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Robotics software
Robot Operating System, or ROS, is the most widely used open source robotics software framework, providing software libraries that help you build robotics applications. AWS RoboMaker provides cloud extensions for ROS so that you can offload to the cloud the more resource-intensive computing processes that are typically required for intelligent robotics applications and free up local compute resources. AWS RoboMaker supports the following ROS versions: ROS Kinetic, ROS Melodic, and ROS2 Dashing (BETA). Learn more about ROS here.
RoboMaker cloud extensions for ROS include services such as Amazon Kinesis Video Streams for video streaming, Amazon Rekognition for image and video analysis, Amazon Lex for speech recognition, Amazon Polly for speech generation, and Amazon CloudWatch for logging and monitoring. RoboMaker provides each of these cloud services as open source ROS packages, so you can extend the functions on your robot by taking advantage of cloud APIs, all in a familiar software framework.
Learn more about each of the cloud service extensions in the code repository.
ROS1 Cloud Extensions
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams & Amazon Rekognition ROS Extension »
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics ROS Extension »
ROS2 Cloud Extensions
Sample applications
AWS RoboMaker includes sample robotics applications to help you get started quickly. These provide the starting point for the voice command, recognition, monitoring, and fleet management capabilities that are typically required for intelligent robotics applications. Sample applications come with robotics application code (instructions for the functionality of your robot) and simulation application code (defining the environment in which your simulations will run). You can get started with the samples here.
Hello world
Learn the basics of how to structure your robot applications and simulation applications, edit code, build, launch new simulations, and deploy applications to robots. Start from a basic project template including a robot in an empty simulation world.
- Use Gazebo to build new simulation worlds by inserting models, control the camera view, and play and pause a simulation application
- Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs and an Amazon S3 output bucket to view logs for the robot and simulation applications
- Use the terminal to run ROS commands
Navigation and person recognition
Learn about robot navigation, video streaming, face recognition, and text-to-speech. A robot navigates between goal locations in a simulated home and recognizes faces in photos. The robot streams camera images to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, receives face recognition results from Amazon Rekognition, and speaks the names of recognized people using Amazon Polly.
- Use rqt to view the simulated camera images that are streamed to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
- Use rviz to view the robot's SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) map and its planning state.
- Use the terminal to view Amazon Rekognition results
Voice commands
Command a robot through natural language text and voice in a simulated bookstore using Amazon Lex. Default commands include "move <direction> <rate>," "turn <direction> <rate>," and "stop." The robot acknowledges and executes each command.
- Use the terminal to send natural language movement commands to be interpreted by Amazon Lex (e.g. "move forward 5," "rotate clockwise 5," and "stop")
- Use Amazon CloudWatch Metrics to monitor the execution of commands, distances to nearest detected obstacles, and collisions
Robot monitoring
Monitor health and operational metrics for a robot in a simulated bookstore using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics and Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Streamed metrics include speed, distance to nearest obstacle, distance to current goal, collision count, robot CPU utilization, and RAM usage.
- Use Amazon CloudWatch Metrics to view robot health and performance
- Use Gazebo and drop obstacles near the robot and view the resulting metrics
Object following using reinforcement learning
Teach a robot to track and follow an object through reinforcement learning in simulation using the Coach Reinforcement Learning Library, then deploy this capability to a robot. View the reward metrics in Amazon Cloudwatch Metrics to explore how the machine learning model improves over time. Customize your reward function to improve the machine learning algorithm used for training.
- Use Gazebo to experiment with different locations of an object to track
- Use rviz to view the robot as it trains in simulation
- Use the Coach Reinforcement Library to train and evaluate models
Self-driving using reinforcement learning
Teach a racecar to drive in a simulation through reinforcement learning using Coach Reinforcement Learning Library, then deploy this capability to a robot. View the reward metrics in Amazon Cloudwatch Metrics to explore how the machine learning model improves over time. Customize your reward function to improve the machine learning algorithm used for training.
- Use Gazebo and rviz to view the car as it trains in simulation
- Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to track a car's performance
- Use the Coach Reinforcement Library to train and evaluate models
Simulation Assets
We have created additional environments you can use with your robots. They can be used to test facial recognition, navigation, obstacle avoidance, machine learning and can be modified for your scenarios.
A small house with kitchen, living room, home gym and pictures you can customize to test image recognition. There are plenty of obstacles for your robot to navigate.
Navigate among shelves of books in this simulated bookstore. It includes different obstacles including chairs and tables for your robot to navigate.
Use machine learning to teach your robot to stay on this racetrack. The racetrack is oval with clear edge markers. Ready, set, race!
Workshops and tutorials
Hello World! Getting Started with AWS RoboMaker
In this workshop, you will learn how to get started with AWS RoboMaker to build smart robotic applications. You will also have the opportunity to manage and deploy robot applications in both a simulated environment as well as to a production robot (requires a TurtleBot 3 Burger).
Finding Martians with AWS RoboMaker and the JPL Open Source Rover
In this workshop, you will become familiar with AWS RoboMaker and will learn to simulate the NASA JPL Mars Open Source Rover. In doing so, you will learn to integrate AWS RoboMaker with services such as machine learning, monitoring, and analytics so your Mars Rover can stream data, navigate, communicate, comprehend, and learn.
How to Train a Robot Using Reinforcement Learning
Run ROS on multiple machines with AWS RoboMaker
In many cases, a robotic developer or researcher will need to run Robot Operating System (ROS) on multiple machines. In this tutorial, you will learn how to setup ROS on a virtual machine running on AWS, how to connect your physical robot to the virtual machine, and how to create a multi-machine distributed ROS system. Doing so will streamline development of your robotic application.
Run ROS tutorials using AWS RoboMaker
ROSbot + AWS Robomaker - Quick start tutorial
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Matt & Nat black Lexi vegan mini bucket bag
Small black bucket bag with adjustable strap and push pin detail closure.
Interior: Ink dark grey color. 100% recycled nylon lining.
Shoulder strap : 23" (adjustable) / 58.5 cm
Size : 7" x 8" x 3.5" / 18 cm x 20 cm x 9 cm
MATT & NAT is a vegan handbags line designed in Montreal, Canada since 1995, that is completely cruelty-free.
Inspired by everyday life, architecture and graphics, MATT & NAT aims at creating beautiful things that have a positive impact. Following this philosophy, the vegan brand puts a strong emphasis on environmental awareness : linings inside MATT & NAT products are always made out of 100% recycled plastic bottles. Introduced in 2011, the use of cork, a renewable resource, for the labels inside the bags is another great sustainable feature of MATT & NAT designs.
Live beautifully is the mantra at the core of MATT & NAT. Living beautifully means appreciating beauty, humanity, creativity and positivity.

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NBCOlympics Captures The 'Essence' Of PyeongChang With Vision, Technology
For the Winter Olympics, NBC's studio relied on LED displays to convey a sense of being in the mountains.
For the Winter Olympics, NBC's studio relied on LED displays to convey a sense of being in the mountains.
Athletes aren't the only ones who made their way to PyegonChang for the 2018 Winter Olympics, For-A is on site providing broadcasters with gear to help support 4K production.
NBC Olympics and its parent company Comcast have been touting that the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, are the first games to support 4K/HDR broadcast.
The PyeongChang Winter Olympics are finally here.
Subscribers of AT&T/DirecTV have much to choose from when it comes to NBCU's coverage of the Winter Olympics from PyeongChang, including 4K HDR coverage with Dolby ATMOS sound and an interactive Mix Channel offering four NBCU networks at once, the company has announced.
Hearst Television crews are in place in South Korea to provide its NBCU local affiliates with live cut-ins and recorded segments during their morning newscasts.
Don't expect to see DJI at the 2018 Winter Olympics; the drone manufacturer has updated software in its drones to make Olympic venues in PyeongChang, South Korea, and other locations temporary no-fly zones throughout the Games.
The Olympics may be taking place in South Korea, but customized content of the Winter Games will make its way to New York, Chicago and Philadelphia courtesy of NBC Olympics and Intersection, a smart cities technology and media company.
The Olympics moment is here for RTW, as the company has announced that it has supplied Broadcast Network Connections GmbH with a number of TM3-3G Smart TouchMonitors for the International Broadcast Centre editing suites during the 2018 Winter Olympics.
