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April 13, 2015
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I haven't been actually 'typing' on this blog for a while since my main aim of
opening this blog is to post OOTDs aka narcissistic fashionista photos. Sort of.
But, I just feel like putting down some of my thoughts here today.
Is it too late to do a 'Look Back Step Forward Bye 2014 Hello 2015' post?
Well, I guess not, at least I'm going to do it RIGHT NOW :-/
Random thoughts:
1. I'm always a lazy and impatient person, with a really low level of determination.
I have always wanted to change, but apparently I'm still working on it. I guess?
But one thing that Im sure of, is that I am determined to do things that I love.
At least, this blog hasn't been abandoned yet since 4 years ago? Righttttt?
2. After a year of exchanging abroad, (I'm still studying abroad now in UK so
I guess last year in Toronto was a 'double study abroad'), many things have changed.
I think me myself have been gradually changing too. The first term
back in UK was not as good as I thought, like basically I have been spending
most of my time ALONE IN ROOM, which sounds really sad.
Not like I don't have friends, just people like to stay in their rooms.
Not like I don't have friends, just people like to stay in their rooms.
And because many of my friends live in pairs, (luckily it's only happening
this year, which is my final year of uni life),
they become really reluctant to leave their comfort zone aka their room,
this year, which is my final year of uni life),
they become really reluctant to leave their comfort zone aka their room,
or to hang around and gather. But this term, everything seems to be better.
I don't know why but I feel like everything's gonna be alright.
And I'm so occupied with group projects anyways.
Afterall, there's only a few more months to go,
and my life as a student would be COMPLETELY OVER.
Can't actually believe that but it's happening.
3. I feel like I am becoming a more rational person.
Being more assertive, more MYSELF.
I do what I want, I'll show if I'm angry, and of course I'll share when I'm happy.
I was timid, irrational, really emotional ( I still am), but then I feel like
I have learnt and grown up in terms of the way I act or I think these few years.
I think these changes would be more significant especially when you study abroad.
I guess I quite like this 'more grown up' me right now.
4. I really don't like the course which I am studying right now, but I will
try my best to finish it in order to graduate in a GOWN. (Students who fail
any course in their exams won't be having a gown) I know I am really not good
at academics but I believe that I would find my own way. I will fight for what I
want to do and pursue my own dream and goals. Getting into the workplace
maybe more difficult and challenging than I thought, but I really hope
to get a job which I love.
5. To people who judge others just because they are working on their interests,
or doing things that they like, ITS VERY PATHETIC OF YOU.
Judge as you like, but I'm sure that your life will be no fun at all,
at least less lovely than mine.
Time to workkkkkk.
Hello Books and Notes
Hope i wont procrasinateeeeee
January 28, 2015
Have just spent a really happy weekend in london
it feels really good to meet up with your high school friends
it was just like the same good old time !
have been non-stop chatting and eating a lotttt
am really happy as many of my friends study in different parts of europe
but an alt-J concert kinda brought us altogether
as my friend who is currently exchanging in rotterdam has flew over for the concert
and others who are studying in different parts of england have decided to gather in london
I have really enjoyed my weekend and it's time to get back to work
It's my final year anyways.
A food vlog in london will be posted soon and I shall work on my report now
Will update soon. Stay tuned and thanks for reading.
hat: korea/ white coat: online shop/ blue oversized shirt: brand melville/ bag: new look
pants: missguided/ trainers: nike
pants: missguided/ trainers: nike
January 06, 2015
|a very lovely burger place : gourmet burger kitchen
|Biddy's Tea Room
|a very cosy and impressive tea room, really love the decorations: Biddy's Tea Room
|borough market, london
|winter wonderland
|my favourite waffle place in norwich
December 20, 2014
spending my last christmas holiday in UK
and it's so sad that I still got essays to work on
tbh, there's nothing much to do here
just planning to walk around in London
or maybe explore somewhere else in the UK for the holiday
will be visiting Iceland in January
so excited about that !!
stay tuned for my updates and my trip diary x
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Network flow processor developer Netronome has called for a re-examination of network-level application I/O architecture, saying that it is a key consideration if effective performance from cloud computing deployments is to be achieved.
The company is grounded in working with underlying silicon-related issues, I/O performance, and network level virtualization. Netronome claims that the promise of the cloud is huge and is like "virtualization on steroids," with an elasticity option that is not dependent on extra hardware procurement.
But, according to the company, "The same rules apply to life as they do to IT — and if it sounds too good to be true, it often is. The advantages of any type of cloud computing — flexibility, cost, time, and complexity — are very real, but so are the network infrastructure needs required to support this model. No matter what the type of cloud, there is a need for the internal network systems and the cloud to be able to completely and securely talk to each other."
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Charter schools developed in the early 1990s to offer increased local control of education, to allow educators the flexibility to innovate, and to provide students increased educational options within the public school system. The theory behind charter schools is that these alternative programs will provide educational options to students that are not available within the traditional public school system.At the same time, as public schools compete to enroll students, all schools feel pressure to improve the quality of the educational services they provide. In fact, school choice is a key provision of the Title I accountability provisions in No Child Left Behind. This gives parents and students the right to transfer from a school in corrective action to a public school (including a charter school) that provides a higher-quality education. As of 2002, 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have charter school laws. There are roughly 2,400 charter schools in 34 states, serving 575,000 students. The Public Charter School Program is designed to provide financial assistance for the planning, design, or initial implementation of charter schools and to evaluate the effects of such schools.
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- Provides flexible funding for use of administrative fees. School districts can no longer withhold administrative fees, unless the charter school voluntarily enters into an arrangement to receive administrative services from the district.
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The Public Charter School Program provides competitive grants for both states and individual charter schools. Eligible state education agencies (SEAs) may apply to the U.S. Department of Education. (If the state elected not to apply or the application was denied, individual charter schools in that state may apply directly to the Department.) Grants are available for planning, program design, implementation, or dissemination.
State education agencies are eligible for this funding if their state has a charter school law. SEAs make competitive grants to individual charter schools in order to implement or plan a new charter school. SEAs may use 10 percent of their grants to make dissemination subgrants to successful charters to assist other schools in adapting the charter school's program or to disseminate information about the charter school.
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A state education agency must demonstrate the contribution that the charter schools grant program will make in assisting educationally disadvantaged and other students in meeting the state's academic standards.
The Department gives priority to states that demonstrate progress in increasing the number of high-quality charter schools that are held accountable in their charter for meeting clear and measurable objectives for the educational progress of their students. Finally, states receive priority if they:
- Provide for periodic review and evaluation by the authorized public chartering agency of each charter school at least once every five years;
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For the third year running, that would be none other than the prosperous and bustling North Dakota, via CNN Money:
Propelled by a massive energy boom, North Dakota once again captured the title of the nation's hottest economy, with a growth rate five times the national average.
