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An award-winning bilingual journalist and TV personality featured on The Chew, Good Morning America, and Despierta América, Jeannette Kaplun is the founder and CEO of Hispana Global, a bilingual blog for Latinas, where she shares tips about travel, parenting, beauty, fashion, food, technology, social good and more.
Jeannette has also partnered with Procter & Gamble and its Tide® brand as ambassador for the Safety program #ArribaCerradosSeguros, to raise awareness on laundry room safety and help parents avoid injuries related to children and laundry packets.
Born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Chile, Jeannette has lived in Miami with her husband, son and daughter for the past 18 years. During this time, she's been recognized by mom.me and LATISM for her work as a blogger and was recently named one of the top 100 women leaders by "El Mercurio" newspaper in Chile. Her expertise has resulted in multiple invitations to the White House, including her participation in June 2016 in the first White House Summit on the United State of Women.
Jeannette is the author of Todobebé: Todo lo que necesitas saber para el primer año de tu bebé (Rayo, 2006), and writes for Babble, Ser Padres magazine, the Today show's Parenting Team, and other outlets. In 1999, she co-founded Todobebé and served as its Chief Content Officer. Her credits also include co-hosting two Emmy-nominated parenting TV shows, Univision's "Viva la Familia" and Telemundo's "Todobebe." Her work extends to the non-profit world, including work with Shot@Life, ONE, the UN Foundation, Save the Children and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She currently is a 2016 UN Champion for Humanity and Save the Children fellow.


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I thought I looked rather holidayish today with my red jersey skirt. ;)
It's BLACK FRIDAY today. Are you guys ready to shop?!?! How much are you planning to spend?!?!
I am always overspending so I hope I will have some self-control later.
How was everyone's Turkey dinner?
Boston Market lined up like crazy earlier, first time of the year that you actually needed to wait in line for their chicken/turkey meal for 30 minutes. OMGEE.
OK. I'm out. STAY WARM.

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Firms may also find it beneficial to have an outside pre-issuance review performed of other engagements, such as those in high risk or specialized industries, to obtain an independent, objective review of the report and financial statements. Smaller firms may not have the internal resources to effectively perform such a review on these engagements.
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Dr. Roger Rosentreter is teaching Ecology of Shrubs in Western North America (BIOL 497/597) at Boise State University.
Lecture: 2 credits, Lab: 1 credit
Lecture: Wed 6-8 PM, first 10 weeks of Fall semester
Lab: Saturdays 9 AM - 4 PM, Aug 26, Sept 9 & 23, Oct 7
Course Description/Learning Objectives: The ecological characteristics and physiological survival adaptations of shrubs, such as bitterbrush and sagebrush will be covered in detail. Wildlife uses, avian and invertebrate species importance, and forage value and palatability of western shrubs will be covered.
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Miranda Taylor
- CEO of NERA (National Energy Resources Australia)
- Director Environment, Safety & Operational Performance for APPEA (voice of Australia's oil and gas industry)
- Honours Degree from the London School of Economics, London University in International Economics and Politics
- Post Graduate Degree in Labour Relations
Miranda has more than 20 years' experience in strategic policy, risk management and stakeholder engagement, working with various industries and State and Federal governments.
She has participated in numerous task forces and ministerial panels, and has presented at international oil and gas industry events. She also facilitated APPEA's interaction with the global industry in response to the Gulf of Mexico well control integrity disaster and the Australian Montara incident.
National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) has been established to maximise the value to the Australian economy by having an energy resources industry that is globally competitive, sustainable, innovative and diverse. Through a national focus, NERA's role is to grow collaboration and innovation to assist the energy resources industry manage cost structures and productivity, direct research to industry needs, deliver the future work skills required and promote fit for purpose regulation. NERA is one of six Growth Centres established by the Australian Government under the Industry Growth Centres Initiative. It is an incorporated not-for-profit company governed by a board of industry experts to help drive projects to benefit the whole energy ecosystem in Australia.
As the national body promoting innovation and collaboration within the oil and gas, uranium and coal sectors, it made perfect sense for NERA to have a working space within CORE, the sole resources innovation hub in the Perth CBD. This allowed their team to work near the innovators creating solutions to issues being faced by the industry and to the senior decision makers working across the industry.
NERA is proud to be part of the establishment of the innovative, exciting working space that is CORE. Western Australia hosts so many energy resource operations that still have the potential to create significant economic opportunity for the state. It is therefore logical for NERA to partner with CORE and their stakeholders to build a pipeline of ideas and innovative solutions that will ensure a competitive, adaptive and resilient sector into the future.
Working amongst a wide range of innovators and entrepreneurs in the resources sector results in a great flow of ideas and dialogue on how best to ensure the future growth and sustainability of the industry. CORE has helped facilitate this by creating a range of unique working and interactive spaces. The team at NERA think it is vitally important to be readily available not only to those already working in the industry, but also to those individuals and SMEs looking for a way to connect with the sector.
- Better managing cost structures and productivity
- Increasing collaboration and innovation opportunities
- Directing research to industry needs
- Delivering future work skills required
- Promoting fit for purpose regulation


