text:
I obviously smiled pleasantly and left at the end of the consultation, but what he didn't know was that I was definitely feeling short changed. Doesn't he know that I pay my taxes and I just want him to fix me?
However, when I had a moment to reflect, I realised that maybe there might be some method in what I perceived as the "madness" of his approach.
I decided that if I tried the exercises on the leaflet, they could have a more enduring remedial effect. Not only would that be better for me, it could even save the NHS money in terms of repeat medication and further GP appointments when those symptoms re-appeared, as the underlying causes had not been addressed.
Well the outcome was that these exercises, which where really simple and took no more than 10 minutes each day, really did work and have since made a big difference. Enthused by the seeming benefits of taking some personal responsibility for my own health, I then thought about what else I could do.
I am closer to 60 than 21 and at the time of my consultation I had a BMI nearer my age than my shoe size, with a track record of high blood pressure controlled by multiple repeat medications. I decided to see if reducing my BMI could have a positive impact on both my hypertension and the medication it required.
Over the past six months I have used a simple and free calorie monitoring app and consciously upped my activity levels, as well as those of our family dog. I have now managed to reduce my BMI by around 25% and the seeming need for lifelong medication is now either being reduced or reviewed. This is all great news for me, plus I'm now costing the NHS a lot less - money that may be better invested in someone else.
So the purpose of this article is just to say if I can do stuff like this, which is both good for me and for the finances of the NHS, then anyone can.
Social prescribing has really made a name for itself in primary care recently, with many practices channelling their energies into non-medical related programmes in order to better the lives of their patients.
A 'Wednesday Wander' where practices take patients for a lunchtime walk in a nearby park or 'Knit & Natter' where patients get together to well, knit and chat are great examples of these sort of activities. FPM has created an article about how GP practice can integrate social prescribing and the many benefits to putting these schemes into action.
Want to learn more about putting Social Prescribing into practice at your GP surgery? Why not get in touch with the Thornfields team on 0333 240 4055 or by visiting the Thornfields website.
A Letter to Myself as a New Practice Manager
1 March 2017
Practices' locum pay arrangements under the IR35 spotlight
15 October 2018
CQC has 'improved the quality of care' in general practice
23 October 2018
Pension scheme tax allowance changes a relief for GPs
5 November 2018
Secret Diary of a PM – A GDPR Dilemma
21 November 2018
There are currently no events scheduled.
Salary: £45k to £50k p/a
Salary: Competitive Salary Commensurate with expertise and experiencing.
Salary: Dependant on skills and experience
Salary: Salary Competitive depending on experience
Salary: Salary Commensurate with experience
Salary: £35-£40,000 based on experience
Salary: Dependant on skills and experience
Salary: £45,000 p/a (depending on experience)
Salary: Competitive Salary Commensurate with expertise and experiencing.
Salary: Dependant on skills and experience
Salary: Salary Competitive depending on experience
Salary: £45k to £50k p/a
Salary: Salary Competitive depending on experience
Salary: £35-£40,000 based on experience
Salary: Dependant on skills and experience
Salary: £45,000 p/a (depending on experience)
Fetching latest posts...


text:
NEWS > General
Nominations Now Open for Equestrian NSW Annual Awards
The Annual Equestrian NSW Awards for Excellence will be held on Saturday, February 1st, 2020 in the Sales Arena at The William Inglis Hotel, Warwick Farm.
Nominations for the following awards are open via this link on Survey Monkey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V7G39JH
- Coach of the Year
- Volunteer of the Year
- Event of the Year
- Official of the Year
- Club of the Year
- Administrator of the Year
- Owner of the Year
Please see the Survey Monkey page for full list of requirements. Nominations close 17th December 2019.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Imagine that you are in an elevator. The doors open and in walks the CEO of your favorite organization. You have the time of the elevator ride to get your message across of who you are and what you are about. What would you say?
A good elevator pitch should sound impromptu, but you'll need to prepare it in advance to get it that way. Keep in mind the following five questions that your elevator pitch should answer:
- Who are you?
- What do you do?
- What can you do for me?
- Why should I hire you?
- How can I contact you?
Things to consider:
- Start with a positive, confident and uplifting intro. This sets the tone for the message and common sense courtesy goes a long way in this case.
- Practice, practice, practice. When you're comfortable with it, practice on family and friends, and ask them for feedback on the content of your performance.
- Keep the message concise (less than 30 seconds to be safe!)
- Maintain eye contact. This displays confidence and trustworthiness – it's all about a good first impression
- Tailor your delivery to the circumstances of the moment: the goal is to maintain a conversational tone and not sound rehearsed
If you're still stuck, take a peek at this sample elevator pitch:
"Hello, I am Jane Doe and I am currently a junior at Gonzaga University majoring in Public Relations. I believe one of my strengths is my ability to problem solve critically while working in a team. I enjoy learning and social media. I am looking for an internship opportunity that allows me to expand my developing leadership skills while gaining new insights into the field of communications. It is a pleasure meeting you and thank you in advance for your assistance with my search!"


text:
Home >> Daily News >> Indonesia News >>Transport >> One public entity to control urban transportation services: Govt
One public entity to control urban transportation services: Govt
Indonesia: The Transportation Ministry is planning to restructure the ownership of the country's urban transportation in a move that will see one entity controlling urban transportation services, hence making them more affordable for users.
"It is time to restructure the management of urban transportation. It can no longer be privately owned. It has to be controlled under one professional corporation, because we are planning to subsidize it," the ministry's acting director general for land transportation, Sugihardjo, told reporters on Thursday evening.
Average monthly expenses for transportation in Indonesia account for 30 percent of the minimum wage after the hike in subsidized-fuel prices, far higher than the World Bank's standard of 12 to 15 percent, according to ministry data.
"Based on this data, the government has committed to subsidizing urban transportation; however, if we provide them with subsidies now, it would be hard to control as it might be used for personal use," Sugihardjo said.
Metromini and Kopaja minibuses in Jakarta, for instance, are currently owned and operated by private owners, without a single management system.
Sugiharjo said that Law No. 22/2009 on traffic encourages urban transportation operators to establish a corporation to ease control processes.
He said, however, that several social aspects should first be taken into consideration, before deciding to establish one single urban transportation corporation.
"It will take years before we can realize this plan, since we have to make sure that people who are currently working in the sector are able to find alternative jobs. Obviously it will take time and we will first discuss this with Organda [Organization of Land Transportation Owners]," he said.
According to Sugiharjo, under one professional management body, the efficiency of land transportation could also be controlled.
"For instance, the public transportation system could operate more buses during peak hours, in the morning and in the afternoon, and less during noontime. Therefore it would also help to reduce traffic," he said.
Separately, Organda secretary-general Andriansyah said that the organization had since last year assisted the government in realizing the plan, and that a lot of minibus operators had formed cooperations to help better manage their vehicles since last year.
"We are basically supporting the plan as this will also help to realize the incentives promised by the government for public transportation operators," Andriansyah told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
Meanwhile, Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan said that to help operators cope with an increase in costs due to the subsidized-fuel price increase from Rp 6,500 (53 US cents) to Rp 8,500 per liter, the government was mulling over a plan to provide incentives that could include exemptions for import duties and value-added tax for public transportation spare parts.
The government has previously stipulated a maximum 10-percent increase in tariff adjustments for intra-provincial public transportation following the 30-percent hike in subsidized-fuel prices.
The country's public transportation load factor is only around 45 percent this year, down from around 60 percent last year, Organda data showed.
Organda chairwoman Eka Sari Lorena Surbakti previously said that a lower load factor and an increase in operational costs from higher fuel prices had hurt public transportation businesses.
"We've asked the government to provide incentives to help revitalize public transport," she said.
"However, up until now, we have not seen the government's commitment to supporting the public transport sector," she continued.
Letters that do not contain full contact information cannot be published.
Letters become the property of AseanAffairs and may be republished in any format.
They typically run 150 words or less and may be edited
submit your comment in the box below
Home | About Us | Contact Us | Special Feature | Features | News | Magazine | Events | TV | Press Release | Advertise With us
| Terms of Use | Site Map | Privacy Policy | DISCLAIMER |


text:
Sold Out
The three dimensional flower link chain in this piece is so pretty and has a great texture. This 14k gold, early Victorian link is paired with a segment of gold filled chain that dates to the 1900's. A tiny glass and gold filled fob c. 1850's completes the necklace. The glass in this fob is really cool, a combination of yellow, pink and orange that reminds me of orange sherbet.
I have a love for fobs and try to always have a nice selection. They make wonderful pendants and layering pieces.
Details.....The chain is 20" long and the fob measures 0.63" by 0.33".
Each item from this line of Jewelry is unique and incorporates re-purposed Vintage and Antique pieces, small imperfections are to be expected and considered part of the charm.


