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Methods and Meanings in the 36 Stratagems
The so-called "36 Stratagems" is an alleged military strategy document that shares a number of common strains and themes with the so-called "Art of War" by the fictional "Sun Tzu." Both – and their companion Tao Te Ching – are from a nebulous "pre-China" time period. We have no certainty of authorship, and no confirmed evidence of use. In fact, the issues with these three documents go beyond authorship, age and application: their actual meaning is not at all agreed upon by authorities in military strategy, tactics, philosophy or history.
While these three documents are reportedly from widely varying epochs within "Chinese antiquity" – and while they are sometimes affirmed to have emerged during the Warring States period before the foundation of the first empire, I would argue that they all share a common origin and date of creation. My book The School of Sun Tzu: Winning Empires without War makes a well researched and well articulated proposition: that Ping-fa (commonly known as Sun Tzu's Art of War) and the Tao Te Ching were products of learned academies established by the Qin kingdom to assist it in ending the Warring States period, and bringing about the Chinese empire. The evident harmony between these books and the 36 Stratagems suggests that document may also be part of the Qin suite of products that dealt with policy and practice of peace-making, nation building, and governance. There is another very possible scenario, that the Stratagems are no more than augmented extracts from the Qin products.
My analysis of Ping-fa that in time gave rise to The School of Sun Tzu was not a minor achievement. Only when the meaning of all Ping-fa admonitions were derived, and all those admonitions encapsulated into a coherent statement of principle and practice did the work approach conclusion. I say "approach" because Chinese writing is profound and robust in meaning. It can be understood and expressed only in context. Out of context it looks simplistic. In context it is as deep and wide as the Yangtse.
Ping-fa was made even more challenging because it was written with military language as an aid to learning and retention. Its new notions of performance excellence, teamwork, leadership and empowerment demanded a metaphorical language so that students of the new discipline could not only learn, but apply these new methods in fast moving and gravely serious circumstances. Ping-fa and the Tao Te Ching have been criticized as being obscure and ambiguous; however those accusations reflect no more than lack of understanding within the published commentaries. My research confirms that the Tao Te Ching and Ping-fa were developed in tandem. Importantly, one can travel back and forth between the two as an aid in achieving comprehension. As we do not have that luxury and ease with the 36 Stratagems, we see support for augmentation, or manipulation over time – a case, perhaps, of forcing the Stratagems to fit defined applications.
The 36 Stratagems appeared for the first time in recent history when they were purchased at a Shaanxi province shop in 1941. They are reportedly from the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) but confirmation of that fact will require the same sort of research that went into my discoveries about the Ping-fa and Tao Te Ching.
This paper has a humble purpose. It does not seek to define where the 36 Stratagems came from, who wrote them, how old they are or to what use they were put. It seeks only to challenge some of the conventional wisdom around them, and to offer some encouragement for further research. My research on Ping-fa essentially overturned convention wisdom about The Art of War, demonstrating that the book was actually an inspired methodology for ending war and building peace. As it is commonly assumed that the 36 Stratagems are also military tactics it might well be discovered that its meaning and application may relate to that domain only partly, if at all.
So – I offer for your thought and consideration an interpretation of the stratagems with a clear and unqualified disclaimer: my suggestions are based on my understanding of the culture, philosophies and practices of the pre-China time period, and the way in which authors of that period communicated. The written language is often metaphorical because, for among other reasons, writers wanted their readers to think about what they were reading. Communication then was not one way. Cognitive deliberation and social discourse were essential parts of the process. The best lecturers were not those who claimed to have all the answers.
What this means for anyone who has taken the time to read this far is that what you are about to see is – as far as I can manage it – a "translation" of the Stratagems into a sensible, and as far as I can realize it – and assuming that is possible – coherent statement of its principles, strategies and tactics. Readers should not feel compelled to in any way agree that I am offering the correct interpretation, rather, they should feel empowered to generate their own. My one suggestion is that once you establish a level of comfort with my offered admonition, you should go back and read the metaphorical Stratagem again and again. Test one against the other. Test it in the context of the whole. Test it in the context of common sense; for example, apply the admonition in a theoretical way with a set of circumstances to see whether it holds. Be fully prepared to revise your understanding of the Stratagem and my "translation" of it. When you have gone through the lot, see if you can place it all into a composite whole in your own mind. See if you can discover a gap. If you succeed in the first part and fail in the second, then chances are that you have achieved competence and understanding. My main revelation with Ping-fa was when I discovered that the organizational management and peace methodology it proclaims models perfectly. It is complete – nothing missing – nothing more than what is essential. If the Stratagems are valid and sound, they will demonstrate an equal facility.
(To Be Developed) – an articulation of the admonitions; analysis of meaning and coherence; and possible applications (historic and future).


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In the United States, we celebrate the life and ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr. today. Last Saturday, I went to see the movie Selma. I came in with low expectations, expecting a typical Hollywood story that would depict Dr. King as a one-dimensional larger than life figure and "secularize" the Christian faith component of Dr. King. After watching the film, I was pleasantly surprised. Despite some historical inaccuracies (especially the portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson), it was overall an outstanding film. It showed Dr. King as a very complex person, including his doubts and sins that plagued him and his relationships (especially with Coretta Scott King). It also showed the deep Christian faith that Dr. King had that inspired him with the…
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"Time travel" often conjures up the most wonderful ideas from millennials, who jump from Victorian times to telephone kiosks, through the fourth dimension. But, of course, you don't need a time machine or fancy wormhole for years.
As you may have noticed, we are constantly taking time travel. At the most basic level, time is the speed of change in the universe – we are constantly changing whether we like it or not. We age, planets move around the sun, things crash.
We measure the passage of time in seconds, minutes, hours, and years, but that doesn't mean time is flowing at a constant rate. Just as the water in the river has slowed sharply along the river, time has moved at different speeds in different places. In other words, time is relative.
But what is the cause of this fluctuation, from the cradle to the grave? It all comes down to the relationship between time and space. Humans romp on long, wide, deep three dimensional dimensions. Time to join the party is the most important fourth dimension. Time cannot leave space, space can't leave time. The two are one: continuum of space-time continuum. Any event in the universe must involve space and time.
In this article, we'll look at the real, everyday time-travel methods of our universe, and some more far-fetched ways of dancing through the fourth dimension.
The future of time
If you want to be a little faster than the next person, you need to take advantage of space time. Global satellite positioning satellites shut down the satellite every day, adding one billionth of a second every day. Because the satellite is farther from the earth, time passes faster in orbit. On this surface, the quality of the planet is being delayed and slowed down at a small rate.
We call this effect gravitational time dilation. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravity is a curve in space and time, and astronomers observe it regularly when they study light moving around large enough objects. For example, a particularly large sun may cause another straight beam to bend, which we call gravitational lensing.
What does this have to do with time? Remember that any event in the universe must involve space and time. Gravity is not just drawing space, it's pulling time.
You will not be able to notice the subtle variations in time, but A large enough object will produce A great change – like A supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy Sagittarius a. here, 4 million solar masses exist as A single point of infinite density, known as A singularity [source: NASA]. Bypassing the black hole for some time (no descent), you will experience half the earth's speed. In other words, you'll spend five years discovering that it's been ten years on earth [source: Davis].
Speed also plays a role in the speed of our experience. The closer you get to the closer you get to what we're talking about the unbreakable speed limit of the universe. For example, in a speeding train, the clock moves much slower than the stationary clock. Passengers won't feel any difference, but at the end of the trip, the speeding clock slows down a billionth of a second. If such a train would reach 99.999% of the speed of light, it would be only a year before the train station passes in 223. [source: Davis].
In fact, the hypothetical commuter goes to the future. But what about the past? Can you imagine the fastest starship can reverse flow?
We have determined that time travel is always going on. Scientists have proved this point in experiments, a fundamental aspect of Einstein's theory of relativity. You can do it. It's just a question of how fast a trip will be. But what about past trips? A glimpse of the night sky should provide an answer.
The Milky Way is about 100, 000 light-years across, so light from distant stars could take thousands of years to reach the earth. Skimming the light, you basically look back. When astronomers measured the cosmic microwave background radiation, they watched for more than 10 billion years, entering the original cosmic era. But can we do better than that?
There is nothing in Einstein's theory that precludes travel from the past, but pressing the button and returning to yesterday's premises violates the law of causality or causality. An event occurs in our universe and leads to an endless cycle of one-way events. In each case, the cause is before the effect. Try to imagine a different reality, for example, the victim of a murder who died of a gunshot wound before being shot. It goes against the reality that we know; Therefore, many scientists view time travel as an impossible thing.
Some scientists have come up with the idea of using travel that travels faster than light. After all, if the time is getting slower and slower, as the object gets closer to the speed of light, then it's possible that more than that velocity can reverse the time. Of course, when an object approaches the speed of light, its relativistic mass increases until the speed of light becomes infinite. It is impossible to accelerate infinite quality at a faster rate than this. The technology of warp speed can theoretically deceive the universal speed limit by pushing the space-time bubble in the universe, but even so, huge, long – term energy costs.
But if time travel to the past and the future, less depends on the speculative space propulsion technology, and more on the existing phenomena of the universe? Set up a black hole course.
Circle a black hole long enough that the expansion of gravitational time will lead you into the future. But what happens if you fly directly into the cosmic giant's belly? Most scientists think this black hole might shatter you, but a unique black hole may not be: Kerr black hole or kerring.
In 1963, the New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr proposed the first realistic theory of spinning black holes. This concept depends on the neutron star, this is the collapse of massive stars the size of Manhattan, but with the quality of the sun, the earth [source: add to the male. Kerr hypothesis, if dying stars collapse into rotating neutron stars, they will stop them into the singularity of centrifugal force. Because of the black hole does not have the singularity, Kerr believes that enter the center without having to worry about infinite gravity is safe.
If cole's black hole exists, scientists suspect that we might pass through them and leave through a white hole. Think of this as the tail end of the black hole. Instead of pulling everything into gravity, the white hole pushes everything out, or pushes it into another era, or even another universe.
Kerr black holes are purely theoretical, but if they do exist, it provides a one-way trip of the past or future for adventurous time travelers. While an extremely advanced civilization might develop a means of calibrating this time-travel method, it is not known when and where there might be a "wild" Kerr black hole.
Theoretical Kerr black holes are not the only possible cosmic shortcuts in the past or future. Everything from "star trek: deep space 9" to "donadado" is welcome, and the same theoretical Einstein – rosen bridge is available for consideration. But, of course, you know this better wormhole.
Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the existence of a worm hole, because it indicates that any mass curve is spatio-temporal. To understand the curve, think of two people holding the sheets and tightening them. If a person puts a baseball on a sheet, the weight of the ball rolls to the middle of the sheet and bends the sheet over that point. Now, if the marble is placed on the edge of the same sheet, it will move towards the baseball due to the curve.
In this simplified example, space is depicted as a two-dimensional plane instead of a four dimensional one. Imagine that this piece of paper is folded, leaving a space between the top and the bottom. Placing a baseball on the top side causes curvature to form. If you place the same quality at the bottom of a baseball position at the top of the plate, the second quality will eventually meet the baseball. This is similar to how wormholes develop.
In space, masses of pressure on different parts of the universe may eventually form a tunnel. In theory, the tunnel will connect two different times and allow them to pass. Of course, there may also be some unforeseen physical or quantum properties that prevent this wormhole from happening. Even if they do exist, they can be very unstable.
According to astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, wormholes may exist in the universe's smallest environmental quantum bubble. Here, tiny tunnels twinkle, instantly connect different places and time, like a constantly changing "slide and ladder" game.
Such wormholes may be too small and too short for human time travel, but will we ever learn to capture, stabilize, and expand them? Of course, hawking says, as long as you're ready for some feedback. If we artificially prolong the tunnel's life by folding space-time, radiation feedback loops, like audio feedback, can be used to destroy the microphone and damage time tunnels.


