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Do you love the idea of sketching your sewing or knitting plans, but aren't sure where to start? I created this step-by-step video series, "Fashion Sketching for Absolute Beginners," just for you!
This is not your typical fashion illustration class. This class is for people who love to sew, knit, or crochet, and who want to start using custom sketch templates from MyBodyModel as part of their planning and design process. You can get your own custom fashion templates, made to your own measurements, from the MyBodyModel web app.
This intro fashion drawing tutorial series includes several videos. "Part 1: Get Started" is the first video in the series. Coming up in Part 2 and Part 3, we'll practice drawing tops and bodices on our body model templates. We'll continue to post more videos in the upcoming weeks to complete the "Fashion Sketching for Absolute Beginners" series – and finish drawing the outfits on our body models. Click here for a list of all Tutorials so far.
I hope this video series will help increase your comfort level with drawing fashion sketches on a model of your own body. So you can have more fun with the creative process, use your sketches to make important design decisions about what you want to make – and enjoy choosing patterns and styles based on how they look on YOU.
Happy Sketching!
MyBodyModel Fashion Sketching for Absolute Beginners Part 1 – Getting Started
Erica is an obsessed garment sewist who founded MyBodyModel because she was frustrated that she couldn't find any fashion illustration templates that looked like her. She loves coffee, fresh juicy markers, and faaaaabric. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, teenage daughter, and very fluffy rescue dog.


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According to Mr. Garmin, I ran from Boulder to Moab today and it was only 15.99 miles. Strange.
In reality, I did a morning workout in Boulder, forgot to clear my watch, and then did an easy 4 miles in Moab after driving all day.
A.M. 12 miles
Met at Tom Watson Park with a bunch of RRBs, some Striders, Darren and Colleen.
20 minute warm up, stretching, strides
4X1.5 mile repeats at alternating marathon/10K pace. (my pace was 5:40, 5:23, 5:39, 5:23 on each). 3 to 5 minute recoveries.
15 minute cool down
Weights, yummy lunch from Big Daddy's while watching Ali's gymnastics class, 6 hour drive to Moab.
P.M. Easy 4 miles in Moab around 7:30 p.m. Nice bowl of chili and a soak in the hot tub with the fam afterwards.
Aaron's Race Report and some Pics from the weekend….

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Greivis Vasquez ranks No. 18 in points per play he finishes as the pick-and-roll ball handler, and Amir Johnson ranks No. 31 as the pick-and-roll screener, according to MySynergySports.
That should make the newly formed Raptors duo pretty formidable, and everyone involved sounds excited about the possibilities.
Via Eric Koreen of the National Post:
"When somebody really sets a good screen on my [defender], I'm off to the races," Vasquez said. "That's my game. When it's not a good screen, you have to utilize your skill, your speed, so it tends to be a little bit harder, especially for me. Every time I get a good screen, something is going to come out pretty good, whether it's a good shot, whether it's getting it back to Amir [Johnson]."
"[Johnson] doesn't mind contact. That's something that he learned from Ben Wallace and those old guys in Detroit, how to set legal screens, how to hit people and understanding it doesn't hurt if you set it properly and protect yourself. He's one of the best. You'll always see him at the end of the game setting screens, understanding angles and timing, because in crucial parts of the game you don't want [an illegal] screen."
"Everybody who defends is going to get hit, especially when I set a screen," Johnson said. "It might be an offensive foul, but I'm going to get a piece."
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In two games so far, the results have been modestly successful.
Good pick-and-rolls aren't just about getting opportunities for the dribbler or screener. They create spot-up opportunities, too. So, looking at offensive production as a whole can be quite telling.
When Vasquez and Johnson share the court, Toronto's offensive rating is 105.0, up a tick from 102.0 for the season. That's not bad, but keep an eye on these two getting much better as they get a better feel for each other.


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Gahhhhhh. Can you believe that December is in just a few days! Where the hell did this year go?!
Have you put up your tree yet? J and I like to wait until after December 1st has hit. It helps us get into the spirit.
None of this Christmas tree up at Thanksgiving shit for us. Christmas is in DECEMBER after all.
Although I am not religious, Christmas time – or should I say the holiday season, is one of my favorite times of year, especially now that I have moved back to Boston.
It just didn't feel like Christmas in San Diego with the warm weather and sunshine.
There is something about the cold against my cheeks, a cup of warm cocoa and lights illuminating against the dark night sky that just GETS ME.
I cannot wait until the city lights up with red and green and there are wreaths and holly everywhere!
There are so many events going on in Massachusetts it's hard to track them all. J and I really want to attend some type of lighting.
If you live in MA I have you covered for all the lighting/holiday events below. OR if you live in the New England area perhaps make a quick trip here to attend also!
Methuen Festival of Trees (Methuen)
The Festival of Trees has been a marvel of the Merrimack Valley for over two decades. Featuring over 240 trees, wreaths, and displays you could win, this family celebration has something for everyone.
November 18–December 2,Weekdays 5-9 p.m. Weekends 10am- 9 p.m.
Edaville Festival of Lights (Carver)
Edaville's Christmas Festival of Lights is one of the most-loved festivals of its kind, with generations of loyal fans. Passengers relax in warm, dry coaches while riding through a spectacular holiday setting featuring an explosion of lights. Kids of all ages will enjoy an array of vintage amusement rides, Thomas Land rides, and a visit with Santa. Enjoy a meal or seasonal treats while roaming Edaville's sprawling and beautifully decorated grounds, featuring thousands of Christmas displays.
November 18–January 1, 4pm to 8pm
Massachusetts Horticultural Society's Festival of Trees (Wellesley)
The Festival of Trees, displayed in the Hunnewell Carriage House, offers beautifully decorated holiday trees that are donated and decorated by local businesses, garden clubs, and individuals. Visitors "vote" with their raffle tickets, in hopes of being the tree winner at the end of the festival. Visitors can enjoy the decorated buildings and grounds at Elm Bank with a stroll or a horse-drawn wagon ride. For the young at heart, there is a pajama story time, Santa visits, and kids' craft workshops.
November 24–December 10, times vary
ZooLights at Stone Zoo (Stoneham)
ZooLights promises to dazzle visitors of all ages this holiday season. Enter a winter wonderland of tree-lined paths lit by thousands of twinkling lights. Stroll through festively decorated Yukon Creek, home to bald eagles, Canada lynx, reindeer, and arctic foxes. Plus, meet Stone Zoo's reindeer up close during nightly photo opportunities.
November 24–December 3, 5–9 p.m.
First Light Brookline (Brookline)
First Light started 18 years ago in Brookline's Washington Square, when several businesses came together to spread holiday cheer by hanging snowflakes in their storefront windows. These glowing flakes illuminated the square, signaling the start of the holiday season. Over the years, First Light has grown into the town's annual winter festival, showcasing the talents of local artists, musicians, and performers at businesses and other venues throughout Brookline.
November 30, 5–8 p.m.
Frog Pond Skating Spectacular and Tree Lighting (Boston)
Join the Skating Club of Boston at the Boston Common Frog Pond for a free world-class figure skating ice show featuring national and international figure skaters, synchronized skating, and Theatre On Ice teams. Following the show, join Mayor Marty Walsh for the Boston Common tree lighting ceremony.
November 30, 5–6 p.m.
Downtown Haverhill Christmas Stroll (Haverhill)
This year's event will start with a holiday hat parade. Businesses will host activities, including face painting, cookie decorating, and a visit to Santa's workshop. The event will also include an opportunity to step into a life-size snow globe, a photo-op with some minions, and a holiday train ride! To promote the spirit of the season, wandering carolers and a saxophone quartet will perform holiday songs and music. And, of course, Santa will be on hand to light the Christmas tree!
December 2, 2–6 p.m.
The North End
Celebrity Christmas Carolers—including Mix 104.1's Kennedy Elsey, Rich DiMare, and Louie Bello—will entertain as the tree lights up at 6 p.m. Afterwards, enjoy the North End's decorations as you wander the Holiday Stroll. Nineteen shops, boutiques, galleries, pop-ups, and more will be open for shopping and snacking in this holiday celebration of the historic North End.
Friday, December 1, 6-11 p.m., corner of Cross Street and Hanover Street, Boston
Mayor's 2017 Enchanted Trolley Tour
If you're really ready to dive into the holiday season, tour Boston with Mayor Walsh's Enchanted Trolley. Over the weekend, the trolley will stop at 16 different locations around the Greater Boston area, arriving at holiday performances, tree lightings, and visits with Santa along the way. "Our holiday trolley tour and tree lightings provide some of the best family memories of the year, building community spirit throughout Boston and bringing a little extra joy to residents during the holiday season," said Mayor Walsh in a press release. The poster listing the full schedule of trolley stops can be found on Boston's website.
December 1-3, times & locations vary
Music will entertain guests just before the tree lighting. Afterwards, children can meet Santa at the Somerville High School and even receive an early gift from Old Saint Nick. Refreshments will be available.
Thursday, December 7, 5:30 p.m., City Hall Concourse, 93 Highland Ave., Somerville.
Beacon Hill
Charles Street will close so that guests can wander the quintessential Beacon Hill neighborhood, enjoying refreshments, shopping, and horse and buggy rides. Victorian Carolers and a strolling brass quintet will provide holiday cheer throughout the evening, and at 7 p.m., Santa will light the tree at the corner of Charles and Mount Vernon Streets.
Thursday, December 7, 6-9 p.m., Charles Street, Boston
Schedules courtesy of City Moms Blog & Boston Magazine