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The CAP curriculum
CAP students are offered a range of courses from Diploma courses to career skills based study.
For CAP students, the diploma type courses provide a theoretical and academic rigor which underpins the students' academic programme and the career skills based study provides practical, real-world approaches to learning and helps them to develop skills and competencies required for lifelong learning.
Read about the CAP curriculum courses (download list of courses) Or click here for booklet print version.
What is CAP?
The Career Advantage Programme (CAP) provides all students with the opportunity to gain the skills and aptitude to achieve rapid success in their post-school careers.
The CAP does this by:
There is an increasing awareness globally that high school studies alone are not adequately preparing students for the modern workforce. The Career Advantage Programme is aimed at equipping our children with the necessary skills to bring positive benefits to our businesses from day one.
"A recent Gallup poll affirmed employer concern. Only one in ten business leaders strongly agreed that institutions were graduating students with the skills and competencies their businesses needed" – Forbes Magazine, August 2014
"Unless we in schools take particular actions to help students transfer their skills, students won't be successful in the workplace" - Ian Chubb, Chief Scientist of Australia, December 2014
"A key challenge for … senior secondary education is how to develop and provide high-quality and authentic workplace and career exploration as an embedded and fundamental part of the secondary school curriculum" - Australian Government, National Vocational Education & Training Research Program, December 2014
It's a pressing problem and the Career Advantage Programme is moving ahead to strengthen the position of students and businesses that take advantage of this opportunity.
Purpose of this foundation:
The purpose of the Foundation is to help bridge this gap by:
a) Supporting students in taking up extra professional training courses alongside of their senior school studies to provide them with the skills & aptitude to achieve rapid success in their post school careers.
b) Support by way of:
i. Contributing to course costs & related expenses.
ii. Providing a bursary to encourage further post graduate studies, training & career advancement.
c) Make available to any secondary school within New Zealand that the foundation should wish to support.
If you are interested in sponsoring this programme, please click here.
Comments from Open Polytech of New Zealand lecturer for 560 Business Communication and 72140 Business Communication (Degree course):
"The results we are getting are bizarre since they should be struggling, and we are not sure how they are managing it, but we are pleased with the results coming through. They are getting A's yet still have their school responsibilities. I guess it is because they are the top level students from your school".
"The problem with the schooling system now is they leave school, start tertiary or uni, and then at 30 they have a student loan, no house, and still little idea of how the real business world works".
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True spirituality
We have a tendency to regard the truly spiritual as that which is most contemplative and peaceful. Consequently, we bemoan the many mundane and frustrating distractions that tear us away from spiritual things.
It is true that we will enjoy mountaintop experiences where we meet with Jesus and are refreshed by him. In fact, we are privileged to meet with him in this way every Lord's day. However, consider this description of what it means to be spiritual:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. — Galatians 5:22-26
There is no better time to practice this than when we feel distracted, frustrated, unspiritual. It is little work to be patient when we are surrounded by peace and quiet, but it is great work to cultivate patience when we are beset by storms. In a sense, the time that we feel the least spiritual is our greatest opportunity to be spiritual — not by escape, nor by stoicism, but by walking in faith and in the fruit of the Spirit. Not that this is easy: it requires constant death to ourselves, regular repentance and renewal of our faith.
The Spirit is not opposed to the physical and the natural; the Spirit is opposed to the flesh, that which is of sin and death. As we walk in repentance and faith, the Spirit brings resurrection life to the physical and the natural, to the very messy moments of our daily life.
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By David Freddoso, ,
Published May 11, 2015
Last January, President Obama did something that every civics class teaches presidents are not allowed to do under our Constitution. Although the Senate was not in recess, he unilaterally "recess-appointed" four officials to executive posts, three of them to the National Labor Relations Board. The move allowed Obama to avoid the constitutionally mandated Senate confirmation process for all four – temporarily, at least.
This wrong was righted on Friday, when a three-judge panel on the D.C. federal appeals court unanimously struck down the three NLRB appointments on constitutional grounds.
The ruling comes as a surprise only to the journalists and editorial writers who framed this story so wrongly in the first place. Instead of recognizing these appointments for what they were – an obvious abuse of power to deliver an easy election-year favor for organized labor– America's most important newspaper editorial boards praised Obama for his boldness.
When the illegal recess appointments were first reported, the Washington Post editorial board called it "Obama's justifiable 'power grab,'" and dismissed concerns about them with a blithe, "But so what?"
For The Los Angeles Times, this clear violation of the constitutional balance of power was "a rational response to an increasingly gridlocked Congress."
Both papers followed Obama's line in offering Republican obstructionism as a legitimate excuse for violating the Constitution. But neither mentioned that the three NLRB appointments had only been delivered to the Senate right before Christmas, a few business days before Obama installed them.
It is simply impossible to imagine them not condemning let alone praising a Republican president for doing such a thing to overcome a hostile Senate – and in fact, New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal admitted as much. "We supported the Democrats under Mr. Bush when they held pro-forma sessions [of the Senate] to block his recess appointments because we believed his choices were egregiously bad," Rosenthal wrote. "I know this looks hypocritical, but I can't bring myself to support the Republicans for doing the same..." He was right about the fact that it looks hypocritical.
The flat-footed response of the Washington commentariat to this ruling is a manifestation of what I describe in "Spin Masters" – a liberal bubble-world that the Washington media inhabit, from whose confines even a huge story like this one becomes difficult to recognize.
Similar wishful thinking had led to widespread dismissal of the formidable and substantive legal challenge against ObamaCare's individual mandate. This suddenly gave way to panic when it became clear the health care law was hanging by a thread.
For the overwhelmingly Obama-sympathetic Washington press corps, stories about presidential abuses of power became far less interesting the moment Obama took the oath of office in 2009.
Thus, the same media that showed such intense interest in the "signing statements" and secretive energy task force of George W. Bush has practically nothing to say about even more important stories that developed in Obama's first term.
When each of the three broadcast network news programs were given a chance to interview Obama immediately after he declared war in Libya, not one asked about his failure to pursue or obtain permission from Congress.
To this day, no one has asked him directly about his administration's 2011 drone killing of a 16-year-old Colorado-born U.S. citizen in Yemen.
Such stories as these, and the obvious illegality of the recess appointments, were suppressed during the 2012 campaign in favor of more important things like the War on Women and Mitt Romney's high school antics.
Despite the media's deferential attitude, Obama had no serious defense for his appointments. His White House Counsel was reduced to asserting that presidents get to decide when the Senate is in recess and when it isn't. "This will not do," wrote D.C. Circuit Chief Judge David Sentelle in response. "Allowing the president to define the scope of his own appointments power would eviscerate the Constitution's separation of powers."
When presidents test the limits of their powers with such abuses, and there is no reasonable political remedy (impeachment would seem a bit excessive), the Fourth Estate is supposed to defend the constitutional order from precisely such power grabs as this one.
This is the stuff that editorial boards are made for. Unfortunately, the nation's top papers were too busy rooting for Obama's reelection to take it seriously. As a result, everyone loses, and they come off looking somewhat ridiculous.


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Welcome to my blog! I love writing about anything related to home decor and sharing inspirational designs. Hope you have a nice stay!
We at 2 Ladies love celebrating the holidays, and having our homes reflect the seasonal changes throughout the year. We want to share with you some of our pictures from homes and businesses that we have decorated. If there's a holiday coming up or if you have a seasonal event or party planned, please contact us and we will help make it a success.
A little spooky decor for a Halloween wine event.
A touch of autumn for a local business.
So much fun - we were featured on a holiday home tour.
2 Ladies & A Chair created a winter wonderland for this business last year.


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Is there a full pin out detail of the Bean+, I know the digital and analogue pins, etc are called out on the side and top.
But which pins are the PWM ones, and which out of the 4 are the fast PWM ones.
Also somewhere that shows the mapping between the Bean+ and a regular Arduino.
an image would be great.


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Gina Lundy
Gina Lundy is a Bristol born photographer based in Glasgow. She studied Documentary Photography at Newport University (2009) and is currently studying for a Master in Research at Glasgow School of Art (2017), creating work around class, gender and social protest.
Her work explores landscape and community through a mixture of methods including; photography, interviews, workshops, and archival material. Her creative approach aims to uncover and re-present hidden narratives and marginalised voices through a range of mediums - photography, text, screen print, installations and publications.
Gina has exhibited in London, Brighton, Cardiff and Bristol. Her work has been published in The Times, Telegraph, Financial Times and The Guardian. Her recent zine, 'Fantastic New Community' is on sale at Street Level Photoworks and she is looking forward to exhibiting in Scotland for the first time this year.
The body of work presented below has been made in response to the current shortage of housing in the UK and the changing urban landscape, specifically areas of previous social housing in London undergoing renewal, gentrification, dislocation or demolition.
Website: www.ginalundy.co.uk


