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Saturday, November 04, 2006
Steve Carlton Wins Cy Young Award
This was Lefty's third Cy Young award, making him at the time only the fourth man--along with Jim Palmer, Sandy Koufax and Tom Seaver--to win the award that many times. (Since joined, of course, by Greg Maddux, Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, and Randy Johnson.) Carlton is a no-brainier choice for the Hall of Fame, he has three hundred wins, won twenty or more six times and was a ten time All-Star and was rightly elected in 1994.
I bring up the Hall of Fame element because it raises an interesting point: how many single-season awards does a player have to win before they are worthy of Hall of Fame induction regardless of the rest of their career. As it stands, every player who has three (or more) MVP or Cy Young awards is either in the Hall of Fame or is a sure thing to someday be elected. (I suppose the exception to that is Barry Bonds' and his seven MVPs, but it is worth noting that he had won three by 1993 so he qualifies even leaving out the BALCO portion of his career.)
What I can say for sure is that two awards of that nature are insufficient to ensure Hall of Fame election. In fact, there is a small handful of players with two awards who are clearly not Hall of Famers. Those with two MVP awards who are almost certainly not Hall of Famers include Juan Gonzalez, Dale Murphy, and Roger Maris. Bret Saberhagen and Denny McLain both have two Cy Young awards but McLain dropped off the ballot after three years and Saberhagen will be lucky to last that long. (Incidentally, McLain also won the MVP in 1968, meaning he actually has three awards total, but since two of them were awarded for the same performance set, I don't think it counts in the same way as having three awards of some nature from three different seasons.)
If Denny McLain had managed another Cy Young award or Dale Murphy another MVP would that put them in the Hall of Fame? I would tend to think not, but until an otherwise undeserving player has three awards I guess we'll never know.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Bobby Thompson Born
For a sake of contrast with past entries, this isn't the Bobby Thomson of "The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant!" fame, but that is how you spell his name, with the "p." Of course, this Bobby Thompson hasn't had his name misspelled very much, because he wasn't at the Major League level very much. All said, Bobby Thompson played in just sixty-four games for the Rangers in 1978, getting just one hundred and thirty-six plate appearances, and batted just .225/.284/.350.
Never let it be said, however, that he and the other Bobby Thomson had nothing in common. On June 18th, 1978 the Rangers entered the bottom of the ninth tied with the Blue Jays at two. Bobby Bonds doubled with one out and after a pair of intentional walks and a ground-out, Thompson came up with a chance to win the game. And win it he did, lining a single that scored Bonds and gave the Rangers a 3-2 victory.
Of course, giving a team one of its eighty-seven wins with a single in June isn't quite on the same level of drama as giving a team the pennant with a home run in October. But then, Bobby Thompson wasn't the player Bobby Thomson was; perhaps it is only fitting that his walk-off moment isn't the moment Bobby Thomson's was.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Orioles at Giants
That's the Baltimore Orioles, but the Yomiuri (Tokyo) Giants. As the MLB All-Star team begins its tour across Japan it only seems fitting to do a story based on past times US players have toured the Land of the Rising Sun and today is an especially good one. (As an aside, did anyone notice that Bruce Bochy, is somewhat comically managing this All-Star team in his first act as Giants' manager?)
A while back I did an entry on a no-hitter by an American born player playing for a Japanese team. Today, however, represents the first no-hitter by an American player, playing for an American team, against a Japanese team. The pitcher in question is Pat Dobson. Oddly, Dobson was perhaps the least heralded of Baltimore's collection of four starters who each won twenty games that year; he was the only man never to win twenty before or after and finished with the fewest wins of the quartet. (The other three were Jim Palmer, Dave McNally and Mike Cuellar.)
On this day however, Dobson was the man, pitching the O's to a 2-0 win while not giving up a single hit. It is a fear unlikely to be repeated as these days the All-Star games are truly treated as exhibitions and no pitcher is left in for an entire game, making a no-hitter a rather unlikelihood. It is nice--and in some ways fitting--that Pat Dobson, the least of the Twenty Win Quartet is the man who holds this unique accomplishment.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Russ Kemmerer Born
That's more than your standard Kemmer, folks, he's Kemmerer. Admittedly he's not Kemmerest, but what are you going to do? While he might have been the Kemmerest of the world, Russ was able to lay claim to three different nicknames: Rusty, Dutch and Kimmersak. The first and third nicknames are obviously based on his given name (although how you get from Kemmerer to Kimmersak is a little hazy to me) while I assume the second is on account of Kemmerer playing in the era when Federal law mandated each team have at least one "Dutch."
Kemmerer actually filled that role for a variety of teams, playing for the Red Sox, Senators, White Sox and Colt .45's during his career. (That last one, in case you didn't know, is the team that became the Astros when they moved into their new domed stadium--it was named the Astrodome for them, not the other way around--and someone finally realized that a baseball team named after a gun was just too tacky for words.) Kemmerer was never an especially great pitcher but he was consistent and able to both relieve and start. According to Kemmerer his best pitch was a hard sinking fastball, although he also threw a breaking ball.
A few years ago, Kemmerer authored a book, Ted Williams: Hey kid, just get it over the plate! I can't speak to the book's quality, but I have to say that I admire Kemmerer for having written it, it's something more players of past eras should do, so that when they are gone the times and context can be remembered.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
This being the day typically associated with things that go bump in the night, it only seems fitting to do baseball players whose nicknames correspond to such things. One obvious choice would be Dick "Monster" Radatz, who not only has a nickname more than suitable for Halloween, but who I've also already written about, saving me a bit of effort! And speaking of saving me some effort, Halloween always aims to be creepy, and who knows more about that than Creepy Crespi?
But fear not, I'm not copping out with a couple of mere linkbacks. There's also Jo-Jo Moore, known as The Gause Ghost. The first part of that nickname comes from his hometown, Gause, TX, while second part comes from his supposed frail appearance, although I rather think this photo tells you all you need to know. Moore was a leadoff hitter for the Giants for many years, and an incredibly difficult man to strike zone, never going down without contact more than thirty-seven times in a season.
Sadly, that's all I can find insofar as truly Halloween-related names go, but a trio isn't bad, after all. Happy Halloween, everyone.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Pinky Woods Born
From the College of the Holy Cross, the people who brought you Jigga Statz (and Bill Simmons) comes Pinky Woods. Sadly, I have no information on how George Rowland Woods became "Pinky," unless it was some sort of bizarre reference to his political sensibilities. Given that's an unlikelihood, however, I think this may be one mystery that endures.
All said, Woods' Major League career lasted just three seasons, all during the Second World War. Even facing weakened wartime competition (although presumably weakened competition himself) Woods only managed a career 3.97 ERA for the Red Sox. His best year was 1944 when Woods appeared in thirty-eight games and posted a 3.27 ERA, second best among Sox starters that year.
Perhaps the most interesting element of Pinky's career--and one that now that I think about it may help explain the nickname--concerns his big toe. Apparently Pinky arrived with the Red Sox as a flamethrower but apparently lost much of the velocity on his fastball after being spiked and losing his big toe. I'm still at something of a loss as to how badly you'd have to be spiked to totally lose a toe--perhaps because I'd really rather not think about it--but I can see how the rather cruel world of baseball nicknames would come up with "Pinky" for someone down to a mere nine toes.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Jesse Barfield Born
Jesse Barfield ended his career with a series of marginally worsening seasons for a series of marginally improving Yankee teams. That's where I know Jesse from, although I can't claim to remember him that well which is sort of a shame, since Barfield is widely thought to have had the best outfield arm in baseball even up to the end of his career. The numbers bear this out, as Barfield averaged seventeen and a half assists per one hundred and fifty games for his career, an outstanding figure, higher than names like Clemente or Ichiro.
Barfield spent the prime of his career for the Blue Jays in the mid-80s and was often a brilliant all around player. In 1986 he led the league with forty home runs, recorded twenty outfield assists and managed a 147 OPS+, all combining to place him fifth in the MVP vote. Barfield never showed league leading HR power before or after that season but he hit twenty or more six times and also had enough speed to steal twenty-two bases in 1985.
These days Jesse is known for being the father of Padres' second baseman Josh Barfield and for an unfortunate incident when Barfield's younger son Jeremy apparently pushed his father down a flight of stairs, leading to the latter's arrest. Jesse was treated at a local hospital but released the same day apparently indicating that he is fully recovered.


