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Hello, Hello. It's that time again for another Just Add Ink Card Challenge. We've got a gorgeous Inspiration picture for you. It's bright, fun and almost has that summer vibe. It's only 4 weeks till summer here in Melbourne and I for one can't wait!
I was inspired by the flowers in the picture, as well as those gorgeous colours of yellow and blue. I've pulled out an older stamp set, Rose Wonder, as it is perfect to use with the new Stampin' Blends Alcohol Markers that I really wanted to have a play around with too.
I stamped with the Tuxedo Black Memento ink the rose image on Whisper White Thick Cardstock and let that dry for a few minutes before colouring with the Stampin' Blends. When colouring with the blends I like to put a little bit of the dark colour down first and then blend and colour with the light marker. Others like to colour each section with the light marker and then add the darker colour. It all comes down to personal preference as to how you colour with them.
This originally was going to be a birthday card but I changed it up at the last minute for a friend who is going through a tough time at the moment and needed some happy snail mail to let them know I am thinking and praying for them.
Because I wanted to keep the rose image as the main focus of the card I kept the trim and embellishments to a minimum with just some Basic Black Baker's Twine and some gold sequins from the Metallics Sequin Assortment.
All finished off with the 'You're In My Thoughts and Prayers' sentiment embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder on a Basic Black banner.
Make sure you check out the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team and what inspired them with the inspiration picture. Lots of fabulous creations from everyone!! While you are there check out how you can enter your creation! I'm so looking forward to seeing what inspires you!
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My Morning Jacket - All Night Long (Lionel Richie Cover)
If you haven't heard of My Morning Jacket, I don't know what you're doing with your life. Start with It Still Moves, and go from there. They just re-mastered the whole thing, and it sounds even better than it did before, so there is no better time than the present to pop your My Morning Jacket cherry. This is one of those bands that if they ever come to your city, you're an idiot if you don't go see them. That's how good they are. Jim James is a genius, and their concert may have been the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
Anyway, this video is them playing a cover of "All Night Long" by Lionel Richie. You've certainly heard this song before, and this cover is arguably better than the original. My Morning Jacket has a knack for playing covers that are better than the original. This song would go over great at a party, and better yet this is the soundboard recording. It's a real treat. Enjoy.
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Social Vocational Rehabilitation is the coordination of services to help the client return to work or school in their pre-accident or pre-incident position or to provide support with the goal of returning to a position that is as similar as possible.
Our team of Rehabilitation Counsellors work with the injured individual to implement plans aimed at improved quality of life and reintegration into work, home, school and the community by conducting task analyses to determine physical and cognitive demands to determine and implement necessary accommodations and compensatory strategies in order to provide community-based life skills, family, social, financial and educational vocational rehabilitation counselling.
Social Vocational Rehabilitation services include:
• Initial Vocational Assessment
• Functional Abilities Evaluation
• Physical Demands Analysis
• Return to Work Plan
• Transferable Skills Analysis
• Vocational Placement Assistance
• Job Search Assistance
Allows the vocational rehabilitation consultant to assess the injured client's ability to return to work within their potential, to review any limitations as well as provide information for required medical treatment and return to work accommodation. The Initial Vocational Assessment will help to establish objectives for rehabilitation and return to work plans.
A Functional Abilities Evaluation is a specific assessment to help identify a client's physical work tolerances. Following thorough assessments and measurements, the vocational rehabilitation consultant determines physical impairments and/or abilities that exist. By understanding the limitations and restrictions that affect return to work or pre accident status, this measure can help to determine the amount of rehabilitation required and facilitate a timely return to work. Our FAE's can take up to 3-4 hours, and include: a detailed medical history and present complaints review, an objective clinical assessment (range of motion, strength, endurance, orthopedic and neuromuscular testing) and functional testing (aerobic capacity, positional tolerances, lifting and carrying, reaching, bending, twisting, squatting, kneeling, hand use, and other work simulated tasks). Results are then compared to population norms.
A Physical Demands Analysis is utilized to quantify and evaluate the exact physical, functional and environmental demands of a given task or job. The physical demands analysis involves examining examines the individual tasks of a specific job type and the physical demands each of those tasks requires. Job tasks are analyzed by duration, amount and types of forces, weights, postures, environmental hazards, work aids, and equipment used.
The priority is to return the client to the position he or she held prior to the absence. In this way, the y can return to his or her routines, workplace and co-workers. If this is not possible, however, other alternatives, in order of desirability, are to return the employee to: a modified job in the same workplace; a different job in the same workplace; a similar job in a different workplace; or a different job in a different workplace. Return-to-work plans are intended to be transitional and have a fixed duration. Permanent actions are defined as accommodation.