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Realizing the Benefits of Internet of Everything for Customer Experience: Part 1 #IoE
We're entering the age of the Internet of Everything (IoE), which is about connecting the Internet to the physical world (people, process, data, and things). We're early in the process, with approximately 10 billion devices already connected. By 2020, Cisco projects that this number will reach 50 billion "things." One of the key areas of impact identified in the Cisco Internet of Everything Economy report, "Embracing the Internet of Everything To Capture Your Share of $14.4 Trillion," is customer experience. The report estimates that IoE-driven customer experience advances — based on increasing customer lifetime value and growing market share by adding more customers — will drive $3.7 trillion of the estimated $14.4 trillion of IoE Value at Stake globally over the next decade.
IoE is enabling organizations to engage with their customers in whole new ways and to create new business models. IoE is all about making new connections possible: interactions among people, and between people and devices. It's also about the ability of devices to communicate with each other, with applications, and with digital services, and then empowering those technologies to take action based on these communications.
When more of the world is connected, expect the delivery of your customer experience to shift beyond the boundaries of your current web and mobile sites, and past the walls of your offices and stores. New technologies connected to the Internet — including things like Google Glasses, IP-enabled lightbulbs, new gesture technologies, and sensors — will form the foundation of IoE. However, it is the data stream produced by all of these new connections that will have the greatest impact on your relationship with your customers.
With IoE, you will be better able to build customer loyalty and delight — creating emotional brand connections, personalizing the experience, and targeting offerings based on the data generated by IoE. Just think about what the IoE-powered future might look like across your customer journey.
- Transform the process of building awareness and encouraging purchases,by bringing together data from various sources, including sensors that pick up signals to help anticipate customer needs. Target these customers in real time based on history, location, and activity.
- Apps move from performing cross-brand product comparisons to enabling customers to determine where to find items based on criteria they set, including best price, product ratings, and the most convenient retail location to shop (automatically taking traffic and wait times into consideration).
- Connected vending machines, digital signage, and other surfaces will recognize customers and deliver customized content at the point of need.
- Items will be ordered on — and delivered to — a customer's mobile phone, wherever it is located.
- Post-sale, connect with the personal side of customers' lives to help them achieve their goals. This will enable you to add post-sale value to create new revenue streams and drive new insights for innovation. Look for ways to be proactive, anticipate and prevent issues before they happen, or make suggestions that will improve a customer's life.
- Mobile devices or sensors react to the environment and are set to receive personalized messages placed by you or your customers' social circles.
- Sensors on clothing monitor customers' health, enabling them to analyze and collect information about themselves, optimize their personal behaviors, and alert caregivers when there is an issue.
- Connected cars move beyond monitoring an automobile's performance to collecting data about customers' driving habits, providing instant insurance quotes, and communicating with things along a route
These capabilities can be offered as services, and the great thing is they can be updated and improved over time. Companies like Nike are already way ahead with products like Nike Fuel. Nike has secured a role in my life around my fitness goals, and given all the history it has collected about me, I am not likely to switch to a competitor anytime soon.
If you want to be in a position to tap in to the potential of IoE, it's time to get thinking about the role your brand will play in this new world. One of the first steps in designing your customer experience is good information about the needs and trends of your customers. Cisco is helping through primary research such as the Connected Customer Experience Report for Health Care, with more industries to come. Please also follow us on the new Cisco Customer Experience Facebook page and Twitter for updated information.
In Part 2 of this blog series, I'll provide specific details on how to get started in realizing the benefits of IoE for improving customer experience. In the meantime, I'd love your thoughts on how IoE will redefine customer experience as we know it.
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What's so odd is that I thought of GPS for shopping carts and RF-type payment options where you get billed with your merchandise when you exit the store, not having to wait in line!!!!! I knew I should have put a patent on that!!!!! Waiting in line and asking for help is a thing of the past. I will let you guys have this one!!!!!
Hi Rachael,
Thanks for a great and forward looking article. I hadn't actually thought that much about the post sale capabilities, but I think the things you point out are very desirable and will generate a new way of considering your customer.
I'm heading up a panel for an event in Los Angeles called Silicon Beach Fest which will be covering IoE. It would be great if we could connect privately to discuss more on IoE and Cisco's role in shaping the future.
Good blog post on Cisco's vision. However, technology in and of itself will NOT produce a better customer experience or customer loyalty. It is a myth that just about every tech vendor has latched on to.
To differentiate and compete on customer experiences requires companies to transform themselves. And that started with people(culture), processes (strategy and BPM), and technology – in exactly that order. Sorry folks, there are no short cuts, silver butts or fairy dust to get you there.
What technology can do is to institutionalize new processes, employee/partner behaviors and ways of doing business, measure and alert on performance to customer expectations, changes in customer behavior patterns.
I am thrilled that Cisco is providing insights into CX by industry. Hats off for doing that. Companies should take this information as a guide for the actual journey that customers take varies by persona, revenue tier and geography, and, most importantly, by business problem. Thank you Cisco for helping this business discipline mature.
For more on a proven methodology on how to connect customer experience to revenue, please visit http://www.newbizs.com/consulting-services/sellers-compass-services/
It is astonishing, look at the speed through which internet has grown month after month since a few decades ago, even though i'm not a BIG fan of online shopping, i reckon this will be more than reality and very soon 🙂
Thanks for your interesting blog. Regards
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Alan Sugar is as 'notoriously hard to please' as ever, in the new series of The Apprentice, writes Lisa Lavelle.
BBC'S BAFTA AWARD winning show, The Apprentice is back on our screens and into its fifth season. The idea of a television programme charting the desperate struggle for a job has taken on somewhat of a new meaning since it was last on our screens and speaking for myself, it's nice to be able to put my feet up and watch somebody else slogging away.
The new series doesn't disappoint. The first episode panned out much as expected, with a boardroom full of jostling egos giving daggers to each other and pretending to laugh at Sir Alan Sugar's jokes. The introduction to the new faces featured many overconfident people in impressive suits building themselves up, à la Muhammad Ali, only to be brought spectacularly down to earth with their first task.
The task in question, which involved each team washing cars and shining shoes, fulfilled the quota of being humiliating enough to satisfy the audience. The producers of the show seem to think, rightly enough, that what the viewer wants to see is these high powered-professionals tarnishing their suits and more importantly, their self esteem.
"What the viewer wants to see is these high powered-professionals tarnishing their suits and more importantly, their self esteem"
However, the competitors weren't daunted by this loss of dignity and if you're planning on watching the season, prepare for the usual mix of buzzwords, clumsy power plays and cringe-worthy negotiation techniques. And of course, competitiveness that's not very far off outright bitchiness.
The new contestants for series five have already started to get on each other's nerves and the cattiness, amongst the girls and the guys, has already reached such heights that viewers may not be surprised to see Alan Sugar replaced by Tyra Banks.
The first elimination of the show was prefaced by a round of arguments on the girl's team that looked as though someone was going to lose an eye until Sir Alan intervened with his inimitable brand of Cockney autocracy.
His ire was raised further in the second episode, when the aspiring apprentices once again demonstrated their Olympian incompetence, while this time working in a kitchen. These individuals' perpetual ineptitude reminds us that the show ultimately seeks to provide entertainment value rather than rigorous insights into the corporate world. Hence, hopefuls are obviously chosen on the basis of personality as opposed to business acumen.
Despite the high calibre of the catfights, one of the high points of the show is still the appearance of Nick and Margaret, Sir Alan's personal winged monkeys, who follow the candidates throughout their disastrous decisions. Instead they silently sit in the midst of the chaos and raise their eyebrows at the appropriate moments.
Anyone who is feeling depressed by the times we live in, my advice is as follows: make yourself a cuppa and watch The Apprentice. Because, lets face it, we all watch this show for the same reason: the shameful satisfaction we derive from watching people with shiny prospects rolling up their sleeves and being brought down to the level of ordinary mortals.
Series five of The Apprentice can be seen on Wednesdays at 9pm on BBC One


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Ricardo Maio was born in Salvador-Bahia (Brazil) in 1972. At the age of nineteen, he had his first contact with photography through the Econews Agency, founded by photographers Peter Feibert, Walter Firmo, Luiz Garrido and Ana Lontra Jobim. He recalls that its first photography lesson was to observe Walter Firmo photographing the Corcovado from the window of the Agency in Rio de Janeiro.
Graduated in cinema from the University Estácio de Sá and post-graduated in photography by the Candido Mendes University, he worked in the national archives and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in cataloging and census of films.
As a freelance photographer, he worked for newspapers and magazines, as well as for catalogs of companies, events and advertising.
Right now he lives in Barcelona and works in the photograph industry, cinema, video in publicity, shows and institutionals for firms in Brazil and Spain. Also develope projects in infography and 3d.


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I am coming up to quite a milestone in my business career. Five years ago I established Tane as a design brand, specialising in the sustainable design of furniture. In this time the name has changed about ten times, the focus of the business about twenty times and the plan somewhere around thirty times. I have exhibited my work in Melbourne, London and Milan. I have driven tourists on buses to the Yarra Valley wine region, restored many many many beautiful pieces of furniture and many many many ugly pieces of furniture.
I have fitted out a cafe's, the entrance hall of a manufacturing plant, designed a bench range for a company producing recycled plastic timber, a range of side tables for a company previously mainly importing goods. Designed and produced five thousand bamboo wine trays by hand, produced furniture for pop up bars at the MCG for grand final day, Flemington Race course for the Melbourne Cup. I have maxed out a credit card and financially hit rock bottom, needing to run to work as I couldn't afford the petrol for my trusty Kombi van 'Billy', which to be honest wasn't a bad thing for either of us.
Sometimes I have wished as though my bed could swallow me up when the alarm clock has gone of, sometimes I have lept out of bed without the need of the alarm clock! Most of the time I land somewhere in between those two feelings. But I have never once regretted the decision I took five years ago to leave the world of being an employee to become my own boss.
After nearly fifteen years as an employee picking up a wage in many varied roles, all within the design industry I took the inevitable plunge. I had known for a long long time this was where I was heading, so really it can down to a feeling that the time was right to make the leap of faith. I would encourage anyone in a similar position to where I was approximately five years ago to do the same, take the leap and start your own journey!
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text: ALRICK A. THOMAS (dancer) was born and raised in Harlem, New York, where he began performing at the age of 9. During high school, he trained at The Harlem School of the Arts and The Alvin Ailey School on scholarship under the Fellowship Program. He then went to The University of the Arts and graduated with a BFA Ballet Performance Degree. Upon graduating, Thomas received "The Pennsylvania Ballet Choreographic Award" and "The Outstanding Achievement of Creativity Award." Thomas has worked with various choreographers such as Heidi Cruz-Austin, Earl Mosley, Sidra Bell, Brice Mousset, Kyle Abraham, Kevin Wynn, Iquail Johnson, Ronen Koresh, Douglas Becker, and many more. He has also set works of choreography on The Pennsylvania Ballet second company which premiered at the annual 2013 Shut up and Dance Benefit; Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts; Harlem School of the Arts; CCPI Arts Program; and other various projects. Recently Thomas was awarded a grant for Harlem Stage's "Fund for New Work 2014" program, where he will be creating new works as well as dancing with Elisa Monte Dance.