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Kosovo president: Decision to form army 'irreversible'
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo's president says the decision to transform the country's security force into an army is "irreversible" but assures neighboring Serbia it doesn't have to worry about ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo.
President Hashim Thaci held a briefing on Sunday before leaving for New York, where the United Nations Security Council is expected in coming days to discuss the small Balkan country's decision.
Kosovo's parliament overwhelmingly approved the army's formation on Friday. Serbia has warned that an army in its former province could result in an armed intervention.
Serbia does not recognize Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence. Its government insists the new army violates a U.N. resolution that ended Serbia's crackdown on Kosovar separatists in 1998-1999.
Any Serbian armed intervention Kosovo would mean a direct confrontation with the NATO-led peacekeepers stationed in Kosovo since 1999.

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The Prologue is the opening number of the musical. The song consists several parts who are often split as different songs. In most cd versions of the musical however, the song is recorded as one song.
The song is known as "Prologue" in the original French production, "Prólogo" in the Spanish production, "Prolog" in the German production and "Proloog" in the Dutch production.
- Prologue:Work Song – Chain Gang, Javert and Valjean
- Prologue:On Parole – Valjean, Farmer, Labourer, Innkeeper's Wife and Innkeeper
- Prologue:Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven – Constables and Bishop
- Prologue:What Have I Done? – Valjean
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Thane (Maharashtra), Aug 27 (IANS): He spends most of his day at office and commuting to and from Mumbai in crowded suburban trains but accountant Shishir Deshmukh still finds time to look at the stars and pursue his passion for astronomy. And he has just discovered his sixth comet in just nine months, the first by an Indian.
His latest discovery was a Kreutz Group comet Thursday evening.
"I feel very thrilled by my discoveries, the first by an Indian. It gives great pleasure. Although I am an amateur astronomer, I have made a small contribution to the world of astronomy," an excited Deshmukh, who works as an assistant accounts manager with a leading realty group, told IANS.
The Kreutz Group of comets is named after a German astronomer, Heinrich Kreutz, who discovered that these types of comets - which travel around the sun and consist of a solid frozen nucleus part and a long luminous tail - have their orbits very close to the sun.
"These comets are generally very fragile, barely a few metres long and keep disintegrating throughout their orbit," explained Deshmukh, a commerce graduate from the University of Mumbai with an M.Phil in information science.
These comets are much smaller than the better known large comets like Halley's Comet.
"But they (the small ones) are very useful to the study of the dynamics of orbits of comets, their disintegration process and perturbations from giant planets," he added.
"Actually, what we are seeing now in the form of Kreutz Comets is the debris or left-overs of very large comets which come in the vicinity of our solar system once in a few centuries.
"From the orbits of some of the Kreutz Comets, it is estimated that one such huge comet was seen in 1106, then in 1882 and last in 1965," Deshmukh, 37, explained.
Besides, some short period comets are also observed using Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) data, which help scientists understand their orbital dynamics and rate of erosion each time they visit our solar vicinity.
On the basis of their observations, astronomers can estimate their expected time of return - and the possible risks to mankind, he said.
Detailing his achievement, Deshmukh said it involves a furiously competitive study of images of the sun sent by SOHO, which is a space observatory between the sun and earth, some 1.5 million km away from our planet.
"It beams one image every 12 minutes which is uploaded on its official website 24x7 and picked up by astronomers worldwide. I also studied them, measured the positions of any suspicious objects, picked out my claims and submitted them for confirmation, including the one yesterday (Thursday)," he said.
"My latest discovery - yesterday evening - has also been acknowledged as genuine and the official confirmation is expected soon," Deshmukh said.
The plaudits have been many.
Deshmukh was felicitated for his achievement by former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Dombivali last March.
In January this year, Deshmukh, co-author of a book, "Astronomy of Eclipses", was commended and felicitated by eminent nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar for becoming the first Indian amateur astronomer to get international recognition as a discoverer of SOHO comet.
He will speak on "Comet Hunting With SOHO" at a major felicitation organised by the Bombay Amateur Astronomers Association Saturday.
In the past 15 years or so, a total of 2,122 Kreutz Group of comets have been discovered by professional and amateur astronomers worldwide.
German astronomer Rainer Kracht holds a tally of 225 discoveries.
Other astronomers have made smaller individual discoveries, including Deshmukh, of course.
Prior to Deshmukh, late Indian astronomer M.K.V. Bappu of Andhra Pradesh along with two international scientists, discovered a conventional comet which was later named after them as 'Bappu-Bok-Newkirk Comet' in 1949.
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text: Evin Gelleri is the quintessential small business owner. He spends almost every single day, from morning to night, in his restaurant, Sessions at the Presidio. He can usually be found checking in with customers, helping out the kitchen or spinning a dozen other plates. He has a pedal-to-the-floor schedule that doesn't leave much time for marketing.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Oil and gas stocks reversed course at midday after investors' fears about extensive damage to oil and gas facilities and refineries were eased by company reports. The Amex Oil Index $xoi rose 0.9% to 1,068.93 points, the Amex Natural Gas Index $xng gained 1.3% to 419.99 points, and the Philadelphia Oil Service Index OSX, -0.70% added 1.2% to 173.13 points.
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If you were to ask a homeowner if they would like to live in a brand new home the likely answer is yes. The reality of the situation is that most people cannot afford to build a brand new house. However, a home improvement can be a very cost effective way to improve your current residence without the hassle of packing up and moving. Here are some things that you can do to give you that look you have always dreamed about, and you might be surprised to know that they won't leave you bankrupt either.
Starting with your kitchen, there are a couple of things that can really spruce up the room. Cabinets are usually what your visitors see first so you should think about giving them a fresh coat of paint (if they are painted) or refinishing them (if they have a wood finish). The hardware also tends to get worn out over time but luckily this is quite easy to replace. Plus it is a rather inexpensive improvement that can fit into anybody's budget. If your cabinets are really showing their age then you should consider replacing them altogether. It's not a difficult job if you have the right tools or you can always find a contractor to do the work for you.
Without leaving the kitchen you can also think about replacing the countertops. The overall theme of the room can be greatly improved by adding a nice granite or other type of stone countertop. These are the most expensive options but they also really transform the kitchen into one of elegance. Other options include ceramic tile, wood, or even stainless steel. The choice will mainly come down to your budget and what type of look you are going for.
Your carpeting is another fairly obvious item in your home that can be replaced. Over the years your rugs will wear out, getting thinner and really show stains from all the traffic. It will become harder to get them clean which will result in your home looking older. Changing the carpets is an inexpensive way to breathe life into any room which will become quite apparent the very first time you walk on the new carpeting.
Brand new faucets will make any kitchen or bathroom look much better. The finish on a faucet will become dull and really show its' age over time. Installing new faucets is a cost effective way to remedy the situation and this job is not a difficult one at all. If you possess basic plumbing skills then you can pull it off or you can hire a professional plumber to not too much money. If you do decide to do it yourself then make sure you get all of the correct tools and supplies to finish the job.
A fresh coat of paint on your wooden exterior or a power washing to the vinyl siding can really make your home stand out in the neighborhood. In your interior, you can put some new paint on the walls to really improve the look of any room or even change colors for a different appearance. While painting is not something that everyone enjoy it is a simple and cost effective way to spruce up your house, and you can always find a professional to give you a quote on the job.
These projects are just a few ways that you can not only increase the overall value of your home but also to make it look much nicer. The majority of them are easy enough to do with a little bit of planning or inexpensive enough to hire a professional. By working your way through this list you will keep your house in excellent condition and really make your home the talk of the neighborhood.


