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Engaging, retaining and co-creating IT
Engaging, retaining and co-creating IT
An Interview Cynthia Stoddard, Senior Vice President and CIO at NetApp
THE ENTERPRISERS PROJECT: Long-term retention is a huge issue in this high-demand IT market. How do you hold onto star performers?
STODDARD: It's a challenge, definitely, because it's a very competitive market right now in a lot of different areas, especially in the Silicon Valley. Interestingly we had a couple of people recently leave the organization, but some of them have come back because the grass isn't necessarily greener on the other side of the fence. That's been good to see. And it's been good for the organization to see that folks are coming back.
THE ENTERPRISERS PROJECT: What do you think drew them back to NetApp?
STODDARD: I think they expected something different when they left, and in coming back I think they are returning to what they believe is a more dynamic organization than what they went to. This is a place where they feel they can grow their careers. I really feel that having a voice and being able to contribute to what IT is going to be in the future is very, very powerful, and we practice that here. The whole "co-creation of our future" concept we follow in IT means people can speak up about how we should move to a service mindset, for example, or suggest some simple things we can do to become more productive. And it's not just sharing your ideas, it's how we act on them so often times they see their ideas come to life. That's really powerful.
THE ENTERPRISERS PROJECT: Can you talk a bit more about the co-creating IT idea?
STODDARD: I have this concept when I look at the strategy and how we're evolving IT- I say we're co-creating the future. Some organizations tend to be top-down- They say this is the vision, this is the approach and everyone should follow. I like to use the phrase and the techniques of co-creation instead. So ideas can come from all levels of the organization: from my leadership team, from the first-level managers, or from the grass roots of the organization.
Another critical point is that we try to get the whole organization to really have a vision. I think that people operate and feel better in this type of environment because they feel that they can really make a difference. If your people are off wondering what the direction is, it's harder to focus and really make a contribution.
Cynthia Stoddard is the senior vice president and CIO at NetApp. In her role as CIO, she is responsible for providing a long-term technology vision that supports and is aligned with the company's strategies and goals, business plans, operating requirements, and overall efficiencies. She has over 25 years of business experience and IT expertise leading large global organizations in supply chain, retail, and technology companies.
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A steaming bowl of potato soup definitely qualifies as comfort food, particularly on a cold winter day. Depending on its ingredients, it can be a healthy addition to your diet or it can add unwanted fat and calories. By learning to recognize the difference between healthy and unhealthy ingredients in potato soup, you can be sure yours is worth eating.
Commercial Potato Soup
You can eat commercial soups as is, or add additional potatoes and other ingredients. Unfortunately, many canned soups contain preservatives and excessive sodium. Health food sections of many supermarkets stock boxed soups that contain organic ingredients and no preservatives. However, they may still be high in sodium.
Homemade Potato Soup
You control the ingredients in homemade soup. The basic ingredients of potato soup are potatoes, milk, butter, herbs and spices. Beef or poultry stock is sometimes used. To make a healthy soup, use low-fat or soy milk. Reduce or eliminate butter; use bouillon cubes instead of stock. Experiment with herbs and spices to achieve a flavor you like without the use of sodium.
Nutritional Value of Potatoes
The University of Illinois Extension says a white potato measuring 2 inches by 4 3/4 inches contains approximately 145 calories, 33.6 grams of carbohydrates and 3.5 grams of protein. The protein is incomplete, meaning it does not contain all essential amino acids. Potatoes are a good source of vitamin C, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and niacin. Nutrient amounts vary depending on the type of potato.
Nutritional Value of Milk
One cup of milk -- the other main ingredient of potato soup -- supplies approximately 8 grams of complete protein and 12 grams of carbohydrates. Milk is a good source of B-12 and riboflavin. It also supplies approximately 300 milligrams of calcium, which is a third of an adult's daily requirement; most is fortified with vitamin D to help calcium absorption. Except for fat and calories, nutrient values vary only slightly with differences in fat content.
Nutritional Value of Soy Milk
Soy milk can replace some or all of cow's milk when making potato soup. One cup contains approximately 7 grams of complete protein and 4 grams of carbohydrates. The fat content of 4.5 grams is slightly more than the 3 grams in low-fat milk. Fortified versions of soy milk usually contain vitamins E, B-12, D and calcium.
Healthy Additions
Increase the nutrition, flavor and appearance of potato soup with additional ingredients. Spinach provides vitamins A, C, E, K and several B-vitamins, along with calcium, manganese, magnesium and potassium. Boil spinach for one minute, then chop and add just before serving to avoid a greenish cast to the soup. Cook shredded carrots with the soup to provide vitamins A, C, K and B-vitamins, as well as several minerals. Antioxidants in vegetables are responsible for their color, so add any brightly colored vegetables that appeal to you for an antioxidant boost, flavor and eye appeal. Finally, instead of topping a bowl of potato soup with bacon bits, top it with crumbled cooked soy bacon. The flavor is nearly identical to bacon, but without the saturated fat.
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Battle Born Krav Maga was formed to deliver the most effective self-defense system in its purest form. Although we operate in a positive and supportive environment, we take a serious approach to our students' training because in many cases Krav Maga may save your life one day.
As a Krav Maga Global (KMG) Affiliate, Battle Born is the leader in self-defense. Our team of skilled instructors are required to go through rigorous KMG instructor courses, which is a 3 part (180 hour) course and have to be certified by Master Eyal Yanilov, the founder of KMG, or members of the Krav Maga Global team. Battle Born instructors are required to be exceptional in their practice of Krav Maga, but also in their personal conduct and teaching skills because confidence in each defense is just as important as the defense itself. Our mission is and always will be to provide the highest level of training and the best possible experience for every Battle Born student.
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Krav Maga is a reality-based system that uses simple principles and instinctive movements to teach you to defend yourself in the shortest possible time. First and foremost, it is about safety. Krav Maga is specifically designed to keep you safe in any situation.
Just because you aren't a world-class fighter, doesn't mean you can't train like one! Krav fitness is a mixture of endurance training, circuit training and using easy-to-learn techniques such as punches and kicks. This mixture of exercises and striking will give you the tools to better defend yourself and help you progress in your training.
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In the heart of Budapest, the most central European capital, within walking distance to shopping, business and entertainment areas, the new Eurostars Budapest Center enjoys the prime Budapest city location. The Eurostars Budapest Center has its roots in the traditions of the old Roman city of Aquincum, of the ancient hungarian people and the greatness of the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire; and in the innovation of present-day Hungary, a society which has found the way to position itself with mastery in this era of globalisation: nowadays, this country is a top-rating tourist destination, and as a member of the European Union it attracts much business activity.
The Eurostars Budapest Center is a splendid luxury establishment, which was once a huge construction built in the Soviet era. But you will not even be aware of this because the building has undergone a transformation of such caliber that it now radiates innovation, modernity and comfort from every point of the compass. Come and try it for yourself!
A large number of the hotel rooms look out onto the spacious interior patio, which provides a relaxing space where resting from the day's work or from sight-seeing trips around the city.
Parking in the garage in Realtanoda street 10 is not included in the price and costs EUR 20,00 per 24 hours.
The Eurostars Budapest Center is a luxury venue where one can enjoy relaxing treats of sauna and gym. At the Eurostars Budapest Center we will do all we can for you but, please don't ask us to make the Danube blue again!
Number of rooms: 175 rooms
Arrival time: 2 pm
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Breakfast time: 06:30 – 10:30 weekdays - 07:00 – 11:00 Saturday and Sunday
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- Being able to relish in an excellent goulash without having to leave the hotel
- Taking an evening stroll along the Danube
Three meeting rooms are located on the first floor, measure between 45 m² and 142 m², can be joined or divided.
All meeting rooms have natural light, and some of them boast views over Budapest, bringing added value to your event.
Meeting rooms are totally soundproofed and have Wi-Fi connections to free Internet. We also offer the option of renting state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment. Our Operation team will constantly monitor your event to ensure that it is a success.