text: A three-month odyssey around Australia forms this infectiously enthusiastic love letter to the author's homeland. Grace is excited and sad as she sets out with her family, but she adapts to life on the road, illustrating her journeys with cheery watercolor vignettes that are glossed with just the right amount of childlike detail: "The quokkas came so close to me, I could see their tiny whiskers." Seating arrangements in the car are given equal weight with the fabulous sights, and their travels are punctuated by Billy's question: "Are we there yet?" A map showing the family's path along the coastline—with several detours—introduces the journey; periodically, details of that map appear to describe their progress. Restrained design gives the sense of a scrapbook without trying to mimic one—a happy decision, given the delicacy of both illustrations and text. The eventual homecoming is as sweetly perfect as the journey that precedes it. North American kids will be left with both a far greater understanding of the varied wonders of Australia and a sense that their own homeland may offer similarly gorgeous possibilities. (Picture book. 5-9)


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"A word, a sound, my kingdom for a sound." Or "How to build a bridge so you and your dog can cross it to communicate together."
As you may have noticed, you don't speak Doglish and your dog has a hard time with English (or Spanish, Frenchish whatever). This exercise helps you speak the same language – or at least 1 relevant word.
This word that you are about to teach is going to mean: "that was exactly what I was asking for"
This word can also be a sound. It needs to be quick, one syllable and not sound like "No"
- Good!
- Yes!
- Click!
- This word must be "charged" to work.
- Take a handful of good treats
- Make your sound and give a treat.
- Repeat about 10 times
- Check for understanding by tossing a treat on the floor away from you (your dog can go get it or not)
- Make your noise
- Your dog should flip its head around and obviously show that it is expecting a treat from you.
You often need to "recharge" your word at the beginning of a training session
Didn't work? Go back to step one
Got a head flip? Carry on. You now have a "Bridge" to communicate across.
Human: "Sit!"
Dog: "Right, butt on floor, am sitting!"
Human: "Click"
Dog: "Oh good! Quite right! I did it correctly!"
Human pays off with a treat
And so the dog learns (this is a great sentence to fill out if you are trying to figure out if your dog IS learning) that the click means "Correct, treat coming" and that a butt on the floor is worth a bit of liver. (And that jumping up earns nothing so we get "sits" rather than jumps, but that is another handout).


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Reason #10: You have more credibility by having an Internet presence in today's age.
A business without a phone number or a physical address can seem shady. It's slowly becoming accepted that a business must also have a website and an email address.
Reason #9: Your website is on 24-7
Your website works for you 24-7 with no labor costs. Your website markets your business for you while you sleep.
Reason #8: Potential customers can find your business online.
Not too long ago, customers looking for your product or service would have to look you up on the Yellow Pages. Today, with the Internet, the same customers will just search for your product or service on search engines like Google or Yahoo search. By not having a website, you are losing out on those customers
Reason #7:Marketing on the Internet is much more cost effective than traditional marketing methods.
Putting ads on the newspaper, making flyers, and television spots can be very expensive. Fortunately marketing on the Internet isn't and can be done on a budget.
Reason #6:You can very accurately track the traffic on your website.
Using analytical tools, you can find out exactly how many visitors come through, how long they spend on your website, and which pages they are reading. Can you say the same about your print ads, flyers, and tv spots?
Reason #5:A website increases the geographic range of your business.
If you are a small business, you rely on foot-traffic and referrals for your business. By leveraging the Internet, potential customers not within your immediate geographic area can also find your business.
Reason #4:It's easy and cheap to change company information and marketing material on your website.
You know how costly it can be to have to change product information or prices on all your catalogs, brochures, and marketing material. It's much cheaper, easier, and faster to change all this information online.
Reason #3:Customer service can be handled on the website.
How many times do you hear the same questions over and over from different customers? As with any business, most customers have the same set of questions and concerns. By having an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) online, you can reduce customer service costs and save yourself time and money. You can provide more information than cannot be covered on a business card or flyer.
Reason #2:A website conveniences your customer.
Your customer can peruse your website at their own leisure. There's no pressure to buy nor do they have to drive over to your place of business to find out about your offering.
Reason #1:A website address is easier to remember than a phone number.
The web address or URL (universal resource locator) of your website is most likely going to be infinitely easier to remember than the physical address of your business or your office phone number. That alone is reason enough to have a website.
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Rainbow-haired celebs: The latest bold and bright trends
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What's the latest hair trend among celebrities? It's not bobs (they're past being trendy, they're officially here to stay), it's not subtle ombre. It's bright, bold hair color - straight from the rainbow!
Anna Paquin is the latest celebrity to join the crazy hair color train, saying goodbye to True Blood's Sookie Stackhouse for good with purple and blue mermaid-like hair! Before Anna, our favorite lavender-haired beauty was Nicole Richie, but she's just switched to blue and we love it even more.
From orange to purple to GREEN and more, click through the gallery above to see the boldest hair color transformations this summer!
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Brazilian player hospitalized after collapse
SAO PAULO (AP) A player who collapsed in a Brazilian Cup match is in stable condition after being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat.
Vasco da Gama's Everton Costa had to leave the stadium in an ambulance after collapsing on the bench shortly after being substituted in the team's match against Resende in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.
Team doctors said Costa's condition was quickly stabilized but he had to be rushed to a nearby hospital for exams. The match continued as he was carried into the ambulance parked behind one of the goals.
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Doctors said Thursday that the 28-year-old striker will remain under observation for at least three days, but it could take up to a week to know exactly what caused his heart condition.


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Miami hockey rallied from a 2-1 deficit against National Collegiate Hockey Conference opponents Colorado College to win 3-2 in overtime. Freshman forward Casey Gilling sent the game to overtime and junior forward Josh Melnick had the sudden-death goal that gave the RedHawks their first conference win of the season.
"That's what's in store for the rest of the year," head coach Enrico Blasi said. "No surprise to me that in conference play it's going to come down to the wire. It's a tough league, tough teams, and I thought CC played extremely well tonight.
The RedHawks (4-3, 1-0 NCHC) and the Tigers (5-4, 1-2 NCHC) both played fast, gritty games marked by quick transitions. Once a team entered the zone, the opposing team had a hard time clearing the puck and short periods of offensive dominance defined the flow of the game. This showed on the shot sheet, though CC ended with a 30-29 edge.
"They were a really good team, and I thought this game was more fast-paced and physical than previous games," Gilling said.
The first period set the back-and-forth tone. Both teams showed jump off the faceoff, though momentum would swing to CC as a penalty was called on Miami at 1:44 of the period. The RedHawks were able to kill off the Tigers' man-advantage with the help of big saves from sophomore goaltender Ryan Larkin.
Different from last weekend's match-up against UConn, Colorado responded more quickly and with more pressure to Miami's offensive chances — often trapping the zone and making it difficult for Miami to transition. Sophomore forwards Carson Meyer and Karch Bachman had a give-and-go opportunity and came close to beating CC sophomore goalie Alex Leclerc. Shortly after, Miami went on the powerplay at 9:30.
The 'Hawks set up a cycle in the second half of the man-advantage and would end with three shots on goal. Miami had sporadic quality chances that were immediately matched by Colorado's speed and quick transition. If a RedHawk wasn't generating those chances, at the opposite end of the ice, a Tiger was.
Another power play for Miami closed the period with bursts of good play, but the 'Hawks looked to enter the second with more consistency.
"I thought we got off to a bit of a slow start and that definitely showed," Melnick said. "After the first, we settled down and talked through it as a team and knew we wanted to get back to how we were playing against UConn, because we knew that was our best hockey."
The Tigers killed off the remaining 30 seconds of Miami's powerplay before going on a power play themselves. The 'Hawks cleared the puck repeatedly and efficiently to keep it 0-0. Senior defenseman Louie Belpedio took it upon himself to change the scoreless game.
Fighting off a CC forward behind his own net, Belpedio went coast-to-coast — shouldering off the Colorado forward and splitting the Colorado defense — to beat Leclerc on a wrist shot from just inside the blue line. The unassisted goal put Miami up 1-0 at 7:26 of the second.
Another penalty on Miami gave opportunity to Colorado to tie the game but Miami cleared the puck, won board battles and got physical to kill the penalty. Once sprung from the box, Bachman had a short breakaway on Leclerc though the trailing Meyer was tied up and couldn't get his stick on it.
On the other end of the ice, Larkin made crucial saves to keep his team ahead. Most notably, a left-to-right diving save against an open CC man with just over five minutes left in the period. A 4-on-4 allowed the 'Hawks more space to generate chances. They went to intermission outshot 20-17 but up 1-0 where it counts.
"I think their speed and the fact that they were getting on pucks," Blasi said about CC's edge. "We did the same thing to them, we did a good job getting pucks in deep and getting after their D and they were turning pucks over too."
The third started slower than the first two periods, but began with an early Miami penalty kill. Larkin again came up with a huge save on the kill — stretching right-to-left to make a kick-save on an open CC man. Two minutes after the first kill of the period, Miami would go on their second kill but would be unsuccessful in shutting out Colorado. Junior forward Trevor Gooch redirected a puck past Larkin to tie it 1-1 at 6:51.
Though only tied with plenty of time left in the game, the 'Hawks struggled to find clear shooting lanes to get pucks to the net.
"It was back and forth and most of the night you felt like you better manage the puck well or something bad's going to happen," Blasi said. "It was one of those games where turnovers really becomes a huge factor in a game."
A turnover on a Tiger power play led to three Colorado players storming the net and freshman forward Christiano Versich putting one past Larkin with 4:40 left in the game.
CC began draining the clock, but with Larkin pulled and 1:14 remaining, Miami had a man-advantage and shortly took advantage. Sophomore forward Gordie Green came up the right side and passed to Gilling on the left out in front. Gilling tied it 2-2 off a one-timer at 19:09.
"That goal helped everyone out and refocused, get back on it and finish strong," Gilling said.
The 'Coach' Cady arena, populated by vocal RedHawks fans and a small Colorado cheering section, tensed with anticipation of the five-minute, sudden-death overtime period.
CC surged into the extra frame, but Miami settled into its game. Halfway through the frame, freshman forward Ben Lown charged up the left side of the ice after a turnover in the neutral zone. Lown centered to Melnick who redirected the feed past Leclerc to secure the victory.
With the win, Miami is over .500 for the first time this season.
"Just a bounce really," Blasi said of the game's deciding factor. "Both teams can skate, both teams can push the envelope. Sometimes, it was a track meet out there. Not sure, as a coach, if you'd like to see that but we got a bounce at the end and it could have gone either way."
The RedHawks went 0-for-2 on the power play and CC capitalized, going 2-for-6 on its man advantages. Larkin made 28 saves on 30 shots and Leclerc stopped 26 of the 29 pucks he faced. Miami went 57 percent in the face off circle and looks to play a better puck-possession, shooting game tonight.
"When we get away from not playing simple and carrying the puck too much we put ourselves in dangerous situations," Melnick said. "So, just getting back to that and knowing that if we play that way we'll be fine."
Puck drop is tonight at 7:05 p.m. and the game can be watched on NCHC.TV.


