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Derbyshire youngsters star in special film talking about how sensory room changed their lives
Youngsters from a school in Derbyshire have starred in a special online film created to showcase how a Central England Co-op funded chill out room has made a major difference to their lives.
Edward Rafferty and Edward Rafferty, both 12, helped created the movie to talk about how a grant of £2,580 from retailer's Community Dividend Fund had made a big impact on their lives and the lives of other children with autism and special needs at Long Eaton School, in Thoresby Road, Derbyshire.
Edward Bancroft said: "I absolutely love the chill out room because it is a great place to go when you are stressed out and you need to calm down.
"It is very relaxing and it has a very smoothing atmosphere."
Edward Rafferty said: "If I ever come in and I am upset and angry, I can say 'Can I go into the chill out room?' and it is a place where I can relax."
Teachers from the school worked with Variety the Children's Charity (Midlands) to secure the funding which helped create the room and kit it out with sensory items such as bubble tubes and a projector.
John Presley, Manager of the Autism Resource Centre at the school, said: "School can be a very busy, very bustling, very chaotic and some of our students struggle in this environment – this is why we decided to set up the chill out room.
"When we found out we had secured the funding, I was quite taken aback. The whole process was seamless. I would recommend it to anyone in a similar situation."
Charlotte Walker, from Variety, said: "Schools just don't have the funding to pay for a space of calm that so many children of Long Eaton require.
"The impact that the funding has had has been incredible.
"I would highly recommend people apply for the Community Dividend Fund. It is easy to do, there are people on the end of phone who can help and it is set up benefit communities. The impact it can have can make a real difference."
People can see first-hand the impact the project has had by watching a specially created film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5BfFGmpehU&t=2s
Grants of between £100 and £5,000 are handed out every three months to a wide range of applicants as part of the Community Dividend Fund.
The fund guarantees that at least one per cent of the Society's trading profit is reinvested in local communities.
People can apply for funding by visiting https://communities.centralengland.coop
Becoming a member of Central England Co-operative offers a whole host of benefits ranging from collecting points every time you spend in store to earn a share of the profits, access to members activities and community initiatives including the Community Dividend Fund.
Find out how to become a Central England Co-operative member by calling 0800 0501 601, emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or visiting https://www.members.coop
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Picture caption: Edward Bancroft and Edward Rafferty are both part of a new film which highlights how a Central England Co-op grant has supported a vital project at Long Eaton School.
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About Central England Co-operative
Central England Co-operative is one of the largest independent retail co-operative societies in the UK.
It is a modern, forward-looking organisation employing over 8,000 staff, with the Society's principal areas of activity being food, funeral services, and property investment.
Central England Co-operative has over 400 trading outlets across 16 counties including; West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. The Society has an ambitious food store development programme for 2018.
Central England Co-operative is proud of its reputation for ethical business practices and corporate responsibility. It is a member of Business in the Community, the membership organisation that stands for responsible business, and has also won many business awards for excellence. The Society supports a number of charities including Dementia UK and invests a percentage of its trading profit into local communities.
Becoming a member of Central England Co-operative offers a whole host of benefits ranging from collecting points every time you spend in store to earn a share of the profits, access to members activities and community initiatives including the Community Dividend Fund, which hands out grants of up to £5,000 to charities and good causes across the Society's trading estate.
Find out how to become a Central England Co-operative member by calling 0800 0501 601, emailing email@example.com or visiting https://www.members.coop
For more information visit www.centralengland.coop, follow Central England Co-operative on Twitter: @mycoopfood, and on Facebook: facebook.com/centralenglandcooperative
Rob Smyth / Heather Clapton at Central England Co-operative on 01543 414140
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Partners in life and love, we're Elisabeth Millay and Jonathan Young, married wedding photographers. We met in Brooklyn, New York and married in Elisabeth's home state of Vermont in 2011. We welcomed a daughter into the world in 2015 and relocated to Jonathan's home town of Palos Verdes, California in 2017, making Southern California our home. We're well traveled wedding photographers, having photographed weddings throughout California, New York, New England, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and even into the Caribbean and Europe.
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A Los Angeles native, Jonathan graduated from UCLA and moved to New York to work as a photojournalist and wedding photographer. He has an eye for detail, a keen sense of anticipation, and can expertly organize even the largest group photos. Travel for photography has taken Jonathan to the hills of Kentucky, the deserts of Arizona, and beyond. He loves putting to picture the joy, emotion, and unique story of each wedding day. With twenty years of experience to draw upon, he's well qualified to make your wedding a success. View his commercial photography here.
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A native Vermonter and lover of coffee mugs, Elisabeth graduated from the Hallmark Institute of Photography and moved to New York to work as a wedding photographer. Since then, she has photographed hundreds of weddings across the country and internationally. She has a gift for putting people at ease and provides a wonderful experience to her clients and their families. Her photos evoke emotion, spontaneity, and connection. Elisabeth has been photographing weddings since 2005 and loves to work with couples who just want to be themselves and have a great party with their loved ones.

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In this podcast Steve Fuller talks about the future of the university. At a time of crisis in the university, the discussion explores how academia has arrived at its present juncture and where it might go from here. It contextualises the present predicament in terms of the wider intellectual, cultural, political and economic factors which underlay these seismic shifts in academic life.
Steve will be speaking on these issues at Discourses of Dissent in February.
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A group of artists recently journeyed to Africa on an artistic and educational exchange of ideas and techniques. Among them were Carren Clarke McAdoo and Karen Buster. They traveled to Senegal where they were immersed in the arts and culture of that country. Inspired and charged with new energy, they delved into a body of work influenced by what they had learned and experienced.
On May 17th, at 7:30 p.m. Carren and Karen will welcome guests at their show opening running though July 20th. The Northside Artist Cooperative is excited to host this evening's event and exhibit. Please join us at 8 p.m. for a slide presentation of their trip and chat with the artists about their work and travels.


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If you have come to the point in your relationship that certainly one of you is no longer willing to work things out, then it is very important be trustworthy. Eventually I had to face the fact that I am unhappy and that one thing is continually going very fallacious – so I started to learn and get knowledgeable about communication difficulties which additional led me to read about relationship issues and at last I came upon in regards to the formal definition of persona problems and extra to the core – about narcissism.
In specific, the quality of the relationship deeply influences the hopefulness required to remain curious and open to new experiences, and the capacity to see connections and discover meanings (Salzberger-Wittenberg et al. 1983: ix). I'd merely like to encourage you not to take a look at a relationship for only how one can be made blissful, but how one can contribute to a contented atmosphere. As for the root of unhealthy relationships, I believe that for the most part everybody who's in a foul relationship is quite consciously aware of it and has their own reasons for failing to rise to the event to get out of it. In reality, some of the conditions talked about above may be the result of belief points inside the relationship. Couples usually seek couples or marriage counseling when relationship problems begin to intervene with every day functioning or when partners are not sure about continuing the relationship.
I was searching via a website attempting to see if i might get a optimistic recommendation from the help of a counselor or any relationship specialist on the right way to get him again rapidly, i used to be so surprise that i noticed some feedback on the location about a powerful priest who have helped so many persons to get again to their companion after breakup.
So now you each have a picture that clearly shows how every particular person would like the relationship to be – what you need kind of of and what your accomplice desires roughly of. Between yourselves do some comparison of every relationship area and discuss them, remembering the groundrules you arrange earlier. And when a mismatch arises between the preferences of physician and patient, the relationship is dissolved, and so life goes on".
I agree, for men and women, an important piece of advice I may give could be to decide on the appropriate particular person. As we have discussed elsewhere (see Carl Rogers, the core circumstances and informal training ) his third situation 'empathetic understanding' does increase a number of problems. I do not have problems with interracial marriages however I would not choose to be in a single.