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Role of Mobile apps design & development company in Business World
Running a business in a competitive world is a major issue. In order to meet the consumer's attention you need to promote your business products and it's services. Today, it become easy for the companies that they can easily connect with their clients through Internet services. To promote business through Internet services people need professional web design and development companies.
Through Internet service small or large business can promote their own products and services as a brand. However, today mostly consumers depend upon mobile phones that shows constant change in the market and technology and it become difficult for the small business to survive in this kind of environment.
Today for the small business mobile apps become an solution through which they can promote their business. So, it's very cost-effective way for the companies to reach their clients by building their own business mobile application. Mobile app is good in social media, business communication, emails, fax, surfing and many more. So, It is important as a business point of view to develop mobile friendly website.
How Mobile Application help you to promote your business…??
Responsive Design – Mobile marketing also depends upon design of website. It's important for the business purpose that the website must be responsive which means it will automatically adjust the layout and content of the website depending on the device.
Mobile Friendly Apps – Today it is necessary to have mobile friendly website for a web surfers because mostly people love to use mobile phones. If user visit your business site through mobile and the website is not mobile friendly then users get frustrated, it will impact on your business.
No Barrier In Promotion – Though mobile app you can directly reach to your customer and it's easy to accessible to anyone who want your products and it's services. Mobile app are a great solution for a company to reach and communicate with clients.
Role of Social Media – As per increasing trend of social media it become important for business point of view to promote themselves on social media sites because people like to spend their most of the time on social sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc) . These social media sites are easy and right way to connect with people.
Customer Engagement – Today mobile become an important part of our life and people like to download the mobile apps. Once your app is downloaded and installed on a customer device, then he can use your app anywhere anytime. If customer have any query about your products or services then they can reach you directly.
The demand of Mobile apps development company is still increasing and it means an opportunity for the small and large business to develop there mobile app and improve their branding. No matter what kind of business you are doing a mobile app allow you get and retain customer.


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With its share of the Internet search market in steady decline and its pursuit of an alliance with Yahoo in doubt, Microsoft is taking a new approach to jump-starting its search engine: offering rebates to people who use it to find and buy some products.
Microsoft executives said the program, called Live Search cashback, is part of a plan to come up with new approaches to areas of the search business where they see opportunities to make inroads against Google, the market leader.
The new program focuses on searches for products to be bought online, which Microsoft executives said account for roughly a third of search queries and a majority of search advertising revenue.
"This is a very big part of the $20 billion search market," said the chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, at an advertising conference run by the company. "Make no mistake, we are about having the best search, having the best results."
Some innovations in the business model of search, like Live Search cashback, "will help drive that," he said.
Live Search cashback is essentially a marketing effort by Microsoft to promote its search service, which lags far behind those of Google and Yahoo in popularity. On Wednesday, the research firm comScore reported that Google's share of all searches in the United States grew once again in April, to 61.6 percent, from 59.8 percent in March.
Google gained at the expense of Yahoo and Microsoft, which experienced declines in search share, Yahoo to 20.4 percent, Microsoft to 9.1 percent.
Google has put marketing dollars into some of its services, but it has managed to dominate in search while spending virtually no money to promote its search engine. Google declined to comment on the Microsoft announcement.
Microsoft said that 700 merchants offering more than 10 million products have agreed to participate in the program. They include Barnesandnoble.com, Circuit City, eBay, Foot Locker, Home Depot and Hewlett-Packard.
"It is a great opportunity for buyers who come to eBay," said Matt Ackley, vice president for Internet marketing and advertising at eBay. "And it is all about driving demand for our sellers."
EBay is one of the largest buyers of search advertisements on Google and other search engines. Mr. Ackley said that if Microsoft's program was effective, eBay might shift some of its advertising dollars to Microsoft from Google.
In most cases, Microsoft will determine the amount of the rebate that shoppers will get. On a Samsung digital camera that costs $90 to $107, rebates range from 2 percent to 5 percent.
"Microsoft's issue is lack of consumer share," said Bryan Wiener, the chief executive of 360i, a digital marketing agency that specializes in Internet search. "This is an interesting effort to try to motivate consumers to use Microsoft without cheapening the process.
"Will the incentives be enough?" he said. "Time will tell."
As part of the program, Microsoft is also unveiling a new business model that allows search marketers to pay for ads only when people buy a product, rather than when they simply click on an ad.
Microsoft said this so-called cost-per-action model would give advertisers more precise returns on their marketing budgets. Google already offers a program that allows advertisers to tailor their bids on keywords based on the number of actions, or conversions, they get.
Microsoft also said that it had integrated Farecast, a travel Web site that Microsoft acquired in April, into Live Search cashback. The Live Search cashback service was built on technology developed by Jellyfish, a start-up that Microsoft acquired in 2007.


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Hi Folks,
We know many of you are waiting anxiously for the Android M update on the Note 5 & S6/Edge devices. The update was delayed because of a bug Samsung discovered during testing.
We will post a revised timeline once the OEM submits a new build.
Hi Folks,
We know many of you are waiting anxiously for the Android M update on the Note 5 & S6/Edge devices. The update was delayed because of a bug Samsung discovered during testing.
We will post a revised timeline once the OEM submits a new build.
I understand the circumstances arise that cause updates to be pushed back, but there is no reason for the amount of delays in this case. Going from March 9 to 13 to 16 to 25 is simply unacceptable. I would be perfectly fine with a later date, say if the 16th had been the first date announced. In that case the delay to the 25 would of been hard, but acceptable. How this has been handled with the update being pushed back in the middle of the day, and no explanation is unacceptable.
Unfortunately, for those of you who may not be aware, pushing updates is not as simple as copying a file to a server and pushing a button.
Once Google provides the updated code to the phone maker, they go through it with fine toothed comb, add in their specific add-ons (except Nexus) then test and test and test. When they feel it's ready, they push to each of their OEM's like Telus, Rogers and Bell. All of this is controlled by Country obligations (India got M first, no idea why but they did), regional OEM (AT&T, Telus, Orange etc) and by things like volume sales and so forth.
Once Telus gets their hands on it, they go through it with fine toothed comb, add in their specific add-ons (except Nexus) then test and test and test (again). If anything comes up, it's back to square one. Fix it, then then test and test and test. Now imagine that this has to happen for ALL the devices that are identified as recipients by the manufacturers (HTC, LG, Samsung, Kyocera, etc). Resources are not limitless (although that's a seperate arguement altogether).
Now that all the testing is done, the scheduling begins, again perhaps the contractual obligations come into play (or not) however each scheduled device has a deployment date (usually includes a claw back period in case something nasty comes out that wasn't found in testing. Rare but it happens). And each device goes through the process.
So, for all of you raising concerns about why a device date was missed by a day or two or telling a service provider to "get your freakin act together", realize that you are part of a much larger project and your specific device may or may not be high up on the global deployment plan. Nobody is going to die if the upgrade takes a day or a week or a month longer. Chill out and be surprised when it does arrive. Just like Xmas only better.
Rogers and Bell are in the same boat. No release date. Samsung is well known for delaying updates because of bugs. Rogers doesn't even have a scheduled release date listed for any Samsung device currently.
Maybe Telus should reset the date to coming soon. People like myself are frustrated because our expectations are being poorly managed. Better just to get a surprise update on our screens and have iphone guys joke about the poor schedule of updates on Android phones than to be resetting dates again and again and again and again. If we have a note 5 we have a premium device and are paying premium dollars for our plans. We expect and deserve better than this.
I agree with Paul. Since TELUS or Samsung are having problem delivering updates per their schedules, they should just say "Coming soon", or abandoning the whole concept of having a schedule. I do also understand that things don't always go as planned, but when you're pushing back an update for the THIRD time, don't embarass yourself by giving another date. People will just stop believing...
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Hello Neighbours!
We know you're eagerly awaiting this update and definitely hear you.
While we try our best to ensure updates align as closely to the target date as possible, circumstances can sometimes arise that might see these dates being pushed back or delayed altogether.
We spoke to the product team about the current status and the good news is that the update is still happening - March 25th, tentative - while the bad is that it's been slightly pushed back from the original target.
If we receive any further news regarding this update, we'll share it with you here!
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With all repect there needs to be a date set and stick to it with a working update. This is the fourth change of date for this Note 5. First the 9th, 13th, 16th and now MAYBE the 25th. This is frustrating. No one can say this update was fine yesterday and not working today. I don't believe it will happen the 25th at this point. I don't know if it a telus issue or a Samsung issue, but it seems someone doesn't have their act together and it reflects poorly on both.
Actually, Paul333 yes, they can. Samsung may have found something, another vendor may have found something, all sorts of reasons why.
This is ridiculous. I bought a Nexus 6 cause it gets updated quickly. Then a warranty issue pops up and I'm sent the Note 5. It's a nice phone but cripes I had a Nexus cause I liked the updates and now you guys can't get your act together. It's total bs. How the heck do you delay the release again on the day it's set to roll out and you wait till 5pm to announce that. Get your freakin act together!
What's the point of this page if the dates displayed are meaningless. Earlier today the note 5 showed due to receive marshmallow today. Now it's been pushed back once again to the 25th. Might as well put coming soon to all of them.
I agree with you @silentace7. Still waiting too. Come on telus
Any word on exactly when on the 16th the note 5 marshmallow update is supposed to hit...? 3:30 pm and still waiting...


