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You always wanted to try your hand in projection mapping, but you've never had the chance? Animafest Zagreb will make it possible for you!
Animator Tea Stražičić and a programmer and visual artist Goran Goldin will be your mentors at the Projection Mapping Workshop that will take place from June 6 to June 10 at the Zagreb Dance Centre.
The aim is to bring the world of projection mapping close to animators and to expand their horizons with another branch of visual expression close with animation.
During five days of the workshop, participants will be acquainted with the whole process of preparation and performance of projection mapping.
They will be equipped with theoretical, technical and practical knowledge; they will create a joint concept in line with the guidelines given by the architecture of the building to be mapped, Zagreb Dance Centre, and following that concept they will create animations, depending of their own personal aesthetic aspirations and animation styles.
The workshop will also cover technical aspect necessary for the mapping: participants will be acquainted with available software and hardware solutions and with different approaches and mapping techniques.
The joint work made by the participants and the mentors will be shown on the last day of the workshop, as a visual performance, on the facade of Zagreb Dance Centre.
The condition for the application is advanced knowledge of computer animation and a possession of a computer with animation software of choice. The number of participants is limited to 10.
The workshop will take for five days, four of which will be dedicated to theory and practice (Zagreb Dance Centre, 4- 5 hours a day, starting at 10 AM) while on the last day of the workshop the results will be shown on the facade of Zagreb Dance Centre.
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Goran Goldin, programmer and visual artist, is present on the Croatian and international AV scene since 2009. He was one of the founders of LITEMOTIF collective known for visual experiments, visual interaction with the public, live scene lightning and video mapping.
Since 2012 Goran is the mentor for VJ-ing and mapping workshops at the Independent Cultural Centre Medika.
In 2011, together with street artist OKO, he was in the finals of T-HT@MSU competition, in 2013 he participated in Mapping Festival, in 2014 he was a member of the team chosen to design the interior of the Croatian pavilion at EXPO Milano 2015, and in 2015 he performed at the Illectricity Festival as a visual artist.
Tea Stražičić is the author of poster illustrations and the official festival trailer for 26th Animafest Zagreb. She gained her masters degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zagreb and graduated from production of animation film programme Animation Sans Frontiers. At the moment, she is at Open Workshop residence in Denmark.
Tea publishes a comic in Heavy Metal magazine (USA), she also created graphic design for Hartera music festival and illustrated the cover for Zarez magazine and children books. Her work was a part of visual identity for the Vox Feminae and DRAGram festivals.
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- Sonko had accompanied the procurement officers to purchase items in a quotation he had
- He claimed the items had been overpriced in the quotation
- He later sent the 30 officers home for allegedly soliciting bribes from county contractors
- They were given 14 days to explain why they should not be fired
In the past months, a number of county officers have been showed the door at City Hall by Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko.
In a bid to tackle graft in the county, he sacked his finance executive and sent the Chief County Officer on compulsory leave.
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His latest victims were 30 county procurement staff whom he sent on forced leave on Saturday, April, 21 as reported by The Standard.
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The officials were accused of breaching public finance management act and public procurement and asset disposal act which had led to the loss of county revenue.
County Secretary and Head of County Public Service Peter Kariuki said the staff were identified through perusal of available documentation.
He also said the officers had 14 days to explain why they should not be dismissed.
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"Pending a complete investigation of your role and culpability if any in regard to the above…you are hereby required to hand over and proceed on leave with immediate effect," said Kariuki.
This came just a day after the governor was on record threatening to send the officials home for inflating quotations.
He resolved to accompany the procurement officers to purchase the products which he claimed were over priced in the quotations.
READ ALSO: Sonko threatens to fire county lawyer days after sacking finance executive as graft levels rise
Initial reports by TUKO.co.ke indicated Sonko had vowed to seal all corruption loopholes in the county and no one would be spared.
