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Above: Finisher's medal for the Egg Hunt triathlon.
Egg Hunt Race
On Saturday, April 23 I competed in my fifth triathlon of the year. The Egg Hunt Triathlon took place at CB Smith Park in Pembroke Pines, Florida and was race number 2 of 5 of the Broward Championship Race Series put on by Multirace.com. The race could be done as either a sprint distance duathlon or sprint distance triathlon. I participated in the duathlon the past two years, but this was the first time I competed in the triathlon.
The swim is my weakest of the three sports of triathlon. Until January 3 of this year, I never really went in the water. I've lived in SE Florida for around 20 years but an extreme water phobia has kept me on land. But I have a goal of doing an Ironman distance triathlon before I turn 50, so I am trying to get over my swim phobia and learn how to swim.

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How Text-to-Speech Works
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You have often used text to speech converters software or may be right now you are using it to read this article (if you have a good one!). But have you ever thanked about it, I mean how it works? You will probably say it is simple, there must be a file which contains already spoken up words and these files have certain numbers, when a particular text is meant to be spoken up a logic runs and trace out the file that may be a wav file and run it and this is how a T2S works.
Or may be you have not even think about it, but for those developers who wanna know how this happens I'll describe you in this article, this document will give you a technical overview of text-to-speech so you can understand how it works, and better understand some of the capabilities and limitations of the technology.
Text-to-speech fundamentally functions as a pipeline that converts text into PCM digital audio. The elements of the pipeline are:
- Text normalization
- Homograph disambiguation
- Word Pronunciation
- Prosody
- Concatenate wave segments
I'll cover each of these steps individually
Text Normalization
Text Normalization it is that part of text-to-speech program that converts any input text into a series of spoken words. At basic level, text normalization converts a string like "My name is Ritesh" to a series of words, "My", "name", "is", "Ritesh", along with a marker indicating that a period occurred (a comma). However, this gets more complicated when strings like "John rode home at 23.5 mph", where "23.5 mph" is converted to "twenty three point five miles per hour". Here's how text normalization works:
First, text normalization isolates words in the text. For the most part this is as minor as looking for a sequence of alphabetic characters, allowing for an occasional apostrophe, space and hyphen.
Text normalization then searches for numbers, times, dates, and other symbolic representations. These are analyzed and converted to words. (Example: "$54.32" is converted to "fifty four dollars and thirty two cents.") Someone needs to code up the rules for the conversion of these symbols into words, since they differ depending upon the language and context.
Next, abbreviations are converted, such as "in." for "inches", and "St." for "street" or "saint". The normalizer will use a database of abbreviations and what they are expanded to. Some of the expansions depend upon the context of surrounding words, like "St. John" and "John St."
The text normalizer might perform other text transformations such as internet addresses. "http://www.Microsoft.com" is usually spoken as "w w w dot Microsoft dot com".
Whatever remains is punctuation. The normalizer will have rules dictating if the punctuation causes a word to be spoken or if it is silent. (Example: Periods at the end of sentences are not spoken, but a period in an Internet address is spoken as "dot.")
The rules will vary in complexity depending upon the engine.
Homograph Disambiguation
So by reading till here you were wondering that all of the main task has happened but dude there are other things also whose care must be take otherwise your text to speech wont work efficiently. This stage mainly deals with pronunciation of words.
Actually it's not a stage by itself, but is combined into the text normalization or pronunciation components. I've separated homograph disambiguation out since it doesn't fit cleanly into either.
In English and many other languages, there are hundreds of words that have the same text, but different pronunciations. A common example in English is "read," which can be pronounced "reed" or "red" depending upon its meaning. A "homograph" is a word with the same text as another word, but with a different pronunciation. The concept extends beyond just words, and into abbreviations and numbers. "Ft." has different pronunciations in "Ft. Wayne" and "100 ft.". Likewise, the digits "1997" might be spoken as "nineteen ninety seven" if the author is talking about the year, or "one thousand nine hundred and ninety seven" if the author is talking about the number of people at a concert.
So the above procedure is quite tough how a computer could knows that when to pronounce "read" as "reed" or as "red". One way is by judging what out what the text is actually talking about and decides which meaning is most appropriate given the context. Once the right meaning is know, it's usually easy to guess the right pronunciation.
Text-to-speech engines figure out the meaning of the text, and more specifically of the sentence, by parsing the sentence and figuring out the part-of-speech for the individual word (see how complicated it is, do you remember how many part of speech are there?). This is done by guessing the part-of-speech based on the word endings, or by looking the word up in a lexicon. Sometimes a part of speech will be ambiguous until more context is known, such as for "read." Of course, disambiguation of the part-of-speech may require hand-written rules.
Once the homographs have been disambiguated, the words are sent to the next stage to be pronounced.
Word Pronunciation
The pronunciation module accepts the text, and outputs a sequence of phonemes, just like you see in a dictionary.
To get the pronunciation of a word, the text-to-speech engine first looks the word up in it's own pronunciation lexicon. If the word is not in the lexicon then the engine reverts to "letter to sound" rules.
Now what is Letter-to-sound rules, it guess the pronunciation of a word from the text. They're kind of the inverse of the spelling rules you were taught in school. There are a number of techniques for guessing the pronunciation, but the algorithm described here is one of the more easily implemented ones.