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The manufacturing sector is changing at a meteoric pace. Much of this change is due to innovation in technology. The entire supply chain ecosystem — encompassing manufacturers, distributors and suppliers — is undergoing a business transformation. This is in response to swiftly changing dynamics involving shifting consumer expectations, time to market and intense global competition that is driven by the rising Internet and mobile economies. It's time to look ahead at emerging trends that will impact 21st century manufacturing around the globe. Here's our examination of top trends that will impact innovative product companies.
1) U.S. to match China in manufacturing attractiveness by 2015
New research shows that the U.S. has now matched Mexico as an attractive location for manufacturing in terms of labor arbitrage and operational costs, and will match China in desirability by 2015, which will vastly accelerate re-shoring. According to a recent survey from AlixPartners, the United States and Mexico are now considered equally attractive options for U.S.-based companies to situate production meant for the North American market. Thirty-seven percent of the 137 respondents would choose the U.S. as their preferred near-shoring location. An equal percentage would choose Mexico. The rise of a more technical labor force to manage supply chain operations has led to more companies shifting their manufacturing strategies from outsourcing overseas to making products closer to where they will be sold. "Next-shoring" allows manufacturers to increase the swiftness to replenish products on store shelves. The faster inventory can be moved to the consumer, the sooner the costs to warehouse, ship and dock goods can be freed up. The fact that manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States does not mean that they are not continuing to develop in Asia. In a recent report for the San Jose Mercury News, Mike Cassidy describes a move by a number of U.S.- based manufacturers to expand operations in both the United States and offshore: "In a global economy there really is no one-size-fits-all strategy. There is offshoring, onshoring, nearshoring and what you might call both-shoring."
TAKE AWAY: Manufacturing strategies are more dynamic and complex than ever, which means there is no one-sizefits- all, suggesting that supplychain operations and supporting technologies need to be equally nimble. A cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) solution offers flexibility and scalability, enabling companies to manage their product mixes, customer markets and partners. As Jack Welch once said, you need technology that can go where you go and support processes and practices as you need them to.
2) 'SMAC Stack' – not just for WWE wrestling
A manufacturing comeback is being driven by SMAC — social, mobile, analytics and cloud. The SMAC stack is essentially the next wave in IT to manage massive amounts of data. SMAC Stack is also becoming an essential technology tool kit for enterprises and represents the next wave for driving greater team connectivity across platforms, higher customer engagement and growth opportunities. The need to innovate is forcing cultural change within an historically conservative "if it's not broke don't fix it" industry, and SMAC is helping early adopters in the manufacturing market increase efficiencies and change.
TAKE AWAY: Organizations that conceptualize these four technologies together as a "stack" will have access to exponential growth opportunities not unlike those seen by early adopters in the PC and Internet revolutions. Recently, Arena Solutions has created a collaboration platform for all stakeholders across the supply chain, including suppliers and partners, to take part in documented problem solving and discussion in context of the product record.
3) 3D printing
Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to grow 98 percent in 2015, followed by a doubling of unit shipments in 2016. 3D printing will reach a tipping point over the next three years as the market for relatively low-cost 3D printing devices continues to grow rapidly and industrial use expands significantly. New industrial, biomedical and consumer applications will continue to demonstrate that 3D printing is a real, viable and cost-effective means to reduce costs through improved designs, streamlined prototyping and short-run manufacturing. According to a recent McKinsey report, reducing time in product development was a key benefit of the first 3D printing machines, which were designed to speed the creation of product prototypes (and helped reduceturnaround times to a matter of hours, from days or weeks). Now many industries are poised for a second wave of acceleration as the line between additive and conventional manufacturing blurs.
TAKE AWAY: The ability to make new product introduction (NPI) prototypes without tooling lets companies quickly test iteratively multiple configurations to determine customer preferences. Companies could even go into production using 3D printed parts and start selling products while the traditional production tools were still being manufactured or before the decision to produce them had been made. Companies are learning to leverage information to identify what the market wants and quickly adjust their output to maximize profits and keep the customers coming. As we move forward, supply chains and production processes will need to be designed anticipating multiple quick changes as a key priority, so they can adapt as fast as possible.
John Papageorge has worked at some of the biggest names in the high tech industry, launching products and programs for companies, such as Oracle, HP, Cisco and Microsoft. John's passion for aesthetics and innovation has propelled him down various entrepreneurial paths. He was once co-founder of Standard Alliance, the San Francisco-based iTV application and production company, which created the first — and only — convergent initiative on behalf of the AOL-TIME WARNER merger. He also created Buzzphone, a mobile application company that allowed fans to receive voice messages from their favorite artists and athletes.


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"Cibele is a game based on a true story about love, sex, and the internet. You play as a 19 year old girl who has become close with a young man she met in an online game. Her relationship with him heats up, becoming more and more intimate with each phone call and private chat."
Written & Produced by Nina Freeman, Programmed by Nina Freeman & Emmett Butler, Music by Decky Coss, Illustration and Art Direction by Rebekka Dunlap


