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Hybrid Cloud Will Change the (Business) World
Hybrid Cloud Will Change the (Business) World
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We often speak about the virtues (and drawbacks) of the public cloud, as well as the functional requirements that spur building a private cloud. The conversations around each of these platforms often seem more than a bit siloed, since both are used to varying degrees and for different purposes within an organization — and often at the same time.
Businesses might view this as a "hybrid solution," and while that shares the component parts of a hybrid cloud, it lacks any of the benefits of a true hybrid deployment. Gathering Clouds favorite David Linthicum recently went on record pointing out that very issue in an interview with Mike Lata. In the interview, Linthicum notes that while an organization might be using both public and private clouds, if they remain unconnected, they eschew all the reasons to have a hybrid deployment, being "almost unlimited scalability, security, data privacy, and cost efficiency."
Linthicum continues to describe the fundamental challenges in hybrid cloud adoption for most enterprises:
You have security models spanning outside and inside the enterprise. You have integration that needs to occur. You also have two different platforms running similar data. It is a complex, distributed system that exists between infrastructure that you own and infrastructure that you don't own.
Though the hurdles to getting hybrid clouds widely integrated are real, the realities in terms of how businesses are using clouds will enable the shift. Amazon Web Services is historically anti-private cloud, and as Mike Lata points out, Eucalyptus is a way to bridge that gap in AWS' user base.
The reality is, however, that as a business grows, simply using the public cloud isn't feasible — both from a cost perspective, but perhaps more importantly, from a security/compliance perspective.
Meanwhile, having the ability to turn up and down resources during heavy traffic periods matched with a dedicated, secure environment applies to almost every industry. Particularly for businesses that are beginning to leverage cloud in new ways (like healthcare), having access to both resources in a fully integrated environment will spur greater usage, not less.
In another article, Rodney Brown points to CloudVelocity's Greg Ness as a prophet of hybrid cloud's potential to change the business IT landscape:
As the hybrid cloud becomes the cloud of choice for the enterprise, you can expect cloud integration to eventually replace cloud migration as a solution of choice.
Ness' assertion perfectly articulates why hybrid cloud will change the (business) world: with companies increasingly mixing and matching cloud systems, having the ability to integrate rather than migrate provides a compelling cost and efficiency rationale. This means businesses can maintain, increase, or ramp down the systems and platforms it has been using without having to deal with the expensive and painful process of switching vendors all at once. Within a hybrid cloud model, there is even the potential to find new reasons and ways to leverage systems already in use that would have had to be shut down in a full migration.
In the end, a business will use what it deems appropriate for its goals. However, hybrid clouds present companies the opportunity to design an integrated system that can grow with them, rather than one that might not suit is new levels of success are achieved.
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Friends, I have had this thought for some time now and am curious about what you think. Although I was born in Egypt, I came with my parents when I was 6 months old to the US. As such, I don't read/write Arabic, speak it little (although I understand it pretty well), don't really know how to cook Egyptian foods, don't listen to Egyptian music (I mean popular music - not liturgical), etc...My wife is the same (although she came at age 3) I am very dedicated to my Coptic Orthodox faith, but other than that, I am really not that "Egyptian". Now...my parents named me "Raouf"...and as you might imagine, it is a difficult name, and a very "Middle Eastern" name. I never in my life ever thought of changing my name (although at times when I was younger I wished I had a more "American" name and even wished I wasn't dark skinned). I am very proud of my heritage, and am completely content with how I look - my wife is gorgeous so I must be decent enough But....especially after 9/11....it seems like the name "Raouf" may be a thorn in my future, or rather a thorn possibly for my family (who all have easier names), since I am the primary (currently) income earner. So...now to my question. What is your opinion on changing ones first name? Keep in mind I was not baptized by that name - my parents baptized me in the name of George, after St. George (not that I am thinking of using this name). So, is there another spiritual, religious, moral reason to keep my birth name? Is it a sign of weakness, pride, lack of faith, to want to change it? I would say that now I am only 25% serious about this, but am very curious as to what others think. Just so you know, my Starbuck's name is Ray! In Christ,Raouf
What will your parents think?Dear Abdur,I don't think they would mind at all...my dad's name is "Wagdy" and yet throughout his whole successful career in business he went by "Willie".In Christ,Raouf
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Friends, So, is there another spiritual, religious, moral reason to keep my birth name? Is it a sign of weakness, pride, lack of faith, to want to change it?Just so you know, my Starbuck's name is Ray! In Christ,Raouf
All I'll say is that if Starbucks is now in the business and habit of dishing out names, I suppose I should go by the name Chocolate Man from now on.Iftikhir bi ismak ya raagil! +¦+ñ+ê+üPress your face against the monitor and kiss it in veneration. Yalla ya foo foo. La tinsat sal'leb eidak 'ala wuj'jak.In IC XCSamer
I can't tell you what to do but if I were in your shoes I'd think Raouf was a cool-sounding name and worth the periodic distortion into 'Ralph'.
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Siena have few injury worries to contend with, as striker Nicola Pozzi (muscle strain) is the only player out of action for this weekend's clash at the Artemio Franchi.
Bianconeri centre-back Neto looks set to move to Zenit St Petersburg, so new signing Christian Terlizzi is likely to be preferred in defence. Head coach Giuseppe Iachini will be without midfielder Francesco Valiani due to suspension.
Inter boss Andrea Stramaccioni has a far lengthier injury list, however, and is without Luca Castellazzi (shoulder), Walter Samuel (Achilles), Dejan Stankovic and Gaby Mundingayi (Achilles).
New signing Ezequiel Schelotto should be fit enough to slot straight into first-team action at right midfield. Antonio Cassano will be paired with Rodrigo Palacio up front for the Nerazzurri, with top goalscorer this season Diego Milito (knee) still not fully fit to start.
Inter have only won one of their last seven matches in all competitions. The last time Stramaccioni's men won away from home in the league was November 3, at Juventus Stadium.
- Antonio Cassano (pictured, right) has seven assists in Serie A this campaign, leaving him fourth overall behind Marek Hamsik, Francesco Totti and Borja Valero.
- The Nerazzurri are currently top of the fair play table, with 45 yellows and two red cards in their 22 games to date. They topped last year's table, too.
Siena won the last clash 2-0 against the Milan-based side at San Siro – Simone Vergassolo and Valiani were the goalscorers in that unexpected triumph.
Iachini's team have won just the one game in their last five matches, which came against Sampdoria; their other eight Serie A games ended in defeat.
Inter sit fourth in the division on 40 points, while the Bianconeri are rooted to the bottom of the league with just 14 points.