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text: A wedding is such a grand occasion and something you will remember for the rest of your life. Leading up to my wedding i spent a very long time before i could even consider a photographer that was fair on price, inclusions & that would be easy to communicate with and trust on my special day. I myself have worked in the modelling industry and to be fair a lot of photographers out there do quiet the opposite mark up offer less because of the type of occasion. When i came across John on service seeking immediately i knew he was the perfect photographer to capture our perfect day. Pre weddingMemories by Adams / John was very easy to communicate with especially because we were planning our wedding from another state so everything was about trust and communication. And on the day wow could not have asked for better service. John arrived at 9am to the house where myself and the bridal party were getting ready. He took so many photos we were amazed. He then drove over to the groomsmen on the other side of the city and offered the same there. then back to us to capture us as we were preparing to leave at 3pm big day already. At the ceremony and reception everyone loved him & again we have absolutely amazing photos, no moment was missed. I would recommend time and time again with 5 stars and everyone attending our special day would do the same Thank you For playing an extremely important role in the most important day of mine and new husbands wedding day Love roslyn and brian


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Jerry Jones invited his friends in the media out to the Cowboys' new digs in Arlington yesterday, to show off the enormous new video board that'll hang 90 feet over the field (just 90 feet!).
On the way out to check out the screen, we got to snap some photos inside the new stadium, and you they're all up in our slideshow. After the jump, check out some facts and figures on the new TV screen (don't recommend you try comparing it to your home entertainment system, no matter what the guy at Best Buy sold you).
According to the Cowboys and the good folks at Mitsubishi Diamond Vision, their new video board setup:
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- Is the world's largest 1080p HDTV screen
- Weighs 600 tons
- Reaches almost from one 20-yard line to the other
- Has 30 million light bulbs across 25,000 square feet
- Is the first center-hung video board in football
- Has a built-in elevator with 10 levels from the top of the board to the bottom
- Hang from the stadium's main arches, and can support a 90,000 pound basketball scoreboard hanging underneath
- Is suspended 90 feet above the playing field


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Our weather has been in the 80s here on the East Coast of Florida, making it a little unpredictable as to when to start Spring gardening this year. Since we are heading to the beaches and wearing tank tops, I went ahead and planted our spring seeds. If the weather turns cold in March then I will just have to cover the crops and hope for the best.
Today, I thought it would be fun to make a list of our gardening inventory. I saw another blogger do this once, and I really enjoyed reading it, so I wanted to share!
Our Backyard Edibles:
- John Baer Tomatoes, a few have already arrived.
- Carrots, long imperator
- Onions, evergreen long white bunching
- Green Ice lettuce, a few heads are still left from winter gardening.
- Celery, Apio
- Chives
- Sugar cane
- Lemon grass
- Rosemary
- Parsley, Italian
- Oregano, Greek
- Comfrey
- Vicky plant
- Mint: spearmint, orange & pineapple. The mints are currently making their spring comeback. I have missed them.
- Pineapples
- Banana trees
- Aloe Vera
- Lavender
- Basil
- Seeds we are waiting to sprout: red & plum radishes, sweet peas, carrots
I could go on & on with a list of our trees, flowering plants, and native landscaping, but the sun is shining and it's Friday so I'm going to go outside and play with my little gardeners. 😉
Have a great weekend!


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Above: John Crowley [left] with Cardinal O'Malley [centre] when they met recently in Boston.
Many CaSPA Principals have had to confront the fall out from the Sexual Abuse scandals that have been part of the Australian Catholic Church. As leaders in their communities, our Principals have had to negotiate the hurt and lack of trust that has touched all parts of our country. Many Principals tell us, that this is the single greatest challenge they have as leaders of their schools....
While each Principal has gone about dealing with this issue in their own way, some have had more significant challenges given the extent of abuse that took place and the number of survivors who still live in the vicinity of their schools today. Few, if any, would have had the extent of challenges compared with those working in Ballarat, Victoria. The publicity generated by the stories of abuse and evidence presented at the Royal Commission has been a part of the reality of this community over many years now.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man.....
John Crowley has been Headmaster of St Patricks College, Ballarat, since 2015. His appointment coincided with the first sitting of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Case Study 28, into Responses of Catholic Church Authorities in the Diocese of Ballarat. He recently returned home from an extended period of Professional Enrichment Leave where he visited the Archdiocese of Dublin and Boston to examine examples of where the Catholic Church are supporting victims and survivors of sexual abuse in a spirit of hope. While away, John presented a paper to the undergraduate students of the Centre for Child Protection, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, titled Towards the Hope of Healing.
John has collected his reflections and impressions and asked that CaSPA provide the opportunity for all Catholic Secondary Principals to be able to read these in the hope that it can assist them in leading the Church and its schools through this most challenging time in the history of the Catholic Church in Australia.
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The grindylow, known best from the Harry Potter stories, both from Remus Lupin's Defense against the Dark Arts classroom and from Fleur Delacour's mishap in the lake during the second challenge of the Triwizard Tournament, is actually a water demon from folklore.
According to Harry, the grindylow is "A sickly green creature with sharp little horns had its face pressed against the glass, pulling faces and flexing its long, spindly fingers." (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). Their fingers are particularly dangerous, apparently. In the Harry Potter universe, these little demons hate people of all sorts, both muggle and wizard alike. However, strangely enough, merpeople keep them as pets. They eat mostly fish and things, but do eat people if they can get their dangerous fingers around them. That's why they're classified as dark creatures and Lupin includes them in his class.
But where did Ms. Rowling get this idea for the nasty little critter? They're a pale green water demon of English decent. Some even link them to Grendel from Beowulf. Like the Harry Potter version, legendary grindylows snatch people, especially children, from the edges of lakes and pull them into the water to eat them. In legends, they're often associated with critters like hags and used in the same manner to frighten children away from lakes and other dangerous places.
Since then, they've become fairly popular in mythical-based video games and such. Ms. Rowling launched them to demon-famedom, but what's next for these little dudes?