North Dakota's economy posted a 13.4% growth rate in 2012, according to a report released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That's nearly three times as fast as the number two state, Texas, and trounces the national average of 2.5%.
This is the third year in a row that North Dakota took the top spot in BEA's state-by-state report on gross domestic product (GDP). The muscle behind the boom is a surge in oil production from the Bakken Shale, an underground rock formation in the northwestern part of the state. …
The boom has attracted workers from all over the country and rippled out to incorporate not only the oil and gas drilling sectors but also other industries that supply them, including wholesale goods and transportation. …
As I bemoaned yesterday, the White House is declining to put out signals that they would be at all on board with revising the pathetic excuse for a 5-year drilling plan of which we're currently in the midst; groups in both the House and Senate have been mounting a recent push to initiate a new plan for offshore drilling that would allow energy companies access in the currently restricted Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and Interior Secretary Jewell pretty much shot it down. The Obama administration will hem and haw all day long about how America's oil-and-gas production has actually increased during President Obama's tenure and they're really, sincerely all about an "all of the above" energy strategy, except that most of the increases in production has come from state and private lands. Every drilling permit application that the Obama administration declines or neglects to approve is an opportunity foregone for economic growth the likes of which North Dakota is still going gangbusters.
Granted, North Dakota is a bit of a special case with the Bakken Shale formation, but there are plenty of opportunities out there from which Americans are being disallowed access. The WSJ reported yesterday that Americans are coming kinda'-sorta' close to rebuilding the level of wealth we had just before the recession — which in and of itself is pretty pathetic. It's a marker of the now lost time during which we could have been growing at a much more robust and new wealth- and job-creating rate, if not for the many economically soul-crushing policies and practices of the Obama administration.


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In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Kalamanthis is a rare psychotropic plant known only to grow on the slopes of the Griffon's Roost in the Cairn Hills, and harvested and sold by the monks of the Twilight Monastery. A potent narcotic, the raw root can be chewed, the leaf can be dried and smoked or snorted, and the sap can be boiled into a concentrated paste and injected.
- Mona, Erik. Age of Worms Overload (Paizo Publishing, 2005). [1]
- Schneider, F. Wesley. "Wormfood." Dragon #334 (Paizo Publishing, 2005).
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Rent asked: around $2000
Movein: soon
Ready to move in: yes
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One (maybe, later, two) small exclusive rooms. Large shared space with Dimension 7. 2 bathrooms (one with shower). D7 will schedule events (sometimes weekly) which will use the large shared space and usually includes on-site filming and/or web streaming. These events are typically at night from 6pm-midnight. A couple members of D7 live at the location.
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3 blocks from Embarcadero bart/muni station. Short muni ride (or approx. 1.4 mile walk) from Caltrain.
This would be primarily shared space. The space that would be available for exclusive Noisebridge use (lockable) is about a 12x18 foot space with very low ceilings, I guess about 6 feet or 6 & a couple inches. The remainder of the space consists of one large, high room (warehousey) maybe 50 x 70 feet, plus a number of separate rooms around the edge which are mostly exclusively used by other Dimension 7 collaborators. Some of these may become available in the not too distant future.
Dimension 7 is a kind of collective of video professionals. They're looking for other people to join the collective, rather than just rent a room invisibly. They don't require us to be video professionals of course; there does seem to be interesting potential for collaboration & knowledge-sharing.
- The Dimension 7 people seem very interesting and we could probably do some cool stuff together.
- Great space for parties.
- Sharing with people who are making their living. They'd probably claim dibs on resources and I personally would have trouble fighting that; after all, we're all 'just' hobbyists.
- We'd have to completely clean up our projects every time we stopped working on them, because they'd be in the way of other people's work.
- Lack of much advance knowledge of other uses of the space - they often schedule things only a day or so in advance.
- People live there - although in fairness, they'd likely be OK with, or at least used to, random noise & activity at all hours
- Their prime work hours are about 6PM to midnight, the place isn't used that much by Dimension 7 during the day. That likely overlaps lots with our prime work hours


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Wabash Theater Presents Take Me Outby Jim Amidon • February 19, 2013 Share:
The Wabash College community has become comfortable listening to Larry Savoy sing with the Glee Club, A.J. Akinribade harass opposing quarterbacks on the football field, and Joe Mount dazzle us on stage at the Ball Theater.
But when the three men come together in the Tony Award-winning play Take Me Out, we begin to see each man differently, which just scratches the surface of what director Michael Abbott and playwright Richard Greenberg want audiences to do. They want to make us uncomfortable and challenge our beliefs and assumptions.
Take Me Out runs through Saturday night. Tickets are free, but should be reserved in advance through the box office. See photos of dress rehearsal here and here.
Savoy plays the greatest baseball player on the planet, Darren Lemming, and he plays for the greatest team on the planet, the Empires. Lemming knows he is the best there is and his self-confidence borders on invincibility. Then, at the height of his career, he announces to the media that he is gay.
Lemming's announcement sends shockwaves through the locker room. Teammates are nervous about showering with him. The new star closer on the team, Shane Mungitt (played well by Daniel Sandberg), is an orphaned redneck who says he can tolerate playing with the foreign players, but puts his foot down when it comes to sharing the field with a gay man. When Mungitt goes to the media with a racist, homophobic rant, all hell breaks loose.
Sandberg plays the part without flaw. You at once hate him for his bigotry and hurt for his tragic upbringing and simplistic way of seeing the world.
"We tell students we will challenge them at Wabash, and I think they usually translate that to mean hard classes with lots of homework," said Abbott. "But we challenge them in other important ways too, and Take Me Out illustrates what can happen when students fully devote themselves to art, discovery, and self-expression."
Lemming's best friend, Davey Battle (played perfectly by A.J. Akinribade in his first feature role), is the star player on the Empires' arch rival team. Battle is a religious man devoted to his family and his friends; he allows himself only two curse words and one beer. But when he finds out Darren is gay, his true feelings about homosexuality emerge in a fit of rage.
Mount, who continues to build on his impressive Wabash acting resume, keeps the play together as its narrator, the likable Kippy Sunderstrom. He knows more about baseball and life than any of the players on the Empires, and waxes on about the sport's glory — not to mention the impact of Darren's announcement.
Among many highlights of this very fine production that includes an amazing locker room set designed by James Gross, costuming by Joshua Lutton, and the work of first-time stage manager Brad Hopper, is the performance of Noah Eppler as Mason Marzac.
"Marz," as he is nicknamed by Darren, is a quirky nerd who knows nothing about baseball until he becomes Darren's money manager (and Darren is worth more than $100 million). He soon becomes infatuated by his client and his client's sport, and quickly learns everything there is to know about baseball as he spins it into lyrical prose that borders on poetry.
