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Ask SWC: What is User Enablement Training?
Customer or user enablement training is a really important element of any technology implementation. This is often overlooked by customers and something most consulting firms don't offer. Instead of just putting a technology solution in place and hoping the investment pays off, SWC offers user enablement training to ensure our customers are finding success and user adoption with the new technology solutions we implement. Watch this week's episode of 'Ask SWC' to learn more about how user enablement training can benefit your organization and sets SWC apart from the competition.
Customer enablement is a really important element in any technology implementation, whether it's Microsoft Business Intelligence, CRM, SharePoint, Unified Communications or any other technology solution. At SWC we actually offer this as a benefit to our customers through our consulting services, which is something unusual that we've found most consulting firms don't do. Instead of just putting a solution in place and hoping the investment pays off, SWC adds that "extra bonus" of communication planning, training planning and user adoption planning. We roll all of this into a service or term we call user enablement training.
The first step is communication planning and it is really critical to the success of any project. Most customers actually forget about this step and then, once the solution is rolled out to their users, they wish they would have provided more information or communication at the beginning of the project to ensure its success and user adoption. At SWC, we try to get our customers thinking about this early on in the project, so that we can get users excited about the new technology investment the organization is making and ensure it will be adopted. SWC's years of experience creating communication planning and user enablement programs, ensures our customer's communication plans are written well and designed properly.
Once the solution has been deployed and put in place, we begin our user enablement training program, so that the customer and users actually know how to use the solution, further making sure the technology investment pays off. Our solution takes a technology project from just a check list of – "Yes, we implemented this solution for our users," to a really great check list of – "Yes, we put this technology in place and our users actually using it and being more productive and finding success with it."
By engaging SWC in customer or user enablement training an organization will receive communication planning upfront, an end user training program that might go on after the solution has been put in place and then finally our best practices for basic user adoption programs and a proven methodology on how to get your users excited about the solution. We want users to want to use it and feel like the organization has given them a new solution to enable them to do their jobs better.
For more information on great technology solutions, especially SWC's customer and user enablement solutions, visit our website at www.swc.com.
If you enjoy this series, check out a few of our past "Ask SWC" videos:
Ask SWC: Salesforce Goes Social with Chatter
Ask SWC: What's a Great CRM Tool for Your Sales Team
Ask SWC: What Is A New Technology That You Find Interesting
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Archive for the 'Weekly Re-cap' Category
Weekly Re-Cap / Thoughts
- Crazy…exciting…fantabulous week!
- I had a great time at our High School LIFT camp planning meeting! This is going to be the best year of camp yet!
- We had our Malta campus volunteer (VIP) training meeting. (I was feeling a bit under the weather)
- I was working down in Rockland county near Bear Mountain the last part of the week. Amazing scenery down there!
- I drove over 800 miles total! My poor car…
- Another amazing weekend at Northway! Pastor Buddy was back from China.
- He talked about how God wants us to GO tell the world about Jesus. He also talked about why so many "Christians" are not doing that in America.
- I can't wait to blog about it later this week.
- We had a bunch of camp sign-ups turned in! We might just have to charter 10 buses!
- Some people are also wanting to sponsor a student for camp! We have a lot of students that want to go, but can't afford it…
- Leah and I had the best Lasagna ever at Wheatfieldsin Saratoga! We like to go there and share the lasagna since it seems like one serving can feed a family of eight!
- I discovered news radio this week. (my FM radio in the car doesn't work)
- I feel like so much happened in the news this week! (Atlanta tornado…Manhattan crane accident…stuff in Tibet…stock market stability…Our own governor Spitzer (Grrrrrrrr)…presidential campaigns…and on and on and on!)
PARTING FACTs:
Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month"
The average bed is home to over 6 BILLION dust mites! Check out the pic! (I'm allergic to dust so this is close to my heart. I used to live in a bubble…Okay maybe not a bubble, but I think my parents considered it once or twice back in the day)

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Empesos is to host the 2019 Greek Paragliding Championship, which will also be a pre World Cup event.
Organisers say the site is well known as a competition venue, offering outstanding views, plentiful thermals, friendly locals and excellent fresh local food.
More at Livetrack24.
The Yamaska Open 2019 will be held at Mt Yamaska, Quebec, during the long weekend of Victoria Day, 17-20 May 2019. There will be both open and sport class categories.
More information and registration at Airtribune.com
The Canadian Hang Gliding Nationals will be held from 25 May – 1 June 2019 at Kamloops.
The Willi XC Challenge is an annual hang gliding and paragliding competition that takes place at Mount 7 in Golden, BC. In 2019 it will be held from 26 July – 4 August.
With The Lookout on Mount 7 in Golden, BC as the launch point, the competition focuses on Open-Distance XC and Out-and-Return flights at one of the premier XC sites in North America. This is your best, safest and most fun opportunity to fly big distance in the mountains.
Don't let the word "competition" deter you. The key word for this meet is "fun". While the experienced pilots will (as usual) want to pit their skills against their peers, it's all done in the spirit of good fun in a relatively low-stress environment. For the intermediate and veteran pilots out there, there's a chance to build your XC chops at a big mountain, big air site. This is also an excellent opportunity for low air time pilots to gain some XC experience and learn from more seasoned pilots. You're welcome even if you just want to hang out at launch, watch what more experienced pilots do, then take a sledder at the end of the day. In fact, our intent is to reward you for doing just that – safely and well. This event is a great opportunity to learn and build your confidence in a friendly atmosphere.