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21st century skills
"If we are not processing life, we are not living it" - Peter Doolittle
Traditionally, history is taught through the "main narrative" or most accepted account of a historical event. Unfortunately, this approach reduces history to little more than memorizing a sequence of dates, events, and maps in order to pass a test. It also denies learners the opportunity to think critically about historical events and how those events have attributed to the world we live in today and the direction of our future. Furthermore, it does not prepare students for 21st century citizenry because it does not allow students to practice and learn 21st century skills that applicable to real life outside of the classroom. Exactly what are 21st century skills varies from source to source, but primarily include collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving. Giving students opportunities to apply these skills builds a sense of meaning and purpose that goes beyond the classroom for their work in social studies. It also provides an opportunity for students to insert their interests, talents, and build deeper knowledge of the content.
The PBI Video button is a link to the PBI project I worked on for Dr. Spires's class, ECI 546. This project demonstrates how students can be highly engaged and motivated while practicing 21st century skills. Throughout this project, students worked in small groups to determine the type of video they wanted to create, created props, and put together a visual video that represented what they had learned about the American or French Revolution. All of these tasks required students to collaborate, think critically about how to communicate what they had learned, and creatively demonstrate what they learned. Because students were given many choices and flexibility regarding who they worked with and the type of video they wanted to do as well as creative freedom, students were able to incorporate their own interests and communicate the information they learned in a way that worked best for them. For example, students could choose to do a paper slide, claymation skit or music video. If they chose the music video, they were able to choose whatever song they wanted and to rewrite the lyrics to reflect their learning. They then performed, recorded, and published their videos using flipped cameras. Student videos were shared in class and students were given the opportunity to reflect on their work.
For my final project in ECI 523, I investigated the flipped classroom model. Since I am not currently teaching, I worked with another student in my class who is currently using the flipped classroom model in his practice. This model has great value because, in addition to promoting effective use of technology in a classroom, it provides opportunities for instruction that allows students to routinely learn and practice 21st century skills. The flipped classroom model reduces class lecture time and allows students time to work on individual and group projects that take their learning beyond memorization in order to pass a test. Students learn from "doing" social studies, thus, they must work to think critically and solve problems. They build knowledge through active learning and collaboration and are able to demonstrate and communicate what they learn through creative means.
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With the tie perfectly poised, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid will look to plant their feet in the semifinals of the Champions League when the two teams meet in their quarterfinal second leg at the Vicente Calderon on Wednesday.
Where To Watch Live:
The game is scheduled for an 8.45 pm local time (7.45 pm BST, 12.15 am IST, 2.45 pm ET) start with live coverage on Ten Sports in India, Fox Sports in the US and Sky Sports 2 in the UK .
Watch the quarterfinal via live streaming online in India HERE, while Latin America viewers can go HERE. Viewers in Australia can live stream the game HERE, with the UK option HERE. US viewers can catch the action courtesy live streaming HERE, with the option in Canada to watch the game live online HERE. Audience in the Middle East and North Africa can watch the match live online HERE, while South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa viewers can go HERE.
Atletico have the advantage of an away goal from the first leg, with playmaker Diego scoring a wonder goal, before Neymar equalised for Barcelona with a cracker of his own.
Barcelona will head into the second leg knowing they need to score at least once to have any chance of staying in this season's Champions League, something which will be easier said than done, considering Atletico's home record in terms of conceding goals.
"I don't like to predict what the result might be," Barcelona manager Gerardo Martino said. "What we need to do is to play better than Atletico and to win the game. These teams know each other very well, and they play with completely different styles.
"All I know is that Barcelona haven't gone ahead in any of the meetings this season. We need to see if we can do that and to try to control the match. Atletico are not the type of team who will allow us to control the game for the entire 90 minutes, but we'll try to do that as it is how we like to play.
"The games between the sides have been very even, though we have tended to be superior in the second halves. It won't be easy but if we try to control the game, and score first, then maybe the outcome will be different."
Diego Simeone has done wonders with this Atletico side, who are currently a point clear of Barcelona in the top of the La Liga at the moment, since taking over as manager, and nothing will please the Argentine more than to take his team to the semifinals of the Champions League.
"This will be a passionate game -- one of the biggest in the UEFA Champions League -- between two teams with different styles," he said. "The result [of the first leg] doesn't mean anything. Barcelona always play offensively and this is a perfect match for them with [possibly] 120 minutes to play.
"We are going to come up against the best Barcelona players of recent times. These games are special for them and they are used to playing them."
Team news: Atletico Madrid: Diego Costa is a major doubt with a thigh injury he picked up in the first leg, and Simeone insisted the talismanic attacker will play from minute one only if he is passed 100 percent fit. "If Diego Costa is fit, he plays. If he is a little less than 100 percent, he will be on the bench," Simeone said. "Otherwise he'll be out. "We will have a look at [him] in training.
"If he doesn't make it, Adrian Lopez will play - if Adrian plays, I'm sure he will have a great game for us." Influential playmaker Arda Turan, though, has been definitely ruled out with a groin injury, but Javi Anquilo could make a return from a neck problem.
Barcelona: Gerard Pique and Victor Valdes are sidelined along with Isaac Cuenca and Jonathan Dos Santos. Carles Puyol, though, has been included in the squad, even though the player is still waiting for the all-clear to plat after a long-term knee injury.
Expected lineups: Atletico Madrid: Courtois; Juanfran, Miranda, Godin, Filipe Luis; Koke, Tiago, Gabi, Diego; Adrian, Villa.
Barcelona: Pinto; Alves, Bartra, Mascherano, Alba; Xavi, Busquets, Iniesta; Fabregas, Messi, Neymar.


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Overall in Macau, 8 Australian-bred gallopers scored at Taipa. In addition to Club House & Viva Pronto, the others were:
- 5YO gelding Hand Devine Power (Giant's Causeway-Sandy's Weekend, by Kingmambo) won over 1050m for trainer Y.K.Lau.
- 5YO mare Coral Constellation (Redding-Scot's Lassie, by Salmon Leap) won over 1300m for trainers H.Y.Chong & Tony Chon. Coral Constellation was $30,000 2YO at the 2005 Inglis Victorian Ready-To-Run Sale.
- 4YO gelding Top Hero (Johannesburg-Gin Sling, by Western Symphony) won over 1300m for trainer V.Chong. Top Hero was a $52,000 yearling at the 2006 Magic Millions Adelaide Sale.
- 5YO gelding Chimes Master (Langfuhr-House Of Chimes, by Bellotto) won over 1050m for trainer K.S.Ho. Chimes Master was a $16,000 weanling at the 2004 Inglis Select Sale & subsequently a $28,000 yearling at the 2005 Magic Millions Adelaide Sale.
- 5YO gelding Top Runner (Indian Danehill-Southern Flag, by Yonder) won over 1500m for trainer Y.T.Lam. Top Runner was an $18,000 yearling at the 2005 Magic Millions Adelaide Sale & subsequently a $70,000 2YO at the 2005 NZB Ready-To-Run Sale.
- 8YO gelding Lisboa Stand (Gold Fever-Rich Haul, by Haul Pak) won over 1200m for trainer K.H.Leong. Lisboa Stand was a $180,000 yearling at the 2002 Inglis Classic Sale in Sydney.


