beckmann Farm. The state park visitor center, just off U.S. Highway 290, 14 miles west of Johnson City or one mile east of Stonewall, is where visitors to either park can pick up a free vehicle permit, map and CD in order to tour the LBJ Ranch in their own private vehicles.
For more information on this and other park events, view www.nps.gov or call (830) 868-7128, ext. 231 or 244.


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The White House isn't ruling out that terrorists, just like normal, everyday people, are avid fans of the hit international video game franchise Angry Birds.
White House press secretary Jay Carney responded to a reporter's question Monday asking whether the National Security Agency was collecting the information of Americans who use smartphone apps, such as Angry Birds, that share personal data over the Internet.
"I mean, look. Terrorists, proliferators, other bad actors, use the same communications tools that others use," Carney said, eliciting some commotion among the press corps. "What I'm saying is that the NSA in its collection is focused on the communication of people who are valid foreign intelligence targets."
NSA agents are "not focused on the information of ordinary Americans, and that's the case in answer to questions about, you know, the variety of revelations that have been made in the press."
Earlier Monday, a number of publications reported that the NSA and its British equivalent have attempted to collect personal data from "leaky" smartphone apps, including Angry Birds. NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden detail efforts spanning back to 2007 to gather information from the use of several different kinds of apps, including Google Maps and various social networks.


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In the midst of the Super Bowl advertising frenzy, CNET noticed the first big, public showcasing of Apple's AppStore.com URL shortener, right at the end of the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie.
The way it works, according to developer Benjamin Mayo, is that the new AppStore.com shortener simply takes the name of an piece of content, company, or even person on iTunes, removes any special characters, and then appends that to the domain name. If that ends up with multiple entries for the same name, you'll be shown a search-like page containing all of them, to avoid conflicts. So http://www.appstore.com/imore will show you all apps, podcasts, etc. that include iMore in their name, while http://www.appstore.com/mobilenations will show you all apps made by our Mobile Nations network.
According to Steve Streza, developers interested in knowing more can find documentation on Apple's portal at https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1633/_index.html
More important than the URL-shortening aspect is the marketing aspect. Once upon a time it was "dot com" everyone, with websites ruling the advertising world. Then AOL keywords began to get sprinkled in. The Google keywords. Then Facebook pages. Now Apple has a way to splash a link across an ad, a billboard, or a website in the same easy-to-remember manner.
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