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EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Jan. 18, 2011) - Please join leaders and employee volunteers from the ATCO Group of Companies as they celebrate and unveil another multi-million dollar pledge to community charities.
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|1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Podium Program
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|Unveil record amount pledged by ATCO employees
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ATCO Group, with more than 7,500 employees and assets of approximately $10 billion, delivers service excellence and innovative business solutions worldwide with leading companies engaged in Utilities (pipelines, natural gas and electricity transmission and distribution), Energy (power generation, natural gas gathering, processing, storage and liquids extraction), Structures & Logistics (manufacturing, logistics and noise abatement) and Technologies (business systems solutions). More information can be found at www.atco.com.
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The Corporation's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of regulatory decisions, competitive factors in the industries in which the Corporation operates, prevailing economic conditions, and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Corporation.
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Our Jack Miller started a thread in the Forums about an iPhoto plugin he needed but didn't want to buy.
He groaned and moaned and complained about the price tag, and finally bought the utility anyway.
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Yes, you heard it from me, the queen of Mac360's Low End section.
As you may have noticed, Mac360 doesn't review Mac utilities or applications that we don't like or wouldn't use ourselves.
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Often, the open source or freebie applications are a labor of love or an exercise in communal understanding of a Mac solution.
Kudos to all those Mac developers working on free or low cost apps and utilities that make using a Mac more rewarding.
Kudos to all those Mac developers working on great applications that have a price tag—even one that makes us cringe a little.
John Gruber's Daring Fireball has been running a series of articles on software pricing techniques, problems, and issues.
Others have chimed in with experiences that tell an interesting tale for developers and Mac users.
The basic idea is that a good Mac utility or application should have a matching price tag. John thinks that $25 is about the bottom.
While a price tag is not always indicative of worth or value, it does say something about the product, the developer, and the buyer's expectation.
For free or open source Mac solutions, support isn't much of a consideration, though the software may be superb. Firefox is a good example.
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When Tera and Bambi started Mac360 nearly three years ago, they were adamant that we review only such applications or utilities that we would have and use on our Macs.
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Well it is incredible. The difference is overwhelmingly obvious, which the depth of shading and smoothness of blending improving out of sight.
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About a week after Alison received the news that she had not passed the REG Exam section, Roger CPA Review launched its new SmartPath Predictive Technology platform. Alison immediately pulled up her SmartPath data to see how she had performed in relation to students who had passed REG.
"I was in the red on almost all [course sections]. It just was this eye-opening experience that I really was not where I needed to be to sit and take that Exam."
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Figure 1. Here is a snapshot from Alison's SmartPath data right before she took REG the first time. The arrows point to examples of SmartPath targets that equate to success. One can easily see that across the board Alison was in need of attempting more questions, and to achieve higher scores. Seeing this data after she found out she didn't pass was "eye opening" for Alison.
Figure 2. In contrast, here is a snapshot from Alison's SmartPath data before she took REG a second time. She surpassed all of her targets on every REG section except for REG 1: Individual Taxations and REG 2: Corporate Tax. Because she had scored very well on these areas during her first attempt, she lessened her focus on them the second time around.
Figure 3. Overall the data shows that there was a huge difference in Alison's progress and performance from her first to her second attempt. She truly took the SmartPath targets to heart, and put in the hard work that was needed.
Using SmartPath for the remainder of her CPA Exam journey
The data provided by SmartPath showed Alison that she had not put enough emphasis on the practice multiple choice questions (MCQs) and task-based simulations (TBSs) in her Interactive Practice Questions (IPQ) software. With this newfound knowledge she decided to modify her study approach based on her SmartPath data.
Before using SmartPath, Alison would watch all course lectures first and then attempt questions in the software. Now she focused her study time on working her MCQs and TBSs, helping her to be more targeted and efficient with her study tactics.
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Her neyse Boston'da başlayan yolculuk çeşitli kişilerin radarına girdikten sonra markanın da büyümesine yardımcı oluyor. Önce en prestijli ve ünlü ödül törenlerinin gift baglerinde yaptıkları yer buluyor sonrasında da ünlülerin mücevher kutularından onun işleri çıkıyor. Ünlü demişken Ryan Gosling ve Megan Fox dersem gerisine laf düşmez sanırım.
Mahzur görün tembelliğimi, yazının geri kalanı İngilizce olarak devam edecektir. Röportaj ise SariBlue'nun çıkış noktası, nazar boncuğunun ve koleksiyonlarında kullandığı bir başka motif olan 'çingenelerin' nereden radarına girdiği üzerine devam ediyor.
The following interview actually planed almost months ago. But due to the busy schedule of Sari Blue's lovely Christine Lorenzo -and mine- it is only able to be published today. Indeed, without exageration she has a reallly busy plan. Our first conversation actually happened just after the Golden Globes, when we agreed for an interview it was the time for biggest event of the year, the Academy Awards, then it continued MTV Movie Awards and Country Music Awards. And during this short period we have seen Lorenzo's designs on Jeremy Irons, Amy Poehler, Megan Fox and most importantly one and only - our ultimate style guy- the most enviable Hollywood face Ryan Gosling!
Ocean and the Continental Europe may fall us apart but the excitment of Lorenzo and all of her upcoming projects may even be felt by the 'Curiosity' which just laned on Mars. I also had the pleasure of waiting the news of her new projects; me total stranger from Istanbul knew all the huge news with a zipped mouth.