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Desiigner was born in Brooklyn, New York in May 1997. He is best known for his hit single "Panda" which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, US R&B, and US Rap charts. The single also reached the Top 10 in Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, and the UK. Rapper Kanye West sampled "Panda" on his album The Life of Pablo and signed Desiigner to his label GOOD Music which is an imprint of Def Jam Recordings.
Desiigner's debut studio album The Life of Desiigner was released in 2016. He started practicing his vocals in his school choir and at his church. Desiigner was shot at the age of 14 and decided to focus on his music career.
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|$5 Million
|Date Of Birth
|May 3, 1997
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|Brooklyn, New York City USA
|Rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, record executive, actor
|Billboard Music Awards – Top Streaming Song (Video)/ Top Rap Song (2017), WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards – WatsUp TV Viewers Choice Award (2016)
|Record Labels
|Def Jam Recordings, Universal Music Group International, GOOD Music
|The Life of Desiigner (TBA), New English 2 (TBA), NEW ENGLISH (Mixtape, 2016) – Intro (2016), Desiigner – Up (Audio, 2017), Desiigner – Liife ft. Gucci Mane (2017), Desiigner – Topic (2016), Desiigner – Caliber (Audio, 2016), The Life of Pablo (2016)
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Filene's Basement just released their Fall 2011 "Running of the Brides" dates and cities. If you've been living under a rock, this is the most infamous wedding dress sale on the planet. If you're up for it (brides can get vicious), the sale features designer gowns on sale for literally pennies on the dollar. Just don't forget to bring your game face.
Running of the Brides 2011 Schedule:
Chicago, IL. Friday 9/16
One N. State Street, 312-553-1055
Elmsford, NY – Friday 9/23
295 Tarrytown Road, 914-592-2447
Washington, D.C. – Friday 10/14
Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave. 202-966-0208
Westbury, NY – Friday 10/28
695 Merrick Ave., 516-683-0018
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Fall is Here!
Here are some tips to do now to help save you money later!
To-Do #1: Replace HVAC Filters
- The air filter on your system needs to be replaced every 1-3 months (to keep the air in your home clean & flowing freely through the unit).
- Use a high quality air filter—rated to remove mold, pollen & other microscopic particles.
To-Do #2: Check Toilets for Leaks
- Adjust Water Level in Tank: If your toilet runs when it hasn't been flushed, remove the lid & check the water level inside the tank. If it's set too high, the water will spill into the overflow tube & cause the intake valve to keep running.
- Check Flapper: Put a few drops of food coloring in the water in your toilet tank, & allow it to remain without flushing for a time. If the water in the toilet bowl changes color without being flushed, the rubber flapper valve at the bottom of the tank needs to be replaced.
- Check Flushing Mechanism
- Check for any Toilet Floor Leaks
- Check for any Toilet Tank to Bowl Leak
To-Do #3: Caulk Cracks and Gaps in Siding
- Small Cracks: Fill cracks smaller than 1/4" w/ a bead of exterior grade paintable caulk.
- Larger Cracks and Gaps: Before caulking, fill cracks wider than 1/4" by pushing foam backer rod into the hole until it's just below the surface. Then, cover the backer rod w/ caulk & smooth the surface.
- Holes and Large Gaps: Fill large holes & gaps w/ expandable spray foam in a can. Carefully spray the foam into the space, allowing plenty of room for it to expand. After the foam has hardened, trim it flush & paint or stain it to match.
To-Do #4: Check Weather Stripping & Thresholds
- Replacing damaged weather striping and thresholds can make a big difference in your home's energy efficiency.
To-Do #5: Install or Close Storm Windows
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Man faces life in prison after bringing his phone in for repairs
HOLLAND, Mich. -- A 911 call from a phone repair shop in Holland is now leading to felony charges for a man police say sexually assaulted an 11-year old girl.
The allegations are disturbing: recording sexual acts taking place over an eight month time frame.
According to police, Lowell Charles, 56, turned his phone in for repairs and an employee spotted what he believed to be child pornography on the phone. Police moved quick to get a warrant and make an arrest.
That Metro P.C.S. worker helped lead police to Charles. Police would learn the photos and videos were recorded at a separate home in Holland. Neighbors nearby say they noticed something seemed off and now wish they'd done something to stop it.
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Yes! After a teeny tiny three months of DIY, OPDIFY (Other People Do It For You) and TABFDIYBILST (Taking A Break From DIY Because It's Like Super Tiring), Albion is finally finished! In the way that only a boat can be finished, which is not at all, ever.
There's still a million things we need or want to do but installing new solar panels, refitting the entire kitchen, getting new reclaimed wood counter tops and floors, and generally tidying up the boatman's cabin will all have to wait until we're able to Bring Out Another Thousand.
Still, everything we initially set out to do is done and we now have a proper bedroom, a freshly painted and decorated living room, and a completely new bathroom. Which doesn't sound like a lot of work now but it WAS.
The Bedroom
Although we had a bedroom in the back cabin, it had a fold-down bed that we didn't think was very practical for the two of us on a daily basis. Not wanting to waste the huge space under the tug deck, we decided to turn it into a little bedroom den. And when I say 'we', I mean our amazing builder Robbie did it. (Although Ed has just reminded me that we did do the varnishing. So that fresh woodsy vibe you see is allllll us).
The living room was already pretty nice so all we had to do was paint it white, decorate it, and install a sofa.
This took about three weeks. We painted it nine times. Nine layers of paint that still peel off at the lightest brush of a limb. As I mentioned before, never buy cheap B&Q paint.
The Bathroom
The bathroom was the hardest room in the whole boat (and that's counting the living room and its B&Q anti-paint). First of all, apart from building the bedroom from scratch, this was the only room that we completely ripped out and started again. It hadn't been touched for about 20 years and needed new EVERYTHING.
Second of all, there was no sink and no space for a sink. We had all manner of problems with the sink and where to put it, at one point considering fold-down caravan style options or just having to brush our teeth in the shower. Eventually we decided to chop the top off the existing cupboard and turn it into a plinth. This involved gently coaxing our builder into drilling a new waste hole in the side of the boat. I can guarantee you, there is no more unpleasant aural sensation for a boat owner than hearing a drill go through your boat's hull.
…Apart from the 'uh oh' that came afterwards. (Luckily it was just because our tough tug hull had snapped the drill bit, rather than because we were, you know, sinking).
Third of all, we had to rip out part of the kitchen just to get into the walls to fit the new shower.
Fourth of all, we chose the most beautiful but most impractical boat tiles ever. Not only were they so thick and huge that they were nearly impossible to cut, they were so heavy we had to put concrete blocks under the bedroom floor just to stop us capsizing.
Fifth of all: sanding.
Just so much sanding. Endless hours of sanding. I have new muscles just from sanding. There was dust in places dust oughtn't to be. I once lost Ed in a cloud of dust.
The problem was the traditional scumble varnish that was all over the walls. We quite like it in the living room but we wanted the bathroom to feel fresh, bright and clean. This meant we had to sand all the scumble off. Five million years later, it was ready to varnish, tile, and decorate.
During (of which there are many, many pictures because it took us so long to during the hell out of this bathroom):
Et voila! It is done. For now.
N.B. A foreword to anyone coming to visit our boat: There is blood in the varnish, sweat in the grout and there are tears in the wall paint. We will not accept anything other than effusive and adulating praise for all our handiwork. We are especially unreceptive to comments such as "Missed a bit!" or "Oops that's a bit wonky!" This is the best boat interior renovation you have ever seen and will ever see in your lifetime and all of the lifetimes following. Trust me. I have a new axe.


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Tips to note while managing BYOD integration|August 3, 2015 0
BANGALORE, INDIA: According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab in conjunction with B2B International, around half of the consumers surveyed also use their devices for work. However, only one in 10 is seriously concerned about keeping work information safe should cybercriminals gain access to their device.
One way or another, many employees of large and medium-sized companies use personal mobile devices for work. 36pc of respondents store work files on them, and 34pc keep work-related email messages.
Recommendations that should be borne in mind when connecting employees' personal devices to corporate IT networks:
- BYOD integration should be regarded as a specific project; this is especially true for large businesses. Every last detail of the integration process should be designed beforehand; and this should ideally include an infrastructure audit, a design stage and a pilot implementation.
- To effectively protect mobile devices, it is important to use a comprehensive solution that ensures security across the entire corporate network, not one that focuses only on mobile devices. Without this, compatibility problems may arise and create extra work for system administrators.
- Managing mobile devices in a large business requires additional skills over and above those demanded by routine system administration. It is worth ensuring there are appropriately qualified IT security specialists on the team. These can provide centralized management for all mobile devices within the corporate network, ensure that all mobile applications are installed, removed and/or updated via dedicated corporate portals, and regulate data access levels and employee privileges.
- Most importantly, the business needs to develop robust scenarios for how to remove personal devices from the corporate network if they are lost or stolen, or if an employee leaves the company. A procedure should be developed to remove confidential corporate data from these devices and block access to the corporate network.


