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Juan Ponce de León was the first Spanish explorer to arrive in Florida. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named.
Don Pedro Menéndez arrived in St. Augustine in 1565 with 800 colonists to settle the New World in the name of Spain. It was an ambitious attempt at colonization, one that would become the foundation for the most enduring settlement in the United States. Onboard were Africans and Hispanics. When they stepped off the ship into the first permanent colony in the United States, they became African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. This was the beginning of both the African-American experience and the Latino-American experience in the New World. Native Americans were named so by Europeans and became this for the first time. The settlement at the Indian village of Seloy with the intermingling of Hispanics, Africans and Native Americans, was the very genesis of the American culture that characterizes our nation today.
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral and explorer from the region of Asturias, Spain, who is remembered for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys and for founding St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. This was the first successful Spanish settlement in La Florida and the most significant city in the region for nearly three centuries. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously-inhabited, European-established settlement in the continental United States. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s
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The pre-Columbian era was marked by regular, routine, and probably small tribal wars with neighbors. The Timucua were a large and powerful group, made up of as many as 35 chiefdoms, each of which had hundreds of people in assorted villages within its purview. They sometimes formed loose political alliances, but did not operate as a single political unit.
An archaeological dig in St. Augustine in 2006 revealed a Timucuan site dating back to between 1100 and 1300 AD, predating the European founding of the city by more than two centuries.Included in the discovery were pottery, with pieces from the Macon, Georgia, area, indicating an expansive trade network; and two human skeletons. It is the oldest archeological site in the city.[7]
The Timucua may have been the first American natives to see the landing of Juan Ponce de León near St. Augustine in 1513. Later, in 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition passed along the western fringes of the Timucua territory.[4].
From at least 6,000 years ago, the native people of Florida traveled the waterways and coasts by canoe, facilitating communication and trade among the tribes. About 300 prehistoric canoes have been found in more than 200 sites in Florida.
In the late 1400s and early 1500s, looking for a faster way to Asia by sea, European explorers sailed west and ran into the Americas. Seeing new resources to exploit, people to convert and lands to claim, the Spanish, the French and the English sent the military, missionaries and colonists to establish a foothold and expand their areas of control. The first evidence of a European encounter in Florida is the arrival of Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon in the vicinity of present-day St. Augustine in 1513. Ponce de Leon named the land La Florida and attempted to circumnavigate what he thought was an island, sailing south to the Keys, naming a cluster of islands Las Tortugas and sailing north to present-day Tampa. Source: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/flshipwrecks/maritimehistory.htmPonce de León : Florida's First Spanish Explorer
Juan Ponce de León was the first Spanish explorer to arrive in Florida. Early Spanish explorers were known as conquistadors (kahn-KEYS-ta-dawrz) or "conquerors." While there are no official records, historians believe that Ponce de León was born in 1460 in San Tervas de Campos, Spain. Source: http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/de_leon/de_leon1.htmEarly Exploration.
In 1493, Ponce de León sailed with Christopher Columbus on Columbus' second voyage to the Americas. He and his family settled on an island in the Caribbean named Hispaniola (Dominican Republic). He became a military commander at this post and was appointed deputy governor.
In 1506, Ponce de León discovered a nearby island named Borinquen. While there, he found large deposits of gold. Soon after his discovery, he left the island. He returned in 1508 on orders from the king of Spain to explore and colonize the island. He renamed the island Puerto Rico. He was the island's governor for two years until the king replaced him with Columbus' son.
Rumors of undiscovered islands to the northwest of Hispaniola had reached Spain by 1511, and Ferdinand was interested in forestalling further exploration and discovery by Colón. In an effort to reward Ponce de León for his services, Ferdinand urged him to seek these new lands outside the authority of Colón.[29] Ponce de León readily agreed to a new venture, and in February 1512 a royal contract was dispatched outlining his rights and authorities to search for "the Islands of Benimy".[30]
The contract stipulated that Ponce de León held exclusive rights to the discovery of Benimy and neighboring islands for the next three years. He would be governor for life of any lands he discovered, but he was expected to finance for himself all costs of exploration and settlement. In addition, the contract gave specific instructions for the distribution of gold, Native Americans, and other profits extracted from the new lands. Notably, there was no mention of a rejuvenating fountain.[31][32]
Ponce de León equipped three ships with at least 200 men at his own expense and set out from Puerto Rico on March 4, 1513.[33] The only near contemporary description known for this expedition comes from Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, a Spanish historian who apparently had access to the original ships' logs or related secondary sources from which he created a summary of the voyage published in 1601.[34][35] The brevity of the account and occasional gaps in the record have led historians to speculate and dispute many details of the voyage.
The three ships in this small fleet were the Santiago, the San Cristobal and the Santa Maria de la Consolacion.[33] Anton de Alaminos was their chief pilot. He was already an experienced sailor, and would become one of the most respected pilots in the region. After leaving Puerto Rico, they sailed northwest along the great chain of Bahama Islands, known then as the Lucayos. On March 27, Easter Sunday, they sighted an island that was unfamiliar to the sailors on the expedition. Because many Spanish seamen were acquainted with the Bahamas, which had been depopulated by slaving ventures, some scholars believe that this "island" was actually Florida, as it was thought to be an island for several years after its formal discovery.[36] Other scholars have speculated that this island was one of the northern Bahama islands, perhaps Great Abaco.[37]
For the next several days the fleet crossed open water until April 2, 1513,[33] when they sighted land which Ponce de León believed was another island. He named it La Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers).[33] The following day they came ashore to seek information and take possession of this new land.[38] The precise location of their landing on the Florida coast has been disputed for many years. Some historians believe it occurred at St. Augustine;[39] others prefer a more southern landing at a small harbor now called Ponce de León Inlet;[38] but many now agree that Ponce came ashore even farther south near the present location of Melbourne Beach.[40][41][42] The latitude coordinate recorded in the ship's log closest to the landing site, reported by Herrera, was 30 degrees, 8 minutes, most likely exaggerated to enforce land claims to justify the removal of French Protestants nearly 50 years later. This sighting was recorded at noon the day before with either a quadrant or a mariner's astrolabe, and the expedition sailed north for the remainder of the day before anchoring for the night and rowing ashore the following morning. This latitude suggests that the landing took place somewhere in the vicinity of Ponte Vedra Beach, north of St. Augustine. However replication of this journey now proves it impossible to sail against the current to such a northern latitude.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n
Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida to the United States. more >>
Catholicism Seventy-three years later the Florida city of Saint Augustine was founded and established by Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. Upon coming ashore on September 8, 1565 Menéndez was presented a cross to kiss by Father López de Mendoza Grajales as the hymn Te Deum Laudamus was sung. The celebration of a Mass followed immediately.This Mass was celebrated to establish a city that became the oldest permanently occupied European settlement in what is now the United States of America. The first Cathedral and parish church and the entire city were destroyed in 1586 by the English pirate Sir Francis Drake under the direction of the British crown. The citizens rebuilt their city and church, but it was obvious that they needed greater securityand they construct a large stone fort of coquina rock.Today a 204-foot high Great Cross stands in the city today with with this legend. "Place called Nombre de Dios (Name of God), which is the same where the first Mass was said on September 8, 1565…and afterwards an Indian mission was built there, with a chapel in which was placed an image of María Santisima de la Leche." More >>
A Timeline of St. Augustine 1512–1886
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In 1562, the French sent Jean Ribaut to Florida. He marked a spot on the St. Johns River for future settlement and then headed north to establish Charlesfort, which failed, in present-day Parris Island, South Carolina. Two years later, Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere established a French Huguenot settlement and Fort de la Caroline along the St. Johns River. Fort Caroline National Memorial, a unit of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve
In 1565, Spaniard Pedro Menendez de Aviles captured Fort Caroline in a brutal fight with the French and established St. Augustine, the first permanent European colony in North America. In 1567, Frenchman Dominique de Gourgues recaptured Fort Caroline. In 1569, the Spanish built a watchtower at Matanzas Inlet to watch the horizon and warn St. Augustine of approaching ships, a strategy that failed them in 1586, when Englishman Sir Francis Drake attacked and looted St. Augustine. The French effort to establish a colony in Florida is memorialized today at Fort Caroline National Memorial.