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Folk Arts
- Regional Resources Centre For Folk Performing Arts
- Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Samshodana Kendra
- Yakshagana Kendra
- Siri and Ritual
- Kambala
- String Puppets of Kogga Kamath
- Folk Arts and Dances of Karnataka
- B.P. Bairi
- Dr. K.Shivaram Karanth
- K. K. Hebbar
- Kalinga Navada
- Laxminarayan Hosabettu
- Mahakavi Muddana
- Prof. K S Haridas Bhat
- Prameela Cholayya
- A. Ishwarayya
- Dr. N. T. Bhat
- G S Shenoy
- Ms. Malini Mallya
- M V Kamath
- Prof. H. Krishna Bhat
- P N Narashimha Murthy
- Ramdas Samaga
- S. A. Krishnaiah
- Sham Benagal
- U. R. Ananthmurthy
- Vaidehi
- Veerappa Moily
Philatelic & Numismatic
History of Konkani
The people: The Konkanies are said to have originally hailed from central Asia. According to the available evidence around 4000 B. C. they were settled to an agrarian life, supplemented by cattle grazing, on the banks of river Sraswathi which is a tributary of River Indus.
Around 2500 B. C. they are said to have migrated to Thrihotrupura now called as Tiruth. It was here that they separated themselves into families or 'GOTHRAS'. The next migration was around A. D. 1000, at this time they went in search of greener pastures. They were 2 groups. One of them retains Konkani even to day while the other group settled in Bengal and has assimilated the Bengali culture. The Konkanies were experts in farming and reaped three crops a year, which was a new phenomenon in those days
The Konkani culture has suffered many attacks by the Muslim invaders, Marathas and majorly by the Portuguese. During their infamous Inquisition- a program for religious and cultural conversion the Konkani culture was ruthlessly suffocated and valuable documents were permanently destroyed. This led to the diversification of the Konkani into different religions.
Konkani encompasses 3 religious groups which include more than 20 casts, subcasts and sects. The largest group consists of the Hindus – Saraswath Brahmins ( Chitrapur Saraswath Brahmins & Gauda Saraswath Brahmins) and the Daivajna Brahmins, the others are Vaniyas (merchants), Kudmis (Construction and field workers), Chaptekars ( cooks and caterers), Gudikars (drama props suppliers and puppetry artistes), Konkani Chamgars ( cobblers), Maesths (stonecutters), Bhandaris (barbers), Kharvis (fishermen), the Guravs of Goa, the Mrata Konkanies, The Rajpuri Saraswath and Brahmins of Maharastra.
The next largest religious group is the Christians. The Goan Christians, Mangalorean Catholics (who were originally converts from GSBs) and the Gowde Christians.
Among the Muslims few groups have retained Konkani language and culture. The Navayets are mainly settled in Bhatkal and the Kufis of North Kanaka and Ratnagiri.
The Language:Litreary evidence prove that Marathi is an offshoot of Konkani but the matter still remains controversial. Konkani was written in the Brahmi script and later by Devanagari. In 1556 the Portuguese brought the first press to India. The machine was later utilized by Fr. Thomas Stephens, a British missionary who published in an Asian language.
The first Konkani newspaper O Konkani was published in 1886. The others are Salak In 1889, Rakno 1938 , Sunampranth which is published from Goa.
The culture: The cultural activities include an artform called as Zagor ( Dramatics on religious stories) in Goa, Thiatre ( satirical plays) , Konkani Natak Sabha is still performing various plays in Mangalore. The other significant artforms are Mando which is a song sequence, Dhulpod (string songs).
Gumta is an exclusive musical instrument and is used in Gumta Padam which is a distinct style of music of the Kudmis and the Mangalorean Christians.
Konkanies represent less than 0.5% of India's population but they have established a distinct place for themselves in all the streams. In 1976 the Sahitya Academy recognized Konkani as an Independent language. In 1987 it was made the official language of Goa. In 1992 Konkani was included in the 8th schedule of constitution of India and awarded the status of a National Language.
The passages on the history and background of the konkanies is authentic only to the extent that they are based on the best available data.
For further details:
Konkani bhasha Mandal (R) Karnataka
Office: Navaratna palace, k. S. Rao Road
Mangalore - 575 001
Phone: 91-824-425947
Fax: 91-824-420395
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I was going to talk briefly about my tweaks. However, I will instead talk of the joys of restoring to a virgin system...
Yes, I did mess someting up, trying to enable the advanced desktop (ie: the Windows lookalike). Most probably I made a mistake in the file startsimple.sh (as far as I understand - which isn't very - a sh-file is more or less like a bat-file in old MS-DOS), renderign my lill guy unable to finish the boot-up.
No worries - or so I thought. Just hit F9 during boot up and restore it to factory default!
Uhm. No. Could not get F9 to work.
Tried tapping. No joy.
Tried holding. No joy.
Tried swearing in multiple languages. That didn't work either, but it made me feel better.
Put my lill Eee in it's sleeve, dug up the DVD it comes with, brought both to work. Ten minutes after I got to work my lill Eee was up and running again with a factory fresh OS... leaving me wonderign where I messed up. Should I have gone into the BIOS and set the "OS Installation" to 'Start'? After the restore from the DVD that seems to do the trick... but then, now the F9 works with that option set to 'Finished' as well...
Looking on the bright side - I get to do all the tweaks all over again!