For NBC's veteran production team, the run-up to the Games has been a busy, but manageable period where everything that had to get done was getting done, on and sometimes even ahead of schedule.
Making its Olympic debut at February's XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, is the distribution of 4K HDR to cable, satellite and telco providers, NBC Olympics announced in a press release.
Break out the VR headsets and fire up the virtual reality app.
NBCU will offer viewers more than 2,400 hours of coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from Pyeongchang, South Korea –the most ever of a Winter Olympics, the network announced today.
The countdown is on for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, with NBCUniversal planning celebratory announcements and coverage across its broadcast and digital platforms.


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Sometimes outerwear kills your outfit vibe but when the chill is too much, its all about the layering and oversized scarves are the perfect option..
Lets start this post with a little 'first world problems' because my hair has now changed a LOT (cue instagram stalks) so the next few posts will be slightly mixed as some will be the hair you know me with and others will be newly dyed princess hair while I blend into my most recently shot content. I mean, this definitely isn't a problem but I like everything to be uniform and its stressed me a little.. lol.
Anyway, enough hair chat because we need to speak about my (slightly) silly outfit choice on the coldest day of 2017 so far. I know I'm a bit crazy because its minus numbers outside and too cold to even tie your hair up (nothing is worse than frozen ears) but honestly? I'm so bored of wearing coats and decided to wrap up a little differently and some days its more enjoyable to grab the biggest scarf you can find and team it with a chunky cardigan, even if the weather disagrees.
Cardigans are an old friend of mine and oatmeal, neutral tones make a nice change from my usual monochrome. I picked this one up in the New Look sale for £11 and its so cosy that it rarely gets put back in the wardrobe. I've since decided that I need a couple more chunky cardi's for cooler days because not only do they make a great alternative to outerwear – they also look great underneath as an extra layer if you're looking for something a little more styled up.
The scarf was actually a present from my little sister and she did very well because chunky scarves are something I don't tend to buy but always wear. It made the best addition to this look and to be honest, I dressed for style rather than warmth because obviously fashion comes first. No, I take that back, I'm always cold so warmth definitely comes first. Either way – the scarf gives the outfit a little splash of colour (while keeping slightly muted) and made a great addition to what is otherwise just 'a cardi, tee and jeans' – my staple outfit but definitely not too interesting for you guys when you see it on repeat..
What I'm Wearing
Faded Black Skinny Jeans: River Island (similar)
Boxy Leather Rucksack: ASOS (similar)
Images taken by Adrian Stanley on Olympus Pen with 45mm lens


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Icons have become an irreplaceable part of delivering information. There are so many of them for literally any occasion, from displaying social links and cart buttons to marking the most important parts of content, creating lists with checks, and many other purposes.
While using Elementor and Jet plugins represented at Crocoblock, you'll be astonished at how many icons there are for one's choosing. When one needs to add an icon most of the widgets already provide Icon Picker option, and all one needs to do to set an icon is type in the icon title or select the needed one from the list.
In most cases, the icons can be styled according to one's needs in widget's Style settings block. In no more than several minutes, you'll have an icon added to your content and beautifully styled according to your needs.
Yet, sometimes you can't find the proper icon to suit your purposes. That's when you might need to add your custom icons to the list. Let's explain in more details how this can be done.
Adding Custom Icons
To use custom icons for Elementor and Jet plugins one needs to add the control to the backend and then to add the icons from the frontend. Please, follow the steps below to add custom icons to the list and display them in your content.
Adding Icons Control from Backend
- To apply the icons library, different from the standard FontAwesome 4 used in Elementor and Jet plugins, you'll need to make changes in functions.php file. It is located in the folder here your currently active theme is installed. Please, note, that it is recommended to make changes in the Child theme in order to keep them in place in the case the theme gets updates in the future.Open functions.php file and add the following code to its end:
- Please, note, that the code "new-icon-1-css-class" stands for the icon CSS code, that can be found here, and the "icon 1" part stands for the title that is displayed in the Icon Picker.E.g, to add the angle-right icon you'll have to look for its code in the online icons library and then paste its CSS code and provide it with a recognizable title to use.
'fas fa-angle-right' =>'new angle-right icon',
- After that, you'll be able to see the icon displayed in the icons list in Elementor editor for all the widgets, including the ones provided by Jet plugins.
Adding Custom Icons on Frontend
- Now you can choose the needed icons using Icon Picker tool. However, it is necessary to enable displaying them in frontend. If you want to set your custom icons for the menu items, there is a bit of customization that needs to be done in order to get the icons work.
- Add the following code to the functions.php in order to get the icon font work from frontend. Please, note, that you've added the needed font CSS in the corresponding folder located in your theme.
The code represented above allows to use FontAwesome 5 icons library for Elementor. After this quick manipulation, the icons will appear in the Icon Picker and will be displayed correctly on frontend. In the case you want to use another icon font, you can add it as well the same way.
As you can see, adding custom icons from icons library doesn't really need any kind of coding skills. This can be done by anyone without ever breaking a sweat.
Hoping you'll enjoy using custom icons!


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Webcast Series – How to Handle Difficult Employees?
In Continuation to our Previous Webcast Series Part 1 – Identifying 'difficult' and 'different' employees & Basic reasons behind their emergence, Synergita Team proudly presents the Second Installation of the Webcast Series
Part 2 Focus on: Importance of understanding human behavior and ways to handle them.
Every organization contains some difficult/negative employees who hamper the growth of the organization. They occur due to various reasons like partial behavior, unhealthy working environment, unsatisfactory salary etc. Ultimately it will lead to difference in the employee behavior.
In an organization it is very important that all the seniors, managers, heads etc. should be knowledgeable in dealing with the vast count of human behavior patterns. Managers should predict the human behavior at work place and should avoid partiality by being irrational in his/her decisions. Employees should never be made to feel isolated, as emotional balance plays a key role in managing human behavior at work place.
Part 2 of this Webcast series will encircle the behavioral management aspects of a Leader and how-to step off facing challenging situation at the work place. We are going to help you equip yourself for achieving excellence and minimizing difficult behaviors seen among all the employees by:
- Dealing them carefully and with patience.
- Keeping positive attitude towards them
- Avoiding comparison.
- Resolving their workplace problems.
- Increasing their confidence level by showing faith.
- Rewarding and appreciating.
JoAnn Corley, The Human Sphere – Founder, CEO
You will discover:
- Key principles of human behavior that every manager needs to know
- Why emotional intelligence is a key factor
- A 5 step process to assess any challenging situation
- Simple ways to minimize difficult behavior
Who Should Definitely Attend?
- Head of HR
- Talent Management heads.
- HR Team responsible for performance management system
- People Managers
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Groupon does IT, but can they make it catchy? (No.)
Would you buy your IT help at the same place you snagged that great burrito deal? That's what Groupon was hoping in a recent (possibly record breaking) deal: $12,500 for $25,000 worth of "Business Intelligence or cloud services," offered by Ajilitee. And right next to it? A Microdermabrasion offer.
Clever marketing stunt? Testing the waters for big ticket items? It's hard to tell, particularly since it appears that no one actually bought the offer, but apparently Ajilitee is happy with the buzz it's generated.
Ajilitee's Michelle Smyth told Fast Company said awareness, not necessarily completed sales, was the main goal.
Even so, she adds, "Even without a single 'buy' via Groupon, we would feel successful if one or more organizations called to vet our offerings." Though Ajilitee hasn't gotten any phone calls yet from potential buyers, the company's Diann Bilderback tells Fast Company: "We have seen an awful lot of interest from the media, which is asking the same question we are: whether these kinds of channels can be adapted to a B2B buying cycle. We've all seen how things begin in a consumer model, then migrate to a small business model, then eventually reach the enterprise level. We were just testing to see if we could accelerate that process."
What do you think? Can Groupon ever make a reasonable pitch for the latest Cisco hardware or security package? If they're going to make a play in the area, they should at least work on the ad copy: The Ajilitee's deal is dry as crumbs on toast.
Michael Morisy is the editorial director for ITKnowledgeExchange. He can be followed on Twitter or you can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What Is a Help Desk?