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1: Tell me about your mood now, what are you doing, how the weather is like there?I am in a really great mood. Unfortunately, or fortunately depends on how you look at it, I am a terminal insomniac!! It is good sometimes because I have more time in the day than most people and clearly not good because you can become out of sync with the rest of the world! So last night and the few nights before I did not sleep at all!! Somehow I am still in a great mood! I normally am no matter how much sleep I get. I am a very upbeat person! And why not, I am very fortunate and start each day being thankful for my life and current status; I am super happy and super lucky in every way! Today is a simply gorgeous day, sunny, breezy, about 26°C, basically a perfect day! I am sitting in my workshop at my house, chatting with a lovely guy from Istanbul who is a key person in iconic culture (that is you camin!) I have just finished working on a custom piece of jewelry for Amy Poehler and took some very cool photographs out in the sun of the pieces, I am really thrilled with these pieces, they are somewhat a new style for me and I used some new elements in the design (various metals, and chain intermingled with beads). I hope she likes it!
2: What's the charm and spell behind the concept of the ''evil-eye'' that made you design something using it?About seven years ago I started to work for a start-up software development company. The headquarters is here outside of Boston, but the engineering development team was in Ankara, our CEO is a Turkish Entrepreneur. The company when I joined was moving and growing really quickly and I ended up spending a lot of time in Ankara and then Istanbul. Something about Turkey and Turkish people really drew me in, the traditions and way of life felt very similar to my family and the style of life in which I was raised. My family is Italian, and we have a huge family! I have only one sister but 14 first cousins and maybe 150+ second cousins and then the list goes on. We all know each other, or know of each other and when I was young everyone was very close, tons of family dinners, events, festivals and everyday life that included a very big extended family. My Grandmother was one of 13 siblings and my Grandfather was one of 8. So there were always other kids, Aunties, cousins around and we all were very close. My Great-Grandmother, my Noni, lived in a house connected to my Grandmother, so if I wasn't at my Gram's I was cutting through the basement to Noni's. We spent every weekend as a big family until the older generation started to pass.
So when I was all of a sudden faced with learning about Turkey and its rich culture, I really had a rush of nostalgia and familiarity with the culture although it was new to me. What I have come to realize is that although Turks and Italians are different in many ways, they have more similarities than difference. Both love their families above everything else, both cultures are super passionate and culturally rich, food, music, art, style are all elements of importance in both cultures. And looking even deeper and more specifically, the Evil Eye is also something that runs in both cultures. There are differences but the theory is the same and the firm belief in this part of culture or superstition is alive and well in both. So after a bit of personal turmoil and professional upheaval with the economic unrest, I decided to finally, after a really longtime of seeking something that was more an expression of who I was, decided to launch a jewelry line based on the Evil Eye, and specifically The traditional Nazar Boncuk that are found in Turkey. I was simply fascinated at the tradition of how the beads are made, and how beautiful they are, of course the meaning was also very important. I felt like I could really build a collection around this notion that was modern and fun conveying full respect for the history and tradition behind the beliefs as well as the art form.
Megan Fox wearing custom made SariBlue piece.
3: The Glee kid Josh Sussman, Zooey Deschanel and Jeremy Irons and many others, these are quite big names and A Listers, how you feel when the idea of ''oh god, they own my designs and wear them'' pops in to your mind? (See even more AListers included to the list after we done this interview)I know! It is totally crazy; it of course makes me nervous. I spend a lot of time thinking about each design, putting specific thought into the custom designs, hoping the receiver will adore it. When I think of Megan Fox or Jessica Alba wearing my design, I almost cannot believe it! But anytime any person, no matter who they are, admires my work and chooses it, I get very excited and inspired. I feel like it is an honour to create pieces that convey a bit of history and belief with some stylish splash. It is really a dream come true! I am still in disbelief, that this now is my life and that I can have chats about collections I create and discuss my own business. It is amazing, the celebrity connections and following is like ice cream on cake!!
4: You do also have a collection inspired by Istanbul? What makes you attached to our culture / our country this much?Ha! (I think my very longwinded answer above goes through the why, for the most part, but) The culture and people are just so genuine. I do not always feel that way in cities or places in the U.S. but I do in Istanbul. The city itself is inspiring, the city has a personality it breathes and shakes with energy, like a living being. Not to mention that my friends and people I love and have become so close to are Turkish, I have a connection.
5: Any further plans about our country / in general that you want to mention?I have not returned to Turkey for almost 18 months!! I am craving a visit and hope to spend a good amount of time traveling within the country. I have other ideas about collections and things that I think would work really well for my shop, and hope things continue to move in a direction that I could expand a bit to incorporate more of my ideas and perhaps spend more time in Turkey.
I recently was asked to participate in another really exciting event. My collection will be at this year's Country Music Association Awards. This is such an amazing thing! The collaborative that I am affiliated with will have our groups handmade crafts behind stage at this event and for the lead up to the show. It is a three day event, where all the performers, celebrities and presenters will have access to our items after they practice for the real event on the third day. I cannot tell you how big this is! CMA may not be a big deal in Turkey but it is huge in the U.S. so we are anticipating celebrities like Keith Urban and Taylor Swift! I mean amazing!!!
