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Beer Battered Seitan, Mixed Veg w. Garlic + Tots
This dinner has been approved by all 3 of us. When I ate chicken I loved Chili's Chicken Crispers. Oh how bad they are for you but how delicious they were. After you would eat them you'd declare to the entire table that you would never eat them again because of how horrible you felt afterwards. How quickly our stomach forgets..because you would be back a few months later ordering them again and again declaring that THIS was the last time. I'm glad to say that I obviously have had a "last time" with them even though my stomach says MORE, MORE, MORE!!!
When I'm getting those cravings I turn to this RECIPE from Jess of Get Sconed! Hers is a slightly adapted version of another recipe and mine is slightly adapted from her slightly adapted one. Mostly just extra amounts of some spices and such..it's nothing measured. Anyway..these are quick to whip together and are a cinch to fry. Served with a medley of mixed vegetables and some organic tater tots and you've got yorself a complete meal that won't kill you as quickly as those pesky chicken crispers would.
My one recommendation with the recipe is to 1/2 it. I used about 4 decent sized seitan cutlets cut into strips and I had a ton of batter left over. If I was making this for a party the full recipe would be perfect but for the 3 of us it's just too much.
Speaking of us..Reno ate the entire meal except for the carrots. She was shoving zucchini and string beans into her mouth like it was nothing along with the seitan and tots. The next day I chopped up the tots and leftover veg, again minus the carrots, for her lunch and heated them up. Gobble gobble gobble..she ate it all. My wonderful little eater!
Oh yeah..that's BBQ sauce from a jar that you see creeping under all the food.
Monday, October 13, 2008
VeganMoFo: Crispy
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That looks ridiculously delicious. Om nom nom!
- Monday, October 13, 2008 at 11:26:00 PM EDT
- River (Wing-It Vegan) said...
Oh man, this almost looks too good! Can that be?
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 12:05:00 AM EDT
Hey ..SO AMAZZZING this stuff!! Great idea and looks SO gooood!!
Nice blog!! Keep going :)) I enjoyed it!! :))
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Have a great day!!
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 2:09:00 AM EDT
- Catherine Weber said...
Ooooooooo . . . that looks amazing! I love crispy anything, especially tater tots.
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 9:00:00 AM EDT
- allularpunk said...
tots! lucky.
and beer battered seitan...quit tempting me to eat more fried food, darnit!
it looks so good.
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 11:21:00 AM EDT
- jessy said...
what glorious deliciousness, Jenna! crispy yummies AND tots?! now that's what i'm talk'n about! mmmmmmmmmmmm! hooray for Reno chow'n down on the veggies. i'm not one for carrots either, but that's awesome that she digs so many different veggies! yay!
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 1:20:00 PM EDT
- ...barbara... said...
beer battered seitan....i want you in my belleh.....
feed me? (*stares with pleading eyes*)
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 2:03:00 PM EDT
- jess (of Get Sconed!) said...
And now I want this.
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 7:14:00 PM EDT
- tofufreak said...
beer. battered. seitan. *drool!*
that looks and sounds so unbelievably yum!
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 7:56:00 PM EDT
- Jenn Shagrin said...
Thanks for the kudos :) They were quite a labor of love.
This beer-batter looks flippin' fantastic! I can't wait to try it out.
- Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 3:40:00 AM EDT
- Liz Ranger (Bubble Tea for Dinner) said...
the batteredness... the crispy... the veggies, and yes even the BBQ sauce! I am showing up at your house for dinner sometime, for sure. :O
- Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 2:07:00 PM EDT
- Kelly said...
My mouth is watering. That looks soooooooo decadent and lovely. If I hadn't already found myself gaining weight during VeganMoFo ::Sigh:: I would have to make this recipe.
- Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 1:02:00 PM EDT

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The Calvin men's tennis team opened the 2018 season on Saturday. The Knights opened the day with a 9-0 victory over Concordia and was nipped in the evening match against Augustana, 5-4. Augustana moves to 4-4 on the year and Concordia falls to 1-5.
"We had a lot of positives today," said head coach John Ross. "We started the day with some victories against Concordia. I was happy with how we played today against Augustana, we hung tough against a very good team."
The Knights started the day with a 9-0 sweep of Concordia of Ann Arbor.
The Cardinals could not field a full roster, so the Knights picked up points at No. 6 singles and No. 3 doubles by default.
The first victory of the day came at No. 1 doubles where junior Charlie Fahr (Milwaukee, Wis./Toas East) and sophomore Cobe Benzel (San Dimas, Calif./San Dimas) swept Joel Werner and Ryan Curtis, 8-0.
At No. 2 doubles, freshman Avery Holt (Aurora, Ill./Matea Valley) and sophomore Kyrus Tsai (Glenbrook, Ill./Glenbrook South) bounced Jacob Baxter and John Clark, 8-1.
Sophomore Rodrigo Castellanos Vaca Guzmán (Tarija, Bolivia/Felipe Palazon) started singles play with a sweep over Jacob Baxter, 6-0, 6-0.
Junior Jose Larrea (Caracas, Venezuela/U.E. Colegio San Jose) rattled off a 6-0, 6-2 victory at No. 2 singles over Ryan Curtis.
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Calvin finished the day against the Vikings of Augustana.
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Jose Larrea picked up the victory over Jack Morkin at No. 4 singles, 6-3, 6-1.
The final Calvin victory came at No. 6 singles with Charlie Fahr defeating Alex Riddle of Augustana, 7-6, 6-1.
The Vikings won the final two matches of the day to take the match.
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Underneath the hood is a NXP 6SLL (Cortex-A9 @800M/1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. There is 4GB of internal storage to house all of the ebooks you have purchased from Amazon or from your own personal collection that you have sideloaded. There is no SD card for additional storage, but no Kindle after the 1st generation model has had one.
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Instructor: Shaobo Xie
One of the defining features of contemporary critical thought is its infinite openness to the Other. In Foucault's view, otherness is the hallmark of truth, and, as critics like Frédéric Gros and Barry Smart have pointed out, he never failed to anchor his concept of truth in a certain notion of otherness, ceaselessly formulating otherness without domesticating it into doctrine. At the heart of the legacies left behind by Levinas and Derrida is their infinite respect for otherness as well. Along the same lines, Alain Badiou notes in Philosophy in the Present, "The philosopher is always a stranger, clothed in his new thoughts," for genuine philosophical commitment is "marked by its internal foreignness" (21).
This course explores such internal foreignness as encountered in a selection of leading critical thinkers and creative writers, situating them as a constellation of figures of radical otherness. Among the critical and theoretical texts are Foucault's The Courage of Truth, Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Levinas's Entre Nous: On Thinking-of-the-Other, Deleuze and Guattari's "The Desiring Machines," Derrida's Specters of Marx, Lyotard's "The Other's Rights," Said's Representations of the Intellectual, Badiou and Žižek's Philosophy in the Present, Rancière's Dissensus, Latour's We Have Never Been Modern, Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto," and Agamben's "What Is the Contemporary?". Literary texts include works by Samuel Beckett, J. M. Coetzee, Tayeb Salih, Tom McCarthy, and Toni Morrison.
Each student will make a seminar presentation (25%) and write a review essay (25%) and a term paper (40%).
Winter 2020 Courses
Winter Term 2020 | Thursdays 9:30-12:15
Instructor: L. Rain Prud'homme-Cranford
The policies and practices that have been both written and under-written to erase and undermine Indigenous, African, Asian, Latinx, LGBTAIQ2S, and other marginalized peoples are at the crux of our examination of law and literature.