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Producer: Rob Holladay
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All doubts about Juicy J's affiliation with Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang were dismissed after his appearance on the first release from Taylor Allderdice. Juicy has been experiencing a resurgence in popularity—and quality—that started with his Rubba Band Business mixtape series, and it seems as though his relationship with Khalifa has helped fan that flame. They share an ostentatious nature and materialistic charisma that makes for an uncanny chemistry on collaborative tracks. As soon as Wiz finishes bragging about running up his tab in the club, Juicy J comes in to the complement the story with tales of intoxication and girl-stealing in the same venue. These guys should blow $30,000 together more often.
19. Juicy J on Wiz Khalifa's "My Favorite Song"
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Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps customers build a better world with data. The Pure Storage Data Platform, powered by all-flash storage, offers a simpler, more effective, and more flexible solution for cloud infrastructure and data-rich applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics.
Article | November 14, 2022
1. The Market for Mobile Application Development
2. Innovations in Mobile Application Development
2.1 In-App Paid Features: Android and iOS Development
2.2 Augmented and Virtual Reality
2.3 Beacon Technology
2.4 Al and Ml
2.5 Wearables
2.6 Predictive Analytics
2.7 Blockchain Technology
2.8 On-Demand Applications
3. Long-Term Benefits of Mobile App Development Innovations for Your Small Business:
4. Tying Everything Together
Increased use of the internet and smartphones demands better mobile applications be developed. Innovation is the key driving force that can make or break the market regarding mobile app development. A fantastic team of mobile app developers and smart innovation employing the latest technology produce a huge hit app.
Let us learn more about how the mobile app development market grows.
1. The Market for Mobile Application Development
The mobile application development market is projected to grow at a 13.4% CAGR from 2023 to 2030, with a value of $187.58 billion recorded in 2021.
This is due to the increased use of the internet and smartphone platforms, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning. The app's algorithms learn and understand user interests to deliver refined results that generate better user engagement.
As Ericsson and the Radicati Group forecasted, 6.64 billion people own a smartphone today, which is around 83.32% of the world population, and by 2025, 7.33 billion people will own a smartphone.
As a result, there is a substantial rise in demand for better smartphone apps, for which creative and innovative mobile application development is the need of the hour. Innovation will give your business a competitive edge it's never had before. It will also open up new ways to grow your business.
Discover the top innovations in mobile app development.
2. Innovations in Mobile Application Development
Some of the technological breakthroughs in mobile app development will greatly improve the user experience in the future. These focus mainly on the implementation of the latest technological innovations to realize functionality that has never been seen or done before. Let us now delve into their specifics.
2.1 In-App Paid Features: Android and iOS Development
While Android has a market share of 70%, iOS has grabbed a market share of around 28% in the mobile operating systems market as of 2022.
In-app advertising and in-app purchases generate the major ROI from mobile applications on both mobile operating platforms.
A great UI and UX go a long way toward boosting your app and business, and they also help you rank highly in the respective app markets, i.e., the Google Play Store and the App Store. Rolling out constant updates and adhering to the security standards of the marketplace keeps your business app ranking at the top.
2.2 Augmented and Virtual Reality
With the AR kit, you can design and make 3D mobile apps for your customers that use virtual reality. AR and VR are constantly changing the business of making mobile apps. You can use these trends to give mobile users really great experiences. A few of the sectors making successful use of these technologies include gaming, e-commerce, retail, interior design, real estate, tourism and travel, education, training, healthcare, manufacturing and construction, advertising and marketing, and entertainment. Your AR and VR mobile apps are more valuable if you can meet your expectations for maximum ROI with a minimum budget. You can do this by making constant improvements to your minimum viable product.
2.3 Beacon Technology
The beacon technology uses a smartphone's Bluetooth to identify any store, museum, or other business in the vicinity. As mobile devices get more powerful, IoT and edge sensors will be used more and more. Because of that, beacon technology will change the way we interact with the world.
This technology sends notifications to your customer's phone about your product when the customer passes by, sends content and descriptions about an ongoing event at your location to your customers, and more. Proximity marketing and indoor navigation notifications are the few ways retail is using this technology. With the help of beacon technology, your business can track assets, keep track of contacts, offer access to loyalty programs, gather advanced data, and send mobile tickets.
2.4 Al and ML
The versatility and power of innovations in Al and ML keep them relevant. For example, they let you turn pictures into animations that look real. These animations provide real-time analytics and other valuable insights. As an AI learns from its own experience, providing a better customer experience based on the data you feed it helps create intelligent chatbots. Personalized shopping assistance, fraud prevention, task automation, smart content, voice assistants, and autonomous vehicles are a few of the examples where you will see AI implemented. An AI trains itself through machine learning, or ML. ML forecasts future data trends using available historical data. This invaluable addition to your existing apps transforms the way they interact with customers. We are one step closer to a super-personalized experience.
2.5 Wearables
Wearables let you make calls, find your way to your destination, measure and analyze your vital signs in real time, and look at your own personal insights. So, app developers and businesspeople should focus on making apps that give people who use wearables a great digital experience. Getting better apps for wearable devices can greatly enhance their functionality and the user experience. From listening to your favorite music to tracking your fitness goals, taking notes, finding a parking spot, and adhering to your health and fitness regimen, a wearable device does it all. If developing your company's wearable app delivers more value, this technology is not just a game changer but a lifesaver for many.
2.6 Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics is essential to e-commerce. When it comes to making mobile apps, predictive analysis can help improve both the process and the user experience. By putting together information from many developers, it can help predict problems and suggest solutions. Your predictive analytics will be better if you use artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, machine learning, modeling, and statistics.
The data that your small and medium-scale businesses have gathered over a period of time becomes one of the most valuable sources of information that helps predict and forecast future market trends. Unexplained market rises and falls will now have an explanation, as will mobile apps that can precisely tell what, when, and where needs to be changed, replaced, or repaired. Using constants and variables that are already known, predictive analytics and data modeling can help make accurate predictions about the future.
2.7 Blockchain Technology
The world of blockchain has innumerable possibilities. Applications backed by blockchain technology benefit from end-to-end encryption. This means no one but you can retain data ownership rights. Blockchain technology is used for a lot of important communication and financial transactions because it is safe and private.
Blockchain holds promise for better efficiency, productivity, and performance, as well as for elevating the user experience. Blockchain is more secure and reliable, offers better transparency in financial transactions, makes you go password-free using an SSL certificate (Secure Sockets Layer), promotes simplicity, protects your identity, safeguards access to your digital data and information, and helps transmit and receive accurate data with the help of balanced data transfer using several nodes at once.
2.8 On-Demand Applications
As lockdowns and quarantines went on for a long time, many delivery apps started to appear. There were apps for taxis, grocery stores, and even medicine delivery. The on-demand model is likely to grow as more service-based companies shift their focus towards on-demand apps. Technology is always changing, and every year, new versions of technology hit the market. That's why we need to keep up with the latest updates and use them to make applications that are both new and full of features. That's a must for a successful launch of a mobile app.
Making the software development process easy for the developers reduces the time it takes to develop applications using the software. There are options like rapid application development software, no code, and low-code application development software. These can include mobile app development, SaaS (software as a service), cloud apps, on-premise standalone apps, desktop apps, and web-based apps for many devices, including IoT devices. Using AI to power the application development process speeds up development, testing, and deployment, which helps a lot with scaling from small to medium to large and beyond.
Some quick and effective mobile app development platforms include AppSheet, AppInstitute, Appery.io, AppyPie, Bizness Apps, Caspio, GoodBarber, iBuldApp, Quixey, Rollbar, Shoutem, and more.
3. Long-Term Benefits of Mobile App Innovations for Your Small Business:
Creating a winning product doesn't have to be a long process. Improvements on the product offered by competitors and finding competitor product shortcomings, along with using innovative technologies, help add value to your mobile app as a product. Mobile app development innovations help in many ways, such as:
Improve your brand's relationship with your customers
Offer 24/7 access to your business
Get excellent customer insights
Efficiently market your product online
Save on additional marketing costs
Boost employee efficiency by increasing engagement
Improve communication
shreds down the busy work and
Streamline the data
Generate a new revenue stream from ads targeted at in-app purchases. As a result, you meet customer expectations efficiently, allowing you to expand your business and attract potential customers. Your customers and potential customers are always looking for something new and exciting to experience and adopt. Sooner or later, they make habits of seeing something, and then they start thinking of that mobile app as a standard benchmark to look up to.
Talking about the scalability of a mobile application, there is a lot of scope to improve using innovative technologies, and all minor to major updates take you from where you are to where you want to be. Finding the right mix of technologies will help your business grow and expand.
4. Tying Everything Together
Business growth for small-scale businesses starts with new inputs and strategic technological investments in mobile app development. Although they sound promising, striking the right balance to implement innovative technologies relies heavily on rigorous predictive analysis. Tools and technologies help meet customer expectations at scale and grow the business beyond imagination with the power of innovation.
Article | July 14, 2022
The next step in industrial technology is about robotics, computers and equipment becoming connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and enhanced by machine learning algorithms. Industry 4.0 has the potential to be a powerful driver of economic growth, predicted to add between $500 billion- $1.5 trillion in value to the global economy between 2018 and 2022, according to a report by Capgemini.
Article | July 11, 2022
Whilst there are many people that associate AI with sci-fi novels and films, its reputation as an antagonist to fictional dystopic worlds is now becoming a thing of the past, as the technology becomes more and more integrated into our everyday lives. AI technologies have become increasingly more present in our daily lives, not just with Alexa's in the home, but also throughout businesses everywhere, disrupting a variety of different industries with often tremendous results. The technology has helped to streamline even the most mundane of tasks whilst having a breath-taking impact on a company's efficiency and productivity
Article | February 11, 2020
With the Government investing £250 million into the project, the Lab will consider how to use AI for the benefit of patients – whether this be the deployment of existing AI methods, the development of new technologies or the testing of their safety. Amongst other things, the initiative will aim to deliver earlier diagnoses of cancer. It is estimated that in excess of 50,000 extra patients could see their cancer being detected at an early stage, thus boosting survival rates. More specifically, a study has shown that AI is quicker in identifying brain tumour tissue than a pathologist.This would have a positive knock-on effect in other areas, such as enabling money to be saved (that otherwise would have been spent on further treatment) and reducing the workload of staff (at a time when there is a crisis in NHS workforce numbers).
Edge Impulse | November 29, 2022
Edge Impulse, the foremost development platform for ML on edge devices, today announced a joint initiative to advance professional machine learning implementation by bringing Renesas' DRP-AI Translator software directly into Edge Impulse Studio.
Edge Impulse Studio allows developers to quickly and easily create and optimize solutions with real-world data. The company's platform streamlines the entire process of collecting and structuring datasets, designing ML algorithms with ready-made building blocks, validating the models with real-time data, and deploying the fully optimized production-ready result to an edge target.
The DRP-AI is Renesas' low-power, proprietary AI accelerator. The integration of DRP-AI Translator software into Edge Impulse Studio will now allow users to access its features inside the Studio environment, rather than needing to run it externally.
Out-of-the-box hardware support for the integration is currently available for Renesas' new RZ/V2L Evaluation Board Kit, which offers high-precision AI inference capabilities combined with top-class power efficiency. Powered by DRP-AI and dual 1.2GHz Arm® Cortex®-A55, RZ/V2L is ideal for exploring industrial monitoring and visibility solutions.
"A sound technology strategy involves coupling reliable hardware with intelligent software. "I am thrilled to connect with Renesas in making our machine learning software tools even more capable by allowing users to directly access the features that make Renesas' hardware world-class."
Zach Shelby, CEO and co-founder of Edge Impulse
"Edge Impulse offers our customers a state-of-the-art cloud environment that works seamlessly with Renesas' RZ/V2L MPUs," said Shigeki Kato, Vice President of Renesas' Enterprise Infrastructure Business Division. "Using the integrated development environment, engineers can easily build full-scale AI Machine Learning solutions for a wide range of applications including industrial monitoring systems, smart buildings, smart cities and other vision-based inspection systems."
About Edge Impulse
Edge Impulse is the leading machine learning platform, enabling all enterprises to build smarter edge products. Their technology empowers developers to bring more ML products to market faster and helps enterprise teams rapidly develop industry-specific solutions in weeks instead of years. The Edge Impulse platform provides powerful automation and low-code capabilities to make it easier to build valuable datasets and develop advanced ML with streaming data. With over 40,000 developers, and partnerships with the top silicon vendors, Edge Impulse offers a seamless integration experience to validate and deploy with confidence across the largest hardware ecosystem.
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OutSystems | November 16, 2022
OutSystems, a global leader in high-performance application development, today announced at its NextStep 2022 Software Innovation Conference, the new OutSystems AI Mentor System. This enhanced solution gives a comprehensive set of AI-based development, security, and quality analysis tools that provide expert-level assistance across the most critical areas of the software development lifecycle. With AI Mentor System, IT teams can more easily optimize their architecture for performance, identify and fix security-related coding errors, and minimize technical debt and wasted development time.
For more than four years, OutSystems has been infusing AI across the platform and the entire software development lifecycle to help developers, tech leads, and architects create software much faster and with enterprise-grade quality. OutSystems AI Mentor System aids developers at every development step, providing intuitive, in-the-moment help when they need it. The AI Mentor System also automates repetitive tasks, eliminates tedious work, and validates applications before they go into production to ensure they are built and maintained to the highest possible quality standards. Each of the AI Mentors serve as developers' assistants, improving the development process for dramatic efficiency.
"The traditional software development approach needs to change and our advanced AI literally shaves weeks and months off of the development process, while increasing the quality and security of every app," said Gonçalo Gaiolas, OutSystems Chief Product Officer. "AI Mentor System is like having a team of experts enhancing and extending the collective expertise of your team. OutSystems is catching potential issues and serving up solutions for the dev team, so they can focus on creating awesome solutions. This System is a prime example of high-performance low-code, with the agility of a visual programming language and a powerful AI engine, supporting faster and more accurate development at every stage."
AI Mentor System Capabilities
The OutSystems AI Mentor System is an evolution of the previous Architecture Dashboard within the OutSystems Platform, offering more robust capabilities and integrating new patent-pending AI technology. The solution includes the following Mentors:
Code Mentor – Breakthrough AI-assisted development predicts what to do next, suggests the best option, and adds it to a developer's code, fully configured and adapted to the business logic and context. Additionally, Code Mentor enables developers to use natural language to describe complex data required for an application and the built-in AI will automatically generate the proper SQL query, saving developers an enormous amount of time.
Architecture Mentor – An AI-based enterprise architect that reviews code to ensure it meets critical architectural standards.
Security Mentor – An AI-based security lead that reviews code to identify code vulnerabilities introduced during the development process.
Performance Mentor – An AI-based performance expert that reviews code to identify possible performance bottlenecks and ensure that apps consistently perform at peak efficiency.
Maintainability Mentor – An AI-based portfolio analyst that scans the company's entire application portfolio looking for opportunities to reduce technical debt. The Maintainability Mentor is like having an AI-based development manager reviewing application code to root out duplicated code and suggesting opportunities to refactor applications.
"The biggest value (from AI Mentor System) is that it provides a top down analysis of our code base, identifying areas in the architecture where best practices need to be applied," said Scott Finkle, Vice President at McConkey Auction Group. "We schedule a dashboard review every week to see the results so we can address the issues identified. As a result, our code base is kept clean and is much easier for developers–especially new–to understand and work with. The categories are helpful for informing us of the areas we need internal training and where we have business and other risks. It is a significant asset to our developers as well as the business."
Additional OutSystems Platform Updates
OutSystems released a series of additional enhancements that bring added power and flexibility to the platform:
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) – With the platform's new SAST API, customers can automate security testing of application source code with third-party tools such as SonarQube, Veracode. OutSystems is the only leading low-code platform that supports SAST, an essential step in building strategic enterprise applications. Customers can join the OutSystems Early Access Program (EAP) to access these new features.
OpenID Authentication for Platform Users – The OutSystems Platform has long supported third-party Identity Providers (IdPs), such as Okta or Azure Active Directory, for application users. Customers can now use their corporate-standard IdP – using the OpenID Connect standard – to authenticate platform users as well. Customers can leverage their existing IdP investments and implement sophisticated governance strategies for large-scale enterprise development teams.
Expanding Enterprise Observability – While the OutSystems Platform includes sophisticated, built-in tools for application monitoring, customers increasingly want to standardize on a single tool for all of their monitoring and observability requirements. This new capability moves application logs to a specialized logging subsystem and exposes these logs through the OpenTelemetry API. Customers will see new levels of performance for sophisticated monitoring regimens and out-of-the-box support for third-party monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, and Dynatrace. Customers can join the OutSystems EAP to access these new features.
Integration Builder support for MongoDB – OutSystems Integration Builder dramatically accelerates developers' ability to connect apps to data sources through secure and scalable integrations. Until now, Integration Builders supported 13 common data sources such as SAP, Salesforce, Azure SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL – and now supports MongoDB. This is an important addition for customers that want to accelerate the development of applications that take advantage of NoSQL-based data. With Integration Builder, customers use wizard-style configuration to configure their MongoDB integrations without having to write a single line of code. Those integrations are scalable and secure and can be reused throughout a customer's app portfolio.
Developers can experience these new features and access OutSystems with a free trial version and experience these capabilities by visiting the OutSystems page.
See the OutSystems Platform at NextStep 2022
OutSystems is presenting the enhanced OutSystems Platform at the company's NextStep online event November 15-17. Join OutSystems, its customers and partners for a look at high-performance low-code in action with companies around the world. Watch the event live or on-demand.
About OutSystems
OutSystems was founded in 2001 with the mission to give every organization the power to innovate through software. The OutSystems high-performance low-code platform gives technology leaders and developers the tools to rapidly build and deploy their own business-critical applications. The company's network spans more than 600,000 community members, 400+ partners, and active customers in 87 countries across 22 industries. OutSystems is "The #1 Low-Code Platform®" and a recognized leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world. Some of the most well-known brands use OutSystems to turn their big ideas into software that moves their business, people, and the world forward.
Seismic | September 26, 2022
Seismic, the global leader in enablement, today announced a new partnership with Microsoft for its seller experience application, Viva Sales. Together, Microsoft and Seismic will transform the future of sales and streamline daily workflows for the modern salesperson.
Today's salespeople use numerous apps and tools in their daily work but are challenged with bringing together the bigger picture across meetings, email, chat, and CRM. Breaking down silos of data, Viva Sales empowers sellers in their flow of work within Microsoft 365 and Teams, reducing busy work and maximizing sellers' time for the most valuable area of their work – engaging with customers and closing deals.
Embedded within the Viva Sales workflow, Seismic will provide content production, collaboration, task automation, and engagement intelligence for Viva Sales users across the meeting experience to help drive deals and relationships forward. The joint vision of Microsoft Viva Sales and Seismic is to streamline the buyer engagement experience for relationship-based sales teams and increase productivity through preparation, automation, and intelligence.
"Microsoft has been one of our longstanding partners and we've always had close alignment across our product and go-to-market teams, so we're thrilled to help launch Viva Sales. "Our leadership in sales enablement, content automation, enablement intelligence, and buyer engagement will perfectly complement the mission of Viva Sales to improve seller productivity and drive revenue. We can't wait to get started."
Hayden Stafford, President and Chief Revenue Officer at Seismic
Microsoft's partnership with Seismic for Viva Sales will add AI-powered capabilities for virtual meetings, the key vehicle for modern sales teams to interact with prospects and customers. As the first step in this journey, the Seismic Enablement Cloud™ will provide recommended content and training for follow-up as part of the Viva Sales AI-powered post-meeting call summaries. Looking ahead, sales organizations can expect content and training recommendations, pre-built digital sales rooms, and meeting analysis powered by Seismic.
"We're united with Seismic in our commitment to empower sellers through relevant content and an improved seller experience. Our plan to integrate Seismic with Viva Sales will help sellers have more personalized customer engagements whether they are in the office or on the road, with a helpful assist from the AI-driven insights and content," said Lori Lamkin, CVP, Dynamics 365 Customer Experience Applications.
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text: Streetwear brand Mishka is known for teaming up with up and coming musicians such as Das Racist, Mr. MFN eXquire, Main Attraktionz, Ninjasonik, The Death Set, Wavves, Night Slugs, the Trouble and Bass crew and more. The latest (and arguably the dopest) is Mr. Bronsollini. Actions album dropped today called Well Done produced entirely by Statik Selektah and is straight fire. Pick up the shirt here and the album here and become an official Action fan.


