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The Banoura Family, 1889
Copyright (2009) Banoura Family
In that time, 1889, there were only one camera coming to Beit Sahour and around once in a year, during the easter time. Many family in the area was making the family picture, this is the reason of this photo.
It's a Catholic-Ortodox Family, and we can see it for the typical clothes that they dress. In the center there is the Catholic-Ortodox Priest, Father Andrea
From wright-left: Farida, Saba, Aziza, Father Andrea, Hanna, Nima, Mitri, Hana and Milada (the kids).


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Welcome to the NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Clinical Commissioning Group website.
As Chair of HMR CCG we are committed to continuing to improve health and health services for local people. We aim to ensure modern, high quality NHS services that are easily accessible for residents in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.
With the devolution of health and social care moving forward at pace we believe that as a borough wide organisation and working with key partners we have an opportunity to tackle health inequalities while responding to health needs at a local level.
We are dedicated to ensuring that local people receive the care and support they need to live long, happy and healthy lives. We work with partner organisations including Rochdale Borough Council, neighbouring CCGs, local hospitals and community and voluntary organisations as well as our own staff to achieve this.
Please have a look around the website as we hope much of the content will be useful to you. We also welcome comments and suggestions. You can get in touch here
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She caught me, so back in the woods for her. So I decided to take some pictures of the birds.
My daughters took a walk through the woods yesterday, with their camera in hand, hoping to find the them and get some pictures for the 4H fair next week, but no luck. Maybe next time.
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Alum managed to reach its fundraising goal of $10,000 (exceeding that by $165) on its Kickstarter campaign - which is good news as it looks like a very interesting project. Well done to the guys behind Alum, and we're looking forward to seeing what the full game turns out like!
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"We've used Mequoda's strategies and techniques to sell thousands of books, videos, and subscriptions."
- Charlie Spahr, Executive Director, The American Ceramic Society
You may be sitting on three significant hidden assets that you can use to build your email marketing lists quickly
Do you realize that you might be sitting on a few opportunities to increase your email marketing lists? In the investments world, hidden assets are considered those that don't show up on a balance sheet. Real
What's "free" to the naked eye isn't exactly free. It costs money to produce a product, even when it's recycled. And for the user, they pay either with their eyeballs and data on an ad-driven site, or with their email address on a product-driven site.
Just think of all the "free" that you give away on your website:
In subscription marketing, the type of magazine content you sell, matters. However, the strategies you use to sell it, work across niches and industries.
In our 2018 Mequoda Magazine Consumer Study, we discovered that out of all the paid types of magazine content available online, adults in the US pay for news, most. If you're in
This week we're focusing on engagement, in How Can Engagement (E) Be Improved? The 'E' in the Mequoda Method's ACEM, is really about retention, and the idea that if you're a subscription-based publisher, that the link with relationship with your customer is key.
At Mequoda, we have the privilege of marketing more than 200 premium subscription products including magazines, newsletters, and memberships that spark a myriad of ideas on how to create value.
Improving email revenue? I certainly didn't learn that one in school, and you probably didn't either. In fact, in four years of journalism school, I never even had a single lesson in newspaper economics.
My professors were experienced reporters and editors, but none had ever figured out the business of publishing a newspaper. And none had ever met a payroll.
In 1926, a long-form print ad for the U.S. School of Music was written by John Caples, and the headline read, "They Laughed When I Sat Down At the Piano, But When I Started to Play!" It's been noted as one of the most perfect headlines ever written.
Slow loading web pages can mean turning customers away from your landing pages and ultimately from buying yor products.
ACEM doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but if you've been following along for awhile, you know this acronym is baked into everything we do here at Mequoda.
When choosing CMS development services for your organization, consider how much retrofitting will be involved to get your subscription website running and how much familiarity you have with third-party fulfillment systems.
Periodical publishers and other subscription-based organizations do not run the same kind of business as most others do on the web, so why do so many
I woke up this morning thinking about all the great ways we've discovered to sell subscriptions on the Internet. Yes, these are the things that I dream about. The idea that while I'm deeply asleep, the systems we manage are busily selling subscriptions to magazines and newsletters and premium memberships that include all sorts of benefits to customers who are awake and spending money while I'm sound asleep makes me a happy guy.
How to turn six email analytics metrics into a big picture about the performance and plans for digitally marketing your publication
When we look at the most successful multiplatform publishers we know intimately, like our clients and close colleagues, we are usually able to determine what sets them apart from publishing companies that struggle.
An effective technique in information marketing is "self-liquidating premiums"—having the value of the premiums exceed the entire purchase price.
For example, let's assume you have a product, perhaps a downloadable ebook, with a list price of $49.95. You're selling it online at a discounted purchase price of $29.95.
It's amazing to look back to just a year or so ago, when digital magazines were still something of a novelty. Today, it's a given that print publishers will soon create a digital version of their product if they haven't already.
At Mequoda, we've crunched the numbers and discovered how beautifully email newsletters work to drive revenue. It's not the traffic that comes to your site, which is the prevailing view among folks in all industries who jumped on the bandwagon early. Back in those days, it was all about impressions! Eyeballs on your page! After all, if they show up on your website, they're bound to subscribe to your magazine, right?
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A multi-platform website enables a publisher to create dynamic content on multiple platforms. Some of these platforms might be online streaming through a membership library of training videos, or it could be a web magazine—formatted for, and read on the web.
But multi-platform website doesn't just refer to the number of ways you recycle content across text, video, graphics and other mediums. It also means your website is responsive and will show visitors these different types of media, no matter what device they use: desktop, laptop, smartphone, tablet, phablet, whatever you've got. More thoughts on responsive design.
12 subscription marketing offers you can test with your existing email subscriber list
Think selling magazines is hard? Look at Netflix. Their offer is that you can try out their video streaming service for 30 days, then pay $8 a month. Not $10 or $12 per year like a magazine, but $8 every single month. And is
If you're making plans for your own digital publication, it behooves you to also plan how to make money from it with strategic digital magazine marketing.
After all, buying a list and mailing a big direct mail package, in hopes of getting a bunch of people to subscribe as we all did in the old print days, is rather like trying to sell 21st-century tablets themselves at an old-fashioned general store where hardware, ladies' hats and pickles all shared the same space, and the proprietor fetched everything on your list, then wrapped up your purchases in brown paper and twine.
How to use web editions, collections and libraries to double your revenue
Are you still selling your magazine on one platform? Sure, print magazines smell good and even look good on a coffee table, but the most successful subscription publishers we know are leveraging more than paper to increase profits.
What are they doing exactly? They're adding
It's entirely possible that your publishing business is worth much more than you might think. You might be trapped thinking about your company like a print publisher, and because of that, your assets are being under-leveraged. Let me suggest three easy steps to unlocking that value.
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving," said David Ogilvy, known as "The Father of Advertising" the "Original Mad Man".
Even our best performing clients—who publish on multiple platforms, run several subscription websites, and have helped define our pricing best practices—will see a drop in subscription sales when they stop testing. I told this to a client recently who went from having some of the highest conversion rates of our clients to having our worst performing rates, and we believe the culprit is a lack of subscription offer testing with new offers, like a 30-day free trial.
Web magazine consumers like to read their magazines like they read their news – online.
Users are becoming more accustomed to viewing magazine content in the form of web magazines. Web editions can be displayed on any mobile or desktop device, so users are as familiar with the interface as they are with a web browser,
Facebook and Twitter were once major focuses of audience development strategies. Some digital publishers still receive favorable traffic from these social sources, but we're also seeing other social networks and strategies gain popularity. Today we're looking deeper into this news to see how it's impacting publishers.
Your average email open rate can only get better (with these tips)
The thing about metrics and the KPIs you track is that everyone needs a baseline. So while you can compare yourself to the rest of the publishing industry, the best thing to compare yourself to is yourself.
With that said, the average email open rate
Publishers who are generating revenue through multiple platforms may include events on their list of products. If you're in the B2B publishing niche, you may see your competitors throwing roundtable events and wonder, "what is a roundtable event?"
We're seeing new developments from some multiplatform publishing giants, including Hearst and The Wall Street Journal, that involve a focus on content and digital experience.
Only five years after the advent of the tablet, strategies for successful digital magazine publishing are starting to sort themselves out and deliver measurable results. Of course at Mequoda, we're all about documenting these things so digital publishers don't have to re-invent the wheel.
Here are 10 things you must do if you want to join the ranks of millionaire publishers … a goal we think is worthy of all digital publishers today.
If you're a publisher who maintains multiple websites, making the correct choice of a subscription management system is one of the most important decisions you'll make, because doing it over and over again cuts into your profits and resources. We've watched numerous multi-website publishers trap themselves into a path that was too expensive to upgrade easily and efficiently because of the way they expanded the system in a nonstandard manner.
How a new California automatic renewal law affects all subscription businesses with customers in the golden state, and how to prepare for Vermont's double opt-in requirement.
A new California automatic renewal law—that went into effect 7/1/18—requires online sellers, doing business in California, to allow online cancellation of auto-renewing memberships, subscriptions, or any recurring purchases that were initiated online.
A couple of years ago, Don outlined the attributes of a premium content subscription: not a website itself, but the thing that customers buy – the content subscription.
In updating this post (as we often do with our website content – a Mequoda best practice), we decided to give you an actual example of the perfect premium content subscription, and we settled on CooksIllustrated.com, the companion website to Cook's Illustrated magazine from America's Test Kitchen.
Deconstructing the phrase "premium content subscription" is a helpful exercise for getting this discussion onto the right track. Let's take a look at each of the three words individually.
We aim to be one of the best sources for magazine trends online, but we do it with a whole lot of help from our brothers and sisters in the industry.
Below we've compiled a list of the best portals, the best influencers, and the best reports on magazine trends available online. If you have more to add, please share your favorites with us in the comments.
Digital magazine publishers stay competitive and relevant to their audiences by presenting the best experiences possible. We watch constantly as experiments are made in the digital publishing industry to reach and connect with audiences. Today we're reporting on the latest attempts at providing better user experiences.
Digital magazine publishing software is important; which option are you using?
Publishers have been trying digital magazine publishing software during the last few years in hopes of creating the best digital products for their audiences. And like everything else in digital magazine land, digital magazine software has evolved at light speed since we made our initial recommendations in January.
Here's our latest (opinionated) look at the magazine software landscape.
One of the most important email marketing guidelines you'll encounter is how to confirm subscribers to your email list, and there's always time to change your mind.
When you think of email marketing guidelines, you probably think of headlines, subject lines, calls to action, and button colors. However, one of the most important decisions you make
The best audience development strategies meet an audience where they want to be met. Today we are looking at the expansion of some audience development strategies for content publishers at Ebner Publishing International, which publishes about 80 magazines, and is using content engineering to drive more traffic.
If you could, you'd hire a professional email subject line writer. You would, because you depend on your email list to sell magazine subscriptions or ads to advertisers, so smashing together 50-100 characters on the fly every day is a stinky approach to accomplishing those goals.
When you think of the top magazine companies, you probably imagine Time, Cosmopolitan, or Better Homes & Gardens. If you publish a magazine, try to instead think of the magazine media companies in your niche. Comparing a niche magazine to a general-interest publication will leave you empty-handed in the idea department.
Another major multiplatform publisher is in the process of making moves to unload some of its magazine titles. Today we look at Condé Nast, the company's move to sell popular magazines, and its strategy going forward.
Once upon a time, online advertising had a shady reputation.
Luckily for publishers, that's all in the past. The online advertising industry has improved its reputation, and consumers have become more accustomed to seeing these ads. Even the once-dreaded popup ad has become routine, especially when it's carefully aligned with your content, which is a Mequoda Best Practice.
Advertising and website strategy evolves as publishers find the best channels, advertisements, and processes to follow. Today we're looking at some new elements to online advertising.
Online magazine design has taken a number of steps forward in recent years, starting with the launch of the first-ever web magazine in 2014 called I Like Crochet. An online magazine, also known as a web magazine, is a premium publication that is read through a magazine subscription website. In our definition, it is not the same as the homepage of a magazine, where content is freely distributed, unless that content is metered by a paywall.
We often see publishers move forward with a variety of media acquisitions in order to target a specific market or fill in parts of their business that they deemed as lacking. Today we are looking at news of some recent publishing and media company moves.
As you know, having an online portal for your information is essential for growth. Using the web to publish and distribute content and not just serve as an extension of your brand is critical. But this is a new beast, and to be prepared, you must plan. This holds true even if your business has survived the last 50 to 100 years.
What makes you open an email? Urgency? Benefit? Brevity? What we've found is that the most attention-grabbing subject lines rarely have a lot in common at first glance.
If you search around the web for the best performing subject lines, you'll find ones like, "I was right – and that's not good for you" and "We're starting in 5 HOURS" from Sumo.com. You'll also see "I have good news and bad news…" and "Let's fix your offer together" from digitalmarketer.com. But what do these email subject lines have in common?
Google has been a major source of audience development and paid advertising for years. Today we are looking at some recent news from the search giant, that may be helpful to content publishers.
Email subject lines are just one part of the email delivery equation. Emails are delivered to inboxes based on subject lines, content, and reputation. In some cases, engagement is even applied to this filter.
In his bestseller, "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell stated that it takes 10,000 hours, or approximately ten years, so become an expert at something. That means there are very few digital product development experts out there in the universe, even in the publishing world. Let's consider some of the digital products we interface with regularly today.
Content publishers with the most success meet their audiences where they want to be met, and do it through the most-opportune channels. Today we are looking at some ways additional revenue opportunities develop for publishers in a time when digital media is growing.