This graduate class asks us as a community of scholars to consider how law, policy, treaties, and resistance factor in literary productions by historically marginalized populations (ex: FNMI/Indigenous, Peoples of Color, Gender/LGBAITQ2S etc). The histories of capitalistic white heteronormativity and settler colonialism that have underwritten the legal policymaking practices in Canada and the US continue to disenfranchise, erase, and gate-keep access from peoples based on hierarchical binary constructions of race, religion, culture, sexuality/gender, and economics. Acts of resistance to these policy-making practices have taken forms in literature in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean. As a class, we will examine the connections between art as resistance, law making and marginalized communities, and art's interrogation of the relationship between equality and equity.
Winter Term 2020 | Mondays 12:30-15:15
Instructor: Faye Halpern
In this course, we'll explore unreliable narration and the ethical relationships that authors using this kind of narration forge with their readers. We will examine a wide range of unreliable narrators from both fiction and film. We'll both explore different models of unreliability, especially its intersection with sympathy and narrative ethics, and consider these models in relation to particular texts. How does unreliability inhibit or encourage sympathy between narrators and readers in ethically complex ways? What possibilities for political intervention does unreliability afford authors concerned with gender and racial oppression and disability? Does filmic unreliability present different ethical possibilities and challenges than literary unreliability? The class will use critical texts not just as vehicles for particular views but as models of academic writing. Assignments will include blog posts, an analysis of a scholarly journal, a teaching essay, and a seminar paper; working in small groups, everyone will also have the chance to facilitate at least one class discussion.
Readings will include Remains of the Day; Toni Morrison's God Help the Child; and Martin Amis' Zone of Interest as well as the films A Beautiful Mind and The Usual Suspects. We'll read from critical works that discuss the ethics of fiction, works like Wayne Booth The Rhetoric of Fiction and James Phelan's Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. We'll also read from works about literary empathy, like Suzanne Keen's Narrative Empathy and Amy Shuman's Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy.
Winter Term 2020 l Wednesdays, 12:30-15:15
Instructor: Aritha van Herk
This course will examine various readings of history as represented within contemporary Canadian fiction. The designation of "historical novel" has proceeded from a moment of narrative transparency to a place that questions its own reading of history's wounds and master narratives, as well as the nostalgic or revisionist motives of historical erasure. Seeking to question assumptions surrounding particular social, cultural, and historical moments, the course will nevertheless engage with close reading and historical context. The texts will encompass economic, social, and cultural contingencies, all relevant to the construction of "Canadian" literature within a nation diverse and dispersed in terms of cultural coherence. This selection of novels focus on history or a particular historical moment as their initiating impulse.
Initial text list
- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
- George Elliot Clarke, George and Rue
- Timothy Findley, Famous Last Words
- Lawrence Hill, Book of Negroes
- Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
- Joy Kogawa, Obasan
- Robert Kroetsch, Man from the Creeks
- Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
- Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
- Fred Stenson, The Trade
- Kim Thúy, Ru
- Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
- Thomas Wharton, Icefields
- In-class presentation + written paper (20%)
- a short research essay (conference length) early in the term (15%)
- a long research essay (at the end of the term) (50%)
- Contributions to Critical Bibliography (15%)
Winter 2020 Term l BLOCK WEEK
Instructor: Murray McGillivray
This course is a practical introduction to using lead type, printer's ink, and the mechanical printing press to produce printed pages, and to assembling those printed pages into small publications such as chapbooks, along with the the economics and other practicalities of operating a small press to produce such printed works for sale.
The Department of English has a working press room, with printing presses ranging from a small table-top Kelsey Excelsior to a very large R. Hoe iron hand press. During January block week, students will learn to operate each of these presses. They will also learn about the practicalities of running a literary small press
During the few weeks following, the students in the course will collaborate on producing and selling a joint chapbook to apply the learning acquired during block week.
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Fall Term 2019 l Tuesdays 12:30- 15:15
Instructor: Michael Clarke
This course offers a general survey of American modernism and the historical, political, and cultural contexts out of which it arose. It will acquaint students with some of the key modernist literary texts, some less canonical work, and some of the corresponding artistic developments in painting, cinema and photography. Although we will focus on the period of high modernism (roughly 1913 to 1930), we will consider the ambivalent responses to modernism in Depression-era texts and postmodern literature. The course will also offer an overview of recent developments and enduring debates in modernist studies through selected excerpts from scholarship in the field. Assignments will likely include a research paper, a book review, a presentation, and contributions to online discussion forums.
Primary Texts
Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
Selected poems by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
Jean Toomer, Cane
Excerpts from The New Negro, ed. Alain Locke
Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Muriel Rukeyser, U.S. 1
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
John Barth, "Lost in the Funhouse"
Fall Term 2019 | Wednesdays 9:30 - 12:15
Instructor: Stefania Forlini
People who are drawn to print books often find that digital versions "lack feeling" (Piper), and that processes of digitization obscure important information embedded in the materiality of print artifacts. This is due in large part to the shift in materiality from print to digital media and the limitations imposed by common modes of digital display. And yet, as many critics acknowledge, while digitization may mean we lose access to meaningful physical features (size, weight, paper texture, bindings, etc.) that contain valuable historical traces of print technologies, markets, and readerly interactions (Stauffer), we gain opportunities for broader accessibility, large-scale analyses of large corpora, and alternative modes of display and interactive play.
In this course, we examine what is at stake in current practices of mass-digitization and digital display of literary collections, and the roles of literary scholars in ensuring more responsible remediation of print-based collections. In particular, we will focus on the implicit (and often problematic) assumptions embedded in practices of digitization and digital display, and how these necessarily affect the kinds of research questions and approaches we develop as literary scholars. Exploring perspectives from book history, reception studies, literary studies, humanistic interface design, feminist data visualization, and human computer interaction (HCI), we will focus on how literary scholars can participate in decisions about—and design processes involved in—remediating print-based collections by drawing on a rich tradition of humanistic theory.
Fall Term 2019 | Mondays 9:30-12:15
Instructor: Derritt Mason
It would be an understatement to say that we are currently witnessing an explosion of young adult (YA) title featuring LGBTQ2S+ characters. YA author Malinda Lo reports that the number of such books released annually by mainstream publishers has quadrupled over the last fifteen years, surging from fewer than 20 titles per year in the early 2000s to nearly 80 in 2016.
Readers are now able to select from a rapidly growing, intersectional body of titles that depart from the gay problem novels of the twentieth century—which largely featured white, middle-class, male protagonists—and engage thoughtfully with race, class, religion, dis/ability, mental health, and Indigeneity. Moreover, queer YA titles span form and genre, and now include graphic narrative, fantasy, science fiction, memoir, and poetry.
This class aims to equip students with an array of theoretical and methodological strategies for critically reading, interpreting, and writing about queer YA literature and culture, a toolkit that accounts for the ever-expanding formal and thematic diversity of queer YA as well as the development in recent years of queer childhood and adolescent theory. This class takes a theoretically broad and principally contemporary approach to its topic, aiming to help students become thoughtful readers of YA who are conversant in how the genre intersects with other popular media (video games, television) at the intersection of adolescence and queerness.