From the late 1500s through the 1700s, the Spanish sent annual convoys of merchant and military escort vessels from Cuba to Spain. Referred to as the Spanish plate fleets, the ships carried gold, silver and gemstones from the mines of Mexico and Peru, and porcelains, silks, pearls, spices and other highly sought goods from Asia that reached the Americas via the Spanish Manila Galleon fleet that crossed the Pacific.
The homeward bound Spanish plate fleets followed the Gulf Stream through the Straits of Florida and up the coast of North America before heading east for the Azores and Spain. The Spanish built Castillo de San Marcos and other coastal forts and settlements in Florida to provide protection from French and British raiders and pirates, and assist in saving survivors and salvaging cargoes from vessels that wrecked along Florida's shores as a result of hurricanes and mishaps.
Over the years, many Spanish ships were lost off the Florida coast with the greatest disasters suffered by the fleets of 1622, 1715 and 1733. During the 20th century, the remains of a number of lost ships have been found including the Nuestra Senora de Atocha from the 1622 fleet, the Urca de Lima from the 1715 fleet and the San Pedro from the 1733 fleet.Source: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/flshipwrecks/maritimehistory.htm
The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during the war for American independence, but by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 they returned to Spanish control. After 1783, Americans immigrants moved into West Florida.
Attack by Carolina (See Defenses of St. Augustine)
In Europe the War of Spanish Succession would break out. In America it is known as Queen Anne's War with Spain and France against Britain.
September 7 the Carolina legislature votes to attack St. Augustine. On November 10,1702 St. Augustine was attacked by Carolina under Governor Moore. 600 soldiers and militia plus about 300 Indians made up the Carolina force commanded by Colonel Robert Daniel. The gates to the Castillo were closed. Captain James Daniel came down the St. Johns River and marched overland. Governor Moor arrived by sea. The Spanish Governor Joseph de Zuniga y Zeda ordered supplies to be placed in the Castillo and brought into the moat about 160 head of cattle. Inside the Castillo were 1500 men, women, and children. There were 230 soldiers and 100 Indian militia included in this number. The Spanish conceded the town to the British. Moore managed to burn the city down but the people successfully hid in the Castillo. On December 29 General Estevan de Berroa, the commander of the relief force, arrived from Havana and landed on Anastasia island.
The burning of the city left only the Castillo, the parish church (Nuestra Senora de la Soledad) and 20 structures of no value. Martin de Alacano reported that Nombre de Dios was also burnt down. Don't look for anything older than 1702 in St. Augustine other than the Castillo. (Pictures of older houses).Source: http://www.drbronsontours.com/bronsonhistorypagefirstspanish1700.html
Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida to the United States.
Spanish colonization of the Florida peninsula began at St. Augustine in 1565. The Spanish colonists enjoyed a brief period of relative stability before Florida came under attack from resentful Native Americans and ambitious English colonists to the north in the 17th century. Spain's last-minute entry into the French and Indian War on the side of France cost it Florida, which the British acquired through the first Treaty of Paris in 1763. After 20 years of British rule, however, Florida was returned to Spain as part of the second Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution in 1783.
Spain's hold on Florida was tenuous in the years after American independence, and numerous boundary disputes developed with the United States. In 1819, after years of negotiations, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams achieved a diplomatic coup with the signing of the Florida Purchase Treaty, which officially put Florida into U.S. hands at no cost beyond the U.S. assumption of some $5 million of claims by U.S. citizens against Spain. Formal U.S. occupation began in 1821, and General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812, was appointed military governor. Florida was organized as a U.S. territory in 1822 and was admitted into the Union as a slave state in 1845. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-u-s-acquires-spanish-florida/print 1801–1829: Securing the Republic
In the early part of the 1800s, the United States developed more confidence as an independent nation. Acquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821)
Opportunities to expand westward strengthened the notion that the United States should continue its quest to occupy more territory of the vast North American continent. The European powers did little to stop the young nation from extending its borders as they were embroiled in the ongoing Napoleonic Wars in Europe. More >>Right: map of the Us in the 1800's.
Source: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/florida.
World War
When fighting broke out in Europe in 1914, news stories about the horrendous casualties on the Western Front seemed unrelated to life in the Oldest City. With European resorts closed by the fighting, St. Augustine soon received enough royalty and millionaires to revive all of the attractions that had proved so popular twenty years earlier. By mid-1917, the economic benefits of the war paled in comparison to the loss of America lives. Young men from St. Augustine were drafted or volunteered and the local National Guard units were mobilized. After their arrival in France, letters home described the terrible fighting and the people of St. Augustine became vitally interested in the war that had once seemed so far away. Many residents responded by buying Liberty Bonds, contributing to Red Cross programs and coping with food shortages. When the armistice final arrived, the St. Augustine Record reported that the city "went wild with patriotic enthusiasm".
A Decade of Progress In 1914, despite the distractions of "the War to End All Wars," St. Augustine embarked on an improvement program that would be long-referred to as the "decade of progress". A huge fire that year destroyed much of the area just north of the plaza, and the city began rebuilding after replacing horse-drawn fire pumps with the very latest motorized fire engines. In 1915, local leaders approved funding for the paving of 64 miles of roadways throughout St. Johns County. Inspired by the success of their road and the rapidly growing number of automobiles on the roads, St. Augustine's managers embarked on their first promotional program designed to attract automobile-owning families to the city and its beaches for a summer-long vacation. A paving program for city streets was conducted and gas street lamps illuminated the city's districts. St. Augustine's fishing fleet continued to grow, and a new city ice plant allowed the catch to be transported. Water and sewer systems were upgraded, electricity came into widespread use and the telephone system was expanded to include hotel rooms throughout St. Augustine.
Boom and Bust In 1925, developers D. P. Davis turned his attention to St. Augustine and revealed his ambitious plans for using the same dredging techniques he had mastered in Tampa to develop the marshy swamp at the end of Anastasia Island – an area clearly visible from downtown St. Augustine. Although Davis Shores was a major failure in the 1920s, it was revived thirty years later and now exists as one of the city's most popular residential areas. Davis' project was also largely responsible for the beautiful Bridge of Lions, completed in 1927 to provide easy access between the downtown area and the upscale homes that were expected to be built at Davis Shores.
During the Depression, St. Augustine's residents simply decided to work together until better days arrived. Fishing remained both a viable industry and a way to supplement the family's diet during hard times. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad continued to provide steady employment. With coordination and support from local churches, various organizations devoted to helping out during difficult times were quickly organized. The main Visitor Information Center at the intersection of Avenida Menendez and Castillo Drive was constructed as a civic center as part of the Works Progress Administration – a massive public works program designed to create jobs and make improvements to American communities. The same program also provided for significant improvements to the Government House.Source: http://augustine.com/history/
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I've been thinking about why writers want to tell stories, and why people want to read stories. Every once in a while, I come across a quote that makes this issue clear to me. Alan Rickman, the great English actor, has summed it up very nicely, I think.
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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The great rush of independent authors in any number of genres is emblematic of this need. As the great Toni Morrison said, ""If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." The big publishing houses, and even many of the small houses, have acted as gatekeepers to the written word. If they found you or your genre out of favor, you had no entry to the world of print. There were occasional imprints in the bigs that offered genre fiction, but even that did not open up the floodgates for writers who had written the book they would want to read. The powers that be hung their hats on what would produce the most profit, not what would excite and inspire a smaller number of readers.
