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Not all that cold at all up here. The yellow pod-like airport was a hive of activity now that 3 flights arrive one after the other.
You wouldn't know we're anywhere so remote: CIBC, RBC, CBC, and wireless in the rooms. Cell phone service too--not Rogers (I knew I should have waited for the iPhone on Bell/Telus).
Apart from the buildings, everything is white. Everything. Linda, you'd love it :)


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Speciation and isotopic composition of sulfur in sediments from Jellyfish Lake, Palau
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Jellyfish Lake, Palau, is a meromictic marine lake with high organic productivity, low reactive Fe content, and anoxic bottom waters. Sediment samples from Jellyfish Lake were examined for the distribution of sulfur species and their isotopic signatures in order to gain a better understanding of sedimentary sulfur incorporation in Fe-poor environments. Surface samples were taken along a transect from a near-shore site to the center of the lake, and include a sample below oxic water, a sample below the chemocline layer, and samples below anoxic waters. Three additional samples were taken from a core, 2 m long, collected near the lake center. Sulfur to organic carbon weight ratios in all samples were lower than the expected value of 0.36 for normal marine sediment, probably because the lake water is deficient in reactive Fe to form iron sulfides. Total sulfur contents in the surface sediments indicated no changes with distance from shore; however, the sulfur content of the surface sample at the chemocline layer may be slightly higher. Total sulfur content increased with depth in the core and is inversely related to organic carbon content. Organic sulfur is the major sulfur species in the samples, followed in descending order by sulfate, disulfides and monosulfides. Sulfate sulfur isotope ??34S-values are positive (from +20.56 to +12.04???), reflecting the marine source of sulfate in Jellyfish Lake. Disulfide and monosulfide ??34S-values are negative (from -25.07 to -7.60???), because of fractionation during bacterial reduction of sulfate. Monosulfide ??34S-values are somewhat higher than those of disulfides, and they are close to the ??34S-values of organic sulfur. These results indicate that most of the organic sulfur is formed by reaction of bacteriogenic monosulfides, or possibly monosulfide-derived polysulfides, with organic matter in the sediment. ?? 1993.
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Have you noticed that there is a very odd logic around the DC Beltway deficit-cutting frenzy? Here is the basic argument:
A) Things worked great back when taxes on the rich were high. We built up the infrastructure that made us prosperous, and we built up a middle class. We didn't have budget deficits. There were many other benefits to the economy, society and our democracy.
B) Then we cut tax rates for the rich and massively increased military spending. Since then — and directly because we did those things, — the budget and the economy have gone to pot. We had to cut education, stop maintaining the infrastructure, and cut all kinds of things that benefit regular people. Wealth has concentrated at the very top, and regular people are falling further and further behind. The country has lost its competitive edge in the world's economy.
You would think people would be able to connect the obvious dots and come to the obvious conclusion about how to fix the problem. But instead the odd logic of the deficit cutters leads them to the strangest of strange logical conclusions about how to fix the problem:
C) Therefore we have to cut spending on things that benefit regular people, and especially on Social Security for the elderly. But we must not touch spending on the military even though we spend more than all other countries on earth combined. And raising taxes on the rich is off the table.
But … but … but …
As Homer Simpson would say, "D'oh!"


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Even though I slept for another nearly 8 hours last night, I woke up feeling exhausted. We joke at work about having a Synergy hangover but until you go through Synergy you never really understand it.
I know that it will wear off over the next few days but, as of now, I'm still yawning and yearning for more sleep.
I blocked off my calendar today so that I wouldn't have any meetings. It was a day for me to focus on catching up on as much as possible.
Though I didn't get completely caught up, I am in a much better position than I was when I started the day.
When I came home from I focused on stretching my shoulders and tackled one of the toughest Spartan WODs yet:
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- 10 Star Jumps
- 10 Wide Push ups
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- 100 jumping jacks
- 30 burpees
- 30 box jumps
- 100 crunches
- 30 bodyweight squats
- 30 side kicks (each side)
- 100 high knees (50 each leg)
- 30 jumping lunges
- 30 squat jumps
Though the workout was called "Spartan 300" because of the 3 sets of 100 reps, it was actually a total of 480 reps.
By the time I finished my skin was on fire, my legs barely moved and I was nauseous while trying to drink my protein shake.
While I have had the skin-on-fire feeling before and felt like my legs were dead weight, I have always been able to drink my protein shake without any issues.
I'm thinking I'll be pretty sore tomorrow and will need to ensure that I stretch plenty before doing the 400m repeats along with 10-30 burpees, as dictated by tomorrow's WOD.