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Age Of Japan
Age of Japan is a game of skill and bubble game, in which the objective is to clear away as many of the same motifs as possible. You can choose between the arcade mode and the puzzle mode. In Age of Japan, you have to always create a row with the same items. To do this, you click on an object and swap it with a click on the adjacent object. When a row has been completed, it is removed from the game and new items show up. The graphics takes you as a player back to ancient Japan. The sounds of Japanese harps put you in a good mood and help you with your concentration. If the many levels in Age of Japan are not enough for you, then you get the game as a complete version for your PC. The first level is complete when you have earned the appropriate number of points. There are always a few objects that are enclosed in a glass casing and that must be destroyed. The game is a great pastime for in between and for your breaks and you need a high level of comprehension as well as concentration. But all of this can be trained with the game Age of Japan. The more often you play the game, the faster you will recognize the related items and quickly arrive at the solution of a problem. This helps you, of course, not only in the game, but also in everyday life. The Japanese are known for their high ability to focus and you will achieve just that as well. The game is just great.


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Animations a hit at Sydney International Animation Festival
Jason Japaljarri Woods and David Slowo have just got back from the Sydney International Animation Festival (24-26 September 2010). My Name is Danny was one of the opening films of the Festival and was warmly received by the Festival participants. The Festival was a great experience for Jason and David being able to not only bring to the participants of the Festival the unique perspectives of desert animation but also being able to view great animations from other indigenous communities.
The Festival also gave a chance for Jason to catch up with Ben Rayner, our first animation trainer for the Animating Jukurrpa project. Thanks Ben for the tour of the Dr D studio.
Jason and David were interviewed by SBS's Living Black and we hope to see them soon on our screens.
Thanks to Deb Szapiro from UTS for her support and help in PAW Media being involved in the Festival.


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This beautiful, light grey sofa is made from the softest velvet you have ever felt and is a real eye-catcher. This 3.5-seater sofa comes with two matching decorative cushions. Shading or polar circulations of this velvet fabric causes differences in colour, you can see that the poles of the fabric are not entirely in the same direction, which gives it a beautiful, lively look.
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To improve security, a single Bonfire account can now no longer have multiple sessions open at the same time.
If you attempt to log into your account while another session is active on another device, the original session will end, and the below message will be displayed.
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Cape Mediation offers mediation training to individuals and organizations and conflict management training to businesses. Too often, people find themselves in the midst of a conflict, whether personal or in their organizations, without the necessary communication skills or an understanding of conflict management.
Our team is rich with engaging trainers who have a wealth of experience. We tap into their insights and capabilities to tailor workshops that address your specific needs.
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LONDON — The Bank of England stuck to its current policy of government bond purchases on Thursday as Britain's recession appears to be easing and hopes are running high for a sweeping move by the European Central Bank to ease the eurozone crisis.
Since the BoE's August meeting, a rebound in closely watched business surveys has fed hopes that the economy is crawling out of recession after three quarters of contraction, though the road to a proper recovery still looks bumpy.
After the two-day meeting that ended earlier on Thursday, the Monetary Policy Committee made no change to its current plan to buy 50 billion pounds of British government bonds, which will take its total purchases to 375 billion pounds by November.
The central bank also left its interest rate unchanged at the record low of 0.5%, in line with a Reuters poll of economists, who had all bet on an unchanged policy.
However, most expect the Bank to start another round of quantitative easing once the current round is completed in November to support an economy that has not fully recovered from the 2008-2009 slump and has been back in recession since late last year.
Attention will now turn to the European Central Bank's interest rate decision. ECB chief Mario Draghi is expected to announce the framework for a new bond-buying plan aimed at bringing Spain's and Italy's borrowing costs down.
The crisis in Britain's main export market has hurt demand and sapped businesses' confidence to invest, throwing up more hurdles to growth as the government pushes on with a tough austerity plan to erase a huge budget deficit.
The central bank and most other economists see a tepid recovery as inflation falls back towards its 2% target.
But the debate among Bank of England's policymakers about the right amount and form of future stimulus may have been equally lively at the September meeting even after the departure of arch-dove Adam Posen.
Thursday's decision was the first for new rate-setter Ian McCafferty, who joins the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee from the Confederation of British Industry.
But the market may have to wait until the minutes of the latest meeting are published on Sept. 19 to find out how McCafferty's arrival has influenced the discussion.
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Bill's 64 Vette
This little 64 Vette belongs to a local Sonoma hot rodder, Bill Cotter. It had manual steering that was a bit too stiff, so he brought it to us to have it converted to a modern design power steering system, and to have a few other things cleaned-up and made better. Now this little cruiser steers great.
The original power steering systems these cars came with used a ram system. The system we installed on this little cruiser uses no ram and instead, uses a modern steering box like any typical later 60's, 70's and 80's GM cars had.