The letter-to-sound rules are "trained" on a lexicon of hand-entered pronunciations. The lexicon stores the word and it's pronunciation, such as:
hello h eh l oe
An algorithm is used to segment the word and figure out which letter "produces" which sound. You can clearly see that "h" in "hello" produces the "h" phoneme, the "e" produces the "eh" phoneme, the first "l" produces the "l" phoneme, the second "l" nothing, and "o" produces the "oe" phoneme. Of course, in other words the individual letters produce different phonemes. The "e" in "he" will produce the "ee" phoneme.
Once the words are segmented by phoneme, another algorithm determines which letter or sequence of letters is likely to produce which phonemes. The first pass figures out the most likely phoneme generated by each letter. "H" almost always generates the "h" sound, while "o" almost always generates the "ow" sound. A secondary list is generated, showing exceptions to the previous rule given the context of the surrounding letters. Hence, an exception rule might specify that an "o" occurring at the end of the word and preceded by an "l" produces an "oe" sound. The list of exceptions can be extended to include even more surrounding characters.
When the letter-to-sound rules are asked to produce the pronunciation of a word they do the inverse of the training model. To pronounce "hello", the letter-to-sound rules first try to figure out the sound of the "h" phoneme. It looks through the exception table for an "h" beginning the word followed by "e"; Since it can't find one it uses the default sound for "h", which is "h". Next, it looks in the exceptions for how an "e" surrounded by "h" and "l" is pronounced, finding "eh". The rest of the characters are handled in the same way.
This technique can pronounce any word, even if it wasn't in the training set, and does a very reasonable guess of the pronunciation, sometimes better than humans. It doesn't work too well for names because most names are not of English origin, and use different pronunciation rules. (Example: "Mejia" is pronounced as "meh-jee-uh" by anyone that doesn't know it is Spanish.) Some letter-to-sound rules first guess what language the word came from, and then use different sets of rules to pronounce each different language.
Word pronunciation is further complicated by people's laziness. People will change the pronunciation of a word based upon what words precede or follow it, just to make the word easier to speak. An obvious example is the way "the" can be pronounced as "thee" or "thuh". Other effects including the dropping or changing of phonemes. A commonly used phrase such as "What you doing?" sounds like "Wacha doin?"
Once the pronunciations have been generated, these are passed onto the prosody stage.
Now you will be thinking its all over but "kahani abhi baki hai dost" Now since you are able to pronounce the word but by merely pronouncing the word is not sufficient you need to speak in a tone, in a speed and other factors are also involved in a speech. This section will deals with all these factors.
Prosody is the pitch, speed, and volume that syllables, words, phrases, and sentences are spoken with. Without prosody text-to-speech sounds very robotic, and with bad prosody text-to-speech sounds like it's drunk.
The technique that engines use to synthesize prosody varies, but there are some general techniques.
First, the engine identifies the beginning and ending of sentences. In English, the pitch will tend to fall near the end of a statement, and rise for a question. Likewise, volume and speaking speed ramp up when the text-to-speech first starts talking, and fall off on the last word when it stops. Pauses are placed between sentences.
Engines also identify phrase boundaries, such as noun phrases and verb phrases. These will have similar characteristics to sentences, but will be less pronounced. The engine can determine the phrase boundaries by using the part-of-speech information generated during the homograph disambiguation. Pauses are placed between phrases or where commas occur.
Algorithms then try to determine which words in the sentence are important to the meaning, and these are emphasized. Emphasized words are louder, longer, and will have more pitch variation. Words that are unimportant, such as those used to make the sentence grammatically correct, are de-emphasized. In a sentence such as "John and Bill walked to the store", the emphasis pattern might be "JOHN and BILL walked to the STORE." The more the text-to-speech engine "understands" what's being spoken, the better it's emphasis will be.
Next, the prosody within a word is determined. Usually the pitch and volume rise on stressed syllables.
All of the pitch, timing, and volume information from the sentence level, phrase level, and word level are combined together to produce the final output. The output from the prosody module is just a list of phonemes with the pitch, duration, and volume for each phoneme.
Play Audio
The speech synthesis is almost done by this point. All the text-to-speech engine has to do is convert the list of phonemes and their duration, pitch, and volume, into digital audio.
Methods for generating the digital audio will vary, but many text-to-speech engines generate the audio by concatenating short recordings of phonemes. The recordings come from a real person. In a simplistic form, the engine receives the phoneme to speak, loads the digital audio from a database, does some pitch, time, and volume changes, and sends it out to the sound card.
It isn't quite that simple for a number of reasons.
Most noticeable is that one recording of a phoneme won't have the same volume, pitch, and sound quality at the end, as the beginning of the next phoneme. This causes a noticeable glitch in the audio. An engine can reduce the glitch by blending the edges of the two segments together so at their intersections they both have the same pitch and volume. Blending the sound quality, which is determined by the harmonics generated by the voice, is more difficult, and can be solved by the next step.
The sound that a person makes when he/she speaks a phoneme, changes depending upon the surrounding phonemes. If you record "cat" in sound recorder, and then reverse it, the reversed audio doesn't sound like "tak", which has the reversed phonemes of cat. Rather than using one recording per phoneme (about 50), the text-to-speech engine maintains thousands of recordings (usually 1000-5000). Ideally it would have all possible phoneme context combinations recorded, 50 * 50 * 50 = 125,000, but this would be too many. Since many of these combinations sound similar, one recording is used to represent the phoneme within several different contexts.
Even a database of 1000 phoneme recordings is too large, so the digital audio is compressed into a much smaller size, usually between 8:1 and 32:1 compression. The more compressed the digital audio, the more muted the voice sounds.
Once the digital audio segments have been concatenated they're sent off to the sound card, making the computer talk.
