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Let students charge meals
"We allow students to charge meals at all levels; even in high school, they can charge a certain number of meals. [After that is met,] they are given an alternate meal," says Sharon Glosson, executive director of school nutrition services for North East Independent School District. Elementary students can charge up to $15 of meals; middle schoolers can charge $10; and high schoolers can charge $5. "Ultimately, [food services is] carrying out the policy; but we're not necessarily the creators of the policy, [nor do we] have the final say ... because that budget decision has to be made by the district. It's a very difficult situation."
Waive reduced prices
"I think no policy is not a good idea," says MaryKate Harrison, general manager of student nutrition services for Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Fla. "What happens is your nutrition managers being debt collection agents. It took an inordinate amount of their time to try to get the money. We would typically reclaim 60% to 65%—about $700,000 to $800,000 of the balances that were outstanding." Around 2003, Hillsborough County Public Schools waived the 40-cent price for reduced meals, and moved those on a reduced-price plan to free meals. "We don't have a lot of reduced meals, but only 50% of those kids were eating, and I said, 'There's a reason why they aren't eating.' When we waived the price, we had 90% [accepting free meals]."


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With 69% of Americans using social media today, it is imperative that your business is utilizing the social media platforms where your customers are. While most companies are already on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, there are other channels gaining popularity, such as Instagram.
Instagram serves as a picture and video-centric app, where users can post on their profile, and record Instagram stories and live videos. Before Instagram for Business, users wanting to learn more about a company had to leave the app and search for the company's website or other social media sites.
In May 2016, Instagram launched its business model called Instagram for Business. With this model, users can find a business' information, such as website and address, directly on their Instagram page. At the top of the page, there's a contact tab with the option to either call or email the business.
In addition to being more customer-friendly, Instagram for Business provides feedback for businesses, similar to what you can find on Facebook and LinkedIn. Instagram collects analytics such as the demographics of users who follow you, when the best time and day to post is, and what posts perform best according to likes and shares. Here are some of the insights you can get from your account.
Overall Analytics:
- Impressions: Number of times your ads were promoted on screen
- Reach: Number of accounts that viewed your posts and stories
- Clicks from your bio to your website
- Number of users who visited your profile
- Likes and comments on posts
- Saves of your post from accounts
- Impressions and Reach
- Number of views on your videos
Instagram Stories:
- Impressions and Reach
- Number of times someone taps to the next story or taps back on a story
- Amount of replies to your story
- Times someone skips your story to view another account's
- Number of times someone leaves your story
Businesses also have the option to advertise in the app. These ads consist of a photo or video, (already posted from your account) with a "Learn More" button at the bottom of the picture. "Learn More" connects Instagram users to your business' website or other social media account. "Learn More" also allows those in your target demographics to find out more about your business.
To promote your posts, follow these steps.
- Select the picture or video you'd like to promote by tapping the promote option at the bottom of the post.
- Fill out the information for promotion, such as target demographics, amount you're going to spend, and duration for the ad to run.
- Tap "next" and then tap "promote" to finish the promotion.
Interested in creating your own Instagram for Business account? You can follow the instructions below to switch into Business Mode.
- Click on the gear button next to Edit Profile.
- Make sure your account is public.
- Tap "Switch to Business Profile" and select the Facebook page you want to connect your Instagram for Business account to. (You have to be an Admin for that Facebook page in order to connect the two).
- Review your business contact information and click done when you're finished.
Still have questions? Contact us and be sure to check back with us on our blog and social media sites and subscribe to our newsletter for more marketing and advertising tips.

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Hi, I was wondering if the following scenario would be possible with either the Multi Domains plugin, the Domain Mapping plugin, both together or neither!
I have my network up and running, domain.com, offering subdomains.domain.com
I currently use Donncha's domain mapping plugin to allow mapping of cooluserdomain to cooluser.domain.com, but might switch to the WMPU dev version if needed (if it ain't broken...).
I want to set up another subdomain in this install, lets call it new.domain.com, and have new.com map to new.domain.com. That part is easy, but can I use the plugins then to:
(1) create subdomains off that mapped subdomain, i.e. newsub.new.com etc
(2) domain map those names as well : user.com goes to newsub.new.com?