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Katie and Kevin's wedding was a real highlight for me last year. Their intimate take on a wedding was oh-so refreshing. Some of my favorite elements included Katie's cocktail style wedding dress, the maid of honor and "Best Lady" as attendants, their "Bucket List" guestbook, and a custom "Cool Beans" enamel pin starring Katie's beloved dog, Beans. So many personal touches which added so much charm to their non-traditional wedding at The Bachelor Farmer in the North Loop of Minneapolis.
Venue: The Bachelor Farmer
Dress: BHLDN (Goldie Dress)
Hair Stylist: Pompadour
Bride's Earrings: Ann Erickson
Bride's Shoes: Rachel Comey
Groom's Suit: Bonobos
Bridesmaids' Dresses: J.Crew
Bridesmaids Earrings: Iebis
Florist: Acanthus Floral Art
Ring Dish: Eliz Ceramics
Ceremony Song: Brenna Larson
Caterer: The Bachelor Farmer
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If You're a Serial Entertainer
If you're like me, and LOVE entertaining, it can be easy to find yourself constantly hosting events, both big and small. However, the downside can be obvious: more to do and less time to do it!
In order to stay ever-ready for fun occasions when they pop up (sometimes with little notice), I have a few helpful tips!
First, it is my strong belief that having a designated area somewhere in the house (mine is in the basement), where all supplies and accoutrements for each holiday are kept is a great place to start. It may seem like a simple idea, but trust me, it makes all the difference when you need to find the right decor for the holiday or party.
I also find that it is best to organize by the type of event or holiday you'll be hosting. Keeping individual boxes or storage containers for each of the 'big holidays' (Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Passover, Yom Kippur, etc.) is a great way to stay organized. Keep these boxes marked clearly with what their contents are, and you'll have no trouble finding the best decor and serving pieces when the occasion arrives!
Then, elsewhere in the house, find an area for other types of party prep like cocktail napkins, candles, cake toppers, votives, tea lights, tapers, hurricane holders for different-sized candles and, of course, dishes. For me, this place is in my bar cabinet in my kitchen. These should be stored in families with their serving pieces with or very close to them.
As for extra serving pieces, they should be stored so they are easily found depending on the mood of the event. For example, formal pieces and silver can be kept in one area, while all-white can be stored in another. More 'rustic' serving items like cheese boards and baskets should all be housed together as well.
For outdoor decor, there should be a designated place of its own. A few good storage locations could be very near to the patio or yard door, or in a specific place in your garage, potentially with all your other party decor containers.
Keeping up on your holiday and party-item storage in this way will help you focus more on enjoying the actual occasion, and not getting bogged down in locating all the supplies for it!


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Many people spend hours rinsing peanut butter jars and milk cartons before they place them in the recycling bin but did you know that you can just as easily rinse out your shampoo bottle and recycle it as well? And that empty roll of toilet paper? Yup, that can also go into the recycling bin, along with a plethora of other bathroom products that typically end up in the garbage can. According to a recent study conducted for the Ad Council, 52% of Americans don't know which items can be recycled in the bathroom. And only 10% of Americans have a recycling bin in their bathroom, compared to the 45% who have them in the kitchen.
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Big Sky Brewing Company, once again, supplied beer to the Orvis Guide Rendezvous. 70 cases to be exactly. We also thought it would be fun to capture this delivery via video.
Upon last review the Facebook reach of this video has exceeded 25K, so I think it was worthwhile.
Of course, we also have to thank Hank Patterson.


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As a 2 year old girl, I loved cars. Most especially, I loved the Mustang and everything Ford. Growing up, I worshiped everything Ford and from a young age, tried to contact headquarters. I still hold a dream of some day working in Marketing for the Ford family.
In the meantime, I held a red Mustang convertible as a dream car in my mind. Growing up with just my mom without any support from my dad, I grew up early and knew I was going to work hard, especially when buying my first car – which I knew would not be a Mustang! However, on my 17th birthday, my dad surprised me with a red convertible! At just a year old, this pony was beautiful! After finally accepting the gift (I felt too spoiled but realized after not being there for me, my dad was trying), I fell even more in love with her. Since my nickname was Mustang Sally, I named her Sally.
Even after the worst of days, I would drop the top and cruise, changing my mood instantly. As the daughter of a mechanic and taking excellent care of it, even at 8 years old, the car had extremely low mileage and was in impeccable shape. However, as I began a career and thought about marriage, my grandfather pointed out that it may not be practical any longer. Eventually, I bought an Edge (which I too love). I was able to sell Sally to my old next door neighbor who just turned 17 as well who I knew would give Sally a new home (she even calls her Sally still).
To this day when I visit my mom, I see her every time and even put a bow on the grill at Christmas time. When I got married almost 2 years ago, I had to make sure I got a picture with my first driven! Before we got into the 1963 Rolls Royce, I ran over to Sally in my heavy white gown and got my picture taken with her – the neighbors made sure the top was down of course! My wedding photographer may have been arrested twice but I got that memory and a picture!
Sally is an amazing first car and gave me so many memories and I hope some day to have another one that I can love as much as her again. In the meantime, Ed and other Fords will always do. What can I say…I will always be a Ford girl (and I have the license plate to prove it)!


text: What makes audiophiles tick? Are we obsessed with music? Are we obsessed with sonic quality for its own sake, sometimes giving it too much priority as compared to the music itself? Are we fascinated with the technicalities of music reproduction? If all of the above, is there a conflict between these goals? I tell myself to focus on enjoying music, but I do sometimes find myself distracted by these other goals. Are we audiophiles people who experience moments of musical bliss and, like addicts, keep chasing higher and more frequent musical highs? Is there are a risk in experiencing higher highs, in the sense that it becomes more difficult to enjoy lower highs (i.e., lesser equipment)? Can the addiction become so extreme that we suffer from pursuing something which isn't attainable? Is there anything fundamentally different about passion for audio vs other passions?