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We cats are super fastidious about being clean. And I like my water fountain and my bowls to be pristine. I also like my chow bowl to have plenty of food and my back up water supply to be filled to the rim. I like my rugs, blankets, thinking circles, chair cushions and pillows to be washed and smelling fresh and nice. When these things are in order I know I will have a great day.
I have two Smart Cat Box litter pans. One is located in the laundry room, which is across the hall from our office. My other pan is in my Master bathroom which I agree to let my parents share with me, the bathroom, not my Smart Cat Box. I like my boxes to be super clean too. But when nature calls, and I listen, my boxes can get a little smelly.
Sometimes when my mom walks by my box she makes a face and she says "ewww" just like the name of a product from Bissell. So when I'm a little stinker the ewww pet stain and odor remover from the Pawsitively Clean line helps me clean up! ewww has powerful enzyme action to tackle those odors and the fast acting deodorizing agents start to work immediately. It is super easy to use and when my box has been cleaned my mom goes from saying ewww to ahhh!
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Hi Friends! It has been 16 weeks now that I have been using the Smart Cat Box. Now I typically don't like to discuss my litter pan issues but I think this is important information to share with you.
You might remember that we had a discussion about To Clump or Not to Clump? In this discussion we talked about the issues with clay litter. My parents were purchasing a popular brand of natural clumping litter for me to use. It was not a clay litter but made from natural biodegradable corn fibers.
Some of you might already know that I suffered from pancreatitis and transient diabetes. During this time, it was necessary to test my glucose levels on a regular basis. Unfortunately, this meant getting an ear or paw stick with a super sharp pointy needle. My parents said it hurt them more than me, but I don't know about that. I never got to sneak up on them and poke them in the ear with a needle to see if it hurt me more than them. Sorry for the digression.
One happy day in May, our friend Jone told me about the Smart Cat Box. I got in contact with Sara Maguire, the creator of this unique box. Sara was so concerned about my sticky situation that she offered to send me a Smart Cat Box to try. Sara, is a genius because she designed the Smart Cat Box with a urine collection system (your pee goes into a container). Now my parents can use a Keto Diastix Strip to test my glucose and ketone levels. Pain free for me and for them, I guess.
Here is what I want to you know about the Smart Cat Box
- User Friendly – I took to this box right away. I used my old litter pan less and less and started to favor the Smart Cat Box. ( I have two littler pans.)
- Eco Friendly– Because your parents can flush your pee, there are no more of those stinky pucks of pee lurking in your box to be scooped out and disposed of in a plastic bag. Oh your poo too.* unless you live close to the ocean. If you do place the poo in a paper bag in the garbage. Our poo is not good for sea otters!
- Less Work– My parents are telling me that this is the lowest maintenance litter pan they have ever used.
- Less Tracking- yes and no more icky sticky paws!
- Less Odor – my parents are amazed. And my poo is pretty smelly.
- No Dust- None!!!!
And what is perhaps one of the best things about the Smart Cat Box is that you will save money!!
- Less Expense – Here is our cost savings so far.*based on my habitat
Before the Smart Cat Box, my parents were using 1.5 bags of natural clumping litter per week.
Each bag costs approximately $11.12 (litter plus tax) $11.12 x 1.5 x 16 weeks =$266.88
We have used 15 lbs of the Seedtec Safflower Seeds. $11.22 for 5 lbs. (Seeds plus shipping)= $33.66
Now even if we deduct the cost of the Smart Cat Box:
$266.88-$33.66= $233.22- $65.00 (cost plus shipping) =$168.22 SAVED
Over a year our habitat will save
1.5 bags natural clumping litter per week $11.12 x 1.5 x 52 weeks =$867.36
Averaging 1 lb of Seedtec seeds per week $2.24 x 52 weeks = $116.69
Even if you are super stinky and for some reason would use twice as much Seedtec seeds, you will still save over $600.00!
This savings more than pays for your Smart Cat Boxes.
To learn more about the Smart Cat Box please click here!
You can also learn about the Smart Cat Box from my interview with Sara, the creator of the Smart Cat Box by clicking here.
If you decide to purchase your own Smart Cat Box, you can use the code CCC15.
Sara is offering a 15% Discount to Friends of The Tiniest Tiger's Conservation Cub Club! Super Hurrah!
Do you have any questions for me about the Smart Cat Box?
Smart Cat Box Inventor Chats with The Tiniest Tiger
Friends, I recently had a chat with Sara, the creator of the Smart Cat Box. I thought that you would find our conversation interesting and am posting it here for you to read in a Question and Answer format. For those of you that are living with feline diabetes, this might just seem too good to be true.
Gracey: Sara, I want to tell you thank you. The Smart Cat Box is the best litter box ever! And also thank you for agreeing to answer some questions for us. Here is my first question. We cats are quite clever, is that why you named it the Smart Cat Box?
Sara: Gracey, I called it Smart due to the box's New Advanced Design. The fundamental difference is that the SMART CAT BOX is an entirely new approach to the way we collect and dispose of cat urine. The new, patented design is amazingly simple. The SMART CAT BOX is a three component Urine Collection System. The top box has a slotted floor to hold non-absorbent cat litter. The bottom box has a slanted floor and drain allowing urine to flow directly into a removable covered urine collection reservoir for easy collection and disposal.
Gracey: That is quite interesting, but to clarify, you do think Cats are clever right?
Sara: Yes, of course! It is a known fact that cats are the smartest species on the planet. I think I heard that from my own cats.
Gracey: OK, just checking. Most Cats do not like change. With the New Advanced Design, are we going to have trouble adjusting to the change when we switch from our old litter pans to the Smart Cat Box?
Sara: You will jump into the top box and urinate as usual. All urine passes through the non-absorbent litter and through the slotted floor to the bottom box. Urine flows down the drain into the covered reservoir. The urine can be tested for blood glucose levels, if necessary, and then disposed of down the toilet. Firm feces do not stick to the litter and is scooped out and disposed of. So it is easy and natural for you. Gracey, I must mention one thing. If you live near an ocean please tell your parents to place the feces in a paper bag and dispose of it in the trash. There is something in cat feces that can harm sea otters if it reaches their ocean environment. Of course, if you don't live near an ocean then the feces can be flushed down the toilet.
Gracey: Can you demonstrate how to use the Smart Cat Box for us via a YouTube video?
Sara: Well, umm, I don't know… Maybe, with a little help from you.
Gracey: HAHAHAHAHA, Sara I am kidding of course.
I agree, the Smart Cat Box is easy to use. I took to it right away. When it first arrived at our habitat, my mom placed it in the office for me to investigate. At first, I preferred to sleep on top of the shipping box, but what Cat can resist a nap on top of a box? Then my parents replaced one of my litter pans with the new Smart Cat Box. I of course, pretended not to notice it for a period of time, but I couldn't resist trying it out. My parents were so excited they were high fiving each other and dancing around the house. Why do you think my parents were so excited?
Sara: The Smart Cat Box is much easier to keep clean and the litter stays dry. No more scooping and scraping. The non-absorbent litter remains dry and virtually odor free with minimum maintenance. The litter pellets last for several months. The Smart Cat Box is inexpensive to buy and inexpensive to maintain. Under normal conditions, with one cat it can pay for itself in 7 weeks and with two cats it can pay for itself in 4 weeks. Your parents were probably excited to be odor free and to save money.
Gracey: That makes sense. I admit, at times I can be a bit of a "stinker". I really like that the litter stays dry. No more icky wet paw feeling stomping around in the clumpy used litter. Sara, I had transient diabetes from pancreatitis. I have recovered, but my parents remain obsessed with checking my pee, I mean urine. The Smart Cat Box seems ideal for Cats and Cat Parents living with diabetes.
Sara: Gracey it is a great help for Cat parents. While blood sampling may be the best test for diabetes and chronic renal failure(CRF ) and other health issues, urine sampling for blood glucose levels is a much less traumatic second best. It all but eliminates the need for veterinarians to squeeze or puncture the bladder (cystocentesis) to obtain urine specimens for urinalysis. With the Smart Cat Box you can now test for blood sugar levels easily and naturally at home as often as needed using urine test strips and reporting results to your veterinarian.
Gracey: ~shiver~ I remember my ear and paw sticks. Oh, this is much easier on everyone as a way to monitor blood glucose levels at home. What is different about this litter that allows the urine to flow through to the reservoir?
Sara: The non-absorbent SAFFFLOWER seed litter is all-natural, ecologically & environmentally friendly, renewable, sized specifically for the Smart Cat Box and is grown in the US. Because it is non-absorbent, the urine flows through to the covered urine collection reservoir which can hold 24 oz. of fluid. This is normally enough capacity for one cat for several days or a few days for multiple cats. The reservoir drawer is easy to remove and easy to replace. It has a spout so that urine can be poured into the toilet without removing the snap-on lid.
Gracey: The Tiniest Tiger's Conservation Cub Club cares for all Cats both Big and Small. Our Big Cat Cousins need our help in preserving their habitats. I really like that the litter is all-natural, ecologically & environmentally friendly, and renewable. Using the Smart Cat Box helps reduce the volume of cat litter being dumped into landfills. That is great for our earth.
Sara: The Smart Cat Box is the only cat litter box featured in the 2009 edition of the Whole Green Catalog 1,000 Best Things for You and The Earth (pg. 341). As a special bonus to Friends of The Tiniest Tiger's Conservation Cub Club, I am offering a 15% discount for Starter System & Value Paks. Friends will type CCC15 as the discount code when they order the Smart Cat Box.
Gracey: HURRAH! That is so nice of you Sara! I have already had several Friends inquire about the Smart Cat Box. Soon more Friends will be odor-free and saving money and the environment all at the same time. Thank you again Sara, You have eliminated one of my elimination problems. Hahahahaha, do you get it?
Sara: Yes, I get it. You are welcome. Thanks for letting me talk to you about the Smart Cat Box. You can find more information at www.smartcatbox.com.
Gracey: Would you like a Prescription Diet Hypoallergenic Treat? They are quite tasty.
Sara: No thank you. I am good.
To Clump or Not To Clump? Try the Smart Cat Box
Friends, after the original post To Clump or Not To Clump?, I received a message from our Friend Jone suggesting that we try the Smart Cat Box. Jone said that she uses the Smart Cat Box for her cats and that she likes the following features:
- easy to test the urine (insulin) that collects in the reservoir
- easy to pour urine to flush in toilet
- scooping the poo with seeds and flushing in the toilet
- cats don't deal with any toxins, perfumes or dust
- minimal tracking and what does track are tiny little seeds, easy on feet
- easy to clean
As you might remember, my parents are obsessed with my pee after my recovery from transient diabetes. So this sounded like an ideal solution for Cats like me that need to have their pee analyzed.
My mom contacted Sara the creator of the Smart Cat Box and we received one in the mail to try.
After I began to use the Smart Cat Box, I sat down with Sara and we had a chat about the Smart Cat Box 's features and benefits. I will be posting our chat for you to read through to see if you think the Smart Cat Box might be for you too.