A help desk, in simple terms, is a tool that helps to organize customer questions and requests and direct those questions to the right person in your organization so they can be handled quickly and efficiently. Chances are good you may have even used this term interchangeably with service desk, and in some contexts, using help desk and service desk to get at the same general context is perfectly fine. However, a help desk is not exactly the same thing as a service desk, and there is a history behind the distinction that merits understanding (at least a little bit).
History of Help Desks
The help desk, as a general concept, goes all the way back to the early days (the 1980s) of the digital revolution, when the first wave of personal computers was making its initial impact on the workplace. At that time, this initial wave of users was encountering the first set of roadblocks when it came to getting all they could get out of their machines. Back in those days, the IBM PC was the personal computer of choice, and IBM PCs ran DOS.
DOS is a fantastic tool when placed in the right hands. But early PC users, though more tech-savvy in their own way than many contemporary users, were not quite as developed in their skills as their counterparts working in the fledgling IT departments of their time. And, while early IT workers staffing the first help desks didn't have much more available technology than the users they were trying to help, they knew more about the hardware and operating systems of the day than their coworkers. Because of this, they were typically made available to help troubleshoot both common and uncommon issues – and at that time, that was just about all they did.
Evolution of the Help Desk:
Help Desk vs. Service Desk
Fast forward next to 1989, when the concept of the service desk first springs up. In 1989, the computer industry in the United Kingdom, working alongside the government of the UK, first published ITIL, or Information Technology Infrastructure Library. This library contained the concept that would become known as the service desk. According to ITIL best practices, the service desk was an intrinsic part of both an organization's IT department, and its overall business operations.
Whereas help desks had worked with users on one issue at a time, service desks would do more to drive both the impact and efficiency of IT departments and the users and organizations they served. The role of the service desk is to continually evolve alongside advancing technology, continually becoming more integrated in the operations of its organization. It does this by acting as a point of contact for service requests and user issues (as the help desk did before it), but also serves as a nexus for IT problem management, and any and all configuration changes impacting the organization as a whole.
The service desk strives to enable business processes by providing integrated support, adapting that support to the evolving needs of the business, the industry, and the user base that it serves. Its primary function is still to restore the productivity of the end user by meeting that user where they are (technologically speaking), and helping them to resolve the issues that they are facing. However, it does so within a larger context of function that drives the success of the organization as a whole.
Core Help Desk Software Features
Utilizing an IT help desk software solution can help your organization thrive in a wide variety of ways, including automation of several key processes and functions. This effort will help you drive productivity while freeing up precious resources and budget dollars to spend on advancing your mission as an organization.
Three key areas in which your software solutions could be working for you include IT ticket management and risk detection, automated and integrated asset management, and enhanced usability driven by visual reports and access portals.
One of the biggest benefits of help desk software and employing other software solutions, comes in the form of the lift it can provide your organization in productivity. Web-based IT issue tracking, ticket management, and automated risk detection, as well as other software capabilities, give you the opportunity to track issues in ways you may not have dreamed of before, letting you quickly identify, investigate, and resolve underlying problems that lead to the recurring issues that often slow down productivity in the first place.
Another key help desk software feature is the seamless tracking of every asset (IT and otherwise) across your organization, assisting with the onboarding, assignment, management, and retiring of assets throughout their lifecycle.
Samanage's help desk software was conceived of and designed with usability at its core. It was born on the cloud and lives on the cloud, updated for usability and functionality on a rolling and continuous basis. It simplifies and automates service requests while reducing support workload and helping your team provide superior service.
Easily understood reports and dashboards that give your team insight into what is happening in real time for IT Issue tracking purposes, and throughout the history of incidents, rollouts, and other major events and pushes are another key built-in feature of our IT help desk software.
How Can Help Desk Software Improve Your Business?
You are probably aware of the many ways that enhanced help desk software capabilities can help you improve your service levels and fulfill your various missions as an organization. The benefits of help desk software are myriad, and include managing clients with a customer or user database; improving scheduling of tasks and IT personnel; improving your service levels and speed of service through automation and other improvements, such as issue and ticket tracking; reducing waste by utilizing electronic documents' user-directed forms; and providing access to service while also improving service levels through remote access to reporting and help desk functions.
IT issue tracking may be one of the most profound ways in which IT help desk software can help to boost the efficacy and efficiency of your organization. By eliminating recurring issues and by drastically reducing the service disruptions they spawn, you can maximize your productivity while doing a more complete job of tracking, managing, and proactively responding to incidents and the problems at their roots.
- Samanage Problem Detection helps you by streamlining your activities and the effort you spend toward discovering problems – automating pattern detection and analyzing historical data regarding incidents and the details surrounding them.
- Samanage's use of graphic tools for issue management employs an IT issue management system based in the cloud, organizing, prioritizing, managing, and resolving tickets while reporting through the use of a variety of cutting-edge graphic tools that work to help you understand issues and problems.
- Samanage also ties incidents back to the problems that initially spawn them, helping you with risk calculation and problem management planning through a variety of tools that help you turn liabilities into vehicles for improving your service levels.
The best way to improve your business processes is to use an effective help desk or service desk software.Learn More
Samanage's Help Desk Key Software Capabilities
The purpose of ITSM is to provide your organization with the tools it needs to run smoother and more efficiently. With ITSM, IT departments can design, create, deliver, support and manage IT services.
Service Catalog
Ensures that your tickets, requests, and various services are driven from a process perspective, automated as much as possible, and easily repeatable with a service catalog that manages your services for you.
Self-Service Portal
Use the Samanage self-service portal to give your employees full transparency to the status of ticket resolutions as well as self-service options.
Easy Mobile Access
Samanage provides easy mobile access that allows your employees and your IT team to access the help desk from both sides, anywhere they happen to be.
Knowledge Base
The Samanage knowledge base gives you the power to document your best practices, and to automate solution recommendations to employees.
The Samanage API allows you to expand your platform, facilitating application creation and the interface between your systems, and the IT help desk software you need.
Thanks to Samanage's multiple SSO integrations, including Google Suite, OneLogin, Okta, CA, Idaptiv, Microsoft Azure, and Active Directory, single sign-on functionality is easy to set up and manage across your organization.
Additionally, the Samanage help desk solution allows for seamless integrations, including all of the major email platforms. With Samanage, it is easy to build integrations so you can automate tasks, and to share and manage information across your entire organization, and with partnering agencies and businesses.
Benefits of IT Help Desk Software
The benefits of help desk software are as numerous and varied, and their impact upon your organization can be profound. From incident ownership and IT issue tracking to employee-focused capabilities and resources, the potential benefits of help desk software solutions are plentiful. The impacts of help desk software features that allow you to apply data to support your decision making in IT and across your organization are equally numerous.
- Incident ownership and tracking: From start to finish, experience unprecedented control of how you manage the efforts of your IT help desk team to work with employees to identify, prioritize, and manage incidents, regardless of how minor or major they may seem.
- Automations that drive efficiency: Automatically prioritize and route tickets to increase your ability to learn from the incidents themselves, and the process that leads to their eventual resolution. More effectively identify and deal with underlying problems in a more robust manner. Free up human capital, that might otherwise be underutilized manually handling tasks that could be automated, for other projects and deliverables.
- Employee-focused service: Samanage help desk software provides unprecedented levels of employee-focused resources, driving self-service and meeting employees where they work. From mobile access to the help desk self-service portal, employees that already have a degree of technological sophistication are free to self-direct their help desk experience.
- Increased productivity: Reduce time spent on process management, asset management, incident management, and everything else that your team handles by establishing consistent service levels and processing of deliverables. Our help desk solution puts the tools you need directly to work, automatically freeing up both you and your team to drive efficiency and productivity in a variety of ways.
- 360-degree view of data: Samanage is designed to support you, your team, and your organization as a whole by providing stakeholders with the data they need to make and support solid decisions around asset allocation, budgeting, scheduling, and just about any other process, program, or function you can think of — available in a single location. Reports and dashboards make data easy to understand, equipping you to leverage that data to improve your organization.
Service Catalog
Change the way you provide services to your organization by standardizing your service request and fulfillment processes, helping you measure and improve how you support your organization.