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August 29th, 2011
Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva reach legal settlement
After a long, bitter battle, Mel Gibson and ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva have reached a financial and custody settlement, CNN confirms.
The couple's daughter Lucia was born in October 2009. By April 2010, they made their separation public.
After a January 2010 fight with Grigorieva, Gibson was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery. He pleaded no contest earlier this year. The case blew up after racist and sexist rants by Gibson were recorded and leaked to RadarOnline.com.
Since their breakup, Gibson and Grigorieva have been battling in court, but a rep for Gibson tells CNN their legal problems have been worked out: "I can confirm that the parties have settled and we appreciate all the judge's help."
The financial terms and conditions of the settlement will be decided at a hearing on Wednesday, according to a statement from Los Angeles Superior Court. Custody issues regarding baby Lucia will be heard in a closed session.
To add to Mel's messy legal issues, Robyn Gibson, the star's wife of 28 years, filed for divorce in April 2009, just months before Grigorieva gave birth. The Gibsons recently reached a divorce settlement.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mel's attorney announced that the case should be finalized by Tuesday. Gibson and Robyn have seven children together.
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text: Yesterday afternoon in New Hampshire a man who has been through hell and back, or at least it seems, surprised thousands. Brian Vickers won the New Hampshire race yesterday. That's right I said Brian Vickers won the NASCAR Sprint Cup race yesterday! Vickers does not even have a full-time ride. Yesterday he was racing the number 55 car for Michael Waltrip Racing. A few years ago it was unsure if Vickers would be able to ever race again after a health issue side-lined him. In fact it could have even killed him, so his winning yesterday was a great ending to a long story. Maybe this will mean Vickers can find a full-time ride for next year. Congratulations Brian Vickers!


