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The wireless carriers' Isis mobile wallet venture is using acquirers to build merchant support for its technology.
Most point of sale manufacturers have already agreed to support Isis payments, and Isis' new Alliance Program is designed to smooth deployment to stores.
"The alliance means merchants have an increased chance that they can access the point of sale partners they already use," says Jim Stapleton, chief sales officer for Isis.
Isis, a venture of AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, launched its mobile app nationwide last week. To use the mobile wallet, consumers obtain an enhanced SIM card from one of the wireless carriers' retail stores. Then, consumers can use the Isis wallet to shop at merchants by tapping their phone against a typical contactless card reader at the point of sale.
Besides ISOs, Isis expects the alliance program's participants will include point of sale technology and service providers, resellers, software developers, middleware providers, vendors, and other companies that serve retailers.
Although the Isis wallet will work at any merchant with the proper contactless payment hardware in place, many of merchants are not active partners of Isis. That has led to some confusion among consumers, which Isis has had to address in its communications over Twitter.
With Isis' new program, "the idea is to create a forum through which Isis partners can get access to the information, tools and interfaces that they need to turn on the value-added features that Isis offers," says Rick Oglesby, a senior analyst with Aite Group.
Membership in the alliance is free, and includes member communications such as webinars and newsletters, Isis product development news, product roadmaps, free training, and in certain cases joint business planning. In addition, Isis has compiled product information, promotional materials and information on industry terminology.
Participants can also access technical documentation offers and loyalty programs with the Isis mobile wallet.
Isis' test included promotional partnerships with Coca-Cola and McDonald's, and Isis plans to use its alliance program to reach similar partners.
"The alliance will provide an opportunity to expand and scale loyalty offerings with merchants and other providers," Stapleton says.
Marketing opportunities through digital wallets can be complicated to establish, Oglesby says.
"[It] means changing a lot of code within the point of sale system and exchanging more than just payments data through the terminal with Isis," he says. "All of that means new lines of code in every system that adopts Isis, so they need to reach out to and work with the development community to make this all happen."
Isis is also working to distribute the enhanced SIM cards necessary to enable handsets to use the mobile wallet, Stapleton says.
Isis began distributing the new SIM cards about three months ago, and more smartphones that include the cards are hitting the market, Stapleton says. The SIM cards are available for free at the wireless carriers' retail stores and online, Stapleton says.
The wireless carriers' stores are training their employees to provide instruction and support for using Isis, he says. "No matter how much people know about Isis, they can walk into a store and walk out ready to use Isis," Stapleton says.
Isis is also evaluating Host Card Emulation, the technology that lets Google added in its latest update to the Android mobile operating system. HCE allows a phone to make contactless payments without access to the secure element.
"The jury is out on that. We are looking at all of the different technologies that are out there; we are not tied to any specific technology," Stapleton says.
Isis declined to say by deadline how ISOs could profit by promoting the mobile wallet.


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I'm A Fraud – Confessions Of A Personal Trainer
This is by far my most honest post yet. I'm sitting here drinking coffee (nothing changes there, does it?) and just thinking, thinking, thinking. I'm thinking about where my business is today and why it grew into what it has become…
Over the years, I coached thousands of clients, while simultaneously working on and improving myself. More times than I could remember, I'd tell them to FOCUS.
Focus. Focus. Focus.
I told them to focus on eating healthy and exercising as if nothing else mattered in their lives. I spouted these commandments because they were a common belief within my world at the time, not to mention the rest of the fitness industry. Popularity doesn't make something necessarily true.
I really thought I was helping my clients. Instead, I was creating unnecessary obstacles which actually got in the way of their success and happiness, as well as my own.
The law of attraction says, and I paraphrase here, that you pretty much can't help but attract people to just like you.
Take the cynical belief that you just can't trust other people.
When two people who believe that get together, logically, it's just a matter of time before that relationship dies a horrible death, which happens when one or both of their "warning sensors" are activated. When those activate, an emotional chasm opens up between two people, eroding the connection they've worked so hard to build, but was doomed to short circuit.
Like I used to, you might only think in the short-term. What real chance of long-term success did a coach/client relationship have? I was imposing my short term beliefs: It's Only About Dieting and Working Out. Eventually, my clients began to think the same way that I did.
That is how I was wired. I worked in a gym 24/7. I was young. Had no other responsibilities like family and children. My workplace was home and work was my hobby. Training. Eating. Gym. Repeat.
Upon deeper reflection, I've learned some hard truths. First, I owe a lot more to my clients – and other personal trainers – than just workouts and diet strategies.
And I've come to realise that everyone goes on their own unique fitness or weight loss journey (myself included). It really is far more than muscles and "looking good"; it's also about feelings and emotions which go much deeper than workouts and eating plans.
As fitness professionals, we have to be very careful that we don't project and push our "stuff" (i.e, emotional and psychic baggage) to clients and people who look up to us. In a sense, our bodies have become a fraudulent way to influence people, as if the muscle means they automatically listen and follow what we do and say.
"I wish I looked like you" is the common phrase we hear that. People who aspire to be fit and healthy look to us, see our bodies and are convinced that we know the way. What they often don't realise is that we struggle to get our shit together most of the time. And we're so hell-bent on keeping up appearances and making money that we don't correct them. After all, in today's fitness industry climate, it would be financially unviable to show vulnerability.
Yes, we have the bodies and people mainly admire us for that. But, for me at least, achieving this took living in a gym 24/7 and being surrounded by gym freaks every day for the past 14 years. As personal trainers, we need to think beyond the confines of the gym, in more emotional terms, in order to help ourselves and our clients. There are three key questions to ask yourself and the people you are training:
What's your lifestyle like?
What are your relationships like?
What's your overall quality of life?
These are the questions that trainers should ask their clients when it comes to losing weight, feeling fitter or preventing health disease.
These are the questions I asked myself over a year ago.
I found a coach and I became committed to creating the best version of myself mentally, with the same intensity I had dedicated to creating the best version of myself physically.
And while it's been a long process to right the ship, I'm finally at a point I'm happy with. I wish I could put into words how truly liberating it feels to have true physical, mental and emotional balance.
For the thousands of times, I've told clients that nothing else matters and to only focus on exercise and diet … I'm sorry!
You are truly inspiring to me. I admire you for coming to me, when intuitively, I believe, you could see the cracks in my way of thinking.
Is there a lesson in that? I don't know if there has to be. It's just my perspective now.
I suppose the point I'm really trying to make is this: be careful of who you admire in the fitness world when seeking out help to lose weight. Most trainers (including me) don't have it all worked out.
So, my question is: how is the fitness and weight loss industry ever going to help people become the best version of themselves if we're not there yet ourselves?
Is this the REAL problem why the fitness and weight loss industry is FAILING?
Luckily, though, I'm embracing the journey, and on a mission to help fitness experts, personal trainers and gym owners to do the same.
Are you the best possible version of yourself right now? If so, would love to hear about what you've done to get there in the comments below.
Not sure if you are the top version, but are amped up to get there? Book a personal discovery call with me. In one 90 minute call, I can get you further than what's possible on your own in a year.

