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Conceptual Frameworks and Practical Applications to Connect Generations in the Technoscape
There are many ways to frame and use technology so it functions as a pathway to intergenerational engagement. The ever evolving technoscape is filled with powerful technological tools and resources that help people connect, communicate, build relationships, and take collective action across generations. This technology can be life-altering, especially for isolated seniors and families navigating long distance relationships. However, at the center of the intervention equation is not the technology itself, but the quest for tapping into the relationship-enhancing potential of the technology. To explore this potential, an international survey was conducted with 46 intergenerational programs that reflect innovation and intensive uses of technology. Results demonstrate that important strides are being made in utilizing new technology for effectively connecting generations and positively affecting aging adults' lives.
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Feeling Bored? Check Out These Cool Things to Do in Winter Park, FL!
Put yourself in these shoes: you've just moved to a new area, and it's the first weekend you aren't buried in unpacking tasks. You want to head out and enjoy your new city, but you don't know where to start.
Perhaps that's your actual situation, or maybe you're visiting Winter Park and you're looking for entertainment. Have no fear because there's never a reason to be bored in our fine city.
Winter Park is full of great entertainment opportunities for families, couples, and friends to enjoy. The next time you're looking for things to do in Winter Park FL, here's your go-to guide.
Things to Do in Winter Park, FL
Winter Park may look cozy on the surface, but we have our fair share of entertainment options. Check out these popular choices:
Cool Down on the Water
The water is one of the top reasons people move to Florida. Winter Park might be inland, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out. Our town and the surrounding area is rich with bodies of water for your enjoyment.
If you're not the type to lounge on a beach, there's plenty of action to find on our local lakes. Lake Killarney and Lake Ivanhoe are recreational favorites. There are plenty of places nearby to rent paddleboards, kayaks, and more. If you're new to watersports, you can also find lessons to learn how to paddleboard or learn other skills.
Expand Your Palate for Adult Beverages
If everyone in your group is over 21, your entertainment options multiply. Winter Park is a town with plenty of thirst for adult beverages, and tasting options abound.
You can enjoy a great wine tasting at The Wine Room. If you're a fan of spirits instead, try the Winter Park Distilling Company. This distillery offers tours as well as opportunities to taste-test their rum, vodka, whiskey, and bourbon.
If your group prefers craft beer, there's no shortage of options. Check out The Brewstillery, Deadly Sins Brewing, or Ten10 Brewing Company.
Frolic in a Garden
Florida is known for how well it appreciates nature, but being so close to a city like Orlando, it's easy to lose sight of that nature. To get back to your greener roots, explore one of the curated gardens Winter Park has to offer.
Depending on what side of town you prefer, Mead Botanical Garden and Kraft Azalea Garden are the two key choices. You can even hit up two gardens in one day with minimal driving if you head to the Mead Botanical Garden and the nearby Harry P. Leu Gardens.
Expand Your Mind at a Museum
If you're a history buff or an art lover, you've come to the right place. Winter Park is full of museums for your education and your browsing enjoyment. If you're looking for an air-conditioned escape on those humid summer days, look no further.
For great art, our favorites include:
- The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
- The Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Garden
- The Cornell Fine Arts Museum
- The Mennello Museum of American Art
- Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts
If you prefer a tour through history, check out these gems:
- Winter Park History Museum
- Casa Feliz Historic Home Museum
- Hannibal Square Heritage Museum
- The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida
While Winter Park doesn't have much in the way of science museums, attractions like the Orlando Science Center are a short drive away, and is a favorite in our family!
Catch a Show
If you're looking for evening entertainment where you can kick back and watch a show, Winter Park has plenty to offer.
There are plenty of movie theaters for any cinephile to enjoy. If you prefer live entertainment, though, hit up the Winter Park Playhouse, the Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park, or the Annie Russell Theatre.
Want to enjoy your dinner and take in a show at the same time? Head over to the Aloma Cinema Grill for a delicious experience.
Indulge in Fine Dining
Whether you're celebrating a special occasion or you just want to indulge in a great dinner, you can find plenty of fine dining in Winter Park.
If you're in the mood for a great steak, try Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar. Another popular choice is Christner's Prime Steak and Lobster as well as the nation's famous Ruth's Chris Steak House.
For those who aren't steak fans, there are plenty of other choices. Rocco's Italian Grille and Bar or Prato are perfect options for an Italian craving. If you want to indulge in Southern culture, on the other hand, try Hamilton's Kitchen.
Hit Up a Local Festival
Florida is known for great weather, and Winter Park takes advantage with countless festivals every year. Our most famous event is the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival.
Depending on the time of year, try the Winter Park Harvest Festival or the Winter Park Autumn Art Festival. Nearby Maitland has plenty of options as well, like the Spring Festival of the Arts and the Florida Film Festival.
Of course, downtown Orlando has an even wider selection. From spring through fall, you can find a fun festival nearly every weekend.
Here's the great part of our famous festivals: many of them are free to attend. It's a great way to get to know your city while taking in some free or cheap entertainment.
How to Enjoy Winter Park
Whether you've moved to Winter Park or you're visiting, we're thrilled to welcome you. All the ideas above for things to do in Winter Park FL are just the start of our hospitality. We invite you to start exploring our fair city and finding out why so many people love to call it home.
If, on the other hand, you're in the process of moving here, we're happy to help you find your new home. To get started, contact our Winter Park real estate team.
And of course, you could always search for and view homes for sale in Winter Park. Our site is updated every 15 minutes to ensure you have easy access to Winter Park real estate for sale.

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Over the last couple of years, more and more businesses have been integrating influencers into their digital marketing strategy. From Instagram to YouTube and Twitter, celebrities and social media personalities have been endorsing brands and creating sponsored content in support of their brand relationships. According to Sprout Social, a social media management tool, 74% of consumers make purchasing decisions based on social media recommendations, and statistics show that influencer marketing campaigns yields 11 times higher ROI than other forms of promoted content.
Taking cues from third-party referrals is not unique to consumers, businesses are also influenced by recommendations, probably more so. According to the Harvard Business Review, 90% of business decision-makers initiate their purchasing processes by canvassing opinions from industry experts and peers, largely through social media.
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Despite this fact, many B2B companies neglect the potential value that influencers can bring to this highly lucrative market. While B2B influencer marketing can differ quite significantly from B2C campaigns, the overall objective remains the same. Leverage the credibility and in-built audiences offered by well-known personalities to convince cautious buyers about the quality of your products or services.
Here are some key steps to implement an effective B2B influencer marketing strategy.
Focus on Relevance Not Reach
Large social media followings and mainstream recognition are highly coveted qualities for influencers in the B2C sphere, but this doesn't necessarily hold true in B2B. Before anything else, a B2B influencer must be able to show experience and expertise in their respective industry. After all, their commentary can influence purchases worth millions of dollars, so the standard for credibility will be far more rigorous as the stakes are higher.
Also Read: 5 Reasons Why Social Media Influencers are the Future of Digital Marketing
Three Types of B2B Influencers
There are three types of B2B influencers: thought leaders, existing advocates and customers.