The arrival of ebooks and self-publishing, as opposed to the old form of vanity books or making it with the traditional publishers, have allowed many undiscovered or undiscoverable authors to get that book out before the public, to sink or swim as was its destiny. This shows the sense of Rickman's statement, that we need to tell stories, and there are those who want and need to hear the stories we tell. We are living in an age when everybody can write a book, and those that are worthy may find their way to the top. If only one hundred people read my book, it is one hundred people I reached that I might not have done otherwise. Is this a bad thing?
On a more somber note, my editor has had some personal difficulties, and it is unlikely my manuscript will be ready for revision until sometime in January. I fear the earliest it can be published is February. I hope you can wait.

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Ever since George Romero's original zombie classic, the Jeep has been the ultimate apocalypse vehicle. Known for its rugged durability and off-road capabilities, it has been featured in nearly every zombie film and television series since Night Of The Living Dead.
But even the best vehicles will need regular maintenance; and the writers at 4WD have created a quick visual guide to equipping your Jeep with the parts and accessories that will not only help you survive, but thrive!
The silver screen and television show us that surviving the zombie apocalypse will take ingenuity, provisions, and mobility. Infrastructures will be gutted and major population centers will be buffets for zombies clamoring for human beef jerky. The best way to staying off the menu is to go off-road, and the Jeep's uncanny combination of power and agility is the vehicle to get you safely out of Dodge.
From the basics of tires and winches to the perfect weapon of choice for the inevitable zombie apocalypse, the infographic embedded below will help you outfit the ultimate zombie-proof Jeep. And be sure to visit the original article online at 4WD for even more information including tips, accessories and a little history!


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Improve processes within healthcare facilities.
Healthcare providers, hospital administrators and government legislatures are continually faced with the challenge of creating a better healthcare system - one that is integrated, patient-centered, data-driven, delivers coordinated care, ensures
a safe environment, and emphasizes value and care outcomes.
The complexity of optimizing how care is delivered is by no means an easy task and involves continual training and strong leadership initiatives within each department. Laubrass is here to help by providing innovative technology and inclusive services to improve processes within healthcare facilities.
Work measurement and labour standards
Understand where Nurse and Dr time is spent
Save time trying to figure out where you are spending time. Software application that works on tablets and smart phones to perform professional time studies and work sampling.UMT Plus
Map and plan efficient hospital layout
Determine the best layout for optimal productivity within your hospital. Spend more time on patient care by having a better floor plan that minimizes transit time.UMT IQ
National Benchmarking database for nurses
Compare your hospital's direct care times using a national benchmarking data base created for TCAB by looking at 71 work activities from over 700 hospitals across North AmericaTime Study RN
Sanitation Audits and Accreditation Readiness
Streamline your audit processes for more accessible data
Take any of your current sanitation inspections or hospital audits and do them on a tablet. Quickly identify non conformance within your healthcare facility and send corrective action notifications. Be ready for hospital accreditation at all times with more organized data. Audits are easier to do and results are more readily available.UMT Audit
Modernize sanitation management and scheduling
Replace out of date technology to facilitate housekeeping scheduling and prevent infectious diseases with better sanitation management. Easily track cleaning times and quickly provide evidence based data. If an outbreak happens, be sure that your team has traceability of their actions, UMT SAN has real time data accessible within minutes.UMT San
Process Optimization Tools
Patient discharge and bed change management
Define, manage, initiate and track every step in your hospital workflow. Use modern technology to better track your tasks and over time optimize the complete patient flow.UMT Flow
Consulting and services for hospitals
Process optimization can't happen if your whole team is not invested. Get your team on the right track by giving them the training they need, in a fun way.UMT Play
Case studies from hospitals using process improvement tools and techniques
Tracking Adverse Drug Events
In an effort to decrease adverse drug events in American hospitals, some 20 auditors used UMT Audit® technology to assess thousands of patient files across seven different hospitals.
The Health System needed a solution to effectively collect data from patient files so that their national office could synthesize and collectively analyze the results.
Using UMT Audit on mobile devices has proven to be an effective tool for the 20 auditors in the field assessing thousands of patient files. The data is easier to get and more quickly available for analyses.
Be ready for hospital accreditation
The University of Chicago Medical Center is profiting from using Laubrass technology to standardize and simplify their audit processes. Their staff is using mobile devices to audit 5 patient charts per unit, in all 28 units every month.The UMT Audit Software allows each of the hospital's departments to have virtually real time data about their unit, and they are always ready for an accreditation audit.
By converting their audits to an electronic system, the hospital staff have gained a day or two back every week.


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Part 1: Why mobile user experience matters
An introduction to the course and a quick business case for why mobile apps and sites are crucial today. Makes the case for why investing in a great user experience is important, from both the customer and business point of view.
Part 2: Review the existing app (optional)
Review the mobile or desktop app or site that we will be designing or updating throughout the workshop.
Part 3: What not to do
Explores how not to design for mobile by looking at how a variety of attempts have failed. Bottom line: Great mobile design is not about attempting to shrink your desktop app or site to a mobile device. Rather, you must take full advantage of the mobile device to quickly and efficiently deliver the top mobile scenarios.
Part 4: Making it mobile
Learn specifically what makes a great mobile app. Contrasts how mobile is different from desktop, the essential elements of a great mobile experience, and the Mobile First design concept.
Part 5: Mobile capabilities and constraints
Covers the capabilities and limitations of the mobile device hardware, along with their implications. Also compares native mobile apps to mobile web, and helps you choose which to use. (Hint: Technology isn't the only factor!)
Part 6: Touch and small (and increasingly larger) screens
Covers how to design for smaller, touch-based screens. Learn that while responsive design is an important technology, it solves only one of many challenges in designing for mobile. Explores smartphone holding patterns, designing for a single hand, and forgiveness. Covers techniques to avoid typing and guidelines for using gestures.
Part 7: A mobile design process
Learn a basic design process that you can apply to any design problem. The top goal is to get beyond feature-based design ("sketching a pile of features".) The process steps include understanding your users and their goals, tasks, and problems, performing and interpreting user research, exploring design alternatives, and brainstorming. A focus is avoiding the classic process mistakes that everyone tends to make.
Part 8: Mobile value propositions
Value propositions express the reasons why users will want to use and buy your app. Learn how to use value propositions as a user-centered decision-making framework, and how delivering value is crucial to successful mobile apps. Explore how the mobile value proposition is rarely about doing everything that the desktop app does.
Part 9: Mobile scenarios
A scenario describes a specific target user trying to achieve a specific goal or task in a specific environment. Scenarios are the most powerful user-centered design technique and strong scenario work is often the difference between a good UX and a great UX. Yet most teams either don't design using scenarios or are just going through the motions. Learn how to do scenario-based design right!
Part 10: Mobile personas
Personas are fake people based on real user data. While potentially an excellent user-centered design tool, personas usually fail to live up to their potential because teams don't use them effectively. Concise user modeling is the key. Covers the attributes mobile personas must include (such as the gestures they know and expect.) Learn how to use personas right!
Part 11: UI is communication
A user interface is essentially a conversation between users and a product to perform tasks that achieve users' goals—except that it uses the language of UI instead of natural language. Intuitive UI boils down to communicating to users in a way that is natural, professional and friendly, and easy to understand.
If you can explain how to perform a task in person in a way that's clear and concise, the UI is Communication concept will help you map that explanation into the language of UI—both in terms of interaction and visual design—in a way that feels intuitive.
Part 12: Make it intuitive
This part defines exactly what it means to be intuitive and explains the attributes of an intuitive UI.
Part 13: Use the right controls
Controls are the language of UI. Learn how to choose the right controls based on the nature of the user's input and how to use controls effectively.
