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A few playoffs odds and ends
Three weeks ago DuPage County started with 16 playoff football teams, and now we're down to two.
Good thing we're just a win away from championship weekend.
This edition of Eyes on Five goes random with scattered thoughts as IC Catholic Prep and Montini head to the semifinals.
1. How many yards?:
At a certain point, you just start leaning on your guys.
For IC Catholic Prep, that guy is running back Kyle Franklin. Only a sophomore, Franklin was stunning while rushing for 311 yards and 6 touchdowns on 31 carries in Saturday's 49-27 quarterfinal victory over Marengo.
Make no mistake ... the unbeaten Knights are loaded. They've won 39 of their last 40 games, including the last two Class 3A titles, and they're on track to win the Class 4A championship.
While many factors and many players have been crucial this season -- no one player makes a team this dominant -- the Knights have leaned on Franklin when it matters most. He carried the ball 33 times in a 1-point win over McNamara, his highest total this season.
It's impressive to see a sophomore make this kind of impact on a title-caliber team, and it brings back memories of a few years ago when the Knights had running back Jordan Rowell. He rushed for 6,032 yards in four varsity seasons, good for ninth in state history.
Rowell had 1,522 yards as a sophomore, while Franklin has 1,961 with at least one game to go. Add in his 927 yards as a freshman, and Franklin's already closing in on 3,000 rushing yards in two seasons.
Assuming the Knights continue to make deep playoff runs, and they're showing no signs of slowing down, Franklin should put up massive numbers over the next two years.
IC Catholic Prep vies for its third straight title game appearance at 4 p.m. Saturday at home against Richmond-Burton.
2. Backs:
Throughout this season we've raved about DuPage County's quarterbacks, and for good reason.
Glenbard East's Bret Bushka, Lisle's Jay McGrath, Naperville Central's Payton Thorne, Willowbrook's Sam Tumilty ... the list is a long one. That quartet alone helped their respective teams to a combined 38 victories, including six in the playoffs.
A wise coach once told me, though, you win in the playoffs by running the ball and stopping the run.
We've already talked about Franklin, but the same can be said for our other DuPage County semifinalist. With Illinois-bound running back Nick Fedanzo in the fold, Montini (11-1) looks like a team capable of winning its seventh state title.
Fedanzo, a 6-foot, 200-pound senior, hasn't been as much of a workhorse as Franklin this season. He's rushed for over 1,100 yards, including 85 yards and a pair of touchdowns in limited action during Saturday's 54-7 quarterfinal win over Evergreen Park.
The Broncos have been successful rotating quarterbacks, but expect to see a bunch of Fedanzo when crunchtime inevitably arrives. It could be this week in a Class 5A clash at Sterling, a game slated for 2 p.m. Saturday.
Fedanzo had 11 carries for 82 yards and 2 touchdowns in the second half of a 21-17 second-round win over Sycamore, and he was crucial in the Broncos' tight Chicago Catholic League Blue wins.
Run the ball and stop the run. We'll see if that wise coach continues to be correct the next two weeks.
3. Merge right ... or wrong:
Remember that football-only merger that's coming next season between the Chicago Catholic League and the East Suburban Catholic Conference? It was referred to as a superconference when it was announced.
Considering the playoff performance by the two groups, though, it's looking more like a superhero conference. They've placed a combined eight teams in the semifinals, spread across the four biggest classes.
CCL Blue foes Brother Rice and Loyola are in opposite brackets of Class 8A, while fellow Blue member Montini is in the 5A semifinals. Mt. Carmel, now in the CCL Green, surprisingly hammered East St. Louis to reach the Final Four in Class 7A.
The ESCC, meanwhile, has a semifinal team in each class between 5A and 8A. Marist (8A), Nazareth (7A), Notre Dame (6A) and Joliet Catholic (5A) all might be headed to Champaign for Thanksgiving weekend.
If a half dozen of those teams do, in fact, reach Champaign it'll no doubt ignite the cries from the anti-private school faction in Illinois. Multiplied, success factored ... it doesn't matter. It's a debate that won't fade.
A half dozen CCL-ESCC teams and a possible IC Catholic Prep-McNamara final in Class 3A?
Yep, it's going to get awfully noisy if that ends up happening.
4. Expansion vs. Districts:
Last week, after the IHSA unveiled its annual bylaw amendment proposals, I ran a Twitter poll to see which of the two football proposals people liked better.
Just to refresh your memory, the first proposal suggests expanding the playoffs from 256 to 384 teams. That'd mean shortening the regular season to eight weeks and starting the postseason in Week 9.
The other proposal introduces districts as a way to end the conference shuffling and make it easier to schedule nonconference games. Conferences would cease to exist for football only, allowing the IHSA to create statewide districts in eight classes based on geography and enrollment.
Anyway ... that Twitter poll. Given those two less-than-ideal choices, expansion won in a landslide. With 883 votes cast, expansion got 66 percent of the support compared to 34 percent for districts.
It's obviously not scientific but the margin surprised me ... not to mention my surprise that 883 people voted and a good number of people commented on their opinion. Mess with their football season and people care.
The IHSA Legislative Commission will decide Nov. 26 which proposals advance to a membership vote that'll take place in December.
As we often like to say here, stay tuned.
5. Stat time:
Six of last season's eight state champions remain alive for a repeat.
Lena-Winslow, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley, IC Catholic Prep, Rochester, Batavia and Lincoln-Way East are the surviving title defenders. Phillips and Prairie Ridge are the only 2017 champions to lose this postseason.
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Full bed frame with storage at foot of bed is also very useful for storing our clothes in bedroom a small trunk located at foot of bed. This furniture has advantage that it is both a storage system and a seat to dress or our shoes. In it usually it stores linens, towels and even bath. However, nobody knows what's inside because it seems that improvised seat that can be found in many lines of design is completely related to visually with rest of furniture.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Mercury fillings
Well, you'll be glad that the latest news will help you decide. I'm sure you've seen it splashed all over the newspapers. It wasn't in your paper? That's funny, it wasn't in mine either. Here's a summary:
The first large scale randomised control trials on the safety of mercury fillings were published just two weeks ago. They studied more than 1,000 children, some were given mercury fillings and some mercury-free fillings. Then they measured kidney function and various neurodevelopmental outcomes such as memory, coordination, nerve conduction, IQ, and so on, over several years. There were no significant differences between the two groups.
Not good news for dentists, I'm afraid. A lady I saw this afternoon told me that she's just seen a private dentist. On her first visit he offered to remove all her mercury fillings and relace them with 'safe' ones. That's strange, she thought, he didn't offer to do that when he was my NHS dentist. So she sacked him.
This is such important news that I'm surprised it wasn't in the newspapers. But then good news is no news, as the saying almost goes.