Thought Leaders
Thought leaders are authorities within their respective field. These individuals command respect from customers, employees and even competitors, and their opinion on your business offerings can have a significant impact on your reputation. You can identify who the thought leaders are in your industry by asking for feedback from your employees and customers. Find out who they are watching and listening to, what authors they are reading, whose articles or blogs they value and find insightful. Essentially, who they believe is the authority figure whose recommendations they trust above all others. Rank these personalities based on their credibility and assess which aligns best with your brand.
It is important to note, with B2B influencer marketing, traditional social media metrics do not apply, such as reach and follower count, mainly because many of these experts may not have the type of visibility enjoyed by macro-influencers in the B2C sphere. Enterprise software provider SAP hosted a series of live video interviews with a variety of well-regarded industry experts in an effort to promote their 2016 Sapphire Conference. The efforts of those individuals drew in an additional 80,000 attendees to that year's forum.
Existing Advocates
In many cases, influencers and subject matter experts can be found internally within your organization. The right employee can become a subject matter expert and speak with the same enthusiasm as any third-party personality. These individuals, with their industry knowledge and being internal to your organization, can amplify your credibility with other professionals. You can cultivate your own industry leader in-house. It is helpful if your internal brand ambassador already has a strong social media presence and can effectively compliment your products and services.
For example, Amber Armstrong, Director for Influencer Marketing at IBM Commerce has outlined the importance of leveraging employees' tweets to creating a powerful B2B brand. Armstrong routinely encourages employees to post about IBM's products on their social media profiles.
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Around 89% of B2B marketers consider customer testimonials as their most effective content marketing tool. Often, when facing a purchasing decision, executives tend to review customer experiences, case studies and testimonials. They not only want information about the product and service but the overall experience with your brand. Using client commentary can sway a potential customer to your direction rather than a competitor, especially if the testimonial is authentic and non-rehearsed.
Support Expert Narratives
Any effective marketing campaign involves content generation or storytelling. In a B2C campaign, the narrative is typically centered around how your brand integrates seamlessly into the specific lifestyle of the influencer. Their experience influences their like-minded audience to procure your product and/or service. With B2B influencer marketing, the product or service must be more central to the narrative. You must show that you are an industry expert, have extensive product knowledge, and differentiate yourself from your competitors. Through white papers, blog posts, conferences, live videos, etc., you must drive home how your business can help clients overcome operational challenges and deliver real value for their organization.
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Every brand needs an entry point product and I'm thinking that at £20, the Lip Care is Jo Malone's. Still expensive enough to feel like a luxury spend and a proper treat but falling into the relatively affordable realm. Jo Malone is one of the few brands where I feel the hidden costs of the frills are worth it – this balm of course comes in the iconic box all ribboned and pretty, just the same as any of the other products.
The composition of the balm is beautiful – moringa butter, rose flower wax and kukui seed oils. I feel competent to compare since I'm half way through a tub of Sisley Lip Balm (£49!!!) and would say that this has a very similar feel albeit slightly firmer. It gives a pleasant protective coating to the lips that doesn't disappear in two minutes flat which is important: you need a balm that stays so that you're not eternally re-applying. It's not too flavoured/scented either. I nominally get the mint but didn't get any ginger – it was more a vanilla – which again is good. Overly sweet lip balms just encourage you to lick it off and end up in the eternal circle of lick/dry/apply. Once the Jo Malone balm is on it stays a good while. It's also not so thick that you can't easily apply lipstick over the top – you can.
I think you are getting a higher grade balm with this than your average high street balm and I think because of all the lovely packaging that's so beautifully presented, it's a great gift too if you can bear to part with it! John Lewis has it HERE or if you're passing.
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This year we've had a pied wagtail in our garden - never had one of those before, although husband says there's a flock of about 50 in his works car park! However, although I've only ever seen one bird at a time, there must be a pair and they've nested nearby, as this morning there's a parent bird feeding two chicks in the garden. How lovely. And the chicks are so well behaved, just standing there on the grass patiently and quietly waiting for parent to feed them. So unlike the starling chicks, who noisily squabble, fight and screech.
learning to love veg…..except celery :-O
The Starling Chicks are certainly noisy, but they are pretty, and the Ones in my Garden, are not afraid of me. I have one Magpie which is almost Resident, have only seen two, once or twice. Have had a rusty Breast, tiny Bird, recently, not a Robin, as much smaller, and eating the Fat Balls. Think I may have to buy shares in the Fatball Factory !
Went to Stamford today, and going through the Deepings Roy said "circling buzzard". Ummm says I and we both looked again and it was a Red Kite. Seen one thereabouts several times now. Actually seen one briefly through my sitting room window. Always magnificent to see, though we don't have the numbers like in the Stokenchurch cutting.
Shut up, I'm counting
Last week, and driving through Marlborough, we were amongst a group of cars going in a westerly direction, but no cars in the opposite direction, when suddenly a red kite swooped down to retrieve something from the other side of the road. It's size and colour was incredible to see close-up.
While visiting our son on the outskirts of Reading, there are so many kites, they are often circling just above his garden, although we've been told that some people are actually feeding them, as in Buckinghamshire, too, where you can see plenty in the sky. It's good to see them in such numbers again.
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Chiyangwa was appointed to the marketing committee of the Confederation of Southern African Football Associations. A position he will hold until next elections next year.
Chiyangwa seems to be doing everything right since his appointment to lead football in the country. He has already saved the nation from being expelled from 2022 World Cup among the growing list of achievements.
Chiyangwa's appoint to the regional body follows his appointment earlier in the year into CAF's U-20 Championships committee.
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The motor, sensory and sundry other tracts, the spinal grey matter, and the spinal nerve roots should no longer be strangers to you. The terms and symptoms that will be discussed are used daily by clinical neurologists.
Clinicians often think in terms of "syndromes." A syndrome is a pattern of symptoms (what the patient complains about) and signs (what the physician finds) which suggest the location of a disease process and occasionally its nature. The consequence of nerve root damage (from any cause) is known as a radiculopathy (L. radicula = little root; pathos = disease), whereas the syndrome of "myelopathy"(Gr. myelos = marrow, pertaining to the spinal cord, pathos = disease) results from spinal cord damage.
Since it is impossible to discuss all types of nerve root and spinal cord disorders in the time available, we have chosen to focus on the clinical features of syndromes caused by compression by tumors or other lesions affecting the nerve roots and the spinal cord. Compression of nerve roots or the meninges covering the spinal cord usually presents with back or neck pain. Back pain is a very common symptom and results in costs up to $50 billion annually for medical care and disability payments. Back or neck pain may be caused by a variety of musculoskeletal mechanisms and the physician needs to be able to examine the nervous system to determine if there is compression of nerve roots or the spinal cord. The anatomy you are learning is essential for understanding exam findings and symptoms of root or spinal cord compression.
The peripheral nervous system begins at the nerve roots. Each segment of the spinal cord gives rise to a ventral or anterior motor and a dorsal or posterior sensory nerve root. The spinal nerve roots can be damaged as they traverse the spinal (vertebral) canal, but are especially vulnerable in the intervertebral foramina, where the ventral and dorsal spinal roots join to form the spinal nerves.
Look over the segmental innervation of the lower and upper limbs in the following charts. This should be familiar from your recent Gross Anatomy course and will help you understand some of the following material.