Generating a Voice
You might be wondering, "How do you get thousands of recordings of phonemes?"
The first step is to select a voice talent. The voice talent then spends several hours in a recording studio reading a wide variety of text. The text is designed so that as many phonemes sequence combinations are recorded as possible. You at least want them to read enough text so there are several occurrences of each of the 1000 to 5000 recording slots.
After the recording session is finished, the recordings are sent to a speech recognizer which then determines where the phonemes begin and end. Since the tools also know the surrounding phonemes, it's easy to pull out the right recordings from the speech. The only trick is to figure out which recording sounds best. Usually an algorithm makes a guess, but someone must listening to the phoneme recordings just to make sure they're good.
The selected phoneme recordings are compressed and stored away in the database. The result is a new voice.
Wrapping up
This was a high level overview of how text-to-speech works. Most text-to-speech engines work in a similar manner, although not all of them work this way. The overview doesn't give you enough detail to write your own text-to-speech engine, but now you know the basics. If you want more detail you should purchase one of the numerous technical books on text-to-speech.
Whole article is somewhat modified to make it more interesting and easier to read.
The article is taken from Microsoft's text to speech SDK.
Partially compiled & edited by – Ritesh Kawadkar
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Web 3.0 by Eric Schmidt
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Here is what Eric Schmidt (Google's CEO) has to say on web3.0
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Two big communicatio satellites collided in the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space stion
NASA said it will take weeks to determine the full magnitude of the crash, which occurred nearly 500 miles over Siberia on Tuesday.
"We knew this was going to happen eventually," said Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA believes any risk to the space station and its three astronauts is low. It orbits about 270 miles below the collision course. There also should be no danger to the space shuttle set to launch with seven astronauts on Feb. 22, officials said, but that will be re-evaluated in the coming days.
The collision involved an Iridium commercial satellite, which was launched in 1997, and a Russian satellite launched in 1993 and believed to be nonfunctioning. The Russian satellite was out of control, Matney said.
The Iridium craft weighed 1,235 pounds, and the Russian craft nearly a ton.
No one has any idea yet how many pieces were generated or how big they might be.
"Right now, they're definitely counting dozens," Matney said. "I would suspect that they'll be counting hundreds when the counting is done."
As for pieces the size of micrometers, the count will likely be in the thousands, he added.
There have been four other cases in which space objects have collided accidentally in orbit, NASA said. But those were considered minor and involved parts of spent rockets or small satellites.
Who stealed Google?
Posted February 11, 2009on:
I have found a website yeaterday in which the autor has staeled the everything on google interface it is actuall just a one page website and to my surprise a lot of people use that site.
I don't know is it illegal to do taht or not but i thaught it is illegal to copy the complete interface of a well renowned website. Just have a look at http://baradla.com/ . And plaese if you found something about that plz do mail me.
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Religious search
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So you are a religious guy, and want to search some religious content but you know pnly one search engine that is google. It's tough to get out something from google that you were seeking but no problem now!
As a new search engine has arrived which searches only religious content. Well, most likely you can't find what you want on Google or Yahoo as fast as what MyGodSearch.
It enables religous content to search over 2,000 sites about religion using a Google-powered search and the results are pretty relevant to the keyword you've entered.


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For some fragrance is about that added dose of glamour or sweetness that sets them on the right path for their day.
Lacoste's latest fragrance, Eau de Lacoste has become my fragrance in my daily work routine. i love to use it especially in the day to start my day with a sweet dose of spritz, it is very energetizing.
Sometimes over the weekend, Lacoste's Eau de Lacoste will be used at night.
i do find yourself spritzing it on right before a date with someone special because the floral, fruity scent makes me feel more feminine.
How Lacoste Eau De Lacoste adds a dose of sweetness to My life:
The fragrance captures the simple luxury of the refreshing feeling of pure white cotton on skin. The clean nature of cotton, a bouquet of white flowers brings to life the fresh, cooling caress of the fabric and conveys the sense of purity that white symbolizes. Channeling a mood of soft sensuality, creamy balsam tones add a resonant base.
EAU DE LACOSTE effervesces with sparkling freshness via juicy top notes of White Pineapple, with Mandarin and Bergamot from the unspoilt Italian region of Calabria. Expressing the purity that lies at the heart of the LACOSTE brand, the elegant, white floralcy of Orange Flower, Jasmine Sambac are woven with the almost textural quality of Pineapple Flower to create a delicately clean, natural femininity. A creamy and voluptuous sensuality lingers at the base, resonant of Sandalwood and Vanilla enveloped with Vetyver and Peru Balsam.
"There is something truly sophisticated about a fragrance with a simple and unpretentious formula." Says Antoine Delgrange
For work and for play… i totally love it. it is sweet, floral, fun and a happy fragrance 🙂
On top of sharing the fragrance with you, here i like to share a Behind-the-Scenes look of the actual campaign shoot
LACOSTE celebrates its new signing, American actress Amy Adams who perfectly embodies the attributes that represent the LACOSTE woman. Her elegance, spontaneity and effortless style resonate with the confident, natural simplicity that characterizes the LACOSTE brand. "Amy has a natural grace and modernity that both women and men admire," says Antoine Delgrange. "She captures the mood of LACOSTE in a truly engaging way."


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Before We Went Underground and Wireless…
When I was a youngster, I remember waiting anxiously during the summer and autumn months each year for mail from my beloved grandfather. Granddad managed tree farms for a New Jersey-based company—they grew Blue Spruce and Scotch Pine primarily, for the Christmas Tree business—and he spent long months away from us in Michigan and often in Ontario and New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada. The letters and postcards he sent about his travels and his work in the forests and on tree farms were fascinating and fun to read.