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6: Are you a superstitious person?Life is funny sometimes, in the way your path can go or develop. I am not a religious person, but I am a very spiritual person and I guess somewhat superstitious. I definitely believe in the power of the evil eye, the adornment and the idea like in Italian culture of people being able to cast ill will at you. I think that there is certainly karma, maybe not always to the same level we want but it is true that what comes around goes around. Fate, most definitely, there are things that no matter the attempt will also be unchanged in your path. The game of life doesn't tell us necessarily what those things are, but looking back you see them clearly. I do have strong beliefs in doing good for your brothers and sisters in the world and being kind in everything you do really matters. Not because you will earn something in return but because it is so the right way to live.
7: How about the collection dedicated to gypsies ? You do really like and inspired by different cultures / myths I guess, right ?I am totally inspired by culture, it is the foundation for humanity and gets intertwined in all we do. I love to learn about new cultures or read about some historical mystery. The notion of gypsy for me is very positive. The idea of a band or tribe of people glued together by nothing but each other is very real in my life and also runs through my Italian culture and of course most European cultures.
I was always a huge fan of mythical stories even as a child, but in a way that other children did not appreciate it. I look for the hook to present and the past culture it came from, how the stories came to pass, what was it that was happening in the world at that time that really lead to the roots of it. Still, these notions grab me like nothing else. I suppose with some of this I sound too romantic, maybe I am, when I allow myself to be…. :D
8: You do also have a pinterest / twitter / facebook accounts and a blog on your website ? That's great, you must believe in social media very much?Yes, social media is so important in making the world your market. It creates a smaller feeling in the world marketplace. Virility is super important in market for small business owners like me. If you can grab the attention of experts or highly visible stakeholders in your niche with a tweet or a great blog article than you are accomplishing a lot with a little. Since I don't have financial backing you need to look for no-cost or very inexpensive ways to support your goals.
10: Can we reach you, own your pieces from Istanbul, Turkey ?I really love when people from Turkey purchase something from my collection, it is thrilling!
To learn more about me or the collection here are the links. Very soon, I will have my own ecommerce site which will be within the current blog and SariBlue site. You will be able read about the updates from the line as well as make purchases without leaving the site! - which went online on August 1st.
and Thank you to Christine for my very own SariBlue piece.


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There has been a lot of talk about the "Tea Party" these days. They've been called terrorists and conservative wackos, and worse. I'm not sure that the names are undeserved but they have their roots deep in American history. In Boston Harbor on this date in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists dressed like Mohawk Indians came aboard three British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. It was part of the protest for the British Tea Act of 1773, granting the East India Company a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The East India Company undercut even tea smuggled into America. Many colonists viewed the act as another example of extreme taxation of Great Britain.
By 1787 John Adams made a prediction, "Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. … but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, … in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would … sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. … anarchy and tyranny commence."
Taxation and tyranny often go hand in hand. Sloth and charity are also often partners. It is a sad commentary on humanity. Jesus even recognized it when he was asked about paying taxes to Caesar, "Whose image and name are on the coin?" The men answered, "Caesar's." Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and give to God the things that are God's." Matthew 22:20-22 I believe what Jesus was getting at was not political – it was revolutionary. He was saying ALL your allegiance should be toward God. Money should not even be a concern. Government has grown so large that it has reached the point where some expect everything to be taken care of by Government. So government has replaced God in the care of people. This is what Jesus was warning about – so was John Adams. The church has also failed to deliver on taking care of people spiritually, as well, so there is plenty of blame to go around.
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Christie Brinkley says her tax woes are nothing more than an accounting error — and she is fixing it ASAP.
The drama in the life of ageless supermodel Christie Brinkley is seemingly never-ending. After her tumultuous divorce from shady ex Peter Cook, the mom was hoping to enjoy some calmness — and then the tax man came knocking.
The IRS says Brinkley owes back taxes of over $500,000 and have placed a lien on her New York mansion in the Hamptons. Now the cover girl says the whole thing is just a major accounting error that she intends to rectify right away.
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"I regret not paying more attention to my accounting," Brinkley told TMZ.
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Brinkley added, "My taxes will be paid in full by Wednesday, Dec. 7 and I expect the tax lien to be released immediately thereafter."
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Hi, can you confirm the health or otherwise of Briggs and Stratton? They havent been seen for quite sometime on your blog, hopefully they havent become the good ol' kiwi fare for any of your guests!ReplyDelete
No they are in very good shape.. we have been waiting for all the guests to leave before firing up that BBQ. Photo's pending!ReplyDelete
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No one remembers our wedding.
While I painstakingly planned for it in secret for months, I thought doing so would mean I could control one solitary aspect of our relationship. I thought if I married you just so, in the way that I knew we belonged to one another, I would be able to keep some semblance of order about us straight in my head. Your uniform and my dress would freeze us forever as I knew we were. But... the Universal Reversal that comes to steal the plans of all the good little boys and girls of Gray House visited us, and it was gone forever, along with whatever I thought we were.
Like Dean's bedroom, we didn't talk about it, and only Rosie wondered out loud, "So, what's up with Evie and Brad's wedding?" further cementing the idea in me that we're a secret. That everything that exists between us must be kept totally silent or it would be justified away. Compromised. Handed out to other people.