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Loading Actors and Animations
Actor Basics
Although this is a rarely-used technique, it is possible to assemble a character model out of several separate pieces (separate models). This is further explained in the section Multi-Part Actors.
Panda3D supports both skeletal animation and morph animations.
It is also possible to load animations asynchronously, if your build of Panda has Threading enabled (which is the case in version 1.6.1 and above).
The python class
Actor is
designed to hold an animatable model and a set of animations. Since the Actor
class inherits from the NodePath class, all NodePath functions are applicable
to actors.
Note, however, that Actor is a Python class that extends the C++ NodePath class. For the most part, you don't have to think about this: Actor inherits sensibly from NodePath and generally does what you expect. There are a few subtle oddities, though. When you attach an Actor into a scene graph, the low-level C++ Panda constructs only record the NodePath part of the Actor in the scene graph, which is fine as long as you also keep a pointer to the Actor instance in your Python objects. If you let the Actor destruct, however, its visible geometry will remain, but it will cease animating (because it is no longer an Actor). Also, even if you keep the Actor object around, if you retrieve a new pointer to the Actor from the scene graph (for instance, as returned by the collision system), you will get back just an ordinary NodePath, not an Actor.
The Actor interface provides a high-level interface on the low-level Panda
constructs. In Panda, the low-level node that performs the animation is called
Character. You can see the Character node in the scene graph when you call
Do not confuse the Actor class with the ActorNode class, which is used for physics. They are completely unrelated classes with similar names.
Using Actors
The Actor class must be imported before any loading or manipulation of actors.
from direct.actor.Actor import Actor
Once the model is loaded, the actor object must be constructed, and the model and animations must be loaded:
Loading each animation requires a tuple: the name one is giving the animation and the path to the animation. This entire process can be shortened to a single command:
nodePath = Actor('Model Path', {
'Animation Name 1':'Animation Path 1',
'Animation Name 2':'Animation Path 2',
Note that it is also possible to store the animations and model in the same file. In that case, just create the Actor with just the model as parameter.
Panda Filename Syntax
The filenames used in the Actor constructor must follow Panda's filename conventions. See Loading Models for more information. Loading actors and animations utilizes the panda model path, the same as for static models.


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Commissioned by and based on the scenography by Atelier Brückner, Stuttgart, TAMSCHICK MEDIA+SPACE designed the cinematic choreography for a kinetic sculpture and the surrounding 56 screen video installation.
The Hyundai Motor Studio Goyang in South Korea opened this spring, inviting visitors to experience the art of auto design, translated in many different formats. The kinetic sculpture consists of 1411 individually programmed metal rods which react to the visitors' movement, interactively conveying shape and form and thereby also the design process.
The Hyundai design philosophy is spatially visualized by the dynamic interplay between the surrounding video screens and the central sculpture.
PHOTOS (C) BY ATELIER BRÜCKNER / Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang
Tasks: TD, Animation Sculpture, Lighting


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"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." - Steve Jobs
Seems to me Apple are recognising users really won't be interested in horizontal market general purpose smart watches. For now wearables have to be focused on a real and enduring need. Health and fitness tracking is highly valued by those who do it. I personally am an avid Strava user and can fully relate to the notion of an advanced health and fitness tracker which improves on existing offerings. This will be a smallish subset of the general phone user market, but an enthusiastic and motivated one. A general Galaxy Gear style smart watch; NO.


