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Client: Ana Hotels
Date: November 18, 2011
Location: Poiana Brasov
Category: Commercial building
The whole ceramic tile installation work (bathrooms, spa etc.) was entirely done by Tecton Trust. The project was designed to coincide with the hotel's grand chalet design and is now an integral element and highlight of the hotel.
Tecton Trust worked alongside Austrian consulting firms to deliver Ana Hotels this state-of-the-art and beautifully designed large indoor pool area.


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It's been a fascinating few days for big money announcements: first Metaweb, the linked data company that is at the heart of the next generation semantic web was pulled into the Google family for an undisclosed amount, Atlassian took in $60 million of funding from Accel partners, and earlier today Jive Software announced they have closed $30 million in Series C financing. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) led this investment, with continued participation from existing funders Sequoia Capital.
Atlassian are the quintessential low barrier to entry, bootstrapped startup, having grown organically until now ('More than 20,000 customers from 134 countries use Atlassian tools for collaboration and development.' according to their sales blurb) principally on the back of their Java community 'Confluence' wikis and 'Jira' issue tracking software.
These flagship products offer granular user permissions and extremely solid user support, particularly to the engineering user community who integrate them into their relatively low buck stacks. Jive have grown from an enterprise online forums and Jabber/xml internal network instant messaging developer ('Spark', 'Openfire') into a broader online communities provider.
They started with 'Clearspace' which was described as 'for teams, companies and communities looking for an easy and productive way to work with each other without time or location limitations....Eliminate redundant conversations, meetings, emails and ideas by opening doors to new co-workers, partners and customers'. This product eventually morphed into the current 'Social Business Software' now at version 4.5, presumably renamed to ride the fuzzy buzz around the term 'Social Media'. I remember Forrester Research saying that the word 'social' had a huge awareness with their analysis customers despite the lack of focus on what it really meant around the time of this product renaming in March 2009. The old Jive Forums product and business was acquired by GroupSwim who recently became part of Salesforce.
Metaweb's $US 57 million funding (principally by Goldman Sachs) prior to their acquisition by Google, matches Jive's total funding to date, but they are playing in a much broader space than the current enterprise 'social' summer of love in the financial and marketing communities, being arguably at the heart of the next generation internet. Jive and presumably Atlassian are joining the large queue of funded and private companies hoping to IPO in an extremely difficult global economy, where Google and Metaweb plan to maintain Freebase as a free and open database 'for the world'.
The 2.0 technology challenges of fragmented information in increasingly sophisticated and rapidly expanding business silos, the limited ability to filter real time communication in services like Twitter and its various enterprise variants and other factors are likely to eventually take the shine off the current fashion for all things social. In a crowded market from tiny point solution technologies to the 800 pound incumbents Microsoft Sharepoint, Lotus's menu of offerings and Cisco's Quad - a sophisticated new 21st century collaboration environment from IP packet to unified communications - make this is a challenging time for end users inundated with sales calls from vendors offering lots of tool variants for a wide array of uses.
Identifying what specific business problems you are solving can be fudged when, for example, engineers install Atlassian's various products for their specific project needs and then offer that solution to their broader business. Jive's heartland meanwhile tends to be land and spread within business units of enterprises, where they are often coexisting alongside Atlassian, Sharepoint, SocialText, Lithium forums and other department's installs, typically hitting the political fault lines between business units.
All these solutions are battling legacy and/or industrial strength Business Intelligence technology inflexibilities, email and document overload and the lack of efficient global search tools. Google works well on a planet level at search because it relies on vast amounts of raw information at scale to process and put in order: business information tends to be much harder to apply brute strength search crawl parameters against behind the firewall, using products like Microsoft FAST, Google appliance or Autonomy because the raw materials are inadequate to sort. (Think of all those multiple minor version variants on documents and edited wikis in your Sharepoint shared drives, team spaces, email and databases...).
Where those working in the social media business design world are typically working to marketing campaign time scales - 'social' communications and interactions on topics - the Enterprise 2.0 world is grappling with enduring use cases for increasingly expensive core collaboration technologies (all these venture investors are looking to get 10X return through customer sales). We are past the point of cajoling employee laggards to get on the 2.0 bus and adopt the methods the cool kids are using in their pilot. Before deploying enterprise scale budget businesses need to know that their business needs are being met by technology that is it for purpose at scale and for enduring use over time to achieve agreed goals.
The Metaweb video at the top of this post shows how 'barcoded' consistent 'entity' labeling is likely to be in our near future to help us cut through the information clutter: I'm assuming Google haven't bought Freebase to subsume it into their current point solution search offerings but to provide a future service which provides information in context around topics. This is the next generation of the web whether Google offer it, or a future semantic web rival or start up assumes the mantle, and much of the hard work around the semantic 'middleware' is in place now.
Meanwhile the foundational technology of Atlassian's very solid set of enterprise tools are now owned by Oracle, who control Java's destiny, and Jive need to ride the social wave momentum to an IPO and beyond to compete with the entrenched enterprise collaboration platform vendors. For customers beginning to wise up to the reality that sales speak and product evangelism don't address their core problems, and that these are not light weight, inexpensive and ephemeral operational tools, this translates to increasingly urgent need for clear vision of where they need to be going to succeed....

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Exercise is one area of everyday life that men and women may overlook when seeking ways to reduce their carbon footprints. Physically active men and women can take several easy steps to make their workout routines more eco-friendly.
