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Accuracy of migrant landbird habitat maps produced from LANDSAT TM data: Two case studies in southern Belize
Title and abstract are also in Spanish. OCLC 34281491
By: J.P. Spruce, S. Sader, C.S. Robbins, and B.A. Dowell
Edited by: Marcia H. Wilson and Steven A. Sader
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The study investigated the utility of Landsat TM data applied to produce geo-referenced habitat maps for two study areas (Toledo and Stann Creek). Locational and non-site-specific map accuracy was evaluated by stratified random sampling and statistical analysis of satellite classification (SCR) versus air photo interpretation results (PIR) for the overall classification and individual classes. The effect of classification scheme specificity on map accuracy was also assessed. A decision criteria was developed for the minimum acceptable level of map performance (i.e., classification accuracy and scheme specificity). A satellite map was deemed acceptable if it has a useful degree of classification specificity, plus either an adequate overall locational agreement (< 70%) and/or non-site specific agreement (Chi Square goodness of fit test results indicating insufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis that the overall classification distribution for the SCR and PIR are equal). For the most detailed revised classification, overall locational accuracy ranges from 52% (5 classes) for the Toledo to 63% (9 classes) for the Stann Creek. For the least detailed revised classification, overall locational accuracy ranges from 91% (2 classes) for Toledo to 86% (5 classes) for Stann Creek. Considering both location and non-site-specific accuracy results, the most detailed yet insufficient accurate classification for both sites includes low/medium/tall broadleaf forest, broadleaf forest scrub and herb-dominated openings. For these classifications, the overall locational accuracy is 72% for Toledo (4 classes) and 75% for Stann Creek (7 classes). This level of classification detail is suitable for aiding many analyses of migrant landbird habitat use.
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Maravanthe is a village and a beach near Kundapura, Karnataka, India.
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In the study, researchers had 91 patients with mild to moderately severe dementia rate their quality of life. They also had caregivers rate their patient's quality of life. The patients completed a mental state exam, while the caregivers completed a Caregiver Burden Questionnaire.
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A few winter activities in Quebec City
Quebec City is a distinctly winter destination, and it's during the frosty season that the city shines.
To ensure you make the most of it, we'd like to share suggestions from our concierges, Mathieu et Véronique:
L'Hôtel de Glace is a must see, its spectacular structure made entirely of ice. Don't miss "NEIGE DJ Night at the Ice Bar", happening on February 27, starting at 9 p.m.
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This season's opening game on Saturday afternoon at Zupo Field may have ended in a 10 to 0 loss to the San Francisco Hawks, but smiles prevailed among the men who play for the joy of it and honor their mentor Mauch Yamashita.
Click on any thumbnail photo below or here to see a gallery of pictures taken at Saturday's game.
Two distinguished players from the past, #63 Dennis Morita and #24 Billy Yabumoto participated by throwing the first pitches. Ages of current players range from 17 to 58.
This year's team celebrates its 100th season in Lodi. According to Mike Furutani, who acted as spokesman and pitched the first few innings, although they feared this would be JACL's final season, there exists renewed hope that the team will continue.
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Free Sample Friday: Tape Overdrive
Another guest set from Psyche Poppet while I'm on tour in Europe. Here's what he has to say:
"This sample set was routed the same as before, but this time I really cranked up the output to tape. These have a serious, almost tube like distortion, bite, and edge. Fewer sounds this time, but longer. I feel they should be perfect for morphing with other samples using a program like Alchemy. They are also loud so use caution. I also included patch notes for one of the sounds for those interested. "
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Preserving temperature regulating properties was the next objective of the FJ team. Partnering with ThermoLite® to create a specially developed ThermoLite bonded liner using hollow core fibers made this possible. When conditions are cool, the hollow core fibers trap body heat inside the core and when conditions are warm, the fibers wick moisture and expel heat for optimum temperature regulation.
FJ focuses solely on the game of golf so in selecting a fabric for a new rain jacket, there were certain criteria that could not be compromised. The third key element of DryJoys Tour LTS is the all-new fabric, which features outstanding stretch and waterproofness. With the golf swing in mind, FJ has developed a 3-Layer Bonded Fabric, which boasts soft, comfortable and quiet attributes, as well as excellent 4-way stretch.
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- The April Fools Day episode, which was done completely in Bulgarian. Especially when the subtitles were added.
- Vendetta: Aaaaaaaaah!
Subtitles: Why did I make fire-breathing butterflies?!
- Vendetta's birthday song:
- Vendetta: Happy birthday to you, you are stupid and blue! You look like you're stupid: wait, wait, I'm sure that's true!
- Vendetta's version of the "If You Lived Up On The Moon."
- Which is also going back to the web short where it's the same deal, Charlotte singing half a song and Venetta singing a Dark Reprise, but last time it was with Christmas Trees.
- The baby chicken bombs.
- After Vendetta shrinks Charlotte:
- Charlotte: Now you're small, just like me. Let's pretend we're postage stamps!
- Charlotte's "Why Don't We Pretend to Be" song.
- Charlotte's stupidity hitting its suicidal apex in "Marvin the Middle Manager", in which she gleefully plots her own demise. Which involves her being dressed like a butterfly. Being hit with a piano via Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts. And Marvin's dumbstruck reaction to all this still manages to be the funniest part of the scene.Marvin: What's next?Charlotte: Oo! It's the last thing on the list! "Number 27: Destroy Charlotte."Marvin: (Spit Take)Charlotte: Teehee! That sounds easy enough! Maybe I could be attacked by wolverines!Marvin: Uh...Charlotte: Or how about if I was catapulted to the moon!Marvin: My budget won't...Charlotte: I know! I could dress up like a fly! *gasp* No! Wait! Wait! Butterflies are prettier! I'll be a butterfly that gets hit by a piano!Marvin: Uh...(eye twitch)...okay...Charlotte: This is going to be fun! If it works, Vendetta will be so happy, I think she'll promote us both. Yippee!
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Over the past fifteen years, 2002-2017 (except 2012 and 2015), Hua Hin has hosted an increasingly successful jazz festival. Each year this event, normally held over the first weekend in June, lasts for two or three days.
