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Howard's End - Hayley Atwell and Matthew MacFadyen Interview/
For all of you who are having Downton Abbey withdrawal - have no fear... you're going to love this news!
A fresh take on Howards End (based on E.M. Forster's beautiful novel) will be airing on the STARZ network starring Hayley Atwell and Matthew MacFadyen
The four-part miniseries tells the story of the Schlegel sisters, played by Hayley and Philippa Coulthard (The Catch), two intelligent and idealistic young women living together with their hypochondriac younger brother Tibby (The Imitation Game's Alex Lawther) in Edwardian London.
The new stars certainly have big shoes to fill. Hayley plays Margaret Schlegel, a role made famous by Emma Thompson in the 1992 Merchant Ivory film, (Emma Thompson won an Oscar for playing Margaret) while Matthew is her eventual suitor, Henry Wilcox, played originally by Sir Anthony Hopkins.
The cast is rounded out by Tracey Ullman as Aunt Juley, Julia Ormond as Ruth Wilcox, and Joseph Quinn (Game of Thrones), who plays the unfortunate Leonard Bast.
And that's not all: adapting E.M. Forster's classic novel is Kenneth Lonergan, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Manchester by the Sea and You Can Count On Me.
Hayley Atwell's impressive body of work has established her as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Last year, Hayley reprised her role in Marvel's Agent Carter for its second season. In the show she played the role of the feisty Agent Peggy Carter, a character that she has portrayed in The Avengers and Captain America franchises. Hayley can also be seen in the Kenneth Branagh-directed Cinderella, and John Ridley's Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side. In television work, Hayley won critical acclaim for her performance in The Line of Beauty and STARZ Original Miniseries Pillars of the Earth with the latter role earning her a Golden Globe® Nomination.
Matthew Macfadyen is one of the UK's most respected television, film and stage actors, widely acclaimed for performances in such projects as Pride and Prejudice, Any Human Heart, Spooks, Frost/Nixon and Criminal Justice for which he won a BAFTA TV Award. Matthew has recently completed work on Disney's The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as 'Mr. Stahlbaum.' The live-action retelling of the classic story is directed by Lasse Hallstrom. This year will see Matthew star as 'J.P.Morgan' in The Current War(2018), alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon. Matthew will also star as 'Tom' in the HBO drama pilot, Succession.
I spoke with Hayley and Matthew via satellite about working on this glorious production and the challenges they faced recreating these memorable and iconic characters.
Howard's End Premieres Sunday, April 8th at 8pm ET/PT on STARZ
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Hi everybody,
I am having a problem in the interactive simulation (Structural-Heat). Looking forward to all the helpers.
Problem: heat generated by friction between 2 bodies
Model: as shown below.
Boundary conditions:
- Body 2 slide on body 1 (label B) with coefficient of friction = 0.2
- Lower surface of body 1 is restricted to degrees UX, UY, UZ = 0 (label A)
- Pressure on top surface of body 2: P = 1 MPa (label C)
- Element type used SOLID226 with keyopt(1)=11 -> UX, UY, UZ, TEMP
- Contact element: CONTA174 with keyopt(1)=1 -> UX, UY, UZ, TEMP
- Environmental temperature: 22*C
The resulting temperature is as below.
Problem: The minimum temperature on the structure (21.43*C) is less than the ambient temperature (22*C).
Why is that and How to fix it?
Project in the attachment (ANSYS version 19.0)
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Bonnet Babes | Easter Product Photo Shoot/
This super fun styled product photo shoot was inspired by Topknot Girl's Easter bonnets!
The day of this shoot, South East Qld suffered incredible floods and almost half of our little models could not get to the studio.
So, my youngest little man, Ethan, stepped in to help out! Aren't these little one's just a little bit precious?


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Mallon Technology is pleased to announce that we will have a significant presence at the upcoming Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) Conference taking place on 8 th/9th May at the Killashee House Hotel, Naas, County Kildare.
The theme for this year's conference is 'Leading the Fire Service of the Future' and over the two days features a number of speakers from the Fire Service and from industries throughout the world with a connection to the Fire Service. As well as the traditional conference speeches, a key highlight of the CFO Conference is the fire technology exhibition featuring the latest in fire fighting hardware and technology.
At the conference, Mallon Technology's Head of Product and Business Development, Eric Hardiman, will be delivering a presentation during the tech talk session of the conference. Eric's presentation will aim to address the use of GIS in the Fire Service and how it could be used to benefit them.
In addition to this, Mallon Technology will be taking up a place amongst the exhibition spaces, showcasing our recent work and providing information on our products, such as the recent updates to our Diamond Fire package. If you will be there on the day, please call over to our stand and introduce yourself.