Eppler's scenes bring important comic relief that cut the often-violent tension as the characters grapple with homophobia, racism, and stereotypes that include dumb rednecks and overtly religious evangelists.
Han Nie, another newcomer, plays the on again, off again pitcher Takeshi Kawabata, whose two solo scenes in the spotlight are moving.
The rest of the team — Ryan Lutz as Toddy, P.J. Izaguirre as Martinez, Kevin Bennett as Rodriquez, Carl Sonnefeld as Jason Chenier, and Reid Smith as the Empires' skipper — turn in a winning performance as both the observers and participants in a baseball drama that cuts uncomfortably close to our best hopes and worst fears as humans encountering difference.
Abbott does yet another masterful job of telling the story and bringing along a cast of mostly first-time performers on the Wabash stage. The script moves back and forth through time, but the staging allows the audience to follow along until its suspenseful conclusion.
Even amid the ugliness that serves as the play's climax, the playwright reminds us that baseball is eternal and fans like Marzac are already excited for the next year.
"This is a difficult play on many levels, and this cast has risen to the challenge by engaging difficult material head-on and working with me as trusted collaborators," added Abbott. "I'm immensely proud of the work they have done, and I look forward to sharing this production with the Wabash community."
The Wabash College Theater Department's production of Take Me Out runs from Wednesday through Saturday nights, February 20-23, at 8:00 p.m. each evening. Tickets can be reserved by calling the box office at 765-361-6411.
The play includes adult language, partial nudity, and situations and may not be suitable for children younger than 16.


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Bucknell converted from coal fired boilers to a cogeneration plant in 1998. The cogeneration plant provides the campus with both heat (steam) and electricity year round. || See a detailed description of cogeneration and Bucknell's conversion.
Environmental Effects
After 1997, Bucknell University produced total emissions of 37,756 Metric Tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MTeCO2). Prior 1997, total greenhouse gas emissions were greater than 60,000 MTeCO2. The difference from FY 1996 to FY 1997 is due to the phase in of the co-generation plant to replace the coal power plant as well as reducing the amount of electricity purchased. (Green House Gas Inventory, Christine Kassab '09) The new plant produces 75% to 99% lower emissions of pollutants such as Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Carbon Monoxide and Particulates than the old plant.
Equipment and Orientation
The current operation equipment in the power house consists of
- one 5 megawatt (MW) dual fuel turbine generator set
- one 70,000 pound per hour (pph) heat recovery steam generator (HRSG)
- two 70,000 pph packaged water tube boilers
- one 1.5 MW back-pressure steam turbine
The main operating orientation utilizes only the 5 MW dual fuel turbine (natural gas first, oil second) which generates both thermal energy into the HRSG and electricity. The two water tube boilers act to provide supplementary and backup thermal energy. This line-up provides Bucknell with 140,000 pph firm steam generating capacity thus assuring the campus with plenty of future and backup capacity.
A Sankey diagram of the primary cogeneration line-up can be seen below:
Control System
The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system is made up of a network of Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Each PLC is dedicated to a particular piece of equipment such as the Gas Turbine, Boiler Management System, Water Softener, etc. The PLC's each have a logic program that controls the operation of its equipment via input and output devices. For example input devices like, push buttons, limit switches, temperature probes, flow transmitters, etc. and output devices, like, motor starters, valve controllers, indicator lights and alarm horns are all electrically connected to the PLC.
The PLC network in turn connects to a network of 4 operator workstations located in a control room environment. These workstations communicate with each other via Ethernet on a Windows 2000 platform. Each workstation is running an industrial automation software package called "Citect". This software allows the plant operators to monitor the operations via graphical animations of the plant. Operators can control set points, start and stop equipment, view and respond to alarms, as well as view real time and Historical data. Redundancy is also a very important aspect of plant operation and is built into the SCADA system at critical need areas.
See screen captures of the controls with accompanying descriptions.
The various steam load demands of the campus system result from unscheduled and unanticipated events. These loads and their general amplitudes result from operations ranging from food preparation, steam heating of buildings for general comfort as well as thermal energy to steam absorbers located throughout the University.
The response of the power plant must be accomplished in time and in the correct amount to continuously maintain steam flow adequacy (pounds per hour) as well as simultaneously supplying a constant supply pressure (pounds per square inch).
The intended mandate for the power plant then must focus on matching just the right amount of fuel into the boilers to maintain the capacity (a variable from 0 to 70,000 pounds per hour) and supply pressure requirements (a fixed pressure at approximately 13 psig).
Steady state operation of the steam system results in trending of the pressure reading of the send out at the power plant. With a normal set point of 13 psig, any divergence or change above or below this reading will immediately signal the response of the energy systems; decay in pressure indicates a higher usage rate. Similarly a rise in pressure indicates the plant is producing too much thermal energy and it needs to be lowered.
The "reflection" of a rising or lowering steam pressure on the steam turbine exhaust location provides the first controlled increase or decrease in the steam flow. Assuming for instance the need for more campus heat has resulted in a lowered pressure reading, this signal then is fed to the governor valve of the steam turbine which increases the rate of steam flowing through the turbine thus producing or restoring the pressure reading to the original set point value. Side effects of correction of the steam flow rate results in no change in speed but rather a higher electrical output from the steam turbine generator. (The controller for this first stage of pressure/flow control is the digital governor.)
Since the back pressure controlled steam turbo generator system has made an instant rate change through the 200 psig governor valve, the next process variable to be corrected must be the steam boiler system. The offset condition in the case illustrated will be a corresponding pressure decrease in the boiler steam drum which is kept at 200 psig. Now the boiler master controller sees and interprets the decrease in steam boiler pressure and increases the firing rate of the boiler through the opening of the fuel valve (natural gas or oil in the case of the two package boilers or natural gas fuel valve in the case of HRSG steam production). The compensating change in boiler firing rate produces an increase in the steam drum pressure by producing more steam.
For purposes of simplicity the thermal balancing can be accomplished in any single boiler or boiler group through the boiler master controller whose design allows different boilers to be operated in parallel without focusing the full correction of steam flow to a single boiler. It should be noted however that in normal plant steam and electric production modes the only boiler that operates is the HRSG which uses gas turbine exhaust to achieve 0 to 25,000 pounds per hour of steam output with no additional natural gas applied at the internal spud burner system. Steam demands above 25,000 lbs./hour from the campus are controlled through the modulation of the HRSG natural gas valve.


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With all the James Bond theme song-playing and tower-building quadrocopters these days, it's a little hard to get excited about new personal-size automated aerial projects. But how can you not get worked up by a bird robot that can cross a room and land gracefully on someone's hand?