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Existential Anxiety Among Adolescents Exposed to Disaster: Linkages Among Level of Exposure, PTSD, and Depression Symptoms
Carl F Weems, Justin D Russell, Erin L Neill, Steven L Berman, Brandon G Scott
Journal of Traumatic Stress
Exposure to natural disasters can be highly traumatic and have a detrimental effect on youth mental health by threatening the satisfaction of basic human needs and goals. Recent research in adults suggests that exposure to disasters may exacerbate existential anxiety about the meaning of life. The current study expands this investigation to adolescents, who may be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of disaster. Data came from 325 adolescents (mean age = 15.05 years, SD = 1.05) residing in the Greater New Orleans area who were exposed to Hurricanes Katrina and/or Gustav. Existential anxiety concerns were highly prevalent in the sample and were associated with elevated levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (R-2 = .09) and depression symptoms (R-2 = .13). Consistent with theoretical predictions, disaster exposure levels moderated the association between facets of existential anxiety and mental health symptoms. Findings highlight the salience of existential concerns in disaster exposed youth, and provide evidence that exposure to traumatic stress may strengthen their association with mental health problems.
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The blog this week was written by Marsha Meyer from the Portage District Library. The Portage District Library has been an active member of the Connect Kalamazoo network and has appreciated a partnership with The Arcadia Institute for a number of years. Through this partnership the library and the community have benefited from art exhibits by talented, innovative an artist with a disability. Through our connection with The Arcadia Institute and Deborah Warfield, Community Broker, we have been able to connect students to a poet and mentor. Because of our partnership with The Arcadia Institute, we were very pleased to be introduced to Cody, a student with a hearing disability who delighted an audience at a poetry reading during the 2014 Kalamazoo Poetry Festival by "signing" his poetry. Hopefully that experience has encouraged him to continue writing and performing his poetry. We plan to invite Cody to the next Kalamazoo Poetry Festival.
Portage District Library has had the distinct advantage of enjoying the valuable assistance of many different volunteers, including those with special needs. They perform a variety of helpful volunteer duties around the library, including: shelving books, sorting newspapers, straightening shelves, organizing papers and undertaking other useful tasks. The best thing they do for us, however, is to brighten our days with their smiles, enthusiasm and desire to help in any way they possibly can. We have also enjoyed meeting their families and building long-lasting relationships with them.
The library's partnership with The Arcadia Institute has enriched our connection to area social service organizations and their clients. For example, it enabled us to be introduced to a wonderful interpreter for the hearing impaired, Jamie Rix, who signed at several poetry readings during the 2014 Kalamazoo Poetry Festival. This definitely made these wonderful poetry events equally accessible to the hearing impaired population in our community. Likewise, through our affiliation with The Arcadia Institute, many of their clients have now been made aware of our library resources. Because of our collaborations with The Arcadia Institute, we have met talented artists, poets and valuable volunteers who are on their way to identifying and accomplishing their dreams and goals. Our hope is that they will continue to visit the Portage District Library as a desired destination, and share their talents and skills with all of us and our library users in and around the Portage community. The continued partnership between the Portage District Library and The Arcadia Institute will evolve into many new fulfilling relationships for the people in our communities, particularly those with special needs.
We look forward to many more years of working together and sharing resources with The Arcadia Institute.