text:
Hey there beautiful people, especially my fellow Uloggers... :) <3
It's been a while since I wrote a ULOG post.
I have been busy in a good way and to be honest there are a lot of things that I want to share and talk about, but let's try to take it slowly. lol
Around a week or so ago, I often went out with my parents... that's also the reason why I couldn't write anything. However, now that I'm back to work, I have more time to write. Isn't it ironic? hahaha
Well, that's the case for me. Somehow, if I'm at work I face the computer most of the time and that allows me to insert blogging in my daily routine. Whereas when I'm out somewhere, I just enjoy every little thing. Also when I get home, I feel exhausted and would be lazy to write. sorry about that
Anyway, let me share to you a couple of picture with my family. <3
Sorry if the pictures are a bit blurry. I don't know why but my phone usually looks for its owner. hahaha I mean, when somebody else uses it to take a picture, they often have a hard time trying to find the right timing for it to focus. Well, that's also the reason why I don't have decent photos of myself unless I take a selfie. lol I guess, I'm more suited to be behind the camera. <3
We took this photo in one of the restaurants in SM Seaside. My father had to renew some documents in one of the government offices situated inside the mall, so mama and I accompanied him. Lucky for us because papa treated us to lunch. Their chicken and their mushroom soup are my favorite. <3
I didn't take pictures of the food because... you know, m stomach was already shouting. Yep, I was already starving. haha
Well, in the end we had a great time. Food definitely tastes better when you share it with people who are dear to you.
The mall already has Christmas decorations. I'll share it with you soon as I still have to edit the photos. See you again and thanks for reading!
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Thank you for supporting @CatsMakeKittens by being a part of our community @tegoshei.
Each CATS you purchase gets you daily upvotes from me @CatScientist as our community grows so do your rewards for being a member!
This post is upvoted by @dblog.supporter.
Visit https://dblog.io now! This is a tribe for all bloggers on Steem blockchain.
Sent you something with gratitude. Kindly read this short post:
Where possible, kindly let us do a livestream if you are a public figure on steem. I would like to explain many things, including listen to you and your dreams. I would value this too.
Yummy ila chicken noh? 😋


text:
HP TouchPad Coming to AT&T
HP's TouchPad tablet may have debuted only days ago, but its next version is already on the way. The 4G version of the TouchPad will soon become available through AT&T.
Pricing and release dates were not made available.
"Consumers and small business customers are seeking cutting-edge mobile computing devices that offer easy access to the web and the ability to stay in touch with friends and clients on the go," David Haight, vice president, Business Development, Emerging Devices, AT&T, said as part of the announcement.
Related Content


text:
So, there must be something special about the game itself. It's a deceptively simple game of strategy, easier to learn than chess, and appropriate for almost all age of players. Even as kids, we had a great time competing at Merrills, also known by its English name Nine Men's Morris, even if the lengthy tournaments sometimes ended in tearful dejection (mostly the fault of my poor sportsmanship). Seek out the rules and you'll see how straightforward the game can be.
All it takes is a board and eighteen uniform pieces of two different shades (dark and light colored pebbles work well). Check out the stone below for the layout of the game board. Challenge!


text:
The Video Dead is a low-budget zombie shocker that unlike many other films in the same genre, does the unthinkable by being original and doing something new. It might not look all that good due to the special effects that border between shoddy and not bad and there is a lot of supposed humour that fails to hit thanks to a script that could have been vastly improved, but there is a little bit to love despite those elements that work against it.
It all begins with the arrival of a television that also happens to be a gateway for the undead, a portal through which zombies can pass through and that is exactly what they do. For those that get in their way, it does not end well and when it comes to Zoe and Jeff, while it might seem quite fantastical to them, they realise they will have to somehow fight back against those creatures or suffer the same fate as those around them.
Watching this, one cannot help but find it laughable and that is also the key to watching this film because if the audience were to take it seriously, a good time would not be had. As silly as it is and there are some truly ridiculous moments like the undead bride in the kitchen and characters that appear for a one-off appearance for whatever reason and then are never seen again, it still manages to hold the attention of the viewer, not because it is any good but simply for the fact that it is just so crazy.
As for the good to be found, the zombies are different than the normal shambling, rotting, wanting to eat brains type of creature. These particular monsters still believe that they are alive, unaware that they are trapped in a sort of un-life and as such, they keep trying to do the things they did while still alive which is where a lot of the unintentional or intentional laughter comes from. The old 'destroy the brain' routine does not happen to work for dispatching these monstrosities, but there are other ways as like showing them a mirror to convince them that they are in fact dead or trapping them in an enclosed space so that they go dormant. Writer director Robert Scott should be applauded for doing something different than the norm as it definitely adds a little tension to the proceedings as well as some added horror. These are not zombies that will go down easy and that should frighten anyone who encounters them.
Some movies never make it to the big screen and usually for a good reason. When it comes to The Video Dead, it was probably a blessing but for all of its faults, it does a good job of creating a new mythology for the venerable creatures and it is something more filmmakers should try to do when creating works of their own.
2.5 out of 5
Categories: Uncategorized


text:
Content Count5
Last visited
About MaxF
Profile Information
Are you University user?
Recent Profile Visitors
The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.
Post-Processing Plots explanation
MaxF replied to MaxF's topic in Altair HyperStudyHello Rahul, thanks for the link. The video was really helpful. Are there similar videos for the explanation and derivation of each plot?
Post-Processing Plots explanation
MaxF posted a topic in Altair HyperStudyHello together, I was wondering if there are some kind of tutorials or explanations of the post-processing plots of HyperStudy. I'm trying to understand how ever data set in HyperStudy is been calculated and how every plot is created. Especially the pareto plot, the ordination plot and the linear effects plot are interesting to me. In all the ebooks and overviews I've read hasn't been a complete explanation how HyperStudy creates these plots. Are there some video tutorials or pdf documents where maybe an example is calculated to show which methods are used? It would be a great help if someone has any documents, videos or experiences where I can get this information. I can't really estimate if this is already to deep into learning the program or maybe I just didn't find the right files. I hope somebody can help me out on this topic. Cheers Max
Post Processing
MaxF replied to MaxF's topic in Altair HyperStudyHi Hyperman, thanks for the note on the ebook. I've read it through and I have some additional questions. I really try to understand all of the post-processing values. Some of them I still don't understand or understand where the numbers come from. I have listed some values here: 1) in the Integrity Plot in the category health: How are Bad Values und Excluded Values defined? 2) in the Integrity Plot in the category quality: How are all the Max Bound 99%, Max Bound 95%, Max Bound 90%, Min Bound 90%, Min Bound 95%, Min Bound 99% values defined? 3) with which exakt Methode is the ordination plot been made? I found a link where they say a Principal Component Analysis is used. But do they use an orthogonal or a linear regression to build the variance? 4) I did a convergence analysis to get an impression when an output value converges to the final distribution of values etc. Have you any experience how many runs a study (depending on the specification) has to have to get a valid result. I hope you can help me out here again.
MaxF started following Define Output Response as vector instead of a value (scalar) and Post Processing
Post Processing
MaxF posted a topic in Altair HyperStudyHello Guys, is there such a thing as a users guide for DOEs and especially for the post processing opportunities? I am using the software a few days and I'm wondering what all the post processing monitors show and how the numbers are calculated. Can you help me to understand these thing a bit better? Cheers Max
Hello together, is it possible to define and save a result (graph) in the output response window as a vector with all the given points instead of just evaluate one result for a specific point. For example: I have the given curve as shown in the picture. Now i want to save this curve or graph as a vector or in a similar format. With the tutorials I can only read out one specific value of the curve at one given point. But my aspiration is it to save the whole curve, to display it or use it for a vectorial calculation. Do you have any advise how i can do this with hyperstudy? Is it possible to do this in the define output response window? Thanks in advance and cheers


text:
Concessionaire HMSHost at Los Angeles International Airport has donated $125,000 from its 2011 fundraising campaign to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, a member of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
To kick-off the concessionaire's 2012 fundraising campaign, the newly opened Nate 'n Al Delicatessen in Terminal 2 donated 10 percent of its Jan. 17-24 sales at both LAX and its flagship location in Beverly Hills to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, a HMSHost spokesperson said.
"We are both grateful for 2011 and excited about our 2012 partnership with HMSHost at LAX," said Joanne Reyes, assistant vice president of Corporate Partnerships and Cause Marketing for Children's Hospital. "The genuine care that HMSHost has already shown to Children's Hospital is outstanding, and we are proud that HMSHost is helping us to create hope and build healthier futures for the children in our community."
Throughout 2011, HMSHost's LAX associates and their families participated in numerous efforts such as the Walk for Kids 5K fundraiser; encouraging travelers to donate CMN coin donation canisters at HMSHost's LAX restaurants; and the "Christmas in July" toy drive in partnership with Los Angeles World Airports.
"LAWA strongly believes in social responsibility and we praise HMSHost's generous and continuous support of Children's Miracle Network and Children's Hospital Los Angeles," LAWA Managing Director for Media and Public Relations Mary Grady said.
HMSHost operates in more than 100 airports around the globe, including the 20 busiest airports in North America.


text:
ARC International Fertility Centre is all set to organise one of its biggest events, 2nd ARC International Infertility Meet. The conference will be conducted on the 24th and 25th of November, 2018 at the ITC Grand Chola Chennai. The conference will be attended by a panel of eminent guests which includes the National and International Faculties.
What is the prime objective of the seminar?
The main aim of the conference is to bring in the fertility experts under one roof so as to synergize the activities, knowledge and advancements that have taken place in the field. The think tank will be able to project out the importance of various treatments and the inclusion of new and advanced technology that can empower the existing treatments.
Special sessions will be conducted on setting up of iui/ivf labs. Setup, Support & maintenance by ARC stalwarts for limited registrants. Sessions on Andrology & IVF Equipments ( identification, purchase & maintenances), Training, Tieup, Academics & joint businesses across the country will be conducted with ARC hospitals for limited registrants.
We will be discussing the various challenges In reproductive medicine and how we can overcome it.
Practical and evidence based knowledge shall be provided to level up the knowledge base of the Clinicians, Gynecologists & Embryologists who are upcoming in the field of reproductive medicine.
Topics covered in the meet are:
Every relevant topic related to infertility treatment based on both domestic and international arena shall be covered.
45 topics & 4 debatable panels on the following:
(a) Andrology,
(b) Reproductive Medicine
(c) Embryology
(d) Genetics
(e) Hystero Lap surgeries
(f) Recent advances
Certificate of participation
A certificate of participation will be given to all the eligible participants.
Let us bring in a more hopeful world for those whose greatest desire is to beget a child of their own. Let us stand together and strengthen the field of reproductive medicine. Attend the best international infertility meet in Tamil Nadu. To know more about obstetrics and gynaecology conferences in Chennai, India, Contact us….
Visit Us : aiim-conference.com
Mail Us : firstname.lastname@example.com
Register now : aiim-conference.com/registration.php
Mail Us : email@example.com
Register now : aiim-conference.com/registration.php