Edwin Fisher Conger loved trees, too—pines, yes, but especially chestnuts, those tall, majestic perennials from which he would eventually derive many hundreds of thousands of poles that would help carry telephone conversations and electric power to communities throughout the eastern United States.
So, as I looked over the surviving papers regarding the business career of this influential New Jersey native that Conger's eldest daughter had recently left to the Virginia Historical Society (Mss1C7604a), I discovered an immediate affinity with him. This proved especially true because he turned out not only to be an astute and talented entrepreneur but also someone who appreciated the value and importance of reforestation long before that became a popular environmental cause.
Edwin F. Conger (1887–1974) attended the first real forestry school in America, held on the Biltmore estate in Asheville, North Carolina, and after graduation in 1910 worked eighteen-hour days for Western Electric Company as a chestnut pole inspector. In the process he learned about preservation treatments to make the poles to which telephone and electric lines were being attached last longer. After broadening his experience in the lumber and wood preservation business, he created his own enterprise, E. F. Conger Creosoting Company, after World War I and built or acquired large treatment and shipping yards in Virginia's Blue Ridge, most notably at Waynesboro. Over the years he expanded his operations, owning the Piedmont Company in Augusta, Georgia, and for a time, the Norfolk Creosoting Company, which gave him a plant on deep water and the means of expanding his operations into the coastwise trade and broader national markets. His biggest customer was Southern New England Telephone Company, but he had contracts with numerous companies, and his poles played a crucial role in the development of this country's early electric power and communications infrastructure.
After more than thirty years in the business, Mr. Conger began to divest himself of his many assets and retired to his home in Staunton, Virginia. But he did not give up his great love, spending significant sums to protect and replant forests in the American South and being ever the generous local philanthropist before his death in 1974 at the age of eighty-seven. Few today know the name of E. F. Conger, but his surviving records, now processed through a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), reveal just how visionary and talented this tall, generous man had been. I think my grandfather would have liked him very much.
Lee Shepard is the Vice President for Collections and Sallie and William B. Thalhimer III Senior Archivist at the Virginia Historical Society.
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Most interesting article on Mr. Conger and his work. Have often wondered why the USA has not adopted the European way of selective tree cutting, thining the forest, not stripping it.. Lots of innovative folks seem to come from Staunton, today sustainable farming. They must value the land.
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Robert Storey BEng PhD MIOA obtained his degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Leeds in 1993 before going on to complete a PhD in "The Acoustic Response of Structures to Blast Induced Ground Vibration" in 1998. He joined WBM in 2007 after working in acoustic consultancy and environmental health since 1999.
Robert is involved mainly in environmental noise, working closely with Paul on mineral extraction, waste and industrial projects, including surveys, routine noise monitoring and assessments.
He is experienced in noise modelling using SoundPlan for transportation, industrial and environmental sources.
Robert is a film enthusiast and a keen supporter of Middlesbrough F.C. and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.


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Online reviews have altered the way that we select which products or services we will invest in, and, for the most part, can be a great thing. Restaurant reviews and product reviews can help prospective customers decide which one in a sea of options might best meet their needs. When it comes to online plastic surgery reviews, such as those featured on sites like RealSelf, Healthgrades and RateMDs, the effects are similar. Reviews can help prospective patients find the right doctor for their desired procedure. However, as with all online reviews, users are advised not to trust everything they read.
Understanding the Online Review Process
For one thing, most sites do little to no background checking to ensure that the information provided is correct. This goes for both surgeons and purported patients. Surgeons may choose not to list certain qualifications, such as board certification, while there is no way to tell whether patients who post reviews of surgeons are actually patients.
Surgeons also have an option to participate for free on certain sites, or purchase greater site visibility, so bear in mind that surgeons who are prominently featured may have simply bought more website space.
Forming Expectations for Your Surgery
There are a variety of ways to develop realistic expectations for your surgery. While reading online reviews or trying cosmetic surgery mobile apps may be entertaining, the best way to learn what a cosmetic enhancement can do for you is to read through your surgeon's website. Often, surgeons post real patient before-and-after photos along with patient reviews. Finally, scheduling a consultation with your surgeon is an excellent way to gaining a deeper understanding of the results that are possible with cosmetic surgery.


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The Deccan Herald newspaper in Bangalore, India reports on the arrest of a female serial killer, 43 year old Mallika. The story can be read here and here.
Serial killers are actually very rare creatures, and the female of the species is truly unusual. Perhaps that is good reason not to make a big deal about something so rare. One thing, though, caught my eye and made me think lovefraud readers may be interested too. I'll summarise the story and you tell me what you think.
Here's what raised my eyebrow
She allegedly committed all the murders single-handedly and for gain. She is no psychopath, the commissioner said.
The case
Arrested in a sting operation after being spotted trying to sell jewellery and two cell phones, Mallika confessed to having poisoned six women to death with cyanide.
Mallika's chit business had run into financial troubles and, with "money lenders making life difficult and her kin turning against her", she deserted her family in 1998. (She has a son and two daughters – all now grown.) She has lived in temples since, frequently changing venue.
"Innocent devotees easily fell prey to her tactics as they wanted to get rid of their problems," says the newspaper.