Most muscles are innervated by more than one nerve root and the lesion
of a single nerve root does not produce well-defined sensory loss because
of overlapping of the branches of dorsal root terminals from different
segments. Besides strength and sensory testing, the muscle stretch
reflexes are evaluated by briskly striking the tendon of a muscle and eliciting
a contraction, e.g. the knee jerk.
Root compression
The hallmark of acute or chronic nerve root compression is PAIN. Pain due to nerve root compression has certain characteristics:
* it tends to follow a dermatomal distribution
Back pain is one of the ten most common neurological problems seen by family practitioners.
Lumbosacral radiculopathies produce the syndrome of sciatica, cervical radiculopathies the syndrome of brachialgia. The root pain of sciatica is almost invariably accompanied or preceded by back pain (94%), and that of brachialgia by neck pain (therefore also referred to as cervico-brachialgia). Patients will, if asked to trace the pain in posterior sciatica, outline the location of the sciatic nerve "just exactly as the best anatomist". The nastiness of sciatic pain was known to Shakespeare, who employed it as a curse ("Thou cold sciatica, cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt as lamely as their manners . . . "). "The pain darts through the parts with the rapidity of lightning up and down, cutting, tearing and burning with extreme violence, increased by slight contact, or gradually becoming permanent with a gouging or crushing character." (Romberg). Superimposed on a steady, ache is a pain with a dull but biting quality, accompanied by excruciating spasms of the paravertebral and limb muscles.
The onset of root pain due to intervertebral disc herniation is often abrupt, but it may also develop over several hours or days after the start of back pain. Radicular pain is induced or aggravated by movement. Violent pain brought on by coughing or sneezing is a common complaint.
Sciatic pain usually is rather diffuse and difficult for the patient
to localize. On occasion, specific areas or points along the course
of the sciatic nerve are tender and painful. The dull pain associated
with radiculopathy is often more prominent in the proximal supply area
of the damaged nerve root. It is usually deep, referred to the muscles,
bones or joints. The sharper pain is more likely to radiate along
dermatomal boundaries.
Intervertebral disc herniation
The lumbar roots emerge from below their respective vertebrae.
These roots are vulnerable just above their exit foramina, as they are
then the most ventral (anterior) and most lateral root in the vertebral
canal and lie in the immediate path of a lateral disc herniation (L5 in
the drawing on the right below). The intervertebral disc lying between
vertebrae L4 and L5 is called the L4/5 disc. The disc between the
L5 vertebrae and the sacrum is the L5/S1 disc. Since the L4 root
emerges above the L4/5 disc, a lateral herniation of the L4/5 disc damages
the L5 root. Moreover, a lateral herniation of the L5/S1 disc damages
the S1 root. KNOW THIS COLD!!
The natural history of most disc herniation is self-limited and does not require surgical therapy. One fifth of pain free people under the age of 60 have evidence of a herniated disc on MRI and 50% have evidence of a bulging disc. Hence a proper neurologic evaluation is required to define symptoms and deficits that can be linked to MRI findings. Current practice is to develop a rehabilitation program for back pain and to investigate structural causes and surgical therapies only when there is an objective neurologic deficit or pain that does not improve.
Lumbar intervertebral disc herniation occurs most commonly at
L4/5 (L5 root; 50%) and at L5/S1 (S1 root; 46.3%) interspace. Consequently,
compression of the 5th lumbar nerve root is most common, with the first
sacral nerve roots a close second.
A reason for the frequent compression of the L5 root may be the
tight fit of the L5 root in its foramen since this root has the largest
diameter and its intervertebral foramen is narrower than any other lumbar
intervertebral foramen.
Posterior sciatica
* * pain which radiates along the anterior aspect of the thigh into the anterior leg is due to L4 or L3 radiculopathy. L2 pain is antero-medial in the thigh. Pain in the groin usually arises from an L1 lesion.
The figure above illustrates the pain distribution in lumbar radiculopathies while the figure below illustrates the pain distribution of cervical radiculopathies (click on figure for enlargement).
Because there are only 7 cervical vertebrae despite 8 cervical roots, the root number exiting between two vertebrae is always the number of the lower vertebra. For example, the C5 root exits between the C4-C5 vertebrae and would be effected by a C4/5 disc herniation; the C8 root exits between C7-T1 vertebrae and would be compressed by a C7/T1 disc.
Pain due to a C6 and C7 radiculopathy radiates from the neck and from
around the shoulder into outer aspect of the arm and forearm. C6
radiculopathy may cause pain and numbness along the dorsal aspect of the
thumb and index finger, C7 pain and paresthesia may radiate into the middle
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From misdemeanors in Texas state courts, to felony white collar crimes in the federal courts , Geoff Womack brings a thorough knowledge of the law, attention to detail, and genuine concern for his clients to each case. Geoff gained his initial experience prior to law school while clerking at Vinson & Elkins, one of Texas' oldest and most distinguished law firms. After law school, Geoff joined his father's established law firm and together they formed Guy L. Womack & Associates, P.C. Geoff is applying his experience and knowledge from handling complex litigation to helping people accused of crimes. Already in his young career, Geoff has been involved in many high-profile trials, including the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse trials.
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CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — More than three weeks after he was shot while driving an Uber in Chicago, 56-year-old Tim Rohr is still recovering in the hospital.
Rohr was driving through the Brighton Park neighborhood in the city's Southwest Side, during the early morning hours of Aug. 12 when police said three suspects wearing black hoodies fired at his car from a white Acura SUV.
"I guess he had dropped off an UberEats delivery and was driving down the street, he came upon a cell phone store and saw figures inside," his wife Lori Rohr told NewsNation affiliate WGN. "I think people shot him from the store and getaway car."
Afterward, she said a witness called 911, and Tim was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
"The bullet entered through his back, went through his left lung, up through his neck, hit his sinus and is lodged in his brain," Lori said. "He has permanent loss of vision in his right eye."
Tim Rohr had been an Uber driver for about four years, and Lori said she did often worry about his safety. As he recovers, she says she's still in shock after getting that initial phone call.
"It doesn't seem real to me; nothing seems real to me right now," she said.
Doctors said it was too dangerous to remove the bullet, and he was discharged on Aug. 27. But he quickly started leaking cerebral spinal fluid from his nose, and was admitted to Advocate Lutheran General, where he is now awaiting surgery to repair the damage to his sinus cavity.
"He's going to be hospitalized at least a month with two major surgeries, so then down the road: months of (physical therapy), follow up visits; we don't know what that will add up to," Lori said.
While it has been difficult, Lori said there have been reasons to hope.
A family friend set up a GoFundMe page to help the family with medical bills.
"This event has made me see the worst in humanity, but also the best in humanity; I'm very touched by the outpouring of support and generosity, truly," Rohr said.
According to Chicago police, no suspects are currently in custody for the shooting.


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Potemkin Palace
Many mysterious due to the Potemkin Palace, which is known enough and at the same time, almost nothing.
The history of the palace is closely intertwined with the Empress Catherine II, Grigory Potemkin, and the Masonic Order.
Originally, the land belonged to the Cossack Lazar Coffin, soon acquired G.Potёmkin.
Prince had ambitious plans for the acquisition of real estate.
In a short time, the best artists and architects of the time, started the construction of the estate.
Construction work was carried out in the period from 1778 to 1787 years, presumably by architect Ivan Starova.