Aerospace engineering researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have "duplicated the control functions that allow birds to successfully perform a soft landing--in this case, perching on a human hand."
The above video's a bit scientific for the average layman (read: me) but suffice it to say, the researchers -- Soon Jo Chung, Aditya Paranjape, and Joseph Kim -- have created a micro-aerial vehicle (MAV) that can fly nimbly across a room and then pull up at just the right moment for a soft landing at a specific place, or on someone's hand.
"Because the wings of ornithopters--birds or aircraft with flapping wings--are inherently capable of being reoriented, this capability can be used for controlling and maneuvering the aircraft in a gliding phase, thereby eliminating the need for additional traditional actuators," the university wrote in a press release. "Gliding is an effective way to conserve energy while soaring, descending, and landing."
In an academic abstract (PDF), Chung, Paranjape, and Kim wrote that their work was inspired by growing interest in the development of "bio-inspired aircraft." But rather than following the traditional path of using insects as their model, the three decided that birds would be a better place to start. That's because, they write, birds can both fly by flapping their wings, and by gliding. As a result, the guiding principle of their research was that the "maneuverability and control efficiency of avian flight can be replicated by applying their actuation and control principles to advanced MAVs designed on the size scale of small birds."
It turns out that this project was not inspired solely by academic curiosity. In fact, there appears to potential military application, which is probably why the work was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
"There's a lot to learn from bio systems, Chung, who originally wanted to study the flying patterns of bats, said in a University of Illinois story about the project. "Bats can fly with damaged wings. They are so agile and highly maneuverable; they can make rapid 180-degree turns autonomously and they can fly indoors without colliding with obstacles. These qualities are desirable for small aircraft that could be used in surveillance, particularly in urban settings where obstacles hamper movement and satellite control is blocked."
We tested 5G speeds in 13 cities. Here's what we found: Faster speed versus more coverage. That's the most important issue for 5G networks today.
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Hairdressers and media from all around the world traveled to Frankfurt to celebrate with Wella Professionals at the International Trend Vision Awards (ITVA) as 82 talented finalists from 56 countries came together at the Hairworld exhibition to showcase hairdressing excellence.
This year also included a PHOTO Vision competition in addition to the incredible LIVE catwalk presentation, which allowed Wella to recognize more hairdressers with a new 'Platinum' series of award – the top honor presented at this year's ITVA. Each competition, PHOTO Vision and LIVE Vision, held two categories: the Young Talent Award for styling excellence and the Color Award for outstanding talent in hair coloring.
The Winners
This year in the LIVE Vision competition the Young Talent Platinum Award was won by Kriz Chen from Hair Culture in Taiwan and the Color Platinum Award by Iryna Fraiuk from Kodokan in Ukraine.
On receiving a Platinum award, Kriz Chen winner of the LIVE Vision Young Talent Platinum Award, was overcome with excitment, "This has been an unbelievable experience for me and I have loved every minute of it. I am so grateful to Wella for this amazing opportunity."
Iryna Fraiuk winner of the LIVE Vision Color Platinum Award, added, "I am so happy, I wish today could last forever. It is such an honor to win this world event for Ukraine."
In the PHOTO Vision category Karina Grace Gollins from Karina Grace Hairdressing in New Zealand won the Young Talent Gold Award and Tamás Fehér from hair's[ku:l] in Hungary won the Color Gold Award.
The jury (judges) for the ITVA awards was composed of an expert panel made up of the two Wella Global Creative Directors, Eugene Souleiman and Josh Wood, six international top stylists and two media representatives. The competition was hosted by Patrick Cameron, international celebrity stylist.
Eugene Souleiman, Wella Professionals Global Creative Director, Care and Styling who led the Young Talent Award jury commented, "There was a phenomenal level of talent demonstrated at the 2014 International Trend Vision Awards. We are incredibly proud of all of our finalists, in particular our Platinum winners who represent outstanding levels of skill and innovation in our profession."
Josh Wood, Wella Professionals Global Creative Director, Color and head of the Color Award jury added, "Our LIVE Vision Color Platinum Award Winner, Iryna Fraiuk's look was particularly inspiring to me. Their use of color was incredibly sophisticated and showed use that with a little imagination and a lot of creativity, anything is possible."
Entries were judged on their technical expertise and creative vision; the understanding of the trend; and the innovation and skill in their color work and styling abilities.
The ITVA event opened with the inspirational Parade of Nations – one of the many highlights of the spectacular show which saw every hairdresser take to the stage with his or her country's flag in a fantastic display of global talent. Then the Bronze, Silver and Gold winners of the PHOTO Vision competition were announced, followed by an incredible show by Bundy Bundy from Austria.
The audience was wowed by a catwalk show of all the LIVE competition entries, showcasing the hairdressing industry's best up-and-coming styling skill and color creativity, which was continued with a spectacular AW'14 trend show by Russian top stylist Dimitry Vinokurov, before the final award ceremony revealed the talented Platinum award winners.
Young Talent Award Winners
Platinum 1st: Kriz Chen, Hair Culture salon, Taiwan
Platinum 2nd: Lyndal Salmon, Biba salon, Australia
Platinum 3rd: Giorgio Parrivecchio, GP Parrucchieri salon, Italy
Color Award Winners
Platinum 1st: Iryna Fraiuk, Kodokan salon, Ukraine
Platinum 2nd: Sean Nolan, HOB Salons, UK
Platinum 3rd: Ben Lin, Soleil-Salon, Taiwan
Young Talent Award Winners
Gold: Karina Grace Gollins, Karina Grace Hairdressing salon, New Zealand
Silver: Lucy Tuck, Marc Antoni salon, UK
Bronze: Shauna McGrath, House of Colour salon, Ireland
Color Award Winners
Gold: Tamás Fehér, hair's[ku:l] salon, Hungary
Silver: Suppasan Kaewbanphot, Laksana Salon, Thailand
Bronze: Glory Avilés, Bloom Salon, Puerto Rico
The Judges
Young Talent (LIVE & PHOTO)
• Eugene Souleiman – Wella Professionals Global Creative Director, Care & Styling
• Mr Yoshinori Shima from Japan
• Miguel Estelrich from Brazil
• Darren Ambrose from UK
Color (LIVE & PHOTO)
• Josh Wood – Wella Professionals Global Creative Director, Color
• Sonya Dove from US
• Markus Droste from Germany
• Igor Zaharov from Estoniat
MODERN's Beauty and Fashion Director, Maggie Mulhern, was in Frankfurt covering the competition and met with Josh Wood moments after he left the judging field. In this short interview, Wood offers advice to future competitors as well as sharing his feelings about models and interpretations.