text:
The Right Impression
Swag, giveaways, handouts are just some of the names used to describe branded merchandise, all of which help to diminish the perception of our industry. This impression isn't helped if we act merely as order takers, showing clients a glossy catalogue, letting them pick out something they like the look of that fits their
Now that it's so easy to search online, produce a layout and order without getting any advice, it is vital that merchandise companies educate customers to value our profession and treat us in the same way they would an agency. We need to be tangible marketing experts, keep up to date with current trends, and have the knowledge of a wide range of products, branding methods and packaging.
This is not to say that there isn't a place for trade catalogues, but they should be accompanied with guidance and advice, not just mailed out on their own without any thought and most likely filed in the bin or at best together with the stationery catalogues – which also now feature promotional products. Catalogues can be a good starting point, but they do not show how you can utilise the products creatively. We need to be proud of the industry we are in and truly believe that what we sell works, and that people really are influenced by receiving a memorable piece.
That means showing our clients examples of campaigns that have worked, and letting them in on the results and the cost per impression compared to that of other advertising methods. The dream position for us is for clients to include our solutions in their marketing mix on every occasion, even with digital campaigns where tangible products can be complementary to a campaign. With this in mind the BPMA has set up an end user group with greater end user engagement being its primary objective. A number of initiatives have been undertaken with the aim on moving our association and the industry to the next level. Talk to experts – you can't Google what you don't know.


text:
Someone Dressed like Zorro on 'The Voice'
How are we doing after the first round of live eliminations? Good? Good. I think it's important to do a periodic morale check. On Monday's episode of The Voice, Cee Lo Green was dressed like Zorro. Adam Levine told Cee Lo he was dressed like Zorro. Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera laughed at Adam telling Cee Lo he was dressed like Zorro. Oh, I think some people sang, too. Yep. One dozen people sang. The following are the six that I liked the most. The other six? They made my ears shrivel up into dust clouds. I'm JOKING. The other six were stellar, too (for the most part. Whoa, Kristie! How CATTY).
Caroline Pennell singing "Wake Me Up": I actually laughed out loud when Cee Lo told her she'd be singing this. While on a road trip this past weekend, my boyfriend and I heard the song approximately 45 times on the radio. At one point, he said, "Ugh, this sounds like something that'd be on The Voice." He has The Gift! Caroline's performance was good (per usual), and Blake commented that she "stayed in the pocket" despite the audience's off-rhythm clapping. HOORAY FOR THE POCKET!
Jacquie Lee singing "Love Is Blindness": How is Jacquie real? Can someone please tell me? She was scream-singing so hard. But in a good way. Scream-singing can be a mess, but Jacquie was no where near mess status. Jacquie is THE DEAL. She's totally in my top three, no question. Xtina gave her a standing ovation and I was pumping my fist in the air like The Situation. Translation: It was a successful performance.
Matthew Schuler singing "Hallelujah": Good golly-lera, Miss Aguilera! Playing to WIN. I know this is an overdone singing competition song, but I knew Matthew would set the place on fire. He did set the place on fire. Figuratively, crimeny! Simmer down. Xtina, once again, called him "magical." And he was.
Austin Jenckes singing "It's a Great Day to Be Alive": Loved this! I dug that Austin maintained his natural tone and didn't force a "country affectation." Or so I thought. Cee Lo commented that Austin did add a little twang to his performance. I guess Cee Lo and I are in a fight? Twang or no twang, the performance was delightful.
Cole Vosbury singing "Adorn You": I liked this weird choice for Cole. He sounded great on this song, even if it was a coffeehouse version. He sang like a member of a '90s boy band, but the gritty, soulful member of a '90s boy band. I promise that is one of the highest compliments I can pay someone.
Tessanne Chin singing "My Kind of Love": Will a record company sign her already? She's too good for this competition. That being said, this performance wasn't my favorite Tessanne performance. That doesn't matter, however, because it still was a perfect performance. I enjoyed it immensely. She delivered the amazingness we've come to expect from her.
Adam was self-conscious about his cardigan. He wanted to fit in with the other, black-clad coaches. So, he changed into a leather jacket. OKAY, Levine. Whatever makes you happy. Xtina and Cee Lo took it upon themselves to offer up their handheld fans. I think he felt included?
Carson Daly warns/informs us that tomorrow night's episode will bring a "huge, new twist" that has NEVER been on television. Is it the Instant Save? I think it's the Instant Save. Bring it on, Daly. Bring. It. On.
Image: Tyler Golden/NBC


text:
Kosovo: Serbs vote again in MitrovicaComments
Voters in Kosovo's volatile north are heading to the polls again on Sunday, as NATO-led peacekeepers boost their presence in the region.
Authorities ordered a re-run of a local election at three polling centres in the Serb part of Mitrovica.
Masked men attacked several polling stations during the original ballot earlier this month.
Mitrovica is split between a majority of ethnic Serbs in the north of the city, and ethnic Albanians in the south.
Suspected hardline ethnic Serbs are thought to be responsible for smashing ballot boxes in the original vote.
The election had been organised by ethnic Albanians.
The Serb-run part of the city has defied ethnic Albanian rule since the end of the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
Serb participation in Sunday's vote is a key part of an EU-brokered deal to normalise relations between Kosovo and Serbia.


text:
Berghaus Glove Liner
The lowdown
Keep your hands insulated and stay connected with your touch screen device – whether your smart phone, laptop, MP3 player or GPS system – with the unisex Touch Screen POLARTEC® Gloves.Conductive fingertip patches enable use of a touch screen device whilst wearing your gloves so you can use your mobile gadgets with ease – whether on the hill or in the city.
Weight (approx.): 42g
- Features & Benefits
- Includes metalised pads on the thumb and forefinger allowing the gloves to offer insulation and touchscreen compatibility in the great outdoors
- Delivery
We offer both standard and express delivery options.
• European Express Delivery €11.95
• European Standard Delivery €7.95 (FREE for orders over €100)
> approx 5-6 working days
> approx 1-3 working days (based on orders received by 2.00pm the previous day)
• Worldwide Express Delivery €24.00
• Worldwide Standard Delivery €14.95 (FREE for orders over €100)
> approx 15 working days
> approx 7 working days (based on orders received by 2.00pm the previous day)
Delivery to BFPO addresses for personal or overseas missions and exercises is also €14.95
- Product Lifetime Guarantee
A lifetime of adventure. Guaranteed. Berghaus products can do (almost) anything
For 50 years, Berghaus has been committed to endless innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence. We believe passionately that our products make a real difference to the people who use them – and we guarantee our gear will stand up to the task it's intended for (yes, that does rule out using your jacket as a paragliding sail).
What people say


text: The Fujinon TF15DA-8 is a very high quality C-mount lens designed for the toughest industrial environments. It is a fixed 15mm focal length lens with a maximum aperture of f/2.2. All functions, iris and focus, are manually controlled. In robotics and machine vision uses the lens can resolve enough detail for the highest grade of 3-CCD cameras. It can close-focus down to about 4".