text: Our Certifications at Arnold's Air Conditioning of South Florida Inc We're committed to providing the Stuart and West Palm Beach areas community with the most responsive heating and cooling service in the area. To do so, we've gone through rigorous training to receive the industry certifications you see below. Find out more about our certifications here and give us a shout at 772-205-3269 to speak with one of representatives in person. North American Technician Excellence (NATE) NATE is North America's largest and most respected certification in the heating and cooling industry. NATE certified technicians have shown superior skill in the installation, service and maintenance practice of heating and cooling equipment and can earn recognition in the following areas of specialty: Air conditioning Air distribution Heat pumps Gas heating Oil heating Hydronics gas Hydronics oil Ground source heat pump loop installer Senior HVAC Efficiency Analyst


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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to call something that isn't Torah -
This quiz game is not hard to play. In fact, there are no rules.
Basic way the quiz game plays:
'Torah' is the right answer if:
'Not Torah' is the right answer if:
Its that simple! Want a sample? How about 6 samples? OK try these: Click on Torah or Not Torah to get the answers
1. Though Cain killed Able, God put a mark on Cain so that no one else would kill him.
2. When Moses tried to free the Israelites, Pharaoh made their work easier so they wouldn't want to leave.
3. If a thief dies while breaking into a man's house and is caught by the owner -
4. We may eat anything that has fins and scales.
5. The wearing of tzitzit is an everlasting commandment of God as a reminder to be holy.
6. You can't eat 'road kill', but it can be sold.
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And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.
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give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
4. Torah -
anything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in seas or in rivers — these you may eat.
5. Torah -
and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations"
6. Torah -
who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner
What do you think? How many did you get right? Did you have fun? Well, there are over 300 individual statements (and growing all the time) in the 'Torah or Not Torah' quiz game.
If you want to continue -
#2. Print the cards yourself -
A couple of things about printing these cards:
1. You should use 8½ X 11 card stock when printing
2. You will need to cut the list into individual smaller cards like the one above
#3. Play a list of 20 (from the original 300+ statements)
#4. Play a list of 100 (from the original 300+ statements)
#5. Play a list of 300 (from the original 300+ statements)
#6. Play a quiz based on Individual Books
#7. Play a quiz base on the Torah Portions
We have other ideas -
This quiz game is to help you see just how much you call Torah and what it is that maybe you learned in Sunday School. It isn't hard to look up a verse when you aren't sure exactly what it says, but could it rather be, "Did it really say that in Torah or did I hear someone say it was Torah?"
#1. Purchase the physical quiz game and have it mailed to you.
< Includes 300 individual cards that look somewhat like this
You can just sit there and play it by yourself, or make up your own rules and tell
everyone that's how it's played. You bought it -
Click here to buy the physical card game and have it mailed to you.
You can't eat 'road kill', but it can be sold
Torah or Not Torah
Torah -
eat of anything that dies of itself.
You may give it to the foreigner
living among you who is within
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Territory Sales Manager - Enteral feeding and neonatal products
- Recruiter
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- Manchester
- Salary
- Competitive bonus
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- 15 Feb 2018
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- Healthcare, General Practice, Management, Nursing, Pharmacy
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- Sales
- Job Type
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- Hours
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- Attractive opportunity for a medical sales professional
- Varied clinical and commercial customer base
- Outstanding development, career and earning prospects
THE COMPANY: This well-respected manufacturer who continue to grow from strength to strength provide a wide range of devices, equipment and consumables for use within hospital environments and their enteral feeding and neonatal division are currently seeking to recruit a tenacious, personable and high calibre medical sales professional to manage and grow their business in the North West area.
THE ROLE: As Territory Sales Manager the successful candidate will be managing, growing and winning relationships within NHS and private hospitals, typically liaising with consultants, nurses, matrons and procurement. Candidates must have sold devices, equipment or consumables into hospital environments. Full, structured product and company training will be given and career / personal development and earning potential for high achievers is genuinely exciting.
The Package for Territory Sales Manager:
- Basic: £Competitive
- Commission: £attractive, uncapped
- Car: Fully expensed compact executive car
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3D Story Artist (Feature)
Posted 16-02-2012, offered
Location Big Rock Ranch
State California
City San Rafael
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Salary/Hourly Hourly
Job Description
The 3D Story Artists work with the 3D Story Supervisor and 3D Story Lead towards the goal of pre-visualizing the script of a CG animated feature film with Lucasfilm proprietary software.
In collaboration with the Director and 3D Story Supervisor/3D Story Lead, creates the cinematic pre-visualization of the Director's vision.
Responsible for the most complex story telling, while working independently and cooperatively with minimal supervision.
Creates 3D animatic-level sequences from start to finish using multiple elements based on scripts and input from Director.
Provides other concept artists with underlays and source art created in 3D.
In collaboration with the CG Supervisor and Director, provides peer mentoring for less experienced and skilled colleagues.
Completes complex or difficult special projects as needed or requested.
Bachelor's degree and 3- 4 years in feature film or television production, or equivalent experience.
Extensive training in and/or strong demonstrable understanding of the principles of art and film.
Expertise in scene, shot, camera, and character composition is required.
Exposure to modeling, lighting, texturing and animation required.
Some experience in directing either 2D or 3D animation very strongly desired.
Strong knowledge of terminology and techniques used in film, animation and visual effects including knowledge of photography and camera lenses.
Demonstrated expertise using Maya, XSI or 3Ds max required. Proficiency in other applications such as Photoshop and After Effects, as well as familiarity with digital video, is highly desired.
Ability to learn and use new software as needed.
Ability to work under pressure as well as implement changes based on input from multiple sources.
Ability to train and peer-mentor other employees to increase skill and proficiency.
Ability to multi-task and work efficiently in a multi-user environment.
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PSC Lecturer in Physical Education Exam Time Table & Syllabus – Dec 2017
Here is the latest exam time table and syllabus for the Lecturer in Physical Education (Collegiate Education Department) PSC exam of December 2017.
Exam Time Table
The Lecturer in Physical Education exam will be conducted on 29/12/2017 and the exam will be an online exam.
Date: 29/12/2017 [Friday]
Time: 10.00 AM* to 12.15 PM
Maximum Marks : 100
Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Exam Type: Online Exam
Category Number: 042/17 (Muslim)
Exam Syllabus
An Objective Type Test based on the qualification prescribed for the post.
Main Topics:-
Part I: General Knowledge, Current Affairs & Renaissance in Kerala
Part II: Questions based on Educational qualification
Candidates can download the Admission Tickets through their One Time Registration Profile in the Website www.keralapsc.gov.in from 16/12/2017.