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Fat-bashing in The Casual Vacancy
Yesterday's discussion of my review of The Casual Vacancy (in the comments and on the other blog review I linked to in the comments) makes me realize that I didn't think enough about leading the charge on an author for perceptions expressed by her characters. Perhaps Rowling herself doesn't see a fat person as someone who is at best weak-willed and at worst repulsively evil. Perhaps she is merely using the old "fat cat" image as shorthand in her characterizations of smug and complacent male characters.
One of the things that makes me suspect this could be true is that her fat characters are usually successful men. In The Casual Vacancy it's the rich guy who is fat, and the poor, drug-addicted mother living in public housing is thin, small and pitiful. Would you say this is typical? Today, at least statistically, rich people are much more likely to be able to keep their weight within normal limits, while poor people are likely to be comforting themselves with the kind of food that makes them fat and gives them health problems.
The characterization of Howard–who is the smug and complacent leader of small-town Brits in favor of their version of "welfare to work" in The Casual Vacancy— as a "fat cat" might be simply a piece of lazy characterization on Rowling's part. It's funny to portray Vernon Dursley this way in the Harry Potter books, because he's a kind of cartoon villain. It's less funny to put a pig's tail on his fat son and call it fun, especially because, as the series goes on, we get just a smidgeon of sympathy for Dudley. But it strikes me as unnecessarily unkind to describe Howard's fat folds and the rash underneath one of them in appalling detail as a way of showing him to be unsympathetic. And it's really rubbing it in to invent the nickname of "Fats" for a very thin teenaged boy in the novel.
Now, is the use of fat to characterize Howard as repulsive the author's choice, or is this part of her characterization of Parminder, the doctor who sees Howard as a symbol of everything she hates about her small town?
Here is the first appearance of Howard in the novel:
"He was an extravagantly obese man of sixty-four. A great apron of stomach fell so far down in front of his thighs that most people thought instantly of his penis when they first clapped eyes on him, wondering when he had last seen it, how he washed it, how he managed to perform any of the acts for which a penis is designed."
But wait, this explains why earlier his wife Shirley had woken up in a single bed next to Howard's double bed, with a mattress that "still bore his prodigious imprint."
I have already publicly agreed with Amanda that we don't usually sexualize fat people, but it does seem that the author is going to some lengths in order to frame her readers' first impressions of Howard in a repulsively sexual context. It's not just fat-hating, folks. It's fat-man-hating.
Howard is rapacious. Even when he looks at his small town, "he was here to drink it all in…." There are no limits to his capacity for consumption. The completion of his caricature comes on p. 348, right before the doctor's public outburst of disgust, when The Villain Howard gets a few sentences of backstory as he rejects the idea that his weight is the cause of his health problems:
"Nonsense, obviously. Look at the Hubbards' boy [Fats]: built like a beanpole, and shocking asthma. Howard had always been big, as far back as he could remember. In the very few photographs taken of him with his father, who had left the family when Howard was four or five, he was merely chubby. After his father had left, his mother had sat him at the head of the table, between herself and his grandmother, and been hurt if he did not take seconds. Steadily he had grown to fill the space between the two women, as heavy at twelve as the father who had left them. Howard had come to associate a hearty appetite with manliness. His bulk was one of his defining characteristics."
Howard shows an unwelcome–and to the teenagers, ludicrous–interest in the loveliest of the teenagers, hiring her to work for him while thinking "he would teach her to use the till, and show her around the stockroom; there would be a bit of banter, and perhaps a little bonus…." He requires her to dress in "a figure-hugging black dress with a lace-edged white apron" which is unsuitable to his other two waitresses.
To complete the morality tale, Howard ends up with a "purple and vacant" face, lying in the hospital using up all kinds of expensive medical supplies, for the rest of his days. It's no accident that his exposure as an adulterer comes in terms of mentioning his "salami."
Perhaps it is unkind of me to call attention to the heavy-handed characterization of fat Howard in The Casual Vacancy. But no more unkind than it is to create such a two-dimensional behemoth. It is not just the doctor who finds Howard repulsive. His sexuality is purposefully interwoven with his excess flesh to repulse anyone who is introduced to him, in the fiction, or as a reader.
October 11, 2012 3:08 pm
Eh, the pig tail on Dudley did it for me. Do not agree AT ALL that "most people who are greedy are overweight." Come on, that is crazy! You can be greedy for wealth, for sex, for power, for the World Cup, for nice clothes, for fancy cars, for the newest technology….greed doesn't equate with fat! Also you can be greedy for the last doughnut and still be as thin as a rail (I have a few daughters who fit this category, naming no names!) Writers use people of all sizes, colors, and sexual orientation to be good, bad or indifferent characters…but with Rowling, there is a weirdly mean streak that comes out when she talks about her fat characters that is just not there when she talks about her other characters. And the meanness centers on their avoirdupois, not on their actions. It doesn't ruin her books for me, but I notice it, and I always think it's ugly.
October 12, 2012 4:10 am
Oh I'm sorry, I only meant greedy for food, but I can see this is a very very sensitive topic and certainly didn't mean to offend. I just hadn't really noticed this about Rowling. If I ever read another of her books, I'll pay closer attention next time.
October 11, 2012 4:20 pm
You know that I'm particularly sensitive to fat-shaming – I hated Divergent, for instance, because the main villain was frequently associated with her fat rolls and disgusting thighs – and I worried at the beginning that this was a fat-shaming thing. Then, however, I saw that Rowling gave a particularly nasty characteristic to pretty much all the characters, from the horrible acne of the abused kid to the leathery skin of the tanning bed addict. Howard's bulk was part of him, but not necessarily a reflection of fat people in general. (Thinking here of Tessa, another fat person in this book who is, in my eyes, a much better human being.) I guess in a way, I'm also really sensitive to the opposite reaction in people – being unable to say anything bad about anyone because of their size/shape/color/religion/etc. Years ago, I wrote a short story that involved a heavy woman who was a very nasty gossip. The story took place in an office building, and every single character had negative points, as well as a physical description. I didn't make the gossip lady fat because I associate gossiping and obesity – she just happened to be fat. Considering that I, myself, was obese at the time, I was definitely not making statements on fat people in general. The first magazine I submitted this story to sent me back a scathing reaction telling me that I ought to be more sensitive and realize that fat people read stories too. The second magazine I submitted it to gave me an award for it. So yeah, that's why I'm particularly sensitive to people getting up in arms any time an author associates a negative personality trait with a person who has a sensitive physical condition (be that race or obesity or gender or whatever). It's a very fine line, but i thought that in this case, Rowling did okay.
October 12, 2012 10:42 am
Rowling can be very 18th century sometimes I think, as you said. Certain kinds of outward appearance often reflect inner morality. That's still fairly common in a lot of fiction when it comes to the way villains are created and it drives me bats, because…it's a step away from phrenology or a belief in the idea that physicality determines destiny and that's really close to stereotype.
Like Ana I think it's partly the inter-weaving of fat with repulsive moral traits that makes me unhappy, as it leads to the implication that certain ways of non-mainstream living are still things that society is right to disapprove of.
Characters can be fat and evil, or a sexual lady and evil, or gay and evil. Although, I still think people should be mindful of subvering stereotypes in these situations, but subversion doesn't automaticaly mean 'no typical villains in villain roles', it just means including empathy and perhaps making these villains less twirling moustache, most awful villains in the world type characters. However, once someone links the evil of a character with the characters way of living (for example making an evil, large character greedy, or an evil sexual lady a sexual corrupter of men's morality) or appearance (making a character physically repulsive in particular ways because they are evil) it feels like an author is commenting on the deplorable nature of a particular way of living/appearing, rather than simply calling out the bad moral trait of being evil. Attempt at an example – if an author makes their evil character fat, probably not the best idea to dwell on that person being fat and describe their body as repulsive. Why not just mention their physical appearance as a fact and move on to talking about the important things (their evil), rather than making their appearance so central to the way they are presented and so obviously intended to provoke dislike among readers?
October 15, 2012 4:33 pm
What an interesting thing to notice about the new book. I haven't read it yet, but I had a feeling it would bring about some interesting reactions because it will inevitably be different from Harry Potter. I would never have thought about her kind of telling the Dursley's story in a detached way.
November 2, 2012 5:51 pm
I always found her pokes at fat people to be hilarious but I myself have never been fat so I guess I don't get how people can be hurt… I have noticed how she likes to describe main characters stuffing their faces, eating a large variety of unhealthy foods all at a pace fast enough to be comical/unpleasant all while the characters don't gain an ounce. Every time they are described they are tall/lanky/geekish… never fat Lol The way Ron eats you'd expect him to roll around on a wizard version of a Hoveround, maybe a deluxe broom with branching ends for wide loads or something Lol.
March 25, 2015 2:46 pm
I agree. Rowling hates fat people and has made it clear on so many occasions, even though she says she supports them. She's mean and horrible and people don't see it because she sells.