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Although seen as an anti-abortion standard bearer, Rick Santorum will speak Friday for the first time at the annual March for Life rally.
WASHINGTON -- Although seen as an anti-abortion standard bearer, Rick Santorum will speak Friday for the first time at the annual March for Life rally.
The former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania upended political wisdom in 2012 when his shoestring presidential campaign became the biggest thorn in the side of eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney. One day he was a fallen U.S. senator with a pipe dream, the next he was a rock star for the social conservative bloc of the Republican Party.
As a senator, Santorum held receptions with marchers, which every year includes a group from St. Thomas More Church in Salisbury Township. He also has joined in the traditional march from the National Mall to the Supreme Court steps.
Santorum will make his inaugural remarks before hundreds of thousands of anti-abortion activists Friday -- many of whom likely supported his candidacy for president -- at a time when polling indicates public opinion on abortion may be shifting.
A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday -- the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion -- found that 70 percent of Americans do not want the law overturned. It was the first time that a majority of Americans, 54 percent, said abortion should be legal either always or most of the time, according to NBC.
But Santorum, in an interview Thursday with The Morning Call, dismissed the polls as outliers and said he believes that people, especially young people, do not want "the unlimited access to abortion that exists in America today."
Abortion-related rhetoric played a prominent role in the 2012 campaign: There were debates over contraceptives and comments about rape and abortion by two Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate. Some political strategists have argued that Republicans would be best not to engage on those topics because they alienate voters, especially women.
Santorum has the opposite view. He said Republicans should talk about so-called "social issues" more to get out in front of them, so GOP officials are not always playing defense.
"We didn't talk about it. When you let [Democrats] play offense on a very narrow slice and you don't turn it against them when they're clearly out of step, then we deserve what we got," Santorum said. "The other side will talk about it; they frame the debate. If we do, we can win. 'Let's put our head' in the sand is not the right approach."
In his public career, Santorum has never shied from his belief that abortions, even in the case of rape or incest, should be illegal. An analysis in January 2012 by the Sunlight Foundation found that Santorum said the word "abortion" more than 1,000 times on the Senate floor during his 12-year tenure. He also said "partial-birth," "fetus" and "womb" more than any other senator.
In his March for Life speech, Santorum said he'll speak more broadly about the "pro-life agenda," which he said includes not only eliminating abortion, but issues like euthanasia and "dignity for all human life."
Santorum also mentioned his belief, cited often on the campaign trail, that a husband and wife in a household is better for the economy than a single-parent one. More heterosexual marriages would create less poverty, he said. Santorum is against same-sex marriage.
"When you go down the income scale, you go down the marriage scale. But higher income [married people] don't preach what they practice," Santorum said. "President Obama is a classic example. God bless him, he has a great marriage, but they never talk about it. The community that is most attached to the president, African-Americans ... has out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and the ability for this president to not only demonstrate it, but to advocate it ...could have a profound effect."
Since conceding the Republican presidential nomination to Romney 10 months ago, Santorum has formed a nonprofit to advance his beliefs and the politicians who share them.
He's almost certainly eyeing another go at the White House in 2016, something he doesn't deny but won't confirm.
Reminded that in the last two cycles the man who effectively came in second -- John McCain in 2000 and Mitt Romney in 2008 -- became the party's nominee the next time it had an open seat, Santorum demurred.


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Rochester (cities, United States)
Rochester (rŏch´ĕstər, –Ĭstər). 1 City (1990 pop. 70,745), seat of Olmsted co., SE Minn.; inc. 1858. It is a farm trade center, and its industries include printing and publishing, food processing, machinery, fabricated metal products, computers and electronic equipment, and construction materials. The city is famous as the home of the Mayo Clinic, the hospital complex that Charles Horace Mayo and William James Mayo developed from the clinic founded (1889) by their father, Dr. W. W. Mayo. A state mental hospital and a Bible college are also there. Rochester has a symphony orchestra; a municipal band; and museums of art, medical science, history, and antique vehicles.
2 City (1990 pop. 26,630), Strafford co., SE N.H., on the Cocheco River, near the Maine line; settled 1728, inc. as a city 1891. Manufactures include electronic equipment, apparel, metal products, and consumer goods. An annual agricultural fair has been held there since 1875. In Rochester are an art gallery and an antique aircraft museum. The Lake Winnipesaukee recreation area is nearby.
3 Industrial city (1990 pop. 231,636), seat of Monroe co., W N.Y., a port of entry on the Genesee River and Lake Ontario, in a rich fruit and truck farm region; inc. 1817. It is a leading center in the production of photographic, photocopying, optical, and dental equipment; process control and recording instruments; and thermometers. Several major manufacturers of these products have head offices there. Rochester also ranks high in the manufacture of electronics, machinery, transportation equipment, and metal and plastic products. The city's core businesses declined in the 1990s, but growth in computer and technology companies provided new jobs.
The city is the seat of the Univ. of Rochester, Nazareth College of Rochester, the Rochester Institute of Technology (est. 1829), St. John Fisher College, and a theological seminary. The city's cultural features include the Rochester Philharmonic and the Eastman School of Music ensembles, the Rochester Museum of Art and Sciences (with a planetarium), the Memorial Art Gallery, the historical society, a zoo, and the Rundell Memorial Building, which houses the public library and an art gallery. Numerous parks and nurseries have earned Rochester the name Flower City.
Permanent settlement by Col. Nathaniel Rochester and others began in 1812. The Erie Canal gave impetus to Rochester's growth; flour milling became the first important industry. Rochester was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Prominent residents have been Susan B. Anthony, who is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery; Frederick Douglass; and George Eastman.


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Our planet is full of breathtaking views: oceans, mountains, forests, glaciers, and plenty more besides. Look at it all from space, though, and plenty of those views become so striking that they're hard to distinguish from art.
NASA has recently published a free ebook called Earth as Art, which brings together years' worth of beautiful satellite photos from around the world. This one, for instance, is a stunning shot of the Himalayas in Central Asia. Check out this gallery to see some more of our favorites. [Earth as Art]
All images by NASA
Rocky Mountain Trench, Canada
Lean River Delta, Russia
Bogda Mountains, China
Byrd Glacier, Antarctica
Bombetoka Bay, Madagascar
Carnegie Lake, Australia
Dasht-e Kavir, Iran
Erg Chech, Algeria
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Seaweed Socks by Lauren McMordie- String Theory Caper Sock in North Haven
Romy cardigan by ANKESTRICK- Woolen Rabbit WW Kashmir in Birch Beer. sleeves knit flat, alternating skeins, mattress stitch
plain vanilla socks- Vesper Across the Universe, size 0 and 1. Fish Lips Kiss heel by Sox Therapist- started ½ inch before the line on my cardboard foot, fits perfectly.
Summer Dawn cardigan by Andrea Black. Plucky Primo Sport in Vanity. gauge was off by 1 stitch for every 4 inches, so I'm sizing down
Fingering Weight February: prizes!
Cloudlover Rambouillet in Iris
SweetGeorgia merino/silk in Stillwater
Oldest Anything KAL- April and May with Deep Blue Renegade podcast
New stuff: Three Waters Farm- Rooftop Panorama in Polwarth/Silk, and Second Sight on BFL
Fireweed Dyeworks Russian Rainbow
I am excited to announce that Three Waters Farm is offering Whatcha Swatchin viewers a 10% off coupon, good for any of the hand dyed fiber, yarns, or goats milk soap in their etsy shop, www.etsy.com/threewatersfarm. Coupon code is good through March 31. Shop updates happen daily, so check back often.
You can see Mary Ann and Stephen in person May 3rd and 4th at Maryland Sheep and Wool, booth B23, in the Main Exhibition Hall. Check out the Three Waters Farm board on Ravelry for information about monthly spin alongs, giveaways, and for links to their facebook and twitter feeds, as well as links to Three Waters Farm on Pinterest.
Mary Ann and Stephen have also kindly donated a braid of Falkland (Winter Sunset 7 colorway) for me to use as a prize. Go to the thread and post which of their fiber or yarn colorways or soap scents are your favorites. I'll draw for winners after March 31.