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Sustainability Reporting as a Tool to Improve Transparency towards Stakeholders. Exploring Reporting Practices in the Imaging Industry
Luisa Pulejo, Valeria Naciti and Nicola Rappazzo
DOI : 10.3844/ajassp.2017.1167.1177
American Journal of Applied Sciences
Volume 14, Issue 12
Pages 1167-1177
The complexity that characterizes the international competitive system has enhanced the call for transparent reporting and the dissemination of information concerning social and environmental impact being implemented by firm. Recently, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology was developed in order to respond to the specific needs to measure the environmental impact of firm's products and processes in terms of resources consumption and pollution along their entire life cycle. This study can contribute to strengthening of the understanding, to promote discussion on the current state of the art of sustainability reports and to verify the development of the tools of corporate sustainability management to assess the environmental and social impact, in particular in the imaging industry. The paper proceeds as follows. First, it examines the literature on the sustainability reporting, corporate reputation as an intangible asset. Second, after the literature review it provides a descriptive and critical knowledge linking LCA, corporate reputation and sustainability reporting. Finally, the attention will be focused on the analysis of Canon, Epson, Nikon and Sony's sustainability reports in order to better understand if sustainability reporting tools based on LCA approach are useful to improve transparency towards stakeholders and if these tools are suitable to generate value and improve corporate reputation. Conclusions and implications for further research will end the paper.
© 2017 Luisa Pulejo, Valeria Naciti and Nicola Rappazzo. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


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Brian Fargo Will Buy Back Interplay if The Bard's Tale IV Does Well
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So you weren't as thrilled as you thought you would be about the stretch goals for The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep? Well, there's an all-new stretch goal to pursue, as Brian Fargo has posted a tweet indicating that he will move forward on trying to buy Interplay back if their newly released RPG sells 2 million units over the next 18 months. That gives us until March 18th, 2020 to buy as many copies as we can to get the remaining IPs back in the hands of the former CEO:
I'm asked what would we do if Bard's Tale 4 PC is a big hit.— Brian Fargo (@BrianFargo) September 17, 2018
How about this stretch goal. I will attempt to buy Interplay back if we manage to sell over 2 million units in the first 18 months.


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Conde De Los Andes Blanco Rioja (6pk)
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Region: Rioja Alta
Soil: clay-limestone
Elevation: 600m
Vine Age: 30 years+
Grape Variety: Viura
Winemaker: Javier Murua
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 13%
Pack: 6pk
Summary: The oldest cellars in Rioja, Condes de los Andes has been painstakingly restored by the Murua family. In addition to kilometres of tunnels and over one hundred thousand bottles under cellar, Condes de los Andes has a purpose built boutique winery dedicated to small batch hand crafted wines.
Winemaking: Sourced from some of the finest vineyards bordering Haro of Rioja in the Alta sub-zone. Many of the great estates border the vineyards all realising the benefit of slightly higher elevation to the resultant fruit purity and quality. Harvested by hand in the first week of October. Barrel fermented with weekly stirring to add character and complexity. The wine spends 6 months in total in second use fine French oak before being bottled and stored in the underground cellar of the winery for a further 12 months prior to release.
Vintage: 2015 was a warm and dry vintage across Spain, although the higher altitudes, cooler climate and well established vineyards saw Rioja fair the best of all Spanish regions. Light rain and cooler weather in Autumn revitalised the vines before a trouble free harvest delivering outstanding, intensely flavoured fruit.
Review: 93 points Campbell Mattinson – The Winefront
Powerful white wine. Character written all over it. Honey and stonefruit, zesty lemon and then more savoury, twiggy, slatey aspects. It's a hard wine to pin down in terms of absolute descriptors but it combines richness and spread to excellent effect.
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Partnering with APAF leads to grant success
NHMRC dementia research teams - Associate Professor Ian Blair of Macquarie University.
APAF's mass spectrometry discovery platform based on SWATH label-free analysis will be a key technique supporting the search for biomarkers associated with dementia and motor neuron disease. This research is supported through a $6.37 million grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), to Associate Professor Ian Blair and colleagues based at Macquarie University. APAF Director, Associate Professor Mark Molloy is a co-chief investigator on this grant and his team at APAF generated preliminary data, that will now be extended with additional patient sampling.