Fall Term 2019 | Wednesdays 12:30-15:15
Instructor: Anthony Camara
Considering that the Nineties was a period of tremendous social and political upheaval in Britain—take, for instance, the debates around "The Woman Question"; the provocations of Aestheticism and Decadence; and imperial anxieties about tumult in the colonies—it should hardly be a surprise that the Fin de Siècle saw a profusion of innovative writings in popular literary genres. To name just a few landmarks, the 1890s saw the revival of the gothic; the maturation of the detective story; the elaboration of the scientific romance; and the birth of so-called "slum" and "New Woman" novels.
This course familiarizes students with these genres, distinguishing them within the larger field of late Victorian literary production while also charting the historical forces that interrelate them. Cartography plays a crucial role in this endeavour, as all the primary texts on the syllabus function as literary cartographies, demonstrating a pronounced interest in mapping a specific geographic territory which is a region of—or apart from, but nevertheless intimately tied to—Britain. By examining texts that map abject, exceptional, or uncertain realms of Britain (think: newly constructed suburbs, reviled slums, and the empire's colonies), this class enables students to discover how the politics inherent to place, space, geography, and representation reflect the tumultuously changing notions of British identity at the Fin de Siècle. Primary texts include works by Vernon Lee, Arthur Machen, L. T. Meade, H. G. Wells, Richard Marsh, Amy Levy, and Ella Hepworth Dixon.
Fall Term 2019 | Mondays 13:00-15:50
Instructor: Suzette Mayr
This course is designed to offer students new to graduate studies or new to the University of Calgary an introduction to a variety of scholarly and professional skills. The aim is to ensure you have the training to help you succeed academically and professionally. To this end, guest with a range of expertise will meet with us each week to present their areas of research or their research methodologies, to help you develop specific skills (grant writing for example, or advanced library research), or guide you through useful practices such as proposal writing and conference presentation).
This is a half-year, pass/fail course, not included in GPA.
Fall Term 2019 | Thursdays 12:30-15:15
Instructor: Larissa Lai
This is a graduate level class in poetry writing. This class will be structured primarily through a workshop format. Depending on the numbers, between two and four students will submit a small selection of poems each week for critique the following week. In this way, I will train you both in poetry-writing and constructive criticism. Through constructive criticism, you will also train each other, and the class will grow into a small community of active and supportive poet/practitioners.
In addition to workshop, a portion of the class will be devoted to the discussion of contemporary issues in poetry and/or the close examination and discussion of a practicing poet's work. Possible topics for discussion include: cultural appropriation, the biotext, conceptual poetry, spoken word, dub, the lyric and the speaking self, Indigenization, #metoo, Black Lives Matter, Asian formations, call out culture/nurturance culture, the long poem, social media.
Poets whose work we may read and discuss include: Jordan Abel, Liz Howard, Billy Ray Bellcourt, Joshua Whitehead, Canisia Lubrin, Dionne Brand, Nourbese Phillip, Sina Queyras, Erin Moure, Shannon Maguire, Rachel Zolf, Kai Cheng Thom, Shazia Rafiq, Phinder Dulai, Renee Saklikar, Audre Lorde, Lyn Hejinian, Fred Wah, Adrienne Rich, Roy Miki, Rita Wong, Gwen Benaway, Smokii Sumac, Vivek Shraya, Lillian Allen, d'bi young, Marie Annharte Baker, Sharanpal Ruprai, Marilyn Dumont.
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text: "This is the issue: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves. … Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment." –Ronald Reagan, 1980


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Puttur, July 11, 2016: According to police, it is reported that a married woman committed suicide with her child by jumping into a pool in Mundoor in Puttur taluk.
The deceased has been identified as Vedavathi (26), wife of Sathish Poojary and son Manish (2) The reason for the suicide is yet to be ascertained. It is said that Sathish was married to Vedavathi three years ago.
Vedavathi, along with her husband and child, had been to attend nature's call. Sathish went to toilet first and came back to his room to sleep. As Vedavathi and her son did not return, the family members started searching and found her mobile phone near the waterbody.
When they searched the waterbody, they found their bodies.
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|Mahesh Prabhu, puttur
|Mon, July-11-2016, 2:02
|Woman why do you behave selfish. If you do not want to lead life its left to you but why do you kill the little ones for your mistakes . did they come to the world on their own .
|Sushanth, Bangalore
|Mon, July-11-2016, 1:56
|Share your problems with your family. Suicide is not the only solution . How sad .
|Radhika, Mangalore
|Mon, July-11-2016, 1:46
|A tragic incident . What has the innocent child done ?


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Two Wildcats nab Player of the Week honors
The Big Sky Conference announced last week that Weber State athletes Mike Hardy of the cross country team and Kaceelyn Pouttu of the women's golf team had both earned Player of the Week honors.
Hardy was named co-Player of the Week along with Northern Arizona's Matt McElroy after finishing in second place at the Utah Open Invitational with a time of 19:14.7 on the 6k course. He finished 0.2 seconds behind first place finisher David Elliott of Boise State. Hardy was in a battle for second place again in his next race at the BYU Invitational, before having to pull out of the race roughly 800 meters from the finish line.
Pouttu became the third member of the Wildcats women's golf team to earn Player of the Week honors this season after finishing in second place at the rain-shortened Hobble Creek Fall Classic. Her two-over-par score of 144 helped lead WSU to a fourth place finish at the tournament.
Pouttu shared Player of the Week honors with Idaho's Leilanie Kim, who tied for ninth place at the Colonel Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Classic. Kim is the first Idaho Vandal to win Big Sky Player of the Week honors since Idaho left the conference in 1996. The Vandals rejoined the Big Sky Conference over the summer.
Volleyball drops three matches at Wyoming Invitational
Coming off the heels of an 0-3 finish at the Air Force Invitational, the Wildcats continued their slide as they finished 0-3 at the Wyoming Invitational last weekend.
Weber State dropped their first match of the tournament to Furman, losing in five sets (25-21, 12-25, 25-21, 20-25, 10-15). The loss marked the third time in the season that the Wildcats lost in five sets.
The Wildcats did not have better luck on the second day of the tournament, as they were swept in three sets by Wyoming (21-25, 20-25, 11-25) and Gonzaga (22-25, 15-25, 22-25). The losses dropped Weber State to 2-8 on the year.
The lone bright spot from the tournament came from freshman outside hitter Amanda Varley, who was named to the All-Tournament team after recording 29 kills and nine blocks through the teams' three matches.
Weber State will compete in the Lone Star Invitational this weekend, before starting conference play next week when they host Montana on Sept. 25.
Men's golf finishes in tie for first place at Omaha invitational
The Weber State men's golf team had its best finish of the season on Tuesday, as they tied for first place at the University of Nebraska, Omaha Invitational.
The Wildcats as a team finished with a score of 894, tying them with host Omaha for first place.
Junior Devon Purser led the Wildcats in the tournament, finishing in a tie with Oral Roberts' Scott Newell for third place individually with a three-over-par score of 219. Colton Dallimore recorded the second best score for Weber State with a seven-over-par score of 223, which placed him tied for eighth place with Andrew Huseman of Indian Hills Community College.
The Wildcats will now be off until early October, when they travel to Park City for the Utah OGIO Invitational.


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Reading between the Lines of Online Course Evaluations: Identifiable Actions That Improve Student Perceptions of Teaching Effectiveness and Course Value
Stephanie J. Jones
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 2012) pp. 49–58
Students continue to demand and enroll in online courses, but are not always satisfied with their experiences. The purpose of this study was to determine if students' responses to evaluations for online courses could be used to identify faculty...
The "Virtual Face" of Distance Learning at Public Colleges and Universities: What Do Websites Reveal about Administrative Student Support Services?
