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We are pleased to announce perl v5.24.0, the first stable release of version 24 of Perl 5.
You will soon be able to download Perl v5.24.0 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:
SHA1 digests for this release are:
298fa605138c1a00dab95643130ae0edab369b4d perl-5.24.0.tar.bz2 35770ea5cf49a1082852c2300ccc3cbbc58b70fd perl-5.24.0.tar.gz 9d5424ac2debe979d1f7255fe0c818aff0b41b4c perl-5.24.0.tar.xz
You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web at
Perl 5.24.0 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl 5.22.0 and contains approximately 360,000 lines of changes across 1,800 files from 77 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 250,000 lines of changes to 1,200 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl v5.24.0:
Aaron Crane, Aaron Priven, Abigail, Achim Gratz, Alexander D'Archangel, Alex Vandiver, Andreas König, Andy Broad, Andy Dougherty, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chase Whitener, Chas. Owens, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan Collins, Daniel Dragan, David Golden, David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Doug Bell, Dr.Ruud, Ed Avis, Ed J, Father Chrysostomos, Herbert Breunung, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, Ivan Pozdeev, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Jerry D. Hedden, Jim Cromie, John Peacock, John SJ Anderson, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, kmx, Leon Timmermans, Ludovic E. R. Tolhurst-Cleaver, Lukas Mai, Martijn Lievaart, Matthew Horsfall, Mattia Barbon, Max Maischein, Mohammed El-Afifi, Nicholas Clark, Nicolas R., Niko Tyni, Peter John Acklam, Peter Martini, Peter Rabbitson, Pip Cet, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Sawyer X, Shlomi Fish, Sisyphus, Stanislaw Pusep, Steffen Müller, Stevan Little, Steve Hay, Sullivan Beck, Thomas Sibley, Todd Rinaldo, Tom Hukins, Tony Cook, Unicode Consortium, Victor Adam, Vincent Pit, Vladimir Timofeev, Yves Orton, Zachary Storer, Zefram.
The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish.
For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
We expect to release perl v5.25.0 today, followed by perl v5.25.1 on May 20th. The next major stable release of Perl 5, version 26.0, should appear in May 2017.
It has been my great pleasure to contribute to the development of Perl for the past five major releases. This will be my final major release. Thank you, everyone who has contributed to the project or offered kind words of support. They have been appreciated perhaps more than has been adequately communicated.
Beginning with perl v5.25.1, Sawyer X will be the new reigning pumpking. Please be as kind to him as you have to me!


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Helping Children with Developmental Delays in East Harlem
Maybe you've tried to bring your child to a speech therapist. For quite a while, actually. But no matter who, their condition hasn't improved. Sounds like you haven't come across the right speech therapist. If you're looking for first-rate East Harlem development delays therapy, there's no one better for the job than Stacey Miller.
What makes her so effective? In a nutshell, her office offers speech, language and oral motor therapy for children. Not matter what the age. The combination of her lengthy experience (7 years) in treating learning and speech disabilities. Not to mention her experience with sensory integration. When you bring your child over to Stacey Miller's office, you don't have to worry about them getting lost in the shuffle. Far from it. One-one-one treatment provides a focused approach, tailor-made for your child's particular needs and comfort level. That is, an individualized high-quality speech therapy service. Children afflicted by hearing loss or diagnosed with autism or down syndrome are able to benefit from these services. Busy schedule? No problem. Flexible hours means Stacey can work around your packed agenda, so your kids don't ever have to miss out on treatment. Sound good? We certainly hope so. Take the first step toward helping your child get through their struggle. All you have to do is reach out to Stacey Miller for East Harlem development delays therapy. You'll wonder why you didn't contact us sooner.
Now…first thing's first. Setting up the appointment. For that, all you have to do is pick up the phone and call Stacey Miller's office. Her friendly staff will rapidly help schedule an appointment. So that you and your child (or children) can be well on the way to East Harlem development delays therapy. Couldn't possible be easier. So don't waste any time and act now.

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On Monday, Baltimore Sun columnist Mike Preston created a stir when he said, "Ravens coach John Harbaugh wanted Ed Reed back as much as he wants a root canal."
According to Kevin Byrne of the Ravens PR Department, the Ravens did want Ed Reed back.
Byrne wrote, "I really got pissed this week when a Baltimore sports columnist, someone who is paid for his opinions, wrote this line: "But Ravens coach John Harbaugh wanted (Ed) Reed back as much as he wants a root canal."
"The writer didn't say that this was his opinion. He wrote it as a fact – as if he had talked to Harbs at some point, and that our head coach had indicated that to him," Byrne added. "Well, that didn't happen. Fact is the sentence in no way reflected John's feelings about the future Hall of Famer Reed."


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Monocrystalline silicon solar panel material is high pure monocrystalline silicon rod which purity is highly requested to be 99.9999%. In order to lower production cost, ground applied solar cell just use monocrystalline silicon rod which will be cut into sheet thickness of 0.3mm. Silicon sheet...
Single crystal and polycrystalline cells are the most commonly used types of solar cells in solar panels. Single crystal solar cells are slightly more efficient and are generally more expensive. Solar panels based on single crystal silicon are apparently black in appearance, while polycrystalline panels have a deep blue tint. The difference between single crystal and polycrystalline solar panels is not very significant, but the efficiency of single crystal panels is slightly improved. If your roof is relatively small and affordable, then monocrystalline solar panels may be a great fit for fully optimizing your solar capacity.
What is the difference between single crystal and polycrystalline solar panels?
The difference between single crystal modules and polycrystalline modules stems from their creation process. Mono solar panels are made from single crystal seeds and can be found in nature or in the laboratory. As a result, they have a more uniform and smoother appearance than polycrystalline modules. On the other hand, the poly solar panel is made of a crystal block, giving the module a sheet metal effect.
So which is better?
The answer depends on the specifications of your project. For example, polymer modules are ideal for projects with large roofs or floor spaces. They are also great for budget-conscious consumers who are looking for ways to minimize installation costs.
On the other hand, mono solar panels are ideal for small roofs or space-constrained features. Because single crystal modules are very efficient, you can get more power in the same surface area. Moreover, these panel types have a lower temperature coefficient than polymer modules.
Single crystal modules are more expensive than polysilicon modules, but they take up less space. For example, if you have a monocrystalline silicon solar panel and a solar panel, both of which are rated at 240 watts, they will produce the same amount of energy, but monocrystalline solar modules will take up less space.
If cost is your primary consideration and you want to install as little as possible, then you should choose a solar panel. You won't get the same efficiency as a single crystal module, but you will greatly reduce the initial cost.


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Fort Stewart/Altamaha Longleaf Pine Restoration Partnership
Radford's Mint Project
By Eamonn Leonard, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Radford's Mint (Dicerandra radfordiana) is a state endangered species with showy pink fall flowers known to exist in only two locations along the north side of the Altamaha River in southeast Georgia. It is an annual that grows up to 26" tall with cinnamon scented leaves. One location is on a private hunt club under a conservation easement with The Nature Conservancy. The second location is on Townsend WMA managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Townsend WMA is situated over extensive xeric aeolian river dunes and at the time of acquisition (2008) was planted with the invasive sand pine (Pinus clausa). Georgia DNR has clear-cut most of this and planted longleaf pine. To protect the mint populations, a six-acre buffer of mature sand pine remains. In 2009 population assessments, 278 individuals were found. Over time, trees were removed to improve the light environment. By 2015, the population had reached over 3,000 individuals. Georgia DNR Nongame staff revisited the long-term restoration plan for this species that fall. Immediately after the mint seed set, six out-planting sites were established. These were situated in three elevations that mirrored elevations on which the original populations were found and under two age classes of longleaf pines (five & ten years old). In September of 2016, the remaining mature sand pine (six acres) were clear-cut while a smaller buffer of thinned sand pine was maintained around the mint. Georgia DNR Nongame received a grant from TERN (The Environmental Resources Network) to purchase longleaf pine seedlings. Once these longleaf pines get tall enough to provide some shade, the remaining sand pine will be removed. In 2016, the original population dropped to 1,218 and the out-plantings had six individuals. In 2017, the original populations rose slightly to 1,459 and the out-plantings had 40 individuals.
Radford's mint in flower. Photo by Eamonn Leonard.