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It's possible. Whatever your goal is, it's possible. Let me tell you a little bit more about my own personal journey going from a simple "fan in the stands" to an IFBB Pro Figure competitor. If we go way back, my first loves were… Read More
Own Who You Are
What does that really mean? To me that means own your thoughts, own your actions, be you and own it. Trying doesn't cut it. I hear that phrase all of the time. I've used that phrase. What does that say? It says… Read More
Being aware of what's really going on inside
There are continuous changes happening every day. Thoughts spiralling up and down. Body weight fluctuates. Traffic at a time when there normally isn't. Showed up at the grocery store today and all the vegetable shelves were empty. What? What do you do… Read More
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It isn't easy to stay in the present. Planning, working toward a goal, fitting it all in somehow. I woke up this morning and had thoughts of all the things I should be doing, but my body was tired. I took a… Read More
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Putters — like many of the clubs in your bag — have gone from loftless iron blades to carefully conceived alloys of exotic metals. The latest contender: Veritas Golf's Cure Rx2, a game-changer in both look and performance on display at this year's PGA Merchandise Show.
RELATED: A 1-Iron That Won't Scare You
It didn't hurt that former PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beman was manning the tradeshow booth as a Veritas vice president. Known as one of the game's best putters in his heyday, Beman touted the center-shafted Cure's almost limitless sweet spot — hit it off the toe or the heel and it still rolls true without an appreciable loss of distance. Made of aircraft grade aluminum and stainless steel, the rectangular bar with two round silver discs on either end makes aiming a putt seem like child's play. The golf ball becomes the third circle that forms a triangle, amounting to a strong visual cue to make sure you hit the ball on its intended line. Alignment, according to Beman, is the amateur's hobgoblin and the Cure Rx2 the exorcist.
Modern golfers have become used to adjustability in drivers and fairway metals, but few putters have the versatility of the Cure. You can adjust the lie (from 10 to 24 degrees) and the weight of the putter head (from 350 to 600 grams) to achieve the optimal moment of inertia (MOI), which measures the resistance of a mass to rotation. In layman's terms, that translates into a feeling of greater stability, even on off-center strikes.
It took us a good few sessions on the putting green to get used to the Rx2, but we've now replaced our tried-and-true with the conversation-starting flatstick. Physics aside, we feel like we can sight a line more accurately than before, and that distance control is the only factor we need to attend to. And to suit your idiosyncratic putting needs, it comes with tools and weights.
[starts at $270; cureputters.com]
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FORMER employees of Middleton and Heywood-based company Real Deal have been left jobless, without their redundancy cheques and struggling to make ends meet due to 'serious business problems'.
Eleven members of staff were suddenly made redundant in April - after the company failed to pay them on time both in February and then again in March.
The redundancy letter they received, ironically headed 'Real Deal - Creating Opportunity' explained that 'urgent action' needed to be taken to reduce costs and that 'employment costs need to be reduced to a level that the company can afford'.
Real Deal then asked the 11 staff members involved to leave immediately and not work out their notice period - which in itself was only 21 days as opposed to the 30 cited in employees' contracts.
Their redundancy cheques were due to be paid on 28 April but, as the Guardian went to press on 2 May, these had still not arrived. As a result, many are seeking legal advice as they say they aren't getting any answers from Real Deal bosses.
Diane Reardon has a child of six and is also 27 weeks pregnant. She says that, as she is now without both maternity pay and her redundancy cheque, her husband is now having to work endless overtime to support the family.
The 36-year-old had worked for more than three years at both of Middleton's Real Deal offices, at Chapel Chambers and on Fountain Street, and says she is owed almost £1,500.
She told the Guardian: "We didn't know until the day we were made redundant that there was anything wrong. They phoned us up the evening before and said, can we come in and speak to the CEOs about our contracts - which was a blatant lie."
Diane said that, after their meetings, staff were ordered not to say anything to their colleagues. It was however, obvious to all what was going on.
Diane's colleague Michelle Rodger lives on Windermere Road and says she is owed more than £3,000. As someone who suffers from a bad back, she says she will struggle to find a new job, and has even been forced to sell her daughter's horse, Doodle, to make ends meet.
She said: "We were treated like we were in a cattle market. We're not stupid, no matter what they think. We were just told to get our stuff and go.
"We haven't been able to get through to anyone, it's like a wall of silence. When we go to see them, the lady on reception just tells us that nobody is available.
"Not getting the money means that cheques have been bouncing and it's had a knock-on effect. It will have affected my credit rating. I've had to sell my daughter's horse, she's not pleased at all."
Both Middleton Real Deal offices have now closed completely, leaving only one remaining office in Heywood. But, before the shock redundancy and the pay problems, both women said that there had been little indication from above that there were any problems.
Michelle said: "They told us to just keep coming into work and do what we were doing as that was the best way for the company to survive.
"Now we don't know what to do - what do they expect us to do when they won't speak to us?"
The Middleton Guardian asked Real Deal for a comment but had not received one before going to press.


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Answering the Question "Who Is Your Father?"