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► FIRST LOOK: Norterre. "Norterre wants to revolutionize senior living with a new multigenerational healthy living community in Liberty, Mo." Read the story published by Environments for Aging on August 11, 2016 Norterre's website: http://norterre.org
► Action Pact and partners Liberty Hospital and Healthy Living Centers of America broke ground on a revolutionary multi-generational wellness and residential living neighborhood in Liberty, Missouri, on May 17, and announced its name: Norterre. Read the story on our blog.
► Transformative Leadership: Reinventing How We Age | Steve Shields | TEDxFHSU
► A Model Initiative, Strategize, Fall 2014 (go to p 58)
► Putting the 'Home' in Nursing Home, Atlantic, July 10, 2014
See also Kaiser Health News July 10, 2014
► A design overhaul from Action Pact puts the 'home' back in the nursing home model, MEDCITY News, July 10, 2014
► Wisconsin Nursing Homes are Becoming More Home Than Nursing, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 21, 2014
► Action Pact announces partnership for innovative living development, Ascend's Golden Guide, February 24, 2014
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Responsible for implementing and coordinating all Human Resources programs and services for Mindlance US including employment, employee relations, compensation, benefits, evaluation, and staff development. The HRM will be working in a fast-faced, high-growth national contingent staffing operation with global service delivery centers.
Align business and HR strategy for the Operations organization.
Have multi-site responsibility, including company headquarters
Ensures compliance with all regulatory and legal requirements.
Source and recruit Leadership vacancies
Responsible for managing end to end employee life cycle for the organization. On-boarding/ Induction, Employee Engagement, Employee relations /communications, Performance Management, HR Policies & Processes, Employee Satisfaction Survey, Rewards & Recognition, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion
Planning and conducting new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives
Providing current and prospective employees with information about policies, job duties, working conditions, wages, and opportunities for promotion and employee benefits
Designing and implementing benefits, compliance related policies and working with the senior leadership teams to ensure its alignment with business need
Administer compensation, benefits and performance management systems, and safety and recreation programs
Initiating performance appraisal by introducing Key Result Areas and Key Performance Indicators for all the positions
Serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions and helping resolve work-related problems
Lead HR Automation initiatives and building HR tools to enhance process efficiencies
Managing smooth Exit process in terms of completion of the full and final settlements for employees
Conducting Terminations/Exit Processes document findings and cycle it back for process betterment and thus help in maximizing retention
Conduct monthly HR governance review with Sr. Leadership to showcase progress on initiatives, data for the month, successes and challenges.


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It has been long assumed that nations with rising incomes will experience a falling fertility rate and eventually a shrinking population. The standard reason? The wealthier a woman gets, the fewer children she wants.
But a new study suggests such a future may become the past – implying big demographic implications for policymakers.
In some rich countries, the number of children born per woman has dropped far below the 2.1 rate needed to maintain current population. In Italy, for instance, the rate is just above 1.3. To supply enough new workers, Italy would need high levels of immigration – a problem more worrisome to Italians now than a declining fertility rate.
The study, published in the journal Nature, finds that the trend line linking prosperity and smaller family size may be reversing itself. In countries that attain an extremely high Human Development Index (HDI) – a United Nations metric that factors in education and income levels, along with average life spans – the fertility rate is actually going up again.
Countries such as Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden are beginning to swing back toward replacement fertility levels, though a high HDI alone may not be enough to return them to population stability, let alone growth. (The US population continues to grow steadily, but largely because of immigration.) Other studies have shown that immigration plays only a modest, not decisive, role in rising fertility rates.
While 18 of the 26 highest HDI countries show this reversing trend, Japan, South Korea, and Canada stand out as not fitting the pattern. Attitudes toward women, particularly in the workplace, may account for the aberration of Japan and South Korea. Canada remains a mystery. In any case, more research is needed to both confirm this study's conclusion and suggest further reasons why it happens.
The study's authors – two from the University of Pennsylvania and one in Italy – speculate that high HDI countries may be more friendly to females in general, providing women with state-run childcare and giving them more opportunity for education and employment. Perhaps more women are simply affluent enough to afford their own child care (or have husbands more willing to help at home).
Women who are better off and better educated may be more confident that they can take time from work for child-rearing and still be able to reenter the work force later after children enter school with little or no penalty.
Environmentalists need not be alarmed by these modest upticks in population in prosperous countries. The real battle with overpopulation remains in the much more populous developing world.
Poverty and political uncertainty breed larger families, perhaps – in part, at least – as unconscious insurance that at least one or two of the children will survive to adulthood and provide support for the parents. In these countries, raising the income and education standards for women has been shown to be effective in reducing family size and taming runaway population growth.
Under any economic conditions, family life is something to be treasured. The joys of raising children and aspirations for higher living standards ought not to be at odds with each other. This study makes the encouraging claim that they are not.


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In comments to my previous post, Lucas Johnson described the loose outline of a non-ARG transmedia experience in which players might construct fictional personas, and in which there is ambiguity regarding which characters are players vs. game designers. We took it to email for a bit, and Lucas graciously agreed to let me share my response with a wider audience.
So there are a couple of different things involved here.
1. It's incredibly hard to get people to produce content. Incredibly hard.
We ran a column contributed by players once a week in the Perplex City Sentinel for two years. We had tens of thousands of registered players, and many weeks we had no columns submitted. Asking a player to fabricate a persona is, in fact, asking them to make user-generated content. There are cases where collaborative worldbuilding works, and it's a sandbox I like to play in myself sometimes, but it's not at heart a strategy that will hit the big time for you.
Think about the ratio of people who watch a TV show vs. the ones who write fanfic for it and you'll get a general idea of how few people are interested in this kind of play. You can't just say "OK, come build a world with me." You have to give an audience something to love and care about first.
2. A structure like this isn't going to scale up very well past maybe a few dozens of players, tops. You'd have to manually keep tabs on what your community is up to, which costs man-hours if not cash, and the more players you have, the harder it will be to keep them in sync.
Look at what a mess comic book continuity is; and that's a bunch of people who are getting paid cash money to stay consistent with one another. In a conflict, who decides what is and isn't canon? And how is that information propagated?
3. Liability. This isn't as much of a concern financially when you're an indie designer trying to make art, but the habits you make now are going to stick with you when you're successful. If a player has no way of knowing if a character is YOU or another player and hands over a cell phone number, or goes to what they think will be a dead drop, and The Worst happens, even if you are not found guilty of accessory in a court of law, you are going to feel pretty awful.
This is absolutely not a boundary to mess around with. You have a responsibility to protect your players, even from one another. And that's not even going into my usual liability patter, which is about your obligation toward people who might stumble upon pieces of your experience and not know that they're just pretend.
So that's where I come down on this particular issue. I'm open to the idea it could be handled responsibly, but I'm at a loss as to precisely how; if any of you have more concrete suggestions, as always, please do weigh in in comments.


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We are proud of our history, which has helped mould us into the organisation we are today. Our passion for innovation is our driving force, which began with our commitment to deliver Australia's most iconic modern building, the new Parliament House in 1980. This commitment continues today as we partner with you to guide Australia's projects of the future.
Today, Donald Cant Watts Corke is at the forefront of Australia's most advanced and complex developments and programmes. Across our nine offices Australia wide; we work in collaboration with government, private and public organisations to deliver you continuity of service, with outstanding results.
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Wirral Grammar School for Girls launch 434 MHz balloon/
Pupils at Wirral Grammar School for Girls have launched a High Altitude Balloon with 434 MHz telemetry and Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) transmitters
Launched on Wednesday July 16 2014 at around 11:00 BST from Middletown Hill near Welshpool. The balloon will be a 1200g Hwoyee with Helium.
Transmitter Details
Callsign: WG3
Frequency: 434.300 MHz
Mode: RTTY 50,7n2 470 Hz shift
Callsign: WG3TV
Frequency: 434.350 MHz
Mode: RTTY 300,8n2 610 Hz shift SSDV + telemetry
The balloon will carry a Raspberry Pi A with RFM22B based daughterboard. The radio coverage area could extend up to a radius of 700 km which would make it receivable throughout the British Isles.
Online real-time tracking of balloons - http://spacenear.us/tracker/
Beginners Guide to Tracking using dl-fldigi software - http://ukhas.org.uk/guides:tracking_guide
Received SSDV images - http://ssdv.habhub.org/
Slow Scan Digital Video (SSDV) Guide - http://ukhas.org.uk/guides:ssdv