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Intelliflo and Voyant interaction
I'm undecided about how I want to set this up (new to iO). I want everything on the iO fact find (one, so that I can put an asset summary into a client report automatically), but it only seems to let me show this on the FF report if I add both assets and plans. But then...it duplicates these when I import the information to Voyant.
Any experts happy to share what you do? Have you built an iO report that takes the plan info and puts it into an assets table?
TomLloyd_Read Member
Hi Susan
I've done quite a testing of the IO Voyant link as we recently started using IO.
Basically we only add physical things, property etc, to the asset table (and then you get them in Voyant as assets) and add everything else that you need as a plan. It works for us but we don't use the IO fact find (I built our own version in document designer), or the IO reports (yet)
One way, possibly the best, it to run your reports through document designer which in theory should allow you to pull through the asset and plan information automatically (although it has flaws). It depends on how happy you are with the coding required.
Other than that, it would just be a case of deleting the unwanted items in Voyant, which kind of defeats the object.
Sorry if this hasn't helped much, seems to be a lot of ways to do things in IO and none of them ever seem to work exactly how you want them to!!
Thanks Tom. I did wonder if doc designer was the way to go so this confirms that for me. I'd rather do that than have to make manual changes on Voyant as that would make reviews really difficult.
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Mark Parsons / @markpars0ns / mark at accessviolation.org
Animator - Archer
That's right TLS certificates!!!
Code signing certificate != TLS certificate
Most of these you will have to do with your own sonar scan data or censys.io data
First you need some data
Checkout my Scansio-Sonar-ES github repo
Scans performed by Rapid7
Maintained by the University of Michigan and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Disclamer: PassiveTotal provided me researcher access for data required for this presentation
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Great write up on targeting of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia and the use of the Elise trojan
Provided csv of iocs on github
More pivots to be done but due to time constraints I will stop here and leave this as an exercise for you to try.
A quick thank you to the people below for their help/support on this presentation.


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(Reversed Kent's Repertory)
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
Gentiana Cruciata
Mind, confusion, eructations amel. (p. 15)
Mind, fear (See Anxiety) (p. 42)
Mind, restlessness, nervousness (p. 72)
Mind, restlessness, headache, during (p. 74)
Mind, weeping, tearful mood, etc. (p. 92)
Head, constriction, tension (See also Drawing, Pressing) (p. 111)
Head, constriction, vertex (p. 114)
Head, constriction, vertex, exertion of vision (p. 114)
Head, constriction, vertex, mental exertion (p. 114)
Head, fullness (See Enlarged) (p. 118)
Head, fullness, menses, during (p. 119)
Head, pain, headache in general (p. 132)
Head, pain, dinner, after (agg.) (p. 139)
Head, pain, eructations amel. (p. 139)
Head, pain, looking fixedly at anything, from (agg.) (p. 142)
Head, pain, menses, during (agg.) (p. 142)
Head, pain, motion, from (agg.) (p. 143)
Head, pain, moving, head, on (agg.) (p. 143)
Head, pain, sitting (agg.) (p. 147)
Head, pain, temples (p. 168)
Head, pain, temples, mental exertion (agg.) (p. 170)
Head, pain, vertex (p. 171)
Head, pain, vertex, mental exertion (p. 172)
Head, pain, jerking, vertex (p. 187)
Head, pain, pressing, using eyes (p. 192)
Head, pain, pressing, writing, while (p. 192)
Head, pain, pressing, forehead (p. 192)
Head, pain, pressing, forehead, noon (p. 193)
Head, pain, pressing, temples (p. 198)
Head, pain, stitching, temples, left (p. 212)
Head, sensitiveness of brain (p. 229)
Vision, foggy (p. 279)
Vision, foggy, reading, while (p. 280)
Throat, choking, constricting (See Larynx) (p. 448)
Throat, choking, swallowing, on (Compare Retching under Stomach) (p. 449)
Throat, discoloration, redness (p. 450)
Throat, discoloration, redness, pharynx (p. 450)
Throat, discoloration, redness, uvula (p. 450)
Throat, hawk, disposition to (p. 452)
Throat, pain, pressing (p. 462)
Throat, pain, rawness (p. 462)
Throat, scraping (p. 466)
Throat, swallowing, difficult (p. 467)
External throat, pulsation, sides (p. 474)
STOMACHStomach, appetite, increased (hunger in general) (p. 477)
Stomach, eructations (p. 489)
Stomach, eructations, empty (p. 493)
Stomach, eructations, fluid (p. 494)
Stomach, eructations, sour (p. 496)
Stomach, heaviness, weight, oppression (See Fullness) (p. 501)
Stomach, nausea (p. 504)
Stomach, pain, burning (p. 515)
Stomach, pain, pressing (p. 520)
Stomach, stone, sensation of (p. 527)
Stomach, thirst (p. 527)
Stomach, vomiting, acrid (p. 535)
Stomach, vomiting, bitter (p. 536)
Stomach, vomiting, sour (p. 539)
Abdomen, pain, dinner, after (p. 557)
Abdomen, pain, paroxysmal (p. 559)
Abdomen, pain, walking, while (agg.) (p. 561)
Abdomen, pain, inguinal region, right (p. 566)
Abdomen, pain, inguinal region, hernia, as if a, would appear (p. 567)
Abdomen, pain, cramping, griping (p. 573)
Abdomen, pain, cramping, griping, dinner, after (p. 575)
Abdomen, pain, cramping, griping, standing, while (p. 576)
Abdomen, pain, cramping, griping, walking, while (agg.) (p. 576)
Abdomen, pain, cramping, griping, umbilicus, region of (p. 577)
Abdomen, pain, cramping, griping, umbilicus, region of, standing (p. 578)
Abdomen, pain, cramping, griping, umbilicus, region of, walking, while (p. 578)
Abdomen, pain, dragging, inguinal region (p. 583)
Abdomen, pain, dragging, inguinal region, lying amel. (p. 583)
Abdomen, pain, dragging, inguinal region, sitting, amel. (p. 583)
Abdomen, pain, drawing, umbilicus (p. 585)
Abdomen, pain, sore, umbilicus, region of (p. 591)
Abdomen, tension, stool, amel. (p. 603)
Stool, pasty, papescent (p. 641)
Genitalia female, menses, frequent, too early, too soon (p. 726)
Extremities, cramps, foot, sole (p. 977)
Extremities, pain, drawing, shoulder (p. 1101)
Sleep, sleeplessness, menses, during (p. 1253)
Skin, formication, evening (p. 1325)
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Welcome to my Portfolio! My name is Miles Rose. 100 percent of the content here was created by me over the years. Scroll down to see galleries spanning a broad range of various mediums, both digital and physical. Feel free to post a comment down below anywhere on the site, and if you'd like to contact me directly, you can reach me at [email protected] or via any of the social media links below in the footer. Also, Check out the blog for code tutorials, design tutorials, and the occasional personal story.
Here are links to the websites and apps that I've designed and coded.
Below is a collection of stop motion animations, CGI animations, motion graphics and 2D animations.
Here are some of my favorite Graphic Designs that I created for car dealerships while working as a Web Content Specialist at CDK Global.
I used Photoshop to design online promotions and banners for GM, Ford, Hyundai, Fiat and Nissan dealerships.
I have over 7 years of experience creating art with Adobe products, and even more experience painting and drawing.
Here are some of my best Graphic Designs.
Sculpture is a very expressive art form. To create something real with your hands is unlike any other art medium.
My character drawings are strongly inspired by manga/anime art as well as western comics, usually with a fantasy / sci-fi bent.


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Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the two panels (including one on editors) below. Ellen Gruber Garvey has kindly agreed to act as respondent for the first panel. Thank you.
Call for Papers
Pauline E. Hopkins Society
American Literature Association
28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017
Boston, MA
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will sponsor two sessions at the 28th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association.
Panel One: Pauline Hopkins and Other Editors
Pauline Hopkins's work as an author has, to a certain degree, overshadowed her work as an influential editor at The Colored American Magazine and later at the short-lived New Era Magazine. Yet, as Hanna Wallinger has pointed out, her position at the Colored American "put Hopkins at the center of crucial debates about the cultural politics of magazine editing, the cultural politics of radical activism, and the early feminist movement." This panel welcomes papers that address any aspect of Hopkins's work as a magazine editor, particularly in relation with other editors at the Colored American (such as Walter Wallace and Fred R. Moore), the New Era, or other periodicals. Papers on her relationships to her contemporaries, such as T. Thomas Fortune of The New York Age or the editors of mainstream publications aimed at white readers, and also later editors, such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Jessie Fauset of The Crisis, are particularly welcome.
Questions to consider might include: How did Hopkins wield her influence as editor in the pages of the magazine and behind the scenes? What is the relationship between Hopkins as author and Hopkins as editor? How is editing linked to issues of gender and/or race? How do these issues influence or drive Hopkins's role as editor in relation to other editors? How is editing related to what Wallinger has called "the cultural politics of radical activism" in Hopkins's work and that of other editors?
Ellen Gruber Garvey, author of Writing With Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance (Oxford 2013), and The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture (Oxford UP 1996), is scheduled to serve as respondent to this panel. We ask that full drafts of papers be available by May 8th.
Panel Two: Open panel on any topic related to Pauline Hopkins's life and work.
Especially welcome are papers on approaches to teaching Hopkins and her work.
Instructions for proposal submission:
- Abstracts for both panels should be no more than 300 words and accompanied by a brief CV.
- Proposals for both panels should be sent to Eurie Dahn, Program Committee Chair, at email@example.com by January 6, 2017.
- The subject line of the email should be "Hopkins/ALA panel one (or two)."
- AV needs should be included in the proposal.
- Membership in the Pauline E. HopkinsSociety is required of presenters.