Part 14: Make it simple and focused
Simplicity is the reduction or elimination of design elements that target users are aware of and consider unessential. Focus is crucial for successful mobile apps. Many designers strive for simple UIs conceptually, but when it comes to making the hard decisions the tendency is toward complexity. Learn exactly what simplicity is and how to get it, along with why it's so hard for teams to achieve simplicity. (Hint: It's easier to say "yes" than "no".)
Part 15: Make it look great
The secret to making a UI look great is to hire a visual designer and that's what most teams should do. However, hiring a visual designer isn't practical for many teams and many teams lack the knowledge to work with visual designers effectively. Learn a non-designer's guide to designing a beautiful UI through visual simplicity. Also learn the fundamentals of layout and how to design a page for scanning.
Part 16: Make it delightful
Great user experiences are designed for people, not technology. Learn the role of human emotion and perception in design, and how to achieve delight through special experiences, having a good software personality, forgiveness, having good performance, and trustworthiness. You will also learn how to make sure your product is well polished.
Part 17: Mobile web guidelines
Summarizes general mobile guidelines, focusing on forms, fields, navigation, and lists.
Part 18: Native app guidelines
Summarizes the iOS and Android design principles and guidelines, as well as how Android apps are designed differently. A great Android app goes beyond simply porting an iOS app.
Part 19: How to design like Apple and Google
Briefly compares and contrasts Apple's design philosophy to Google's, with examples.
Part 20: Design communication techniques: sketches and prototypes
Learn the techniques used to communicate design ideas. Learn the pros and cons of sketching vs. prototypes, along with the prototyping levels (low, mid, high fidelity), when to use them, and why low fidelity is usually best. Learn the rules of effective prototyping and the attributes of good prototyping tools. Learn how the goals of mobile design require you to prototype differently than for desktop design.
Part 21: Intuitive tasks
Introduces a concept called inductive UI, where tasks and pages are designed to be self-explanatory. Shows an extremely simple design technique that gives enormous insight on how to design better pages and flows.
Part 22: Task flows
Learn how to decompose complex tasks into steps and how to present them using mobile task flow patterns. Presents a user model for efficient task navigation, and makes that case that a simple, consistent navigation models usually work best for most users. Covers top task flow mistakes with examples.
Part 23: Screen design
Learn a process for designing screens by clearly communicating the task, analyzing the user interaction and choosing the right controls, helping users make informed decisions, getting the details right, and handling errors.
Part 24: Scenario design challenge (2 hours)
Time to put everything together by designing a solution to your top mobile scenario. The process is broken into three phases to help you apply all the tools and techniques that you have learned in the course. This design challenge is performed in teams of 4 – 6.
Part 25: How to evaluate a UI
Learn effective design evaluation techniques to improve your design and when to use them. Evaluation techniques covered include several mobile specific techniques, plus usability studies, cognitive walkthroughs, highlighter tests, five second tests, and scanning reviews.
Part 26: Informal usability studies
Usability studies are the gold standard for design evaluation techniques. Learn how to improve your product by preparing and conducting an informal usability study with target users. Learn the process, how to design effective tests, and interpret and apply the results.
Part 27: Giving and receiving feedback
Learn how to give and receive effective feedback so that your team can do its best work.
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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 31, 2014
LP Management Services is expanding new services to data center, manufacturing and healthcare industries throughout the nation. The four new safety training services are:
- Site Specific Lockout-Tagout Procedure Development- Thorough lockout-tagout procedures enable employees to safely lockout equipment with multiple energy sources. Procedures (with photos) are developed and labeled to include the isolation devices including hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, gravitational, thermal, chemical or other energy sources. http://lpmanagementservices.com/safety-management-training-courses/safety-assessments/site-specific-lockout-tagout-procedure-development/
- Hazmat Training & MSDS-SDS Conversion – Training provides tools for assessing function-specific safety hazmat concepts and work hazards. Also includes client's site specific spill response plan. http://lpmanagementservices.com/safety-management-training-courses/general-safety-osha-compliance/hazmat-training-msdssds-conversion/
- Scissor Lift – Scaffold training will cover hazards and OSHA standards on boom-supported aerial platform devices used to lift employees to elevated worksites, as well as accident prevention and safety requirements. http://lpmanagementservices.com/safety-management-training-courses/general-safety-osha-compliance/scissor-lift/
- OSHA 30-Hour –A comprehensive introductory course about OSHA standards in workplace safety and health. The course covers OSHA policies, procedures and industry safety and health principals. http://lpmanagementservices.com/safety-management-training-courses/general-safety-osha-compliance/osha-30-hour/
John Kovalan, President and Owner of LP Management Services, states "With LP Management Services' primary focus on providing loss prevention through client-focused services, the new training and services will continue to enhance clients' compliance. With most of our trainers having a Navy nuclear background, policies and procedures are coupled with safety and operational training to develop critical thinking skills of the individuals who manage or maintain the electrical/mechanical infrastructure. The Lockout-Tagout Procedure Development service provides clients the technical policies needed to ensure safety, thus reducing clients' insurance costs." With the additional training and safety services, LP Management Services now has over 60 courses and services.
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Stafford County, Va. –– It's the largest public construction project in Stafford County since Interstate 95 was built, and now it's about the claim portions of three neighborhood streets.
Portions of Rocky Run Road, Brookview Lane and Berea Woods Drive will be flooded as part the construction project to build Rocky Pen Reservoir near Village Parkway in south Stafford.
Residents who live at three home sites that would be cut off from the street grid after the flooding would be able to access the roads after an extension of Cool Well Court is built, according to county documents.
More to the story: See a map of the affected area produced by Stafford County officials.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on whether or not to flood those streets during their meeting on Tuesday.
County staff has shown their approval of flooding those streets.
The reservoir should open sometime next year, and like the county's Able Lake and Smith Lake reservoirs, will be able to provide about 13 million gallons of water per day. The water will be pumped in from the nearby Rappahannock River.
Also on Stafford's Board agenda on Tuesday is the final public hearing for the redistricting process.
Officials are putting the final touches on what will be the magisterial districts in the county for the next 10 years.
There has been some debate over whether or not to change the make up of the Aquia Harbour neighborhood in North Stafford.
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Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) price target upped to $27.00, released a report today by Citigroup
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In a report released on 10/18/2016 Citigroup increased the stock price target of Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) to $27.00 reporting a possible upside of 0.17%.
Previously on Tuesday September 27, 2016, Monness Crespi & Hardt released a statement about Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) increased the target price from $0.00 to $27.00. At the time, this indicated a possible upside of 0.13%.
Just yesterday Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) traded 0.00% even at $23.11. Valvoline's 50-day moving average is $23.27 and its 200-day moving average is $23.27. The last stock price is down -0.68% from the 200-day moving average, compared to the Standard & Poor's 500 Index which has decreased -0.01% over the same time period. 12,411 shares of VVV traded hands, down from an average trading volume of 3,564,620
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Valvoline has 52 week low of $22.60 and a 52 week high of $24.51 with a PE ratio of 19.19 and has a market capitalization of $0.
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Valvoline Inc. manufactures and markets a range of products, such as automotive and industrial lubricants and antifreeze, and provides automotive maintenance services. The Company has three segments: Core North America, Quick Lubes and International. Its product line includes lubricants, such as passenger car/light duty and heavy duty; antifreeze/coolants; chemicals, such as maintenance chemicals and coatings, and filters. The Core North America segment sells Valvoline and other branded products in the United States and Canada to both consumers who perform their own automotive maintenance, referred to as Do-It-Yourself (DIY) consumers, as well as to installer customers who use its products to service vehicles owned by Do-It-For-Me (DIFM) consumers. The Company's Quick Lubes segment services the passenger car and light truck quick lube market through platforms, including the Company-owned and franchised Valvoline Instant Oil Change (VIOC) stores, and Express Care.