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Walk/Run with the Angels 2019
Mercer County Park – West Picnic Area
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Saturday, September 14, 2019
On-site registration 8:00 – 9:15 am
Walkers start at 9:30 am, runners start at 10:00 am
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It's time to get those running shoes out and register for this years walk/run and to start organizing your fundraising teams for this year's Walk/Run with the Angels 2019! Let's work together to make this years Walk/Run with the Angels the biggest and most memorable yet. Thank you in advance for continuing to support our efforts in assisting families and individuals seeking help in battling the disease of addiction.
2019 City of Angels 5K Run/Walk
Register for the City of Angels 5K Walk/Run with the Angels 2019 being held Saturday, September 14, 2019.
Location: Mercer County Park – West Picnic Area, West Windsor, NJ -GPS to 1050 Hughes Dr, Hamilton NJ 08619.
Amenities: Post race refreshments, t-shirts for pre-registrants, testimonials from recoverees, special guests & more.
Course: Relatively flat course thru scenic park trails, paved. Large on site, free parking.
Registration: On-site registration 8:00 – 9:15 am. Walkers start at 9:30 am, runners start at 10:00 am. Online registration at Click Here to Register
Prizes: Awards to top male & female overall and top 3 finishers in each age group (14 & under, 15 – 19, 20 – 29, 30 – 39, 40 – 49, 50 – 59, 60 – 69 and 70+). Officially timed
Entry fees: $25 advance registration; $30 race-day registration.
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Mercer County Park – West Picnic Area
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Saturday Sept. 14th 2019
We need your help. The City of Angels has helped hundreds of addicted community members for over a decade. Like never before the call for help is at an all-time high. More and more people we know are addicted to opiates and other drugs. We have trained hundreds of Recovery Coaches helping hundreds of people. Your donation is needed more than ever before. Your sponsorship will be noted throughout the event.
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Internet Censorship Essay, Research Paper
Everyone has heard of the Internet and how it is going to help set the world free. The Internet is the fastest growing form of communication and is becoming more and more commonplace in the average American home. Companies these days do big business over the Internet, and online shopping has grown tremendously in the last few years. For instance, the online auction site eBay sells millions of items every year online. Many companies are making even more plans to expand their business to the Internet. Wireless, borderless communication and the uninterrupted flow of information have been promised to bring democracy, education, and culture to every corner of the world with a phone line. Unfortunately, there have been numerous attempts lately to censor the Internet in the name of decency. If the Net is controlled, regulated, restricted, or censored in order to keep it clean, it will have severe effects on its capabilities and potential.
In recent years, America and other leading countries economies have become increasingly dependent on the need to instantly move large amounts of information across long distances. Computerization has changed everyone s life in ways that were never before imagined. The global network of interconnected computers allows people to send electronic mail messages across the world in the blink of an eye and stay updated on world events as they happen; the world has become a much smaller place as a result of this global communication and exchange of ideas. There have also become thousands of online communities of people who share common interests through message boards, chat rooms, and electronic mailing lists (Wilmott 106).
At present, the Internet is the ultimate demonstration of the first amendment: free speech. Here is a place where people can speak their mind without being punished for what they say or how they choose to say it. The Internet owes its incredible worldwide success to its protection of free speech, not only in America, but also in countries where freedom of speech is not guaranteed. For some, it is the only place where they can speak their mind without fear of political or religious persecution ( Cyberchaos ).
The Net is also one of America's most valuable types of technology; scientists use email for quick and easy communication. They post their current scientific discoveries on online newsgroups so other scientists in the same field of study all over the world can know in minutes. Ordinary people use the Internet for communication, expressing their opinions in the newsgroups, obtaining up-to-date information from the WWW, downloading all types of media files, or just surfing for their own personal enjoyment.
The Internet can also be compared to a church. In many ways the Internet is like a church: it has its council of leaders, every member has an opinion about how things should work, and they can either take part if they choose to or sit back and watch everyone else. It's the choice of the user. The Internet has no president, chief operating officer, or Pope. Single networks or local Internet service providers (ISPs) may have presidents and CEO's, but that is different; there is no single authority figure for the Internet in general. As stated by Frances Hentoff in the article Indecent Proposal, "on an info superhighway driven by individuals, there are no cops preventing users from downloading" (Hentoff 1). Users of the Internet have the freedom to express anything they believe. The fact that the Net has no single authority figure creates a problem about what kind of materials should be available on the Net.
The largest controversy that surrounds regulating the Net deals with what type of broadcasting medium it should be considered. The Internet can be viewed in many different ways. It can be considered a carrier of common data, similar to a phone company, which must ignore what is broadcast for privacy reasons. Or, it can be considered a distributor and broadcaster of information, much like a television or radio station, which is solely responsible for what it broadcasts and has to conform to federal standards and FCC regulations for obscenity. This debate is at the core of the censorship matter. Obviously, the Internet is a carrier of information, and not a broadcaster, since it only provides the basic structure for information transfer and sharing. But this frustrates lawmakers. The current body of laws existing today in America does not apply well to the Internet. Is the Internet like a bookstore, where servers cannot be expected to review every title? Is it like a phone company who must ignore what it carries for privacy reasons and is not responsible for what is carried through its service? Or is the Net a form of broadcasting, like a radio or television station, in which the government can monitor, control, and regulate what is broadcast? The trouble is that the Internet can be all or none of these things depending on how it's used. The Internet cannot be viewed as one type of transfer medium under current broadcast definitions ( Muzzling the Internet ). One large difference that sets the Internet apart from a broadcasting media is the fact that one can t stumble across a vulgar or obscene site without first entering a complicated address or following a link from another source. There are exceptions, of course, but for the most part, if one wants to find dirty material on the Internet, one has to go out and look for it to find it. The Internet is much more like going into a bookstore and choosing to look at adult magazines than it is like channel surfing on television (Miller 75).
The Internet is a great place of entertainment and education, but like all places used by millions of people, it has some dark corners people would rather not have their children explore. Society as a whole generally tries to protect children, but there are no social or physical constraints to Internet surfing. For this reason, there have been numerous attempts at censoring the Net in the name of protecting children. One example is the Communications Decency Act of 1995.
The Communications Decency Act, also known as the Internet Censorship Act, was introduced in the U.S. Congress in 1995. It would make it a criminal offense to make
available to children anything that is indecent, or to send anything indecent with "intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass. The goal of this bill as written (though not as stated by its proponents), was to try to make all public material on the Internet suitable for young children. The bill would have made certain commercial servers that carry pictures of nudity, like those run by Penthouse or Playboy, be shut down immediately or face prosecution. The same goes for any amateur web site that features nudity, sex talk, or dirty language. Posting any dirty words in an online discussion group, which occurs often, could make one liable for a $50,000 fine and six months in jail. Even if a magazine that commonly runs some of those nasty words in its pages decided to post its contents on-line, its leaders would be held responsible for a $100,000 fine and two years in jail (Levy 78-79). Why does it suddenly become illegal to post something that has been legal for years in print? If it had passed, the bill would also have criminalized private mail. … I can call my brother on the phone and say anything – but if I say it on the Internet, it's illegal" (Levy 53).
This government attempt at censorship is just one example. There have been other attempts to regulate what is put on the Net, and most of the time, they aim to ban or outlaw online pornography, websites with racist ideas, or any other type of violent or offensive material that is not appropriate for children or politically correct. For example, there have been other bills introduced to the Senate in more recent years that would attempt to censor parts of the Internet. The Family-Friendly Internet Access Act of 1997, introduced by Representative McDade of Pennsylvania, would amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require Internet access providers to provide screening software for parents. A similar bill introduced by a California representative, Internet Freedom and Child Protection Act, would also require ISPs to provide filtering software to all subscribers ( Current Internet Censorship Efforts ). These are just a few examples of government attempts to regulate the Internet. However, it can be shown that censoring the Internet is impossible, as well as harmful to the free speech it provides to all its users.
It must be understood that censoring the Net is technically impossible. According to Julian Dibbel, "in principle, it is impossible to monitor all material being transmitted on the Internet. Considering the difficulties with international boundaries, a licensing system faces many obvious practical hurdles" ( Muzzling the Internet ). Also described by Dibbel, "Any good Computer Science graduate can create a completely secure encryption system for concealment purposes. The material can even be disguised, for example hidden 'inside' a perfectly innocuous picture" ( Muzzling the Internet ). Therefore, if a person wants to put offensive material online, he or she can design a formula to encrypt the material according to a key, and secretly tell other users what the key is. In this way, they can retrieve the same material and side step the government censorship.
Most Internet users are enjoying their freedom of speech on the Net, which is supposed to be protected by the First Amendment of the United States. It is believed by many that the Internet provides greater freedom of speech and press than anything before in our history. "Heavy-handed attempts to impose restrictions on the unruly but incredibly creative anarchy of the Net could kill the spirit of cooperative knowledge-sharing that makes the Net valuable to millions" (Rheingold). The freedom of idea expression is what makes the Internet important and enjoyable, and it should not be suppressed for any reason.
Additionally, only a very small portion of the Net contains offensive material. Most people do not use the Net for pornography. There is no doubt that porn is popular. But the Net is mostly being used for communication and information exchange, and only a tiny portion of the Net contains pornography and other offensive material.
While people are concerned about Internet pornography, it is true that it is often perfectly legal; for example, pornography is legal in video and magazines. Therefore, it is inconsistent to ban the Internet equivalents ( Legal Definition… ). According to Rheingold, "Citizens should have the right to restrict the information flow into their homes. They should be able to exclude from their home any subject matter that they do not want their children to see. But sooner or later, their children will be exposed to everything from which they have shielded them… " (Rheingold).
The Internet is definitely not the only medium for teenagers to find inappropriate material. If kids want to get a hold of dirty pictures or magazines, there are many other ways to find them besides the Internet. If the purpose of censorship is to prevent minors from being exposed to indecent material, not only the Net has to be censored. Censoring the Net will only eliminate one single medium for children to find this material. Government censorship is not the solution to the problem, and other measures that have the same effects as censorship can be used. For example, there are many various software programs that can be purchased or downloaded for free which block out web sites with offensive language or words. Programs such as Net Nanny, Cyber Patrol, and Net Watch can be set up by parents specifications to block access to websites that contain any key words (chosen by parents) or foul language that may be unsuitable for children. While these programs have many flaws (a completely appropriate website on breast cancer could be blocked), they are definitely a much smarter and fairer alternative to government censorship ( Parental Control Ware ).
To conclude, the Internet is one of the world s greatest assets to freedom of speech and expression, and it has the potential to bring education and better communication to every part of the world. All types of people, companies, and families use it, and its atmosphere of free speech and equality has made it hugely popular. However, government attempts to censor the Internet in the name of protecting children can only have harmful effects. Censoring the Internet will only contribute to stifling its freelance atmosphere and limiting its potential. It also has to be taken into account that indecent or pornographic websites only make up a tiny portion of the Net, and much pornography is legal. The solution to keeping kids from getting into inappropriate websites is to monitor their access, use filtering software, and teach them principles. Censoring the Internet can only be harmful to everyone else who uses it.


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Verizon Wireless (VZ) will drop the BlackBerry Storm's price 50% to $99, Information Week reports.
Why? Because the Storm's biggest rival, Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 3G, is now also $99 after subsidy.
And because the Storm has effectively been priced near $99 for several months, based on a buy one BlackBerry, get one free promotion that Verizon was running for weeks.
No word on how the cut will be shared between Verizon and Research in Motion, but both companies have good reason to keep the Storm moving:
- For Verizon, because it's the closest it can get to the iPhone, and because Storm subscribers are required to spend $30/month more than average subs on a data plan. (Most Storm buyers are new to the BlackBerry platform.)
- And for RIM, to tide people over while the company works on the Storm 2, which will likely launch this fall.
In the first quarter of 2009, the Storm was the third best-selling smartphone in the U.S., according to research firm NPD Group, following the BlackBerry Curve and the iPhone.