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This multi-disciplinary research project, which builds upon the findings of a previous NCPTT-funded project on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) to determine the health of the nation's historic structures, develops Life-Cycle Assessment charts for the Preservation and Rehabilitation (LCA-PR) of historic structures. Quantifiable parameters will be developed through LCA-PR charts to evaluate not only the structural state of the heritage building, but also the effect of rehabilitation campaigns. Quantitative information about the structural degradation can aid in the development of the most cost-effective, long-term infrastructure management plans that reduce both energy and material consumption, thusly yielding sustainable maintenance schemes for the nation's cultural heritage.
Main Contributions
As part of this project, Structural Life Cycle Analysis graphs which indicate the sustainability of a structure in regards to its actual versus designed performance are introduced. Figure 1 shows a conceptual view of the proposal. The rate at which the decrease in structural functionality occurs depends upon the structural sustainability of the built system. Structural Sustainability is a measure of the degradation rate and inversely relates to the slope of the curve. Figure 1 represents the lifespan for a structure that has been recently constructed. For an existing structure, a reference point of structural functionality must be determined according to the current structural condition.
Based on the approach presented in Figure 1, with the goal of preservation to ensure that historic structures survive for posterity, a LCA-PR framework is proposed. This framework addresses and incorporates three scenarios: (1) gradual structural degradation from environmental and operational conditions, (2) rapid structural damage from disasters and (3) rapid structural improvement due to preservation or rehabilitation campaigns. While rapid degradation or improvement in structural integrity can only be evaluated after the occurrence of an event, the gradual structural degradation naturally allows for prognosis of future behavior. In this project, to predict the long term, gradual degradation of a structural system, prognostic methodologies are implemented into the LCA-PR framework. Such prognosis is accomplished by training Support Vector Regression (SVR) models with the data collected through sensors placed on the structure. In this prognostic approach, as more data is collected, the trained SVR model is refined and prediction accuracy is improved. Figure 2 schematically outlines the LCA-PR framework.
Project Progress Update
A Review on Prognostic Evaluation of Historic Masonry Structures
This project presents a review of not only the established literature on prognostic evaluation but also the available inspection techniques for masonry construction with an objective to relate these two disassociated areas of knowledge, thus laying the foundation for prognostic evaluation of historic masonry.
Prognostic evaluation consists of four main stages: monitoring, diagnostics, prediction, and maintenance. The first step entails monitoring user selected, damage-sensitive features of a system (e.g. vibration modes frequencies, modal parameters, peak values, etc.) obtained from the system through a series of sensors or onsite inspections beginning at time t0. In the diagnostic phase, these features, monitored continuously or intermittently, are then pre-processed to assess the current health state or performance of the system. When repeated successively, diagnosis supplies information that can be used to train statistical models that can forecast the system's future health state. The remaining time prior to the point at which the predicted health state intersects the corresponding user-defined failure threshold at the system's end of life, tEoL, defines the remaining useful life (RUL) of the system (see Figure 3). This failure threshold is a conservative limit on damage level, beyond which the system is inadequate for its intended use. Therefore, tEoL does not necessarily signify complete system failure. In the final step, based upon the estimated RUL, maintenance actions are scheduled for time tm to extend the RUL of the system (see Figure 3).
Adaptively Weighted Support Vector Regression
Among the available techniques for prognostic evaluation, SVR shows particular potential for applicability to historic masonry structures as it is capable of handling the nonlinear responses of masonry assemblies due to the complexity of their materials and geometry. As a part of this project the proposed adaptively weighted SVR approach is presented. Besides, the theoretical background for SVR as well as the algorithmic development for adaptive weighting is both presented.
The basic steps of this adaptively weighted prognostic approach can be demonstrated on an initial dataset of n points. In Figure 4, the dataset is divided into three parts: the preliminary training set consisting of the first m points, the hold-out set consisting of the following h points, and the forecasting set consisting of the next f points. During the preliminary stage, optimal λ is selected. For this, multiple candidate λ values (ten λ values for each multiple of 10 from 10-15 to 105) are tested in their ability to predict the hold-out set of h points from m to n, where n = m + h. The resulting L1 norm prediction error of the hold-out set is summed for each model trained by a different candidate λ, and, by comparison, the candidate λ producing the model with the least prediction error over the hold-out set is chosen as the optimal λ. During the forecasting stage, this optimal λ is then used to train a refined model using the total dataset that was used in the preliminary stage (i.e. up to n) to predict the forecasting set (i.e. from n to p). The adaptively weighted approach then repeats this process as additional measurements become available by adding these new data points to the training set and updating λ accordingly. The detailed steps of this process are shown in Algorithm 1.
An Empirical Assessment of Load Carrying Capacity of a Scaled Masonry Dome
The project also focuses on the establishment of a semi-empirical relationship to estimate the reduction in the load carrying capacity due to damage by exploiting the experimentally detected deviations in the natural frequencies for a tile dome. Finite element model developed to analyze the dome is calibrated against both non-destructive vibration measurements and destructive load-displacement measurements up to failure. Once a FE model that can accurately represent both linear (natural frequencies) and nonlinear (load carrying capacity) behavior of the domes is obtained, the model is then executed to simulate incremental development of cracks. The first natural frequency and remaining load carrying capacity of the dome are monitored to define the desired empirical relationship, which is ultimately generalized for spherical domes with varying span-to-rise ratios.
MATLAB's fminsearch function was used for the optimization problem. For the dome studied herein, the coefficients are obtained to be α1=3.78, α2=18.98, α3=6.45, α4=1.47 and α5=3.46. The power function obtained with these coefficients supply a conservative, upper bound as depicted in Figure 5 (left).
Figure 6 demonstrates the three-dimensional plots of the functional relationship of same thickness but with height-to-span rations varying from 0.15 to 0.50. This functional form demonstrated in Figure 6 can be improved by increasing the number of simulation runs and can be made more generally applicable by considering the different thicknesses, boundary conditions and materials that can be used for masonry domes. Therefore, the semi-empirical relationship presented herein should be considered to be for demonstration purposes only.
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In order to achieve the objective of real-time, long-term monitoring and easy to be accessed by infrastructure managers, it becomes impractical to conduct on-site monitoring. On the other hand, Remote Monitoring technology solves these problems perfectly. In this project, the proposed remote monitoring system is able to retrieve sensor data generated from ambient excitations. This data will be processed and then be visualized on a website. Also, when outliers are detected by this system, it is capable of sending email alert related to the structural health state of the testing structure. This technique can be divided into three stages: 1. Data acquisition stage; 2. Data processing stage; 3 data communication stage.


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It is called the 'Happiest Place on Earth', and thanks to a recent survey it seems Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Florida is also the most popular place in the world as it relates to amusement and theme parks worldwide. According to the Themed Entertainment Association's (TEA) 2014 Theme Index, the park saw over 19 million people in 2014, which is up 4% from 2013.
This increase in numbers does not solely reflect the Magic Kingdom, as visitors to amusement parks rose all across the globe. According to the attendance report from TEA and AECOM global attractions, which ranked the 25 popular theme and amusement parks worldwide based on the numbers of visitors gathered by AECOM; all in all, 223 million visitors experienced thrills and chills at the top theme and amusements parks all around the world. This signifies a 4.1% increase from the year prior.
As one would guess, Disney – the home of Mickey Mouse, all those kooky characters from Toy Story, and of course Elsa and Anna from the animated movie phenomena known as Frozen – dominated the worldwide list.
CNN reports that Disney parks in America, Asia and Europe ranked within nine spots of the top ten amusement park locations; and snagged 11 of the highest spots within the top 25 list. Universal Studios' grabbed the silver spot as the second most dominant; with one location in the top ten, and four parks ranking amongst the top 25 list. Sea World also ranked within the top 25.
Seems that all around, people worldwide continue to seek the unique and fun experience that only an amusement park can bring; with numbers increasing amongst those theme parks that did not necessarily make the top 25 worldwide list. According to the report, 122.5 million visitors enjoyed the top 20 Asian amusement and theme parks, which is a 4.9% increase from 2013. There was also a 2.2% increase from 2013 as it relates to the top 20 North American amusement/theme parks in 2014, with 138 million visitors. Lastly, 59.5 million visitors checked out amusement parks in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East which reflects an increase of 3% from 2013.


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Glamor, Glitter and a bunch of strange people....
July 15, 2013 - Los Angeles, California, United States
the drive from San Diego to L.A. was not bad at all... the ride along the coast was beautiful (until you hit the inner L.A.). Beverly Hills is simply crazy posh... and Hollywood is crazy commercialized - but then, what else would one expect. If anyone wants to have an absolute romantic, beautiful get-away... Venice Beach! more later.
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June 7, 2013 - Los Angeles, California, United States
We are continuing to enjoy our LA visit with Jessica and Scott. Yesterday we went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where they have an outside exhibit titled "Levitated Mass", a 350-ton boulder above a walkway. We've included a couple images of LACMA exhibits. Who says that LA is not an intellectual city? Just joking...Truth be told, it's an excellent museum and we enjoyed the visit. Lucky for us there was an Irish pub near the museum where we stopped for lunch and (yes, Ernie)...
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June 3, 2013 - Los Angeles, California, United States
Here we are in Los Angeles! Traffic is as bad as ever with bumper to bumper conditions at 75 mph...then suddenly to zero. Fires burning to the north of our location. I'm hoping that my former ERC coworkers in that area are OK. On the way in to LA we passed another wind farm and Carla couldn't resist taking a photo as we drove by. Yesterday we attended a bicycle polo match...a first for us. It's kind of like hockey on bicycles. We'll be here for the week helping the kids with a project...
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26. Closing the Loop in California
April 18, 2011 - Los Angeles, California, United States
We left Monument Valley behind and travelled north to a town called Moab which is a bustling town with a hive of outdoor activity going on. The next few days of our North America tour would encompass a number of National Parks which had lots of fantastic scenery. It also gave us the opportunity to do some hiking which we needed to do, to ready ourselves for our South America trip which was going to include a four day hike at altitude, one of the days we will be walking for eight hours!...
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22. Having a Laugh in Los Angeles
February 23, 2011 - Los Angeles, California, United States
We arrived in L.A. after a five hour plus flight with United who offered lots of non-alcoholic drinks (really) and absolutely no FOOD!!! It was after 9pm when we arrived and we had booked into a motel near the airport (what it didn't say was which airport!!!) oh dear $110 and 35 miles later we arrived at our motel (not a good start to our North America adventure. Being so far from L.A. we decided to spend the next day planning our 7 weeks in North America. We managed to find a cheap...
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The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) has released a discussion paper considering how to improve and clarify the legislative requirements and reporting framework for charities and NFPs, building on a research report released earlier this year.
The discussion paper considers three key proposals:
- Removing the ability for entities to self-assess their reporting type (doing away with 'special purpose reporting');
- Changing the basis of the current reporting threshold tiers for charities to be based on more objective criteria; and
- Possibly, developing an additional suite of NFP-specific accounting standards.
While schools are already bound by reporting requirements as a condition of government funding some schools may still be only preparing 'special purpose financial reports'. If the proposals in the discussion paper are adopted this is unlikely to be a viable option in the future.
In order to assess the impact on CSA members it would be helpful if any school preparing 'special purpose financial reports' could let us know that this is the case.
Schools can download a copy of the Discussion Paper and Appendices from the link below