Knowledge Base
Samanage helps you document best practices and recommended solutions, giving your users the information they need without contacting the service desk, giving agents the opportunity to focus on bigger projects.
Service Portal
Make life easier for your user by giving them a single location to submit tickets, request services, and monitor the status of their pending ticket.


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There have been significant changes in Silent Valley since it started receiving formal protection from the Keralal Forest Department. One change and improvement that is visibly obvious is the increased forest cover. The image on left was taken in January 1995 during a fleeting day-long visit that I did. The right images was taken from roughly the same place this month (April 2016). Though the lighting is not great several of the patches of grasslands have now been taken over my forest cover. This of course poses interesting challenges as there is less fodder for large herbivores and SVNP's wildlife staff reported decline in gaur and Sambhar. The tree growth is of native vegetation and appears to be following the somewhat predictable stages of ecological succession that one would expect in this area.
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Birds are smarter than primates, according to a study published in a recent issue of PNAS. At least they have more neurons than expected in their forebrain, an area associated with intelligent behavior. Though bird brains are significantly smaller than the brains of monkeys, the birds' neurons are smaller, too, and more densely packed, giving them higher intelligence than previously thought.
Birds display their intelligence by many different behaviors. If a bird is being watched as it hides a seed, it will go back and move it later to avoid being robbed. Scientists have also determined that birds' songs have grammar. Changing the order of the notes dramatically changes the meaning of the song and the behavior of the listening birds. Just this year, researchers reported that budgerigar parrots can recognize patterns in different songs, while the Japanese great tit (Parus major) focuses on the order of the notes to determine the song's meaning.
The ever-expanding list of intelligent bird behaviors is a challenge for evolutionists to explain. Supposedly, as more primitive branches on Darwin's tree of life, birds should be significantly less intelligent than primates, which are supposed to be more highly evolved. This finding about bird brains highlights the fact that sharp brains are a gift from the Creator, not a product of primate evolution.
Neanderthal Design
Archaeologists have discovered circles of carefully placed stalagmites in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France that date from the time Neanderthals lived in Europe. According to the findings, several Neanderthals broke off nearly 400 stalagmite fragments (totaling nearly 2 tons) from the floor of the cave, placing them in circles with walls up to 20 inches (50 cm) tall in places.
Researchers found numerous ring-like structures they believe were built by Neanderthals.
No one can say the purpose of these circles, but they seem to have had a symbolic function, since no evidence of daily life was found. Clearly, building these circles was no small task. They were found deep in the cave where no sunlight could reach and people wouldn't normally live. The stalagmites show signs of charring, indicating man-made fires. Such an undertaking shows fortitude, determination, foresight, and symbolic thought—traits of fully human people, not supposedly primitive "cavemen."
This find makes sense to creationists. The Neanderthals who entered caves throughout Europe were human like us. They were fascinating, intelligent people who lived in hard times with limited technology. But they were made in God's image too. People are people, no matter their circumstances.
Will Bleed for Protection
When insects eat the leaves of the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), the plant begins to secrete nectar at the wounds. This nectar is different from the plant's sap and specially produced to attract nearby ants. The ants smell a favorite treat and leap to the defense of the nightshade, killing off the insects that hurt it.
While many plants supply ants with nectar, S. dulcamara is the only one known to bleed from wounded leaves. This indirect defense is a perfect example of diverse members of an ecosystem working together to restore and maintain their delicate balance after the devastation of the worldwide Flood. A flea beetle eats a leaf, the S. dulcamara secretes sweet nectar, and the ants come to eat the nectar and defend the plant. Only an intelligent Creator could supply such a complex interworking among different species.
The End of Antibiotics?
The era of antibiotics may be nearing an end. In May, U.S. doctors reported a strain of E. coli immune to colistin, the go-to antibiotic of last resort for patients infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
While this news is certainly disconcerting, it is no reason to despair. Treatments based on bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, show promise for an alternative way of dealing with drug-resistant infections. Besides, who knows what helpful new things we have yet to learn about antibiotics?
Everywhere in nature creatures produce antibiotics that keep populations of microorganisms under control. Interestingly, they do not appear to wipe out other creatures but keep the web of life balanced. Humans have catalogued about 2,000 of the estimated 10 to 30 million species of bacteria. Many antibiotics surely remain undiscovered.
In any case, with or without antibiotics, every life is in God's hands. God in His foresight understood the times we'd face and the needs we'd have.
"I don't think that a university should hire a nincompoop who disputes evolution..."
Misunderstood Statistics
Stop misusing statistics! This warning didn't come from disgruntled voters or wary conservatives, but from the American Statistical Association (ASA). Last summer they issued a statement unprecedented in the association's 177-year history, directed at the scientific community.
The statement says that scientists' abuse of the "P value," a common calculation in statistics (a bit too complicated to define here), has led to bad conclusions, unreproducible results, and misleading science. For decades, research scientists have been using this one tool as statistical proof that their conclusions were true, but that is not what P value means. Such lazy use of statistics can actually make false claims appear to be scientific facts. (One mischief-maker deliberately submitted a sloppy study "proving" with the P value that eating chocolate helps people lose weight.)
The P value merely indicates how much evidence exists for an effect greater than zero. It cannot speak to the certainty of a result or the correctness of the assumptions behind the experiment.
In fact, no statistical analysis of any data is foolproof. Each method has drawbacks. Relying on one method alone does not constitute proof; researchers are still responsible to weigh other factors and lines of evidence. That's why Andrew Vickers, a biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, advises scientists to interpret each statistic carefully "as a science, and not a recipe."
The science of statistics is a useful tool for understanding the Creator's work. But statistics rely on interpreters, who are fallible human beings. That limits the certainty of "statistical certainty."


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This is a Clean Eating Butter Chicken dish that packs a punch. The chicken is marinated in yoghurt, then covered with a spice mix of marsala, ground cumin, ground coriander and sweet paprika, infused with garlic, ginger and onion in a rich creamy tomato base. Its made from scratch, nothing from a bottle and once you've had this version, you'll never eat bottled butter chicken sauce again.
It might look like a laundry list of ingredients for this recipe, but it's really not. Most are things you probably already have in your kitchen. Making the spice mix really is a must to create that authentic Indian flavour that you just can't replicate with a store bought sauce from a jar.
Why This Is The Only Recipe You'll Ever Need For Butter Chicken
- The flavours are unbeatable – rich, authentic, moreish —> addictive
- This dish goes perfectly with any number of sides: white rice, brown rice, potato, cous cous, quinoa, polenta, even pasta.
- It is perfect dinner party food, or food for a crowd. People will be asking you if you had it delivered from the posh Indian restaurant up the road
- You can freeze leftovers (not that there will be any) and they are just as good as when it was made.
How about you? Have you ever made Butter Chicken from scratch? I know I haven't always done it that way. I'll admit there have been times when I used to make it from bottled sauces, mostly because I thought it was easier, and you know, it probably is.
But for me, the flavour and taste is poles apart. I realised now that when I used to make butter chicken from a bottle, it tasted like it come from a bottle with no excitement whatsoever. There was no interesting hidden flavour bombs that explode unexpectedly in your mouth and that's what I really love about Indian food.
No more store bought jars of Butter Chicken sauce for me. I want to know exactly what is going into my recipe. I don't want it to be laden with sugars you can't see, preservatives that are supposed to do who knows what, and "other" things I couldn't begin to identify or pronounce.
The only way to get a truly clean eating dish is to make it yourself. From scratch.
More Indian Recipes —–>> Get into this Pressure Cooker Chicken Korma Curry, or this Pressure Cooker Chicken Korma Curry
Tips for Making The Best Clean Eating Butter Chicken
- Chop the chicken thighs in half before marinating them in the yoghurt. It makes them cook quicker, they are easier to handle and when you go to dish it out it does further.
- Don't skip the marinating of the chicken. It makes a big difference. When you are browning then meat off, make sure to get a good bit of colour on the thighs to lock in the flavour.