The area where the residence of the first stone laid beat pertained to Ekaterinoslav province, these days it Dnipropetrovsk region.
Dungeons and labyrinths under the Potemkin palace
Today it is known that the construction of LOTS, participated 12 regiments on the orders of Catherine II.
Most likely, kilometer tunnel under the city and the palace, it is also their job.
Underground travel, interconnected maze and little studied.
From time to time there are collapses, revealing new secrets of the dungeon.
Repeatedly lovers of extreme adventure, explore go eat, but unfortunately very far failed, most of the known inundated.
One of the open courses, according to the description of eyewitnesses, carefully lined with brick XVIII century.
In some areas, up to the will of spacious, you can freely move the man to his full height.
There are lots of tunnels where the walls of the usual rule stress stone and to move only on the knees.
Part of the underground passages could examine the plan was drawn up small tunnels and found the premises.
The plan can be viewed in the local museum of the city.
Why set up tunnels under the palace Potemkin?
This beat is very fashionable!
The tunnels are an integral part of the plan of palaces or castles.
According to the rules of fashion, the perfect estate at the time meant the presence of the park with pavilions, a pond with a small island, where in case of danger or if you want to retire, can be easily reached by boat.
There are suggestions that the estate of Potemkin held a secret passage, which had a yield between the rocks, where possible located grotto or marina.
In this case, sitting in a boat, you can quietly get on Monastic Island nearby.
According to another version, the underground passages were intended to supply the Palace!
Perhaps tunnels originally planned to be used as a sewage system.
In this case, the system can provide water to the city, located on the mountain.
Evidence of this assumption is not found beater.
But the maze of underground tunnels under the palace, are very similar to the system of aqueducts that massively penetrate the mountain.
By order of the princes, on the mountain, dug a pool depth of 30 meters, which could be neotemny part of the whole system.
In the third version, the tunnels have a mystical slant.
Princes suspected in connection with the evil spirit, but dungeon he had used for their rituals.
He had a strange appearance, suffered on the cross-eyed, had an insane power as a person.
Know afraid of Potemkin, many argued about his incredible abilities.
Secret signs Masons
In the history of the base and Ekaterinoslav Potemkin Palace occur mysterious facts
which is difficult to explain.
According to the plan, the city looks like a three-beam system that is peculiar Masonicому Order:
– LOTS on the mountain, displays the form of an isosceles triangle;
– Potemkin Palace, is the center of the composition;
– From the Palace emanate three beams streets;
– Carried out line from the palace to the cathedral, is the median height and bisector;
As a result, the original plan of the city shows a great eye, which is the symbol of the Order of Freemasons.
The Potemkin's life, his habits, behavior, present a lot of unusual, because the prince of this feared and accused of "an evil spirit", and not only.
Perhaps a violent fantasy and hostility was caused by envy.
Since Prince was a favorite of Empress Catherine II, and it provided him more
privileges than anyone.
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Wow, just came across the really beautiful "They Draw and Cook" blog. Every day, Nate and Salli share gorgeous recipe renderings by artists and illustrators from around the globe. You might want to save this blog in your favourites for a daily dose of beautiful food!
And the good news is they're making a cookbook with their Top-100 recipes - sounds like a cute gift idea to me...
Here are some of my favourite illustrations and recipes from the blog - what do you think?
Irena Inumaru - London, England
Meta Wraber - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alya Mark - Madrid, Spain
Tatiana Dorokhina - Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
James Orndorf - Skull Valley, US
Kristen Almeida - Fort Worth, US


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Stuart Bergman, a familiar face at MidSouthCon as co-manager of the dealers room, died October 6 of cancer.
Nicknamed "Shorty" because he was nearly seven feet tall, the Forsyth, Georgia fan was known for serving out drinks of "the blue stuff," as Elizabeth Donald recalls in her excellent tribute:
Shorty. Smoked like a chimney since long before I knew him, often sharing a pack with Jimmy on the docks outside the dealers' room before he quit, but sadly, it caught up to him. The cancer struck him hard, robbing him of his hair and trademark beard before it robbed him of his life.
I am angry, because Shorty should have had many more years melting plastic cups with that witch's brew he called "the blue stuff." He should have enjoyed many more conventions strolling through the halls and hugging the confolk.
Bergman attended high school in San Diego.
He is survived by his fiancée Becky Wasson, and other family members.
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Launching a startup is exhilarating – it requires energy, bravery, and a keen investment of time and money. It's not an easy road to travel, but if you're passionate about the industry you're entering, you could achieve incredible success. Unfortunately, somewhere between 30% and 80% of all startups fail – the discrepancy in numbers due to the broad definition of "fail" – and it's not always because the business idea is bad.
Businesses frequently fail because execution is poor – the entrepreneur isn't able to think like a businessperson while functioning with the creativity of an artist. If you plan to launch a startup, here are six tips to help you get it successfully off the ground.
1. Make Smart Money Decisions
You're going to have to spend money to launch your startup, but you need to think critically about when and how you spend it. Avoid pouring money into the "flash" – the high-end office space, iPads and MacBook Pros for every employee, billboards and TV ads – until you're seeing returns. Instead, invest your money in the meat of your business – pay for research and development and the best possible employees. If you're all flash and no substance, you'll never last.
2. Pursue Grassroots Marketing
Build your social following, marketing yourself through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, but don't stop there. Launch a crowdfunding campaign to reach a broader audience while educating the public about your product or business. Even if you don't need money from crowdfunding, it's a great way to gain buy-in and buzz from potential customers as they financially and emotionally invest in your company.
3. Create a Business Plan
Every startup needs a business plan. Business plans help you develop goals, define priorities, and map your road to success. For help, check out LawDepot where you can create a free business plan template to get started.
4. Hire Only When Necessary
Just because a new project pops up doesn't mean you need to hire an employee. Only hire when you have an absolute need, opting for freelancers or contractors whenever possible. By keeping your staff small and flexible in the beginning, you'll be able to invest more money in the right employees when hiring is necessary.
5. Ask Friends & Family for Guidance
No matter the scope of your business, your friends and family can help. Even if they don't have experience with launching a startup, they are consumers, which means they can provide you with objective feedback about your name, product, and marketing efforts.
6. Expand With Caution
Once your startup is off the ground and seeing success, look objectively at growth plans. It may be tempting to grow fast, but many businesses fail when they expand too rapidly and aren't ready to meet customer needs. Enlist a business manager to help you develop a growth plan you can reasonably sustain.
To launch a startup, you must be comfortable with risk and uncertainty. You must be prepared to work long hours for little, or no, pay. Educate yourself on the life of a startup entrepreneur to make sure you're really cut out for the journey. It requires guts, and the risk isn't for everyone, but the rewards are often worth it in the end.
Money Crashers is a personal finance resource that shares tips related to budgeting, smart spending, investing, and wealth management.
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When he was 15 years old, Jonas Duclos started to have some health issues. It took a while to work out what was wrong, but his doctors finally told him he was suffering from a rare genetic disease called PRP , which was attacking his skin and blood.
For the past 17 years, Duclos has been trying to manage the excruciating pain the condition brings.
"Suffering from constant pain… it is a real nightmare on a daily basis, and many people cannot understand that struggle because it's really hard to grasp how terrible it is," he told Business Insider.