2 comments:
Wonder about the group affiliations of the researchers. The study also was only a few years, and subtle effects over a lifetime cannot be ruled out. The editorial in the journal the article was published points out just that.
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin, and no one can deny that.
It is also interesting to note that amalgam fillings are slowly fading in favor of composite resin fillings, which are now tough enough to be used on molar surfaces.
Expect further improvements in dental restorations.
Note: to read a press release on the subject, go to:
- 07 June, 2006 17:32
- Vance said...
My brother is a dentist. Over the years he has replaced my old mercury fillings, but not because he thought they were dangerous. Rather, he said they tend to deteriorate over time, and it is easier for the tooth to crack or for the filling to loose its fit. He claims the newer materials adhere better and also better withstand the pressure of biting and temperature changges.
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There are very few actors who are known for their characters than their real personality. One of them is Shruti Rawat, who portrays the role of Bhairavi on SAB TV's Badi Dooooor Se Aaye Hai.
The actress plays a fun loving and cute Gujrati girl, but is quite the opposite in real life.
She shared, "On the show, my symbolic trait is sticking my tongue out after every dialogue… so whenever I met my fans, they ask me to do that, which is rather embarrassing. I am very girly and well dressed-up in real life… so people get shocked."
Do you tend to behave like Bhairavi off-cameras well? "Once the camera is off, I switch into my actual personality."
Apart from comedy, what kind of roles do you wish to do in the future? "I want to play negative roles. People think I am very cute, so I want to surprise my fans with different looks and roles," she said.
How is Bhairavi in real life? "I am very outgoing, who love dancing. I like to explore different forms of art. I like to work out too. In fact, I used to be a gym trainer," the actress said.
Despite playing popular characters onscreen, why hasn't it been appreciated? "May be because it's an 'alien' comedy, which only selective people watch. Our show is mostly viewed in urban areas and not in rural side due to which TRPs are not high," she replied matter-of-factly.
Did you always wished to be an actor? "Acting was not planned. Even though it's been five years in the industry, I am not an ambitious actor. For me, good work is important than popularity. I want to be the next Nandita Das or Diya Dutta and not Kareena Kapoor or Deepika Padukone."
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Savers will see cash piles of up to £85,000 protected from bank or building society failures – following a £10,000 rise in the protection level.
The move from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) comes into force today (30 January), following the slide in the pound following June's Brexit vote.
The rise brings the UK into line with the €100,000 threshold set across the European Union.
Since Britain's referendum to leave the European Union sterling has fallen some 18% against the dollar and around 11% against the euro.
The scheme covers money in current accounts, savings accounts, and cash ISAs. Joint accounts have a protection level of £170,000.
The amount of cash the scheme guarantees has fluctuated based on the performance of the pound. Last January the scheme was cut from £85,000 to £75,000 due to a prolonged strong showing from sterling.
Mark Neale, chief executive of the FSCS, said: "The limit increase will protect even more of peoples' savings. The new limit will protect about 98% of people so it is worth people knowing their limits."
Some MPs have called for a settled level of compensation, which they say will increase public awareness of the scheme.


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Dark Phoenix, the next entry in the X-Men film series set to hit theaters on June 7, will introduce audiences to Marvel's infamous island nation of Genosha.
While speaking at a panel at Ace Comic Con Phoenix, Dark Phoenix star Michael Fassbender, who will reprise his role as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, revealed some details regarding this new take on Genosha, as well as how it plays into the next chapter of his character's story.
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"Well I think Genosha's a pretty cool idea, and always it's that thing with Magneto. You can't really argue with his philosophies in some ways, but his methods, of course, are very extreme," said Fassbender. "What he's done in Genosha is kind of cool because he sort of stepped out of the conflict, if you will, and said, 'Okay, just give us this place that's our own and just leave us be and we'll be self-sufficient and anybody who's willing to not bring violence to the area and sort of pitch in and do their part, then they have a home there and they're welcome there. And I think... it's a pretty cool philosophy.'"
In comics, Genosha has been an island of extremes. When it debuted in Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi's Uncanny X-Men #235, it was a land where a human-controlled government used mutants as mindless "mutate" servants. After the X-Men freed the mutates, the island became a mutant haven, which Magneto eventually gained control over. Sadly, the entire island and its entire population were destroyed in a massive Sentinel attack.
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While there's no telling whether or not that will happen in Dark Phoenix, Magneto won't stick around the island for the entire movie.
"There's only something that happens outside of Genosha that sort of drags him away from this place that he's set up. But it was cool when Simon Kinberg was developing Genosha and we were walking around it and it's like, it's sort of off-the-grid, self-sustained community.
"It's pretty beautiful. But then of course, then you see the other side of him once he makes the decision to do something it's go big or go home," he added.
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That being said, while Magneto is no longer on the front lines, as it were, his perspective on the conflict between humans and mutants hasn't exactly changed.
"I think the ends justify the means, you know?" he added, referring to Magneto's worldview. "He's quite Machiavellian in that, and like you said, because of his history, because he's endured so much sort of suffering in terms of the personal relationships he's developed and what humans have done and taken that away from him you understand his extremism and sort of his motivation."
Written and directed by X-franchise veteran Simon Kinberg, Dark Phoenix stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters and Jessica Chastain. The film is scheduled to be released on June 7.
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A newly established brand named after the designer himself, William Roper will launch his first collection at New Zealand Fashion Week. Roper, who is fresh out of Ara Institute has always wanted to own his own business and believes now is as good a time as any to begin.
Still in the early stages of the pre-launch, he relies on himself and the empty space in his mum's garage to bring his designs to fruition. Roper is hoping this collection will be stocked in stores around New Zealand by 2019 and is working on building the website.
Showcasing part of his graduate collection, Roper explained that the original and the adapted collection was heavily influenced by the Ancient Chinese expressions 'under the heavens' and 'I Ching'. Summing up the inspiration for his designs, Roper reveals that it reflects dichotomies. Using examples of theoretical physics and philosophies to display two contrasting parts. Using tailoring and drape, Roper believes this represents the dichotomy that makes the two-contrasting whole.
The young designer highlights one of his favourite designs as the zero-waste reversible jacket that is printed on one side, allowing you to decide how to wear it.
After being asked to participate by the Head of Department at Ara Institute, he felt that it would offer great exposure for his brand and is "super excited to be a part of the graduate show."


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That's the number one reason to open a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP), though not the only one. But having said that, even though the government matches 20 per cent of your annual contribution up to a limit of $500 per child per year, it doesn't mean that everyone should open an RESP. If your household finances are in poor shape, you don't have enough retirement savings of your own or you think your child will get more out of it by paying the freight, keep the money in your pocket.