Posing as a pious woman who was acquainted with pujas and religious rituals, Mallika befriended well-to-do women devotees frequenting the temples. She recommended a host of rituals and poojas to women devotees, to overcome their bad times. Winning the confidence of her potential victims, Mallika would suggest to them that she herself would conduct pujas and rituals at some temple."¨"¨She used to choose the temple with great care to ensure that it was nowhere near the victim's place. She would then take her victim to the temple and rent out a room in the choultry attached to it. Once inside the room, she would begin performing pujas and ask the victim to close her eyes. "¨"¨Later, she would thrust cyanide into the the victim's mouth.
Except in one case where she first strangulated her victim before administering the cyanide, that is. Before leaving the scene she took any jewellery and valuables.
She was methodical, never returning to a temple where she had committed a murder. She obtained the cyanide from a gold polishing shop, enough to kill 2,000 people. When the owner was away she told his 10-year old son that his father had promised to sell her the cyanide for an ache she was suffering.
The police are concerned about the gap of nearly eight years between the first and second murders. One can assume that had she not be stopped now the killings would have continued, even accelerated. Four of her murders were reported within eight days in December 2007.
Should one use terms like 'sociopath' or 'psychopath' in this case?
Is there anything particularly female about these crimes or do they look like any other serial killer horror story?
Is there anything to be learned from the case?


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Who Hunts the Hunter
By Geekgrrllurking
The door to the library creaked open slowly as Red carefully poked her head inside and then stepped into the silence. Around her was shelf upon shelf of books of all shapes and sizes. Her keen nose noticed the clean scent of wood polish and old paper. She smiled as she also caught something else on the faint current of air blowing through the room, something familiar. Something she was coming to think of as home.
Red peered around a bookshelf and there in the middle of the room sat Belle, her nose all but buried in her book, a beam of sunshine falling in to light her page. Dust motes fell slowly down, like this world's version of fairy dust, before twinkling out of the light and disappearing.
Her breath caught, as Belle suddenly glanced up, startled. Red's nose flared as she realized she was caught, and the urge to turn and run flashed through her veins. But she stood stock still, watching as Belle calmed and gently smiled, warm and inviting. Their eyes locked and held, each woman waiting in the silence, wondering what was to come next.
Who would be the hunter and who would be the hunted today?
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journey into the distance
There are 7 continents, 7 cities, an infinite number of inhabitants.Is it even possible to know everything and everyone?
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Started a blog on how "scam defenders" work and would welcome any and all feedback
A MLM Skeptic
Started a blog on how "scam defenders" work and would welcome any and all feedback
A MLM Skeptic
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I have put my blog on ice for a while but when it is up and running again, we may be able to help one another with some gaps in each other's knowledge.
I've checked Scamlandpro to see who's been active on there when I tried to bust HugeYield HYIP as a pretty sorry scam. The perps are quite active on there dating back almost a decade. :D One scheme or another, one after another.
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Card can be loaded with a minimum of $10 and maximum of $2,000. Card is redeemable up to the balance for food, product, beverage or alcohol (where permitted by law), including taxes or delivery charges at participating Teriyaki Madness restaurants. Not redeemable for cash except as required by law. Not a credit or debit card. Prepaid Card balance never expires, nor are any fees charged in connection with its use. Safeguard your Card. It will not be replaced or replenished if lost, stolen or used without authorization. Reloadable. Unauthorized resale is prohibited. If you purchase this card from a re-seller, you do so at your own risk, as cards sold by a re-seller may not have any value. M. H. Enterprises, Inc. "TMAD" is the Card issuer and sole obligor to Card owner. TMAD may delegate its issuer obligations to an assignee, without recourse. If delegated, the assignee, and not TMAD, will be sole obligor to Card owner. Purchase, use or acceptance of Card constitutes acceptance of these Terms. For balance inquiries and to find participating locations call 877-654-6937 or visit teriyakimadness.com/giftcards. Card can also be used in conjunction with the TMAD rewards program when and if one is launched.
Participating Locations Include all Teriyaki Madness Shops EXCEPT:
Centennial – 5705 Centennial Ctr Blvd, Las Vegas, NV
Craig – 725 W Craig Rd, Suite 132, North Las Vegas, NV
Blue Diamond – 4870 Blue Diamond Rd, Suite 110, Las Vegas, NV
Decatur – 6171 N. Decatur Blvd, Suite 110, Las Vegas, NV
Stephanie – 43 S Stephanie St, Suite 160, Henderson, NV
San Fernando Station – 1240 Truman St, Unit 165, San Fernando, CA
Marietta – 2960 Shallowford Rd, Suite 112, Marietta, GA
Download App by 1/31 for a Chance to Win Bowls for a Month (4 Free Bowls) Giveaway
All customers who download the Teriyaki Madness app and create an account using their email or their Facebook account, will be entered into a random drawing to win 4 Free Bowl vouchers (Jr or Regular size bowls). You must be 18 to be eligible. Employees of Teriyaki Madness are not eligible. To redeem your voucher, submit the voucher at the time of payment to receive your free bowl. Vouchers are only valid in-restaurant, no cash value, no photocopies, not valid with other offers or discounts and taxes may or may not be included depending on your state.
$100 Gift Card Giveaway
Customers who take a selfie near the catering poster hanging in Teriyaki Madness shops (with part or all of the gift card poster in the photo), and post the photo to the Teriyaki Madness Facebook page (facebook.com/teriyaki.madness
Joke Contest
The winner will be chosen on 8/20 from all the jokes posted on the Teriyaki Madness Facebook page. Winner will receive Free Bowls for a Year, which equates to 24 free bowl vouchers. You must be at least 13 years of age to participate. Free bowl vouchers are only valid in-restaurant, no cash value, no photocopies, not valid with other offers or discounts and taxes may or may not be included depending on your state.