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Listening to the Transient Universe with Gravitational Waves
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its sister project Virgo aim to achieve in the next few years the first direct detection of gravitational waves and open a new observational channel for some of the most violent and energetic events in the universe, such as colliding black holes and core-collapse supernovae. The installation of Advanced LIGO is in progress, aiming at a 2015 start date, and we are preparing for the moment when we will tune in to the gravitational-wave soundtrack of the Universe. This decade is expected to witness information from gravitational waves complement the multi-wavelength electromagnetic spectrum, neutrinos and cosmic rays, for a multi-messenger understanding of sources like gamma-ray bursts, soft-gamma repeaters, supernovae, and glitching pulsars.
In this talk I will give an overview of ongoing efforts towards the realization of this new gravitational wave astrophysics, and of how electromagnetic and neutrino observations and the theoretical understanding of source dynamics are coupled into gravitational wave analysis. I will present selected results from the initial generation of LIGO and Virgo data and outline prospects for discovery in the advanced detector era, with particular focus on transient signatures.


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Some things just go together -- Jordan & Pippen... Jobs & Wozniak... Spock & Kirk ... you get the idea. And to that end, it's just impossible to talk about great headshots for men without first addressing the "what to wear" question - they are inextricably linked fellas. The rules have changed for how men present in the work place and the era of "one look fits all" is officially off the table. Customizing, personalizing, leading with confidence -- that's what we're trying to deliver with your professional headshot and nailing it largely begins with getting your style right. I found this cool article in Men's Health Magazine "55 Style Rules That You Must Follow" and it offered easy and straightforward steps that I think every guy can master (at least for one headshot photo shoot anyway!) :D
As always, I want to make it super simple for you to get more info so here are a couple of quick, related links
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#WanderLAD: Apostle Islands Ice Caves
So you made it past the dreaded Monday, and yet for some reason you woke up this morning thinking it was Friday. We feel ya. You're stuck at your desk and now more than ever, the day seems to be dragging on. At this point, your mind starts to wander...and we want to wander with you.
This week, let's pack our bags and get lost in...
Apostle Islands Ice Caves, Wisconsin.
Centuries of wave action, freezing, and thawing have sculpted shorelines throughout Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Some of the Great Lakes' most spectacular scenery occurs where these forces interact with sandstone of the Devil's Island Formation to create extensive sea caves.
Nature has carved delicate arches, vaulted chambers, and honeycombed passageways into cliffs on the north shore of Devil's Island, Swallow Point on Sand Island, and along the mainland near the Lakeshore's western boundary. People come to Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in summer and winter to visit the sea caves and witness Lake Superior's ever-changing handiwork.
The caves' beauty varies dramatically with the season. In summer the red sandstone is sandwiched between sapphire blue lake and emerald green forests that grow right up to the brink of the cliffs. Large waves generate plumes of spray and thunderous explosions as they surge into the sea caves. While visitors must enjoy these scenes from a distance, such is not the case when the lake is tranquil. Under calm conditions, kayakers can explore the caves' deepest recesses while listening to the murmur of water against rock.
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InterNACHI Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics
About the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors
InterNACHI is the world's largest property inspection organization for the residential and commercial property inspector.
As a nonprofit association, InterNACHI provides training, certification, and Continuing Education for its membership. This includes property inspectors, licensed real estate agents, and building contractors. Furthermore, InterNACHI provides its membership with business training, software products, marketing services, and many other membership benefits.
Property inspector
As a member, I follow a comprehensive Standards of Practice for Residential Inspections and am bound by a strict Code of Ethics. Furthermore, InterNACHI is the only association worldwide that provides me with a Standards of Practice for Commercial Property Inspections.
I take part in the exchange of professional experiences and ideas with other InterNACHI certified inspectors to support each other.
Furthermore, InterNACHI maintains an industry blog, inspection forum, and local chapters in support of this swapping of information. In addition, InterNACHI provides me, as a member, with the means of direct and membership-wide interaction. This furthers my understanding of my particular role in the inspection industry and how best to serve my clients.
Above all, this cross-communication enhances my ability to build my business and develop specialised ancillary property inspection services.
Home buyers and homeowners
In fulfilling this primary objective of training and mentoring me and other inspector-members, InterNACHI's broader mission is also to inform and advise home buyers and homeowners about maintenance issues in their homes. This helps homeowners understand the functions, materials, systems and components of their properties. Maintenance is not covered by homeowner's insurance policies. Therefore, homeowners have the responsibility to conduct regular maintenance checks and to do the necessary maintenance to protect their investment.
In addition, as an InterNACHI property inspector, my commitment is to provide consistent, accessible and trusted information to my clients about their properties' condition.
Finally, as a certified member of the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, I abide by the Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics.
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I used to climb years ago. I loved the stone and heights and sunshine and open spaces. No high tech walls with routes and coloured stones really existed then, (at least not in my neck of the woods). But then, in the heartbreak and brain fog that is divorce and custody, I found myself up a cliff wall with no support and no climbing partners. Above me was another 25 feet of rock and below me was the last hundred feet I climbed and some not so pleasant consequences.
I remember thinking in that moment that I really had too much to live for…especially my two babies Jonathan and Kerstin…so I finished the up climb and, shaking, walked out the long way around, and never climbed again. (Not serious rock faces anyway.)
What is that saying that children take after their parents?
Happily, Chloe is much more sensible about climbing and she belongs to a fabulous climbing gym called The Edge. She's been bugging and bugging for us to have a go with her and finally we said yes.
We didn't belay, we chose to boulder but we had so much fun. Fun to the max! We got hot and sweaty, were proud of our strong spider monkey girl and watched her complete routes with the smallest foot and hand holds, upside down, crossed arms, splayed toes gripping on to a wall edge, and, although we "old guys" only tried the easier routes, we had terrific fun.
I think we'll do it again! 😀


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Two Authorities Standardize Administration of the Allocation and Use of Large Medical Facilities
Chinese version
Lately, the National Health Commission ("NHC") and the State Drug Administration ("SDA") have jointly issued the Administrative Measures for Allocation and Use of Large Medical Facilities (for Trial Implementation) (the "Measures"), and the NHC also released the Implementing Rules for the Administrative Licensing for the Allocation of Class-A Large Medical Facilities, both of which take effect immediately from the issue date.
The Measures, comprised of 49 articles in seven chapters, are intended to standardize the whole-process administration of large medical facilities, ranging from the determination of the administrative catalog, preparation of the allocation planning, license implementation, use, to supervision and administration. According to the Measures, there are two types of administrative catalogs for the allocation of large medical facilities, respectively for Class A and Class B large medical facilities. The NHC is in charge of allocating and administering Class A large medical facilities and issuing the allocation licenses for the same, while provincial health administration departments are responsible for allocating and administering Class B large medical facilities and issuing the allocation licenses for the same. Furthermore, the Measures provide that the allocation planning for large medical facilities shall be prepared every five years and implemented by year. In the allocation planning for large medical facilities, those facilities to be allocated for the first time should be capped at five in principle, and the facilities sourced from a single manufacturer shall be three at the maximum.
Note: The link to the Chinese official website of the document is for your reference.