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When creating a financial/investment portfolio, you need to ensure that there are multiple investment buckets available. This is because each bucket has its advantage and disadvantages. Read on to ensure you are increasing each bucket's advantages and not allowing their disadvantages to erode your capital.
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Generational wealth is defined as passing and building a financial legacy that your future generations can reap the rewards. We all work hard to become financially free in our lifetime, but what about our future generations? Do we want them to have to battle with their finances we did or are we also planning on leaving financial legacies that will give them greater opportunities than you had?


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This idea is brought to light by Judge Andrew Napolitano in this clip. Napolitano demonstrates to an unglued Shepherd Smith that the federal government is ultimately responsible for the disaster and the ensuing lack of clean up. Napolitano points out that since government has no stake in the game, that is no capital risked, it can bungle as much as it wants and never be checked. It is not governed by a price system. It has no economic accountability. It can never be sued. Napolitano amplifies a point that Ludwig von Mises made: "A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a mans effort in terms of money."
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St Patrick Celebrations
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LuckyFest is the biggest St Patrick's Day party in the Valley with 25 "pubs" built from the ground up for one day. Happening each year in the rear parking lot at Modesto Centre Plaza, this year on Saturday, March 16th. Live music, Dj's and fun activities for those over the age of 21 for just $12 in advance doors at 6 pm.
Mitchell's Harley Davidson St Paddy's Day Celebration is taking place on Saturday, March 16th this year 10 am – 5 pm. Don't miss out on your chance at some great prizes and tasty food during our St Paddy's Day Celebration. See you here!
Also on Saturday at Whiskey Barrel Tavern in Stockton join Barroom Heroes(Dropkick Murphy Tribute), TV Static and Red Devil Lie for a St Paddy's Party. Great music Irish food and Guinness on tap.
Fans of Hip Hop will enjoy Tilted Turtles "All Green Party" starting at 10 pm. Young Dru, Tweety Bird, Izzy R and more will all be performing live.
Do you want to celebrate with some country music? Head on over to the Rusty Nail where the Kenny Frye Band will be performing for the St Paddy's Country Bash.
Go back and time and celebrate with a more traditional street fair at Murphys Irish Day. One of the premier annual events in the Mother Lode is Murphys Irish Day. Each year on the third Saturday in March, thousands of people from Northern California and beyond gather in the historic gold rush town of Murphys to honor its Celtic heritage and to celebrate as only the Irish can. Its picturesque Main Street is filled with booths offering handcrafted items, original art, photographs, tasty food, wine, and other beverages. FREE EVENT!
St Patrick's Day proper head on over to P.Wexford's Pub for their annual celebration. Live Music, an outdoor bar, games and so much more. Festivities start at 2 pm.
March 17th for St Paddy's Day at the Twisted Pig will be open at 10 am for Corned Beef and Hash to start the morning off right. They will also have a Bloody Mary Bar with all the fixings. Their special St Patrick's Day menu along with food and drink specials starting at 11 am. Who Wants The Crown & Live Again will perform live.
The Udder Place in Turlock is having a St Patrick's Day Party on Sunday, March 17th as well. Starting at 11 am with performances by Van Diemen's Band, Weekend at Jimmy's, Jeff Ricketts and Mondo Mariscal. Expect some great drink specials, Corn Beef sliders and more.
Shamrock Sip & Shop at the Elk's Lodge takes place on St Paddy's day 12 am to 4 pm. Come celebrate Sip & Shop this St Patrick's Day with 35+ Vendors/Crafts. The bar will be open for purchases, Food, Raffles, Prizes, Dress to impress to earn more raffle tickets. FREE EVENT!


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Because we're all about the high culture here, we're bringing you the poetry funk today. So we hope you're ready.
The fine folks at OutSports directed us to a contest figure skater Johnny Weir was hosting on his Web site: Submit your Johnny Weir poems! Johnny himself picked out the winner, from a Netherlands woman named Renate Linnenkoper. (Which, by the way, is Dutch for "Kordell Stewart.") Here's an excerpt:
And on that ice, a figure stands
His face framed by raven strands
His visage adorned by hazel eyes
Reminiscent of lover's feverish goodbyes
That is truly the best poem we've read today that was written by a person with greater-than-but-not-equal-to six unicorn tattoos.
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How adding digital workers could reveal untapped intelligence in your enterprise
…Or, six things you can do with intelligent automation that cost cutting FTE doesn't accomplish
"Our processes were a mess but we went headlong into an RPA POC anyway. Everything went fine so we deployed 25 bots covering 15 processes and everything fell apart."
There are two kinds of people in intelligent automation—the kind of people that have said that…and the kind of people that have heard other people say that.
However, we're all getting on the same page with what went wrong:
- First things first: "You know what" in gets you, "you know what" out!
- Engaging in zero change management ensures zero will change, no matter what you automate
- Engaging in a one-off small-scale isolated process alone does not help you intelligently automate end-to-end, let alone customer-oriented processes.
…And the list goes on and on.
What are the basic intelligent automation principles that work helping to create a step change at your organization?
True return on investment vs. simple cost cutting FTE
In episode 25 of the AI & Intelligent Automation Network podcast, Western Union's Vytis Ciemnolonskis showcased a three-point plan on how to drive curiosity through the organization when you're rolling out the concept of intelligent automation. He and his team did engage in the aforementioned one-off small-scale isolated process. However, the reasoning for the POC was to drive discussion around ROI. When discussing the possibility of IA with the business, there was competition for that ROI— so much so, the function that rolled out the pilot was willing to contribute from their budget.
"We did a quick proof of concept, really quick. We took one vendor. We took a couple of days. We involved an SME, a developer, and we got a result. This proved the process can be automated, the robot can do a sequence of activities, and we can have a tangible result.
"The next step was to do a pilot, which would do real work with tangible benefits. We then started a selection process. We wanted also to have pretty durable process so we could proof in a quick way—four to eight weeks. But at the same time pretty impactful. When we talk about the funding, when we talk about ROI, then we can have a really nice business case.
"It created a lot of engagement from the teams that we have been automating process. People were not really happy with the work that they had to do and were really excited that robots will do it. We found a function, and this was a compliance function, which was interested and willing to contribute from their budget so we could get started."
[Listen to the AIIA Podcast with Vytis Ciemnolonskis]
Vytis and his team focused on return vs. cost from the jump. This ensured that internal business leaders and their teams were excited to not only participate but lead intelligent automation.
Transformation vs. cost cutting FTE
In episode 16 of the AI & Intelligent Automation Network podcast, tech industry veteran Mattias Fras shared his aversion to delegating intelligent automation to a solution provider.
"I want to build skills in our own people in new technology. Right from the start, I said 'this is only the beginning' and we are only in the beginning of the beginning. It's so important for us to be able to compete with the new competition [FinTech]. If we can start thinking in the same way they are thinking—and by actually applying RPA—we're actually starting this big re-skilling that we need as a large bank. It is very much about building the capability internally, rather than getting the cost-saving quickly."