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Speaking of run, on Thanksgiving I officially ran 10K, my first race ever. It still amazes me that six months ago I couldn't run a minute without wanting to die, and five days ago I ran for an hour and 5 minutes through the streets of Cincinnati and northern Kentucky without stopping. I was proud of my time considering it was my first race and 25 degrees outside (-4 C), but I looked at the results and saw an 81-year-old man beat me. I guess that's just motivation to go faster and try harder next time. I'm not sure when my next race will be, but I have a feeling my first won't be my last. I really enjoyed the race atmosphere, the two guys dressed as pilgrims in a boat screaming, "You just got passed by a boat," the high-fives and encouragement from random strangers as well as my family along the course, and that final sprint to the finish. I have no idea where that energy came from, but I gunned it at the end. So much that I finished disoriented and went right past the place to cut off my chip timer. Did I have enough energy to do the whole course again, which would equate to a half marathon? I don't think so, but then again I never thought I'd be capable of 10K.
(I am wearing two thermal tops, the official race shirt, a jacket, thermal pants, leggings, shorts and a South Park scarf. The only parts of me that were cold were my hands until I scored free handwarmers and my feet until I got running. There was a lot of standing around time beforehand because we got there over an hour early because we are race noobs and thought there wouldn't be enough parking at the Bengals stadium.)


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Duration: 3 days 2 nights
Season: June - February
Visit the Karen hill tribe village, enjoy local food and stay overnight with homestay. A very nice experience to camping in the jungle up the mountain you will find it.
Day 1, after breakfast, we pick you up and drive a few minute to start trekking. Prepare and brief about the trail. Trekking about 5 - 6 hours and picnic lunch on the way.
Afternoon, upon Ban Huai Po, a village settled on high elevation in evergreen forest. Enjoy dinner and stay overnight in the village. You can see the people's simple way of life, under the starry night sky.
Day 2, in the morning is free time for leisure, walking to explore the area. Afternoon, arrive to forest camp a place to stay the night where you could enjoy the silent evening. We will prepare food for dinner and cook on an open fire. You will stay in a wooden and part of bamboo hut.
Day 3, After you got your good breakfast. We are starting our last day hike. This day we will hike down hill. Pass through farmland terrace paddy fields. Back to the town.
Note: Price per day per person.*
Included: Entry fee, food, drinking water, homestay, camping, guide, porter and transport.
Remarks: All details program and the price can be changed without notice.
1. Hat, t-shirt, long pants, strong shoes and camera
2. Swimsuit, towel and flip-flop
3. Personal uses, toothpaste, toothbrush and
4. (Seasonal) Insect repellent, Sunglasses, Sunblock lotion and warm jumper
5. (Optional) Blantket or sleeping bag and personal water bottle
1. Check your physical fitness
2. Infant or pregnant women it is not to go on tour
3. Leave other valuable things at your hotel or safety box
1. Follow the national park advices
2. Be respectful to local customs
3. Stay on the route, do not leave the trail alone
4. Be aware and have a sense of belonging in our natural surrounding
5. Always trust your local guide
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The much vaunted resilience of religion in the USA raises significant questions about classic secularisation theory which asserts that as societies modernise they also secularise. Various modles have been put forward to explain differing patterns in North America and Western Europe. However, in recent years research findings have begun to indicate that stateside Chrstianity is not as resilient as was once thought. The latest report is the American Religious Idnetification Survey conducted in 2008.
Alan Hirsch offers the following summary:
1) Religion and Christianity are on the decline in the US;
2) Protestantism is doing worse than Catholicism due to Catholic immigrants;
3) Mormonism is keeping up with population growth, and Islam and New Age/Wicca are exceeding it;
4) Atheism, while still a small percentage of the population, is on the rise; and
5) "Spirituality,"–or non-organized belief in God–is still vibrant in the US.
For the full report go here.
The USA is not the same as Western Europe. Religion is more resilent there than here. It still poses questions for classic secularisation. But the long recognised decline in the American mainline denominations now seems to be affecting other expressions of Christianity as well.
Many in the past have taken comfort from trends across the pond looking to learn lessons for own struggles to resist decline. There is still some mileage in such an approach when applied with due care but we must not take false comfort. The first step to finding a new way forward is to look reality in the face. Whistling in the dark is no way to find an anthem to which we can march forward. It could well be that the challenge we face is even bigger than we thought.


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The job purpose is to ensure that all Health, Safety and Environmental requirements of D.T Hughes Ltd as indicated in Company Policy and Procedures are met when carrying out utility works. Highway Maintenance Paving Operatives will carry out activities as directed by D.T Hughes Project Supervisor/ Manager and to the works instructions supplied in the job pack.
Highway Maintenance Paving Operatives will be required to work as part of a versatile highways team, delivering both reactive highway maintenance and planned highway works. They will also have to carry out the following tasks:-
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- proper n. A taxonomic order within the subclass Neognathae — the woodpeckers, barbets, toucans, jacamars, puffbirds and honeyguides etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- plural proper n. A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Garrod's classification, a superfamily of anomalogonatous picarian birds, having a tufted oil-gland, one carotid, and no cæca, including the Picidæ and some related families: contrasted with Cypseliformes.
- n. In Coues's system (1884), the woodpeckers alone as a suborder of Picariæ, composed of the three families Picidæ, Picumnidæ, and Iyngidæ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans
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Such happenstance! what happened in the city of Sarajevo, on June 28th, 1914. To recognize its significance and effect, one must understand the world that day's deed erased.
A hundred years ago, Europe was at peace, enjoying the most beautiful of summers, still at the start of a new century, one promising all good things to humanity. Science and technology were remaking the world. Enlightenment was spreading, even to the darkest parts of Africa and Asia, albeit under colonial aegis.
In Europe the Ottoman Empire was waning, the last remnant of the Islamic invaders, who, two centuries earlier, had threatened Vienna itself. This was creating instability in the Balkans, where divided Slavs struggled to see whose religion and culture would emerge dominant.
Ruling the seas, Great Britain held sway over the world, though her centuries-old apprehension was being realized. A single nation, Germany, was emerging as a dominant continental power, chaffing that nationhood had come too late in the race for overseas colonies. Great Britain was allied with Republican France and Czarist Russia in a Triple Entente. The pact had one purpose, the containment of the continent's Teutons; Germany's only assured ally was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ruled from Vienna by the aged Hapsburg Emperor, Franz Josef.
In late June, the emperor's nephew, the heir to the Hapsburg throne, Franz Ferdinand, was visiting Sarajevo, the capitol of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a Slavic territory, which the empire had recently annexed. It wasn't the highest level of state visit, which is why he could be accompanied by his morganatic wife, Sophie, the Duchess of Hohenberg. Because he had married a commoner, their children were barred from inheriting the throne and she was not accorded state honors.
Waiting for the royal couple in Sarajevo were seven assassins, sent by The Black Hand, an international terrorist organization dedicated to Serbian supremacy in the Balkans. Ironically, their chosen target, Franz Ferdinand, more pacifist than militarist, was an opponent of Austria's annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Riding in an open car down the town's principal thoroughfare, the royals were to be met by multiple sets of assassins, armed with pistols and fuse bombs. The first two, very young men, lost their nerve and failed to fire as the motorcade passed. A third hurled his bomb, which bounced off the Archduke's car and exploded under an accompanying vehicle. Franz Ferdinand calmly saw to the care of wounded, and then laconically declared, "The fellow is insane. Gentlemen, let us proceed with the program."
They did, racing to city hall, pass the other assassins. When the festivities there were concluded, the royal couple could have rid themselves of Sarajevo, but Franz Ferdinand insisted upon visiting the hospital, where those wounded earlier in the day had been taken.
This second motorcade would be much more heavily armed, moving rapidly through the city. But the archduke's decision to visit the hospital wasn't adequately communicated to the lead car, which mistakenly turned the motorcade onto its originally planned route. Realizing the error, the driver of the archduke's car stopped to back the vehicle into the main thoroughfare.
That was the very intersection to which one of the assassins, Gavrilo Princip, still disconsolate over that morning's failure, had returned. There were two or three seconds between the driver of the archduke's car hitting the breaks and going into reverse. It sat motionless just long enough for Princip to fire two shots. The first entered Franz Ferdinand's neck; the second, Sophie's abdomen. Both died that day from their wounds.
Although the deed was serendipitous, it consequences seemed almost ineluctable. How could Austria-Hungary not punish Serbia, which had birthed and abetted the assassins? But could Russia ignore a declaration of war against a client state and not come to the aid of Slavic Serbia? The dominoes collapsed. Europe and its worldwide colonies thus entered the Great War, one that would claim, between combatants and civilians, more than 16 million lives and 20 million casualties. Three empires and their monarchs would collapse in the cataclysm: the Austro-Hungarian, the German and the Russian. A motorcades' wrong turn redirected an entire century. History is the collective work of all who live, yet so often its great streams funnel through the sieves of solitary souls. Consider those of Saints Peter and Paul.
Like his Lord before him, St. Peter could not have had a more obscure, more backward birth. Nothing that could be called an education can be connected to him. Yet this fisherman would somehow make his way to Rome, because that city centered the world he considered himself commissioned to convert. He was martyred there, crucified in a round up of Christians, Nero's scapegoats for the city's flames.
St. Paul was more blessed by birth and education, but what would we know of him, without the letters, which he penned to his congregations? He also found himself in Rome, a solitary soul, convinced that the Lord of history required his presence as a prisoner in the city. He too was martyred, by a sword to his neck.
Humans emerge from evolution. How is it then, that we so radically outrun its pace? History ought to be a lumbering, weighty progress, any change of direction, slow and gradient. Yet sometimes, single souls, for good or ill, carry away centuries, capsize civilizations. Does it make sense for individuals to carry such weight? The Christian faith insists that they do. Calvary changed the cosmos. The blood of martyrs, so randomly shed, conquered Rome.
Most souls don't change the entire world, but every soul changes some portion of it. The gospel has been preached for 20 centuries, yet its drama of sin and salvation still plays out in every soul, round which a world of friends, family, and familiars waivers, awaiting the result.
Acts 3: 1-10 Galations 1: 11-20 John 21: 15-19
Acts 12: 1-11 2 Timothy 4: 6-8, 17-18 Matthew 16: 13-19