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Device Installation option not available in GPE
I am trying disable automatic driver installation In Windows 7 using this method in Windows 7 Home Premium. How To Disable Automatic Driver Installation In Windows 7 / Vista I got access to the Local group policy editor using this hack devised by davehc of this forum - Thanks :) How to Enable The problem is I do not have the Device Installation option in this sequence in the GPE - Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->Device Installation. Can someone please tell me why this might be, Thanks
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Hello Pedro,
See if you are able to turn off automatic driver installation by setting it to "No, let me choose what to do" and "Never install driver software driver software from Windows Update" using the tutorial below. :)
Device Installation Settings
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Thanks Brink, I did see that option but I assume that I would have to turn off automatic driver installation, then uninstall the printer / reinstall and pick the driver that I wish to use? The funny thing is when I got to work today I had a look in GPE in Windows 7 Enterprise and that option in there whereas the "hacked" GPE on my Home Premium edition does not have that option. Do you think that there are different versions of the GPE
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Usually gpedit will not work when trying to use it in an unsupported edition. Instead, you could make the registry changes for it.
Yeah, you would want to completely uninstall and delete the driver, then install the one you wanted to use for it instead.
Driver - Uninstall in Windows
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Thanks Brink I will give it a try. Rhetorical question - Is there any aspect of Windows 7 that you have not provided information for :) Thanks for all the work
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I try to dip my alien toe in all areas.
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The first time when people came to know about Wimbledon FC was in 1975 when they staged a brilliant F.A. Cup run beating top tier club Burnley at Turf Moor and then in the fourth round drew against Leeds United, but lost to them 1-0 in the replay.
In 1977, they were elected into the Football League, and after five seasons of consolidation, Wimbledon FC were sensationally promoted to the first tier from the fourth four more years later, under the guidance of their legendary manager Dave Bassett and owner Sam Hammam. Their arrival in the First Division was a shock to most of the football pundits and fans, but victories against teams of stature like Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa which resulted in a sixth place finish in 1987, something which is worthy of securing a place in Europe today, and their subsequent F.A. Cup victory in the following year beating the mighty Liverpool side was a tale of pure fantasy.
In the top flight Wimbledon became notorious due to their direct, physical style of play. epitomized by Vinnie Jones, and for their frequent and outrageous practical jokes that they used to play on each other and on the club's manager Dave Bassett. Their most famous joke was that of burning the clothes of new players as an initiation ceremony. It is due to this boisterous behaviour that they earned the name 'The Crazy Gang', after the popular group of British comedy entertainers of the 30s.
Gary Peters, the former captain of Wimbledon in a reunion dinner was quoted to say this about his former team,"Wimbledon recruited other club's problems and nurtured the street-fighting nature of the perpetual underdog."
Others however did not agree to see Wimbledon FC in the same light as Peters. According to many the mark that the Dons left on English football was nothing but a stain. Gary Linekar had once commented dismissively,"The best way to watch Wimbledon is on Ceefax." Ron Yeats while going to Wimbledon FC once to scout for Liverpool said,"It was just welly, welly, welly. The ball must have been screaming for mercy." Terry Venables perhaps made the most scathing comment among them all, saying,"Wimbledon are killing the dreams that made football the world's greatest game."
Dave Bassett however made a brilliant remark to all the criticism that they recieved. "When Wimbledon hit long balls up to a 6ft 2in centre-forward [John Fashanu] it's destroying the game. When Arsenal hit long balls to a 6ft 4in centre-forward [Niall Quinn], it's good football."
Seven of the players who reached the top flight with Wimbledon had been there with the team through thick and thin in the Fourth Division. Bassett would often send his players to Lilleshall to take preliminary coaching qualifications to develop a better understanding of the game. Wimbledon set up an academy long before it was fashionable and, though not a lot is heard about it, the results were extraordinary. "In my last season we had 23 first-team players and 13 had played in the youth team," Bassett recalled. "If that had been Manchester United people would have been ejaculating all over the stadium."
Recent media reports and documentaries often miss out the two people who worked hard at the back for the team, Neil Lanham- the statistician who used to provide the team with data long before the practice became popular. Vince Craven, the video analyst fro whom the club had to raise £11,000 was the other one. Wimbledon were described as a glorified pub team by the critics. They however spent hours watching clips of Arrigo Sacchi's great Milan side, a team comprising of Franco Baresi, Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten, who often adopted a more direct approach.
In 1987, Bobby Gould took charges as the manager over from Bassett and within a year Wimbledon had defeated Liverpool on a sunny day at Wembley. After the Premier League started, despite having to share ground with Crystal Palace and also having the smallest fan base in top flight, they still continued to thrive.
Joe Kinnear was appointed as the manager after Gould in 1992 and two years later Wimbledon finished sixth. Under Kinnear, Wimbledon FC produced and developed players of the likes of John Scales, Warren Barton, Dean Holdsworth, Keith Curle and Terry Phellan – who were sold for huge profits. However, even after all this, financing the club was a serious problem and in 1997 Hammam was forced to sell some of his stake in the club to Norwegian investors Bjørn Rune Gjelsten and Kjell Inge Røkke.
A slow decline seemed to begin thereafter. Egil Olsen, the former manager of the Norwegian national team took over as manager after Kinnear stepped down after suffering a heart attack in 1999. On 25 February 2000, the final link with the clubs glory days and Crazy Gang was severed when Gjelsten and Røkke bought out the remaining stocks of the club from Sam Hammam. Unfortunately, three months later Wimbledon were relegated out of the Premier League, thereby ending one of the most famous runs of a small team in the top flight.
Was Beasant's penalty save of John Aldridge in the 1988 FA Cup final, which resulted in Wimbledon's triumph, be really held up as the greatest shock of all time? Wimbledon finished seventh that season. They were sixth the year before. That team were used to beating the top clubs. The answer remains with all the fans and pundits.
They were not all about flying studs, or swinging elbows, and it wasn't always crazy. It is just a pity, perhaps, they needed to explain themselves.
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Intensive Outpatient Program: Control Your Urges and Maintain Sobriety
Overcoming addiction is a very challenging phase of one's life and becomes even more so when our clients return to their lives and responsibilities. After the successful completion of detoxification or primary care, Akua's Intensive Outpatient Program (Ohana) helps our clients maintain sobriety. Our unique holistic approach includes group and individual sessions in psychotherapy, relationship counseling, music therapy, meditation etc. At Akua, we address the underlying issues related to substance abuse to help our clients build a strong foundation for long-term recovery.
In the Hawaiian culture, OHANA means family. This concept emphasizes that as humans we are bound together throughout our lives, and that each member of the family must contribute to the whole. At AKUA, we refer to our Intensive Outpatient Program as OHANA to represent the spirit and culture of family. Our AKUA Model of Care provides clinical treatment methods to help make positive changes in our client's lives. We feature individual counseling sessions, education sessions and group therapy led by our experienced team of licensed professionals at our facilities in Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach.
Key Features:
- Warm and safe environment
- Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention
- Life Skills Classes
- On site Nutritionist and Meal Plans
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How Akua Helps to Maintain Sobriety
With the help of the Best Clinical Team in California, we tailor specific outpatient treatment programs for our clients and provide a strong foundation for a successful recovery. Our recovery programs include interactive group sessions, individual therapy sessions, music therapy and much more that help our clients fight their urges and continue living a sober life. Through the various groups, we foster self-esteem and provide ways of healing and recovering from addiction. In addition to individual therapy sessions and process groups, we offer specialized psycho-educational groups that address relapse prevention, communication, steps to forgiveness, grief and anger management, resume building, and life skills workshops that facilitate growth. The Intensive Outpatient Program includes 3 hours of clinical treatment every day, 5 days a week, Monday to Friday.
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The second week was a bit harder for me. I don't seem to come around posting my pictures in time, that is at the end of a week of photographing. But I decided that this is not a disqualifier. I just change the rules as we go along. It's my project, isn't it? Building in a little bit of flexibility increases the chances of completing the project and actually learning something from it.
Maybe there is a lesson in here somewhere.
Anyway, here are the photos of the second week.
I'm not sure when the next week's photos will come, since the holidays are coming. But I'll do my best to maintain a weekly rhythm.
Click here for the photos of the first Ocoloy Week.
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DTN Early Word Grains 08/21 06:07
Favorable Weather Keeping Grains Under Pressure
December corn was down 1 1/2 cents, November soybeans were down 1 cent, and
December K.C. wheat was down 6 1/4 cents.
By Todd Hultman
DTN Analyst
6:00 a.m. CME Globex: December corn was down 1 1/2 cents, November soybeans
were down 1 cent, and December K.C. wheat was down 6 1/4 cents.
CME Globex Recap: Most major stock markets are higher early Tuesday and
commodities outside of ag are trading mostly higher. The grain sector however,
is starting lower with favorable U.S. weather providing support to USDA's large
crop estimates.
OUTSIDE MARKETS: Previous closes on Monday showed the Dow Jones Industrial
Average up 89.37 points at 25,758.69 and the S&P 500 up 6.92 points at 2,857.05
while the 10-year Treasury yield ended at 2.82%. Early Tuesday, DJIA futures
were up 42 points. Asian markets are higher with Japan's Nikkei 225 down 20.73
(0.1%) and China's Shanghai Composite up 35.36 (1.3%). European markets are
mostly higher with London's FTSE 100 down 3.58 points (-0.05%), Germany's DAX
up 78.98 points (0.6%), and France's CAC 40 up 39.38 points (0.7%). The euro
was up .0050 and the U.S. dollar index was down 0.32 at 95.47. September
30-year T-Bonds were up 9/32nds while December gold was up $5.50 at $1,200.10
and October crude oil was down $0.03 at $65.39. Soybeans on China's Dalian
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A council convened in Rangoon, Burma.to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha. Sometimes referred to as the 'sixth council', it was held over two years from 1954 to 1956 and was attended by 2,400 monks from Theravāda countries. The proceedings of the council were dedicated to editing and reciting the texts of the Pāli Canon.
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Yamba Rotary recently conducted a survey of defibrillators in Yamba and discovered that there where 4 in the CBD, 2 in Doctors surgeries and one each in the Golf & Bowls clubs but none available after hours.
There was also one inside Priceline Pharmacy at Yamba Fair. This one has since been moved into the public space near Coles making it available for the longer trading hours of Coles.
The Rotary club then set themselves a target of getting at least five(5) publicly available 24/7. To date four(4) have been funded, two(2) by individual businesses and two(2) in partnership with Rotary, with two more in the process of being organised. Clarence Valley Council (CVC) have agreed to install street signage to indicate where all defibrillators are located, existing as well as new installations.