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RockyMounts Splitrail Hitch Rack
Rockymount's SplitRail is a lightweight, expandable-platform hitch rack that carries up to four bicycles. Made of 6063 aluminum and chromoly steel, the SplitRail weighs a category-leading 44 pounds and features adjustable trays to allow optimal fit between loaded bikes.
- The SplitRail uses a ratcheting arm to secure bikes without contacting their frames. The system is fast and easy to use and works with almost any bike–including those with non-traditional frames. It accommodates bikes with wheel diameters between 20 and 29 inches, and tire widths of up to 3.2 inches.
- The SplitRail's bike trays can be laterally offset by four inches to avoid seat and handlebar interference, and it comes with an integrated cable lock system that allows each bike to be locked individually. A locking hitch pin (included) keeps the rack itself secured to the vehicle. It also features a wall mount for convenient home storage.
- The 2-inch receiver SplitRail carries two bikes/120 pounds standard, and expands with single bike add-on trays (sold separately) to handle three or four bikes. Its maximum weight capacity when carrying four bikes is 160 pounds, or 40 pounds per bike.
- The 1.25-inch receiver SplitRail carries a maximum of two bikes weighing up to 120 pounds, or 60 pounds per bike.
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I had the rockymounts split rail 2 bike rack with a single add-on for a total of 3 bikes. I love the concept of this design, but it needs modifications. I would NOT recommend this hitch rack due to safety concerns. With a little redesign, this could be a great rack. It was installed on my 2015 CRV with a Draw-Tite class III hitch receiver. The bikes we carry are: Men's Commencal mountain bike (size medium, 30 lbs), Women's Specialized Jynx Elite mountain bike (size small, 25 pounds), and a Boy's Trek bike (24" kids, 20 pounds). THE WELD BROKE (connecting the platform to the tube that goes into the hitch) and the bikes fell off while I was driving. I have photos. Thankfully it happen when I was driving slow in a smooth flat parking lot with nobody behind me. If this had happened on a road or the highway, my bikes would have been destroyed and I would have caused major accidents behind me (with serious injury/death to others). Me and my kids were left stranded 3 hours from home (our first trip away from home with the rack!). The only way to get home with our bikes was to go to a local bike shop and buy a Thule rack at a much higher cost and have the guys there help me get it put together and on my car. Rockymounts needs to get rid of the weld and instead use bolts to connect them like other reputable manufacturers. My new Thule rack is connected with bolts and feels much more secure. I was offered a replacement Rockymounts rack, but I declined. I am seeking a refund instead. I would not put anyone else on the road in jeopardy by putting another one of these racks on my car. It isn't worth the risk.


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This is a lesson about how magnetism causes solar flares. Learners will set up an electrical circuit with magnets to examine magnetic fields and their similarities to magnetic fields seen on the Sun. Learners should have a conceptual understanding... (View More) of magnetism prior to exploring this lesson. This activity requires special materials including a galvanometer, copper wire, and sandpaper. This is Activity 2 in the Exploring Magnetism in Solar Flares teachers guide. (View Less)
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This is an activity about vectors and velocity. It outlines the addition and subtraction of vectors, and introduces the application of trigonometry to describing vectors. The resource is designed to support student analysis of THEMIS (Time History... (View More) of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) Magnetometer line-plot data. Learners will complete worksheets consisting of problem sets that allow them to work with vector data in magnetic fields. This is activity 15 from Exploring Magnetism: Earth's Magnetic Personality. (View Less)
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This is lesson to begin learners' thinking about magnetic influence. Learners will watch a classroom demonstration about the effect of magnets on iron filings and then complete a journal assignment to record their reactions and thoughts. This is the... (View More) first activity in the Mapping Magnetic Influence educators guide. (View Less)
This is a summative activity about magnets. Learners will observe a demonstration of the action of a magnet on a test tube of iron filings, answer questions, and, using the concepts learned in previous activities, write an essay about their... (View More) understanding of the demonstration. This is the fourth activity in the Mapping Magnetic Influence educators guide. Learners should complete the other three activities in that guide (Seeing Magnetism, What Do You Know about Magnets, and Magnet Map) prior to beginning this activity. (View Less)
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This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy... (View More) from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity. (View Less)


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A Morehouse Parish school bus carrying six students was rear ended by a motorist around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the school system's transportation coordinator, Debbie Buckley.
"No one was injured," Buckley said. "The bus slowed down to make a stop on Shelton Road and the car hit it from behind."
Buckley said there were skid marks behind the bus 20 feet long.
"The car tried to stop before it hit the bus," she said.
Buckley said the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Department came immediately, but they handed the incident over to the State Police.
Louisiana State Police Troop F Public Information Officer Albert Paxton, said the driver of the car was 57-year-old Carfton Lingfelt of Bastrop. Paxton said Lingfelt was driving a 1989 Jeep SUV.
"He was ticketed with careless operation," Paxton said.
Paxton said the bus driver was 54-year-old Donald Cephas, of Bastrop.
"He wasn't at fault," Paxton said.
Buckley said the parents of the children were contacted to come and pick their children up at the scene of the accident.
"All of the parents but one came," she said. "We took that child home."
Buckley said if one of the students shows signs of an injury in the days after the accident, the school system would encourage them to go see a doctor.
"We will do whatever we need to do on our end to ensure the children are okay," Buckley said.


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On the last page of her second book of poems, Patricia Neely-Dorsey quotes William Faulkner, who said "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi." After reading Neely-Dorsey's newly-published book of poems, "My Magnolia Memories and Musings in Poems," it is evident the Tupelo resident not only understands her native state, but that her poetry is indeed a labor of love.
Beginning with the book's first section, aptly named "Southern Sights, Scenes, and Sentiments," Ms. Neely-Dorsey takes the reader on a unique journey through poems entitled "Natchez Trace," "The Delta (Black, White and Blues)", "Memphis," "Front Porch (Hospitality Headquarters)", and "The Truck Patch...Gone, But Not." And in subsequent sections, she sentimentally recalls memories that deal with childhood, church, the (neighbor) hood, and love. Through her poems, Ms. Neely-Dorsey offers the reader an insightful glimpse into southern culture, specifically Mississippi's own unique culture, one that is often misunderstood by those who have not experienced it. Patricia Neely-Dorsey is truly an ambassador for the State of Mississippi, and through her newest book of poems, she has invited the world to experience the people, places, and ideas of "a place like Mississippi."
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Trump Returns From 12-Day Asian Trip
President Donald Trump returns to the U.S. today after a 12-day tour of 5 Asian nations. Trump's trip saw U.S. and Chinese companies sign more that a dozen deals worth $9 billion on the day he arrived in China. It also included another round of insults in Trump's ongoing war of words with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. And Trump said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin's claims that Russia did not meddle in last year's election. The U.S. intelligence committee has said its investigation shows Russia did interfere.
The last stop of his whirlwind trek saw him hold a formal meeting with the controversial president of the Philippines, where the White House said the issue of human rights only came up briefly.
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Since Striking out on His Own, NYC's Robert Khodadadian and Skyline Properties Have Been Booming
Robert Khodadadian of Skyline Properties announces sales of over $120,000,000 in commercial real estate for the year
Last year, commercial broker Robert Khodadadian left Eastern Consolidated to forge his own path in off-market deals with Skyline Properties, a company he founded before the recession. It was a bold move for the young broker, but one that has certainly paid off.
Khodadadian and Skyline Properties have recently announced that they have sold over $120,000,000 in commercial real estate during their first year, truly a staggering amount for a young company still finding its legs.
Known for his intuitiveness and risk-taking, Khodadadian was quick to capitalize on changes in the real estate market, most notably shifts in attitude toward off-market transactions. Picking up on trends and capitalizing on them has brought much success to Khodadadian, including being nominated as The New York Real Estate Journals January 2014 company of the month (http://nyrej.com/69087), as well as Khodadadian being named The New York Real Estate Journal's July 2014 Executive of the month(http://nyrej.com/73250) and NYREJ's "Young & Established 40 under 40" (http://nyrej.com/72597).
In addition to capitalizing on changes in the real estate market, Skyline's success is depending on their focus, which is to make everything more personal with the buyer and seller. This is done by building close relationships with a number of buyers interested in properties and then getting in touch with sellers before a particular property goes on the market. Khodadadian intends to maintain this focus and even take it up a notch as Skyline heads into the new year.
About Robert Khodadadian and Skyline Properties: It has been over a year now since Robert Khodadadian had first left Eastern Consolidated to devote all of his time to Skyline Properties and off-market deals.