From quiet beginnings, it has grown into probably the biggest and most important jazz event in Thailand's calendar.
Recognition must be given to the organisers and promoters who have toiled endlessly to attract big names. Last year, their efforts were rewarded with the appearance of acts from all over the world, including Kenny Garrett, Mike Stern and Dave Weckl, and a wealth of up-and-coming Thai talent.
For a couple of years, it seemed that the organizers were downscaling the event despite its popularity. Only one stage was present in 2007 and 2008 - this lead to some overcrowding problems with a rising tide. However, there was a return to two stages in 2009 and 2010 but more down-sizing and lot of confusion and date changes in 2011. In 2012 the event was cancelled all together with no notice or news from the organisers. It returned in 2013 and 2014 but on a much smaller scale than previous years.
The 2018 Hua Hin Jazz Festival will be on May 18-19 - More info
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July 26 @ 19 Rai Queen's Park
Jointly presented and organised by BOFFO Thailand and the Hua Hin Municipality, this year's jazz event will be held on Saturday, 26 July, 2014, at Suan Luang Rachinee 19 Rai park from 17:00-23:00 hrs. It is free of charge for all jazz lovers, both local and international.
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May 31 - June 2 @ the beach near the Sofitel.
The Hua Hin Jazz Festival was cancelled in 2012 but is back in 2013. The Hua Hin jazz festival has a line-up that features artists from Japan and Indonesia and a strong showing of local talent. The sounds of saxophone, keyboards and bass return to Hua Hin's sands at this end of the month as the seaside town celebrates the 12th anniversary of its annual jazz festival. [More info ...]
The 2011 Hua Hin Jazz Festival was held on August 26-27.
Highlights of last year's Hua Hin Jazz Festival were the performances of Thai, Asian and world famous International Jazz musicians during the 3 days in different locations; on the beach and at Phonkingphet Public Park.
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Whether you are coming from Boston, Bangor, Portland, New Hampshire, or anywhere else, any road you travel will lead you through Ellsworth before proceeding onto the island. Note: if you take Route 95 from Boston or Portland, follow 95N to 295N which merges back with 95N. If you miss taking Route 295N, you'll just end up adding a bit of time to your drive via Lewiston/Auburn. Alternatively, you can take the scenic Route 1 up the coast which will take a good 4+ hours from Portland.
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Enhancing activity, nutrition and mental health in overweight adolescents Stage 1 - Formative Research
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McManus, Alexandra and Newton, Wendy and McManus, Jennifer and Storey, Jessica and White, James and Cuesta-Briand, Beatriz. 2011. Enhancing activity, nutrition and mental health in overweight adolescents Stage 1 - Formative Research, Curtin University of Technology, Centre of Excellence for Science, Seafood & Health (CoESSH).
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This report discusses Stage 1 of the 'Curtin Activity, Food and Attitudes Program' (CAFAP). As a part of this research program, a tertiary hospital adolescent obesity intervention was adapted and piloted it in a community setting with clinically obese adolescents and their families. The first stage of the project refined the program and its evaluation framework based on individual, family and community enablers and barriers. This report will present the outcomes of Stage 1. It will examine the experiences of participants and discuss the understanding gained of what would encourage potential participants to become involved in CAFAP if it was available to them in their community.
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A volume of religious and social essays has lately been published by the Kev. William T. Herridge. D.D., minister of St. Andrew's Church, Ottawa ("The Orbit of Life"; Fleming H. Kevell Company, 2s. 6d. net). The book .tbounds in common-sense, and Is full at the same time of religious and ethical suggestion. The most modern reader could not say that Or. Herridge was behind the time; but, unlike so many men of wide sympathy and wide contemporary reading, he has managed to steer clear of that fog-belt of religious and moral confusion wherein so many writers of to-day lose their way. "Right and wrong," he is sure, "are not to be heaped together In indiscriminate confusion." There Is, he maintains, "a right way of being "worldly','' and those honorable successes which are truly worth having depend upon "a well-trained and athletic resolution." These three sentences give, we think, a key to the secular side of the book. It is with the religious side that we propose to deal in the present article.
In an interesting paper upon the Resurrection, which he calls "an Master study." the following passage occurs: "Christ views resurrection not as a mere physical process, but rather as a moral achievement, and His own Resurrection Is the most unique and memorable instance of it If any one proposes to make a successful assault upon the belief of Christendom, he must not be content simply to storm the outposts of historical testimony, uor maintain a guerilla warfare of scientific nescience. He must attack the very citadel and stronghold which is Christ's own character." Dr. Herridge speaks profoundly, and cannot but set his readers thinking. No denial of the possibility of miracle, however dog
matic, even though it bore the imprimatur of an accredited spokesman representing the conclusions of a Council composed of the most renowned scientists of Europe, can explain away this sentence of Christ: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."
The first generation of Christians plainly put absolute faith in these words, and all through the ages there have never been wanting men and women of every denomination who have witnessed to their truth. Some of these have made a great mark in the world, have been the true "world-shapers"; but for the most part they have been very ordinary people. The declarations of these latter upon the subject would fill many books, and perhaps If they were written, and the educated people of to-day were condemned to read them, they should cry out with St Paul that "not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called"; but no experience can be put aside as without Importance because it is common, and consequently witnessed to by persons without literary judgment, power of clear expression, or that concomitance of small perceptions too fine for analysis which we call "taste." Nor Is their evidence impaired by the fact that the experience they enjoy seems sometimes altogether to obsess them. They believe It, In contradiction to the whole tone of our Lord's teaching, to be the most Important part of the Christian revelation, and they deny the Christianity of all those who can boast of no such consolation. The matter has nothing to do with the resurrection of the flesh. The men who first believed and repeated the promise were agreed that even though they had known Christ "after the flesh," whether before or after His resurrection, they now knew Him—In that sense—no more. The benefit promised was spiritual; the benefit alleged to have been received was spiritual also.