After finishing my workout, Laura and I crashed on the couch, caught up on the day and just watched TV, which is exactly what I still need as I try to fully recover from last week.
As I sat down to type tonight's update I realized that it is under 3 months (83 days, to be exact) before I hit the year anniversary of my seizures, shattering my shoulders and discovering the brain tumor.
It has been a long road so far and one that won't actively be over until around March of next year when my chemo treatment wraps up.
But, those bigger days such as August 10th (initial seizures), August 15th (right shoulder surgery), August 17th (left shoulder surgery) and September 11th (brain surgery) will always stick out boldly in my mind.
And over this period of time I have never missed a single day of documenting this journey.
I'm not how long I will keep up this daily journaling and when this journey may possibly turn into a book, but these are all things that constantly turn through my mind.


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Election official says she was told to steal votes from U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers
A former precinct worker said during testimony Wednesday that a Clay County election official told her to steal votes from U.S. Rep. Harold "Hal" Rogers in a 2006 election.
The main purpose of the vote-stealing scheme was to help local candidates, but Charles Wayne Jones, the county's Democratic election commissioner, also wanted to hurt the longtime Republican congressman, said Wanda White.
"We voted as many as we could against" Rogers, White testified in the trial of eight Clay County residents charged with conspiring to buy or steal votes.
Those charged are former Circuit Judge R. Cletus Maricle; former county school Superintendent Douglas Adams; county Clerk Freddy Thompson; Jones; William Stivers, a former election officer; Magistrate Stanley Bowling; and William "Bart" Morris and his wife, Debra. The eight have denied the charges and have said prosecution witnesses have lied.
The effort to take votes from Rogers in one Manchester precinct wouldn't have made a difference. He won by a large margin.
But the alleged scheme to steal votes had greater effect in local races.
White testified that 150 people sold their votes at the Manchester precinct where she worked in May 2006 and that she and another precinct official switched the votes of 100 others.
They did that by duping people into leaving the voting machine before completing their choices, then going in and changing the votes to benefit a slate of candidates backed by Maricle and others, White said.
White testified that after the FBI began investigating the 2006 election and others, Maricle told her not to volunteer information and sent her to see Stivers about her concerns about testifying to a federal grand jury.
Stivers went over a list of questions to suggest how she should testify to the grand jury, White said.
On a tape recording she secretly made, Stivers told her several times not to lie. But he also suggested she not say she had formal meetings with Maricle or others about the election, and told her she didn't change any votes.
"You don't admit to nothing, Wanda," Stivers said on the tape.
Attorneys for Maricle and others raised questions about White's testimony.
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White also had testified that Maricle approached her in late 2004 about serving as an election officer in 2006, saying he wanted her to switch from Republican to Democrat to help his plan.
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I am just over 12 hours from jumping on a plane. I am less than 48 hours from seeing my baby. My baby who moved in July to the other side of the world.
After a week of conferences and keeping my excitement contained, I am finally at the eve of my departure. Less than 50 lbs. of luggage, all-carry on, sits in my hall, awaiting my trip to Japan where my son has taken up a life.
I have not seen his animated face through Skype or Facetime. He does not have wifi in his apartment. He does have a cell phone though, and technology trumps snail mail. We have employed LINE app to send photos and messages. We've also used it like a phone so I have heard his voice.
But, since July, I have not seen him talking to me, or laughing, and I have not hugged or kissed that child. On Sunday night, Okinawa time (EST +13 hours), I will get to squeeze my baby. My heart squeezes a bit just thinking about it.
Somehow, I plan to keep up my slices. I will capture some moments, like when we visit an elementary school, and go to traditional cultural sites. It should be fertile ground for my writer's notebook…if I can stop soaking in my child long enough to pick up my pen, or tap out some words on a keyboard.


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John Markoff has a fascinating long article in Sunday's New York Times about the ever-greater capabilities of today's industrial robots (and I don't just say nice things about the piece because Markoff quotes from Race Against the Machine). He reports from places as diverse as a Philips factory in Holland, the plant where Tesla roadsters are made in California, and a grocery warehouse in Newburgh, New York.
In these and other facilities, he observes the same trend; robots and other modern machinery doing tasks that until quite recently used to be done by humans. These include assembling precision devices full of tiny parts; grabbing products off shelves, assembling them into a giant cube for shipping, then wrapping it in plastic sheeting; and loading and unloading trucks full of packages. This last example is particularly striking; the boxes can weigh as much as 130 pounds, and the robot senses them not with a high-end vision system, but instead with hardware based on Microsoft's Kinect, which retails for less than $150. Cheap, powerful sensors are one of the reasons that, as Markoff writes, "Robot manufacturers in the United States say that in many applications, robots are already more cost-effective than humans."