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When I am at work,I look like my work. I look like I run after a 2 year old day in and day out. My attire usually consists of jeans, some kind of tee shirt, a hoodie and running shoes. I never wear makeup and nine times out of ten my hair is tied back in a head wrap or under a beanie. I don't mean to look like a rag doll but its pretty much written in the stars DAILY that I am going to be covered in some form of food, play dough , juice or whatever else gets spilled or thrown in the house. Well today I was in my regular work attire and had to make a trip to whole foods for the grocery shopping. I hadn't eaten breakfast so of course I had to grab the biggest glazed donut that they had. I did the grocery shopping and walked out happily mowing through my donut like I hadn't eaten in 10 years. I think my eyes even rolled to the back of my head a few times (It was that good). So as I am walking and taking dinosaur sized bites… I pass the HOTTEST man I have ever seen in my LIFE! He also decided to look my way as I was shoveling in my donut. Why God?!?!?! I have no idea if he was single or taken, gay or straight. All I know is that he was GORGEOUS and here I was looking like who did it and what while chewing my way through sugar heaven. This always happens to me!!! When I am cute and all snazzy I don't see ANYONE but let me come out the house in sweatpants, rain boots, and puffy jacket… ER'BODY and they mama comes out the wood works to cross my path!!! **Heavy sigh**
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Potential Hot Deal In Little Holmby - Short Sale At 661 Warner Ave
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661 Warner Ave., LA CA 90024 just hit the market today as a potential hot deal with an asking price of $1,495,000. The reason I say potential is because it's a short sale and as short sale's go, the price and terms are subject to the lender. Additionally, with this current asking price, I have little doubt that there will be multiple offers and be possibly bid up some. With 11 current active homes in Little Holmby, this is the least expensive home by $150,000 and by $500,000 to the home after that. According to the MLS, the home is a 5 bedroom / 2.5 bath, 2,461 sq ft home on a 7,405 sq ft lot.
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Mutiny's latest crewmember, Hexuba, casts a dream spell on the Rangers, making them fight battles in their mind as they sleep. Mike fights off the spell long enough to find Hexuba's hideout and break the spell.
- November 17, 1999
- "Dream Battle" was also the title of an episode in VR Troopers.
- This is the first Power Rangers episode to have the Rangers fall into a dream dimension. The second being Power Rangers: Dino Thunder 's "In Your Dreams" episode.
- Following this episode, hexuba will only appear in two episodes. this one and "Hexuba's Graveyard".
- This episode is similar to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season 1 episode Crystal of Nightmares but unlike in that, the Rangers are not afraid nor didn't lose confidence.
- During the Megazord fight with the Nightmare Monster the Rangers call upon the Stratoforce megazord, instead the Centaurus appears.
- In the fight with the Nightmare Monster, half way through it Damon disappears, he returns in the end to save the other Rangers and defeat the Nightmare Monster, none of the other Rangers mention this. This was probably due to the Sentai episode involving the Green Ranger saving the other Rangers.
- This episode featured voice returns of two cast members from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers- One being actress Rajia Baroudi (who played Delphine, the White Alien Ranger in MMAR) as the voice of Hexuba [2] and the other being Walter Jones (who played Zack Taylor, the original Black Mighty Morphin Power Ranger) as the voice of Hexuba's the Nightmare monster .


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Sometimes that's all you need.
Getting away with my family for 2 nights and 3 days, spending uninterrupted non-stop family time together, was… beautiful? Interesting? Relaxing?
How about all of the above.
It was very quiet, and it was very low-key, but that is exactly how we wanted it. And as much as we loved our family time together, the purpose of our trip has been satisfied.
We are fulfilled. Our energy and enthusiasm reserves are restored once again.
Hubbie will go back to work tomorrow with some renewed vigour.
Baby girl will go back to kinder tomorrow with extra ammo in her step to paint all the pictures and swing as high as she can.
And I will go back to… what do I do again?
Oh that's right. EVERYTHING.
I love going away, but coming back home is great too, because it gives you back some of that oomph! often lost in Winter…