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Maplestory 2 Review: The Story Is Different
"To me, what I like maplestory back then was little bit about community, but the information I didn't know about the game fascinated me. I liked exploring. I would explore aqua road and discover pianus. I'd explore henesys and find mushmom.
With MapleStory 2, I guess you can say I enjoyed it. Because like MapleStory, I was very confused and didn't understand anything. But the more I played, the more I got. Mainly because it is Korean, and I don't know the language."
For some gamers, the game is exactly what they expected since they have seen little from gameplay videos and trailers. And they can't wait for the English release after start it.
It is not like old maplestory at all gameplay wise. The whole game is much more like a modern mmorpg, tanks and healers are required for raids, aggrotables are a thing, dividing out magic and physical dps to take out certain adds in raids to be able to clear it properly all are different from MapleStory1. The only thing that really resembles to MapleStory1 in MapleStory2 is the characters. That being said, if the community supports the game and plays it I think people will enjoy it.
"I think Maplestory 2 will go back to the roots of Maplestory with everyone having to figure it out from scratch again. But with all of this said I think this is the case with so many online games like Runescape, Flyff, Dragon's Nest and many more. Through time people figured out how the game works and didn't need to communicate and help each other as much cause guides and things exist all over the internet."
Exploring was almost the most popular part of the game because the world was massive. Plus the whole ship rides made it even more fun. Set aside days with friends where you would do nothing but explore, or test our luck and see how far you get in places like Leafre. The experience is wonderful. Many gamers would rather play it to it's full potential with understanding the text and stuff while there are many guides can upgrading the game faster.
The game has certain elements that are named similarly to MapleStory. NPC's look the same, certain names are the same, there are some monsters carried over, weapons and class skills are similar too. But the map is different. The classes are different. The story is different.


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West Brom signs 2nd Egypt defender with Evans future unclear
LONDON (AP) — With the future of Jonny Evans still unclear, West Bromwich Albion moved to strengthen its defense by signing Egypt center back Ali Gabr on Monday to join international teammate Ahmed Hegazi at the Premier League team.
Gabr joined on loan from Zamalek FC until the end of the season, after which West Brom has the option to make the transfer permanent.
Gabr and Hegazi are central defensive partners for Egypt, which will play at the World Cup in Russia.
"He's a player that we first identified at the African Cup of Nations where he played alongside Ahmed," West Brom technical director Nick Hammond said.
West Brom manager Alan Pardew has acknowledged that Evans could leave in the January transfer window if the club receives a good enough offer. Evans has been heavily linked with Arsenal.
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With three days left in the transfer window, West Ham sold Diafra Sakho to Rennes to end the striker's 3 1/2-year spell at the London club. Sakho is returning to France, having joined West Ham from Metz.
The Senegal striker had started only two Premier League matches since the start of last season.
Brighton was another team reshaping its attack, signing Leonardo Ulloa on loan from Leicester for a second stint at the club.
The Argentine striker scored 26 goals in 58 matches for Brighton in an 18-month spell following a move from Almeria in Spain in 2013. He moved to Leicester in a club-record deal the following year.


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Although current plans for returning Superstar Mickie James are just a one-off match against NXT Women's Champion Asuka at NXT TakeOver: Toronto, the former Women's Champion said in an interview on the TJR Wrestling podcast this week that she would be more than happy to extend that return into more of a permanent arrangement.
"Absolutely I would be completely open to being on WWE's main roster again. I also recognize that people talk about WWE's young talent and they're all hungry and I totally agree with that because there's a lot of amazing talent that's both signed and unsigned. I feel like there's something unique, special and different that I can bring to the roster."
As one of several legitimate female wrestlers who struggled to make an impact under a system more interested in looks than anything else during her initial WWE run, it certainly would be interesting to see Mickie James face off against the talent currently on Raw, Smackdown, and NXT right now. Plus, with the main roster's Women's division split over two brands, there are more than a few spots available for her to slide into.
"It would be awesome to work with [Charlotte]. I feel like I would have a different kind of match with her than she's ever had. I could hopefully push her and I think we could elevate each other to a different level."
What could be an audition for more future appearances by Mickie James will take place this weekend in Toronto, in what should be a huge match against Asuka!


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Getting a car loan can be a tricky experience, especially when you have found a car that you want, and all that remains is to secure financing. Last year I found myself in this situation, searching for car loans in Florida, and trying to get myself the best possible deal so that I could get in my new car as soon as possible. There are some ways in which you can find the very best deal for you and here are some steps which you need to take in order to get the best car loan for you.
Check Your Credit
The first step is to check your credit score to find out what kind of loan you can get. There is nothing worse than finding a great deal on a loan, only for you to be rejected because of what your credit score says. In order to avoid this embarrassment, make sure that you get online and find out what your credit score says you can lend, before you start looking for loan deals.
Shop Around and Compare
Don't just settle on the first loan deal that you see, or accept the finance being offered by the company that are selling the car. In order to get the very best deal you must be prepared to shop around a little bit and review what each of the loan companies are offering.
Shorter The Better
When it comes to what kind of loan you are looking for, you need to try and find one with as short a term as you can possibly afford. The longer a loan term is, the more interest you will pay overall and that means that the cost of the car will rise with every additional month which you add on.
Watch Out For Total Cost
Make sure that you are aware of what the overall cost of the car will be, including interest and any other additional payments which are required. Very often you can find additional costs and charges added on to your loan, but hidden from view. With this in mind you must keep an eye on the overall cost of the loan to see if it right for you.
Over Payment Options
There are many loans out there which you'll find that don't allow you to overpay, these are the loans which you should avoid. There will be times throughout your loan term when you may want to pay a large chunk off the loan to bring down the total value so make sure that you sign up to an agreement which allows you to do so.
Monthly Payment Watch Out
A loan monthly payment is great but this usually means that you will be paying the car over a longer period of time, and with much more interest. With this in mind it is vital that you don't just settle on a loan deal which has the lowest monthly payments.


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CORNWALL, Ontario – After going through hundreds of nominations from across Stormont, Dundas and South Glengarry, the successful nominees for the SDSG Canada 150 Service Awards have been selected and notified.
In celebration of Canada's 150th Anniversary, the office of MP Lauzon created and launched calls for the SDSG Canada 150 Service Medal – a commemoration medal in recognition of residents in Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry who have made outstanding contributions to their community.
Nominations for this award were open to deserving individuals including educators, artists, athletes, scientists, coaches, entrepreneurs, emergency responders, community volunteers, activity organizers, and other every day heroes striving to make their community better.
Recipients will be awarded their medals at Canada 150 festivities across the riding (based on the location of the communities closest to the winners) the first two which were held over the weekend in Cornwall and Morrisburg.
The full winners list is as follows:
Daniel Carbonnell
John Racine
Monte Yancey
Claude Legault
Rick Shaver
Peter Morgan
Wes Libbey
Carole Libbey
Shane Eitzen
Michael Mahoney
Neil Benjamin
Scott Wilson
Ray Eady
Robert Ogle
Scott Beck
Darryl Adams
Lucie Hart
Raymond MacDonald
Raymond Lacroix
Roy Perkins
Dr. Jeannine Roy-Poirier
Kieran Kennedy
Dr. Rachel Navaneelan
Sean Adams
Ayman Gabriel
Marie Morrell
Daniel Parkinson
Kris McCarthy
Shannon Ferguson
Carol Goddard
Carol Gaudet
Daryl Horner
Christine Steer
Sheila Jasmin
Denise Samson
Dr. Nat Shah
Katie Burke-Lynch
Gary Christiensen
Christine Bowen
Anne Bourdon
Donovan St. Denis
Claudette Blanchet
Shawn O'Byrne
Chantal O'Byrne
Muriel Gagne
Barb Latham
Sara Lauzon
Dina McGowan
George Limantzakis
Casey Leger
Amanda Brisson
Scott Halliday
Randy Lalonde
Terry Birch
Sarah Massia
Stephen Gill
David Murphy
Brenda St.Louis
Michael Turcotte
Lisa Runions
Dr. Beth Pollock
Gérald Samson
Gerry Benson
Jean Lecompte
Gérald Poirier
Danielle D'anjou-Villemaire
Claude Villemaire
Nicole Labelle
Robert Perron
Marc Bissonnette
Michèle Chauvin-Bourdon
Jules Bourdon
Manon Thompson
Marcelle Paquette
Michel Pilon
Don White
Nichole White
Yvan Richer
Gérard St-Amour
Gérald Lefebvre
Cécile O'Connell
Albert O'Connell
Christiane Lapensée
Richard Bissonnette
Nicole Côté
Janeen Wagemans
Keith Robinson
Linda Robinson
Lorne Strader
Dr. Graham Neal Houze
Tracey Shaver
Donnie Bowes
Trevor Tolley
David Lapier
Wayne Domanko
Jeff Beaupre
Diana McKendry
Rick Roberts
Darlene Riddel
Greta Robert
Geraldine Fitzsimmons
Carol McElheran
William Smirle
Erva Durant
June Armstrong
Debbie Courneyea
Wayne Burns
Ralph Norg
Marge Norg
Ron Porteous
Carson Elliott
Margaret Benke
Brenda Norman
Kerry Adams
Daad Elsaadi
Martin Racine
Kevin Lapp
Flloyd Dingwall
Judy Neville
Francois Bazinet
Albert Elsaadi
Jody Archambault
Paul Wheeler
Clayton Ouderkirk
Rosemary Callan
David Brown
Sue Tarle
Mary MacDonald
Nolan Quinn
Terry Muir
Richard Vinet
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The Expedia® Viewfinder Film Contest has a few days left! Open to travel bloggers, in partnership with the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY), one travel blogger will win the chance to bring their blog post to life through film and star in their own travel short video. The winner will travel to one of five pre-selected destinations – each destination an icon of the silver screen – including Australia, Paris, Morocco, London, and Seattle. The Expedia Viewfinder Film Contest began June 5 and the entry period will close on June 30, 2013.
Since Expedia launched its "Find Yours" campaign last year at the TBEX blogger conference in Keystone, Colorado, the "Find Yours" stories have illustrated the personal relevance and emotion of travel. The footage is real, unique and told from the viewpoint of individual travelers. This contest challenges travel bloggers to "find their ____" (fill in the blank), post about which of the five destinations would allow them to best do so, and then, for one winner, to bring that experience to film.
To enter the contest:
Step 1: Travel bloggers must write a blog post and publish on their own blog about how they would "find theirs" in one of the locations above if they were chosen as the star of a 2-3 minute film. The judging criteria include incorporation of the contest elements (chosen destination and Find Yours), creativity and the focus or theme of the entry (for example: culture, adventure, food/wine, family-friendly travel, budget-friendly travel, luxury travel, etc.).
Step 2: Bloggers then share their blog post URL on the Expedia Viewfinder blog, in the comments section.
Step 3: After the entry period closes, a panel of judges will evaluate the entries based upon the above criteria before selecting and announcing the winner in July.
One blogger, along with a NFFTY representative and an assigned NFFTY filmmaker, will win an all-expense paid trip to the winning destination to create a "Find Yours" video. Official terms & conditions.
We encourage you to enter and look forward to seeing you at TBEX Dublin in October!
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As I have mentioned before, The Decemberists are one of my favorite bands of all time. I consider my devotion to or admiration of a band to be serious when I start to buy merchandise pertaining to that band. I already have a Decemberists button featured on my purse and a Decemberists t-shirt. I'm pretty serious about them.
So, the Decemberists recently released a new album called The King is Dead and it's truly superb. I know I've talked about it before in my previous music as poetry posts, but I consider poetical music to be music that is clearly written with purpose and that the artists have taken time to develop. I consider the Decemberists to be a perfect example of the poetical musicians. Colin Meloy, songwriter and lead singer for the band, has a poetry background and that definitely shows up in his songs. As such, I consider the Decemberists' new album to be a perfect subject for today's post.