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My daughters came home from a street fair near our home with this "cute rubber baby" -- given to them by an anti-abortion group that had set up a table at the fair. The trouble is, my daughters are 12 and 10. These activists apparently pulled them aside -- or maybe just lured them over with rubber babies and pencils -- and talked to them about abortion without their parents present.
My girls came home and asked me what abortion is. The activists had told them something about "ripping up a baby" in the womb. I answered the question -- I believe in giving my kids good information when they're curious, along a healthy dose of spin about our family's beliefs. But I resented this group for introducing my kids to this issue too young and framing it with their bias.
It's not that we don't talk about sexuality and reproduction at home. Their dad and I have explained the facts of life and the dangers of becoming pregnant as a consequence of having sex. We've taken every opportunity to teach them to respect their bodies -- by eating well, by not lifting their shirts for second-grade boys on the school bus.
But what happened to my rights as a parent to teach them about life and morality at my own pace? These anti-abortion folks, as usual, seem to care more for the life of some hypothetical baby than for the innocence of the two young girls standing in front of them.
I've heard that some 10-year-olds can be very mature and even sexually active. But mine simply are not. They carried the rubber babies around for the rest of the weekend, talking about how cute they are, and made them a place to sleep in their dollhouse.
This rubber baby was supplied by heritagehouse76.org, an online warehouse supplying any number of items to the anti-abortion movement. The company was founded by Virginia and Ellis Evers, activists who began using silhouettes of tiny baby feet on lapel buttons in the 1970s to further their cause. The rubber babies must have come later. You can order them in several different models and three "ethnicities." (White baby shown above.) The people at the street fair also gave my daughters a pencil with a silhouette -- which is the size of a 10-week-old baby's feet.
Fortunately, the other side was represented at the fair too. My kids also came home with bright pink lapel pins stating, "My body is not public property." These came from the American Civil Liberties Union. My 10-year-old read the pin out loud to me, and I responded, "That's right. Your body is not public property." Especially not for some anti-abortion fanatic at a street fair trying to indoctrinate little girls before their time.


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Mourning continues for the 50 victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. A question echoes around the world: how could this have happened?
A single man perpetrated the worst mass shooting in the recent history of the United States, and the deadliest act of violence ever committed against the LGBTQ community since 1973 when an un-identified arsonist burnt down a gay bar in New Orleans. Five other mass shootings occurred in the same weekend, and more than 30 mass shootings have occurred since. Clearly there is an epidemic affecting U.S. citizens, so widespread that the collateral damage has spilled over the northern border.
The U.S. currently has an estimated 310 million privately owned firearms in circulation, overshadowing Canada's 9.95 million guns. Canada's largest city, Toronto, experienced a record number of shootings in 2016 thus far. Over 260 victims of gun violence. A number completely unheard of, yet minuscule in the scope of the U.S.'s 26,796 gun related incidents this year alone. 6,929 people died from gun violence, with 14,258 injured.
The tolls continue to climb as the year moves forward.
Toronto is a beautiful city. Generally peaceful and safe; the current media hysteria over anything relating to gun violence reflects the rarity of such events. Canadian security authorities trace an increase in illegal weapons crossing into the country from the U.S., moving forward from 2005.
The Toronto Police Service voice concerns about the increase in shootings, linking them to weapons smuggled from the U.S. But resistance to stricter control in the U.S. remains strong, with one of the loudest voices being the National Rifle Association.
One of the featured NRA spokespeople is Ex-Navy SEAL Dom Raso, who speaks at length about terrorist threats. "You know what inspires cowards? Easy targets. Sheep. People who worry more about offending the enemy than stopping him. People they know don't have the training to fight back."
"We need leaders who will get rid of useless gun-free zone laws that give killers a clear advantage over the law-abiding. Leaders who understand the best asset we have to defend ourselves is the freedom of the American people.
The longer it takes us to realize it, the more innocent people will die."
These quotes from Raso define the gun practicality argument. What stops a person from robbing a store at gunpoint? Nothing, unless of course the owner himself brandishes a weapon. With an increase in gun violence in Toronto, should civilians not arm themselves?
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
That is the Second Amendment. A country like the United States should not limit the right of its citizenry to carry weapons, especially to protect themselves.
Support for the validity of the Second Amendment can be found in Switzerland, where they have a fairly lax approach to guns. Automatic weapons are banned; handguns can be owned and carried as long as the owner can provide a valid reason to obtain a license. Swiss citizens have approximately 4 million private, and military owned guns in a population of only 8 million people. They have the 3rd largest stockpile of privately owned guns but also a low gun homicide rate, consistently in the lower double digits. Tying into the second amendment, can a case not be made that everyday people should be able to carry arms?
No. The Second Amendment cannot rightfully be applied to a modern U.S. society where mass shootings take place so frequently.
Nationally organized militia groups do not exist. Military service is not mandatory in the U.S. Switzerland however, requires compulsory service in the military and a host of firearms training regulations before a person can carry a weapon. The whole system is designed to vet those unfit to bear arms. Shooting clubs for kids as young as 12 years old instil values of gun safety. Weapons training and strict social norms maintain the Swiss environment.
Similarly in Canada, two streams are available for obtaining a gun license. Canadian Firearms Safety Course for unrestricted arms, and the Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course. Once a license is issued for weapons, severe federal limitations restrict transporting guns in public, and storing them privately in your home. Owners cannot even keep ammunition in the same room as their weapon. There are no nationwide regulations in the U.S. Everything varies state by state. States that have "gun free zones" will never truly be safe until there are national standards for control.
Australia had very similar problems with gun violence, but not on the same scale. After a number of nasty mass shootings, Australians decided to instate stricter gun laws and employ cash for guns programs around the country. The initiative retrieved over 650,000 private weapons, and was estimated to cost 500 million dollars. Australia witnessed a drop in homicides by close to 40%, and a drop in suicides by 80% in the decade following these new policies. The U.S. has held gun buyback programs, or gun amnesty programs, but on a state-to-state basis, for thousands rather than millions of dollars.
A weapon like the one used in the Pulse nightclub shooting took only 7 minutes to purchase. The perpetrator had no reason to be denied without a prior felony. 7 minutes for a military-grade, semi-automatic rifle capable of accurately dispensing rounds into a frightened crowd in a matter of seconds. 7 minutes to sell a tool of war that ended 50 lives and injured 53. The tool that shattered 103 families and scarred so many in its wake. This lapse in regulation rips apart families and yields tragedy after tragedy.
Military-grade weapons have no place in the hands of civilians unqualified for their usage, and they definitely have no place in the hands of those with hatred in their hearts. Gun enthusiasts and the NRA should not cite the second Amendment when they try to justify selling military-grade assault rifles without proper licensing, background checks, and training. They need to sit down with the government and start a conversation that results in better nationwide gun regulation. Certain types of arms need to be completely prohibited. Gun Amnesty programs need to be instated for the newly prohibited weaponry, to provide incentive to turn them in. Countries like Canada and Australia had these conversations after their first horrifying mass shooting. How many more mass shootings will it take for the United States to do the same? Where will these weapons end up next? Which community will be targeted next?
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Doctors travel down one of the more difficult career paths available. Considering their daily experiences, it comes as no surprise when some begin to think of them as more than just human. But what makes us more human than having secrets? The following doctors revealed secrets they would never repeat out loud.