"It's pleasing to see the investment we made over the past 18 months in co-funding a proteomics post-doctoral fellow to interface between APAF and the strong neurodegeneration team at Macquarie has paid off. The success of this co-funded model is rooted in the high quality proteomics data and bioinformatics analysis we generate, demonstrated by the NHMRC grant and two other substantial grants from MNDRIA. We've now got good support for the post-doc and can properly fund the proteomics analysis. I'm eager to run this collaborative model in other disease areas ", said Associate Professor Molloy.
NHMRC Project Grant with Dr Alexander Swarbrick, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
"We worked with Mark and Christoph at APAF to develop a mass spectrometry method to detect novel protein binders of our transcription factor of interest, Id4. The guys are very knowledgeable, really interested in understanding the biology basis of our project and generated excellent quality data on novel targets that we presented in our recent NHMRC grant application. Having Mark as an Associate Investigator lent track record credibility that we could extend this data with future funding. With our grant funded, we now look forward to expanding this part of the project with the team at APAF"
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Silicon Valley, known for being the home of great tech firms (e.g., Google, Apple and Oracle) and startups, is not known for its diversity. There are very few African Americans to be seen in the Bay area's profitable hi-tech play ground. This was highlighted in a story done on Black tech entrepreneurs last year by Soledad O'Brien for CNN's Black in America series.
To go one step further, there are hardly any African American women in the field. According to the National Center for Women in Technology, only 25% of computing-related jobs in 2009 were held by women, 2% of those women were Black.
One woman is planting the seeds to change the color and gender balance of the technology industry.
Kimberly Bryant, a Biotechnology/Engineering professional, launched an after-school program in the Bay area in 2011, called Black Girls Code to address the lack of diversity in the tech field. Instead of playing games, Bryant wants to teach young women how to build them.
Black Girls Code is a non-profit program for elementary and middle school girls (7-14) of color. Its primary goal is to introduce them to computer programming and technology.
The girls learn computer programming basics in Ruby and Python, two popular programming languages that are used in developing software, web and gaming applications.
In addition to teaching the girls how to code, the program also helps them develop self confidence and teaches them leadership and entrepreneurial skills. The students are also exposed to the technology industry with field trips to big tech companies such as Facebook and Google and startups.
After just one year, the program is in high demand. Due to increasing interest, in the Bay area and beyond, Bryant is looking to expand the program and create Black Girls Code chapters in other cities in 2012 with the aid of community-conscious technology and engineering firms.
Hopefully one of these chapters will appear in Los Angeles soon.


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The best gifts are felt by the heart. That is what guest mom Annie learned just days before Mother's Day. Her daughter, Mckenna, has been fighting for her life since she was born. A heart condition and other medical conditions left baby Mckenna unable to hear, among other things. But that was about to change. At sixteen months old, Mckenna sat on her mom's lap and had no idea what was about to happen.
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Hands On: Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum Mechanical Keyboard
So we had the Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum keyboard show up in the office. Might I say I am very pleased with this keyboard. Its a well designed RGB mechanical keyboard with the Romer-G switches. One of the things Logitech has been great with is the support of this keyboard always up to date. Below we will cover some other aspects like design, features, software, and conclusion.
Design and Features:
One of the huge things that I love about the G910 is that the RGB 16.8 million colours are contained under the key caps instead of the base as well like a vast majority of RGB keyboards do. The reason why this is a big deal is I always hated the light bleed I want the RGB to be contained and its more immersive when you play a game like The Division which will light up the keys you need for the game.
As for other design features the G910 is made entirely of plastic which for a mechanical keyboard some people frown upon or think its "cheap" but this keyboard is very sturdy and is definitely not lite. On the G910 they also have your media buttons and volume roller in the top right, then on the left side you have up to 3 macro sets of 9 programmable keys.
The G910 also has the ARX Dock for your phone if you are running the ARX app which will give you live stats of your CPU,GPU, and ram. Also you have media controls, G-key layouts so you can see what you have programmed, and lastly you have you games. If your game is supported by the keyboard it will have the G key logo in the corner like the Division. I don't personally use ARX as much as I should but it is a sweet feature to have.