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Happy Aquarium: NEW! Limited Edition Submarine Transformitron
The Super Cool Submarine Transformitron is a new Limited Edition Happy Aquarium item that transforms from a submarine into a swimming robot. You can buy it for either 66 Pearls or 55 Facebook Credits (exactly USD $5.50) while supplies last, or until May 18th at 6:00 p.m. EST.
While there's no examples on whether it's animated, the above images of the sub going into robo alt-mode support this idea. For something costing 66 Pearls and with no functional benefits, it better be!


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Currently, Surrey County Council provides a grant for three and four year old children for up to 5 sessions of three hours per week. This is subject to an Early Years Free Entitlement Parental Registration Form being completed. These are available from the School Bookkeeper.
Since January 2004, Surrey County Council (SCC) has provided six consecutive terms of funded nursery education for all three and four year old children from the term after their 3rd birthday.
For the 2017-18 academic year, Surrey County Council have confirmed funding of (£67.65pw) based on 15 hours at £4.51ph. The number of weeks eligible for funding each term varies, however the following is based on 2016-17:
Children attending part-time hours at Sunflowers Nursery will receive a grant based on the number of sessions attended. The grant may be subject to alteration by Surrey County Council, however the following examples are given as a guide:
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Welcome to my blog. My name is Benjamin Rueck. I created this as a means to record silly things that I do or events that happen in my life. I know I enjoy reading about other people and their adventures; so I decided that it would be kind of cool to do the same for others. I know I was inspired by things that I read.. hopefully I can do the same for someone else.
A little about me; I was born and raised in Colorado and am currently working in the education system as a substitute teacher. This allows me the time to pursue my goals as a climber and still feel somewhat productive to society. As a kid growing up in a small farming community I had no idea what rock climbing was… or even that it existed. I climbed trees, barns, houses, and horses but never rock. Then one day I was dragged to a local climbing gym and I have been hooked ever since.
I enjoy the outdoors and everything that they have given me… and I hope that my adventures can entertain you in whatever way they can.
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The latest article from our Managing Director, Peter Houlis has been published over at IFSECGlobal.com
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I knew looking at the large sized blocks of EPP foam on this project I would be faced with a lot of shaving and sanding. I really enjoy sanding wood but not foam. It just doesn't deliver a natural flow of progress and it doesn't smell as good as hand worked wood. Kind of "lifeless". So I spent some time making up a pair of templates to be able to hot-wire cut the shape. You will notice by the glue lines I combined 1.3 and 1.9 weight EPP foam in order to attempt saving weight on the tail boom. The frontal area is heavier 2" thick 1.9 material laminated from the wing root forward. Gorilla glue was used to combine them. GOOP cement was used to attach the tail boom foam to the frontal foam pieces.
Attached the templates with 3" long drywall screws being careful not to over tighten and strip. A concern was what would happen when the wire reaches the GOOP glue line. I angled the wire slightly to attain a knifing action in this region but low and behold the wire sliced through the goop as if it wasn't there. It has been over 20 years since I last cut foam so I was pleasantly happy with the results. Next task is to cut the side profile.