Brad, I love you, but you and me? We're fucking sellouts. We believe in exactly one love eternal, and it isn't with each other. But I think it's really fucked up that we're trying. It makes me want to believe in more than just the one. It makes me do all these stupid things that everyone says are beautiful and you and I fear are basically pointless, in our darkest moments of nihilism. I don't know Brad, is it beautiful? Because some days it just feels like the massacre of everything sacred onto the windshield of a tour bus.
I was trying to say what happened to us on our wedding night, but I stopped when I realized I was doing it so people would believe we had one. I wanted people to know how you touch me in the dark when no one else is around, because maybe I think people think we're a joke, deep down. It can feel like that sometimes. We fight, and we fuck, and we forget each other again on the outside, but inside this war continues over things delicate enough to be called antimatter or atmosphere. I wanted to prove to everyone else that we have these mechanics, and a way we work. And I was proud of myself that I didn't, because it means that I don't need anyone to believe me anymore. Nobody else makes us real anymore.
I've memorized every expression your eyes make.
I mention our wedding night, because I have the same impulse here, when tasked with describing your suicide. To leave it all unsaid, because it was between us, but the only reason I'm saying anything at all is for Rosie. I made her a promise that the years she spent buried in secrets with Clyde and an inch from death would someday mean something, and if I did that to us, I would be spitting on the memory of their forgotten teenage love, which I've come to adore enough to want to emulate.
And I would emulate it with no one but you, so maybe that's our real connection. That we both want to die under the other, lost in secrets that defy their own expression. Maybe that's who we really want to be. Stolen, and sealed off in hidden rooms for the rest of eternity. What do you say, Brad? Do you want to drive me to the end of the world in your car? It's fast enough that no one could catch up with us. I could get us lost. I could take us somewhere the only thing we know for certain is the smell of the other one.
People would pass us like hitchhikers on the highway; Adam and Jack and Clydeagain...
Say no, Brad. Just fucking do us a favor and say no. I'll tell the story, and you say no, and we'll do this the right way and stop starving our already emaciated hearts trying to prove we can live without... this.
I started crying. I can't remember if it's just me I'm talking to again.
We talk about being twins like it's some kind of destination on that road to the absolute zero of the emptiness of the Angels, and maybe that's so, but if there's one thing your map showed me, it's that from this point, that place and any other is already possible.
And I know how this world fell apart. I know how this reality became the moth-eaten cheesecloth that it is. You and me did more than a little bit of work to make it that way - to stretch it to fit the truths we wanted with each other. We keep trying to become everything to one another. We keep trying to believe that's possible. We keep trying to prove... that no one exists but you and me. You could call me Clyde, if you want to. I'll call you Bonnie, if you're serious.
No one knows more of my names than you.
Whatever Drama has in operatic gesture, he lacks in ceremony, and so your body and John's were dumped into the shallows of the River Eden near the train station that departs to the Moon. The river there narrows to something closer-resembling a ditch along the tracks, and the blood congeals and clogs there to a crust that attracts mosquitoes.
In the wasteland where I was waiting as Annik, you crossed the barren lands on fast legs while your bodies mended in the river. I didn't watch, with Adam. I didn't believe what Ian had said about me. I don't believe in my own power, or divinity, or holiness, unless I see it also in you. What a nightmare we must've been for our parents, to have to divide everything by threes.
But when I saw you come into my cave, poet sacrifice that you were, I took an interest for the first time in this place I'd been marooned, without my usual sense of irony and detachment.
The first rule of Justified is denial. Deny what you are so no one can take it from you. I was never going to admit that I was Annik until you said I was her. I was never going to act like I was Annik until you needed me to.
"I don't enshrine your death," was the first thing I told you. "This isn't a place for the noble. It's a place for the desperate."
"And what relief do you grant for desperation?" you asked me, and I saw a light in your eyes, cold and distant, and I knew you were not Jim, or Billy, or any other poet name you've ever lied and said was yours.
"None," I told you. "I'm what you were desperate for."
"The beauty engendered," John guessed, lifting up a rock covered in frost, and melting the rime in his hands. "It would stand to reason it was cold."
In that place, there was something pale about the two of you, and something razor-thin. You looked collegiate, in your uniforms. You hair hung lank in both your faces, and while John's face is heavily scarred, I could tell you were identical.
"A poet... finds the cracks in things where light is shining which doesn't yet have words," I explained to you, quoting Matthew. "You died because you flew too close to the light. You wanted the words too badly."
"And you're the light, is that right?" you asked.
I was aware as you were talking that your circulatory systems were entwining at the river, grown in concert the way they were as twins and separating eventually, as you grew apart from the root. I was aware that you had become young boys unknowing of your endlessness. I was aware that you were new wicks in candles never lit. That you'd killed yourselves in service of an idea you had little to no understanding of.
There was a drawling pretension to your movements that meant you'd come here by some mistake of innocence. That you had come only to impress Mr. Keating, as Matthew had suggested; come to the cave where the words were read with no understanding of their gravity, to invoke old gods whose names had been forgotten. Leave it to you to make my eternal prison superficial, or boring, or droll.
But the distant shine in your eyes told me a different story, and made you seem more dangerous than any creature I'd ever met. It's the same shine in the eyes of psychopaths and sons of congressmen and Peter Pan. A boy with unlimited magic, and no sense of morality.