Now here is the design and features that I don't like or wish it had, first one thing I cannot understand is why this keyboard doesn't have a USB pass through! So many people use them/want them and it just doesn't exist on the G910. That aside I'd say the keyboard also needs a removable wrist rest. Now this one isn't huge and you get used to it or can take the cover off if wanted. But it's not fully removable. But when it comes to things I dislike or feel its missing it only comes to really two things.
The Logitech software that comes with this keyboard is great, its super easy to use and it doesn't throw updates in your face everyday or multiple times a day I'm looking at you Roccat! The RGB setup tools are easy to use, now they can get frustrating when you are trying to create something elaborate but thankfully websites are out where people put the time and anger into making custom RGB layouts to download and load on your own keyboard.
The programming of the G keys is easy as well because they have a profiler program inside the software that scans your games and shows you pre-made layouts. Still one of my favourite features is when I boot up The Division and it loads up just lighting up the keys I need. Its a great advantage for gamers.
The Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum keyboard is one of the best mechanical keyboards I've had the pleasure of reviewing. I can game for hours comfortably when I am supposed to be working. Also its not going to break the bank. Hopefully the next version comes with a USB pass through but hey nothings perfect but this is close! Check them out here at Logitech and get your own!


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Muscle Minds, Episode 19
Muscle Minds Bodybuilding Podcast 19. Victoria Felkar, cutting edge researcher in regard to is back to answer listener questions and discusses gender issues and how they have impacted female anabolic steroid use. This conversation goes down a brilliant rabbit hole of muscle profiling, stereotypes and a history of philosophies in the prison system. She also talks about her early experiences with John Meadows, what her nutrition and training is like today and a lot more.
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Come out to see The Florida Clash of Champions on Oct 21st in Miami Florida. Support the NPC and see IFBB David Henry and IFBB Guy Cisternino. Then on Sunday, visit the IFBB Pro Sunday Extravaganza Q & A at Iron Temple Gym featuring IFBB David Henry, IFBB Guy Cisternino, Dr. Scott Stevenson, IFBB Natalie Graziano and IFBB Jeneen Lankowski
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Providence Health & Services
Job ID Number: 10526 Facility Name: Providence Holy Family Hospital Location Name: Spokane, WA Brand Name: Providence Health & Services Provider Profession: Nurse Practitioner Medical Specialty: Hospitalist Job Setting: Hospital Type of Role: Clinical Schedule: Full Time Position Description Spokane, Washington Seeking a Hospitalist nurse practitioner to join the Hospital Medicine team at Providence Medical Group Eastern Washington and work at Providence Holy Family Hospital where you'll care for a wide variety of pathology.
Enjoy outstanding quality of life in Washington's second largest city.
Full-time position; night shift.
At least 2+ years of clinical experience is preferred.
Integrated care, robust clinical and administrative support, collegial fellow providers and staff.
Competitive compensation; comprehensive benefits.
Facility Description Located in rapidly growing north Spokane, 272-bed Providence Holy Family Hospital offers advanced medical and surgical care as well as specialty support and outpatient services.
Holy Family is keeping pace with the community population and recently completed a major project to modernize and enlarge the imaging and emergency departments.
Holy Family physicians and other leaders are deeply involved in community health initiatives and support two rural Providence hospitals in northeast Washington.
Location Description Spokane, located about halfway between the Rocky and Cascade Mountain Ranges, is a regional medical hub, drawing patients from four states.
Spokane and eastern Washington offer high quality of life features as well, including some of the nation's cleanest air and water, responsible development in harmony with nature, and a mild four-season climate.
Spokane's affordable housing, growing arts and theater community and excellent higher education choices make it a prime destination for families and working professionals alike.
Outdoor enthusiasts relish Spokane's prime location with over 60 miles of biking and hiking trails and close to exceptional skiing, whitewater rafting and other recreation.
Brand Description Providence Health & Services (PH&S) is a not-for-profit system of 34 hospitals, more than 600 clinics and hundreds of locally driven programs across five western states: Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
Providence is committed to improving the health of the communities it serves, with a special emphasis on its mission to serve the poor and vulnerable.
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RNLI lifeguards rescue five kids on inflatable dinghies off Prestatyn beach
Five children, aged between three and 11, were rescued from an inflatable dinghy drifting off Prestatyn beach yesterday afternoon.