Stephanie J. Jones; Katrina A. Meyer
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 15, No. 4 (2012)
This study investigated how higher education institutions support their distance learning initiatives through their institutional websites--their "virtual face." The population was 40 institutions, of which 10 each were doctoral/research, master,...
Do Students Experience "Social Intelligence," Laughter, and Other Emotions Online?
Katrina A. Meyer; Stephanie J. Jones
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 16, No. 4 (June 2012) pp. 99–111
Are online activities devoid of emotion and social intelligence? Graduate students in online and blended programs at Texas Tech University and the University of Memphis were surveyed about how often they laughed, felt other emotions, and expressed...
Do Students Experience Flow Conditions Online?
Katrina A. Meyer; Stephanie J. Jones
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 17, No. 3 (October 2013) pp. 137–148
This pilot study asked graduate students enrolled in higher education programs at two institutions to ascertain whether and to what extent they experienced nine flow-related conditions in two settings: (1) online courses or (2) surfing or gaming...
Graduate Students Rate Institutional Websites: The Must Have, Nice to Have, and Delighted to Have Services
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C/o Surya Review, Care of Surya Telugu Movie Review
Telugu360 Rating : 2.75/5
Surya (Sundeep Kishan) is a happy-go lucky-guy, who is very helpful to friends and lives with his sister and mother. One of his best friends, Mohan (Tamil actor Vikranth) falls for Surya's sister. Meanwhile, a supari killer Samba Sivudu (Harish Uthaman) tries to kill Mohan. Realizing Mohan's life is under threat, Surya tricks police to arrest his friend so that he'll be safe in police custody rather than outside. Public perceive that Surya might had pushed his friend behind the bars due to his sister's affair with him.
Rest of the interesting story is how surya and mohan takes on Samba Sivudu.
C/O Surya has a no-nonsense story written with multiple engaging threads within. Director Suseenthiran, who his peculiar style and ease in narration intense thrillers, made sure that whole proceedings maintain enough suspense till the end. Surya's bindaas life with his friends and love interest with Janani (Mehrene) is the first thread, Samba Sivudu's intelligent supari killings is the second and Surya's sister – Mohan love relation is the third one – Total three threads run in parallel and interlinked at a crucial point. Except Surya's love track , the remaining two are narrated in an engaging way by the director.
He has taken his own time to establish the core conflict point.Until the protagonist's family is attacked by antagonist, movie proceeds at a leisurely pace. Once Surya realises someone is trying to attack his family, the screenplay turns out to be quite racy keeping the audience invested in the narration. The director has excelled in designing the supari killings of Samba Sivudu. The planning to make the murders look convincing and the diversion techniques are interesting for audience. The family sentiment, friendship thread and crime suspense work to a satisfactorily extent but the love between Janani – Surya has been not been showcased properly. Only one song ' Modalavutondaa .. ' looked good on screen.
Sundeep Kishan as an actor is quite natural and played the role with a lot of ease. His previous films might not have provided him a platform to showcase his acting abilities fully, but this film gives enough scope to perform. Mehrene got a limited role and she does a neat act. Tamil actors Harish Uthaman and Vikranth did very well. Satya and Praveen are also adequate.
Cinematography by Laxman Kumar stands out in technical aspects. Most of the film has been shot on outdoor with real locations( on busy roads). The camera angles are very interestingly captured. Composer D.Imam has given good background score, but his songs could have been better. Editing by viswanth is fine – the slow pace in first half is director's liability, but not editor's. Director Suseenthiran's signature is visible throughout the film except ability to insert commercial elements.
C/O Surya is a decent crime and suspense thriller laced with family backdrop. Director suseenthiran has succeeded in narrating this film with engaging screenplay and enough suspense. Since comedy, songs and commercial elements are not thoroughly explored, box-office potential is a little doubtful. For those who like different films, who don't mind non-star films, C/O Surya makes up for a decent watch.
Telugu360 Rating : 2.75/5
Release Date : 10th Nov, 2017
Director : Suseenthiran
Music Director : D. Imman
Choreography : Laxman Kumar
Production Company: Lakshmi Narasimha Entertainments
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" Akhee a Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, a sister is a Muslim sister to another sister. Don't you see that you come bowing along with those who bow. Don't think that my talking isn't sincere in absence of love, know, by Allah, by Allah! I love the brothers for the pleasure of Allah, I love them because they recognize the Oneness of Allah, I love them because they perform wudhu (ablution) in the darkness of night in the middle of the morning; I love them because they raise their hands and say Allahu Akbar (Allah is greater than everything) and face the qiblah (i.e. the East towards the Ka'bah in Makkah), and start to discourse with their Lord, I love them because they perform ruku' (bowing), and sujood (prostration), and they glorify their Lord; I love them because they grow their beards and wear their thowbs above their ankles, I love them for the pleasure of Allah..."
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A thirty four year-old licensed professional counselor in Springfield has been charged with four felony counts of Medicaid fraud, one count of obstruction and one count of stealing by deceit.
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster and The Greene County Prosecuting Attorney's Office jointly filed those charges against Joshua Grant Johnmeyer today.
|Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster
-Prosecutors say Johnmeyer submitted false claims for payment to Medicaid for counseling services he did not perform and then forwarding bogus patient records to the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with the intention to defraud the state.
Johnmeyer, who graduated from Missouri State University in 2004, is charged with billing the state for more than $3,600 in fake claims from January to September of 2009. If convicted of all the charges, he faces up 39 years in prison, plus penalties and restitution.
"One of my top priorities as Attorney General is prosecuting those who cheat Missouri's Medicaid system," Koster said. "This kind of illegal conduct denies medical resources that would otherwise be directed to needy Missourians."
Koster said citizens can report suspected Medicaid provider fraud, abuse or neglect to his toll free Medicaid Fraud Hotline at 800-286-3932, or submit a complaint at the following links.
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Introduction: Zombie PC Case Mod, Back From the Dead PC With Space Saving Side Mounted Drives.
About 2 years or so ago my PC went bang just when I needed it for some work and i had to go out and panic buy a laptop to get the work done.
A month later I got the chance to pull an old tiny PC out of bro-inlaw's bin a few hours before it was due for collection.
My had been pimped out with uv lights etc that over time had failed and I decide that I would strip those out and try and mount the drives to the side of the case so it would fit against the wall on my bench and give me room for the laptop. I found a video of the old mod with the pointless lights, sounds a bit rough on it though.
This is an old project and I don't pics of all the stages.
Not all PC cases are suitable for this mod I was just lucky that mine was riveted not spot welded.
Tools used Drill, Dremel style tool, pop rivet gun, hot glue gun, tin snips, screwdrivers etc.
Hope you like it, thanks for looking.
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Step 1: Swapping Main Boards.
First was to swap the main board of the Tiny PC into my case to see if it was working.
Not going to go into any detail about this, I had 7 years in the PC trade which is more than enough for this lifeform.
I don't have pictures of the dismantling of the case, it was held together with alu pop rivets and gave no resistance , just had to drill the tops out with a drill.
And yes before anyone anyone points out the follies of metal fragments and static, yes I did do this case mod with the board in place. I blew it out with the airline when I was finished. But if you are going to do this take everything out of the case first.
I wish my shed was this clean now :-)
Step 2: Mounting the Face Plate to the Side Panel.
Sorry folks, I didn't take any pics of the during stage of this build. this is the only pic of how the 5 1/2" drive bays was mounted to the side panel
The face plate on the case was one of the pop of types so was perfect for this job. again not all cases can be used to do this.