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Cow vigilantes: CPI(M) asks Centre, Rajasthan to 'abide by SC direction'
Condemning the killing of Ummar Khan, a farmer, the Left constituent alleged that the 'Rajasthan Police registered a case against the victims but allowed the vigilantes to go scot free'jaipur Updated: Nov 13, 2017 20:44 IST
The CPI(M) Monday demanded that the Centre and the Rajasthan government "abide by the Supreme Court direction" and book the culprits involved in a recent incident of alleged cow vigilantism in Alwar district of the state.
Condemning the "gruesome" killing of Ummar Khan, a farmer, in Rajasthan by "so-called gau rakshaks", the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expressed shock and alleged that the "Rajasthan Police registered a case against the victims but allowed the vigilantes go scot free".
"The politburo demands that the Centre and the Rajasthan government abide by the directions of the Supreme Court, ensure the culprits are brought to book, and the families of the victims are compensated adequately and assured of justice," the CPI(M) said in a statement.
The body of Khan, 35, was found near railway tracks on Saturday. Activists allege Khan was killed by cow vigilantes, but Deputy Superintendent of Police of Ramgarh Circle, Anil Beniwal, yesterday said that a preliminary inquiry revealed he was involved in cow smuggling.
The police said Khan and two others were transporting cattle in a vehicle on November 10, when unidentified men opened fire at them. Khan died on the spot.
The CPI(M) pointed out that according to an apex court order instructions had been given to the central and the state governments to take strict action in such cases to discourage a repeat in other areas.
"(The SC) has said that in every district a senior police officer should be designated to (deal with these incidents)," the party said.
It also demanded that the central government ban all groups indulging in cow vigilantism and moral policing.
The Alwar incident happened months after Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer from Haryana, was lynched by suspected cow vigilantes in the same district when he was transporting cattle. The April incident had triggered a nationwide outrage.
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Barker JN, Davies SM, DeFor T, Ramsay NK, Weisdorf DJ, Wagner JE. Survival after transplantation of unrelated donor umbilical cord blood is comparable to that of human leukocyte antigen-matched unrelated donor bone marrow: results of a matched-pair analysis. Blood.2001;97 :2957– 2961
The baby's cord blood will be processed and stored in a laboratory facility, often referred to as a blood bank. The cord blood should be processed and stored in a facility that is accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) for the purpose of handling stem cells.
For transplants, the primary advantage of cord blood stem cells over stem cells from adults is that they cause much less graft versus host disease (GvHD). In order to safely transplant adult stem cells, the patient and donor must match over at least 10 of 12 tissue types called Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA), or 83% HLA match. By comparison, medical outcomes are just as good with cord blood that has a 4 out of 6 or 67% HLA match.
Rocha V, Wagner JE Jr, Sobocinski KA, et al. Graft-versus-host disease in children who have received a cord-blood or bone marrow transplant from an HLA-identical sibling. Eurocord and International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry Working Committee on Alternative Donor and Stem Cell Sources. N Engl J Med.2000;342 :1846– 1854
As a trusted resource for families, CBR offers Genetic Counselors on staff to help families make informed choices about newborn stem cell banking. Our team of certified professionals are available to:
Tracey said she felt lucky since she banked Anthony's cord blood with a private company. And Osteopetrosis is one of 80 diseases listed by many cord blood companies in their marketing material as treatable with stem cells.
Only three to five ounces of blood is collected from each umbilical cord. This small amount is enough to treat a sick child, but not an adult, unless multiple units of matched cord blood are used, says William T. Shearer, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Pediatrics and Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
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Despite the benefits of using umbilical cord blood stem cells for transplant, the process also has some disadvantages (see Table 3). For stem cell transplants to be successful, measurable signs of engraftment must occur. Engraftment is the opposite of rejection and indicates that the stem cell transplant is "working." Two measurable signs of engraftment are the recovery of both neutrophil (a type of white blood cell) and platelet (a clotting factor) production. These two clinical signs of recovery take longer to occur in umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants than in bone marrow stem cell transplants. In other words, the lab values for white blood cell production and platelet production take longer to increase after umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants than after bone marrow stem cell transplants (Hess, 1997; Moise, 2005).
Families should seriously pursue public banking, donation for research, or private banking instead of discarding their baby's umbilical cord blood. We aim to be nonpartisan in our dissemination of information, but we believe that discarding your baby's cord blood is a waste of a once-in-a-lifetime valuable resource.
Cord tissue use is still in early research stages, and there is no guarantee that treatments using cord tissue will be available in the future. Cord tissue is stored whole. Additional processing prior to use will be required to extract and prepare any of the multiple cell types from cryopreserved cord tissue. Cbr Systems, Inc.'s activities for New York State residents are limited to collection of umbilical cord tissue and long-term storage of umbilical cord–derived stem cells. Cbr Systems, Inc.'s possession of a New York State license for such collection and long-term storage does not indicate approval or endorsement of possible future uses or future suitability of these cells.
In recent years, umbilical cord blood, which contains a rich source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, has been used successfully as an alternative allogeneic donor source to treat a variety of pediatric genetic, hematologic, immunologic, and oncologic disorders. Because there is diminished risk of graft-versus-host disease after transplantation of cord stem cells using matched related donors, the use of less-than-completely matched HLA cord blood stem cells may incur less risk of graft-versus-host disease than mismatched cells from either a related or unrelated "walking" donor, although this remains to be proven. Gene-therapy research involving modification of autologous cord blood stem cells for the treatment of childhood genetic disorders, although experimental at the present time, may prove to be of value. These scientific advances have resulted in the establishment of not-for-profit and for-profit cord blood–banking programs for allogeneic and autologous cord blood transplantation. Many issues confront institutions that wish to establish or participate in such programs. Parents often seek information from their physicians about this new biotechnology option. This document is intended to provide information to guide physicians in responding to parents' questions about cord blood donation and banking and the types and quality of cord blood banks. Provided also are recommendations about appropriate ethical and operational standards, including informed consent policies, financial disclosures, and conflict-of-interest policies for physicians, institutions, and organizations that operate or have a relationship with cord blood–banking programs.
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Publicly banking your baby's cord blood is a wonderful gift. Unfortunately, however, your chance of donating your baby's cord blood is very low due to the regional and financial constraints of public cord blood banks. It is estimated that cord blood from less than 3% of all U.S. births can be collected and stored by the public banks. We support any efforts to increase the resources available for public banking.
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Public cord blood banking is free, but you give up your rights to the cord blood stem cells at the time of donation. Just like donating to a blood bank, this means your donation would be owned by the public cord blood bank and not by you. Your donated cord blood stem cells can be used for medical research or could possibly save a life through a transplant. Public cord blood banks release your child's stem cells when a good match from a registry is identified.1
Some ethical concerns over umbilical cord blood banking warrant mention. As previously stated, the AAP (2007) acknowledges that claims in advertisements for private cord blood banks are not accurate. In fact, some of the statements made by private cord blood banks are outright misleading (Fox et al., 2007), which raises questions about how informed consent for cord blood collection is obtained. Legally, the cord blood belongs to the child, but the consent of the mother alone is usually obtained for collection, and the consent of the father is rarely considered (Ballen, 2006). Because the cord blood now has a "value," the person who obtains consent and that same person's professional connection to the private cord blood bank may come into question (Pinch, 2001).
Richardson SM, Hoyland JA, Mobasheri R, Csaki C, Shakibaei M, Mobasheri A. Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges for Articular Cartilage and Intervertebral Disc Tissue Engineering. J Cell Physiol. 2010; 222(1):23-32.
The term "Cord Blood harvesting" has a slightly morbid sound, but in reality, it is a very worthwhile and potentially lifesaving field of medical science. Umbilical Cord blood is blood that remains in the umbilical cord after birth. This umbilical cord blood is full of stem cells, and these powerful cells can be harvested for use in medical testing, or for transplantation into another host. A transplantation of harvested umbilical cord blood can have a profound effect on the recovery of patients with a host of medical conditions such as leukemia, cancers, thalassemia, Diabetes and some other diseases.
If the doubts of the AAP, weren't enough to turn you off cord banking, the cost is enormous. At Viacord, (see ad on left) the price begins at $1550 at birth, plus $150 for a courier to deliver the blood, plus $95 dollars for storage a year. At these prices, that will cost you $2840 by the time your baby is 21.
While some companies may advertise their cord tissue preservation service as "treatment-ready", this is a misnomer. In the U.S. there are currently no treatments available that use cord tissue cells. Without knowing what the treatment protocols may look like in the future, preserving the cord tissue sample whole today means that all of the available cell types in this precious resource may be available to your family in the future.
Professionals affiliated with institutions or organizations that promote for-profit placental blood stem cell banking should make annual financial-disclosure and potential-conflicts-of-interest statements to an appropriate institutional review committee that possesses oversight authority.
Cord blood banking means preserving the newborn stem cells found in the blood of the umbilical cord and the placenta. After a baby is born, and even after delayed cord clamping, there is blood remaining in the umbilical cord and placenta that holds valuable newborn stem cells. Parents have a choice between donating cord blood to a public bank for free, or paying to store it for their family in a private bank. Cord blood banking includes the whole process from collection through storage of newborn stem cells for future medical purposes.
9. Sickle cell anemia. Stem cell researchers are exploring ways to correct numerous blood disorders, including sickle cell anemia. Mice have been cured of the sometimes-deadly condition after receiving transfusions of stem cells made from their own skin cells.
The evolution from pluripotent stem cells down to blood stem cells is currently poorly understood. The latest indication is that, under the right conditions, stem cells in cord blood can be teased to grow into other types of tissue besides blood. This would open up an entirely new realm of potential treatment through the use of stem cells.
Public cord blood companies are mostly nonprofit companies that are traded publicly, and doctors can utilize matching cord blood in these banks for treating their patients, even if the blood is not their own.
Frances Verter, PhD, founded the Parent's Guide to Cord Blood in 1998 and has been a Scientific Advisor to Community Blood Services since 2007. In 2011 the NMDP presented her with their Lifeline Award in recognition of her efforts to improve public education about cord blood donation.
* Annual storage fees will be charged automatically to the credit/debit card on file, on or around your baby's birthday, unless you've chosen a prepay option and are subject to change until they are paid.
Your own cord blood will always be accessible. This applies only if you pay to store your cord blood at a private bank. The blood is reserved for your own family; nobody else can access or use it, and it will never be allotted to another family or be donated to research. If you donate your cord blood to a public bank, on the other hand, anyone who needs compatible cord blood can have it; there's no guarantee that it will be available if and when your family needs it.
StemCyte™ has extensive experience providing cord blood units for transplants in children and adults with life-threatening diseases. Other private cord blood banks may have provided family-related cord blood for transplants, but only StemCyte™'s cord blood units have been used to 2000 plus transplants to date.
Since 1988, cord blood transplants have been used to treat over 80 diseases in hospitals around the world. Inherited blood disorders such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia can be cured by cord blood transplant. Over the past decade, clinical trials have been developing cord blood therapies for conditions that affect brain development in early childhood, such as cerebral palsy and autism.
Cord blood has been shown to contain pluripotent stem cells that have the potential to differentiate into nonhematopoietic tissue, such as cardiac, neurologic, pancreatic, and skin tissue, in vitro.53,54 Extensive laboratory research is taking place to explore the potential therapeutic benefit of cord blood under these circumstances. The results of this research will be necessary to formulate future recommendations regarding autologous cord blood banking.
Choosing a bank (specifically a private bank) for her daughter's cord blood made perfect sense to Julie Lehrman, a mom based in Chicago. "We wanted the extra assurance that we were doing everything we could to keep Lexi healthy," Lehrman says. "I was older when Lexi was born, and there's a lot we didn't know about my mom's health history, so we felt that we were making a smart decision." Fortunately, Lexi was born healthy, and neither she nor anyone else in the family has needed the cord blood since it was stored seven years ago. But Lehrman has no regrets; she still feels the family made a wise investment. "Lexi or her brother or even one of us could still need that blood in the future, so I'm thankful that we have it." But banking your child's cord blood may not be the right decision for you. Read on to see if you should opt for private cord blood banking.
All cord blood is screened and tested. Whether you use a public or private bank, you'll still need to be tested for various infections (such as hepatitis and HIV). If tests come back positive for disease or infection, you will not be able to store your cord blood.
Cord blood transplantation has been shown to be curative in patients with a variety of serious diseases. Physicians should be familiar with the rationale for cord blood banking and with the types of cord blood–banking programs available. Physicians consulted by prospective parents about cord blood banking can provide the following information:
Families with a history of diseases can store cord blood in a bank. These families can access it should a person get sick with an immune system or blood disease, like leukemia or sickle-cell anemia, later in life.
Umbilical cord blood was once thought of as a waste product. Now, years after the first successful umbilical cord blood transplant, more families seek information about whether or not to save their newborn's cord blood. Childbirth educators may be one of the main sources that an expectant family depends on to gain more knowledge about cord blood banking in order to make an informed decision. Preserving umbilical cord blood in public banks is advisable for any family; however, it is recommended that expectant families only consider private cord blood banking when they have a relative with a known disorder that is treatable by stem cell transplants. The childbirth educator is encouraged to be well versed on the topic of cord blood banking, so that as questions from class participants arise, the topic can be explored and addressed appropriately.
Medical shipping: Some cord blood companies use medical shipping companies to deliver cord blood; these companies guarantee that cord blood is kept a certain temperature and delivered to the facility by a certain time, typically within 24 hours of collection.
1. As today's children grow up and some of them develop cancer as adults, autologous (self) cord blood transplants will become more commonly used. Pediatric cancers and adult cancers are completely different diseases at the cellular level (to learn more about cancer visit the website of the National Cancer Institute). While pediatric cancer patients rarely receive autologous transplants, among adult cancer patients the autologous transplants are more common than transplants from donors.
Private cord blood banking costs $2,000 to $3,000 for the initial fee, and around another $100 per year for storage. While that may seem like a hefty price tag, many expectant parents may see it as an investment in their child's long-term health.