text:
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the birthplace of some of its most enduring music styles: juju, fuji, Afrobeat, Naija pop, and some would say, highlife—though don't tell that to a Ghanaian! Today's Nigerian popular music unquestionably dominates the airwaves and dancehalls of the continent, and its overall entertainment industry—film, television, literature, fashion and more—is a model of achievement studied and emulated by African entrepreneurs everywhere.
Afropop Worldwide launched on American public radio in 1988, after its creator Sean Barlow experienced Nigerian juju star King Sunny Ade full force in concert in 1983. In 2017, the program comes full circle with an in-depth, five-part series delving deeply into music, history, art, politics, religion and life in four regions of this vast and varied nation.
In the fall of 2016 and winter 2017, three Afropop producers spent over two months gathering music and interviewing artists, activists, scholars and other players in the music scenes of Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano and Edo State. The result is Afropop's most ambitious undertaking to date, a set of radio documentaries and Web offerings that add up to a profound musical portrait of Nigeria.
In March, Afropop produced the program "Hip Deep in Nigeria Preview," a lively, wide-ranging journey hosted by Georges Collinet and the three series producers, Banning Eyre, Sean Barlow and Morgan Greenstreet.
Hip Deep in Nigeria is funded by:
Edo Highlife: Culture, Politics and Progressive Traditionalism
Highlife—West Africa's pioneer popular music of the late colonial and independence periods—has mostly faded from popularity in 21st century Nigeria. However, highlife is alive and well in Edo State, 300 kilometers east of Lagos, and the center of the former Benin Empire. Edo highlife musicians fill the role of traditional musicians by animating community ceremonies such as weddings and funerals, and praising prominent members of the community, in exchange for "financial love." This traditionalism is also progressive: Edo highlife music draws on traditional genres like asonogun, ojeke, agbi, ivbiagogo, and ekassa, and musicians continue to incorporate instruments and styles from neighboring Yoruba communities and Western popular music. In this Hip Deep program, we'll hear how Edo highlife musicians have found sustainable careers by simultaneously rooting their music in their local communities and appealing to diasporic enclaves in Europe and the United States. Their local support has even allowed certain musicians to broach political themes, singing in support or in critique of specific politicians, a rare occurrence in contemporary Nigeria. We'll hear from legends and innovators including Sir Victor Uwaifo, Ambassador Osayomore Joseph, and Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, as well as current stars including Dr. Afile, Akobeghian and Johnbull Obakpolor. Produced by Morgan Greenstreet and Austin 'Maro Emielu.
Sir Victor Uwaifo, Superstar: In His Own Words
Austin Emielu: Edo Highlife as Progressive Traditionalism
Edo Highlife Discography and Mixtape
Hip Deep In the Niger Delta
The massive Niger River Delta is a fantastically rich cultural region and ecosystem. Unfortunately, it has been laid low by the brutal Biafran War (1967-70) and by decades of destructive and mismanaged oil exploration. This program offers a portrait of the region in two stories. First, we chronicle the Biafran War through the timeless highlife music of Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, perhaps the most popular musician in Nigeria at the time. Then we spend time with contemporary musical activists in Port Harcourt's waterfront communities and in oil-ravaged Ogoniland to hear how music is providing hope for these profoundly challenged communities. The program features new and classic music, the words of Nigerian scholars, musicians, activists and veterans of the Biafran War, concluding with an inspiring live highlife concert on the Port Harcourt waterfront in which rappers and highlife graybeards come together to imagine a better road ahead. Produced by Banning Eyre.
Mark LeVine On the Niger Delta and More
Hip Deep in Northern Nigeria
Kano State in northwest Nigeria is a land of paradox. The ancient home of the Hausa people, it has ties back to the oldest civilizations in West Africa. Muslim since around the 12th century, the region remained largely self-administered during the era of British colonialism, and never significantly adapted Christianity or Western culture and values as in other parts of Nigeria. In 2000, Kano instituted Shariah law. But by that time, the city of Kano was also the center of a large and active film industry, dubbed Kannywood. And it would soon be home to a nascent coterie of hip-hop artists. There have been a series of high-profile conflicts and crises between these forces of religion, politics and art in the years since. But as the Afropop crew discovered, Kano has achieved a delicate balance that allows film and music to continue apace under the watchful eye of clerics and a censorship board. We visit studios producing local nanaye music, with its echoes of Hausa tradition and Indian film music. We also meet young Hausa hip-hop artists striving to develop careers under uniquely challenging circumstances.
Abdalla Uba Adamu: Music, Film, Culture and Religion in Northern Nigeria
Carmen McCain: The Culture of Kannywood
Lagos Roots: Fuji, Juju and Apala
Beneath the gloss of Nigeria's contemporary pop, older roots styles, mostly derived from Yoruba tradition, still thrive. In this program, we meet four top stars of fuji music, the percussion-driven, message-heavy, and occasionally profane trance music that animates weddings and parties on a daily basis in hidden corners of Lagos. Rival "kings" K1 de Ultimate and Saheed Osupa, and a rare woman of fuji, Salawa Abeni, take us inside the rough and tumble of an exciting musical subculture little known outside Nigeria. We also meet juju legend Shina Peters and meet up-and-comers on the Lagos roots scene. This program fills out our Hip Deep portrait of a vibrant African city where music holds the keys to a tumultuous collision of cultures and peoples. Produced by Banning Eyre.
Features:2baba Talks: "The Future Is Bright For Nigerian Music" Interview: Yemi Alade
#1: Hitting the Ground Running
#5: Port Hartcourt-Biafra and Oil
Hip Deep in Nigeria Preview
In recent months, three Afropop Worldwide producers–Sean Barlow, Banning Eyre and Morgan Greenstreet–have been working in four different regions of Nigeria to gather material for the upcoming five-part Hip Deep in Nigeria series. In this program, the producers sit down to talk about their experiences, share favorite stories and tracks, and preview Afropop Worldwide's most ambitious field project in our 30-year history. We'll hear Naija pop, fuji, nanaye film songs and Hausa hip-hop from the north, and highlife from Edo and Rivers States.
Remembering Fela
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti would be 79 years old this month, had he not died from complications of AIDS in 1997. By the time of his death, Fela was the inventor of the enduring and influential Afrobeat music style, the composer of an enormous body of music, and one of the bravest political voices in 20th century African music. It is fair to say that no African musician before or since has sacrificed more for the principles he believed in. Nigerian history and music have barreled forth during the two decades since Fela left us. A powerful new generation of Nigerian musicians have emerged in that time, and the music they now champion has been dubbed "Afrobeats," an appropriation of the name Fela gave his original sound during its heyday. The youngest artists on the scene today have no direct memory of Fela, though his legacy is impossible to escape. In this program, we hear from current day Nigerians from multiple generations and genres—fuji, juju, hip-hop (Afrobeats) and highlife—on how they remember this musical giant, and how they reckon with his complex and challenging legacy. Produced by Banning Eyre and Morgan Greenstreet. Hosted by Sahr Ngaujah.


text:
If your family loves cheeseburgers, they will love this casserole! Quick and Easy but it will taste like you slaved over the stove. Its always a challenge to find new things to make, so you don't feel like your stuck making the same old thing over and over again.
2 cups(6ounces) cooked pasta- choose your favorite!
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 garlic clove, minced
1 1/2 cups onions, chopped
1 pound ground beef
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
2 Tablespoons tomato paste
28 ounce can diced tomatoes
2 Tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 cups cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 cup dill pickles, chopped
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with your cooking spray.
- In a skillet, heat the oil over medium heat. Combine the onions, garlic and hamburger and cook until browned. Season with the salt and pepper. Stir in the tomato paste, then add the tomatoes and the mustard. Let the mixture bubble gently until it is slightly thickened. It will take about 3 to 4 minutes.
- Toss the meat mixture with the pasta and spread into the baking dish. Top with cheddar and bake until the cheese is melted and gooey! 15 to 20 minutes to bake. Sprinkle the pickle on the top of the casserole.
I know, pickles????? Yes, it really works!!!!!!


text:
This past May I worked with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to apply Google's suite of cloud AI APIs to analyze a week of television news coverage to examine how AI "sees" television and what insights we might gain into the world of non-consumptive deep learning-powered video understanding. Using Google's video, image, speech and natural language APIs as lenses, more than 600GB of machine annotations trace how deep learning algorithms today understand video. What lessons can we learn about the state of AI today and how it can be applied in creative ways to catalog and explore the vast world of video?
Working with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, a week of television news was selected covering CNN, MSNBC and Fox News and the morning and evening broadcasts of San Francisco affiliates KGO (ABC), KPIX (CBS), KNTV (NBC) and KQED (PBS) from April 15 to April 22, 2019, totaling 812 hours of television news. This week was selected due to it having two major stories, one national (the Mueller report release on April 18th) and one international (the Notre Dame fire on April 15th).
Each of Google's production cloud AI APIs was applied to the video collection with all features enabled. Its Video AI API was run directly on the videos natively. To test the ability to analyze videos as sampled image sequences, each video was also split into 1fps samples and each still image analyzed through Google's Cloud Vision API. The audio stream from each video was run through Google's Cloud Speech-to-Text API to test its automatic captioning and both the original station-provided captioning and the automatically generated transcripts were processed using Google's Natural Language API.
Using AI algorithms to catalog and understand video rather than humans makes it possible to assess video at scale in non-consumptive fashion, opening the door to whole-archive explorations of the lenses through which we see the world.
Today the Television News Archive is analyzed primarily through keyword search of the station-provided closed captioning, with a wide range of journalists using it to do everything from trace discussion of topics over time to analyze the distinctive language of each station. However, keyword search is limited by the simple fact that the searcher must already have an idea of what they are interested in – one can't examine an entire corpus to ask what are the most "interesting" things within.
Converting captioning to ngram word frequency histograms, it becomes possible to run a wide range of whole-archive analyses, from visualizing emotions like anxiety over time to assessing word correlations to measuring speaking rates to surfacing the defining topics of each day. Such analyses allow the data itself to speak, pointing to interesting or unexpected trends.
As powerful as they are, ngrams are still extremely limited, representing language as simple ordered lists of words and groups of words, rather than semantically meaningful entities.
Using Google's Natural Language API, a broadcast transcript suddenly becomes more than a collection of mere words: it becomes a semantic list of high-order entities and topics and the dependency parse trees that relate and connect them, allowing broadcasts to be cataloged semantically rather than syntactically.
Closed captioning is far from perfect and the typographical errors and imperfect transcriptions of hand-keyed captioning can impact its ability to index a broadcast, from keyword search to ngrams to natural language analysis.
Automated speech recognition has advanced to the point that Google's Speech-to-Text API now performs on par with human transcriptionists, achieving greater than 90% match with human-typed captions. In fact, machine captioning is now so accurate that much of the difference between the human and machine captions comes from the greater fidelity and accuracy of the machine transcript.
Closed captioning isn't the only source of text in news broadcasts. At any given moment there is typically a tweet's worth of onscreen text in the video portion of a broadcast. OCR'ing this text makes it possible to keyword search all of this previously inaccessible text. Scanning for Twitter handles, it is possible to flag the more than two hours of Trump tweets shown during the analyzed week. Converting this OCR'd text into ngram tables makes it possible to perform basic topic modeling of onscreen text over time.
Of course, what makes television news unique compared with the online journalism that forms the basis of most news analyses is the visual landscape that comprises the majority of its informational transfer. Television news conveys much of its narrative through the imagery that fills the screen and it is this visual component that truly showcases the power of deep learning to unlock new modalities.
Using Google's Video AI and Cloud Vision APIs, each broadcast can be translated into a sequence of topical annotations, recording the objects and activities onscreen moment by moment. In much the same way that natural language annotations of text convert transcripts from piles of words into meaningful semantic objects and activities, video annotations translate sequences of visual imagery into meaningful catalog tags allowing videos to be understood through what they depict.
At the presentation level, questions like average shot length can be readily computed. Questions about the centrality of the human face to news coverage can also be trivially answered using such annotations, confirming that upwards of 70% of television news features a human face in some way. Deeper questions like the emotion conveyed by those faces can also be understood, such as which station features the angriest commentators.
Most deep learning approaches to content understanding focus on self-contained models in which all of the annotations applied to a video come from the model itself. Yet Cloud Vision API's "Web entities" reverse image search offers the intriguing ability to effectively crowdsource the open Web for greater context about a particular video frame. Taking each frame of a video and searching the Web for appearances of it or a very similar depiction of the same subject makes it possible to link the online and broadcast worlds. Most interestingly, it makes it possible to see how a given subject has been described across the Web over time, enriching predefined model-produced annotations with the vastly larger and richer context of the human experience.
In the end, today's off-the-shelf cloud AI offerings have reached the point where it is possible to simply make a few API calls to transform a week of television news into rich non-consumptive machine annotations that make a vast range of new explorations and analyses accessible to understand the lens through which we see the world around us in a whole new and non-consumptive light.
I'd like to thank the Internet Archive and its Television News Archive, especially its Director Roger Macdonald. I'd like to thank Google for the use of its cloud, including its Video AI, Vision AI, Speech-to-Text and Natural Language APIs and their associated teams for their guidance.
Based in Washington, DC, I founded my first internet startup the year after the Mosaic web browser debuted, while still in eighth grade, and have spent the last 20 years…
Based in Washington, DC, I founded my first internet startup the year after the Mosaic web browser debuted, while still in eighth grade, and have spent the last 20 years working to reimagine how we use data to understand the world around us at scales and in ways never before imagined. One of Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013 and a 2015-2016 Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform, I am a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. From 2013-2014 I was the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence of International Values, Communications Technology & the Global Internet at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where I was also adjunct faculty. From 2014-2015 I was a Council Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government. My work has appeared in the presses of over 100 nations.