RNLI lifeguards Anastassis Lamprou and Simon Pilkington spotted four boys and one girl off Prestatyn beach in two inflatables tied together yesterday lunchtime. The children were using spades as paddles and were drifting out to sea.
Simon immediately took the rescue board, followed closely by Anastassis, and paddled over to the group. As they lifeguards arrived the inflatables had snagged on the rocks and was starting to fill up with water. The youngest member of the group, a three year old boy, was transferred first onto the rescue board and paddled back to shore. Anastassis stayed with the remaining group to help keep the children calm as Simon ferried the children one by one back to the beach.
Back on the beach the children were all checked over and given safety advice by the lifeguards before returning to their parent.
Matt Jessops, RNLI Lifeguard Supervisor said:
'It's very important that people are careful when using inflatables on the coast and not to use them at all if there are offshore winds. If you're unsure please ask the lifeguards, they'll be more than happy to offer advice and help.'
RNLI lifeguards provide a daily safety service on Rhyl and Prestatyn beach throughout the summer. The charity's lifeguards are ready at their posts between 10am-6pm to offer safety advice and assistance over the summer holidays.
RNLI media contact
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Key facts about the RNLI
The RNLI charity saves lives at sea. Its volunteers provide a 24-hour search and rescue service around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland coasts. The RNLI operates over 238 lifeboat stations in the UK and Ireland and more than 240 lifeguard units on beaches around the UK and Channel Islands. The RNLI is independent of Coastguard and government and depends on voluntary donations and legacies to maintain its rescue service. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824, its lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved over 142,700 lives.
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The acronym for chief information officer is perhaps the last remaining link to the role CIOs have historically played.
"Today's CIO is no longer an engineering expert provisioning hardware and software," said John Halamka, a longtime holder of that title at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. "The CIO broadly communicates, convenes governance groups and supports innovation."
Indeed, the role is changing and CIOs — and other IT pros as well — must keep pace with new skill sets to thrive in their careers.
As Phoenix Children's Hospital Chief Information Officer David Higginson sees it, there have been three ages of the CIO so far in U.S. healthcare.
The CIO's third wave
"In the '80s and '90s it was kind of a plumber type person who got the network working, got the servers running, got the emails going, and that was their job," Higginson explained in an interview at HIMSS18. "Next, in the 2000s, we got into having great big budgets and being tasked by the organization to 'Go make this thing happen.' I think a lot of CIOs today did really well in that project management, system implementation-type field."
Those first and second waves were critically important to the digitization of healthcare but they are now effectively over at all but small and rural providers.
Hospital technology leaders, in fact, have moved beyond desktop support and implementation to an era of innovation and constant information knowledge, said Sam Hanna, a professor of healthcare strategy and program director of the Masters of Science in Management of Healthcare Informatics and Analytics at The George Washington University's School of Public Health.
"Gone are the days of tactical and project management expertise," Hanna said. "To be effective, the role requires transformational thinking, real-world innovation experience, and the ability to connect multiple pieces of strategy, technology and people together for better sustainable outcomes."
Most health systems in the U.S. have their IT infrastructure in place and operational. But with electronic health records nearly ubiquitous, the next charges are connectivity, interoperability, optimization and innovating on top of the digitized platform to further strategic goals.
Technology's third platform
"We're moving toward more of an information science," Higginson said. "All that effort and all that money we've spent getting data into the system – now what are we going to do with it?"
Perhaps not coincidentally the third wave for CIOs comes at the same time as what analyst house IDC described as the Third Platform. Built on the four pillars of digital transformation big data and analytics, cloud computing, mobile and social (otherwise known b as SMAC for social, mobile, analytics and cloud), IDC predicted that the Third Platform will fuel innovation for the next two decades, in healthcare as well as other industries, of course.
As hospitals move toward information science and embark on digital transformation those overarching trends, effectively running on the Third Platform, will further change CIOs' jobs along with the very nature of the IT shops they spearhead.
"The modern CIO procures services, often from cloud providers, based on business requirements," Halmaka said.