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Some might say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but that's not how Apple's design chief Jony Ive sees it, according to a recent interview with the Sunday Times.
During the interview, which was reprinted on Time's website without a paywall, Ive had the following to say when asked how he feels when Apple's designs are copied.
"It's theft. What's copied isn't just a design, it's thousands and thousands of hours of struggle. It's only when you've achieved what you've set out to do that you can say, 'This was worth pursuing.' It takes years of investment, years of pain."
Ive, who has crafted some of Apple's most iconic products from the iPhone to the original iMac, explained how he perceives a gadget's function before even imagining its design.
"Objects and their manufacture are inseparable. You understand a product if you know how it's made. I want to know what things are, how they work, what they can or should be made of, before I even begin to think what they should look like."
Ive also reiterated what he says makes Apple's design principles stand out from the competition.
"What people are responding to is much bigger than the object. They are responding to something rare— a group of people who do more than simply make something work, they make the very best products they possibly can. It's a demonstration against thoughtlessness and carelessness."


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I was really pressed for time and almost didn't make it to this area but was glad I did. It was the first time I was travelling solo in Colombia (with little to no Spanish ability), and while I only got to bird for about 24 hours, it was well worth it. My only regret is not being able to spend one more day here.
Day 2: Birded the morning before it got too hot, hired a homemade sailboat to take me out in the lagoons to see the flamingos and waders. Bus back to Santa Marta.
From Jurgen Beckers & Pablo Florez Birdwatching in Colombia book, here is the list of specialties:
(Red indicates I didn't see it)
Bare-eyed Pigeon
Buffy Hummingbird
Chestnut Piculet
White-whiskered Spinetail
Slender-billed Tyrannulet
Northern Scrub-Flycatcher
Orinocan Saltator
Vermillion Cardinal
Glaucous Tanager
Tocuyo Sparrow
Pileated Finch
Chestnut Piculet (above and below)
White-whiskered Spinetail (also seen around Cartagena)
Slender-billed Tyrannulet (I think - has a dark eye). I used it's voice to help distinguish it from the similar Pale-tipped Tyrannulet (pale eye). This photo won't sing for me.
Northern Scrub-Flycatcher
Vermilion Cardinals
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There is lots of speculation at the moment about changing the National Curriculum, the introduction of the English Baccalaureate into schools and the question of where the arts sit in this new structure. According to Education Secretary Michael Gove, we should be focusing on writing, reading and arithmetic. Or as the Victorians dubbed it: 'chalk and talk'.
With this curriculum reshuffle in mind, I recently travelled to St Aloysius Junior School in Camden to find out how the arts fit into teaching – particularly after the school's experience of the Write an Opera course.
Since Music Specialist Tony Gamage completed the Write an Opera course last year, 56 of the school's Year 6 pupils (aged 10-11) have written, developed and now performed their very own opera, entitled Deep Secrets. Not a glorified school assembly with panto elements, but a full-blown opera.
The pupils had all the details covered – from ushers in bowties showing us to our seats and handing our programmes, to hard-working lighting and sound technicians. They even had their own 10-year-old diva ("Don't tread on my costume!", she was overheard shouting). Every aspect of the production had been thought about carefully.
The opera tells the tale of two boys who find some magic peas that allow them to breathe underwater. One of the boys falls in love with the queen of the merpeople and the other tries to steal the treasure that keeps her alive. Drama, humour, romance and a twist at the end – what more could you want from an opera?
I taught pupils here science and literacy through dance in a previous role, so I knew that the teachers and children were open-minded about learning through the arts. In fact, the genesis of the production was not in the drama studio but in a literacy lesson. Pupils were given scenarios and developed stories by choosing a setting, narrative and then the words and phrases that eventually would form the libretto. Music lessons then helped create the melodies that would accompany their imaginative tale.
Music Specialist, Tony Gamage, told me about the children he worked with and the standards they have set themselves: "The children have learnt so many skills through this process, such as memory recall. They've also developed self-esteem and reinforced their literacy skills, I hope they will continue [the arts] when they go to secondary school. These reasons are enough to have the arts on the curriculum."
Jessica, the production's 10-year-old Music Director, also told me what she liked most about the experience. "I enjoyed leading the musicians and stage crew. Before the show, I created a 20-minute warm up off the top of my head with beats on the drums and everyone joined in. I really like music and it wouldn't be good if we didn't have it in school."
Projects like this one aren't time-fillers or an 'easy' get-out to finishing summer term; they're about being creative and building fundamental life skills that we all need as adults. Arts in the curriculum allows children to engage meaningfully with subjects and express themselves through music, dance, drama and design. We mustn't forget learning can – and should – be fun and that the curriculum can be taught through a variety of means.
The Royal Opera House runs lots of free or subsidized events for teachers, and for families, so if you'd like to get involved look at some of the things we have coming up:
- In August, people of all ages are welcome to join in with courses at ROH Thurrock on film-making, audio production and stage-craft.
- Dance Dynamic is a free training programme offering teachers the chance to work with ROH artists to learn new approaches to creative dance.
- Community Chorus offers local Thurrock residents the chance to find their voice and is open to anyone aged eight and upwards.
- Write an Opera is a professional development programme for teachers, equipping them with the skills to support cross-curricular learning while creating an original opera.
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Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst got an overall good reception from the GOP convention crowd, even though his name was booed a day earlier when Gov. Rick Perry mentioned him.
He had a lot of applause lines, and though there were some shouts of "Ted Cruz" and "Cruuuz" at first, they were shushed.
House Speaker Joe Straus had a a tougher time. There were calls of "oust Straus" during his speech, and a walkout by some convention-goers who left the arena individually but gathered outside to chant "Oust Straus." One participant said 400 people had committed to the action beforehand, and he thought more may have ended up participating.
Straus also got applause during his speech, including for lines like this: "Whether it was passing voter ID into law, enacting tort reform or eliminating a $27 billion shortfall without raising taxes, your conservative House has delivered."
Before his speech, Straus talked to reporters about the "oust Straus" movement. His declared opponent, Rep. Bryan Hughes, R- Mineola, has a booth at the convention supporting his own candidacy, and people are handing out stickers for Hughes, as well as anti-Straus stickers.
Straus noted the speaker election won't come until the House next meets in regular session in 2013. House members elect their leader.
"I continue to enjoy the support of those who have a vote in this matter and feel very confident about that," he said.
Asked about the boos for Romney and Dewhurst (before his own speech), Straus said, "I think it's disappointing when our party's leaders or even those who are contenders to be party leaders are booed, but there are no flags for unsportsmanlike conduct at political conventions."