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Q: Why did the robber rob the bank?
A: Because that's where the money was!
Something is up with my damned grad school student loan. I went online to pay my monthly dues and the balance is reading as zero. A couple tens of thousands, wiped fully clean. I am not behind on payments, so it can't have been sent to collections. So what's up? For a brief and wonderful moment, I entertained the fantasy that a generous, anonymous benefactor had taken pity on me and my nobler accumulation of debts. And then I perused the fine print and realized that the loan has likely been sold. Again. And that whoever it is I now owe scads of cash to will surely find me soon enough.
Ah, money. Ah, college. One of these things is a non-negotiable reality of middle class life, my sister and I agreed as we lamented over our sizeable graduate school debts and how we might well reach the ends of full-term lives without coming close to paying them off.
She is a DC-trained lawyer who recently chucked her unsatisfying government job to become a doula.
What is the value of a college education these days? I have six years of higher education under my belt, most of it in the field of writing, but I feel most of the time the value is of the uncountable variety. I am well rounded, yes, and I have excellent grammar, and I don't miss deadlines, and I can work a crossword puzzle like it's going out of style, and I beat pretty much everybody I know at Jeopardy.
I am also somewhat broke and peptic. And, like, the only person I know who doesn't own a house or a drive a not shitty car or have in my living room at least a second-hand sofa. Friends and family, in their generosity, refer to my freewheeling lifestyle as "bohemian."
But that feels sorta like being declared the World's Tallest Midget.
I like my lifestyle, and I chose it for a reason, but the question is: if I wanted to be a poor writer, surviving on my wits and my high sense of purpose and gallon after gallon of homemade hummus, couldn't I have found a way to do so without sinking such piles of non-existent money into the endeavor?
I don't know. I don't want to discount the value of education. I freaking love college. And I'm really good at it. I've even been applying lately to teaching posts at local colleges just so I can hang out there a bit longer. College feels to me like a large, squishy, milky bosom, except it squirts out books instead of milk and there are tons of quiet places to read and cool lecture halls and live music and people who don't look at you sideways when you say, "It was I," instead of "It was me" (because that's grammatically correct) or make a (totally non-pompous) reference to a line of poetry in regular conversation. I dig that!
And it bothers me incredibly when uneducated smart people try to take educated smart people down a peg by dismissing the rigors of academia as mere parlor games, the haughty preserve of the rich and the lucky and the foolhardy. If anything, we need more education. Critical thinking skills are sorely lacking in general society. People act like assholes and base their moral decision-making on little more than emotionalized feedback loops and the world suffers for it.
I love the emphasis on lifelong learning and critical thinking that higher ed represents. It's just that I now owe the federal government unconscionable scads of money for the privilege of exposure to these high-falutin values during my formative years.
So. More and better education, but with one proviso: we shouldn't lose our figurative and literal shirts in the process of getting it. What a freaking racket!
My four-year-old niece Sawyer was sitting there with my sister and I, too, for this conversation, counting out a pile of change, so we had her weigh in. A few excerpts from our talk:
You know what college is?
It's where you go and study and learn new things.
But mommy I don't wanna be away from you for really long.
What do you want to study in college? What would be a fun job? You could be someone that draws tattoos on people or a doula.
I wanna be a fire truck. And Emery could be a policeman.
Why do you wanna be a fire fighter?
Not a firefighter just a firetruck.
What would a fire truck do?
It would beep so hard.
What else? Where would it go?
To a fire parking lot.
Why do you wanna be a fire truck?
Because I wanna go in the fire parking space.
And what would you do when you got there?
Um. Put the fire out.
Sawyer, how much would you want to pay for college?
We should pay all these ones. (pointing to the pile of money.)
How much is that? (Sawyer hands me a dime and seven pennies.)
Says Rye: That's about how much my law school was worth.
I've been trying to decide lately whether it is pompous or merely celebratory to hang up one's diplomas on an office wall. I'm leaning toward "Yes, yes it is very pompous, actually," and both my mine are wrinkled, grody messes at this point besides.
To wit: bachelor's diploma has a giant coffee stain on it, courtesy of my bosses in South Korea, Mr. Khang and Mr. Kim, who insisted that the diploma be sent to the peninsula ahead of me for processing purposes and then did God knows what to it. They certainly didn't bring it to the immigration office for visa purposes, as I discovered four months later when I attempted to go to the doctor for a recurring ear infection and learned that I had no health insurance because I was, officially, an undocumented worker.
Like me, my diploma is a bit weary for the wear. At least we've got character to show for our ordeals. That, at the very, very least.


text: Chelsea Miller- Seattle Model + Photographer April 5, 2017 I am basically in LOOOOVE with these portraits I created with the beautiful Chelsea Miller! She's a model & a fellow photographer here in Seattle.We went for a very 1960s Mod-meets-modern style with a twist. First, we went to the downtown Library and Chelsea donned her vintage 60s looking dress. The library has such a fabulous architectural style and is so airy. It's always so nice to hang out in, especially when you have a corner of the library to yourself like we did.We walked around downtown Seattle for a bit and happened to wander into this golden art deco building that was PERFECT. Added this gold foil flake to Chelsea's eye lids and changed into a mod black pea coat and a 60s-/90s flower blouse I had. I love all of the vivid and bold tones!Thanks for being such a great model, Chelsea!


text: Before this day is gone, daughterofthedelta remembers Howard M. Evans, Sr. on his 117th birthday. Tricia and I walked through his Strong Avenue bungalow today, almost ninety years after he built it, and his pride in the place that he provided for his family is still evident. So, Granddad, Happy Birthday from all of us who wish we had known you. And thanks for all you gave us.


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Drunk Dialing
Howard announced Willie Nelson would be in the studio tomorrow. When he heard the news, Jeff The Drunk called in to see if he could come down to meet him. Howard wanted to let him but thought he'd be too much of a pain in the ass. Robin remembered the last time he was there Jeff fell in the hallway and stayed on the floor for 15 minutes. Howard commented that Jeff drives Ronnie nuts when he's in the studio because Ronnie has to baby-sit him. Jeff denied all the allegations and promised he'd be on his best behavior. Gary brought up the fact that Jeff showed up at the studio last time even though he was asked not to come, and then cried to get on the air. To top it off, he asked for money before he left. Jeff again claimed that wasn't true, and he got so mad he hung up. A few minutes later Jeff called back and apologized for his behavior. Howard said he definitely could not meet Willie. Robin thought that maybe missing a few shows would be a good way for Jeff to learn how to get back on the air. Howard commented that they love what a mess Jeff is, yet they were yelling at him for being too messed up. Once again Jeff swore he'd be on his best behavior, so Howard said he'd think about letting Jeff visit. Later in the show, Howard got Jeff on the phone again and said he could come down if he agreed to the following: (1) he doesn't ask for any money, (2) he leaves when he's asked to go, (3) he doesn't harass the interns, (4) he shows Ronnie respect, (5) he doesn't ask to hang out with Willie, and (6) he doesn't defecate in his pants. Howard also gave Jeff $500 from the movie, "Red Eye," but warned him that the money wouldn't be there tomorrow. Jeff agreed to all the conditions and said he was pumped about meeting Willie. Artie seemed a little worried though because the "Red Eye" money comes with the chance to win a red eye flight back from LA with Artie.


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Alternatively you can throw everything into your bread machine on the dough cycle.
2. Divide the dough into six equal parts. Form each part into a long suasage. Take three parts and push the ends together. Form a plait as in the picture.
3. Allow the zopf to rise to about double its size. Preheat the oven to 190°C (gas mk 5, 375°F). Place the zopf on a baking sheet and bake for 25 - 30 minutes.
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Watch Your Step!
By Robert Kravitz
Historically, federal, state, and local government entities managed to protect themselves from personal-injury lawsuits for injuries occurring on government property. Governments invoked sovereign immunity, which essentially means that the government cannot be sued.
But in 1948 sovereign immunity fell apart. Congress passed the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), which effectively waived most of the government's sovereign immunity rights. This action allowed people for the first time to sue government entities if people suffered an accident or injury on government property (or as the result of a government employee while on the job). Over time, this statute has filtered down to apply to state and local governments, as well as the facilities they operate, which would also apply to park and recreation centers.
Specifically, the FTCA applies to injuries such as the following:
- Slip-and-fall accidents suffered in government-owned or -operated buildings
- Injuries occurring in post offices, tax offices, and some federal buildings
- Falls in mass-transportation facilities operated by a government entity
- Drownings on government property
- Auto accidents due to poorly maintained highways or roads
With the passage of the FTCA, government entities realized they had to start taking precautions similar to those taken by privately owned facilities in order to prevent injuries. "When a government agency fails to keep the property it owns or controls safe from dangerous conditions, it's considered negligent," according to Judge Anthony Calisi (ret.). "When that negligence results in injuries, the government has to pay for the injured person's damages."
And while government entities still have rights that private-property owners do not have—such as caps on damages and the exclusion of punitive damages*—for the most part, they have become leaders in promoting safety at their facilities. However, one injury-related problem that government entities are still grappling with is slip-and-fall accidents.
Such accidents are also an issue at many park and recreation centers around the country, whether private or government-operated. Wet floors are often found in centers and are nothing less than an invitation for a slip-and-fall accident to occur. Because of this, managers must do two things:
- Develop a slip-and-fall prevention program.
- Have a program in place to clean up spills as quickly and effectively as possible.
Slip-And-Fall Prevention Program
In considering a school or an office building, a slip-and-fall prevention program would likely center on what is called the floor's coefficient of friction (COF). COF is used to measure a floor's slip resistance and is given a numeric value to help determine how safe a floor is to walk on. A floor with a higher COF is more slip-resistant than one with a lower COF.
While floors should be cleaned and cared for with COF in mind, what is likely the most helpful preventive step that managers can take in park and rec facilities, because of the ways the facilities are used, is finding and eliminating the more frequent causes of slip-and-fall accidents.
An effective prevention program in a park and rec facility might look something like the following:
1. Create safety teams. Teams are comprised of staff members who walk around the facility at regular intervals looking for problems, such as spills that can result in an accident. Some facilities call these "safety sweeps."
2. Require users to be "shoe sensible." Facility users should wear shoes with proper traction. Going barefoot is not recommended. Managers should recommend—if not require—that sensible shoes be worn at all times and in all areas of their facilities.
3. Look for damaged floor surfaces. Cracks and fractures in floors must be repaired as soon as detected. They typically get worse over time, and, as they do, they are just waiting for an accident to occur.
4. Concentrate on food-service areas. Spills around these areas and vending machines are common, especially in busy locations. Install mats, including "flow through" mats that allow liquids to go below the surface of the mat. This helps promote safety and prevents slippery substances from being tracked around the facility. Also, effective cleaning in these areas helps prevent accidents.
5. Focus on frequently wet floor surfaces. Around outdoor pool areas, the flooring selected typically helps prevent a slip-and-fall accident, but walk into a nearby locker room, restroom, or shower area and the opposite may be true. With moisture, traditional grout and tile floors can become slippery. These areas should be cleaned frequently, with warning signs installed to encourage walker safety.
Be careful when using warning signs. They tend to lose their safety impact if they are installed in the same areas all of the time. While "permanent" installation can make it easier for park and rec personnel, along with helping them meet legal safety requirements, often it is more effective to increase cleaning frequencies to ensure the floor remains clean and dry, and warning signs can be installed only as needed.
Spill-Response Program
Slip-and-fall accidents in grocery stores, often the result of a spill, are very common in the United States. Because of these injuries and the ensuing legal implications, many stores are implementing a "spill-response program" to help identify spills and remove them as quickly as possible. The goal, of course, is to prevent an accident, and such a program can easily be implemented in a park and rec facility as well.
To better understand how such a program works, let's look at the following scenario in a grocery store: As a result of a safety sweep, a store employee finds a spill in an aisle.
The employee notifies the store's floor-safety team, which quickly goes to the storage area where floor-safety supplies, warning signs, cleaning tools, equipment, etc., are stored. (Time is of the essence in such situations; managers should have a specific area where these items are stored and can be easily accessed.)
Warning cones are installed to block the entire problem area; the team does not post signs around the specific area until the size of the spill has been thoroughly evaluated.
The team identifies the spill, which is precautionary; if the spill is the result of someone getting sick, for instance, other safety measures must be implemented. In this scenario, however, the spill is the result of a broken bottle of pickles. An "autovac"-type cleaning system is brought in to remove the spill and clean the floor area. Mops are not advised because they spread the spill over the area and usually leave the floor wet and slippery. This system is walked over the area, applies cleaning solution, agitates the area to loosen soils, and then vacuums the area clean and dry.
Warning signs are then placed around the immediate area; they are left in place for about 30 minutes until the floor has dried, and then the signs are removed.
These same steps can be taken in a park and rec center when a spill occurs or just to keep floors clean and dry. But key to a spill-response program is training. There is no time for staff to wonder how to respond, as delayed action risks serious injury. Along with the specific steps discussed here, an effective, ongoing floor-safety training program can help minimize—if not eliminate—slip-and-fall accidents at your facility.
Robert Kravitz is a frequent writer for the professional cleaning industry. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
*Punitive damages are amounts awarded to an injured party beyond the actual damages the injured may have incurred. Punitive damages are often used to punish a defendant in a civil lawsuit.
Quick Facts About Slip-And-Fall Accidents
1. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one-million Americans suffer a slip, trip, or fall injury, and more than 17,000 people die in the United States annually because of these injuries.
2. The CDC estimates that up to 30 percent of the people who experience a slip-and-fall accident will suffer moderate to severe injuries, such as bruises, hip fractures, or head injuries.
3. According to the National Floor Safety Institute, more than one-million hospital emergency-room visits are due to slip-and-fall accidents.
4. Slips and falls are the second-leading cause of accidental death and disability, behind automobile accidents.
5. Falls represent the third-leading cause of death in children and are a leading cause of death in senior adults.