The choice of route to motherhood is also a decision about how women, and consequently their children, will answer to society. With the question "Who is your father?" so inescapable, women and children rehearse an answer. Those women least likely to break the rules of reproduction are the most likely to have a man to point to, or at least paternal kin to present as an answer to this question. But the question of fatherhood is complicated in the United States, as genetic paternity and being a dad are usually treated as one and the same (with the exceptions created through remarriage). In other cultures studied by anthropologists, components of what American society terms fatherhood are distributed very differently. For instance, the biological father in Botswana, as in many other African countries, is not automatically the social father and, depending on circumstances, may never become one.12 In other cultures, the mother's brother may be delegated the responsibility for the child's upbringing, something usually within the jurisdiction of genetic fathers in the United States.13 However, that said, the coupling of genetic parenthood and social parenthood complicates the relationship between children and paternal kin (grandparents, aunts, and uncles). For example, in the case of biown donors, it is the father that is the base of the paternal kinship network, and if he is contractually excluded, so is his family. For example, Sophie, who first approached an old friend to be a known donor, was aware of the inextricable linking of the man she approached and his kin:
And then also, Jason said at one point, "What about my mother?" And IVe biown his mother since I was eleven. And I said, "Well, you blow. . ." And he said, "Well, Jack won't have a grandmother." So I said, "I'd kind of love it if your mom. . ." And he said, "You really have to think about that because she'll take over." It was very, very complicated.
As much as she adored Jason's family, Sophie could not fathom either their involvement or their lack thereof. Other women, such as Lori-Ann, want known donors enough to eventually expand kinship to include his family, even if this was not initially a part of their agreement.
By contrast, women who chance pregnancy, particularly those who thought they could cement their relationships by having a baby, more readily accept ties
between paternal kin and the child. Regardless of the father's social involvement with the child, in these cases he is labeled as the father and provides the connection to kin. With placement of his name on the birth certificate from the start, women are weaving themselves and their children into a web of connections. Apparent from the range of reactions toward fathers and paternal kin are the multiple layers of the question of "Who is your father?" This question of a child's identity includes not simply the face of the father but also paternal lineage.
Known donor insemination provides a borderland for a child's paternal identity. Known donors are providing an identity, a tangible but absent father and sometimes his kin. Like other women with known donors, Lori-Ann wanted to know her child's father, a man to whom she ultimately could introduce her child, but she also wanted to be a sole parent without interference. She wanted intimate details of this person, such as whether he prefers preppy clothes to punk ones, is right-handed or left-handed, is a dog person or is allergic to all canines, is a couch potato or a sports enthusiast—in other words, information that a sperm bank profile alone does not reveal. Annette, who chose a former lover as a known donor at age thirty-eight, described her decision:
I decided on a known donor for my own peace of mind. I felt like it would always bother me if I weren't able to say things to my child about who his father was.
And I saw the kind of information that the friends of mine in the single mothers' group were getting about the donors from the sperm banks. And it was very minimalist. You know? It was like height, and weight, and maybe a little ethnic history, but nothing about temperament or personality. And I just wanted to he able to know that, to be able to tell my future child.
Using a known donor, however, guarantees one form of peace of mind but not another; this choice carries with it both legal and social risks for the mother and child. The choice to use a known donor, then, serves as a trade-off for future security surrounding the mother's rights. Though providing security that known donors cannot, anonymous donors (and their kin) become a collection of facts— health, demographics, and test scores become stand-ins for a more substantial identity. The paper profile is proof of a father and intergenerational kin.
Children who are adopted may trace their birth parents to answer this question of identity. Those with open adoption have this more readily available as an option. However, for children who are adopted internationally, these connections are nearly impossible to make at this time. Often in these cases, it is a country that becomes a stand-in for people, an answer to the question of "Who is your father?" The history of the country is woven into the creation narrative and into the women's story of becoming a mother. Often the circumstances that were most important in leading a woman to choose a child from a particular country, whether it is a love for that country or tragic events that disrupted birth families and created orphan children, provide a gracious exit from this line of questioning, one that places blame outside the birth family's control (which is not to say the children themselves do not wish for more information). Thus, in these cases, the global displacement requires mothers and children to connect with a culture rather than a person.
The use of known donors versus anonymous donors and adopting children domestically versus internationally becomes about the mother balancing the importance of her imagined child's ability to know his or her paternal identity with the mother's need to shelter her parental rights from the reach of patriarchal family policies and law. In sum, women on the threshold figure out a passageway to motherhood that makes sense to them. Women weigh the potential for knowledge of the father against the protection of anonymity. Each choice is fraught with compromise.


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4:58pm on Sunday, 6th July, 2008:
Today, my wife and kids went on a shopping spree so they'd have something to wear on holiday. I decided to go, too, as I thought it was perhaps time I bought a new suit (which is to say, a second one).
We arrived in Colchester at 1:30. Twenty-five minutes later, I had bought a suit, three shirts, a pack of socks, a pack of underwear and some pyjamas. I dropped them off at the car and went to find the rest of the family.
They hadn't bought anything and showed no promise of buying anything in the immediate future, so I went for a wander around Colchester in the drizzle.
It occurred to me that if I were to be spending a wet Sunday afternoon in Colchester town centre, then even with half the shops shut I ought to be able to find something to blog about.