Free Bowls for a Year & Free Bowls for a Month Giveaway
The first 25 people present who purchase an entrée will receive a pack of free bowl vouchers (the first 5 people will receive 24 vouchers, or 2 per month for a year, and the next 20 will receive 4 vouchers, or 1 per week for 4 weeks). One pack of free bowl vouchers per family/group/check with any adult entrée purchased. You must be 18 to be eligible. To redeem your voucher, submit the voucher at the time of payment to receive your free bowl. Vouchers are only valid in-restaurant, no cash value, no photocopies, not valid with other offers or discounts and taxes may or may not be included depending on your state. Teriyaki Madness employees are not eligible to participate in the giveaway.
Battle of the Bowls
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. Any questions, comments or complaints regarding the promotion should be directed to Teriyaki Madness, not Facebook.
The winner will be randomly chosen from all comments posted on the photos in the promotion. Winner will receive Free Bowls for a Month, which equates to 4 free bowl vouchers. You must be at least 13 years of age to comment. To redeem your voucher, submit the voucher at the time of payment to receive your free bowl. Vouchers are only valid in-restaurant, no cash value, no photocopies, not valid with other offers or discounts and taxes may or may not be included depending on your state.
This promotion is valid only at participating locations. Free bowl cards must be used at the location they were awarded at.
ClubMad Text Messages Privacy Policy
– Teriyaki Madness will never, under any circumstances, sell or distribute your cell phone number to third parties for whom you have not approved.
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– Teriyaki Madness will never distribute any personal information about you, including your phone number, name, billing information or any other piece of identifying information.
– If you have any questions, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com Terms of Use
– Standard message and data rates may apply. Text STOP to opt out. Text HELP for more information. Products/services are compatible with AT&T handsets. For more information, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Teriyaki Madness Cape Coral Children's Battery Powered Maclaren Raffle Giveaway
Customers 18 years of age or older receive one raffle entry per entrée purchased in person (delivery and online orders not valid for entry). Customers are responsible for clearly writing the required contact information on their raffle ticket to enter and must turn in their raffle ticket to the Teriyaki Madness employee before leaving the shop. Customers can enter as many times as they'd like before December 17, 2017. One winner will be drawn and winner will be notified via phone by December 20, 2017. Winner will be required to pick-up the Battery Powered Children's Automobile at the Cape Coral Teriyaki Madness no later than December 31, 2017. Proof of identity and matching raffle ticket will be required to claim the prize. This prize is non-transferable until after the designated winner has received the prize.
If winner fails to respond or fails to pick-up the prize before December 31, 2017, Teriyaki Madness will choose a new winner or donate the prize to charity.
Great Falls Ski Pass Drawing:
Customer may receive one (1) entry for drawing for single-day full area ski lift pass at Showdown Ski Area for the 2017-2018 season for every adult entrée (adult bowl, plate or Yakisoba dish) purchased in person (delivery orders not valid for entry). Multiple drawings for a free single-day full area ski lift pass at Showdown will be held periodically during the ski season (December 2017 – April 2018). Customers are responsible for clearly writing the required contact information on their raffle ticket to enter and must turn in their raffle ticket to a Teriyaki Madness employee before leaving the shop. Customers may enter as many times as they would like. One winner will be selected per drawing and remaining entries will be held and be eligible to be drawn at later drawings. Winners will be notified by phone. Winner will be required to pick up their ski pass within two (2) calendar days after notification. If winner fails to respond or fails to pick up ski pass within two (2) days, Teriyaki Madness will choose a new winner from remaining entries. Proof of identity will be required to claim ski pass. This pass is non-transferable until after the designated winner has received the prize. No cash value.
"The Award Goes To?" Contest
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. Any questions, comments or complaints regarding the promotion should be directed to Teriyaki Madness, not Facebook.
The winner will be randomly chosen from all comments posted on the photos in the promotion. Winner will receive Free Bowls for a Month, which equates to 4 free bowl vouchers. You must be at least 13 years of age to comment. To redeem your voucher, submit the voucher at the time of payment to receive your free bowl. Vouchers are only valid in-restaurant, no cash value, no photocopies, not valid with other offers or discounts and taxes may or may not be included depending on your state.
This promotion is valid only at participating locations. Free bowl cards must be used at the location they were awarded at.
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Please read these Terms and Conditions, which apply to your use of this App and enrollment and participation in our Rewards Program. If you do not agree to these terms, then do not use this App or participate in the Regards Program.
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Additionally, we may at any time, for any reason, and without notice or liability: (1) modify, suspend, or terminate operation of or access to this App or any portion thereof; (2) change, revise, or modify this App or any portion thereof; (3) interrupt the operation of this App or any portion thereof for maintenance and support; (4) impose limits on certain features and services, or restrict access to the App; and/or (5) terminate the authorization, rights, and license given above. Upon any termination, the rights and licenses granted to you herein shall terminate, and you must cease all use of the App.
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Company offers the Teriyaki Madness App Rewards Program (the "Rewards Program") to reward and thank our loyal restaurant customers. The Rewards Program is available to enrolled members at participating Company restaurants in the United States. Rewards accumulated under the Rewards Program are promotional and have no cash value. There are no membership fees associated with the Rewards Program.