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- transformers theme park by chinese artist zhu kefengChinese artist Zhu Kefeng unites public spectacle with environmental stewardship as he realizes his dream of building a Transformers-inspired theme park entirely from scrap metals. Transformers is the seventh-highest grossing film of all time, and capitalizing on this craze with recycled metal models is nothing new for China. In the past we've covered the Legend of Iron project, a 5-ton megamachine, and even a solar-powered version, but 49-year old Zhu Kefeng's Mr. Iron Robot theme park adds much appreciated depth to the cultural phenomenon. Flip through the slideshow to see what's bringing hordes of film fans to the site!1
- transformers theme park by chinese artist zhu kefengZhu has been working on Mr. Iron Robot theme park for over a decade. The park features 600 Transformer-like sculptures. Each one--some more than ten feet tall--was assembled with parts salvaged from old vehicles and machine tools.2
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- transformers theme park by chinese artist zhu kefengIt has been very popular with the kids Zhu told Xinhuanet, "I feel very glad when the children visit my park and enjoy the happiness here. I still remember the joy when I play iron toys in my childhood…Joy shared with others are more enjoyed."4
- transformers theme park by chinese artist zhu kefengZhu and his team spent ten years making recycled iron and steel sculptures, and will continue to create new structures for the theme park and for commission.5
- transformers theme park by chinese artist zhu kefengBefore Zhu had the 225-hectare abandoned factory, he was making models on a smaller scale. After distributing large recycle bins for iron and steel materials, Zhu was able to collect enough scrap metals to expand his operation and add new features to his work.6
- transformers theme park by chinese artist zhu kefengZhu began to build the theme park in 2010 with money he had put aside from selling his sculptures on commission and from selling his own apartment in Shanghai. Living his dream has been well worth it. Just last week, Mr. Iron Robot theme park in Jiazing City was granted status as a tourist attraction on March 20, 2012 meaning that Zhu has successfully built China's first park themed on recycled iron and steel artworks.7
- transformers theme park by chinese artist zhu kefengAs China moves through the automobile era a trail of wasted cars collects in its wake. The Mr. Iron Robot theme park provides visitors with that sense of joy and happiness Zhu mentioned, but it also invokes a strong spirit of green development and environmental stewardship. Alongside the sculptures is a gallery displaying human civilization from the Stone Age to the 21st century. A truly eccentric collection of interests and passions that make this sustainably-minded Transformer-inspired theme park one for the ages.8


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WikiLeaks Sheds Light on Legal Standstill Over 'Well Regarded' Fugitive on EPA's List
By JOHN MCARDLE of Greenwire
Published: June 23, 2011
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Finding Frerik Pluimers, one of the 17 members of U.S. EPA's list of wanted environmental fugitives, isn't the problem. The well-connected, 64-year-old Dutch businessman is living in the open in the Netherlands.
But bringing Pluimers to trial has been a 13-year-long legal and diplomatic drama that has involved at least two Dutch ministers of Justice, one foreign minister, the U.S. State Department, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and even the Dutch Supreme Court.
Today, the Pluimers case is at a standstill, with the last court filing now more than three years old. This week, the Department of Justice and the Dutch government each blamed the other for why extradition proceedings are essentially dead.
But new insight into the international tug of war over Pluimers can be found in a diplomatic cable released earlier this year by the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks. That cable, written in 2006 by officials at the U.S. embassy in The Hague, indicates that Pluimers simply has too much influence with high-ranking Dutch officials to be handed over to U.S. authorities.
In a briefing memo compiled for Gonzalez days ahead of his October 2006 visit to the Netherlands, U.S. embassy officials provided the attorney general with updates on a variety of law enforcement and legal issues that were of interest to Dutch/U.S. relations.
In paragraph 19 of that memo, after a discussion of an upcoming cyber-crime conference, embassy officials discussed ongoing extradition proceedings surrounding two men who were wanted in the United States.
The second man, a "well-known Dutch business executive whom we have indicted on corruption charges," was Pluimers.
The cable notes that Pluimers is wanted in his capacity as director of a U.S. subsidiary of the former Saybolt International, an oil and chemical inspection and testing company that had been based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The United States filed an extradition request for Pluimers in 2001, but Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner, who now serves as Interior minister, refused to take any action on the request, even after a 2003 ruling by the Dutch Supreme Court that was expected to help clear the way for Pluimers to be sent to the United States.
"Pluimers is very well regarded in Dutch business and political circles," the cable states. "Donner deferred action on his extradition in light of opposition from fellow Cabinet ministers."
The cable goes on to note that in late 2005 then-Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot, who had previously spent a decade representing the Netherlands to the European Union, wrote former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick to request that the United States drop its extradition request for Pluimers.
"Following interagency consultation, Zoellick responded that we would not drop the request," the cable states.
The section ends by simply noting that "there has been no further action on the case."
When asked about the contents of that 2006 cable this week, Floris Van Hovell, a spokesman for the Dutch Embassy in Washington, D.C., said he could not comment on the Wikileaks document.
"Even the American authorities are not confirming any of those documents to be true original cables," Van Hovell said.
Complicated path to EPA fugitive status
While the legal wrangling over Pluimers' extradition has become a muddled affair over the past 13 years, the reason he ended up on EPA's fugitive list in the first place is also a complicated story.
According to case filings in a New Jersey U.S. District Court, Pluimers is facing charges of bribery, conspiracy to defraud and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act -- none of which is the usual bailiwick of EPA.
"The formal charges against Pluimers are conspiracy and bribery; however, the original case against him involved environmental offenses, which is why EPA is involved," said Jeff McAtee, a spokesman for EPA's Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training, which runs EPA's fugitive list.
In 1996, EPA was investigating Saybolt's North American operation on suspicion that it had been falsifying oxygen and other test results on reformulated gasoline to allow customers to sell imported gasoline that did not meet government standards.
Saybolt, which was acquired by Texas-based Core Laboratories in 1997, was eventually fined $3.4 million in 1999 in U.S. District Court for violations of the Clean Air Act.
But during EPA's investigation of Saybolt, which included a raid on its New Jersey-based headquarters, it was also discovered that company officials had bribed a Panamanian government official in 1995 with $50,000 in an attempt to get tax benefits and a prime business location for a Saybolt facility along the Panama Canal.
Pluimers, who served as chairman of the board for Saybolt, and David Mead, who served as CEO of the company's Western Hemisphere operations, were eventually indicted on similar charges relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Mead was brought to trial and in March 1999 he was sentenced to four months in prison and $20,000 in fines. Saybolt incurred an additional $1.5 million in fines as a result of the bribery scheme.
Pluimers did not to come back to the United States from Rotterdam to face the charges, and a warrant for his arrest was issued in September 1999.
'It's old history ... end of story'
It seems that the closest the Department of Justice has come to bringing Pluimers to justice came in 2003, when the Dutch Supreme Court took up the United States' 2001 extradition request.