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Sri Eswarapattar Swamigal Maha Guru Pooja 2018
Satguru Sri Eswarapattar Swamigal Whose odukum at Palani was a saint born in a Kannada speaking family. His young age was in Andhra and has his odukkam at Tamilnadu. His Jeeva samadhi Palani.
Sri Eswarapattar Swamigal is one of Guru to Dr. Mystic Selvam ayya , in his " Kaala dosha nivaaranam Prayoganm " speech. Just hear Mystic Selvam ayya speech for 2 minutes " http://www.
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Mystic ayya said when we keep photo Sri Eswarapattar Swamigal (above pic) and just say " Om Eswarapattar Namaha " 11 times in morning & evening , Swamigal will take away our 'Cast the evil eye', solve court-cases crisis and all our problem.
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Maths Bug, mental maths games
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A maths game for children, teens and adults to train & improve mental maths skills. Keep your maths skills sharp & learn with Maths Bug.
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Contrary to my initial suspicions, a similarly high proportion of GMs have also only been in place for fewer than three seasons. It is clear from the top end of the list below, however, that GMs tend to stick around a lot longer than the average coach.
I'd suggest this is understandable, since a change in GM usually signifies a wider shift in the direction of a franchise and wouldn't normally be used as a short-term fix to shake up a team's performance.
What is quite interesting is that several GMs have gone through three or more different coaches during their tenure. The list below shows the number of coaches (as at 26 November 2008) each GM has been responsible for _appointing_ (i.e. excluding any incumbent when the GM was hired) - this includes any interim coaches that lasted more than a few games.
This brings to mind a quote from a famous football manager in England (Brian Clough, for any native readers):
"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."(In North American terms, "If a GM fires the coach...")
So, there is certainly an argument that Messrs Waddell and Sather are lucky to still be in their jobs, given the relative lack of success they have presided over. Also seems unlikely that Dale Tallon would be given the opportunity to appoint a fourth coach with the heightened level of expectation in Chicago these days.
Post-script (2 February 2009)
Jim Rutherford has since hired a new coach (at the same time an old coach), as has Bryan Murray (now dangerously straying into Waddell/Sather territory). As widely expected, Brian Burke has also taken over from Cliff Fletcher in Toronto.
It would not be a surprise to see the GMs in Pittsburgh, Vancouver and Edmonton make their first coaching appointments at some point in 2009. Overall, though, the GMs still look to be much more secure in their posts than their coaching colleagues.
Post-post-script (27 May 2009)
Six more coaching departures (in Minnesota, Edmonton, Manhattan, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Calgary), only accompanied by a GM change in one (Minnesota), although Francois Giguere is also out in Colorado - with his coach seemingly a lame duck.


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BUSINESS brains at Great Marlow School have impressed The Duke of York on a visit to Bucks today.
Youngsters and teachers earned high praise from Prince Andrew as he came to meet and greet those involved with the Young Enterprise scheme yesterday morning.
Addressing teenagers and school chiefs, he said: "I'm really impressed by what I've seen today. What encourages me is that the fact that a school like this is receptive to the concept of business being part of life at school."
His Royal Highness met pupils who set up their own business as part of the Young Enterprise charity's company programme. It introduces young people aged 15 to 19 to the world of business as they set up and run their own companies for a year.
He also observed a Learn to Earn programme, delivered by YE managers and volunteers, which introduces students to budgeting and encourages them to think about their future careers and lifestyles.
The Prince said: "The more and earlier young people can experience it the more likely people are to want to try and have a go at it and they shouldn't be frightened of having a go.
"The other thing that most entrepreneurs will tell you is that if you get an opportunity, as soon as you've got it get it out there.
"You get feedback as to whether you're right or wrong and you can make changes. That's a really important thing to remember.
"The most important thing is if you gained from the experience and you've learnt something, that's all that matters and is really good news.
He added: "Congratulations and thanks very much indeed."
The prince was in jovial mood, joking with the press.
Told by one group of youngsters involved in creating a business video that they had no media background, he quipped: "In some cases that's quite a good idea." He turned laughing to smile at all the journalists present.
A number of dignitaries including Marlow Mayor Jocelyn Towns and The High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, Carolyn Cumming, also attended.
Michael Mercieca, Young Enterprise CEO, said: "I think today was brilliant, I hope it was inspiring to the young people, that's the main thing.
"It's a fantastic school and as an organisation we want to be in more around the country. I think people get the fact we need to join up education with the world of work. I'd like to thank his royal highness for joining us today."
HEADTEACHER Geralyn Wilson said teenagers had been inspired by the Royal visit.
Mrs Wilson was delighted that the Prince chose to come to Great Marlow as part of his tour of Bucks yesterday.
She said: "The Duke was completely at ease with the pupils and found out from them what their experience of enterprise in school was and asked wider questions too. "He was very interested in their answers and extremely well informed about the importance of the links between business and enterprise.
"We've benefited from YE input in schools for years and I was delighted to have the Duke here. I think those pupils have been inspired. "I feel enormously privileged that he came to the school and was very happy to see the warmth and reception the children gave him. He's given everyone an enormous lift.He was very knowledgeable indeed."
She said: "The pupils' behaviour, conduct, maturity has been significantly strengthened because of the way they have been able to experiment with companies in a safe context."