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This is the ultimate First Person Shooter. Battlezone Playlive offers gamers challenging missions, realistic scenarios and 3 HOURS OF EXTREME ACTION (and free pizza)! If you take your gaming seriously, these are the sessions for you. Our mission library is constantly expanding – gamers are required to think tactically, work as a team and execute plans flawlessly for a chance at victory.
Due to the complexity of these sessions, we can only run Extreme Events once per month at each venue. These events are tailored for players aged 13 and up. Pizza is offered for all players at the end of each session.


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Y'all, it's true, I never met a s'mores I didn't like!
Now that fall is finally here I am ready to go camping and enjoy our favorite treat!
We recently took fall camping themed family photos with Jeni Marie Studios and I decided to make a tasty treat to eat during our photos! I combined two kid friendly fall treats- chocolate chip cookies and gooey s'mores- to make these ah-mazing Chocolate Chip Cookie S'mores .
Check out the recipe and our fun photo session below!Pin It Now!


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"Walk Into Hell" Movie Poster & Set of Lobby Cards
Original studio stamped Walk Into Hell (1957) movie poster along with a set of 8 original lobby cards. Plot: Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-Eye' Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major Towalaka, to accompany him on his "walk into hell" and then finds that a French lady doctor, Louise Dumurcet, is to go with them part of the journey. They find the malaria-stricken Jeff Clayton in a deserted village and he joins the trek. They are captured by jungle-natives but are released after Dr. Dumurcet cures the fever-stricken children of the chief.
Measurements: Poster (27″W X 41″H) Lobby Cards (14″W X 11″H)


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Download: RRS Parent Council Info
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Parent Council News 27 September 2018
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Following an extensive period of consultation with pupils, staff and parents/carers, we have agreed our vision statement which will guide us as we move forward with further improvements to our school.
Dalkeith High School: Enabling all young people to succeed in an inclusive, respectful and stimulating environment


text: Well, folks - Marion, Alabama is in the middle of nowhere! Selma is a 30 miles away through a whole lotta nothing! I was very impressed. Inprocessing went well, my cadet got her uniforms and set about to set up her room. Spent all afternoon unpacking and setting things up. Actually, she spends the next 4 weeks being a ROC (recruit-on-campus) before she becomes a Cadet - she kept her sense of humor jokes and kept remarking how they have been reduced to inanimate objects! It was blazing HOT. Not just Alabama hot but record HOT. HOT and DRY. Did I mention HOT? haha. it was the 10th day in a row for +100 deg temps. It was 106 degress on inprocessing day. The kids inprocessed in the gym -we made the rounds to various stations - last one being SAP table where she met Col Bauer. He is just a fabulous guy. Then off to get uniforms - wow! Now she likes to shop so I just told her she just bought $1800 worth of clothes at once! hmmmmm she didnt care for my sense of humor. Anyway - then to the room - unpacked and began setting up. Spent the afternoon organzing etc. The reception was held at the Dean's home. It was hot so they let the kids wear civies. They were all great kids! The faculty was very nice and welcoming as well...classes start tomorrow. There are 40 AOG Scholars at MMI - the rest are a good mix of USAFA, USNA and USCGA - don't know the numbers. Total in SAP program = 105.


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Birthday Discoveries
Our son, Jacob, attends the College of William & Mary. He finds the academics suitably challenging, but laments that activities in Williamsburg are primarily limited to historical museums and tours. Colonial overload! He prefers off the beaten path adventures, art galleries and museums, and always independent book stores.
To celebrate his 20th birthday we made plans for a visit. We wanted to give him a break just before the long week of final exams. I searched "weird things to do in Williamsburg."
And just like that, we veered away from Duke of Gloucester Street, Raleigh Tavern, and the Wren Building and on to the cool and unusual.
First up, Eastern State Mental Hospital. America's first public mental health facility, established in 1773. In the early years, the institution used inhumane methods of treatment – bleeding, bullying, blistering salves, and electrocution. And the old abandoned buildings are creepy even in the light of day.
My husband tells the story of his grandmother, Isabelle Hopkins, who was a resident of Eastern State Hospital. Admitted for "taking to the bed" after her nine children apparently drove her crazy, Isabelle was eventually released after a 27 year stay, and certified as "legally sane" upon discharge. I imagine she stayed long enough for those kids to be grown and out of the house!
Second, President Heads. There are 43 giant busts of US presidents sitting in a farmer's field in Croaker, Virginia. Each bust is 20-foot tall and weighs 22,000 pounds.
They were open to the public at Presidents Park and received thousands of visitors until 2010 when a company bought the plot of land. The huge presidential heads had to move. Instead of allowing the busts to be demolished, Howard Hankins, who helped construct the park, adopted all 43 heads and lugged them back to his private family farm for safekeeping until someone can think of what to do with them.
And finally, the Presidental Pets Museum, which as it turns out, is permanently closed.
Two out of three ain't bad.