However, as time dragged on, and I received phone call updates saying things like "we haven't left Debenhams yet, we're going to look at the shoes", things weren't looking promising. I saw a family I knew doing treasure hunt, then 30 seconds later another family I also knew doing the same treasure hunt, but to be bloggable I'd really have needed to see a third, and I didn't. Likewise, I saw a woman skid twice on the wet stones because she had heels on her shoes that were meant for walking only on flat rubber surfaces, but she didn't slip again. I was almost knuckle-punched by a woman outside one shop who mistook me for her husband and she thought he was ignoring her (he wasn't, biut I was); however, she spotted her mistake before she made contact.
So when I got the final call from my wife at quarter to four that they were finally done and would meet me at the car, I was glumly contemplating my misfortune at having spent an afternoon so miserably uneventful that not only had I had to endure it, I wouldn't even have a QBlog entry to show for my trouble.
Then I saw a woman walking the other direction holding a live feral pigeon in each hand, and the afternoon was redeemed.
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The rumors were true after all as the Moto Maker customization site has now officially opened up for Verizon, Sprint as well as T-Mobile taking the total tally to four carriers in the U.S. This means that if you belong to any of the four major carriers in the U.S., you can now get your very own customized Moto X smartphone. Another piece of good news coming through is that Moto Maker now allows personal engravings as well, which was removed from the site at the very last minute back in August. Unfortunately though, there is no word on the wooden variant of the smartphone just yet.
The pricing of the smartphone is still $99.99 with a two year contract, which is decent for a smartphone that is handpicked by you. So if you've been holding off on getting the smartphone just because it wasn't available on your favorite carrier, now is the right time to head over to Moto Maker to get your very own customized Moto X.
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Fat Ties
Ties are so expensive that I can't get rid of any I own unless they get so unmanageably stained or frayed or whatever. The result is that I have a ton of old, wide ties. This one is a Ike Behar with a dark navy background and orange and lavender check. The shirt is a lavender Charles Tyrwhitt. The pocket square is a Robert Talbott. Ties, fat bottomed or not, make this rockin' world go round.


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Human Resources
Employee Forms
The following files are in Adobe pdf format unless otherwise noted. Please use Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher to view these files. If the files do not display properly please click on the Acrobat Reader icon to download a more current version of Acrobat Reader.
Note: Please DOWNLOAD the MS Word documents to your own computer before using them.
select the Save Target As... command when the dialog box "pops-up" and select your computer/folder path to save the file to.
Please refer to the Employee Benefits web page for Health Benefits Insurance forms.
Other Human Resources Forms
Tuition Reimbursement Forms (Please submit all 3 forms) • Tuition Reimbursement (Adobe pdf, per AD 3-22) • Authorization Agreement for City Reimbursements (MS Word document) • Employee Vendor Number (MS Word document)
City University - Training and Development Request Form (MS Word) (Adobe PDF)
Employee Engagement Committee Application (Adobe PDF)
Employee Engagement Application Word.docx (MS Word)
Design Professionals Training Registration (MS Word)
Medical Test Authorization Form (Adobe pdf)
Classification Action Form (MS Word document)
Transfer Vacancy Form (MS Word document)
Exceptional Salary/Promotional Increase (MS Word document)
Exit Interview Questionnaire (Adobe pdf)
Family Medical Leave (MS Word document) (Print Version Adobe pdf)
Former Employer Verification for CDL Drivers (Adobe pdf)
Interim Assignment Pay (MS Word document)
Language Skills Assignment Pay Questionnaire (MS Word document)
Liability Claims - MS Word document (Adobe pdf)
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) - included in the Position Description Questionnaire forms below.
Position Description Forms (Note: The ADA Worksheet is included in the Position Description Questionnaire forms, MS Word documents) Position Review Questionnaire – Exempt Position Review Questionnaire – Non Exempt Position Review Questionnaire – Supervisor & Manager Position Review Questionnaire Multiple Signature Page


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I have a short list of things that I want but don't actually need. Well, I don't need them in comparison to, you know, groceries and gas.
They're little things, like a tablet for my computer (so I can bore people with drawing as well as writing), a recumbent exercise bike (so I can play some Burnout Revenge while I exercise) and XM Radio.
Fortunately, I can listen to a handful of the stations via Winamp. Especially fortunate now that XM is running old "American Top 40" shows on its 70s and 80s stations. I'm listening to a countdown from 1981 right now, and there was one from 1987 before that, when Club Nouveau's "Lean on Me" was No. 1. I remembered listening to that show, and it was then I realized how much I really listened to AT40.
It's cool hearing old songs in a context when they were current. Somewhere in a cardboard box, I have a few tapes of the Top 100 of 1986 countdown, taped off the radio when I was 12. When I listen to them, I remember sitting at my desk, drawing, or lying on my bed, reading a book.
Or avoiding cleaning my room again.
It's also kinda neat to hear the songs that were on the countdown but vanished from my memory. That's actually what I like about 80s on 8 in general, but especially AT40. There are some songs from the 80s that now don't remind me much of anything because I've heard them so many times. I mean, I love "She Blinded Me With Science," but do I need to see it on yet another 80s "party album"?
At the beginning of the countdown I'm listening to, there was a song called "General Hospi-Tale" by The Afternoon Delights. I have absolutely no recollection of this song. Granted, I was about 6 when this countdown originally aired, but still.
And how can you not love the Long-Distance Dedications? And if you remember those the way I do, you have to hear this outtake. There are some other cool things on the page (I loves me some TV Party), so check those out, too. There's a bit of swearing, so turn your speakers down if you're checking this at work.
Now, on with the countdown...