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With corruption scandals such as the 1MDB and the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) project, the prominent economist Terence Gomez warns that Malaysia is shifting gears from what he dubs "developmental corruption" to "degenerative corruption".
He said Malaysia had been able to generate high economic growth despite high levels of corruption that would have devastated the economies of other countries, because of this difference in the type of corruption.
Citing the North-South Expressway, Bakun Dam, and Port Klang Free Zone as examples, he said that despite the rent-seeking that allegedly took place in the project, it was eventually completed.
"More recently, we are seeing a different kind of corruption. We are seeing the kind of corruption like that NFC scandal, where the project was given to a prominent Umno leader and her family, and we didn't see much production coming out of that.
"Even more recently, is 1MDB. So what we are seeing here in Malaysia is a shift from developmental corruption to what we term as degenerative corruption; if we are to believe the allegations that are being made against the government," he told a forum in Petaling Jaya today.
Gomez explained - while stressing that he is not justifying corruption - that in developmental corruption, state resources are given to businesspersons in a manner that is non-transparent and non-accountable, but these resources are then developed and spur reinvestment.
In degenerative corruption, state resources are simply given away to cronies and are not used in a productive manner, and in many cases simply amounts to an embezzlement from the state.
NFCorp executive chairman Mohamad Salleh Ismail, who is the husband of former Women's Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, denies wrongdoing in the NFC scandal and has claimed trial to two charges of criminal breach of trust.
The Ministry of Finance-owned 1MDB has also consistently denied wrongdoing.
PMO has too much power
Meanwhile, Gomez said that the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis showed that developmental corruption is unsustainable, and even Malaysia had made reforms to corporate governance.
However, same problems emerged when another financial crisis struck in 2008.
Gomez said the crisis hit due to the lack of institutional changes in the reforms.
The issue that needs dealing with now, he said, is devolution of power from the office of the executive to the relevant authorities.
"Even (Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad) has been moved to say, 'There is too much power in the office of the prime minister'.
"However, I must ask, who is to blame for this?" he asked.
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We are seeking a qualified Raw Materials Purchasing Agent to join our Wheat City Metals team. In this role, you will be responsible for the procurement of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap for our processing facility in Saskatchewan. You will also be coordinating activities with regional General Managers, Site Managers, Regional Yard Buyers, and Mill Buyers, as well as Transportation, Operations and Accounting personnel. This role reports to the General Manager, Regina. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with the ability to initiate business, possess strong negotiating, communication, and problem-solving skills.
All applicants must be legally able to work in Canada without sponsorship.
EVRAZ is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Individuals with Disabilities, and Veterans.
At EVRAZ North America, we manufacture steel. We also manufacture excellence, drive success and build careers for our employees. Our people come from diverse backgrounds, but share a common set of values and the same goal of creating the best possible solution for our customers.
With more than 4,500 team members in the U.S. and Canada, EVRAZ offers well-paying jobs and a comprehensive range of employee benefits. Our total compensation package includes benefits such as:


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BOS Showcase – Schneider Electric Nashville
BOS has facilitated the furniture installations for Schneider Electric, acquired companies throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. BOS and Schneider Electric have a standing relationship throughout a National Reach, working successfully for over 26 years. The job featured on this showcase is their updated Nashville, Tennessee office.
Project Details:
- Primary Manufacturers: Haworth, OFS Brands, Dauphin
- Key Partners: Gresham, Smith and Partners, MG Design, Tac Roberts
- Project Size: 140,000 Square Feet
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No shortage of storylines for Olympic orientation camp
It's Canada. It's hockey. It's the Olympics.
Combine these three things and there will be no shortage of storylines to follow as the Canadian men's team prepares to open its orientation camp this week in Calgary.
Of course, we all understand that this Olympic orientation camp for Team Canada will not answer all — or maybe even any — of these questions but we will now start to see what this team is going to look like, and also who will be playing with whom.
Nobody will play their way on or off this team at this camp and even though a player hasn't been invited it doesn't mean he can't end up on the squad.
Team Canada executive director Steve Yzerman has said the management staff debated long and hard about Tampa's Steven Stamkos and there is nothing holding him back from making the team should he light up the NHL this season.
Yes, Marc Savard fans, I hear you. I don't know why he wasn't invited either.
We'll start to get a feel for how Canadian coach Mike Babcock wants this team to play, what systems they'll employ and what style of game to expect out of Team Canada.
Canada and defending two-time world champion Russia are viewed as the top two teams in the tournament with the defending Olympic champs from Sweden expected to ice a strong team again.
Chat with HNIC's Jeff Marek live from Canada's Olympic camp
Hockey Night in Canada's Jeff Marek will provide special coverage of Team Canada's Olympic orientation camp, which begins Monday in Calgary.
Jeff will be filing daily reports for CBCSports.ca during the camp and on Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET you can ask him questions during a live interactive chat.
He will also send updates from Calgary on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jeffmarek
Canada could ice two teams and be competitive with both; this year is no different. With depth at every position, some of these cuts will be down right cruel and certainly controversial.
With that in mind here are a couple of stories we'll be following.
Dany Heatley: In Turin, Italy the most controversial player off the ice was Todd Bertuzzi but this time around it's easily Heatley.
There is some talk that Yzerman and Hockey Canada are not exactly thrilled at how Heatley has reacted to a diminished role with the Ottawa Senators and the subsequent trade demand.
In a tournament like the Olympics, players are forced to put their egos aside and assume roles they are not accustomed to for the good of the team. Heatley's behaviour this off-season epitomizes the me-first athlete. And yes, the irony of a player representing Canada after rejecting playing for two Canadian hockey markets is not lost on many.
Heatley's saving grace may be that he's been a loyal soldier for Hockey Canada, representing his country time and time again. Also, Canada is a little light at natural wingers (there will be a couple of centremen moved to the wing) and it's hard to deny his ability to score big goals.
Who gets the "C"?: With Joe Sakic out of the equation, the captaincy is very much in play and up for grabs. Common wisdom has the prestigious position being assumed by defenceman Scott Niedermayer who will be playing in his home province of British Columbia.
But what about Shane Doan? Jarome Iginla? You could make a compelling case for all three of these guys. Or why not go the Vancouver Canucks route and give it to Roberto Luongo.
Who's No. 3?: It would take a stumble of Hardy Astrom proportions, or a major injury for Martin Brodeur and Roberto Luongo to not get the starting and backup roles for Team Canada.
And both would be fine in the backup position. Brodeur in his book spoke openly about how he was not impressed with Patrick Roy's demand that he play every minute of every game. The question is who's the third goalie in the equation?
Marc-Andre Fleury demonstrated that his mental focus has caught up with his supreme athleticism en route to winning the Stanley Cup last season. Cam Ward is another former Cup winner who returned to Conn Smythe form last season. Or what about Calder trophy winner Steve Mason who won the world junior championship two years ago in the Czech Republic after beating Jonathan Bernier out of the starting job?
Who's getting dirty?: Years ago Hockey Canada abandoned the philosophy of filling the roster with the most talented players available, choosing rather to build a traditional team with different players filling different roles.
That has opened the door for players like Kris Draper making the team over more offensively talented skaters. What's Canada's fourth line going to look like? Mike Richards, Brendan Morrow and Shane Doan? Does Milan Lucic fit in here? How about Dan Cleary?
Who's the new guy?: Which players will make their Olympic debuts for Team Canada? Sidney Crosby is a lock after being passed over at the Torino Games but what other first timers will Team Canada boast? Ryan Getzlaf gets my vote right away but what about defencemen like Brent Burns, Mike Green and Shea Weber? While they may not have the body of work that other veterans boast, they would all be solid additions.
And how about Jeff Carter? Can't turn your nose up at 46 goals.


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Lorena Ochoa leads by one shot after two rounds at the Samsung World Championship. Angela Stanford, Angela Park and Paula Creamer are tied for second at -8 with Jeong Jang fifth at -7.
Scoring was even better than in Round One. The predicted high winds didn't materialize until late, and only three players were over par on their round (I'll bet you can guess at least one of them!). Ochoa did not repeat her one-bad-hole hiccup from Thursday – no double-bogeys today, or bogeys either for that matter – while birdying all of the par-5s. Stanford shared Round of the Day honors with Cristie Kerr by carding a bogey-less 66. Park and Creamer both got home in 69 while Jang posted a 68. Here's how the rest stand going into the weekend:
-6 Mi Hyun Kim
-4 Jee Young Lee, Suzann Pettersen, Se Ri Pak, Morgan Pressel
-3 Cristie Kerr
-2 Stacy Prammanasudh, Maria Hjorth
-1 Ai Miyazato, Nicole Castrale
E Brittany Lincicome, Sarah Lee
+2 Seon Hwa Lee
+13 Bettina Hauert
+14 Michelle Wie
Pressel's old foe, the balky putter, reared its ugly head again. Morgan four-putted 14 for double-bogey and missed another short one for par at 18. Kerr wasn't the only Thursday stumbler to recover on Friday – Ai Miyazato fired a 68, only her second round in the 60s since finishing second at HSBC. With several players lingering within five shots, I get the feeling at least one of them will be able to keep pace with Ochoa the rest of the way and make for a good Sunday finish.
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LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has announced its upcoming presentation of film programs that further explore the 50-year career of revered Mexican cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa. His trajectory is on detail through the exhibition, Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa through film clips, paintings, photographs, posters and documents, many from Figueroa's archive.
The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema is a complimentary series which focuses on Figueroa's hand in shaping what he referred to as una imágen méxican, or a Mexican image and what is largely considered an essential part of Mexican visual identity and culture.
Described as a master of light and contrast and influences based on friendships with muralists such as José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, an apprenticeship with cinematographer Gregg Toland, are all vividly stylized and encompassed through each film in this series. Co-presented with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, many of the films included are from key collaborations with director Emilio Fernández and which often cemented the careers of Mexican icons.
The program will show the 1944 film María Candelaria (pictured right),which introduced the Golden Age of Mexican cinema to the world and won two prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. It will also present Enamorada, also directed once again by Emilio Fernández, stars María Félix as Peñafiel who is pursued by charmer General Reyes, played by Pedro Armendáriz. Further collaborations with Fernández include La perla / The Pearl adapted with author John Steinbeck's blessing an participation, Sálon México, their first collaborationamong others.
Upcoming film series will focus on Figueroa's work with surrealist Luis Buñuel, working in Hollywood with directors such as John Ford and John Huston, and contemporary filmmakers who have been influenced by his work.
The film series takes place at LACMA from September 20th through October 11th. The exhibition will be held from September 22 through February 2nd, 2014.