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The player homepage now has a link called Colonization Efforts that leads to the star map stuff. The Valdir and Desoir colonizing stars have been added to the stars list.
Stuff from around the place:
That orc guy that took off before anyone else could still hasn't come back. We're not sure how his maiden voyage went.
Valdir continues to be a cross between really difficult and really easy to negotiate with. People of independent interest have managed to acquire permission to join Valdir's colony efforts on their star. Despite its reliance on its swarm it does seem to be building a society with some diversity to it simply by demand for immigration by other interests. Since they colonized a special planet of interest to Sahad study, those looking into this new form of magic have great interest in hanging out with the Valdir.
Desoir's mothership also landed to begin its colonization efforts and triggered rapid effects as they just deployed colonization teams to four planets simultaneously with the mothership acting as support to go between them as necessary. The independent colonists are spreading fast over the new star instead of concentrating their efforts in one spot at a time.
Yasice is still out there messing with things, though it seems they got caught up in an argument with Solvang and are dealing with that right now so they've at least been stalled.
Mordekai Aberhoff
In order to spawn a hero unit from existing ranks they need to be assigned a task in which failure is reasonably possible. Basically out of X number of people in an operation one might highroll and generate a hero unit.
Sahad research hasn't produced any new spells yet but properties of its functions that may lead to it have been promising.
As per the paris plans, a city which doesn't exist in this world thus making that a very nonsense acronym but at least it rolls off the tongue, psionic "pirates" have been sent to join the Raiders in preparation to do anything that might need doing.
Edric Vandross
Raymond estimates it'll take the team about 4 (more) months to reverse engineer enough of the tech to at least experiment with their own designs to reconstruct it. They have enough of the premise to make something work but the difference in capability would likely be quite a wide margin.
The shady suits find that if you were really going to just outright hire pirate crews, you might be better off just hiring Madhammer mercs to do the job. With the exception of hero unit pirates, mercs tend to be more effective then pirates and more controllable. Though other then them, you can basically just hire around Solvang or even just post jobs through Solvang if your goals are merely to steal specific things since you don't have to pay until they succeed. Though the disadvantage of that is you don't have personal control over the crews and it would be harder to create a higher grade of pirate since you couldn't invest in an individual team if you just used the job boards.
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Ask Tess about Angel.
The necrocarnum roll of the week has made progress, giving a bonus to future rolls on the subject.
Progress on the solvang board tracking is underway though there are no currently reportable results. The agents have to visit stations all over the system between a bunch of planes and do a lot of detective work at each one just to figure out the basic dates of the posts without being caught. So imagine a loading progress bar for this week.
Luci Serrano
You go on vacation to meet with Angel at some high end hotel and casino resort I guess. Fortunately you're rich cuz your new growing vampire harem definitely needs a larger room then the average vacationer.
Your news team expands with the kind of people who are champions of the truth over supporting their own government. Though the potential danger is that some of them might also be inclined to be whistle-blowers on you if they find out your actual connections and activities.
Speaking of which, hard hitting journalism has dug up something of a potential news story. There is some evidence that Alnae might have outright bought their FTL ships for the colonization rush directly from Selona. Some suspect there is an odd relationship going on there despite the Selona gang's general known tendency to operate and prey within Alnae territory.
Claudia (Angel) has no idea who you are. After that hurdle is covered, basically she is an outcast from the Desoir family because of her erratic behavior. As showcased by the Jhaeros incident, she's capable of being a little messed up. As for your dynasty questions i already answered that in DMs.
Mining profits continue to rise quickly as the slaves are brought in line by the new overseer. While their overall productivity could be better as constant fear isn't the best motivator, the lack of rebellious action has definitely helped to stabilize the operations and they're slaves anyways so its not like it costs too much to get the current yield. Effectively you have higher profit per unit but lower production speed per unit compared to other known mining operations.


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If you are curious about how to bring a meditative approach to your life come check out this workshop in authentic movement. Take meditation off the cushion and bring it into motion and into your life.
Authentic Movement is a practice in awareness, a practice of witnessing how we experience ourselves and others, moment by moment, by just "listening" or tuning in.
You can sit still, lie down, walk around or stand on your head. It is also called Contemplative Dance to invite the sensibility that all movement is a dance. Even invisible movement is a dance. When we are still we can "move" as we travel with our imaginations.
What is Authentic Movement?
Authentic Movement is a practice that creates a space and a boundary of time to investigate Movement and Meditation in a personal way.
This is not dance in any recognizable way. It is meditation with eyes closed in an open space where movement is possible. There is a witness who reflects the body's journey - almost like a mirroring. What is unique about this practice is that it has two reciprocal sides. Mover and witness.
In the witness role we get the opportunity to experience that everything we are taking in is seen through a lens of our own making. We are writing the story about what we are seeing - Perception -- anything the eyes touch...we are already "poking at it". Constructing it. How do we see with our heart/eyes? How do we really listen from the heart? In the Authentic Movement practice we witness ourselves at the same time as we witness the mover. We try to see when and how our minds wander off and get ahead of what's happening. We practice paying attention to the movement of our own thoughts coming and going without deciding what's a good thought or a bad thought, a desirable thought or an unwanted thought.
The Mover
In sessions anywhere from 20 - 45 minutes the mover has time to explore the practice in a big open space inviting the experience of moving or being still. The eyes are closed or dimmed to avoid bumping into others or the walls. You can move any-which-way. The only instruction is : "follow your impulse to move or be still." Witnessing the movement of the mind with an invitation to engage the body is like a sitting meditation practice without the container of stillness.
Each participant has an opportunity to experience both roles: witness and mover. These two roles are not separate. As we move we will become aware of our inner-witness. And when we sit still to act as witness to other movers, we discover a kinesthetic empathy, a projection of seeing with our mover eyes.
I have been doing this for a long time but I am always called back to zen mind beginners mind. Every time I engage with this practice I deepen my compassion for myself as I connect to others.
If you have any other questions about it, let's talk.
We are organizing it a little differently this time.
Saturday will be designed to be taken as a one day workshop for people who for whatever reason can't do the whole workshop. so, if you can't do the whole weekend saturday would be the best day to come. We will not be able to fit in people who are only available for sunday.
so there are three ways to join
just fridaySept. 25 ($50)
just saturday Sept 26 ($150)
or the whole weekend September 25, 26, 27 ($250)
10% discount for all past participants.
We are hoping this will make the workshop more accessible to people who have kids or just can't commit to both saturday and sunday. Of course it is AWESOME AND BEYOND PROFOUND to come to the entire weekend. It is almost like a retreat when the realizations that unfold for oneself have time to float to the surface.
I hope you can come. Let me know if you can or what your are considering. Give me a call (i'd love to have the 5minute touch base) or email.
Link to registration is below.
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Here are the details. For our upcoming Fall weekend program Sept 25th-27th, 2015
Randy Warshaw Studio
115 Wooster between Prince & Spring
Buzzer 2F
2nd floor; elevator or stairs
FRIDAY September 25
7pm-9:30 pm
Studio open 6:30
SATURDAYSeptember 26
10am-5pm (Studio Opens at 9:30am)
With a break for lunch
SUNDAY September 27
10am-5pm (Studio Opens at 9:30am)
With a break for lunch
just fridaySept. 25 ($50)
just saturday Sept 26 ($150)
or the whole weekend September 25, 26, 27 ($250)
10% discount for all past participants.


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"Do I need worker's compensation insurance my Nanny?" That is a question we often hear at The Russell Agency. The short answer is yes. Homeowners have a non business exposure for domestic employees subject to the Worker's Compensation law.
Under the Workers' Compensation Law, a homeowner must insure its obligations to provide benefits to injured domestic employees when they are employed by the homeowner for more than 26 hours per week on a regular basis. A domestic employee may fall into such worker categories as chauffeurs, nannies, au pairs, babysitters, maids, cooks, housekeepers, laundry workers, butlers, companions and gardeners. To satisfy the obligation to compensate the employee with statutory benefits should an injury occur, a homeowner must purchase a worker's compensation policy.
If you have a nanny, or other domestic employee, who works less than 26 hours per week, you may still want to voluntarily protect the employee with benefits available under the Workers' Compensation Law. Again, this is possible with the purchase of a standard workers' compensation policy.
The annual premium for a worker's compensation policy for a nanny is charged per nanny and will depend on whether the nanny works 26 hours per week or less. If the nanny works 26 hours or more, you can expect to pay about $1,248.00 per year. If the nanny works less than 26 hours, you can expect to pay about $482.00 per year.
If you would like to learn more on this subject, please give Tim Russell a call at (888)962-3564.