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NashatDas Beispiel
26 to June 28, 2008
opening hours : from Wednesday to Saturday from 3 to 7 p.m. and by appointment
of Dominic Eichler (pdf)images
for the pressmultiple for attitudes
The exhibition by Shahryar
Nashat is part of a series of new productions presented at attitudes for the first
time. This year, our emphasis is on original and challenging personal exhibitions,
resulting from an intense exchange between the artist and us. Shahryar Nashat's
new project Das Beispiel (The Example) involves a video, a sculpture and
an installation, in a space transformed and organized by different sources of
light. Shahryar Nashat was among the artists of the Swiss pavilion at
the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, where he presented The Regulating Line,
a film shot at the Louvre in the Rubens room. In 2007, he took part in the H-Box
project - an initiative launched by Maison Hermès and presented at the Centre
Pompidou in Paris. His contribution to the project was the video Plaque
- screened again this year at the Art Unlimited in Basel - which presented the
construction of a concrete slab reproducing the TV stage where Glenn Gould played
the Goldberg variations. The work therefore involved a close connection between
video and sculpture.The video Das Beispiel, whose musical score
is also drawn from Bach, emphasizes even further the interweaving between sculpture
and video. This time, the sculpture (a 3m high concrete cone) is present within
the exhibition - one could even say that it plays the "leading role". It is an
analysis of the creative process, staged by the artist and left to the audience's
interpretation, as the cone will never be visible in its entirety.
video, 2008 (HDV, 9'40'')director and editing: Shahryar Nashat / camera: Marc
Bauer and Shahryar Nashat / sound recording and sound design: Stéphane Brunclair
/ with: David Andermatt, Philipp Bachmann et Adriano Sack / thanks to: Sébastien
Aeby, Konrad Bitterli, Kataleen Deér, Georges Hanimann - Theater St. Gallen, Felix
Lehner and Roland Wäspe.
sculpture, 2008 (scaffolding, 818 x 380 x 337H cm) conception Shahryar Nashat
/ installation: Favre Echaffaudages SA, Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
sculpture, 2008 (concrete, 290 x 180cm) conception: Shahryar Nashat / production:
David Andermatt and Philipp Bachmann, Sitterwerk - Saint-Gall (Switzerland)
by Thanks
to Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen
AG, Stiftung Sitterwerk
and to Rampini Construction,
Nashat (CH, 1975, lives in Berlin)
exhibitions 2008
Das Beispiel, attitudes, Genève / Placed High for Dramatic Impact,
Galleria S.A.L.E.S.,
Roma / 2007 No Norm, Stiftung
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg / 2006 Because the ultimate foundation
is not founded, Elisabeth
Kaufmann, Zürich / ACCADEMIA, Praz-Delavallade, Paris / Video works,
Leyla Akinci, Amsterdam / 2005 Art Unlimited, Art Basel 36, Basel
/ Overthrowing the King in his Own Mind, avec Marc Bauer et Alexia Walther,
Kunstmuseum Solothurn
* / 2004 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Le Studio, Paris / Italian Studies,
Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zürich / Staatsgewalt, Le Studio, CAN Neuchâtel
/ 2003 Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, ex-Macelli, Prato /
2002 154 Days, Nicolas Krupp, Basel / Laterally yours, Kunstverein
im Katharinen, St-Gallen / In return, Centre Pasquart, (collab. avec Ryan
Gander), Bienne / Unreasonably resonant, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine,
Genève / 2001 And then he's meant to disappear, Galerie Elisabeth
Kaufmann, Zürich / All the way back, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino,
exhibitions (selection) 2008 H-Box, Mudam Luxembourg; Musac, Leon;
Tate Modern, London / Shifting
Identities, Kunsthaus, cur. Mirjam Varadinis, Zürich / 2007
Centre Pompidou, Paris / House Trip, Berlin Artforum, cur. Ami Barak,
Berlin / Monument for a Cone, Viennafair Zone 1 / In the Eye of the
Storm, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / 2006 Left Right Art Zone, cur.
Ai Weiwei, Pékin / Son et lumière, Kunstmuseum Solothurn / Conversation
Pieces, Centre d'art contemporain Genève / Globos Sonda / Trial Balloons,
MUSAC, Leon * / Swiss Contemporary artists, Tokyo City Museum of Art, cur.
