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This is a series of Transform speaker spotlights ahead of Transform Virtual on June 21, 2018.
Alex at a Glance
Favorite ice cream flavor? Blue Bell Mint Chocolate Chip
Last movie you saw? The Shape of Water
Current favorite song? All of Cardi B's new album
Team iPhone or Android? Android 100%. I love my Google Pixel.
#1 Bucket List item? To be on Jeopardy (But being an extra on Game of Thrones is a close second)
Tell me a little bit about your background and how you got into the recruitment marketing world.
Like many people in this field, I "fell" into recruitment marketing. I started my career building the employer brand at Waste Management. After a couple of years of focusing on one brand, I took a job with an agency to broaden my horizons.
After about a year and a half in the agency world, I decided it was time to return to impacting a singular brand, and that's when I found Fiserv. At the time, their recruitment marketing function was in its infancy. They were a world-class recruiting organization that was ready to innovate, and they simply needed the right person with the right experience to live and breathe the brand, candidate experience, social media and recruitment marketing. I applied and earned the privilege to be that person!
Your title combines two realms of the recruitment marketing world – how would you say social media and candidate experience go hand in hand?
I think recruitment marketing falls into three buckets: employer brand, which is the visual identity of your recruitment marketing efforts and the measurement of their impact; candidate experience; and the social and digital properties through which the candidate experiences your brand. To me, social is one part of the larger candidate experience.
As marketers, we need to inject ourselves into conversations that candidates are already having, where they've having them, which a lot of times, is on social. That said, I still don't think social is the answer to everything. I've found that a lot of digital marketers are afraid to admit the power of a handshake. In-person marketing is still important. To be an effective recruitment marketer, you need to broaden your reach and understand when and how your candidates use different channels.
Thinking back to your own job searches, is there a moment or experience that stands out as an incredible candidate experience?
Yes! The cake story!
Essentially, I was really on the fence about leaving a job I loved to take this new opportunity with Fiserv. I originally turned down my offer, and in doing so, made an offhand comment about wanting to be in a situation that let me "have my cake and eat it too." Long story short, the Fiserv team convinced me to come into the office for one more go. After a day of touring the office and meeting potential teammates, I was given an actual piece of cake and a note encouraging me to take the leap. I was really impressed by this small gesture because it showed me that this company is listening, they care, and that they take the candidate experience seriously.
What is the biggest difference between marketing for a product or service versus a job or company?
I think the primary difference is the scale of the decision the person is making. When you're talking about a job, you're talking about someone's life. With consumer marketing, you're still selling a lifestyle in a way, but it's a lifestyle of a fleeting nature. Recruitment marketing is more permanent.
I think you see more of an overlap with larger purchases – mortgages, vacations, cars. These are bigger decisions that, like a new job, have lasting impacts on a person's life. When the stakes are higher, the decision-making process is typically longer, which means you need to employ different marketing strategies. Things like candidate nurture and relationship building become more important in these types of decisions than they would be in the decision to buy a t-shirt or a protein bar.
What accomplishment are you most proud of?
Over the last 9 months, I planned our annual HR meeting alongside 6 other associates. This meeting is a highly anticipated event every year. Fiserv flies people in to Atlanta for 3 days of internal learning, fun and the opportunity to connect with peers in the workplace. As well as being involved in the planning, I was actually the MC of the meeting, which was a blast.
One night during the event, there was a rooftop dinner and awards ceremony. In a huge surprise, my boss and I received the High Performer Award from my CHRO to recognize our efforts in recruitment marketing. Winning this award was the cherry on top of an amazing event, and I was proud to see my work recognized and appreciated at the highest level.
Why did you decide to speak at Transform Virtual?
I believe that the innovation we live and breathe can impact more than just our individual market. I believe that companies doing the right thing can change behavior. It takes more than just one employer stepping up to improve the candidate experience as a whole. I hope that if I can share things that have worked for Fiserv, it could inspire other companies to start making the candidate experience a major area of focus for them too, which over time, would help more people find rewarding jobs.
Biggest piece of advice for recruitment marketers:
So much of recruitment marketing is fun. It's work that will get a spotlight pointed on you because you are creative, and you are delivering things that actually move the needle. Don't lose sight of the backend while you're working on fun, creative tasks. You always need to keep a pulse on what's going on behind the scenes.
Be sure to catch Alex's session, Stickiness as a Strategy: Fiserv's Vision to Build and Adopt a TA Ecosystem at Transform Virtual on June 21, 2018.


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Donald Trump and his brainwashed trailerbillies like to talk about patriotism these days.
"Make America great again!"
Do these working class morons who believed his lies and voted for him even know what the hell patriotism is?
I laughed when I saw the article from the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/29f24644-78f1-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d
The company has closed one plant, layed off hundreds of workers, and the production of some parts are being moved overseas to avoid EU tariffs, according to the Financial Times.
Look, at least Ronald Reagan tried to help by placing a tariff on 750cc Japanese motorcycles. I'll give the old man in Hell credit for that. However, while my fellow liberals on Facebook are amazed at the apparent low IQ of the average American blue-collar worker, I'm not the least bit surprised. This is because the American blue-collar worker has voted against his own economic interests since the days of the Nixon Administration.
Patriotism isn't putting an American flag on your Japanese-made truck. One demonstrates patriotism by purchasing durable goods made in the United States-which is now becoming more difficult to find because of Donald Trump's economic policies. Patriotism also requires that you address social evils-like separating children from their parents because of something that the parents did thirty years ago.
In case you forgot, Ronald Reagan granted amnesty. Don't believe me? Okay.
President Reagan's position on undocumented workers-1986
Okay, so my Element television probably has parts which come China, but at least the damn idiot box was assembled here!
My New Balances are made here, as are my Allen Edmonds-so are my Peavey and Crate amplifiers. My Dodge Dart and Plymouth Breeze were both made here, as I have never owned a foreign car in my entire life. As a matter of fact, I stopped buying Vans tennis shoes after wearing them for 15 years because they shipped their factory from Anaheim and Orange in California to China.
That's patriotism! Put your money where your rhetoric is, or stop waving that flag in my face! Otherwise, I just might have to flick my Bic (most of which are made in America) !
One more thing.
The truth is that Trump voters don't know what patriotism is, so they just need to be quiet about the subject before someone gives them a five minute lesson on the same. The first thing you need to know about illegal immigration is that anyone who is Sioux, Comanche, Apache, Navajo, or the like will tell you that the white man has nothing to say on the subject, as he stole everything from those mentioned above.


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I was assigned sweet potatoes and dessert for Thanksgiving at my sister's house this year. Because I don't 'do' desserts (no, not dieting... I just don't 'do' desserts... ), I questioned if pie was a must, and thankfully, according to my sister, it is not.
Okay, so I decided to make a pear crisp (with ice cream topping), a pumpkin roll, and brownies for the kids.
Since the pumpkin roll involves... well, rolling... I thought I should make it last night just in case I needed to go purchase a pumpkin roll, already rolled, from the grocery store.
I made it. I rolled it. I cut off the ends to make them 'clean' and even. And, I popped it in the freezer to pull back out on Thanksgiving morning.
Ian got the ends for a little snack. HE LOVED IT... like REALLY loved it... with eating sounds (Mmmmm... Mmmmm... ) and everything! No one has ever made those sounds as a result of my baking. Ever.
But then, last night, I lay in bed thinking about what the roll looked like. Not cakey like I am used to seeing, and I put too much cream cheese in it, so some filling was squooshing out the seams. It was an obsessive-compulsive nightmare.
And then, I thought about it all day at work. It may taste good, but the roll was not as pretty as it should be.
Screw it.
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Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Monday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT:
– TORONTO – The Blue Jays return home for Game 3, down 2-0 to the Royals in the ALCS. Marcus Stroman starts for Toronto while Johnny Cueto goes for Kansas City. Game starts 8:07 p.m.
– TORONTO – Politics crosses paths with baseball Monday when Canada holds federal elections. Says Toronto manager John Gibbons: "I don't get into politics. If we were 2-0 up, I might have a comment."
– CHICAGO – The Cubs trail the Mets 2-0 in an NLCS that shifts to Wrigley Field for the next three games. It doesn't get easier for Chicago on Tuesday night when New York starts Jacob deGrom.
– LAS VEGAS – Lamar Odom's family says the former NBA player is "getting stronger and reaching significant milestones in his recovery." Odom was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel a week ago.
– PHILADELPHIA – Eli Manning and the first-place New York Giants (3-2) go for their fourth straight win, facing Sam Bradford, DeMarco Murray and the rival Philadelphia Eagles (2-3). Game starts 8:30 p.m.
– INDIANAPOLIS – Colts punter Pat McAfee called it one of the worst fake punts ever. Coach Chuck Pagano called it a mistake. However it's described, the botched play won't soon be forgotten in Indianapolis.
– CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Panthers have their signature win, beating nemesis Seattle to validate their unbeaten record. Next up are nationally televised night games in the next two weeks.
– CINCINNATI – The Bengals are reaching unaccustomed heights. They are 6-0, and they last time they had such a start they made it to the Super Bowl.
– ST. PAUL, Minn. – The NFL goes before an appeals court, contending the judge who rejected the league arbitrator's decision to uphold Adrian Peterson's suspension should not have intervened.
– TCU's Trevone Boykin is separating himself from the nation's elite quarterbacks. He's the only one to exceed 500 yards in total offense three times. No other quarterback has done it more than once.
– TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – No. 8 Alabama has won its last four games by an average of 23 points since its only defeat. Next challenger: Tennessee.
– ZURICH – Saying he has been "dragged through the mud" in the FIFA investigation, Michel Platini believes he has not lost support in his bid to succeed Sepp Blatter as president of soccer's governing body.


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It's the 21st century where cars and technology constantly surround us. Consumers are car shopping anywhere, anytime and on any device. Mobile landing pages are the online connection between you and your range of users, don't make the mistake of using a one-size fits all approach. Your mobile traffic isn't equivalent to your desktop-traffic making it important to optimize for each accordingly. According to Google, 70% of searches for car MSRP and list prices are done on mobile. Attract specific consumers with an effective mobile landing page whether your goal is generating leads or increasing in-store visits. Learn how to give your mobile users optimal access to your dealership's vital information.
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It also stresses the importance of marketing personnel at the dealership understanding and having the ability to make edits.


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- Prep Time: 2 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 minutes
- Total Time: 4 minutes
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I sometimes toast the bread and sometimes I don't, it is good either way. Sometimes I grill it after it is assembled (like a grilled cheese is grilled).
Toast two slices of bread, spread both slices with peanut butter, spread mayonnaise over the peanut butter. Put onion slice(s) on mayonnaise.
Cut sandwich on an angle and enjoy!
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*** You can serve as "open face" sandwiches too! *** You can do these ingredients on crackers instead of bread and serve as appetizer or snack. They had lots of savory recipes that included peanut butter... This is a family favorite, and I have been eating these for almost 60 years....Enjoy! The combination may sound crazy...but it is crazy good!


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I thought I saw this somewhere, but can't find it.
Do the rules directly address what happens when a batter can't continue in a CBO?
Either, in the middle of an at bat, or say HPB and is injured and needs to be replaced on base.
Looking for what defines who takes over for the injured player.
Or is this interpreted from other rules.
CBO Injured Batter
Posted 20 April 2018 - 12:06 AM
I thought I saw this somewhere, but can't find it.
Posted 20 April 2018 - 12:23 AM
The answer:
It is not in the rule book, however, in a CBO, when a batter or runner gets hurt and cannot continue, the last offensive player to make an out will replace him for the at-bat or on the bases.
If the hurt player cannot cannot continue, then the player is skipped in the batting order when his turn comes up with no out being charged.
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Posted 20 April 2018 - 12:30 AM
I attended a Rules Clinic at Western Region and asked this specific question. The answer:
It is not in the rule book, however, in a CBO, when a batter or runner gets hurt and cannot continue, the last last offensive player to make an out will replace him for the at-bat or on the bases. If the hurt player cannot cannot continue, then the player is skipped in the batting order when his turn comes up with no out being charged.
Thanks. Some leagues apparently play where the following batter takes over the at bat, last batted out if the batter reaches base.
I just had a question from a coach new to our league, and in giving rule clarifications, I often like to refer to the rule book.
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Posted 20 April 2018 - 12:41 AM
I'll see if I can find it archived somewhere.
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Posted 20 April 2018 - 01:31 AM
Here's the text from the 2013 RIM with regards to 4.04. The first part covers how to replace the batter and is contrary to what WR said. I always remembered that the next player in the batting order assumed the count, and the RIM supports that. I would go with the RIM, and not what someone said at WR. That's another problem with not having a national UIC. Regions are formulating their own interpretations that are not coordinated with other regions, nor are they distributed to all members of LL.
INSTRUCTOR COMMENTS: League uses the continuous batting order and a player gets hurt while at-bat. What do we do now? Answer: The next batter in the order takes his/her place and assumes the count and the game continues. If that injured player is unable to continue in the game the next time he/she is scheduled to bat merely skip over him/ her and continue the game.
2. League is using the CBO and a player is at bat, hits the ball and is hurt while running the bases. Who takes his place on the base? It is recommended that the last out of the previous inning is the player who is substituted to run for the injured player. Or you can even use the last out of that offensive inning. What you need to watch out for is getting in a situation where the offensive team needs a run and all of a sudden they need a runner and "they" select the team's fastest runner. Make it clean and in writing so there will never be any questions.
3. League is using the CBO at the Junior/Senior/Big League level and wants to take its pitcher off the mound put him/her in the dugout for a rest and bring him/her back later because he/she is still in the line up. Can they do that? No, not really. While admittedly the player is still in the batting order, however, when they took the pitcher off the mound and moved him/her to the dugout they lost their chance to bring the pitcher back. The rule was written to keep the pitcher in the lineup both offensively and defensively.
[MINOR Baseball & Softball: A local league may adopt a format using the complete roster as the batting order. The side may be retired if three (3) outs occur or when a team bats through their roster or when the offensive team scores five (5) runs.]
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Posted 20 April 2018 - 01:40 AM
Thanks folks, maybe this is where I saw it.
Very helpful.
Posted 20 April 2018 - 03:11 AM
Trouble with taking over mid-AB is that it doesn't then count as an AB for MPR purposes.
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Posted 24 April 2018 - 05:02 PM
In CBO, batter has 1-1 count and fouls a ball off his foot and cannot continue to bat, who replaces the injured batter?
In CBO, runner slides into second and injures his ankle and cannot continue, who replaces the injured runner.
The answer to both questions was the injured batter/runner is replaced by the player who made the last out.
Point is, the rulebook doesn't say what to do so to alleviate any questions/problems put what you do in your Local Rules.
By the way, using the player that made the last out resolves the issue of it not being an at-bat if you put up the next batter.
That said, if you use the player who made the last out you need to cover the unlikely instance of it happening in the first inning with no outs!
In such a case, I recommend putting in the last player in the batting order.
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Posted 24 April 2018 - 07:05 PM
As you stated, if a League has it in writing, then it can always be referred to when it happens.
Posted 25 April 2018 - 03:19 PM
What timing!
This specific incident - CBO and batter injured during at bat - happened in my league yesterday.
The umps handled it by bringing the last out to finish the at bat.
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Posted 25 April 2018 - 04:03 PM
Good thing we all now know how Williamsport answered the question.
It's good for all of us to be on the same page and on HQs recent changes to situations.
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Posted 25 June 2018 - 11:13 AM
When this players turn came up to bat the bases were loaded, with 1 out and the manager skipped over his number 1 batter and put in number 2 batter.
After the count of 1 ball 2 strikes the opposing manager said there is now 2 outs for batting out of order.
What should the ruling be?
Posted 25 June 2018 - 02:30 PM
When a player leaves the lineup under CBO his spot is skipped without penalty.
CBO, player plays 2 innings in the field, and was the first batter to start the game. the player was being disruptive, used foul language to the manager. Manager then took player out of the game, to discipline the player. the manager told the opposing manager what he was doing so everyone knew what was going on.
When this players turn came up to bat the bases were loaded, with 1 out and the manager skipped over his number 1 batter and put in number 2 batter.
After the count of 1 ball 2 strikes the opposing manager said there is now 2 outs for batting out of order.
What should the ruling be?
It's in black and white in the rule book.
Posted 25 June 2018 - 02:53 PM
It's in the rule book for injury, what if a kid gets gets called out on strikes and don't like the call and leaves on his own? when his turn comes up, is it an automatic out for batting out of order?
When a player leave the lineup under CBO his spot is skipped without penalty. It's in black and white in the rule book.
My case the Manager took him out of line-up, what if the ump threw him out. what happens to his spot in the line up?
This was in a TOC game last night and we could not find it in the rule book?
Posted 25 June 2018 - 03:42 PM
For CBO a kid leaving for injury, another activity or ejection should be treated the same.
Skipped over and move on.
Posted 25 June 2018 - 03:50 PM
And Not an OUT?
Other Team was demanding an Out, and Umps agreed?
Where is it in the rule books? 2018 LLBB rule book only
Posted 25 June 2018 - 05:14 PM
While in travel ball it would be an out (for ejection or for injury) but in LL its not an out.
I believe its rule 4.04 Note 2
4.04 – The batting order shall be followed throughout the game unless a player is substituted for another. Substitutes must take the place of the replaced player's position in the batting order except as covered by Rule 3.03. A league may adopt a policy of a continuous batting order that will include all players on the team roster present for the game batting in order. If this option is adopted, each player would be required to bat in his/her respective spot in the batting order. However, a player may be entered and/or re-entered defensively in the game anytime provided he/she meets the requirements of mandatory play. NOTE 1: The continuous batting order is mandatory for all Tee Ball and Minor League Divisions. NOTE 2: For the Tee Ball and Minor League Divisions (and when the continuous batting order is adopted for other divisions), when a player is injured, becomes ill, or must leave the game site after the start of the game, the team will skip over him/her when his/her time at bat comes up without penalty. If the injured, ill, or absent player returns, he/she is merely inserted into their original spot in the batting order and the game continues. Also, if a player arrives late to a game site, if the manager chooses to enter him/her in the lineup (see Rule 4.01 NOTE), he/she would be added to the end of the current lineup.
Posted 25 June 2018 - 05:26 PM
There has to be a penalty or coaches would just skip over the last kid in the lineup to get back to the top of the order.
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Posted 25 June 2018 - 07:16 PM
There is no penalty as decibed in 4.04 (note 2). Absent of a penalty, you just skip over the kid for whatever reason.
Yes, coaches could manipulate this rule. If an umpire finds out the manager is cheating, then send him to the parking lot.
However, as decscibed in the OP, no penalty, no out, no BOOT, no nothing. Play on.
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3rd Vice President Jay Ryan's article in the April newsletter printed the incorrect start times for the Candlelight vigils in both Washington DC & Cleveland. It printed as 10pm, but both should reflect 8pm. The dates are correct as printed, (May 13th for Washington DC & May 14th for Cleveland).


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You can spend months or even years on a project, only to watch it be criticized, or worse, ignored. I once worked on a project thinking that it would do fairly well. I spent an entire year on it, and it was my most vulnerable work to date.
The outcome was similar to having a baby and all the doctors laughing out loud, saying, "My goodness that is an ugly baby."
That's what failure feels like when you share a part of you. But recovering from that failure is a practice, a mindset—in fact, the lessons that I internalized from that experience is helping me do better work. The thinking goes: No failure, no growth.
esse é o terceiro dos nove princípios para manter a calma durante o caos, e o que mais diretamente se aplica a mim no presente momento. há vida depois do fracasso, e eu estou aqui para corroborar isso.


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Lidless Eye Hobbies: Heroines in Sensible Shoes 3
Lidless Eye posted a topic in Show OffMy most recently complete project is the lovely ladies of Oathsworn Miniature's "Heroines in Sensible Shoes 3" Kickstarter. As always, they are a joy to paint. They have nice, bold details but without being overwrought. They definitely look like a bunch of starting adventurers! The theme this time was more exotic races, notably a bunch from "Volo's Guide to Monsters" The ladies ascend the mountain: The Kitsune. She could be a lightly armored Fighter, a Rogue, or a Ranger. The Kenku (or Tengu) Shaman. Or Wizard. Or Sorcerer. Or whatever. She's got a bone to pick with you! The Kenku or Tengu Rogue. I went with oranges for them to continue my previous work on the Bones Tengu...which were also dressed in orange to match the official D&D pre-paints. The Dragonborn, could be a Fighter or Paladin. The decision to make her red was regrettable...with that pointy face and dreads, I kept thinking of Ugandan Warrior Knuckles. Stupid memes getting in the way! Tabaxi or Catfolk. I tried to go with more of a Ranger color scheme than the intended Rogue. The other Tabaxi/Catfolk from the set. I liked the intent of this sculpt...she could be a spellcaster, a Monk, or a Bard! The Halfling Knight. Her mount was painted after my own painting gremlin, Hershey. He would be much smaller to scale, though. The Tiefling Paladin. I really like the pose of this one, though I questioned the hooves, as 4E and 5E Tieflings of this design have human feet. I may wind up greenstuffing her into boots at some point. The Firbolg Druid. As far as I know, this is the only miniature of a 5E style Firbolg. The Minotaur Swashbuckler. I bet you were expecting a cow joke here. The terrain:
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Lovejoy posted a topic in KickstarterEdit - project is now live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oathsworn/heroines-in-sensible-shoes-3-miniatures-for-rpgs Starting on Monday, for probably 14 days, Heroines in Sensible Shoes 3 - Not every heroine is human. Teaser pic, as there's only five minis sculpted so far! I'll be sculpting at least 7 more throughout the project, taking input and suggestions from the backers... So far, there's a firbolg druid, tabaxi and kenku rogues, a minotaur barbarian, and a hobgoblin eldritch knight. After consulting with our previous backers, the the most popular suggestions are - another tabaxi, probably either a monk or wizard; a tiefling wizard, and a tiefling paladin or cleric; another kenku (probably a magic user of some sort); a dragonborn paladin; a tortle (no ideas on class or equipment yet!); and finally a human barbarian, heavy, powerful build, but not lean. I'm open to suggestions though, so if you have any, please let me know! cheers Michael
Lidless Eye WiP: Heroines in Sensible Shoes 3
Lidless Eye posted a topic in Works In ProgressI recently got in the latest "Heroines in Sensible Shoes" Kickstarter from Oathsworn Miniatures. I decided to get started on them and take (yet another) break from my in progress Rising Sun minis. As \always, they were nice, clean casts with lots of detail, but nothing over-wrought...which makes sense for low-level adventurers! They're such a joy to paint.


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WOW what a neat area! Besides sitting outside and enjoying the scenery and reading and trips into Rifle for shopping and eating we also did some sightseeing while in western Colorado. Just a short drive from our campsite in the Rifle Gap State Park is Rifle Falls State Park. Rifle Falls is a triple falls that is about 70' tall.
There is an easy trail to the top of the falls that takes you past some caves.
The view from the top of the water cascading over the falls and the valley below is breathtaking.
Even though it was a cloudy day and we got sprinkled on at first and then rained on at the end it was still incredible scenery. We are now in Utah to see the five National Parks there which we have never seen and understand has great scenery but it will be tough to beat what we have seen here in western Colorado.
The trail takes your right over the falls and then you can take a steeper trail back to the parking lot. The tip is to go see the falls first and then take the easy trail up and the steep trail down.
Before we conclude our blogging on western Colorado we have to mention the Creekbend Bistro in Rifle. We had one lunch and one breakfast there and wish we had eaten more times. The food was fresh and tasty and we highly recommend this place. We are already talking about our return visit in two years to Colorado and how we must visit this area again.
Photos from Rifle Falls have been uploaded to the Rifle Gap State Park set on Flickr.com
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I have blogging a lot about how to make things happen for your Self.
Now that is all very well but does it really work?
Yes it does. One of the reasons I haven't written anything for a while is because I have been busy moving house.
This story started about two years ago. We had taken in a friend who needed some serious nurturing. He had been in a very abusive relationship and needed a lot of help both to leave his difficult situation and also to heal so that he could even function. He was in a very bad way. We knew we had to help him. It wasn't easy, it took all our attention for a couple of months but that is what we felt we had to do. Part of the journey with him was to give him a vision of what he could do and be. He has realised that and is out there sharing his full potential. He is a very powerful healer.
We weren't looking for a new house we had a very nice place thank you very much but it was a little crowded with him living with us. We talked of getting a bigger place where we could all live together. We wanted him to feel comfortable. We noticed a house in the local paper that had all the things we would need. It was priced at 1.9 million dollars. We ignored that, we had no money. We had enough to pay the rent and put food on the table. We got by. We had enough but nothing spare, no money in the bank. Anyway we all jumped in the car and went and had a look at this big property. Yes it was really great. Perfect we said we will manifest it and jumped back in the car and drove away. We forgot about it.
Now two years later we're living in it.
Now how did that happen. Don't ask me but it just did. We are renting it and it's quite affordable. It's also quite fantastic.
I am not trying to impress you I won't bore you with all the details but it is a perfect place for us. I am just stating what happened. We created it – very easily.
You don't need anything, not money not luck, not good karma, not anything. You just need the imagination to envisage what you want.
If you follow the process I have outlined in my previous blogs this can happen for you. You won't know how or when but it will happen.
Now I hear why did it take two years to manifest?
Because that was the perfect timing. In retrospect we weren't ready until now, we still had things to do where we were. It is a special place with a very high energy and we have work to do there. That work is finished. We now have a much better space with all the facilities we need to move forwards with lots of big new projects. The new place if anything is even more powerful than the last. We are where we are supposed to Be.
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Below, the publisher, Random House Children's and Penguin Random House Audio, share how the story was discovered and reminds us of Beatrix Potter's legacy.
"Beatrix Potter's manuscript for The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (on sale 9/6/16) was rediscovered two years ago when Jo Hanks, publisher at Penguin Random House Children's, stumbled across an out-of-print literary history about Beatrix Potter from the early 1970s. Hanks found in the book both a reference to a letter that Potter had sent her publisher in 1914, which referred to a story about 'a well-behaved prime black Kitty cat, who leads rather a double life', and an unedited manuscript of the tale.
A trip to the V&A archive, where many of Potter's items are kept, revealed three manuscripts, handwritten in children's school notebooks, one rough colour sketch of Kitty-in-Boots, a dummy book with some of the typeset manuscript laid out and a pencil rough of arch-villain Mr. Tod. Other letters in the archive revealed that Potter intended to finish the tale, but 'interruptions began' – and continued: from the beginning of the First World War, to marriage, to sheep farming, to colds. And so she never went back to the story.
Jo Hanks said, "The tale really is the best of Beatrix Potter. It has double identities, colourful villains and a number of favourite characters from other tales (including Mr. Tod, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Ribby and Tabitha Twitchit). And, most excitingly, our treasured, mischievous Peter Rabbit makes an appearance – albeit older, slower and portlier!"
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's best-loved children's authors, with her most famous creation The Tale of Peter Rabbit having sold in excess of 45 million copies globally since its initial publication by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. She personally oversaw the launch of subsequent products, making Peter Rabbit the oldest licensed character in history. Today over 2 million of her 'little books' are sold globally every year, and Peter Rabbit has appeared in books and products in more than 110 countries throughout the world. 150 years after her birth, we celebrate an incredible woman, an artist, storyteller, botanist, environmentalist, farmer and businesswoman. Beatrix Potter was a visionary and a trailblazer. Single-mindedly determined and ambitious, she overcame professional rejection, academic humiliation and personal heartbreak, going on to earn her fortune and a formidable reputation. On her death, she left an incredible legacy of land and property to the care of the National Trust to ensure that future generations would continue to enjoy the countryside that she was so passionate about, as well as the much-loved characters and stories that were created over a lifetime."
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The Super Bowl is set. The Pro Bowl is here (yay?) and the so-called worldwide leader in sports is scrambling to find ways to pack content into their 24 hour Embrace Debate lineup in what is arguably the thinnest time of year for sports. College football has ended. Professional football has fewer teams playing each week. The NBA has until June and half the league makes the playoffs, and college basketball is mostly unwatchable. There's almost nothing worth talking about.
That is, if you don't have a spin machine and an agenda.
It's bad, people. It's honestly the reason that we have not provided a whole lot of content apart from Brian who has absolutely killed his serial NFL column each week. But, that hasn't stopped others from trying to manufacture drama to keep viewership up. I get it. At the end of the day, it's all about numbers. So, how do you up numbers? First, you put people who are both talented at delivering the scripted talking points as personal conviction and who are pleasant enough to look at on television. I know this is revolutionary to think about, but can we really call it coincidence that Kornheiser and Wilbon disagree on nearly everything they talk about on PTI?
This all began back in late 2015. With the NFL regular season waning and the playoff picture gaining clarity, ESPN began laying the ground work for the NFL postseason. Disney's sports network took clips of Cam Newton, the quarterback of the 1-loss Carolina Panthers, and began airing them so regularly that the intent was to saturate the market. The images alternated, in different programs and segments, between Good Guy Cam Newton, who was shown making hustle plays and giving footballs to children, and Bad Guy Cam Newton who was shown showboating and excessively celebrating. Every clip on every ESPN show was a variation of one or the other.
It was around this same time that ESPN tasked Britt McHenry as the network's Carolina Panthers beat reporter. McHenry was shown regularly giving the insider's angle into the Panthers' weekly activities. McHenry is intelligent, well-spoken, and very pretty. ESPN knows its target audience, predominantly male between the ages of 18 and 49–not surprisingly, this age range is the 'sweet spot' for Nielsson's ratings as well.
Now, please don't mistake me here. I am in no way suggesting that Britt McHenry only was put in that role because she's attractive. What I am saying is that she appeals to a wide range of people for many reasons, some of which do have to do with her appearance. She's comfortable in front of the camera, educated, and knowledgeable about the NFL. However, ESPN's selection of McHenry to align with the Panthers for the rest of the season had nothing to do with any of these reasons. It all boils down to one simple fact: Britt McHenry is divisive. We'll get to that in just a second.
As Britt McHenry began settling into her new long term role, ESPN began to work on labeling Cam Newton as a polarizing player. They were showing his virtues and his sins to viewers on constant loop. ESPN lined up experts and made sure to feature Cam prominently in both the designed debate shows and the round table discussions. They made sure to diversify the opinions on Cam across gender and race of their pundits. The last thing the Mickey Mouse network could afford was to insinuate that Cam Newton was divisive because he was black.
Now, that is not due to any misplaced notion of colorblindness or nobility on ESPN's part. The producers simply could not allow Cam Newton to become the a victim. ESPN has cashed in heavily in the past by broadly painting underperforming black quarterbacks as victims of the institutional racism of the NFL. That angle simply would not grow legs with Cam Newton, the likely NFL MVP. Additionally, ESPN didn't want Cam to be a victim. If the network could create a false dilemma with Cam as either a shining hero or a dastardly villain, they could gain ground with those who loved him and simply loved to hate him. So, that's what they tried to accomplish by debating whether he was an arrogant thug, or a fun-loving kid who loves his team and his fans. As with any false dilemma, the annihilation of the middle ground was required.
Before we go any further, I mentioned a moment ago that Britt McHenry is divisive, and that was why she was the one selected to cover Cam's team. Here's what I mean. Consider some of ESPN's other reporters who act in this capacity–Adam Schefter, Sal Palontonio, and Lisa Salters to name a few. Do you have strong feelings about any of them? No, I didn't expect so. Sure, some of them may annoy you, but they're mostly neutral on the hatred spectrum. Now, consider Britt McHenry. Do you have strong feelings about her? If you have knowledge of how she behaved last April, you probably do. Maybe you hold additional resentment for her because ESPN only suspended her for a week after her diatribe against that Tow Yard worker. Either way, if you have strong feelings about Britt McHenry, odds are that they aren't positive feelings. So, by associating her with Cam Newton, people that dislike her would also be inclined to project that disdain on Cam Newton.
Finally, this brings me to the crux of the rhetorical question in the title. Does anyone actually hate Cam Newton? If ESPN is shifting its coverage in such a way to artificially increase the collective vitriol for Cam, that has to mean that he is predominantly well-liked. It's easy to like the guy. Here are some of the reasons.
- He started a team-wide trend of giving touchdown footballs to kids in the stands after every Panthers touchdown.
- He is smart, articulate, and competitive without being a jerk to reporters or fans.
- After joining the NFL, he returned to Auburn to complete his degree, making him a rarity in the NFL.
- He has top five athletic ability in the NFL, and that makes him unbelievably fun to watch.
- He is a selfless leader of his team and plays as much for them as himself.
I understand that not everyone is going to like Cam Newton and that a lot of people are going to be cheering for Peyton on Super Bowl Sunday. That's fine.
Here's the thing, ESPN has been breathlessly trying to craft this Cam Newton narrative for months. Smaller sports outlets have taken ESPN's lead and begun reporting on Cam's negatives. Many even talk about how polarizing he is and wonder if he can ever move people back to the middle in their opinions on him. It's become an absurd circus like always, but the question is whether anyone has bought into it. The sports media has proven that it's divided on Cam as an effort to appeal to possibly divided fans. ESPN has clearly convinced the media to buy the spin. And, I'm genuinely amazed that more people don't stop and ask a simple question.
Does anyone really hate Cam Newton?


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Broncos in the NFL: Jamar Taylor could get key job on Dolphins' defense
Note: Each day during camp, we'll take a look at one of the former Boise State football players in the NFL. The full list is here.
Former Boise State cornerback Jamar Taylor could get extensive playing time in the first four games this season — a chance for him to prove himself to coaches.
The Dolphins will be without star safety Reshad Jones for the first four games because of a failed drug test. The Miami Herald suggests that the Dolphins will move nickel corner Jimmy Wilson to Jones' spot at safety.
That would open the door for Taylor to play the nickel corner spot. The Herald says Taylor has had a strong training camp.
Taylor struggled with injuries during his rookie year. He played in nine games and made three tackles.
He told me in April in Boise that he's ready to compete for a key job with the Dolphins.
"We've got a lot of competition but I'm not scared of competition," he said. "May the best man win. I played with a lot of great DBs here. I'm healthy and ready to take over the world. That's my plan."
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Watch Them Unto Death, Whale Watching Soars Past $2 Billion Per Year
A peer-reviewed study of whale tourism's global value boosts economic arguments that the marine mammals are worth more alive than dead.
The vast sum of money spent to watch them is more than sufficient in the interest alone to sustainably replenish and restore whale ocean pastures and whales to historic health and abundance.
Whale watching is a growth industry, growing by at least 10% each year.
Tragically the whales are not the beneficiaries of those billions.
The study from 2010 coincided with a decision by the 88-nation International Whaling Commission meeting in Agadir, Morocco, to move forward with a "five year strategic plan" to explore both the economic benefits and ecological risks of whale watching.
Millions of eco-tourists in gladly pay richly to see the animals in their natural element, generating $2.4 billion and employing 13,000 people across hundreds of coastal regions worldwide, the study found.
In Australia's whale watching industry earned $31 million in direct revenue in 2008, attracting 1.6 million people, according to Australian government figures.
"We can have our whales and still benefit from them, without killing them," said co-author Rashid Sumaila, a researcher at the University of British Columbia.
Whale tourism has expanded steadily over the last two decades. Continuing at the same pace would add more than $460 million and 5,700 jobs to the global economy each year, said the study, published in the Britain-based journal Marine Policy. At least half of this growth benefits seaside communities in developing countries, especially in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa, where traditional fisheries are in collapse.
"It can be launched with little initial investment and carried out by local fishers who are already familiar with the area," the study noted.
Whaling countries have argued that watching whales and killing them are not necessarily incompatible when populations are robust and expanding. The study found that every year half-a-million people ply the coastal waters of each and every one of the whaling nations in the hope of glimpsing a living whale.
We can and therefore we MUST restore their ocean pastures to save them
In 2012 with a small band of native people I took on the task of restoring a vast ocean pasture in the Gulf of Alaska. That ocean was becoming an ever more clear blue lifeless ocean desert. It had the capacity to bloom like the Garden of Eden but something was missing.
I knew from a lesson taught by Mother Nature what was missing. Four times in the past century Mother Nature has taught the lesson. When her volcanoes in the remote Aleutian Islands erupted with massive plumes of mineral rich volcanic ash. And when those eruptions and that ash happened to be carried by the wind to exactly the right part of the downwind ocean, aka the Gulf of Alaska. And when that dusting of the ocean happened at just the right time of year, aka the summer growing season. Mother Nature's ocean pastures bloomed in spectacular abundance.
How do we know? Hundreds of millions of salmon scientists, schooled by Mother Nature, swam home to us to tell us all about the miracle of ocean life. Following in the footsteps of Mother Nature with eleven shipmates I became the 'volcano' and took the right dust, to the right place, at the right time and together we restored the ocean pasture to life. We brought the fish back but even more we experienced one of the greatest gatherings of whales ever witnessed on this blue planet.
Or you can click to watch and listen to this music video I made with my friends after my muse put the song into my brain as an incurable 'ear worm.'
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We can afford to restore the ocean pastures.
To gain a further understanding of what I did and how the interest alone on just one year's worth of billions today spent to enjoy watching whales realize that my dust for the ocean to restore it's precious and vital whale pastures cost just $70,000! Of course the required high caliber ocean science we performed with the active participation and funding of many Ministries of the Government of Canada, British Columbia, and the First Nations to say nothing of international scientific groups who participate added a couple million to the cost of this work.
That's just the paid part of the job which does not include the many years of unpaid work it took to get the project approval through countless government approvals before, during, and after but hey who's counting.
Do the math. The interest on $2.4 billion invested in typical environmental endowments would easily generate more than $100 million each and every year and the endowment principal would never be touched.
Here's how it worked!
I've done a life's work of ecorestoration for many years, going on five decades, but my best work was done in 2012 when with 11 native friends, my dirty dozen, we dusted 10,000 sq. kilometers of the Gulf of Alaska in our 'salmon restoration' effort. There is good news to come so do read on, some wonderful happened.
It just worked as the image for this post reveals.
In our distant patch of North Pacific we weathered vicious 80+ mph winds, hurricane force, with waves blasting over the top of our 130 ft fishing/research ship.
Noone escaped seasickness, some worse than others as our cook was so ill we had to evacuate her to hospital. But we persevered and over the course of weeks hefted/man-handled 4000 50 lb bags of life-giving mineral deck from the holds of the ship to give dust back to the ocean to replenish and restore all of ocean life, from the bottom up.
Oh, yeah… the fish came back too!


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Hull City boss Steve Bruce has joined the race to sign Everton striker Nikica Jelavic, after growing frustrated in his attempts to sign Shane Long and Steven Fletcher, according to the Daily Mail.
Bruce is keen to add a goalscorer this month to help build on his side's impressive first half of the season.
Sunderland have priced their former manager out of a move for Steven Fletcher, while Shane Long now looks set to stay at West Brom.
Jelavic has been told he can leave Goodison Park this month, after losing his first team place to on loan Chelsea forward Romelu Lukaku.
London trio West Ham, Crystal Palace and QPR are all keen to sign the Croatian forward, but none have managed to match the asking price.
West Ham in particular are desperate to sign a new striker this month, but Sam Allardyce is reluctant to pay the £4.5million Everton are demanding, and is instead scouring the market for loan signings.
Bruce has £5million to spend on a new striker this month, and has also considered Filip Djordjevic of Nantes and Georgios Samaras of Celtic.
Everton want to sign a replacement before letting Jelavic go, and are currently weighing up various targets.
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We are no strangers to Chinese Drywall litigation here at the Monitor, but you may have noticed it has been quite a while since the allegedly defective building material reared its head (see prior posts here, here, here, here, and here). For two defendants who reached settlement agreements years ago in the class actions consolidated into a Multi-District Litigation in the Eastern District of Louisiana, their Chinese Drywall class action days are apparently not behind them. The Fifth Circuit affirmed this month that the claims of a putative class of Florida property owners who allege their condominiums lost market value on account of the stigma associated with the use of Chinese Drywall on another building in their complex are not enjoined because they do not fall within the scope of the defendants' MDL settlement agreements. In re Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation, No. 14-31355, 2015 WL 5771919, at *1 (5th Cir. Oct. 2, 2015).
At the Lauderdale One Condominium Complex in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, residents live in one of two separate condominium buildings, referred to as "Building One" and "Building Two." Building One was constructed using Chinese Drywall. Building Two was not. Plaintiff Mangiarelli owns a condo unit in Building Two, which has never contained any Chinese Drywall. So, what gripe inspired Mangiarelli to commence a class-action lawsuit against Chinese Drywall defendants Sixty Fifth and One, LLC ("Sixty Fifth") and Banner Supply Company Pompano, LLC ("Banner")? He claims that his condominium has lost market value as a result of the stigma of being associated with Building One. Stigma, as it turns out, is difficult to overcome.
In 2009, all federal actions alleging damage resulting from Chinese Drywall were transferred to a Multi-District Litigation. See In re Chinese–Manufactured Drywall Prods. Liab. Litig., 2:09–MD–2047–EEF–JCW (E.D.La.2009). Sixty Fifth and Banner were defendants in class actions consolidated into the MDL, and both defendants ultimately settled the class-action claims against them, reaching agreements referred to as "Banner" and "Global." They filed a motion to enjoin the Florida state court action, arguing that the Banner and Global settlement agreements covered Mangiarelli's claims. Additionally, they argued, Mangiarelli could not bring the stigma claims individually because he did not opt out of the Banner and Global agreements. The district court disagreed, as did the Fifth Circuit.
As for the parties' arguments, Sixty Fifth and Banner did have in their corner a broad definition of class membership in both settlement agreements. The Global agreement defined the settlement class as consisting of "[a]ll persons or entities … with claims, known or unknown, arising from or related to actual or alleged Chinese Drywall purchased, imported, supplied, distributed, marketed, installed, used, sold or in any way alleged to be within the legal responsibility of [Sixty Fifth]." The Banner settlement agreement contained a very similar provision. The Fifth Circuit made clear, however, that this language, however, broad, must be read in the context of the agreement as a whole and that "language elsewhere in the settlement agreement required that a class member have a significant connection to an Affected Property.'" 2015 WL 5771919, at *2.
The court therefore rejected appellants' contention that the settlement agreements' class definitions were distinct from any provision concerning "Affected Property," such that an individual would not need to own, inhabit, or otherwise have a close tie to Affected Property to be considered a class member. The court also dismissed as illogical the argument that Mangiarelli should not be allowed to proceed on his stigma claim because he failed to opt out of the settlement agreements when appellants' acknowledged that the terms of the Global and Banner agreements do not cover such claims: "It spurns simple reasoning to require individuals to opt out of a settlement agreement under which they were never entitled to compensation." Id. at *3. Cases cited by appellants to support the proposition that it is common for individuals to be "class members" under a settlement agreement, yet to be barred from recovery under the terms of that agreement were, according to the court, "easily distinguishable" in that they all involved class members who forfeited the opportunity to recover a portion of the settlement funds through their own actions.
At the end of the day, this decision affirms some basic principles of contract interpretation—namely, that each provision of a contract should be read in light of other provisions and, if possible, in a manner which avoids an illogical outcome. Tellingly, to reach its decision, the court did not rely on other cases interpreting settlement agreements in particular. It simply cited the basic rule which dictates that terms of a contract are not to be read in insolation. As with any contract, it is difficult to envision and account for all potential future scenarios when crafting a settlement agreement. Here, for instance, it is unlikely that claimants like Mangiarelli and his Fort Lauderdale neighbors were initially contemplated by the parties to the Global and Banner agreements. Appellants' took their best shot by urging a close reading of an undeniably broad class definition, but, much like the condominiums in Mangiarelli's complex, the court was not buying it.


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Our beaded items are made by Elena Ramirez and her daughters Ana Mesilla and Rebeca Sosof on the shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
They have designed a range of beaded keyrings, purses, bags, Christmas decorations and belts and have taught local women to make their designs too. When they get large orders, the whole village can help fulfil them and the other women now have the skills to be able to make items to sell independently at the local market.
Items such as belts can take up to a week to make and all are made by hand by happy people in a safe working environment. We can guarantee this as we have travelled to Guatemala and visited Elena at her home where they work!


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Almost two millions of people call Hamburg their home. It is the second largest city in Germany, the seventh largest in the European Union and the largest city by population in the EU, not the capital of the state. This city is also one of the largest port cities in Europe, thanks to its location – on the Elbe, near the North Sea.
Hamburg's public transport system includes underground (U-Bahn), urban railway (S-Bahn), route river ferries, commuter trains and buses. The entire public transport is run by the Hamburg Transport Union (Hamburger Verkehrsverbund, HVV). No matter where and when you should go in Hamburg, feel free to contact us to book the transfer in our company.
Hamburg Airport is located 9 kilometers north-west of the city center. The airport is the oldest among all the airports in Germany, it was built in 1911. Nowadays it is the fifth largest airport in passenger traffic among the German airports. There are two terminals in this airport, which are located next to each other. In the first terminal you can find ATMs, exchange offices, branches of various banks. In Terminal 2 there are many restaurants, cafes, bars, various shops and first-aid. At the airport, there is a business center with 14 rooms, equipped with telephone, fax and 7 meeting rooms and conference rooms for up to 90 people. For those wishing to stay at the airport, there is the Airport Hotel. For those wishing to get to the city of some neighboring cities, there is an opportunity to reserve (book) the transfer from us. Previously, the fastest way to get from the airport to the main train station was a bus Airport Express, plying every 15-20 minutes without stopping. It was on the road for 25 minutes (ticket price was 5 euros). However, in December 2008, the route was canceled. So, the most convenient way of getting from Hamburg Airport is to book the airport transfer from us.
In Hamburg, there are four rail stations. Main rail station was opened in 1906 and reconstructed several times seriously. Through the station pass up to 450 thousand passengers daily. It makes it the busiest station in Germany. Station architecture is very similar to other stations in Germany. It is a platform on top of covering large landing stage. There are numerous cafes, shops, and vending machines for drinks, chocolates, etc in this rail station. There is no waiting room at the station (mostly because of the convenient train schedules), but the platform has lockable cabin, which can accommodate up to 6 passengers sitting. At night, when it's warm, they can even take a nap. Getting to the city of Hamburg from the railway station is very easy. You may reserve the transfer in our company. Rail service in Hamburg is excellently developed, the same as in the rest of Germany. Several times per hour depart trains to Lübeck, Kiel, Hanover, Bremen and other cities. There is a direct high-speed and regional trains to Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Rostock, Stuttgart. They are sent every hour or every two hours. Also, there is a direct connection to Copenhagen, Paris, Warsaw and Zurich.
In Hamburg there is the largest port in Germany, which is the third largest in Europe after Rotterdam and Antwerp, and the second-largest European freight container terminal. Total length of the mooring line is about 275 km. In addition, the passenger port of Hamburg enters the season with a large number of cruise liners.
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This laptop has ALWAYS struggled to connect to some networks that my phone and tablet can connect to no problem, eg in hotels, Starbucks etc. Here is an example. I want to know why Lenovo doesn't connect to wifi, it's consistently infuriating and I may return the laptop to the retailer if I can't get a solution.
Here's the network that my Android phone has no problem with:
Yet when I connect with the laptop I get no Internet connection:
I have installed the latest wireless drivers from Intel but still it does not work. IS this problem common? Is the problem with Intel or Lenovo? What can I do to fix it? Thanks
This is a long-shot, but easy to try. Go to Device Manager, properties for your wifi card. Try adjusting the channel width. If auto, try 20MHz or 40Mhz. If set to one of those, try auto.
I've had that problem - connectied to access point, but no internet - and "fixed" it by fiddling channel width. It was different hardware so I can't say that this will help. Just tossing it out here...
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The fine print: I do not work for, nor do I speak for Lenovo. Unsolicited private messages will be ignored - questions and answers belong in the forum so that others may contribute and benefit. ... GeezBlog
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Not to be confused with the biopic of Christopher 'Biggie' Wallace. This one has Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains. IMDB ranks it #127 on its list of the top 250 movies of all time. Directed by Hitchcock, written by Ben Hecht, and no rap music that I could discern.
Mr. Grant plays good-guy spy T. R. Devlin, who recruits Alicia Huberman (Ms. Bergman) to infiltrate a group of postwar Nazis who have holed up in Brazil, and are up to something nefarious. She's the daughter of a just-convicted Nazi sympathizer, but her real occupation is Miami party girl/floozy, and maintaining a 24x7 alcoholic fog.
But soon they're flying off to Rio, and… well, look, it's Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, you think they aren't gonna fall for each other? In Rio? But it's not happily-ever-after for them, because Alicia's assignment turns out to involve turning her feminine wiles upon Alex Sebastian (Mr. Rains), chief Nazi slimeball and momma's boy.
Understandably enough, friction is generated between Devlin's professional duties and his personal feelings. He doesn't communicate this well at all to Alicia, who stomps off and throws herself into Sebastian's arms, and, it's strongly implied, other body parts as well. She rapidly finds herself in all kinds of peril.
The DVD I got from Netflix was digitally restored, and included a number of good extras, including a charming excerpt from the 1979 American Film Institute tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, where the post-movie history of a small but vital prop was revealed.


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text: Have you thought of doing corporate work? If you're like most bands I work with you want to write great songs and preform to huge crowds. A cover now and then is okay, but you want those crowds to hear your music. But for now you may just need to do some corporate cover gigs to make ends meet. Don't think you're selling your soul. You are still making money with your musical abilities. And who says you have to use your band name? I know guys who came up with a cool band name they use for all their corporate work. They still do their regular gigs and they have money for rent and food. You don't have to look far for places or events that want cover bands. You may want to pick an era and focus on that music. There are even corporate cover bands with branches in major cities. See what they are doing and you'll see what works best. They don't mess around. Next week I'll tell you some places to look for work you may not have thought of.


text: Sometimes you meet people that you feel instantly comfortable around. Pamela and Dave were those people. When they chose me to photograph their intimate wedding in Winters, I knew we would be a wonderful fit. They said their vows under a large gazebo with the beautiful evening light shining through the beams. Photographers love nothing more than beautiful light so I was giddy with excitement by the time that Pamela walked down the aisle with her dad on her side. After the ceremony, we walked along the streets of the small town and casually took photos. Pamela was wonderful at communicating with me her wants and desires for her wedding photos which made my job simple and enjoyable. Around 6:15 we entered the beautiful banquet room of the Buckhorn Steakhouse. The room was beautiful, welcoming and I loved being able to photograph with the available light, giving the photographs an authentic feel. I also want to thank Pam & Dave for a small gesture that while yes, was small, but spoke greatly of their character - Pam emailed me and asked what I would like for dinner. I declined, knowing that I would have time to grab a bite before I started, but joked that I would take an iced tea. As I was milling around taking photos, a member of the wait staff handed me a perfect plate with sugars, a spoon, and a glass of iced tea. Just for me. Congratulations Pamela & David. And thank you...for the tea and for everything!


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Do unforeseeable factory downtime and the costs of such surprises annoy you? Do such maintenance breaks negatively impact your production schedule and the satisfaction of your clients? Would you like to get rid of these problems? It's possible with a maintenance program that covers the whole precast plant of yours. Let's take a look at why such a program makes a big difference to your precast business.
First things first
Is your precast equipment cleaned daily? If not, this is the first habit that would benefit you in the long run. Why? When the machinery is washed at the end of each manufacturing day, there won't be any dried up concrete stuck on the machine. This not only makes your life much easier but also keeps the machine in good condition much longer. While you are washing the machine, it's also easy to conduct the daily check-ups at the same time. What's more is that we humans tend to respect clean and maintained machines more compared to the ones that we consider old and already broken.
Also, it's important to have trained staff that knows how to use the machinery and knows when something is not working as it should be. For example, a well-trained employee knows when they hear an unusual sound when casting, and understands that, the casting should be stopped and the machine checked immediately. If production is continued without any check-ups, it is likely that you may face a longer production stop due to machine breakdown even though the problems could have been avoided with simple adjustments. Prevention is cheaper than repair; hence the machinery should always be kept in a good condition.
But daily check-ups are not enough to avoid production downtime. A well-planned maintenance program is needed to keep the machinery up-to-date for years to come.
Maintenance program
Do you have a maintenance program for your precast plant? During the nearly 60 years in the precast business, we have learned that having an efficient maintenance program is the key for cost-efficient production. Thus, we recommend that you create one for your plant if you don't have one in place already. Think about it: if an extruder, for example, breaks down in the middle of a casting bed, you will be paying for your employees for standing and, waiting for the machinery guys to finish their job. It's not cheap – and when you can finally start casting again, you need to prepare the beds again, which also creates unnecessary costs.
When you have an efficient maintenance program in place, you will avoid all these costs. For example, a maintenance break of an extruder can be scheduled so that all necessary casting is conducted with another machine while one is being maintained. You can also ensure that a trained maintenance team and tools are available when needed. During the maintenance, the machine can also be adjusted if needed, according to the casting requirements. We are happy to give you advice about how to go about it, or a ready-made program through our service agreements.
We have made some recommendations for maintenance in the Elematic equipment owner's manuals. You have received them in print format, but they can also be accessed online through the spare parts web shop – E-shop. However, these recommendations are only general guidelines, because each factory is different and, for example, used stone materials affect the durability of the parts differently.
Stocked spare parts
We advise you to stock a selection of spare parts at your precast plant. Even though they can be quickly ordered from Elematic sales engineers or through E-shop, the delivery will always take some time. After you have gotten used to a specific machine, you will notice how often certain spare parts need to be changed, hence you can have a few of them stocked to avoid factory downtime. It's also good to be prepared for accidents that may result in a factory downtime. For example, now and then we hear stories about accidentally mashing the touch screens of the machines, even though they are of industrial grade and have a protective cover. The screens are basically the hearts of electrical automation features; hence it's advisable to have one screen in stock just in case.
In addition, it's extremely important to change spare parts before it's too late, because over-worn parts can decrease the quality of your products and damage the machine.
Preplanned maintenance breaks boost the efficiency of your factory and create a safer working environment for your employees! If you have any questions about maintenance programs, spare parts or anything alike, we would be happy to reply.
Eija Aimolahti, Customer Support Manager
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What do you think? Are this golf balls? Nop.. this is the Spherical Homes the bolwoningen houses in the Netherlands that look like a Golf Ball.
These golf ball homes are located in the Netherlands, about an hour away from an Amsterdam.
The house named as bolwoningen houses.
A 50square homes made from cement, rainforest and fiberglass. Which built-in 1984 by the Dutch artist sculptor Dries Kreijkamp.
Its created and supported through the Dutch government for an experimental housing project.
Inside the house has a three level–
1.Bedroom on the ground
2.bathroom on the middle
3.A living space on the top
Living room view from top of bolwoningen houses
The homes out of this world getting attention most, just because of the unique interior and exterior features.
Township of bolwoningen houses
The round windows allow users to enjoy the views of the outside environment from any angle. The positions of this home balls are near a scenic canal.
The designer has since passed in 2014, his legacy continues to live on in. Inside each curve, ball home is a compact apartment dwelling with beautiful views and the interior of the house.
As well as,
The curved walls and the round windows give an illusion of a spaceship, which is very unique and elegant that is close to nature.