- The honey is optional, but if you are using it, do make the effort to use a good quality raw honey as opposed to those over-processed ones you buy from the supermarket. Raw honey is usually available from health food stores. Raw honey is a form of sugar, however the amount in this recipe overall per serving is minimal. The honey also helps to balance out all the spices and aromatics and adds that final depth and complexity to the dish to take it to the next level.
- If the sauce is too runny for your liking at the end of the cooking process, use the cornflour slurry to thicken it up a bit. The cornflour slurry will dampen some of the flavours so only use 1 tablespoon of cornflour/cornstarch to 2 tablespoons of water. No more, no less.
How To Make Clean Eating Butter Chicken In The Slow Cooker
After browning off the marinated chicken, place all the ingredients into your slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hours.
Comfort Foodie Must Trys: Apricot Curry Chicken Casserole (one of my favourites), Shepherds Pie Lasagne, and this delicious Seafood Chowder with Cream Cheese.
I love making this recipe on a Sunday afternoon when I have plenty of time and can relax in the kitchen with my husband over a glass of wine. Whilst it's cooking in the oven, the aroma of Indian Butter Chicken will be hard to resist and the expectation will build as you wait for it to do its magic.
This Clean Eating Butter Chicken is worth the effort, worth the wait and will excite and delight you when you take your first mouthful. You'll relish in the comfort knowing that you just created a dish from scratch that is comfort food that you will come back to time and time again.
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Pressure Cooker Butter Chicken
- 12 medium Chicken thighs skin off [see: Note 1]
- ½ cup Greek yoghurt I use Chobani
- 2 tablespoons Ginger freshly grated
- 2 teaspoons Garam Masala
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 medium Brown Onion sliced thinly
- 2 tablespoons Garlic crushed
- 1 teaspoon Ground Coriander
- 1 teaspoon Ground Cumin
- 1 teaspoon Sweet paprika
- 2 tablespoons Tomato paste
- 1 2/3 cups Tomato puree
- 2/3 cup Chicken stock/broth
- 1 Cinnamon stick
- 2 teaspoons Honey optional [see: Note 2]
- 1/3 cup Pouring or Cooking cream
- Fresh coriander/cilantro to serve
- 1 tablespoons Cornflour/cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons water
- Marinate chicken: In a large bowl, place the chicken, lemon juice and chilli. Stir to combine and marinate in the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Preheat a large frypan or skillet on the stove (on high heat)
- Remove chicken from fridge after 20 minutes, and add yoghurt, ginger and half of the garam masala spice. Stir with a spoon to mix together.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (Fan oven) or 350 degrees F.
- Add butter to the frypan/skillet, add the chicken pieces in batches and brown them off on each side. As they are browned, place them into a large casserole dish with a lid. Repeat this process until all chicken thighs have been browned.
- Onion and Garlic: In the same pan/skillet, add the onion and garlic and cook until garlic becomes translucent and begins to soften. (Don't worry if there are black bits on the bottom of the pan, this adds to the flavour)
- Spices: Next add the remaining garam masala spice, ground coriander, ground cumin and sweet paprika. Stir to mix into the onion and garlic.
- Everything else: Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the tomato paste, tomato puree, stock/broth, cinnamon stick and honey if using.
- Pour over the chicken thighs in the casserole dish.
- Put lid on casserole dish and back in the oven for 90 minutes at 180 degrees C (Fan oven) or 350 degrees F
- Once butter chicken is cooked, add in the cream and stir in with a spoon.
- If further thickening is required, make a cornflour/cornstarch slurry, but adding 2 tablespoons to cornflour/cornstarch to 2 tablespoons water, stir and add in whilst stirring. Continue stirring through to thicken sauce.
- Trim the fat off the chicken thighs and remove any parts you don't want before cooking. I also like to chop the chicken thighs into halves or quarters as this does speed up the cooking process. If you're doing this reduce cooking time by 15 minutes. Alternatively you could use chicken breast chopped into large chunks. Reduce cooking time by 30 minutes for chicken breast.
- The honey in this recipe is optional, but it does add a nice balance with the chilli and other spices.
- This butter chicken recipe is mild to medium on the hotness scale. If you don't like the hotness, omit the ground chilli at the beginning and don't add the honey.
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Senior School Leadership Mentoring Group visits Alphacrucis Campus
On Wednesday 28 March, sixteen students from Years 11 and 12 had the chance to visit Alphacrucis College in Parramatta. AC is a fast growing Christian college that is becoming a great place for our students to consider studying at in the future.
The students are part of a Senior School Leadership Mentoring group. This group receives opportunities, like this one, through which they can serve and be trained in Leadership. The students were able to sit in on classes related to the music industry and New Testament theology, before taking part in the College Chapel service. Leo (Year 12) and Matthew (Year 11) were able to play in the band, while Zephaniah (Year 12) and Zoe (Year 11) shared testimonies about what Easter means to them.
All the students were impacted by this opportunity to learn and to serve.
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The 2017 Hyundai Elantra has been redesigned and revamped to make a worthy competitor to other compact cars in this segment. The new Elantra looks fresh and chic, with three new engines, and a bevy of impressive features. Stylish on the outside and more elegant inside, the Elantra is power packed and makes quite a statement.
The 2017 model gets an improved ride quality, making it more comfortable and smooth for daily driving. The engines include a new base 2.0-liter engine, a turbocharged 1.4-liter engine, and a sporty 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder for higher speed and performance. Even though acceleration isn't on a par with the competitors, it doesn't seem much of a disappointment, given the cabin quietness and the tech features.
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Serge Pfeifer was born in 1983 in Switzerland.
Serge studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the ETH Zurich, ETH Lausanne, and the University of Edinburgh. He focused on signal processing and communications. In 2006, he completed an internship at NXP Semiconductors. He earned his Master's degree in 2008. Serge performed research for his PhD degree in the Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of the ETH Zurich. He developed a robotic leg prosthesis, a project that included biomechanical simulations and data mining techniques to develop control algorithms. In 2011, he spent five months at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago as a visiting researcher working on system identification of human knee joints. He completed his PhD degree in 2014.
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Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:15 pm · January 15th, 2011
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Well, since MLK Day is approaching, I'm wondering if anyone has a favorite portrayal of Dr. King on television or film? Also, why is it that Hollywood hasn't yet attempted a "definitive" biopic of him?
Kris, is there any major movie you haven't seen yet pre-Oscars? i.e., have you seen Biutiful? Harry 7? I can't remember. For me, it's Another Year and Biutiful. Those are the only 2 left I need to see to be satisfied (for my own personal lists and whatnot).
Saw Biutiful at Telluride. Never saw HP7. I'll hold off until the final chapter. What I missed that I really wanted to see was Everyone Else and White Material. Not major films, but those are the ones for me.
Cool. All of my top 10s (covering about 20 categories or so) are set except I feel as if Bardem, Manville, and Another Year's screenplay will make my lists; so I'm itching to see them to feel 'complete' for the season. I don't believe either film (of the ones I need to see) come near me for several weeks. Grr.
On Harry 7, I feel like FX is a strong possibility for a nom. I also feel like it could slide into Art Direction (as the Harrys have in the past), and I enjoyed the score greatly. But methinks Desplat will get in for TKS, or a surprise GW.
Thanks again for incontention.com. Enjoy tomorrow's festivities.
I saw "Rabbit Hole" yesterday and am seeing "The Illusionist" tomorrow. "Rabbit Hole" was surprising, graceful, and refreshingly unsentimental. Wonderful film that deserves more recognition.
I agree about 'Rabbit Hole". Shame it isn't going wider (yet, or much more?).
I'm in the middle of watching Exit Through the Gift Shop right now. Paused for a phone interview. I'm liking what I'm seeing so far.
Did anyone see The Green Hornet? How was it?
I haven't been particularly interested in seeing it, but it got better reviews than I expected and audiences seem to like it for the most part. Would it be worth seeing as a non-3D matinée, with low expectations?
@Graysmith: I'd hate to hear your initial expectations if you think that Green Hornet's reviews are actually surpassing them.
I'm just bouncing off the walls because it looks like a theater a little over an hour away is getting The Way Back next weekend. *crosses fingers for no snow*
Name a few movies that would fit this criteria:
A) You absolutely love them.
B) You have seen them many, many times.
C) You hold them near and dear to your heart.