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- Comments about HANA's performance normally does not account the much newer and larger hardware footprint versus that HANA replaces.
- It is necessary to isolate the performance of the software from the hardware.
- HANA has a difficulty in addressing the giant footprint it is normally used with.
Introduction to the Performance Impact of Hardware
SAP has made a number of highly aggressive claims about HANA.
Our research into HANA, and has shown that the claims to HANA are on shaky ground.
- We conclude that there is no evidence that HANA can outperform either Oracle 12c or IBM DB2 Blu in either transaction processing or analytics.
- HANA still has not been shown to perform well in transaction processing at any data point — that is in benchmarks or customer observations.
A major problem is a lack of benchmarking data and the fact that vendors benchmark their databases without any outside party to perform the test. Benchmarking scientifically would be expensive, and as the buyers don't look very deeply into marketing claims, there is a limited market for it. That is SAP customers would not pay an independent entity to do it.
We cover these topics in detail in the article What is the Actual Performance of HANA.
What is HANA?
HANA is two things, and a third thing that is an emergent property of the first two things:
- The Hardware: New hardware, using both high-end RAM and SSDs to push out any spinning disks.
- The Software: A database designed with column-oriented data table store, which is customized for reading access (i.e., for analytics).
- The Hardware Software Interaction: The interaction between the column-oriented data and the memory. This is a well-known feature of the interaction between memory and data stored in as columns which we cover in the article How HANA is Such a Fast Database (For Analytics).
But a major issue, which should be obvious, is that SAP is a software company, and makes none of the hardware that HANA uses. However, SAP is taking credit for performance increases that don't have anything to do with SAP. And they have nothing to do with the work or innovation of any other database vendor either. However, SAP is the most aggressive in combining the hardware improvement story with the changed software (the database) and allocating all of the credit to SAP, or to the software vendor.
Yes, Adding More Expensive Hardware Increases Performance
Also, this is not to say that any system or database that is placed onto more expensive hardware will not improve in speed.
That is always the case.
And here arises the problem in differentiating just what the hardware "bump" is doing versus the overall HANA "bump." HANA is a combination of hardware (RAM and SSD replacing spinning disks) with a column-oriented table design.
Our Interaction with HANA's Performance
Recently we received the following message on HANA performance from someone with first-hand experience with HANA.
"I rather like HANA. We migrated from Oracle to HANA… and I like it very much, although I think it would be so much better on different hardware than what we have."
There was particular hardware that was purchased that our contact would have preferred to be from another vendor. We won't get into the hardware as that would be a different article.
Our contact when on to laud HANA's performance for planning runs. The software that was residing on HANA, in this case, was supply chain planning software. And our contact reported a 30 to 50% improvement in planning runtimes.
Isolating the Performance Benefit of the Hardware from the Performance Benefit of the Software
Upon consideration of this improvement, I began to think of what we know that HANA improves regarding performance. And its primary benefit is read access.
Read access is very intensively used in analytics. However, with a planning system. The load is to the memory and the processor for a planning run.
Therefore the question is why would HANA's column-oriented design improve the performance of this type of processing?
I asked if it was not likely that the performance was not due to the columns oriented design (which only provide a performance benefit in reading operations) but is instead due to the hardware (the extra RAM and SSD?)
Our contact commented that
"Performance management in the past consisted of optimizing the data flows between CPU, memory, and disk. With in-memory computing, disk I/O has become irrelevant and things that plagued us in the past like disk-layout, RAID configuration, I/O hot-spots, redo-log I/O performance, concurrent/direct I/O and tricky OS settings like IBM's I/O queue depth have all gone away now."
But we would point out that these things are true when any system is moved to being entirely in memory.
That is when the more expensive hardware is added.
HANA Efficiency Level with Hardware
There is a lot of discussion by SAP how HANA is so fast. But there is very little information around how well HANA addresses the hardware that it is given. SAP stated that it had the developed the fastest database in the world, and done so on the first version of HANA. But then, HANA has been continually "innovated" since its introduction. HANA is known as one of the most patched databases, and this along with several other factors has to lead to HANA being maintenance heavy, which is accounted for in the Brightwork research A Study into SAP HANA's TCO.
Information from a number of sources indicates that HANA requires significantly more hardware than do competing databases to return similar performance results. This would indicate that HANA was not designed as well as competing databases regarding how it addresses hardware resources. And these data points that are available to us are recent, so it can be argued that it was because HANA is in its first version. But let us remember, SAP claimed that HANA was the world's fastest database in its first release. This performance promoted Jon Appleby of Bluefin Solutions (an SAP consultancy) to state that
"Oracle if finished on SAP,"
..as we coved in the article How SAP Has Quietly Changed its Strategy on HANA and Oracle.
This fits into comments that SAP uses regarding HANA's "innovation."
SAP has converted the term "innovation" into the frequent updates required to patch problem areas, basically to try to catch up to other databases.
Why Hasso Would Like Customers to Upgrade their Hardware
SAP, and Hasso Plattner, in particular, have made a significant point of emphasis that companies need to upgrade their hardware. In four books on in-memory computing, Hasso has stated that companies don't understand how much it is beneficial to have all of this performance. However, it should be remembered that all of this advice regarding adding hardware is within the context of adding expensive hardware to SAP in particular.
However, the observations cataloged up to this point demonstrate that HANA is not as capable at using more expensive hardware than competing offerings. Furthermore, the inefficiency with which HANA can do things like utilize processors is quite weak. Therefore, the question arises whether SAP is prompting customers to buy such high hardware specifications to compensate for this issue.
Hasso and SAP Oversimplifying
Furthermore, Hasso and SAP are providing an oversimplified perspective on hardware, speed and decision making. Hasso has stated that decisions in health care, surgeons must be made instantaneously, and HANA will be part of that. This is untrue as is covered in the article How Accurate Was Hasso Plattner and Fortune on HANA?. Even in an ER environment, the orientation is to stabilize the patients. Scheduling operating rooms and the right personnel for specialized procedures takes weeks. There is a whole chain of events that take place that the database will not speed up much. I happen to perform extensive forecasting testing, which is very processing intensive, but I can simulate a forecasting scenario for a large company's data set using just a well-powered laptop. I think I cost me around $1500 at the time. The software I use makes excellent use of quite inexpensive hardware.
Many examples could be provided. And for those that are less interested in the details per se, the result is that more complexities go into the performance equation that what SAP presents to corporate buyers.
One cannot observe the benefit of HANA without taking into account the more expensive and more modern hardware that HANA brings along with it. SAP proposes that its combination of using column-oriented tables along with more modern and costly hardware leads to a number of different performance benefits. However, adding more expensive equipment to any solution does not require SAP. That is high-speed RAM, and SSD can be purchased without contacting SAP. It can be installed without contacting SAP. And the performance will improve. Furthermore, switching out old hardware for new hardware is one of the fastest ways to improve performance, and not only do you not need SAP, but you also don't need Deloitte or Accenture, etc..
As a control, one must know the benefits of HANA versus the benefits of adding more expensive hardware to an existing solution, and not employing HANA. Companies that allow SAP to take credit for what is a premium hardware configuration are fooling themselves.
Furthermore, the hardware component is the lowest cost portion of HANA.
- Migrating a current solution to new hardware is the lowest effort of migrations.
- It does not require a reimplementation of software.
- It does not require purchasing a new database license from SAP.
- It is the fastest migration. The data points we have indicated that a HANA implementation takes on average 1.25 years. But a pure hardware upgrade is a small fraction of that time.
Why put off what will be in many cases over 1/2 of the benefits of HANA for 1.5 years?
A substantial portion of the overall benefit of HANA can be obtained by simply installing HANA type hardware with the existing database.
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Starting with the history of Gartner and how it compares to other IT analyst firms, this book gives a realistic assessment of the value of Gartner research to a company and provides ideas about other resources that could complement Gartner's analysis. You will also have the tools to level the playing field between large, medium and small vendors when using Gartner's analysis in selecting software.
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: An Overview of Gartner
- Chapter 3: How Gartner Makes Money
- Chapter 4: Comparing Gartner to Consumer Reports, the RAND Corporation, and Academic Research
- Chapter 5: The Magic Quadrant
- Chapter 6: Other Analytical Products Offered by Gartner
- Chapter 7: Gartner's Future and Cloud Computing
- Chapter 8: Adjusting the Magic Quadrant
- Chapter 9: Is Gartner Worth the Investment?
- Chapter 10: Conclusion
- Appendix a: How to Use Independent Consultants for Software Selection
- Appendix b: What Does the History of Media Tell Us About This Topic
- Appendix c: Disclosure Statements and Code of Ethics