Because this side panel had a plastic window it was easy to mark and cut i used a dremel style tool to cut the holes out.
The drive bay was attached with lashings of hot melt glue. the face plate was screwed to the side panel
The Tiny had a switch unit that was all wired into a plug thing and I just drilled out a floppy drive blank plate and used hot glue to attach it.
Step 3: Strenghing the Case.
Once the drive bays had been removed I found that the hard drive bay was very wobbly so i cut a piece from the Tiny case and pop riveted it in place to anchor the drive bay to the case.
Step 4: Covering the Holes Where the Drives Had Been.
The Tiny case just happened to have a side with a some grilled areas on it and they just happened to be bit enough to make panels to patch the to large hole where the drives had gone before.
I used tin snips to cut the Tiny case up.
I was lucky to have a grilled are on the scrap case, a flat plate would do but i decided to use the grilled stuff to let some air flow round the DVD drive.
Once I had the plates pop riveted in I painted the side of the case to match with the rest of the case
Again sorry for the lack of pics.
Step 5: Painting and Uglyfication
Once all the hard work was done it need a bit of uglification.
I sprayed any no black parts black and added a gold vinyl zombie decal since it had risen from the dead.
Step 6: Job Done.
This pic shows the case back in its place on the bench.
I now had enough space to use the laptop on my bench without loosing the PC case off it.
It sits flat against the wall and still allows easy access to the DVD drive.
This pic shows that my bench was once recorded as being tidy, you would not want to see it now.
That's all folks, hope you liked this.
Thanks for looking.
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Take a look at my PC-Mod Its not as pretty but it works.
Nice, i would add a perspex cover on the main compartment as i got to much metal junk lying around that would end up in the guts and cause a short.
Outstanding. I enjoyed this read. I look forward to experimenting with my own mods.
I take it you love computers? PS: Nice sticker; amd inside lol
I like it, good case thingy.
Cheers, Sadly only used for storage these days. Andy.


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Over the next week or so, the agency employees choose 4-8 charities from the shortlist for the final stage by looking at the whatCharity profiles of all shortlisted charities. The finalists are then listed using our company solution (see the mock version here) and the ultimate winner is selected by a popular vote by Alpha Century´s staff, stakeholders and partners.
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The finalists will be announced on 15th Oct when voting commences. So stay tuned and if you are on the list below, make sure that your whatCharity profile is a compelling one!
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- Reporting of on-site issues, probable causes and potential solutions.
- Providing on-site maintenance contract support, covering both scheduled and emergency call-out visits.
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When they go for the cars in the show rooms or from the owner they will need to have some of the most critical information for them to check. This is the reason why most people make sure they do all that is required for them so that they get a car which is in good shape. It is essential therefore for people to make sure they have cars which will be helpful to them to avid a lot of losses when they finally own the car.
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Structure of a Lys49-Phospholipase A2 homologue isolated from the venom of Bothrops nummifer (jumping viper)
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de Azevedo, Walter Filgueira
Ward, Richard John
Gutiérrez, José María
Arni, Raghuvir K.
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Lys49-Phospholipase A2 (Lys49-PLA2) homologues damage membranes by a Ca2+-independent mechanism which does not involve catalytic activity. We have solved the structure of myotoxin-I, a Lys49-PLA2 homologue isolated from the venom of Bothrops nummifer (jumping viper) at 2.4 A resolution using molecular replacement techniques. The final model has been refined to a final R-factor of 18.4% (R-free = 23.2%), and shows excellent geometry. The myotoxin-I from Bothrops nummifer is dimeric in the crystalline state as has been observed for other Lys49-PLA2 homologues. In addition, a continuous electron density in the active site and substrate binding channel could be successfully modeled as a fatty-acid molecule.
Enlace externo al ítem10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00189-5
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Come with us on a (virtual) trip down under and step inside one of Australia's finest new recording facilities. Forbes Street Studios is located in the heart of Sydney on, you guessed it, Forbes Street. Housed in the same building, and with strong ties to Universal Music Australia, Forbes Street has built up quite the reputation in its short existence.
Designed by Michael Fronzek the facility is comprised of three gorgeous studios, three iso booths, one live room, one interview room and an additional recording space. Don't forget the spacious wrap around terrace bathed in sunlight with comfortable furniture to lounge in.
Studio 1 is Forbes Street's flagship control room, home to an SSL AWS 924 console, Australia's only pair of Barefoot MiniMain12s, and two pairs of near field monitors Genelec 8040B and Yamaha NS-10M Studio.
Studio 2, and the attached Vocal Booth 2, is the perfect room for writing, overdubs and mixing. Precision monitoring is supplied by Adams A77X and Yamaha NS-10M Studio speakers.
One of Forbes Street's most unique spaces is the interview room, overlooking busy William Street this space was specifically constructed for the purpose of capturing interviews and podcasts, which can be done in house via DAW, or remotely via Audio-over-IP. Many touring artists from next door Universal have most the most of this room for media activities.
Studio 3 is the multi-purpose media hub, housing video editing software (Avid), DAW solutions (Pro Tools, Logic & Ableton) and image editing software (Adobe). If three functions wasn't enough the room can also be used as an affordable writing and overdub studio.
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The Douglas County Sheriff's Office arrested a Springfield Christian school teacher last week for allegedly having sexual contact with a student.
The woman, Andrea Nicole Baber, 29, was arrested by deputies on Friday at her home, which has a Cottage Grove postal code but is located near Curtin in Douglas County.
According to deputies, Baber allegedly began a "sexual relationship" with a 15-year-old male student in 2016, which continued "on a regular basis." Deputies said Baber also provided the minor with marijuana and alcohol, according to court documents.
The allegations were first reported to law enforcement last week after the boy's father received an anonymous email asking whether he knew his teenage son was having sexual contact with Baber, according to court documents. Attached to the email were several photos of Baber and the boy in bed together.
According to court documents, Baber and the teenager were caught in bed by Baber's husband on Dec. 5.
On Dec. 15, deputies arrested Baber on suspicion of third-degree rape, third-degree sodomy, contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor, first-degree online sexual corruption of a minor and unlawful delivery of marijuana to a person under 18 years of age.
Deputies said Baber no longer works at Logos Christian Academy in Springfield, but the school's website still has Baber listed as an instructor in the English Department.
According to her biography posted on the website, Baber teaches language and literature, writing and speech communication. She received a degree in English from Northwest Christian University in 2014.
"Andrea has always felt called to work with youth and is very excited that God opened the door for her to be part of the Logos team. She lives with her husband, dog and cat just south of Eugene," her biography reads.


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Neapolitan Mystery movie poster.
- title: Neapolitan Mystery | Giallo napoletano | Zločin á la Neapol | Italy, 1978
- director: Sergio Corbucci
- with: Marcello Mastroianni, Ornella Muti, Renato Pozzetto
poster design: Dimitrij Kadrnožka, Czechoslovakia, 1982
Poster is folded in the middle. Cinema stamp and tiny pinholes visible in the corners. Bottom part seems off colour in some places with stains at the back. Poster is in A3 format size. Very nice condition.
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The Must-Stocks
New product launches contributed to 35%7 of all soft drink sales in 2018. This keeps the category exciting, but also means that the right core range is crucial to driving sales.
Thinking about the right range is crucial. Planograms, which can be seen here are vital. So make it easy to see by category we've created this simple guide so you can see at a glance whether you're stocking the real consistent value drivers.