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NLRB Continues Tightening Grip on Non-Union Employers
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Many non-union employers are becoming increasingly familiar with their obligations under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to widen the definition of permissible employee conduct under the Act. Ostensibly, behavior that most employers would have considered unacceptable several years ago is now routinely found by the NLRB to be proper in today's workplace.
Companies historically had non-disparagement policies to prevent conflicts at work and maintain a level of decorum. Those days are gone, except where statements threaten violence or directly violate discrimination laws.
In one recent decision, the NLRB found that fast food workers who were engaged in union organizing were operating lawfully when they posted signs on community bulletin boards within the employer's establishment, and in public places close to such establishments, putting customers on notice that store employees do not get paid sick leave, and therefore, customers are taking a risk eating at the stores because sick workers may be preparing their food. When the employer fired those behind the posters, the NLRB found the firings to be violative of the NLRA and ordered reinstatement and back pay. Miklin Enterprises, 361 NLRB No. 27 (2014). The Board's decision was affirmed by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Miklin Enterprises, Inc., v. NLRB (2016).
In doing so, both the Board and Court found that the employees' conduct was part of an on-going labor dispute, and that the posters were not disloyal, reckless or maliciously untrue. In essence, the implication that customers will fall ill by eating at the restaurants was considered "exaggerated rhetoric which is common in labor disputes and protected under the Act," as opposed to disloyalty.
In a second case, the NLRB ruled it is also okay to post that your boss is a "nasty mother****er on Facebook, along with similar comments regarding the boss' family. Pier 60, 362 NLRB, No. 59 (2015). The post was in response to the boss telling several catering servers working an event to "spread out, and move" when they were standing around. The employer fired the worker who posted the comments, but the NLRB reinstated him because "the comments were directed at the manager's treatment of the servers, and were part of a sequence of events involving the employees' attempts to protest and ameliorate what they saw as rude and demeaning treatment by their managers."
Separation Agreements
The Board continues to focus on the contents of separation or settlement agreements containing provisions it believes chill section 7 rights to work collectively in addressing workplace concerns. In one recent case, an Administrative Law Judge found that the confidentiality, return of property, and non-solicitation of employees provisions in a severance agreement violated the NLRA. Quicken Loans, Case 28-CA-146517 (Mar. 17, 2016).
The confidentiality clause was found to be overbroad because it protected certain documents the employer did not take adequate steps to keep secret, and the non-disclosure requirements extended to workplace matters such as wages, work rules, and other terms of employment that employees have a right to publically communicate.
In addition, a requirement that employees return copies of the employee handbook was found unlawful as such materials are normally widely distributed within the workplace and therefore lose their protected status.
Further, a non-solicitation provision that prevented solicitation "for any reason" was found to be overbroad as it could be interpreted as preventing former employees from speaking with current employees about section 7 rights, which would violate the Act.
When writing policies or agreements, the devil is in the detail as the Board continues to dissect employer documents for any potential sign that the wording could be interpreted as restricting employee rights to ban together for their mutual aid and protection.
Workplace Recordings
Rules limiting workplace audio and video recordings have also been subjected to scrutiny. Unless an employer can show recordings will violate customer or patient privacy concerns, or reveal trade secrets, employees will often be permitted to record workplace interactions.
For instance, Whole Foods had a policy against workplace recordings, unless the consent of all participants was obtained. The Board found the rule violated the Act because employee section 7 rights outweighed the company's interest in promoting open and free discussions. It stated, "photography and audio or video recording in the workplace, as well as the posting of photographs and recordings on social media are protected by section 7 if employees are acting in concert for their mutual aid and protection and no overriding employer interest is present…." Protected employee conduct may include, for example, recording images of protected picketing, documenting unsafe workplace equipment or hazardous working conditions, documenting and publicizing discussions about terms and conditions of employment, documenting inconsistent application of employer rules, or recording evidence to preserve it for later use in administrative or judicial forums in employment-related actions." Whole Foods Market Inc., 363 NLRB No. 87 (2015).
Clearly, the Board has taken a strong position that total recording bans are improper, and that any ban must be narrowly tailored to show its purpose is to protect trade secrets or other privacy rights.
Given these developments, employers should review their policies and handbooks to make sure they are compliant with the Board's ever more aggressive posture.


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Five top tips for maintaining your bike in Autumn and Winter
Get a new bike now, pay over 12 months - interest free
Starting cycling this Bike Week: 5 tips to get yourself back on the saddle.
Could you use your grant to save 50% on the cost of a fleet of Bristol Bicycles for your workplace?
Come for a gentle, family-friendly bike ride and a behind-the-scenes peek at the workshop
Our friends at The Bristol Bike Project are looking for a full-time mechanic to join their team
Campaign to keep Prince St Bridge for people walking and cycling
You can now buy our Bristol Bicycles online for delivery anywhere in the UK
All major cycle scheme providers now accepted
We've just completed a couple of Dr. Bike sessions for Triodos Bank staff
Have we made our Bristol Bicycles almost too reliable?!?
Grant could make Bristol Bicycles half price for businesses
Check our workshop availability in real-time and request a booking online
A traffic-free family ride around Durdham Downs on Sunday 22nd May, 9:00 to 12:00
Sign up for a traffic-free ride around Bristol on Sunday 19th June
Cycle to Bristol City Hall to show support for a more cycle-friendly Bristol - Sunday 15th May at 1:30pm
New Council website for reporting your bugbears with cycling facilities in Bristol
New campaign is launched to make Space 4 Cycling a key election issue in Bristol
Bristol graphic designer Stephanie Weise cycled accross Europe on her new Bristol Bicycle
The best of both worlds: an upright Dutch-style bike, but lightweight and with lots of gears
"Huge positive impact on cycling by allowing cyclists to keep up with the flow of traffic or, when this is not possible, making cars pass more safely"
CTC launches video guides for helping new cyclists to get on their bikes
How much space should you leave when overtaking a cyclist?
Video about us providing the University of the West of England with 75 Bristol Bicycles for their new loan scheme
New bike industry-funded video goes viral, with 300,000 views in the first week
Bristol police upload photos of stolen bikes in the hope of finding their rightful owners
Jake's Bikes is highlighted in Triodos Bank's website and publication "The Colour of Money"
Tax-free bikes: save over 25% - get a Bristol Bicycle for as little as £250 and spread the cost over 12 or 18 months
Bristol cycle charity looking for new cycle instructors in Bristol and North Somerset area
Today we lent a couple of Bristol Bicycles to the Lord Mayor and Mayoress for Cycling Sunday on the Downs
Diversion will be in place for 10 weeks from 20th April during the works; will be clearly signposted say the Council
Jake on BBC Radio Bristol speaking about our new Bristol Bicycles (listen from 01:11:00)
Jake's bike sizing advice published in the Bristol Evening Post
Bristol Bicycles to hold launch event and prize draw on on 25th - all are welcome
Council publish Bristol Cycle Strategy to get loads more people cycling by 2020
Would your workplace benefit from a free lunchtime presentation about cycling? Get in touch with us!
A great proposal to make a temporary cycle-only route around Durdham Downs on Sunday mornings in 2015
New paper says investing in cycling would save the NHS £17 billion, reduce road deaths by 30%, and increase mobility of poorest families by 25%
Local wheel locking innovation seeks crowdfunding to move into mass production. Can you help?
New Zealand blogger writes about the difference between 'cyclists' and 'people on bikes'
The workshop is quiet today so if you need any last-minute repairs or adjustments, give us a call
Excellent article in Motoring magazine about how and why cyclists should not ride in the gutter
Bristol cycling charity is looking for a new Lead Mechanic
Census data shows a 94 per cent increase in cycle commuters since 2001
We are having a spring clean and have lots of old stock reduced to approx half price
Has anyone tried the new free bike pumps yet?
We've started building bikes in batches of five, almost like a mini production line :-)
Track pump and tool station, free for customers to use
Motorists swapping the car for just five minutes of riding each day would cut heart disease, diabetes and strokes, says Cambridge research
Plenty of time to chat to customers - we just got a beautiful hand-drawn thank you card from @AGreatrixArtist
We've just unpacked some Smart 35 lux front lights, half price at £20 (RRP £39.99)
Council remove badly designed cycle lane near Jake's Bikes
Dr Kevin Fong evaluates the realities of travelling by bike on UK roads
Britain's new cycling minister calls for more 'everyday' riders
From today, central Bristol is now a 20mph zone. Other areas will follow by April
New petition calls for installation of uninterrupted cycle lanes on Gloucester Road
Stolen Bristol Bikes' great blogpost on why people are wrong to mistrust D-locks
Shop local for Christmas this weekend to support your favourite small businesses
Big Commuter Count 2013 shows record level of cycle commuting
Weds Dec 11th at 4pm - if you would like to attend, click the link to register
Please pop in and pick some up if you'd like to help spread the word about Jake's Bikes
One simple graph belies all the media exaggeration about the risks of cycling
Very interesting article about police response to bad driving on busy Bristol road
Free for the first day when your bike is being worked on
Bristol police upload gallery of recovered bikes. Do you recognise any of them?
New research paper finds cycling projects like Bristol's represent money well spent
Another three Mongoose Crossway hybrids now on sale at £280
Five crafty questions to pop if you're shopping for a new commuting bike
What other company still has spare parts available 60 years later?
Get involved, spread the word: Bristol's new cycling Manifesto aims to quadruple cycling by 2025
It is just over five years since Jake's Bikes opened for business
Spotted nearby: possibly the world's worst bike lock
Jake's Bikes now has a mobile-optimised website for smartphones
Jake's Bikes featured in article on bike hire in Bristol
Police film officer "stealing" bicycles in public to show how easy it is for a thief to get away unchallenged
Jake's Bikes is among the local bike shops recommended in Evening Post article
In the first of a series of videos, Jake shows how to replace an inner tube
Jake is interviewed by the Considerate Cycling Campaign
We now have a kids trailer-bike available for long-term hire
Basic toolkit and track pump for all to use
Which mayoral candidate will be best for cycling?
Jake's Bikes is featured in a round-up of local bike maintenance courses
We now have hire bikes available for daily, weekend or weekly rental
We are now offering beginners advice sessions for free
Jake's Bikes announced as finalist for cycle industry award
We've added a whole new shop section to the website
Celebration of vintage bikes (and clothing!) was a great success
Jake's Bikes is featured in Bristol's daily newspaper
We're now in a shop unit by the Bus Station
Jake's Bikes announced as finalist for cycle industry award
Article published in 'Boneshaker' magazine
Mechanic Pete earns industry standard Cytech qualification
New mechanic joins Jake in the workshop
Jake's Bikes supports the Bristol Bike Project
A gallery of some of Jake's bikes on their travels
Jake's Bikes is this month featured in BikeBiz magazine
Jake's Bikes officially opened on Monday 10th February 2008