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As a unique place of interest to visit in Honfleur, the Naturospace is a zoo unlike any other, located in Calvados, Normandy. A visit on your tourist agenda which is 100% novel.
Over a 218-yard footpath, inside this covered and air-conditioned 11,000 ft² site, discoveries and travel occur in direct contact with nature. The visitor walks under the gallery of a "carbet", a traditional Guyanese wooden hut, and finds himself carried thousands of kilometers away. He then discovers all the charms of an exotic setting: amongst this luxuriant nature, butterflies and birds fly freely around him.
Touring the Naturospace Butterfly House in Honfleur helps you become imbued with the unique tropical forest atmosphere and its functioning. Special facilities provide ideal observation conditions which would be impossible to find out in the wild…
The Naturospace Butterfly House aims to favour discovery and travel through direct contact. It enables you to become imbued with the unique rainforest atmosphere and its functioning.
The Naturospace has been specially designed so that butterflies and birds may develop a behaviour pattern similar to their peers in their natural environment.
As a major stakeholder in the Calvados tourism industry, the Naturospace Butterfly House is adapted to welcome a large audience whilst abiding by the highest standards of comfort and safety. It is an ideal place for families – even accompanied by very young children – photographers, naturalists or inquisitive wonderers to visit in Honfleur, as well as school classes and all nature enthusiasts.
A film on butterflies
To begin their tour, the public may get settled in the screening room and watch a new short documentary recounting the life of butterflies: "metamorphosis papilionum", directed by Yves Lanceau and Nathalie Truchet, featuring magnificent slow motion sequences shot at 2000 frames per second.
The Naturospace Gift Shop
To keep a lasting souvenir of this faraway journey, the Naturospace Gift Shop offers a variety of items related to travel, exoticism and discovery.
The Naturospace, a stakeholder in the Calvados tourism industry


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Diamond & Crossbones B/W Sticker
You can stick this amazing sticker anywhere! On your car! On the fridge! On your binder! On an elephant! Even on Amber!
Note: Ambers face is not included only the round black sticker with white diamond and crossbones will come in your package.
Caution: If you see Amber on the street don't try to stick a sticker on her.


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You know that between keeping your company organized and completing your projects on time, there's a lot to do and a lot to keep track of. The ConstructionSuite™ system is designed to give you as many options as possible to help you and your company stay on track. The To Do List tab in ConstructionSuite contains a complete listing of all the items on your UDA To Do List. Use the To Do List to track items that need to be completed either for your company or projects.
Like ConstructionSuite Activities, To Do items can be associated with Contacts or Projects and can also have a specific date assigned. However, To Do items will not have the option to be assigned Reminders or a specific time of day and will not appear on the UDA Construction Calendar.
Instead, To Do List items are managed through the comprehensive To Do List tab that enables you to manage all Overdue, Upcoming, Incomplete, and Complete items in your list.
The Overdue tab lists Items that are passed their due date and not marked as complete.
The Upcoming tab lists items that have a due date in the future.
The Incomplete tab lists overdue and upcoming items that have not been marked as complete.
The Complete tab lists all items marked as complete.
The All tab lists all items.
& NOTE: Lead Reminders are automatically set for callback dates so you will never miss a follow up call.
Getting started with the UDA To Do List is easy. Simply create To Do items from any of the following tabs - Today Summary, Project Overview, or Contact Summary - and then take advantage of these To Do List features:


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Published: 2004/11/29
U-Melt with Al
Another group that performed a two night post-Thanksgiving stand was moe., which appeared at New Yorks Roseland Ballroom. Following the first of these shows, on Friday night guitarist Al Schnier moseyed over to the Lion's Den and joined U-Melt for two songs: the bands original 'Air' which segued into an extended version of Huey Lewis's 'I Want A New Drug.' U-Melt will pick it up again this Thursday in Manchester, CT while moe. is off until New Years Eve at the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas.


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The NC CSC partners with AmericaView member states in the north central region to "establish, coordinate, implement, and support a monitoring network to collect and maintain a daily stream of plant phenology information that will support research, education, management decision-making and policy, and improve understanding of how climate, operating at multiple spatial and temporal scales, will influence ecosystem processes and services." The primary objective of the PhenoCam project is to use automated, near-surface remote sensing to provide continuous, real-time monitoring of vegetation phenology (timing of life-history events such as green-up and senescence) across a range of ecosystems and climate zones.
Contributing to the PhenoCam network
We have and continue to deploy PhenoCams throughout the north central region to bolster the number of "core" sites within the Missouri River Basin. Prior to this effort there were only two PhenoCam core sites in the region, but through NC CSC involvement, we hope there to be a total of 18 sites operational by the close of 2015.
Contributing to land surface phenology validation sites
The international community has agreed upon the use of coupled PhenoCam sites and in-situ observations as the primary validation for land surface phenology products (See Morisette, 2010 for more info). As such, PhenoCam activity is occurring in coordination with the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Land Product Validation subgroup (CEOS LPV) and the USA National Phenology Network, which encourages "people of all ages and backgrounds to observe and record phenology as a way to discover and explore the nature and pace of our dynamic world." The Network makes ground-based phenology observations freely available to scientists, resource managers, and the public.
A combined AmericaView-Climate Science Center collaboration
By partnering with the AmericaView program, the cameras will be deployed at the state level by regional partners who are familiar with the locations and have connections with state-level stakeholders. The AmericaView partners will work with staff at the NC CSC to explore how the PhenoCams, USA NPN observations, and satellite products can be combined with weather station data and gridded climate products to better understand the connections between climate and ecosystem processes and services.


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Travel is an escape for me. Planning a trip is partially escaping my reality so it has begun. Probably you do not know this about me because it's your first time here on my blog: I am a cheapskate. Earning from my day job (not that I have other jobs) and saving as much as possible – or not because I enjoy Iced Shaken Hibiscus tea with Pomegranate Pearls a lot- is a hard thing to do.
In the next few days, I must live the frugal life again. Did you know? Back in 2015, for me to afford my month-long Southeast Asia trip (Cambodia-Vietnam-Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore), I kept my Debit/ATM card at home for weeks until I reached my target. I was on a strict budget which made me sounded so pathetic. Especially when I had to phone my mother and suggested that I take a different route back home on a rainy night which would cost me more than I had. Plus they had to pick me up somewhere near our place. Of course she didn't agree to it. I ended up walking my way to EDSA to catch on my bus. My feet were soaked and I wanted to give up that trip.
The positive thing I could think of that scenario was I lost 18 kilos that year. But I am slowly gaining it back so it doesn't matter now.
Anyhow, apart from I look forward with the dietary impact of this travel, I am ecstatic as ever to plan ahead. This maybe a dream for now but I know I will be able to make it happen in December 2018. Or early 2019. Or late 2019. Let's see how this goes in the next few months.
Countries of interest: Spain – France – Italy
Budget including the airfare, visas, travel insurance: Php 170,000.
Let the planning begins.


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Studio Jurying
A complete application is required for either the private studios, or common studio space. Applications are reviewed on an on-going basis depending on studio availability.
Required application materials are:
- Completed online application form
- Current resumé and references
- 10 digital images (digital image upload page will require corresponding image information i.e. title, date, size, and medium of work). For additional information regarding image size and format, please visit our Digital Image Submissions page.
The selection panel for private studios includes: a current studio artist, a ceramic artist who is not formally affiliated with either NCC's studio or education programs, and two members of the NCC staff.
Selection criteria include:
- Professional experience
- Quality of work
- Evidence of necessary technical skills
- Potential interest in other NCC programs