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Are Your Sales Pages Missing This Important Ingredient?
Tuesday July 10, 2018
I recently read a sales page that perfectly exemplified how important it is to put the right information in your marketing materials - because this page definitely didn't.
Let's see if you can spot the problem before I point it out.
This sales page informed me that:
1. Their CBD oil was produced using a cold method of CO2 extraction, which produces the highest quality and best flavor.
2. The oil was quality tested and analyzed using cutting-edge equipment.
3. It was safe and ethically sourced.
4. It was 100% natural, plant-based, vegan, gluten free and non-GMO, and filled with "canna goodness".
5. They used high-performance liquid chromatography to get an accurate breakdown of each component in their phytonutrient-rich hemp extract and final product.
...and that was about it.
Can you see the problem here?
By the time I was done reading that sales page, I had a hard time imagining anyone buying the product unless they already knew about the nature and purpose of CBD oil through a source other than that page, for one simple reason:
The page told me NOTHING about the effect this oil was supposed to have on my body!
Was it a rash treatment? An antidepressant? A laxative?
If the Facebook post that led me to the page hadn't told me it helps people sleep, I'd have had no clue.
It doesn't matter how good your product is if your readers don't know what it does.
Should the information I listed above have been on their sales page? Absolutely - it helps to differentiate them from their competition, and to reassure their clients that the product is safe and high-quality.
But that info should have come AFTER an explanation of what CBD oil does, what problems it solves in your body, and what health benefits you can expect from taking it.
Your audience doesn't care how good your solution is until they know that it's relevant to a problem they have or a benefit they strongly desire.
First, tell them what the product will do for them. Then, after they know why they should be interested, tell them why your solution is better than the alternatives.
It's a basic rule of thumb that I've shared before and will share again: don't waste your audience's limited attention span on a piece of information until they know why they should care about it.
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Adele is rumoured to make her live return at this year's Academy Awards.
The singer will reportedly perform her song 'Skyfall', the theme to the latest James Bond movie. Adele is nominated for the Best Original Song prize at the ceremony for the song, which was the soundtrack to Daniel Craig's latest appearance as 007.
BBC News has already confirmed that The Oscars will pay special tribute to the James Bond movies, which turned 50 in 2012. "We are very happy to include a special sequence on our show saluting the Bond films on their 50th birthday," said the producers of this February's Oscars show, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Skyfall has made more than $1bn (£616m) globally since its release and is tipped to pick up Academy Award nominations.
Meanwhile, Adele's monstrously successful '21' album has been revealed as the biggest-selling album in the US for the second year in a row. The soul singer has now become the first artist since Michael Jackson to release a record that has topped the sales charts both in the year it was released and the following year.
Figures from Nielsen SoundScan reveal that the album sold 4.41 million copies in 2012, just 25% less than its sales figures for 2011, when it shifted 5.82 million units. Adele, who equaled the same feat Michael Jackson achieved in the 1980s with the release of 'Thriller', has been in the US Top 40 with the album ever since it was released in March 2011.
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Years ago, when only a triad of arbiters policed the baseball diamond, enterprising organists were fond of playing "Three Blind Mice" when the men in blue took the field.
Of course, that was long ago and the mellifluous music that once wafted through ballparks has given way to the mind-numbing assault of rock and roll on the senses of horsehide fans. But Major League Baseball umpires have been under fire since some far-off fan in the 19th century shouted, "You're missing a good game, ump!"
As has often been said, baseball is a natural fit as our national pastime; a word which is defined as "the pursuit of leisure." Unlike other sports such as NASCAR, whose races have attained a holiday-like atmosphere, baseball's milestones are actually marked by our national holidays; a team gauges its success in terms of its won/loss record by Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day. And each of these holidays would be incomplete without that quintessential American backdrop; the sound of a ballgame blaring from a tinny AM radio.
Also exemplary of our nation is the tendency of its citizens to enjoy expressing their diverse and sometimes contentious opinions on just about everything, particularly sports. Baseball, with its languorous pace and abundance of statistics, lends itself to this in an almost perfect way.
Yet all fans would agree that criticizing the umpires is a sacred right. What self-respecting fan has not, at one time or another echoed the old chestnut, "We wuz robbed!?" As Hall of Famer Nestor Chylak said, "This must be the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who's doing it."
BUT INSTEAD OF embracing this time-honored tradition, some folks — angered by the seeming spate of blown home-run calls — have issued a call for the artificial and culturally invasive practice of instant replay.
The increasing popularity of the NFL has brought about the odd desire of some baseball people to make the game more like football. From the institution of wild-cards and inter-league play, to the noxious attempts at parity via the imposition of luxury taxes, baseball has tried its best to conform to its gridiron stepchild.
But baseball is not, nor should it ever be, in any way like football, especially when it comes to officiating. Even without instant replay, football referees — like those in hockey and basketball — are more or less like traffic cops who from time to time interrupt the organized chaos around them.
The baseball umpire controls nearly every aspect of the game. His decisions effect every pitch, hit and catch since he, in a way, determines whether or not the ball will even be put in play because he is the arbiter of balls and strikes.
Since the very length of a game often depends on his decisions, particularly those concerning the strike zone, the official Rules of Baseball state that these decisions cannot even be argued or appealed to other umpires, let alone be set aside.
In other words, the baseball umpire enjoys a prominence above all other sports officials in that his authority is essentially perceived to be beyond question. Any use of instant replay would diminish this elevated status. It would also reduce the paying customers' need to yell, "Kill the umpire." After all, no one bothers to abuse NFL refs anymore because most of their power has been technologically neutered.
AND THIS WOULD be a crime in baseball, because an umpire's duties leave more room for personal interpretation than in any other sport. From bean-ball infractions to balks; from catcher's interference to the short fuse of a disgruntled manager; a Major League umpire must be a baby-sitter, a mind-reader, a drama critic and a weatherman.
But most of all, it is the integrity that superintends these roles which must never be in question. Lessen the human interpretive input of any of these and you lessen them all.
Finally, the very nature of the baseball season is reason enough to eschew instant replay. Unless an umpire's bad call is made in the late innings of the deciding game of a series — where, not coincidentally, there are two additional men in blue — there's always another day in baseball; in fact, 162 of them. In football, each of the 16 games has a life-and-death feeling to it and so each set of downs acquires a critical aspect that is happily absent in baseball.
Those who favor the adoption of instant replay in limited circumstances must be aware that its implementation would be a step out onto the brink of a very slippery slope. When was the last time "progressives" have been timid in advancing their agenda in any field? And, just as in a government dominated by tax-loving Democrats; once the initial incursion is made they will surely take the mile, having already won the inch.
Harness the zebras if you must, but stay true to our men in blue.