• Drink from reusable bottles. Men and women must stay hydrated during their workouts, but how they go about that can have a significant impact on the environment. According to ValleyWater.org, bottles used to package water take more than 1,000 years to biodegrade. When incinerated, such bottles produce toxic fumes that contribute to air pollution. Before your next workout, purchase a reusable water bottle you can take with you to the gym or along with you when exercising outdoors. Reusable bottles even pay for themselves over time, saving you the cost of buying a new water bottle before each workout.
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Pantywaisted Posturing
I don't agree with Rep. Mike Lange's outburst at Governor Schweitzer. It is clearly borne of frustration, and I think a resort to anger often smacks of weakness. Surely one can persuade more effectively. And, as Motto points out, it is probably bad politics in the short term.
But I don't want to write about that. I want to write about all the phony prissiness exhibited by those on the other side of the aisle. First, we have Democratic Rep. Bill Wilson. Rep. Wilson called Lange's remarks "a very low point in the history of the body," and added that "nothing was ever said that was as vile and as insulting" as Lange's statement.
Now I know Rep. Wilson, and I think he's a good guy. With all due respect, though, give me a break. The Montana House of Representatives has a long and colorful history that I think involved fistfights and duels. Further, Rep. Wilson worked on the railroad. You're telling me that he is offended...offended...at the words "ass" and "SOB?" I don't buy it.
Then we have all the tsk tsk tsk'ing from the left side of the web. (Try here, here or here.) I like Moorcat's comment that Lange's "invective ruins any message he might have had." Wow, does this mean we have to disregard Wulfgar?
I'll say it again. What Lange did was stupid. But come on, folks, we're not little girls here. Or are we?
Last but not least, we have our own Tribune Editorial Board. Oh my gosh. Lange said "ass" in a "public setting." It was even in the presence of "teenage pages!" In fact, the language was so bad, the outburst was so intemperate, so worthy of protecting our virgin eyes, that the Editorial Board repeated what he said again in the paper.
"My god, some innocent youth might see this. We better make sure it appears in the news story and the editorial."
One more thing. The "public setting" where we had "teenage pages" present? Just who do you think sued to open these meetings up to the public? The very same press that is now cluck cluck clucking about this hooooorible outburst.


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In the past, Labor Day has never meant more to me than the opportunity to sleep in on a Monday. This year, though, is different. For the past few weeks, my family and I have been talking a lot about what it means to be a worker in today's society, especially in light of the fact that the country elected a president who would probably struggle to understand the hardships of the average American.
On August 15, my partner and about 300-some members of the security force at Savannah River Site went on strike.
The possibility had been looming since around April, when negotiations for a new contract first kicked off between UPPSR Local 125 and Centerra, the company contracted by the Department of Energy to provide security at the nuclear facility. Ultimately, a majority of the workforce voted not to accept the terms offered, and, because it is a fundamental human right of theirs — one protected by the U.S. Constitution, might I add — to band together and negotiate with their employers, they walked out.
I won't go into where and why the two parties came to a stalemate, as there have been a number of local media reports highlighting the details of the contract that you can read for yourself. (As I can't ignore the conservative bias of the daily newspaper here, I'll direct you to one TV news station's coverage.)
What's been missing from local reports, in my humble opinion, is a glimpse at the sacrifices these guys make just to do their jobs. A full-page ad Centerra placed in the local newspaper Saturday noted that the compensation package it offered its employees was "unequaled in the local law enforcement community."
The thing is, police officers in surrounding counties aren't clocking in every day at a nuclear facility. One, in fact, that's currently storing dangerous, radioactive materials — materials used to develop nuclear bombs during the Cold War. It's why my partner usually showers immediately when he gets home; he's afraid of possibly spreading any remnants of chemicals known to cause cancer. (According to the Post and Courier, more than 10,000 workers at SRS have filed a claim under Labor Department's Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, arguing their health was impacted by hazardous materials from the facility.)
Some on social media have called union members out for being spoiled and greedy. But honestly, I wish my partner could sometimes work less. His shift runs four days on and four days off — 13 hours a day. On day shift, he usually leaves the house about 5:30AM and returns around 8:30PM. This means he misses seeing our daughter, who's just five months shy of her second birthday, during her waking hours for days at a time. And in order to avoid being forced by his supervisors to work overtime (thanks to a shortage in manpower, I assume?), he often volunteers to take on additional days just to be able to dictate some of his time off.
Now, as we enter the fourth week of this strike, I'm realizing how huge of an impact all that time away has had on our little family. Let me explain.
This past weekend, we were at my parents' house so my partner could get help changing out his brakes. After the tires were secured and the tools put away, he decided to go for a test drive. As he got into his car and slowly backed out of the driveway, he was unaware that our daughter, standing with her papaw, was watching him intently.
Of course, it wasn't the first time our curly haired toddler has watched him drive away. There have been many evenings we've sat together on our front porch and waved at him as he set off on his hour drive to work for a night shift. She usually doesn't appear to give his absence a second thought; unfortunately, she is used to spending most of her time with me.
On this bright Saturday afternoon, however, she reacted a little differently than usual. Once her daddy's car was out of sight, she ran over to hug my legs, crying. It was a brief lament, but it was enough for me to realize how impactful these last few weeks have been on her. Because of the strike, she's actually gotten a chance to spend some real quality time with her dad.
We know that the union and the company will eventually come back to the table and find a compromise. In fact, we hope it's sooner than later. But don't tell me these guys don't deserve to fight for what they believe is fair. They've sacrificed enough.


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The past fortnight has been a very significant one for the radical left in Europe. The most obvious reason for this is the defeat of the European consitution in France.