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It's comeback time for the curl. You've probably noticed the movement in hair has begun to move away from the-straighter-the-better trend of the previous years. And if you have some natural wiggles or coils or loops, twists, bends or curves, your hair can look amazing.
Chances are, your hair has a lot more potential than you realize. It just hasn't been harnessed properly yet. But, as a stylist, I hear these kinds of things on a daily basis:
Most times, they can totally be proven wrong with the proper use of a notoriously intimidating, misunderstood and underutilized device: the diffuser.
Now, if your hair is truly straight, a diffuser won't magically make it curl, but so many of us unknowingly do have the potential for sexy, springy curls. The problem is that we're stuck in the rut of blasting the moisture out of our hair at full force, so we never see anything more than a ripple here and there and maybe some frizzy ends. We blame that fuzz on our natural hair texture, when it's actually the fault of our drying technique.
Revelation alert: frizz is unlocked wave! Waves are meant to be enhanced! If they are agitated with the relentless gusts of a hairdryer, they flatten out (which is fine if straight is what you're going for, but I'm trying to widen your hairdo horizons here). Worse yet, they become a frizzly mess that we further torture with the addition of the much-overused flatiron.
Take my hair for example.
If left to air dry, it's not much to look at. Kinda resembles an Afghan Hound. Maybe a bit less shiny. But, believe it or not, that obvious texture is the basis for some untapped curls.
Here it is again blown out with my fingers.
It gets pretty straight, but could definitely stand to be polished with a round brush.
And here it is diffused.
Curls! Hiding in there all along.
The magic is all in the diffuser and proper technique. Let's bust some of the myths on how to use them...
Myth 1: All diffusers are created equal.
The diffuser test: Hold it about six inches from your hair and turn the dryer on. I prefer low power and high heat (in some instances, you can use high power, but it must still pass the test). If the diffuser blows your hair like a jet engine, just throw it away!
Sadly, most "sock"-style diffusers and "I got this free with my hairdryer" styles fall into that category. But, if it sends a gentle breeze though your hair swaying them like dune grass but not disturbing them, you have a winner!
A diffuser works like a sprinkler on the end of a garden hose; it breaks down and separates the air enough that the heat can pass through your curls and dry them without unlocking them. This is the secret to the perfect soft, springy curl.
Myth 2: I have to brush my hair.
Fight the urge! With curls, its best NOT to brush your hair. At least not after you put the diffuser to it!
Your best results will come if you brush your hair well before you shampoo, or use a wide-tooth comb before rinsing out your conditioner. After the shower, hang your head from side to side and gently scrunch with your towel to remove excess water. Careful not to muss! It may work to dry Fido, but your curls will not respond positively.
Myth 3: It's best just to dry the roots -- it'll give it a little volume, and the rest can air dry.
Drying just the roots is pointless. When leaving all that water weight in the ends it will just pull the roots flat again as it dries and cause the curls to be saggy or turn into lifeless waves.
Once you have gently pressed the excess water out with a towel, use a similar scrunching technique to disperse a cream styling product such as Global Keratin's CurlsDefineHer and/or use a curl spray like Enjoy's Curl Enhancing Spray to avoid the need to brush. Make sure to towel-dry it well, but never wait until parts of your hair have already dried. These dry pieces will just become fly-aways and will result in your finished product looking frizzy.
Always start your diffusing process at the ends and work upwards as the hair dries. This allows the curls to spring up without the weight of the water pulling them down. To avoid creating fly-aways, make sure to always keep the nozzle of the dryer horizontal and not aiming up.
If your hair is long or medium-length, it's best to start upside-down, then switch from side to side as you get closer to the roots. Make sure NEVER to comb through with your fingers while you're drying! Only use your hands to lift the ends of the hair and take the weight off the curls as they are drying. Some gentle scrunching is OK.
As you get to the roots, use your hands to make a "claw" then make small circles on your scalp with your fingertips. This encourages the curl and volume all the way to the roots. If you have a diffuser with "fingers" like the Solono Universal Finger Softstyler, you can actually press these points directly against the scalp and do circles as you hang your hair to one side and then the other.
The crunchy wet-look curls of the past is a definite no-no for today --we're going for touchable, soft and bouncy. So once your hair is dry, grab an old-fashioned plastic pick or wide-tooth comb and loosely work it through your hair. This will gently separate and soften the curls with a modern finish. Just remember to do this AFTER the hair is completely dry or you'll create the dreaded frizz effect.
Are you comfortable using a diffuser? Do you have a favorite?


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Today when you start developing an application in any framework, including Asp.Net Core 2, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an inevitable choice for a lot of reasons, like, multiple database technologies (relational and NoSQL), serverless options (AWS Lambda), CI/CD options (like ElasticBeanstalk & Containers) and many many more services of any type for any problem.
To connect to AWS from Asp.Net Core 2 application we need to create IAM user that has programmatic access to the platform.
After logging to AWS console using root user, we can go to Service -> Security, Identity & Compliance -> IAM -> Users – Add User.
Adding a user is a 4 steps process where we have to define type of access and permissions for services and actions that is allowed to perform.
After downloading access credentials (Access Key and Secret Key) there are multiple ways how to use them in an Asp.Net Core 2 application.
Here I will cover a quick way that I use in development environment, that's app settings json file.
In appsettings.json file create a section with aws credential details, like below:
"AwsAccessInfo": { "Username": "aws-prog-usr", "Region": "us-east-1", "AccessKey": "AKIAIT7HUY********", "SecretKey": "K54At3EAJTx******C7Jnv5YYB*****zp+xIO" },
We retrieve configuration from json file to register in the system using dependency injection mechanism of the framework, and Startup.cs file ConfigureServices method looks like below:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { services.AddOptions(); services.Configure<AwsAccessInfo>(Configuration.GetSection("AwsAccessInfo")); services.AddMvc(); }
And now it's ready and accessible within any controller. A sample of constructor method on home controller, where you can instantiate AWS Client and/or DynamoDB Context helper classes to access AWS resources, would look like this:
public HomeController(IOptions<AwsAccessInfo> awsAccessInfoOptions) { var awsAccessInfo = awsAccessInfoOptions.Value; var credentials = new BasicAWSCredentials(awsAccessInfo.AccessKey, awsAccessInfo.SecretKey); var client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials, RegionEndpoint.GetBySystemName(awsAccessInfo.Region)); _dynamoDbContext = new DynamoDBContext(client); }
This method is very usable for development. For production you can generate new access details (AWS Access & Secret Key) and create .production appsettings file.