text:
The Father of the video games as we know them has sadly passed away at age 92. Join me in wishing all his family and friends our heartfelt condolences and never ending gratitude for bringing so much joy to this world.
2014 has not been a very good year in people we have lost, so hopefully it ends quickly and without further loss. Here is the full thirty minute presentation where Ralph and Bill Harrison demonstrate the possibilities of interactive TV in 1969.
RIP good sir, RIP. =(


text:
Bali is not just hanging around the pool or beach with the kids; instead, the place is a treat for the entire family. Read on and discover some very exciting places to visit promising loads of fun for all.
Head over to the Temega Tree House in Karangasem and you have a restaurant cum tree house and a suspension bridge to enjoy. Loved by teens, and adults alike, the place is ideal for a day of adventure and time in the folds of nature. Start off with a delicious local meal at the restaurant, then leave your table and head along the suspension bridge to the tree-house, from there you can enjoy expansive views of the surrounding region, including the terraced paddy fields Karangasem is famous for.
Well, this is what fun things in Bali is all about, the ideal adventure to plan with family or friends; Sea Safari's dinner cruises are loads of fun. For starters, you actually get to wear pirate costumes, act like a pirate for a night and join in the fun games, organised by non-other than the pirate crew. And it's not just kids who get to enjoy the cruise, everyone does, especially the entertainment consisting of belly dancers, daredevil fire dancers, games and prizes. Apart from all the activity, you can look forward to a delicious dinner buffet and the thrills of sailing into the setting sun.
The personalised family accommodation Bali has on offer is pretty awesome, hence, the island does welcome a lot of kids; and there's no better place to let the little tykes blow off some energy than Bali Treetop Adventure in Bedugul. On offer are the thrills of swinging through trees and walking along the elevated bridges connecting each tree. There are a total of 7 circuits offering varying degrees of difficulty and a chance to show your skills at 72 obstacles. Levels climb as high as 200 metres, quite a treat for the adrenaline junky. All climbers are secured with safety wires, and kids are often known to put adults to shame here.
Pretend to be floating around everyday objects, inside a common house, which is placed – upside down. Everything is turned upside down, and you get to have lots of fun pretending to be floating around the rooms or hanging onto objects for dear life. Within half an hour's drive from properties such as Holiday Inn Resort Bali Benoa, this place is ideal for families or friends looking to relish a good laugh together.
Take the kids to their ultimate dream destination – a chocolate factory! Watch in fascination as cocoa beans are transformed into your favourite chocolate bars and look forward to sampling the end product later. The entire factory is built from bamboo, and quite a treat to explore. In fact, this place has been dubbed the largest commercial bamboo structure by CNN.


text:
Matthew J. Patitz
Associate Professor
(CSCE)-Computer Science & Computer Engineering
Phone: 479-575-5590
Email: email@example.com
Dr. Patitz was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas—Pan American for two years following his graduation and before joining the University of Arkansas. His industry experience, gained between his MS and PhD degrees, includes being a software engineer and team lead for Support.com in Silicon Valley.
He has received multiple NSF grants, including an NSF CAREER grant, to fund research in self-assembling systems, and has published a number of papers related to theory, software, and experimental aspects of self-assembling systems. More informaiton about the research area and his Algorithmic Self-assembly and Natural Computing group's work can be found on Self-assembly.net.
Patitz has a lifelong interest in wrestling and eventually hopes to bolster support for the sport on campus. He and his wife have two children and enjoy traveling. He is also the co-founder and president of Miracle Travel Works, Inc., a non-profit charity that funds medical travel for ill or injured children and their families.
Nanoscale, algorithmic self-assembly
Biomolecular computing
Theoretical computer science
B.S., Computer Science, 1998, Iowa State University
M.S., Computer Science, 2002, Iowa State University
Ph.D., Computer Science, 2010, Iowa State University


text:
We're off to Trainfest in Milwaukee this week, so what better time to look at some of the classic fallen flags that have called this city home?
Milwaukee Road
When you think Milwaukee, Hiawatha's and rib-sided boxcars probably come to mind right after that other bubbly industry that made the city famous. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, better known simply as the Milwaukee Road, had one of the most unique freight car fleets in the midwest.
Perhaps the most distinctive were its home-built cars which included the unique boxcars and cabooses with horizontal stiffening "ribs" on the exterior. These cars traveled the country from the 1940s to the 1980s.
The Milwaukee's distinctive look began to fade in 1986 when it was merged into the Soo Line, which today is part of CP Rail. Still, decades after the merger you can still find billboard-lettered covered hoppers and even the occasional boxcar roaming the rails in regular service.
Chicago and North Western
The Milwaukee Road's biggest competitor in its hometown was the Chicago and Northwestern. The C&NW operated both freight and passenger service into and out of the city.
Like other roads of the region, the CNW served the agricultural industries heavily. From seasonal grain traffic to refrigerated trains serving the brewers, meat packers and markets, the railroad whisked priority freight trains across the upper midwest. Contrasting this traffic was the heavy flow of iron ore, taconite and coal from the region down to the mills on the south shore of Lake Michigan.
The North Western and the Milwaukee Road actually considered a merger in 1970, but the plans never came to be. After divesting many of its western and smaller lines, the remaining property became part of Union Pacific in 1995. The green and yellow freight cars of the railroad can still be found today all over the massive UP system and beyond. A few locomotives even remain in their original paint.
Soo Line
The Soo Line had long been a player in the Milwaukee market, but it also found itself entwined in the history of some of its other carriers. The Soo's presence in Milwaukee obviously grew greatly in 1985 with its acquisition of the Milwaukee Road. In 1987, it then had a hand in the creation of the "new" Wisconsin Central when it sold off its trackage acquired from the original carrier of the same name in 1960.
Today the Soo is an operating subsidiary of Canadian Pacific, existing on paper only as all operations have been fully integrated into the larger system. Those two roads had a long relationship going back to the Nineteenth Century. Although CP had divested itself of most of its ownership in the Soo following the Milwaukee takeover, it would come back to pick up the line entirely in .
Wisconsin Central
The Wisconsin Central is a classic shortline success story. The railroad began like many, acquiring branchlines spun off by larger carriers in the 1980s, starting with the routes of the original Wisconsin Central from Soo Line in 1987. By the 1990s, the Wisconsin Central was a major regional and international player. The WC acquired the Algoma Central, Fox River Valley and Green Bay and Western routes in its home territory in the United States and Canada.
Management then followed a unique course of actions, acquiring rail lines in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The plucky little shortline now had operations on three continents! It eventually grew so successful it was acquired by Canadian National in 2001. Like the Soo Line, it exists in paper form only, with all of the operations absorbed into the parent company.
The railroad became a fan-favorite for its fleet of SD45 and F45 locomotives, some of which are preserved today. But also like the Soo, Milwaukee, and C&NW, you'll still find plenty of maroon Wisconsin Central boxcars roaming the rails. And they'll probably be a common sight for several more years to come.
Chesapeake and Ohio
Perhaps the most unexpected player in the Milwaukee scene was the Chesapeake and Ohio. While the railroad's footprint in the city was small, the C&O did maintain a carfloat operation across Lake Michigan and had a small yard in town where it interchanged with the other lines. A C&O, and later Chessie, switcher could usually be found around the Jones Island yard to handle the work.
Little outlying pockets like this can be exciting finds on railroads and a great way to model your favorite line in a different way. No need for Alleghenies or stainless-steel streamliners here, but it's still the C&O through and through!