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Warning: Do not stare directly at your screen...
...not because there's a picture of my face, mind you.
I was rooting through my weird shirt collection the other day. I found the "I Want My MTV" shirt I knew I had, but it's way too small for me so I let my wife wear it to celebrate MTV's 25th anniversary the other day.
I also found the butt-ugliest shirt I own. I found it at a Salvation Army back in my college days, and despite the $2.35 or whatever the price tag read, I knew that I had to have it.
It's hideous. A garish pattern with colors not found in nature. It's a three-button pullover shirt made of, I'm guessing, recycled vinyl picnic bench tablecloths. It's the only thing to make me glad I'm mildly colorblind.
And it's all mine.
If you are planning on eating, you may want to look away. Here's a closeup:
And the best part is that at one point, in some thankfully bygone era, this was actually intended to be worn.
In public.
By people.
On purpose.
The next time some codger (besides me, of course) waxes nostalgic about "the good old days," show them the shirt and pummle them.
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Schwinn Network 2.0 Men's 7 Speed Hybrid City Bike - Blue
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Schwinn Founded in 1895, Schwinn is an American icon that has been synonymous with quality and innovation.
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+ Hybrid frame with Schwinn suspension fork for a comfortable and efficient riding position
+ Microshift 7 speed twist shifters for quick, and precise gear changes
+ Alloy front and rear linear pull brakes for precise stops
+ Alloy crank offers optimum city gearing
+ Alloy rims are strong and light
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When you drive a car, the engine burns fuel which creates a certain amount of CO2, depending on its fuel consumption and the driving distance. When you heat your house with oil, gas or coal, then you also generate CO2. Even if you heat your house with electricity, the generation of the electrical power may also have emitted a certain amount of Carbon dioxide.
Your carbon footprint is the sum of all emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide), which were induced by your activities in a given time frame. Usually a carbon footprint is calculated for the time period of a year. With passage of time the growth of industries and increased population has added to the amount of CO2 in the air. Thus now we are all suffocating in the heat of global warming and If this situation continues to increase than the time is not far away when the whole population will be exposed to deadly heatwaves!
The only solution is to reduce our carbon footprint, but first we need to know how do we measure it? ISO 14067 is the solution to this problem, with this standard comes globally agreed principles, requirements and guidelines for the quantification and reporting of the carbon footprint of a product (CFP). It will give organizations of all kinds a means to calculate the carbon footprint of their products and provide a better understanding of ways in which they can reduce it. ISO 14067 is part of the ISO 14060 family of standards for quantifying, monitoring, reporting and validating greenhouse gas emissions to support a low-carbon economy.
It allows organizations to more accurately see where the main impacts on their carbon footprint are generated related to the production of their products, and thus take appropriate actions to reduce it. For example, if it is related to raw materials, they can investigate using others, or if it is related to transport, they can look at improvements to their logistics model or investigate suppliers or distributors closer to home. To live better lives we need to adopt these principles. That way we can save ourselves from a painful and deadly death. If we continue to ignore the situation than this footprint will expand and soon our chances of our survival will reduce drastically. The best solution to all these environmental issues is ISO 14067 and if we start to put in efforts than results will be visible. If people start to take care of the CO2 emission's caused by them and try to reduce it, only then we can think of saving our Earth. By reducing our carbon footprint we can reverse the climate chaos and consequent food and water supply disruption we see now.
ISO 14067 is consistent with other environmental standards as well, for instance, ISO 14025 (environmental labels and declarations), ISO 14044 (lifecycle assessment), and BSI PAS 2050 (specification for the assessment of the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of goods and services). After implementing this standard companies can easily calculate and reduce carbon emissions. They will benefit the society and themselves. Nowadays most of the companies that cause any direct or indirect harm to environment are targeted and more than that they are discouraged. With increased awareness people have realized that they need to care for their environment in order to survive themselves. This standard has quickly become popular due to its immense benefits and timely implementation of this standard by organizations will help us to fight the menace of global warming more aptly.


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I'm not entirely certain what the joke is here. I'm guessing Racz is illustrating the fact that people lie, and people who mean you harm will lie about what's in store for you, even to the point of saying that what's good is worse than what's bad.
I put it up though because a Polish girl once said something similar to me. Her name was Alina and we were talking at the end of a small party in a friend's apartment in Upper Silesia. I was planning to spend the night in the largest room of the apartment, which was unheated. Alina said that it was too cold, that I'd freeze. I said "That's okay, if I die I'll be in Heaven and I won't have any problems." Alina replied, totally deadpan, without skipping a beat:
"But you don't know what kind of problems there are in Heaven. It could be worse."
That impressed me deeply. It could be worse in Heaven. I have sometimes thought of myself as pretty pessimistic but Alina's words demonstrate a degree of bleakness and hopelessness I can only regard with awe.
This comic reminds me of the Polish blackness Alina introduced me to, a level of despair that Americans have barely tasted but that Poles have marinated in for generations. "Hell could actually be the better deal - have you considered that?" And what if it is. What if it is.


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Police recommend Israeli interior minister be charged for corruption
A corruption probe into Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri is now being transferred to the state prosecution, the police announced on Tuesday. They are suggesting he be charged.
Deri - who also holds the post of minister of the development of the Negev and Galilee - has been under investigation since 2016 over suspicions of "bribery, fraud and breach of trust, tax offences, and money laundering," police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said in a statement.