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Manti Te'o told Katie Couric the feelings he had for what turned out to be a fake, online girlfriend were real and reiterated he had nothing to do with the hoax.
The All-American linebacker said he was truly sorrowful and pained after finding out the woman he knew as Lennay Kekua died in September. On Thursday, a voicemail from the person claiming to Kekua was played on Couric's show, "Katie."
"It didn't sound like a man. It sounded, sounded like a woman. But if he somehow made that voice, that's incredible," Te'o said. "Doesn't it sound like a girl?"
"It does," Couric said.
Te'o's inspirational tale of triumph on the field after the deaths of his grandmother and girlfriend was exposed as a bizarre hoax on Jan. 16, 2013 when news broke that Kekua did not exist.
Te'o admitted to Couric he misled reporters into thinking he had met his long-distance girlfriend in person, which never actually happened. He said when they had planned to meet in San Diego during a flight layover, he was told she was in a car accident and hospitalized in Los Angeles.
"It doesn't make sense to me either at this point," he said.
When asked by Couric if he made up the relationship to cover up his sexual orientation, Te'o denied it.
"Are you gay?" Couric asked.
Te'o replied, "No. Far from it."
He said the relationship felt real to him- and his parents.
"He's not a liar. He's a kid. He's a 21 year old kid trying to be a man," Brian Te'o, father, said.
Kekua was allegedly created by the hoaxster Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.
The Associated press contributed to this report. All rights reserved.
January 24, 2013 (NEW YORK) --Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o said his pain and sorrow was real, even if his girlfriend was not.


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|How about providing the ability to insert FTP commands verbatim? I'm thinking about, for example, being able to do a CHMOD 777 directly as a work-around for a permissions problem just posted. Might be done by starting the directory line with an escape character of some sort - I realise I can type in a paths to jump straight to at present.


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The stories after Stonewall, starring Frank Ocean, Tegan and Sara, Jobriath, Troye Sivan, Grace Jones, and more
Portraits and live shots from this year's fest featuring Janelle Monáe, Thundercat, Kelela, Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt, and more—plus the awesomely stylish crowd.
From Drake's dominance to Adele's return, Tame Impala's blissful psych to Kendrick Lamar's politically charged hip-hop, 2015 marked another diverse and strong year for music. These are our picks for the best songs of the year.
A gallery of our favorite portraits and live shots from across the year, spotlighting artists including Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Darkside, Mac DeMarco, Giorgio Moroder, Janelle Monáe, and more.
From Drake to Beach House to Deafheaven to Sophie to Grimes to Cloud Nothings to, yes, Kanye—our picks for the best songs of the half-decade.
Photographer Pooneh Ghana captures portraits and backstage moments featuring Kurt Vile, El-P and Killer Mike, Phoenix, Chance the Rapper, Interpol, Sleigh Bells, and many more.
Photographer Colin Kerrigan captures the seventh annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia, featuring intimate backstage moments with the artists.
Here are the 50 albums we couldn't stop listening to this year including: Blood Orange's homespun R&B, Majical Cloudz's bold confessionals, Kanye's explosive statement of purpose, Vampire Weekend's all-loving rallying cry, and more.
Presenting our favorite songs of the year: from the chaos of Perfect Pussy to the smoothness of Rhye, from Los Angeles' Haim to New York's Vampire Weekend, from Disclosure's modern house to Daft Punk's disco symphonies, and more.
The 25 most eye-catching sleeves of the year including: Deafheaven's absolute pinkness, Tyler, the Creator's loony self-portrait, David Bowie's revisionist history, Savages' elegant minimalism, and Pharmakon's pretty, pretty maggots.
Our year-end coverage kicks off with some of our favorite shots of 2013, including images of Björk (above), Daft Punk, Vampire Weekend, Savages, Lana Del Rey, Arctic Monkeys, Solange, Grimes, Lil B, the xx, Danny Brown, and more.


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Jim Crandell: After Humiliating Loss, What's Next for The 49ers?
What do the 49ers do now?
That is really an over-simplification encompassing many other more specific questions about the team, starting with team CEO Jed York's immediate reaction to the Thanksgiving night shellacking, 19-3, by the Seattle Seahawks.
Immediately after the game last night York took to Twitter. He thanked 49ers fans for coming to the game, then ripped his team. York tweeted, "This performance wasn't acceptable. I apologize for that."
My initial reaction was that it's never a good idea for anyone to tweet when they are upset, so perhaps York's immediate reaction was just a reflection of his disappointment only minutes after his team was dominated in what was clearly a big game for the 49ers. Or maybe it was an honest comment on the status of head coach Jim Harbaugh.
There have been rumors since before the season began about Harbaugh and his future with the team. Reports regarding Harbaugh's tenuous future in San Francisco resurfaced this week, even before this latest loss to Seattle. That speculation could hit fever pitch now. If York's tweet was intended to convey a message or set a tone regarding his head coach, it was certainly not a vote of confidence.
And what about 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick? His critics seem to multiply by the game, or more accurately, by every wayward pass he throws. Many of those critics are experienced NFL coaches and players, like former 49ers quarterback Steve Young.
There were reports this week out of Seattle that the Seahawks are not inclined to give their QB, Russell Wilson, a big new contract until they are confident he will continue to develop into a star who can lead them to success for years to come.
The 49ers, on the other hand, have already handed Kaepernick a deal some report could be worth up to $126 million. Was it is a mistake to reward him with so much money and the keys to the team's future so soon? So, the coach appears to be on shaky ground, and the quarterback's play has definitely been shaky on the field. Now 49ers fans will wait to see if Jed York will do something to shake this team up going forward, if Harbaugh/Kaepernick and company don't get things around in hurry.


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So, I don't know how much the news has been covering this in the States, but there's this big cold wave hitting Europe. And it's COLD! (Imagine that :) Anyhow, we've just spent the day finding warm places to hide out around the city, as our apartment lacks central heating. (This has suddenly become out #1 priority for the next apartment we find for next month...) Anyhow, today's adventures have led us to a really awesome library that's a few blocks away, a neat little bar (for cokes, but hey) where we did language exchange, the self-learning center of the Universidad de Barcelona (we've spent lots of time here), and a few other haunts. Everyone's wandering around in giant coats, bundled up like crazy. I can't say I blame them!
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A few weeks ago I was talking to a coworker about the washing that had been left to dry in the sun. I was proclaiming that this wasn't how they should leave it. That they should leave it in the shade to prevent discoloring when my coworkers started looking at me in a funny way.
At first I didn't understand why they were looking at me like that, but as it turns out everyone else hangs their washing to dry in the full sun.
This made me realise that I am the only person in a rather large group that not only hangs the washing in the shade, I also cover it with a tea towel to make sure sunlight doesn't hit my clothes.
I'm also the only one that never uses pegs on t-shirts, sweaters and blouses. And when I use pegs on trousers I use two on each leg, making sure to only use them on the bottom rim, so there won't be any marks visible.
But this made me wonder about other things as well.
Am I the only one who turns the mattress every time I change the bedding? Am I the only one who has marked all four sides of said mattress to make sure I turn them evenly?
And how about washing pillows?
I see a lot of people who hang their duvet out the bedroom window. That is something I'd never do. It's hanging from a spider invested window sill, rubbing against a dirty brick wall, or worse, dirty roof tiles. I only get it outside when it's great weather and hang it out on a few chairs and washing lines. To keep it off the ground.
How about you? Do you have strange ways to do household chores?