British coverage of the referendum has been a disgrace, especially on the BBC. The no camp has been consistently described as a "motley alliance" — one reporter even compared it to a coalition between the Socialist Workers Party and the Nazi BNP.
Let's get the facts straight. Philippe de Villiers — the French counterpart of Tories John Redwood and Bill Cash — and the Nazi leader Jean Marie Le Pen were a sideshow in the referendum.
The decisive factor in the no victory was provided by the divisions that developed within the reformist left. First, key leaders of the Socialist Party, which is similar to Britain's Labour Party, notably Laurent Fabius and Henri Emmanuelli, came out against the constitution.
Then activists in the biggest left trade union federation, the CGT, rebelled against their leadership by backing the no campaign.
An important role was played by the anti-capitalist movement in France, these days known as the altermondialistes. Attac, which campaigns against financial speculation, targeted the constitution from the start.
Leading figures in Attac such as Bernard Cassen and Jacques Nikonoff tended to do this in a one-sided way, counterposing campaigning against the constitution to opposing the occupation of Iraq. All the same, they deserve credit for their efforts.
The European Social Forum in London last October decided to make 19-20 March a weekend of action against neo-liberalism and war. This embraced the protests against the invasion of Iraq and a demonstration in Brussels. Tens of thousands of trade unionists and altermondialistes from France went to Brussels, outnumbering the Belgian participants. One of the key issues that brought them there was the Bolkenstein directive.
This measure by the free-market European Commission proposed to allow public services to be undercut by private firms employing workers on worse wages and conditions. The protests helped to force the French president, Jacques Chirac, and the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, to get the directive watered down.
The referendum result was a victory for the left no campaign fighting on issues like this. A majority of Socialist Party supporters voted no, as did nearly four fifths of manual workers and two thirds of white collar workers.
And don't let anyone kid you that this was a nationalist no. I remember being in Paris during the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, when the Communist Party's no posters carried pictures of Hitler to evoke the menace of German domination. That was a nationalist campaign.
This time the Communist Party, which has made a turn towards the altermondialistes, initiated a European appeal explaining why a no vote would be good for Europe.
One of the immediate consequences of the referendum result will be a profound crisis for the French Socialist Party. Its leaders campaigned for a yes vote, but were repudiated by their rank and file.
This is a big opportunity for the radical left in France, and especially the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire, to help draw substantial sections of the reformist left into a political realignment that breaks decisively with neo-liberalism.
This process has begun in Germany. In the state elections in North Rhine and Westphalia the new left party Wahlalternative won 2.2 percent of the vote. Oskar Lafontaine, former SPD chairman and ex-finance minister, has said that he will join the Wahlaternative if it forms a joint slate with the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the federal elections that will probably take place this autumn.
Between them the Wahlalternative and the PDS could probably break the 5 percent barrier required to win representation in the German parliament.
John Prescott famously said that the tectonic plates were moving in politics in Britain. The French and German votes show this is true right across Europe.


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*Note: If you haven't read Phase 1, be sure to check it out if you are just starting out on your fitness journey!*
Have you stopped making progress toward your goals in your exercise program? Are you ready to ramp it up? Maybe it is time to rethink your approach to exercise.
Making progress towards your goal is more than simply adding more weight, more resistance, or more repetitions to the exercises you started with. Another common mistake we see people make is doing the same exercises in the same order every time they go to the gym. You can only increase the amount of weight, increase the number of repetitions, or increase the resistance until a point when your body reaches a plateau or fully adapts to that particular workout.
The key to making progress is to constantly change the stimulus to force your body to continually adapt. Adaptation to exercise typically takes between 3 to 6 weeks. If you've been following the suggestion guidelines for phase one and are ready to step it up, it's time to move up to phase two or maybe even phase three.
Phase Two :: Strength Building
Work HARD! Use heavier weights, more resistance, and/or more reps.
Focus on exercises that require coordinated movement over multiple joints/muscles. In other words, move beyond machines or isolating individual muscles. If you haven't already, it's definitely time to start incorporating functional fitness into your fitness journey, like this step up exercise.
Perform exercises that require balance and stability (i.e. core strength)
Vary workouts in intensity with 2 to 3 HARD days a week and 2 to 3 moderate to easy days a week.
Vary cardio workouts between shorter, harder workouts (intervals) and longer, easier workouts.
Mix it up! Don't do the same exercises over and over again. Get creative, keep it interesting, have fun!
Take a group fitness class or sign up for Small Group Training with friends.
Phase Three :: Goal Specific Exercises
At this point, workouts should become more focused on training for your fitness goal. If your goal is to run a 10K, you should be running more and/or focus on exercises that are specific to running.
Exercises during this phase should be more dynamic in nature, involving complex movements and coordination, balance, and athleticism.


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"Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything" by Aaron Draplin
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Why I Chose It: You know I love Field Notes. Did you know Aaron Draplin created them? He is, among many other things, a fantastic designer. I love his aesthetics, whether displayed in my favorite notebooks, or in his other work, like the fantastic state design identity posters he has been cranking out. When I heard he was working on a book / portfolio, I was obviously excited to obtain a copy.