text:
Content Count307
Last visitedNever
Everything posted by Commish
Ok, good to know -- would the only valuable replay be from the host's perspective then?
Huh... West as in, 'the archer didn't path as usual and just shot from the get-go?' I see the glance now -- Does the game purely take the host's enemy locations into account, or can a laggy non-host register something happening that ends the round? I ask since Sharken were randomly running on non-existent paths on my end that game, and the other two players that we were building for were also complaining about lag. We run the same exact build consistently and cleanly through 40, but usually individually (no lag) or as a duo (usually minimum lag with just us two). Also -- golden arrows are ~6x more powerful than ogres? The general reaction during the game was 'wut happ' here -- if the replay were expanded to go to the enemy that shot or hit the crystal, or something tracked it saying 'your crystal was destroyed by X', that'd really improve the player experience on this. I still wonder about the above, but the issue of not knowing what ended the game is something I heard a lot even back when I did event hosting years ago. maybe the arrow was shot outside strength drain? Ok, viewing this on a hi-res monitor again. I don't see an arrow hitting it. That particle I was seeing on my low-grade work monitor was a green blob from the Gas Trap. The archer arrow sounds are the archer minions hitting things in the lane. This is a two-aura build, and I have about 4k radius on my Monk. Still not sure where the supposed golden archer is. Anyway, I'm back to confused but am still curious as to the initial questions. Where are you seeing the golden arrow?
i cannot create any games
Commish replied to Derpanium's topic in General DiscussionIf on Windows, go to Network and Sharing Center | Change adapter settings...then make sure that any VPN or VMWare adapters are Disabled. Then restart the game and try it (if that's the issue at hand). If you're on any sort of VPN or virtual adapter, the game gets confused and won't let you create a game until those are disabled and you restart the game.
Huh... West as in, 'the archer didn't path as usual and just shot from the get-go?' I see the glance now -- Does the game purely take the host's enemy locations into account, or can a laggy non-host register something happening that ends the round? I ask since Sharken were randomly running on non-existent paths on my end that game, and the other two players that we were building for were also complaining about lag. We run the same exact build consistently and cleanly through 40, but usually individually (no lag) or as a duo (usually minimum lag with just us two). Also -- golden arrows are ~6x more powerful than ogres? The general reaction during the game was 'wut happ' here -- if the replay were expanded to go to the enemy that shot or hit the crystal, or something tracked it saying 'your crystal was destroyed by X', that'd really improve the player experience on this. I still wonder about the above, but the issue of not knowing what ended the game is something I heard a lot even back when I did event hosting years ago.
Random Crystal Explosion:
Here's a quick Moonbase enemy count vid of Solo, 2p, 3p, 4p: https://youtu.be/6GRFpj_rLYo 11721 with 0 AFK 11709 with 1 AFK 11638 with 2 AFK 11648 with 3 AFK
A few other Quick Bugz 4 u (1) Playing with multiple characters/AFKs: the HIGHEST score doesn't consistently save to the Leaderboards. It tends to pick P4's score if P4 beats the previous personal best. The HIGHEST score does save to 'Best Statistics', but the Leaderboards can have some other character's score thrown to it. The max score of all players should be taken for both. (2) Animorphic Ember pet -- Check the description: MARSHMALLOW is misspelled
Golden enemy, either Sharken / Orc / Wyvern which died within the second or simply an arrow from an Archer. I'm glad you're sure of this, lol. You'd expect a dead body still fading out if this were the case. It'd be nice to have tracking as to 'what hit the crystal'. I also have a video of this and our reaction, which is kinda hilarious, and I can upload that if you want to see it. @Moonbase - I have a full video of the last waves of Moonbase NMHC Survival. I started at the minimum wave iirc, did a one-crystal 105/55 build lol, because it's hilarious. But the run was so boring, and when I brought in my AFKs, the # of enemies decreased ever so slightly. I can upload that video if you want to see it. [[24022,users]] Sup dude? (1) Wave 10 - Survival setup for Embermount should not allow the counter to go from 1-9 if it's intended to start at W10. (2) I guess my Fenixes didn't like me. The moment I put them on the counter and walked out the door for a bit, they flew away, lol. Maybe they flew into the lava outside.
A few additions to what I see above: - Re: Fenix pet not persisting -- I just had 5 Fenix pets disappear completely. Put them on Tavern Item Shop desk, others said they couldn't see them. My Tav Items were locked, so nobody took them, lol. But I ended a session, came back tonight, and they're just gone. Same PC, same login to Steam, etc. It may be a deeper issue than just server-client. I haven't seen the same issue with Animorphic Embers, Ember Ponies, or Moons yet, so likely just specific to the Fenix. - Fenix Pet description: Lacks capitalization. "be careful" should be, "Be careful" -- simple capitalization issue. - Counters that have exactly 1,000 say "1000" (no comma). When they hit 1,001, though? "1,001" displays. There should be a comma in the 1,000 value. Good examples: held mana (pick up exactly 1,000); enemy progress bar counter during a wave with at least 1,000 enemies. - Embermount Survival -- starting on Waves 1-8 on Survival will start you on Wave 10. It's likely defaulting to the starting wave for Campaign, OR there isn't scaled wave data for anything before a minimum of 10. I'd imagine the prior on this one. - Akatiti Survival (as well as every other 35-wave) -- you can start on Wave 32. Moonbase -- you can start on Wave 33. Which one should it be? I still don't understand why beating through 40 on Embermount only allows you to run starting with Wave 36, but if we're going with approx. 90% the way through Survival as a starting point possibility, then Moonbase should be dumped down to 32 max. I still think YOLOing through a final wave is pretty gutsy, but you can't do that anymore. - Leaderboard Headers: Buccaneer Bay & Embermount Volcano both just say ": Nightmare" -- the Leaderboards are missing the map name. This is the case for Campaign, Pure Strategy, and Survival Leaderboards (i.e. all modes). - Also, there are more enemies on Solo Moonbase Survival on late waves than there are with 3AFKs. Did people actually want the 10k+ survivals back? There were tons of complaints about Endless Spires back in the day, when there were over 10k per late wave. Moonbase Survival is really ehhhhhh. - Suggestion: Animorphic Embers -- if you could exclude Hero Speed, that'd be hot. All of my NMHC ones so far had overcapped Hero Speed and like 400-500 in other categories. - Suggestion: Can we have stats as to 'what killed the crystal'? Mischief and I played Embermount, and there were no enemies or players within any sort of striking range of the crystal, and randomly the easy-side crystal just exploded. Nothing was near it, defenses were solid...just byebye. Replay was hilarious...just shows the crystal exploding and us like uhhhhhhhhhh. It'd be nice to see what the game says killed it. Might help diagnose this issue for stuff like Mistymire, where this used to happen (and may still). The Moon Pet is pretty fun since you can jump higher, lol.
[PC] The RNG Game Discussion Thread!
Commish replied to Dredd's topic in General DiscussionFor those needing to download still: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=142438197 Re: Difficulty level -- should be a much easier one to clear, hopefully a good break from the O_O tough last few
Awesome game!
Commish replied to GhostofLight's topic in Defender's LoungeSite was down for quite a bit this afternoon, up again for anyone who was playing it. Cool little inventive game, was pretty fun.
[PC] Returnia Shards Event Sign-up (4/13-4/16)
Commish replied to draemn's topic in General DiscussionSo you can try solo? And I just realized I have no aura set O.o Ultimately yes, but it's more doable + more economic for hosts to have a full group running :)
[PC] Returnia Shards Event Sign-up (4/13-4/16)
Commish replied to draemn's topic in General DiscussionAny chance of having events during EU-friendly times? Some of us are more of night-owls, so if you sign up for an event, just message one of us or PM us on here and we'll see if we can coordinate a time to play it. These maps are pretty tough, so best done w/ big group, but the guideline for some time has been that if you sign up and make an effort at it, you are given an event item.
[PC] Returnia Shards Event Sign-up (4/13-4/16)
Commish replied to draemn's topic in General Discussion----------------- End of Signups --------------------- Thanks for signing up, the deadline for signing up has now passed -- meet us in the PC Community Events Chat here during the running hours (Noon to 10pm EDT, Sat-Tues, preferably sooner than later in that time frame). Be sure to download the custom maps if you have signed up. If you missed out on signing up this time through, stay tuned for more events to come!
SPOILER ALERT! Next Dungeon Defenders DLC Revealed!!
Commish replied to thebamboobear's topic in Defender's LoungePolitical Party: Mariokrat
Pc Cd event
Commish replied to Madgod Rando's topic in General DiscussionI know I'm going to be busy much of the Good Friday-Easter weekend (and my b'day is Easter Monday), and some other hosts will be missing, but we'll have a sweet event for you very shortly. :D
[PC] Wild draemn spottings
Commish replied to draemn's topic in General DiscussionWell, it could be done if he's offline on Steam, otherwise STEEPERS GON BE EVEN MORE RICH
Commish replied to GOKUPP's topic in Defender's LoungeI'm likely picking one up, more of for the more open feel of a social gaming console for when company is over and we don't want to huddle around my computers.
I'm finished with DD.
Commish replied to Towlie's topic in Defender's LoungeWill miss ya, Towlie! Too bad hackers gonna hack. lol edit dat language tho
Sorry, thought this was a troll thread, especially given his spelling was fine when we played + his other posts have decent spelling, too (not to mention he spelled swearing correctly in his sig).
Edit: Is this a troll thread or serious?
Laura's cow petition for ranked
Commish replied to Blacklucer's topic in General DiscussionYeah cow!
Returnia Shards Events Discussion Thread!
Commish replied to Dredd's topic in General DiscussionOh hey, anyone else participating in Return to Aquanos? Time slots finish on Tuesday, and a few of us are chillin here waiting on 4 more at the moment if anyone who has signed up is waiting (join the Events Chat).
What is your personal favorite map, non loot wise?
Commish replied to aguspal's topic in General DiscussionRamparts = favorite initially, first survival I took to 25 before the survival number nerf and EV-and-later heroes were added. 900 wyvern rush at the end of every post-20 wave for the win...? Crystalline Dimension = favorite defense map/'regular' map to play. Old One got the beat down a lot. Assault Challenge Mission Pack = favorite overall. Running through Assault with Adept was pretty hilarious, and Jester makes Assault even more fun.
Community Member of the week: Mischief
Commish replied to LaurawantsaCow's topic in General DiscussionGO MISCHIEF GO MISCHIEF GO lol I think Mischief is the only player in the game to legitimately solo Greater Turkey Hunt without barb towers...and even if not the only, I know very few would have that level of dedication. Even in a group, TH2 needs rebalancing (aka extra time per wave and increased Turkey Spawn rate, which I'm pretty sure involves a variable that is ignored in the code at the moment...). I also have videos of some our playthroughs of his more ridiculous maps. The event maps are pretty tame compared to those ones, lol. I'll post some embedded videos later of those, lol, they're pretty nuts. Edit: Truly Suh dish tick Old One Uber Old One w/ Special Guest Bosses CD Survival Part 1, Wave 30 Boss Gauntlet Survival, Wave 25