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Exclusive Lucozade Ribena Suntory research reveals a £1.4bn opportunity to open up a world of soft drink sales
Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) has conducted a major piece of research that reveals there is an opportunity to grow the soft drinks category by £1.4BN.
The exclusive research has identified six key category drivers and the six simple changes to shopper behaviour that could fundamentally alter the value of the soft drink sector. Within the convenience channel alone there is an opportunity to make an additional £332.1M.
LRS partnered with global consultancy The Partnering Group to analyse 10 emerging and continuing consumer trends such as health and wellbeing. Drawing data from organisations including Dunn Humby, Euromonitor International, Nielsen, IRI, Him! and others to create the most forward-looking category guide the soft drinks category has seen.
The guide groups the six key category drivers into specific soft drink missions that consumers will be on and identifies their mindset when thinking about what soft drinks choice to make.
"We knew there was a huge opportunity in soft drinks. What our research and report tell us is how to unlock it. We know that the world is rapidly changing, and if we cater brilliantly for the changing consumer the opportunity for soft drinks retailers is incredible," said Emily MacDonald, Channel Director, Convenience at Lucozade Ribena Suntory.
"To win across soft drinks, the key is to know who is coming into your store, and make sure you've got the right drinks for them, when they need them," said MacDonald.
"We know retailers can grow sales if they look at who is coming in to their store and getting the right range on their shelves. By making simple interventions across six future sales opportunities, you can set your store up for real soft drink success".
The six key category drivers and the insight into how to open them up are:
Shoppers that lead increasing Active and Effective Lives seek soft drink solutions for mental & physical support and there is an increasing opportunity to get 15% more households to buy into drinks that support an active lifestyle. Drinks including energy, coffee and sports drinks targeted at active adults between 35-45 offer a £330M1 opportunity. In convenience, this opportunity is worth £82M. Active consumers will be looking for drinks such as Lucozade Energy, Lucozade Sport, Red Bull & Monster.
Health conscious consumers will be seeking Healthy Goodness, looking for drinks such as juices and smoothies, juice drinks, kombucha and water. Drinks that deliver a good feeling is an area potentially worth an extra £145M2. This can be unlocked by getting target shoppers – nutrition-focused shoppers, mid-higher income earners, and mums – to buy into added-value products that deliver enjoyable wellness one more time each month. Healthy goodness is worth an extra £44.8M in the convenience channel.
Health-conscious consumers will be looking for: True Nopal cactus water, Vita Coco, Innocent juices
Encouraging shoppers to choose a soft drink with their meals and snacks could unlock £215M3 of value. To drive the With Food opportunity, retailers need to help shoppers on this mission – lower-middle income earners – buy flavoured carbonates, juices and juice drinks, water, squash and iced tea on four more trips per year. Convenience stores can make an extra £35.1M by getting this opportunity right. To help shoppers looking for drinks With Food: No specific product – the driver is occasion and format-based
Special Experiences is about providing the best soft drinks in the most important moments. Retailers could tap into huge potential further sales of £330M4 – £55.5M specifically in the convenience sector – by getting target shoppers – adults on mid-higher income – to trade up into premium soft drinks just once a month. Premium soft drinks, mixers as an alcohol replacement, premium waters and craft and retro drinks all offer huge potential here.
Make sure you stock: Merchants Heart, Fever Tree, Fentimans, Schweppes, Appletiser
By catering for shoppers looking for Tastier Healthier Refreshment retailers can add up to £240M5 to their sales. Retailers whose consumer base includes lower-mid affluence adults and families can win by getting shoppers to switch out regular soft drinks for low- and no-sugar variants, and shop just twice more each year. Switching to diet carbonates, juice and juice drinks, squash and waters would help unlock this potential sales win. Convenience stores can make an extra £55.5M by catering to this customer.
Retailers looking for Tastier Healthier Refreshment will be looking for: Ribena, Lucozade Zero, Coca-Cola Zero, Diet Coke, Pepsi Max, Irn-Bru
And finally, there is a £215M6 opportunity if you cater for Water Lovers. To drive this huge sales opportunity, store owners need to move target consumers – adults focused on health and wellness – in impulse and grocery – to six more purchases over 12 months. By catering for water loving customers, convenience stores could make an extra £59.1M.
Water Lovers will be looking for drinks like: Ribena Frusion, Lucozade Sport Fitwater, Highland Spring, Robinsons Refresh'd, Volvic Touch of Fruit
For more information on Lucozade Ribena Suntory, click here
- Lucozade Ribena Suntory and The Partnership Group research, Dec 2018
- Lucozade Ribena Suntory and The Partnership Group research, Dec 2018
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LONDON: A new survey by YouGov shows that 71% of Scottish people support further development of wind power in the country's energy generation mix, a percentage which has increased by 7% in one year.
The poll follows the release of figures about the increasing capacity of onshore wind in Scotland, which is set to reach more than 12 megawatts once the planned wind turbines are completed.
Libby Ferguson, States & Regions Director, The Climate Group, commented: "Scotland has been a longstanding and active member of The Climate Group States & Regions Alliance. Scotland's renewables commitments are world leading and this survey demonstrates that governments, such as Scotland, who set bold climate targets, have the backing of their local communities and businesses."
Joss Blamire, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables underscored the increasing support for wind power over time among Scottish people: "These poll results highlight once again that not only do the vast majority of Scots support wind power, but the number who do is actually increasing.
"The wind energy sector is thriving in Scotland, providing jobs, investment and helping to tackle climate change – and these figures show it's doing all of this with the Scottish public right behind it."
Last year renewable energy hit a record, becoming Scotland's largest source of power. In the first half of 2014, the mix of wind, hydro, solar and other clean energies generated 10.3 terawatt-hours (TWh), 32% more electricity than any other source of power in the country.
Electricity needs of more than a quarter of UK homes powered by wind in 2014: http://t.co/wXbXSKgImJ via @RenewableUK pic.twitter.com/4QyCzOrvGl
— The Climate Group (@ClimateGroup) January 6, 2015
The wind sector is particularly relevant in the UK, which is still leading the European wind market. In 2014 alone, 6.7 million UK households were powered by wind energy, according to RenewableUk, totaling 28.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) generated.
Scotland has committed to a fast transition to a low carbon economy, setting a target of 30% of the energy it uses coming from renewables by 2020. Its investment in the transition has thus been growing, as Keith Brown, UK cabinet secretary for infrastructure, investment and cities underscored: "The estimated market value of sales in Scotland's low carbon and environmental goods and service sector in 2011 to 2012 was £10.1 billion (US$15 billion)," he said, but it is set to grow by 30% and to account for £13.2 billion (US$19.6 billion) by 2016 to 2017.
The poll was conducted in February 2015, and surveyed a sample of 1,003 Scottish adults.
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OSS PBX End Point Manager and Schmoozecom.com's Commercial End Point Manager have, broadly speaking, the same function: to provision end point hardware devices such as phone handsets. However, the two are different implementations and are not compatible with each other's settings. There is no migration path between the two in terms of preserving settings. In addition, the two cannot be used simultaneously on the same FreePBX system.
This page describes how to record your settings from the OSS PBX End Point Manager to assist with the configuration of the Commercial End Point Manager.
Step 1: Record OSS End Point Manager settings
Record OSS End Point Manager Settings as they will need to be later re-created in Commercial End Point Manager.