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SNOHOMISH – The reconstruction of the Bickford Avenue interchange on U.S. 2 is expected to hit a major milestone this week.
Beginning Monday, crews plan to lift eight massive concrete girders into place for a new overpass. The highway will be entirely closed in both directions between Highway 9 and 20th Street SE Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Westbound U.S. 2 is scheduled to close at 8 p.m. each night and eastbound at 10 p.m. Crews plan to reopen the highway at 5 a.m. each following day.
Several ramps will also be closed. A detour will be provided via 20th Avenue SE and Highway 9, the same detour used in previous closures. The detour is expected to add 10-15 minutes to drivers' trips.
The $22.4 million project will allow drivers to take the new overpass from westbound Bickford Avenue to westbound U.S. 2. Currently, they must dart across the eastbound lanes of U.S. 2 to reach the other side of the highway.
The project also will include a new off-ramp to Bickford for eastbound highway drivers, and a new eastbound on-ramp from Bickford. The work is expected to take until the fall of 2013.
"Once the girders are in place, drivers will really be able to visualize what the new overpass will look like," project engineer Mark Sawyer said. "They've waited a long time for improvements to this intersection and this is a big step toward making that happen."
Each girder weighs 142,000 pounds, or 71 tons. That's almost as much as 12 large male orcas. The eight, 142-foot-long girders placed end to end would be 44 feet longer than the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz based at Naval Station Everett, according to the transportation department.
More details about the closures and the project may be found on the U.S. 2 Bickford Avenue project website.
Ernalee Munday of Marysville writes: I had an occasion to be heading north on Broadway toward Highway 529 around noon on Dec. 1. Much to my surprise with no warning signs, I had to go right to follow detour signs because Highway 529 northbound was closed.
Why were there no signs somewhere on north Broadway saying Highway 529 was closed? At 16th and Broadway I would have been able to take a different route to get over to the freeway. As it was, there was a line of slow moving traffic and total confusion by some drivers, myself included. I ended up on the trestle and went to Marysville, via Highway 9, etc.
I think it was very poor judgment on the part of the state not to put out some indication that Highway 529 was closed to all northbound traffic. Why could that not have been done?
Bronlea Mishler, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation, responds: Northbound Highway 529 closed unexpectedly on Dec. 1 after a driver crashed into the support beams of the bridge over the Snohomish River. Our crews immediately closed the bridge for safety reasons.
We put up detour signs near the bridge, and posted messages on electronic signs on I-5 to warn drivers. We also posted information on the state Department of Transportation website – on the travel alerts page, the Seattle-area traffic page, the WSDOT twitter accounts and even the 5-1-1 phone line.
We do our best to get road closure information out to drivers as soon as we can, but there's no good way to reach every driver on the road – especially when an emergency like this closes a road without warning. Our first priority was to repair the bridge and get it open for drivers.
Our crews worked around the clock starting Dec. 1 to make repairs and get the highway open to traffic. Crews had to design, fabricate and install new parts for the 85-year-old bridge – and they were able to get the road back open in 81 hours. You can read more, and see photos, http://tinyurl.com/b92evec. on our blog.
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We've recently learned that the Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel, where we are holding this year's Midwest Regional Service Conference is undergoing a name change to the Four Points by Sheraton. There is no change in price for this year, and the excellent service and amenities will not change, the hotel will simply be under a different name. For more information about the MWSC, please visit the conference site at http://mwsc.esdaweb.org.
Month: April 2011
ESDA is Now on Twitter and Facebook!
The Electronic Service Dealers Association has joined the social networking age! ESDA now has a home on Facebook, and you can follow us on Twitter.
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By Liking us on Facebook, and following us on Twitter, you'll get quicker access to up-to-date information about ESDA and the Midwest Regional Service Conference, including meeting announcements, new member announcements, training schedules, and new events at the MWSC. More importantly, it lets us know how many of you are getting the best use of our website, and where we can make improvements, so don't delay, follow us today!
ESDA Welcomes a New Member: Matt's TV
The Electronic Service Dealers Association is proud to welcome our newest member, Matt's TV & Electronics from Tinley Park, Illinois!
Walter Jones, owner of Matt's TV & Electronics, attended the monthly ESDA Meeting on April 13th, 2011, and was officially inducted into the association by ESDA President Frank Stillson.
We welcome Walter and Matt's TV & Electronics to ESDA, and look forward to seeing them in the future as they take advantage of all the benefits ESDA has to offer.
April 13th, 2011 Meeting Training Material is Posted
The training material from the April 13th, 2011 monthly meeting covering Internet TV & Networking Basics is now available from the members only forum.
ESDA is Going to the 2011 S.E.E.C.
George Weiss EHF, CSM, ESDA Executive Director and Board Chairman and Dave Kliss CET, CSM, MST, ESDA Deputy Executive Director and Secretary, will be representing the Electronics Service Dealers Association (ESDA) at the South East Electronics Conference (SEEC) April 7 – 10, 2011 in Altanta, GA. While there, they will attend the National Electronic Service Dealers Association (NESDA) Board of Directors spring meeting on April 9th, 2011.
The 2011 Midwest Regional Service Conference Site Has Launched!
ESDA is proud to announce the launch of the MWSC 2011 website. We've been working non-stop to improve the way you learn about and register for the Midwest Regional Service Conference, and we think we've succeeded. With the new site you can:
- Register for the conference and get hotel booking information
- See the schedule for this year and last year's conference
- Learn about the training that will be available at the conference
- Learn about the professional certification classes and tests you can take at the conference
- See who'll be at our trade show
- Check hotel pricing and amenities
- Get an overview of the social interactions you can expect at the MWSC
- See what there is to do and where you can eat while you're in Peoria
- Learn about the history and purpose of ESDA and the MWSC
You can check it all out at mwsc.esdaweb.org, we're offering special early bird pricing for the event, so don't delay!
The MWSC 2011 Page is Readying for Imminent Launch!
We're been working on a whole bunch of exciting new features for the 2011 Midwest Regional Service Conference website, and we're almost ready to launch! Within the next few days, we'll have an all new website to handle information, updates, and registration for the 2011 MWSC, and we'll be sending out an email to everyone on our mailing list to let you know what's going on and what there is to see. Stay tuned for more!


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What makes iPhone different from other cellular phones? Its touch screen - which is the marvelous and the most extraordinary feature of the iPhone. But do you know that this amazing feature of iPhone is also the weak point of the device which cannot be ignored. By any means or way, if the touch screen is damaged, cracked or broken, your iPhone will be of no use and you have to get it repaired anyhow. So, touch screen, most wondrous and beautiful feature of i-phone is very weak point of this cell.
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About Essex Genealogist, The
The leading publication for genealogical research in Essex County, Massachusetts, this quarterly journal has been published since 1981 by The Essex Society of Genealogists (founded in 1975). Within the pages of this journal are selections of cemetery transcriptions, bible records, vital and church records relating to families from Essex County, Massachusetts. The Essex Genealogist has had published numerous Anentafel's (Ancestor Tables) of the ancestry of their members, as well as verbatim transcriptions of lectures over the years. This journal continues to serve those researching Essex County families with valuable resources now entering nearly four decades in print.
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Cheesecake. Ice cream. Cheesecake ice cream. Yes, it can be done.
This is the kind of thing that you only want to make once in a while. For special occasions or for a girls' night or for something celebratory. Because this is a whole kind of new experience with ice cream.
I thought about adding in some bits of fresh fruit, I really did-raspberries or blueberries or even a caramel swirl. But, I was a little skeptical about messing with this recipe too much. I mean, this was something that I wanted to savor in its simple self-it's rich, creamy, "man I deserve a little of this love" kind of self. In all honesty, the end result was more tangy (think about an actual piece of soft, frozen cheesecake) than I expected, so you if you have add-ins, I would go for it. Or make yourself a little berry sauce to go on top.