I kissed you on the mouth, and then John, just as I at the river was pulling your veins gently in the shallows to separate to two systems which would beat the same blood. As your arteries slipped into the wounds you'd opened, and down John's throat, I slid your white shirts down from your thin shoulders.
I painted your skin white and black and gray in the cold, smearing soot on to the white paint in long brush strokes.
"What are you writing?" you asked me, laying next to John on the frozen ground.
"Nothing," I admitted.
"It feels like you are," John whispered, his hand gripping for yours in the dark.
"It's only ash," I told you, and your head came up, off the stone ground, in a kind of alarm.
"From where?" you asked me, and I told you.
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Celebrate the opening of our Fall 2016 showcase, Neo-Calligraphy - Ten Chi Jin -, with a special live shodo and vibraphone performance!
Master calligrapher Setsuhi Shiraishi specializes in shodo, the Japanese form of calligraphy, and is renowned for her large-scale performance works as well as her work in fashion and jewelry. Ms. Shiraishi will provide insight into the world of traditional and modern Japanese calligraphy through her own style of "Neo-Calligraphy."
After a brief presentation, Ms. Shiraishi will demonstrate both conventional and modern shodo while accompanied by popular DC-based vibraphonist, Chuck Redd. Please join us for this once-in-a-lifetime performance as we say goodbye to hot weather and welcome the cool jazz of autumn at the JICC!
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required for security purposes. Check-in begins at 6:00PM; event begins at 6:30PM. No admission or re-entry will be permitted after doors close at 7:00PM or when seating is filled, whichever occurs first. Registered guests will be seated on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive early as seating is limited and registration does not guarantee guests a seat.
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Another week in the books, and nothing but, blue skies and time to sleep in ahead of us. Well, maybe not a ton of time to relax, but enough to realize that this is what we spend M-F looking forward to. This week couldn't be more different to the last, so I wanted to share a little peek into the Bourbon Battle held by Marriott Hotel's Griffin Gate and Maker's Mark. No stranger to bourbon I jumped at the chance to attend the release and debut of Maker's Mark flights (which I'll share more about later).
The party and battle was held at the mansion on the Griffin Gate property and it couldn't be more gorgeous. The picturesque estate was not only a site to see outside, but was filled with delicious bites, and yes, plenty of bourbon. As a self-professed foodie I couldn't not share the pictures we took. Everything from candied bacon on clothes-pins to the most insane, taste-bud gilting donut sandwiches, I was in heaven.
Luckily, Kevin was there to snap everything whilst I stuffed my face, very classy, I know. I did my best to dress the part and found the perfect Tibi belted dress. The shade was a light pink, and hugged all the right places (i.e hiding much of my indulging). I paired the dress with a pair of nude heels and a simple Coach clutch.
This weekend will be likely spent catching up on errands, and putting the finishing plans together for our Paris trip in May!


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MONROE, Wash., August 9, 2017 – Vaughn Gittin Jr. took on teammate Chelsea DeNofa in a battle of the Ford Mustang RTRs at Formula Drift Seattle.
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KANNAPOLIS, NC, August 14, 2017 – Stewart-Haas Racing will honor 2018 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Robert Yates with a throwback paint scheme on the No. 10 Ford Fusion Danica Patrick will race during the Southern 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race Sept. 3 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
After working in the sport for more than two decades, Yates launched his own team, Robert Yates Racing (RYR), in the late 1980s. In 1996, RYR expanded to a two-car operation, fielding the No. 88 Quality Care/Ford Credit Ford with Dale Jarrett. The decision by Yates to add a second car to the stable resulted in Jarrett winning the 1999 championship in a paint scheme that Patrick's No. 10 Ford Credit Ford Fusion will emulate at Darlington.
"The throwback race at Darlington is such a cool event," said Patrick, who has competed in five Southern 500s. "The track has done such a great job of getting the teams and drivers involved. I'm excited to run a true throwback scheme this year. It's great that we're able to honor Robert Yates and all he's done for our sport."
In addition to the championship Jarrett earned in 1999, RYR amassed an impressive 57 wins, including three in the Daytona 500.
"The No. 88 Quality Care/Ford Credit Ford was definitely a memorable program for our team," Yates said. "We won the Daytona 500 in Dale's very first race in that scheme in 1996 and went on to win many more races and the championship in 1999. It was incredibly gratifying to have Ford as my sponsor and manufacturer, especially when we beat the competition. Getting to see this scheme run again will bring back many great memories. I can't thank everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing enough for honoring me and everyone that was on the team during those years."
Ford Credit is the financial services arm of Ford Motor Company. The brand was first seen on a NASCAR racecar in 1994 when it sponsored Elton Sawyer in what is now the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The sponsorship was very successful, so much so that in 1996 it expanded into the NASCAR Cup Series, which allowed RYR to become a two-car team.
Jarrett ran the No. 88 Quality Care/Ford Credit Ford paint scheme from 1996 through 2000, earning 20 wins, nine poles and leading more than 5,000 laps. That tally includes wins at Darlington in the 1997 and 1998 TranSouth Financial 400.