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My brother was fired from his pizza delivery job for rolling joints on the customer's pizza boxes and numerous call-in complaints about his driving.
My brother was fired from his pizza delivery job for rolling joints on the customer's pizza boxes and numerous call-in complaints about his driving.
After I graduated high school in 1995 I had a 2 semester stint at a community college that did not go so well. I was still living at home and my first real job was as a low level employee working for a land surveying company that did a lot of state jobs. This was the easiest job I worked on in my life but I was eventually laid off because winter came and the jobs slow down and was collecting unemployment for a period of time.
As my unemployment stint was ending a buddy of mine was working part time at a pizza shop delivering so he got me a job there. I started off working part time but after a period of time they moved me to full time and I was the main delivery driver. I loved this job because I got to sleep in every day and I was out by 10 PM max any night I worked. Also at the time I was an agent for one of the biggest bookmakers around and this job gave me the flexibility to take care of a lot of that business while I was delivering etc....
This shop was very busy but it had just been purchased by new owners. The Father who bought the place died of cancer less than a month after he bought it and his son basically drove the place into the ground over time because he was never there.
The son turned all of the day to day over to a long time employee named Carl who was a 45 year old cocaine addict from the inner city. This guy was the ultimate worker but he also had no idea how to run the business and the son was too much of a lazy SOB to care. Before you knew it the delivery side was dying and employees were getting laid off. Carl would get in @ 6 AM to do prep and he would start his day by taking a nap and then when he woke up he would crank lines all day and run the store.
I was now doing partial delivery and Carl was teaching me how to cook and this guy was the best at multi tasking this type of stuff and he taught me a lot and I became very good at running a grill station etc...
Funny story about Carl was one Friday afternoon towards the end the store was so dead that between 4-6 PM we got one order. Then all of a sudden the phone rang and Carl picks it up and the caller hangs up.
All of a sudden Carl flips out and says "MOTHERFUCKERS ILL SHOW YOU, I GOT CALLER ID, ILL CALL YOU BACK". Carl picks up the phone and calls this # back and a 14 year old girl says hello. Carl says "YOU LITTLE FUCKING CUNT NEVER PRANK ME AGAIN" and slams the phone down. 10 mins later some angry mother and daughter storm in and start screaming at Carl and Carl is arguing back.
At this point I knew this was the end of this place and within a month the store closed. There was a place down the street which was picking up steam in the area and I had about 4 college buddies delivering there as their college part time jobs. They told me that they were looking for a grill cook so I went in and they offered me health insurance and a pretty good salary to start so I took it and a new world opened up.
The Owners of this shops names were Buck and Tank and both were former body builders. Both of these guys were jacked Italians and often the talk in the shop was around how strong you were, how much you could bench, who was toughest etc... I will probably get into some good stories about these guys later but for now will fast forward a couple of years to where people in our work place started to hate or dislike each other. Then all of a sudden the savage of the 2 brothers said. THATS IT THIS WILL BE SETTLED AT FIGHT CLUB
Huh? Well one of their good friends had a warehouse for office equipment and we decided to setup fight cards in there with head gear and boxing gloves and each match was fought on a wrestling mat. There would be 3 fights at the first one and few spectators. The second one was bigger but not a lot of outside viewers. But Fight Club 3 had 100s of spectators and was promoted in the underworld. There were some high 3 and 4 figure bets floating around and some brawls in the parking lot during and after the fights. There is still footage floating around out there of these fights but most will not hit the internet. However I was given this one piece of footage from fight club 3 where I sang the national anthem.
More pizza stories later
So another customer experience, I deliver a pizza, it was a 2X Pepperoni, 2X Cheese and 2X Sauce. I remember it vividly because the pizza was like 2 Lbs, is was like a lead weight. Anyway, it was on the fringe of our delivery zone which sucked because I would have to drive like 10 miles away, 10 miles back with no guarantee of a tip.
So I take the pizza and deliver it, it was like a mansion, it was probably 10,000 square feet and the homeowner is like where is my extra sauce? I am like WTF? He said he ordered extra sauce in a cup and said he wanted it. I am like "Dude, it took me 20 minutes to get here I can't go back and get you an extra cup of sauce". Keep in mind, this was WAY before Dominos, Pizza Hut, etc.. hand any extra sauce cups, so there was really not a method to deliver extra sauce.
So what happens? There is a convenience store down the street like a mile and he gives me $20 to buy a jar of marinara, so I drive and get a bottle. I ring the door bell and the owner who just gave me the $20 is literally eating a piece of pizza with sauce all down his shirt and comments there was more sauce than he thought. He tells me to keep the change which was like $17.00 and the sauce. I brought the sauce in the store and explained to the manager why I was so late and he was like, yeah I will take that sauce bottle. It was Ragu.
That was the biggest tip I ever received. $17.00, plus another $10 on the pie, $27.00 in total tip.
Sure wish Druff would tell the coupon pizza clipping story in his apartment when Tyde was there, to get Druff's side of the story.
I have only ever had one job that ever paid any tips. I was 11 and had a newspaper delivery route. All my papers were delivered to working class houses on row streets, except one. There was this Big brick house with lots of glass brick and curved walls at the end of a 500 ft driveway, and I put the paper in one of these
Attached to the mail box.
One day during my first month there is an envelope addressed to "paper boy" taped over the paper box, and in it is a hand written note asking me to please come to the door.
I go to the door and ring the bell and a very nice older lady answers the door, and introduces herself as "Mrs. Minty". Mrs Minty explained to me that Mr.Minty would like his paper delivered right on the door mat at the front door, and that he knows that it takes up extra time to do this, and he would pay me an extra $5 a month for this extra service.( I only made $50 a month for the whole paper route ). I agreed, and Mrs. Minty opens up her purse and gave me a crisp $5 bill.
Everyday I rode my bike up driveway and jumped off ran up the steps and placed the paper neatly in the middle of the door mat. This was back in the day when paperboys collected for the paper every month. I go to collect, and ring the bell and Mrs. Minty answers the door and hands me two envelopes, one a regular envelope with the paper money in it, and one fancy envelope with a hand written note that said "thank you for doing a perfect job" and it was singed "Mr. Minty" inside was a crisp $10 bill.
This went on for ten months, and every month I would get the same two envelopes. One day near Christmas there was a wrapped package with two envelopes under the ribbon. The package contained homemade cookies, the plain envelope had the money for for the paper, and the fancy envelope had a note that said, "of all the people in my service, you are the only one that did exactly what they said they would everyday this year" Thank you, signed Mr. Minty. In the envelope was a brand new $100 bill.
For the next year, every month, two envelopes, one with a $10 dollar bill, and a handwritten note. Christmas time came, and on the porch was a brand new bright yellow Schwinn ten speed with a huge bow and two envelopes one with a handwritten note that said " I couldn't help but notice that your bicycle was in poor shape, and all professionals should have the right tool for the job" there was also a crisp $100 bill. I had a $5 yard sale bike.
Soon after, puberty had hit, and sports took over my life, and I quit my paper route. In the two and a half years I never met or saw "Mr. Minty"
Later on i had learned that Mr. Minty was a retired land developer and pretty much the richest man in the state of Oregon, he was in a wheel chair, and didn't like to go out in public, and that their daughter was a famous model and Steve Mcqueen's wife.
Fast forward to the last home football game my senior year in high school. After the game my coach came to me in the locker room and said There is a very nice older woman outside that would like to talk to you. I went outside and it was Mrs. Minty , she was all dressed up with a hat and white gloves. She told me that Mr. Minty had passed away last week, and that he wanted me to have this, as she hands me a small wrapped box. She also told me that Mr. Minty had never missed any of my home games, and that he would only leave the house to go to the doctor, or to see me play. She gave me a hug, and I thanked her.
Inside the box was a very old solid gold Bulova watch that I have to this day.
Barbara Minty
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How legit is the number that you can only leave a pizza sitting out 4 hours before its likely to make you sick? I've eaten pizza that was sitting out all night a shitload of times, and I've never gotten sick. Broad I just met says it can sit out a day without making you sick. I don't doubt that it can make you sick after sitting out 4 hours, but how likely is it?
I am doing these stories a little out of order, but this was the day I quit at Dominos. Mind you, I worked there for three years and was easily the most reliable driver the manager had. Marcus, who was the District Manager began coming to the store weekly, sales we down due to competition so he took an real active role in the 7 or 8 stores he managed. Keep in mind Marcus was like 5' 4" tall and while pretty muscular, it was apparent he was totally intimidated by my 6' frame and very muscular. I was 20 at the time and worked out like every day and I just towered over him when he decided to berate me for no reason.
Anyway, it was a Thursday night around 11pm and I got a huge order to a Marriott property, it was like 15 pizzas which meant a good tip (in theory). Marcus was there with the Manager and made some snide comment as I was leaving, something to the effect of not getting into an accident. Keep in mind he worked for the owner and any type of accident would have hit his insurance. But he was such a d-bag it would not have registered.
So I walk into this high end Marriott with 15 pizzas, I needed a baggage cart to get them in. There are a bunch of people there in tuxedos, totally wasted drunk. I start unloading the pizzas and customers began calling me "Pizza Boy". They began asking where was this pizza, where was that pizza, I was pissed. Anyway, the payer came up, fucking shit faced and asked the bill, and handed him the receipt. It was $146.25. I remember that 20 years later because he handed me 3 $50 bills. I was like WTF? and he had the nerve to say to me "I'll get you next time" as if I would ever see him again.
So I got back to the store pissed and Marcus is there saying "tip out" and the manager is in the back. It was 11:50 and the phones are blowing up and he says don't answer them, we closed at midnight. I was still hot from getting stiffed on such a huge order and wanted a couple more runs. He then runs up to me and states the delivery policy is no pizza made after 11:45 because he cannot have drivers after midnight. Which was a fucking joke, I delivered pizzas for years after midnight while he was not there.
I was quitting anyway, but I took my name tag and whizzed it in the back. If I had thrown it at him I surely would have been arrested. I slammed my cash on the table and the next day the manager met me in the parking lot with my tip money which was like $70. Keep in mind I was 20 years old at the time, the manager in his late 30s and he could not even look me in the eye.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Another great story, I was partying at the MIT (Manager in Training) and Assistant Manager's house on a Tuesday Night. It was like July and we were just getting hammered. It was like 11pm and I already concocted a story to my folks that I was staying with a friend. So the Owner's cousin (not brother) came over and began kissing the Assistant Manager who was engaged to the Manager of another store. I was like WTF?
They kept asking me not to say anything before she broke off the engagement. Let me tell you, the Assistant Manager was fucking hot. So anyway, we were doing shots at midnight and the Assistant Manger (Karen) began making eyes to me. Her soon to be boyfriend saw this and asked me to come outside for a smoke, I did not smoke but went out anyway.
It was a terribly odd conversation because I was going to a fancy NE school and he was basically a fast food manager. He was basically feeling me out because she definitely wanted to fuck me and I had tremendous game and he had little game. We went back inside and did some more shots and I just banged the MIT and and went to sleep and left.
The key to this story is all three of them, along with another guy got stake money a couple months later and opened up a bunch of franchises a few months later in Europe. If I had pushed the situation (having sex with Karen), there is no doubt in my mind the deal overseas would have imploded. I later learned Karen and this Manager went on to have like 4 kids together. If I had nailed her that night likely the kids would have not been born as a fight would have surely happened.
As far as the MIT, I never saw her again after age 19 and she went to Europe to help with the franchises. I will tell you this *******NOT SAFE FOR WORK******, she like 110 lbs and when she was riding me reverse cow girl she would spread her ass cheeks and say "you like that?". I was 19 of fucking course I liked it.
Sad day in my life when she moved to Europe.
One day long before I was working at the Fight Club Pizza shop Buck who was an owner got an order and they were short on delivery drivers so he took the delivery. A friend of mine happened to be driving on the same road on the very same day.
My friend tells me he was driving through town and he accidentally cut off Buck. Buck followed him tailing his car and bumping his car repeatedly from behind. After twisting and turning from neighborhood to neighborhood my friend hit a dead end and Buck pulled in behind him and rear ended him from behind.
My friend is an average sized guy and jumped otu of his car and threw up his hands and yelled WTF man!!!!! Then buck emerged and he was probably a lot bigger than he is here because I don't think he was in contest shape.
My friend thought he was going to die and he jumped back in his car and locked the doors. Buck walked onto the lawn of the house they were in front of and picked up a giant rock that is reported to weigh over 100 pounds He then walked to the passenger side of the vehicle and with 2 hands drove the rock through the windshield. Buck then drove his car and ditched it at a friends house in the area and went back to work.
My friend then called the police and gave a description of Buck. The police went to the pizza shop and buck was IDd but he denied he did anything and said he was at work all day and called my friend a liar. No charges were ever filed and my friend decided to drop it.
This story was told to me by my friend and when I was working at the pizza shop a couple of years later Buck confirmed it to be true.
Side Note- He is by far the strongest man I have ever known with a 650+ maybe 700 pound bench press and could leg press like 2000+ pounds. Inhuman and also rumored to be able to bench press over 300 pounds when he was in 6-7th grade.
I wrestled Buck twice and have a 1-1 record vs him
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If there's one thing we have already learned this holiday season, it's that we want our gratification instantly or not at all.
Ordering stuff off of the Internet is now a contest to see who can deliver it to us the quickest and cheapest. Ground shipping? Get out of town, pal. Two-day? So 2009.
Even overnight shipping isn't really quite cutting it anymore. That's, like, as many as 24 hours, and we can only sleep for eight of those. What are we supposed to do with the other 16?