text:
Operation Principle - Supply you safe and health foodstuff with our best professional service.
Our company advantage -
Full Range of Fruit and Vegetables - Every kind of fruit and vegetable can be found in our company.
Advanced Technology - Freeze dried and Vacuum Fried technology keeps the original color, flavor, shape of the fresh, taste crispy, bring you different feeling.
Professional Service - With almost fifteen years import and export experience, we can help you handle out all the issue of your import and export business, save your time cost.
Base After-sale Service - We are responsible for customers, no matter what requirement you have, we can give you satisfied solution.
Professional people do professional things, choose a foodstuff supplier, we are your best choice!
Yes, we are!


text:
Registration Form
Seminar • 12 March 2019 14:00 - 18:00 • Baku
Invisible.io Announces Sales
Acceleration Platform RevenueGrid
Seminar • 12 March 2019 14:00 - 18:00 • Baku
Sales process is the lifeblood of any business, but the sale itself often grind to a halt when communication with clients fails. In today's rich on SaaS solutions reality, you can optimize these processes and thereby allow the sales department to increase the profitability of the company. During the seminar, the speakers will navigate you exactly how this can be done.
How to use Microsoft Office tools to reduce sales operating expenses and enable sales professionals to focus on the main thing - selling.
How to increase sales figures by changing the internal processes, both qualitatively and quantitatively, without changing people; and what automation tools can help accomplish this?
Automated sales team analysis: who is the best seller in your company and why?
"Mechanical Sales" vs "Sales Engagement": what is the difference and how to automate them?
If CRM is already implemented, how to synchronize its data with the "real life" to maximize the value for the sales processes?
СЕО Invisible.io
Product Owner Invisible.io
Microsoft PDM
Baku, Hilton Baku
Address: 1B Azadlig Avenue, Baku, AZ1000, Azerbaijan,
Onyx AB Meeting Room 3rd floor
Telephone: +994 12 490 12 34
Date: March 12
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Registration Form


text:
Have you ever wondered why sometimes you are easily susceptible to mosquito bites? The general consensus is that mosquitoes are attracted to individuals who are "sweeter", but what causes you to emit the sweet scents that are perfume to these skeeters? Let's find out if you want to avoid the itchy bumps on your skin.
There are 5 types of human scent that will make mosquitoes come to you: Blood, lactic acid, carbon dioxide, secretions, and body odor.
(i) Mosquitoes have preferences for humans with different blood types. People with Type O blood have 83% higher chance of getting visits from your unexpected guests. However, mosquitoes have the least interest in Type A blood. Accept your fate, you can't change your blood type.
(ii) Your skin emits lactic acid when you exercise a lot and when you eat certain kinds of food such as fish, confectionery, salads, pickled vegetables, dairy products, etc. The higher the lactic acid in your body, the higher the chance of you becoming mosquitoes' target. To reduce the lactic acid production, wash your body with soap and towel your body dry.
(iii) The carbon dioxide we exhale attracts these pesky insects. Adults exhale more carbon dioxide compared to children, this is why the former are more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes compared to the latter. Pregnant women, in particular, are the prime targets of these skeeters because they exhale a lot more carbon dioxide.
(iv) About 80% of humans secrete antigens and saccharides through their skin and these compounds are attractions for mosquitoes. There's nothing we can do about this.
(v) Your body sweat combined with bacteria produce a sweet odor that mosquitoes can't resist; without bacteria, our sweat would be odorless. Beware that some fragrances and perfumed products can also attract mosquitoes.
(vi) Alcohol consumption can raise the temperature of your body making you a likely target, because mosquitoes are easily drawn to body heat.
Having mosquito problem? Contact AntiPest today at 03-8023 1888 for our expertise and professional pest control solution.
References: https://www.msn.com/en-my/health/medical/why-mosquitoes-bite-you-the-most-explained/ar-BBNgaVq?li=AAaD62f&ocid=spartanntp https://www.mosquitnoband.com/why-do-mosquitoes-like-me-more-than-anyone-else/ http://www.lactic-acid.com/lactic_acid_in_food.html https://tailwind-coaching.com/category/hit-workouts/page/2/ (image source only)


text:
Mako Shark 1 for your time.
Still cold, after 2 sets of swimming lessons, and and end of season basketball tournament, we still have had time to watch Jaws2 and Jaws 3. I remember enjoying #2 and loving #3 as a kid. My boys 8 and 11 have seen the original half a dozen times, it's a beloved movie in our house. They had been bugging me to get a hold of the sequels, which I deemed not worth owning a hard copy of, as they'd cycle onto Netfix eventually.
They came up, and GODDAMN they're awful. I found myself cheering for the Shark to just eat the teenagers so Roy Scheider could move onto stealth helicopters (also not as good as I remember, but not terrible). Jaws is an amazing film in the sense being one of VERY few 70's films that will hold the attention of post-smartphone newfangled children. It's masterful filmaking, and not seeing the shark is what makes it. The Jaws2 shark looks exactly like the one from the Universal studios trolley tour from the 80's. and my boys pointed out that "those teenagers are just stupid" "now I know why Marty Mcfly said the shark still looks fake"
here's Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, and the boom mike that my small children even noticed. Senor Spielbergo would not approve. (not the only appearance of the boom mike in this movie)
I can't think of another franchise that dropped off so much in quality. These B-flicks are forgotten now and we only remember Jaws.


text:
Crook County joins water battle
By Sarah Pridgeon
Sundance Times
Via Wyoming News Exchange
SUNDANCE — Crook County itself is now involved in the battle to provide water to landowners in the Carlile area. Though the issue has not formally been attributed to work on the Madison water system, landowners whose wells suddenly ran dry or acidic last year asked for 'good neighbor' assistance from the City of Gillette, whose Madison pipeline runs in close proximity to their properties.
Despite attempts from Senator Ogden Driskill to convince Gillette to provide water to homes inside the affected area, Gillette has so far not agreed to do so.
The Crook County Commissioners last week heard a proposal from Harry Labonde, Director of Wyoming Water Development, that would see the county sponsor a grant to extend an existing part of the Madison pipeline such that it can serve certain Crook County residents.
An existing pump station on Hwy 14 has an eight-inch waterline running from it, said Labonde, to which taps have already been installed because Gillette had been anticipating providing water to landowners in the area. The line does not reach the affected area, however.
Labonde's proposal is for a grant of around $1.1 million, based on a preliminary estimate, with a 33 percent match from the sponsor – the best Wyoming Water Development can offer, he said, under the constraints of the program. This would be used to extend the existing line around 4800 feet, past the Oshoto Community Bible Church, and provide around 13 taps for new customers in the area.
"Gillette is rightfully focused on providing water to their constituents in the city," said Labonde. Consequently, he said, though a water quality issue does exist in Crook County, the city has not been interested in extending their system.
"Gillette is not going to be interested in paying anything for that," Labonde continued, explaining that Crook County is beyond the intended scope of their service area.
However, he said, they may be open to the idea of servicing and maintaining the line if they are not faced with the responsibility of paying for its installation.
"Timing is good right now as the Wyoming Water Development Commission is going to be starting to develop its next round of projects to be presented to the legislature," he said.
Questions still remain, Labonde told the commissioners, such as whether Gillette would agree to the project going ahead and whether they will be amenable to servicing the new line.
"Crook County is really the first entity I have asked this question of," he said, explaining that the grant needs a sponsor, so his first step is to find out if it will have one.
Practically speaking, said Labonde, the idea makes good sense, but he believes Gillette would feel more comfortable servicing and maintaining the new line if a water district is formed to oversee it. At the time the district formed, it would become a wholesale customer.
It takes up to a year to form a district assuming all landowners are agreement, Labonde said, "Otherwise, it could very well not form as the landowners do have a say". He acknowledged that a district is a more complicated way of doing things than individual taps landowners could simply buy.
The Department of Environmental Quality has been investigating the cause of the dry and acidic wells, but no conclusion has been made. Labonde explained that it is "going to be difficult if not impossible" to determine what caused the aquifer to acidify.
Driskill, however, shared his belief that the issue may no longer be confined to the Carlile area that was first identified. He suggested a better approach to the problem may be to apply for a Level 1 Water Study through Wyoming Water Development that encompasses a larger area to include Moorcroft and Rozet.
He commented that Gillette is currently not allowed to flush its new wells for the Madison system and cannot bring them online, which they have said makes it difficult to provide water to new users. Commissioner Jeanne Whalen added that she heard stated at the recent Select Water Committee meeting that Gillette has not added any new subdivisions to its system for the last few years, asking if this might also mean the city would deny the 13 taps running off the proposed new line.
"Really what you are doing is building a dry pipeline until they figure out if they are going to get those wells online," said Driskill.
Labonde responded that Gillette's preference would probably be to say no.
"Until they do get a couple of those new wells online, they are going to be resistant to any new taps," he admitted.
However, he reiterated his belief that they may be more willing if they see it will not cost them anything to set up the line for the new customers.
Driskill asked Labonde if Wyoming Water Development would look favorably on a Level 1 Water Study; Labonde answered that they would. The deadline to submit a proposal for the study is March 1, he said, causing County Attorney Joe Baron to note that this could mean waiting until 2020 to start the actual study – a long time, under the circumstances.
"We will expedite it," said Driskill, referring to the Select Water Committee, which he said has been involved in discussions and would like to see the issue resolved.
If expedited, the study could begin immediately following the next legislative session, Driskill said. He suggested including in the proposal a rate study for the cost of delivering water to Crook County customers and verification of Moorcroft's water rates.
Baron was directed to begin preparing an application for a Level 1 Water Study.
News Letter Journal
News Letter Journal
14 W. Main St.
P.O. Box 40
Newcastle, WY 82701
Ph: (307) 746-2777
Fax: (307) 746-2660