D) While they may be critically acclaimed, they are not films that are widely considered masterpieces.
E) While critically acclaimed, they aren't films that are frequently discussed, year in and year out, on movie blogs such as this one.
A prime example for me would be Breaking Away, written by Steve Tesich and directed by Peter Yates.
I'd have to think on that. Seems to me a number of Sidney Lumet's films would fit.
I don't know, the early buzz just made it seem like everyone was expecting it to be a total train wreck. No one seemed to like the trailers. But it's got 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, which obviously isn't particularly good, but not nearly as bad as I was expecting either. It's a January release after all, you never have high hopes for them.. Although this one is probably one of the most high-profile films ever released in January..
Anyway, I was just looking for some thoughts if anyone saw it.
@Keil Shults
I'm not Tapley, but I can answer that, at least for myself, in what's probably my favourite film of all time: Network, directed by Lumet at written by Paddy Chayefsky.
I absolutely love it (satisfying (A)); have seen it at least 10 times (B and C); it won 4 Oscars yet doesn't seem to resonate with many modern critics or appear on many Top 10 lists (D); it's never really talked about nowadays, and was only discussed this year after Peter Travers compared TSN to it at the NYFF.
Supposedly "White Material" is getting the Criterion treatment. Which means the DVD will be awesome (and, most likely, it will be instant-stream eligible for netflix!!!!!).
Saw Exit Through the Gift Shop finally and was floored. Absolutely loved it. I also saw Green Hornet and The Dilemma. Surprisingly liked Green Hornet even though i expected it to be boring trash. Really upbeat film. Dilemma was a shocking bore.
Oh and by the way, if you wanna win some movie posters …
@Tapley & JCS
Funny you should mention Lumet, because I went through a major Lumet phase years back, and I certainly feel he's an underrated filmmaker.
A film of his that most certainly meets these criteria for me would be Running on Empty.
And while I love Network, I'd say it's widely hailed as a masterpiece, though perhaps not as frequently discussed as it deserves.
Does anyone agree that Natalie Portman should wear Bjork's swan dress, to the Acadamey ceremony, in black?
The Green Hornet was actually a bit better than I expected. There was humor, action-packed bits, and a decent Christoph Waltz. It's a pretty good ride for January.
@Robert Hamer- I'll answer this in two parts.
A) For some reason, I can't recall any off of the top of my head. If anyone could give an example, it'd be nice
B) I don't know. I think that if Hollywood did a biopic on MLK, I think that it could also extend the possibility of a broad biopic of the Civil Rights Movement itself (which would also focus on Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, etc…) that could be from MLK's perspective.
It'd be a very interesting film covering a very interesting time in recent history.
Kris you must tell us more about your history so far as in why you were in London for a few months and how you got to where you are now and how?! This is quite an intimate site and i really think it would be interesting just to find out that extra bit of detail about you guys.
I'm also guessing that one of the high points (possibly even the climax) of the movie (if it should be made) would be Dr. King's 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.
Just watched 12 Angry Men… how come they don't make movies like that anymore?
The answer lies somewhere between Jaws and Jersey Shore.
Criterion announced its April titles:
Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
Kes (Ken Loach)
White Material (Claire Denis)
Hey, it's not the fault of Jaws that imitators could never match it for smarts, quality and greatness.
Hey Kris – Since I know you're a fan of Westerns, what do you think of Budd Boetticher? I just saw Ride Lonesome and can't say I was very impressed. Loved the Cinemascope visuals though.
I would love to see a MLk biopic, who would you guys like to see play the central characters. I was thinking maybe Jeffery Wright as MLK and maybe Sophie Okonodo as Coretta what do you guys think .
I just came back from a screening of The Last Station with my mother. Right on time for last year's Oscars, I know!
It's a bit underwhelming. Several bits of possibly intriguing plot devices were discarded midway through the story, and the sillyness of the first half clashed hard with the overdramatic latter half.
Plummer was fine, but Mirren was increasingly chewing the scenery as the movie went. However, it's not so bad overall, it's just a bit lightweight. Besides, we just had seen A Prophet the night before and everything was gonna feel a tad 'whatever' in comparison.
Speaking of westerns, I just watched "Night Passage" the other day and was really taken aback by how gorgeous the autumnal Technirama photography was. The film? It's no Anthony Mann.
I also need to see Another Year before I can make a definitive year end best list. That, Somewhere and 127 hours (none of which have opened anywhere near me). There are also some docs that have yet to make an apperance in my three cinema town (Inside Job, Waiting for Superman).
I too think HP7 could pop up in more below the line categories than a lot of people think. It was without a doubt one of the most beautiful and well crafted movies I saw this year.
Everyone Else IS a major film, one of the most significant films made this year. I think it is greater than all the films vying for Best Picture slots at this year's Oscars, its even better than Toy Story 3.
@Cathy: I'm with you!
Keil's question at #11 was directed to Kris, but when I read his criteria, my own answer immediately popped into my head, so:
A River Runs Through It.
I have a film for #11:
It applies to a,b,c,e, and sort of d.
1995, Dolores Claiborne. I swear, everytime I watch that movie I can't believe it got little to no recognition. Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn, Judy Parfitt … all at the absolute top of their games. Riveting story, a wonderfully gloomy atmosphere (cinematography, make-up, sound, musical score). It got good reviews, but it just didn't matter that year. 1995 was a clusterf*ck; Oscarwise.
#11- For me, it's "The Green Mile", A film that I hold in the same regard as Frank Darabont's more appreciated "Shawshank". Along with being a facinating story, the film is anchored by, for my money, the greatest ensemble cast in the history of film. And I'll never forget the first scene Wild Bill appears in and thinking "Who is this Guy?". That guy turned out to be Sam Rockwell, who is unquestionably my favorite actor. Now ten years later finally getting a certain amount of recognition for work like "Moon" and "Conviction".
'Green Mile' is definitely a movie that – when it's on TV, I always stop and watch it for a while, if not for the rest of the time. It's viewed as hokey, I know. But there's a definitely movie magic power it it, as well.
Scott: I'm guessing you weren't a visitor of the site back when I was in London, but it was part of my journalism graduate school study. I interned at The Times.
How I got to where I am now is a long and sordid story. Some day I'll buy you a drink and commiserate, but the short version is it wasn't planned and here I am…for now.
Daniel: Big fan of what Boetticher did. A great alternative to the work of Ford and Mann in their day. Saw Ride Lonesome at a westerns course I took on a whim at USC and thought it was great. I have his big DVD box set. You should pick it up.
red_wine: I don't doubt it. But you get my point.
Hey guys, bit of self promotion here. I started a blog focusing on images from the last shot of films. Was hoping some of you could check it out.
#11 – Any one of the five features directed by Todd Haynes.
Great tumblr, Colby ☺A Serious Man, Buried or animated movies like Fantasia and Akira could be nice additions to your blog.
Nice work Colby.
I watched "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" and it's certainly one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. I don't think I've ever seen another film with a scene where a catfish performs oral sex on a woman.


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Year: 1999.
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Performer Erik "The Lizardman" Sprague before and after his 'lizardification'.
Documenting Body Modification Culture Past, Present & Future
Sometimes modifications don't work out.
Sometimes people who know better do really unadvisable things and still, miraculously, come out of it just fine.
Some time in either late 1995 or early 1996 I tried to give Shannon Larratt a 'how to' primer on doing a self done meatotomy; the tools needed (which included hemostats, surgical scissors and silver nitrate which was common in that time period as a cauterization method) as well as the step by step process to successfully complete what should have been a basic DIY procedure.
Shannon ended up in the Emergency Room when things went wrong; an excerpt from the hand written journal entry about the incident appears in the 2002 book ModCon: The secret world of extreme modification. Shannon confessed to me that he was too impatient to wait for the proper tools, so instead of using hemostats he used a homemade contraption using rubber bands to supply tension and regular scissors to do the cutting. I'm not sure he even bothered with the cautery. The combination of these factors caused excessive bleeding and the ER trip as well as the end of me giving DIY advice to anyone.
Which brings us to Shannon's bloody forehead.