The investigation in partly focused on large money transfers to Deri linked to land sales.
"The findings of the investigation are that there [is] evidentiary basis against Deri that he committed fraud and breach of trust in connection with his conduct while serving as a minister, as well as for the commission of tax offences in significant amounts of millions of shekels [hundreds of thousands of dollars], money laundering, disruption of court proceedings regarding his assets and income," Rosenfeld said.
Deri, who leads the ultra-Orthodox Shas party and has served as interior minister twice before, from 1988-92 and in 1993, spent a decade out of politics after being sentenced to three years in prison in 2000 for taking $155,000 in bribes. His sentence was reduced to a third for good behaviour.
He returned to government in 2015 as economy minister - but stepped down that same year over his opposition to an unpopular gas deal that many in Israel viewed as going against anti-trust laws.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped into the ministerial role - a portfolio he still holds to this day - and sealed the deal with US company Noble Energy.
According to the police statement, most of the alleged crimes date to the time before Deri returned from the political wilderness by being elected to parliament in 2013. However, some relate to his current term as interior minister, which he took up in 2015.
Israel has been rocked in recent years by corruption investigations against high-level political figures - including Netanyahu, who has been embroiled in at least five cases since 2015.
While Netanyahu was not named in the charges earlier this month, Israeli police recommended that several of his close associates be indicted over suspicions of taking bribes in order to seal a $2bn submarine deal.
The submarine scandal, also known as Case 3000, has sparked furore in Israel and has been called one of the worst corruption cases in the country's history.
Even Netanyahu's family has not been immune, with both his wife and son caught up in a series of scandals.
There has been speculation that Netanyahu may succumb to calls from his political coalition for early elections in order to win a renewed mandate while Israel's attorney-general decides whether to indict him.


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On my back, muscles stretched comfortably, with only the silky sheets separating my body and the downy softness of the duvet, I feel the warmth spreading over my skin and penetrating deep into my tires muscles... relaxing and restoring.
Heavy eyelids block out the images of the world and the images of my inner soul slowly appear as my thoughts drift off into the freedom of randomness. My breathing slows and my body turns on its side and curls up, snuggling deeper into the comforting warmth, without any conscious effort on my part. A nurturing nothingness descends over me as I voluntary give up the activity of day to the total absence of sound and movement that is sleep.
More years than I care to remember ago, I learned a part of the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Tayler Coleridge, and the one verse that stayed with me through all the years, is this one:
"Oh sleep, it is a gentle thing,
beloved from pole to pole,
to Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
that slid into my soul."
(It could have been written specifically for me.)
I love sleep. Everything about it. The drifting off and escaping from everyday stresses. The floating on nothingness of sleep itself. The freedom of my subconscious to entertain me on wonderful dramas compiled from bits and pieces of my day... (not that I often remember any of these dreams in the mornings.) I even like the slow dawning of consciousness when waking up out of a deep, restful sleep... that moment of realising I have been granted another day... realising I feel new energy flowing through my being. Wonderful!
As a small girl I used to love thunderstorms. I was never afraid of the lightning. On such nights I would lay curled up in my warm and safe bed, watching the flickering patterns of the lightning through my rain-lashed window... loosing myself in the roll off the thunder over the sky and veldt... and I would experience the same feelings of security, comfort and well-being that I still encounter today when I lay in my bed with sleep slowly sliding into my soul.
6 comments:
- Gaelyn said...
I love this. Every night when I crawl between the flannel sheets pre-warmed by the electric blanket I think, bed, what a concept.
- May 13, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- DUTA said...
Sleep is a wonderful mechanism. Even if I'm not tired, but I have something on my mind that bothers me, I would take a nap knowing that when I wake up, fresh and relaxed, I'll be capable of solving any problem.
Your post is beautifully written.
- May 13, 2010 at 11:48 PM
- Kirsty said...
A perfect post to read before snuggling up to bed... thanks!
- May 14, 2010 at 12:05 AM
- A human kind of human said...
I don not even own an electric blanket, Gaelyn. I like my bed to still be cold when I get in and then lie and feel the warmth spread, but then again, if I lived in a really cold place like you do, I would definitely have one.
Duta, have you ever had the experience that answers to questions and problems pop up naturally in that time when your mind drifts in that no-mans-space just in between wakefulness and sleep - it has often happened to me.
Hi Kirsty, well I went to bed directly after finishing the post. Does that tell you something?
- May 14, 2010 at 5:31 AM
- SAPhotographs (Joan) said...
Beautiful!! I discovered my electric blanket many years ago and do not know how I ever lived without it. This would be the best sleep ever Anne. Just try it when you come and spend a weekend here. :)
- May 14, 2010 at 5:37 AM
- leilani said...
oh i love this! I try to reassure my daughter that yes someday she too will get enough beautiful sleep. See there are advantages to getting older =0D
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From Dream to Reality:
The Creation of the Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum
In the 1980s, a group of Big Oak Flat/Groveland area residents who respected the colorful history and the gold rush era appearance of their area and feared it might be lost, decided they needed to do something to make sure that didn't happen. They formed Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society (STCHS), a non-profit, in 1987, "for the express purpose of recording, preserving, protecting and making available for the public benefit the total history of our area". This was to include the natural history of the area also.