St. Paul's experience of this divine companionship is typical. When he was tried for his life, he tells us. "no man stood with me. . . . Nothwithstanding the Lord stood with me." What did he mean? He clearly does not allude to another incident like that on the road to Damascus. No vision and no supernatural occurrence is even hinted at He does not suggest that his answers at the time of his examination were prompted by Christ. He does not say that he saw Him. He makes an assertion, which he takes it for granted his readers will understand, to the effect that the fearful mental and moral strain through which he had lately gone was made bearable, In spite of the desertion of his friends, by the presence of Christ. When we consider these things, we do, as Dr. Herrldge says, storm the outposts of historical testimony to no purpose. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that since the storming of these outposts, since the breaking of swords between materialists and spiritualists, a generation of Christians has arisen among whom such experiences as Paul described are rare. Most of us. especially if we belong to those who have to think for their living, have small hope of ever receiving any such divinely authoritative continuation of our faith. It is impossible, In considering the matter of the spiritual resurrection of our Lord, to shirk this fact. "If one does not take the trouble to exercise that noble rationality which searches into the depths of things, though he may have no Innate vlctousness, the mere slumber of thought Is sure to degrade him." Dr. Herrldge's condemnation of the man who can think and will not Is perhaps too
sweeping. Yet it is in the main just. It is useless to deceive ourselves by words. To do so is to remain upon the surface of things. When we talk of the support men derive from a high ideal, we do not mean what Paul meant. There can be no doubt that men are upheld In moments of storm and stress by dwelling on an ideal. But St Paul was always an idealist— a man with hopes and aims outside the region ruled by reason. He bad ideals long before he became a Christian. Yet he certainly thought his experience was new. Again, there can be no doubt that an ideal pointed by a splendid recollection may concentrate Itself into something which, in the vague language of poetry, might be alluded to as a person. But the passage in which St. Paul's words occur is not poetry at all; it Is a plain record of sad facts. His work has not been succeeding, his friends have left him, his converts have turned away, nothing is left but the hope of better things after death. He is in no exultant mood. He draws no word-picture to Impress upon his friends the glorious atmosphere of a higher Ideal than the world before knew, for the sake of which it Is conceivable such a one as Paul might have worked and agonized "in Jeopardy every hour," though he himself asserts that he would not have done it. Again, the book we have imagined which might be written by simple people would contain, we suppose, very little poetry indeed,—prosaic, sometimes perhaps sordid, accounts of illnesses, deaths, perplexities, anxieties, which the writers were convinced they did not witness or endure alone.
Those who stand where they can see the signs of the times must often feel themselves strangers in the midst of a new heaven and a new earth, and It is Impossible but that sometimes they should be seized with dread lest In the passing away of the old eertain ties the words of Christ may pass away too. The depression which religious changes bring to many minds is not, however, a clear medium through which to look at facts. For those who can cast this depression away the character of Christ still remains the stronghold of the doctrine of the Resurrection. The eyes of the world are turned upon the Gospels. Perhaps there was never a time when the thought of the character of Christ preoccupied the mind of Christendom as it does now. Christianity is more the test of public and private action than
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ever before. Is it not possible that In the future the shaking of public faith in verbal Inspiration and In sacramental grace may be seen to be but the misread results of a revived power to grasp the reality of the Christian revelation? His Spirit Is with Christendom while Christendom recognizes the divine side of human nature, and it can still find consolation in the eternal words of the Son of Man, "Because I live, ye shall live also," Implying as they do that the inheritance of life Is consequent upon the Fatherhood of God.
The general impression left upon a reader's, or at any rate on this reader's, mind after a study of Mr. Kldd's examples and deductions is that Pondo or Zulu children are in most particulars exceedingly like any other children who chance to arrive in this world with white instead of black skins. They play the same games, or. if girls, love the same dolls, as for the matter of that the old Egyptians did long ago. Indeed the doll make-believe appears to be carried further than Is common In Europe. Thus the small Kaffirs build actual huts for them in place of the Dutch houses that here are provided ready made from the toyshop. They give them stones to grind their corn, mats for sleeping, pots for cooking, and so forth. They provide them with a cattle-kraal stocked with clay oxen, goats and fowls. They marry them in a realistic manner, singing the appropriate songs. The owner of a boydoll will manufacture and pay away ten clay cattle In order to supply it with a wife or wives In the shape of properly—or Improperly—dressed fe
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male dolls, and with such married puppets a lad may play although it is beneath his dignity to amuse himself with an unwed maiden doll.
So it is with everything else. They have their parties which last all night, and their clans that play with or more generally fight other clans belonging to the next kraal or tribe. The sense of honor is very fully developed in them, and the sense of greediness still more, so much so indeed that they will stuff themselves with half-cooked and unplucked birds caught in the veld, which, did they bring them home, they fear would be taken from them and eaten by their elders. They manufacture excellent traps to catch these birds and other wild things, such as mice, which they also eat They possess an elaborate system of fagging, and a good fight with sticks, not fists, is the joy of their hearts. As at home the boys look down upon the girls, except on certain occasions, when for Instance a pair of them will share the same pempe, or bird-scaring hut, In which they play at being sweethearts, the head boy choosing the best-favored girl, or sometimes the prettiest girl
selecting her own boy. They have their vices, of which the missionaries can tell much, but of course in a work of this nature these are slurred over. Also they have their virtues, such as politeness, obedience, and family affection, although Mr. Kidd says that when the boys become adult they care no more for their mothers, being henceforth almost entirely taken up with the pleasures of life. Upon this point i may add that the author's experience does not altogether tally with my own recollection. i have known grown-up Kaffirs to be extremely fond not only of their own mothers but of all their father's other wives, though doubtless, being nearer to the animal as a race, they are apt like animals to forget those who bore and nurtured them when they no longer need their protecting care. But the parents do not forget, or even the grandparents, uncles, and other relatives; indeed the affection which they show for young people is often very beautiful and touching. i never remember hearing of such atrocities happening among natives as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children bring to light annually by the thousand in our highly civilized and Christian land, and 1 believe that the father or relation who was guilty of such deeds would be killed or at least driven out of the tribe. Often it is far otherwise. Thus i recall that during the Matabele war a native soldier was seen running away with a bundle on his back. As the chase of him went on, in his wild effort to save his life, he threw away everything he carried, his pots, his blanket, even his assegai, all except the bundle. At length he was run down, and this bundle was found to contain his sister's heavy two-year-old child.