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Helen Sylliboy
Passed on: February 6th, 2018
Helen Marie Sylliboy, age 68, of Eskasoni, passed away on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney.
Born in Sydney, she was the daughter of the late Athanasius and Theresa Sylliboy.
Helen began her career in the educational field in 1974, working as an educational counsellor with Indian Affairs. In 1975 she was hired by the Eskasoni Band as a social counsellor. In 1980 she became a guidance counsellor for the Eskasoni School Board. During this time she was instrumental in bringing together a native Teacher Ed program with UNB, 26 Mi'kmaq educators along with herself, graduating in 1984 with their B.ED's . Helen considered this one of the greatest moments in her counselling career. In 1999 her love for the Mi'kmaq language and prayers come full circle as she began her translation work and spending time learning from our elders in her position in Mi'kmaq language curriculum. In recent years she devoted her time to translating scripture and compiling a Mi'kmaq language lexicon, doing translation work for numerous groups, as well as pursuing her favourite hobby of family trees (Msit No'kmaq). She also volunteered her time in prayers, ladies club, Red Cross, Native Women's Association and the Young Christian Student Club. Up until her recent illness, you would find Helen at her computer working or welcoming and sharing her gift of language with visitors from far and near. Helen received the Grand Chief Donald Marshall Elders Award along with the Role Model of the Year Award.
Helen is survived by her daughter, Kristal (Oliver) Sylliboy; sons, Clifford King, Logan (Ann) King and Duma (Mag) Bernard; sisters, Harriot Sylliboy, Linda Gould, Barbara Sylliboy and Iris (Raymond) Doucette; brothers, Athanasius (Rhenelda) Sylliboy and Norman (Arlene) Sylliboy; grandchildren, Emerald, Brandy, Landon, DJ, Kayden and Jetta; great grandchild, Sóseo Marshall, and many nieces and nephews. She will be greatly missed by her beloved godchildren.
She was predeceased by her brother, Kenny Sylliboy; sister, Lorraine Sylliboy, and brothers, Tommy Sylliboy and John Duncan.
Visitation will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 8 at Gabriel Center, Eskasoni. Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Family Church with Fr. Martin MacDougall officiating. Burial in parish cemetery.
Online condolences may be sent to www.twcurry.com.


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I know I've been talking all sorts of glum this week - but I'm really going to pick up the holiday pace - starting with tonight: Nicky and I are going to put on our Snuggies, sit with our neglected dogs and toast overflowing mugs of hot chocolate and marshmallows, while watching holiday movies.
This weekend will be full of Buche de Noel, more slow food adventures (delicious!), friends and a few fun meetings believe it or not. Hope you have a wonderful weekend! XO
PS. Above is the holiday card template I customized for SNO's holiday e-card debuting next week. Each of us were asked to create our own versions of joy. There are usually so many things that make me happy, I had to try and cram them into one little card! Hope you like it.


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Crocus painting titled Spring Break
I painted this from two different photos I had taken one day when I was so tired of all the snow.
Forest Glow , landscape oil painting
Forest Glow 9x12 Oil painting.
I have entered this painting into a juried show and hope to hear soon if it was accepted.
I was fascinated by the light behind the trees and added light coming through on the foreground. This painting was juried into the Mansfield Art Center May Show in Mansfield, Ohio.


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Kelly Rowland's Halloween Costume Was Lit AF But When She Bent Over, You Could See All Her 'Goodies' (Is Kelly's Doing Too Much?)
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So about Kelly Rowland, ya'll…we think her costume idea was to go as Queen B's lyric- "Bootylicious!" Does anyone agree or what?
The Lady threw a bash at popular celebrity hotspot Poppy on Sunday night and a whole crew of stars showed up for the shindig.
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Earlier this week, I sent a Brandwatch research study to my brother, who manages a radio station, about the importance of Twitter. The report indicated that radio stations do not interact with their fans enough, and instead are stuck in the old paradigm of just blasting and broadcasting their message with their traditional one way approach.
The Brandwatch study also highlighted the fact that 75% of their interactions are with celebrities and brands (who pay the advertising dollars) and not their fans. The most important (and probably obvious fact to most people) is that people follow the personalities on the radio more than the station itself.
Even with the opportunity to highlight their DJs and newscasters more, most stations do not have specific goals and strategies for leveraging social networks. While they may be on it and posting a tweet here and there, they're not optimizing their social media presence. This number increases substantially more when you consider how many don't know how to operationalize their social efforts.
To get started, here is a basic checklist on how to operationalize your social efforts:
Set up your primary account and keep your password information in a safe place. Also, don't let your digital agency or PR firm set up your account. Make sure one of your employees is the lead person and manager of the account in case there are any conflicts. Note, however, that you should make sure that employee shares all info with you and signs a legal document stating they will turn over the account when then leave. There will probably be no issues about this if the employee uses your company domain account
Organize Team and Identify Moderators: Use the DACI approach with clarity around who is the Driver (project manager) of the project, the Approver (who owns the budget in most cases) of the project, the Collaborators of the project (moderators) and who needs to be Informed. While it might be a cost to hire your moderators before launching, getting them on board early can help set up some of the infrastructure you need to build a successful social network presence. For example, they can create a stockpile of back up posts and also be involved in establishing the tone and spirit
Document the tone and spirit of your posts and tweets: Most mature and established companies have documented their brand positioning and how they want to communicate their brand to their customers. It's more beneficial to do this early on, rather than blindly posting and tweeting. Even smaller companies should take some time to think this through.
Build out your page: Appearance is important, even on social networks. While you're thinking about your brand positioning, the aesthetics of your page should play a role too. Leverage company branding, photography and graphics guidelines. You should have a cohesive look and feel across all your pages.
Create a content calendar: Build a content calendar for each social network (and their pages) that you manage. Throwing up posts last minutes can lead to too many issues. Vice versa, planning too far ahead won't allow you you to factor in recent newsworthy topics. Ideally, you want the calendar to cover all content for at least two weeks into the future. You can plan for a longer period of time, but I have found that it is often difficult to plan too far down the road.
Create a stockpile of back up posts: There are some posts, such as standard customer service posts or event announcements or welcome posts, that you will post/tweet over and over again. You might as well have a stockpile of them ready to go.
Identify tools: The cost of good social media tools is quite minimal these days. Many of them are even free. I recommend that you have at least three types of tools ready to go: a posting tool (Hootsuite or Sproutsocial, a listening tool (Radian6 or Social Mention) and an analytics tool (Twitonomy).
Create Rules of Engagement, Workflow Process and Answer Decision Tree: List out desired response times, the type of posts you will respond to, and all potential issues. Then try and place them into categories and assign and and owner to each of them. You'll be able to be quantify how successful you are by setting these rules.
Outreach to relevant influencers and followers: I am big on focus, focus, focus. Don't try and boil the whole ocean and sign up as many followers as possible. It's about quality, not quantity. I recommend reaching out to people who would have a vested interest in your products, services or offerings.
Focus on a few critical metrics: There are so many different metrics to track on a social network. Concentrate on 3-5 levers, establish a benchmark, measure your success against them and keep raising the bar. Make your goals more challenging. Hold each person on the team accountable for these goals. Social Media is a team sport.
Executing well on the above ten areas will increase a radio stations or your probability of success. Remember, it takes a while to build an audience. Remember that Rome was not built in a day and neither is a social presence. Unless you are Nike or Madonna, it might take time to build your presence and generate a high degree of engagement on a social network's page that you manage. The keys are to be persistent and consistent.