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Experts say companies that aren't using social media marketing techniques to find passive talent are behind the curve.
When it comes to attracting talent through social media, thinking like a marketer can be beneficial - especially when it comes to recruiting those who are the best at what they do, and who are happily doing it in their current jobs.
Although a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), released in April 2013, revealed that 77 percent of organizations use social networking sites to recruit passive candidates, "the mind-set of the recruiter hasn't changed since the early 1970s," said SHRM member Geoff Webb, senior strategic sourcer for Aeon Hewitt in Toronto.
Back then, recruiters placed classified ads and received resumes via fax.
"We went from that to job boards and then made the leap from job boards to social networking," Webb said, adding that many companies now simply tweet, post or pin their jobs. "But social networking is not about broadcasting jobs; it's about interaction," he pointed out. "People don't go to Facebook to apply for jobs. However, if they have the opportunity to interact with a company—and it's in a positive way—then that's going to make them want to apply for any potential position." Unfortunately, he added, many "recruiters are ill-suited to understand how social media works."
What's a Recruiter to Do?
Think like a marketer, said Jobvite Chief Marketing Officer Kimberley Kasper.
"If you're a marketing person, you think about driving new business into the company," Kasper said. "To do that, you bring in leads that turn into contacts. If you're a recruiter, you're doing the exact same process, [only you're building] a talent pool and nurturing them, so when they're ready to make a change, you're the company they think of."
Like Attracts Like
One of the easiest ways to do that is through word of mouth.
"The best referrals tend to come from your best employees," Kasper said. "Social media has opened the door to thousands of candidates, and it is important recruiters use those networks to find and pursue the best talent. You want to get out on all the social networks, share your open roles, promote your employer brand and talk about your culture."
That's what Demand Media does.
"We have our employees send out notices to their social network, who, in turn, then get feedback from their network," said Demand Media Manager of Technical Recruiting Darius Minaee. "That information then gets back to us … that saves us time, a lot of money, and helps our brand and our culture because that's someone who is familiar with the employee."
Those referrals drive authenticity, which helps candidates.
"Authenticity means sharing information that I need as a candidate to make a better decision," stated Gerry Crispin, SPHR, chief navigator of CareerXroads, in A Necessary Evil: Managing Employee Activity on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter … and the Hundreds of Other Social Media Sites (SHRM, 2013).
"Social is moving us into a two-way world of communication, and when a candidate says they are interested in salary, a manager's style of leadership, what happened to the last incumbent in this position, etc., recruiters need to be empowered to answer in a way that is truthful and believable … because the candidate can get the answers elsewhere in a heartbeat," Crispin continued.
Those answers can be found on Google or on sites such as Glassdoor, where employees—past and present—offer their opinions (good and bad) about companies.
"If your employees are smashing you on Glassdoor, you have to address that—and you have to encourage your employees to … post good reviews," Webb said, adding, "You have to address the issues they're speaking about." After all, "you can't go on Glassdoor and say, 'This was a disgruntled employee'—how many times can you say that?"
Reveal Corporate Culture
Starbucks, Yelp and Zappos are Jobvite customers, Kasper said, and each uses social media to find talent. For example, 60,000 people follow the @starbucksjobs Twitter account. There, she said, the company shares its successes, "tips and tricks for finding roles," career-fair information and "what life is like at the shops all over the world." Kasper noted that "it's a great way to get your story out, and we're seeing more and more of our customers taking this approach." Companies can use their Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Google+ pages, as well as Viddy, Vine and Instagram, to present the same content in different ways.
"We've seen infographics," pictures and videos of employees that open a window into the company's culture, she said. "If there are new technologies, you should test them and see what kinds of things [candidates] will respond to. GenY is heavily into Instagram and Vine—I would definitely test those to see if the content you're putting out helps you to hire."
Use Targeted Ads
"Marketers understand the level of interaction required to get somebody interested in your brand as an employer," Webb said. "Marketers bring tools and tricks that are really cool into the space," such as re-targeting ads. "Let's say you apply for a job on Workopolis or at another site, and you see an ad there [for another position]," Webb said. "You may then see that same ad in different social venues because it's reading the cookies on your computer and targeting ads at you—for a position you may not be interested in at all, but subconsciously, since you've now seen it in 15 places, now you're thinking, 'Maybe I should apply 'cause Facebook told me I should.' These are the kinds of tricks that the marketers use."
It becomes a relationship game only after recruiters have job seekers' attention. Nurturing those relationships, experts said, requires intense management and attention to detail.
Building a campaign helps.
"You can send out predeveloped e-mails to candidates with messages to help keep them engaged," Kasper advised. "From an ad-targeting perspective, there are a lot of opportunities to leverage technology. Marketers are always testing new and different audiences, so as a recruiter, you should be doing that testing, as well."
Build Your Brand
With the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that unemployment rates are hovering around 7.6 percent, it's a competitive job market.
Companies are slugging it out for the most talented workers, and in order to attract them organizations need to woo them with an attractive brand, work environment and culture.
"Twitter is also a customer of ours, and they do a good job" of attracting talent, Kasper said. "They use social media to convey their culture and what it's like to work there. Square is another customer. They do some really cool things; there's videos and testimonials from employees; you can take a virtual tour of the office—they're definitely trying to get across their company culture."
Aliah D. Wright is an online manager/editor for SHRM and author of A Necessary Evil: Managing Employee Activity on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn … and the Hundreds of Other Social Media Sites (SHRM, 2013). To read the original article on SHRM.org, please click here.


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Schabetsberger, R, Økland, F, Kalfatak, D, Sichrowsky, U, Tambets, M, Aarestrup, K, Dall'Olmo, G, Sarginson, J, Gubili, C, Boufana, B, Jehle, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0545-5664, Miller, MJ, Scheck, A, Kaiser, R and Quarterly, G 2015, 'Genetic and migratory evidence for sympatric spawning of tropical pacific eels from Vanuatu' , Marine Ecology Progress Series (MPES), 521 , pp. 171-187.
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The spawning areas of tropical anguillid eels in the South Pacific are poorly known, and more information about their life histories is needed to facilitate conservation. We genetically characterized 83 out of 84 eels caught on Gaua Island (Vanuatu) and tagged 8 eels with pop-up satellite transmitters. Based on morphological evidence, 32 eels were identified as Anguilla marmorata, 45 as A. megastoma and 7 as A. obscura. Thirteen of these eels possessed a mitochondrial DNA sequence (control region, 527 bp) or nuclear haplotype (GTH2b, 268 bp) conflicting with their species designation. These individuals also had multi-locus genotypes (6 microsatellite loci) intermediate between the species, and 9 of these eels further possessed heterozygote genotypes at species-diagnostic nuclear single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We classified these individuals as possibly admixed between A. marmorata and A. megastoma. One A. marmorata and one A. megastoma migrated 634 and 874 km, respectively, towards the border between the South Equatorial Current and the South Equatorial Counter Current. Both species descended from around 200 m depth at night to 750 m during the day. Lunar cycle affected the upper limit of migration depths of both species. The tags remained attached for 3 and 5 mo and surfaced <300 km from the pop-up location of a previously tagged A. marmorata. A salinity maximum at the pop-up locations corresponding to the upper nighttime eel migration depths may serve as a seamark of the spawning area. The similar pop-up locations of both species and the evidence for admixture suggest that these tropical eels share a sympatric spawning area.
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Target's next must-have design partnership will be all about chic resort wear as the retailer presents Lilly Pulitzer for Target.
Founded in 1959, by stylish Palm Beach socialite Lilly (McKim) Pulitzer who was known for her exuberant prints and patterns, the limited-edition collection will feature 15 exclusive prints, which are original works of art, created by Lilly Pulitzer artists specifically for the collaboration.
"This spring, we wanted to offer our guests a collection that embraced color, print and pattern in a bold, fresh way," said Stacia Andersen, senior vice president, apparel and accessories, Target. "As we started to think about the perfect partner to collaborate with, Lilly Pulitzer was the clear choice given the brand's inspiring heritage, authority with print and pattern and resort-chic aesthetic."
Available exclusively at all Target stores in the U.S. and Canada and on Target.com beginning April 19, the 250-piece collection includes apparel, accessories and shoes for women and girls, as well as home accents, outdoor entertaining accessories, beach gear, travel essentials and more.
"Target is a design leader known for offering an unparalleled assortment of stylish, affordable products," said Jane Schoenborn, vice president, creative communications, Lilly Pulitzer. "The Lilly Pulitzer for Target collection marks a new chapter for our brand, and we're excited to give Lilly fans everywhere, including those who have loved the brand for years and those who will get to know it for the first time through this collaboration, a chance to experience this incredibly chic lifestyle collection."
The late Lilly Pulitzer is famous for having said, "style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live," and the new Target collection certainly embraces that sentiment. www.target.com