As a teenager, he found the most effective painkiller available to him was cannabis — and he realised it was helping his pain more than all of the pills doctors were trying to give him.
"I've been able to help myself with cannabis, of course for many years illegally… My disease doesn't fit the sheet of the pharmaceutical industry — so I had to figure out how to treat myself on my own somehow."
He said this discovery led him to become curious about the "therapeutic or the helpful side of cannabis, not only the recreational."
After dropping out of school due to his health, Duclous dedicated the next two decades of his life to the science and economics around cannabis.
Despite having no high school diploma or degree, he managed to impress Swiss investment bank UBS, who took him in for an apprenticeship in wealth management. He was there eight years before shifting his attention entirely to the cannabis industry.
He used his new financial education to look further into the legislation of cannabis, its issues, and the health benefits — always coming from a personal angle of trying to find new ways to help people through this misunderstood plant.
In 2016, Duclos met Bruno Studer and Kevin Goetelen, who shared his view of how much good the cannabis industry could do for people. In 2017, they started JKB Research together, which manufactures and sells CBD-based products under the brand name CBD420 .
CBD is one of hundreds of compounds in the cannabis plant. At the International Cannabis Business Conference last April in Berlin, Duclos listened to presentations from medical professionals which essentially said we don't know anything about most of them.
"We know already there are more than 500 compounds in the plant of cannabis, and so far, we haven't identified half of those," he said. "So how can we pretend we know everything at this point? It's impossible."
CBD doesn't make you high, and the only known side effect is that it can make you feel sleepy. As for the benefits, they appear to be endless.
"There's no scientific proof at this point," Duclos said. "It's only that there are some obvious observations we've been able to notice from many people doing tests on their own."
In testimonials from his customers, for example, Duclos has heard CBD can help with the spasms that come with epilepsy, the shaking associated with Parkinson's, and CBD balms can even help with skin problems. But without scientific data, these experiences are merely anecdotal.
"It's very important to explain to [customers] how we can't promise anything," he said.
But the research is building up. For example, an article published in the journal Oncogene this week found that CBD could boost pancreatic cancer treatments — although the tests were in human cells and in mice. CBD is also being used in a number of trials to try and treat psychosis .
Duclos has a passion for skateboarding — he founded and leads OG Skate, Switzerland's largest skateboarding association — so he also has a lot of contact with professional athletes who use CBD for their muscle problems.
"If they get hit, or if they twist an ankle, if their knee hurts, they've been giving us amazing feedback of how CBD seems to help them," he said.
"So far, no studies have been able to prove that CBD could be psychoactive or addictive…. So this molecule is a very interesting one to start introducing cannabis to people."
There are also compounds called terpenes, which can enhance or activate the potential of CBD, but according to Duclos, nobody knows how they work.
"The human body is actually full of what we call CB [cannabinoid] receptors," said Duclos. "Somehow there seems to be a matching molecule in this cannabis plant."
He said it's like there are puzzle pieces in the body, and the matching pieces are found in the cannabis plant, "but so far the picture on it is too blurry to see how they are really matched together."
Another well-known compound in cannabis is THC, which is what makes you feel high. It is also associated with anxiety if the product is too potent, or is simply made with too many bad chemicals. Duclos said a lot of these problems come down to the fact cannabis is mostly bought and sold on the black market.
With the right regulations and education around it, cannabis could be safe for everyone, he said. He compared it to how people would make moonshine during prohibition in the US, and were dying from drinking a bad, unregulated product.
"I think it's pretty unfair to make [cannabis] evil at this point," he said. "We didn't make alcohol evil for that matter. We are in a period of marijuana prohibition. The product coming from the black market cannot be controlled and clean, and we cannot work with full transparency with a client in the black market."
For instance, some dealers lace their cannabis products with chemicals to boost the levels of THC. Unless you know the product really well, it's unlikely you'll be able to tell exactly what you're smoking or ingesting until you take it.
Not everyone who uses cannabis wants to get really high. As Duclos said, if you were making a fine wine, you wouldn't be marketing to the students who want to get drunk all the time. There are those who buy strong spirits for exactly that reason, but there are also people who want a more mellow effect.
"For the industry to be able to educate, we need to have a better understanding, and regulations that enable the industry to sell clean products with full transparency," Duclos said. "And it's just impossible today to do it perfectly, as we're evolving in those grey areas in all those different countries."
In Switzerland, for instance, there was a slight change to the law in 2011 to increase the tolerance level of THC in products from 0.2% to 1%.
One of the main reasons for this adjustment was because hemp farmers, who make textiles from the fibre of the cannabis plant, would end up with products with a THC level naturally higher than 0.2%, so they would be breaking the law by selling rope, strong fabrics, and paper.
"Those very simple farmers would end up in an illegal situation because of a bad understanding of cannabis," said Duclos. "That's why the Swiss authorities increased the level — because that obviously wouldn't make sense."
So CBD420 products with a THC level of less than 1% can be sold in Switzerland, which is essentially a loophole. But all cannabis products are also listed as a tobacco substitute, so it's heavily taxed, and everything CBD420 sells has to have a "smoking kills" label.
"Which is a shame when you know how some of my clients are just old ladies making tea with it," said Duclos. "It seems to be, from their feedback, very helpful for their arthritis."
Other countries have their own regulations, which complicate things even further.
In June, Canada became the second country in the world, behind Uruguay, to legalise marijuana . In the US, it's a grey area, because laws differ from state to state. In nine states, including California, cannabis is legal for both medical and recreational use. In 31 states, it is legal for medicinal use only.
In the UK, Duclos said Brexit could bring about an interesting opportunity to start over with a blank sheet on cannabis regulation . And the country does appear to be opening its mind on the topic. In July, UK home secretary Sajid Javid said doctors should be allowed to prescribe cannabis-derived medicines .
In countries like France and Germany, there's confusion over whether authorities should rely on EU or local law. In France, for example, CBD420 products are totally legal under EU law, but they're illegal under French law.
"Right now, the governments, they're not educated well enough," Duclos said. "It's pretty obvious today that prohibition is a failure on every level: on the understanding of the products, the protection, the use, everything that's been done so far. We can tell criminalising people for using drugs is not a solution, that's pretty obvious."
If recreational cannabis use was decriminalised everywhere, Duclos argued patients like those who buy his products could be as healthy as possible. Having a good regulation for cannabis is the only way to ensure people get a clean product, he said, and we would actually be able to learn what the positive effects really are.
"A lot of people are using cannabis for medical purposes, but they're hiding," he said. "They're scared, because cannabis has a very bad image. There has a been an impressive brainwashing about the negatives of cannabis over the past 50 years, and of course it's very difficult to change people's mentalities at this point."
Paypal and Google, for instance, have made their problems with doing business with cannabis-related operations clear .
All the murky legislature, the bad public image, and the lack of data to support how CBD can be used means Duclos can never honestly recommend his products to the hundreds of people who come to him looking for solutions to their problems.
"As of today we don't have enough information to do that, when someone asks me: 'How much cannabis should I take?'" he said.
But he doesn't have a problem introducing people to CBD, "because no matter the situation, to my knowledge, the worst case scenario is that it makes them tired and it doesn't fix their problem. But it won't make anything worse."