Quotes: (1) "There was an appreciation for the past, and yet it all felt fresh, considerate and respectful." (2) "I still consider 'moving out west' as one of my finest achievements...I'll remember that road trip...my whole life. Every place we camped, lurked, ate...each state galling away as we made our way out west. The sky seemed so big. And it was." (3) "It's sad to me how the simpler the item is, the harder it is to make. Things like socks. Turns out America sold the looms to places far away, and now it's harder and harder to make a simple pair of socks. I find that incredibly disheartening. If we can't make the simplest of stuff, what's that say about the save American manufacturing?...It's just fun to make stuff. And put your name on it, or trick out the coffee to make it fun, or what have you. There's an absurdity to making a thousand combs, knowing that combs just aren't a thing that people use anymore, you know? But then they pick it up, and a smile, and invokes an old fond memories from growing up. I've sold over three thousand of my DDC-035 "Hair Organizer" comb! Take that, eye rollers!" (4) "[My dad] had this really generous side to him. Be it lending out tools to neighbors are noticing when someone liked something in his garage. He'd just say, 'You like it? Take it." And they'd freak out. I apply that same quality to the moment I notice someone marveling at a Field Notes three-pack or playing with whatever of my latest trinkets that's come into the shop. Just take it, use it, enjoy it and remember that there could be room to breathe in this stuff." (5) "I can't tell you how many times I've heard that classic designer's lament: 'We showed the client the stuff, and of course, they picked the **** one.' And Im bristling, thinking, Why'd you show them ****? That's shameful." (6) "Kids will ask me the age-old question each time I fill out their monotonous questionnaire for whatever school project they are squirreling through: 'How do you get to do what you do?' And I always try to break it down for them: 'You need to get busy making stuff.'" (7) "Nothing beats a road trip. The freedom, wanderlust, lowbrow chow, new faces, places and spaces all packed into eight days across the nation. That's an aspect of America I cherish. The ability to jump in a car and drive as far as you can...That's the most free I've ever been. Sure, I had a plan, but I could've gone in any direction I'd wanted."
Other Notes: I knew I like Aaron, and I knew I loved a lot of what he has made over the years. But this book provides a deeper dive into this "mountain of a man". Getting a full biography helps me appreciate him and his work all the more. He tells a compelling story to accompany his objectively (in my subjective opinion) compelling design work. I'm not sure this type of book is typically intended to be read cover to cover, but I did, and I'm sure I'll refer back to it from time to time for inspiration or admiration. I came for the Field Notes and stayed for the rest. PS - thanks to my pal Michael for helping me get a copy from the man himself, pre-filled with some ownership information!


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Offering a terrace and fitness center, CampValley Fitness Getaway is located in Air Hangat. Free private parking and high speed internet are available on site.
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Tanjung Rhu Beach is 11 mi is km from CampValley Fitness Getaway, while Mount Raya is 4.5 mi from the property. Langkawi Airport is 5.2 mi away.
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When you finally find an apartment, set it up in a way that is safe, comfortable, and efficient.
TACTIC: Be spare and frugal in furnishing your home.
Check "Rule your stuff," to reduce the amount of things that you have. But if you are starting out in a new apartment, plan to get a minimal amount of furniture and dishes. Go to a store that sells used clothing and furniture first. You can find bargains that you can cheaply jettison if your fortunes change and you have to move again.
You can get a futon that is a couch and folds to a bed. A desk can also be a table or a table a desk. A few chairs may be all you need rather than a full set.
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Make sure you have a working smoke detector, fire extinguisher, and locks. Purchase renter's insurance and consider getting a safe deposit box for storing important documents and valuables. If you live in an apartment complex and have a storage locker provided to you, avoid placing anything valuable in it.
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Using such a service, you would have a postal mailing address, which would be a P. O. Box, or the street address of the commercial mail service. For example, one such commercial mail service is The UPS Store.
A commercial mail service will be able to accept all your US postal mail and probably your packages. A US Post Office will accept your US mail, but not packages from commercial services such as FedEx or UPS.
The benefits of a mail service are:
A combined postal mail/package service is an extremely valuable service. Without someone home during the day to take in your packages, you are going to have a hard time getting deliveries by FedEx or UPS.
If you do not get a mail service, find out if your apartment building's office can take in packages for you, the landlord, or a trusted nearby neighbor. You can make a small sign for your door: "Package deliveries to [Office, Apt number]".
If you choose a mail service, pick the location of the post office or mail service carefully. You may want to visit it many times every week.
I recommend you consider getting a combined postal/package service if:
These same conditions may also indicate that getting a voice mail box rather than a phone number tired to a particular telephone location is right for you.
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Don't be afraid that your home might not look like a model showplace, but create functional spaces that are efficient.
Designate an area as a workspace, where you can neatly set up the tools of your trade or hobbies. You could do this by using a small worktable, desk, or even a clipboard in a corner. Neatly arrange your stuff in sturdy storage containers under or near the worktable or desk.
Designate an area as a sleeping space. This might be a fold-down bed or futon at night.
Designate an area as a living space. This might be the sleeping space with the bed or futon folded up to be a couch.
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Syndicate Bank arranged Recruitment process for the post of Asst. General Manager (Law) in SMGS – V. Preliminary interview for the above post was held on 16.10.2014 and 17.10.2014. Those candidates who faced this interview would eagerly wait for the result. They are glad to know that interview result has been declared by the Syndicate Bank on its official website.
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Monday Night Football Predictions
Will Patriots Keep Pace With Steelers For AFC Crown?
New England scared the crap out of their fans by losing two of their first four games, falling to the Chiefs in week one and the Panthers in week four. Since then, the Patriots tore through their schedule with eight wins in a row, asserting their dominance over the AFC. This win streak places them alongside the Pittsburgh Steelers for top spot in the AFC, as long as the Pats handle the Dolphins tonight.