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Because of construction, the intersection of Pyramid Hwy (SR445) and McCarren Blvd (SR659) in Sparks, NV will be closed this weekend from 9:00pm (21:00) Friday August 25 through 06:00am Sunday the 27th. Many heading to the playa use SR445 but it is strongly suggested to find an alternate route during these times and dates. At least when heading to the playa. The intersection will be open for the exodus next weekend. Detour signs are supposed to be posted. Best suggestion is to stay on I80 to Wadsworth.
Call 511 and listen to what the robot says for updates.
Please travel safe!
Avoid Pyramid Hwy (SR445) and McCarran Blvd (SR659)
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- Road Closed (Minor Delays) - on SR-445 Pyramid Way in both directions at SR-659 McCarran Blvd in Sparks Nevada. Intersection closed beginning Friday night 9 pm thru Sunday morning 6 am, detours available.
Current as of: 8/24/2017 11:53:32 AM PDT
- There is construction (Roadwork) on Pyramid Way (SR-445) and N McCarran Blvd (SR-659) in both directions in Sparks Nevada. On McCarran from Rock to 4th St and Pyramid from Greenbrae to Queen - various lane closures, lane shifts, restricted driveway and side street access, and new traffic patterns are possible. Detours will be provided for any closures.
Current as of: 4/7/2017 11:25:46 AM PDT
- There is construction (Overnight Roadwork) on US-395/I-580 in both directions from Oddie Boulevard to Glendale Avenue in Reno, Washoe County Nevada. Watch for lane closures from 9 pm to 5 am. Estimated End Time is 5:00 AM on 10/07/17
Current as of: 7/18/2017 6:43:24 AM PDT
- Roadwork - on I-580 in both directions at Exit 67 - E. Second St/ Glendale Ave in Reno Nevada. Southbound on-ramp and northbound on-ramp and off-ramp will be closed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Marked detours available via Mill and Rock. Estimated End Time is 6:00 AM on 08/31/17
Current as of: 8/13/2017 11:33:36 AM PDT
- Roadwork (Minor Delays) - on SR-648/Glendale in both directions between Kietzke Lane and East McCarran in Sparks Nevada. Traffic reduced to one lane in each direction. Rock Blvd closed from Glendale to Freeport. Beginning August 14, the southbound on-ramp and both the northbound on and off-ramps between I-580 and Glendale Avenue/Second Street will be closed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Marked detours available via Mill and Rock.
Current as of: 8/13/2017 9:12:05 AM PDT
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Video games are giving kids unrealistic expectations on how many swords they can carry.
... but don't harm the red dragon that frequents the area from time to time. He and I have an agreement.
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• No. 1 seed Kentucky (35-2) vs. No. 3 Baylor (30-7),
1:20 p.m., CBS
Does the Bears' magical sports year continue with a trip to the men's Final Four? A Heisman Trophy winning QB in Robert Griffin III, an undefeated women's basketball team, and now a 30-victory men's team. But beating Kentucky is a tall order for Perry Jones III, Pierre Jackson and Quincy Acy. Kentucky ran away from Indiana on Friday. The Wildcats get production from everybody — their transition game can produce points in a hurry. There will be amazing athletes all over the floor, with Kentucky's Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Terrence Jones projected as lottery picks, along with Baylor's Jones. Can the Bears spring Brady Heslip open for threes? If so, Baylor could keep this one close.
: Kentucky 82-70MIDWEST REGIONAL
At St. Louis
•No. 1 North Carolina (32-5) vs. No. 2 Kansas (30-6),
4:05 p.m., CBS
The Jayhawks have lived dangerously, shooting a collective 22.2 percent on three-pointers in the tournament, and 38.6 overall. But look at the defense. Opponents have been held to 32.8 percent shooting. Tyshawn Taylor's scoring has taken a beating in the postseason. If point guard Kendall Marshall plays for North Carolina he'll be at less than 100 percent with his fractured wrist. But North Carolina can do damage in many other ways. Center Tyler Zeller corralled 22 rebounds in the Sweet 16 victory over Ohio University. Give the Jayhawks' defense the call over the Tar Heels' offense by the narrowest margin.
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Sr.Engineer (New Product Development)
Johnson & Johnson
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Job Details
Johnson & Johnson's Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions (CSS) Group within Medical Devices is recruiting for a Senior Engineer in New Product Development for Biosense Webster (BWI), located in Irwindale CA.
The CSS Group consists of six diverse businesses including Acclarent, Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), Biosense Webster (BWI), Cerenovus, Mentor, and Sterilmed. The CSS Group serves a diverse base of customers in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Infection Prevention, Electrophysiology (EP), Neurovascular, Surgical and Non-Surgical Aesthetics, and Reprocessing.
Biosense Webster is the global leader in the science of diagnosing and treating heart rhythm disorders and one of the fastest-growing businesses within Johnson & Johnson. Learn more at Biosense Webster at www.biosensewebster.com
Works on problems and projects of moderate scope where analysis of situation or data requires a review of identifiable factors. The qualified candidate must exercise judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine the appropriate action needed. The Senior Engineer will be dedicated to the line and responsible for process engineering and improvement, yield improvement, mechanical and electrical assembly, troubleshooting where needed, and various other projects including but not limited to the testing and design of toolings, requirements, and validation protocols. The Senior Engineer will be responsible for selecting design directions and modifications of system components. The Senior Engineer will participate in decisions on scope of work, selection of equipment and length of tasks. Furthermore, additional responsibilities also include deciding on design changes to meet revised specifications, providing and developing solutions to problems of limited scope, and may provide technical guidance to lower level personnel.
Under (e.g. limited supervision, general direction, etc.) and in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws/regulations and Corporate Johnson & Johnson, procedures and guidelines, this position:
- Plan and conduct work requiring judgement in the independent evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria while devising new approaches to problems encountered.
- Independently perform most assignments with instructions as to the general results expected, however will receive technical guidance on unusual or complex problems and supervisory approval on proposed plans for projects.
- Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of engineering work in part of a major project or in a total project of moderate scope that involves conventional engineering practice but may include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of conventional materials, and difficult coordination requirements.
- May be required to offer suggestions for and may implement improvements in operating time, yields, ergonomics, handling, etc.
- Additional duties of this role would include writing/updating work instructions, part specifications, validations protocols, technical documents (ECOs, NCRs, CAPAs), and various forms of reports and correspondence.
- May technically supervise or coordinate the work of engineers, draftspersons, technicians, and others who assist in specific assignments.
- Responsible for performing design reviews and pre-validation assessments to ensure the safe and environmentally sound start-up of new processes, communicating business related issues or opportunities to next level management.
- Supervision and guidance related largely to overall requirements, critical issues, new concepts, and policy matters.
- Consults with supervisor concerning unusual problems and developments.
- Practices company safety and quality policies and procedures. Actively requires conformance.
- Responsible for the purchase of design of equipment that meets health, safety, and environmental standards set by the company.
- Responsible for ensuring subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to health, safety, and environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition.
- Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Performs other duties assigned as needed
- A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in relevant engineering discipline (eg. Mechanical, Electrical, Biomedical, Materials).
- A minimum of four (4) years of related engineering experience.
- Knowledge of drafting software systems such as AutoCad and Solidworks is required.
- Must possess more than a basic understanding of engineering theoretical fundamentals and experimental techniques.
- This position is located in Irwindale CA and will require between 15-20% travel both domestic and international. Ability to obtain a passport is required.
- MS degree preferred in a related engineering discipline.
- Financial background experience in the field of Operations would be beneficial, but not required
- Experience in the medical device industry or other equally regulated industry would be an asset.
- Strong English communication skills, written and oral.
- Knowledge of statistical software packages such as Minitab a plus
- Project Management skills a plus
- Process Excellence tools such as Lean and Six Sigma certification a plus
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies are equal opportunity employers, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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text: Film industry promotion act by prohibiting the manufacture of false box office deception to mislead the audience – in November 7th, the twelfth session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress adopted the film industry promotion act of the twenty-fourth meeting. The law clearly stipulates the proportion of domestic cinema film; of actor and director of film practitioners directly proposed initiative requirements, set up the legal and moral bottom line; and banned the film distribution companies, such as the main cinema by making false trading, falsely reported sales revenue and other improper means to deceive, mislead the audience. It China film industry for a time when the golden period of development, "the film industry promotion law" through can be said to provide a legal basis and a strong guarantee for the orderly development, attracted widespread attention outside the industry. It is understood that the "film industry promotion law" will be implemented in March 1st next year, at the same time, the implementation of the film management regulations will be based on the film industry promotion act to further revise and improve. What is the difference between the film industry promotion act and the regulations on the administration of movies? What are the new rules for the development of the film industry? Reporters interviewed the State Administration of radio, film and television policy and Legislative Affairs Bureau responsible person. Reporter: what is the legislative necessity of the film industry promotion law and the general idea of the legislation? The State Press and Publication Administration of Legal Policy Division responsible person: since 2002, the film industry reform, China has become the world's big movie, but in the process of moving from a major movie film powerful, facing some problems to be solved, such as: the movie market needs to further stimulate the vitality, but also to further standardize the market order of the film. The level of development of the film industry needs to be improved. "Making the film industry promotion law" is to solve these problems, promote the development of the film industry, through legislation is the transformation of government management mode, adhere to the discharge pipe simultaneously, the release of the release, take control of the tube, integrating services with management, for the social forces activities provide convenience in the movie; two is to give full play to the government the guidance, incentives, increase support for the film industry; fiscal and taxation, finance, land, personnel and other support measures to promote the film industry overall development; three is to promote the development of industry, but also inherit and carry forward Chinese excellent traditional culture. Reporter: "film industry promotion law" in the prosperity of literary and artistic creation, to promote the innovation of literature and art made what? State Press and Publication Administration of Radio Film Bureau official: first, clear the guiding ideology and principles of film activities. The film industry promotion law, engaged in movie activities, should insist on serving the people and socialism, insist on giving priority to social benefits, social benefits and economic benefits of the unity; to adhere to the people-centered creative oriented, adhere to the principle of respect, All flowers bloom together. contention of a hundred schools of thought and guarantee free film creation, advocating the film making close to reality, close to life, close to the masses. Two is the movie itself, the film industry promotion law explicitly encourage creative thinking and artistic appreciation, the unity of excellent films, support the dissemination of China's outstanding culture, promote the socialist core value of the major.相关的主题文章:


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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 24, 2013) - Bison Gold Resources Inc. ("Bison Gold" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:BGE) announces that Bison Gold will hold its Annual and Special Meeting (the "Meeting") of shareholders on June 28, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto Time) at the offices of Bison Gold in Toronto, Canada. All shareholders of record as of May 18, 2013 are entitled to vote at the Meeting in person or by proxy.
Bison Gold further announces the approval by its board of directors (the "Board") of By-law No. 3, a by-law relating to the nomination of directors (the "Advance Notice By-law"). The purpose of the Advance Notice By-law is to provide shareholders, directors and management of Bison Gold with a clear framework for nominating directors.
Among other things, the Advance Notice By-law includes a provision that requires advance notice to be given to Bison Gold in circumstances where nominations of persons for election to the Board are made by shareholders of Bison Gold other than pursuant to: (i) a requisition of a meeting made pursuant to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the "Act"); or (ii) a shareholder proposal made pursuant to the provisions of the Act. The Advance Notice By-law fixes a deadline by which director nominations must be submitted to Bison Gold prior to any annual or special meeting of shareholders and sets forth the information that must be included in the notice to Bison Gold in order for a nominee to be eligible for election.
In the case of an annual meeting, notice to Bison Gold must be given no fewer than 30 nor more than 65 days prior to the date of the meeting; provided that if the meeting is to be held on a date that is fewer than 50 days after the date on which the first public announcement of the date of the meeting was made, notice may be given no later than the close of business on the 10th day following such public announcement.
In the case of a special general meeting that is not also an annual meeting, notice to Bison Gold must be made no later than the close of business on the 15th day following the day on which the first public announcement of the date of the special meeting was made. The Advance Notice By-Law is effective as of the date it was approved. In order for the Advance By-Law to remain in effect following conclusion of the Meeting, it must be ratified by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders at the Meeting.
The full text of the Advance Notice By-law will be available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and further details regarding the Meeting will be contained in a Management Information Circular that will be filed on SEDAR in due course.
About Bison Gold
Bison Gold is a Canadian public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. Bison Gold is focused on gold, base metal and rare element exploration with property assets in Manitoba, Canada. Bison Gold's land holdings have historically produced in excess of 200,000 ounces of gold. Further details can be found on Bison Gold's website at www.bisongold.com.
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What You'll Get
Getting in shape, much like speed-reading Russian literature, requires concentration and the strength to forge ahead through painful, protracted inner monologues. Forge ahead toward fitness with today's Groupon to Pure Body Studio. Choose from the following options:
- For $20, you get four yoga classes (a $60 value).
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Pure Body Studio's artful instructors help students chisel their way to sculpted physiques during daily fitness classes. Rejuvenate mind and body with four sessions of yoga, studying Hatha's graceful poses or Vinyasa's invigorating breathing techniques under the tutelage of the studio's experienced in-house yogis. Mat-n-barre sessions schedule a combination of intense Pilates poses and ballet-inspired handrail workouts, crunching cores and limbering up once-languid arms and legs.
Students can also craft structurally sound core muscles during Pure Body Studio's Pilates classes. Work the entire body utilizing the resistance and support of the reformer machine in Reformer Pilates classes, helping exercisers build strength and muscle yet staying lean enough to fit into their superhero costumes. In order to keep workouts smooth and injury-free, Pure Body Studio requires reformer participants to have a background in reformer-equipment usage and a permission slip signed by the Incredible Hulk. First-time users can schedule an introductory lesson by calling or emailing the studio.
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Tonight, some rain will slowly move in, and it may start as wintry mix in the hills. This is why a Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for Litchfield and northern Fairfield Counties. Roads could become slick in some of the higher elevations as sleet and possible snow falls in those locations.
Other than that icing chance, this storm will be just a cold rain for most of us. Monday will be a wet day with the chance for a few rumbles of thunder in some of the heavier downpours.
We then bring out a ton of sunshine for Tuesday and beyond, but the chill will stick around!


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Welcome to the website of Rick Wakeman, keyboard maestro and perennial grumpy old man.
The site contains vast amounts of info about Rick, dating back many years, so we invite you to explore and enjoy
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Making Montreat Happen
The place and mission of Montreat has served people of faith for more than 120 years. While Montreat is a ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the conference center is a separate non-profit organization responsible for its own financial welfare.
Annually, Montreat hosts more than 35,000 individuals and 700 congregations, facilitating encounters with God, spiritual renewal, Sabbath rest and leadership development through conferences, programs, recreation opportunities and wilderness access. A wide variety of meeting spaces, lodging, dining, and recreational facilities provide hospitality for gatherings ranging in size from large conferences and special events to private retreats, reunions, and just family down time.
The Montreat Fund is an integral part of fulfilling this transformative and life-giving ministry each year. Gifts to the Montreat Fund from churches and individuals literally make Montreat happen!
If you and/or your church wish to help others encounter God through Montreat, we hope you'll give to the Montreat Fund. Gifts can be made online (monthly, quarterly, annually or one time) with a credit card using the give button above. Gifts can also be made to honor or memorialize pastors, family or important people in your life.
You can call in your gift by phone at 828.419.9805 or mail your check, payable to "Montreat Conference Center," to:
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P.O. Box 969
Montreat, NC 28757
If you would like to help your church become a Montreat Church Patron, call or email me at (828) 419-9806 or email@example.com.
Thanks for believing in the ministry of Montreat, and by all means, come back soon!
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Publication Date: June 1, 2010
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%X AACR Annual Meeting-- Apr 18-22, 2009; Denver, COProgression of prostate cancer to androgen independence remains the primary obstacle in improving survival. Consequently, effective treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) has not been very successful. Therefore, there is a dire need for the development of effective strategies for the treatment of HRPC and bone metastatic disease. Survivin, a member of inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) family, is associated with both prostate cancer progression and drug resistance. Therefore, we hypothesized that survivin may play a potentially important role in HRPC and bone metastatic disease, and thus targeting of survivin signaling could enhance therapeutic efficacy. 3,3\#8217;-diindolylmethane (DIM) has been known to have cancer chemoprevention activity. However, no information is available regarding the down-regulation of survivin by DIM that leads to the chemosensitization of HRPC cells to Taxotere-induced killing. We investigated the effect of DIM alone or in combination with Taxotere using LNCaP and C4-2B prostate cancer cells (androgen receptor positive). We observed that DIM enhanced Taxotere-induced apoptotic death in both LNCaP and C4-2B cells. These enhancing effects were related to a decrease in survivin expression as well as AR and NF-\#954;B DNA-binding activity. We also found that knockdown in survivin expression by transfecting survivin siRNA increased DIM-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, combination treatment significantly inhibited C4-2B bone tumor growth, and the results were correlated with the down-regulation of survivin. From these results, we conclude that inactivation of survivin by DIM enhanced the therapeutic efficacy of Taxotere in prostate cancer in general, which may improve the prognosis for HRPC and bone metastatic disease.Citation Information: In: Proc Am Assoc Cancer Res; 2009 Apr 18-22; Denver, CO. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; 2009. Abstract nr 959.