While the Supreme Court ruled the United States had sufficient grounds to make its request, Van Hovell said this week that Justice Minister Donner first hesitated with moving ahead with the extradition because there was some indication that Pluimers was trying to negotiate with U.S. authorities to make a deal on his own.
When those negotiations fell through, Van Hovell said, Donner took the position that Pluimers could be extradited under several conditions including the important provision that if he is sentenced, he would be allowed to serve that sentence in the Netherlands.
"Apparently the American authorities could not agree to that condition," Van Hovell said. "The U.S. authorities could not guarantee that he would be able to serve his sentence in the Netherlands."
But U.S. officials tell a different story.
According to Department of Justice spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle, the United States did agree to Pluimers' repatriation to serve out his sentence.
"The United States has for many years provided such assurances in cases in which we have sought the extradition of Dutch nationals, and they have been accepted by the Dutch government," Hornbuckle said.
And yet, in this case, the Dutch government refused to extradite Pluimers, he said.
Van Hovell acknowledged that in 2008 the Dutch Justice Minister Hirsch Ballin made the decision not to extradite Pluimers, and it appears that he is not going to face trial in the Netherlands over the charges.
"Our public prosecutor will not pursue anything against him because at the time the alleged crime took place it was not a punishable offense in the Netherlands," Van Hovell said.
The only other recent action in the matter came on March 24, 2008, when D.C.-based attorney Wick Sollers appeared in the New Jersey district court on behalf of Pluimers to say that his client would appear four days later to enter a guilty plea in the case.
But Pluimers never showed up and no guilty plea was ever entered.
These days, Pluimers is believed to still be active in business, but attempts to reach him through Sollers this week were unsuccessful.
Reached at his law office in The Hague yesterday, Mischa Wladimiroff, who handled Pluimers' case before Sollers, said the United States has been beating a dead horse in pursuing its extradition.
"From my perspective the case has already been archived," Wladimiroff said. "It's old history, it has been dealt with, end of story."
Wladimiroff said he knew that Pluimers had been included on EPA's fugitives list but dismissed the move as an attempt by the U.S. government to satisfy its own ego.
"It may be an issue for the U.S. officials. Those people who believe if you write up a list and keep on writing it then justice is done," Wladimiroff said. "You keep people on lists and, well, it's more or less a symbol. We're not concerned with those kind of things here in Europe."
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Consulting - Data & Analytics - BI Senior Manager
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- Posted
- 03 Nov 2018
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- 03 Dec 2018
- Industry
- Finance & accounting, Financial services, Technology, IT business analysis, IT project management, IT support, IT systems & testing
- Job function
- Job level
- Management
- Hours
- Full time
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- Permanent
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PwC helps a variety of organisations harness the value of their data. Using innovations in data analytics and human insights, we help clients collect data, analyse it and use it to understand potential futures, improving business performance and transforming the way they work.
As part of PwC's strategy to embed data analytics in how we operate and the services we offer to our clients, the Consulting Practice (Technology Competency) is looking to recruit individuals with a proven track record in Data and Analytics Technologies (DAT), specifically Business Intelligence and Analytics] at the Senior Manager grade.
We support the wider Consulting firm in embedding Data & Analytics in everything we do for our clients, and often deliver DAT solutions as part of wider technology-enabled business transformation.
We are particularly focussed on:
- Helping clients do much more with the volume of data they have available
- Providing clients with solutions that are tailored to meet their specific business problems
- Engaging with stakeholders across our clients' businesses to deliver Data Analytics solutions
- Design and implement effective Data Analytics capabilities focussed on delivering business value
We do this by:
- Inspecting, cleansing, transforming, modelling and exploiting our clients' data to support decision making, deliver business outcomes and adopt an insight to action management approach
- Developing innovative solutions using cutting edge technologies, structured and unstructured information
- Implementing governance strategies to ensure the security, integrity, and availability of information
- Working with a range of global alliance partners from the largest (Microsoft, Oracle, Google) to SMEs specialising in specific technologies or industry verticals
A successful candidate must understand a client's business and be able to dive deeply into their issues and requirements. Assignments will vary and will involve managing small teams/work streams, providing expert consultancy, mentoring and acting as a "trusted advisor" to clients. Relationships will run from business and IT specialists to senior management.
The role, largely based at Client sites (~80%) will involve providing key technical advice to clients within the Business Intelligence & Analytics domain. It is essential that the candidate is capable of delivering high quality work for clients, demonstrate an understanding of both the client's business and relevant professional standards. The candidate will be expected to develop and maintain respectful client relationships at a wide variety of levels.
Many of the tasks and assignments will involve working with teams that are drawn from a diverse cross section of the PwC Consultancy practice including other team members from the Information Management area. It is crucial that the candidate is able to take advantage of new opportunities for learning, sharing new knowledge, being intellectually agile and thinking creatively. The building of internal and external relationships and networks will be highly important as will the ability to consider the needs of others when designing a strategy and delivering a project or programme of work.
Essential Candidate Traits:
- Creative thinking
- Intellectually agile
- Demonstrated senior level client stakeholder management (C suite)
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong technical abilities combined with business acumen
- Track record of working as part of a team
- Ability to stay current with business and industry trends
- Ability to deal with ambiguity
- Ability to adapt quickly to diverse environments/challenges
- Basic understanding of BI Architecture
- Proficient in at least one BI vendor
- Education to degree level or equivalent
- BI work stream/project management
- Implementation of BI architecture
- Awareness of business issues for BI project delivery
- Ability to develop new approaches and tools to solve client problems
- Lead and mentor junior team members (from both client and PwC)
- BI Project/Programme leadership and management
- Design and roll out of BI solutions
- Definition of KPI's / metrics and reporting requirements
- Can articulate business opportunities during BI projects
- Understands BI project selling points
- Has experience of working with and presenting to C-suite
- Can develop propositions and take them to market
- Establishes new contacts and leverages existing networks
- Experience of design and implementation of Information Strategy and Information Architecture
- Experience of designing operating models for BI and reporting
As a Senior Manager you will also be expected to design, manage and lead a service offering and take it to market. You will be expected to position PwC services with clients and sell engagements and be able to adopt a land & expand strategy with clients. At Senior Manager level we expect a very well rounded consultant.
Technical Requirements:
You should have good delivery knowledge in at least one of the following vendors:
- Qlikview
- Tableau
- PowerBI
- Spotfire
- Oracle
- Cognos
- Analytics (SAS, SPSS)
- Plus Advanced MS Excel/Access skills.
You should:
- Be able to prove and demonstrate expertise in at least one BI vendor. Possibly certified.
- Have a broader understanding of the BI market and be able to engage in conversations with the C-suite about market trends, lessons learnt, good practices and pros/cons of different vendors in the market.