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I don't care if it's dorky; I like to photograph my place, my things, myself- my life.
I watched an Annie Leibovitz documentary the other night and found myself completely falling in love with her. Although she isn't my favorite photographer in the world I am enthralled with her story and the art she's been making for decades. What stood out to me most wasn't anything to do with Vanity Fair or celebrities, but her life long relationship with the camera. She has been keeping a record of her life on film since childhood. Of course when she admitted Robert Frank's work taught her how to see, that was it for me. She didn't have to go on and capture rock n' roll with Rolling Stone or claim the throne of Vanity Fair's finest. She had me at Frank.
In the film you see her collection of photos, pinned to the walls of her gorgeous Conneticuit home. She is making her book, Annie Leibovitz At Work. Everything is exposed and hanging like clothes drying on the line - photos of John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan next to her children swimming, Susan Sontag, and family roadtrips cross country. Just like Frank, she lived with her work- pinned to the walls like windows into the past, depicting the story of something so much greater than fame - but life, on film.
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The following tutorial is at the moment just a copy/paste of a personal reference for the GDC Fall 2013 Game Jam event, intended to be used during a live demo where someone is actually performing all these steps one at a time. So please excuse the excessive brevity, lack of pictures and terrible formatting for now :)
- Open blender
- Describe verts/edges/faces
- mouse movment
- Shift/control + scrollwheel to pan
- Shift+f to enter fly mode and fly with wasd
- numpad keys - 1/3/7 to quickly reset views, 2/4/6/8 to rotate view, 0 for camera view, 5 for ortho toggle
- right click to select
- cancel a current action by right clicking
Making a simple arch model in blender:
-> The mesh manipulation:
1) press tab to go into edit mode (bottom left menu)
2) switch to face mode
3) press 1 to move view to side
4) press "s" and hold ctrl while moving the face up 5 times
5) press ctrl+r to make a loopcut in the middle of the block -> this forms our first support column
6) press "e" and extrude the top sideways edge of the block 4 times while holding ctrl -> this forms the base of the arch
7) do the same thing on the same side of the arch, except extrude 2x -> this forms the top half of the second support column
8) select the bottom face of the newly formed piece & enable vertex snapping by pressing the magnet icon on the bottom pane, and selecting "Vertex" from the drop down menu next to it.
9) extrude the bottom part until it meets the same level as the base of the first support column
10) press ctrl+r and hold the cursor over the arch
11) roll the mousewheel upwards 6 times to get 6 new edge loops
12) left click, then right click to automatically center the edge loops in case the mouse was moved
13) change the view so that the arch is being seen face on
14) change vertex snap to increment (grid snap)
15) press z to get xray view
16) press b to use box select, and select the 4 middle vertices
17) move them upwards to form the middle of the arch
18) select the two pairs of vertices on either side of the middle of the arch, and bring the upwards in the same manner. Can use box select, then shift+box select to get both pairs at the same time.
19) do this again for the last pair of vertices until a nice arch shape forms
20) press "a" and then press w -> remove doubles
Texturing the arch:
-> The UV unwrapping
Explain UV unwrapping
- U,V coords are coords on a 2d plane which relate to space on the 3d model
- in order to texture, need to allocate 3d parts of model onto 2d plane -> UV plane
- UV unwrapping is process which we go through to map the 3d parts to the 2d plane
- user needs to mark "seams" on object, so the unwrapping can actually take place (think of unwrapping a christmas gift by tearing it)
- since textures come in squares, the best UV maps are ones which maximize the area they take up within a square region
-> such a UV map uses up more of the texture, and thus gives a higher resolution in game
- conclusion: making good UV maps isn't so easy!
Marking seams:
1) enter line mode by selecting the line icon on the bottom tab (select many lines in a row by clicking on one line at end, then clicking on last line)
2) mark seams on arch so the 2 halves are joined at the top and the entire piece folds open upwards. (1 total) (mark seams either through toolbar on left, or through pressing space and searching "mark seams", or maybe a hotkey?)
3) sides of arch should be seperate pieces (2 total)
4) bottom parts of arch should be seperate pieces (3 total)
5) Open new window in blender by clicking on top right corner and dragging to left.
6) click button on bottom left on window to select UV/image editor mode
7) press "a" in 3d window, then "u", then select unwrap, should see UV map appear on UV window.
8) Press UVs option in bottom pane of UV window, select "export UV layout", save UV image somewhere
9) open UV image in paint
10) go to cgtextures.com, choose a texture (I chose medieval brick)
11) click on texture, click on 3d Tiling Preview, right click and copy image
12) paste into paint, cover entire UV texture with multiple pastes.
13) *save texture as* to not lose original UV layout texture
Applying texture:
14) can get rid of the UV window by grabbing the top left corner of 3d window and moving right until an arrow appears, then let go.
15) press tab in original window to enter object mode
16) press spherical button on rightmost pane
17) rename material to "myMaterial" (or add it if not already there)
18) go to checkerboarded button next to spherical one
19) press new (if not already there)
20) change type to "image or movie"
21) press open and find the painted image from before
22) go to coordinates, change to UV
23) to do a test render, go to camera button in rightmost pane
24) under Render heading, change display to new window
25) press f12 to render
- If your render is weird and smooth, go to the wrench and remove the subsurface modifier
- If your model is all dark, make sure there's a light in your scene (In object mode, Add -> Lamp -> anything)
26) save the model
Loading in Unity:
27) Find it wherever it is saved, and drag in onto the assets folder in Unity (can goto File > Export > Autodesk FBX to export as .FBX file to use that instead). Do the same for the texture made earlier.
Note: Unity can read raw .blend files for models (as well as .psd files for textures). This saves you the trouble of having to re-export every time you change it
28) Drag the model into the scene to use it, and drag the texture onto the model for it to have a texture. If the texture looks odd adjust the tiling in the inspector panel
29) To enable collisions with the model, check "generate colliders" on the model in the assets folder.
30) To give the model texture some depth, we can change the shader type to "Bumped Diffuse" in the Inspector panel.
31) Now select one of the pre-made normal textures for the normal map, and adjust the scale as desired. Usually a unique normal map is generated for each texture (this can be done in blender or even photoshop), but for this quick tutorial we just chose a random one to see the effect.


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When the Duxbury girls swim team arrived at the Cape Cod YMCA in Barnstable on Jan. 12, the as-yet-unbeaten team felt certain they'd be adding another win to their list. The Barnstable High School girls swim team, however, had other plans.
Girls swim team defeats Duxbury to go 8-0Kate Armstrong photos RULING THE POOL – Barnstable's Brie Campbell takes a breather following second-place finish in the 500 free with a time of 6:06.46 during the Raiders' swim meet against Duxbury on Jan.12.
When the Duxbury girls swim team arrived at the Cape Cod YMCA in Barnstable on Jan. 12, the as-yet-unbeaten team felt certain they'd be adding another win to their list. The Barnstable High School girls swim team, however, had other plans.With 12 girls swimming to personal bests, and Anna Cavanaugh setting a new school record, the Raiders ruled to pool, defeating Duxbury 96-74 to remain undefeated at 8-0 this season. "They just had an amazing meet," said head coach Colleen Stone. The talented Cavanaugh won four events in the meet, setting a school record by completing the 200 Free in 2:00.56. "That's eight times back and forth in two minutes," said Stone. Cavanaugh was also part of the first-place Raider quartet in the 200M, swimming to a 1:57.47 finish with teammates Camille Young, Taylor Brochu and fellow four-event winner Casey Ostrander. Cavanaugh and Ostrander were also part of the winning 200 free relay, joining forces with Katie Holzman and Brochu to earn a time of 1:48.15. Cavanaugh also won the 100 butterfly at 1:01, while Ostrander had a state-tourney qualifying 25.81 in the 50 free and 56 seconds in the 100 free, a personal best. Cavanaugh and Ostrander weren't the only lady Raiders in top form in the meet. Rainey Kelly came in third in 200 free with a personal best time of 2:13.75, while Brochu placed first in the 200 individual medley with a tournament-qualifying 2:25.31. Young took second in the same race at 2:25.93, with Christina Brewster placing fifth with a personal best time of 2:39.78. Competing in the 100 fly, Caroline Stone earned an impressive personal best time of 1:11.13, shaving six seconds off her time from the start of the season. In the 500 free, Brie Campbell took second at 6:06.46, with teammate Julia Rugo coming in third with her personal best time of 6:14, slashing almost five seconds of her previous time. Brewster placed fourth at 6:30.66 Barnstable took first and third in the 100 Back. Young had the top spot at 1:04.85, while Kelly placed third at 1:09.63. In the 100 breast, Barnstable's Brochu claimed second with a time of 1:17.50, Stone took third at 1:19.78, and Megan DeCosta came in at 1:24.81 for fifth place. Capping off the meet was a second-place finish in the 400 free relay by Nancy Mamlock, Young, Stone, and Kelley with a time of 4:10.94 "It was an awesome job," said Coach Stone. "It was such an incredible race. The team thought they were going to beat us. It was a very big, intimidating team, but Barnstable swam well and won."