Mattias notes that the driving force for intelligent automation is to build internal capability to thwart new competition, hence transforming his business into an innovative player who can aggressively gain market share as opposed to simply automating what he does today.
He's using intelligent automation for the tool that it is to accomplish a long-term goal.
[Listen to the AIIA Podcast with Mattias Fras]
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article in advance of Intelligent Automation Chicago entitled, Understanding what you're building & measuring: 2 quotes & recruiting & retaining top IA talent.
The first part of the piece discovers that an intelligent workforce is actually already installed:
Building capacity vs. cost cutting FTE
Intelligent Automation talent is not mutually exclusive from your traditional talent. Conversely, IA talent is your traditional talent. A composite of project managers, executives from leadership, governance directors, subject matter experts, developers and six sigma black belts all come together to create your intelligent automation effort. This group of people, who you already have, is your intelligent automation talent.
Nick Burgess shared how the team unifies around the purpose in episode 28 of the AI & Intelligent Automation Network podcast: "Good project management skills and good leadership and governance around the robotics program are absolutely vital and so is finding the right people from the business. If you have a sense of excellence to deliver solutions, they're very unlikely to be subject matter experts. They may be pure developers they may have a business background or continuous improvement background. You need absolute top quality subject matter experts and decision makers from the business to help define the requirements to make sure that you're building solutions that are fit for purpose, first time. That's really important."
However, none of that matters if you're not measuring what your intelligent or human workforce are doing effectively. If you're just focused on cost cutting, you're not measuring the entirety.
Measuring productivity of humans + bots vs. cost cutting FTE
In episode 29 of the AI & Intelligent Automation Network, Charles Mulinder, Head of IA & Change, Fidelity explains, "I think the cold hard reality of working within an organization is you have to take out cost in the current climate. FTE becomes a very important score. Interesting enough, if you look across some of the banks, they are starting to talk about the number of robots they have. They talk about the number of FTEs they have. They talk about their financials. You could make an argument and say that the reason they talk about both is because they may not trust their financials, so they'd like to see the corresponding reduction or adjustment in the head count. They don't talk about productivity and they don't measure it, which is actually the real thing that you should be measuring whether you're evaluating what a robot does or an FTE does. It's just too difficult."
[Listen to the AIIA Podcast with Charles Mulinder]
This all comes back to what it always is and what it has always been—the workforce or intelligent workforce cannot be utilized most effectively without productivity being understood and measured.
Recruit your intelligent automation workforce from key members of your current workforce. Retain them by measuring the added productivity of your entire intelligent automation enterprise.
Unpacking knowledge to increase yield vs. cost cutting FTE
Not all repetition is bad. Sometimes repetition works.. In episode 39 of the AI & Intelligent Automation Network podcast, Deutche Bank's Roberto Mancone explains that a talented executive who has the same conversation with 100 clients can be even more valuable to the organization if she can somehow impart her wisdom ten-fold…or more. If they are able to guide artificial intelligence to expedite their repetitive activities, they can use intellectual property to affect change with additional clients:
"You need to maintain the expectation of employees. It is too easy to speculate and to say that AI will replace human beings. I am absolutely in denial of that. It means it will change the role human beings will play, being employees and being customers. Today they do repetitive activities, but repetitive doesn't mean mundane or boring. Even talking to a client, or 10 clients, or 100 clients in the same day is a repetitive act. Are you becoming an expert by repeating 100 times the same product or service to 100 clients? Or do you become an expert if you train on artificial intelligence and you become the curator of that content?
"I can always compare the curator of the library. You need to have a lot of knowledge to be a proper curator of an art museum or such case. If you're a curator, then you train artificial intelligence, and then you can really enhance your accountability with value-added services. You increase the value of the assets and you increase the value of the services to the clients. It doesn't mean you could be the fronting person necessarily acting and talking to the clients in a chat because you will no longer be there, but you are the behind-the-scenes, making sure that conversation happens in the right manner at the right time and that the client has full satisfaction."
If you looked at that repetitive task and simply said automate it so we can save the FTE, you lose the intellectual property and the human connection with the client. So yes, you save money this year. Shareholders reward you. You "optimize" your business today…and you're out of business tomorrow because there's nothing there.
If you can't change the people, change the people. There's no doubt about it. But time and time again, we're learning that cost cutting FTE, as a goal is fraught with danger. Beyond that, it's myopic and will kill you. In Roberto's example:
He's unpacking the inherent and unused intelligence within his enterprise by deploying AI.
He's not deploying AI to replace his business' value proposition.


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Jodhpur: Salman Khan received five years imprisonment and fined INR10, 000 as punishment in 1998 Blackbuck poaching case. Jodhpur court trail and punished the Bollywood superstar for hunting down the endangered species.
Other Bollywood actors including Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bindre, Tabu, and Neelum were also present along with Salman Khan in the same vehicle when he shot two blackbucks in Bhagoda Ki Dhani near Jodhpur. However, the Jodhpur court has acquitted them due to lack of evidence.
The 52-year-old Bollywood superstar faced charges in three cases for this incident. The case is based on hunting the rare blackbucks while shooting for the movie 'Hum Saath Saath Hain' in 1998.
The actors were being trailed since past 19 years and the final arguments for the case were heard on 28th March 2018. Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri had reserved the judgment for April 5 2018.
Salman Khan gets five years in jail in blackbuck poaching case https://t.co/xJDKVaXJcE #BlackBuckPoachingCase
— Reuters India (@ReutersIndia) April 5, 2018
Bollywood actor has been taken to Jodhpur Central Jail.


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We all have a favourite white shirt in their wardrobe because it's so versatile. But, do you find yourself wearing it the same way, over and over? We understand that as a working mum, you already have so much to juggle on a daily basis. So, we're sharing five different ways you can style your favourite white shirt!
If you have more than one white shirt, this just gives you more styling possibilities. Watch the video to get started or be inspired by the celebrity styles in the gallery.
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Well…Hi there people ☺
Since it's been a while that I didn't post any outfits, today I chose something more "over the top" in order to make up for the missing time haha….maybe?!