Miami started off on the wrong foot when pivot Ryan Tannehill wrecked his knee during the preseason, placing him on the IR for the regular season. Jay Culter didn't quite work out, so the Dolphins decided to trade leading rusher Jay Ajayi to the Eagles. This signaled a white flag waved by Miami's front office, with the Dolphins losing five of their last six games.
- Game: New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins
- Pick: Patriots Beat -12.0 Spread, Over 48.5
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New England's Fantastic Defense
A quick look at the stats shows that New England has improved into the top ten for points allowed over the regular season. Dig a little deeper and you'll find that the Patriots defense has been ridiculous since losing to Cam Newton in week four. Over their eight-game win streak, the Patriots have given up only 11.9 PPG, one of the best defensive stretches of any team in 2017. Comparatively, Miami ranks in the bottom five for points allowed, with the potential to plunge to last this evening.
Brady's Timeless Pivot Play
Nothing seems to slow down Brady, as he continues his improbable streak of elite quarterbacking at the advanced age of 40. Tom has a passer rating of 109.7 in 2017, throwing 26 TDs against four interceptions. Prior to facing the Bills solid defense in Buffalo, Brady threw 10 TDs in three weeks, include four against Miami two weeks ago. Even with the suspension of Ron Gronkowski, the Patriots offense should be able to score 30-plus points against the 'Fins.
Dolphins Woeful Defending
Something happened to the Miami Dolphins in week eight, when they had to play a road game against the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday Night Football. Miami refused to offer any sort of resistance against Baltimore, losing a stunning 40-0 shutout. This lead to a 1-6 losing trend in which Miami has given up an average of 31 points. This includes a strange blowout against the Broncos last week, where Denver could only muster nine points against one of the worst defenses in the NFL.
Dolphins Don't Score Much Either
The Miami Dolphins became one of the rare teams to get shutout twice in one regular season during their 40-0 loss to the Ravens. While some automatically point to pivot Jay Cutler, the failure to score appears to be a team failure, including missed assignments by o-lines, routes not run well and a thin running game. Prior to tonight's matchup, Miami's the fifth worst offense in the NFL with 17.4 PPG, which isn't nearly enough offense to overcome an extremely lax defense.
New England's Hydra Running Team
The Patriots have established a competent rush by utilizing the skills of four different running backs, three of whom will be available this evening. Mike Gillislee, team leader in rushing TDs, will heal up for another week while Dion Lewis, Rex Burkhead and James White will work together to fill in. Lewis and Burkhead have three rushing TDs apiece, while White's used as a downfield target more often. Dion Lewis has been particularly effective over the last two weeks, averaging 102 yards over his past two games.
NFL X-Factors On Monday
Monday seems to be a curse for the Miami Dolphins, who have lost seven of their last eight games scheduled on Monday night football. The New England Patriots perform well on primetime, earning a 16-3 record over the last 19 in the evening.
New England dominates this matchup, earning 12 wins in the last fifteen against the division rival Dolphins. However, the Dolphins have beaten New England in three of their last four games in Miami. The latter trend won't matter much with Miami out of the playoff running for all intents and purposes.
As the game gets closer to kickoff, the line has moved moderately towards New England. Prior to Monday, the Patriots were given a -11.5 spread to beat. Today, the spread has grown to 12. A half point doesn't seem large, but it does signal a high level of confidence on behalf of the public purse.
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It's a festival of collaboration, creativity and yes, celebrities. However, each year at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity it is the celebration of the 'Charlie Bit My Finger' moments of the marketing world that takes centre stage.
Here are our five key take outs from this year's Festival and the outstanding entrants to its flagship Cannes Lions awards programme:
1. VR and AI, you need to know what these mean. Virtual Reality (VR) has been making waves across the globe as its functionality and accessibility consistently improve. The New York Times won a Grand Prix this year for their VR work which involved providing complimentary Google Cardboards with the Sunday paper. This allowed everyday readers to experience firsthand the devastation of South Sudan, Ukraine and Syria through the eyes of children from the area.
It is the buzzword for clients hoping to go 'viral' and this year's hot topic, while the development of artificial intelligence (AI) continues at a pace. For example, Google's AlphaGo project (2016 Grand Prix for Innovation) this year beat the world's best professional player of the iconic strategy board game, Go.
These technologies are facilitating a whole new way of thinking and communicating, and it could shift the tectonic plates of the industry as much as the arrival of radio and television.
2. Being high-tech isn't enough. In a world where technology seems to be at the heart of everything, there's just no getting past the fact that creativity still needs to be in the driver's seat. Think you can just wow consumers with your 360 degree video? They already want more. Consumers are becoming increasingly savvy, and their belief of what is and what is not possible has very few limitations. If brands expect to make an impact they must start thinking not just outside the box, but outside the triangle and octagon too.
"We've got to remember that technology enables opportunity, but it's creativity that enables value." – Sir John Hegarty, founder of BBH
3. If I'm not getting emotional, you're not doing your job. Technology is great, creativity is even better, but emotion is key. Charities continue to take the lion's share of the awards this year for the ease in which they draw emotion from the viewers and judges alike. Emotion increases retention, improves recall and drives brand loyalty. Does your campaign make your audience cry, laugh or get angry? If not, go back to the drawing board.
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By gwiley - July 2, 2010
The purpose would be to put an Ad Group code into the content. This Ad Group code would be in PHP to be able to display ALL types of ad code. That Group Code would be a group related to that particular article's content, like fishing. Only fishing related Ads would display and would be either random or contextual based depending on what my Ad Management software figured would be best.