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Our team has always loved alcohol beverages, especially wines. It has been a great experience to go around the world and research about them, taste various kinds and learn how to make these distilled and fermented drinks. We spent years learning how to create these masterpieces and know where they came from or their origins. It's a fun and enjoyable moment to discover histories behind these fascinating drinks and because of that, we became more eager to do something more about them.
Recreating them was a bit easy since we already practiced a lot but the harder part was the taste. The delicious tastes of these drinks always delighted us but whenever we try to do the same, we ended up failing or getting just close to it. But then we realized not all these beverages tastes exactly the same. They all have the same taste of course as the same drink or type but these brands have their own specialties. That's what gave us the idea of doing a beverage without purposely recreating the taste of these brands. Yes, we definitely got the perfect taste of wines, beers and others but what encouraged us to do more of it was the special and different essence our products have. Because we ended up creating such great drinks, we thought of a way to share them to other people. Our friends and families loved our work and pushed us to establish our own business.
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two days in a row. better be careful i don't burn out or something... went back to crev mo on the ssstump today. did the same loop as yesterday. short, but hits all the fun log crossings. it was cloudy all morning, so i was in my cage carving when all of a sudden the sun just burst through the clouds and filled my room with light to the point that it nearly hurt my eyes. so i finished up the piece i was working on and got on the bike.
oh, i had also found a relevant user manual for my now several week old reba team, which doesn't come with one, on the interwebs. read through it and found i was adjusting the floodgate improperly. apparently you need to adjust with the compression on full lock. it was much better today while climbing locked out, but still has a tendency to dive over log crossings whether it's locked out or not.
i don't think it rained last night, but the roots were noticeably more slippery. legs felt great, as they should on such a short ride. i don't think this loop, including riding to and from the trailhead, breaks 12 miles. i had to retry the one multiple log crossing 3 times before cleaning it all the way through. it's the first one that throws me off. it's 2/3rds of the way through a turn and about 26" high. factors which i don't seem to remember causing me any grief back in nj. maybe my skills are dumbing down from lack of use? i'll have to go out and play more.
Dé Luain 28 Meán Fómhair 2009
2 comments:
- Tim said...
Is that piece of woods heart 3 times to small?
- 2 Deireadh Fómhair 2009 05:16
- sean said...
my mom thinks it looks like a who, you think it looks like a grinch. i agree.
- 2 Deireadh Fómhair 2009 05:51
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( ForUm ) - The Central Election Committee is able to hold pre-time parliamentary elections on June 24 on condition that all subjects of the election process will perform their duties. Jaroslav Davydovych, chairman of the CEC, informed yesterday evening on TV channel "1+1".
"Elections can be hold. I would like to remind that the third round of voting (on presidential elections in 2004) we organized for 21 day. Moreover, all subjects involved in the election process executed all their duties," Davydovych told.
Chairman of the CEC emphasized that on condition of normal work of all state institutions, elections can be hold on June 24. "But I'm responsible only for CEC actions," he added.
Davydovych reported that pre-time election according to article 102 of the Constitution is possible on condition of agreement of all subjects of election process.
Besides, Davydovych considers CEC members and the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to stop the membership in parties for the period of elections.
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Today, Verizon Wireless and Samsung Mobile unveiled the Samsung Illusion. It will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com starting tomorrow November 23, for $79.99 with a 2-year agreement. It will be available for free between thursday November 24 and Monday November 28 as a promotion. The Samsung Illusion has a sleek design and is running on Verizon's 3G Network. It features a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird Application Processor, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Mobile Hotspot Capability, 3.0 mega-pixel camera, 6-axis accelerometer with compass, Bluetooth, WiFi, and much more! It seems like a great simple to use smartphone, that has some good features. It will not be in Verizon Wireless stores till January 2012, so that is quite some time. In the mean time you can buy it fromwww.verizonwireless.com starting tomorrow for $79.99 with a 2-yera agreement. Also, check out the promotion in the Press Release below. For more info see the Press Release below.
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Equipped with Stylish Form Factor, the Samsung Illusion is Made from Post Consumer Material and Has Attained Underwriters Laboratories Platinum Rating
BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) today announced the Samsung Illusion™ will be available online atwww.verizonwireless.com beginning Nov. 23 for $79.99 with a new two-year customer agreement. The Illusion will be available for free with a new two-year customer agreement between Thursday, Nov. 24 and Monday, Nov. 28 as an online promotion.
The sophisticated Samsung Illusion smartphone features a sleek form factor and is powered by the nation's most reliable 3G wireless network. The Illusion boasts a 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird Application Processor, 3.0-megapixel camera, HTML Web browser, music player and integrated contacts, calendar and social networking applications, as well as access to more than 300,000 apps available to download from Android Market™.
Key features:
- Android 2.3™ Gingerbread – support for Google Mobile™ Services including Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Talk™, Google Search™ and Google Maps™
- SWYPE™ Technology – input text faster and in a more intuitive way with one continuous finger motion across the screen keyboard
- Corporate email support for Microsoft Office Exchange® – customers can synchronize corporate email, contacts and calendars from their office email
- Full suite of messaging options, including text, picture and video messaging
- Mobile Hotspot capability – share 3G connection with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices
- 6-axis accelerometer with compass
- Bluetooth® 3.0 technology – support for headset, hands-free, stereo, phonebook access and object push for vCard and vCalendar
- Wi-Fi Connectivity 802.11 a/b/g/n
- microSD™ card slot with support for up to 32 GB (2 GB pre-installed)
Additional features – Designed with the environment in mind:
- Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Platinum Rating – the Samsung Illusion scored 84 out of 119 points to receive the "Platinum" UL rating
- Rear casing and battery cover are made from 70 percent post-consumer material and 35 percent of the front casing is post-consumer material
- Packaging made from bleach-free paper (post-consumer waste) and printed with vegetable ink
- Box material uses 60 percent recycled paper (post-consumer waste)
- High-efficiency charger with full-charge alarm
- The Samsung Illusion will be available online atwww.verizonwireless.com on Nov. 23, and will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores in January 2012.
- Customers that purchase a Samsung Illusion smartphone will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan beginning at $39.99 for monthly access and a smartphone data package starting at $30 monthly access for 2 GB of data.
For more information on the Samsung Illusion or for other Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go towww.verizonwireless.com.


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Best iPhone 7 themes for iOS 9, download & get your iPhone a new look!
Best iPhone 7 themes are not so easy to find out from a lot of iPhone jailbreak themes in the market. And, most of the time you'd be puzzled to get the right themes for your iPhone. So, if you are bored with Apple's iPhone 7 default theme, its time to change.
However, today I'm going to take a look at the 20 best iphone 7 themes for iOS 9 for your iPhone. I think it will enhance iOS 9's new features and bringing some of those features to older devices. One such feature is the themes that allow you to transform the look and feel of your device. So, let's start that provided by iPhone 7 concept!
The top 20 best iPhone 7 themes and their features
- This theme includes 180+ icons
- 20+ alt icons
- Preference Icons
- Two Status Bar Themes
- Two Control Center Themes
- Widgets and lock screens
- Message bubble themes,
- Custom badges and custom folder icons
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- Even simpler background of color,
- Blending from lighter to darker in a subtle gradient
- There are seven total background colors
- Each of the colors is a specific shade used across all the icons
- Excellent design
- great familiarity with stock iOS
- color palette used in Amury is very attractive
- It comes with 12 stunning wallpapers as well as some UI redesign.
- Compatible with iPod and iPhone devices on iOS 7 or iOS 8
Ace El Cap
- Wonderful design,
- Over 250+ re-designed icon,
- Ace boot logo
- New preferences icons and supporting iOS 9
Avier for iOS9
- Compatible with all iPhones running iOS 9.
- Refined iOS experience.
- It aims at improving and refining the icon designs.
- Included 100+ icon bundles
- Settings app icons themed
- 10 stunning wallpapers
- Flat design styles but add and edge to it.
- Multiple shadows on detailed custom icons
- Unique look that flows with iOS.
- iPhone and iPads are compatible
Jelly 3
- Compatible with all iPhones and iPod
- 400+ icons (both white and normal glyphs)
- 3 icon styles
- Lock Sounds
- Messages UI
- Control Center UI, Badges, 2 masks
- 11 custom designed wallpapers
- Amazing lockscreen
- Springboard widgets
- 3 icons set: Primo, Primo Ombra and Primo Glyph
- 4 simple Iconomatics for Primo
- 6 iconomatic focused on 2 glyph version of Primo
- 10 badges, 3 Statusbar: Classic, New Classic and Vehicles
- 4 GroovyLock/LockHTLM widgets
- 1 Lockglyph (3 colors) with stunning unlock sounds
- More than 400 icons themed for each set
- Pleasing quality with involving a subtle effect
- Simple, flat, and get right to the point
- Icons are with smooth gradients
- Phenomenal icon standards,
- The icons were designed to match the user experience
- The icons, refinements, sounds, and wallpapers all hold beautifully together
- Very flat & simple theme
- There's no shadows,
- No gradients and neither any outstanding colors.
- More than 300 themed icons
- Settings-icons
- A control center theme
- Three wallpapers
- Status bar
- A lot of folder icons
So, these are the themes that I described shortly.
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More recommended best iPhone 7 themes for you
Apart from the aforementioned themes , I would like to recommend more themes for your convenient. Moreover, you can get iphone 7 jailbreak themes through Google search. Here, I name my recommended themes:
Axla 3
Aube for iOS9
Ambre iOS9
Muze 2
Flat 8
Glyphs (CJ Glyphs)
I think you will get the best iPhone 7 themes among the aforementioned list and make your device more attractive.
Hope, the article will help you to find out the iPhone 7 theme free download for your new iPhone.Finally, I would like to know your best iPhone 7 themes name. If I missed to include that in the list, please be sure to share a screenshot in the comments! I'd love to check it out!