I decided to kick the week with a pair of heels, which doesn't happen very often…heels during the day is not really what I'm into. But today was such a beautiful sunny day, I woke up feeling so happy with a mind set to experiment in my outfit so there you go:
I started the look with this oversized knitted sweater which I bought a few days ago for a very cheap price on sale. What hooked me up in this sweater is definitely the color; I hardly ever wear purple, but when I do this shade is absolutely my favorite. I love experimenting with different colors in spring until I come up with my own color palette for the summer days. It changes every year so maybe purple could be one of the "chosen" colors. Back to the outfit; since the sweater is so huge (which I love), it requires tight pants or leggings so I went for my favorite leather pants. I decided to go a little crazy on the feet when I found behind my shoe closet these glitter stilettos from many years ago. I remember buying them for a carnival outfit; wore them once and threw them in the large pile of shoes I don't wear. I paid very little for them as well but surprisingly they're comfortable, which is the reason why I wore them today because most of the time I avoid wearing heels because my feet hurt. But these heels are fun, I love glitter…it's girlish, colorful…makes me smile ☺ so these babies are staying out this season and shall be worn again and again…
I decided to bring a bag today as well to add more "elegance" to this look. You may have noticed that I don't wear a bag all the time when I post outfits and that's due to my crazy poses, I feel like a bag limits me…especially, when it's a purse, cross body bags are fine because my hands are free to do whatever weird poses I like hahaaa ☺ I got this bag in Berlin and it's the first time I'm bringing it out and I love it. I have a thing for quilted bags and this one is a classic yet unique piece with the heart detail and high-lighted squares. I hope you guys like this outfit; I am always trying to wear something differently and non-conventionally. This look is achieved with a low budget so anyone could try it out. Feel free to comment your opinions below and I promise to update the blog again as soon as I get some more free time. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful week ☺ ONE LOVE, xxxx
PS. The band-aid on my left foot is there since I have a huge cut on my skin from falling from the stairs a few nights ago. I could've removed it with photoshop, but beauty is in imperfections and there's no point on hiding my clumsiness.
H&M Knitted Sweater
Marks & Spencer Leather Pants
H&M Glitter Stilettos
Moschino Bag
Atmosphere Rings
• Photographed by Genc Agushi
So fashionable outfits and handbag!


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Racing bikes are good bikes and they all have similar traits to them. The light weight frame that you might have to your bike may be made of some light weight metal such as aluminum. The wheels that you are riding on called tires are made to be able to withstand high pressures. The handle bars are slightly lower than usual and the gears and brakes may be in a cluster so you don't have to take your hands off the grips anytime.
If you just like to simply go on an easy going bike ride, than more than likely a racing type of bike isn't for you. The bike and its wheels are made smaller for lighter weight and the breaks are made for light weight also and not a quick stop so you may want another bike like a mountain bike. The gear ratio is probably going to be a lot longer on a racing bike to gain speed but you can get another bike such as the mountain bike that you can climb steep hills and mountains with, with ease.
With a light weight frame that you can pick up with one hand and the tight positions you may have to sit will make you accelerate at high speeds higher than a normal bike. The way the bike is made is to limit the wind and create a good position for the rider. With owning a racing bike they can reach pretty high speeds up to 35 mph I would say or at least what I have seen. They might be able to go even faster but I am not a bike rider fan so I wouldn't know.
Another thing that racing bikes don't have that a regular bike would is mud flaps to keep you from getting mud all over the back of your legs and bottom. Mudguards are good when riding in a dirt environment or a muddy road. As I stated this is also a choice that goes with a regular bike and not available in racing bikes.
Although you might have been thinking of getting a racing bike, and might have had the rack up for it in the garage already. It might not be the bike for you if you just like to go on easy rides and not fast speedy races. Other people may prefer to challenge their friends or family when owning a racing bike, but the family just may like the regular bikes too. Just choose whichever bike is right for you and what you want out of it. Don't get the bike that you just want to have to own, get the bike that's right for you and that you will enjoy riding.
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A new brunch concept with live theatrical performances and the latest house music
This summer The Act Dubai launches an exciting new concept starting Friday 15th July. Once a month only, the world's highest theatre club will open its doors on a Friday to host "Beats N Brunch" a fusion brunch of Peruvian & Japanese Cuisine from 2:00PM to 9:00Pm. Guests can enjoy a theatrical show by The Act Dubai's renowned performers throughout the day the latest house music by DJs Jean B / Sam Starks.
Brunch from 2PM – 5PM (3 Hours).
From 5PM, the Party is On and continues all the way through till 9PM. All beverages on a consumption basis.
Brunch Packages:
395 AED (1 seating from 2- 5PM)
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The Act Dubai's all new Beats N Brunch concept offers a Peruvian/ Japanese Fusion Cuisine sharing style inclusive of unlimited House Spirits, House Wine & Beer from 2PM – 5PM.
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A California handyman is free after being kidnapped and held by a couple on Monday. Authorities say the ransom wasn't money, however.
FOX News Radio's Chris Hoenig has the story:
Santa Clara County Sheriffs say the 50-year-old man was lured to a home outside San Jose by the relatives of a customer he was having a dispute with. Once there, he was allegedly beaten and forced to do work on his kidnappers' home.
(Sgt. Cardoza) "Told 'Hey, we're gonna kill you if you don't do what we tell you. We want you to fix these things around the house.'"
...Sheriff's Sgt. Jose Cardoza. The handyman escaped when the couple forced him to drive to their relative's house to finish repairs, but stopped for gas on the way. Authorities arrived and arrested 36-year-old Jason DeJesus and 33-year-old Chanelle Troedson. Both face charges including assault and false imprisonment.
Chris Hoenig, FOX News Radio.


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Sturgeon Lake city council seeks to improve fire hall, city hall
March 21, 2019
The Sturgeon Lake city council discussed possible improvements for the fire hall and city hall during its regular meeting on March 14. Fire Chief Mike Mikrot said the fire hall has numerous issues and wanted to know if they should be looking at temporary fixes or something more permanent depending on if the city plans on keeping that building as the fire hall for the foreseeable future. Councilor Adam Langhorst said he anticipated remaining in their current building but if the city were to potentially get more funding, that would change things.
Mayor Todd Danelski described the fire hall as a "dark, dank, dungeon, and decrepit. The insulation, the drywall that's up there, the lighting is totally—everything, you know, is inadequate." He suggested trying to get volunteers to fix up the fire hall. The fire chief said he believed the last two additions to the hall were made by volunteers, but the fire department has had difficulty getting volunteers lately.
Fire Chief Mikrot was concerned where the money for repairs would come from. Councilor Jessica Langhorst recommended putting together a strategic planning committee to address the funding issue with the fire chief and city engineer. The council was unsure of the regulations for forming such a committee so Councilor Helfman suggested receiving free training from the League of Minnesota Cities to help them better understand what they can do.
When it came time to approve the minutes for the last meeting, Clerk Carole Lahti stressed how difficult it was to create the minutes due to how the last meeting was conducted. She also reminded the council of the two-hour time limit for meetings in their bylaws.