"We are very proud of our part in the heritage of NASCAR and particularly the success of RYR," said Dale Jones, Ford Credit executive vice president of the Americas. "The Ford Credit throwback paint scheme brings back great memories of victory at the racetrack. We are thrilled that Danica will be in the driver's seat representing that history."
The 1.366-mile Darlington track and its Labor Day race weekend host "The Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR" when the industry honors the sport's history. Last year, 36 Cup Series teams competed with throwback paint schemes in the Southern 500, the most in any single NASCAR event in the sport's history.
As the series returns to Darlington for the 68th Southern 500, the chance to honor Yates will be a special one for Billy Scott, crew chief for Patrick and the No. 10 Ford Credit Ford Fusion.
"It's really an honor to race a paint scheme that has so much history," Scott said. "Robert Yates Racing gave me my first job in the NASCAR Cup Series, so to take our No. 10 Ford Fusion to Darlington in tribute Robert and all that he's accomplished makes me extremely proud."
MOORESVILLE, NC, August 14, 2017 – Universal Technical Institute (UTI) is proud to announce the first day of class for the new CNC Machining Technology program at their Mooresville, North Carolina campus. This program is the first of it's kind for UTI and is located in their 146,00 square foot state-of-the-art facility.
This program provides the hands-on training and high-tech skills needed to set-up and master the computer numerical control (CNC) and manual machining equipment. The curriculum also includes continuous improvement practices in the machining process that will prepare students to become an innovative, effective and efficient machinist. The 36-week program will provide a foundation for students to start careers in aerospace, transportation and industrial fields or other career paths such as; research & development, sales and purchasing related to CNC machining and measuring equipment.
As manufacturers invest in new equipment, modify production techniques and implement product design changes more rapidly, they will continue to rely heavily on experienced machinists.
The program has also received the support from many industry leaders such as; Mitsubishi Materials, Mitee-Bite Products, Starrett, Alro Steel and Mastercam. The partners to the school have invested tools, machines, equipment and most importantly their industry expertise to help support and develop the program.
To find out more about this program and UTI please visit www.uti.edu.com
ALTON, Vir. August 28, 2017 – Ryan Briscoe, Richard Westbrook and the No. 67 Ford GT team may have struggled in practice and qualifying, but they were in position when it counted and drove away with their fifth podium of the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
Briscoe and Westbrook, who qualified seventh, finished second in the all-GT class Michelin GT Challenge after hovering around fifth place for much of the race. A late collision between their team car, the No. 66 Ford GT, and the No. 4 Corvette took those cars off the track and out of contention, boosting the No. 67 up the finishing order.
Joey Hand qualified the No. 66 car on pole, collecting Ford Chip Ganassi Racing's fifth pole of the season.
"Tough race, for sure," Briscoe said. "Second place is good for us, but I hate to see it happen at the expense of the No. 66 guys. Tough result for them. We were just hanging in there today. Good solid drive, I think. We definitely weren't the fastest car but second place is a huge result. If we can carry that momentum to a couple of tracks where we can be really strong and hope this team can still find the championship."
The No.'s 66 and 67 teams are now third and fourth in the championship standings with 257 points each, 17 points behind the leader. Ford is second in the manufacturers' standings, two points behind the leader.
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I am Lauren, a 30-something female on the hunt for a simpler, tidier, minimal but meaningful life. I like to travel, have lived in Europe before, am an introvert and yet enjoy meeting new people. I also studied medicine for a while and practice it from time to time, in between episodes of Game of Thrones, YouTube videos, listening to audio books & podcasts, and chasing after my two cats.
I believe that my shopping addiction is due to my need to compensate for something. A void in my life that I hadn't exactly noticed before. I have been off and on this minimalism journey (I hate that corny phrase but can't invent a better one at the moment) for quite some time. At one point I wanted to live in a tiny house and had gotten my wardrobe to a very usable and well loved collection. That is until I moved into a new apartment in a new town in a state I hadn't lived in since 2009. In comes the anxiety, fear, loneliness, and stuff.
Well, I have moved AGAIN, but this time to a town I know fairly well, and want a simpler life. So after reading books, watching videos and movies, reading blogs…I'm diving in. I hope you will too 😉


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DAY TWO! Here's hoping you found some birds out there yesterday. Anecdotal reports are already showing that pheasants can be found throughout ND with a little legwork, and opener (despite the wind) was successful. Today should be better in terms of wind, so knock a few more down and take advantage of all the great places we have to hunt in ND. We talk National Wildlife Refuge Week, and all the excitement this system has to offer, in today's Three Things.
(IN THE BAG. Friend of the edge Adam Marthaler inspects an opening day rooster pheasant south of Watford City, N.D. Simonson Photo)
WEATHER (Bismarck Forecast):
Today: Sun 10/8 – Breezy. Hi 58, Lo 41, Winds NW@15, G25.
Tomorrow: Mon 10/9 – Autumn chill. Hi 48, Lo 34, Winds NW@11
SOLUNAR (Bismarck Times):
Sunrise: 7:52AM Sunset: 7:07PM
Moonrise: 9:22PM Moonset 11:06AM
Overhead: 3:49AM Underfoot: 4:17PM
Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous (89% Full)
EDGE HOUR. 6:30-7:30PM. Key in on those southeast shorelines and get up on stand in today's Edge Hour, as sunset brings lessened winds and a better chance to convert. The last of the full moon wanes, so take advantage of it's power today.