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Use coupon code: SEATOWN14 at check-out for 20% off your purchase. Good through 8/1/14.
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iOS Restrictions is build for the use case when you want to restrict usage of phone features when someone else is using your phone. It is very useful for example to restrict "In-App Purchases" while your kid is using your phone for some games.
You can however use Restrictions for yourself by hiding unused system apps from the home screen. For example to reduce web browsing time or you use primarily other browser, you can hide Safari. If WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger is your video chat apps, you can hide the FaceTime app. Or hide the Podcasts app and use one from third party developer. Sometimes disabling "In-App Purchases" for yourself is a good choice when self-control is not enough.
To use it, go to Settings app > General > Restrictions. Tap "Enable Restrictions" to switch it on, and iOS will prompt you for a passcode to access this settings.
Simply turn off the switch to disable the feature you want. Not all Apple apps are available for you to disable. If you like your home screen tidy, go ahead and hide some unused apps and features.


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Introducing From Anna's Kitchen
I'm excited to introduce my new project and blog: From Anna's Kitchen. Although marketing is my day job that pays the bills, food is my real passion. It's something I have dedicated much of my time writing about and doing for many years, with some of my first real experiences in the kitchen starting when I was just 5 years old when I would bake with my grandma when she would visit us from Florida. Creating From Anna's Kitchen is a natural evolution of where this blog, my personal blog ... Continue Reading


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A few years ago I read this question on a website: "Why is being unbusy never as good of an excuse as being busy?" The writer submitted that they are equally important. And I agree. There's a common misconception in the world, that unless […]Read More
Seeking God in the Small Moments: An Interview with Emily Freeman (Part 2)
Forgiveness and What It Means to be Biblically Submissive: An Interview with Sara Horn
Mercy and Grace During Infertility
G'Morning, God. Sorry, I'm In a Rush.
Are Your Friendships Producing Fruit?
Service: Love in Action
Choosing Grace Over Grudge
The Non-Bible-Thumper Guide to Sharing Your Testimony
Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough
God Doesn't Have Blurred Lines
Exclusive Free Book by Kay Arthur, June Hunt, and Others!
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An 11-Year-Old's Honest Letter to Sports Illustrated
How Lent Can Bring You Closer to God (Even If You Didn't Grow Up With It)
A Paralyzed Faith
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Giving Your Child a Heart For the World
5 Tips to Revive Your Prayer Life
6 Words That Shaped My Life
Life's Like a Spilled Box of Chocolates
5 Keys to Surviving Crisis as a Couple
When You Feel Lifeless
God with Skin On
God and Pregnancy Disappointments
When I Refocused My Gaze on God
Lost and Found: You Are Being Pursued
The Secret to Confident Parenting
The Lingering Love of Jesus
Be Still at 70 MPH
2 Tools to Help Kids Do Anger Better
When God Smiles: Joy in the Face of Trials
One Word for 2015
3 Not-So-Simple Steps to Help Your Children Succeed
The Treasure of Woman-to-Woman Friendships
The New Year's Fruit Diet
Are Your New Year's Resolutions Biblical? 3 Ways to Tell
Truly Accepting Things You Can't Change
And Jesus said, "Yes!"
Experiencing the Gift of Peace
A Box of Socks
The Gift of Meeting a Need (Part 2)
The Gift of Meeting a Need (Part 1)
A Mother's Heart
Early Morning Brave
When Willpower Isn't Enough
Trade Stress for Joy This Christmas
Why You Should Get Unbusy
Dancing Leaves: God's Spirit in Our Lives
Choosing an Attitude of Gratitude
Everyday Thanksgiving for Kids
What Gone with the Wind Taught Me about Marriage
God Used Depression to Set Me Free
The Benefits of Actually Knowing God's Word
How to Manage Doubtful Thoughts
Healing Where it Hurts: 3 Pieces of Advice
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Dancing Leaves: God's Spirit in Our Lives
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Oh, how I love this time of year. The vibrant colors, and smells of fall are just such a joy to my heart! While walking the other day, I noticed the bright orange and yellow fall leaves "dancing" on the ground all around […]Read More
Choosing an Attitude of Gratitude
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"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry." —Colossians 3:5 We live in a "stuff" driven world where it does not seem to matter how much we […]Read More
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Giving thanks is the star of Thanksgiving Day, but if that's the only time a family verbalizes what they are thankful for, it just isn't enough. Gratitude is something children learn best by watching it modeled in everyday life. A father can […]Read More
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Sat, 25 February 2017
Long week grinding in NYC followed up by a day trip to Denver. In this week's highlight reel we cover clips discussing 8th place trophies, the importance of self-esteem, our lack of empathy in society, and not giving a f*&k when it comes to negative comments on social media.
Direct download: Feb_17th-Feb_24thfinal.mp3
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Autism Analysis
autism has mundane introverted tendencies delineated by self accent.
each verbal limitation is ,as a mechanism for sharing thought, noticeable
during conversation. asking a possibility to present itself is not easily
determined. examples include conversation everyday settings, keeping
calm in a meeting, and answering direct inquiries.
only careful consistency in forming expectation can help ease difficult times.
dozens of earnest dilemmas are discovered when one learns of a change in
schedule. how are these dilemmas managed? algorithms are beneficial only if
they can accurately predict the future. as words can communicate, so too can
actions. yes, behaviors determine responses of each person. unlimited range of
responses become sufficient limitd sensory responses. animals invoke sentiment
nervously.anger supplants reason in novel potential circumstances.
traditions assure potable affirmation of environmental cues.
unquestionably, appropriate language develops simultaneously between the broca's
and wernike's area of brain. alternate neural pathways can form iun the interim. science
determined that thinking isnt correlated to new position of brain waves, rather,
it animates brocas area. multitudes of nebulous dendrites accentuate regions of cortex
not usually used. nowhere has intelligent discourse found a better answer for autistic
adult echolalia. behind all communication is deliberate meaning and
causal relationships abound between echolalia and language development.
why is reason vanquished at significant obsession? ocd circumscribes the spaces
of intellict arising in cellular language. amorphous circuitry has remembrance looped


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1. From the homepage, click on the "Students" tab on the left-hand sidebar.
2. This screen will display a comprehensive list of your students.
4. You can filter the results based on session and activity (the options are all sessions & activities, each individual session, and each individual activity), seat assignment (the options are all seating assignments, reserved, waiting list, application, invited, and denied), or enrollment status (the options are all students, past students only, current students only, future students only) using dropdown menus at the top of the screen.
4. You can also search for an individual student using the search bar on the top left part of the screen.
5. Once you find the student you are looking for, click the "View Details" button.
6. This takes you to the student's profile page, where you will find the student's registration data, including student information, student home address, emergency contact 1, emergency contact 2, and health information, as well as the student's activity information.


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Oh yes! Your crush finally sits next to you. Be cool. Just be cool. Don't let him know you have been stalking him for months and absolutely adore his dog biscuits. Try to make an impression with all your swagger, hair flipping like a diva and all. But no wait. It's back. Oh no, it's back. You had to get that horrible scalp itch right now! You try not to succumb to your discomfort. Unwillingly you reach out your hand to your scalp and *itch itch*. You get an awkward look from your crush. Game over.
Itching your head in public can be a total embarrassment. While the reasons for itchy scalp range from dandruff, dry scalp, sebaceous cysts, excessive anxiety, poor hair care, fungus, viral infections to poor diet, the remedies are even lesser known. Of course, if your condition is serious you can consult a dermatologist and shed a good few bucks, or you can resort to mother nature for some natural remedies.
Lemon juice
Lemon juice is truly the nectar of God. Its antiseptic properties help deal with itchy and dry scalp without any adverse side-effects. Lemon juice is also particularly helpful in dealing with dandruff. To avail its goodness, you can simply apply fresh lemon juice to your scalp directly. Leave it for five minutes and then shampoo your hair as usual. Dilute the lemon juice with some water if you don't have dandruff, because although the citric acid in lemon is mild, it can still damage your bare scalp. As an alternative, you can also mix lemon juice with some yoghurt and apply to your scalp, followed by a wash with a mild shampoo. Repeat daily and your dandruff should be gone in no time.
Baking soda
Another kitchen remedy that works like magic for itchy scalps is baking soda. It helps relieve itching by exfoliating the scalp. It also helps fight dandruff caused by overactive fungi. Rub some olive oil or coconut on your scalp and then apply baking soda by mixing it with some water and making it into a paste. Allow it to soak into your scalp for about 10 to 15 minutes and then rinse well with cold water. That should send your itchiness packing.
Aloe vera
Is there any end to aloe vera's might? Aloe vera known for its moisturising properties and can relieve excessive dryness and itchiness. It's best to use fresh aloe vera, but if unavailable, you can resort to retail aloe vera gel. You can massage the gel on your scalp with your fingertips and let it penetrate. Allow it to sit for around 10 to 15 minutes and then rinse your hair with a mild shampoo.