"We've got to be able to communicate our ideas. We've got to be able to get along," said Mayor Danelski. He later added, "When we first got elected, it was almost like a joke. 'Boy, did you inherit a pile of manure.' And in the last two months … it's not a pile of manure. It's a barn that hasn't been cleaned in decades. And what happens is, when you don't clean the barn of the manure, it gets packed pretty hard. And so some of that, you know, maybe we'll have to clean out. Hopefully get it all cleaned. And once the barn gets cleaned out, then we've got a pile of manure. But the positive thing is that the manure is used as fertilizer. Fertilizer promotes growth."
Councilor Adam Langhorst had 25 changes to be made to the minutes. The council decided to table approving the minutes until the next meeting after the changes could be thoroughly reviewed.
A proposed contract for snowplowing was presented by Councilor Jessica Langhorst. Councilor Helfman and Scott Williams both expressed concerns over the length of the contract and how it might dissuade potential contractors from bidding. Councilor Adam Langhorst, who drafted the contract, argued against whittling down the language as it provided clear terms in case of issues in the future. Mayor Danelski stated the city attorney should do the contract. The matter was not further discussed.
Scott Williams, the current contractor for snow plowing, appeared at the meeting and wanted to clarify for the council that he is covered by insurance for his contracted work.
Two citizens brought forward a complaint of a neighbor taking it upon himself to plow a city street and ending up causing blocked driveways for others by leaving ridges of ice chunks. One of the citizens attempted to clear it but their vehicle was damaged and their repair estimate was $1,200. They wanted clarification from the city as to how to handle the situation. Councilor Rick Lewis suggested they contact their insurance company. Councilor Jessica Langhorst said the city would approach the individual to see if they could sort the situation out.
Vern Anderson of the public had numerous questions about water and sewer for a commercial property he owns. He also said the city could consider purchasing the building to operate as a municipal as a revenue stream and incorporate a new city hall. Councilor Lewis said he would look into his questions with help from Tim Korby and Scott Helfman. City Engineer Tim Korby said the city would need to conduct a developer meeting with Mr. Anderson in regards to developing the property.
Joe Pelawa of Bolton & Menk made a presentation for serving as city engineer and finding funding for the city. Tim Korby, the current city engineer, followed with a presentation of his own for work he is doing for the city including a bill he will be introducing to the senate on a road improvement project (the cost of which is approximately $2.5 million).
Councilor Helfman reported that their storage units are currently sold out, and she would like to implement an online system for the units in the future.
She reminded the council to be cautious of what they post on the city's Facebook page. Mayor Danelski brought up getting a city website. Due to the commitment and responsibility of such an undertaking, Councilor Helfman proposed holding off on a website for the time being.
A proposal of receiving free specialized training from the League of Minnesota Cities was brought by Councilor Helfman. The council agreed in their interest. A special meeting open to the public would be held for the training. A date will be set once discussed with the League.
City employee Scott Helfman reported no issues with the water system, that hydrant flushing will happen when the weather allows, and the water meters will be calibrated soon. He also reported issues with snow covering fire hydrants in the city and some people even piling snow on neighboring hydrants. He requested to hire help for the lift station cleaning. The matter was tabled until he could contact his hire and see if additional help was needed.
In other business, City Clerk Carole Lahti gave the figure for the workers compensation insurance premium which had been recalculated and reduced.
She said the township wants to be included in the annual fire department meeting. Fire Chief Mikrot said it was up to the city. The city would be looking into the contracts to determine what should be done.
Sturgeon Lake Township requested the complete financial report from the City, and they also sent a bill for maintenance on Moose Horn Road that they wanted paid. The council decided they needed to meet with the Township to sort out the matter.
Councilor Helfman requested that copies of the reports discussed at the meetings be distributed ahead of time so the council could have time to review them prior to the meetings.
The council agreed to give two of their old tables to Scott Helfman to use at the ponds and the rest to be stored at the fire department.
After consideration, the council decided not to implement a consent agenda.
The contract with Ledin, Hofstad & Troth for legal services was approved and a motion was passed with all in favor with the exception of Councilor Helfman.
A motion was passed to accept the financial report for February and pay outstanding claims.
The council passed a resolution requesting comprehensive road/transit funding which will be given to the Speaker of the House, governor, and senator.
A resolution regarding signatories for the procurement card was passed to include the fire chief, mayor, treasurer, and clerk.
A motion to set aside $10,000 in the budget for repairs of the city hall was tabled until the council could look into other funding options.
The council passed a resolution to have the streetlights on Highway 61 be replaced with LEDs. All but one will be replaced for free by MN Power.
Keys to city hall were assigned to various council members.
The next regular meeting is scheduled for April 11 at 6 p.m. at the city hall.


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Fire Alarm Systems
All businesses must have a means of raising the alarm in the event of fire. Fire detection systems protect both life and property. They alert workers and external services to unexpected and dangerous events, and allow appropriate and timely action to be taken.
The selection of the most suitable system for your business such as conventional or addressable systems and ongoing maintenance by qualified personnel is critical to ensure your premises are adequately protected at all times.
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As many will have noticed, hay fever season is getting going again. Roughly one in every four people in Europe have some sensitivity to pollen. It is a wide-spread allergy with symptoms ranging from nasal irritation to itchy eyes. All of these can be severe enough to be incapacitating.
The allergy is a very fast reaction. It can take just minutes from exposure to the symptoms being felt. Although medication is helpful, it can be most effective if it is taken as a preventative measure some days before exposure, rather than as a cure after the symptoms begin.
The pollen season itself depends on weather. Depending on the weather, it can start earlier or later than normal. It can also be interrupted by rain or cold spells. So, it is a very dynamic process, with pollen abundance varying widely from day to day or even hour to hour.
Reliable forecasts are therefore important. Especially since the pollen may not even be produced in the country where people are suffering. Prevailing winds can easily blow the allergen over significant distances and, of course, across national borders.
"Pollen can fly 500-1000 kilometres or even more depending upon winds, meaning that central Germany to southern Finland is not such a long way," says Mikhail Sofiev, Finnish Meteorological Institute, who is the key scientist responsible for developing CAMS pollen products, "It can also be the other way round. We can see pollen transported down from Finland in late spring when the whole of Europe is already out of season."
The pollen data is collected by ground stations in the European allergen network, EAN. This is a privately-run network composed on a voluntary basis of national networks, each run by universities, hospitals, meteorological institutes, or environmental agencies. The data for birch and grass pollen were made available for CAMS modellers to evaluate the accuracy of their models.
Forecasting the concentrations of main allergenic pollens in the air is essential, but it is however only the first step because different people respond differently to different varieties of pollen. To make a real difference, companies and organisations are striving to provide forecasts tailor-made for individuals.