Non-exhaustive list of settings to record:
- Connectivity > OSS Endpoint Advanced Settings > Product Options/Configuration Editor
- any customizations to the global phone configuration files, such as phone settings or button programming
- Connectivity > OSS Endpoint Template Manager
- any custom phone configurations, including contents of the "general" and "keys" tabs
As a backup measure, copy the contents of /tftpboot to a safe location.
cp -a /tftpboot /tftpboot-ossepm-backup
Step 2: Uninstall OSS End Point Manager and remove /tftpboot contents
- Admin > Module Admin
- OSS PBX End Point Manager
- Action: Uninstall
- OSS PBX End Point Manager
- Process
- Confirm
- Return
- Confirm
- Admin > Module Admin > Apply Config
Now empty /tftpboot, leaving the directory itself in place.
rm -rf /tftpboot/*
Step 3: Install Commercial End Point Manager
Note that a license needs to be purchased for Commercial End Point Manager first.
- Admin > Module Admin
- EndPoint Manager
- Action: Install
- EndPoint Manager
- Process
- Confirm
- Return
- Confirm
- Admin > Module Admin > Apply Config
As a verification step, the /tftpboot directory should now have some files in it:
drwxr-xr-x. 4 asterisk asterisk 4096 Aug 11 23:50 . dr-xr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Aug 11 23:42 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 asterisk asterisk 4096 Aug 11 23:50 firmwaredownloads drwxr-xr-x 4 asterisk asterisk 4096 Aug 11 23:50 images -rw-r--r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 192410 Aug 11 23:51 legacy_sip.cfg
Step 4: Configure Commercial End Point Manager
- Commercial End Point Manager settings are in Settings > EndPoint Manager
- See documentation at EndPoint Manager to re-enter phone settings recorded in step 1


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Celtic sustained their heaviest ever home European defeat as Neymar led the way for Paris St-Germain in the Champions League group stage opener.
The world's most expensive player coolly finished and then had a hand in PSG's second, which was finished emphatically by Kylian Mbappe.
Edinson Cavani converted a penalty for the visitors' third before the break.
Mikael Lustig's own goal was followed by Cavani's second of the night, a superb diving header.
Elsewhere in Group B, hosts Bayern Munich won 3-0 against Anderlecht, who had a man sent off.
Celtic have hosted many of the great powerhouses of European football in Glasgow over the years, but even those with the longest memories would probably struggle to recall a side as devastating as PSG.
Their speed of thought, speed of movement, accuracy and imagination was extraordinary. Their confidence on the ball – even when playing intricate passes in their own penalty area to get out of trouble – was a joy.
Quality on this scale costs big-time, of course. The biggest compliment you can pay the visitors is that they looked every inch the half-billion-pound team they are.
Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers went with young Tony Ralston at right-back with Lustig playing centre-half. Ralston was keen as mustard, biting into tackles on Neymar, but this was a night when enthusiasm and heart were not much use to Celtic.
Unai Emery's visitors had the ball in the net after 15 minutes but Cavani was offside. It was a warning to Celtic, not that it was needed. The subtlety of PSG's play was not something they could cope with. Soon, the doors started opening for the visitors.
Celtic had legitimate gripes about a foul on Scott Sinclair moments earlier, but when PSG countered it was precise and beautiful. Adrien Rabiot, relatively unsung in this team of stars but sensationally good on the night, played Neymar in behind Ralston and the Brazilian thumped his shot past Craig Gordon.
There were less than 20 minutes on the clock and all sorts of trouble was heading Celtic's way. They actually had some moments of optimism before PSG's second, Leigh Griffiths forcing a save from Alphonse Areola with a free-kick.
This modicum of Celtic hope was soon batted away. It was as if PSG were telling them that if they had the temerity to come out and attack there might be a heavy price to pay for it at the other end.
The second came, Neymar at the heart of it again, of course. It was he who started the move and when Marco Verratti put in a cross from the right, it was Neymar who made the run – Celtic had not a notion where he was – and then nodded across goal. Cavani had a fresh-air swipe but lurking in behind him was Mbappe, who thumped in the second.
A goal apiece for PSG's monster summer signings – and then a third for their principal goalscorer, Cavani. It was painfully soft from Celtic's perspective. A cross from Neymar, a push by Jozo Simunovic on Cavani and a penalty duly rifled home by the Uruguay striker.
The Celtic fans who were not open-mouthed at PSG's class by now were covering their eyes at the thought of what might happen next. They had no idea that the next moment would be so shocking – and, inevitably, so damaging.
A spectator ran on to the pitch, was allowed to make his way towards Mbappe and then appeared to aim a kick at the winger. Celtic fans booed him, but the damage was done.


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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Free ColdStone Ice Cream for Make A Wish Event
Saturday, September 19, 2009
This just in! Go to Cold Stone Creamery on September 24th from 5-8pm for free ice cream when you make a donation to Make A Wish Foundation! About 85% of Cold Stone proceeds in September will go to the foundation. To learn more about the social, click here. For store locations near you, click here!
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Steps to make Downsizing Easy (ish)
Downsizing can be an emotional journey but approaching it with a view to the future can not only make the process one of renewal and excitement but can make the physical act of decluttering a lifetime's worth of stuff a much easier undertaking.
The first step is to get in the right headspace for the task at hand. Clearing out will create more space and time for the things you love, room for a lighter existence and to welcome in new adventures.
In Sweden, they take it a step further and practice dostadning, this is basically slow and ongoing decluttering with the eventual goal of not burdening those left behind after you are gone with a "surplus of minutae". While it sounds like a morbid take on clearing out the cupboards it is not seen that way at all in Sweden. When people start dostadning, the focus is on living a lighter and more enjoyable life and the gift that getting rid of your own stuff is to your family and friends.
It's also not possible to begin any decluttering journey without at least hearing about Marie Kondo, the recent decluttering queen who encourages us all to part with anything that doesn't "spark joy". She advises that you thank each item you are getting rid of before finally letting go, as a way to honour how it has served you in the past, even though it isn't serving you anymore.
Once you are mentally prepared to start going through your stuff, experts suggest some practical tips to make the task easier. Marie Kondo recommends clearing out one category at a time. She recommends working from the least emotional to the most emotional categories so you can work up your decluttering muscles,
beginning with clothes, then books, papers, miscellaneous items and finally, sentimental items.
Some questions to ask yourself as you assess each item are:
- Does it spark joy?
- Is it necessary or utilized regularly?
- Do you own more than one?
- Does it have a significant financial value?
- Will it fit into a smaller home when I move?
- Would a family member or friend appreciate the item or use it?
If you can talk a friend or family member into coming over to help, it can make the experience more enjoyable too. Sometimes having someone to share a memory sparked by an item is enough and may actually help you to hold on to the memory but let go of the item.
Knowing that your stuff is going to a new home can also be enough reward to help you let go. The thought of something that still has plenty of life in it going to waste can make us hold onto things we no longer need.
Joining the Garage Sale Trail on 21 & 22 November is the perfect way to take all the things you no longer need and turn them into some spare cash. It only takes 5 minutes to sign up online and your sale will appear on the national map. You'll also get downloadable resources like posters and checklists to make your sale more successful and be part of a national movement that sees over 3 million kgs of items sold and saved from landfill.
So, whether downsizing is in your near future, or a little while away, it's never too early to start thanking your things and then sending them off for a new life. It's great for you, your friends and family, and the earth.


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We are happy to have been featured in the Yorkshire Evening Post for our work as the principle telecoms partner for the charity Leeds Mencap, where we are providing over £50,000 worth of telecoms and internet over the next 3 years to their new centre. It is going to be a great year ahead for all involved.