As any one who is acquainted with them will know, Kaffir children lead an extremely happy life. Their appear
ance in the world being desired and brought about under the most sane and sanitary conditions, they seem to suffer but little from ill-health. Their cheerfuiness is amazing, and unless they happen to be Christians they have no school or prospective examinations to trouble them, nor are they ever overworked in other ways. Lastly they are not called upon to shrink from the spiritual fears and shadows which are more or less inseparable from religion. Ap we understand the word. No invisible, almighty Power is waiting to punish them, should they do wrong, or ultimately to drag them to some dreadful place, although it is true that in such circumstances the tribal spirit, or itongo, may make itself disagreeable in various ways. Death and its terrors are far from them; in fact even as grown men they do not. or used not to. fear death, which it would seem they look on as a painless sleep, notwithstanding their belief in ghosts. in short, like their elders they live a life of ideal physical happiness. What has the Kaffir to fear who dwells under the shadow of the British flag? He can no longer be killed at the whim of some chief or enemy. He is not pestered by our gnawing ambitions and ever-increasing needs; his nerves and his bodily state are perfect; he has food, wives, children to his heart's desire, and he can generally win wealth, that is, cattle. if he wishes for them and chooses to work. indeed as he goes on in years the giving of his numerous daughters in marriage provides him with these automatically, and in so large a country they increase without cost or trouble to himself. Perhaps the only unhappy creatures in an average kraal are the poor old women, who being "finished" and of no further use are looked down upon and neglected by every one. and sometimes left to support themselves as best they can. All the rest rejoice from sunrise to set aud from year's end to year's end, till at length in old age they sink to sleep, baying for the most part Jacked nothing except, it may be, the delights of war. Their life is one long, animal joy, which, however much it may shock us, suits them extremely well.
That this does shock the white man there is no doubt, the missionary for certain obvious reasons, and the colonist for others, while all are perhaps unconsciously irritated by the spectacle of such complete content in a world that for most is honeycombed with sorrows. Moreover, the white man wants labor and understands very clearly that this state of affairs prevents the Kaffir from working and forces him, the superior being, to import Chinamen to do what, in South Africa, it is not in accordance with his custom or his dignity to do himself. So he declares, and by no means beneath his breath, that the Kaffir is a worthless, idle fellow. On the first point the Kaffir differs from him and the two races may be left to argue the matter out. which in the future they will doubtless do at the muzzles of guns and the points of spears, as to a small extent they have already done in the past. As to the second—and this Mr. Kldd demonstrates very well—the Kaffir is not really idle: only he objects to work »f a sort that does not interest him at all. What to him are railways and telephones and holes in the ground out of which it amuses a mad race to dig >rold? He has his own equivalents for all such things, and to procure them he will work hard enough. See him hunting for his food or raising his corn for the winter store, or building a hut for a new wife, or engaged in the labors of battle at the bidding of his chief. Then the Kaffir works as hard as any European, for he works for what he wants, not for what the white
man wants. Perhaps in time to come the white man's needs will grow desirable in his eyes also, and then doubtless he will strive for them aud become a new man, having eaten of the tree of knowledge. That must be our part, to raise his ideals to our own, :md the rest will follow.
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, who knew the natives better perhaps than any other Englishman ever has or ever will again, used to say to me that they must learn by the creation of new wants and new desires to work as we do for several generations, before we could hope really to civilize or still more to Christianize them. it seems probable that he was right. As a Buddhist would say. they are several "Rounds" behind the highly developed European.
Perhaps the most interesting portions of Mr. Kidd's book are those in which he treats of the superstitions connected with childbirth and childhood, some of which, or their counterparts, are not unknown in our own enlightened land. it appears, to take an instance, although for this we have no parallel, that among the Kaffirs women think that if they eat the flesh of porcupines their children will be very ugly. The native doctor, however, is equal to the occasion. He gives to the expectant lady porcupine to eat that has been treated with his medicine and the evil is averted. What is this but a primitive application of our novel discovery of anti-toxins? Another strange prejudice is that which the Kaffirs entertain against twins, that are held to be most unlucky, although oddly enough a twin is always expected to be clever. So pronounced is this dislike that in the old days a woman who produced twins for the second time was put to death. its origin appears to be that to produce more than one offspring at a birth like a dog or a pig is supposed to be bestial, an odd


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I just skimmed How to Choose Summer Reading for Students, an appropriate-for-the-Times call for more elitism in kids' reading. It mentions The Catcher in the Rye, which reminded me that I hated it when I was fourteen. I couldn't relate to Holden Caulfield. He was a rich kid at a boarding school, and I didn't have a clue then that I would be living something like his life within a year. I remember his annoyance with his roomie's clipped nails, and I couldn't relate to his fastidiousness: Dad clipped his nails when they bothered him, and therefore, so did I, and why should I care about some prissy kid? I didn't realize this was a prissy kid with psychological problems; all I knew then was that it was a prissy rich kid who was way too full of himself. I got the book at the wrong age. So, self-proclaimed reading guides of the world, shut up and let kids figure out for themselves what they love to read.
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Nikita star Melinda Clarke has won a role on CBS series Vegas.
The drama - which will launch on the UK's Sky Atlantic on February 14 - stars Dennis Quaid as Sheriff Ralph Lamb and The Shield's Michael Chiklis as his mobster nemesis Vincent Savino.
Clarke will play Lena Rizzo, the presumed-dead mother of Mia Rizzo (Sarah Jones), according to TV Guide.
Lena will cause trouble when she arrives in Vegas and also catches the eye of Chiklis's Savino.
In addition to her starring role on The CW's Nikita, Clarke has previously starred on The OC, CSI, The Vampire Diaries and Entourage.
Anna Camp also recently signed up for a role on Vegas - the Pitch Perfect star will play a "sexy Hollywood starlet" named Violet.
Vegas airs on Tuesdays at 10/9c on CBS - Clarke's debut episode is yet to be scheduled.
> Elementary gets two more episodes, Vegas cut by CBS
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Kevin Yilmaz is a Finance and Administration Accountant at Cosmo Tech. He answered our questions from the Cosmo Tech headquarters in Lyon, France.
What attracted you to working in the technology sector?
I was attracted to the technology sector because of its innovative side and its current wave going through the whole world. Previously, I worked in the Water sector, and it was an opportunity for me to change fields and learn new things. What also attracted me was the challenge of proposing our various services to our current and potential clients, adapting our offers to each of their individual needs.
What's it like working for a startup, as opposed to a large company?
Working for a startup is like working within a community. We work in a dynamic environment composed of talented, young professionals and the startup spirit is very present. The rules and procedures are generally relatively flexible, which allows everyone to feel better and to work without stress. I think that it also gives us an opportunity to develop creativity and the capacity to handle any difficulties we might encounter. Our personal contribution certainly has a more direct impact on the evolution of the company. All of these elements aren't as well received in big companies because, after reaching a certain size, the companies must sometimes put in place heavy rules and procedures, which can help manage the daily life of the employees at the company but are somewhat restrictive.
What's your favorite thing about your job?
I wouldn't say I have a specific favorite thing but one part I do like is having the ability to interact with different coworkers on what they're doing. Whenever they encounter any administrative difficulties, the Admin team is here to help guide them and find a solution.
Outside of that, the majority of my work is around managing financial tasks, under the supervision of my manager. The analysis of accounting data allows us to better prepare for tomorrow, and to anticipate for future financial challenges. It is also a pleasure to see a startup grow and skyrocket, especially knowing I was a part of that!
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Hypnopompic Hallucinations
Hypnopompic Hallucinations: Meaningful or Nonsense?
Hypnopompic hallucinations occur in the waking up stage of REM sleep. The term hypnopompic was used by Frederic Myers, a past leader and member of the Society for Psychical Research. The hypnopompic state is commonly associated with sleep paralysis and its other friend, hypnagogia.
Hypnopompic hallucinations are said to contain images or situations, mostly from the state of dreaming, that are confusing, frightening, or nonsensical in nature. These hallucinations can last from seconds to minutes, including the paralysis state, and causes panic for the person experiencing it.
In most cases, hypnopompic hallucinations are not life threatening. Some people easily attribute it as a nightmare, occurring due to sleeping in an above average physical tiredness. Upon waking up, the sleeper may be slow in reacting or remembering the details of the incident. Mumbling nonsense upon waking up from a REM sleep is called hypnopompic speech by Peter McKeller, a psychologist.
In the medical field, hypnopompic hallucinations may be symptoms of narcolepsy, especially when accompanied by frequent sleep paralysis.
The hypnopompic state is sometimes inserted with folklore stories. The theory of a 'hag' pressing down on the sleeping body had taken many variations from different countries. It is also said to be an aftermath of alien abduction or a warning of impending danger.
Most research had focused more on hypnagogia, the state between conscious to asleep, rather than the hypnopompic state. Hypnopompic hallucinations are mostly considered as natural effects of an REM sleep. If the cause is not a medical disorder, it is explained to be due to poor sleeping positions, stressful activities, excessive eating or alcoholic drinking before sleeping, or adjustments in a change of lifestyle. Instead of panicking and instilling fear, it's advisable to research and find out information related to sleeping stages to figure out the next step to take.
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Yesterday the New York Times did an article on how we do not have to worry anymore because the Terror threat is Gone. And to that I have to say *AGAIN* Why you may ask? Well, here is why my friends.
Back on July 10th, of 2001, the New york Times ran a story titled: "The Declining Terrorist Threat," two months before 9/11!
Now, does this mean that we are in for another terrorist attack? Not necessarily. But, if you read my last posts, you will know that this last week we had four terrorist activities that were planned attacks….but, they were all thwarted by the FBI and local law enforcement officials. But, that only brings me to my next question…..
How can we actually say that terror threats are diminished, when we had four attempted Terrorist attacks in four different areas of the United States in ONE WEEK people?!?!? Oh yes….the media didn't print the details of these thwarted attacks so the media figures they never happened. I get it now. We have a wimp for a president, and when he tries to act tough, the enemy laughs.
America has always been a strong nation. And until recently was still a strong nation. What is going on now my friends, is that America is being drop kicked into a vat of sissies, and the world is gleeful over that fact. One of the reasons that the four attempted attacks on this country this last week happened is because we are now being perceived as a weak and unstable nation, with a boy at the helm A boy who thinks that he is "almighty strong", when in all actuality he is "god-awful weak". Every time that our enemies show that they want to do something the yellow glow from 1600 Pennsylvania Street gets so bright that it's hard to see. Obama's yellow streak is apparent to the whole world. All I can say people, is we need to vote out everyone we can and start with a complete new slate of people who want to follow the dictates of the Constitution and the bill of Rights as written, and put a stop to all this pandering to lobbyists, pork givers and takers and career politicians who will do anything that they want, just because they think they cannot be taken out of office. And I do not mean just the democrats either. I mean the Democrats, the Republicans, the Independents…..anyone who will not follow the rule of law of the land and follow the Constitution. And the time to start is NOW.
If I had the ways and means to do so, I would run for office. But I don't right now. But what I am saying is we need a grassroots type of person to run for office and take this country back to the days when it followed the laws set forth in the founding documents. If that was done, we would find out that America would come back to greatness. But one other thing before finishing. We need people who run this country with God watching over them, and giving advice, and we need to have people in office who think America is great. Because that is not what we have now.
We need to find someone who thinks like Ronald Reagan did: Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. – Reagan
God Bless America, her troops and the people who love this country
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As a cheerleader, Lacy's most rebellious moment was buying a white bra from US discount store TJ Maxx. She bought it for $12 (£7) and wore it under her Raiderettes uniform. It was a total breach of the rules, and if her director had found out she wasn't wearing a mandatory $50 Victoria's Secret white Bombshell bra, she would have been in trouble. She was never found out.
"To not show the bra [under the uniform], that happened to be the best bra but if you require everyone to get a $60 bra, you need Victoria's Secret to sponsor it or pay for it," cries Lacy. This is just one example of the unfair conditions she and the Oakland Raiderettes in California allegedly faced during their work as cheerleaders in the National Football League (NFL). It's why Lacy is now suing the Oakland Raiders for working conditions that she claims include being paid less than California's minimum wage, paying fines for having the wrong pom-poms or uniform, and having to pay for the maintenance and upkeep of their hair, nails and all external travel costs.
She claims Raiderettes were paid just $1,250 a year which amounted to less than $5 an hour. The minimum wage in California is $8 an hour. The pay consists of a flat rate of $125 for each home game they perform at, but they are not paid for rehearsals and a minimum of 10 other appearances they are required to make including opening shops and calendar photo shoots. Neither the Oakland Raiders or the NFL responded to my request for a comment on Lacy's claims.
Cheerleaders are fined for not bringing their pom poms
"As the season progressed there were certain things that stuck out to me that I had questions about," says Lacy, who is only being referred to as a Lacy T. She previously worked as a cheerleader for the National League for baseball, where conditions were much fairer but found life as an NFL cheerleader completely different. "It was money, the amount of money we were spending versus the money we were making," she explains. "There [were] so many illegal provisions," she alleges.
Lacy, 28, soon found she was spending hundreds of pounds a month on make-up, false eyelashes, petrol for work events and even her hair. "They require you to have a certain hairstyle like the director will say you should have red long hair extensions," she says. "That's very expensive. Even with a 50 per cent discount for my hair, which is just a different shade of brown, it's over a hundred dollars. I'm a stay-at-home mum – that's not something I'd do just for fun."
She filed her lawsuit earlier this year and it has now sparked other NFL cheerleaders across the country to come forward with their own stories. It has also led to several teams' 'rulebooks' being leaked to the press.
The rulebooks tell the cheerleaders they must maintain their original audition weight, have "warm" skin tones, keep nail polish pads in their cars and even stay away from parties to avoid "having your photo in all the local papers and/ or being assaulted."
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I was shocked to hear about the sexist rulebooks, but Lacy tells me she isn't actually that "bothered" by them. She agrees that they are "sexist", but she thinks young girls need to hear the advice about assault, and says that the rules about appearance are just part of being an American cheerleader.
"I definitely think it comes across as sexist," she says. "It is sexist but I wasn't offended because unfortunately I think some young women do need to hear that because they're so young and innocent and we're going to invited to certain event and it's important. These things could come up and people could talk about you inappropriately.
"It's not something I wanted the public to know. It's embarrassing when it's blasted over the internet and people are like, they tell you how to do your hair? But I'm from the South and etiquette and things like that have always been told to women here to respect yourself. In the dance world it's good to have certain guidelines. I never really felt offended because that's not something I'm fighting to change."
If anything, she thinks it's 'the public' – and people like me - who are more offended by the rulebook than the cheerleaders themselves. "The rulebook I don't think it bothered anyone," she says. "We knew what we were getting into. We know what's expected, and the upkeep it needs. That never bothered me. I know exactly what I was getting into. The only thing that bothered me was the amount of money we were required to spend."
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Even if Lacy did want to reform the rulebooks, she legally couldn't. They are "sexist" and inappropriate – to some – but they aren't unlawful. Instead, she wants fairer pay and an end to the fines that her director enforces onto the team. If a cheerleader doesn't have a french manicure, she has a $10 fine. If she forgets to hand in her biography on time for the website, there's a $10 fine.
"If you forget to bring your practice poms at a practice, there's a $10 fine," adds Lacy. "They are silly fines. If you didn't have the right poms for the [official] game you will not be dancing. If your director finds out then you're out of luck. I felt like I was being treated like a child. I felt like it was childish and demeaning. There's other ways you could punish."
But a $10 fine is nothing compared to what happens if a dancer puts on five pounds. She will be 'benched', which means she won't play in the game and won't get paid either. "If it's a game where there's a chance you might be benched, you wait in the locker room all day," says Lacy. "You have to be there but remain in the locker room unseen for the remainder of the day. It's almost a 10 hour day without pay. If they're going to bench you, they should send you home without pay but to make you spend the whole day there, I don't think that's legal at all," she claims.
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It is shocking to think a cheerleader could be at work for 10 hours without any pay, but I'm also pretty shocked that an employer could tell you you're too fat to work. Again, that doesn't bother Lacy. "The weight thing never personally bothered me because it's important to maintain a certain level of fitness when your job is to perform in skimpy outfits," she says, although she would rather it wasn't measured so rigidly.
"I think sometimes when you work out you put on muscle, you will put on more than five pounds," she says. "It should be based more on the way you look physically than what the scale says. You could start your period and just be bloated. I don't think that's a reason to be benched. I wish it was more about the way you look and how your uniform still fits you."
I personally wish it wasn't about that at all, but then again I haven't dedicated my life to being a cheerleader, and Lacy tells me it is a huge commitment. That's why she feels so strongly about the working conditions. "Hundreds of girls audition and train to be a professional cheerleader for it to be treated as, you're not that important, we don't have to pay you because you're so lucky to be here, that kind of attitude in the NFL is very frustrating and offensive," she says.
"I had no idea this was the case until after I'd made the team. I was just really frustrated and I knew it's been happening for years. I couldn't understand why no one has ever spoken out about this before. I guess people were just afraid to lose their job and give up their dream. I was scared, I felt like if no one else is going to do it, I have to do it. It's 2014."
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A glucose tolerance test is used to test the level at which a person's body processes glucose (also known as sugar). The results of the test will help endocrinologists (doctors specialising in treating diabetes) to diagnose diabetes, as well as related health issues such as insulin resistance and reactive hypoglycemia.
An oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is one of the most common glucose tolerance tests and works by confirming whether an individual has difficulty processing sugar, which could indicate diabetes. During the test your blood glucose level will be tested before and after you drink a glucose liquid to measure how quickly your body metabolises the glucose.
On the day of the test, you will be asked not to eat or drink anything after midnight. Once in the clinic, you will have a series of three blood and urine tests - one blood sample and urine sample before the glucose drink, one blood sample and urine sample one hour after and a third blood sample and urine sample an hour later. During the test you will have blood collected 3 times over 2 hours. You will be asked to rest in the waiting room during the test. Smoking, eating and drinking must be avoided.
The glucose levels of a person who doesn't suffer from diabetes will rise quickly after drinking the glucose drink and then fall again just as quickly. If a person has diabetes, their glucose levels will rise higher than a person without diabetes and then come back down much more slowly, demonstrating high blood glucose levels in their blood.
Pregnant women are at a higher risk of suffering from diabetes as hormones released during pregnancy can prevent insulin from processing glucose in the blood correctly. If you have been identified as being at a 'high risk' of developing diabetes in pregnancy (also known as gestational diabetes), it's recommended you have an oral glucose tolerance test. Gestational diabetes is not uncommon and is estimated to affect around 14 in every 100 pregnant women.
Risk factors include:
· A family history of diabetes
· Being overweight
· Developing gestational diabetes in a previous pregnancy
· Having high blood pressure
· Having an excess of amniotic fluid
· Having previously given birth to a large baby weighing more than 9.9lb
If any of these risk factors apply to you, or if you are worried about gestational diabetes, speak to one of our experts about having a test to check for gestational diabetes. The test is usually done between 26-28 weeks unless you developed gestational diabetes in a previous pregnancy, in which case you should be tested at 16 weeks.
The test will be performed whilst you relax in the comfort of one of our city centre clinics. Once the test is complete, we will contact you with the results the same day and a printed copy of the result will be available for you to include in your pregnancy notes.
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Our son's birthday is coming up next month. As his dad and I thought about what to get him, and all he's meant to us over the years, the 80's came flooding back. There were some really good times and some really dark times.
Funny how a seemingly normal event can trigger feelings from the past. Feelings, I thought were long gone. A question brought about by a situation on a television show, having nothing to do with me, brought up some pretty uncomfortable feelings.
It felt like I was right back there in that moment. All the hurt, anger, jealousy, just as if it had happened today. Lying in bed, trying to sleep, all those times swirling in my mind, I had to ask myself why? Why was I thrown right back into something I had, long ago, let go of?
Perhaps I haven't really let go at all. Maybe it's just been simmering below the surface, ready to pounce. Hmmmm, just a thought.
Thankfully, today I was able to tell Ed what was bothering me when he asked, instead of saying "nothing". I was also able to ask myself the hard questions. Why does this still cause such a visceral reaction? What is it I need to do about it?
I don't have the answers yet, but at least I know the question.
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If you have been looking at dream outdoor kitchens then you know that there are so many options to customize a space and create an atmosphere that is perfect for family and guests. The weather may play into any remodel decision when one ponders how often it would be used. If you have a lifestyle and climate that facilitates such a question, then look no further. These 13 examples cover a wide variety of stone, wood, shade and appliance options. Among them are so many great concepts that when you take what you like from each one, it can be assembled into what works best for you.
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- you are ready to craft a new sense, through in depth observation, questioning, and powerful storytelling (in my model: maturity level).
I believe management to be a powerful exercise in sensemaking (attributing value to our experiences and facts) and sensegiving (sharing this sense with others). And it is real, I am not suggesting you should think it is all about communication. It needs a very skilled command of communication, but it is much more than that. Words create realities, and words can change them. Successful organizations promote sensemaking activities in order to reframe the way they see themselves and break out of a heavy load of stereotypes and hidden assumptions.
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also like concrete board
I also used the Durolock concrete board layed right on top of my blocks. Since I did not do the plywood I can not say how har it is but it was very easy to lay the concrete board on top and build a few 2x4 supports underneath. I watched the board and checked underneath during the pour and there was no sag whatso ever.
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I agree cement board
I used Durock cement board on my pour and I am very happy I did.
I placed the board directly on the blocks, rough side up, overlapping the opening 3 inches or so. You could very well use it to cover the holes in the blocks, but I did not want to go thru that much trouble to exactly cut the board, after all it was a time saver for me. The sheets of Durock was $10 less than equivalent ply-wood, so $$ wise it is not much difference. But time savings, I think would be a great deal. All I had to do was cut 3 2x4's the length of the opening, close enough so that they were held in by friction when placed in the opeing, flush with the top of the block. I then measured and cut each of the 9 legs, and taped them to the braces to temp hold them. Lay the durock on top, tape the seems and you are done. I had no problems with sag, for my 4" (22 bags) of concrete + 2.5" of vermiculite concrete.
This was my experience anywway.
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I gotcha. It's not going on the block, so it's not between block and hearth and thus does nothing but save you the time of removing it. I'm starting to like it. My bad in thinking you also used it to stop the block openings.
James: I understood one would still pour, but I was suggesting the pour would be best if directly in contact with the block and not "shimmed" by
concrete board. Apparently this is just what was done. That I did not understand.
Thanks to both of you, Chris.
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In favor of concrete board, it is cheaper than heavy plywood and if you place the board just inside the block walls (rather than on them) it is not performing any structural function (it is just hanging on by itself, not as a shim), other than perhaps being more waterproof than poured concrete (which is not really a function in this location). If I had an unneeded piece of plywood that was substantial enough I'd use it to reduce the bracing needed, but after the form function is done I'd have to dispose of it. I really think both are reasonable options depending on what is readily available for the builder.
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I'm not being clear
My fault. I can see that I wasn't clear on this.
You still pour the 3 1/2" concrete with a 1/2" rebar grid set on 12" centers, and set a full course of concrete blocks across angle iron for the stand. The only question is whether it is faster, easier and cheaper to use the concrete board or plywood as the form to hold in the concrete while it sets and cures.
Sorry about that.
Yep, no way concrete board could hold up an oven.
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1 vote for plywood
O.K., I haven't built my oven yet. I have, however, used concrete board in a lot of bathrooms. Perhaps it's paranoia, but I don't think the 1/2" board will stand up to time and exposure like real poured concrete 4" thick. It will probably last a long time and I'm just goofy, though I have seen crumbling and deterioration. It will essentially be a shim, so I would worry about it. It will bond with the slab and this may be its saving feature. I'll build mine with removable wood. Being a newie, I look forward to other opinions and you guys changing my mind.
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Concrete board vs. Plywood formI've been thinking about the concrete board idea and wanted to ask everyone if they think we should consider making that the standard installation method?
Can you post your thoughts on the trade-offs between using concrete board (and leaving it) and plywood (and dropping it out) -- in terms of time, energy and cost. I don't think there is a "quality" issue, as both methods are equally stable.
As DMUN noted, it's too bad you can't buy hollow terracotta beams in the states.
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New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath turtled for almost two weeks after the June 12 election in Ontario, but she emerged Wednesday morning to declare she's staying at the helm of her party and named the team of critics who'll back her up.
Reevely: Horwath sticks around, names NDP shadow cabinet
New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath turtled for almost two weeks after the June 12 election in Ontario, but she emerged Wednesday morning to declare she's staying at the helm of her party and named the team of critics who'll back her up.
Since Horwath triggered the election but was plainly unprepared for it (the NDP's buses were the last to roll, her platform was scattered, her message never took hold), and her party stayed in third place and lost the power it had enjoyed from holding Kathleen Wynne's minority Liberals hostage, lots of people thought she might quit. And 13 days of pretty much complete silence — not a public appearance, not a news release, not so much as a tweet since election night — suggested something was up.
But no. At a 9 a.m. press conference, Horwath said her party won its biggest share of the vote since it formed the government in 1990, it picked up seats in Windsor, Sudbury and Oshawa (albeit losing just as many traditionally strong NDP seats in Toronto), and its message got through.
"People voted against austerity and cuts in this election," she said. And that means, er, they voted against what Horwath says are the central points in the budget the Liberals are expected to reintroduce. "This is a Trojan-horse budget that will sell off public assets; send household bills shooting through the roof; and maintain tax loopholes you could drive a diesel train through."
I don't know about this logic. Assuming Wynne lives up to her promise to reintroduce the exact same budget she brought in in May (with tweaks to reflect that a couple of months have gone by), Ontarians knew exactly what we were voting for.
Horwath faces a leadership review at a party convention in November, assuming nothing happens to take her out between now and then. In the meantime, here's her shadow cabinet:
Teresa Armstrong (London-Fanshawe) – Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade; and Seniors Affairs.
Gilles Bisson (Timmins-James Bay) – Natural Resources and Forestry
Sarah Campbell (Kenora-Rainy River) – Aboriginal Affairs; and Women's Issues
Joe Cimino (Sudbury) – Transportation.
Cheri DiNovo (Parkdale-High Park) – Urban Transit; GTA Issues; and LGBTQ.
Jennifer French (Oshawa) – Pensions.
Catherine Fife (Kitchener Waterloo) – Finance; and Treasury Board.
Cindy Forster (Welland) – Municipal Affairs and Housing; and Community and Social Services.
Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls) – Economic Development and Employment; and Small Business.
France Gelinas (Nickel Belt) – Francophone Affairs; and Health and Long-Term Care
Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) – Community Safety and Correctional Services
Percy Hatfield (Windsor Tecumseh) – Infrastructure; and Environment and Climate Change
Andrea Horwath (Hamilton Centre) – Intergovernmental Affairs.
Michael Mantha (Algoma-Manitoulin) – Northern Development and Mines.
Paul Miller (Hamilton East-Stoney Creek) – Tourism, Culture and Sport; and 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games.
Taras Natyshak (Essex) – Labour.
Peggy Sattler (London-West) – Training, Colleges, and Universities; and Research and Innovation.
Jagmeet Singh (Bramalea-Gore-Malton) – Attorney General; and Government and Consumer Services.
Peter Tabuns (Toronto-Danforth) – Education; and Energy.
Monique Taylor (Hamilton Mountain) – Children and Youth Services.
John Vanthof (Timiskaming-Cochrane) – Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
None of them from anywhere near Ottawa, obviously, because the party has no seats anywhere near Ottawa.
Expect to hear a very great deal indeed from Catherine Fife, who's won two races in Kitchener-Waterloo in three-way splits and is seen as a rising star. She's shadowing deputy premier and treasury-board president Deb Matthews, whose job is to rein in spending. If the Liberals are bringing in Trojan horses, it's Fife's job to keep yelling about the funny breathing and shuffling sounds coming from within.


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Behind the scenes with Mark Weiss of ColorQuick.com
In this tip we go behind the scenes with Mark Weiss of ColorQuick.com.
This is the first in a series of periodic 'behind the scenes' looks at companies and individuals using Visual Basic. It's sometimes an 'eye opener' to see how others are actually using Visual Basic in their work.
For this tip, I interviewed Mark Weiss, who is the President of ColorQuick.com, located in Pennsauken, New Jersey. You can visit the company's Web Site at: http://www.colorquick.com
Question: What is your job at ColorQuick?
Answer: I'm President of the company. ColorQuick is an intermediary business to business Internet company providing digital workflow technology that allows printers to better service their clients. Using a mixture of proprietary software and off-the-shelf systems, ColorQuick bridges the gap between the marketspace and marketplace. We provide speed, quality and the cost savings associated with a state-of-the-art web-enabled digital workflow.
Question: How does your company use Visual Basic?
Answer: We use Visual Basic as our primary development tool. To date, we have coded a complete Estimating System, as well as automated the production workflow of pre-press operations using a series of Visual Basic applications that monitor jobs, and dynamically pass them from one stage of production to the next.
Question: How did your programming staff learn Visual Basic?
Answer: Most of it is self-taught, along with some college courses on Advanced Visual Basic topics.
Question: Do you use other languages besides Visual Basic?
Answer: Yes, we also use: C, C++, Perl, VBA, Hypertext, AppleScript, PostScript and ASP.
Question: Do you use third-party tools?
Answer: Yes, we buy various tools as they are needed. However, to date, implementation of third party tools has been pretty limited.
Question: What's it like to work at your company?
Answer: This is a broad question. We are under pressure to perform, and get our product out into the market. We really try to work with our folks, and have offsite and flex time situations to better meet employee schedules.
Written by John Smiley, MCP, MCSD and MCT, author, and adjunct professor of Computer Science at Penn State University in Abington, Philadelphia University, and Holy Family College. John has been teaching computer programming for nearly 20 years.
John Smiley is president of Smiley and Associates, http://www.johnsmiley.com/smass/smass.htm a computer consulting firm located in New Jersey.


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