text:
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase on 31 August 2019 Saturday is Waxing Crescent, 1 day young Moon is in Virgo.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 2% and growing larger. The 1 day young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 30 August 2019 at 10:37.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1901".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2019 after 13 days on 14 September 2019 at 04:33.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 1 day young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 243 of Meeus index or 1196 from Brown series.
Length of current 243 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 minutes shorter than next lunation 244 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 14 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠356.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠11.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
1 day after point of perigee on 30 August 2019 at 15:57 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 13 September 2019 at 13:32 in ♓ Pisces.
Moon is 363 560 km (225 906 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 378 km (252 512 mi).
4 days after its ascending node on 27 August 2019 at 01:50 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 8 September 2019 at 17:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
4 days after previous North standstill on 26 August 2019 at 17:53 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠22.473°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-22.539° in the next southern standstill on 8 September 2019 at 09:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 13 days on 14 September 2019 at 04:33 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


text:
- Features
- Pricing
- Solutions
- Resources
- Company
Hiring the right people is a difficult endeavor, especially for customer service orientated positions. In our hotel operating costs eBook, we outlined the true cost of labor. The cost to obtain and train employees is 30-35% of total operating costs, so retention is essential. And one of the best ways to increase retention is to hire the right people. Here, we outline how to approach the hiring process to ensure you're seeking and attracting the ideal candidate.
Before you even post the job opening, know what you're looking for. This may seem obvious, but according to Inc, nailing down exactly what skills and personality traits you require is essential to success. Hiring for your cleaning staff vs. your front desk vs. your kitchen staff requires a different approach. Pinpoint ideal skills and personality traits based on the position and then broadcast your job opening. Some of the best sites to post hospitality jobs are hcareers, hospitality online, craigslist, Indeed, or Monster. There are a lot of job boards, so experiment with a few to see what works best.
Inc also suggests that you hire based on personality rather than tactical skills because the latter are much easier to teach. A Forbes article warned that you can't make people like other people, teach empathy, or create a teamwork mentality from scratch. Forbes admits that you can teach those things to some extent, but innate personality traits are very difficult, if not impossible, to change. There are certain types of people who are more inclined than others to help others and successfully work on a team. For a customer service, team-orientated position, you need to ensure you find a candidate with these innate personality characteristics.
Forbes crafted an acronym, WETCO, to help you identify the right personality characteristics:
As a seasoned property owner, you're probably aware of the personality traits that make for the best employees. But, creating an interview process that helps you and your staff attract the right candidates needs time and attention.
During the interview process, include other team members. In the series of interviews you plan to conduct, make sure members of the associated teams are involved. Existing team leaders and team members will be able to better understand who will and will not work well with them. Your team is also more knowledgeable about the distinct personality traits and technical skills needed to be successful in similar positions to their own.
Practice what you preach. Inc believes the best way to attract the best customer-service orientated employees is to be hospitable in your interview process. Make it easy for your candidates to apply and make scheduling as easy as possible. An unnecessarily long interview process and bad communication will detract candidates looking for a company that reflects their values.
Demonstrate your hospitable nature with open communication, even if you decide to pass on a candidate. There is nothing worse than leaving a candidate in limbo. Leave candidates in the best position post-interview and encourage them to apply in the future.
If you only ask basic questions, you are only going to get basic answers. Use experiential-based questions that highlight a candidate's personality and ability to perform certain tasks. If they are interviewing for a leadership position, ask questions about the sacrifices they've had to make to succeed or how they encouraged their team members to help them succeed. Avoid closed-ended questions that are typically asked like "what are you strengths and weaknesses" and focus on how those strengths and weaknesses affected different situations.
Behavioral and experiential questions paint a more vivid picture than basic interview questions.
Hcareers offers fantastic advice for hiring customer-orientated positions. Hospitality jobs require a blend of technical skills and personality traits and everyone comes with their own unique mixture. Try not to let a candidate's certain strengths or weaknesses distract you during an interview. Take note of any important distinctions, but ask the same questions so later on you can accurately compare candidates.
If interviews are completely different from one another it is hard to compare candidates. You can't perform identical interviews, but asking the same questions is a good start.
Hcareers also suggests looking at the long-term while searching for part-time and full-time candidates. In many cases, it takes months to train an employee and get them to 100% productivity. Entice employees in the interview phase with long-term benefits such as vacation and personal time, health insurance benefits. But more importantly, focus on how the employee can expect to grow in this position and how you are invested in their continued growth.
Many new hires seek mentors and if you can offer guidance and growing opportunities, it is a huge plus.
Ultimately, one person will decide which candidate to hire. But, just as you involved team members in the interview process, let them help choose the right candidate. When your team has a say in who gets hired, they are more likely to stand behind the decision. Then, when the new employee starts, your team is more inclined to help train the individual.
So, what does a perfect hospitality hire look like? Well, it all depends on your needs and your property. Unfortunately, there's no magic formula for finding and retaining the best talent. But, what you can do is identify what has worked for you in the past and help it determine how you approach hiring in the future.
We suggest starting with the personality traits outlined above in WETCO and then make adjustments based on your particular needs. During the interview process do:
A guide to choosing the right Hotel Management SoftwareDownload Now


text:
The interview came after a new report by Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General revealed that private prisons in the United States are less secure than those run by the state, both for the inmates and for guards.
"It's because the aim of contract prisons is to make a profit, which is the whole reason for the existence of such prisons. And the only way possible to generate profit in the prison system is to cut back drastically on essential services and core functions the prisons are supposed to provide, including security and medical care," Winter said.
She also drew attention to the fact that the report by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General was conspicuously released several months ahead of the presidential elections in the US.
"The report shed more light on what happens inside private prisons, which can be seen as an enormous industry [playing a] major part in driving prison overpopulation in the United States, something that remains a big issue on the agenda of the US general elections campaign," she noted.
The report's authors compared surveys on eight types of incidents within 14 contract prisons as well as 14 state-run detention centers. The categories varied from contraband to inmate discipline.
SenSanders: It's time to end the morally repugnant private prison racket, and along with it, the era of mass incarceration.— Left Side Story (@leftsidestoryUS) 13 августа 2016 г.
Contract prisons showed better oversight only in terms of drug tests and sexual misconduct.
"With the exception of fewer incidents of positive drug tests and sexual misconduct, the contract prisons had more incidents per capita than the BOP [Federal Bureau of Prisons] institutions in all of the other categories of data we examined," according to the report.
There is no logical reason to construct more prisons in the US unless you're a wealthy investor in the private prison industry.— (((Dan J))) (@RelUnrelated) 10 августа 2016 г.
Furthermore, the report also revealed a range of abuses against inmates in private prisons, such as keeping them in Special Housing Units (SHU) when there's not enough place in the main block.
According to the authors, at two of the three prisons they visited, they "learned that all newly received inmates were housed in the SHU due to lack of available bed space in general population housing units."
Additionally, the report pointed out that one facility also lacked a doctor on staff for a full eight months, and there was no dentist on staff for six weeks, stopping inmates' access to "basic healthcare."
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article Margaret Winter was misidentified as the Associate Director of the ACLU National Prison Project.


text:
One has calculated the annual value of a mother's work at $61,436, which doesn't factor in any income she may earn outside the home.
That "salary" includes helping with homework as a teacher or instructor (based on an hourly rate of $17.85), nursing wounds like a licensed practical nurse ($17.90 an hour), handling family finances as an accountant ($23.83 an hour), and even finding out what the kids are up to as a private detective ($19.78 an hour).
Another website lets mothers add in their own information to get a numerical figure for their financial contribution as a homemaker.
Yet despite knowing these actual dollar figures, no mother receives a check or even public praise for her work, leaving many to refer to motherhood as the unsung, unheralded, "invisible" profession.


text: One official said a grenade had caused the blast The officials said the explosion on Friday went off when the woman, 32-year-old Abir Mohammed Harb, opened the door of her car which was parked near the Lebanon Beach Hotel in the suburb of Khaldeh, just south of Beirut. Aljazeera's correspondent in Beirut, Bushra Abd al-Samad, said security forces and explosives experts arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. She added that journalists and bystanders were prevented from approaching the scene.One security official said a hand grenade placed between the door and the driver's seat detonated when the woman opened the door.She was taken to hospital in a serious condition, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. She was later reported to be in a stable condition at St George's Hospital in south Beirut, where hospital officials said she sustained burns to her right side. Victim's identity According to the television station al-Manar, the motive for the attack was domestic in nature. Television footage from the site of the explosion showed the driver's seat mangled and torn off, and the door and windshield riddled with shrapnel.Another official said an army patrol was headed to the scene to investigate.The explosion is the latest in a series of bombings that have claimed the lives of several people over the past few weeks. SOURCE: Aljazeera + Agencies