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The estate is approximately 4,500 m2 large also has a swimming pool.
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The name is inspired by the novel Villa des Roses of William Elsschot. It describes life in a small third-rate Paris guesthouse.
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How can the latest LastPass vulnerabilities be mitigated?
More LastPass vulnerabilities were recently discovered. Expert Matthew Pascucci explains the flaws, as well as what enterprises can do to mitigate the threat they pose.
The password manager LastPass recently dealt with some browser extension vulnerabilities. How serious are these LastPass vulnerabilities, and what can enterprises do to mitigate them?
Tavis Ormandy, a Google Project Zero researcher, has been a thorn in the side of LastPass for the past year. In 2016, he found multiple vulnerabilities in its software, and in March 2017, he discovered multiple new exploits in the LastPass password management tool that enabled password theft and remote code execution.
LastPass is password manager that creates random passwords, enabling an application/website to auto-fill passwords when possible, and it creates a digital wallet of credentials. This tool improves credential hygiene and limits a user from password reuse. Because of this, LastPass has become a target, and Ormandy's findings have helped the company to improve its security by remediating the LastPass vulnerabilities before they are exploited in the wild.
Ormandy discovered two LastPass vulnerabilities that enabled an attacker to leverage a malicious website to make calls into the LastPass API. This enabled the attacker to steal credentials and possibly perform code injection to run arbitrary code on the victim's system. The attacker would first have to trick users into accessing their maliciously configured site for these vulnerabilities to be exploited.
The first of these LastPass vulnerabilities enabled attackers and their maliciously configured sites to spoof sites that users consider legitimate and extract the victim's username and password for the spoofed site. This bug is considered a message hijack vulnerability, and was only found in Firefox 3.3.2. It's interesting to note that this bug was found in the past, but was never fixed in this version. The vulnerable versions are now being depreciated and won't be available for use in the future.
The second bug is a little more devious. It was found within an experimental onboarding feature of LastPass and was present in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Like the other LastPass vulnerability, this also relied on an attacker tricking a user into accessing a malicious site and having the application assume it was a trusted site, all the while stealing the legitimate credentials. The vulnerability also enabled a remote code injection that Ormandy proved by launching the calculator application. This is even more critical, since it goes beyond just stealing credentials, and is more along the lines of using the application to exploit the user's entire system.
Since these vulnerabilities were found, updates have been released for the vulnerable software, and the message hijacking vulnerability within Firefox 3.3.2 has been depreciated. These LastPass vulnerabilities were all made possible via phishing attempts, so users should still be diligent when clicking links.
Also, if possible, it's still highly recommended to enable multifactor authentication on all accounts that accept it. This wouldn't have stopped users from having their credentials stolen, but it would have denied access to the stolen accounts with a second factor enabled.
At the time of this writing, LastPass said there was no evidence these vulnerabilities were being used in the wild, and that a master password reset is not required.
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Whether you're just traveling through the area or you're looking to move here, Kansas is a great place to be. Living in Kansas definitely has its ups and downs, but there are a few things that might make or break your love for our state. Let's see how many of these things you can learn to love about Kansas! After all, these things just come packaged with our state and it's people.
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After 17 years ownership of a narrow, steep and extremely difficult coastal section, we were finally in a position to build a holiday home in 2011. Being Auckland based and novice house builders, we approached several kitset home companies (including TRENZ Homes) believing this would be the best way for us to go. TRENZ was the only company that followed up on our initial enquiry. The others we suspect were not interested, in large part due to the difficulties our site presented. TRENZ Homes just took it all in their stride, regularly assuring us they were steep site specialists. They also allowed us to go outside the standard kitsets available and worked collaboratively with us on a design that suited our tastes and budget, as well as the site.
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Testimonial | CONNIE MOGG - MASTER OF COMMERCE
Connie Mogg
Master of Commerce
"My most memorable CSU experience was being the first person from my family to graduate with a university qualification. I completed my Graduate Certificate in Commerce with CSU, and really enjoyed the experience, particularly the graduation, where you were made to feel like you mattered to the University. When considering further study, I was quite specific about the majors I wanted to do; I also wanted flexibility, and I didn't want to just get 'lost in the crowd'. I was also looking to progress, and a Masters was pretty much expected these days. CSU offered the combination of majors I was after and it was also more affordable.
"While I had many years' experience in the workforce, I found the course content often gave context to the user end information I dealt with at work. I found it very useful in terms of how the higher level decisions were being made.
"I lived in Melbourne while I was studying and my daughter was doing her VCE, so study time became our mother-daughter time. I thought we might as well study together.
"For someone considering studying at CSU, go for it. It's been a great experience for me. CSU is unique in that it is a smaller and more caring environment. When you speak to the lecturers, they care, and they acknowledge the individual."


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Centrally located with a warm cabin feel, this McCall vacation rental is the perfect gathering place for families or anyone wanting to explore the great outdoors! Enjoy access to the lake and conveniences like a wood stove and WiFi that will make guests feel right at home!
Payette Mountain Cabin has an unbeatable location just blocks away from Payette Lake. Guests have access to two private beaches, both within walking distance, and in-town attractions like the McCall Golf Course are just four miles away!
This classic cabin was built in the 1960s and has been updated each year. The home boasts filtered lake views and a rancher layout with everything conveniently located on one floor! Ski lodge and water sport decor make the space cozy. The home opens to the recently renovated kitchen, where you can greet guests with fresh baked cookies or turkey sandwiches on the table!
The open kitchen is equipped with modern appliances and a bistro table for six. An in-kitchen wood stove will keep the place cozy or free up a burner for the tea kettle! A pass-through window and breakfast bar seating for three provides extra space and a casual location to lay out snacks for your busy group!
All sofas point to a second fireplace in the living room! Break away from the screen and enjoy some low-tech family time with a family board game from the library. While this home doesn't offer a TV, WiFi is provided.
This intimate Idaho vacation rental offers two full baths and three bedrooms to lodge 10 guests. The bedrooms are warm and inviting with plaid linens, wood paneling, and cheery outdoor decor. Rest easy thanks to three double beds and a sofabed and futon for extra sleeping options! Store skis, beach towels, and hiking boots in the spacious mud room, and keep outdoor gear fresh thanks to a washer/dryer.
Outside, the grounds are both rugged and inviting, offering horseshoe pits beneath a canopy of trees! Grab a book from the library or light an early morning fire in the pit to make cowboy coffee. By afternoon, serve hot dogs and hamburgers on the gas grill for the Fourth of July. A picnic table by the barbecues, and by evening the firepit is a fun place to roast marshmallows!
The cabin is located on a bike path so little ones can let off some energy or you can ride as a group to the lake. You can even rent extra tubs or stand-up paddle boards in McCall at Home Town Sports. Book a whitewater rafting trip along the Snake River, or enjoy quieter afternoons hiking through Ponderosa State Park.
In winter, the fun continues with public snowmobile trails along Warren Wagon Road and Nordic groomed trails at Jug Mountain, both within 12 miles! Brundage Mountain Resort is 9 miles away and Tamarack Resort is only 25 miles. Both mountains showcase some of Idaho's best skiing and snowboarding.
Whether you've come for winter fun or lazy days at the lake, this Valley Country, Idaho vacation rental is the perfect place to spend quality time with family and friends!