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Current Exhibit
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Rosanne Olson, David Fokos and Simen Johan
November 13 to December 23
, Benham Gallery is exhibiting the work of Rosanne Olson, David Fokos and Simen Johan.
Rosanne Olson, an award-winning Seattle photographer, will exhibit a new series of photographs in an exhibit titled, Four and Twenty Blackbirds.
David Fokos, has recognized that by carefully crafting photographs which filter out "visual noise" of every day life, the viewer is given a deeper insight and appreciation of the subject matter. His minimalistic compositions distill each image down to it's barest components, so that the perception of the viewer is intensified and concentrated wholly on the essence of that which remains. The results are haunting images of compelling beauty, yet the images go will beyond merely being pretty pictures. They also possess an intellectual depth which continues to reward the viewer eac h time the image is viewed. Using his 70-year old 8 x 10 camera, Fokos has photographed along to coast of New England for over twenty years.
Simen Johan, originally from Norway, now residing in New York city, exhibits an exhibition titled, And Nothing Was to Be Trusted. Simen creates children and adolescents by digitally manipulating and combining parts of faces and bodies belonging to people of various ethnicities, ages and genders. His fictional identities are depicted in equally fabricated scenarios that are replete with references to both the art historical tradition and Freudian sexuality. He spends about a month working on each image, meticulously adding, subtracting and manipulating elements until he intuitively deems the work complete. The final image is then output to 4x5 negative film and printed and toned conventionally in a traditional darkroom. The resulting photographic quality contributes to a deceptive sense of familiarity and nostalgia and contradicts the general expectations of most computer-manipulated imagery.
Our first show of 2001, coming up in January will feature the work of Steve Fey, Malcolm Edwards and Denis Kempe.
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I recently came upon these photos of a New Zealand summer wedding I attended as guest and wedding singer. I hope you'll be inspired with ideas or at least encouraged to make your preparations well beforehand so you can enjoy the event, knowing you're appropriately dressed.
Remember, my style does not have to be (in fact, should not be) your style. Your life and personality are unique. Allow yourself to express that.
The cotton burnout blouse (The Warehouse) with covered buttons and cotton lace was also white. I dyed the hat and blouse together in the same pot. I've paired the blouse with a lace-top JayJays camisole.
The purchased fabric flower is secured with a pearl-headed hat pin. To travel, I removed the flower and flattened the hat to stow it in my bag. The flower traveled in a cosmetic purse that protected it from getting squashed.
The curls are my own.
I purchased the skirt on clearance for NZ$10 at Ezibuy. Labelled a "beach skirt", it had a crinkle cotton outer layer and voile half-slip underneath, all transparent. I unpicked the joining seams of the knit waistband, outer skirt, and lining, placed a new full-length layer of cotton gingham in between the outer skirt and lining, and stitched it together again.
I love this skirt. I can wear it for casual or more dressy occasions. It's brilliant for spring through summer to autumn. The roll-over knit waistband is comfortable. It travels well. It's easy care. I launder it in a cold wash with a medium spin and drape it over a drying rack indoors (no pegs allowed near that knit waistband). It requires no pressing. The one downside is the light colour, making it susceptible to grubby seats, grass stains, or dirty cars, but in the 3+ years I've been wearing it, most of these have been removable.
I found this outfit excellent for maintaining comfort and elegance during the heat on a long day. Now I know how well it works, it's one I can pull out any time and know I'll look good and feel great. I hope you find an outfit that does that for you, too.
All the best!
PS For progress on production of the "Magdala Waltz", click here.


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Ever find a great web page and want to bookmark it? Only you're favorite list is longer than War and Peace and you don't want to take the time to weed out the bad ones in order to be able to see anything? And, anyway, you only want to keep the web address for a few days.
Well, your answer is del.icio.us. First of all, you have to like the name. You are used to the .com, .edu, .org, and .net domains, and you may come across .mil and .gov web domains,. If you're someone Internet savvy, you'll also know that countries outside the United States have two-letter comains: .ca for Canada, .uk for the United Kingdom, .tv for Tuvalu (a group of islands in the Pacific. Someone realized their two-letter domain is perfect for TV shows). Well, the United States has a two-letter domain: .us. It's usually used by state governments, but rarely by others. Del.icio.us was clever enough to use this as part of their name.
Del.icio.us is billed as "social bookmarking," allowing people to share their bookmarks with others. And this is useful: you can go to the site and look for bookmarks for a particular subject. The bookmarks are ranked by how many people have marked them. Thus, if you're looking for, say, "Siena College," a search on del.icio.us will show you the most popular sites with "Siena College" in them. This can help you pinpoint what links might be the best for a particular subject.
But even if you don't use it for that, del.icio.us lets you set up a free account for your favorite bookmarks. Anyone can see it (here is mine), so you can share sites with friends. And, most importantly, you can mark sites in order to go back to them later.
Anyone can set up an account, and it's free. Give it a try.


text: Most popular picnic spots in Wales When we asked our Facebook followers to name a brilliant place in Wales for a picnic, we were flooded with replies. Here are the locations which came out on top. Just grab that hamper and go! A Barafundle Bay, Pembrokeshire Barafundle Bay, Pembrokeshire Pale sand, clear water and an away-from-it-all atmosphere makes Barafundle one of Wales' favourite 'secret' beaches. It's best to check the tide beforehand – lowish tide is best – and not to come laden with clobber as there's a half-mile walk from the car park, with some steep bits. Don't worry, though, it's totally worth it. B Carreg Cennen Castle Carreg Cennen Castle, Carmarthenshire Climb up to this castle-on-a-crag in the Black Mountain Range, and the Carmarthenshire countryside swirls about you like a sea of green. This is a view that people have been enjoying since prehistoric times – it's thought that an Iron Age hillfort predates the present-day ruins, which date back to the 13th century. C Llanddwyn Island Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey by johnrobjones Romantic and remote, Llanddwyn is named after Dwynwen, a fifth century princess, the Welsh patron saint of lovers. It's a tidal island, connected to southwestern Anglesey by a sliver of sand that's lost beneath the waves at high tide. Together with nearby Newborough Warren, Llanddwyn is a National Nature Reserve, protected for its ancient rocks and dunes. D Llandudno beach Beach at Llandudno Whether it's ice cream weather in the height of summer or a crisp, bright day in the depths of winter, Llandudno is always popular for a stroll, a spot of sandcastle-building and an alfresco lunch. The beaches have Blue Flag and Seaside Awards for cleanliness and water quality and there are plenty of deck chairs to lounge in. E River Llugwy, Betws-y-Coed River Llugwy, Snowdonia From the Pont y Pair car park on the west side of Betws-y-Coed, it's just a few minutes' easy stroll to a gorgeous riverside picnic area, shaded by trees. If you're up for a gentle walk, follow the path along the River Llugwy. There's a wooden walkway so wheelchair-users and families with pushchairs can enjoy this peaceful spot. F Llyn Padarn, Llanberis Llanberis Lake Railway, Llyn Padarn, Snowdonia by NoSoma To combine the fun of an old-fashioned picnic with the romance of a ride on a vintage train with glorious Snowdonia views, jump aboard the Llanberis Lake Railway. Its steam locomotives chuff past Dolbadarn Castle and alongside Llyn Padarn, stopping at Cei Llydan, where there are benches laid out on the grassy shore. G Porthdinllaen beach Porthdinllaen, Llŷn Peninsula, Snowdonia by Log Cabins Wales Picture perfect, this beach is unique. Where else can you relax outside a historic fishermen's pub, digging your toes in the sand, to enjoy a pint of real ale named after a Bardsey king? After lunch, you could go snorkelling or simply watch the sand martins as they whizz overhead and dive into their burrows. Cars aren't allowed, but approaching on foot is a treat. H Rhossili Bay, Gower Rhossili Bay, Gower So, you've made your way to Rhossili. Good choice – people have been drawn to this dramatic Gower beach since the Stone Age, leaving the area peppered with archaeological sites. Now all you have to do is pick your spot. You have three miles of sand to choose from. A cartwheel competition while you decide, perhaps? I Castle Hill, Tenby Castle Hill in Tenby, Pembrokeshire by Of all the places to play king of the castle in Wales, this one will charm your socks off. There's not much left of the 13th century fort, but just look at the view! Plonk yourself down on this grassy peninsula, feel the breeze on your face and enjoy the seaside sounds floating up from the harbour to the west and the beach to the south. J Lake Vyrnwy, Powys Lake Vyrnwy If you love cool shade and wide, tranquil water, you'll love Lake Vyrnwy, a reservoir created in the late 19th century to supply the fast growing city of Liverpool. Surrounded by stunning forests, meadows and moorlands, it's become a wildlife hotspot, home to pied flycatchers, redstarts, peregrine falcons, buzzards and bats. Enjoy this? Share it with friends Related items Welsh narrow gauge trains Wales is home to some of the most famous narrow gauge and miniature gauge railways in the world. Sunny day attractions Perfect holiday weather. So, what do you fancy doing today? 5 great spring ideas Take a tip from Welsh wildlife and get active in spring. Welsh AONBs Discover the gorgeous hills, valleys, islands and coasts of our Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Wild days in Mid Wales Woodlands burst with colour while ospreys and dolphins lead a star cast of spring & summer wildlife. Spring & summer wildlife Spring and summer is the perfect time to see grey seals, dolphins and colourful seabirds.