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February 24, 1925 ~ February 11, 2018
Margie Hurst Holt passed away on Sunday, February 11, 2018, after a having lived a remarkable life, just short of 93 years. She was born the eldest child of Philip and Mabel Wright Hurst, in Blanding, Utah, on February 24, 1925.
Margie graduated from San Juan High School in 1943. She graduated from BYU with a Bachelor's degree in English Literature in 1947. For a year she taught third grade at Blanding Elementary. The University of Utah was where she earned a Master's Degree in Speech and Hearing Pathology in 1950.
For several years Margie worked as a speech therapist, first with the Easter Seals Society in North Dakota. She later became the Executive Director of the Wyoming Easter Seals Society. While living in Wyoming, she met Robert J. Holt, a widower, and his two children, Lee and Kathi. She and Bob were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on June 1, 1960. She left her career to become a wife and mother. The Holt's moved to Davis County, Utah, where two children, John and Terri, were welcomed into the family.
Following Bob's death in 1978, Margie again entered the workforce. She re-certified as a speech-language pathologist and worked for the Box Elder School District. When she retired in 1996, she was recruited by the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry to start schools in Ogden and Salt Lake City for children with speech and learning disorders.
Margie was passionate about music, particularly the violin. Margie loved to write stories, poems, biographies, and resource materials for speech pathologists. Late in life, she self-published three novels.
She was a humble, truly converted, testimony-bearing, gospel-living, service-giving, truth-telling, temple-attending member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she held numerous church callings, including Relief Society President and Gospel Doctrine Teacher. The Gospel of Jesus Christ was indeed central to Margie's life and choices.
Margie is survived by her children: Lee (Barbara) Holt, Kathi (Dennis) Ricks, John (Gina) Holt, and Terri Nista; 11 grand- children and 20 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by two siblings, Howard Hurst and Mabel June Palmer. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and four of her siblings: Lois, Terry, Scott and Leonard.
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May 27, 2004
Don't laugh — research shows comedy can give candidates a serious boost
Presidential candidates can gain a measurable image boost from going on late-night TV, UW researchers have found.
The researchers found that during the 2000 campaign, the favorability rating of George W. Bush went up among late-night comedy watchers for a week after Bush traded comedic jabs with David Letterman.
"Everyone talks about how 'infotainment' is becoming more important in elections, but can it actually sway perceptions of the candidates? We found evidence that it can." said Patricia Moy, UW associate professor of communication.
Bush, of course, was not the only presidential contender playing the entertainment card. Rival Al Gore also won points with late-night viewers after a Halloween stint on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, but Gore already was more popular than Bush among the liberal-tending late-night crowd.
"The potential influence appears to be stronger for the relatively unknown candidate," said Moy, who will present the findings Saturday to the International Communication Association's annual conference in New Orleans.
The study — with UW graduate students Verena Hess and Michael Xenos as co-authors — is based on responses from 11,482 adults to the National Annenberg Election Survey. Pollsters asked a random sample of Americans during the 2000 race how frequently they watched late-night comedy shows, and how favorably they rated the candidates.
In the week before Bush's Oct. 19 appearance with Letterman, his rating was essentially equal among late-night viewers and non-viewers (56.2 vs. 58.5 on a scale of 0–100). During the week after the show, however, viewers' rating of Bush rose to 59.0, while nonviewers' rating of him dropped to 55.5.
The Letterman effect seemed to wear off the following week, when Bush was again doing equally well with non-viewers and viewers.
Some TV viewers, Moy said, may interpret a candidate's willingness to be a guest on their favorite show as a sign that he wants to reach more citizens and cares about their concerns. Indeed, after Bush's appearance with Letterman, late-night comedy watchers were more likely than non-watchers to base their rating of Bush on their perception that he "really cares about people like me."
It's no secret that politicians have been paying increasing attention to media genres not traditionally associated with serious information, from Richard Nixon's image-softening 1968 appearance on Laugh-In to Arnold Schwarzenegger's pre-election interview last year with Oprah Winfrey.
A popular source of such "non-traditional" news in the 2000 presidential campaign was late-night comedy, according to a separate Pew Research Center study. And Letterman and Leno reach at least three million viewers each night.
But Moy cautioned that the benefit to a candidate depends on how he does on the show.
"Research tells us that voters' political decisions are based on many factors," Moy said, "including candidates' issue stances and their ability to interact with citizens and make them feel comfortable."
And though the late-night comedy audience represents only 22.4 percent of the total Annenberg sample — and is generally younger, more liberal and more male than the overall adult population — Moy said that is a key segment that politicians are trying to reach.
"If you can get a generation to vote," she said, "that can swing an election."
The study can be found at www.com.washington.edu/Program/Faculty/Faculty/moy.html.


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AirWatch, a player in the enterprise mobile device security and management (MDM) space, has managed to capture around 5,000 customers for itself over the last three years or so. Interestingly, the company has never taken in outside funding, and has grown through its operating cash flow. The company's core product suite is cloud-based, which allows AirWatch MDM customers to get up to speed and fully running fairly quickly.
Customers include groups within the top four global Fortune companies, nine of the top 10 US retailers, six of the top 10 global airlines, the top four global energy companies, six of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies, seven of the top 10 global CPG companies, three of the top five US medical device companies, five of the top 10 global luxury goods companies and two of the top three global hotel groups. As customers go, that's not a bad list, and the company has done a good job of getting its MDM platform out there.
Now, as have the other MDM vendors it competes with, AirWatch is now moving in the direction of expanding its offerings to more specifically target enterprise mobile application management (MAM). To do so, earlier this week AirWatch announced its new standalone MAM capabilities. The AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM - yet another buzzword/acronym encompassing MDM and MAM) solution now delivers MDM, MAM, mobile content management and mobile e-mail management.
All of this, of course, is driven by BYOD, which has expanded mobile concerns for enterprises beyond simply managing devices and now encompasses mobile applications and enterprise data, as well as e-mail access of that data and the distribution of that data through e-mails either as attachments or in the body of e-mails. Enterprises and educational institutions enabling BYOD programs now require a combination of flexible mobile management options based on device ownership, role and security risk level to deal with these security issues.
The AirWatch EMM platform provides its customers with the ability to ensure regulatory compliance, minimize internal risk and guarantee end user satisfaction and privacy. AirWatch supports corporate dedicated or shared devices, personal BYOD devices, and as of this week personal devices with standalone application management as well.
AirWatch also offers its Secure Content Locker to securely distribute and share content. The Secure Content Locker features advanced security and audit capabilities and can be purchased and implemented with as a tightly integrated component of the AirWatch MDM solution or as an independent module.
Key MAM Features
The AirWatch platform now provides an app wrapping engine that allows developers to add proprietary AirWatch security features to internally built apps without writing any additional source code. With injected code, developers benefit by not spending time coding for additional features. The AirWatch wrapping engine allows for forced authentication, enforcement of passwords, compromised device detection, prevention of copy/paste from the app and disablement of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and camera.
The AirWatch MAM solution also allows IT admins to completely manage internal, public and purchased apps across employee, corporate or shared devices. AirWatch customers can also implement internal enterprise app catalogs to recommend public apps, push apps directly to devices, inform employees of useful apps and provision specific apps, based on organizational role.
Last, the AirWatch MAM solution gives developers multiple options to manage internally developed apps by using advanced security and management capabilities available through the AirWatch Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK provides developers with additional app management functionality, all of which can be controlled from the AirWatch console. In-house developers can easily implement such things as seamless LDAP/AD user authentication, compromised status and jailbreak detection, certificate provisioning, geo-fencing, custom application branding, reporting and analytics, application health and diagnostics, dynamic server-side configuration and provisioning of apps and defining custom settings for apps.
"AirWatch has a proven track record of industry-leading product innovation. We also provide transparent pricing, flexible deployment options and now a combination of options to meet the evolving trends for BYOD," says John Marshall, president and CEO, AirWatch, who has seen the company grow from a few people to its current collection of over 500 employees. "Enterprises now have a variety of deployment scenarios, and our AirWatch enterprise mobility suite offers the commercial solutions needed to align with product requirements."
To be sure, most of the vendors who compete with AirWatch deliver these same collections of capabilities, though MobileIron, as our recent coverage of the company spells out, is probably the most direct competitor to AirWatch in terms of customer targets and platform capabilities. Other competitors include but are not limited to Zenprise (recently acquired by Citrix), Symantec (through its acquisition of Odyssey Software a little less than a year ago), Good Technology (which recently added app wrapping security capabilities), Boxtone, and SAP (through the newest version of its Afaria product).
We note here as well that recently Good Technology decided to pursue patent infringement lawsuits against both AirWatch and MobileIron. These will certainly be interesting to watch.