The article concisely states the one big potential problem with this relentless technological progress: "The ascension of robots may mean fewer jobs are created in this country, even though rising labor and transportation costs in Asia and fears of intellectual property theft are now bringing some work back to the West." And, I'll add, even though the companies that buy these robots are part of healthy, growing industries.
If and when this happens, more and more sectors of the US economy will look like the manufacturing industry, where output (in constant 2005 dollars) has been growing steadily over time, and employment falling:
The conventional explanation for this phenomenon — and the one I believe — is productivity growth. Michael Mandel and a few others debate this, and highlight instead the role that offshoring to China and elsewhere plays in inflating the value added number, and so overstating productivity growth. As Mandel writes, "ongoing research from a new policy brief from the Progressive Policy Institute shows that the official statistics have significantly overstated GDP and productivity growth since 2007."
But the graph above makes clear that American manufacturing value added was rising while American manufacturing employment was falling for a long time before 2007. In fact, both have been going on since the early 1980s (well before China emerged as a global economic powerhouse), with remarkable steadiness.
So offshoring and globalization aren't the real drivers here; domestic productivity growth is. American manufacturers have been figuring out how to produce ever-more stuff while employing ever-fewer people for a while now. Markoff's article makes clear that this trend is far from played out.
Because of advances in sensors, software, chips, and the other components of robots, and because of lots of innovating and tinkering with them, the industries that deal with physical products — distribution, transportation, wholesaling, and so on — are about to become a lot more productive. My guess is that their output-vs.-employment graphs are going to start to look a lot like the manufacturing one above.
And because of similarly impressive advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, crowdsourcing, and exploitation of Big Data, the same will in the near future be true of industries that deal with virtual products like knowledge, information, media, decisions, and communication. In many cases, their employment will start to trend downward even as their output rises over time.
I don't know of any economic law that prevents this from happening. Yes, I'm aware of the "lump of labor fallacy." But I think the more up-to-date fallacy is the assumption that a growing industry means that there will be more work for people to do, rather than for ever-more capable machines to do. The graph above shows that this has clearly not been the case for US manufacturing over the past 30 years.
In an era of astonishing technological progress, why won't the same be true for other industries in the US and elsewhere? If you have some faith that employment must keep rising as output does, please leave a comment and explain where it comes from. Because the evidence, both past and present, is making me a skeptic.


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Many relationship issues are the result of unrealistic expectations. Maybe we've always imagined the Prince Charming from fairy tales. Or perhaps we've watched too many romantic comedies. For whatever reason, people often set their expectations too high, so there's no way that their significant other can measure up to their idealized fantasy.
Here's the deal: we're all human. And being human means that we have faults. No one's perfect, and what most of us are looking for is someone who will accept our imperfections and mistakes. In the beginning of a relationship – the honeymoon period – we tend to overlook our partner's defects and focus entirely on their attributes. But in my work as a Portland marriage counselor, I've seen that, over time, these tiny issues become more apparent, and they can build up and become major relationship issues, resulting in anger, disappointment, and bitterness.
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In order to have a successful relationship, both you and your partner need to learn to respect your differences and accept one another's mistakes. The key to achieving this is communication. Be open and honest with your partner about your needs and expectations, try to understand his or her point of view on the matter, and, above all, be willing to compromise.
Remember, you are each unique individuals with separate needs and wants, so you have to respect that there will be differences in the way you see things and how you want to do everything from spending your free time to raising your children. These differences can make you stronger as a couple, but only if you learn to accept, respect, and maybe even admire them.
For some couples, achieving this type of open communication can be a challenge. In that case, you may want seek help from a qualified Portland marriage counselor to work through your relationship issues.


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Trigun [Remix] (DVD 1 of 6)
Title: Trigun [Remix]
Volume: DVD 1 / 6
Running time: 125
Distributor: Geneon Entertainment Inc.
Release date: 2006-08-01
Suggested retail price: $29.98
Age rating: 13+
On a desert planet scorched by twin suns, bounty hunters scour the planet looking for Vash who has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty placed on his head! Vash has been credited with the destruction of several towns, but miraculously, there is no record of him ever taking a life. However, only two things ever happen to those who catch up to Vash: they either crawl away wounded (mostly from self-inflicted damage), or they stagger away in disbelief that such a dork could possibly be the man they are looking for!