I went for sprinkles. (of course).
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HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY to my baby sister, Sam!
HAPPY WEDDING DAY to Jill and Blake!
Cheesecake Ice Cream
Servings: about 1/2 gallon
6 ounces cream cheese, softened but still cool
3/4 cup superfine sugar (**give regular granulated sugar a few pulses in your food processor instead of buying a bag of superfine sugar)
1 cup cold sour cream
1 cup cold heavy cream
Pinch salt
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1. Chill a mixing bowl and the beaters of an electric mixer (or your stand mixer-use the paddle) in the fridge until cold, preferably overnight.
2. Beat the cream cheese at medium speed until soft and smooth, about 3 minutes.
3. Add the sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition.
4. Add the sour cream and the heavy cream, mixing until smooth.
5. Add the salt, lemon juice, and vanilla until thoroughly incorporated.
6. Cover the bowl tightly with a lid or plastic wrap and let chill overnight or until very cold (I would recommend chilling it overnight.) Make sure that you wash and dry the beaters (or paddle) and return them to the fridge to chill again as well.
7. The next day, beat the mixture on medium low speed for about 3 minutes, or until very smooth.
8. Pour the mixture into your ice cream maker and make the ice cream according to the manufactuer's instructions.
9. Return the finished product to the freezer and let chill until frozen. Let soften slightly at room temperature before serving.
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Sitting on the north end of Skaneateles Lake is the affluent village of Skaneateles, featuring many unique eateries and local boutique shops that are not to be missed. There are also three public parks with water access, one of them with a long walkable dock that immerses you in the beauty of the bay it sits in. Once a year, the town hosts the Skaneateles Music Festival, drawing crowds to enjoy a diverse group of artists and musicians from around the country.
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote: > On 8 June 2012 09:14, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote: > >> The requirement for this patch is as follows. >> >> - What I want to get is similarity of the behaviors between >> master and (hot-)standby concerning checkpoint >> progression. Specifically, checkpoints for streaming >> replication running at the speed governed with >> checkpoint_segments. The work of this patch is avoiding to get >> unexpectedly large number of WAL segments stay on standby >> side. (Plus, increasing the chance to skip recovery-end >> checkpoint by my another patch.) > > Since we want wal_keep_segments number of WAL files on master (and > because of cascading, on standby also), I don't see any purpose to > triggering more frequent checkpoints just so we can hit a magic number > that is most often set wrong. This is a good point. Right now, if you set checkpoint_segments to a large value, we retain lots of old WAL segments even when the system is idle (cf. XLOGfileslop). I think we could be smarter about that. I'm not sure what the exact algorithm should be, but right now users are forced between setting checkpoint_segments very large to achieve optimum write performance and setting it small to conserve disk space. What would be much better, IMHO, is if the number of retained segments could ratchet down when the system is idle, eventually reaching a state where we keep only one segment beyond the one currently in use. For example, suppose I have checkpoint_timeout=10min and checkpoint_segments=300. If, five minutes into the ten-minute checkpoint interval, I've only used 10 WAL segments, then I probably am not going to need another 290 of them in the remaining five minutes. We ought to keep, say, 20 in that case (number we expect to need * 2, similar to bgwriter_lru_multiplier) and delete the rest. If we did that, people could set checkpoint_segments much higher to handle periods of peak load without continuously consuming large amounts of space with old, useless WAL segments. It doesn't end up working very well anyway because the old WAL segments are no longer in cache by the time we go to overwrite them. > ISTM that we should avoid triggering a checkpoint on the master if > checkpoint_segments is less than wal_keep_segments. Such checkpoints > serve no purpose because we don't actually limit and recycle the WAL > files and all it does is slow people down. On the other hand, I emphatically disagree with this, for the same reasons as on the other thread. Getting data down to disk provides a greater measure of safety than having it in memory. Making checkpoint_segments not force a checkpoint is no better than making checkpoint_timeout not force a checkpoint. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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Marketing and Business Blog Recommendations [VIDEO]
Thanks to Fabio for this question on the YouTube channel. It's good to get some new resources in your mix so let's do it.
"I'm wondering whether or not you've made a video about interesting marketing blogs. I'm a bit too lazy when it comes to finding decent marketing content. I'm still stuck with Hubspot's blog. Can you point out a few of your favorite marketing/digital marketing blog?
Marketing and Business Blog Recommendations
First thing is first. It's easy to get into a rut if you don't have a proper place to organize your blog subscriptions. Make sure you sign up for a service like Feedly or Flipboard so you can have a place to go when you're in need of some education. Otherwise, just going to the URLs you remember will be a good way to stay in a rut.
My favorite social media marketing resource is definitely Social Media Examiner. There is so much value pumping out of that site and Mike Stelzner has done an amazing job of taking it this far in such a short amount of time. You'll learn everything you need to know when it comes to social media trends and what you need to know to implement for your business.
I also really like Small Biz Trends. This is a great business resource that incorporate some marketing information as well but a good way to make sure you're covering your bases in many areas of the business. I refer to this one a lot when I'm questioning calls that I need to make.
Another great blog I tune into is MarketingProfs. This is resource for the all over marketing thinking, rather than just digital. You should be thinking of all these things in the big picture anyway so check out this blog to get an understanding of how all the pieces of the marketing pie work together.
I'd also like to mention a new platform I discovered recently called ShareBloc. It's very new but I like the Reddit style that is has in being able to subscribe to different industries and the users vote up the best content that you should check out. Really good idea and I look forward to the future for this platform.


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This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1985, Dunne's acting highlights include five Best Actress Oscar nominations, occurring in almost as many different genres: the Western Cimarron (1931), two screwball comedies: Theodora Goes Wild (1936) and The Awful Truth (1937), the romantic comedy Love Affair (1939), and the populist I Remember Mama (1948).
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Designed to power top-producing agents across North America, Matrix has been developed to boast the utmost speed and functionality. Offering the latest in agent-driven features, CoreLogic constantly strives to find new and innovative ways for agents to better serve their buyers and sellers.
Maximum speed is central to the Matrix product philosophy. Built for performance from the ground up, the optimized system architecture allows agents to search, email, and operate the system faster than ever before. Test drive Matrix and see for yourself how fast the system responds to even the most complex query.
The Agent Dashboard (i.e., Matrix home page) was designed to provide at-a-glance summaries of important information and single-click access to major program functions. Hot Sheets, Contacts, Market Statistics, Portal Activity and My Listings are just a few of the dashboard's many areas. By adding, removing, and rearranging individual dashboard elements, each user can customize their home page to perfectly suit their specific needs and preferences.
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The program's cart functionality offers agents greater listing management control. Users can drop listings into any client's cart from virtually anywhere in the program, and then easily view, email, map or print the listings at their convenience. This functionality provides a tidy way to work with multiple clients while navigating around Matrix.
With Matrix, running a previous search is as simple as a single mouse click. Matrix automatically saves your recent searches—complete with a date/time stamp and the number of results—and displays them in a list conveniently located near the top of each page. Search History is a terrific time-saving feature that is perfect for the busy agent serving multiple clients at once.
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With the Client Portal, agents can personally brand the information delivered to their buyers and sellers. Using the Portal's split screen technology, clients can more effectively manage listings by visually identifying where they are located on the map. The Portal also serves as a powerful communication tool by allowing clients to categorize listings according to their level of interest, as well as log conversation notes to and from the agent. Clients can further customize their Portal experience by creating and saving searches of their own. Matrix then provides agents with detailed client activity and Portal usage statistics. Check out the new Client Portal in Matrix 7.0.