It's going to take a long time, Duclos said, but he is clear CBD420 has always played by the rules. They do their books and accounting, pay their taxes, and work with the health authorities and customs. They use organic products such as beeswax, coconut butter, and herbs, and there's no dodgy chemicals to be wary of.
"That's pretty much our strategy today, to start by showcasing a good image of cannabis through a brand," he said.
But the problems don't start and stop with legislation. In Canada, for example, the authorities are going to have to start regulating an industry that comes from the black market.
"It's like parents and teenagers," Duclos said. "As of today, a lot of people have been using cannabis illegally for medical purposes, including edibles and concentrates, and they've been working with people from the black market, and doing an amazing job helping those patients. But now what is it going to be? Are they going to get a licence? They don't know."
The major problem, he said, is that governments are so far behind in innovation and research, they won't know the best people to work with. When there's a massive unregulated black market out there, it takes experience to know who's legitimate and who isn't.
Duclos said people in the industry do not want to see regulations that look like they're written for the pharmaceutical industry. From day one, he has wanted to research cannabis for how it can help people, both recreationally and medically.
The pharmaceutical industry will never care about their patients as much as CBD420, he said, because the companies work for shareholders. For Duclos, the journey has been personal right from the start. He's not just investing his career and livelihood into cannabis, but his health too — which he wouldn't be doing unless he truly believed in what it can do for people.
Every step of Duclos life — from his illness, to his banking career, to finding his personalised health plan — has led him to the cannabis industry, which he says is a "blessing."
"I feel like I've been really lucky to gather the knowledge and skills over the years," he said. "My life has been pointing in that direction, and it feels amazing and I'm looking forward to everything that happens next."
It's going to take decades to fully start to grasp how cannabis really works, and authorities will have to adapt along with the research. Duclos hopes things go the right way, rather than sending the trade underground all over again.
Either way, he said his business will always be legal, and if that means he has to give it up, so be it. But until then, he'll keep playing his part in spreading education about cannabis.
"Any farmer thinks they can be a cannabis grower, but it actually takes a lot of science, so you need to be better educated, and it takes time," he said. "It's going to be a long process… but if somehow we have a positive impact on it, I'll be the happiest person on earth."
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/cannabis-could-help-range-of-health-problems-but-industry-is-stifled-by-out-of-date-regulations-2018-7


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My fiancée is an art historian and she had never been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. When the Met had one of her favorite paintings on display, Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Léon Gérôme, I had the perfect opportunity to propose.
Wanting to keep it a surprise, I told her that my good friend was buying a place in New York City and needed our help with the move—which was true except for the needing help part. My friend and I planned the morning of the proposal down to the finest detail: my fiancée and I would get to the Met as soon as they opened so there would be less people hanging around; my friend would come in separately with the ring (it was summer and the ring box was bulky); I would take her up to her favorite painting, wander away, meet my friend near the bathrooms, get the ring, and go back and propose. I had a ring, a ruse, a location, and a plan.
A number of bizarre and utterly ridiculous things ran through my head that day, but also some enlightening, happy things too—here they are:
This one worried me as soon as I got up in the morning. I was nervous and my stomach knew it. I ate light.
Obviously I was nervous about forgetting the ring. However, this thought wouldn't stop pestering me even after I handed the ring off to my accomplice. He didn't forget it, but of course I worried until it was on my fiancée's finger.
I am directionally challenged (I've gotten lost with a fully functioning GPS) and the Met is enormous. When I left my fiancée at Pygmalion and Galatea to find my friend who I was sure didn't have the ring, I was terrified I wouldn't find my way back. Luckily a friendly docent spotted me and said, "You're the one getting engaged! He's in the bathroom with the ring," then made sure I got back to my fiancée.
Visions of making a spectacular faceplant ran through my head right up to the actual proposal.
Of the two of us, it was more likely I'd pass out. But as I was headed down the hall, ring in hand, this nasty little voice popped into my head and said, "You're going to make her pass out and then she'll never marry you."
I am pretty sure that this is an extremely common thought to have, but I had pre-proposed several times. I basically asked her every couple of months if she would marry me if I asked. At first she said yes, but eventually she just rolled her eyes. I was 99 percent sure she'd say yes after an actual proposal, but I was still worried about that 1 percent.
I think this one freaked me out the most. I was so wrapped up in the plan, and the ring, and the actual proposal that I didn't really stop to think about all the things that were going to happen after. I wasn't having cold feet—it was just the immensity of the after that caught me off guard for a moment.
My fiancée and I are both feminists, so gendered pronouns, relationship labels, and the language used to talk about marriage are of particular importance to us. (When I read her this list, she said: "Make sure you put in there that I told you that you didn't need a ring and you didn't need you to get on one knee. I want people to know that there are other ways for people to get married and be happy.") So I wanted to get it right.
When I caught her eye as I got down on one knee, I was repeating over and over in my head, "You're my best friend, and my partner. I love you. Will you spend the rest of your life with me?"
I remembered. And, maybe I should have forgotten. It gave away the surprise. When my knees bend, they crack and my fiancée always tells people that she was oblivious up to the very moment she heard my knee crack behind her because she knew what it meant.
I wanted to make this moment memorable and special, not a segment on Tosh.0, which was a possibility as my friend was taking pictures.
This was a mantra. I was worried about so many things I had to actually make a conscious effort to take in air and let it back out.
I quake when I am nervous. And after all the effort put into not forgetting the ring I wanted to make sure I didn't drop it on the floor.
After she said 'yes,' we called my mom. She told us that her parents' wedding anniversary was August 22, the same day we got engaged. My fiancée's engagement ring is vintage, and we both have strong connections to our family, so this was particularly special for us.
Her parents are stoic people. I am not. I find their lack of emotional displays intimidating. I kept thinking, "They are going to refuse to pick up the phone because she said yes to a loud, boisterous outsider." Again, my fears were unfounded. They both offered their congratulations. However, when she told her dad she got married he said, "to who?" What a comedian.
After an engagement ring and a flight to NYC, the bank account was getting anemic. I cut it close, but I managed not to overdraw. I am still unsure which was more impressive, the fact that she said yes, or the fact that I didn't incur a $35 fee of wrath from my bank.
Nothing is official until it's Facebook official, right? All that day, I was legitimately concerned about the response our engagement would get on Facebook and what that might reveal about our friends' and family's true thoughts about our relationship. I was, of course, overreacting—and more to the point, who cares? But a healthy amount of likes, shares, and comments didn't hurt.
One of the most prominent and prevalent thoughts I had all day, even as I was nervously walking back to propose, was an overwhelming sense of good fortune. Here I was getting the chance to ask my best friend in the entire world if she'd hang out with me for an incredibly long time. I still wonder how I convinced her that dating me was a good idea, let alone agreeing to marry me.
When the dust settled and we slipped into bed that night I thought, "Here we go." This wasn't a conclusion—it was an introduction. Years of ups, downs, in-betweens, babies, jobs, joys, life, and living were just starting and I was excited that I was doing it with the one lying next to me.


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Honors College students have the opportunity to work closely with faculty mentors on research and creative projects during the summer.