- As a Senior Consultant, also be able to deliver Information strategy engagements and lead larger BI implementation projects.
Desired Skills:
- Datanomics
- Datastage
- Biztalk
- Programming experience (SQL, VBA, VB.net) or similar
- Cloud Computing - Azure / GCP
- Prince2
- CDMP Practitioner
- CDMP Mastery
- Enterprise Content Management
- SAP/Oracle/Cognos/Qlikview certification
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.


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A different 'call to arms'
When Vermont Commissioner of Education Armando Vilaseca visits the Vergennes Union High School board of education next week he is expected to have two key items on his agenda: school board consolidation and "school transformation." VUHS has been a statewide leader on both issues (see story Page 1) and is deserving of the attention Vilaseca's visit brings to the school. But we also hope the commissioner will spend a few moments talking about what the state needs to do if we are truly going to compete in the global marketplace. We hope he'll note that we have far too many of our students who drop out of high school (some statistics suggest 12-15 percent), and even more — 40 percent or more — who either don't go to a four-year-college or don't graduate from college. In a knowledge-based economy, that's a recipe that short-changes too many Vermont students and will likely place a financial burden on the state (in terms of public assistance) down the road.Vergennes residents can well bask in the spotlight for what they are doing well, but area residents also want to know how they can help effect the changes necessary to ensure that more Vermont students receive the education they need to get good-paying jobs and be productive members of our society.Steps that may include lengthening the school year to match other global powers are not too far-fetched for area school boards to begin considering. Those conversations are not apt to happen, however, unless there is a statewide movement afoot that is providing the fodder and nourishing the grassroots energy necessary for that type of sea change to take hold. It's being recognized by many political scholars that a different kind of cold-war has been occurring since the turn of the century, but which was largely ignored by the Bush administration: that is, an economic war with China. It's also a war that China is poised to win on many fronts in the next decade or so. To stay competitive, this nation needs to revamp its spending priorities (from military to education) and it needs to set the bar higher for its academic institutions at all levels. The first step in that long-term battle is making each community aware of the challenges we face — as a nation, as a state, as school districts, as parents and as students. As Vilaseca travels the state visiting school boards, it's a message he is well prepared to deliver and he should be encouraged to do so.


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Wickes Type 22 Double Panel Premium Roundtop Radiator - White 500 x 400 mm
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One of the New York reporters asked Hawkins if this spring training has been about as good as he could have hoped,
"Spring don't mean sh**, dude."But, I do believe you definitely can see epitome of players' possible regular season performance.
When you saw Kennedy throwing 48 out of 91 pitches for strikes which is 52%, you know his stuff and command wasn't there. After giving up 4 runs in the first inning, Kennedy actually came back to pitch almost 4 scoreless innings even though he continuously struggled through the whole 5 inning. I like he didn't give up and lose composure in order to keep Yankees in the game, especially when you consider he pitched against great hitting team(Indians). If Hughes, Kennedy and Mussina all give us 3-4 runs at 5-6 innings, we are in good shape. Of course, They will turn into a gem once a while.
The only thing I have problem with Kennedy is his PFP(Pitchers Fielding Practice). He should and will pay attention on that more for sure after this game. If he cover first base and turn that DP, He probably escape this first inning disaster. You can't afford to give good teams extra out because they will make you pay for that.
As for Melky's error, I won't react that too much after I see how difficult for Matsui and Sizemore catch couple of flyballs. These are obvious evidences to prove that difficult condition(wind/no cloud) for players tracking the balls. But, since Melky plays center field, I do feel Melky is not so good at first jump as a CF. He probably need more experience or practice for that, but Melky did has a great arm to stop opponents' running game.
I won't overreact Giambi's missing tag for that possible out when Molina threw to him because Giambi did pick up a nice ground ball and almost turn a beautiful DP if Kennedy remember to cover first base. We all know Giambi won't be a gold glover at first base and won't play there every game. As long as he stays healthy and produce, I won't have problems with that.
The more I saw Molina playing, the more I feel what a great underrating signing and trade for cashman. He gives us a great backup catcher who is very good at defense while he is not automatically out on the plate as well.


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Could It Be ... SATAN?!
Press Play recently posted a new video essay I created on Satan in cinema along with a brief text essay.
Here's the beginning of the text essay, should you need some enticement...
The character of Satan seems far more appealing to filmmakers than the character of God. This may be for reasons of propriety: one should not, perhaps, make too many images of God. But since when has Hollywood cared about anything other than money and stardom? God isn't any good for either. Omnipotence is just too boring.(Continue reading and viewing at Press Play.)
There are devils in most films, because most films are melodramas of one sort of another, and no melodrama works very well without some embodiment of evil. But Satan himself (or herself or theirself or anyself — Satan, like every angel, fallen or not, is any gender and every gender) is a less common figure. One of the most powerful Satanic representations in film history wasn't even technically of Satan: it was Mephistopheles in Murnau's Faust, still one of the most visually interesting portrayals of satanic power.
The problem with portraying Satan is that it is difficult to capture the full horror he is supposed to be capable of.


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CHARLESTON, S.C.—The Duke University wrestling team jumped out to an early lead, but could not hold off The Citadel as the Blue Devils dropped a 26-11 dual to the Bulldogs at McAlister Field House.
Winning for Duke (6-13) were redshirt sophomores Conner Hartmann, Brendan Walsh and Trey Adamson. The Citadel improves to 9-3 on the year after beating both Duke and North Carolina on its senior day.
The dual started at 197 with Hartmann up against Marshall Haas. After a scoreless first period, Hartmann took command of the bout in the second with a five-point period. He added another takedown and the riding time bonus point for the 8-0 major decision and upped his record to 18-8 overall and 13-6 in duals this year.
Walsh, wrestling in his fourth straight dual for the Blue Devils, added three more points to the Duke scoreboard with a 6-2 decision over Joseph Bexley. Scoring on a pair of takedowns and an escape, Walsh improves his season record to 8-4 and 3-1 in duals.
Trailing 7-0 after two matches, The Citadel benefited from a forfeit at 125 and then added a decision at 133 from Aaron Hansen to take its first lead of the afternoon, 9-7. The Bulldogs added on to the advantage with a technical fall from No. 15 Ugi Khishignyam at 141 pounds and decisions at 149, 157 and 165.
Adamson, earning his 15th win of the year, stopped The Citadel's run by posting his team-best eighth major decision. The Riverton, Utah native dominated Terrell Forbes 12-3 and improved his overall record to 15-11 and his dual mark to 10-8.
The Blue Devils close out their regular season Feb. 22 against ACC foe NC State and Northwestern at 10 a.m., and 2 p.m., respectively.