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Classroom Candids
Seventh-Graders Play "Scratch" with Bananas!
Spring Sports Awards Assembly
A Collection of JV Lacrosse Photos
Final Polar Bear for 2015-2016
Eaglebrook Day 2016
Thirds Baseball Highlights 2016
Baccalaureate Chapel Service: May 26, 2016
Learning Math, Outdoors!
Thirds and Reserve Tennis Challenge and Cookout
Cardigan's Music Students Celebrated
Cardigan's "Superheroes" on Stage
JV and Varsity Lacrosse Jamboree vs. Proctor, Holderness, and KUA
Headmaster's Day Fun and Games 2016!
Headmaster's Day Tennis Tournament 2016!
Headmaster's Day Polar Bear 2016!
Chapel Service for May 19, 2016
Thirds Tennis vs. Tilton School
Sailing Practice
Thirds Lacrosse Highlights
Rock Climbers Climb "Rumney Rocks"
Varsity Baseball vs. Kimball Union Academy
Learning's in Motion: Mousetraps!
Chapel Service for May 12, 2016
Investiture Ceremony 2016
The C.O.R.E. Team Explores New Hampshire
Rock Climbing on Rattlesnake Mountain
School Leader Speeches
Reserve Lacrosse vs. Lebanon Recreational
Varsity Baseball vs. Proctor
Varsity Tennis vs. Tilton
JV Lacrosse vs. Belmont Hill School
Varsity Lacrosse vs. Belmont Hill School
Reserve Tennis vs. Lakes Region Christian School
JV Tennis vs. Proctor
Thirds Lacrosse vs. Lebanon Recreational
Thirds Baseball vs. Hanover
JV Baseball vs. Holderness
The Celebration of Dave and Steff McCusker
Cardigan's Young Inventors Do Not Disappoint!
Gates Competition Awards 2016
School Photo Day
Chapel Service for May 5, 2016
Dancing at the All-School Meeting
Captains Council Meeting
Polar Bear on May 2, 2016


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A Coast Guard unit rescued a man who fell from his dinghy into the choppy waters of the Hudson River yesterday.
The man slipped as he was getting out of a small dinghy and onto his boat docked at the 79th Street Boat Basin, witnesses said.
One onlooker said the man was in the water for about 10 minutes before being rescued.
A pedestrian who spotted the man summoned help, and the victim was pulled to safety by members of the Coast Guard. He was then taken to an area hospital for treatment.
"With this wind, no one should be on a dinghy," said Dave Conover, 65, who lives in a houseboat in the area.


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Arrive Shanghai, China
Arrive in Shanghai, where you are met and transferred to your hotel.
Shanghai | Ancient Traditions & Modern Art
Venture to Zhujiajiao, boarding a boat to cruise through a traditional water village of canals spanned by stone bridges. The town features many historical sites and buildings, including rice and spice shops, Fangsheng Bridge, Kezhi Garden, and Yuanjin Buddhist Temple. Enjoy an afternoon of art as you explore Shanghai's rapidly developing M50 Art District and Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). M50, a thriving art community tucked away in an old industrial area, features more than 120 galleries and art studios. On a larger scale, MoCA is a private museum that focuses on the promotion of Chinese and international contemporary art and design. Tonight, meet your fellow guests for a cocktail and welcome dinner.
Shanghai | Walk Along the Bund
Stroll the Bund, the waterfront promenade along the Huangpu River, popular with locals and visitors alike. Visit Yu Garden, a former private garden built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) that features an exquisite layout, beautiful scenery and garden architecture. Savor a lunch of steamed dumplings at a local restaurant. Then, transfer to the airport and fly to Beijing. Upon arrival, check in to your luxurious hotel.
Beijing | Discover the Great Wall
This morning, journey to the Mutianyu portion of the Great Wall — its most well-preserved section. Marvel at the size and scale of the site, which began as a series of fortifications in the seventh century BC to block the invading nomadic tribes of the Eurasian steppe. Walk or ride a cable car to the top of the wall and revel in magnificent vistas of the surrounding mountains. Return to Beijing and proceed to the hutongs (networks of winding alleyways) where you Ride Like a Local by pedicab. Explore the area and its lines of siheyuan (courtyard residences) surrounded by buildings on all four sides.
Beijing | Tai Chi & Tiananmen Square
Partake in a morning tai chi class at the historic Temple of Heaven. Built in 1420, it is considered the most beautiful example of Ming Dynasty architecture. After lunch, visit Tiananmen Square, site of the mausoleum of Mao Zadong and the 1989 Chinese democracy movement protests. Continue to the Forbidden City, located in the heart of Beijing. Once off-limits to most for more than 500 years, it is one of the world's largest palace complexes and features a vast collection of historic buildings. Take in the Chinese Imperial Palace, the former home of the nation's royal families.
Luoyang | The Birthplace of Kung Fu
Fly to Luoyang and journey to White Horse Temple. Considered the first Buddhist monastery built in China, it was established in the first century. After an authentic lunch at a local restaurant, transfer to your hotel for an evening at leisure. The next day, visit legendary Shaolin Temple and witness a thrilling private demonstration of Shaolin kung fu by resident monks. This Zen Buddhist monastery is considered the birthplace of the martial arts, first formalized here in the sixth century. Stroll through the stone and brick Pagoda Forest. Enjoy lunch before visiting the Songyang Academy of Classical Learning, renowned center of Confucian philosophy. Next, explore the spectacular Longmen Caves, a memorable opportunity to experience the rich history and arts of China. Devoted to the Buddhist religion, its grottoes and niches contain the largest, most impressive collection of Chinese art of the late Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties.
Xian | Historic Walled City
This morning, board a high-speed train to Xian, the capital of Shaanxi Province. Set amid the Guanzhong Plain, it is one of the oldest cities in China. After lunch at a local restaurant, stoll along the ramparts of Xian's impressive City Wall. Check in to your hotel for an afternoon at leisure, gathering later in the evening for dinner.
Xian | Magnificent Terra Cotta Warriors
Today, accompanied by one of Xian's leading specialists, visit the excavation site of the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses. The site includes a life-size army created during the Qin Dynasty to protect China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, in his afterlife. More than 8,000 soldiers, each with a unique face, exhibit remarkable craftsmanship. After lunch, board a high-speed train to Chengdu, the charming capital of Sichuan Province. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel for an evening at leisure.
Chengdu | Cherished Giant Pandas
This morning, visit the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center. This site provides pandas with a nurturing environment, affording an unforgettable opportunity to see these endangered living symbols of China as they roam freely in their natural habitat. Then, discover the beautiful, well-preserved Wenshu Temple dating back to the seventh century. Stroll along Jinli Walking Street, a faithful reconstruction of a traditional Sichuan market street. Watch traditional Chinese handicrafts being made and folk artisans putting on entertaining shows, such as shadow puppetry or a hand-puppet performance.
Guilin | Picturesque Landscape
Transfer to the airport for your flight to Guilin. This afternoon, journey to Elephant Trunk Hill, a popular landmark along the Li River that resembles an elephant drinking from the water. Continue your excursion at picturesque Reed Flute Cave, a natural wonder carved out of the karst limestone mountains over millions of years.
Guilin | The Li River by Bamboo Raft
Today, embark on a leisurely bamboo raft trip on the Li River, drifting quietly downstream, past stunning limestone peaks. Observe life along the shore, where fishermen use cormorants to collect their catch and farmers still cultivate rice paddies by hand. This evening, experience the Liu Sen Jie Impression Show, a stunning spectacle of sight and sound orchestrated by the mastermind of the Beijing Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies.
Hong Kong | Victoria Peak & Floating Villages
Fly to Hong Kong, China's glittering gateway of international trade and finance. Check in to your hotel and enjoy time at leisure exploring this world-class city. The next morning, depart for Sheung Wan, one of the earliest British settlements. Stroll through an herbal medicine market, and stop at Man Mo Temple on Hollywood Road for an informative look at a typical Chinese temple. Enjoy a panoramic view of the city, Victoria Harbour and Lamma Island from atop Victoria Peak. Continue to Aberdeen for a leisurely sampan (wooden boat) ride through the floating villages of the Tanka community, observing the ebb and flow of everyday life. After lunch, spend your afternoon at leisure. Tonight, gather with fellow guests for a cocktail reception and farewell dinner.
Depart Hong Kong
After breakfast, transfer to the airport and depart.