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(PRWEB UK) 24 February 2015
Mobile devices are traditionally utilised in facilities management to provide timely information and required actions for FM engineers, such as where to go and what problem needs to be fixed.
More complex tasks generally require a visit to the site office, or for the engineer to be pre-armed with all the necessary documents and plans, piled into a bag. So it's not surprising to know that there is a growing appetite for engineers to have more detailed information that is easily accessible, and so, improving productivity.
In an article published on the RICS website, Les Pickford, former editor of the RICS Construction Journal and Mark Kirkham cover the following topics in their discussion.
View the full article - Improving productivity with mobile technology: http://bit.ly/1JtpWNQ
BIM and FM
Collaborative 3D Building Information Modelling (BIM) is required by the government on its project by 2016. The new information rich BIM business processes are intended to provide electronic files containing traceable information that is consistent with the original design.
Where a final build is not consistent with the original design, FM has needed to conduct its own survey to build an accurate asset database. BIM provides the ability to import the data into an FM system that engineers can access via mobile devices from day one.
The benefits of using mobile technology
The key benefits include:
- accurate real-time status of jobs
- remote engagement and
- collaboration and increased first visit fixes
The impact of not using mobile technology
Competing with FM operations that offer real-time systems that have an operational advantage will be difficult, staff retention could factor along with kit provision where the efficiencies of replacing devices over FM-specific kit is not realised.
Practical advice
The full article details practical advice on the following areas
- Strategy - Establish short, medium and long term strategies.
- IT Infrastructure - Consider the requirements needed for mobile technology, connectivity and off-line capabilities.
- Adoption - How will staff react, consider resistance & training. Will customers have access?
- FM System – Does your FM System accept BIM information
- Bandwidth – Consider the increased data usage any solution to mitigate bandwidth challenges.
Read More! The full article by Les Pickford in discussion with Mark Kirkham entitled; Improving productivity with mobile technology published on the RICS website here http://bit.ly/1JtpWNQ or find out more about the benefits of RICS membership for Facilities Managers here: http://bit.ly/1vl0y6h


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Performance seems to be a part of every DBAs job. It should be a part of every developer's job, but I understand the focus to build software is different and many developers aren't sure how much a feature or option they work on will be used. They don't think too much about performance because at small scales, perhaps performance doesn't matter a lot these days with multiple cores and many GB of RAM. I'd disagree with that, but I understand the perspective.
What's interesting to me is that in many interviews I've had over the years, I've not often been quizzed on specific scenarios that might help improve performance for queries. It seems many interviewers like to ask trivia questions such as the difference between a clustered and non-clustered index or what configuration knobs should I change. Code questions might be how to find duplicates in a table or deal with NULLs in aggregates.
I hope that's changing and more interviewers are giving candidates scenarios, and looking for ways to ensure that candidates think about performance. I hope someone asks how a candidate looks at an execution plan or structures code to remove RBAR concerns. I wondered about this since I chatted with someone recently that had been asked about covering indexes in an interview and was struggling to understand how a covering index might be different than a clustered, nonclustered, filtered, or other type of index.
This might seem like a trick question, and perhaps it is for some interviewers. After all, if you don't know, you might correctly guess what this means, but will you know this isn't a special type of index? Perhaps you'll try to bluff your way through the answer and hope you get close.
Answering interview questions should be a discussion, as your answer can reveal as much about how you work as it can about your knowledge. Do you probe to understand the boundaries of the question or confirm that you know what's being asked? Do you admit when you don't know something or perhaps reason out loud? Do you give details that make sense, or do you launch into a lecture?
In this case, you should understand that this index covers a query. This isn't a type of index, but rather a characteristic of an index against a particular query (or set of queries). To learn more, you might want to read a bit about adding included columns or how to evaluate your choice. If you don't know much about indexing, get started with an introduction or go through our Stairway to Indexing.
Future versions of SQL Server will include automatic index tuning, but I think we'll always need to balance the number of indexes we have. We'll also often want to build some indexes that will ensure the system works fairly well when it's first installed. That means data professionals (DBAs ans developers) need to understand how indexes work and ensure they can choose a good index most of the time.


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11 Putting Drills to Improve Your Birdie Game
These putting drills will improve that hard to catch birdie. If you're looking to [...]
Putting is a relaxing form of exercise that increases mobility, reduces stiffness, and keeps the joints limber. Plus, it requires more walking than you might think!) In addition to the physical benefits of this hobby, Golf is well-known as a sport of the mind – You need to focus and concentrate, watching the ball glide along the green towards the hole. Regularly exercising your brain and learning new skills helps seniors maintain memory and problem-solving capabilities.
You'll find a putting green in each of our assisted living communities and Alzheimer's and dementia care communities. Putting is an excellent sport for seniors with dementia-related illnesses and many studies highlight interesting research with powerful results. A few reasons include a golf swing relies heavily on muscle memory, the activity takes place outdoors, and unlike most sports golf does not require reaction-time. You can play at your own pace, successfully.


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The Lewis gun is a British machine gun.
The Lewis gun was originally designed by an American colonel named Isaac Newton Lewis, but it was not adopted by the American military. Ultimately it was licensed built in the United Kingdom, and the gun saw extensive use by the Allied Powers in World War I. Although the Bren light machine gun replaced the Lewis gun for infantry use in the British army, the Lewis gun still saw active front line service by other Commonwealth forces as well as other roles such as anti-aircraft defense. Furthermore, the Japanese adopted the design for rear gunners in a number of aircraft as the Type 92 machine gun (though it is not to be confused with the heavy machine gun of the same name).
In Battlegroup42, the Lewis gun is available as the primary weapon for the Australia assault class. It is also available as a pickup kit for the French and Dutch forces in some maps.
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27 décembre 2009
Selection of Cartier jewelry sold @ Sotheby's, Magnificent Jewels, New York
Ruby and diamond bracelet, Cartier, Circa 1925. photo Sotheby's Cushion-shaped and oval rubies weighing a total of approximately 62.00 carats, accented by half-moon-shaped, round, single-cut, baguette and epaulette-cut diamonds weighing a total of approximately 9.60 carats, mounted in platinum, length 6 inches, signed Cartier, numbered 7223. Est. 200,000—300,000 USD - Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 590,500 USD NOTE: Accompanied by AGL report no. CS 40639 stating that the rubies are of Burmese origin; Heat... [Lire la suite]
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Pearl and diamond brooch & Quartz, coral and cultured pearl brooch, Buccelatti, 1960s
Pearl and diamond brooch, Buccelatti, 1960s. photo Sotheby's Of spray design, set with baroque pearls of grey tint and lasque-cut diamonds, the leaves of textured two tone gold, signed Buccellati, case. Est. 4,000—6,000 GBP. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 4,750 GBP Quartz, coral and cultured pearl brooch, Buccelatti, 1960s. photo Sotheby's Set with a mixed-cut smokey quartz to a surmount designed as a stylised scallop shell decorated with a coral branch and articulated cultured pearl drops of various tints,... [Lire la suite]
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Manfred Menz "Invisible Asia" @ AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles
Manfred Menz, ATOMIC-BOMB-DOME-2, Hiroshima, 2008 AndrewShire Gallery is pleased to present Invisible Asia, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Manfred Menz whose recent photographs of internationally known Asian sites and monuments carry the memory of critical events in world history. The exhibition will consist of thirteen digital photographs representing regions in Asia where international struggles have been memorialized through monuments and landmarks. Menz traveled to Japan and Korea to photograph these... [Lire la suite]