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As you explore this course, you will discover many easy-to-use features and tools in Photoshop Elements. You will be able to get results that you never imagined possible. You will master techniques for editing images, fixing flaws, enhancing the final product, creating simple art projects, prepare images for email and the Web, and organize your images. You will also get plenty of practice as you complete fun hands-on exercises that ensure you understand the basics of this program as well as more advanced techniques.


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eunoia: u-NO-ya. beautiful thinking; a well mind.
I believe in the power of the written word. I wrote that in an essay for admission into my MFA program, and I think it will always hold true.
The word eunoia is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels (though if you want to get picky, the OED doesn't actually recognize it as a word). Such a small thing to hold so much. I like this word for two reasons. First, because of the meaning. A well mind is one of the greatest gifts we can receive (take it from the girl whose mind goes racing like a pro far too often), but a well mind also requires effort. It requires corralling damaging thoughts and resting on true things--beautiful thinking, in other words.
Secondly, I like eunoia for its brevity and capacity. This first year in the program we are focusing on memoir--reading it, analyzing it, writing it. I am already steeling myself against the thought that I have no business meddling in memoir. It feels like a joke to write memoir when you're 24. I keep batting away this thought like a fly: you don't have anything to say. It's not true. Something small can contain a wealth of meaning. My past two years alone may not look like much from the outside, but I know how I've been scraped and bolstered and cleaned and bandaged and pushed forward into light. I know God's done some major work and that any story I tell is ultimately a story of God's movement in me.
Our stories are inexhaustible if we remain curious and humble, and if we tell about the power of God in us, the God who can do wonders and is likely at work on you now, on me.