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On the maps clicking on an individual icon will open a small popup tag inside the map frame giving the detail information for that quake.
Once you have finished reading that tag you can simply click in the background map to close that tag and select another if you wish.
You can also move the map around inside the frame by clicking and holding down the left button of your mouse on the map itself, rather than having to use the up/down/left and right arrows.
You can see the earthquake maps in various versions, ie map, satellite, terrain and even Google Earth.
At the bottom of each map is text saying "see larger map". This will open a new page with the same map, but with the icons and magnitudes also as a list. The list is in a ascending time order. You can click on an icon on the map or a magnitude number on the list and a detail balloon (tag) will pop up on the map from the location of the event.
On the maps each coloured dot orb or marker represents an earthquake, the colours indicate the size range.
Moderate = 5.0-5.9
Strong = 6.0-6.9
Very Strong = 7.0-7.9
Major = 8.0-8.9
Great = 9.0+
The data shows Mw (Moment Magnitude) as the main magnitude type where this is available, where this is not available another type may be used if it is above 6.5, all types are marked on the popup tags if they are available.
Some events have brief background information about the earthquake, damage, intensity etc, on the popup balloon.
The info is sourced from Historic World Earthquakes and Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths since 1900 both USGS sites and Historic NZ Earthquakes, and Historic Tsunami and Volcanic eruption records
The sources are not marked, to save space on the tags.
The link below explains the types of magnitudes used. Where Unk: is used this mean the type of magnitude from the reporting source is unknown.
Types of Magnitude
The Data used to create the Maps is primarily from USGS/NEIC [usgs], [neic] and NOAA which back until 2004 is cross referenced with Geofon [geofon] and EMSC [emsc] Networks.
1940-2004 the main cross referencing used is ANSS and local networks such as Geonet of New Zealand [geonet].
Recent discoveries of other databases such as Instidudo de Geofisica del Peru [cndg], and Dept. de Geofisica, U of Chile [dgfudc]and iiee, the latter containing a vast amount of work done by Dr. Tokuji Utsu, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University, lists containing more than 10,000 destructive earthquakes in the world from 3000 B.C. are all helping with the cross-referencing and also adding more events to the totals.
As well as the above main sources, the maps and lists show some events containing magnitude and location details referenced from the following catalogues used to complie the Centennial Earthquake Catalog 1900-1999 by
[ehb] Engdahl, E.R., and A. Villaseñor (2002);
[abe] Catalogue of large earthquakes 1897-1980 (1981,1984) and Abe and Noguchi (1983).
[b&d]Catalogue of large earthquakes 1897-1977, Bath and Duda (1979)
[brk] Magnitudes reported by the Seisomographic Station, University of Califonia, Berkley, USA.
[bji] Catalogue of hypocenters and magnitudes, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing, China.
[g&r] Catalogue of hypocenters and magnitudes 1904-1952, Gutenberg and Richter (1954)
[isc] Hypocenters and magnitudes from bulletins by International Seismological Centre, Newbury, UK (1964-1998)
[iss] International Seismological Summary (1918-1963). Also British Asssociation for the advancement of Science bulletins (1913-1917)
[jma] Catalogue of hypocenters and magnitudes1926-present Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan.
[mos] Catalog of earthquakes in the former USSR 1950-1961
[p&s] Catalog of worldwide earthquakes with Ms 7.0> 1900-1989 Pacheco and Sykes (1992)
[pas] Magnitudes reported by California University of Technology, Pasadena, USA.
[rothe] Catalog of worldwide earthquakes with Mag5.5> 1953-1965, Rothe (1969)
[utsu] Catalogue of earthquakes in the Japan region 1885-1925 Utsu (1979,1982)
Clicking on this icon under each map will open a text document list, in another tab (or window in IE), with the raw data the maps and graphs were based on for that year. The highest magnitude is noted in the lists, regardless of type.
The data is processed using Excel and transfered to GPS Visualiser in csv format where a KML Google Earth file is created and then is transfered to Google Maps and an interactive i-frame map is produced.
The Modified Mercalli scale is designed to describe the effects of an earthquake, at a given place, on natural features, on industrial installations and on human beings. The intensity differs from the magnitude, which is related to the energy released by an earthquake.
The 1931 Modified Mercalli scale
Notes on MM are on some quake event pop tabs, either shown a eg IV, VI, X etc or MM4, MM6, MM10 etc
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I'm helping my girlfriend get a web presence so she can have her potential clients visit her website to see her work, instead of the way she does it now, by emailing every single inquiry attachments of pictures in her email.
The audience are mostly brides from word of mouth, and referrals. She also gets some business from projectwedding.com
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Pricing - a page with a custom form they fill out, with about 9 fields
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The 2013 BC Budget was released yesterday, and there are no increases provided for critical services that respond to violence against women and children throughout BC, nor in the Comox Valley.
Yet awareness of violence against women and children is rising and service delivery pressures are at an all time high. Many reports make recommendations for change and increased funding, however no new resources have been allocated in the government's budget for safety and services for women and kids.
"We were disappointed to see no increases for services that would help families and women and children experiencing domestic and sexual violence in the Comox Valley" said Heather Ney, Executive Director of the Comox Valley Transition Society. "Our programs provide emergency shelter and a variety of support services to women and their children who have experienced abuse and violence. We provide service to 2500 women and children every year. We are running a wait list for Women's Counselling and Lilli House was full 181 nights last year."
This is despite numerous Coroner's Inquests and Death Review Panels across North America that have identified that access to such services is critical to life-saving help for victims.
The 2013 budget includes a $197 million dollar surplus. It also includes an added $5 million to address problem gambling and $52 million for increased RCMP costs including costs associated with gang activity. Yet there are no increases to ensure victims of domestic and sexual violence have access to important life-saving support services.
While the BC Government has spent significant resources on Commissions of Inquiry and Justice Reform initiatives, there are no funds in the budget to implement these and other report recommendations. Examples of these reports include: Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry; BC's Domestic Violence Death Review Panel Report; Honoring Christian Lee; Kaitlyn, Max and Corydon; BC Policing and Community Safety Plan; Family Law Reforms; White Papers on Justice Reforms.
"Concrete action is needed to prevent this senseless violence. We need increased funding and we need housing for women and their children who are rebuilding their lives."
— Comox Valley Transition Society