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"Bottles clank and the smell of hot, mashed corn permeates the air. A lazy fan whirs, complimenting the constant hum of the stills that are directly behind me. In front of me stands Colin Spoelman, moonshiner." (Smith Ratliff).
02. The Regent Street Windows Project by RIBA
"For the past two weeks, 10 store windows in central London have been infused with designed displays as part of the Regent Street Windows Project. With a theme of 'cities of tomorrow,' the second annual event has invited designers and architects to overhaul shop façades at Levi's, Ted Baker, Banana Republic and seven other locations." (Frame).
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"Don't look now, but the Wayside Inn Antiques Show is making antiquing fun again. Staged most recently at the historic Wayside Inn, May 13–15, this 46-dealer fair mixes business and pleasure, striking a calculated balance between affordable fare and choice specimens for dedicated collectors." (The Bee).
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"It's that time. Time to gaze longingly at your backyard or terrace and envision the grill of your dreams. Is it the type of BBQ that you fill with coal and set ablaze, or does it fire up with a click of a button and the turn of a knob?" (Food Republic).


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This is part of a series of year-in-review reports in Crain's. For more year-end coverage, visit our special section online.
Among the big-ticket items that were not approved in 2013 were transportation funding, no-fault auto insurance reform, expansion of the Educational Achievement Authority, reforms to the Certificate of Need process and adding sexual orientation to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.
But that's not to say lawmakers weren't busy.
Here are five of the biggest laws from 2013:
1. Medicaid expansion
Snyder went on the offensive in the summer, pressuring Republican senators to come back from their vacations and vote on the bill. The Senate took its time instead, and when the day came, it took hours of vote wrangling to make it happen.
After the bill's passage, the Senate was unable to find two more votes to give it immediate effect, meaning people couldn't sign up to receive coverage until mid-March rather than Jan. 1. That was a problem for those individuals, and also for the state, because the delay put a $70 million hole in the Community Health budget that still has not been fixed.
2. Blue Cross
A few months later, a new bill was drafted, sans the abortion language, and Snyder signed it. Under the new law, the Blues will contribute as much as $1.56 billion over 18 years to a fund aimed at improving the health and wellness of state residents. It will also pay an estimated $100 million in annual state and local taxes.
3. Abortion coverage
Knowing the governor's objection to it, the pro-life organization used the rare tactic of a voter-initiated law and sought signatures from around the state to put the language before the Legislature. Doing it this way allowed for it to become law once a simple majority in the House and Senate approved it. Snyder would not be allowed to veto it this time.
During the final week of the legislative session, lawmakers approved it. It will become law in mid-March.
4. New vehicle, boat sales tax
Before the law went into effect, the buyer of a new vehicle or boat was required to pay sales tax on the total price of the new vehicle. The law did not take into account trade-ins that reduce the bottom line price.
Now it will — or at least eventually it will.
For vehicles, the law will be phased in over a 24-year period, but in the first year, purchasers of a new vehicle can subtract up to $2,000. It will increase $500 annually after that.
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And that is the conclusion to our allusions.
Allusions are figures of speech.
- They are simply a reference to:
. Literature
. Events
. Places
. People
Allusions in history.
Here are some examples of allusions.
Eye of the needle
After all he went through, we gave him the nickname Job.
King Ahab and Jezebel.
"Here they come, King Ahab and his wife, Jezebel."
The idea came to him like handwriting on a wall.
Biblical Allusions
Sodom and
They call the city a modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
Job was a character in the bible who was best known for his period of suffering.
Handwriting on the wall
In this case, the reference to the handwriting on the wall comes as revelation.
King Ahab and Jezebel are famous characters of the Bible known for their wickedness and dishonesty.
Sodom and Gomorrah can be used to describe any place that is thought of as sinful and immoral. Both of these cities were destroyed by God for their perversion.
"It would be easier to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven."
The eye of the needle represents an impossible or difficult task. The phrase was used by Jesus in the Bible when talking to his disciples about the rich young man who approached him.
EL Dorado
Expecting to find El Dorado, they found nothing at all.
El Dorado was a famous imaginary city supposedly full of great wealth.
"Don't Bowdlerize it anymore!"
To bowdlerize is to edit, censor, or remove certain material to the point that it is less effective.
Associated with Thomas Bowdler.
John has gone Berserk!
To go berserk is to become uncontrolled or violent or simply go crazy.
"The whole thing is one big McCarthyism!"
To make accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without solid evidence. The word was coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of U.S. Senator Joseph MacCarthy.
"He would rather live in his imaginary Utopia than face reality."
Utopia represents the ideal and/or perfect society in which all humans live in harmony.
Achilles' Heel
"She had an Achilles' heel for chocolate."
"The ocean was raging with the wrath of Neptune."
Neptune was the Roman god of the sea.
Achilles' heel could be used to refer to any weakness a person may have in spite of their overall strength.
Pandora's box
"It was the Pandora's box he should have never opened."
In Greek mythology the opening of the Pandora's box was the cause of all sickness, crime, evil, hatred and envy.
"I'm a protean when it comes to blending in."
In mythology Proteus could readily change form into whatever he wished.
"Sampson destroyed the Temple of Dagon with Herculean strength."
Don Juan
"He was a regular Don Juan with the ladies."
Don Juan is used synony-mously with "woman-izer" , especia-lly in Spanish slang.
"His ideas were too quixotic to be taken seriously."
Quixotic can used to say that something is unrealistically heroic or idealistic.
Term originated from ->
Simon Legree
"My boss is a Simon Legree when it comes to paperwork."
Simon Legree was a cruel slave owner in the book,
. His name can also be used synonymously with greed.
"Thanks, you have the emotions of a robot."
The sentence is said in a sarcastic tone. Robots don't have emotions! They are mechanical beings that don't respond to feelings.
Herculean- very strong or of extraordinary power; from Hercules.
Allusions can basically refer to anything, real or imaginary.
But allusions are dependent on your understanding as to what they are a
reference to or what they mean in context of a sentence.
"That yahoo can't even spell."
A yahoo is a boorish, crass, or stupid person.
Comes from->
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Expression originates from the Book of Daniel, from the handwriting on the wall that was witnessed at the banquet hosted by King Belshazzar.
Comes from the term berserker, who was an ancient Scandinavian warrior who worked himself in a frenzy before battle.
Word was coined by Thomas More and used as the title to his book. In Greek Utopia means good place.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
weekly wrap & I continue to defy a watery grave
However, after about 400 meters, I noticed that every time I turned my head over my right shoulder to breathe, my dull headache shot up a few notches to OUCH. A few laps later, this turned into a deep-down-in-my-back-teeth kind of sinus headache. I traded out my swim cap for the looser, crappy one that I bought last week and loosened my goggles, but nothing helped. After 1000M, I gave up and sat in the whirlpool for a while, then took a long shower. But the Wilson pool gets two awesome thumbs up, and I can't wait to go back and do a long swim there.
In thinking about what it could be. I ate a ton of sugar this weekend, so it could be a delayed sugar headache. I know that I was well hydrated, so that wasn't it. I had yogurt/fruit/granola for breakfast, a granola bar & some fruit for a morning snack, and PB&J and a cupcake about an hour before swimming, so I wasn't hungry or low on blood sugar. I've been nursing an on-and-off stress headache for the past week or so, but it super-intensified when I got in the pool. My goggles have been my arch enemy for a while, as I either spend the entire workout reseating them on my face after they flip when I push off the wall OR I finish the workout with an eye-socket headache. There seems to be no good middle ground. So I think new goggles are in my near future. And maybe an increased focus on work/life balance.
Last week in review:
Monday: 50 minutes lifting (legs), 43 minutes/2000 yard hard swim.
Tuesday: 50 minutes lifting (arms/chest/back), 1:10/20.05 miles cycling.
Wednesday: 50 minutes lifting (L), 1:05/2800 yard swim, 40 minutes/4 mile pool run.
Thursday: 45 minutes lifting (a/c/b), 1:23/21.31 miles of an incredibly frustrating windy ride.
Friday: 30 minutes lifting (L) - reduced for ride prep, 32 minutes/1650 yard swim.
Saturday: 2:49/44 miles cycling.
Sunday: 31 minutes/7 miles recumbent bike.
The milestone of last week? First time breaking 100 miles (overall mileage) since the week before my surgery. Progress is as progress does.
And, the puppy party was fantastic but a bit insane. There was a lot of this:
Some of this:
And a lot of this:
But I think they were friends in the end:
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Oh, Nigel...ReplyDelete
Two things I so, totally agree with: 1. it is MUCH easier to keep track of distance in a 50M pool, and 2. it's also good to be swimming longer distances without touching the wall (even if it's only a tiny bit longer) as I prep for the open water.ReplyDelete
I also find that when the pool's crowded—which happens frequently at Wilson—you get that full-contact-swimming feel to prep for the start of an OWS. Thanks for a great swim date—looking forward to another (headache-free!) date next week!
nice workouts! keep up the strong recovery!ReplyDelete
those puppies are so cute! i want one!!!
Ugh, headaches are the worst! Good job lasting 1000!ReplyDelete
I wish I had gone to the puppy party! Looks like it was a success!! Nice work last week, you are on fire!
LOL PUPPYPICS!ReplyDelete
I haven't swum laps, really, ever. No clue how to do a flip turn. But I'm up for this Wilson pool watery grave thing.
You are awesome for always getting out (in?) there!