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Okechukwu Solomon February 21, 2018 guestpost
IoT will enable the emergence of new business models, improvement of productivity and also enhance the experience of the customers. Getting a better insight will enable a business to rope in more customers which will enable a business to grow further.
Below, I am going to showcase the top 5 Internet of Things trends in 2018.1. Security: Connected devices have played a pivotal role in making our lives easier. However, one of the important aspects of these devices is the security that cannot be neglected on any front. All the companies that manufacture the devices, the operators, application developers and the enterprise businesses have their role to play in the security of all the aspects of a particular IoT ecosystem. In order to enable the complete potential of IoT, all the security challenges need to be addressed by taking a proactive approach for designing the different security features.
2. APIs: These are the application programming interfaces that act as a bridge for connecting the useful information and the data to the IoT. All the different and essential things are connected in a powerful network. All the IoT devices would be of no use without the APIs. These APIs play an important role in showcasing the data which is the reason behind the connection between the multiple devices. There is an interface which is provided by the APIs between the 'Internet' and the 'Things' that reveals a lot of possibilities which are previously unexposed. In the coming years, APIs will play a pivotal role in monetizing IoT.
3. Blockchain: Blockchain has an important role to play in the IoT by making the transactions even more seamless, enhancing the security. Also, it creates efficiencies in the supply chain by reducing the costs, building trust, and accelerating the transactions. Blockchain for IoT can also transform the way in which the business transactions are conducted on a global platform in a trustworthy environment. This automates and encodes all the business transactions. The security and privacy of all the parties are preserved in the transaction.
4. Cognitive Computing: In the past connecting the different things has been possible with the help of unique IP addresses. But now with the commoditization of processors, sensors and the memory has made it possible to not only connect the everyday things but also make them intelligent. With cognitive computing, the amount of data has been increased. This has enabled the sensors to adapt to their environment and diagnose without facing the need for human intervention. One great advantage of the cognitive IoT is the combination of the multiple data streams that can identify the patterns which would give a lot more context which was otherwise available.
5. Platforms: The IoT platforms were the center of attraction in the year 2016, as the majority of the IoT players came forward in one form or the other. These platforms have the right elements which can play a major role in providing value by linking the IoT endpoints with the applications and the analytics which are needed to generate the business outcomes. The function of the IoT platform is to collect the data, connect devices, handle the vendors and the ability to scale the different devices that send billions of messages. In order to deliver value, security, privacy, cognitive computing and the insights must be added.
In The End:
All the five things which are mentioned in this article are among the top IoT trends in 2018. All these trends are going to play a crucial role in 2017 and also the coming years. There are a number of developments that might not be the part of discussions. But more than likely in the coming years these developments are definitely going to emerge. The rate at which IoT is evolving we can expect new developments coming up literally every moment.
I would love to have your views about the latest trends or the developments that we might expect of Internet of Things in the current as well as the coming years.
Author Bio:
David Blakey is a blogger by profession with 5 years of experience. He is associated with a Hot Toner, selling hp 5520 ink online in Australia. He is an admirer of sharing his innovative ideas with others on the technology trends.
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More Case studies with Cofraplus®
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Transparent structure of the Vienna City Landing Stage with Cofraplus® 77
The new landing stage for the Twin City Liner, the liner connection between Vienna and Bratislava, consists of an impressive, elongated steel structure, which partly protrudes over the water. ArcelorMittal Construction Austria supplied 2000 m2 Cofraplus® 77 steel deck for composite flooring.
Detailed information
70 river kilometers in just 75 minutes
The fast liner connection Twin City Liner between the closest EU capitals has already been in existence for several years, meanwhile 2 DDSG Blue Danube ships are in use and travel the 70 river kilometers in just 75 minutes.
Since summer 2010 the new City Liner landing stage has also been in operation. A bright, 127m long steel structure protrudes with its two and a half floors from Franz-Josefs Kai on Schwedenplatz over the quayside and partly over the Danube Canal.
In urban development the structure is interpreted as a bridge, running parallel to Franz Josephs Kai. Only the curved ramps at both ends connect with the existing quay wall.
Transparent structure
Architecturally the transparent structure is reminiscent of a ship floating above the water.
From the quay wall a slightly sloping ramp leads to the ticket booth, an exhibition and event area, next to it you can find a restaurant and a coffee shop. The layout of all these areas on one level half-way between the quay and the quayside offers maximum flexibility for use during events, exhibitions, etc.
By following the ramp from the quay upwards you will get to the sun deck with café, which offers a panoramic view over the Danube Canal, Schwedenplatz and the surrounding rows of houses.
Both in the restaurant and in the café you can have a direct view over the water, in summer sliding window elements, which can be opened, create a terrace-like atmosphere.
The structure roofs the actual entry on to the quayside, the riverside walk along the Danube Canal, and provides protection against the effects of the weather.
Steel framework
The supporting structure, designed by Werkraumwien, is based on a steel framework structure; the cantilever arm in transverse building direction over the Danube Canal up to half of the building width is realized via a transverse framework at the center supporting point. 3 framework levels with room-high center framework are connecting all 5 supporting points and bridge the maximum spans of 41m. In longitudinal direction of the structure the construction is completed land-based with a room-high framework and on the water side with a room-high two-field framework. Composite steel girders span across the framework levels, a reinforced concrete steel ribbed slab with aerated concrete on lost trapezoidal sheet metal formwork forms the floor decks.
Besides the pressure areas of the composite girders the aerated concrete ribbed slab, which forms a tubular structure with the vertical framework, also contributes to the bracing of the entire structure.
The supporting structure rests on 5 points:
- 2 cast-in-place concrete wall bearings, which allow a longitudinal displacement of the structure and thus avoid temperature expansion due to restraints;
- 3 steel support groups in combination with the reinforced concrete foundations form dissolved discs for the longitudinal and transverse bracing of the building.
The structure's foundation consists of reinforced steel grids in combination with vertical and tilted micro piles as well as soil stabilization by means of jet grouting.
Project Information
- Vienna
- Austria
- Architect:
- 2009 - 2010
- Client:
Wiener Donauraum Länden und Ufer Betriebs- und Entwicklungs gmbh
- Engineers:
werkraum wien
- Building Services:
- Lighting:
Thomas Hamann
- Project Management:
Reinhard Muxel
- WBW TEam
- Corinna Eger, Thomas Mennel, Reinhard Muxel
- Restauration:
behf architects
- Photographer:
Margherita Spiluttini & ArcelorMittal Construction Austria


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This week I had an awesome opportunity to write with Arlene Paculan! So quick backstory about her and I...
When I was still in college studying Independent Music Production at Seneca, we had an assignment to reach out an independent artist that we gravitated to and ask them for an interview. I've always looked up to Arlene because she's been active in the Filipino local community and is one of the few in the scene performing original music, and I was like yess I wanna do that too! She was gracious enough to grant me an interview and fast forward to today, here we are collaborating through Songwriters Association of Canada! I am over the moon.
Week 3's challenge is to partner up with a songwriting partner and write under the theme of relationships. We decided to go with the heartbreak route. Arlene first sparked our session with her just riffing with a chord progression I suggested and from that, we got our first few lines. From there, I continued it with a pre-chorus and chorus. The line "say your prayers" just came out after I got "Go on" cause I was thinking to make the heartbreak song sound more empowered rather than a wallowing feel. I felt like the chorus had to soar up to contrast with the verses and give that sense of emotional release. Arlene ended up loving these sections and she continued on with the second verse. It was such a cool experience working with her because since she was very encouraging I felt comfortable with her right away and felt so free to write any lines without the fear of judgment.
Our process with this song was done online due to time restraints. We talked through Facebook Messenger and sent voice messages to each other and it was a smooth ride throughout! This demo is pretty rough due to our lack of time but Arlene and I plan to record this track for real soon!
Here is Somebody Like You co-written with Arlene Paculan: https://soundcloud.com/maejanellemusic/somebody-like-you
Somebody Like You
(Mae Janelle Berte/Arlene Paculan)
Well isn't it funny how we've come to this
Doesn't it seem pointless to talk about it
Well last night you were out with the guys
Tonight you're working over time
It's 3 am and I'm still all alone
I know you told me that I'd never have to worry
I knew it won't be easy
Loving somebody
Loving someone like you
Somebody like you
So go on, go on. Say your prayers
Go on, go on like you never cared
Cause I'll never love somebody like you again
Can't resist the feeling we're just wasting time
Once connected, now our souls don't intertwine
Well you come home to resent me
And I wake up feeling empty
It's 4 am and I'm still all alone


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The Powe. Slayer Art Print
The Powe. Slayer Art Print
from 30.00
The first snowboard graphic I've ever designed, was added to the Powe. Snowboards lineup for the 2015-2016 winter in the form of a kid's board. Kid's board or not this pencil graphic brings focus into your life with every glance.
Pencil on Paper, digital manipulation.
-Designed by Adam Vindigni