I've added the PHP code in the template of the Article Page, but all the ads appear a the bottom of the article, I'd rather have them in the content area itself.
Any suggestions?
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I put the codes right above the content placeholder I want the ads to appear in and the ads appear in the content.
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If not, do you have sample code of what you're doing?
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I put:

My Google Codes

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I am not using placeholder for the ad codes. I am wrapping them directly in the page.
Example: http://www.momsbreak.com/printable/craftpaper/balloonpaper3.shtml
Does that help?
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Thank you very much! I owe ya one!
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Re: [Kimber] Placeholder for Ad Code
For those that need it, here's what I did. It wrapped the text in the content area around a 250x250 Google Ad with a right-justify a couple paragraphs down. Embedded all snug.
1. Connect with your web server and look for the "articlePage.html" template file, this file can be found inside the /templates/articlePages/ directory. :)
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On Thursday, I posted
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I posted in August 2013 when the asking price had dropped several times from $1,879,000 to $1,695,000. I was thinking somewhere closer to $1,625,000.
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This wasn't so crazy.
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When faculty, staff, and students return to campus this fall, they will be greeted with an entirely new, upgraded office phone system from Mitel.
The new model, released in December 2016, offers many advantages over the previous system and provides updates to the Westminster fire alarm system and a failover controller at the Coulter Science Center, so that in the event that the phone system is down in Westminster Hall, calls could still be routed through Coulter. The new fully featured phones from Mitel are also less expensive than the Toshiba phones previously used.
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- Ability to originate phone calls from a cell phone that appear to be coming from the desk phone.
The new Westminster phone system will be fully managed by the vendor, Tech Electronics, who will provide several "Train the Trainers" sessions at dates to be determined. Each department will choose a designated telephone liaison who can return to a department and give extra training for members of the team who need help. Tech Electronics can also be contacted directly by the users with their questions 24 hours a day.
The need for a new phone system was accelerated when the current telephone system vendor suddenly announced the decision to get out of the enterprise phone business. Toshiba told the College that if they wanted new equipment or licenses for the system, those would have to be purchased by the end of June.
The College had already had to replace the whole Toshiba system twice in the last two years because of lightning strikes. Since the Toshiba vendor is no longer in business, any future replacements of that system would have entailed purchasing used equipment at prices set by the individuals who still had the equipment. Therefore, a new phone system was necessary.


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The new year is a great time to set goals and make progress, so make winter pest control one of your resolutions. You might not think about pests as much in the winter as you do in the summer, but pests are thinking about your home and might be sneaking in without your knowledge. Keep reading to find out why you should take pest control as seriously in winter as you do in other seasons.
It may seem obvious, but unless you're fond of having unwelcome guests that eat your food and sometimes your drywall, you'll want to seal any holes and reinforce the weather stripping around windows and doors that may allow crawling critters to get inside.
When pests can't get in, your home's resale value is more secure. Preventing pests like mice from making your home their home also prevents the drywall and electrical wires from being chewed through.
If you're looking to sell a house, a buyer will be more attracted to a pest-free, undamaged home than a house that has any sort of damage from bugs or critters. If you're a potential buyer, protect your investment, and have a pest inspection performed for a property you're seriously considering.
If you're not accustomed to paying for winter pest control, you might end up spending more than you originally expected—but it will be money well spent. Don't wait until you notice signs of a problem, or else you may have to spend more money on that infestation than you would have spent on preventative pest control services in the first place. If there are any other problems found while fixing the first infestation, you'll have to shell out even more money.
Sealing up any holes on the outside of your home as a pest prevention tactic will prevent heat loss and increase your home's HVAC efficiency. In turn, the increased energy efficiency will save you money and keep you warmer. Your body and your wallet will thank you.
Winter pest prevention measures also reduce the number of bugs that surround your home in the spring. For instance, when termites can't lay eggs in your attic, the eggs can't hatch there, and you avoid a major headache. Plus, you can take comfort in the fact that your home has been properly maintained all year.
When it comes to winter pests, it's better to be safe than sorry. Taking the time to protect your home from seasonal nuisances will keep your home and its occupants happy and healthy.
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Superstition is buried in the bones of us down here. The South buzzes electric with songs of the dead. No one has been convicted of witchcraft for many years in Mississippi, but places like Witchdance, a stretch of land off of the Natchez Trace, still echo the hundred-year pounding feet of women conjuring moonlight, slips and strands of bright in and out of shadows, hair down their bare backs, wearing circles in the grass. Ghost rivers sing with the everlasting wail of drowned Indian tribes along the Pascagoula River, and bridges cry for babies birthed and buried beneath them, long discarded in the dark, wrapped in water blankets by terrified mama-hands, trembling the ground awake with their runaway feet to receive them. Rolling fog unfurls carpets of kudzu and mist hovers low over the bayou, weeping willows line lake edges and eyes blink back from behind curtains of Alligatorweed. The land lives. The water is awake. If you wait, you will feel the aliveness of it all, it hums the stale air like a lone guitar chord from an in-between place.
Legend is often indeterminable from truth around here, truth indeterminable from reality, and reality indeterminable through the fog of poverty and violence that seeps out from the ground into the very food we eat and the water we drink. Southerners ingest the mystery of the unknown, turn it spinning around in sack cloth, and put bells on it so they can better hear it staggering back up the walk to haunt them again.