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The Bologna Process is a voluntary higher education reform process, which commenced in 1998/99, with the aim of making higher education systems compliant, and enhancing their international visibility. EUA plays an active role in the Bologna Process representing views of the universities, and participates in practically all its events and activities. Many of EUA projects are dedicated to the development of European policies and practice in the context of Bologna. EUA has also contributed to explaining and promoting the Bologna Reforms around the globe. While the reforms are relatively well-known by now, they still provide a basis for global dialogue with international partner organisations.
In its first phase, the Bologna Process focussed on 10 Action lines. With time, these have been rephrased, and further developed. Major Bologna goals and instruments are:
EUA has been closely involved in the Bologna Process since it was conceived, with the aim of ensuring the involvement of Europe's universities. It is officially a consultative member of the Bologna Process and participates in all its activities (with the exception of voting). It participates in the Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG - an intergovernmental meeting-process for senior officials of signatory countries and stakeholder organisations), and its working groups and task forces.
In addition, EUA has also been tasked by Ministers to develop the following:
In close collaboration with members and partners EUA also conducts studies and good practice initiatives and promotes the further development and implementation of the Bologna Process reforms.
EUA issues declarations and statements on the eve of the ministerial conferences. They are usually based on the results of the Trends reports , which provide the perspective of higher education institutions on Bologna reforms and in recent years also on other developments that impact the European higher education landscape.
EUA also provided guidance and evidence in order to advance specific Bologna Action Lines, e.g. in the area of lifelong learning, the degree system and on mobility.
Several of EUA's projects have also contributed to promoting the EHEA in a global setting and sharing practice regarding higher education regional reform and harmonisation processes that have gained speed in different world regions.
In 1998 France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany signed the Sorbonne Declaration on the "harmonisation of the architecture of the European Higher Education System".
In 1999, Ministers of Education from 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration which aims to create a coherent and cohesive European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010. The main objectives outlined in this statement were as follows:
Since the adoption of the Bologna Declaration in 1999, European Ministers of Education have met every two years to further discuss and build upon the initial objectives. It is at this time that the Ministers produce a communiqué: the Prague (2001), Berlin (2003), Bergen (2005) and London (2007) communiqués each outline the progress made thus far as well as future short and long term priorities.
In Prague, it was agreed to add three more action lines:
• inclusion of lifelong learning strategies
• involvement of higher education institutions and students as essential partners in the Process
• promotion of the attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area.
In Berlin, they agreed to speed up the process by setting an intermediate deadline of 2005 for progress on:
• quality assurance
• the adoption of a system of degree structures based on two main cycles
• recognition of degrees.
Moreover, they decided to add the additional Action Line "Doctoral studies and promotion of young researchers", including specific mention of doctoral programmes as the third cycle in the Bologna Process.
In Bergen, Ministers committed themselves for their next meeting in 2007 to reinforcing the social dimension and removing obstacles to mobility, as well as to making progress on:
Implementing the agreed standards and guidelines for quality assuranceImplementing national frameworks of qualificationsAwarding and recognising joint degreesCreating opportunities for flexible learning paths in higher education
In the last ministerial meeting in London (17-18 May 2007) Ministers underlined that good overall progress has been made in the last two years in the realisation of the EHEA. However, many challenges still remain.
You can read the London Communiqué: Towards the European Higher Education Area: responding to challenges in a globalised world also in French.
The 2009 Communiqué from Leuven and Louvain-La Neuve underlines the importance of maintaining the existing stakeholder approach post 2010 – which means that students, universities, business, in tandem with governments, will share responsibility for the development of future reforms and cooperation. (A French version of the Communiqué is available here.) EUA welcomes the fact that the Communiqué takes up many of the key points stressed in its recent Prague Declaration to Ministers. In particular, the Communiqué underlines the importance of increasing the quality and quantity of mobility in Europe, together with many of the other key issues underlined in the EUA Declaration including taking forward lifelong learning, notably through the take-up up of EUA's Lifelong Learning Charter, and improving researcher careers.
For the first time as part of a Bologna Ministerial Summit, Ministers from the 46 European countries participating in the Leuven/Louvain-la Neuve meeting were joined by Ministers or heads of delegation from 15 countries from Africa, Asia, America (North and South) and Australasia as part of a 'Bologna Policy Forum'. Please click here to read more and to download the statement from the meeting.
In 2010, the Vienna Ministerial Conference and the 2nd Bologna Policy Forum took place.
With the Vienna Declaration, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been officially launched. EUA has reflected on the achievements of the Bologna Process so far, and on the new steps to be taken in the first decade of the EHEA in its TRENDS 2010 report.
In 2012, the Bucharest Ministerial Conference took place, together with the 3rd Bologna Policy Forum. It put a strong emphasis on implementation of existing policy goals. This has been underpinned by the Bologna Implementation report, prepared with the support of Eurydice, Eurostudent and Eurostat, which provided more concise data, and took a closer look at progress made.
In the period of 2012 to 2015 the work of the BFUG has been organised in four major working groups: The Reporting Working Group (also called Implementation Working Group) prepared the 2nd Bologna Implementation Report, But also the other working groups on Structural Reforms (QA, QF, Recognition and Transparency), the Social Dimension and LLL, and Mobility and Internationalisation and some of their substructures prepared reports, some of them comprising policy recommendations, guidelines etc. The 2015 Yerevan Communiqué clearly stated the need to take up new priorities in view of social and economic and also technical changes.
Further information is available at the official EHEA website: www.ehea.info
The Yerevan Ministerial Conference and Fourth Bologna Forum took place in period of 14-15 May 2015 in Armenia. It concluded a 3-year work phase which started in 2012 with the Bucharest Conference, adopted some revised and new instruments and also set out new goals up to 2018, when the next conference will be hosted by France.
The Conference was a success regarding participation: With 45 of 47 countries, almost all country members have been attending, many represented by their ministers. In addition, the European Union, the Council of Europe and organisations representing "stakeholders" attended. As one of the results of the conference, Belorussia has been admitted as the 48 country, subject to a roadmap which is would have to fulfill. Only two non-Bologna countries - Kirgizstan and Turkmenistan - participated in the Bologna Policy Forum – which was however attended by many regional and national organisations.
The Yerevan Communiqué points to a number of new and revised instruments of the Bologna Process
Not mentioned in the Communiqué is the acknowledged need to revise the Diploma Supplement - probably because the instrument is owned jointly by the EU, the Council of Europe, and UNESCO.
The emphasis on implementing reforms and "unfinished work", which has been one if not the central issue since the launch of the EHEA in 2010 has been enhanced :
Some new commitments have been made, others have been renewed:
In 2010, it has been decided to continue the Bologna Process up to 2020. The 2018 Bologna Meeting is going to take place in France, which provides the Bologna Secretariat for this period.
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text: torilynnsmith 22 Report post Posted September 28, 2011 WOW... I don't know if I could take the stress of this. Luckily you are far enough out that you can make the changes and your guests will (hopefully) be ok with it! Originally Posted by janette34 Sorry ladies but I need to vent!! I received a call from TA this afternoon and Sunquest has cancelled our flight to Mexico on April 20 without much explanation. The flight was fully booked (I could understand if it wasn't) and all my guests have paid their deposits. We were given two options: change to the week prior or get a complete refund and start all over again. I have opted to leave a week earlier so now I'm waiting to hear back from the WC to see if my new date is available. I'm so glad that I didn't have a bunch of stuff printed already with the old date. At least they cancelled it early enough that it won't cause many problems and still gives everyone enough time to change their plans, but I'm still MAD! Sounds PERFECT!!!! Also checked out your engagement pics and they look great!!!!! Good choice. Search the "underwater trash the dress" pics on this forum they are AMAZING and will be so cool that you get some of those done! Originally Posted by Krysta lee ann So i email the photographer...this is what i wrote: Hi Robert,So i have a couple questions for you regarding doing our destination wedding. i know we had discussed if we pay for your trip that you would do the photos at no cost and that you would be willing to pay for your wife to also come. is this still the case? i think i remember you mentioning (but could be wrong) that your wife is a photographer as well, am i right?if this is the case are you willing to take pictures on more than just the wedding day? i also really want to do a trash the dress session (i am still undecided if we do it on the resort or at a water fall or in the city) and was hoping to maybe get a few pic throughout the week.what do you think?Krysta And this was his response: Hi, Yes of course I would, I would say we could the wedding day complete, a trash the dress shoot (one afternoon), a couples shoot informal(another afternoon) and yes my wife can do candid shots during the wedding while I will be more focused, and also I have underwater capable equipment so we could do a snorkling / underwater themed shoot as well, and incorperate into the trash the dress shoot I think i should just pull the trigger......ahhh so nervous! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Just Breathe
23 abril, 2011
✎Eddie Vedder
I hope you ever, ever and ever. Only you make me talk about love, Eddie. You calm my soul, calms my heart. I know every mark of expression on his face, and think beautiful. Among the many perfections your imperfection is the most perfect. And I follow you so long admired. Silly! Really? So many things in this world makes no sense. If you depend on anything that my wish will never make sense. And you do not know who I am, and it is so indifferent to you. There are also many in the world with that same feeling for you, I would not be a particular grain of sand, I know not. But let me dream, let me play at being happy, playing to say I love you. And when my heart is tight, I just breathe. Because I know one day you will come and then go away.
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Father and son record holes-in-one on same hole during same Father's Day round
Lonnie Whitener has played plenty of rounds of golf over the years, some of them on Father's Day. He's also played plenty of rounds alongside his son, 13-year-old Zach Whitener.
By sheer availability, those two sets of circumstances haven't coincided too often, but they did on Sunday, when the Whiteners decided to celebrate Dad's day on the golf course. What resulted was sheer magic.
As reported by the Houston Chronicle, Associated Press and a handful of other outlets, both Whiteners recorded holes-in-one in the same round, on the same hole (the par-3 6th hole) at River Pointe Golf Club in Richmond, Texas. The pair chose to play at that course simply because Zach Whitener likes to see alligators that sometimes slink near the course, just on the edge of view.
The elder Whitener teed off from 115 yards away and scored an ace. His son shot from 100 yard and earned the same result.
"It's probably going to be the most memorable thing we accomplish together," Lonnie Whitener told the Chronicle. "I just hope we have a lot more good things to come. It's one of the coolest things you could ever do."
One of the coolest things, and rarest things statistically. The Chronicle consulted with the National Hole in One Registry, which attempts tracks all aces nationwide, and learned that the odds of two players in any one foursome hitting a hole-in-one on the same hole during the same round are approximately 1 in 17 million.
What makes those odds appear even longer are the Whiteners' relative lack of golf acumen. The elder Whitemen began golfing 13 years ago and aims to play once a week but still holds a handicap in the 15 to 20-stroke range. His son plays only once a month.
That was all but irrelevant to former University of Texas golfer Lance Lopez, now a PGA of America golf professional, who witnessed both hole in ones go in on top of each other.
"We were speechless," Lopez said. "It was like, 'Did that really just happen?' "
It's likely that Lopez wasn't the last person to be left speechless by the Whitener's remarkable stroke of luck, which will make them golf legends whenever they take to the course.
"This was something else," Lonnie Whitener told the Chronicle. "We'll remember this forever. Now I can tell anyone, 'Give me your best golf story, and I'll one-up you.' "
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The year is winding down and I'm starting to allow myself to think about my trip to southeast Asia next month. Continue reading
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I'm going to ……..Germany and (later) Luxembourg!
I didn't venture out during April break–I don't know why–I kept looking for a vacation until 5 days before the break. I found some fabulous deals weeks beforehand, but I didn't pull the trigger because we had snow forecasted–blizzards actually (which busted up to some heavy winds and rain). Then I waited for my tax return so I could pay off my SE Asia trip in June/July off first. Then I found an alternative itinerary of paths less ventured and I still didn't book the darn thing because–I don't know why. At work, I'm known to travel frequently and often in the halls or mailroom I'm asked where I plan to visit on the next trip. I cracked under the pressure. Also, my options are more limited because of my own rules. I'm trying to see new places and not go back to the same countries. I've visited England 7-8 times and I still long to visit certain regions of the country that I've missed. There are several cities in both Italy and Spain that I want to spend some time in, but I want to check off some new places first.
So I'm sitting here looking at airfares since I read a report that due to United and Delta making some poor PR moves, airfares are plummeting. Well, I found some fantastic deals. I searched, planned, and booked (no hesitations) not just one trip but TWO trips!
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Favorite Places-Top Ten in Europe
I have several favorite places for different reasons so I have a new mini-series planned–Favorite Places-Europe, Favorite Places-USA, Favorite Places-Asia (after my SE Asian adventure later this year) and maybe Favorite Places-City/Attractions or Favorite Places-Day Trip Destinations.
I'll start with my comfort zone–Europe. I think my criteria for determining "favorite" status will be feeling of comfort while there, ease of getting around, the attractions, and if I'd return (& if I've returned–how many times).
Here's my list of top ten cities in Europe: Continue reading