With Matrix count-on-the-fly, agents see a real-time count of exactly how many listings match their criteria before ever submitting a query. Fast listing count feedback makes it easy for agents to quickly create a search that yields the desired number of results.
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Matrix provides a broad range of Hot Sheet options and functionality. Agents can use a standard system Hot Sheet or create custom Hot Sheets to suit their unique needs. Change of status, price, dates, and a variety of other details can all be included in agent-customized Hot Sheets. This essential functionality keeps agents up to date on the very latest market conditions.
A vital component of any multiple listing platform, the CMA module provides agents with a sophisticated toolset for creating professional listing presentations. Using the Matrix CMA Wizard, agents can customize their report by uploading PDF pages, branding the front cover, adding price adjustments to Comparables, plus a variety of other options for assembling a unique document tailored to the individual client. Users can save incomplete CMAs, and print or email final reports directly to the Client Portal.
One of the program's most sophisticated features, the stats generator provides agents with an endless array of statistical analysis options. Starting with a search of any kind, agents can generate stats for a specific market area, time frame, listing status... or the entire multiple listing database! Matrix offers numerous preset reporting options, making it easy for agents to generate up-to-date statistical reports featuring attractive charts and graphs with just a few clicks. Advanced functionality allows for the comparison of virtually any two market stats on the same chart.
Seamlessly combining search criteria, map, and results, the dynamic mapping feature lets users click, zoom, and pan while results update in real time, automatically grouping map pins into clusters when there are too many to display. Users can select listings from the result list or directly from the map for superior versatility. Bird's eye view, street view, satellite view, and driving directions are just a few of the many display options available to users.
Using data provided by Realist®, Matrix Map Layers offer a versatile tool for annotating the map. Display multiple layers at once by stacking information such as Boundaries, Parcel Characteristics, Trends, Points of Interest, and more.
Matrix simplifies and economizes listing maintenance with an easy-to-use input wizard that automatically geocodes properties and allows the saving of incomplete records. With the Matrix Photo Manager, users can upload multiple images at once and then add an optional description to each. In addition to this, Matrix provides a Supplement Control that makes the management of listing documents easier than ever.
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Europe › France › Paris › Paris Restaurants
31 Rue Richelieu, Paris, France
+44 01 42 96 26 66
L'Ecrin Paris Reviews
1733 reviews
The smallest one in ages Nov 22, 2010
This was one of smallest bar I had been in for a while and I was the one only on talk about being alone. It was a real Parisian bar where they were out of stock of half their products. From outside it looked grand and prestigious but finally inside all this was gone.
My host was spending all his time reading a magazine that would take his mind away, far away and there he was all the time I was there. The place smelled of curry for a strange reason. All the tables were squeezed into the wall all; all of the being coved with chequered table clothes. The chairs were all the same dark wooded with red puffs. The bar was besides being out of products in a strange mix of dark wood and line green paint. It sure looked as strange as it smelled this place. The walls were covered with hand painted decoration and real old "replicas" looking paintings from 17s century in dark colours.
I had my cheap beer and left. It was even too strange for me. Very strange
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The last post was about my weight loss experience and I got many emails from people who went through the same issues. And apparently my "magic soup" experience made some people laugh 🙂 well, years later, this is the first positive thing about it! I've been asked for what I did after that, so here it is: My Weight Loss Story, Episode 2 🙂
Dieting again
I'm a stubborn guy. When the "magic soup" experience appeared to be useless, I thought that it was my fault because I had been naive and I just didn't find the right information online. Next time I'll find the magic one! Stubborn and a bit stupid too 🙂
So I went to Google again and this time I placed my hopes in another method, a famous diet, widely promoted as very efficient: the high-protein, low-carb diet, you know, the Atkins kind of diet. The idea was to drastically cut carbs which are used first by your body for energy, so that fat is used instead, in a metabolic state that doctors call "ketosis". Honestly I liked it immediately! I found the idea brilliant, the name "ketosis" sounded like the end of my problems, I was truly sure that this scientific approach with such a name was a winner 🙂 I was already picturing my new body quickly running short of fat 🙂
So I started this approach with great enthusiasm and I even decided to push it to the next step: high protein foods and veggies only, nothing else! I wanted the best possible ketosis, not the average one 🙂
Then, back to reality. I remember that it was quite embarrassing in the office because we used to have lunch all together and of course I got many question from my co-workers who immediately noticed that I was dieting…
One day, we have been invited in a very expensive restaurant to celebrate the end of a big project and I had to say no to a very old red wine. Apparently our business partners wanted to show their gratitude and really, nobody could understand my reaction. They told me that this wine was so famous, so rare, so expensive that it was a dream for many wine lovers around the globe! And I was drinking water because of a stupid diet! In my head, I was silently repeating my mantra: Ketosis, Ketosis, Ketosis! 🙂
Embarrassing Side Effect
At least the good point about this high-protein diet is that I was not hungry. The bad point is that ketosis has an embarrassing side effect: bad breath 🙁 I will never forget this glimpse of surprise followed by disgust from people I was talking to. First they take a step back, and they avoid you completely 🙂 Or they increase the "social distance" when they *really* have to be in front of you. I'm not sure but I think I got more emails than usual during my ketosis period 🙂
The result of this diet in terms of weight loss has been modest, real but modest. But these few pounds off came with a very high price: my cholesterol levels did skyrocket. They were already high but after this diet they went wild. It took me years to bring them back to normal levels.
Run Till You Fall
Now a few words about the second part of my plan: running.
I was feeling very confident because I used to exercise a lot when I was young. So I started running with high hopes, even thinking of future competitions 🙂 My typical session was the following: after a quick warm-up, I was running around half an hour at my maximum speed, sweating like in hell. My main problem was about time management: I had long days in the office and I didn't want to sacrifice dinner with my wife and kids. So I ended up running at night, after dinner. Stupid again. My running route never varied. In the beginning people were surprised to see me running at night. They probably thought I was crazy, running in the dark, in the cold, in the rain… Same route, same houses, same people, same dogs barking at me… Finally after a few weeks people and dogs got used to my late runs and nobody paid attention anymore. I was the "poor fat guy running at night"…
So, what about the weight loss results?
The sad truth is that I lost.. almost nothing. The main result was injuries: it was too much stress for my heavy body. The most painful points were the knees and hips. Painkillers didn't help much. I knew that I needed some rest, but guess what? I can do it 🙂
I went to friends doctors who helped me with anti-inflammatory injections. A few days later I was on the road again. But not for long. The real end of the story came from the mental side. I realized that all these efforts were for nothing, that it was a failure, that I was a failure.
It was like a breakthrough. During the last night run, I was exhausted, beyond acceptable fatigue and yet trying to keep on running. At one moment I thought: what's wrong with me? Does it have to be so hard? It's not working. I have to accept this weight, this age. I have been unhealthy for years and I will never be healthy and fit again. It's too late. So I stopped running and I walked my way back home 🙁
Believe me, this second failure has been much more devastating than the first one.
OK, that's it for the embarrassing memories.
The good point is… the happy end 🙂
It was not "too late". I was my learning curve. It took me time to do the right things, in the right order: get support, eat less, move more — but not the way I did it!
Keep in touch,
-Mike Budd


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1. This second appeal filed by the judgment-debtor and two others arises out of an execution application in which the sale of property of the judgment-debtor was confirmed and the objection petition of Milkha Singh was dismissed.