Collaborative teams of faculty and students are compensated for their time and effort, allowing them to use the valuable summer term for sustained research activities. This program increases the research productivity of both faculty and Honors students. Engaging in sustained research through this program builds skills and experiences that can lead to an Honors Thesis, external funding, peer-reviewed publications, academic conference presentations, and preparation for graduate school.
We are currently not accepting proposals for Summer 2022, announcements will be made when the proposal submission reopens.
Summer 2019
|Dr. Daniel Paull
|Hind Benmerabet
|Chemistry & Physics
|"Designer resveratrol analogues: A potential solution for the scarcely targeted triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) types that lack the primary estrogen receptor."
|Dr. Fiona Tolhurst
|Dana Peteroy & Matthew Reyes
|Language & Literature
|"Malory's Morte Darthur"
|Dr. Ashley Danley-Thomson
|Austin Wise
|Environmental & Civil Engineering
|"Construction, optimization, and cost-benefit analysis of floating aquatic treatment wetlands for phytoremediation pre-treatment of municipal landfill leachate employing saline-tolerant plants."
|Dr. Carolyn Culbertson
|Malari Edwards
|Philosophy & Communication
|"Critical Thinking through Dialogue: A Hermeneutic Investigation."
|Dr. Charles Gunnels & Matthew Metcalf
|Alexander Marsh
|"Effect of human development on the Herpetofauna Community in the Peruvian Amazon."


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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong began free coronavirus testing for all residents in the Asian financial hub on Tuesday, as the mainland Chinese-led initiative faced scepticism from the city's medical community and public, with some activists urging a boycott.
The initiative began at 8.00 am (0000 GMT), with a 60-strong mainland team conducting tests. It is the first direct help from China's health officials for the semi-autonomous city as it battles the pandemic.
The scheme has emerged as a politically charged issue, with authorities in Hong Kong and China saying critics are trying to smear the central government.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam told a regular press briefing the testing was necessary to find invisible transmissions within society and urged medical workers to treat the testing "objectively and professionally."
The issue comes at a sensitive time with anxiety running high about what many of Hong Kong's 7.5 million residents see as Beijing's efforts to rein in their freedoms, in particular with a national security law imposed in June.
Lam said at the news conference that Hong Kong's executive, legislative and judicial powers are derived from Beijing.
"Our power is from the central government's authorization to Hong Kong," she said in comments that are likely to stoke further concern that the city has taken a more authoritarian turn.
China's offer to test residents comes as the number of new daily cases in the former British colony has fallen substantially, to single- or low double-digits, from triple-digits during the latest surge in cases a few weeks ago.
Nearly 600,000 people have signed up for the free testing, with people lining up on Tuesday at the 141 test centres across the city.
A Hong Kong pro-democracy union of healthcare workers and several activists called on Sunday for a boycott of the scheme.
Some democracy activists have suggested that people's DNA will be collected and abused under the cover of testing. The government has dismissed that saying no samples would be taken out of the city.
The volume of testing is due to increase to 500,000 a day from about 12,000 previously, authorities have said.
"Doing the testing will set my mind and others' at ease," said a 68-year old woman surnamed Cheung, as she queued outside a sports centre used for testing.
Reporting by Joyce Zhou and Clare Jim; Writing by Farah Master; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan
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Section A: different types of business information, their purposes and sources. In this section of the handbook I should address the following tasks: Task 1 - Outline the different types of business information used by the organisation (p1) Task 2 - Describe the purposes of the information you have outlined in task 1 (p1) Task 3 - Describe the sources of the information you have described in task 1 (p1) Types of information Example Description Purpose Source Verbal/oral Face to face and telephone Team meeting Planning on how to improve in the company and activities to be done Human resource department Written Letter Report Writing to plan an appointment to discuss issues about the company Informing future developments on how to improve the company financially Finance department Screen-based TV Computer Advertisement Communication sales promotion Marketing Web-based Internet Website Informing future development and communication sales promotion Finance and marketing department. Multimedia Web pages Magazine Bill boards Fliers Posters Financial accounts, Monthly magazines Inviting support for activities. Updating information Strategic development Finance department Government Electronic methods of communicating business information In this section of the handbook I should describe the electronic methods of communication which is used by the organisation to communicate business information clients/customers. Task 1 - Using examples identify the types of electronic methods which the organisation uses to communicate business information to different clients (p7). Task 2 - Identify the target audiences of the electronic communication (p7). Task 3 - Describe the reason why the organisation has used the types of communication (p7). Email - emails provide new product information, a target audience could be customers, staff, suppliers, shareholders and even the general population. E-mail has become the primary means for delivering short text messages within organisations that are networked. As e-mail between organisations becomes more common, the medium will increasingly take the place of fax, particularly as whole documents can be sent as e-mail attachments. ...read more.
Domino's pizza targets at every age group, starting from a young age. The best way to advertise their product was to make it worldwide and providing it in different areas where millions of people will be likely to see it and feel interested. They used television, online websites and other social networks (facebook, twitter). The advert draws people closer to them and helps viewers realise who they were, the mistakes they've made in the past and ways they have chosen to better themselves and improve the company The advert is quite memorable as it's quite entertaining as they are not just talking but show pictures of how they make the pizza as well as ways they've made it in the past which is an improvement, help their customers gain more interest in their products. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH5R56jILag Section G Part 1 I will be writing a report in which explains the steps the organisation has taken to comply with the above law and regulation. Data Protection Act Give brief description of what it says How Tesco complies with Data protection Act Tesco follows the steps of the data protection act by keeping any personally identifiable private data, without the explicit informed consent of the individual consumers, and then they should not be so fearful about responding to the guardian journalists legitimate subject data access requests. Tesco, and their rivals, data gathering retention and profiling policies must be made transparent to the public. So Tesco makes sure that all information is kept confidential. Customers' information may be passed to and used by all Tesco companies. We will never pass your personal information to anyone else, except where we are required or permitted to do so by law, for any successors in title to our business and suppliers that process information on our behalf both in the UK and abroad. We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individual customers are identified) ...read more.
This method is used as it is fast because the customers can call in at any time and can call from anywhere, it would be a private conversation as the customers information will be kept confidential unless needed for a valuable reason. M2 In this section I will be analysing the legal, ethnical and operational issues in relation to the use of the business information. Legal Issues There are many parts in the legal issues which are: * The issues of privacy * Consideration/feelings * Misleading * Falsehood * The right of the public to know. The issues of privacy are the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal them selectively. The reason why this is a legal issue is because people should be able to be confident when there confidential things are being put out to the public. Privacy gives them an opportunity to prevent people from seeing certain things if the person doesn't wish to show it to people but to keep to themselves. The area that Health & Safety covers is extremely extensive when you take into account the diversity of the industries where each one has specific Health & Safety issues. Businesses are usually considered to have low risk when it concerns electrical hazards but it still is one of the main causes of personal injury and fire. With the more machinery and equipment that the business have in the premises, the risk increases but for now, Businesses will just consider the office with the common electrical equipment of, say, computers, fax machines, fans, etc. There is no way of eliminating such dangers as it is entirely down to how the user operates the equipment with respect to the potential dangers that can occur from miss-use. It is therefore your responsibility to make sure that all electrical equipment (including power points) is maintained so that the risk of injury is low. ...read more.
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Bystander confronts, chases away suspected thief who pushed woman, dragged her several feet
A community in downtown Los Angeles is reeling about what to do after a woman was attacked in the early afternoon and dragged several feet.