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I love all the cute outfits in summer:playsuits, dresses, cute shorts etc. Recently, I've been LOVING this outfit, everything seems to go together really well and best of all, the whole outfit costs under £50!
I love a pair of 'flowy' shorts, I find them so easy and comfortable to wear and they also have a tie up waist. The print is so cute and summery(is that even a word)?
The top is quite simple but works really well with the shorts and it's also short-sleeved which is PERFECT for this 34914 week heat wave!
This denim jacket has definitely been a summer staple for me. It's so easy to just throw over outfits and I love the fact that it's oversized but still cropped.
I'm in LOVE with my Primark bag, it adds a pop of colour to every outfit and circles are quite trendy this season.
Denim Jacket – Next – £32
Cropped Black Tee – Primark – £4
Printed Tropical Print Shorts – F&F – £12
Shoes – Tu
Bag – Primark
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Since its establishment, Sony has sought to remain at the forefront of technological development, building continuously on its achievements to suggest new values for people everywhere. In these efforts, Sony recognizes the people who work at Sony to be its most important resource. Employees are important stakeholders in Sony's diversified, global business and are the key to its efforts to generate sustainable social value and a high level of profit. Sony is committed to increasing employee engagement by leveraging the diversity and ambitions of its people and maximizing their talents. Sony seeks to sustainably elevate its talent and organizational capabilities in order to raise its overall business performance.
Sony's Founding Prospectus sets forth the company's founding vision and basic commitment to its employees, stressing a spirit of freedom and open-mindedness with an emphasis on personal ability and performance, the full exercise of individual abilities and skills, and innovation and challenge. Based on the founding vision, Sony has articulated its Employer Value Proposition (EVP), which defines the current value of working at Sony, what sets it apart as a place to work. The EVP includes the overarching "wow" factor of "Together, Let's Make the World Say Wow," and other wow factors that define the value that Sony offers to its employees and what it expects from them, both across the Sony Group and specific to its businesses and regions.
|Value for Employees
|Expectations of Employees
Sony seeks to maximize the talents of each employee and to foster innovation. Sony respects and fosters an inclusive acceptance of diversity in its many forms including race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, beliefs, disability, gender, age, birthplace, sexual orientation, values, and workstyles. Sony's vision of diversity and inclusion seeks to build an organizational culture that respects diversity and helps create value for customers. Sony pursues a broad range of activities with a focus on diversity & inclusion, talent development, and engagement, building on a commitment to offering working conditions that contribute to the health and safety of employees.
Senior management meet to discuss and decide upon important matters relating to employees at the Sony Group and guide the HR strategies implemented by Sony Group companies. Sony has established the Diversity Committee, which reports directly to the CEO, to ensure that diversity & inclusion is addressed as a high-priority issue. Sony also operates reporting hotlines and other avenues for employees to get consultation on a broad range of issues including human rights, work-life balance, parenting, nursing care, and LGBT concerns.
Sony promotes occupational health and safety (OHS) by operating management systems based on OHSAS 18001 at all Sony sites worldwide. With the publication of the ISO 45001 international standard for OHS management systems in March 2018, Sony plans to migrate its OHS management systems to ISO 45001.
Here are the main results of fiscal 2017 initiatives:
With a focus on diversity, talent development, and engagement, Sony will continue to offer working conditions that contribute to the health and safety of employees — all part of its efforts to generate sustainable social value and a high level of profit. Sony will provide opportunities for employees to improve and make the most of their character, skills and capabilities.


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maintenance factor (of a lighting installation) [fm]
ratio of illuminance produced by the lighting installation after a certain period to the illuminance produced by the installation when new
Unit: 1
NOTE 1 The term "depreciation factor" has been formerly used to designate the reciprocal of the above ratio.
NOTE 2 The maintenance factor takes into account light losses caused by dirt accumulation on luminaires and room surfaces (in interiors) or other relevant surfaces (in exteriors, where appropriate), and the decrease of the luminous flux of lamps.
Abbreviation: "MF"
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Surprise and delight your favourite Raiders fan on their special day. Our bronze birthday package equips you with an official Raiders birthday card that's been signed by the entire Raiders team.
Foxy's even added his signature, and that's no mean feat with those paws.
Package must be booked two weeks in advance.
When booking this package, please supply the recipients name, date of birth, age they will be and what home game the package is booked for in the additional information box.
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Age Of Castles
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In a distant realm, a great evil has swept across the land. Demons from the underworld and their evil minions have poured across the kingdoms of man, until the great cities lay in ruin. There's nothing but a handful of cowering souls remaining. The people are in need of a king, someone of great strength and courage who can rid the land of the evil plague and rebuild the cities. You are that king. You alone must travel to the end of the world, build a mighty castle, slay the undead hordes, and convert the people of the land to loyal subjects of your domain...in the Age of Castles.
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Scholarly Works
Christopher EgertAssociate Professor
2018 Submissions
Published Conference Proceedings
Phelps, Andrew, Mia Consalvo, and Christopher Egert. "Development Streaming as a Pedagogical and Community Strategy for Games Education." Proceedings of the CHIPLAY 2018 Workshop Proceedings: Workshop on New Research Perspectives on Game Design and Development Education. Ed. Peter Wyeth, et al. Melbourne, Australia: ACM, 2018. Web. *
2017 Submissions
Journal Paper
Decker, Adrienne, Andrew Phelps, and Christopher Egert. "Disappearing Happy Little Sheep." EdTech: Focus on K-12 57. 2 (2017): 50-54. Print. *
Book Chapter
Decker, Adrienne, Andrew Phelps, and Christopher Egert. "Trial by a Many-Colored Flame: A Multi-Disciplinary, Community-Centric Approach to Digital Media and Computing Education." New Directions for Computing Education: Embedding Computing across Disciplines. Ed. S. Fee, A. Holland-Minkley, and T. Lombardi. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017. 237-257. Print. *
2016 Submissions
Published Conference Proceedings
Decker, Adrienne, Christopher Egert, and Andrew Phelps. "Splat! Er, Shmup? A Postmortem on a Capstone Production Experience." Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Ed. -. Erie, PA: IEEE Press, 2016. Print. *
2013 Submissions
Journal Paper
Goins, E., et al. "Modding the Humanities: Experiments in Historic Narratives." Journal for Interactive Humanities 1. 1 (2013): 13-21. Web.
Published Conference Proceedings
Goins, E. and C. Egert. "Moving Beyond Mobile Tours: Creating Hybrid Spaces through Narrative and Gameplay in the Museum Collection." Proceedings of the 2013 Digital Heritage International Congress. Marseille, FR: IEEE Press, 2013. Print. *
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Egert, C. and A. Phelps. "RIT's MAGIC Center." WNY Computes! The Fall Conference of the Western New York Computer Science Teachers Association. Buffalo, NY. 18 Oct. 2013. Conference Presentation.
2012 Submissions
Book Chapter
Barnes, Susan and Christopher Egert. "Space vs. Place." Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning. Ed. Barnes, Susan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. 35-53. Print.
Barnes, Susan and Christopher Egert. "Awareness and Notification." Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. 71-80. Print.
Published Conference Proceedings
Decker, Adrienne, et al. "Technical Properties of Play: A Technical Analysis of Significant Properties for Video Game Preservation." Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Games Innovation Conference. Ed. Biles, John Al (Program Chair). Rochester, NY: IEEE, 2012. Web. *
Egert, Christopher, Elizabeth Goins, and Andrew Phelps. "Studying the Past by Playing the Future." Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Games Innovation Conference. Ed. John Al Biles. Rochester, NY: IEEE, 2012. Web. *
Simkins, David, Christopher Egert, and Adrienne Decker. "Evaluating Martha Madison: Developing Analytical Tools for Gauging the Breadth of Learning Facilitated by STEM Games." Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Games Innovation Conference. Ed. Biles John Al. Rochester, NY: IEEE, 2012. Web. *
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Egert, Christopher. "Just Press Play." NYSCIO Conference on Disruptive Technologies: Innovation and the New Reality. NYSCIO. Rochester, NY. 19 Jul. 2012. Conference Presentation.
2011 Submissions
Book Chapter
Egert, Christopher and Andrew Phelps. "Motivating Science Education through Games." Learning to Play: Exploring the Future of Education through Video Games. Ed. Myint Swe Khine. New York: Peter Lang, 2011. 129-151. Print. ∆