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There are scenarios especially when doing a PeopleTools upgrade that you might have to establish PeopleSoft Integration Broker messaging between instances running at different PeopleTools levels. Let me give you an example – Say you have the following solutions implemented on PeopleTools 8.50.08: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1, PeopleSoft CRM 9.1, PeopleSoft FMS 9.1, PeopleSoft Portal 9.1 and PeopleSoft ELM 9.1. And you decide to do PeopleTools upgrade to PeopleTools 8.53.04 (latest PeopleTools release at the time of writing this article) only for PeopleSoft Portal and PeopleSoft CRM. In this post, I will try to explain how to configure messaging between these instances running at two different PeopleTools level.
This article has been created using Doc ID 1302908.1 as reference. While Doc ID 1302908.1 is good – it does get confusing and does not address all the pitfalls, which I will try to address here.
Configuring Integration Broker Messaging Between PeopleSoft Instances at Different PeopleTools Levels
Let me begin with this piece of information: You can not use Local Gateway to configure integration broker messaging between PeopleSoft instances at different PeopleTools levels. Oracle has acknowledged that the fix for the same is due to be released in PeopleTools 8.53.06 release (not yet available as of July 2013).
What you need to do is to create 2 gateways – Local and Remote. Local gateway will be used to enable messaging between instances at the same PeopleTools level and remote gateway will be used to enable messaging between instances at different PeopleTools levels.
In short, here is what you will do:
- In the 8.53 system set up in its LOCAL gateway definition the 8.53 gateway URL.
- In the 8.50 system set the in its LOCAL gateway definition the 8.50 gateway URL.
- In the 8.53 system create a remote (nonlocal) gateway definition with any name, e.g. RMT850GW and set it up with the 8.50 gateway URL.
- In the 8.50 system create a remote (nonlocal) gateway definition with any name, e.g. RMT853GW and set it up with the 8.53 gateway URL.
- In the 8.53 system set the remote 8.50 node Connectors to use the remote gateway you created on step #3 (RMT850GW or whatever name you gave it).
- In the 8.50 system set the remote 8.53 node Connectors to use the remote gateway you created on step #4 (RMT853GW or whatever name you gave it).
- Test the new setup by pinging both nodes, 8.53 node and 8.50 node from both systems, the 8.53 system and 8.50 system.
Lets explore a few critical steps in detail.
You will need 2 appservers (running at two different PeopleTools level) to begin with. Like in the scenario explained, CRM and Portal will use the PeopleTools 8.53.04 appserver as their local gateway. You will need to create a remote gateway, which will use the URL of the PeopleTools 8.50.08 to talk to HCM, FMS and ELM.
When you create the new remote gateway in PeopleTools 8.53.x, you might not be able to load connectors and get an error – Integration Gateway: No response received from Gateway (158,10829) when you try to ping node and
Cannot establish HTTP connection (158, 2842) when you try to load connectors. This is because PeopleSoft has done a few changes to security in PeopleTools 8.53. PeopleSoft no longer defaults to the default keystore password as password and you need to select a password. Refer to the URLs provided to resolve the issues associated with node and connectors.
Ensure that the node definitions are proper otherwise ping node will not work. You might get error like
Integration Broker Authentication: Invalid Authentication type (AUTHOPTN) for node PSFT_LM. (158,452) or Integration Gateway Message Unmarshalling: Missing value for the following field : ConnectorClassNam
When the connections are proper, you would be able to ping nodes from both the sides. For example when in Portal, you would be able to ping node of HCM defined in RMT850GW and at the same time when in HCM, you would be able to ping the Portal node defined in RMT853GW.
You can also use the helpful screenshots for IB_gateway_setup_Tools_8.53_to_8.50
If you have any doubts or face any issues regarding the same, please let me know in the comments section below.