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The Olympics just got a little less friendly to absolute skeezeballs: The International Volleyball Federation has decided to let women's beach volleyball players wear shorts in place of the standard bikini bottoms.
As the BBC reports:
Bikinis have helped define the sport but the FIVB wants to respect the cultural beliefs of various countries.
"Many of these countries have religious and cultural requirements so the uniform needed to be more flexible." said FIVB spokesman Richard Baker.
The modified rule permits "shorts of a maximum length of (1.18 inches) above the knee, and sleeved or sleeveless tops."
The skimpy bottoms previously mandated by the IVP had drawn controversy in recent games, especially when placed in contrast to the sleeveless tops and baggy shorts of the men's uniform.
Now that the bikinis are gone, any guesses what sport becomes the favorite of the dirty old man demographic? We're hoping, for reasons of pure hilarity, that it turns out to be dressage.


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When I'm asked why I love the outdoors so much, I always go back to the hikes, bike rides and family camping trips that I took as a child. Most of my greatest childhood memories were spent enjoying family time in the outdoors. My mother loved taking us kids to the beach, going for bike rides near the lake and even spending an afternoon in the backyard gardening as a family.
It is those times in the outdoors as a child that has made me the outdoor enthusiast I am today. Now that I am a father, my wife and I take our kids hiking, snowshoeing, car camping and anything else we can think of to get the whole family outside. With that in mind, I put together this list of why it is important to get kids outside.
Outdoorsy Moms: Why it's Important
- Kids look up to their mother and learn to value many of the same things their mother values. When your child sees you caring for nature, you are passing those values on to the next generation.
- With childhood obesity at astonishing levels, it is important to show children how to have fun playing and exercising outdoors.
- Studies show that children who limit their screen-time and play outdoors are healthier, happier and smarter than those who get less outdoor time.
- You are building wonderful memories that will last a lifetime. Do you want your children remembering you for always working and being busy or would you rather they look back and remember all of the time they spent with you in the outdoors.
- Nature is the best classroom. Children can learn a lot from just observing nature. Have you spent an afternoon chasing bugs, examining flowers or playing in the river. There are many natural lessons children can learn in nature that are hard to capture in a text book.
- It's fun. What is more fun than an afternoon of exploring? Your children will learn to love the outdoors and hopefully when they are grown, they will call you up to go for a hike.
Those are the reasons I think it is so important to be an outdoorsy mom and raise your children with plenty of outdoor play. Do you agree? Why do you spend time outside with your kids? I'd live to hear your ideas in the comments below.