A great start to the year with a feature in the Leeds Chamber of Commerce magazine! We are thrilled to be sponsoring the charity Leeds Mencap, by providing them with £50k worth of communications technology for their new centre. As well as fundraising on their behalf with a sahara desert trek. We are looking forward to the year ahead and all the exciting projects we will be supporting with our efforts.


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In recent weeks I've had cause to travel a bit within the UK, and during this time, I've come across a couple of (modern) graffiti that I found interesting, for related but somewhat different reasons. The first is really a text that no longer exists. That is, it is clear that an attempt was made to remove the sprayed inscription, but it failed in the respect that the original words, though faded, are still visible. On the side of a building at the University of Manchester, one can see this:
ACT UP – the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power – was founded in New York City in 1987. Growing up in New York at the time, and with gay and lesbian friends as part of my community, church, and extended family network, this slogan, along with the image of the pink triangle and SILENCE = DEATH, were a familiar part of my childhood. I was, up to the moment I stumbled upon this, completely unaware of the slogan being used in the UK, or in fact, any time in the last twenty years or so. I am not by any means dismissing the continued need to campaign for gay rights, healthcare, and AIDS research (let's face it, for everyone really), I just wasn't aware of the ongoing use of this slogan. This of course set my epigraphic mind racing: when was this written? was it put up by an American? is it a relic of a very different time and place or reflective of a current movement? None of these questions seem to have answers (as far as I can tell), but it intrigued me nonetheless.
Then earlier this week I was in Belfast, and came across this:
Having never been to Northern Ireland before, I may have held the somewhat stereotypical view of it being fairly conservative socially. As I walked around the city on Sunday and Monday, I was rather taken aback by the number of rainbow flags on display, and thought how wonderfully progressive it was to see such a bold statement of acceptance on display. I couldn't figure out why this would be the case in August, as Pride Month is in June, when most cities see annual events and parades organised by LGBTQ communities. It was only after I looked online that I discovered I missed Belfast Pride by a day – there had in fact been a parade on Saturday.
These messages are reflective of an important movement for rights and inclusion, and are reflective of a modern society, not to be found a few hundred years ago much less a few thousand. Attitudes and perceptions of homosexuality in antiquity are as conflicted and contested as they are in some parts of the world today. Nevertheless, what both of these graffiti brought to mind was the enduring importance of being able to have relationships in an individual's life, whatever the sex or gender of the person you love. To quote a more recent slogan used in the gay rights movement worldwide, love is love is love. Here, four texts (two for men by men, two for women by women) provide some ancient evidence from the walls of Pompeii that echo this sentiment.
Hectice pupe, va(le) Mercator tibi dicit.
'Hecticus, my pet, Mercator says hello to you.'
Sabine calos, Hermeros te amat.
'Sabinus, my beauty, Hermeros loves you.'
O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere || braciola et teneris / oscula ferre labelis. || I, nunc ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede. || Crede mihi, levis est natura virorum. || Saepe ego cu(m) media / vigilare perdita nocte || haec mecum meditas: multos / Fortuna quos aupstulit alte || hos modo proiectos subito / praecipitesque premit. || Sic Venus ut subito coiunxit / corpora amantum || dividit lux et se / parees qui{d} amant.
'Oh, if only I could grasp my gentle arms around you and and give kisses to your delicate little lips. Come now, my little darling, entrust your pleasures to the winds. Believe me, the nature of men is flighty. Often as I have been awake, lovesick, at midnight, I think on these things: many whom Fortuna raised high, then suddenly thrown down headlong, she now oppresses. Thus, just as Venus joins the bodies of lovers in a moment, daylight divides them and you will separate their love.'
CIL IV 8321a
Chloe Eutychiae s(alutem): / Non me curas, Euty / chia. Spe firma / tua Ruf(um)? amas.
'Chole greets Eutychia: Eutychia you don't care about me. With a firm hope you love…'
Love can be unrequited, relationships can be forbidden by law or moral code, or be the basis of a decades long campaign for equality. Regardless, in antiquity, or today, love is love is love. And that is definitely worth fighting for.


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Seychelles is an archipelago of around 115 islands by the Indian Ocean. In spite of the fact that it has the littlest populace among other African states, it draws in a substantial number of visitors year round. It highlights flawless shorelines, topaz water, lavish slopes and world class Seychelles lodgings.
Its laid back temp blended with ultra-extravagant choices make Seychelles the heaven available to everybody. In spite of the fact that it is a costly traveler goal, there are resorts and lodgings in Seychelles that still offers reasonable, self-providing food facilities like guesthouse.
Seychelles Hotels
Seychelles offer a huge amount of exercises to various individuals. It is the best goal for plunging, angling and cruising separated from swimming and other water sports. Mahe has 65 silver shorelines, a few eateries, bars, gambling clubs and bistros. Seychelles is likewise well known for the Garden of Eden which is a piece of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The vast majority of the lodgings in Seychelles are near where the activity is. Aside from the attractions and the exercises, look at the nightlife no one but Guesthouses in Seychelles can offer.
Hilton Seychelles Northolme Resort and Spa – This 5-star inn in Seychelles offers world class lodging in a well disposed air. Visitors are ensured with room benefits, a full administration Spa, an open air pool, private shoreline, wellness office, steam room, meeting offices and then some. It offers 40 extravagantly enhanced rooms with aerating and cooling units, remote Internet get to and open lavatories. They likewise offer visit help and wedding administrations.
Coco de Mer – Black Parrot Suites – This is extraordinary compared to other Seychelles inns in Anse Bois de Rose Bay. It is extremely prominent among honeymooners and couples.It includes perfect and all around looked after rooms, a private overhang, extensive restrooms, a little pool inside suites and a decent bar range. Room civilities incorporate espresso/tea producers, Internet get to, link TVs, coolers, microwave stoves, irons with sheets and information ports and in addition ventilating units and the sky is the limit from there.
The following best thing to getting hitched is the special first night. No in-laws, no providing food choices, no which welcome looks great, all you require is the bags, the tickets and the intriguing and staggering getaway which is the Seychelles. Honeymooners can unwind and appreciate the joy satisfaction of wedded in this desert spring heaven set in the Indian Ocean with a variety of dazzling coral. The island of Mahe is vivacious heart of the 118 archipelagos, which shape the Seychelles. Couple the stunning area with a lovely, world-class sentimental inn or appreciate the solaces of one of numerous Creole guesthouses along the shorelines. Visit the distinctive areas from Victoria toward the south to places like Takamaka, and Anse Royale. Enjoy Creole cooking styles and the taste the privately blended beverages like "Bacca" which is produced using sugar stick or "Kaloo" (a syrup from the coconut tree) in the event that you are so grade to have a go.


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Shedding Some Light on The Dark Knight
DC Comics is ready to literally shed some light on the cuter side of The Dark Knight with the Batman Look-Alite Mood Lamp. Rather than fighting crime on the cold Streets of Gotham, this Batman is content to hang with you in your nice warm bedroom or office, offering a little night-time illumination and a lot of retro style.
- LED Lit Mood Lamp in the Style of Batman
- Measures approx. 13cm (W) x 25cm (H) x 10.5cm (D)
- Requires 3 x 1.5v "AAA" batteries (Not included)
- Can also be powered by Micro USB lead (not included)
- 100% officially licensed DC Comics Merchandise