SEEKING REFUGE. Today kicks off National Wildlife Refuge week throughout the United States, running through Oct. 14. These Federally-managed parcels contain numerous lakes, rivers and trails open to public hiking, sightseeing and other recreation, and are the largest category of lands managed by the U.S. Government.
DOZENS IN ND. More than three dozen National Wildlife Refuges are located within North Dakota. Check out the fully interactive map from the Fish and Wildlife Service showcasing all the Peace Garden State has to offer.
HUNT ON. As of today, 23 of those refuges in North Dakota, and hundreds more throughout the U.S., allow hunting in various forms, subject to local refuge regulations. To find which ones are open to your preferred game, check out the FWS Refuge Hunting Map, for what really end up being untapped options for some incredible game opportunities.
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I had planned to get the new Necron book for the sake of reading about the new fluff and units, but had never actually planned on getting any models as the army had never really appealed to me before. Funny how fate always intervenes to tempt me off the righteous path. (anyone who can see the tabs to the right can see this is not the first time) A conversation with my nephew who was after my old lizard tank (R.I.P Flick) led me to discover that he had a small necron army secreted away from years gone by. After giving it brief consideration I decided to go for it and trade the tank setup for the crons.
I won't pick them up til Xmas, but in the meantime I wanted to mess about with some paint schemes etc and thus picked up a catacomb barge and some second hand crons from my FLGS. I wanted the scheme to be bright and bold and thus put some old metallic sprays from a DIY project to good use - chrome for the rank and file, gold for the nobility. I decided to use turquoise to mark out the dynasty and picked up some resin bases from the excellent evil mushroom games (google them – highly recommended!) to go with them. The results are below:
My main problem now is deciding on a scheme for the gauss weapons. The four possibilities are below and I would really appreciate some comments about them i.e what people prefer.
The first one is just a blue colour scheme which I initially liked but then decided wasn't very necron-like.
This one is just the main scheme with the regular rods in place – I'm not sure whether or not to change the main gun housing colour (black?) also.
This is a mock up of the flayer style seen in the new ghost ark kit – I had planned to either acquire some spare ghost ark flayer off ebay or GS cast some in order to make things more uniform in the army.
Lastly, a simple coloured piece of wire in order to represent the flayers as they are in the Dawn of War PC game, a simple stream of energy that dissipates when the warrior is deactivated.


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When the Nationals signed him to a nine-figure contract in 2010, Jayson Werth was just a highly questionable free agent signing. In 2013, Werth and his deal seem to represent the weird, wholesale stalemate of what should by rights be one of baseball's better teams.
LeBron James and the Heat are great enough to win multiple NBA Championships. But greatness isn't the most important thing, and it will take more than that to continue dominating a rapidly changing game.


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- Volume:4 Issue:2, 2014
- تاریخ انتشار: 1393/03/26
- تعداد عناوین: 7
Pages 73-80Modern societies belief life insurance scheme, which is designed to be backbone of man survival, ensure financial security and offers readymade source of long term capital financing for the infrastructural project is capable of combating the besetting problem of man so that life can be made easy and continuous. The dramatic increase in competition within the insurance sector and the needs of insurance by people has concurrently resulted in more policy options being available in Nigeria market. The different types and attributes of life insurance plans are to provide quality in the products, so as to satisfy human wants. This study is carried out to measure the buyers'' trade-offs among multi-attributed products and services (utilities) that are derived from purchasing a particular life insurance plan using descriptive statistical analysis (Mean Score). The result show that the policyholders generally are not satisfied with the Life insurance products based on the attributes attached to each of the product.Keywords: Insurance product, Descriptive analysis, Mean score, Product attribute, Likert scale
An Empirical Study: Relationship between Employee Motivation, Satisfaction and Organizational CommitmentPages 81-93The study elucidates that the Malaysian retail sector has experienced dramatic changes in the last few decades with the emergence of new retail formats such as hypermarkets, large scale supermarkets, and convenience stores. As a result, it has affected the way employees work and their commitment to their organization. Thus, it is important for the retailers know the reasons for employee motivation, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The objective of this study is to investigate the various Motivating and De-motivating factors influencing job satisfaction and to identify the relationship between Motivation, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Further to understand the impact of demographic factors on Retail employees motivation, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The study concludes that motivating variables namely Good salary, Monetary benefits, Non-monetary benefits, prospect of promotion, job training and development and Challenging task were the variables that is specifically responsible for overall motivation and satisfaction of employees in the current job. It has also been further concluded that variables responsible for organizational commitment are Good salary, Non-Monetary benefits, Poor relationship with colleagues, career growth, Job training and development, Challenging task, recognition from peers and top management, poor relationship with colleagues and Working long hours, Lack of recognition from top management, Disrespect from top management, Poor working Conditions, Inadequate managerial competence of top management. So, motivation is a psychological trait leading to organizational commitment. This research supports the stated view and proved the hypothesis that there exist a strong relationship between motivation, job-satisfaction and organizational commitment.Keywords: Motivation, Job, satisfaction, Organizational commitment, Demographic factors