Members of the newly formed STCHS organization decided that a museum was needed for this purpose and dedicated their energies to making this dream a reality - a huge undertaking in a tiny town of less than 2000 full-time residents. After finding that all the old buildings that might be used for the museum were too small or needed major structural work, they decided to build a museum "from scratch".
From 1942 to 1945 the sole library for the area was located in the small kitchen pantry of a Main Street home. After 1945 it situated in the damp basement of the community hall. Therefore, STCHS members recognized the need for a new library and they suggested that a Tuolumne County branch library be located in their proposed museum building - a double benefit for the town.
Where would they get the land for this project? Groveland Community Services District (the water company) had the perfect piece of property on Rt. 120 right next to the town park. It wasn't easy, but an agreement was finally reached for use of this land.
But how does such a tiny town pay for such a major construction project? It would only be possible with a lot of dedication, hard work, planning and heartfelt belief that this COULD be done. It was achieved by grants from the Sonora Area Foundation, a public minded organization; fund raising projects such as concerts, picnics, book sales, dinners, speakers and plays; monetary donations from businesses and the people of the area; donations of architectural designs, physical labor, equipment and materials, and legal advice; and memorials. Amazingly, "Charlie-the-Can-Man" and his volunteer crew collected and crushed approximately $50,000 worth of aluminum cans which everyone in the community saved.
The red line on a large wooden thermometer which was placed on the property to show the financial progress toward the ultimate goal, climbed higher and higher. By the time the project was finished close to a million dollars had been committed and spent - all without state or federal funding.
A ground breaking ceremony and celebration took place on November 17, 1999 and the museum was completed in October of 2000. It was officially opened in May, 2001. This wonderful museum continues to be staffed and maintained, still without state or federal funding, to this day by a group of dedicated and caring volunteers.
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To become all you can be, you must live more consciously. You must become more alert, more aware and more awake. You must take more control over your thought process so that the combines power of the various mental laws is moving you in the direction of your own choosing rather than steering you blindly on a form of mental autopilot.
As you stand back and appreciate the incredibly complex, interconnected events that have brought you to where you are in life right now, you will begin to develop the perspective of the philosopher, of the superior intellect. You begin to superimpose on your experience what is called a "sense of coherence", an attitude and a feeling that your life is part of something greater that yourself and that everything fits together and happens for a reason.
As you think of your life as a series of events and experiences that are conspiring toward your achieving some great goal or making some great contribution to mankind, you begin to develop a "sense of destiny", the hallmark of potential greatness as a human being.
Brian Tracy
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The Reality Principle
Once you have decided upon your values, vision, mission, purpose, and goals, the next step is for you to analyze your starting point. Exactly where are you today, and how are you doing, in each of the important areas of your life, especially as they relate to your goals?
Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric for many years, once said that the most important quality of leadership is the "reality principle". He defined this as the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.
If you want to be the best you can be and achieve what is truly possible for you, you must be brutally honest with yourself about your point of departure. You must sit down and analyze yourself in detail to decide exactly where you are today in each area.
Brian Tracy
Act Now
Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW. You cannot act in the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from your mind. You cannot act in the future, for the future is not here yet.
If you act in the present with your mind on the future, your present action will be with a divided mind, and will not be effective. Put your whole mind into present action.
Act now. There is never any time but now, and there will never be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now. And your action, whatever it is, must most likely be in your present business or employment, and must be upon the persons and things in your present environment.
Do not bother as to whether yesterday's work was well done or ill done; do today's work well. Do not try to do tomorrow's work now; there will be plenty of time to do that when you get to it.
Do not wait for a change of environment, before you act; get a change of environment by action. You can so act upon the environment in which you are now, as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment. Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act upon your present environment with all your heart.
Wallace D. Wattles
Power of The Master Mind
POWER may be defined as "organized and intelligently directed KNOWLEDGE". Power, as the term is here used, refers to ORGANIZED effort, sufficient to enable an individual to transmute DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. ORGANIZED effort is produced through the coordination of effort of two or more people, who work toward a DEFINITE end, in a spirit of harmony.
Napoleon Hill
Psychozoic Age
We have passed from a world based on material limitations into a world that is determined by mental concepts. We have moved from the age of things into the "Psychozoic Age", the age of the mind. Wealth and opportunities are contained more in the person you are and the way you think than in the assets you have acquired in life so far. Your future lies more in your ability to apply your mind and intelligence to your work and your life than it does in your current job or situation.
To achieve something you've never achieved before, you will have to think in ways you have never thought before.
Throughout your life, you must constantly thinking about all the things you can do, in every area, to increase the probabilities that you will be successful in achieving your goals. You should leave nothing to chance. You should refuse to wish or hope, or trust to luck. You must take control of your situation. You are responsible.
Brian Tracy
I Have Crossed Famous Rivers
I spent nearly a week in Mqhekezweni after the funeral and it was a time of retrospection and rediscovery. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
In my language there is a saying: "Ndiwelimilambo enamagama" (" I have crossed famous rivers"). It means that one has traveled a great distance, that one has had wide experience and gained some wisdom from it.
Nelson Mandela
At Sea on a Boat
Imagine that you're out at sea on a boat, voyaging to a far-off destination. Your boat springs a leak, which immediately becomes your priority. You jump down and start bailing water to prevent going under, but forget that nobody is left to navigate the ship. One day, after doing nothing but bailing water for who knows how long, you poke your head over the bow and wonder where the heck you are and how you got there. This is the purposeless life. People can become so preoccupied with just staying afloat that they fail to realize that nobody is at the helm.