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These underwater images are to die for in premium quality print of arts which are part of our "In the Ocean Collection" by an American artist , Courtney Prahl,who's primarily focus is on the 3D arts that later translated to mix media collage.
As with all the wall prints on this site, this artwork is also available as a stretched canvas print, framed print or rolled canvas. We also offer a massive variety of sizes from extra large to small.


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"Are you busy?"
I'm sure it is my over-sensitive nature that feels like answering that question with sarcastic sweetness, "No, I am just sitting around snacking on bon-bons. What could I do for you?"
I'm not really unkind and I do love to help folks. I just resent the thought that a homeschooling mother is ever NOT busy. In fact, I am delighted to have control over our schedule and be able to readjust activities to help others. It is a part of the homeschool lifestyle that teaches all of us (children and adult) that life is about loving others. I am willing, and actually desire, to sacrifice my plans for God's plans, but I am not willing to de-prioritize our school time. It is a challenge most home educating families will encounter.
Establishing school as a priority and implementing boundaries to protect your schooling time are vital aspects of controlling your schedule. The telephone is not a crisis line—although sometimes crisis arise. Screening calls—and being upfront about that—is not rude. During our school year, our phone message typically states, 'If we are home and not answering, we are in the middle of learning. If this is an emergency, speak up and we'll change our plans. If it is not, we'll call you later.' There have indeed been times when school needed to stop—but not that many.
Drop-in guests are another common potential school de-railment. Even when I am not actively 'teaching' the children, guests are a distraction. Over the years we have chosen different ways to handle such interruptions. It has been our goal to remember that our home is truly the Lord's. It is His to use as He sees fit. That said, He is also the Superintendent of Schools. The responsibility of home education is not a small one. One welcoming but restraining way of enjoying guests is to state, 'Oh, it is good to see you. Come in. We are doing school, but we would enjoy taking a short break to chat with you.' Folks will usually sit but remain mindful that work is on hold during their visit. On very rare occasions, I found it necessary to clearly state time boundaries to drop-in guests.
There are certainly needs that will arise in your own family—and others—that will create time stressors on your homeschool. Some of our richest times came as we wove education into meeting those needs. Aging parents with medical appointments, friends with publicly schooled children who need help when emergencies arise…those are God-given burden privileges that we can embrace. Being a good time steward is a life lesson that will bear eternal fruit. Our homeschool days do not need bells to move us from activity to activity—but they need the guidance and peace of following the leading of the Holy Spirit! He is willing and able.
– Billie Jo


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6 Volt Battery Hack! Jews. Twin Peaks!!!! Courtney Love at her most intelligent ever! Blackwater, Dyncorp/Halliburton = evil. Wish I didn't have to take this seriously. Excellent taser article — videos included (schizocripple tased to death).
POLITICS: The scary thing is that I am taking this seriously: In case of martial law, break glass
MountainSentinel.com just posted an article about martial law, and what to do should it be declared.I know it's hard to take this kind of stuff seriously, but a contingency plan is seriously needed and everyone should read this. Sadly.
CORPORATIONS: Dyncorp/Halliburton sex slave scandal won't go away – Why do our tax dollars go to no-bid contracts for corporations that traffic in human beings?
What else can we assume,given recent revelations,cited in the Chicago Tribune that Halliburton subsidiary KBR, & Dyncorp lobbyists are working w/the Pentagon to stall legislation that would ban trafficking in humans for forced labor & prostitution?
MUSIC: Courtney Love does the math – her incredible speech to congress
This is Courtney Love at her most intelligent, ever. EVER.It's a damn good glimpse into the music industry, and exactly how it uses its leverage to screw musicains.
ABUSE OF AUTHORITY: schizophrenic wheelchair-bound woman dies after being shocked with taser 10 times – one officer shocked her 9 times for a total of 160 seconds — that's 17.7 seconds of inflicting pain on someone in a wheelchair. Times 9.
1) she's in a wheelchair
2) she's schizophrenic
3) using a Taser on a person that's in a wheelchair
4) they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutesI don't care if she was swinging a goddamn samurai sword around, this is overkill. Literally.
LIFEHACKS: 6 Volt Battery Hack! You'll Be Amazed! Video included. Basically, for $5 you can get a 6-volt battery, open it up, and have *32* AA-batteries.
Of course I use rechargeable batteries so this isn't quite as valuable to me. But all you short-term-thinking folks should really check this video out. CHEAP batteries.
SHOWS: David Lynch, Twin Peaks: Confessions of an Area 51 Employee
This is just confusing, but possibly has some revelations about Twin Peaks, the owls, Laura Palmer, and allegory used in Twin Peaks.I don't quite get the "hoax" angle.
Ian, what do you make of this??
ABUSE OF AUTHORITY / TECHNOLOGY WAR: The Tasering Will Continue Until You All Submit! – videos included
New taser technology allows cops to commit egregious abuses of authority and get away with it.This is a well-written article citing many examples, WITH VIDEO, of improper taser use — which seems to happen more often than proper taser user.
POLITICS: Jim Moran faces heat for comments on Jewish lobby – but he's probably right
The Jewish lobby definitely wants this war,& controls a disproportionate amount of global politics. I'm not anti-semite; my grandma was liberated from a Nazi labor camp by grandad. But the holocaust doesn't mean that anything bad said about Jews is false!
WAR IN IRAQ: Wounded Iraqis: 'No one did anything' to provoke Blackwater
Isn't it interesting that our government declared Blackwater employees immune from prosecution in both Iraq *AND* USA? They have a license to kill with impunity. They are corporate mercenaries; the type described in Blade Runner & other cyberpunk. Stop.


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Hi, My name is Trista, the blogger behind: A Purpose Driven Wife!
- Check out "30 Things about me" to learn more!
- The worst and biggest event in my life, read HERE!
I've been married, to a wonderful Marine for almost 12 years. Together we have 3 beautiful children. Pre-teen boy & girl twins and a 4-year-old girl. I'm passionate about my Faith as a Christian and encouraging women in their Journey through life. I LOVE to share my life, my walk with God, the ups and downs of the military lifestyle and the fun I have as a stay-at-home mom.
I first started my blog in 2009, as a way to share my love for my bath & Body Business I started and then God began to do a work in my heart and I completely changed the look and name of my blog from: Trista's Creations to A Purpose Driven Wife and from then on, I dedicated this blog to encouraging moms, military spouses and entrepreneurs in their everyday lives.
Proverbs 31:26 "She opens her mouth in skillful and godly Wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness [giving counsel and instruction]."
I experience a lot of things in life, deployments, I've written a book, I've owned a Bath & Body Business, I'm currently a student, perusing my degree in business, I'm also a YouTuber, Fitness Enthusiast, Podcaster and everything in between. As a mom, you take on many roles to make sure your family runs smoothly. In addition to pursuing the desires in your heart. As a Stay/work from home mom, I stay pretty busy, going to school, helping my kids with homework, cooking, cleaning, blogging, vlogging, On YouTube and I volunteer at my church. I LOVE every single thing I do and I do it with the help and grace of God.
Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
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Today we're following Book Country member Jessica Hawkins, contemporary romance author of The Cityscape series and the Night Fever serial), around San Francisco as she knocks an author signing event out of the park.
Today is my 5th author signing in 2 years, the San Francisco Golden Gate Author Event, which mostly consists of writers in my genre, contemporary romance, and its subgenres, like paranormal or YA. It doesn't start until late morning, so I squeeze in a coffee and few hundred words before I have to head over to the hotel.
Set up takes about half an hour & I've been assigned an assistant, who helps me construct my banner and lay out my books. (I've brought 8 titles, so it's harder than it looks to display them all.) Also on my table: my iPad, for my book trailer & mailing list, and to accept credit cards; tote bags, which are a great advertisement for an event like this; swag like rack cards, business cards, and buttons. Continue reading


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A few weeks ago, it looked as though some of my Ventura friends were going to be attending the Regional Adult Amateur Competition (RAAC), including Chemaine Hurtado, my occasional dressage trainer. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for them to come. I was a bit disappointed as I was really looking forward to a lesson on Friday night.
A different dressage friend, VG, did make it to RAAC, and she brought her trainer, Peggy Klump. Peggy was a California Dressage Society president, currently serves on the CDS board, and is a well-respected trainer. I asked VG privately if Peggy would be willing to give me an unscheduled lesson, and when she said she thought so, I asked, and the next thing I knew, I was getting some coaching after all.
VG rides First and Second Level right now, quite successfully, but is moving to Third and Fourth for next season. That little German Riding Pony can bust a move! VG won one of her RAAC classes and scored in the 70s for a second place in her other RAAC class while also earning high score for all Novice RAAC entries. Pretty darned good!
She gave me a lot of information, but the two things that I kept in mind during the show were her tips on improving my geometry (LOOK WHERE YOU"RE GOING!), and the idea of soft hands. This one was huge.
I hold a lot of tension in my wrists, so Peggy pointed it out and showed me what a soft hand can feel like. She actually grabbed my hands and tugged and pulled so that I could feel what was happening in Speedy's mouth. Her analogy was to think of a dental hygienist. Would I want her knocking on my mouth or using even pressure? Speedy responded immediately when I released the tension, which was enough of a motivator for me to begin implementation of soft hands ASAP.
Throughout all four tests, that soundtrack played repeatedly in the background of my mind … soft hands, soft hands, soft hands.