Going out to the cloud for analytics, clinical decision support, EHRs, not to mention a raft of mobile apps and social networks, might seem like something everybody does nowadays but it's still a radically different model than IT departments packed with software architects and programmers building proprietary programs or keeping massive databases and enterprise apps up and running.
"The potential role for the CIO is to be the digital transformation person who's going to understand what's going on with business and then apply technology to get something out of it," Phoenix Children's Higginson said.
Hanna added that it is imperative technology executives are able to lead an IT team that works much like a think tank within hospitals to drives innovation.
"The skills," Halamka said, "are more aligned with sociology and business school training than technology."
As chief information officers and hospitals turn their focus from technology to information, the CIO role is evolving into a full-fledged executive charged with generating revenue and scaling the digital business.
What's next? The post-modern CIO
Indeed, a new type of executive that builds on traditional CIO skills is emerging to meet that demand. Sometimes that means changes in title, such as chiefs of innovation or transformation – or new mashups such as chief information and analytics officer or, in the case of David Chou of Children's Mercy Kansas City, chief information and digital officer.
Chou explained that the CDO role is to be a strategic agent with "business insight, change energy and a more explicit transformational focus," than more traditional IT leaders, responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure and networks.
"This shift necessitates big changes in strategy, culture, organization and competency that extend beyond the IT organization to encompass all business functions," Chou said.
Cleveland Clinic CIO Ed Marx added that many forward-thinking hospital technology leaders are already in a post-modern CIO mindset that is almost purely strategic.
"The post-modern CIO really has to focus on a couple areas that perhaps in the past they didn't as much. One is to make sure that they have the right people on their team. They need to make sure they have the right leaders around them to execute the strategy," Marx said.
Marx agreed with Halamka, Chou and Higginson that CIOs also must understand the business in order to deliver on strategy.
"You need to be spending the bulk of your time with the business – whether it's shadowing clinicians, understanding the detailed nature of supply chain or HR processes, understanding all aspects of the business, whether it's the operational, clinical or business components," Marx said. "You need to be able to blend in and speak as if you were one of them."
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Kids Show Masterclass Free Video Series
We are so excited about this. 'Kids Show Masterclass' is a brand new weekly video series that is COMPLETELY FREE. Each week, Danny Orleans is going to share something new. From tricks, to audience management tips to performance advice. This promises to be an absolute treasure trove of material.
Magicians tend to closely guard their 'real-world performances' but in this series, Danny fives you a first person view of his show, how he prepares and how he deals with unprecedented situations. It is a rare and valuable opportunity to learn from one of America's best kids show performers.
Download this video and new episode will be added each week.
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The Master class is short,to the point and has improved my kids shows greatly. Just because they are free don't underestimate these, even the pro's could find something useful, as we all need to keep learning and improving. And I am always looking for feedback good or bad.
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FastJet said it's in talks about adding more Airbus Group NV (AIR) short-haul jets to the fleet as the discount carrier seeks to open bases in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Kenya next year while expanding operations in Tanzania.
FastJet, which currently operates three Airbus A319s, is negotiating with a number of leasing companies about aircraft availability in the next three to six months, with expansion plans calling for as many as 13 of the type by the end of 2015, Chief Executive Officer Ed Winter said today in an interview.
"People were skeptical about us putting A319s into Africa but they've worked well with good reliability and punctuality," he said. "We're getting close to saying these planes are full and I hope we're about to see an opportunity to really expand."
FastJet's strategy through the end of next year calls for seven A319s to be based in Tanzania, where operations began in 2012. The London-based carrier also envisages stationing three planes in Zambia, together with two in Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe's government has proved receptive to approaches, Winter said, while a sole aircraft could be located in Kenya.
FastJet shares traded 6.8 percent lower at 1.38 pence as of 11 a.m. in London after it posted an underlying first-half loss of $30.5 million, before interest and tax. The expansion needs funds beyond 15 million pounds ($24 million) raised in April, and Winter said talks are ongoing with African backers and that he'd also be receptive to a deal with an airline investor.
Discussions are under way about a more immediate plan to source two A319s from the leasing unit of Industrial & Commercial (1398) Bank of China Ltd., Winter said. The aircraft would replace planes due to be returned to Volito Aviation Services of Sweden, in which Goldman Sachs Inc. (GS) has a minority stake.