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From room hire waivers for sporting groups and school formals to sponsoring special fundraising events, Club Central is proud to have supported the Menai District with more than $42,000 in 2018/19.
Club Central and its staff also take part in a range of fundraising events throughout the year and with the assistance of members and their guests, have raised funds for worthy causes. A full list of organisations that benefited from a donation or room hire waiver from Club Central is available here.
Here's how we've been supporting good causes over the past 12 months
St Vincent De Paul Christmas Food Drive
For the many families struggling to make ends meet, Christmas can be a stressful time. Thanks to the generosity of members and staff we were able to donate enough Christmas food items to make over 150 Christmas hampers which were distributed in the Menai and Hurstville areas by St Vincent De Paul.
These special Christmas hampers were designed to help struggling families enjoy a special day with the traditional Christmas treats and food that we can take for granted. Our heartfelt thanks to those who made the donations as well as those who packed and distributed them.
Sutherland Shire White Ribbon Walk
We recruited a number of staff who gave up their time to walk for a cause at the Sutherland Shire White Ribbon Walk. Together we said NO to violence against women.
It was great to be a part of the event and join together with the community to take a stand against domestic violence.
Movember Support
Our staff threw their support behind Movember and had a fantastic time taking Mo-selfies at our selfie station, as well as encouraging patrons to join in.
We collected donations and raised awareness of men's health.
Clubs & Community Award Finalist
We are honoured to be named a finalist for the ClubNSW , Clubs & Community Awards! The Awards recognise the outstanding social contributions made by clubs in their local area and throughout the state.
Club Central Hurstville: Disability, Welfare & Social Inclusion Award Finalist, for our work with Hobbies for Health & Wellbeing of Chinese Migrant Women
Club Central Manai: Health & Wellbeing Award Finalist for our support of the 'Get Stuffing for Breast Cancer' campaign, #DignityDrive & Project Youth.
Supporting Struggling NSW Farmers
With over $6,000 donated by patrons and staff, Club Central added to the amount and donated $19,000 to Rural Aid and Buy A Bale for struggling NSW Farmers.
This is enough to send two semi-trailers of hay to farmers doing it tough in the drought.
Showing support for Rare Disease Sufferers
The Club Central team joined forces and dug deep to raise funds for Rare Voices Australia on behalf of the partner of a staff member who suffers from a rare condition. Not only did staff donate cash, they also participated in the Sutherland 2 Surf and held morning teas to raise over $2,600 for the Australian charity.
Club Central Staff Dig Deep for Biggest Morning Tea
On Thursday 24 May, Club Central Menai staff held a hugely successful Biggest Morning Tea for staff to raise funds for the Cancer Council. Not only did staff contribute delicious morning tea, they also donated and raised in excess of $300. The lovely members enjoying Bingo also joined in and made generous donations, taking the total raised to more than $400.
Superheros for Muscular Dystrophy
We celebrated National Superhero Day with a special superhero slime making event and face painting to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy Australia. Our staff dressed up as their favourite superheros to show their support.
Supporting ANZAC Day at Parc Menai
Club Central staff joined with the community to commemorate ANZAC Day at a ceremony in Parc Menai, which we also proudly sponsored.
The #Dignity Drive for Share the Dignity
Our staff were generous supporters of the #DignityDrive in April, kick starting our collection of sanitary items for Australian charity, Share the Dignity by donating items in the lead up to the April Dignity Drive. The donations are provided to women experiencing homelessness or financial crisis, often as a result of domestic violence.
Our Menai collection box was also well supported during the month of April with a fantastic result reported by the Share the Dignity volunteers who collect the donations. A total of 191 items were donated to help afford women the dignity that we all take for granted.
World's Greatest Shave – The Leukaemia Foundation
There were plenty of staff and patrons who were brave and shaved or coloured their hair to support the World's Greatest Shave.
A special shout to Tamara from Hair Pinns, who did a fabulous job with all the shaves and colours and donated her time to support this great cause.
Club Central Supports Amelie House – Women's Refuge
Club Central is proud to provide ongoing support to Vinnies – Amelie House who assist with women and children escaping domestic violence. During May and June our loyal members and great staff donated new linen that will be used in relocating residents from Amelie House as they set up their life free of violence in the home. Thanks to all who supported this initiative. We look forward to providing further assistance in the future. If you or someone you know might need assistance in this space please contact Link2Home on 1800 152 152, the Domestic Violence Line on 1800 656 463 or through our Central Intake Line on (02) 9560 2656.


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2012 to now: an English teacher of Shitong Foreign Language School. Got the titles of "Excellent Teacher" during the training session of Ma Cheng English which was held in Beijing in 2013. She is a gentle, kind and generous person. And she is very good at communicate with students and have got students' love. She thinks that it is worth to pay her integrity and efforts for teaching her students. As a teacher, she sincerely feels that education is not only a job, but also a career which can influence people for their lifetime.
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OMV CEO: Insider-process on January27
Published: December 2, 2010; 12:53 · (Vindobona)
While the trial date for the CEO of OMV has already been set, many leading personalities express their trust in an open letter.
OMV CEO: Insider-process on January27 / Picture: © Flickr / European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentThis article includes a total of 251 words.
The Vienna public prosecution has confirmed the trial date against the CEO of the Austrian oil and gas group OMV. The indictment was made on November 17 on the grounds of previous investigations conducted by the Financial Market Authority (FMA); the process starts on January 27, 2011.
The accusation is insider trading based on the purchase of a stake of € 632,000 in March 2009…
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It is time, don't you think? For some real comfort. For some beautiful self-care of our weary overstressed souls. To do something just for ourselves. Something that takes us back to a simpler time in our lives…..
What if we celebrated the brave act of….taking a break?
What if simplicity, comfort, and quiet were the goal?
What if there really was a way to quiet the chatter in our minds and let us recharge our body & soul?
And what if it was fun, too?
Well, guess what, I have just the ticket for you!!!!!! A GIVEAWAY for the new upcoming online course….
Soul Comfort is a fresh new concept using art and journaling as a means to relax and comfort yourself and to get grounded while dealing with the craziness of every-day living.
This course if full of beautiful projects to fuel your creativity in very simple and easy ways that are meditational and relaxing , beautiful comforting things that will have your soul infused into them so that you want to keep them forever.
Melody (course creator and teacher) says, "I want to teach you some new habits of creativity mixed with simplicity that I have learned over the years. Being a recovering hoarder of supplies and techniques, this is really a new way to give yourself permission to do things simply but beautifully.
One of the most wonderful things about this course is that everything fits into one fabric tote bag . . . I wanted to create a whole course where all of the supplies fit into a tiny space so that you could take it everywhere you go…so that you could do it sitting on your bed, on your couch, with your family, do it with your children, in the car, wherever your day takes you. It's incredible. This has changed my life. This has been something that I have used on my own and I can't wait to share it with you."
If you know me, you know I'm a proud card-carrying member of the Brave Girls Club. The camp, the community, the online courses, the inspiration, ALL the GIRLS, and in particular Miss Melody and Miss Kathy, have opened my eyes and my heart to what is truly possible for me in this life. I cannot recommend this course to you enough. Just watching the videos brings me an enormous amount of COMFORT!!!! And I can tell you, as an Early Bird student of the Soul Comfort class, I am really REALLY loving the simplicity of having all the supplies in one tote bag!!! It's amazingly liberating. And easy and do-able.
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