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A latent potential for emergent education in programming exists, but most
of the widely available material focus on wasteful details and does not help
the learner develop mental techniques to judge what is a beautiful program
and how to manage its own thinking patterns.
In this article I try to present a way that would address this issue, by
providing the tools for a person to become aesthetically proficient in
programming, and through that develop administrative thinking patterns.
The problem that I will cover in this article is the one of learning how to
think programmatically, that is, to program.
What I will focus is specially the demonstration of paths and technique's
a single aspirant programmer would use to grasp not only the minor surface
details of the craft, but its meaning and consequences, so that it could have a
chance at approaching complex and dynamic problems. The same holds true for a
teacher who wants to build a class for novice programmers.
There is a latent potential for an increase in the depth of the knowledge about
computation in the general population. You can observe for instance it by the
appreciation of computer games and graphics. Sure, not every gamer or graphic
designer has a desire for becoming a programmer, not even the majority. But one
can assume that from the enormous pool of people involved in those activities
there could be an significant category interested in computing itself.
Besides this, a lot of benefits comes from learning to program, even if we
ignore the monetary incentive. Sussman (2005)
Not only that, but this mastery could lead to an increase in critical thinking
and multiple levels of abstraction, teaching analytical skills in an active and
concrete way. Felleisen et al. (2001)
The contributions I try to accomplish here are:
- A central and coherent roadmap one can use to become a competent
programmer by developing a taste for good programs
- A review of the literature involved in the roadmap, pointing out their
perceived strengths and weakness
- Some indications on where to go after the way is walked
The Problem
With the advent of the Internet, the potential to learn the necessary skills of
a good programmer is present for a motivated student or a community of
colleagues, mostly because top notch material is freely and widely available.
But in the sea of information a lot of pitfalls await, and possibilities for lost
time and motivation are plenty. What can remedy that is that the individual
has some taste to be able to differentiate a bad source from a good source.
But what kind of taste should people have? I find myself agreeing with
Graham (2002), because it is a consistent
and detailed list, and the author is a know software designer, who is famous for
prizing beauty, both technical and aesthetical.
The road map
Where do I plan to guide the reader? The shangri-la of this map is
Papert's Principle:
Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based
not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to
use what one already knows. Minsky (1988)
This principle is the objective because I consider the fundamental aspect of
taste as the ability to organize current knowledge in efficient and beautiful
More specifically, I'll point to sources that present techniques to reach the
same goals of Chakravarty and
Keller (2004)
- Convey the elementary techniques of programming (the practical aspect).
- Introduce the essential concepts of computing (the theoretical aspect).
- Foster the development of analytic thinking and problem solving skills (the methodological aspect).
Styles and Stances
What language to begin the journey? This is at the same time an important and a
meaningless question.
It is important because all languages are designed with certain goals. My
recommendation could not be stated better than
Norvig (2001) does:
- Use your friends. When asked "what operating system should I use,
Windows, Unix, or Mac?", my answer is usually: "use whatever your friends
use." The advantage you get from learning from your friends will offset any
intrinsic difference between OS, or between programming languages. Also
consider your future friends: the community of programmers that you will be
a part of if you continue. Does your chosen language have a large growing
community or a small dying one? Are there books, web sites, and online
forums to get answers from? Do you like the people in those forums?
- Keep it simple. Programming languages such as C++ and Java are designed for
professional development by large teams of experienced programmers who are
concerned about the run-time efficiency of their code. As a result, these
languages have complicated parts designed for these circumstances. You're
concerned with learning to program. You don't need that complication. You
want a language that was designed to be easy to learn and remember by a
single new programmer.
- Play. Which way would you rather learn to play
the piano: the normal, interactive way, in which you hear each note as soon
as you hit a key, or "batch" mode, in which you only hear the notes after
you finish a whole song? Clearly, interactive mode makes learning easier for
the piano, and also for programming. Insist on a language with an
interactive mode and use it.
Given these criteria, my recommendations for a first programming language
would be Python or Scheme. But your circumstances may vary, and there are
other good choices. If your age is a single-digit, you might prefer Alice or
Squeak (older learners might also enjoy these). The important thing is that
you choose and get started.
But why it is a meaningless choice? Because the true skill of a programmer is
not to understand one language or another. As Papert (1981)
puts it (he uses children, but they are just special example case):
By deliberately learning to imitate mechanical thinking, the learner becomes
able to articulate what mechanical thinking is and what it is not. The
exercise can lead to greater confidence about the ability to choose a
cognitive style that suits the problem. Analysis of "mechanical thinking"
and how it is different from other kinds and practice with problem analysis
can result in a new degree of intellectual sophistication. By providing a
very concrete, down-to-earth model of a particular style of thinking, work
with the computer can make it easier to understand that there is such a
thing as a "style of thinking." And giving children the opportunity to
choose one style or another provides an opportunity to develop the skill
necessary to choose between styles. Thus instead of inducing mechanical
thinking, contact with computers could turn out to be the best conceivable
antidote to it. And for me what is most important in this is that through
these experiences these children would be serving their apprenticeships as
epistemologists, that is to say learning to think articulately about
Let me be more clear. The most important skill a great programmer possess is the
capacity to think at different levels, and to think about thinking, because this
develops the crucial mental flexibility of a good designer.
Spolsky (2005)
The texts
How to design programs
This is the first text I'll recommend. The reasons are 2. First, they get the
epistemological approach, as shown by statements as
Learning to design programs is like learning to play soccer. A player must learn
to trap a ball, to dribble with a ball, to pass, and to shoot a ball. Once the
player knows those basic skills, the next goals are to learn to play a position,
to play certain strategies, to choose among feasible strategies, and, on
occasion, to create variations of a strategy because none of the existing
strategies fits.
A programmer is also very much like an architect, a composer, or a writer. They
are creative people who start with ideas in their heads and blank pieces of
paper. They conceive of an idea, form a mental outline, and refine it on paper
until their writings reflect their mental image as much as possible. As they
bring their ideas to paper, they employ basic drawing, writing, and instrumental
skills to express certain style elements of a building, to describe a person's
character, or to formulate portions of a melody. They can practice their trade
because they have honed their basic skills for a long time and can use them on
an instinctive level.
Felleisen et al. (2001)
But the main reason is that they place an emphasis on a design recipe.
Design recipes are the equivalent of soccer ball handling techniques, writing
techniques, techniques of arrangements, and drawing skills. A single design
recipe represents a point of the program design space. We have studied this
space and have identified many important categories. This book selects the most
fundamental and the most practical recipes and presents them in increasing order
of difficulty.
Felleisen et al. (2001)
Not only the book provides all that, they also couple it with its program
environment and editor, a tool know as DrScheme. It is a professional as well as
an educational leverage, and its use along with the text is imperative for
getting the full experience.Findler et al. (2001)
The structure and interpretation of computer programs
This book is chosen because the authors clearly understand Papert's principle
(they were both his students) by several comments as:
Our design of this introductory computer-science subject reflects two major
concerns. First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not
just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a
novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must
be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Second, we believe that the essential material to be addressed by a subject at
this level is not the syntax of particular programming- language constructs, nor
clever algorithms for computing particular functions efficiently, nor even the
mathematical analysis of algorithms and the foundations of computing, but rather
the techniques used to control the intellectual complexity of large software
Sussman and Abelson (1996)
Underlying our approach to this subject is our conviction that ``computer science'' is not a science and that
its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we
think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might
best be called procedural epistemology - the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point
of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.
Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of ``what is.'' Computation provides
a framework for dealing precisely with notions of ``how to.''
Sussman and Abelson (1996)
Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert formed many of our attitudes about programming and its place in our
intellectual lives. To them we owe the understanding that computation provides a means of expression for
exploring ideas that would otherwise be too complex to deal with precisely. They emphasize that a
student's ability to write and modify programs provides a powerful medium in which exploring becomes a
natural activity.
Sussman and Abelson (1996)
Even the critics of the approach this text takes recognize its value and
Abelson and Sussman have written an excellent textbook which may start a
revolution in the way programming is taught.
Instead of emphasizing a particular programming language, they emphasize standard
engineering techniques as they apply to programming.
Wadler (1987)
But not all is swell with this classic text. SICP does suffer from some
major deficiencies. Those are 2 according to Felleisen et al. (2002):
- ... sicp doesnât state how to program and how to manage the design
of a program. It leaves these things implicit and implies that students
can discover a discipline of design and programming on their own
- SICPâs second major problem concerns its selection of examples and
exercises. All of these use complex domain knowledge.
Given those problems, I think it is best, specially for those without access to
an experienced tutor/colleague, to leave SICP for a later visit, armed with the
design tools that HTDP provides. Not only it will stress and test these tools,
but it will make the road more bearable and enjoyable.
Further readings or The path to objects
Concrete Abstractions
This work is aimed at the same audience as HTDP and SICP, but with a different
emphasis. It still uses the scheme language, which allows the
use of DrScheme, a fact
that gives it the same benefits as HTDP in this aspect.
It is also a textbook that gets the epistemological importance of the teaching,
as this small description by its authors shows:
- The book features thorough integration of theory and practice,
and presents theory as an essential component of practice, rather than
in contrast to it. Thus, students are introduced to the analytic tools
they need to write effective and efficient programs, in the context of
practical and concrete applications.
- Significant programming projects are included that actively
involve students in applying concepts. Each chapter ends with an
application section, in which the concepts from that chapter are applied
to a significant, interesting problem that involves both program design
and modifying existing code.
- The authors present development of object-oriented programming,
one concept at a time. Each of the component concepts that constitute
object-oriented programming (OOP) is introduced independently; they are
then incrementally blended together.
- In keeping with modern curricular recommendations, this book
presents multiple programming paradigms: functional programming,
assembly-language programming, and object-oriented programming-enabling
the student to transition easily from Scheme to other programming
The use of a different mix of exercises, a different philosophy and the explicit
tackling of object orientation and a transition path from scheme to another
language makes this an choice to check instead or along SICP. Again, the
application of the design recipes is something that enriches the experience in
my opinion.
Smalltalk, Objects and Design
I present this book as the best source to learn object orientation that I have
ever found. Considering that objects play such a huge importance on the software
industry in our times, I think a suggestion focused on that would be reasonable.
I think this book is very good because it also gets the epistemological stance
of Papert (1981), as the following extracts from
Liu (1996) show:
The goal is to design more like veteran software do. They choose among
alternatives quickly and subconsciously, drawing upon years of experience,
something like chess grandmasters choosing among moves. Lacking this experience,
novices have a hard time discovering plausible alternatives, and an impossible
time discovering subtle ones. For their sake then, I often argue alternatives
and the trade-offs between them, so that they will have an outside chance of
considering the same design the veterans do.
I've tried to convey an adequate way that if followed would benefit a person and
prepare it to became a competent programmer, not only in the sense of being able
to dish out code, but to think at several abstraction levels simultaneously.
What I wish to stress is that the mastery of this concepts takes
time and practice Liu (1996), as much as a decade according to
Norvig (2001). But to maintain a steady
progression one needs to develop a design taste. That is what I hope the
path outlined here would provide.
To wrap the article, I wish to cite Graham (2002) words on taste:
Mathematicians call good work ``beautiful'', and so, either now or in the
past, have scientists, engineers, musicians, architects, designers, writers,
and painters. Is it just a coincidence that they used the same word, or is
there some overlap in what they meant? If there is an overlap, can we use
one field's discoveries about beauty to help us in another?
For those of us who design things, these are not just theoretical questions.
If there is such a thing as beauty, we need to be able to recognize it. We
need good taste to make good things. Instead of treating beauty as an airy
abstraction, to be either blathered about or avoided depending on how one
feels about airy abstractions, let's try considering it as a practical
question: how do you make good stuff?
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty and Gabriele Keller.
- The risks and benefits of teaching purely functional programming in
first year.
J. Funct. Program., 14 (1): 113-123, 2004.
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0956796803004805.
Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram
- How to Design Programs. An Introduction to Computing and
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England, 2001.
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Online version
edition 22. September 2002:
http://htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/curriculum.html - last visited
Oct 2009.
Matthias Felleisen, Robert B. Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram
- The structure and interpretation of the computer science curriculum,
Robert Bruce Findler, John Clements, Cormac Flanagan, Matthew Flatt, Shriram
Krishnamurthi, Paul Steckler, and Matthias Felleisen.
- Drscheme: A programming environment for scheme.
Journal of Functional Programming, 12: 369-388,
Paul Graham.
- A taste for makers.
February 2002.
URL http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html.
Chamond Liu.
- Smalltalk, objects, and design.
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA, 1996.
Marvin Minsky.
- Society of Mind.
Touchstone Pr, touchstone. edition, 1988.
Peter Norvig.
- Teach yourself programming in ten years.
URL http://norvig.com/21-days.html.
Seymour Papert.
- Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas.
Basic Books, January 1981.
Joel Spolsky.
- The perils of javaschools.
URL http://
Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson.
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition
(MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
The MIT Press, July 1996.
URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html.
Gerald Jay Sussman.
- Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood and
sloppily formulated ideas.
In OOPSLA '05: Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN
conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and
applications, pages 6-6, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM.
URL http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1094855.1094860.
P. Wadler.
- A critique of abelson and sussman or why calculating is better than
SIGPLAN Not., 22 (3): 83-94, March 1987.
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/24697.24706.