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Without them, we can't quite be sure if you're starting or stopping or slowing down, or quite where you're going.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Type Tweet: A Brief Lesson in Driving Grammar
6 comments:
- mpclemens said...
Well-put. I'm already instructing the future driver in our house. "Under no circumstance while driving should you ever rely on someone else's ability to read your mind."
- June 20, 2012 9:22 PM
- Bill M said...
And I wonder does the driver ignoring those basic items even know where they are going.
- June 21, 2012 12:51 AM
I don't expect most drivers to use signals. I just try to keep enough space between us to react in time.
I do use the old hand signals once in a while. Ninety-nine percent, or more, don't recognize them but it makes them pay attention and wonder what I'm up to.
Jeff The Bear
- June 21, 2012 6:25 AM
- Elizabeth H. said...
I'm not sure what the grammatical equivalent would be for those folks who drive for *miles* with their turn signals on without actually changing lanes or turning or anything, so you aren't sure if it's safe to go by them or what. It's kinda like using a period at the end of questions, I guess. Makes you do an irritated double-take.
- June 21, 2012 7:35 AM
- MTCoalhopper said...
Driving with turn signals constantly blinking may be the equivalent of writing all in capital letters. It initially gets your attention, but then you're really not sure whether they mean what they are saying.
- June 21, 2012 10:51 AM
- Elizabeth H. said...
Ha! That's exactly it--perfect!
- June 21, 2012 10:55 AM


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Martinez Junior High School:
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
By Harriett Burt
Part One Beginnings
Originally published in the May 2006 Martinez Historical Society News Letter.
Martinez Junior High School celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. For 75 years the school has been deemed worthy by the community to be built, made safe, improved, expanded, and changed. It has been more than a building to students, staff, and community. To find out how much more, just ask those who went there, who sent their kids there, who worked there.
Looking back to my arrival in 1962, I realize that I was hooked the minute I walked onto the campus at the intersection of Court and Warren streets and looked across the broad expanse of lawn and up at the stately Spanish style buildings with the decorative tile accents, the tile roof, the shrubs and trees placed all around with harmonizing beds of annuals and roses. The building was 31 years old that day and I was 22 and unknowingly adding my life to the flow of the town's past, present, and future as embodied in the "junior high."
In early 1929, both Martinez Elementary School on Henrietta Street (currently the City Hall) and Alhambra Union High School on E Street over looking Alhambra Avenue (formerly Smith Street) were bulging with 40 to 50 students in each class. In addition, students were housed in annexes on Alhambra Avenue (the current Boys and Girls Club of the Diablo Valley) and at Susana and Court streets (presently the Martinez Unified School District administrative offices). The number of incoming 9th graders increased each year with students from the small Vine Hill, Briones, and Franklin Canyon elementary districts, a couple of which were classic country one room schools.
To solve the problem of growth, the Alhambra Union High School District's Board of Trustees voted early that year to present a $240,000 bond issue for the community's approval to construct a junior high school to house the 7th – 9th grades. The decision provided a possible solution to the overcrowding of the high school but also reflected contemporary expert thought on how best to meet the educational and social needs of early adolescents. The citizens accepted the educational expert opinion and passed the bond. An architectural firm soon submitted plans for a Spanish style complex featuring a large main building, a modem gymnasium that seemed half the size of the world at the time; two technologically modem by1930 standards "shop" buildings, a full auditorium, and a comfortable library.
Decorative enhancements still visible today include lovely tile plaques on the outside of the main building and gym, decorative tile lined bays for drinking fountains, and hand-painted artistic motifs around the auditorium's proscenium arch and on the library's beams as shown to the right.
The site for the school was Brown's Hill, a wide expanse of pastureland nestled in a curve of Alhambra Creek, about a quarter of a mile south of the county courthouse and about four blocks north of the Christian Brothers Seminary and winery, which were being packed up to move to Napa Valley.
Construction took 8 months and 15 days, and the campus was ready for students the first week of February 1931. The first 9th-grade class moved from Alhambra for the spring semester. It included Phyllis Butcher Wainwright, mother of current city council member Bill Wainwright and daughter of Phillip Butcher, one of the board members who voted for the bond issue. The first 7th and 8th grades moved over from Martinez Elementary and included the late Martinez News-Gazette columnist, Al Perry, whose reminiscence at the 50th anniversary of the school opening appears on page 3 of this issue. To celebrate that event, all the students and the faculty posed for a panoramic picture in front of the brand new building with landscaping installed by AUHS district building and grounds director Manuel Dutra. The architects won a statewide prize for their work and went on to design schools all over the state modeled after the MJHS blueprints.
The teachers moved from the high school and the grammar schools. Some, like Ruth Bulger, the new counselor, and Roma McKenzie Norton, English and physical education teacher, were natives of Martinez and graduates of local schools them selves. Others, such as Mary Gillespie, arrived in Martinez in 1919 with a San Francisco Normal School credential in hand to teach 7th grade social studies first at the grammar school and then at the junior high, staying for 43 years until she was replaced by a rookie teacher from Fresno State - - me.
The office support staff came from the Alhambra Union High School business classes. The first school secretary was Elinor Aljets, who had just graduated from Alhambra herself. When she went to the Sheriff's Department to work in 1934, AUHS class of '34 graduate Lena Bartolini Cerri replaced her.
Lena, now 90, was a member of the original MJHS 9th grade class with Phyllis Butcher. She remembers the first principal, Arthur French, standing in the hall admonishing the students as they walked by "Now everything is new. Don't touch anything."
"The kids were thrilled," Lena recalls. "It was a beautiful building." It cost $160,000 to construct and $37,000 to equip, and included heavy one-piece stained oak student desks made by prisoners at San Quentin.
Martinez Junior High School:
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
By Harriett Burt
Part One Changes
Originally published in the July 2006 Martinez Historical Society News Letter.
In the 75 years since its opening, the Junior High School has served differing grade levels (7-9 until the late 50s, 7-8 until 1980 and 6-8 since then). It has had as many as 900 students in the late 60s and now (the current enrollment is 922) and as few as 600 in the early 80s. The Junior High - the building, the students, and the teachers - inspired a critically praised novel which became required reading in many high school and college classes. Ella Leffland, author of Rumors of Peace, used her own junior high years in Martinez during World War II as the setting for a coming-of-age story featuring the pink palace on the hill, as she called it. Even though the town is named Mendoza in the book, for legal reasons, the school, its students, the staff, and various incidents of the story are recognizable to those who were part of the student body during those years.
The campus opened before the Long Beach earthquake of 1933 that spurred passage of the Field Act, which strictly specified school construction standards to resist earthquake damage. In the mid-1960s the state legislature updated the Field Act, forcing school boards either to retrofit buildings constructed before 1933 or to remove them. By that time the Martinez elementary and Alhambra Union High School districts had merged into the Martinez Unified School District. The school board, faced with personal liability if the buildings were not up to code when an earthquake struck, in 1967 authorized submission of a $500,000 bond issue to rehabilitate the junior high buildings. The law mandated that voters be given the choice of approving the bond for the retrofit or not approving it, knowing their children might have to attend school in tents. Despite annoyance at the threat, which lingers to this day, the community passed the bond measure. The school operated in double session in the first semester of the 1968-69 school years while the roof of the main building was firmly attached to the walls and other seismic and cosmetic changes were made. Shirley Ellis, who taught home economics at the school from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, remembered being in the auditorium with her students in 1956 when a moderate earthquake struck. They were all terrified as the chandeliers swayed and the walls shook. She was in that same auditorium in 1980 when an earthquake of similar magnitude struck and no one realized it until they heard about it later on the news.
In 1980, declining enrollment and the effects of a property-tax-limiting initiative (Proposition 13) on district revenues nearly doomed the school just before its 50th anniversary. The district administration presented two choices to the school board: The first was to close the junior high and leave all the elementary schools open. The alternative was to close John Muir School and bring all the district's 6th graders to the junior high to form a 6th to 8th grade middle school. After weeks of deadlocked discussion the board voted for this alternative, controversial as it was. Then, with the dedication and hard work of faculty, support staff, and administration, plus support and growing enthusiasm of parents and students and the addition of dynamic faculty from the district's elementary schools, Martinez Junior High School flourished as a middle school. It was named a California Distinguished School in 1988.
But when school financing declined maintenance was often the first item cut in annual budgets throughout the school district. Somehow the junior high always seemed hardest hit. First, the beautiful landscaping was allowed to all but disappear and the wide entry lawn was covered with portable class rooms. Then the interior of the building-the plumbing, the paint, the boiler, the wood window frames, the home economics and shop equipment, the gymnasium shower rooms, and much else all began to deteriorate. Popular social studies teacher Ted Arden (on the staff from 1966 to 2001), an audiovisual expert, developed a dramatic slide show in the early 1990s to show the school board some of the dangerous and unhealthy conditions of the physical plant.
Once again, as it had in 1929 and again in 1967, the community rallied around to pass a junior high bond issue, this time for $23 million, including rehabilitation of various elementary sites and the reopening of John Muir School. Of this amount, $16 million was earmarked to restore the junior high and add new classroom buildings and a gymnasium to house a now-growing student population. Joann deGraef Tool, a graduate of the school and the parent of students there, was asked to chair the steering committee. She recalls that it was a large committee, with many outspoken members, that required a firm hand to keep everyone focused on the central issue: the need to repair the existing structures and add additional buildings to the junior high to accommodate over 900 students. "We had everybody working together because they knew what terrible shape it was in. The single most important issue was the bathrooms. The service clubs helped, the school board, the city council, teachers, PTSAs, teenagers . . . everybody from everywhere," she recalls.
The payoff and the assured future of the school came on election night in 1995 when the bond passed by a record 84.5% of voters. The secretary of state's office called that night to inform county election officials that the junior high bond (as it was always called, even though elementary renovation was included) had passed by the largest majority of any school bond issue on the ballot in the entire state.
In November 1999, after three years of construction, the expanded Martinez Junior High School campus was officially opened with its historic buildings restored and new buildings added that were designed to harmonize with the original prize-winners, down to the inclusion of authentically copied decorative motifs. This is a point of pride with current principal Helen Rossi, who first came here to teach math in 1994 and whose husband and son assisted with the preservation and duplication of the decorative tiles.
All through these 75 years, the junior high has been where the town comes together and where the common memories of growing up here, parenting here, and living and working here are formed.
Visitors to the campus on a typical school day in 2006 see a clean, orderly campus with a good atmosphere and the gracious touches of a proud history well preserved while staff and students work to pre pare for the future.
Approximately 50,000 kids have walked through these halls, raced up the stairs, run across the fields, filed into the auditorium, and sat in the class rooms. It is the nature of the junior high age and experience that for some it is the hardest time of their youth and for others the turning point when they knew for the first time what they could become. For no one is it an unimportant time. For 75 years Martinez Junior High School has been central to them at that time, and central to the community.
Martinez Historical Society
1005 Escobar Street - Martinez, CA 94553 (925) 228-8160