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Sun Valley Area Fishing Report - November 11, 2015
Low pressure systems are upon us! Great news for anglers looking to catch great numbers of fish, just make sure you have a warm coat and a rain jacket when you head to the river! Nymphing and Streamer fishing are the techniques to go to this week, as the colder, wetter weather should effectively shut down most of the season's hatches. If you're in the right place at the right time you may find some Fall Baetis activity under the clouds, but don't expect daily occurrences of this bug.
It's not quite fall, and not quite winter, so the Midge activity we associate with the snow and the awesome hatches provided by this insect won't materialize in numbers large enough to get the fish up. Your best fly choices are going to come from your nymph box. Red Copper Johns, Bead Head Prince Nymphs, Black Back Hares Ears, and smallish Pheasant Tails are the way to go. Fish these under an indicator and concentrate on thigh to waist deep riffles.
Brown Trout on Silver Creek are in full blown spawning mode, so be careful where you step, as not to disturb their Redds. You may also find Redds on the Big Wood. They are oval shaped and the gravels are swept clean. Now, with that said, keep in mind the river systems are filling with Brown and Brook Trout eggs, so fishing bright orange and red nymph patterns is going to bring a lot of attention to you fly.
Please keep an eye on the weather if you are going to travel to the Lost or South Fork of the Boise Rivers this week. Snow in the forecast could happen at any time. Have your vehicle winter ready!
This is certainly a week to take some time off the water and start thinking about Salt Water destinations, (Picabo Angler can help with that!) also start tying flies for winter, start replacing those old fly lines, boot laces, leaders and nets.
This is also a great week to start making that wish list for Christmas presents and leaving it in strategic places around your house or vehicle! Just saying…
Overall expect rivers void of other anglers this week, but don't give up on excellent fishing. Fish love and respond well to low pressure systems and with the cold nights lowering water temperatures, all the fish are going to key in on getting fat for winter!
Happy Fishing Everyone!


text: Last summer this beautiful Mama reached out to me to schedule a maternity session just a few weeks before her due date. However, on the day of our session the summer heat reached triple digits; with a toddler, twins in tote and Dad's recent knee surgery we decided to move the photoshoot indoors. On this day I merged my passion for in-home lifestyle portraits with the beauty and excitement of a maternity photoshoot and fell in love with photography all over again. It was at this moment, I knew I wanted to shift my focus from the traditional outdoor locations and move my sessions indoors. For this new year I am so excited to offer in-home lifestyle motherhood and maternity sessions.


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Humans are curious creatures. We do not seem to see the conflict in our nature. We want all the best things without putting in the required effort. We answer the hard questions with easy platitudes and self-serving mumble-jumble. The essentials are ignored for the comfortable. The danger is that those answers will and have started to create a false uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. We know what needs to be done.
Do you know what needs to be done for a healthy life? Many of us will answer no, but that is an intellectually dishonest answer. Most of us know what needs to be done but we have refused to do the heavy lifting. Furthermore we have created a society where doing the correct thing is not rewarded. Poor choices are praised and the better choices are stigmatized. The bulk of our daily routine encourages mediocrity.
A recent study has quantified the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. The behaviors that define a healthy lifestyle were defined as daily exercise, low body weight, low alcohol intake, not smoking and a healthy diet. How difficult is that? We have known the necessary ingredients for a long time. Our question is, when will we adopt and internalized what we know to be correct?


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A Shift to Relational Leadership
A newly elected bishop began his appointment wanting to capitalize on relational leadership and organizational intelligence. He wanted a process that would help him build relationships with as many constituents throughout the diocese as possible. He also wanted the in-depth data of organizational intelligence to guide his work for new directions, processes, planning, strategy, transparency, accountability and inclusion.
Process and Result
To bring the bishop's ambitious objectives to life, the SamaraCare consultant began by facilitating listening sessions. Fourteen half-day listening sessions with constituents ranging from priests, deacons and spouses to lay leaders, school administrators and students, gave everyone the opportunity to speak about their hopes, interests and concerns. While the listening sessions were in progress, SamaraCare also implemented the Landscape assessment to determine the state of diocese, people's needs and viable resources.
SamaraCare collected and interpreted all the data from the listening sessions and the assessment, and presented it to the constituent groups and at the diocese's national convention.
The results were exceptionally well received and laid the groundwork for strategic visioning and planning. The process also achieved the bishop's goal of moving away from a top-down organizational structure and into one that was relationship driven. He and his constituents got to know each other on a personal level and both the listening sessions and the assessment proved to be ideal for building trust and rapport. A culture change has enthusiastically begun as the mission of the diocese continues to be met.


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During Wednesday`s meeting of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, Social Equality Ministry Director-General Avi Cohen revealed that Israel is working secretly to obtain the return of Jewish property in Arab countries and has allocated millions of shekels to the process.
"There is classified activity in conjunction with the Foreign Ministry in which we will invest millions to restore property belonging to Arab and Iranian Jewry, which will come to fruition within a month to a month-and-half. I cannot elaborate further," he said.
Committee chairman MK Avraham Neguise (Likud) said, "Those who came from Arab states left their countries and left their property behind. We want to bring about historic justice, and finally make sure that this property is returned to its owners. It's very important that the opposition and coalition be united on this issue. That's an important tool for success."
(Committee chairman MK Avraham Neguise)
MK Oren Hazan (Likud), who initiated the hearing, said, "There is a change among part of the establishment that recognizes the glorious communities of the Jews of Arabia and Islam, and we hope that we will be able to correct this injustice. Till they passed a law, one time it wasn't implemented and another time it wasn't worded well enough."
Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Camp) said, "The issue was explicitly mentioned in our party platform before the last elections. If there is a move toward a regional arrangement, there's no doubt that this issue must be on the agenda."
Some of those who took part in the meeting complained that the diplomatic plan MK Hilik Bar is presenting on behalf of the Zionist Camp faction does not address the issue of restitution. In response, MK Bar said, "My diplomatic plan is the only one in history that seeks full recognition of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries and the payment of compensation. I presented this to 210 members of the EU parliament."
Ze'ev Ben-Yosef, a member of the World Likud executive committee, said, however, that "Linking the issue of property restitution to a diplomatic arrangement is problematic, since the other side isn't eager to come to such an arrangement. We must disconnect the issue of an agreement with the Arabs of Eretz Yisrael from this issue."
Eli Gabbay, a former MK from the National Religious Party, called to recognize Jewish refugees. "Through a diplomatic process, we must see to it that just as the United Nations transfers funds to Arab refugees it will also give the property to Jewish refugees."
MK Anat Brko (Likud) stated that "Europe must recognize that there are Jewish refugees here. There are no blue-blooded refugees. If they want to recognize Arab refugees, they must also recognize the Jewish ones. I consider myself the daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq."