Perhaps Mississippi hosts some of the most haunted places in the country because the past has not yet been buried. Perhaps Mississippians who have white-knuckle clutched the cloth of the Confederate flag, refusing to tear it in two, Mississippians who group themselves into active, present day activities of a hate-singed past with Daughters of the Confederacy dress-up days and tea parties on plantation lawns, to meetings of the KKK hiding in rural locations across the state, perhaps those Mississippians have straddled the line of past and present so profoundly that the dead are not allowed to be still, the worlds have been forced to remain merged. Perhaps every institutionalized racism slips by unchallenged, every time the state comes pin-close to closing down the one existing abortion clinic, every time some misogynist moron buys the governor's seat, or every time a Southern Baptist preacher instructs hordes of people to model their households after Middle Eastern households thousands of years passed, we are jumbling the dates of monuments and modernity, dragging eras into one another, attempting to mesh a singular warring identity.
Perhaps each time a woman is accused of madness, of hysteria, of lying about sexual assault by a self-appointed group of judges who write their own fears across her forehead, a headstone crumbles and chains binding the terrors of the past are snapped in two. My favorite protest sign from the recent Women's March on Washington reads: "WE ARE THE GREAT, GREAT, GRAND-DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHES YOU COULD NOT BURN."
I often joke that I would have long ago been hanged or burned as a witch in days past, gone down Ann Hutchinson-style into the bowels of his-story. My startlingly brilliant best friend Holly creates blackout poetry from pages of Puritan journals and classic novels and poems, rewriting a new story out of old ones. Out of all the wrong stories that have been left in history books over the years, she pens new ones with the same bravery and purpose of one mining Truth, shifting and shaking and uncovering all new poems from the oppression of old ones. She'd be a goner by now, too. Another best friend of mine reads and writes continuously against the confines of a small town-square kind of existence, researching the weaving of Moroccan carpets, several of which now grace the floors of my home as gifts over the years. He is the same as those carpets, complex and striking against the backdrop of the everyday grey. The man that I love and have loved for several years now just wrote and performed "My City," the official song for the Jackson, Mississippi Bureau of Tourism, in which he writes, as an African American, how "no color is required" in this state, hinting at a greater Capulet and Montague romance of epic catastrophic proportion, but one that I am grateful for in too many ways to list here. I adore him, but he'd be a ghost-song by now, too, if the louder, brasher voices of Mississippi religion and politics were to have their way.
Another friend of mine paints and draws, sketching unimaginable scenes from a blank page—I see him always alongside his work, at art shows in Fondren, cigarette in hand, a woman and a moon all in purple, a harrowingly beautiful self-portrait, naked and real. I have other artist friends who live their lives in radical ways — one who is running a ministry from her home, where people say she's "crazy" to live because of the poverty and crime, but she found a man as crazy as she is, and raises her babies, two Rottweilers, and some chickens alongside neighbors she loves, and hasn't looked back since. I have another friend who left her husband with three babies in tow because it was time and she is brave; another who works tirelessly with the local chapter of the ACLU; two friends with whom I have traveled the world over, spanning three continents, who both went back for and adopted babies left there as orphans in the furious, frenzied way that only mamas can, bringing their chicks home; and several tenured professor friends who teach and write and speak truth at Mississippi College, Jackson State University, and community colleges throughout the state, who have taught me how to do the same, bold souls, generous souls who create a diverse academic conversation within a rigid state of existence. The leaders of the antiquated parts of our society, those in paid-for-political-seats, those invested in retaining a hateful and abrasive "heritage," would kill us all if they could, I'm sure of it. We are what antiquated society fears the most: brave storytellers wading up to our eyeballs in a sea of stories that must be told, willing to drown for the telling of them.
We are the band of witches today, our rag-tag group of off-beats, different ones, ones who are able to see. We would be labeled monsters, strung up by ropes, and left to dance in the wind, no doubt.
Of all the haunting night sounds here in the South, cicadas are one of the most unnerving to me. They rise into a great chorus of humming and legend goes that cicadas are the souls of artists who have died without getting to tell their stories. They abandon their shells in the summer, burrow underground, and return again with their incessant, high-pitched scream-singing that you cannot not hear. They make it so. It is a beautiful terror. It is how my brave artist friends with vision exist down here — they scream and scream and scream through paint or poetry or music or loving or living in such a vibrant way that, hopefully, there will be only the shells of us left when we die.
When I was a teenager, there were stories of witches in the German-named town Gluckstadt, an island of its own within Madison County, where I'm from. It was Mississippi, there was nothing to do, so we created our own excitement reviving urban legends of ghost-sightings and the supernatural: the Gluckstadt Witch, haunted woods in Lost Rabbit, Native American apparitions near burial mounds, Bloody Mary in the mirror, Ouija boards, and cemetery camp-outs.
Tales of the supernatural come easily to kids raised under the veil of any traditional religion, the Baptist denomination being one of the more oppressive in this part of the country, doing more to encourage difference than to build bridges of understanding.
Mississippi has hundreds of stories of the supernatural. There is a noted Bell Witch in Panola. There are haunted mansions sprinkled over the map-terrain of the state, Antebellum mansions where ghost-girls call out for their mamas in soundless hallways after dark, where mists of white women sing hymns and recite full sermons and whimper like dogs in the night, plantation-houses with ghosts of slaves, beaten nearly to death and left in the nearby woods, violent and angry, said to shove house-inhabitants down flights of stairs. There is one graveyard, though, that is said to be the "most haunted graveyard in the country" in Franklin, Mississippi. It is ironically called "Garden of Hope." The haunting is said to be by two women, one named Cheryl Ann, who is peaceful, and the other named Sarah, who is said to stand in the road at night covered in blood, making drivers believe they have hit a pedestrian. Cheryl Ann often sits with mourners, it has been rumored, and places fresh flowers on graves.