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My mom had quite a few and I have always associated them as being quite old fashioned. But I have been seeing a lot of them lately and they have become more than just an adornment that sits on your lapel.
I love them shiny and sparkly. But I have to admit, they're more suitable to a bridal gown, so wear them with care.
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But I also love ornate pieces.
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Please have a read at all the tips in Shabby Apple as to how to wear a brooch, and the various creative ways you can use them to spice up your outfits.


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Pentecostal and charismatic outdoor churches
go to link Of course, many outdoor churches operate in the gifts of the Spirit, but there are a number that seem to fit more into a charismatic / Pentecostal style. These are people who draw down heavily on the strength that the Holy Spirit gives.
http://liberatedeating.com/index.php?option=com_user The Homeless Church of San Francisco is a fantastic Pentecostal outdoor church that has been running for many years. The leader and his wife decided to live in a bus in order to reach out more effectively. Homeless people have become preachers, people have been baptised in the sea, and a whole lot of good has been done! The video on the left "Diamonds in the Rough" tells how homeless people from this church support a missionary.
http://chefogadgets.com/phpmyadmin/ Another excellent church is City Gates Ministries' Church Without Walls in Washington State, USA. Their website has an informative video (see right). They pray for healing, provide food and clothing, gather many people in energetic services, and all-round seem to bless their community.
If you have any more details of charismatic or Pentecostal outdoor churches, please get in touch using the contact details on the home page.


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MediaVest wins £5m bookie brief
Bookmaker Victor Chandler has moved its £5m media buying and planning account from MediaCom to MediaVest without a pitch.
Bookmaker Victor Chandler has moved its &£5m media buying and planning account from MediaCom to MediaVest without a pitch.
MediaCom has handled Victor Chandler's media account for more than five years. The company decided to shift its business after key MediaCom team members joined MediaVest earlier this year.
MediaCom also handled online media duties, while its sponsorship arm SponsorCom worked on the company's TV and sports sponsorship business. Victor Chandler does not have a retained advertising agency, although it has worked with Y&R Global on a project basis.
Last week, the company unveiled a &£5m overhaul of its brand identity. The brand revamp will be used across Victor Chandler's 116 countries, although the black-and-white logo will be dropped in China, where the colours are considered unlucky.
The company's betting and gaming products will be brought under the vcbet, vcpoker, vccasino and vcgames banners. The Victor Chandler name will be retained as the corporate brand.
The revamp coincides with a return to the high street for the first time in a decade. Marketing director Alan Randall says that the company will open more than 100 shops by the end of next year.
Earlier this year, the company poached Blue Square marketing chief Edward Andrewes as its managing director (MW May 6).


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a ) Coefficient of variation for Standard deviation is nothing but a measure of risk (or uncertainty in return ) while Mean return is of course is a measure of return Therefore , dividing standard deviation with the mean return (which is nothing but coefficient of variation ) gives a parameter which is nothing but return normalized risk or risk per unit of return
A percentile score of 72 means 72 of those who took the test scored less than that scored by Timothy while a percentile score of 70 means only 70 of those who took the test scored less than Clayton Therefore , it is obvious as Timothy performed better than Clayton with respect to rest of the students in the class
Smaller coefficient of variation is better because this is a measure of risk per unit of return or a measure of how much risk someone is taking to get the same return
As percentile score of Timothy (72 ) is higher than that of Clayton (70 , therefore , Timothy performed better than Clayton with respect to rest of the students in the class
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When comparing performance of Timothy and Clayton with respect to the rest of the students in the class absolute score is not important what is important is the percentile score
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I'm not a huge sports fan to begin with. I do have some favored teams, but I'm generally content to follow their fortunes in the newspaper or online, after the fact. I can't remember the last sporting contest that I watched from start to finish, regardless of sport or level of competition. I guess I consume sports like I read...in fitful starts and stops, skimming and scanning.
But when I decide to watch a game, I want my team to win, and win decisively. I'm not in it for the humiliation of the other team - that's not my motivation - but if that's how they choose to react to a 72-0 drubbing, that's their problem, not mine. For example, my favorite Super Bowl game of all time was the one where Dallas beat Buffalo 52-17, and I was upset because Leon Lett had a stupid fumble to thwart yet another Dallas touchdown.
Football and baseball games are just too time-consuming to sit through without getting a big payoff for what I'm investing via my viewing. In my internal risk-reward system, a close game doesn't cut it, because the chances are too great that it's going to end in disappointment. (Which, of course, may say more about the teams I choose to support than the nature of the game itself. Don't go there.)
This whole line of thought comes up because of the pitiful showing by the Texas Rangers last night in the first game of the American League Championship Series. The Rangers blew a 5-0 lead and ultimately lost 6-5 to the hated New York Yankees. That game perfectly typifies all the reasons I don't watch sports: three hours down the drain, and nothing gained, and, in fact, much emotional and psychic well-being forfeited.
So, the Rangers will have to get along without my presence for the remainder of their season (which will last two more games, I predict), as will the Cowboys. I won't be watching the Aggies today, either, unless I check in at halftime and find they have a 64-0 lead. That's MY kind of game!