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In part 2 of this 3-part entry, I interviewed social media managers from different regions, artistic disciplines, and mission focuses about how diversity drives their social media strategy. I found that, for most, online community-building came first and diversity factored in minimally, except in terms of age. When I first came up with the idea for this blog series, my first instinct was to do a quick search of the niche social networking site BlackPlanet.com. It showed groups for black actors, a very large poet group, a few artist groups, etc. Lots of jazz fans. Lots of fans of activities that researchers are constantly associating with arts attendance. But not one LORT theatre is on the site. Not many theatres period, except the stray comedy club.
In analyzing the responses of the social media managers and the notable absence of non-profit arts organizations on these niche social networks, I was puzzled. Then I thought, "Am I asking the wrong question here?"
Would most American theatres (most of which produce, on average, about one play by a black playwright a year) have a place on these networks that exist to connect black people to one another and to black culture? Maintaining a profile on one of these sites while you're promoting Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit could be a bit of a stretch.
But even maintaining a tenuous connection to this community, such as an ad, could get a whole new community of people looking at your org, right? I decided to talk to an expert. Gerry Eadens is a media buyer who has worked in advertising for nearly 20 years and now works at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. She specializes in Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and other online media. She did a cursory search and found at least 100 sites through the Google ad network that are meant to serve a specific cultural or ethnic group.
Research shows, however, that advertising is not a replacement for a social networking presence and vice-versa. Eadens cautioned me, "Typical display ads are not recommended for the best response from social network users since they are often ignored. Research has shown that advertisers garner greater results from more engaging activity with their audience such as posts that appear within news feeds." Add to that the difficulties that online marketers often have in knowing how to focus an ad toward their intended audience. There's no ethnicity category on the Facebook ad set-up interface, and I'm guessing that the company probably won't add one in the near future.
So what can we do and more importantly, what's worth our time to do?
At long last, the diversity question has come around to the classic "old vs. new" debate: When faced with declining arts attendance, is it better to "pick the low-hanging fruit" and focus on maintaining and growing our existing audience demographics ("the more return on investment for less energy" approach) or make a long-term investment in trying to attract new groups of people to our performances?
In a recent cultural policy article I read, I came across the question, "In our art, we place great value on experimentation and innovation—why not in our management practices?" I thought this was a great question, and I also bought into it, at first. Innovation seems to be the hot buzzword these days, and I think that generally, it's a great value to have. However, from listening to the reasoning of the social media managers in the previous entry, I would argue it may not always be the most important one, especially from a user's perspective (as opposed to a developer's). They have tailored their social media presence to be purpose driven, tailored to their mission statement and aimed toward staying connected with their current audience while gaining new audiences, although not specifically diverse ones. Timothy Platt of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society writes about purpose-driven marketing on his blog Platt Perspective:
Good online social networking means sharing value and even paying it forward and taking the initiative in starting that process. But true online communities always carry this greater, synergistic value and are bound together by the cohesion and momentum that it brings. It is in the communities of members and supporters that good nonprofits gain their strength…
When I interviewed Thomas Cott of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, he spoke about his org's purpose-driven strategy. "Since social media works best when you don't try and push sales too directly, we've been using Facebook as an outlet to expand our 'brand awareness' and we've succeeded in attracting fans from many countries." For an organization with an international presence, the brand awareness angle is especially valuable.
More local or regional orgs, on the other hand, value building community locally. Brian Hinrichs of Madison Opera commented, "Our Facebook page very much feels like a community–fans comment and interact, they want more blog posts and photos, etc. Twitter doesn't yet feel so cohesive: I'm interacting mostly with local media and other opera companies and nurturing those relationships. If our local paper re-tweets a ticket link or production photos, that is extremely valuable, but this is not where most of our fans are…yet."
No matter your geographic focus, social networks are fundamentally about forming a community and having conversations. Therefore, having a clear purpose in mind when you choose your networks is essential. We've all heard the adage "the medium is the message." It means that the method by which your audience receives your message becomes an inextricable part of the message itself. The phrase was coined in the 1960's before the advent of the social media frenzy. But think about what it says to us today. Your show is its logo. Your season is the email blast that announces it. Your theatre is your Facebook fan page. But there's more to it than that. With social media, the audience becomes both medium and message. Your audience is your identity. Who your fans are says something about who your organization is. If someone chooses to invest themselves in your product or purpose by becoming a fan or making a comment, then they become part of your organization in a way that's visible. They become a message that your organization is worth following.
Think about the last think you received a postcard from an arts org. Chances are, they wanted a private, one-way, and perhaps institutionalized response from you (like buying a ticket, perhaps?). Outside of social media your level of engagement with the organization is determined by those ticket purchases and other statistics available exclusively to the organization. Not so in the world of social media. Think about how different the message is between a postcard (Buy a ticket!) and a Facebook page (Interact with us!). There are many ways to interact, and many messages a fan can send you. By creating a presence on a specific social networking site, you are signaling that you are open to communication with the people on that network. So what does it say if your organization is not present?


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Starting tomorrow I'm coaching the cast of Next in Line Productions' "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" by Frank McGuinness. I'm excited to get to know the members of this newly formed company, and I'm proud to help them get their first production on its feet!
Please visit https://www.facebook.com/nextinlineproductions for more information about the company and the show.


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GOP Demands Probe Into Obama Fundraising
The complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission is based largely on media reports, including one from a conservative news Web site that suggests donors who listed their state as "IR" may have been from Iran. In FEC reports, the designation "IR" typically stands for "information requested" because the donor did not supply it.
In the complaint, the RNC asks the commission to audit Obama's campaign fund to determine whether it has violated the law by accepting money from non-citizens and whether individual donors have exceeded contributions to the campaign.
Meanwhile, CBS News' investigative team reported Monday that two donors to the Obama campaign who gave a total of $7,722 appear to have made their contributions under fake names that look like they were written by a mouse running across a keyboard: Dahsudhu Hdusahfd of Df, Hawaii with the following employer CZXVC/ZXVZXV and Uadhshgu Hduadh listed as living in Dhff, Florida listed their employer as DASADA/SAFASF. (Read more.)
Contributions from the two donors Hdusahfd and Hduadh were made on the same day starting on July 16, 2008. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show the campaign began refunding the donations as early as August 6, 2008.
The Obama campaign said, "out of an abundance of caution," all of these donations were in the process of being returned.
Obama spokesperson Bill Burton sent CBS News the following statement: "We constantly review our donors for any issues and while no organization is completely protected from internet fraud, we will continue to review our fundraising procedures to ensure that we are taking every available step to root-out improper contributions."
Federal law prohibits contributions from foreign nationals, and individuals are limited to contributions of no more than $2,300 per election. That means a person can contribute $2,300 to Obama for the primary elections and $2,300 for the general election.
The FEC routinely has notified both campaigns that their cumulative financial reports show many contributors have exceeded the limits.
The RNC complaint says Obama's campaign has remedied several excessive contributions but has "failed to refund or reattribute the full excessive portion in all situations." A Newsweek report says Obama had reported more than $17,000 in contributions from a donor identified as "Doodad Pro" and more than $11,000 from one identified as "Good Will."
The complaint also cites an article by Newsmax.com, a conservative news Web site, which asserts that a database of FEC records shows "questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling more than $33.8 million."
But an FEC analysis of donors whose home state identification did not match any of the 50 states or the District of Columbia yielded about 8,000 individual contributions totaling only $1.1 million. Of those, more than 2,400 were armed services post offices or from Puerto Rico, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose residents are U.S. citizens.
More than $500,000 came from donors who listed their state as "ZZ," or which the campaign designated as "NA" for "not available" or "IR" for "information requested." In most cases, the cities listed were foreign.
By contrast, McCain had only 330 donations that identified non-U.S. states and most were from armed services post offices or Puerto Rico.
In August, The Associated Press identified 6,948 contributions from people who appeared to live outside the United States and who were not obviously in the U.S. military. The AP contacted 123 donors in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and Switzerland and interviewed them about their citizenship and donations.
The review found that Obama's campaign accepted contributions from at least three foreigners.
Though federal law required campaigns to identify only donors who contribute in excess of $200, McCain's Web site lists all donors to his campaign. Independent watchdog organizations have asked the Obama campaign to do the same; it has not. Obama's campaign, which is not accepting public financing for the general election, has raised more than $468 million. About half has come from small donors, a point of pride for the campaign.