This Remix edition has been newly encoded and contains both English and Japanese 5.1 surround sound along with the original Japanese 2.0 mix. The video includes the original openings for each episode.
Contains episodes 1-5.
DVD Features: Character Designs, Textless Opening, Geneon previews.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.
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While governments debate the minutiae of curbing emissions at the UN's annual climate jamboree, people on the frontline of the environmental struggle are getting killed.
A new science-based coalition – IntAct (International Action for Primary Forests) is calling for an end to the industrial exploitation of earth's remaining primary forests.
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Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and Republican Rep. Darrell Issa want to make a Bill of Rights for the Internet.
The two Congressmen pushed Issa's Digital Bill of Rights this morning at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York.
Both Wyden and Issa were instrumental in defeating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), which critics charged permitted government infringement on free speech and innovation.
"We're going to create a 'cyber-industrial complex' if we're not careful," Wyden said this morning. "What I hope will happen out of this meeting is we will start a grassroots drive — a net-roots drive — to create a Digital Bill of Rights for this country, much like our original Bill of Rights."
They think it could provide a measuring stick for future, SOPA-similar bills that are introduced in the future.
Wyden said it's not exactly a timely item Congress will take up soon, but that he hopes, considering the importance of the issue after SOPA's defeat, that Congress will eventually consider the bill.
"I'm not trying to set a date today and jam it down people's throats," Wyden said in an interview after he spoke on the panel. "I think there's a great opportunity to answer the question, which is, how do you measure future Internet policy?"
Wyden said the lawmakers plan to crowdsource the Digital Bill of Rights through Congressional websites and networks, and through "Digital Constitutional Conventions."
Here's Issa's full draft of the Digital Bill of Rights:
- Freedom - digital citizens have a right to a free, uncensored internet
- Openness - digital citizens have a right to an open, unobstructed internet
- Equality - all digital citizens are created equal on the internet
- Participation - digital citizens have a right to peaceably participate where and how they choose on the internet
- Creativity - digital citizens have a right to create, grow and collaborate on the internet, and be held accountable for what they create
- Sharing - digital citizens have a right to freely share their ideas, lawful discoveries and opinions on the internet
- Accessibility - digital citizens have a right to access the internet equally, regardless of who they are or where they are
- Association - digital citizens have a right to freely associate on the internet
- Privacy - digital citizens have a right to privacy on the internet
- Property - digital citizens have a right to benefit from what they create, and be secure in their intellectual property on the internet


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Are miles on your shopping list? They should be.
With Christmas looming, this would be a good time to consider your mileage-earning strategy to ensure you maximize your rewards for holiday shopping.
In future blog posts, we'll round up and review the best seasonal shopping mile promotions from the airlines and hotels.
For now, here's a shopping-related offer from US Airways.
Offer Details
US Airways wants you to use its new Dividend Miles toolbar to shop at the Dividend Miles Shopping Mall, a network of hundreds of online merchants that award miles for purchases. And to encourage you to download and use the toolbar, it's offering what it calls a "first use" bonus: 500 miles for installing the toolbar and using it to either make one purchase or three searches. The bonus is upped to 1,000 miles for Dividend Miles Preferred members and Dividend Miles MasterCard cardholders.
Once installed, the toolbar generates one mile for every three searches.
Why bother using the toolbar? From the FAQ:
Will I earn miles if I forget to shop through the Dividend Miles Shopping Mall?
To earn miles, you must start your everyday shopping at the Dividend Miles Shopping Mall and click through to your favorite merchants. You may also install our browser-based toolbar, which tracks your transactions and miles even if you forget to start your shopping at the mall.
The toolbar is compatible with the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.
Deal or No Deal
If you're an active Dividend Miles member, the toolbar is a constant reminder (in a good way) to make online purchases through the mileage mall, and makes doing so more convenient.
And if you're an inactive member with miles in danger of expiring, this is a quick and easy way to extend the life of your miles and earn a small bonus in the process.
Otherwise, there's no compelling reason to consume the bandwidth downloading the toolbar.
Reader Reality Check
Have you mapped out a strategy for earning miles when shopping over the holidays?
What are you waiting for?
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In all that we do, children and families come first. We offer the best possible outcomes for children. We create a safe, stimulating play environment where children can be secure and happy. We provide care for children and the opportunity for parents and carers to pursue education, work experience and employment, secure in the knowledge that their child's needs are met. We recognise the emotional needs of all children and strive to meet them.
We provide and develop a reliable, affordable and quality childcare facility and to offer parents a facility which will enable them to enhance their opportunity to participate more fully in the labour market.
We also provide a service which meets the varying needs of the community. Also Lily & Co. Ltd provide a secure and happy environment, rich in a variety of rewarding experiences, so that children learn, play and achieve.
The goals of Lily & Co. Ltd are dual-sided: to support parents and to make nursery a safe, educational, and fun experience for the child being the childcare service provider of choice and to be identifiable as:
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3. I thought that I'd include some pics of some of my personal favorites from the new ebonites…..
Mottled Aqua….
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I shouldn't have looked. LOL I've had the aqua swirl ebonite (which looks great in person if anyone's wondering) Collier for less than a week, but that lavender swirl is really tempting me!
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Friday, October 14, 2005
Beat Kitchen Redux
An outsider looking in at two details would say the show was a disaster. "Only" 65-75 people showed up and we didn't add any money to the book printing fund. As far as an insider's perspective (aka, mine), the show was an overwhelming success.
From a fan's perspective, I thought all of the acts really stepped up last night. You could say that Nick's music under the Dogme 95 moniker is more performance art than traditional musical performance, but I think the guy has quite a few sweet tunes with all the smoke, beats, loops and percussion. Plus, he really sang his head off. With Hirudin, Kyle told me how the band seemed to have more crappy shows than good shows as of late, but I think he would say that last night's set was pretty on-the-mark great. They were tight as hell and they rolled through an inspired mix of mid-'90s-styled post-hardcore and driving punk. Kyle came across as a likable but slightly intimidating frontman with how he held himself together (part charming, part devilish). With the Firebird Band, this was my first chance to see them with their new line-up and a live drummer. As somebody who had only seen them before with iPods, keyboards and guitars, last night was a really charged set with more of the live elements involved. Chris always has a kind of wild intensity with performing but now with a second guitarist/keyboardist, a new bassist and a live drummer in the band, they were ten times better than when I had seen them before. Finally with the City on Film, they finished the show on a grand note. Bob played with a violin player and this made his already intimate songs even more engaging. Playing a lushly quiet rendition of "For Holly," I stood there in amazement as he just knocked every song after that out of the park. Playing covers by Lifter Puller, Tom Waits and Dexy's Midnight Runners along with tracks from his new record and a slowed-down version of Braid's "A Dozen Roses," this was the kind of set that Bob usually plays but there was a special feeling to it (considering the fact that he was running a fever but played so well in spite of it). As he finished up with Dexy's "Come On Eileen," I felt that the whole show had started strong and continued strong through the whole night. This was the kind of show I would've paid good money to see, so getting the chance to see it was massive.
If I was in the mindset of immediacy, the lack of whatever that didn't go as "planned" would be offsetting. However, I felt so happy to be doing things like loading in with Nick, having dinner with Hirudin, watching baseball with Kyle, sitting with Bob and Chris as they wrapped about what was going on in their lives, talking to Sally about photography, talking with Adam about how musical perspective changes with age, seeing Chris's grin as Bob finished up "A Dozen Roses" and other little moments like these will stay with me longer than business logistics.
3 comments:
- Kyle said...
I totally agree with your assessment of this show, Eric, though I think that's the first--and perhaps the only--time anyone has described us as "tight as hell."
I really loved Bob's slowed down "For Holly," and I think his version of "Come On Eileen" is awesome. It's not the "Hey, remember the '80s?" nostalgic crap bands pull for bad compilations, but a complete recontextualization as a sweet love song. That Bob, he's such a sensitive boy!
And yeah, The Firebird Band were at least 10x better as a full band. I'm looking forward to their new stuff...
- Eric said...
I'm pretty upset that I missed the show, but sometimes life just throws us a curveball. Sorry that more people didn't show. I'm actually really surprised at the turnout.
- Eric Grubbs said...
Eric-all good dude. You have such an amazing experience heading your way in a few weeks (cross fingers!) that I would do the same thing.
Kyle-The "tight as hell" description fit for that show, now let me see a sloppy set where you sing everything in Spanish :-)


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I will be on the panel with the De Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research on autism this Thursday, July 10th at 5:30 p.m. at 280 Bloor Street West in Toronto. I hope autistic self-advocates will register early as well as those involved in Critical Disability Studies.
Also, stay tuned for more details on a screening of Wretches and Jabberers and a talk with the subjects of the film, Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher; autistic self-advocates who type. This will be presented at York University on October 24th and also sponsored by The Autism Acceptance Project. Stay tuned for another event in downtown Toronto on October 25th!!


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This trip was entirely too short. Kai-Ling and I made a quick 4-day excursion to Bali while in Taiwan. Four days really only afforded us two half-days and two full-days; and you really need a full week to ten days to explore Bali. Despite this, Kai-Ling did her homework and we crammed about as much as one could in that short time.
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Integra Packaging is a packaging solutions business and has over 500 clients spanning defence, mining, infrastructure, logistics, aerospace, heavy vehicles, industrial, refining, utilities and general manufacturing with manufacturing or sales operations in QLD, NSW and VIC.
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The business has been fortunate to achieve success in both its manufacturing sites, both as a city employer in Brisbane QLD and as a regional employer in Bomaderry (South Coast) NSW. Through internal mentoring, positive HR policies, a customer service priority, commitment to the community, and effective corporate governance - the company has developed to its present level. Reviewed by the Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly, Ethical Investor magazine and several metro & regional papers - the Company was also a finalist in several categories for the 2007 & 2008 Endeavour Awards for Australian manufacturing - and has won recognition for its business leadership and community engagement.
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Burbank, Calif.-based Disney also counts Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg as a director.
Shareholders also voted in favor of executive compensation in an advisory vote. Iger's pay package for the fiscal year that ended in September fell 15 percent to $34.3 million. The company's financial performance did not exceed targets as much as the previous year.
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You've published an ebook, or perhaps more than one. Congratulations: you're a Kindle author. I work with many authors and they all want one thing: more sales. We all want guaranteed bestsellers. But it's impossible to guarantee a bestselling book, sadly.
That said, you can make it more likely that your ebooks will sell more copies, and with very little extra effort. Here's how I know this. I work with authors every day. They make avoidable errors. Once they correct those errors, their ebooks start selling well.
Often not as well as they'd hoped, and for a simple reason: they haven't baked-in sales potential. An author writes the book he wants to write, and gives little thought to his readers.
Make the decision: correct your authors' tunnel vision
All authors have tunnel vision. I do, you do. It means that we're focused on the writing. Readers don't care about that. They want what they want — entertainment if you've written fiction, and useful, practical information if you're writing nonfiction.
Long before you start writing, think about readers. What appeals to them? In this article, we're discussing fiction, but you can use the same process for nonfiction too.
Start at the level of ideas.
Ideas sell, so before you start writing, focus on your ideas
I'm fond of saying that authors can write what they want. That's true. You can write whatever you like. However, you also need to know what's selling. Not so that you can slavishly go and clone the latest bestseller… although that does work for many writers.
The best reason to see what's selling is so that you can work out why it's selling. Here are the current bestsellers on Amazon.
I like to look at the top bestselling books at least once a month.
Check out the titles. Read the book descriptions, and the reviews. Make notes if you like, or don't make any. The point of the exercise is that you're starting to pay attention to what sells.
It's surprising how many authors (both new, and veteran) focus solely on themselves. However, even if you want to get published the traditional way, the first thing an editor or agent will ask you is: "what's this book like?"
You'd better be able to answer:
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When someone asks you "what's this book like?", they'll usually be able to work out who the book's targeted at. If they can't, that's the next question: "who's this book for?"
An editor or agent asks these kinds of questions, because they know that no one's going to read your ebook, and then decide what it's like, and who it's for. You need to know that. Moreover, you can train yourself to think in these terms. If you can do that, you'll write salable books.
You can train yourself to improve your ideas
When you start paying attention to what's selling, you'll start thinking in terms of salability, and you'll have taken a huge step forward in your self-publishing career.
As we've said: you're not trying to copy bestsellers, or clone them, or anything else. You're trying to gauge the pulse of readers all over the world. Way back in the 1980s, I read a lot of gothic romances. Publishers are putting those books into the Kindle store these days. I've downloaded a few, and now dislike the way they were written.
That's natural. Times change. What appealed to readers 40 years ago doesn't appeal now.
When you train yourself to improve your ideas, your subconscious mind gets in on the act. It will start feeding you ideas, based on your own experiences, which will be in the spirit of what readers love today.
Start paying attention to what's selling.
Make lists of ideas of ebooks you could write.
If an idea appeals, ask yourself: "what's this book like?" and "who's this book for?".
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Manitoba Infrastructure
The Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all aspects of emergency preparedness in the Province, and managing, directing and coordinating the response of all departments to a disaster or major emergency.
Emergency Managers in Manitoba are very familiar with the demands and challenges of disasters and emergencies. Extreme weather and other unpredictable events can happen at any time of the year in this province and each of these experiences is a reminder of the importance of being prepared.
To ensure we remain prepared for the future, Manitoba EMO continues to work closely with provincial departments, and with municipal offices and other local authorities to continuously improve upon our entrenched culture of preparedness. We must never stop learning from past emergencies and improving our response capabilities.
Municipal governments are vital partners in emergency management. The level of coordination, cooperation, experience and leadership of these partners continues to strengthen. Every municipality in Manitoba has a comprehensive emergency plan in place that takes into account the requirements at all phases of an emergency – beginning with steps to limit or eliminate the threat of harm, to the requirements for evacuations and response activities, to the programs required for a complete recovery afterward. These local plans form the base of emergency management capacity in the Province.
This local focus is important, but even more valuable to those of us in the field of emergency management is the need for individuals to recognize their role in emergency preparedness and to be ready for the unexpected. The response to an emergency or disaster of any scale begins with you, the prepared individual. You'll find a wealth of information on our website about what you can do to prepare for floods and other emergencies.
Manitoba has experienced a wide variety of major emergencies and disasters in the past decade that show the importance of a comprehensive and coordinated approach to emergency management. Manitoba EMO synchronizes the various partners in government, the private sector, and non-governmental agencies to ensure all necessary agencies are prepared, coordinated and effective to help people and communities in need.
Manitoba's emergency management team has demonstrated its ability to work co-operatively and successfully on many occasions in the past, and will continue to do so in the future.
Jeremy Angus
Acting Assistant Deputy Minister
Emergency Management & Public Safety


text: Teebs ESTARA BOOK Behind the scenes look at what hand making 100 art books looks like. The lovely Misa Chhan has been hustlin' on these amazing ESTARA books for the upcoming event at The MOCA Store || presented by Innocnts this Sunday (April 6th). Each book will be finalized by Teebs with drawings, handwritten text, extra details and side notes speaking on the songs and times gone into the making of the album. Everyone over here is really excited to share these books with you at MOCA on Grand Ave this Sunday! Innocnts, People, ArtSean TullyApril 2, 2014Innocnts, TeebsComment Facebook0 Twitter Tumblr 0 Likes


text: OptiBac Probiotics For Travelling Abroad - 20 Capsules Customer Rating 5 1 review £9.44 Was £10.49 saving you 10% 94 reward points UK Delivery £1.95 - Free when you spend £15 In stock -This product will ship today if ordered within the next 13 hours and 46 minutes. Multi-buy discounts Buy 3+ Buy 5+ 3% off5% off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 Add to basket 100% Secure Shopping Vegetarian G C W Product code: 1261 Description Contents Ingredients Usage Notes Reviews Questions Description OptiBac Probiotics For travelling abroad is a supplement providing 4 well-researched strains of live cultures, including Lactobacillus acidophilus Rosell-52 and Saccharomyces boulardii, which have been tested to ensure survival through the stomach acids and bile salts to reach the intestines alive. It is possible that consuming unfamiliar food and drink in foreign environments could disrupt the fragile balance of good and bad bacteria in the gut, which may lead to symptoms such as diarrhoea. The particular strains in this blend have been scientifically proven to survive at higher temperatures, and the packaging makes it a suitable travel companion for destinations with hotter, more humid climates than that of the UK. OptiBac Probiotics formula For travelling abroad may be taken prior to, during and after travel abroad and you can make For travelling abroad a travel essential for far flung destinations such as Egypt, India and Thailand. What's more, For travelling abroad is also free from sugars and artificial colourings which may be found in other foods or drinks containing live cultures. Choose For travelling abroad, as this natural supplement provides a shelf stable and cabin friendly formula of live cultures ideal for your travels. Contents 20 Capsules 5 billion live cultures per capsule: Bifidobacterium longum Rosell-175 Lactobacillus rhamnosus Rosell-11 Saccharomyces boulardii Lactobacillus acidophilus Rosell-52 Ingredients Stabiliser: Potato Starch, Vegetarian Capsule: Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Titanium Dioxide, Live Cultures (Bifidobacterium longum Rosell- 175, Lactobacillus rhamnosus Rosell- 11, Saccharmyces boulardii and Lactobacillus acidophilus Rosell- 52), Anti-caking Agent: Vegetable Magnesium Stearate, Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid. Each capsule provides 5 billion live cultures. Usage For adults and children (1 year & over) with the following recommendations: Take 1 capsule daily with food, preferably with breakfast. Preferably starting 3-5 days before departure, continuing during travel abroad and for a few days upon return; or as professionally directed. NB: For anyone unable to swallow capsules, the contents can be mixed with a cold meal or cold beverage. Notes Contraindications It is not recommended to give live cultures to patients who: are severely immunosuppressed, have pancreatitis, are in the Intensive Care Unit, have blood in the stool, have central venous catheters; or to post-surgical patients with open wounds, or infants with short bowel syndrome; unless under a doctor's care. Reviews Below are reviews of OptiBac Probiotics For Travelling Abroad - 20 Capsules by bodykind customers. If you have tried this product we'd love to hear what you think so please leave a review. Leave a review Score Comments Name Email Submit review Score 5 Date 19/04/2014 Posted by Susan Comment I've now used these on trips to India and Egypt - both notorious for upsetting the stomachs of tourists - and have been fine. Obviously I can't prove it was down to the OptiBac, but I wouldn't travel without them now. Questions & Answers Below are questions that bodykind customers have asked us about this product. If you want to know more about this product please don't hesitate to ask us a question. Ask us a question Question Email Confirm Email Submit question


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Brendan Rodgers, the Liverpool manager, says Sturridge's desire to play as a central striker will be granted at his new club, and it is Suárez – who has scored 18 goals in all competitions this season – who will shift positions.
Suárez has carried virtually all the goalscoring burden since the start of the season, leading the line expertly, playing as both target man and creator. He has scored 13 more goals than the nearest challenger in the Liverpool team.
Rodgers has been desperate to construct a team to assist his star striker, not rely on him. He believes Suárez can be just as effective playing in a deeper role in 'the hole', similar to where he played alongside Andy Carroll during his first 18 months at Anfield, or even in a wider position as he did for Ajax before joining Liverpool. It promises to be an ambitious, highly-attacking formation, with Sturridge likely to offer his first glimpse of Rodgers's intentions when he makes his debut against Mansfield on Sunday.
Rodgers insisted there was no question of Sturridge stipulating where he must play during negotiations for his £12 million transfer, but he agrees with the 23 year-old that he is most effective through the middle rather than out wide where he was regularly used at Chelsea.
"His best position is as a central striker. I have said 4-3-3 will become richer because of the type of players and there is not one way to play 4-3-3," Rodgers said. "You can have one up and two wingers, a floating nine like Luis Suárez, or you can have one like Daniel Sturridge playing centrally, with two in and around him playing narrow and full backs bombing on. The principles of your game are based on your players. I think for Daniel his best position will be straight through the middle with his pace."
Rodgers said that the strategy had already been discussed with Suárez, who knows the impact Sturridge's arrival will have on his position within the side. "Luis will play for the common good of the team," the manager said. "I spoke with Luis at length on this subject a number of times. This has been the plan for a few months. When he played at Ajax he played in behind the central striker as a No 10, in between the lines.
"He also played as a reverse winger from the left side. He wasn't quite out wide, he was tucked in round the corner. Wherever he plays he will make the same movements and he will find the space because he is a world-class player. It is not a problem at all. It is never a problem having top players so don't talk about problems with players. We need good players."
Rodgers could have signed Sturridge last summer on a similar deal, but admitted he wanted time to assess if the player had the right mentality for a permanent move.
Since Liverpool agreed a fee with Chelsea over a month before the transfer window opened, it enabled Rodgers to make a thorough evaluation, meeting the player to satisfy himself he had the appetite to succeed. It was during those conversations that Rodgers was convinced it was the right deal. "You need to look in the player's eyes and see if they have that hunger," Rodgers said. "He is coming off the back of being at a big club but one where he hasn't played. He is coming here with everything to prove.
"There is always a risk and doubts about any player. I have spoken to enough people who have worked with Daniel and you always have to do your homework. You are never going to be 100 per cent sure they will succeed, but you have that bit of thinking time to look around and see how they are going to fit in and then when you meet the player take it from his side.
"Any player coming here has to buy into the culture of this football club and any player coming here has to come in for the common good of the team. That is vital and there was never any issue there. He is 23 years old and he is going to come in with wonderful talent. You put him in the group and all of a sudden you get stature and presence and you will see when he plays that there are not many quicker than him. He will give us that extra power up there as well."
Rodgers believes Sturridge's career stalled at Chelsea because he joined at the wrong time. "Sometimes young players make the wrong moves. I don't mean wrong move in terms of club, but the wrong football move. He went to Chelsea where Didier Drogba was arguably the best striker in the world so he is not going to climb in front of him. You go in at 20 years of age and hope you are going to progress, but he has only done it at Bolton because they are the only team that played him."


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