While living in Philadelphia, Shannon decided to get a set of forehead implants (which I believe were inspired by a race from the Star Trek Deep Space Nine series called Cardassians) that he wasn't 100% happy with. He felt that the left one was slightly crooked and with the artist who did the implants already back on the road so with the help of his roommate decided to go the home surgery route to remove them despite not having the proper tools.
Did you know that a the flat part of a fork handle can be used in place of a dermal elevator?
Shannon contributed this photo (as part of a set) to the SPCOnline site in 1998 if memory serves with the playful caveat of not learning his lesson the first time.


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The Keep Prince William Beautiful Festival is a new community event designed to showcase businesses, nonprofits, food vendors, and other organizations that advance our mission and community life in the county. The event will be held in collaboration with The Potomac Nationals on April 23. This family friendly event is free to the public as well as your leashed pet. There is a small fee for the Touch-a-Truck area and admittance to the play area.
Registration Deadline: To guarantee inclusion in the event registration, certificate of insurance and photo must be received by March 18, 2016.
Amenities: Tables and Chairs are not provided by KPWB, however they can be rented through Sammy's Rental; please visit their website for more information www.sammysrental.com
Guidelines: Please abide by the following guidelines for the safety of our participants.
- Please be punctual at all times including set up, take down, shift relief, etc.
- Please participate fully in the event. This includes interacting with attendees, remaining at the event until closing and keeping a responsible adult employee (or person in a position of authority) near your vehicle at all times.
- Please strive to be courteous with all associated with this event, whether staff, volunteer, other vendors or attendee.
- Please make an effort to keep your area neat and free of garbage. Vendors are responsible for keeping their site in the same condition as when they arrived.
- Please be modest in language and clothing attire. Remember that this is a family event and there will be many children in attendance. Please identify your staff through a uniform if your business has one.
- Ensure your agency's contact person is available to KPWB staff at all times, whether in person or by phone.
- GIVE-AWAYS ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED. Feel free to distribute business cards and other promotional material and to discuss your work with attendees.
- No alcohol or non-prescription drugs are permitted during this event.
- KPWB is not responsible for any vehicles or its contents.
- Please no horns for those with sensitive ears.
If you have questions, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (571) 285-3772.
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Grantees awarded a Community Service Grant (CSG) by CPB must complete either an Annual Financial Report (AFR) or an annual Financial Summary Report (FSR), as detailed in the applicable year General Provisions and Eligibility Criteria. The Financial Reporting Guidelines (Guidelines) for fiscal year 2018 explain how to complete these reports.
The Guidelines are updated annually.
Part I provides a definition of non-federal financial support (NFFS) and describes the types of revenues that may be reported as NFFS.
Part II provides instructions on how to prepare the audited financial statements – and as allowed, unaudited financial statements – that Grantees must provide to CPB to verify the NFFS reported in the AFR or FSR.
Part III provides detailed instructions on how to complete an AFR and FSR by line item.
Revisions to the fiscal year 2018 edition include:
Part I – NFFS Guiding Principles and Policy
Section 2.3.2, page 5 and 6: The definition of an educational institution as a degree-granting institution has been removed on page 5. FCC Spectrum Incentive Auction funds are further defined on page 6.
Section 2.4.2, page 10: A new example of NFFS- ineligible non-professional donated services is provided.
Section 2.7, page 18: A reminder has been added that stations may not use the OSA rate method to calculate their indirect administrative support if the station's direct expenses are not included in the cost base of the licensee's negotiated federal rate agreement.
Section 2.9, page 20: Radio's "Capital Spread" form and Television's "Large Gift Spread" form have been renamed.
All these clarifications and changes are also reflected in Part III's line item instructions, as appropriate.
Part II – Preparing Final Reports for CPB
Section 3, page 22: A reminder has been added that audited and unaudited (as allowed) financial statements must be station-specific.
Part III – AFR and FSR Line Item Instructions
Schedule A, Line 1A, page 33: A reference to "PTFP (NTIA) facilities grants" in "Grants for Facilities and Other Capital Purposes (PTFP and others)" has been eliminated because the PTFP program has ended.
Schedule A, Line 10.2 NFFS Exclusion, page 45: Clarification is provided regarding deductions for bad debt expenses from NFFS revenues, including but not limited to pledges, underwriting, and membership, unless netted in Schedule A.
Schedule A, Line 21, page 51: Added new line item 21E "Spectrum repacking funds" to report any revenue received from FCC as reimbursement of expenses associated with FCC Spectrum Incentive Auction repacking requirements. Access to AFR lines for excluding proceeds from the FCC Spectrum Incentive Auction is no longer limited to television stations because radio stations may also be beneficiaries of their joint licensee's proceeds.
Other – References to OMB circulars and other accounting standards are updated as needed throughout the document.


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1-5L Intelligent ECO Filling Line
It is suitable for kinds of bottles less than 5L, consisting of filling and capping combined machine, double-side self-adhesive labeling machine, falling style cartoning machine, automatic cartons opening, sealing machine and conveying device, to complete filling and packed in cartons.
● It only requires 3 people (one operator, two assistants) to run this line.
● Filling and capping combined machine, double conveying bottles input, output servo volumetric filling. The machine takes caps first, capping second, has good coordination and high qualified rate, at sometimes the capacity will be increased by 30%.
● Double-side self-adhesive multiple function labeling machine, it is suitable for round or flat bottles.
● Falling style cartoning machine is suitable for small quantity of heavier bottles that are not easily taken.
● Automatic cartons opening, sealing machine, it is easy for operation, making workers more comfortable, improving the production capacity.


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"When there's a marriage you're not happy about, how to protect your estate plan."
What if your daughter is getting married and you never have really liked the looks of her future husband? Perhaps you simply don't trust the guy. What if you regularly give her gifts of cash and don't want him to be able to get to that money?
nj.com notes, in its recent article, "Protecting inheritance from future son-in-law," that the easiest option is for the daughter to create an account to which only she has access and into which she deposits any money from her parents. As long as her future husband's name isn't on the account, and she hasn't given him power of attorney over it, he can't get to it. However, if there's a concern that the daughter may not be able to resist her future husband's attempts to gain access to the funds, a parent will need to take additional steps.
Here are some examples:
Monthly bills: if the daughter uses the gift to pay monthly bills, the parent could pay the bills directly instead of giving her money.
Children: if she has children and is setting aside the money for their college education, the parents could set up a 529 savings account for their grandchildren. They could name themselves as the custodians.
Savings: if the daughter is simply saving the gift money, a trust may be a good solution. However, trusts are not as simple as the other options discussed above. The more restrictive the trust terms are to protect the assets from the son-in-law, the greater the possibility that gift and estate taxes will become an issue.
Prenuptial Agreement: another thing to consider is whether the parents have given their daughter significant amounts of money already and because of that, she's entering into the marriage with more assets than her spouse. In that case, she should consult with an attorney about a prenuptial agreement. If the marriage then ends in divorce, she will not have to split any of the funds with her ex.
As a final reminder in this scenario, the parents should also speak with an estate planning attorney about updating their estate plan, so that anything they want to leave her when they die, is left to a trust for her benefit.
Reference: nj.com (November 23, 2017) "Protecting inheritance from future son-in-law"


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QA for beginners: Automated Testing vs. Manual Testing
Software testing attracts many young professionals who are interested in IT, as well as experts from other areas who decide to change their field of development at a later stage. One of the primary decisions they will have to make is when to test manually or use automated testing. And also – what are the pros and cons of those two methods from a career perspective.
In manual testing (as the name suggests), the tests are executed only manually which means – by humans. No support from tools or scripts is used. That is why the knowledge of scripts is not required but the process is time-consuming.
In automated testing, on the other side, test cases are executed with the assistance of software and scripts. The goal here is to complete the test execution in a less amount of time by repetitive task and regression test without the intervention of manual tester. But even in this case manual efforts are required for the testing scripts to be created.
If we need to define which one is better, there is no correct answer. Both types of testing - manual or automated are applicable in different cases depending on various factors such as budget, project requirements, resources, timeline, suitability, expertise and project structure.
In both methods – automation and manual, specific testing types are covered such integration testing, system testing, performance testing and load testing. However, some of those testing types are better executed in manual approach and some – by automation.