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Perhaps it could work with a button to inquiry the internet if all you have is "up to speed"? Most people wouldn't mind some minutes of machine-thinking if that means it can assess correctly what you are missing, what you are not missing, what is corrupted, etc.For instance, it's glaringly ugly for me to run the application and it implicitly telling me I haven't download the mediavps, but that I did download Sync, when I just downloaded the former months ago and used the app to download the latter.
Yet it seems to take rather long and consume significant amounts of bandwith. Wouldn't putting this information in a seperate .txt file be a lot faster?
The installer doesn't actually download the files to check the size, it merely checks the size HTTP reports.
Regardless, the issue I first made a report about has been fixed: The FSOpen installer seems to properly recognize that the MVP2014s download has failed, and therefore I don't need to check the re-run installation button to ensure that everything works.I shall now see if I can get the other files.
User reports selecting 'complete' but looks like they did not get MVPs 3.6.12.
Thanks Goober, good answers.Just one more thing: Could you add a "pause" button?
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'TV Guide' Spoils 'Grey's Anatomy' for Every Fan in America?
Apparently, the magazine was unsatisfied just spoiling it for grocery-shopping Grey's fans, and went after everyone.
So remember yesterday, when we complained about TV Guide's current cover, which totally spoils a plot twist on Grey's Anatomy? Apparently the magazine wasn't satisfied to spoil it for only those Grey's fans who go grocery shopping and might see the magazine in the checkout line; they actually bought ad time on this week's episode to spoil it for everyone!
That's right, TV Guide aired an ad during this week's episode that spoils next week's episode. Thankfully, no one watches commercials anymore, but if you've DVR-ed Grey's, and if despite TV Guide's best efforts you haven't yet seen the cover, be very careful fast-forwarding through the commercial break at the 40-minute mark; the final commercial before the show restarts is the offending ad.
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NZTA Education Newsletters
Here you will find a list of past newsletters from the Education Portal.
These provide a quick way for teachers and partner agencies to get ideas about effective road safety education.
The full PDF newsletters are available below.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 37 (October 2017)PDF Document, 5.4 MB
Case studies of teaching and learning. These celebrate the winners and highly commended entries from the Future Transport Competition 2017. Primary through to secondary students designed games and narratives about transforming transport.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 36 (May 2017)PDF Document, 1.5 MB
Future Transport Competition: a teacher talks about the approach with his students + tips for getting entries completed. Design thinking: an interview with university students who design and build electric cars. Safety around trucks is the theme of new curriculum resources.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 35 (May 2017)PDF Document, 534.3 KB
Future Transport Competition: Meet the experts investigating NZ's transport future. Plus: Think like engineers - how student design projects the work of engineers. Careers education: profile posters and visits from Futureintech ambassadors.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 34 (February 2017)PDF Document, 1.4 MB
In this issue: The Future Transport Competition which runs Terms 1-2 2017 for Years 1-13. Judging criteria, curriculum thoughts from Pam Hook, meet the judges and student tips to cut out and display.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 33 (November 2016)PDF Document, 3.4 MB
Case studies of student learning from the winners of the Game Design Competition 2016. Deep learning, key competencies, collaboration, students as creators. Rachel Bolstad on the emergence of young game designers.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 32 (July 2016)PDF Document, 2.5 MB
In this issue: resources to help secondary students with safe road use. Read about the Drive website for young drivers, Pathways Awarua literacy and numeracy tool including the road code, curriculum resources, NCEA credits for drivers licences and more.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 31 (May 2016)PDF Document, 1.0 MB
In this issue: students talk about game design, Game Designers Stephen Knightly and Maru Nihoniho on games for social good, a secondary game design unit is profiled, and Inspector Paula Holt talks about effective road safety education.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 30 (March 2016)PDF Document, 507.3 KB
In this issue: Teacher John Creighton reviews the classroom potential of the Game Design Competition. Rachel Bolstad and Dan Milward talk about games for social good, experienced programmer Martin Langhoff gives game design tips and we profile game designer and academic Ben Tuhoe Kenobi.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 29 (February 2016)PDF Document, 1.3 MB
More on the Game Design Competition. Career profile: Game developer Jeremy Burgess. Pam Hook on giving games a sense of purpose and Neil Melhuish on matching gameplay to audience.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 28 (November 2015)PDF Document, 384.9 KB
Introducing the Game Design Competition for student teams in Years 7 to 13. Runs Terms 1 and 2 2016. Plus giving game design a go in your classroom, by NZCER senior researcher Rachel Bolstad.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 27 (October 2015)PDF Document, 1.8 MB
Secondary students connect with literacy and numeracy resource which supports unit standards using the Road Code for context. Statistical enquiry cycle matched with meaningful context for NCEA AS 1.10. Students learn about engineering careers through context of the Waterview Connection tunnels project.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 26 (July 2015)PDF Document, 2.2 MB
In this newsletter: Learnz teacher Shelley Hersey previews the Waterview Connection virtual field trip starting August 4, students look at engineering careers, plus the Smart Motorways virtual field trip, starting August 25.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 25 (May 2015)PDF Document, 1.3 MB
In this newsletter: secondary teachers talk about how to help young people advocate for safer road use. Rosemary Hipkins writes about authentic contexts for the curriculum, and a case study of year 12 students in English class analysing TV ads including Legend and Blazed.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 24 (April 2015)PDF Document, 2.0 MB
In this newsletter: the development of Pukeahu National War Memorial Park and Arras Tunnel, Wellington. Links to videos and learning resources from four Learnz virtual field trips.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 23 (February 2015)PDF Document, 784.3 KB
In this newsletter: English and TV ad campaigns, digital tech students mapping crash data, literacy & numeracy resource and more
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 22 (November 2014)PDF Document, 1.4 MB
In this newsletter: picture books about safe travel written in te reo Māori published by seven kura and rumaki reo.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 21 (October 2014)PDF Document, 686.2 KB
In this newsletter: teachers give feedback on virtual field trips to Waterview Connection tunnels and National War Memorial Park, Andrea Milligan on citizenship education, and more resources to support virtual field trips.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 20 (July 2014)PDF Document, 3.9 MB
In this newsletter: teachers discuss secondary school maths resources, a unique tool instils road safety in students minds, and an interview with Neil Shaw - Programme Manager, Young Drivers at ACC.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 19 (May 2014)PDF Document, 1.0 MB
In this newsletter: Literacy and Numeracy resources, update on virtual field trips to Auckland's Waterview motorway tunnels and Wellington's Memorial Park, and the NZ Police talk about the Literacy and Numeracy resource.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 18 (April 2014)PDF Document, 1.5 MB
In this newsletter: rail safety curriculum resources for years 1-8 are detailed, update on virtual field trips to Auckland's Waterview motorway tunnels and Wellington's Memorial Park, and Police talk rail safety.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 17 (February 2014)PDF Document, 971.6 KB
In this newsletter: virtual field trips to Auckland and Wellington road projects, NCEA digital technologies assessment resource used by students, new secondary English resourcs, and support for Police school community officers.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 16 (November 2013)PDF Document, 897.5 KB
In this newsletter: Rosmini College runs safe travel expo, how to access secondary curriculum resources, teacher Sarah Howell talks about creating mathematics resources, Police officer Jolanda Roe, child restraint laws for vehicles.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 15 (October 2013)PDF Document, 902.8 KB
In this newsletter: Mix & Mash competition - preliminary student winners showcased. Christchurch South Intermediate students create own scooter racks. Constable Rob Kennerley talks about students as extra eyes and ears.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 14 (August 2013)PDF Document, 1.4 MB
In this newsletter: tips to support safe scooter use at school. Primary curriculum resources explained. Reminder about Mix & Mash competition. Constable Aaron Dann on bike and scooter safety.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 13 (May, 2013)PDF Document, 1.3 MB
In this newsletter: Mix & Mash competition infographic example. NZTA resources support English lessons on advertising. Students take charge of scooter safety. Police officer Fenton Herrick, Southland.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 12 (2013)PDF Document, 895.1 KB
In this newsletter: NZTA prize for road safety digital story in Mix & Mash 2013. Teachers talk about the NCEA assessment resources using road safety as a context. West End School students write about a changed street. Senior Constable Marnie Worth helps young people make sound choices.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 11 (2012)PDF Document, 683.2 KB
In this newsletter: Winners announced in NZTA_Remix competition. Peer-reviewed NCEA resources available. Primary students consulted on Mangere Bridge replacement project. Senior Constable Kevin Marshall on making safer journeys.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 10 (2012)PDF Document, 1.4 MB
In this newsletter: Winners announced for primary years competitions. Khandallah School students take action on pedestrian subway as part of inquiry project. Year 10 statistics classes examine braking distances at Wellington College.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 9 (2012)PDF Document, 1.0 MB
In this newsletter: More tips for NZTA_Remix. Road safety context for junior secondary science lessons on forces at Lincoln High School. College students trial NZTA curriculum resource for visual arts –design. Constable Amanda Parsons on working with secondary students.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 8 (2012)PDF Document, 577.1 KB
In this newsletter: NZTA_Remix competition for secondary students detailed. Guide to data mash-ups. Remix advice from the experts.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 7 (2012)PDF Document, 1.1 MB
In this newsletter: Student authors of Sione's First Walk celebrate book launch. Details of primary school road safety competitions for 2012. A cycle safety legend video made at St Thomas Aquinas School. Senior Constable Anna Duncan explains the importance of student-led road safety initiatives.
Education Portal Newsletter: Issue 6 (2012)PDF Document, 881.1 KB
In this newsletter: Launch of secondary schools road safety competitions. Case study of English secondary curriculum resources. School road safety projects in Christchurch and Tasman. Senior Constable Debbie Wilson talks about road safety after the Canterbury earthquakes.
Newsletters – secondary curriculum
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Newsletters – primary curriculum
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Newsletters – school ethos and organisation
Read examples of schools integrating road safety into ethos and organisation.
Newsletters – school community partnerships
Read examples of schools forming partnerships for road safety