Pages 95-106The study is focused on the public-private partnership in health sector in Sri Lanka. As a developing country, Sri Lanka faces a challenging task in order to improve the infrastructure facilities of the country after ending the thirty years of war. There is a requirement to develop the country as a whole along with all the industries such as education, health, transport, agriculture, etc. to meet the existing demands of the general public. Sri Lankan government alone cannot fulfill the ever rising demand for product and services to its populace. Healthcare being one of the primary responsibility of the government, Sri Lanka have been able to maintain the health indicators in-par with many of the developed countries. But with the life style changes of the populace, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) and the ageing population has increased during the past decade. It is also noticeable that the private health expenditure has drastically increased during last few years while the government health expenditure has reduced during same period. Private sector investments on health are mainly on capital investments, expanding the bed capacity, expanding the technology etc. The need of the public private partnership arise in this situation to fill the gap in the health sector in the country.Keywords: Public Private Partnership (PPP), PPP models, Healthcare privatization, Health reform
Pages 107-123Information technology growth and development has caused to significant revolution in the daily life of the modern societies. Changing organizational approaches in their activities methods has been presented with IT development simultaneously by scholars and endeavors have been continued to discover its various dimensions. E-Readiness, a concept that has been stated 3 decades ago, means the degree which a country, society, an organization utilizes and accepts ICT (Information and Communication Technology). The present research aims at assessment of municipality E-readiness as a public and nongovernmental organization which is commuting with citizens increasingly. Thus, all organizational E-readiness models have been reviewed and an E-readiness assessment model has been created for municipality after taking experts' opinions into consideration. The model, then, has been weighted and has assessed municipality. The results, then, have been analyzed and some suggestions have been presented according to the analysis for the municipality. The model has four dimensions: «Security and Technical Infrastructure», «Human Resources Readiness», «Legal and Judicial Framework», «Policies, Strategies and Management Readiness». This model has been created for a public organization such as municipality for first time and presents a great tool to recognize municipality's weakness and strengths.Keywords: E, Government, Information, Communication Technology, E, Readiness assessment, Municipality
Relationship between Corporate Reputation and Customer Loyalty on Nigerian Food and Beverages Industry: PLS ApproachPages 125-136This study used the partial least squares (PLS) approach to examine the effect of corporate reputation on the customer loyalty of the Food and Beverages Industry in Nigeria. The data for this study were collected from the customers in Kano State Nigeria. Out of 250 distributed questionnaires, 212 usable questionnaires were returned. Before examining the effect of corporate reputation on the customer loyalty of Food and Beverages Industries, the validity and reliability of the measurement, outer, model was investigated and confirmed in line with the standardized reporting style of PLS structural equation modeling. The results of the study concerning to the impact of corporate reputation on the customer loyalty of Food and Beverages Industries was confirmed in line with the premises of the theory of planned behavior that looks intention could be the best determinant of an individual's behavior. The last section of the study discusses the findings and provides further insights into the future research were also discussed.Keywords: Corporate reputation, Customer loyalty, Food, beverages, PLS, Nigeria
Pages 137-151The need to develop the required human resources in the tourism industry has become imperative as a consequence of rapidly changing technology and dynamic changes in the international tourism market. And in this regard the role and commitment of the top management towards developing the human resources cannot be undermined. A study has been conducted to assess the perception of the top management towards training among travel agencies across India. Results indicate that the top management faces several issues in imparting trainings to the employees. The key problems contributing to the perception of the top management towards training and development are Industry Impediments, Cost Issues, Employee Attitude and Managerial Myopia. Since training plays a significant role in the tourism industry, the top management needs to shed the inhibitions and make a concerted effort to implement training so as to derive its benefits.Keywords: Training, development, Industry impediments, Cost issues, Employee attitude, Managerial Myopia
Pages 153-164Research has consistently indicated that worker turnover intentions are factors external to an employee; however, little work has investigated turnover intention behavior from personality perspective in a context of a private university in a low resourced country like Uganda. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of individual personality dimensions and job turnover intentions among Busoga University staff. Correlations and regression analysis methods were used in the analysis. The study adopted a cross – sectional survey design and used probability sampling approach. A survey questionnaire was used in data collection on a sample of (n = 133) drawn from a total population of 200 staff. The findings revealed that apart from emotional stability (neuroticism), all the other four personality dimensions of (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, and agreeableness), positively and significantly predicted job turnover intentions among the staff of Busoga University in Uganda. This study contributes to knowledge of turnover intention by aligning individual personality dimensions as significant predictors of turnover intentions within the context of Busoga University. This study underscores the fact that workers' personality issues, matter for organizations and can be instrumental in furthering managerial decisions relating to turnover intentions. One of study limitations was a small sample size that was less than 200 cases to support Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures) which would have been an appropriate tool to test the hypotheses considering the fact that the study had multiple constructs. Also, this study was limited to the effect that it used cross – sectional design.Keywords: Personality dimension, Turnover intentions, University


text: Well the tips for the photos were pretty helpful. One that I particularly liked was about having you can only have a good foreground if you have a good background. At Least something along those lines. After reading the tips you and going to the Abandoned American gallery, you can see exactly how they used those tips. how the lighting was used, and how it wanted you to gain a different perspective on some pieces. It reminded me of this documentary of Chernobyl, that abandoned city due to an explosion, or the old olympic stadiums. I know I am a little late for starting all my work but I can't wait to use these tips to get my visual assignments done.


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