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Maryland Man Pleads Guilty To Traveling To Engage In Illicit Sexual Conduct With A MinorAnd Possession Of Child Pornography
WASHINGTON – Thomas DeGrange, 27, formerly of Frederick, Md., pled guilty today to federal charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
DeGrange pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Honorable Beryl A. Howell scheduled sentencing for Feb. 13, 2014. DeGrange faces a statutory maximum of 30 years in prison for traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct and a maximum of 20 years for possession of child pornography, as well as potential fines.
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ROCKFORD — There were no turkey-induced comas Thursday at the Rockford Fire Department's Station 2.
Prime rib was the fare. It was served at 11:30 a.m.
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2012-12-10 • Race, Color, Culture • Begin
Start: 12:22:48
Seventies: Good afternoon alt and vkn
alt: hope y'all had a good weekend and are ready for a full week of activity.
vkn: It is full already
alt: oh, oh LOL
vkn: Did y'all see the Soledad O'Brien documentary
alt: not yet vkn, is this a 'new' one?
vkn: Yes aired last night "Who is Black In America"
alt: okay, I saw something along this same story line she did last year.
vkn: Talking about the one drop
Seventies: ugh
alt: oh, okay... that's a 'tricky' situation re: one drop
vkn: It was a tear jerker to hear a 6 year old express how badly she wanted to have "light" skin"because its pretty" Howdy Garland
alt: we can remember those 'ad's" quite well vkn for 'bleaching creams" that appeared in AA newspapers in magazines.
garland: Hello
alt: Hello garland, welcome
vkn: garland howdy
Seventies: hi garland. Long time no see.
garland: Hello Alt, Vkn, Seventies
vkn: Yes alt and plenty was sold I think it was Nadinola ?
alt: yep vkn, that and for hair rtraightener's.
garland: hair "conk"
vkn: Garland I have been missing you
alt: you got it garland, I call it that 'patent leather' look LOL
garland: I have been reverse engineeting the SWLA CD expensive CD but the search feature limits the use of the data
vkn: Conk was Lye
garland: I was born during the afro era, missed conking
vkn: reverse engineering?
garland: yeah, i got into the application and transferred the records out of it and saw how it was built
vkn: Super Fly lol
alt: oh how 'we' treated ourselves & our features to be 'pretty'..... what a shame. looking back on those days
garland: plus the application does not use soundex for searching
alt: wow, that sounds technical garland
vkn: The prob is that nothing much has changed alt
alt: good luck and best wishes garland
garland: been thinking about this project for over 5 years, it's coming together
alt: now that's persistence garland, good to hear "you've got it"
vkn: Garland are you familiar with the Horde mail client?
garland: yes having problems?
vkn: Indeed it has changed so much
Seventies: I skipped the who's black in America... I have better things to do than to fret over my own racial identity. That's a done deal.
garland: me too, I'm black and I know it
vkn: Alt and all we need more discussion on the color of skin topic
Seventies: Good luck with your publication Garland.
bbenn: Hello Everyone!
alt: hello bbenn
garland: thanks
Seventies: hi bbenn
vkn: HHowdy bbenn
garland: Hi Bbenn I switched to gmail for all my mail needs, channel all my email addresses to it
vkn: bbenn what did you think of the documentary last night bbenn what did you think of the documentary last night
Seventies: hi di
alt: Seventies, nice that you can so 'causually' cast aside your ethnic composition, many of us can't ... or won't.... yet we still know who & what are historically and culturally.
bbenn: I was not happy to see how some of the individuals spoke of being darker skin as if it was some type of disease. Really hated to see the little girl speak of her blackness as being bad.
alt: hello di, good to 'see' you.
Seventies: alt, I'm not casually casting aside my racial composition. My ethnic group is African-American, as is my culture. I will be the first person to admit that I had one or two non-black ancestors. But how does that shape me when I grew up in a very African based culture??
di: good afternoon all
Seventies: No one will ever confuse me for anything other than African descended. I'm fine with that.
vkn: bbenn yes that wastragic with the child bbenn
alt: it doesn't change you and that is a long dicussion Seventies of who we are IMHO.
Seventies: Its about WHO I AM. Not my ancestors per se.
bbenn: My mixed race grandchild should have been on that show. She is so into her blackness...
Seventies: there are other issues with this as well.
alt: really Seventies, okay then why the quest for family history, genealogy, DNA and the whole bag if it isn't important.... just asking, not arguing.
bbenn: What was the point of the show?
vkn: Culture or Color or both
Seventies: I strongly believe that this has more to do with Soledad O'Brien trying to prove her own 'blackness' and assert herself. That sounds like her own PERSONAL issue. alt, everyone has their own personal journey and family story. Mine happens to be African-American. I started based on wanting to know my family history after researching AA and African world history. My story has to do with wanting to know how history of my own family.
alt: okay Seventies, I see & I have no problem with your approach an quest for YOUR family information
vkn: bbenn focusing on being "OTHER" when one cannot check the white or the black box
garland: lol
Seventies: glad to hear that alt.
alt: you're welcome Seventies and I mean it with all of my heart.
vkn: and as seventies said Soledad sorting out her own identity
Seventies: Believe it or not there are some African folks who have no European ancestry.
alt: oh, I believe it, no doubt!!!
bbenn: My grandmother use to just say that we place too much emphasis on skin color and not enough on the character of the person. Growing up in New Orleans brought a mixed bag of issues regarding race.
garland: that would make sense since the origins of man are in Africa
Seventies: But some things are best left in private and not projected onto the rest of us.
garland: gonna trace my roots back to african lucy lol
vkn: I am sure that NOLA did/does bbenn
di: i have a question of you seasoned and experts here in the room...(all of you) what qualities should a workshop facilitatior have to hold a beginners genealogy workshop
vkn: I grew up as a Negro. Color was no part of my childhood identity
alt: when I research the history of my black & also mixed race ancestors in the period prior to the CW and the things they endured as both enslaved and FPOC I have nothing but pride for all of them ... and I have really done nothing, or at least not much, in the advancement of MY people of color.
bbenn: Workshop facilitator:
vkn: Good question di
Seventies: Are you looking to hold a workshop di?
vkn: 1. Knowledge of the subject
alt: qualities to expertise di?
bbenn: Knowledge of the subject, ability to organize a coherent presentation,
Seventies: I agree with bbenn
bbenn: Ability to communicate and relate to the audience. Have a great day folks, today is my last day working at the FHC and I need to tell everyone farewell.
Seventies: have a good one bbenn
alt: that can be tough di..... in my experience most 'beginner's workshops" quickly become too involved in approaches that are beyond the 'beginner's" concept.... they ten to go too fas too soon..... a 'good' facilitor will be able to somewhat slow the process and cover beginning necessities ... if that makes sense.
di: i was thinking about holding one. but i am just playing around with the idea in my head
garland: you can probably find an outline online
di: i am second guessing myself due to the lack of affiliations. and credentials i have presented workshops on other topics before so i do not believe my ability and preparation will be a problem
alt: IMHO you don't need either, but as bbenn stated organizing skills are most important.
vkn: How many ways can you say start with your self etc. many beginners see to want to start at the end and come forward
alt: and it is often more 'user friendly" when the facilitator appears to be learning with the students as the workshop prgresses.
vkn: ...and remove self doubt and do it di
alt: exactly vkn
di: alt that is kinda why i want to do it.
vkn: Garland I need a Horde walk thru
alt: I say 'go for it' with what you've got di.... garland suggested finding a good beginner's outline ...like found on AfriGeneas ... and go from there.
Seventies: Time for me to get back to work. I'll be heading off on vacation on the 21st. Its only 10 days away! Excited!
vkn: Yeah seventies
alt: take care Seventies
Seventies: thanks! take care all.
di: i have told my story here a million times. i was researching at the wrong level for so many years because the beginning was already done for me all i had were my moms brick walls. i have started any friends of mine who would give me thier grandmothers names tree just so i can learn as a beginner! i am currently working on 6-8 trees right now just to keep learning a new skill and resource.
alt: hehehehehe .. had to get my usual 'jab & tease' in with Seventies .. she's a strong willed young lady, gotta love her.
garland: I use a web program that allows me to separate family trees, plus individual members can login and add data
di: what program is that garland?
garland: phpGedView (http://garlandjoseph.org/genealogy) plus it allows multimedia the data can also be transferred back and fourth to any other genealogy program forth that is
vkn: Sounds similar to Tribal Pages garland ?
di: i will look into it. most of the people whos tree i am working on don't care about the day to day....some don't wanna know unless i find something "interesting".
garland: I didn't think tribal pages did different family trees in one website
alt: di, when I did beginner's workshops i really just started with 3 forms ... 1. an individaul summary sheet 2. a family group sheet & 3. a pedigree chart ande just went from there ... on what to search for on each person included in the charts.
vkn: alt is the TP expert
di: that was kinda my idea too. i want to expand a lil into the resources we have available to us right in the neighborhood and city/area.
alt: how long (time) do you anticipate your workshop.. 1 session, 1 day, several days, weeks< etc>????
garland: what State are you Alt? I mean DI
di: 1 session to start but then i thought it would be cool to expand if there was an interest. i want to do it right here at the two libraries in my neighborhood i am in philadelphia pa
alt: there are several online sites that have a 'summary form' on what data to collect and when to look for specific types of data for each person.
garland: most libraries have heritage quest I think, plus i think the 1880 census is good because it's free and it's avail on internet state libraries have county vitals in hardbound from what I've found
alt: If you feel comfortable with sharing your information di, it would be nice to use your FG Sheets & Pedigree charts expalining how, when, why & where you acquired each piece of data for your ancestors.
garland: Dr. James Rose has a good outline in his second book, I particularly like his brief talk about black migrations
di: we have access to heritage quest and all library databases online thru the website (in library or from home), there is a lds center right here nearby this neighborhood, the african american genealogy group meets here in west philly, three universities are here in the neighborhood,
garland: I wish someone would digitize the 1870 census instead of just the index
alt: do you use familysearch and/or Ancestry garland?
di: so what i gather from my virtual genealogy family is go ahead and do it, even if i do not have "credentials" yet--maybe after taxes
garland: i agree
alt: you bet di ... Go for it!!!!!!
garland: Just Do It (Nike, add swosh here)
alt: and best wishes di...
vkn: Ditto GO FOR IT
garland: plus if you stay in a holiday in the night before, it's suppose to help
alt: well, it's skedaddle time for me.. y'all take care.
garland: Have a good day
vkn: bye al
di: well hopefully it will be a good genealogy month for me! I am going to ask my mothers paternal and maternal uncles for a sample for a dna test. and i am working with an after school program to develop a genealogy activity for the kids to do on the internet and computer, and i want to do one of these genealogy workshops at the library before new year (at library now about to talk to the librarian)! thanks
garland: that sounds great DI
vkn: and you can practice your workshop skills on us Have a good rest of it di and take all care