2. The facts giving rise to this appeal are not in dispute and are as follows. Rukan Din (who has since died) and obtained a decree for the recovery of Rs.2,400/- against Darbara Singh and in execution of that decree he got land belonging to the judgment-debtor and measuring 32 kanals and 2 marlas attached. In a subsequent execution application the land was ordered to be auctioned and the sale to place on 19th June, 1966. Babu Khan respondent was the highest bidder and he immediately deposited Rs.900/- being the one-fourth of the sale-price. The balance of the money was, however, not deposited till 25th August 1966. While the property was under attachment Darbara Singh, the judgment-debtor executed a gift deed on 12th April 1965 in respect of his entire land measuring 99 bighas and 16 biswas in favour of Nachattar Singh and Milkha Singh. An objection petition under O. 21, R. 58, Civil P. C. was filed by Nachhattar Singh and Milkha Singh but this petition was dismissed by the executing Court and the suit brought by them under Order 21, Rule 63, was also dismissed. In view of these proceedings, the execution proceedings remained stayed and ultimately on 16th December 1968 the auction purchaser applied for the confirmation of the sale. Notice of this application was given to the parties concerned but as in the meantime Rukan din died his widow and daughters were brought on the record as his legal representatives. The legal representatives of the decree-holder have also applied for the confirmation of the sale and for the payment of money to them. Milkha Singh, one of the transferees from Darbara Singh, filed an objection petition and all the three applications were disposed of by the trial Court by order dated 30th July 1969. Against this order, besides Milkha Singh who had file the objection-petition, Nachhattar Singh and Darbara Singh also filed an appeal which was dismissed by the impugned order.
3. On behalf of the appellants the only argument raised was that as the auction-purchaser had failed to deposit the balance of the money within fifteen days as required by Rule 85 of Order 21, the sale was a nullity and the Court was bound to order the re-sale of the property. The learned Courts below following Shahzadi Begum v. Hakim Manohar Lal, AIR 1955 Hyd 110 and V. I. Subramanyan Nambudri v. V. K. V. Kammathi, AIR 1923 Mad 48 took the view that as the time was extended by the Court with the consent of the interested parties the sale was not rendered a nullity and that the rule can be waived by the persons who stand to benefit by the sale.
4. In order to understand the respective contentions of the parties it is necessary to make reference to Rr. 85 and 86 of Order 21, which are in the following terms:--
'85. The full amount of purchase-money payable shall be paid by the purchaser into Court before the Court closes on the fifteenth day from the sale of the property:
Provided that, in calculating the amount to be so paid into Court, the purchaser shall have the advantage of any set-off to which he may be entitled under Rule 72. 86. In default of payment within the period mentioned in the last preceding rule, the deposit may, if the Court thinks fit, after defraying the expenses of the sale, be forfeited to the Government and the property shall be re-sold, and the defaulting purchaser shall for-feit all claim to the property or to any part of the sum for which it may subsequently be sold.'
These rules came up for interpretation before the Supreme Court in Manilal Mohanlal Shah v. Sardar Sayed Ahmed Sayed Mahmad, AIR 1954 SC 349, and on a review of the entire case law, it was observed as under:--
'Having examined the language of the relevant rules and the judicial decisions bearing upon the subject we are of the opinion that the provisions of the rules requiring the deposit of 25 per cent of the purchase money immediately on the person being declared as a purchaser and the payment of the balance within 15 days of the sale are mandatory and upon non-compliance with these provisions there is no sale at all. The rules do not contemplate that there can be any sale in favour of a purchaser without depositing 25 per cent of the purchase money in the first instance and the balance with 15 days. When there is no sale within the contemplation of these rules, there can be no question of material irregularity in the conduct of the sale. Non-payment of the price on the part of the defaulting purchaser renders the sale proceedings as a complete nullity. The very fact that the court is bound to re-sell the property in the event of a default shows that the previous proceedings for sale are completely wiped out as if they do not exist in the eye of law. We hold, therefore, that in the circumstances of the present case there was no sale and the purchasers acquired no rights at all'.
5. While considering this question in Manilal Mohanlal Shah's case. AIR 1954 SC 349 the view taken in Haji Imam Ullah v. Mohd Idris, AIR 1943 All 282, which has been cited by the learned counsel for the appellants, was accepted and the observation occurring in this judgment that the Court was bound to re-sell the property upon default irrespective of any application being made by any party to the proceeding was cited with approval.
6. While accepting the view that in case payment was postponed by the consent of the parties, the sale need not be set aside, the learned District Judge relied on Shahzadi Begum's case, AIR 1955 Hyd 110 while trial Court also made reference to V. I. Subramanyan Nambudri's case, AIR 1923 Mad 48. The case of Shahzadi Begum is clearly distinguishable on facts as in that case the failure to deposit the price in the Court on the due date was brought about by the insistence of the judgment-debtor that the balance of the sale-price be not accepted from the auction-purchaser till the disposal of his objection. In view of this it was observed that as petitioner had himself secured an order from the Court that the money should not be taken from the respondent till after the disposal of his objection, the auction-purchaser cannot be blamed or allowed to suffer if he acted on the faith of the judgment-debtor and allowed the period set down in Rule 85 of Order 21 to pass and that the petitioner cannot in such a case be allowed to turn round and claim advantage of the delay in making of the deposit which was occasioned by his own act. This view in Shahzadi Begum's case was taken on the basis of certain observations occurring in Nathu Mal v. Malwa Mal, AIR 1931 Lah 15. In Manilal Mohanlal Shah's case, AIR 1954 SC 349 the Supreme Court specifically considered Nathu Mal's case and did not accept the remarks made therein that the provisions of Rule 85 were merely directory and not mandatory. This being the position, the learned Courts below had erred in relying on Shahzadi Begum's case especially when their attention had been drawn to Manilal Mohanlal's case.
7. Even on facts the observations in Shahzadi Begum's case AIR 1955 Hyd 110 were not applicable in the instant case. The sale had taken place on 19th June 1966 and the balance of the sale-price was to be deposited within fifteen days of this date. No extension of time was obtained by the auction-purchaser within this period and it was only on 20th August 1966 that for the first time the Court ordered the auction-purchaser to deposit the remaining price and again on 25th August 1966 the Court ordered that the remaining price be deposited within seven days. In neither of these orders is there any mention that the time was being extended with the consent of the parties. From the fact that the judgment-debtor had not objected to the deposit of the money or had not filed any objection to the confirmation of the sale an inference was drawn that the time had been extended with his consent and he, therefore, could not raise any objection to the confirmation of sale. This view is clearly erroneous and the observations made in Shahzadi Begum's case cannot be applied to these facts. Here the delay in depositing the balance of the sale-price has not been brought about by any request of the judgment-debtor or the decree-holder and the judgment-debtor has not benefited as he has not withdrawn the balance of the money which was lying in Court. His failure to file objection to the confirmation of the sale cannot be equated to the having agreed to the deposit of the balance of the sale-price beyond the period provided by the rules. In this connection, it may also be noticed that in Manilal Mohanlal Shah's case, AIR 1954 SC 349 the Supreme Court had approved the observations made in A. R. Davar v. Jhinda Ram, AIR 1938 Lah 198, that the Court has no jurisdiction to extend the time for the payment of the balance of the purchase-money under Rule 85 and must order re-sale under Rule 86.
8. As regards the objection that Darbara Singh having not filed any objection before the executing Court objecting to the confirmation of the sale was debarred from raising any objection at this stage the observations made in Haji Imam Ullah's case AIR 1943 All 282 (Supra) reference to which has already been made are a complete answer to the argument. Rule 85 places a duty on the Court to re-sell the property in case of default irrespective of the fact that no application has been made by any party to the proceedings to challenge the sale. Once there has been a default in the payment of the balance of the amount the sale proceedings become a nullity and the Court is bound to put the property to re-sale.
9. For the reasons stated above, I find that the Courts below had erred in confirming the sale as there had been violation of Rule 85 of Order 21 Civil Procedure Code and the sale was complete nullity. I, therefore, accept this appeal and set aside the orders of the Courts below confirming the sale. The applications of the auction-purchaser and the decree-holder are consequently dismissed. Considering the circumstances of the case, I leave the parties to bear their own costs throughout.
10. Appeal allowed.