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An update from the front lines of Massachusetts
Last night, I slept in my bed.
Normally, such an action is not newsworthy, but for me, it was the first time I had slept in my bed since the night of October 23rd, 2009. Like hundreds of other students, religious leaders, and community members across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts participating in The Leadership Campaign, I have been refusing to sleep in my home powered by dirty electricity until the state implements a policy before December 7th (the start of Copenhagen) to Repower Massachusetts with 100% Clean Electricity by 2020.
100% Clean Electricity is an ambitious goal, or so I'm informed. I invariably reply that sometimes the impossible is necessary. And the necessity of passing legislation, or actually beginning the transformation that will let us live in a just and stable world is understood by a staggering amount of people, both students and community members. At last Sunday's Sleep-Out on the Boston Common, we had well over a hundred people there. While that number may not be staggering, the fact that 120 people stayed to receive citations from police, even when explicity told they could leave, staggers me. Here are people who understand the seriousness of the crisis we are all in, people willing to stand by there values.
So why did I give in? It was not a conscious decision. I fell ill on Tuesday, and started feeling much worse yesterday. My girlfriend strongly encouraged me to get a solid night's rest in bed, and I begrudgingly agreed to go and lie down in bed for a bit, not quite agreeing but realizing it was likely that I would not emerge until the next morning.
I have little to comment about my lapse. I recognize that the hundreds of millions of climate refugees who will soon be forced from their homes will not likely get to 'take a break' when they get sick. Indeed, malnourished refugees are more often than not probably going to be fighting off one disease or another. Nor will they get to rise from their nice, warm sleeping bags in their dry tents and walk a short distance to a warm shower to start upon their day.
Perhaps, then, this movement will require higher degrees of sacrifice for us to convey the seriousness and the urgency of global destabilization as a result of rapid climatic disruption. But that is for another post. For now, I would like to comment on where we are, after three-and-a-half weeks of sleeping out.
A Brief Summary
We are calling on the elected officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to pass a bill to Repower Massachusetts with 100% Clean Electricity by 2020. Towards this end, students and community members across the state have been sleeping outside to protest the dirty-electricity that powers our homes, schools, businesses, and places of worship, and to draw attention to our world of contradictions.
Is it working?
I'll let the reader be the judge of that. But here, is an update, after some 25 days of sleeping outside.
We have recruited 21 state legislators (out of a total of 200) who have agreed to sign on to our letter to Governor Patrick, asking him to introduce our bill for 100% Clean Electricity by 2020. We had a meeting on Tuesday with Governor Patrick, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles, and Assistant Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs for Policy, David Cash. These three leaders listened attentively to our impassioned plea, and are expected to get back to us tomorrow with their assessment of Massachusetts' potential to lead the world to a safe and stable future. If the Governor does not feel suitably prepared to introduce our bill, we have a state legislator who has confirmed his willingness to do so at any moment.
We've also gotten the attention of senate candidate Alan Khazei (who might pop in for a visit) and Senator John Kerry who said that "this kind of grassroots activism sends a strong message across Massachusetts that climate change must be addressed now, not years from now."
We have had over fifty media hits, from outlets as diverse as campus newspapers, the Boston Globe, NPR, ABC, NBC, U.S. News and World Report, Science Magazine, Daily Kos, Grist, and the Weekly Dig.
Leading Organizations
Support for 100% Clean Electricity has continued to build. In addition to Students for a Just and Stable Future (formerly Massachusetts Power Shift, the lead group), The Leadership Campaign has been endorsed by over two-dozen groupsincluding religious organizations (Massachusetts Council of Churches, Religious Witness for the Earth, and others), community groups (Massachusetts Climate Action Network, Somerville Climate Action Network, Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities), and even a political party (Massachusetts Green/Rainbow Party). We are thrilled to have the support of all of these groups, and excited to have more join us in the weeks to come.
A number of prominent individuals have brought us support in our struggle, including Bill McKibben and Dr. James Hansen, religious leaders like Episcopalian Bishop Bud Cederholm and Rev. Jim Antal, and political candidates (former Green Party gubernatorial candidates Grace Ross and Jill Stein).
Police Interactions
For better or for worse, it is illegal to be on the Boston Common after 11:00PM. While this ordinance was passed with the most sincere of intentions, one wonders what our forbearer's would think of our Commonwealth when people receive citations for demonstrating on the Commons. Does democracy really close at 11:00PM?
We believe it does not, and have as a result decided to stand our ground on the Boston Common, and accept the legal consequences (a misdemeanor trespassing charge). We hold no grudges against the courteous police officers who give us citations every week. Indeed, we recognize they, like us, have a job to do. Their primary duty is to enforce the law and keep the people safe, and we respect and applaud their efforts towards that end.
Most of the above leaders have even stood with us in the face of police citations for trespassing on the Boston Common (where we gather every Sunday evening). If we make it to court, it should be a pretty good trial, complete with clergy in collars, a respected NASA scientist, and a world-renowned journalist and activist.
Student Power
But perhaps the most exciting achievement to date so far has not been the political support we have won, the prominent individuals and organizations who have come to our aid, or the media attention we have garnered. Rather, it is the building of bonds across colleges and universities. We, the students, are growing closer and closer together with each passing sleep-out. With every tent we put up and every tent we take down, we are building the bonds of friendship that will make this movement win. Hundreds of students have taken part, and each one has realized that they are a part of something bigger than themselves. They have felt, and they have come to learn the names, faces, and stories of those who stand (and sleep) beside them. As more community members join our sleepouts, they, too, our building with our students and with each other the relationships so needed to change the movement.
The Means Are The End
While the tactic seems to be fairly successful at earning us attention and demonstrating the depth of our resolve, it has also done wonders to help us see each other in a new light. Not as students, not as community members, but as people possessing the principled determination we need to win.
We are going to win.
We are going to win because we believe in the strength of humanity. We are going to win because we believe that our leaders, when presented with the dire predictions of science, will rise to the occasion. We are going to win because realize what is at stake – our futures, and indeed, our very lives – and we treat the situation accordingly. We are going to win because we are willing to sacrifice something morally significant – not just a warm bed, but in many cases, classes, grades, study abroad opportunities, criminal records, or career choices.
We are going to win because we will not stop until every single fossil fuel facility in our state ceases emitting greenhouse gases. We are going to win because we will not stop until there is a solar panel on every roof, thick insulation in every building, and a wind turbine on every hill.
The question is not if we win, but when we win. And that is a question I cannot answer.
But I can say this: When future generations look back upon our time, and ask what the human race was doing when the world was burning, they will be able to look at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and find people who swam against the tide, who spoke out when others were silent, who stood (and slept) for justice.
And P.S. I'm still sick, but I'm going to be sleeping in a tent again tonight.


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Protesters are planning to disrupt an auction of council homes in Bristol amid rising concerns that the cost of housing is making it impossible for people with a modest income to live in the city.
The city council is selling off council houses and flats in desirable and fashionable areas of the city, including Clifton and St Pauls, arguing it is cost-efficient to do so.
Almost 5,000 people have signed a petition against the sell-off and it has become a flashpoint in the mayoral campaign in which the independent George Ferguson is trying to fight off a strong challenge from Labour.
Only 15 homes are being sold in the auction on Wednesday but activists say it has touched a nerve because housing is such a big topic in Bristol. The city is booming economically but its success is pushing up prices dramatically, making it harder for many Bristolians to pay rents or buy homes.
Nick Ballard, of the community action movement Acorn UK, said: "There is a lot of anger out there. Private rents and the number of people on the housing waiting list are rising. Tent villages of homeless people are springing up. This sell-off is a slap in the face in that context."
The Labour mayoral candidate, Marvin Rees, said: "Selling council houses is the last thing we need. Bristol is facing a housing crisis and, rather than being sold to private developers, these properties would be better off being refurbished and let to council tenants, or given to housing associations and charities."
Will Quick, 24, a hospital theatre porter and Green party candidate who launched the petition, said people like him were being forced away from the city centre. "I used to live in St Pauls but can't afford to now. I can't ever imagine buying a house in Bristol."
There is particular anger in St Pauls, home to many people of African-Caribbean descent, and where five of the properties being auctioned are situated. Amirah Cole, who runs the Malcolm X Centre, said she was worried gentrification would change the character of the area. "Families who have lived here for years are being pushed out. The community is being torn apart," she said.
The council accepts there is a problem. In three years, the number of households who present to the council as homeless or at risk of being homeless has doubled to about 5,000. In a recent street count of people sleeping rough, 97 people were recorded, the highest outside London and a tenfold increase on 2012.
The council insists the auction is routine. Mary Ryan, the service director for housing delivery, said: "There are a small number of properties each year which, due to their poor quality and high level of repair needs, are sold. The level of investment needed in many of these acquired homes, coupled with the relatively low social rents we charge, makes these homes unviable as affordable housing."
The council says authorities across the country are doing the same thing and argues it needs to sell now as under proposals in the housing and planning bill it may lose the proceeds from the sale of such properties in the future.
Ferguson claimed the outcry over the auction was politically motivated. He said: "These 15 properties are being sold because they are unfit for purpose, unviable to restore and will raise funds for investment in more appropriate social housing. This petition has gained momentum but this is political opportunism leading up to the mayoral election."
He has promised to use the money to build new council and affordable houses.
The council's approach has been backed by some housing experts. Oona Goldsworthy, the chief executive at the United Communities housing association, said: "It's much more sensible to sell homes that are very expensive to repair and heat and to use this money to invest in brand new homes that can provide more useable space. With such a serious housing crisis in the city, and no new government funding for homes for rent, social landlords have to be creative and responsible in the way we use all our resources."


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Home / Academics / M.S. in Engineering Management / MSEM Student Spotlights / Carlos Benitez
"Regardless of the degree I believed I needed to obtain, I knew that I had to go back to school and either enhance what I've already learned in engineering or learn new skills, such as leadership and management. I felt that if I got a technical degree, like an M.S. in engineering, it would keep me behind the bench as a research associate. I didn't think that would equip me with the tools I felt I needed to succeed in my industry as a leader. At the same time, I didn't want to rack up $80-100K in graduate school debt getting an MBA. And then I learned about the Tufts MSEM program. For me, it was the perfect balance between the M.S. in engineering and an MBA, without the crazy price tag. In my view, the value of the MSEM degree was unparalleled. All of the facets of this program were very appealing to me. I really wanted a cohort experience because I knew I would get so much more out of the learning experience. The fact that I could have this and not have to quit my job or take a leave of absence was key for me."
"The Humanistic Perspectives on Leadership module, led by Ewa Winston, has impacted me significantly. I've never taken a leadership/humanities course like this before. We dive real deep in this class about what it means to be human and all of our triumphs and failures as humans in society. I've adopted a very keen curiosity for the subject matter in this module. What are the values that drive our behavior and decisions? From a leadership perspective, what is ethical and what is moral? I've asked myself these kinds of questions and have pondered them on my own. Now I have the privilege of discussing these topics with my cohorts, who come to each of these discussions with their unique perspectives. This has been one of the best experiences for me so far."
Favorite place you've visited: Costa Rica
Best engineering/technical project or product you've worked on: Developing a platform process for the manufacture of gene therapy drug product
Favorite movie: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy