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This cane, hailing from 1940, has a map of Boston in it. Crafted by the In-A-Cane Display Company for attendees of the American Legion National Convention, it notes twenty-nine hotels and dozens of historical monuments. That is all.
Actually,* no, that is not all*. Why are these things no longer available? Someone, somewhere, must be making canes that hide cool stuff, wherein the cool stuff is not some goofy "sword," but instead some actually useful gadget or document. "MP3 Cane," or "Cane with power drill," for example. Personally, I don't know how I can live without a "Cane with portable pig-polishing kit."
But I make do.
Cane with pullout map of Boston [Cooper Hewitt]


text: Don't mess with a good thing, so croons an age old adage and Beauty and the Beast, the most recent live action Disney remake, is exemplary of that statement. A near-perfect update of the beloved animated Disney classic, this live-action contemporary version is in many ways a literal note for note transfer, with everything from story beats to musical runs to the lavish costumes tracing 1991's hand drawn offerings but despite its reciprocal, borderline redundant nature, Bill Condon's product feels sumptuously loved nonetheless. Read More

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During proceedings in a shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo's board, Microsoft lawyers said that the company has set aside $1.5 billion to retain Yahoo employees. This cash is separate from a Yahoo board-approved severance package that guarantees two years' pay to anybody laid off after a change in control. Already, two-thirds of our readers said they would prefer to see Yahoo merge with Microsoft instead of AOL. Sources confirm the sentiment is similar inside of Yahoo. (Photo, "Free Man's Prison," by code_martial)


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Pizarro strike lifts Bayern to friendly win over Chivas
Claudio Pizarro scored the only goal as Bayern Munich beat Chivas Guadalajara 1-0 on Thursday in a friendly match at Red Bull arena to launch the Bundesliga champions' US tour.
Pep Guardiola's men controlled the majority of possession and took the lead in the 10th minute when Pizarro slotted home Franck Ribery's corner.
Pizarro nearly had two more goals in the first half, with Carlos Fierro getting Chivas' best chance to equalize in the 81st minute, only for Bayern goalkeeper Tom Starke's save to preserve the winning margin.
A crowd of 25,073 fans turned out for the match at the home of Major League Soccer's New York Red Bulls in Harrison, New Jersey.
Bayern, who hadn't played a pre-season match in the United States since 2004, next heads across the country to Portland, Oregon, where they will take on a team of MLS All-Stars in the North American league's annual mid-season showcase on Wednesday.
It's all part of Bayern's bid to raise their profile in the United States, a move that other European clubs -- notably such English Premier League outfits as Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool -- have already made.
The club has opened a US office in Manhattan, and is launching a US website.
A majority of Bayern's German internationals -- including goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Thomas Mueller and World Cup-winning goal-scorer Mario Goetze -- are still resting after their triumphant campaign in Brazil.
Nor did the sell-out crowd get to see 19-year-old German-American Julian Green, who scored as a substitute for the US in their 2-1 World Cup loss to Belgium.
Green only recently returned to training after picking up a minor knee injury and Guardiola opted to play it safe with the youngster.
But France's Ribery -- who missed the World Cup with a back injury -- looked sharp as he ably exploited Guadalajara's defense.
The Mexican side finally resorted to fouling him repeatedly, with both Jair Pereira and Jesus Sanchez Garcia receiving yellow cards after tangling with him.
After Guadalajara's Fernando Arce pulled a shot wide in the eighth minute, Bayern went ahead.
Ribery curled a corner toward the near post where Pizarro headed it home.
Ribery set up Pizarro again in the 24th, but the Peruvian's shot was wide.
Guadalajara's best chance to level the score came in the 81st when Fierro controlled a cross on his chest before slamming a shot from six yards out straight at Starke.
Bayern put the ball in the net once more in injury time, but Lucas Scholl's effort was ruled out for offside.
Bayern: Starke - Rafinha, Martínez (88. Rafinha), Alaba - Hojbjerg, Gaudino, Rode (53. Badstuber), Bernat - Pizarro (57. Shaqiri) - Lewandowski (83. L. Scholl), Ribéry (83. Contento)
CD Guadalajara: A. Rodriguez (71. Michel) - Pereira (46. Vidrio), Salcido, Araujo - Sanchez, Arce (71. Toledo), Castro (62. Enriquez), G. Rodriguez (62. Solis) - Bravo (71. Napoles), De Nigris (62. Fierro), Reyna
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Recently, Yamaha announced that it would make the cheapest ever bike in India for $500. This, along with other similar observations in the Indian market on the relentless pursuit for lower prices in the realm of B2B marketing, has convinced me that frugal manufacturing has now become a mainstay for the Indian market for years to come.
I was involved in such a process at Toyota as early as 1997, way before the term frugal manufacturing itself was coined by Carlos Ghosn of Nissan-Renault in 2006 on the Indian context. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. More recently, other European companies such as Alten Group and Faurecia also announced the establishment of R&D centers in India – perhaps a confirmation of the sign of the times?
An important aspect of frugal manufacturing for India is to create good enough products that offer high value for money. Thus, it is not only about low cost but about meeting the Indian customers' seemingly paradoxical expectations of "cheap and best". Thus, Tata Nano could not succeed simply because of its low price. I have ridden in the car and it seems perfectly fine. However, for some reason it has failed to satisfy the desired perception level of high value for money.
Frugal engineering can be seen as a continuation of Value Analysis/ Value Engineering that became popular even at Toyota of the eighties and nineties. One important question that needs to be asked is, "Do customers value all the current features"? Even before Carlos Ghosn coined the term, I remember being involved at Toyota in such value analysis when bringing in the old Indonesian Kijang into the Indian market in 2000 christened as the Qualis. The car became the market leader in its segment because of the perceived value for money, despite its outdated design by both, international as well as domestic standards. We were well aware of the design considerations, but were also aware that the Indian consumer is also highly pragmatic, recognizing value for money.
In their HBR blog "Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan" the authors Navi Radjou et al rightly point out Ghosn's effective policies of tapping partners in emerging markets and sending top management to emerging markets. In a kind of reinforcing coincidence, a recent McKinsey report titled "How MNCs Can Win in India" also emphasized the importance of top management visit to India and the need scale up via deals and partnerships. The authors of the McKinsey report Vimal Choudhary et al recommend a formula: Commit to products that have 30% less functionality and that cost 50–70% less without compromising quality.
Despite the battle at the upper end between German giants Audi, BMW, Mercedes the proverbial wisdom has it that the fortune is at the bottom of the pyramid. There is no doubt that people at the bottom of the pyramid want value for money. Hence, Frugal engineering is the new mantra in international business for making money in emerging markets.


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Our recitation section (CSCI-UA.102-005) meets Wednesdays 3:30-4:45
in room CIWW 109.
The recitation leader is Prasad Kapde pk1094 AT nyu DOT edu.
He is available for questions by email appointment.
Prasad had kindly prepared some material from the recitations.
Your labs should be sent to one of our three graders/TA. Your grader is determined by the first letter of your last name.
Several labs will involve programming assignments.
Please follow these
guidelines, first produced by
Robert Soule, the TA for operating systems during 2006-07 fall, and
tweaked by many every since.
As indicated in the guidelines, please include the following as
the Subject: of your
ds-lab#-lastname-firstname, where # is replaced by
the number of the lab, lastname is your last name in lower case, and
firstname is your first name in lower case.
For example, if I was submitting lab2 the subject would be
Please send only the source and documentation (e.g., README) files
packaged as one tar, tar.gz, or zip file.
This file should be an attachment to the email message.
Thank you.
Lab 6 is available.
Lab 5 is available.
Lab 4 is available.
Lab 3 is available.
Lab 2 is available.
Lab 1 is available.
These notes will be shown in class. They are designed for viewing, not printing. As a result, the printed page breaks may occur at awkward points. I do not advise printing them, but if you do, I suggest waiting until the class has been given as I am likely to revise them when preparing for class.
There will be an in-class midterm and a final exam during finals week. Practice exam will be available. Please do not plan any trips until the exam dates are settled.
The midterm will be in class 26 March 2013.
Here are some typical questions. Please note that I didn't not consider the length or balance of this practice midterm, but I very much do consider the balance and especially the length of real exams.
The answers are here.
The final exam will be in Room 109 WWH on Thurs May 16 at 4pm.
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Judd Apatow thinks there should be a comedy category at the Oscars; what do you think?
A few days ago, Judd Apatow tweeted this message out to his 365,000+ followers: "Since comedies are rarely up for Oscars it does make sense to have a comedy category. It would just add more fun categories."
It set off a bit of lively discussion, which then followed him to a Los Angeles Times screening event for Bridesmaids, where he was asked to expand on his tweet.
"There should be a comedy category at the Oscars, because—why not?" Apatow explained, adding, "It's been like five times in a zillion years they [a comedy] won for best picture, then it doesn't seem like it's screwing up Schindler's List for Hangover to have its own category. I mean, it didn't mess up the animation people to do it [an animation category was added in 2001]. And then we can kind of get rid of the Key Grip category. I love the Key Grips; they do a fantastic job. But in hour four, I'd rather watch Zach Galifianakis come up than my friend Curtis."
When Nicole Sperling of the Times asked Apatow if he felt there was a bias against comedies within the Academy, he responded honestly.
"Comedy is easy to do. Seriousness is hard," Apatow said sarcastically. "I so wish we can not have jokes in these movies. I would have so much less to do if all it was, was characters in conflict— and never go, 'how come we're not getting the laughs?' That's what takes up all the time. I think Lawrence of Arabia was really easy to make— because there were no laughs. Was it hard? I don't think so."
So, Laughspinners: What's your take on this? Should there be a comedy category at the Oscars? Sound off in the comments section.


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Lea Michele Turns 26! See Her Best Looks Ever
Lea Michele turns 26 today! The Bronx-born actress shot to fame after landing the role of Rachel Berry on Fox's tween-dream show, Glee. Before that, her incredible pipes gave her a very successful run on Broadway—she had major roles in shows like Ragtime and Spring Awakening, which helped secure her big TV break. Having grown up in the spotlight, Michele knows how to work a red carpet, and she does so frequently, favoring designers like Giorgio Armani, Emilio Pucci, Versace, and Oscar de la Renta. "I know this sounds crazy, but if you internally feel good and happy it really does exude," she told InStyle.com of her look-good secret. Click through the gallery to see some of her best (and happiest) red carpet dresses.
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Frenchie :: Adopted!
Frechie is a Thoroughbred gelding born in 2003. He stands an impressive 16.1 hands high.
He originally came from the El Dorado sale. He was adopted out, but had to be returned to the rescue in 2014 because his owner moved off to college.
Frenchie's registered name is "French Inhaler," an his pedigree shows bloodlines of Native Dancer, Nijinsky, and Nashua.
He has had some barrel racing experience in recent years.
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What would you do if the still, quiet voice of God whispered in your heart that there was something more for you to do?
Could you walk away from the security of your job to take care of the "least of these" in a foreign country?
For Robin and Joyce Hill, the answer is a resounding yes.
Together, along with their children, the Hills have worked to bring one simple word to orphaned children in China - hope.
Along the way, their journey has led them to cross paths with many people - including Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman - and help hundreds of children.
In The House of Hope, journalist Elisabeth Gifford, tells their tale, and helps people understand just what it took for the Hills to accept the calling that God has placed upon their lives.
This book, written at times simply in a mater-of-fact style, takes the readers through a straight forward account of how the Hills responded to God, built and lost their first dream, and then, gained more than they could imagine.
Along the way, readers are invited to read the stories of several children who not only found the medical help they needed through the Hills' care, but also found their forever homes through adoption.
Because I read Mary Beth Chapman's memoir, I was familiar with how Maria's Big House of Love was established. What I didn't know, is role the Hills' had in its formation. Gifford's book brought new life - and understanding - into that story and more.
Jesus challenges Christians to take care of the "least" of these - specifically widows and orphans. Joyce and Robin Hill took up that challenge, and because of their hard work and dedication, countless children have been treated with love, respect and more.
On a scale of one to five, this book is a six. I simply couldn't put it down.
If you have a heart for children, are interested in adoption issues, or just simply want to see how people are doing amazing things in another country, then pick up The House of Hope. It just might challenge you to do something in your own backyard.
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From the Publisher:
One couple's powerful ministry to some of China's most vulnerable children
Robin and Joyce Hill lived in a gated community in Beijing. Their family's life was marked by luxury and the security of Robin's job as an engineer. Then one day, as members of their church, they had a chance to tour a state-run orphanage. Haunted by the needs of the children they saw there, for the next four years they tried to help the institute in meaningful ways.
In 1998 the Hills planned to leave China, but instead felt a sudden call from God on their lives. They left their gated community--reserved for only non-Chinese residents--moved their family into a small apartment miles outside of Beijing and immediately began to take in foster children.
They took in any child, but especially those that needed extra care—terminally ill children that couldn't receive care elsewhere, and those that needed complicated and expensive surgeries that the Hills soon began to coordinate and sometimes pay for out of their own savings.
What began as Hope Foster Home is now New Hope Foundation. As they continue their work, the Hills enjoy support from major corporations and high-profile philanthropists as well as the trust of the Chinese authorities. The Hills' story is an inspiring example of God's care and provision for those whom society does not value. Learn more about Hope Foster Homes here: http://www.hopefosterhome.com.
"I strongly support Robin and Joyce Hill's New Hope Foundation which is saving so many orphan lives in China. Read this amazing story of God's grace and accept the challenge to make a difference!"
--Steven Curtis Chapman
"I had the privilege of going to China and witnessing the work that God is doing through Robin and Joyce Hill. They are wonderful servants of God who lovingly care for the 'least of these.' I hope that many will read this book and consider their example."
--Francis Chan, author of Crazy Love
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100% of the proceeds of the book go to support the work of
Hope Foster Homes (please visit their site to learn more)
- buy a book for yourself and everyone you know.
This book is a gift that gives a gift.
Hope Foster Homes (please visit their site to learn more)
- buy a book for yourself and everyone you know.
This book is a gift that gives a gift.
More About The Author
She lives in Kingston, England, and teaches children with dyslexia.
Robin and Joyce Hill lived in a gated community in Beijing. Their family's life was marked by luxury and the security of Robin's job as an engineer. Then one day, as members of their church, they had a chance to tour a state-run orphanage. Haunted by the needs of the children they saw there, for the next four years they tried to help the institute in meaningful ways.
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Buy the book at Amazon
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Learn More About The Hope Foster Homes
It's A Contest/Giveaway!
The publisher is sponsoring a $50 "GET / GIVE" GIVEAWAY: One winner will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate for themselves AND $50 will be given in the winner's name to Hope Foster Home.
To enter all you have to do is send a tweet (using #HFH) about The House of Hope or share about it on Facebook!
If you tweet we'll capture your entry when you use #HFH. If you share it on Facebook or your blog, just email us and let us know (firstname.lastname@example.com). Easy.
Not sure what to tweet/post? Here's an idea:
TWEET THIS: Couple gives all to rescue babies in China! 100% proceeds go to #HopeFosterHome http://ow.ly/7qR3e RT 4 $50 to @amazon & $50 to #HFH
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Note: As a freelance journalist, I was provided a copy of this book by Litfuse Publicity Group. This review was not influenced by a free book - just in case you (or the FTC) were worried about this detail.


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2010 in review – Diginalets fagblogg
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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 6,700 times in 2010. That's about 16 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 4 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 58 posts.
The busiest day of the year was April 18th with 103 views. The most popular post that day was Rimordbok (nødrimordbok) – søk etter ord som rimer på….
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were bloggurat.net, no.wordpress.com, norsk-2.blogspot.com, google.no, and facebook.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for rimordbok på nettet, bronfenbrenners økologiske modell, bronfenbrenner, rimordbok på nett, and bronfenbrenners modell.
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Verizon Wireless Contest Makes Kids Junior Captains Of The Green Bay Packers
MILWAUKEE, WI — While their names won't appear on the depth charts, and they will take the field as the smallest and youngest members of the team, ten Wisconsin youngsters will line up with the Green Bay Packers team captains this season as Junior Captains for the official mid-field coin toss at the start of Packers' 2002 home games at Lambeau Field.
The young people will be winners in the Verizon Wireless Junior Captain Contest, a season-long program conducted by the nation's largest wireless provider and the Green Bay Packers. Verizon Wireless is the official wireless communications provider of the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field.
Entry forms for the Verizon Wireless Junior Captain Contest are available at any Verizon Wireless Communications Store in Wisconsin. Adults 18 and older can enter and designate a family member or friend, between the ages of 7 and 14, a Junior Captain. One Junior Captain will be named for each exhibition and regular season home game played at Lambeau Field in 2002. Entrants of the selected Junior Captain will also receive four tickets to the designated Packer game. The last day to enter the contest is December 13, 2002.
"We are thrilled to be able to provide this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ten kids in Wisconsin," said Tracy Nolan, president of Verizon Wireless' Wisconsin/Illinois Region. "While their professional football careers will, in all likelihood, be short, we hope their experiences as a Packers' Junior Captain will produce lifelong memories."
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is the nation's leading provider of wireless communications. The company has the largest nationwide wireless voice and data network and 30.3 million customers. Headquartered in Bedminster, NJ, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). Find more information on the Web at www.verizonwireless.com.
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4/17/14 at Citizens Bank Park
The Phillies were hosting a businessperson's special, and with free tickets from the Fightin Phils Fan Club, there was no way that I would pass up the opportunity to go to the game.
With a 1 PM start, gates would open at 11 AM, due to the fact that the team pushed back gate opening times for this season.
As usual, I was the first person at the gate before it was open.
I wasn't expecting any batting practice to take place, so I was wearing my Braves gear, but when the gates were opened, I saw that the batting practice cages were set up, so I rushed to get my Phillies gear on, however, when I got to the seating bowl, I saw Braves pitchers throwing, so I frantically changed again.
At this game, I was using a new glove, which I was pretty sure had been broken in enough. When a Braves pitcher threw me a ball, it went in and out of my glove and into the moat where the foul pole is.
Jonny Venters walked by, and I told him what had happened, so he went to get me a new ball, which also fell into the gap.
The third ball wasn't dropped, but that's because he overthrew me by a few rows. It did roll down however, and I was finally on the board. (That's my old glove, which I also brought to the game with me incase this happened, by the way)
The glove trick wasn't working, because the balls kind of wedged under the railing, so an usher jumped down and handed them both to me.
So, if you think about it, if I would have caught the first ball, Venters would have never thrown the other two, and at that point, I would have only had one ball, not three.
In left field, I got one ball, a Jake Diekman tossup, which I gave away so it doesn't count towards my totals.
Since left field was dead, I went to right field, where a Phillie hit a ball to the warning track
I called to Mike Adams, who walked over…
…. and threw me the ball, which my old glove cleanly caught.
The Phillies only hit one home run, and the Braves didn't even hit, but I'm not arguing because I didn't even expect partial BP at this game.
Jesus Tiamo, and new bullpen catcher Bob Stumpo, walked out to the pen, like they normally do before a game, however, Tiamo was probably not expecting a "TIAMO 81" name and number shirt of his waiting to be signed. He did come through, though.
He also gave me two balls, one of which was given away, so it obviously won't count.
AJ Burnett was starting for the Phils
I was sitting in the last row of section 102, which is great, because it has this view of the bullpens.
What were they all staring at?
The scoreboard, as Ryne Sandberg was challenging a call
Although the call went in favor of the Phillies, the Braves, down 1-0 in the ninth had Craig Kimbrel throwing in the pen.
After Jonathan Papelbon notched the save, Eddie Perez tossed me up the ball Kimbrel was using, my last of the game.
2014- Ten baseballs caught (335 Lifetime)
5 Balls per game
2 Games
29 Autographs (Tony Franklin, Marcus Thames, Tommy Phelps, Orlando Mercado, Manny Barreda, Jeremy Bleich, Joel De La Cruz, Aaron Dott, Jairo Heredia, Cole Kimball, Bryan Mitchell, Diego Moreno, Branden Pinder, Charley Short, Matt Tracey, Pat Venditte, Francisco Arcia, Tyson Blaser, Gary Sanchez, Carmen Angelini, Ali Castillo, Rob Refsnyder, Rob Segedin, Zach Wilson, Taylor Dugas, Ben Gamel, Yeral Sanchez and Mason Williams, Jesus Tiamo)
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WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket. The technology is designed to be implemented in both web browsers and web servers but it can also be used by any client or server application.
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Once the doctors know the stage of the myeloma, they can plan the best treatment for you. Knowing the stage will also help your doctors predict how the myeloma might respond to treatment.
Myeloma is rarely curable, but it is treatable. Treatment can be used to stop the myeloma developing further, to control symptoms and to improve quality of life. The type of treatment you're offered will depend on a number of factors, including your general health and how advanced the myeloma is.


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A Certified nursing assistant is a certificate for nursing to provide authenticity to the nurses to officially take care of their patient. A CNA works as a direct link between a registered nurse (RN) and the patient. They provide the best services and care for their patient. Certified nursing assistant are the first in any care center that have the closest interaction with the patient. They play a vital role in recovering the health of a patient. Being the most demanded profession, a CNA works in variety of places from hospitals, care centers to rehab and home health aides.
CAN Personal Traits
Before getting on with the nursing assistant CNA job description and CNA duties, we should know the personal traits that a CNA should have in order to steadily perform their duties. As CNA duties can be a little depressing and sometimes stressful. These personal traits will help to accomplish those duties without any difficulty and grow steadily in their career. Some of the basic skills involved are decision making skills, listening skills, communication skills, work ethics and the ability to maintain interpersonal relationships. Other than that, here are some important traits of a CNA:
It requires understanding your patient needs and wants. And to truly understand that you need to put yourself in shoes of the patient. Because there are times when a CNA is assigned to elderly, disabled patient or patients who are struggling their way to recover, so as these patient don't really talk much, you have to understand what they really want. Imagine yourself as the patient and then think what you would want when you are sick or struggling and only then you will know what the patient really wants.
Personal Care
The most important trait of a CNA is to provide personal care to the patient. It also means to listen to the patient concerns carefully. CNAs are required to perform some very personal activities like bathing; shaving, dressing and other personal hygiene duties like help the patient for toileting needs. So a CNA should have patience and should be comfortable and respectful at the same time in order to make the patient feel secure.
It is defined as how you feel about your patient, the one in grieve. It requires patience and kindness towards your patient. Regardless of all the details of the patient you need to be generous towards your patient. The more compassionate you are with the patient, the more comfortable the patient will be with you.
Along with these personal traits here are some other skills of a CNA:
Another important skill of a CNA is to keep everything in patient surrounding organized. This helps in keeping record of all the medicines a patient needs and if anything goes bad, the solution could be found easily. Also that keeping everything organized will keep the environment clean and tidy.
Record keeping
Keeping the record of even the slight changes in the patient health is also a valuable skill. It requires a CNA to be proactive in order to record temperature, the intake of medicines and meal and should be quick in reporting any vital signs of any reaction to the concerned doctor or the registered nurse (RN).
Job description and duties
Now that we have learned about the personal traits and skills of a CNA, let's have a look at the nursing assistant job description and its duties. What a CNA do is that they carry out all the duties and responsibilities that are required to keep the patient healthy and help them in their time of suffering. Depending on the work place the role of a CNA, but there are some general duties that are common for all the CNAs, which are:
- To wash and dress the patient
- To maintain the surroundings of the patient
- To help maintain the intake of medicine for the patient
- To observe the patient for any vital signs and measure temperature, blood pressure and respiration.
- To provide full support emotionally, physically and socially.
- To file a document about the various changes and health issues of the patient for the concerning doctor to check.
Along with that here are some distinctive CNA duties that are carried out in accordance with where they work daily:
Personal Hygiene
It means to maintain patient's personal hygiene that includes bathing, helping the patient with shower, grooming of the patient like hair brushing and trimming nails if needed. It is also required to keep the surroundings of the patient clean to avoid any germs or bacteria to cause any other disease.
Controlling infection
This CNA duty requires to keep the surroundings cleans to avoid any germ to cause any kind of infection. Along with surroundings CNA should also wash their hands and keep themselves clean at all times. Cleaning the rooms and toilets is also essential to avoid any infection.
Dietary and Nutrition
An important duty of a CNA is to keep track of the diet of the patient. Providing nutritious food as guided by the doctor and to avoid intake of any unhealthy food is really important. CNAs also have to keep in record of how much and what the patient eats and if the patient needs help in eating, nursing assistants are to help them out.
Usage of equipment
As a CNA, you have to use different equipment like, blood test apparatus, blood pressure apparatus, bladder scanner and bedpan. So a nursing assistant should have proper knowledge of how to use them, sterilize them and keep them clean. CNAs might also help in the administration of treatment.
Filing Report
A CNA has daily interaction with the patient. So they play a vital role in the recovery of the patient health. A CNA should the record of even the slightest change in the patient regarding temperature, blood pressure and other vital signs. Altogether, a CNA files a documented report about the health status of the patient and communicate it to the concerning doctor or registered nurse(RN).This documentation will help the doctor to analyze the patient more quickly and efficiently.
Emotional Support
CNAs duties include physical as well as emotional support. Emotional support plays a vital role in the recovery of the patient. As they interact with the patients daily so they know about mood of a patient and how they feel, what they fear and what are their concerns. CNA can help relieve any stress and pain by just talking to their patient and showing a little emotional support. For a nursing assistant it is important to carefully listen to what the patient wants to say and then counsel them accordingly.
The duties of a CNA are essentially same for job description, regardless of where they work. There is only a slight variation as in hospital their duties might be additional depending upon the assigned floor. Apart from that CNA also handle many activities that are not related to medical duties, such as cooking and other housework. Keep in mind that while some responsibilities vary in location, the personal traits, such as personal care, empathy and compassion would be your long life partner.
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One of the most common questions we receive in regards to which tour to choose is "which tour has the best chances of seeing a tornado?" On our tour schedule you'll notice that we only offer storm chasing tours during the height of tornado season in the Great Plains. To help you decide on the tour that is right for you, we've put together this article to give you the information needed to make a great decision.
In short, every storm chasing tour we offer has the same exact chances of witnessing a tornado event. Tornado season throughout the Great Plains starts in early March and lasts well into late summer, and even early fall. However, we only offer tours when the season is at its peak, and this is generally the months of May and June. The basis of our knowledge of when and where this happens comes from our lives of living in the Great Plains, but thankfully that National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center has some great visual tools that we can use to validate our information.
We need to basically look at two things:
- The location where the majority of tornadoes happen.
- The time period with the highest frequency of tornadoes in our "chase zone" or "Tornado Alley".
Tornado Alley
"Tornado Alley" is a section of the Great Plains that generally runs from the Texas Panhandle through central Oklahoma and then north towards the Dakotas. This is our "chase zone", altogether it's more than a half-million square miles!
While it's true that tornadoes do occur in other areas of the United States, they are typically very difficult to get "chaseable" storms due to inconsistent road networks and lack of good viewing due to obstacles such as thick trees and a lot of hills.
Tornado Alley on the other hand is mostly farmland. It's flat and there are few forested areas because of the presence of big agriculture of grain crops. Due to the lack of trees and hills, this makes this area of the Great Plains ideal for viewing thunderstorms.
Another great feature of Tornado Alley is the road network. Agriculture is big business and, since farmers need access to their fields, most parts of Tornado Alley have a gridded network of roads called a "mile section".
In general, there is a road (of various quality) just about every 1 mile in a gridded pattern. Road quality can vary greatly. In Texas, for example, most roads are paved while in west Kansas only the highways offer pavements and the farm roads are mostly gravel.
We will only chase in "Tornado Alley", and in fairness, we should state that what we consider to be "Tornado Alley" is slightly larger than the blue area on the map shown on this page. We would also include parts of Wyoming, Montana, all of the Dakotas and parts of Iowa and Minnesota. Altogether, our "playing field" is more than 500,000 square miles!
As a general rule-of-thumb, storm systems move into Tornado Alley about once to twice a week during the height of the spring storm season. If we were to chase a storm system into the southeastern states (e.g., Alabama, Georgia, etc…) it could take a couple of days to drive to those states while on a tour, and a couple of days to return to the central plains regions of Oklahoma and Kansas. Worse, while we were in southeast, our viewing possibilities would be extremely limited due to obstacles such as trees and if a storm system moved into Tornado Alley during this time we would miss it, both factors would make a storm chasing tour quite miserable! This is why we generally stick to Tornado Alley.
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Poll Results - Girls
By: Kevin Milsted
Below you will find the results for the poll conducted on mocorunning.com between October 6 and October 12, 2008. 63 votes were received for girls individuals. Voters were required to vote for exactly ten different girls in order for their vote to count.
10. Shayna Barbash - Whitman 2010
Shayna Barbash has followed up her break out sophomore year with a steadily improving junior year. She dropped under 20 minutes at the Oatlands Invitational before running a big PR of 19:19 at the Paul Short Invitational. She will be looking to improve on last year's 19th place county performance.
9. Anna Bosse - Walter Johnson 2011
Anna Bosse has gone from good to great in a short period of time. She dropped a PR of 19:19 at the Octoberfest Invitational before running a very fast 15:26 5th place 2.5 mile at the Manhattan Invitational last weekend. She has begun to beat some of the runners that she was not close to last year. By voting her to 9th in this poll, county fans are saying, "Betchya can't do it again."
8. Maryam Fikri - Churchill - 2010
Maryam Fikri has performed consistently throughout the year with all four of her major invitational races under 20 minutes. Her personal best time of 19:11 ranks her 5th in the county based on time alone. She will return to the county championship in search of that first elusive top ten finish after finishing 17th and 15th the last two years.
7. Alyssa Henshaw - Northwest 2010
Alyssa Henshaw returns to the county championship where last year her season ended in disappointment. She has been hot the last three weeks clocking a time of 19:17 at Paul Short and 19:11 at Glory Days. If anybody (or everybody) has a bad day, she will be right there to take advantage.
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6. Aimee Moores - Quince Orchard 2009
Aimee Moores has run three major invitationals in under 20 minutes this year. She has placed right in the thick of the county leaders in every race she has run. The senior has not had a bad race this year. Her consistency has helped her team develop into one of the best this season.
5. Anna Ryba - Whitman 2012
Anna Ryba jumped right in with the county leaders from her very first race and never backed down. Through seven races, she has been as consistent as anyone, but always expect the unexpected when it comes to a talented freshman. Her season best time of 19:17 at Paul Short puts her right in the mix.
4. Addie Tousley - B-CC 2009
Addie Tousley usually has one of her best races of the year at the county championship as she showed last year with her 8th place 19:09 finish. The hopeful 3A state champion will be looking to improve on that, especially after a breakout 18:56 at the Paul Short Invitational, a time faster than all six other girls on this list who were there that day.
3. Jessie Rubin - Wootton 2010
In the past week, Jessie Rubin has shown that she is in the best shape of all county competitors. She clocked an impressive 19:05 on a difficult Lake Needwood course and followed that up with an 18:45 run at Glory Days, topping Spitler, Eckerstrom, Moores, and Henshaw. As good of shape as she's in, she has still never
a major race. She will need to prove that she can run away from the other girls early or outkick them in the end.
2. Britt Eckerstrom - Northwest 2011
The untouchable Britt Eckerstrom from last year has had trouble staying on top this year with a few uninspired races. She has also had a few outstanding races such as her 6th place performance against an elite field at Oatlands. Remember she ran her best at the end of the season last year. She has just as good of a chance of winning this race as anyone else.
1. Abby Spitler - Gaithersburg 2010
There was no doubt who was the best runner in the county after her wins at the Peter Geraghty and Magruder Invitationals in September. Abby Spitler beat everybody who was anybody in the first two weeks of the season, but has cooled off after an uncharacteristically low finish at Glory Days last weekend. Will she regain county supremacy on her home course on Saturday? Only time will tell.
Photo by Ted Plunkett - Milestat.com
2008-10-15 11:39:12
wow... 2 seniors in the top 10?
2008-10-15 17:06:38
anna bosse=way too low
2008-10-15 18:35:04
from top 6 down, its going to be an all out fight till the finish
2008-10-15 19:21:06
'10 is so the new '08
2008-10-15 19:28:22
Kevin, I don't really understand your last sentence about Anna Bosse. Is it suppose to sound positive or negative?
2008-10-15 19:53:43
I'm hinting that I think she is a little bit better than ninth, but the voters remain unconvinced.
2008-10-15 20:01:18
Where is Janna Domico from Damascus?
2008-10-15 22:07:43
anna bosse is definitely not top 10
2008-10-15 22:14:54
Its coming down to Rubin and Spitler. if Eckerstrom beats either of them, I would be very surprised.
2008-10-16 08:39:04
i agree domico should be up there
2008-10-16 09:41:59
i dont think domico should be up there. shes not as fast as any of those girls.
2008-10-16 14:28:06
I think Jessie will win this year, there is an incredible amount of pressure on her to succeed.
mcps grad but watching
2008-10-17 23:51:34
Theyre all a talented group. Its anyones race. Theyre several girls not listed who might surprise us and remember this was just a top 10. Its hard to include everyone and we all have our favorites so go girls! The list will be different in the morning
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For volcano monitoring we measure three gases in total: Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) we usually do this (for White Island and Ruapehu) by plane or permanent instrument MiniDOAS (you can read about it here). These gases are important as they can tell our scientists what is happening in the volcano.
Today we were looking at SO2 to get this you need to fly under the plume made by the volcano. However, with Te Maari crater its hard to do this as you can't fly that low due to the terrain, and you would then miss the important part of the plume. So instead our scientists have been loading the equipment up in a corolla and driving beside the volcano and under the plume.
We use a piece of equipment called COSPEC to measure the SO2 it gets secured in the car with a section sticking out of the window that looks up into the plume where it then measures the absorption of UV light by SO2
|The COSPEC
|All strapped in
|Interesting view!(it has a mirror attached so it views the sky)
|FLYSPEC strapped on
For this trip we also had another piece of equipment called FLYSPEC (this a newer version of the COSPEC) Agnes is testing this before she travels to Vanuatu at the end of the month to teach the local scientists how to use it and then it will be used on Tanna island to help them monitor Mt Yasur volcano. The FLYSPEC is a lot smaller than its older 'big blue' model and got to sit on the roof of the car.
I actually visited this volcano in Feb, you can read about my volcano adventure here.
After everything was strapped on Agnus turned the instruments on and got her laptop up and running, data would come through and she could then calibrate the COSPEC and see exactly when we were driving right under the plume. We drove a transect 8 times so we could get good concentration of data, she then goes back to the office and looks at the data we gathered and gets a good idea of whats happening inside Tongariro.
|Te Maari crater and its ever present plume
Although we collect and analyse a lot of data, volcanoes are still a product of nature and can erupt with no warning at all!


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Earlier today, The Plum Line's Greg Sargent reported that "[t]he GOP Senate leadership has privately settled on a strategy to derail health reform if Dems try to pass the Senate bill with a fix through reconciliation." Republicans are promising to "[u]nleash an endless stream of amendments designed to stall for time and to force Dems to take untenable votes." "There is no way to limit the number of amendments that are voted on. You can't close debate. Democrats will have to vote on every politically perilous amendment that you can possibly think of," the aid said.
But at least one former Senate parliamentarian is calling the strategy "patently absurd." According to Robert Dove, who served as Senate parliamentarian until 2001, "In the Senate, the motion to go to that [reconciliation] bill is not debatable, and the bill itself is only debatable for 20 hours. All amendments must be germane." "If there are differences between the two houses in their reconciliation bills, then you would either work out those differences through a conference, or through amendments as they bounce back and forth," Dove told Lester Feder, who has been covering health care policy for The Nation and the O'Neill institute's health law blog.
Dove also revealed that Vice President Joe Biden, not the Senate parliamentarian, is "the ultimate decider" of "what can stay in under the rules":
But no vice president has tried to play that role in reconciliation. We haven't had vice presidents that have tried to play important procedural roles for a very long time. The last one was Nelson Rockefeller, in 1975, and before him Hubert Humphrey, in the 1960's. But no vice president has ever tried to play a role in reconciliation. Basically, since Walter Mondale was vice president, they have kind of been co-opted by the president and given an office down in the West Wing. Their interest in playing Senate politics has become attenuated. That has left the Senate parliamentarian in an extremely powerful position.
Dove stressed that "reconciliation was never designed for something like health care" and pointed out that "It's designed for deficit reduction, and therefore everything in a reconciliation bill must contribute to deficit reduction." Of course, in 2001, Republicans broke from tradition and used the reconciliation process to pass President Bush's budget busting tax cuts for the rich. As a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities points out, reconciliation has been used to pass major pieces of legislation in the past and, "[s]ince rising health costs are the single largest reason for projected long-run deficits, it is appropriate that health reform be considered through the reconciliation process."


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So why was Monson smiling the other day when he reported the county ended 2012 with a deficit of $750,000?
A short history lesson provides all the explanation necessary.
When the county commissioner regime of Josh Shapiro (D), Leslie Richards (D) and Bruce Castor (R) � the first Democratic majority in Norristown in more than a century � took office in January 2012, Montco was cowering in the shadow of an inherited $10 million budget shortfall. Running in 2011, the Shapiro-Richards team knew county finances resembled a train wreck. But at a meeting with The Intelligencer editorial board earlier this month, Shapiro admitted the disaster was even worse than he imagined.
Much has been written about how the county came to that point. Rather than focusing on the past, however, the new majority commissioners quickly went about fulfilling their campaign pledge: zero-based budgeting along with administrative restructuring and an end to the kind of creative bookkeeping that helped camouflage the true costs of some departments and added to the deficit.
It�s helped enormously that this board of commissioners, minority Republican Castor included, represents a love fest compared with the rancor and backbiting that characterized the previous administration in which Castor was cast as the odd man out. Add to that the fact that not only department heads but independently elected row officers all seem to be on the same page with the commissioners in executing their strategy to return the county to sound financial footing.
Make no mistake: The task has just begun. Some individual department budgets were still out of whack in 2012. And a $750,000 shortfall is still three-quarters of a million dollars that isn�t there.
But no one can say these commissioners deserve anything less an �A� for the way they�ve changed the mentality in the county seat after one year in office. They have met an enormous challenge with remarkable progress.


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|Development of a new irrigation well in west-central Florida triggered
hundreds of sinkholes over a 20-acre area. The sinkholes ranged
in size from less than 1 foot to more than 150 feet in diameter.
The Guidebook was originally Published in 1984 by Unesco as one of the contributions to the International Hydrological Program. Although the IHP is a scientific and educational program, Unesco has been aware of the need to direct its activities toward the practical solutions of the world's water resources problems. The Guidebook was intended as one of the tools to help provide for a multidisciplinary approach to the assessment, planning, and rational management of water resources.
Written in 1984, the Guidebook provides an overview of case studies illustrating the major occurrences of land subsidence due to ground-water withdrawal throughout the world at the time of its publication. But probably it's most enduring contributions are the chapters on field measurement of deformation and the mechanics of land subsidence. These chapters provide a basic understanding of subsidence that is valuable for both resource managers and scientists.
The Guidebook has enjoyed enduring demand. It has long since been out of print, but now is available in electronic form. Click here to download Guidebook.zip, an 11 MB compressed file in Winzip format. Interested in only a part of the document? Check out the PDF files available here.


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As India's ambitious Mars Mission got under way, the economic and geopolitical strategies behind the mission are being hotly debated.
Fending off criticism over the high cost of the project, K Radhakrishnan, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), said the "trickle down" effects from advanced space capabilities would be enormous. He countered concerns over the relatively massive investment in abstract space programme in the midst of poverty by saying that achievements in space research will result in wide-ranging benefits.
India's space programme spends $1.1bn annually, while the Mars mission alone would take up $74m. Critics say there are about 350 million people in the country who live on less than $2 a day.
None other than a former Chief of ISRO, G Madhavan Nair, came down heavily on the Mars mission, saying it was a futile exercise for publicity.
"ISRO is embarking on an extravagant mission which at best can serve as a publicity stunt," he had said in July.
Spending on Development
In fiscal year 2012-13, India's budgetary allocation to the Ministry of Rural Development alone was about $15bn, according to the Accountability Initiative, a research organisation under the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. This makes the money spent on the Mars mission and the annual spending on space programme to be 0.5% and 7.3%, respectively, of the amount spent on rural development alone.
Similarly, the money India spends annually on education is about $12bn, according to a study conducted by IDFC.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dismissed criticism saying: "Questions are sometimes asked about whether a poor country like India can afford a space programme and whether the funds spent, albeit modest, could be better utilised elsewhere," he said in a speech last year. "This misses the point that a nation's state of development is finally a product of its technological powers."
The space research organisation has highlighted the broader benefits of previous space programmes. "Previous satellite launches helped build more than 100,000 wells," said S Satish, a spokesman for ISRO.
In October, when cyclone Phailin headed for the south-eastern and eastern states, India could track it precisely, and one million people were evacuated at the right time. The investment made in satellite programmes over the years made the difference, said Mayank N Vahia, an academic at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, according to Businessweek.
India's space programme has brought mobile phone access even to the interiors of country, which revolutionised the channels available for farmers to sell their produce and for fishermen in isolated villages to get the best prices for their catch.
India and China
There is a view that India's Mars mission is in response to China's recent forays into space. "There is an ongoing race for space-related power and prestige currently in Asia," James Moltz, a professor at Naval Postgraduate School, California, was quoted by Bloomberg as saying. "India is clearly concerned about China's recent rise in space prestige and wants to minimise that damage."
Jan Zalewski, South Asia analyst at Control Risks would agree. "India's space programme is ultimately intended as a capability demonstration. It is designed to put India 'out there' with other space-faring nations, and this is reflective of Indian ambitions to increase its international profile more generally," Zalewski said, according to CNBC.
"To think that India is going to the moon and Mars because of some cynical ploy to engage in one-upmanship with the Chinese is wrong," said John Sheldon, a US national security analyst and founder of strategy firm The Torridon Group. "For every rupee invested, there is a return for regular Indian people in terms of what that programme provides," he told the Washington Post.
The same sentiment is echoed by ISRO Chairman Radhakrishnan."Space is one area right from the beginning that has been contributing to the development process of the country," he said, referring to the beneficial contribution of weather forecasting on farmers of the country, according to AFP.
However, India does appear to be conscious of its neighbours and the strategic implications of being ahead in space technology. "India doesn't live in a benign neighbourhood," said Rajeshwari Rajagopalan, a space security expert at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to her, India is focused on peaceful use of outer space, but since China successfully tested an anti-satellite missile in 2007, there has been a "sort of arms race".
In August this year, India successfully launched its first dedicated military satellite for naval intelligence gathering in the backdrop of concerns about Chinese naval presence in the Indian Ocean.
"India's achievements in space technology are contributing to its missile technology, including the Agni-V," says Upendra Choudhury, an associate professor at Aligarh Muslim University and an expert on India's ballistic missile programme, AFP reported.


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Content creation is necessary for making sales and increasing conversion. But there's more to it than simply entertaining potential customers and getting them to part with their cash. Content creation is also an incredible tool to help your business build a brand.
But how do you build a brand through content creation? What do you have to do differently to most other companies?
Be Transparent And Authentic
Building a brand is all about building trust. And so it should come as no surprise that honesty and authenticity come top of the list of your priorities when it comes to your brand. Lots of businesses use videos and blogs to get their message across and boost their SEO. But comparatively few do it in a way that builds trust among their target audience.
To really excel in the content creation space and become a brand that people trust. That means providing honest, down to Earth advice, reviews, and how-tos that they can really use in their own lives. After reading your content, the reader should feel transformed in some way, empowered to live their life differently.
Sidestep The Ad-Blockers
According to research, more than half of millennials use adblockers. And since they're now the biggest component of the workforce, they've got a lot of money to spend. For advertisers, that's bad news, especially for those who want to build a brand. In the past, building a brand was all about getting as much exposure as possible. But since the introduction of ad blockers, getting your brand in front of potential customers is getting more difficult.
Content creation appears to be the way to go, but how do you do this effectively? The answer seems to be in reaching out to people who can influence Millennials and get them to buy products. Take Dollar Shave Club, for instance. The company knew that reaching out to people through regular channels probably wasn't going to work, and so it decided to try appealing to big channels on YouTube watched by people in their target demographic: young male millennials who are strapped for cash. Since going down that route, totally bypassing traditional ad blockers, Dollar Shave Club has gone on to receive multi-billion dollar valuations: impressive for a company that entered a market dominated by the two giants, Gillette and Wilkinson Sword.
Focus On Quality
Sometimes it can be tempting for companies to just churn out any old content to boost their SEO. But as any digital agency will tell you, users and search engines are becoming a lot more discerning. Simply pumping out articles with particular keywords is no longer a good strategy. The best, according to experts, is to do what Apple does and focus on quality.
The key to content isn't always to provide lots of information to those consuming it: it's to provoke a powerful emotional response. People tend not to remember the specific details so much as how they felt when they consumed your content. Much of the content out there on the internet is relatively void of information, yet it helps to build brands because of its emotional appeal.


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A set of two templates where the background papers are split and matted. Each template also has a bunch of clusters and a banner. When I originally had the idea for these templates I was going to call them "The Splits" but the Mixology colors are so warm and comforting, I left the name of the mixology and added some butterflies.
Hope you have fun with these. You can flip them, turn them, add and subtract elements. Make the template yours.
GDS Mixolgoy Aug 2016, You and I. Coordinate the packs to create your own perfect collection.
Art Journal Mini contains 4 jpg papers and 10 png elements.
Let's have some fun this month and bring out all of the old clich`es! Hopping from cloud to cloud, or have some butterflies in your stomach, then pull out my You and I contribution to Mixology.
My layouts
Made Janece Suarez and A Fish Design template.
Made with Arizona Girl and A Fish Design template.
Made with all Arizona Girl products.


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: Sophie's information integration system :
there is a lot to process.
the place that i am in includes both the physical landscape and my own body. a lot of things are different than i am used to.
Koumaria is:
warm and dry. the ground is hard and it is hard to release my body into it when i am already feeling pain. and i am finding it difficult to find space. in a place so expansive with space, it's hard to find one's own. "The Creatures" got their own spaceship. they found their home. i need to find my own. it's hard to be oneself when there is no space to do so.


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|Where to look for the Geminids NE
I read this great post of Andrew Cooper
at A Darker View blog about the Geminids.
Mr. Andrew Cooper is based in Hawai'i and for several years have lived and worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory.
First observed over 150 years ago this is a interesting meteor shower. The parent body for the Geminids is not a comet as with most showers, but rather the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. It is somewhat of a mystery how this mostly rocky body gives rise to the debris stream needed to generate a meteor shower. The asteroid does orbit well inside the orbit of Mercury every four years, where intense solar heating may heat trapped ice and liberate loose material from the surface.
The annual Geminid meteor shower has become one of the most reliable annual meteor showers. Known for bright and slow moving fireballs the Geminids can provide a good reason to spend a few hours outside on a December night. This shower has routinely provided rates above 100 meteors per hours in past years, this year should be no exception.
The peak is expected to occur around December 13, 07h to December 14, 04h UT. For viewers here in Hawai'i this occurs on the night of December 12th. The Geminids feature a broad peak, with high rates for nearly 24 hours, thus allowing the all time zones a decent chance to enjoy the show.
There should be no substantial moonlight to drown out this years showing, dark skies to allow even the faintest meteors to be seen. The Moon is a thin waxing crescent, 1% illuminated on the morning of the 13th, essentially new.
The Geminid radiant rises round 8pm, thus meteors should be visible all night long. You can stay up late or set the alarm early, your preference. Southern viewers will have to wait until around midnight for the constellation Gemini to rise, making this a morning shower.
Watching meteors requires no more equipment than your eyes and a dark sky, and can be enjoyable for just about anyone. Well? It is December, you should probably add a warm coat to the equipment list.
Source: http://darkerview.com/wordpress/
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AgilityHealth News: AgilityHealth Raises the Bar With Release of TeamHealth 2.0 and Organizational Growth Portal
AgilityHealth News: AgilityHealth Receives Speed and Agility Award
Customer Feedback
I partnered with our AgilityHealth champion to review open Organizational Growth Items with appropriate team members across the Portfolio, Program and Delivery team levels to successfully influence resolution and closure of five (5) organizational impediments. A majority of the resolved organizational impediments were related to increasing team stability as well as communication and gathering affected team input when team member changes were planned.
Measured business outcomes from the monthly business review have shown the capacity churn rate has dropped approximately in half from its high (20%) in February through August (the most recent measurement) while Feature time to market has also decreased by over 25% from January (15.8 weeks) through August (11.6 weeks).
Agile Coach - Cox Automotive
ATI has been instrumental in our transformation journey thus far. Sally and her team have been incredible partners in numerous aspects of coaching; including adaptive leadership, agility health, 1 on 1, and facilitation. They bring a passion and energy to every engagement that is unique, and a personal commitment to the customer that really differentiates them from other industry service models. To say that my experience with them has been 'invaluable', would be an understatement.
Joni Wheeler | President/CEO of Corelink
Agility Health has been designated as one of the key tools we have in our arsenal, as we work hard to scale up agile across all agile teams at our institution. The Agility Health team collaboration and dedication to seeing this program succeed is amazing and the fact that Agility Health is now viewed as an enterprise standard is a testament to your efforts.
- Vice President of Agile Enablement & Transformation, large financial institution in Canada
"Let me start by saying that I have never worked with a more responsive support team. It doesn't matter the priority of the request, when I submit a request or question I get a response typically within 10 minutes with the issue/request being resolved shortly after that. My team of Agility Health Facilitators share the same experience and rave about the outstanding customer service your team provides. We feel that our voice matters and that our recommendations that we offer for product improvements are considered and many times implemented very quickly.
As for value of the tool itself, we have begun using several different types of assessments offered by the tool to include the team health, program health and business agility transformation. All have been successful in their own manner. We have the most experience with the team health assessments and have seen the following:
- Provides management another perspective on teams/team members (other than what they perceive or hear from others)
- Anonymous results so teams are open and honest with their feedback (things come out of these assessments that are not brought up in other team retro's)
- Supports our performance review process and employee engagement results (additional metrics to support other Paychex metrics)
- Program level value includes: improvements on consistent communication across all teams within a program, clarity on how teams are measured for success, communication on the value being delivered by the teams once the work is done and improved communication on roadmap and mid-term planning
Radar results and comments from the assessments have raised awareness of team leadership issues which has prompted team changes and improvements
The ability to roll up the team health assessment to all levels (program, portfolio and enterprise) is extremely powerful and allows the data to be shared and analyzed at all levels.
Upcoming jira integration will provide us the complete 360 view all our teams health and help validate the soft metrics provided during the assessment.
Since we are finding value with the team health assessments on the agile teams, we are now piloting the team health assessments on our functional teams within our Operations departments. These are proving to be very successful sessions because these teams are not having regular retrospectives and this provides a forum for the team to take a close look at themselves along with their stakeholders to determine what will help take them to the next level.
Jackie Constable | Project Office Analyst/Agility Health Facilitator
"Multiple teams have identified a theme related to an organization challenge, something we would have never identified if we were not conducting AgilityHealth Retrospectives!"
"AgilityHealth has paved the way to identifying common themes across teams that would not have been identified through our typical weekly team retrospectives."


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Customer Service Basics
This module describes how business professionals can use customer service basics as effective tools in building their business. It identifies best practices in customer service, such as avoiding negative words, following up with customers, and dealing positively with angry customers. Finally, it is important to understand how to deliver professional customer communications by way of voice, tone, and word choice, as well as proper telephone and email etiquette.
Module: FCE-230, Media: OL, Lessons: 1