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ATLANTA—The first self-operated dining hall at 31,500-student Georgia State University gave GSU's Insourced Dining Services the opportunity to implement a new waste management system, says Suzanne Paltz, dining hall manager.
"We opened up our first self-operated dining hall in August of 2009," Paltz says. "We worked with LeanPath to implement a waste management system. We, as a university, are moving toward more sustainability initiatives. With having this new self-operated foodservice program, we wanted to move in that direction. We are actually opening our second self-operated dining hall in August of 2011, and that hall will also implement this program. The rest of the campus is managed by Sodexo."
How it works: Paltz says the system starts with weighing and tracking pre-consumer waste in the kitchen.
"We have an electronic scale in the kitchen that weighs our pre-consumer food waste," Paltz says. "It could be trim waste, expired food, over-produced food or spoilage. Each employee clicks on his/her name before weighing any waste. All of our employees have been trained to know that before anything goes to our pulper and extractor, which is where all of our food waste goes, it has to be weighed. Once a week we download the information into a program on the computer and it creates a bunch of different reports. We actually have a dashboard where we can see week to week how we are doing."
Paltz says those reports make it easy for managers to look at the information and figure out where the waste is coming from.
"Let's say one of my employees is showing a lot of excess melon rind waste," Paltz says. "We can find out from him or her exactly why that is. It could be we've gone through extra melons that week. It could be he or she isn't trimming them as close as he or she could be. We are typically serving the same amount of melons week to week, so if we see a spike, what's the reason for that?
"Another example was we were throwing away lots of expired vegetables. When we looked into it we noticed it was because the cook was cooking all the vegetables at the beginning of the meal. Midway through the meal, the pans of vegetables that hadn't made it to the line weren't good enough to be served. So we cut our production of vegetables in half. Those are ways we are able to use the program's information to change things around. We have noticed a 5% to 10% reduction on a week-to-week basis, depending on things we pick up on and are able to tweak."
One of the biggest challenges in implementing this part of the waste management system was getting the staff on board, says Paltz.
"It is an extra step for them," she says. "What worked well was when LeanPath came in to do the initial training, they included the employees. That got them really involved in what their part with sustainability was. Since the whole world is moving in that direction, I think it was something that the employees wanted to be a part of. They were not only learning about the cost savings that tracking waste can help with but also how tracking waste can help the earth and the environment."
The department holds weekly Stop Waste Action Team (SWAT) meetings where the managers and employees go over the data to figure out where they can make changes. Paltz says these meeting also have helped make the employees feel more included.
"The employees are able to look at the results and comment about what they thought happened and what we can do as a team to help eliminate that waste," Paltz says. "That makes them feel like they're a part of it. During those SWAT meetings, we recognize the employees who were the highest contributors, meaning that they had used the program correctly for the most amount of food. Recognizing them made the rest of the employees realize that the managers saw the program as important."
Next steps: After food waste is weighed, the next step of the program sends waste to the extractor and pulper. Currently, that is where the process stops. However, this August a local company called Green Co. will begin picking up the waste to be composted and sold as fertilizer and mulch, Paltz says.
"We'd love to eliminate all waste, but we can't," Paltz says. "We are taking an additional step by having the waste picked up to be composted. Before we didn't have a way to continue the cycle past the extractor and pulper. Now we have this company to complete the cycle. It isn't just the pre-consumer waste that will be composted; it's also the post-consumer waste."
All post-consumer waste also goes into the extractor and pulper and will be composted. The dining hall is a trayless facility, which helps cut down on post-consumer waste. The only thing that doesn't go in are plastics, which are recycled. Paltz says once the composting program starts, there are plans to buy some of the composted material back to use on campus.
"Pretty much what you get out of it is what you put into it," Paltz says. "You can just walk through the steps of putting the information in and not really looking at the reports and not being proactive with making changes in your unit. But I strongly suggest that you keep with it and you'll definitely see results."


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35395, Children's Songbook, The Savior, I Feel My Savior's Love, 74-75
1. I feel my Savior's love
In all the world around me.
His Spirit warms my soul
Through ev'rything I see.
2. I feel my Savior's love;
Its gentleness enfolds me,
And when I kneel to pray,
My heart is filled with peace.
3. I feel my Savior's love
And know that he will bless me.
I offer him my heart;
My shepherd he will be.
4. I'll share my Savior's love
By serving others freely.
In serving I am blessed.
In giving I receive.
He knows I will follow him,
Give all my life to him.
I feel my Savior's love,
The love he freely gives me.
Words: Ralph Rodgers Jr., 1936-1996; K. Newell Dayley, b. 1939; and Laurie Huffman, b. 1948
Music: K. Newell Dayley, b. 1939
© 1978, 1979 by K. Newell Dayley. Used by permission. Making copies for one-time church or home use permitted.
John 15:10-12


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John Grisham (born February 8, 1955) is an American bestselling thriller author who is being nominated again and again for the Literature Nobel Prize, but has never actually gotten it because this sort of Nobel Prize is reserved for boring third world country authors. When Grisham realized that, he started writing boring books himself. This has not achieved anything yet, but he will not give up anytime soon.
Grisham belongs to several discriminated, persecuted, and handicapped minorities of the US. First of all, he is a Southerner, meaning he is an overall slow thinker, he uses funny language and wears strange hats. Second, he is a lawyer, one of the lowest life forms on American soil. (Our European readers have to realize that an American lawyer is not like a European lawyer. Rather than save innocents from jail or fight for justice, the American lawyer lurks behind street corners and waits for accidents, in the hope of suing anyone, for whatever. An American lawyer is about as popular in America as a real estate agent or Silvio Berlusconi is in Europe.)
Unlike most Americans Grisham did not enjoy being unpopular. Thus, he started writing books about Southerners, lawyers, and other criminals, which allowed him to escape the lowliness of his lawyering environment. Today, he is rich and popular, though still a Southerner.
The Firm
The Firm was Grisham's breakthrough bestseller. The novel is about a young, unsuspecting law student named Tom Cruise who seems to strike it lucky when he is accepted for an internship in a big law firm. In fact, he is the only guy in his age group who wins an internship of such prestige and he enthusiastically starts working 200 hours a week for the firm without wages, as standard practice dictates.
This, of course, is too good to be true, and Tom soon realizes that something is wrong. He finds out that the firm bills 500 hours a week for his work even though he does work only 200. And even worse, the firm secretly works for Scientology and specializes in money laundering and generally screwing people over.
Of course, the whole thing has a happy ending: Tom manages to defraud the firm for a couple of billion dollars. He proceeds to donate a couple of hundred bucks to some charities, takes the rest and sails into the sunset. (Spoiler warning!! - Oh, too late.)
The Pelican Brief
With The Pelican Brief, Grisham came up with yet another blockbuster. The novel is about a young, unsuspecting law student named Julia Roberts, who is bored in the university and hence begins writing creative articles for Uncyclopedia. In one of her funny articles she fantasizes about an evil, old, rich codger who paddles out on the Mississippi at night and strangles poor innocent pelicans. All that is just a product of her imagination, of course.
But an evil, old, rich codger who paddles out on the Mississippi at night and strangles poor innocent pelicans, by sheer chance reads her article and believes it is about him! He starts a cruel edit war against Julia, and she stands no chance against him of course. And she wrote the article under her real name! Only law students could be that dumb. So the guy haunts her in real life too and sends killers and administrators out against her.
The whole thing is thrilling as hell but of course it has a happy ending too. Julia rips the guy off for some billions, donates a couple of hundred to some charities, takes the rest and sails into the sunset.
The Client
The Client was Grisham's third hit. The novel is about an unsuspecting eleven-year-old boy (who wants to be a law student too, of course, when he is grown up) who watches the suicide of some mafia guy and learns some interesting facts about the mob in the process. In order to make the most from this opportunity, he hires a lawyer. The mafia soon realizes that it has only one option: to pay the boy off with a couple of billions so that he can sail into the sunset. But it is full of suspense too. Really.
Other books
After Grisham had completed those three extremely thrilling thrillers, he became rich and famous and decided to do something else. Instead of thrilling thrillers he wrote a couple of tedious books in which his heroes were no longer pursued by killers. The funny thing was that these books were became bestsellers anyway - he probably made a deal with the mafia to write only harmless stuff which does not jeopardize their "invisibility". In return, the mafia buys the books in bulk. A classical win-win agreement. Only that the reader who accidentally buys a recent Grisham book might feel a little disconcerted. But who cares.


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Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has revealed his concept for the redesign of the east campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Commissioned by the institution to provide 'new insight into the meaning and function of an encyclopaedic museum and the relationship of architecture to its site', Zumthor has now unveiled models of his concept as part of an exhibition at LACMA entitled The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, open until 15 September.
The designs suggest razing the existing campus designed by William Pereira and addition by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates in favour of a swathe of dark grey concrete, 775ft wide at its deepest point. Zumthor explains: "It is an organic shape, like a water lily, floating and open with 360 degrees of glass facing Hancock Park, the La Brea Tar Pits, Wilshire Boulevard, Chris Burden's Urban Light, and Renzo Piano's new galleries."
If realised, this low-level structure would amass roughly the same square footage as the existing LACMA campus but its two-storey height and large volume of glass windows would look to generate a closer relationship with the community of Los Angeles as Zumthor details: "Primary circulation is achieved by this curving perimeter - a continuous veranda rather than a classical Beaux-Arts spine. Visitors can look out; those outside can look in. From the ground, and in elevation, the museum is mostly transparent."
Through these glass panes, visitors will be able to see a series of staircases leading to the upper level from their positions on the grassy landscaping of LACMA's grounds. Throughout these green expanses will wind cycle trails and a network of pedestrian pathways to encourage the community to animate the campus and ideally to enter the building. A plethora of solar panels across the roof of the complex are included to generate energy for LACMA with any excess to be fed back into the LA grid.
Zumthor concludes: "The proposed building is intended to create a cultural and social place. It offers a multilayered understanding and experience - from the everyday life on the street to a peaceful appreciation of individual artworks. Around more 'sacred' galleries are open, casual spaces. The grand scale of the organic whole is assembled from smaller pieces within, providing a village of experiences."