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"A mathematical formula for happiness: reality divided by expectation. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations."
-Jodi Picoult, author
"Never lower your expectations. Never settle for less than exactly what you want."
-Tina Alberino, blogger and truly stubborn bitch
I'm a very different person than I was ten years ago. I think your late-20's is the time when you really figure out who you are. Your vision of how you want your life to be begins to fully materialize and you're finally at an age where you can take progressive steps to make that vision a reality.
Unfortunately, not everyone matures at the same rate. Some people don't seem to mature at all. In itself, this can be mildly irritating if you're somehow forced to be exposed to it regularly. It can be infuriating if "those people" feel the need to sabotage your own life to pull you down with them.
I've always been a forthright, honest person–and not necessarily by choice. It's my nature. I've had people question whether or not my blunt honesty were a psychological disability or social functioning impairment, but I'm pretty sure it's the result of several biological factors combined with the way I chose to interpret and respond to my experiences over the course of my lifetime.
I'm different, not broken. That makes me special, not socially handicapped.
I am set in my ways. I have high expectations of myself and hold others to high expectations as well. I spent a vast portion of my childhood and eight years of my early adulthood compromising those expectations for others. They were the worst years of my life.
Throughout the experience, I thought I was doing the right thing. I told myself that my integrity and loyalty were admirable qualities and although I was miserable and could feel myself slowly growing colder, more reserved, caustically cynical, resentful, and bitter–I took comfort in the fact that I was making sacrifices that would surely be recognized and appreciated at some point in the future.
They weren't.
Each transgression against me cut two ways–I hated the person for doing it and I hated myself for allowing it. Eventually, my skin thickened into dense scar tissue and the transgressions no longer hurt. I quit caring. I retreated further into myself deeper than ever before and I stayed there.
I learned a lot about myself and a lot about sacrifice and loyalty–specifically, how freely granting unearned loyalty and making repeated sacrifices for someone who didn't deserve or appreciate them can destroy you a little bit at a time. I also learned a lot about happiness and how selfishness can be an extremely positive quality. I learned never to gamble my happiness on a potential payout that may never come.
I was young and stupid with a distorted view of what the word "loyalty" really meant. At that time, loyalty was defined as: "n. To constantly strive and sacrifice to secure another person's happiness and approval without expectation of gratitude or reciprocation and to take abuse indefinitely without complaint."
I'm a better person now. I'm a harder person, but definitely a better one. The only regret I have is that it took me so long to learn these lessons.
Aside from those two isolated incidents, I have never had problems eliminating people entirely from my life–permanently. I don't form sentimental attachments to anything and that includes people. One of my personal shortcomings (according to others) is that it doesn't take much at all for me to write someone off for good. Personally, I do not see this as a shortcoming. Adults cannot be genuinely sorry for a trespass committed knowingly against another person. If you did something with the knowledge that what you were doing was going to hurt someone else, you can't claim to be "sorry" for it after the fact.
Genuine remorse cannot follow premeditation. At some point, you weighed the risks against the benefits and chose to move forward. If you didn't weigh the consequences against the benefits, you're either too inconsiderate or too stupid for me to have associated with in the first place. Don't insult my intelligence by delivering false apologies. You aren't sorry you did whatever you did–you're sorry you have to suffer some sort of consequence for it.
I see everything in formulas. That's how my brain has always worked. It doesn't take a lot for me to calculate that some people just don't fit into the equation that determines overall positive, meaningful contribution to my life. If their variable in that equation results in a negative, neutral, or negligible result–they go. Forever. Bye bye. No great loss. Sorry, not sorry.
I feel no remorse. I have no regrets. Neither should you.
You don't owe anyone anything–least of all your forgiveness. You don't owe them your time or energy. You aren't required to participate in their mind games or allow them to attempt to manipulate you. You can and should just walk away. Close that door and forget they existed–because from this point forward, they don't exist and you're better for it.
Until someone proves to me otherwise, I operate under the assumption that this life is the only one we have. As far as I know, when it is over it is over forever. Those with religious inclinations disagree, and that is fine, but there is no reason why you should allow others to attempt to sabotage your happiness for any period of time, whether you believe that death is the permanent end or a second beginning (or third, fourth, or fifth beginning–for those that believe in reincarnation). My theistic friends have often asked, "What if you're wrong?" I ask, "What if I'm right? Do you want to spend any portion of the life you know you have as a victim of others who have no respect for your happiness? I don't. Your religion shouldn't factor in to your Happiness Equation when evaluating whether or not someone fits into your current existence."
Ask yourself: "If this life is the only one I will ever have and each second is ticking closer to the hour of my death, do I really want to spend any portion of my precious time dealing with this person in any capacity?" The answer will always be no. If the person were truly contributing to your life in a meaningful way, you wouldn't feel the need to question their presence in the first place.
In the Happiness Equation, negative variables tend to come with hidden exponents. You might be able to see that this person is a problem, but you're unlikely to be seeing the various ways they're negatively impacting your life until that person has been removed from it entirely. With each subtraction I have made, my overall satisfaction with my life has increased exponentially. If your life isn't continually trending upward, you need to be making changes. Sometimes, there just isn't room for forgiveness.
Memorize these sentences and speak them when necessary. Being genuine requires speaking your mind earnestly without reservation. Be direct. Never cushion your words or lower yourself to sugar-coating.
"I will not be baited into your drama."
"I will not subject myself to your manipulation."
"I refuse to be taken advantage of."
"I am not a fool and I won't be treated like one."
"I am better than this and I deserve better than you."
"I am not a tool to be used at your convenience."
"This friendship/relationship/job is no longer serving my best interests."
"I am done."
Never, ever compromise your expectations for anyone. Write them in stone and don't deviate. Have the confidence to defend yourself and shape your own happiness. Look at your Happiness Equation and figure out who/what is dragging you down and drop it. Your life is the single most precious thing you have and you alone have the power to make beneficial changes to it whenever you want. Be selfish and don't apologize.
Letting anyone compromise your level of satisfaction (or worse, allowing them to attempt to sabotage it) is committing a crime against yourself. Hold people responsible for their actions, then let them go for good. You are nobody's bitch and martyrdom has been out of style for centuries.
Click here to read Part 2 of Your Happiness Equation: Why You Should Quit.