Eligibility: You may enroll in the Rewards Program if you: (1) are a legal resident of the United States; (2) at least 13 years of age at the time you enroll; (3) have an active, valid e-mail address; and (4) are a human being. No corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, or other legal entities can participate in the Rewards Program.
The Rewards Program is not targeted towards, nor intended for use by, anyone under the age of 13. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you may only the Rewards Program under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
Enrollment/Rewards Account: You can enroll in the Rewards Program and create a Rewards account ("Rewards Account") in one of the following ways:
Visit the Company website located at www.teriyakimadness.com; or
Through your Facebook account using the App.
Your Rewards Account is personal to you and may not be sold, transferred or assigned to, or shared with family, friends or others. You may have only one (1) Rewards Account.
As a part of the Rewards Program, Company will send you transactional, informational, and promotional messages and/or offers. These communications may happen in the form of push notifications through the App, email, and/or any other ways you may have selected when you enrolled in the Rewards Program. If your contact information changes, or if you wish to change your contact information or the method by which we send you messages, please log into your Rewards Account and update your contact information or preferences.
Social Media Sharing & Referral Bonuses: You can also receive an extra product discount for every Facebook friend you refer who joins our Rewards Program and starts using the App. Your extra discount will not be awarded until the referred member enrolls in the Rewards Program or uses your invite code.
You can also share your Company experience on your personal Facebook page through the App. You have the option to make your comment public, but please note that by making your comment public, we may use your comment on the Company website, Facebook page, and/or other social media outlets.
Offers are valid for _____14_________ days or as stated otherwise on the offer within the App.
Additional Rewards Program Terms: Company reserves the right to terminate your Rewards Account and/or your participation in the Rewards Program if we determine in our sole discretion that you have violated these Terms and Conditions, you have more than one (1) account, or that the use of your account is unauthorized, deceptive, fraudulent or otherwise unlawful. Company may, in its sole discretion, suspend, cancel, or combine Rewards Accounts that appear to be duplicative, and may refuse to allow you to re-enroll in the Rewards Program. Company also reserves the right to "unregister" and make ineligible for the Rewards Program any Rewards Account that has been inactive for one year. Inactive is defined as no Rewards earned.
Company has the right at any time, with or without giving you prior notice, to:
- end or cancel the Rewards Program and/or any specific Reward;
- change any Reward or other Rewards Program benefit we offer;
- change the requirements for earning a particular Reward;
- change the time you have in which to earn a particular Reward; and/or
- change any other feature of the Rewards Program.
If we end the Rewards Program, Rewards you have earned but not used will expire on the end date, and you may not redeem any Rewards or use any credits after the end date.
Login and Registration
Certain features or services offered on or through this App may require you to complete a registration process and/or setup an account or login. In connection therewith, you agree to (1) provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself, and (2) maintain and promptly update your information to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the information you hold for your login, including your password. You agree to notify Company immediately of any unauthorized use of your login, or any other breach of security. You may be held liable for losses incurred by Company or any other App user or visitor due to someone else using your login as a result of your failing to keep your login information secure and confidential.
You may not use anyone else's account or login information. Company shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these obligations.
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Limitations of Liability
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This App is governed by and subject to the laws of the State of Colorado, USA and, where applicable, U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict of law principles. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in Colorado for any disputes arising out of these Terms and Conditions, the App, or the Rewards Program. Notwithstanding this provision, you agree that Company may apply for injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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Prompt: Venus is Venus is Venus.
In the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, Gertrude Stein wrote the line "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose". This sentence is often interpreted as meaning "things are what they are". But are they really? From ancient mythology right through to contemporary culture, the word "Venus" has evoked different interpretations: beauty, desire, fertility, deity, and bright interstellar objects. For this experiment, our artists will transform the iconic Dupont Underground as they derive their own meaning from the prompt.
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Chosen to represent the forefront of innovation in their respective fields, our artists will have the opportunity to present their theses to some of Washington D.C.'s most trusted art thinkers, whilst guests are invited to explore the underground world of Venus.
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Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund: guidance and allocations
Bidding guidance, supplementary information and details of allocations for the Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund.
The Homes and Communities Agency is allocating upto £120 million capital funding for specialist housing providers, on behalf of the Department of Health, to bring forward proposals for the development of specialist housing to meet the needs of older people and adults with disabilities or mental health problems outside of London. This is in addition to £101 million funding allocated in 2013.
This collection gives housing providers information on:
- bidding guidance
- allocations
Phase 2
Phase 1
Published 24 July 2013
Last updated 17 November 2016 + show all updates
Last updated 17 November 2016 + show all updates
- Added training videos
- Added training video links.
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Social media marketing for schools is a big deal and it is pretty tough. When you go online you will see schools competing for social media recognition. The highly active social media networks - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google are all available for schools to leverage to gain brand recognition. Most schools are understaffed and do not have a budget for social strategy. As a matter of fact, in our social media survey of 100+ schools, we found that one-third of schools don't have any social media budget, and another one-third don't know how much to spend. Additionally, only 5% of respondents have social media marketing as a full-time job, and 68% dedicate five hours or less per week to social media marketing. Now you know that you are not alone. Many schools like yours are in the same boat. However, there are many of your competitors who know the benefit of social media marketing to their business and have a strong budget for it. We know how difficult …
Ekiti State Governor Mr Ayodele Fayose has approved a secondary school for Ilemeso Ekiti, Oye Local Government Area of the State. The school which is to be called Elimeso Community High School will be the first in the history of the town.
Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Jide Egunjobi, after inspecting the temporary and permanent sites of the secondary school, said the school will begin operation in January 2018.