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A third of all consumer brands will be utilising a smartphone application that allows mobile payment by the year 2015, says Gartner, in order to allow them to sell directly to customers and provide an improved customer experience.
In a statement released December 20, the information technology research and advisory firm suggested that organisations with operational retail outlets might have the most to gain from this new technology.
Gartner research director Sandy Shen says that some companies have already launched a branded application in order to improve marketing and offer customers a greater degree of information on products, as well as manage loyalty points and coupons and other special offers.
"Branded apps should be good shopping apps in the first place, and payment is only the final step before making the sale," said Ms Shen.
"To achieve this, [retailers] will use a combination of mobile apps, text messages and Web browsers to engage customers and increase sales."
It's worth noting that businesses looking at deploying mobile applications that allow online payment – no matter which industry they are operating in – will need to ensure they are providing an app that is safe and secure for customers to use.
The best way to do this is through comprehensive mobile application security testing, which can provide a thorough analysis of any potential risks which might make an app vulnerable to cyber criminals.


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Filed under: Reflections
**Currently listening to Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand… A little peculiar in places (like the current song, Michael), but on the whole, pretty good**
I'm trying out this post by email at the moment, so not sure what the formatting will be like, but anyhow…
Vision is an important thing. Vision in the Gospels was an incredibly important metaphor, as so often it was the blind who could see Jesus so much clearer than those with clear vision. It was the blind who saw Jesus as the Messiah, the Saviour of humanity, our LORD, yet the disciples and the teacher of the law were so blind to this fact. And we are so often the same today. In another sense, vision is so important for ministry: having direction and purpose, goals and strategies. I hate these terms with a passion, because in the secular world they become god, but in the ministry context, they provide focus for getting the Good News about Christ Jesus out there. We need vision in a strategic sense so that those who are blind may see in the spiritual sense.
I'm not a fan of visions, but I must admit, I have been changed so much within the last month by men who have a heart for the gospel, and a vision for seeing it reach the lost. I need the dose of caution though. I think personally, it is so easy for me to see the strategic vision as the ends, and miss the spiritual vision that the strategic seeks to allow. I easily replace the ends with the means…
I have a camp coming up in July: it's called VISION: Seeing Jesus For Who He Really Is. On it, I hope to excite my brothers and sisters at church that Jesus is King, Messiah and God. I pray that the Holy Spirit will so enflame them about this vision that they will be filled with a heart to seek and serve the lost. This is my vision. As long as this doesn't become rhetoric, I'll be OK, but I genuinely fear it…
Vision is about seeing God, seeing his Son, and seeing his people. And vision is about how we help others to do that. I met a man today who has both. And it is very exciting.
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Last time I checked, I was still working for the man. Isn't that all we ever do, us Americans? Slog away for a paycheck until the final breath is taken? Who among us gets ahead enough to retire, unencumbered by finances, able to enjoy our elderly years with no worry whatsoever?
That won't be me. I think my goals as far as being elderly have something to do with avoiding both homelessness and the ingesting of cat food.
But for now while I am a working stiff, and have a roof over my head and can buy food other than that of cat, and bring work home, and don't spend enough time with my family, and wish for more, but know there is a true class system in this country, and show up every day and bust my lady balls but still don't get paid enough, I guess I am doing okay.


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One of your leading Furniture Moving Companies in Gauteng. We assist with Local Removals in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, Free State, area. We assist with Office Moving, Home Removals, Corporate Moving, Storage Facilities, Packing and Wrapping of furniture. Whether you are moving to or from Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West or Free State.
Since opening the doors of Austen Furniture Removals back in 1999, the Removal Company has striven for only the best possible customer service to each and every client they move.
Austen Furniture Removals/Furniture movers has been used by Customers all over South-Africa with regular Clients coming back to them all the time.
We all understand that moving is very stressful, a no one wishes to move, if it's not really necessary, because moving is a big hassle, and always has been, especially in today's rushing lifestyle, but sometimes there is no choice. We just have too!
Ivan (Driver) has been with the company since the beginning, and he knows all the "ins" and "outs" of the moving/relocating industry, and he will go out of his way to keep clients happy and satisfied.
The company also have a dedicated team working with them since 2000-2012.
All your furniture is in safe hands and when you look again all your belongings are packed, loaded and ready to relocate to its new home.
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Growth Hacker G Soft In today' s marketing language a funnel is taken into consideration as a method to lead people towards a particular objective aligned with your targets and also goals. Allow us inform you – the appropriate channeling is something astonishingly productive and it could lead your way to genuine results. However, you won't see much about this vital topic any type of hacking growth book. We are going to review this subject in a sensible information below. This passage is taken from an advertising hacking growth book.
Growth Hacker G Soft Basics concerning Marketing Funnels
We all know, the main goal of the channel is to get web traffic or visitors. At this stage, they are mere visitors as they don't belong to you. Currently, you have to assume clever, so you can push them in, draw them in OR use useful items to get them onboard.
Obtain Visitors
Trigger Members
Preserve Users
Getting Visitors
Obtaining a Visitor is similar to taking place an arranged date! Most novices consider they have done as they start getting site visitors. In our sight getting plain visitors is absolutely nothing. Currently you have to turn them into members. Activation could only take place when your made site visitors act, despite just how big or just how tiny the main point is the production of a partnership between two of you. Transforming visitors into participants is not an easy point – we concur! Nonetheless, it is not something impossible.
Growth Hacker G Soft Transform Your Visitors
Now, you have site visitors already. To puts it simply, you have located a means to get them to visit your product, but they will jump at a very high rate if you not did anything better. Right here comes your brand-new objective. Obtain them turned on. Activation is the act of pressing your visitors to do something about it. Know! It is not concerning some arbitrary click on this links and also there. At the end of the day, you ought to finish up with some numbers like sales or sign-ups. Complying with is a checklist of some activation objectives;
Obtain them to read something
Obtain them to check out a particular page
Get their e-mail address
Obtain them to earn a purchase
Get them to share something
Get them to engage with a person
( and so on).
Well, several of our viewers will certainly locate some of the objectives as pointed out earlier foolish, while others appear genuine and appropriate. If you are engaged in retail organisation compared to your goals will be entirely different than the one who is attempting to make money by blogging.
Growth Hacker G Soft You Earned Them; Now Retain Them.
It may seem that you are currently out of the woods, but there is still one more essential component, retention. In pure advertising terms, retention is the act of maintaining your participants adhere to your products to such a level that it comes to be regular. This is because we call them customers at this moment. If you maintained them maintained compared to they will certainly use your product more often. In case if you are standing for an ecommerce website compared to the retention could be equated right into repeat purchases. Allow us provide another example below. Take into consideration that you are leading a content firm. Then in your instance getting people to consume the material you are marketing on the normal basis will be retention in your point of view.
Think us; no hacking growth book will ever inform you the important things we have talked about in this post. In today's cutthroat advertising environment the real success depends on nothing but a functional advertising and marketing funnel. So, proceed using the above-mentioned techniques and begin profiting. Nevertheless, it isn't really anything that is mosting likely to work on the over night basis. It is a time taking process, and also the price of your success right here will depend upon your base strategy.


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I've got another one for you. This month I edited and submitted a story for Silver Publishing's special call: Boys of Summer. Not a week later, I had a contract in my inbox! Hooray! This self-indulgent beach story, clocking in around 25,500 words, will be coming out with the others in the collection in July 28th, 2012. I was wrong about original art all for me. :P
Jake is overqualified for scooping ice cream, but he can't imagine a better way to spend his last summer before senior year than living in a tiny bungalow at the beach with his two best friends and working on the boardwalk. The sun is shining, the ocean is cold, and there's a hot lifeguard, Michael, that comes to the stand every other day to flirt. When he invites Jake and his friends to a house party, Michael sparks a hot, playful summer fling that Jake almost can't believe is happening to him. But the summer has to end sometime, and Jake has a policy against long distance relationships. He breaks it off with Michael, goes back to school to finish his college career, and doesn't realize until Christmas how serious they really were. Just friends isn't going to cut it. Can Jake get their summer romance afloat again before its too late, or will Michael always be the one that got away?