The medical university in Vienna ran a test in which volunteers provided their day-to-day symptoms over several years. These were correlated with the day-to-day amount and type of pollen in the air. If the symptoms are provided for two years, it becomes possible to predict an individual's symptoms using a pollen forecast in the third year, as demonstrated by the scientific team of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
To move this technology towards practical applications, a CAMS downstream project is starting in Latvia and Lithuania. This new trial will take place for a year and a half. It is hoped that several hundred people will take part by inputting their symptoms to an app that sends the information to a secure server for processing and correlation with the CAMS pollen forecasts and possibly considering also concentrations of key atmospheric pollutants. This will build a profile for each user so that the individual can eventually be provided with tailored symptom forecasts.
"We hope we will be able in 18 months to get a sustainable pool of users who will find benefits in using the system," says Sofiev.
Dr. Vincent-Henri Peuch, Head of the ECMWF Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service says, "It is very exciting to see that the modelling tools used for air quality have now been effectively extended for forecasting concentrations of certain pollen species as well. Working together with the EAN and the medical sector, CAMS is now making it possible to try addressing the bigger challenge of delivering timely, accurate and personalised forecasts of hay fever symptoms, which could bring very useful information, and thus relief, to millions of Europeans."
The pollen forecasts can be viewed on the CAMS website:
Select the product (birch, pollen, olive and grass) you want from the drop-down list of parameters.
About Copernicus
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The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) operates two Copernicus services on behalf of the European Union: the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by 34 states based in Reading, UK. Academic and environmental institutions from across Europe, including the National Meteorological Services, play an integral role in making Copernicus a success.
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(Please tell me that I'm not the only one who thinks "Index Organized Table" instead of "Internet Of Things" when hearing IOT…)
This post is inspired by Connor McDonald and his blog post from a year ago about direct mode operations and IOTs.
You can read it here: https://connor-mcdonald.com/2016/07/04/direct-mode-operations-on-iots/amp/
While writing a redo parser for V00D00 I had to investigate this subject very closely from a redo log perspective. And this will be the subject of my 10-minute lightning talk at Oak Table World 2017 at Oracle Open World!
Before we start – in the last blog post (rollback internals) I introduced a new tool for parsing redo log dumps. It was called logfile_dump_parser but since it was a boring name, I decided to call it apud (archivelog parser using dumpfile). If you want to know why it is less boring name, reverse name apud and find the meaning in Polish-English dictionary
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If we touch the magic
That makes us real dissolves
Like bullion in a cup of water
And we become mere parodies
Of what might have been.
Thin, watery imitations
Of a hearty broth.
In the following scene he's walking in the woods with his brother's 14 year old step daughter. Jason's father, a painter, died of a stroke in his studio just a few days before. Jason's been called to New Hampshire by his aunt (who is actually his father's mistress) and this is the first time he's met any of his brother's new family. Candi, the young girl, is a big fan both of Jason's father and of Jason's poetry. She's taken him to a spot in a field where she used to go and watch Jason's father draw.
I sat down beside her. "You liked Pop did you?"
"Very much. It doesn't seem fair, Jason, that he died so soon after I met him. I danced with him at Howard's and Mother's wedding. I was so nervous when he asked me because they were playing a waltz and I was so sure I was going to step on his feet. But he made it easy. I didn't even have to think about what I was doing. He made it feel like magic."
"Pop was a good dancer. I can remember when I was little watching him and my mother dance together in our living room. I also remember when they used to go to square dances. He'd wear a cowboy hat and she'd wear this big flared skirt with all these layers of petticoats underneath it."
"You wrote about that," Candi said. "'My Mother's Petticoats.' It was in your first book. How she would swirl in front of you, fanning you with her skirt and being dissolved in a cyclone of lace."
I felt humbled. I had actually forgotten that I'd included that poem in my first collection. "You really do know my work better than I do, don't you?"
"I'm sorry," she said. "Did I get it wrong?"
"No. No. You got it just right. I'm surprised, that's all. I wish I could remember my work as well as you seem to."
"I like that poem a lot. The way you describe the air moving so fast around you and you stayed still as a stone, and then how your mother wasn't even there. Nothing but the moving air and you felt left behind. I kind of know what that feels like. Everybody just comes into your life and goes and it's like they were never there at all. And if the air didn't move, you would never know it." She had it just the way I had meant it when I wrote it. "Aunt Margaret was your mother's sister?" she asked.
I like that pooem too. In fact, I wish I'd written it. That's what I mean by character envy.


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If 2018 is to be remembered for anything, it will be as the year the Coalition threw away the federal election. Thanks to a potent mix of ambition, revenge and poor decision-making, the Liberal and Nationals parties have pretty much handed the keys to The Lodge to Labor leader Bill Shorten.
Sure, there are still a few months left until the election takes place, and there is always a chance that Labor will be hit by a self-imploding MP like David Feeney or Sam Dastyari, or a funding hole in one of their major policies.
But even so, after the year the Coalition has just had, even a slightly dishevelled Labor Government is preferable to the shambolic version proffered by the other side.
If you are one of the rapidly diminishing number of people who still calls themselves a Coalition supporter, you must be pretty angry right now.
In February this year, just before the Barnababy exposé hit our screens, the Coalition Government led by Malcolm Turnbull (remember him?) drew close enough to Labor to have a fighting chance at the upcoming election.
According to Newspoll, the two-party preferred vote at the time was 48 per cent for the Coalition and 52 per cent for Labor.
The contest got even tighter in May (49-51 per cent), when the Government announced the budget would return to surplus in 2019, which was a year earlier than expected.
This was the first time the major parties had been this close since the 2016 federal election which, it should be said, was a disaster due in most part to the poor political judgement of Mr Turnbull.
The former PM compounded this mistake by continuing to give ground to right-wing forces within his government during 2018.
These were the reactionary supporters of former prime minister Tony Abbott, who pined for the days when society reflected, and government served, the interests of middle-aged white men like them.
After causing havoc on immigration (that is, more white South African farmers but less of everyone else) and energy (more coal and less renewables), the Abbott forces reached their end-game in August, just as they had planned.
Using threats to cross the floor of the parliament and nightly diatribes on Sky News 'after dark', the insurgents forced Mr Turnbull into a humiliating backdown on the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), that left him exposed to the ambitions of the younger Liberal conservatives who'd been protecting the PM until then.
Accordingly, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton let his ambitions get the better of him, failing to see that the reactionaries and other conservatives who flattered him into making a leadership putsch couldn't actually deliver the votes.
The rest, as they say, is history. The anyone-but-Abbott camp (who feared Mr Dutton might simply be a proxy for Mr Abbott) teamed with the moderates to install Scott Morrison as the new prime minister.
And how's that working out? Six of the eight Newspolls taken prior to Mr Turnbull's removal had the two party-preferred vote at 49-51 per cent, with Labor still in the lead. In contrast, the three most recent Newspolls, with Mr Morrison at the helm, have the 2PP vote at 45-55 in Labor's favour.