There is a restored bed and breakfast inn in West Point, Mississippi called "Waverly Plantation" where the imprint of a little girl can be seen lying on a bed, and is often heard crying for her mother in the night. Images of a Union soldier appears in mirrors, and objects in the hotel move on their own accord. Much like the Bell Witch, the Witch of Yazoo's promise at her execution to burn down the entirety of Yazoo City in twenty years was forgotten until of course, the town went up in flames exactly twenty years to the day later. The day after the fire, residents visited the witch's grave in Glenwood Cemetery to find the chain around it broken in two. The chain and the gravestone still require constant repair, as both are often found broken in half to this day.
Of course, the majority of ghostly "others" are female, mysterious and terrifying, witches and she-ghosts. Cheryl Ann is consistent with the Victorian Era's "angel in the house" archetype, comforting the mourning, tidying up graves, picking flowers, and the story of Bloody Sarah is consistent with the Victorian whore in the streets — a trickster, her ghost-body run down by cars again and again, as she laughs sadistically at the panic of the drivers. And of course, she is covered in blood, associated with feminine sexuality, all things unclean and unbecoming.
The two extreme examples of the residents of the "Garden of Hope" cemetery are the binaries by which women are judged in the present day South as well. One is either "the angel in the house", constantly cleaning up after and nurturing others, or one is a Jezebel, separated as defiantly as the iron fence around the cemetery itself: two spheres of existence, one to be praised, the other's blood to be licked up by dogs in the street.
I accidentally bulldozed the whole damn iron cemetery in 2015, two years after I had divorced my now ex-husband, turning my tiny little section of the world inside out, rattling the chains on witch's tombs and opening flood-rivers of secrets, leaving everyone close to me in a philosophical quandary. When my daughter was at her father's house, I lived as a free woman for the first time in my life; I was Bloody Sarah laughing along highways of the dead. On the other hand, I am a mother of a young daughter whom I adore, I have a lovely home that I clean and decorate with care, I cook for my child, I garden, I teach: Cheryl Ann, Victorian angel in the flesh, kind, pleasant nurturer, marrying domesticity at the altar of all that is socially acceptable. The problem was, I combined the dichotomy into one free, authentic, organic space.
It did not go well.
People freaked the hell out, far worse than the reaction from any ghost story or Mary-in-the-Mirror tale. I had gone too far, I was mixing up the stories they had so carefully separated. This (civility, the engaged by college-end, babies-by-twenty-four-sort-of-existence) was Real, that (my newfound freedom) was Sin, bad, threatening to black-and-white thinking.
I would like to tell you, listener to this postmodern ghost tale, that eventually everyone around me dropped their singular, dichotomous ways of thinking and accepted me for who I am, the same woman I've always been, just with a few less chains. That, of course, is not at all what happened.
My entire family shunned me, attempted to have me committed to a psychiatric ward, friends turned their backs on me, people in general backed away slowly, unsure if I had gone insane or if I was simply becoming my true self. I had had enough of the insanity of their way of living and the obedient, deeply religious housewife inside me hung herself from a chandelier, my Gatsby pool a rope around the neck. I had dissolved the divide only for myself, and I had dissolved into the divide itself in a sense. I was interrupting no one else's narrative, I just wanted my own. That's a hard thing to wrestle down here, one's own voice. In an effort to refuse looking honestly at their own lives, the others burned me at the stake, and continue to. They are making me pay. I became overnight an Unfit Mother, a Dangerous woman. Nothing they did or said could force me back through the cemetery gate to the deadlands, though. Nothing.
So now in Mississippi, Faulkner's ghost still roams Rowan Oak, footsteps are heard on plantation house stairways, glass breaks, doorknobs turn, mirrors image apparitions, children cry, housekeepers dust, all in the adjoining world that aligns with the present, time made mute, the separation of years marked by mixed up numbers, meaningless dashes on tombstones that tumble in on themselves, what is concrete mocked by what is abstract.
I know without a doubt they would have hung me by now if it were any other era than the present. And they are doing so now really, it is just all camouflaged in metaphor and dressed up in formality and the faux-civility of court, a great ruse.
I hope when we do all die, my friends and I, that we will already have screamed our stories too loudly to return as cicadas. I hope my story, my song, and not my body, sings over the Mississippi River waters as all of the legends turn back to dust come sunrise, and people move about in the in-between place we call a state, both with both fondness and with ache. The heartbeat of the state of Mississippi, all the artists and the wild ones, all those who refuse easy conformity, we will never disintegrate. Our stories will burn up eternity as fireflies, not cicadas. Indeed, we are phoenix-fire, the stuff tougher than history. And we will not stop singing.
Megan Ainsworth is a Southern United States essayist and memoirist who teaches writing and literature at a community college in Jackson, Mississippi. Her work has been published in the Brick Street Press 2008 and 2010 Short Fiction Anthologies, on Elephant Journal, The Good Men Project, and on her blog site; she was a finalist in the "Lorian Hemingway Short Fiction Competition." Madgirl Elegies is a six month installment column for Corporeal Clamor. She is interested in gender politics and race relations, particularly at the intersection of faith and spirituality in the Deep South. She shares a home with a precious and precocious four year old daughter, three rescue pups, and a fish named Steve. She is completing a memoir and a novel-length work of fiction.


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You discover you will die in exactly five years time. However, if you win a coin toss you can live for another thirty years. If you lose you will die in exactly 30 days time.
Would you take accept gamble and toss the coin?
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