Here is a table that shows the main differences between manual and automated testing regarding some important factors like time, cost, accuracy, knowledge, frameworks, etc.
As seen in the table, both manual and automated testing have pros and cons. With manual testing for example, we can achieve more accurate feedback based on human experience. It also does not require codding knowledge. Automated testing on another hand helps finding more bugs by speedy and efficient process, which can be recorded.
|Manual testing is a time consuming since it is based on human resources only.
|Automated testing allows you to execute the test much faster than the manual approach.
|The risk of human errors in this case is higher.
|Automated testing is processed by scripts and tools which makes it reliable and accurate but in the same time the script can only act as it is set - it can miss errors that are obvious to the Manual tester.
|Test reports
|Manual approach gives the opportunity for human observation and evaluation of user friendliness. Specialized programs / sites to support tests and record bugs are used (Testrail, Jira etc.)
|Human consideration is not involved which could lead to lack of user-friendliness and experience evaluation. The execution results are saved and easily excessed in the automation system.
|The initial investment in manual testing is lower compared to the automation but ROI is also lower in a long perspective. The investment in more human resources is required.
|The automated testing usually require higher initial investment but the ROI is better in the long perspective. In this case, the investment is required for the development of testing tools, which mean – hiring an automation engineers.
|No need for programming skills is necessary in manual QA.
|Programming languages knowledge is required for the creation of scripts using most of tools.
|In manual QA frameworks are not used but it could rely on checklists, guidelines and processes during the tests.
|Automation testing uses frameworks like Selenide, Serenity, Data Driven, Hybrid, BDD, etc.
|When to use
Exploratory Testing - when the tester's experience and intuition is required.
Usability Testing: when the test measures how user-friendly and convenient the particular software is.
Ad-hoc Testing: no scenario, unplanned type of testing which is supposed to be done by human because the understanding is an important factor.
Performance Testing: testing, which requires the simulation of huge number of concurrent users is better to be done by automation.
Load Testing: Automated testing is also suitable when we need to evaluate the load efficiency, which is part of the performance testing.
Functional Testing: in this case the automated testing is more appropriate because it allows frequent code changes in high speed.
Repeated Execution: When test is based on repeated execution of the task, QA automation is preferable.
Career perspectives
According to the data of DataArt's report from for the period 2015-2017, the percent of the job candidates who applied for the vacancies with QA Automation profile is significantly lower than those who applied for manual QA positions. But does that mean that the need of QA Automation specialists is still low or just the opposite – that there is a lack of enough skilled QA Automation experts?
Searching for similar answers, we asked two of our colleagues from DataArt - Vitaliy Kizimov – Senior Manual QA and Anton Sirota - Senior Automation QA – to share their personal experience and motives in choosing both directions.
1. "Manual or Automation?" – is it a question of personal choice and preferences or it is a question of skills and competences?
Anton Sirota (QA Automation): I think it's more personal choice and preferences, but also in can be both, including a question of skills and competences. QA required just QA understanding and skills, QA Automation need to have all QA skills plus Programming languages skills plus Automation skills. That's why percent of the candidates for such positions is lower. But we still need QA Automation Engineers.
Vitaliy Kizimov (QA Manual): I think the threshold to become automation tester is a bit higher if we are talking about skills. So maybe that's why we can observe a bit less CV's on this position. However it is not a rocket science and really good results can be achieved in not so far future. You can start from which you want then switch to another discipline investing your own time to cover transition period if you have such a desire.
2. Is it true that QA Automation is much closer to software development rather than Manual QA?
Anton Sirota (QA Automation): Nope. That's all black box testing and QA Automation Engineer uses test cases written by QA most of times.
Vitaliy Kizimov (QA Manual): In perspective of performed activities – yes, it is closer, Automation means tester writes code, then tests the code, then commits it to the repository. In perspective of communication, I do not see any differences.
3. Is it possible for someone to become an Automation without ever having been a manual QA?
Anton Sirota (QA Automation): Sure. But good QA Automation Engineer is an Engineer that have both: QA and Automation skills. Vitaliy Kizimov (QA Manual): I'm a strong believer that prior to automation of the processes you need understanding, knowledge and experience in these processes.
4. Is it true that Manual QAs suffer from disrespect from developers?
Anton Sirota (QA Automation): I have never seen this in real life. Now almost everyone understands how QA role is important for the product's quality.
Vitaliy Kizimov (QA Manual): It is a myth
5. What do you think about the phrase "QA can't be automated" from Michael Bolton - a famous QA speaker?
Anton Sirota (QA Automation): QA it's not only tests execution. That is also work with requirements, analysis, test cases creation using different technics. For this time there is no way for machine to do this work. Maybe with AI things will be changed.
Vitaliy Kizimov (QA Manual): To be a good professional you need a balance between automation and manual activities. Being manual QA you tend to automate some repetitive tasks, you can use scripts, tools. Being QA automation you still need to perform manual verifications to judge if product quality is acceptable or not.
6. What was your reasons to choose QA Automation or Manual? And do you think automation will have an increasing role in the future?
Anton Sirota (QA Automation): I had technical background and base programming skills. So when I started my career as QA Engineer I was really impressed that there is a way I can combine my skills in testing and technical skills. On third month of my QA career I started to work as QA Automation. And I definitely think that Automation will have an increasing role in the future.
Vitaliy Kizimov (QA Manual): Long time ago I started as a manual QA. I liked to notice defects and I liked good quality products. If I can contribute why not just start doing it? I'm not a QA engineer at the moment I've switched to project management. I think that automation will be more popular from year to year.
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WELSH Assembly First Minister Rhodri Morgan said the idea of tax-raising powers for Wales was "quite preposterous" yesterday. Mr Morgan said, "My views on that subject have always been extremely clear.
"I have always regarded the idea of tax-raising powers for Wales as quite preposterous, on the grounds that you can't get blood out of a stone."
He earlier said that any substantive-changes to the directionof the devolution process-would come after the report-of the Richard Commission-is published.
The Richard Commission, chaired by Labour peer Lord Richard, is due to deliver its report in February.
Mr Morgan has given evidence to the commission, but opposition parties have criticised Labour for not making its views more explicit.


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"Louder" is an unfunded Independent feature film produced in the UAE which is currently in post production to be premiered on the 14th September 2018.
Written, produced and directed by Jacques Brown, starring Casey Shannon, Kris Fade, Shantilly-Rose Demetri-Robertson, Christina Blunsum, Suzie Demetri Robertson, and Hanna Liatsko. Shot by DOP Shane Cairn. Produced by Zeina Dahlan and Simran Madaan with executive producers Suzie Demetri-Robertson and David Zennie and associate producer Louise McConnell. An ensemble cast representing 29 different nationalities from local Emirati actors to actors from Colombia, Palestine, South Africa, Belarus and Canada make for interesting performances and a cultural diversity rarely seen in movies.
The movie was shot in the UAE on the island resort Anantara Sir Baniyas Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi and various locations in Dubai with two additional scenes in London.
A group of passionate and dedicated filmmakers and actors have taken destiny into their own hands and joined forces to tell a beautiful story about love and discovering your inner voice. Not prepared to idly standby and wait for Hollywood or Bollywood to come knocking, they're making it happen for themselves right here in the UAE. Everybody involved in the project has joined the team on an unpaid basis with a percentage share of the film from the sale and distribution thereof. Driven by their passion and belief in the story and their own talent, nothing is stopping them from achieving a common goal and reaching their own dreams.
With Suzie Demetri-Robertson as executive producer, Zeina Dahlan and Simran Madan as producers, and Louise Mcconnell as associate producer in London, these ladies have taken a firm grip on the reigns of the production and lead the way to the big screen setting an example for others to follow and look up to.
Writer, Producer, Director - Jacques Brown
Producers - Zeina Dahlan, Simran Madaan
Executive Producers - Suzie Demetri Robertson, David Zennie
Associate Producer - Louise McConnell
DOP - Shane Cairn
Wardrobe Stylist - Aida Gamzatova
Camera Assistant - Jayvee Banaag
Production Assistant - Khurram Rafique
London DOP - Duane Valentino
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Feel Productions
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Key Sponsors:
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Ellington Properties
Supporting Sponsors:
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