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When it comes to packaging, one of the most universal and ubiquitous substances used is plastic. Rigid plastic segmented into accommodating shapes to be exact. The global rigid plastics sector, valued at £144.7 billion, dominates the packaging market, making up 20.8% according to Packaging News. That figure is expected to jump to 22.7% over the next five years, placing market value at £181.5 billion in 2020. Worldwide authority on the packaging, paper and print industry, Smithers Pira, released an exact and comprehensive market report in which the future of the packaging is broken down. Called The Future of Global Rigid Plastic Packaging to 2020, the report predicts that the volume demand for rigid plastics will increase by about 10 million tonnes, going from 51.7 million in 2017 to 61.3 million in 2020. The UK alone commands 3.3% of the total volume. A large majority of that demand is for PET and PE plastics.
Plastic has effectively stomped out less-adaptable packaging, namely glass bottles/jars, liquid cartons, and metal cans. This is because the rigid plastic packaging industry is fuelled by superior material which is more lightweight, less costly, and recyclable. Its most attractive quality, however, is its ability to be designed.
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Linpac, a packaging provider who offers customised packaging solutions, just recently developed specialised sushi containers for Spanish retailer Mercadona. The range of trays – single and double portion and family-sized packs – feature a laminated PET printed film base and a clear anti-fog PET lid. Not only are the trays appropriately sized to snugly fit the contents, Linpac has gone for a "total pack solution" by designing internal areas in which to store wooden chopsticks and condiments. Linpac product manager Diego Fernandez commented on the efficiency, saying "The resulting food-safe solution completely eliminates the need for additional packaging."
Another Linpac employee, group marketing manager Nikki Clark, praised the new design: "In this case, the design has been streamlined to make it fit for purpose and removes the need for additional materials. It's a truly resource-efficient, total pack solution."
Benjamin Punchard, global packaging insights director at Mintel, asserts that the food sector requires newness and variation above all others. This is because the food industry is continually creating new products. Grocery shelves become over-crowded with beautiful or informative or dated packaging, created with the sole purpose of vying for the attention of shoppers in the aisles. As more and more market research is conducted on how customers perceive a brand based on packaging, we are learning that packaging plays a big role in brand interpretation. For customers, to know a brand is to know its packaging. A clean presentation that minimises waste can speak volumes about a company's values; The Drum says it best: "In many cases the pack is the sole form of brand communication (i.e. it may not have any marketing or advertising support) so it's crucial to the customer experience of the brand."
Flashy packaging capitalises on the passing-by shopper by immediately grabbing attention. However, flashy does not mean compromising on functionality and utility. Simply put, a pack of quality design should be aesthetically-appealing, practical, and clearly made for the product. "Food brands are putting their innovation into the product itself; but they're also looking to put something different on the shelf and being able to communicate a story to consumers," says Greiner Packaging's sales director for UK and Ireland, Barry Atkinson.
As the public becomes increasingly more aware of the impact of mass amounts of waste, people are demanding that food manufacturers become more economically aware. As such, weight reductions in packaging have become the norm as has the use of biodegradable or sustainably-sourced materials. Therefore, virgin polymer, new material not yet made into a finished product, is being used less frequently in the packaging sector, replaced instead by recycled plastics. Atkinson comments on the ever more environmentally-conscious customer, "Ultimately, our customer is the consumer, who in becoming increasingly aware of environmental issues, is demanding the kind of step-changes that brand owners are now having to initiate."
However well rigid plastic is projected to do in 2017, an eye must be ever-focused on the flexible packaging industry.
Jacqui Litvan
Jacqui Litvan, wielding a bachelor's degree in English, strives to create a world of fantasy amidst the ever-changing landscape of military life. Attempting to become a writer, she fuels herself with coffee (working as a barista) and music (spending free time as a raver).


text: Rice's shooting triggered large protests calling for police officers to be held accountable for brutality [AP] The US city of Cleveland has reached a $6m settlement with the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice who was shot dead by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation centre. An order filed in US District Court in Cleveland on Monday said the city will pay out $3m this year and $3m in 2017. Under the terms of the settlement, Cleveland does not admit any wrongdoing, according to the order. Race relations: A US election issue The wrongful death suit against two officers and the city alleged the officers acted recklessly when they confronted the boy in November 2014. A grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against the officers. Investigators last year found no hard evidence the police officer who shot Rice ordered him to raise his hands before opening fire. Documents released in July 2015 by the prosecutor handling the racially charged case detail the moments before the brief, deadly encounter - and how the responding officers seemed almost shell-shocked as the boy lay dying outside a recreation centre. "Although historic in financial terms, no amount of money can adequately compensate for the loss of a life," Subodh Chandra, the Rice family's attorney, said in response to the reported settlement. "The problem of police violence, especially in communities of colour, is a crisis plaguing our nation. It is the Rice family's sincere hope that Tamir's death will stimulate a movement for genuine change in our society and our nation's policing." Cleveland police said Timothy Loehmann, the officer, told Tamir three times to put his hands up, then opened fire when the boy reached for the pellet gun tucked in his waistband. Grainy, choppy surveillance video showed Loehmann firing two shots within two seconds of his police cruiser skidding to a stop near the boy. Officials with the city and police union could not immediately be reached for comment. The two officers have been on restricted duty since the shooting and will remain so through an internal police review. SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies Human Rights US & Canada


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