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Restrictive Covenants and Non Compete Clauses
Restrictive covenants and non compete clauses (or post-termination restrictions; whatever you call them) are clauses within a contract of employment or settlement agreement which restrict a departing employee's ability to trade freely. These restrictions are subject to strict limits and can only be enforced where reasonable.
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Employment contracts
It is the right of an individual to trade in any lawful way they choose but employers may wish their employees to enter into post-termination restrictions upon starting their employment so that the legitimate business interests of the employer will be protected.
Individuals are free to enter into contractual restraints should they so wish and for high level employees if an employer cannot lawfully restrain his behaviour once their employment ends this could be a cause for mistrust, lack of promotion or training opportunities and therefore such clauses can be very useful.
The law therefore strikes a balance to be struck between two competing principles: on the one hand the desire to stop unnecessary restraints of trade; and on the other hand allowing parties the freedom to enter into restrictions should they so wish.
Restraints are currently presumed to be unenforceable until they are proven by a former employer to be reasonable. Should a valid restraint of trade clause exist is it very possible for a company to take legal action to stop former employees from breaching promises to restrain their activities.
The Courts will ask three questions:
- Can the company demonstrate that the restraint protects a legitimate interest?
- Is the restraint reasonable in the circumstances?
- Can the former employee demonstrate that the restraint is contrary to the public interest?
Types of restraint clauses
There are broadly five types of restrictive covenant:
- Non-compete: which seek to prevent an ex- employee from directly competing or working for a competitor, usually within a specific geographical area and for a set period following termination;
- Non-solicitation: which seek to prevent an ex-employee seeking orders for goods and services, for a set period following termination;
- Non-dealing: which seek to prevent an ex-employee from entering into working relationships with former customers for a set period following termination;
- Non-poaching of employees: which seek to prevent an ex-employee from recruiting former colleagues for a set period following termination;
- Restrictions on the use of confidential information: which seek to prohibit the use of any confidential information and trade secrets.
It is not possible for a company merely to attempt to restrain competition; a company has to show that it has a genuine interest to protect.
Three interests that the courts have been willing to protect are:
- Trade secrets and confidential information
- Trade connections
- Maintaining the stability of the workforce.
Reasonableness of the restriction
The contractual clause in question must be no more than adequate to protect the business interest.
The reasonableness of the duration or scope of any restraint is tied to the nature of the interest in question.
For example, the secret formula for Coca Cola can be restricted worldwide!
A Court is not permitted to uphold a covenant in restraint of trade by reducing its duration. However English courts do have the power of "severance". For example, if a contract contains covenants with varying types of restrictions i.e. non-solicitation and non-dealing, the court has the power to uphold part of the clause, for example, the non-solicitation restriction but not allow the non-dealing part of the clause.
Enforcement & Breach of covenants
An action for the breach of restrictive covenants must would normally be brought through the civil courts and not the employment tribunal.
An employer seeking to enforce restrictive covenants may take steps to obtain an interim injunction. Alternatively, or if it is not successful in obtaining an injunction, it may seek damages from the employee for breach of the covenants.
When the courts are determining whether to award damages the following points will be given consideration:
- Whether the covenant was enforceable.
- If so, whether the employee had breached the covenant.
- If so, whether the breach had caused the employer loss.
- If so how that loss should be assessed.
Suing a competitor that has induced employees to breach their contracts
Inducing a breach of contract can in itself give rise to a claim in tort. Therefore, where a former employee is induced by the employer's competitor to breach restrictive covenants, the employer might choose to sue that competitor.
Covenants not binding if employment is terminated wrongly
An important point to remember and one that comes up a great deal in practice is if an employment contract is terminated wrongly the post termination restrictions would no longer take effect. So if an employee is summarily dismissed and not paid notice pay then if this was found to be unfair the covenants would be unenforceable. Equally, if the employer fundamentally breaches the employee's contract of employment and this leads to a constructive unfair dismissal then this would also mean that the covenants are not enforceable.
Adequate "consideration" must be given for restrictive covenants to be valid. This means that in order for the employee to validly restrict themselves they must be offered something in return. On starting employment the consideration would generally be the new position, however, if an employer is seeking to make fresh restrictions in a new contract during the employment of an employee then there must be some consideration provided for this, normally a one off sum of money payable net of income tax and national insurance contributions.
Confidential information
See also our page on confidential information.
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Unlur is a connection game invented by Jorge Gómez Arrausi in 2001. It won the 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition which was sponsored by the Abstract Games Magazine, About Board Games and the Strategy Gaming Society.
It is played by two players, black and white, on a hexagonal grid of hexagons. The two players have different objectives, and must therefore use different strategies to achieve their goals.
A Y is a chain connecting three non-adjacent sides. A line is a chain connecting two opposite sides.
Black wins if he creates a black Y, while White wins if he creates a white line. However, a player loses if he achieves his opponent's objective. That is, if Black creates a line without at the same time creating a Y, White wins. Similarly, if White creates a Y without at the same time creating a line, Black wins. If a player creates a line and a Y in the same move, he wins.
The contract
White clearly has an easier objective than Black, since a line requires fewer pieces than a Y. Therefore a generalizations of the pie rule is used to balance the game.
In the first phase of the game both players play with the black pieces. A move consists of placing a black piece anywhere on the board, except at the border. Instead of making a move a player may pass. In that case, the player passing becomes Black for the rest of the game, while the other player becomes White, and the players then play with their respective pieces. White makes the first move.
The first phase is called the contract phase.


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1952: Mr Joseph Leslie Cundall, solicitor general, with the approval of the secretary of state for the colonies, is appointed attorney general of Jamaica; his deputy is Mr Thomas Henry Mayers. An official press release issued from King's House tells of the promotion. A Jamaican, Mr Cundall, was born in St Andrew.
1952: No final decision is taken by the Government on the removal or extension of the Palisadoes Airport. The Government is considering the possibility of improving the airport or, alternatively, of constructing a new airport elsewhere in the Kingston area, but no final decision can be reached.
1956: The Small Businesses Loans Board, which has been established by the Government to facilitate manufacturers with loans up to a maximum £500, is in operation as of today. The board is under the directions of the Ministry of Trade and Industry but will operate from its own office.
1959: Over 1,000 people attend celebrations in Old Harbour to mark the 75th birthday of Sir Alexander Bustamante. The celebrations is promoted by the Western St Catherine constituency executive under the direction of Mr T.N. Golding and Bustamante Industrial Trade Union followers from many parts of the island.
1963: The Hon Donald Farquharson, a vice-president and administrative manager of Kaiser Bauxite Company, announces the completion of an agreement between Kaiser and the Bahama Cement Company. This may be the first step in the foundation of a new industry which can become of tremendous importance to Jamaica.
1967: West Indies wicket-keeper Jackie Hendricks and sprinter Carmen Smith are Jamaica's Sportsman and Sportswoman of 1966. They receive their awards from Governor General Sir Clifford Campbell at the Machado Sports Foundation banquet at the Sheraton Kingston Hotel.
1971: Mr Michael Manley is unanimously re-elected president of the People's National Party at the annual general conference of the party at the National Arena. The four vice-presidents are also re-elected. They are Mr P.J. Patterson, Mr Howard Cooke, Mr Florizel Glasspole and Mr Dudley Thompson.