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Hello, it's been so long since I blogged that I've almost forgotten how!!! Anyway, it is Summer here (yay) and I've been sewing lots of swimwear at the moment. As everyone knows, I love Boo! Designs patterns, and I love the spandex available for sale in the Boo store. I know many of you also share my love of these things, but lack confidence to try the Boo! Designs togs in the Swimmers pattern because of the binding. This is what I'm talking about for those that don't know.
Whilst the binding is not hard, it just takes practice and some understanding of how your machine sews spandex, I get that many people out there just want to sew their daughter some cute swimmers without spending hours perfecting the binding technique. Call me strange, but I now enjoy the binding and find it to be one of the least stressful parts of sewing swimmers now!!
Anyway, Kristie from Boo also has a few other spandex patterns - one of which is the Skater Dress. The skater dress is a great pattern for those new to sewing spandex. The binding for the neckline does not involve elastic which takes an element of trickiness out, and there are two different binding methods described in the pattern, so if you are not confident with one, you can try the other.
I'm going to share with you today how to mash the skater dress top with the tankini top (found in the swimmers pattern) to make a spandex singlet. This is a very simple pattern mash that many of you will not need a tutorial for, but I know that Boo attracts a lot of beginners who may not be confident with pattern mashing, which is why I am including this tutorial. In the end you'll end up with a spandex singlet that can either be worn for sports related things - like gymnastics, little athletics, dancing if paired with shorts or my choice - one of the lengths in the Boo designs leggings pattern; or paired with one of the three swimmer bottom options in the swimmers pattern.
To start off with you need your pattern pieces for the top of the skater dress (remember there are three options in this dress - I am using the simple front, racer back option), and also your pattern pieces for the Swimmers tankini. Just my front pattern pieces are shown below.
1. Take your skater dress front piece and lay it over the tankini front piece so that the underarm seams meet up. You want to use the skater dress for the top portion, and the tankini for the bottom portion, to get the length and fitting round the stomach right.
2. Trace around the overlaid pattern pieces, using the skater top as the guide for the top half, and the tankini top for the bottom half. Remove the original pattern pieces, place them back in your file so you don't lose them (sorry, had to include that for a few of my less organised sewing friends, you know who you are), and you are left with your new pattern piece. Label it now so you don't forget what it is.
3. Repeat the process for the back pattern pieces. Overlay the skater top on the tankini back, making sure the underarms meet up. You can see with my pieces that the tankini actually sticks out a bit on the bottom of the curve for the racer back - we are going to ignore that part of the tankini pattern and use the curve of the racer back skater instead.
4. Trace around the overlaid pattern pieces. Label the new back pattern piece and cut both the front and back pattern pieces out.
5. You are now ready to go and make your new singlet top. Cut 1 x back on the fold of the fabric, 1 x front on the fold of the fabric.
6. Place right sides together, sew shoulder seams front and back, side seams front and back (remember to use stretch stitches) and hem as per your preferred method (the Swimwear patter explains hemming options in good detail).
7. Follow directions in the skater dress pattern for the binding on the neck holes and armholes and you are all done.
8. Photograph child in new singlet (optional) and share in the Boo! Designs Pattern Club Facebook group so that others can be inspired to give it a go.
All my spandex used in this tutorial was kindly sent to me by the lovely Kristie from Boo! Designs. It will be available as of this week in the Boo! webstore to purchase….lets hope I am fast enough to get some more because I love it!!!
Thanks for reading along,


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Log message: Updated security/fail2ban to 0.9.6. Upstream changelog : * Misleading add resp. enable of (already available) jail in database, that induced a subsequent error: last position of log file will be never retrieved \ (gh-795) * Fixed a distribution related bug within testReadStockJailConfForceEnabled (e.g. test-cases faults on Fedora, see gh-1353) * Fixed pythonic filters and test scripts (running via wrong python version, uses "fail2ban-python" now); * Fixed test case "testSetupInstallRoot" for not default python \ version (also using direct call, out of virtualenv); * Fixed ambiguous wrong recognized date pattern resp. its optional parts (see \ gh-1512); * FIPS compliant, use sha1 instead of md5 if it not allowed (see gh-1540) * Monit config: scripting is not supported in path (gh-1556) * `filter.d/apache-modsecurity.conf` - Fixed for newer version (one space, gh-1626), optimized: non-greedy catch-all replaced for safer match, unneeded catch-all anchoring removed, non-capturing * `filter.d/asterisk.conf` - Fixed to match different asterisk log prefix (source file: method:) * `filter.d/dovecot.conf` - Fixed failregex ignores failures through some not relevant info (gh-1623) * `filter.d/ignorecommands/apache-fakegooglebot` - Fixed error within apache-fakegooglebot, that will be called with wrong python version (gh-1506) * `filter.d/assp.conf` - Extended failregex and test cases to handle ASSP V1 and V2 (gh-1494) * `filter.d/postfix-sasl.conf` - Allow for having no trailing space after 'failed:' (gh-1497) * `filter.d/vsftpd.conf` - Optional reason part in message after FAIL LOGIN (gh-1543) * `filter.d/sendmail-reject.conf` - removed mandatory double space (if dns-host available, gh-1579) * filter.d/sshd.conf - recognized "Failed publickey for" (gh-1477); - optimized failregex to match all of "Failed any-method for ... from \ <HOST>" (gh-1479) - eliminated possible complex injections (on user-name resp. auth-info, see \ gh-1479) - optional port part after host (see gh-1533, gh-1581) * New Actions: - `action.d/npf.conf` for NPF, the latest packet filter for NetBSD * New Filters: - `filter.d/mongodb-auth.conf` for MongoDB (document-oriented NoSQL database \ engine) (gh-1586, gh-1606 and gh-1607) * DateTemplate regexp extended with the word-end boundary, additionally to word-start boundary * Introduces new command "fail2ban-python", as automatically created \ symlink to python executable, where fail2ban currently installed (resp. its modules are \ located): - allows to use the same version, fail2ban currently running, e.g. in external scripts just via replace python with fail2ban-python: ```diff -#!/usr/bin/env python +#!/usr/bin/env fail2ban-python ``` - always the same pickle protocol - the same (and also guaranteed available) fail2ban modules - simplified stand-alone install, resp. stand-alone installation possibility via setup (like gh-1487) is getting closer * Several test cases rewritten using new methods assertIn, assertNotIn * New forward compatibility method assertRaisesRegexp (normally python >= 2.7). Methods assertIn, assertNotIn, assertRaisesRegexp, assertLogged, assertNotLogged are test covered now * Jail configuration extended with new syntax to pass options to the backend \ (see gh-1408), examples: - `backend = systemd[journalpath=/run/log/journal/machine-1]` - `backend = \ systemd[journalfiles="/run/log/journal/machine-1/system.journal, \ /run/log/journal/machine-1/user.journal"]` - `backend = systemd[journalflags=2]`
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Log message: Updated security/fail2ban to 0.9.5. Changelog from 0.9.3 and 0.9.4 is quite long. Expect new and improved jails, actions and filter. Details are here : - https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/releases/tag/0.9.4 - https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/releases/tag/0.9.5 Pkgsrc changes are : - added man pages (fail2ban-testcases.1 fail2ban.1) - added and reorderd filters, actions, and documentation files - minor edits to please pkglint
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Log message: Updated to 0.9.3. Some of the upstream changes for 0.9.2 : - various typo in config files - filter.d/postfix-sasl.conf - tweak failregex and add ignoreregex to ignore system authentication issues - some fixes for EL7 New features : - New filters: - postfix-rbl - apache-fakegooglebot.conf - nginx-botsearch - drupal-auth - New actions: - action.d/firewallcmd-multiport and action.d/firewallcmd-allports - action.d/sendmail-geoip-lines.conf - action.d/nsupdate to update DNSBL - New status argument for fail2ban-client Some of the upstream changes for 0.9.3 : - IMPORTANT incompatible changes: * filter.d/roundcube-auth.conf - Changed logpath to 'errors' log (was 'userlogins') * action.d/iptables-common.conf - All calls to iptables command now use -w switch introduced in iptables 1.4.20 (some distribution could have patched their earlier base version as well) to provide this locking mechanism useful under heavy load to avoid contesting on iptables calls. If you need to disable, define 'action.d/iptables-common.local' with empty value for 'lockingopt' in `[Init]` section. * mail-whois-lines, sendmail-geoip-lines and sendmail-whois-lines actions now include by default only the first 1000 log lines in the emails. Adjust <grepopts> to augment the behavior. - New Features: * New filters: - froxlor-auth - Thanks Joern Muehlencord - apache-pass - filter Apache access log for successful authentication * New actions: - shorewall-ipset-proto6 - using proto feature of the Shorewall. Still requires manual pre-configuration of the shorewall. See the action file for detail. * New jails: - pass2allow-ftp - allows FTP traffic after successful HTTP authentication
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Log message: Initial import of security/fail2ban, version 0.9.1, into the NetBSD Packages \ Collection. Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. Theses rules can be defined by the user. Fail2Ban can read multiple log files such as sshd or Apache web server ones.