Unfortunately, clarifying purpose takes time – quiet, uninterrupted time – which is something many of us feel we don't have. We rush from one obligation to another without a "50,000 foot" view of where we're going. It may seems self-indulgent to stop and reflect on questions of meaning and purpose, but journey will demand it.
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Theme: "Agents of Connectivity"
Day 2: 18.11.2017
Our day started with Holy Mass by 07:30 a.m., followed by our breakfast, Juile Anthony and Frankline conducted Warmup Activities. Fr. Sebastian (Diocesan Youth Chaplain) came to visit the delegated and gave a short message on "the ladder of success". He explained different level in the ladder which includes many ways of planning, ways to implement the methodology SEE JUDGE ACT.
By 09:30 a.m., Fr. Chetan Machado took the second session of NSLTP based on Why do I want to become an Agent of Connectivity? (JUDGE). He showed the pervious NSLTP videos where delegates were interacting with families who were living in slum areas and made the students to recognise the present reality of the unequalised society. Students were given 20 min break to evaluate what they learned in the first part of the session.
In second part of the session took place by 11:30, Fr. Chetan Machado showed 2 video's on review on life, he asked the students regarding video and what all the thing they observed in it. Father explaining about the content of the video and also explained, related, compared it to our life through Methodology SEE JUDGE ACT. After this session delegates tasted a tasty food.
At 02:00 p.m., Juile Anthony, Anupiya & Glen and conducted Group dynamics and outdoor activities for one hour and they brought out all the energy out from the delegates.
By 03:00, Fr. Alexander Jesudasan came up with his session Why & How to frame a Self-policy and Importance of having a Self-Policy. He showed videos related with one's self, Hard work, struggle's to bring one's talent out, leader's quality of leading others, unity and power of youth. This video made a great impact among students in the perspective of JUDGE. He also told that a person should have his own identity, If one person don't have any identity then he is of no use and he also asked the delegates to bring any object from outside; asked the qualities of that object which leaded to result to bring out the delegate's self-qualities. Delegates were guided to create their own self policies for their life,through self-identification, acceptance of one self, following a leader, becoming a leader, setting an example for others, judging one's self a student can have self-policy. Followed by that tea break was held.
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By 06:00, Fr. Chetan Machado gave instruction to the delegated regarding the group evaluation and delegates were send to have a deep evaluation of both the days.
After Dinner, we all gathered at 09:00 for the cultural celebration in group wise were delegated were divided in 4 groups. Juile Anthony and Glen were animating the four groups. The cultures were simply rocking. Followed by that Fr. Chetan started the evaluation of Day 1 and Day 2. Every Delegate was forward and shared their experience and expressed their inner change which they have undergone. The participants was active and made their sharing in a brief manner, after the evaluation session.
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I then clicked on Edit Custom Properties in PyCharm and received a message that idea.properties doesn't exist on my C: drive.
So it seems that PyCharm did not pick up the fact that it was installed on another drive.
I then edited idea.properties in the installation directory and hoped that the contents in the system and config folders on the C: drive would be transferred to the
new directories, but this did not happen.
Is it safe to manually move the config and system directories to the new location and then delete the them from the C: drive?
It would be great if we had the option to change the default directories during installation instead of doing this manually.
Thanks in advance for any help.
You can change the location of config and system directories using the following guide: Changing IDE default directories used for config, plugins, and caches storage – IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
Then, you can safely delete unused directories.
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I bought six feeder goldfish today at PetsMart for .30 each. We shall see how they fare. I wanted to add some fish and get my cycle going and see if they can survive out there. Not just in the pond in general but we do have some rather larger raccoons that come around. I didn't want to spend more money on fancier fish and have them disappear. I don't have any photos of the yet.
The spring garden is full of white, pink, blues and purple. The summer garden is full of yellows and reds and the shades in between.
I purchased this lovely bird feeder. My first one ever. It hung for several weeks and then it was attacked. By a squirrel, I assume. It ripped off the nice little wood shake shingles trying to open it. This is a squirrel proof feeder. I had trouble opening it the first time. So I will be making a trip to a local hobby store at some point to buy new shingles and some weather proofing for it.
Captain, my angora mix. He is 13 now, a senior. He doesn't stray as far as he used to and can often be found lounging in the garden. In this photo he is glaring at Ms. Grecian Goddess. I hope in another month or two to purchase a matching St. Francis.
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Mini barberry. After the heavy rains a couple of weeks ago this little guy and the cotoneaster pushed some more growth. I will be pruning them back this week.
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This is my next project. Beings that the other areas are coming along nicely, I decided I needed a new playground. I received a replacement white weeping spruce from work this spring-the original was killed by our visiting elk last year. So I still have a small patch of rocks to remove. This is the absolute worst part of the process. I hate it. It is so expensive to hire it done that I suffer through it on my own for weeks. Once it is done I have a stump I need ground out. Then I can rototill and amend and grade.
I am not absolutely sure what I am doing with the area, I do have a few great ideas. I hope to get the main foundations no background type stuff done before the snow flies, but we shall see. Keep watching for more on this area. I am super excited!
This is the second to last area in the front yard. I am confident the last section will be easy. I will be hiring a skid loader to come in and scrape that are off. Planting a small tree and installing raised beds for a community garden. This area will be easy. I already have it figured out.
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