This developent was well received by indigenes of Ilemeso as most pupils from the town trek to Isan-Ekiti to attend secondary school while others have relocated to neighbouring towns like Itaji-Ekiti and Aiyede Ekiti for secondary education.


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by Oliver Evans in House about - report
Revilo - Summer Mix 001
Hey guys,
Recording a new mix this week but thought I'd re-post this for those that may have missed out first time round.
Thanks for listening,
Track Listing:
by Al Blivious about
Nice one Oliver I remember the first time out. Hows the new mix sounding?
Nice one Al, I'm digging a bit deeper with this time, should be up for the weekend. Hope you had a good holiday?
Yeah great thanks. Btw there is a PIMP tonight if you hadn't seen, 7-8pm
Glad you had a good one! Sorry I missed the PIMP, been really busy this week. Hope it was a good one?


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J Meter Online Training
JMeter Course Content
JMeter is a tool that helps you test the performance of the web applications, APIs, and databases. QA training in NJ trains you all the concepts of JMeter. Following are the concepts that you will be trained on.
What is Performance Testing?
• Introduction to Performance Testing
• Web Applications and Performance Testing for Web Applications
• Key Business Processes & Use Cases
• Production Environment
• Test Environment
• Application Performance Test Environment
• Infrastructure Performance Test Environment
Introduction to JMeter
• About JMeter
• Installation & Running
• Introducing the JMeter GUI
• Configuring JMeter
• JMeter Features
Performance Testing Basics
• Entry Criteria
• Exit Criteria
• Performance Test Approach & Types
• Application Performance Testing
• Infrastructure Performance Testing
• Load & Peak Load Testing
• Stress Testing
• Soak Testing
• Additional Tests as directed by Business
• Business Load Specification
• Peak Load Parameters, Ramp up time and Users
• Business Day Parameters, Ramp up time and Users
• Results & Reporting
JMeter Test Plan
• What is a Test Plan?
• Elements of a Test Plan
• Building a Test Plan that Tests Web Sites
• Building a Database Test Plan
• Executing your Test Plan
• Reading Results of Test Plan
• What are Listeners
• Different Types of Listeners
JMeter Functions and User Variables
• Creating User Variables
• Getting Data from Website
• Using JMeter Functions
• Function helper
Using JMeter proxy server
Parameterising Tests
Using Regular Expressions
Remote & Distributed Testing
• Preparing Remote Environment
• Running Distributed
• Gathering and Analysing Results
• Using Distributed Testing with Load Balancers
Performance Testing of a Website with JMeter in Real World
Resource Monitoring
• CPU Usage
• Memory and Disk I/O Usage
• Web & Application Server Performance
• Business Process Performance
• Database Performance
• Network Traffic
Analysing & Understanding JMeter Results


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Phone Case Apple I-Phone 6
This classic leather phone case for Apple I-Phone 6 is availaible will keep your mobile phone clean and secure and comes in three different colours and with the familiar A Quechua logo patch. Designed for trendy and fashion-conscious people. Designed and produced in cooperation with Styrian brand Cowstyle.
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Runway Radar: Hannah Pascual's ALTURA designed with petite women in mind
By Natasha Bajwa
Hannah Pascual strives to build a community within the fashion industry for petite women. As a petite woman herself, she is dedicated in taking her collection to new heights by creating clothes that celebrate shorter women.
Pascual's thesis collection, ALTURA, is designed for women under five feet tall who seek quality pieces that complement their less common frame. Each piece was created to make petite women stand out in a crowd.
ALTURA will be unveiled at 2018 The Show presented by Tamoda Apparel Inc., on April 19 and 20 at Kwantlen Polytechnic University's (KPU) new purpose-built Wilson School of Design building. The beautiful and innovative $36-million building houses a range of design programs including the fashion-design-and-technology program. Thirty-one other lines by KPU fashion design and technology students will also be showcased.
For event details, visit kpu.ca/2018fashionshow or follow @wilsondesignkpu on Instagram.
Natasha Bajwa: Describe your collection
Hannah Pascual: ALTURA is a super petite collection, empowering women under five feet who seek quality pieces that showcase their unique frame.
NB: Who or what was the inspiration behind your line?
HP: Growing up, I was always the shortest one among my family and friends, and it always made me feel insecure about myself. As I got older, I learned to embrace my height at 4'9" because it differentiates me from other people. Along the way, however, I realized my height created a huge barrier when shopping for clothes. That's when I noticed there was a lack of representation for petite women in the fashion industry, especially in the Vancouver area. So I was inspired to design a collection that was true to their smaller size.
NB: What word best encapsulates you as a designer?
HP: Dedicated. When I set a goal for myself I push myself to meet those goals. As a designer, I'm always dedicated to finishing whatever project I'm working on with passion and resilience, and I won't stop until I get there. I love the drive and I love giving my all in my work, because once you've reached your end goal it's the best feeling in the world.
NB: What's the most helpful thing you learned at KPU?
HP: To trust the process. During the design stages, a lot of things will not go according to plan and tears will be shed but this is what helps us get where we need to be. It is a part of the process. This was very important to me because it helped me not dwell on what I could've done better and move on to the next step. I carry this through design as well as in life.
NB: What made you want to become a designer?
HP: Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be a fashion designer. I fell in love with playing dress-up in my mom's clothes and pretending that I was head designer for my own company. From there I just knew that I wanted to be in the fashion industry when I grew up.
Natasha Bajwa is a final-year fashion design and technology student at KPU's Wilson School of Design.More


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