FastJet still aims to secure an air operating certificate for Zambia by the end of this year and could add international routes quickly there, Winter said. Talks in Kenya, which the airline once earmarked for its initial base, have been more drawn out, and local rules will require a year of domestic-only flying before foreign services can be added, he said.
The carrier's plans to establish the first pan-African discount network will continue to focus on East Africa for the foreseeable future, the CEO said, with the possibility of bases in Angola and Ghana, where it already holds AOCs, receding.
Bases could open in South Africa and Uganda in 2016, while by 2018 Winter sees a fleet of up to 34 jets, nine in South Africa, seven in Tanzania and Kenya, four in Uganda and Zimbabwe and three in Zambia. FastJet's first international route, Dar es Salaam-Johannesburg, began last October, and it has since added services from the Tanzania city to Lusaka, Harare and Entebbe.
Winter said talks have resumed on implementing a code-share deal with Dubai-based Emirates, the No. 1 international airline, for which Dar es Salaam is an expanding destination. Middle Eastern carriers are candidates to invest in FastJet, where EasyJet Plc (EZJ) founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou holds a 10 percent stake but has been critical of recent pay awards to executives.
The first-half loss included $13.9 million from Tanzania and $13.5 from the Angola and Ghana operations, now suspended. Tanzanian sales almost doubled to $19 million, with both the customer total and revenue per passenger up about 40 percent.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Hospital staff use donor dollars
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CEDC outlines goals
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No Book Banning in T BAY
It appears two Timothy Findley books will not be banned by the Lakehead Public School Board. Trustees are being asked to keep the books by the Canadian author, in the system. Board vice-chair Karen Wilson, says the issue came up after one parent complained about the content. A special board committee concluded the books reflect real life.
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Survivors have "historic opportunity"
The heartbreaking stories of abuse are being told in Thunder Bay starting Wednesday. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is here to listen to the stories from residential school survivors. Commission spokesperson Alvin Fiddler says it's part of the healing for First Nations people. He says many have waited a long time for what he calls this "historic opportunity" to tell their story. The Commission was invited here by officials of the Nishawbe Aski Nation.
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Natural Gas Conversion announced
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Thunderwolves hockey back in CIS top ten
A 5 game winning streak has vaulted the Thunderwolves Men's Hockey team back into the top ten in the CIS. The wolves completed a weekend sweep over Nipissing Saturday and are now 9th in the country.
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Mac's Mart robbed again
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Weekend collision turns fatal
A 23 year old man has died as a result of Sunday's two car collision on Dawson Road. Police Spokesperson Chris Adams says Justin Enge was the driver of one of the vehicles and succumbed to his injuries early yesterday morning. Adams says Enge lost control of his vehicle and crossed into oncoming traffic and was hit by a mini van. The other four people involved received non life threatening injuries.
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Charges laid in Loch Lomond death
The owner of the Loch Lomond Ski Resort has been charged in connection to a fatal accident. Last year a father and son were shocked when their ladder came into contact with a live power line while they were working on a roof. The son died of his injuries and Ward Bond has been charged with failing to ensure the workers didn't use a metal ladder and with not providing proper safety information.
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Got the carbon frame all tacked together this weekend and it looks like a bike frame however I have only done the easy part. Laying down the carbon patches and the vacuum bagging is gonna be where all the strength comes from however I have to build up some fillets around all the joints first and this will provide some extra strength as well as give me a smoother foundation for the carbon layup. I have to remind myself that on this first carbon frame I am just shooting to get a good, solid, rideable frameset but I also am hoping that it doesn't look like a pile of rags while I'm riding it. I shouldn't even pay attention to the weight however I can't help it, building a lighter frame is the main reason I am experimenting with carbon. Right now its 2.22 lbs in a size 58cm without the tubes trimmed. I am hoping that the finished frame will be sub 3 lbs but we'll see. The next weigh-in will be after I have all the fillets laid down. I'm fixin' to start on that right now. Stay tuned. How bout that Tour? I don't have a clue who's gonna win but I bet we're gonna see Alberto Contador climb like a maniac before too long. Enjoy.
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