That's despite Mr Morrison doing everything the reactionaries and conservatives claimed would 'bring back the base', namely the voters who apparently abandoned the Coalition because of Mr Turnbull's frightfully moderate views on matters such as marriage equality and clean energy.
PM Morrison killed the already-dead NEG, proposed taxpayer subsidies for coal-fired power, announced cuts to immigration, gave buckets of cash to Catholic schools and may even keep the right for religious schools to discriminate against gay teachers.
And the base? Well they stayed away, along with a growing number of other former Liberal voters. In Mr Turnbull's old seat of Wentworth, blue ribbon Liberal voters flocked to the centrist independent Kerryn Phelps in the by-election.
Much further south, in the equally leafy suburbs of Melbourne, voters took the even more drastic step of abandoning the Liberals for Labor in the state election. That trend shows no sign of abating before the Only Poll That Matters in May 2019.
Now it's the Turnbull camp, or at least the former PM, that's leaking and sniping, while the Abbott camp is barely keeping its ambitions in check until after the expected election loss.
The Nationals have at least proved to be consistent, delivering another sex scandal before the year is out. And the PM won't – or can't – see that his lurch to the right, along with various policy thought bubbles, is political poison.
When the time comes for political historians to pore over the desiccated remains of what was once the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government, 2018 will not only be noted as the year the Coalition let power slip from its fingers. It will also be known as the year revenge, ambition and poor decisions caused the Coalition to lose hold of voters' hopes and trust.


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Dust off cobwebs 🕸
Took me forever to create a new year post .
We are still in January right? So here's me wishing you a very HAPPY YEAR 2019, thank you for always sticking around.
I could pass for a run way model 👀
Currently listening to Justin Bieber – life is worth living
OOTD(outfit of the day)
•Denim jacket
•wide leg pants
Read about the history of denim here
I know you've missed my posts and I don't want to ever do this to you again. How can I be absent for so long?😢
So far, 2019 has been a really good year for me and I'm grateful. I'm also getting closer to my dreams than I expected.
I didn't write any new resolutions for this year because I wasn't sure about what I wanted anymore, I knew I just wanted to stop being identified as a stylist because I never really believed in being able to style people the way I style myself, I wasn't confident and whenever people tag me as their stylist I'll talk to them not to give me styling credits because I was never sure of what I did.
I've always wanted to be a fashion designer but like I always say: Man proposes, God disposes. So far, I've gotten jobs relating to styling and to top it all I'm currently a style coach at a fashion school (so much for not wanting to be a stylist yeah? I thought so too)
I found out that life never goes as planned or the way we want, it goes just how God wants it for reasons beyond us.
Also, bear in mind that the path you think is the best for you might just be a distraction from God's plan.
Asides from random resolutions, I decided to make my fashion resolutions for this year.
My fashion resolution this year:
•Wear more of velvet and silk fabrics.
•Go all in when styling
•Try new things and be extreme with my style
•Wear whatever makes me comfortable no matter how awkward I look
•spend money on bags and classy clothes
•Wear more of my own designs instead of buying others
•Focus on accessories (not really the type though but I'll try new things) and shoes.
•Have pants suits
•Attend more fashion related shows
•Do not ever disrespect fashion
I have a lot more but for now, that's it.
Also remember, your outfit gives the first impression.
Dressing well is a form of good manners- Tom Ford
I'll always be here to give you the best fashion tips, style and all you need to know about the history of various fashion pieces. #OnlyoneStyleSenami
Thank you for always visiting my blog. If you're a first timer, thank you for viewing this post. You can view my other posts Here and also check out my Instagram page here .
Love always, xoxo🖤
You got to this point, feel free to answer these questions and leave comments.
•How has your year been so far?
•What is your fashion resolution?
•Do you have a random resolution you're so keen about?
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Unit 1. Your Virtual WorldRevision Date: Sep 16, 2015 (Version 1.2)
Innovators need to be aware of how innovation affects the social, cultural and economic lives for different populations.
Innovation comes with a cost as well as a reward.
Student computer usage for this lesson is: required
Lesson Preparation:
In Practice Explore Task's Lesson Resources folder:
Getting Started:
Introduction of Content
Present "Ethical Impacts of Innovation" PowerPoint slides (in Lesson Resources folder)
Summary of the PowerPoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95KhuSbYJGE (from the Idea Channel)
Artificial Intelligence Video (show from 0:00 – 5:12)
7. Have students read the Find My Phone article and fill out their worksheets to describe the social, cultural and economic impacts of the software. ("FindMyPhone.docx" in the Lesson Resources folder)http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/these-smartphone-users-share-how-tracking-
Some people think that programs like Find My Phone are used by over-protective parents and mistrusting partners to spy on people. But it can be lifesaving feature of a cell phone.
8. The last slide in the PowerPoint directs students to prepare for the performance task
Wrap Up
Journal: Have students respond to the following prompt:
If you come up with an innovation that solves a problem, what concerns do you need to consider before releasing it to the world?
Research for Practice Explore Performance Task ("Practice Explore Task Response Document")
For a less advanced class, skip slides 3-6 and instead have them define ethics and ethical and come up with examples in their world.
Guided notes would be helpful for ELL or SpED
Explore Performance Task


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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Vote for my entry in the 2010 Professional Photographer Magazine Cover Contest
Vote for my entry in the 2010 Professional Photographer Magazine Cover Contest
If you vote you will be entered to win a Canon PowerShot G11, and you will get a big "Thank You" from me.
The gallery of cover prospects contains many beautiful and humorous images. It's definitely worth scrolling through as you enjoy your morning coffee. Who knows, you just may become inspired for your next session!
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Advocates for Justice
TRR Photography was recently honored with the job of photographing this year's honorees of the Nevada Justice Association and creating the cover for the professional association's bi-monthly journal, the ADVOCATE.
Unfortunately, Trial Lawyer of the Year, Peter D. Durney, Esq., was unable to get to Vegas, but did provide me with a photo. The Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Neil G. Galatz, Esq., and Consumer Advocate of the Year, Victoria D. Riley, however, were not so lucky and were shot by yours truly. The resulting three images were then transformed into an Andy Warhol inspired piece--sans the green and blue hair. A preview of the actual cover is posted here.
The real story, however, is the work performed and example set by these individuals for the legal profession, in general, and their dedication to those who have been injured through no fault of their own, specifically. For without advocates like them, there would be no justice in our justice system.
The gala honoring all three will take place here in Las Vegas at the Encore at Wynn on June 17th. For tickets or more info on this event, contact the NJA at www.nevadajustice.org or (775) 883-3577.
Congratulations Neil, Victoria and Pete, enjoy your evening--you deserve it!
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