The Los Angeles Police Department said surveillance footage showed a woman walking down a street and crossing an alleyway around 6:30 p.m. local time.
She appeared to be looking at her cellphone when a man ran up behind her and pulled her to the ground.
Police believe he was attempting to take the woman's purse.
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The two didn't have a physical altercation, but eventually the man who pulled the woman down left the scene.
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Obama Set to Kick Off Campaign With Ohio, Virginia Events
It might seem like the president's been in reelection mode for months, but now he really means, his campaign says.
It may have appeared that President Obama has been running hard for reelection for some months now. But his campaign announced on Wednesday night that now he really means it, scheduling two events in two battleground states at which the president will officially launch his campaign. The president and First Lady Michelle Obama will appear together at rallies at the Ohio State University and Virginia Commonwealth University on May 5.
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"Welcome to the general election," declared campaign manager Jim Messina during a telephone conference call for reporters. He noted that there is no longer any doubt that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee, and said, "The monologue is over. Now Romney has to put his agenda and record up against the president's." He added, "We're ready to go."
Senior campaign adviser David Axelrod said the campaign is at "an inflection point" now that Romney has locked up the nomination. "This is not going to be a one-way discussion" anymore, he said.
Republicans, of course, believe that most of the president's recent events - including those at college campuses this week -- have been more campaign rallies than official presidential business. Predictably, Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski scoffed at the notion that the upcoming trips will be different. "At President Obama's kickoff events next weekend you can expect to hear a lot of divisive rhetoric and finger-pointing," she said in a statement, adding, "In Ohio, Virginia and across the country, Obama isn't working and it's time for a new president who can turn our country around."
Earlier, the Republicans had insisted that the campaign should pay for this week's travel. But Axelrod said the president was traveling to fight against an increase in student-loan interest rates and trying to pressure Congress to act. "The president campaigned for that around the country, not for him, but for that, to try to move the Congress. And, apparently, the Congress today did begin to move. So he succeeded .... That is part of the presidency. We are not going to get hot and bothered by RNC stunts."
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The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates steady and make no changes to its asset purchasing program when it gathers Thursday for its September Monetary Policy Committee meeting.The central bank is set to keep interest rates at a record low of 0.25 percent and maintain its quantitative easing (QE) program at a rate of £435 billion ($573 billion), despite inflation remaining at persistently high levels.The fall in sterling following the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union has pushed up the cost of imports, making goods more expensive for British consumers. This has resulted in higher inflation, which hit 2.9 percent in August, well above the Bank of England's target of 2 percent.
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I maintain a large keyword dictionary in my Lightroom catalogs (with thousands of different keywords), and use these in various ways: to categorise images, to find images of specific animals/people/subjects, to note which filters (e.g. C-PL) were used (this feeds back into the ways I process some images), and even to manage the keywording process itself. This is just a short note about one of my recent tweaks to the system.
The keywords are arranged in nested groups. Sometimes it's to simply group them together, and sometimes it's to take advantage of the ability to inherit other keywords. As an example, consider the image of a Wedge-tailed Eagle at the top of this article.
There are only a few keywords attached to this image:
Two of those are "internal" keywords (denoted by the leading underscores), leaving two important keywords: Eagle_Wedge-tailed and flight. But when the image gets exported/published it ends up with a different list!
This is where one of my recent changes comes in. For a long time I had animal names as keywords in their "normal" format (e.g. "Wedge-tailed Eagle"). With all the keywords in the library, as you start to type "Wedge…" Lightroom will try to save you some time by presenting a list of possible keywords. In that case it would include the Wedge-tailed Shearwater. Only two keywords is a small list, but you can imagine how long the list was when typing "Australian…" (more than 25, as it happens). Not very efficient at time-saving, especially as Lightroom wasn't able to display the whole list of suggestions.
So I simply turned the keywords around. Now it's "Eagle_Wedge-tailed", and as I start typing "Eagle" I get shown a list of all the other Eagles in the dictionary.
This helps you drill down to the correct keyword without having to search through the Keyword List panel with a filter. Due to the tag options the word "Eagle_Wedge-tailed" doesn't itself get exported:
And due to the position of this keyword in the dictionary hierarchy (and the synonyms of its parent keywords) the other keywords such as "bird", "eagle", "accipitriformes", and "raptor" are automatically added to the exports.
Of course there's a lot more to my keywording system, with a reason behind every design choice. So this is just a start. I recently updated some other parts of the system to take advantage of some new Lightroom 6/CC features, but the parts I've shown here also work in earlier Lightroom versions.
With over 200,000 images in my library changing the keywords without losing anything was a little bit of work, but at least it was only counted in hours and not days. It's improved the speed of my workflow enough that I'm more than happy it was worthwhile.
Maybe this idea of reversing keyword text will help you in your own keywording system.


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The BLAZE 3-in-1 game selector has triple cartridge bays, and a single ribbon connector that plugs into your DS' cartridge slot. Sure, it adds a little bulk to your once svelte DS Lite, but it sure is nice being able to choose from multiple games without having to carry around an additional case. Once snapped onto the case of your DS Lite, you can flip between games by moving the switch on the top of the case. One of 3 green LEDs lights up to indicate which game is currently active.
It's not clear if the 3-in-1 selector will work on the DSi too, but it's definitely says it's designed for the DS Lite. You can grab one over at SuperUFO for about $13 (USD). Now if only they made one that held 50 games, I'd be set. Of course, my DS Lite would end about as thick as the latest Harry Potter book – in hardcover.


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Mobile BI Applications
I'll write this post in English as it may also be of interest for non-Danish-speaking BI Professionals.
At our last community meeting in SQLBI.DK the main topic was Mobil BI. As a part of my preparation before the meeting I started researching the market of Mobile BI Applications. I ended up with long list of different products and decided to apply some characteristics for each product. Most of these characteristics are self-explaining, but let me spend a few words on "Application Type".
Inspired by a Wikipedia article defining Mobile Business Intelligence, I found it useful to divide the applications into three different "Application Types".
- Mobile Browser Rendered App Almost any mobile device enables Web-based, thin client, HTML-only BI applications. However, these apps are static and provide little data interactivity. Data is viewed just as it would be over a browser from a personal computer. Little additional effort is required to display data but mobile browsers can typically only support a small subset of the interactivity of a web browser.
- Customized App A step up from this approach is to render each (or all) reports and dashboards in device-specific format. In other words provide information specific to the screen size, optimize usage of screen real estate, and enable device-specific navigation controls. Examples of these include thumb wheel or thumb button for BlackBerry, up/down/left/right arrows for Palm, gestural manipulation for iPhone. This approach requires more effort than the previous but no additional software.
- Mobile Client App The most advanced, the client app provides full interactivity with the BI content viewed on the device. In addition, this approach provides periodic caching of data which can be viewed and analyzed even offline
The Application Type indicates how big an effort it will be to cover multiple mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone ect.), but also how well the features of the mobile platform is used.
Here is the result of my research.
You may notice that allmost all applications has the Application Type: Mobile Client App. But still I think it's an important characteristic. J
If you know of a product that is not on my list or think that I'm missing or wrong about some characteristics, please let me know.


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