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Walking on ICE: Addressing the ICE Posters on Campus
Melisa Olgun
I vaguely remember a knock on the front door in the middle of the night. I was still in elementary school, so I didn't think much of it. My mom slowly walked to the door that led to the atrium, but one of our tenants opened the door instead. The person on the other side of the door was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. He was looking for one of our friends, who had overstayed his visa by two weeks, and was coming to detain him. That friend was not home, but it didn't matter.
When I was walking to Biology a few days ago, I saw a poster behind a stop sign: all illegal aliens are criminals, it said, do your part, and it included the number to call ICE. I couldn't help but think about that morning, me, living in blissful ignorance while our safety was shattered. My mom had never been so fearful in her life.
My house was one of immigrants: I was the only citizen, and everyone else lived in the shadows. Worked off the books, but paid their taxes. Couldn't have health insurance, so they hoped their bodies would stay strong. My mom didn't have her license, so we walked to the bank every week to deposit the little money we had, to pay a mortgage for a house that couldn't legally be under her name. The deed was still under my father, who had been dead for years. When he was still alive, he spent his days fixing the walls in a courthouse whose offices held the same people that came to our door. He died an "illegal alien". It's funny how he passed away on the soil that didn't recognize his existence, that some people didn't think he deserved to be in this country.
The ICE officer didn't care that the man who opened the door wasn't the man he was looking for. The officer arrested him, where he was detained in jail for almost a week, let go because of pure chance.
Had my mom opened the door, my life could have been profoundly different.
When my dad passed away, my mom had a decision to make: pack our bags and go back to Turkey, where we could be with family and live a decently comfortable life, or grit our teeth and hope for some sort of magical law that would lead to citizenship. Had she chosen the former, she wouldn't have been able to come back to the States for at least a decade, if not more. We would be leaving a home we spent so long building, an education that I had just started, a land of opportunity that my mom profoundly believed in. And so, she chose the latter, and we tunnelled through a terrifying path of uncertainty, where one person's word could completely destroy our lives.
When I saw the posters, I immediately went back to the time when my family-friend community huddled around the television, watching Obama's inauguration, hopeful that the change would apply to us. How I would overhear conversations about possible loopholes that we could use to qualify for a Green Card. Our dinner table conversations revolved how after 9/11, everything changed, and maybe if it didn't happen, the immigration laws wouldn't be so harsh. My mom was one of the first in our community to receive the beautiful, thin letter, giving her a date to come in and give her fingerprint, the first step towards legality. Slowly but surely, after years of apprehension, we could say that we were all documented. We looked at each other, the emotions too strong to verbalize. After a collective sigh, someone spoke up, saying, "Wow, we are all finally legal residents in this country. Imagine that." We smiled, and thought about how we could all go home to finally see our families, breathe in the air of the land we had left so long ago, forgetting the small things.
My mom went home for the first time in nearly fifteen years when I was in middle school. It was my first time going to Turkey, and for her, it felt like the first time, too. My mom didn't want to tell me that the reason it had taken so long for me to visit my family was that she was waiting to go with me. Every year, she would say This summer, you'll go until that summer actually arrived. Nearly five years later, she prepared for her naturalization exam. Constantly playing the CD that asked every question that could possibly appear on the exam, she would repeat each phrase in her accent that I heard become more assimilated over the years. Even though her accent is still strong, sometimes I wish she would pronounce her Amsterdams as "Uhm-ster-dam", that she didn't have to stray away from her mother tongue to such an extent to alienate the thick roots her words came from. A few months later, she was naturalized as a citizen. She came home, laughing at herself for spelling "Lincoln" incorrectly on the written portion of the exam.
Looking back now, I still don't know how we did it. Although I am not an immigrant myself (I am incredibly privileged to have been born in America), I lived the so-called immigrant experience, and I can't help but think about all of the families who are in the same position now. How, like my mom, they are careful: say the wrong thing to one person, and that could be the end of it. How everything they've worked so hard for could be thrown away with the dial of a phone.
To the person who put up those signs: You will never understand the power that sign holds, both to families who are waiting for that magical "we finally made it" moment that I have been lucky to experience, but also to people like me, who spend their days trying not to think about the utter hell we went through to get where we are now. That sign may be simple in nature, just some waxy paper and adhesive, but it's still hard to remove. The repercussions of a simple phone call can and will impact families in ways that you can never imagine, and at the end of the day, the people who you're trying to get rid of are the same people who are helping to run this country. My only hope is that one day, you will understand what it's like to be in the shadows, constantly fearing the unknown, and that you will realize the power you hold.


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Planned Maintenance Schedules
At Brittain Hadley, provide full and detailed planned maintenance schedules that can assist you in prioritising and budgeting for keeping your building in good repair. Whether you're a freeholder or a property manager we can provide you with a comprehensive report, commenting on the building elements, their condition and time scales for repairs and maintenance. In conjunction with a written report we also provide a costed plan set over 5, 10 or 20 years that can be used to budget for the works and assist to set service charges that will enable funds to be raised accordingly.
A schedule may apply to a house, a single block of flats or an extensive development with numerous properties and associated infrastructure and at Brittain Hadley we have experience in detailing all of these options.
For larger developments that have comprehensive mechanical and electrical installations, we will recommend experienced contractors to facilitate specialist reports in those areas.


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Frequently Asked Questions
some frequently asked questions…
Where do i purchase a BC fishing licence?
To purchase your BC freshwater fishing license online go here: https://j100.gov.bc.ca/pub/ras/signin.aspx
How many guests can you carry on the boat?
Four (4) guests
where do we depart from?
We launch from the centrally located Kelowna Yacht Club located at 1370 Water Street, Kelowna.
What professional certification does our guide hold?
Nelson Jatel is a British Columbia certified Angling Guide (Licence No.: AGPE18-328856) and commercial (under 5 tonnes) Boat master. Nelson is a PADI Dive Master and holds a Restricted Operator's Certificate (Maritime).
Does Desert Salmon Charters carry public liability insurance?
Yes, as required by law in British Columbia for all professional angling guides, we carry no less than $2 million of insurance coverage.
Are there days fish don't bite?
Absolutely. We work hard to optimize the likelihood of catching fish every time we go on the water. We know some great spots, use great gear, and appropriate tackle, but some days fish don't bite. Welcome to fishing. Fishing is a process, not an outcome. Enjoy.
Is the name 'Desert Salmon' trade-marked?
Where can I find a good bathymetric map of Okanagan Lake?
Try here: Okanagan Lake


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Constant Cravings? Weight Out of Control? Read this!
Incessant cravings and feeling like their weight is out of control are common health concerns that prompt clients to come to my office. Hormone imbalance/dysfunction is often at the root of these issues. Working together, the first thing we do is identify which hormones are out of whack and then take action to reset them. This post is all about the 7 key hormones that play a big role in regulating appetite and managing weight. I include a description of each hormone, clues that something may be amiss as well as simple steps to balance each one. I've also specified which lab tests can be useful to determine hormone imbalance or dysfunction. Lucky for us, even though there are a lot of hormones that impact weight, diet and lifestyle are super powerful ways to support your body's hormonal communication system and get these hormones in balance! Check out the full post by clicking the button below.


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One of the best parts of working in the events industry is the incredible vendors we get to meet and collaborate with! We recently spent a fun and productive day at DL Loft, photographing some of the brilliant and beautiful floral designs and tablescapes by the mega-talented Debi Lilly. We'll be sharing more of the seasonal designs over the next couple weeks, but this first collection features a bright yet delicate Thanksgiving theme. We are obsessed with all of the fantastic details -- such impeccable design makes our job so much easier! Enjoy!
Thanks to all of our amazing partners on this shoot:
DL Loft - Venue
Debi Lilly - Floral/Styling
Kate Johnson - Makeup Artist
Jayme Golden - Hair Stylist
Lovers Society, Chosen by One Day provided by Lovely Bride - Model's Gowns


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While I'm out of the temp housing, this place is no where near ready for pictures yet. And I never did show where I hung out to knit when I was up on the roof area. :o)
When it was a bit on the cold side, I spent my time in this little nook. It was nice to curl up on the couch and still have an amazing view.
I have no idea why the color of the water looks terrible here. It was lovely the day it was actually warm enough to sit out on the deck. :o/ The sun warmed the boards, and it was nice to get to soak up the sun. I couldn't sit for too too long here, though. There was no back support, so I have to give it up after awhile.
Luckily, they had a solution for that as well. ;o)
All in all, it was a pretty sweet set up. Our new place does not have a rooftop area, so I will miss that. It has a lot of things that make it just as nice or even better, so I think I'll live. ;op