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[Produced by A$AP Ty Beats]
[Verse 1]
I be that pretty mothafucka, Harlem's what I'm reppin'
Tell my niggas quit the bitchin', we gon' make it in a second
Never disrespected plus I'm well connected
With this coke that I imported, just important as your president
Swagger so impressive and I don't need a necklace
But these bitches get impressed when you pull up in that 7
Them 6's, them Benzes, I gets get the freshest
Raf Simons, Rick Owens usually what I'm dressed in
Blowing blunts rolling doobies up, smoking sections
Groupies rush hold they boobies up, in my direction
Quit with all the fronting, you ain't 'round my clique for nothing
Cause our presence is a present, just to kick it is a blessing
This is the way it goes, this is the way we roll
Cause every day we on our pesos
(Gun cock, gunshot, gonna lick a boy)
Cause every day we on our pesos
[Verse 2]
Your bitch just said I'm hot, man I told her I agree
She gon' really think I'm hot if I told her my degrees
Pull up in that hard-top, showing off my keys
Graduate school of hard-knocks, I can show you my degrees
Couple A, B, C's, bad bitch, double D's
Popping E, I don't give a F, told you I'm a G
A.S.A.P., Stevie got it on his sleeve
But I got it on my chest, my nigga, this is what I breathe
Inhale, exhale, cocaine, X pills
Import, export, Harlem catching rec still
So mami, show me how that neck feel
Later show me how the rest feel, for now just chill
This is the way it goes, this is the way we roll
Cause every day we on our pesos
(Gun cock, gunshot, gonna lick a boy)
Cause every day we on our pesos
Acting as the lead single for the mixtape Live.Love.A$AP, "Peso" was considered by many as Rocky's breakout song. In an interview with The New York Times (who stated the track was among the year's best) he claimed that "New York didn't respect me until Peso".
Big Ghost also complimented the track, saying: "This that joint that kinda gives you some idea of what Wiz Khalifa would sound like if he still had a little talent n dignity left".
The song samples "No One's Gonna Love You" by The S.O.S. Band:
It's funny, the other day my son was listening to A$AP Rocky, and I said to him, "You know that's my song, right?" He said, "What do you mean?" I said, "The little bassline in that record is from the S.O.S. Band." He replied, "No. I didn't know that." My kids are always trying to turn me on to new stuff, and they think I don't know anything. They were trying to turn me on to A$AP Rocky, and I had to tell them I cleared the sample for him to use in the record six months earlier.
—Jimmy Jam from an RBMA Interview in 2016.
I feel like I was really showcasing my lyrical ability. I was showing people what A$AP was. Mad rapping. Keep in mind, the same producer that did "Purple Swag," was the same producer that did "Pe$o."


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Higher price-point restaurants aren't feeling the effects of the early 2013 economic hickey that the more modestly priced concepts seem to be, according to Tilman Fertitta, a collector of both.
Fertitta, chairman and chief executive of Houston-based Landry's Inc., appeared in the studios of CNBC Wednesday and said the lower-range restaurants in his more than 500-unit privately held portfolio saw "sticker shock" in January and February. Landry's concepts range from family-oriented Rainforest Café and Bubba Gump to high-end Morton's and McCormick & Schmick's.
"It's mainly the lower price points that are hurting right now, more in January and February," Fertitta said. "The higher end is still holding in there.
"When you start talking about an $80-$90 check average, it's not going to affect somebody," Fertitta said. "But somebody on the $20-$30 check average, it's going to effect them."
He specifically cited the end of the payroll tax holiday on Jan. 1 as a factor in the sales slowdown, which is showing signs of abating. "March is starting to come back a little bit, he said.
Landry's has more than 500 properties in 34 states and 33 international locations and covers more than 50 brands in entertainment, dining, gaming and hospitality.
Fertitta, who took Landry's private in a $1.4 billion deal in October 2011, said the company had "a great 20-year run" as a public company, but he appreciates operating as a private enterprise.
"We didn't have to look at quarter-to-quarter," he said. "I was able to grow the company, do lots of acquisitions from Bubba Gump to Claim Jumper to McCormick to Morton's and make the changes I needed to make and grow them long-term. And I didn't have to worry about 'What is this quarter's numbers?'
Fertitta said he would consider taking an individual concept public.
And tapping into capital markets as a private company hasn't been difficult, Fertitta added. "There's more money and more deals out there than you know what to do with it." He's seeking a deal New York-based Ark Restaurant Group, a $71.3 million deal that Ark's board has rebuffed.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
An Israeli satire group has posted a video to YouTube skewering US Secretary of State John Kerry for proposing purportedly "new" ideas to solve the Middle East conflict, while in fact the diplomat's plan is made up of rehashed and failed concepts.
One telling point in the video has the actor playing Kerry looking out over the mountains of Samaria from a high-rise tower in Tel Aviv, from where he quotes the old adage, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Well, it doesn't get any closer than this!"
Kerry's plan, as revealed by The New York Times, sees Israel withdrawing from Judea and Samaria in stages, but not from 100 percent of the territory. Large Jewish settlement blocs would be left intact and under Israeli sovereignty, and Israel would compensate by surrendering some of its territory to the Palestinian Authority.
Jerusalem would be divided, and the eastern half recognized as the capital of "Palestine," and Israel would be explicitly acknowledged as the nation state of the Jewish people. The proposal does not allow for the mass entry of so-called "Palestinian refugees" into Israel.
For those familiar with the conflict, the proposal was a bit baffling if it is all Kerry has to show for the past six months of frantic shuttle diplomacy.
Nearly every proposal put forward by Kerry has been made before, and has been summarily rejected, usually by a Palestinian Authority leadership unwilling to compromise on its hard-line demands.
The following video is a humorous look at how Kerry's proposals sound to an Israeli ear:
The video was spawned from Israeli irritation over what seemed to be a threat made by Kerry that if his proposals did not lead to a final status peace agreement, Israel would be sorry.
"The risks are very high for Israel. People are talking about boycott. That will intensify in the case of failure," Kerry told an international security conference in Munich last week.
The official response from Israel was swift and biting.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "The attempts to boycott the State of Israel are not moral or justified. Moreover, they will not achieve their purpose. Firstly, they only serve to make the Palestinians become more entrenched in their stance of refusal. Secondly, no pressure will make me abandon the State of Israel's vital interests, of which security of the civilian population is foremost."
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz: "You can't force the State of Israel to negotiate with a gun to our heads while we are discussing the most critical of our national security interests. If the Palestinians hear that Israel will more or less be destroyed in the event of failure in the negotiations it will only encourage them to try and tear down the peace process."
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett: "We expect our friends around the world to stand by our side to face the anti-Semitic attempts to boycott Israel, not to be their mouthpiece."
Housing Minister Uri Ariel: "The Palestinians can hardly believe how lucky they are to have such a 'fair' mediator. This is what incitement looks like."
Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis: "We were here before Kerry, we'll be here after him as well."
The US State Department later issued a statement insisting that Kerry was not supporting boycotts against Israel, but was merely passing along a friendly warning. The cartoon below expresses precisely how most Israelis view this "friendly warning":
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