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From the very beginning the fame of Moser Glassworks has been based on the handmade art of master glassmakers, cutters, painters and engravers. Each piece created is unique and requires precise, step by step mastery of the entire hand production process. The secrets of their artistic and craftsmanship skills have been traditionally handed down from generation to generation. Being a master at Moser Glassworks means to be a world-recognized expert in your profession.
Luxury table sets, interior accessories, and artistic engravings, all in distinctive shapes and colours characteristic of Moser, are works rightly regarded as the symbol of beauty and quality. With its timeless artistic and utility value, Moser crystal creates an unmistakable lifestyle and an advantageous investment opportunity.
Thanks to their unique beauty, quality and the trustworthiness of the Moser brand, Moser crystal works have become a symbol recognized and appreciated by outstanding personages from around the world.
Each crystal product from the Moser workshop is an original thanks to its design and handiwork. Glass artists and designers from around the world look for opportunities to carry out their designs on Moser crystal, exceptional for its quality and unique colours. This collaboration makes it possible to produce limited collections and unique and original artwork.
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Data Never Tasted So Good
It's never been a better time to be a consumer, especially when it comes to food and beverage options. Do you want organic, locally sourced, craft made, single serving, gluten free? The choices are endless, making you a happy consumer, and at the same time, a frustrated producer.
Today, food and beverage companies are faced with many challenges. They must compete on a local and global scale and face margin pressures brought on by increased competition.
Profitability is impacted as raw material costs rise and the cost of maintaining aging infrastructure increases. At the same time, they are experiencing inefficiencies as changeovers increase to keep up with the constant change in consumer demand.
To address these competing challenges, food and beverage producers are looking for new ways to impact productivity through improvements of yield, quality and throughput. One way they're getting there is using data to make informed decisions.
You Don't Have to Look Far
The great news is the data already exists. While new equipment can be designed "smart" to deliver data, there are ways to get data from older equipment too. It's available through technology implemented over the past decades including sensors, components, PLCs, drives, historians, databases, HMIs, etc.
But here's the reality. Most facilities are more than 20 years old, made up of individual cells or lines acquired over time. While under the same roof, the lack of connectivity between disparate islands of technology makes it nearly impossible to assess the overall productivity story. Instead, operators rely on personal experience to make decisions, an increasingly dangerous formula as more and more workers retire.
Having the data isn't enough, of course. Accessing it takes the right infrastructure, and using it to drive improvement takes advanced technology like analytics. Of the companies accessing data, only 25 percent are using it for proactive purposes. This is equivalent to driving a car based on what you see in the rearview mirror.
Moving from where you are today to an integrated, data-driven operation will not happen overnight. Many companies have teams exploring Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing and other factory of the future concepts, looking for ways to apply technology for greater productivity.
These teams are identifying use cases, conducting pilots, implementing technology on a single cell, process or line to prove out the ROI, and then determining how to scale across the operation and enterprise. And they're seeing significant results.
Transformational Data in Action
For instance, Agropur Dairy Cooperative started with one of its milk processing plants, looking to create new access to disparate data, so facility operators could make informed decisions. With advanced technology, they not only eliminated 2,500 hours of manual data collection each year, but quickly saw a 30 percent reduction in lube consumption and a 25 percent efficiency gain.
Similarly, Kraft Heinz started small to prove out the concept on a line at its Ore-Ida plant. This decades old potato processing line had aging controls and relied on the knowledge of operators to optimize settings and troubleshoot.
Through the use of technology upgrades that included analytics, each variable could be broken down and optimized for greater capacity. They realized a 10 percent capacity increase on the pilot line and an ROI in under 12 months. More importantly, the data to make this improvement was always there, it was just inaccessible nor being leveraged without the right infrastructure.
Finally, we worked with Jim Beam to increase bourbon production at one of its distilleries by one liter per minute. Again, the opportunity was always there, hidden in the data. The use of analytics allowed them to understand where they could drive production capacity in the proofing stage. They were able to drive a 60 percent reduction in variability that lead to this significant increase in capacity.
So, Where Do You Begin?
Avoid analysis paralysis and getting swamped by all of the data. Chances are, you have a sense of where your inefficiencies lie. Look at what part of the process has the highest input cost, greatest impact on profitability or most recurring issues.
That's where you should start. If you can improve yield from the highest cost components into your finished products, that's pure profitability. What needs to happen within an identified part of the process is where analytics can help you focus, and where technology can drive real-time productivity.
It's not as difficult or costly as it may sound. Projects can be easy and cost-effective to implement with a partner that intimately understands the IT and OT environments.
Pilot projects can be done with minimal disruption to operations. This approach typically leads to a rapid and positive ROI, creating the use case you need to scale throughout your operations, and to begin to realize the productivity improvements lying just beneath the surface.


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Yule Ball
The Yule Ball
a wildly formal swing dance
Live Music by CVU Jazz Band
Professional Swing Dance Instruction
Prize for the Best Dressed Dancers!
Delicious Drinks and Treats
Tickets: $20
Event Details
Friday January 4th
Creative Black-Tie
Proceeds benefit the CVU Jazz Band and The Way of the Bard
Richmond Free Library - Community Room
201 Bridge Street P.O. Box 997 Richmond, VT 05477
Richmond Free Library – Community Room
Richmond Free Library
201 Bridge Street
P.O. Box 997
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بخش هشتم داستان شاهزاده کوچولو به انگلیسی
As each day passed I would learn, in our talk, something about the little prince's planet, his departure from it, his journey. The information would come very slowly, as it might chance to fall from his thoughts. It was in this way that I heard, on the third day, about the catastrophe of the baobabs.
This time, once more, I had the sheep to thank for it. For the little prince asked me abruptly–as if seized by a grave doubt–"It is true, isn't it, that sheep eat little bushes?"
"Yes, that is true."
"Ah! I am glad!"
I did not understand why it was so important that sheep should eat little bushes. But the little prince added:
"Then it follows that they also eat baobabs?"
I pointed out to the little prince that baobabs were not little bushes, but, on the contrary, trees as big as castles; and that even if he took a whole herd of elephants away with him, the herd would not eat up one single baobab.
The idea of the herd of elephants made the little prince laugh.
"We would have to put them one on top of the other," he said.
But he made a wise comment:
"Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little."
"That is strictly correct," I said. "But why do you want the sheep to eat the little baobabs?"
He answered me at once, "Oh, come, come!", as if he were speaking of something that was self-evident. And I was obliged to make a great mental effort to solve this problem, without any assistance.
Indeed, as I learned, there were on the planet where the little prince lived–as on all planets–good plants and bad plants. In consequence, there were good seeds from good plants, and bad seeds from bad plants. But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth's darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken. Then this little seed will stretch itself and begin–timidly at first–to push a charming little sprig inoffensively upward toward the sun. If it is only a sprout of radish or the sprig of a rose-bush, one would let it grow wherever it might wish. But when it is a bad plant, one must destroy it as soon as possible, the very first instant that one recognizes it.
planet سیاره
departure خروج
journey سفر
information اطلاعات
catastrophe مصیبت
baobabs نوعی درخت
abruptly بطور ناگهانی
doubt شک و تردید
bushes بوته ها
follow دنبال کردن
on the contrary بر عکس
castle قلعه
herd گله
elephant فیل
wise عاقلانه
strictly موکدا
self-evident بدیهی
oblige مجبور کردن
mental ذهنی
effort تلاش
assistance یاری
plant گیاه
consequence نتیجه
seed دانه
invisible نامریی
desire خواستن
awaken بیدار شدن
timidly با کمرویی
sprig شاخه کوچک
upward به سمت بالا
sprout جوانه
destroy نابود کردن
written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint Exupéry


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925 Queen St. West, 2nd Floor, Room 2
- At tables6
- In lounge1
- Maximum total7
- Sq. ft.232
- Rentable Sq. ft.348
Opening hours
- mon - tue 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
- wed 8:00 am - 9:00 pm
- thu - fri 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
- sat 8:00 am - 7:00 pm
- sunClosed
- Whiteboard (1)
- 49" Flatscreen TV
- Air conditioning
- WiFi
- Phone charger
- Bathroom on premises
- Thunderbolt
- USB-C Multiport
Additional in-room services
DisplayPort to HDMICA$0
Note that if the room you're reserving has a flatscreen, the following connection options will already be available in-room: HDMI, Thunderbolt, USB-C
Folding ChairCA$13
Extra folding chairs for your meeting
Logitech USB desktop or laptop webcam
Flipchart & StandCA$50
Includes 1 flipchart + 1 easel stand, additional flipcharts sold separately
About this space
Overlooking Trinity Bellwoods Park, this Queen Street West space is perfect for small team meetings. With seating for up to 6 guests in Room 2, larger teams seeking additional seating or breakout space can reserve Room 1, 2, and 3 simultaneously. When reserved in conjunction, the entire suite can accommodate teams of up to 26 guests.
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Pepper Commercial have sold a 14 acre industrial site off an asking price of £5 million (£360,000 per acre) The property comprised 8 former RAF hangers on 2 separate sites. The internal accommodation extended to some 200,000 sq.ft. and was until recently used as a tyre storage depot for Cooper Tires, who also manufacture in the town. The area has seen some recent development including Herman Miller who built 170,000 sq.ft. facility next door and Dick Lovett who have also built a new Jaguar Land Rover car sales and service facility just off of the adjoining link road.
The site has been sold to a local property investor who plans to refurbish and let out the accommodation to storage and industrial users. The individual hangers comprise 25,000 sq.ft. each and once formed part of a technical training college that is now the Bowerhill Industrial Estate.