Françoise Ninghetto, Tokyo / Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
/ Gravity, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam / 2005 Shadows collide
with people, 51e Biennale de Venise, Pavillon Suisse, Venise * / Contenance
- Fassung Bewahren, Württembergischer Kunstvereing Stuttgart / Les Grands
Spectacles, Museum der Moderne Salzburg * / After the Revolution, Koldo
Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian * / Sentieri e avvistamenti - La scena
svizzera contemporanea, Centro d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia
* / We really have to strain ourselves to still discover mysteries on street
signs, CCA, Warsaw Double Vision, Magazzino d'arte moderna, Roma / Me,
Myself and I - Video works from the collection, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen / 2004
Emozion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt-am-Main * / Dalla pagina
allo spazio, Pro Helvetia, Museo cantonale Lugano / My Stories, Montevideo,
Netherlands Media Institute, Amsterdam / 2003 lautloses irren, ways
of worldmaking, too, Postbahnhof, cur. Harm Lux*, Berlin / Urban Diaries
- Young Swiss Art, Alcala 31, cur. Martin Schwander et Sabine Schaschl Cooper*,
Madrid / 2002 Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam / A'dam and Eve,
De Appel, Amsterdam / Unloaded - Coming Up for Air, cur. Giovanni Carmine,
Oberschan-Sargans * / 2001 Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam / 2000
Heart, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona / 1999 999,
Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, cur. Giovanni Carmine *, Bellinzona


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Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) is a musculoskeletal condition that benefits from many different treatments, often practiced in combination with one another. Physical therapy can help people with TMJ to get better results, including more complete resolution of pain and other symptoms, less recurrence of symptoms, and better management of symptoms. It's a great adjunct to other TMJ treatments, including oral appliance therapy and even TMJ surgery.
If you are looking for a comprehensive approach to treating your TMJ in Detroit, please call (248) 825-8277 or email us for an appointment with a TMJ dentist at the Michigan Center for TMJ & Sleep Wellness.
What Is Physical Therapy?
Physical therapy is a broad discipline that is focused on the use of physical means — such as massage, movement, and heat — to help patients. The goal may be to treat disease, improve function, accelerate healing, prevent disability, and reduce pain.
The emphasis is on the body's natural, harmonic function, and how this can be aided, either by the physical therapist directly or through education that allows the patient to prevent problems or perform self-therapy when problems do occur.
When Is Physical Therapy Appropriate for TMJ?
Typically, physical therapy is an additional treatment for TMJ, performed in support of other treatments. It is recommended when people have neck pain that may be related to TMJ, but is also significant in its own right, such as when headaches occur due to neck problems.
Physical therapy can also help when your posture contributes to your TMJ. If certain postures tend to trigger TMJ, a physical therapist can help. A physical therapist may also be able to help if you are generally unhappy with your posture.
Physical therapy is also a great help for people undergoing TMJ surgery, because it can speed recovery and improve results.
Physical Therapy Approaches to TMJ
Massage is one of the most common physical therapy approaches to TMJ. A physical therapist may massage your chewing muscles or the muscles in your neck to help reduce tension and improve comfort. Other jaw tissues may sometimes be massaged, too, to help them loosen up. A physical therapist may also teach you some treatments you can perform at home to safely loosen up joints or muscles.
A physical therapist can also teach you about the role of posture in contributing to your TMJ. A physical therapist can teach you how to sit or stand properly and reduce stress on your back, neck, and jaw joints.
You may be taught exercises that can help you strengthen your muscles so that they are better able to handle the demands placed on them and the additional stresses that are caused by TMJ.
Many physical therapists also teach mindfulness, meditation, and other relaxation techniques that can help you counter some of the other factors that contribute to TMJ, such as stress and bad habits like nervous chewing on nonfood items.
After surgery, a physical therapist can help you learn how to gradually ease your jaw back into full function by building strength without causing strain. This can be especially helpful after joint replacement surgery where your artificial joint may not function the same as your natural joint.
We regularly refer patients to physical therapists when appropriate for primary care or as an adjunct to other TMJ. If you are looking for comprehensive TMJ treatment in Detroit, please call (248) 825-8277 or email us for an appointment at the Michigan Center for TMJ & Sleep Wellness today.
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The American continent, from north to south, is in the midst of an intense election year. The most conservative options and the parties with a firm grip on power are dominating the upcoming elections in Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Colombia, Venezuela and Paraguay. Elections were also recently held in Costa Rica, where the progressive presidential candidate Carlos Alvarado Quesada defeated conservative evangelical Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz.
Latin America's economic powerhouses, Mexico and Brazil, are facing presidential elections marked by corruption scandals and violence. Venezuela is set to vote in the midst of a political and social crisis, and Colombia will see the FARC taking part in presidential elections for the first time. In Paraguay, the race for the presidency continues to be between the two hegemonic conservative parties, with the ruling Colorados in the lead. The 2018 election marathon will end in the United States, which will be holding its midterms in November, a test for Donald Trump, who could lose his majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Let's start with what would appear to be the exception. Costa Rica elected the centre-left candidate from the ruling Citizens' Action Party (PAC), Carlos Alvarado, who was competing against an evangelical pastor, and won with a substantial lead after the conservative placed "Christian values" at the centre of the political debate – following a ruling by the Inter-American Commission on Human rights (IACHR), which has its headquarters in the country, that same-sex marriage should be recognised.
Venezuela's elections will be held amidst a severe economic crisis. The country is suffering from the highest inflation in its history, shortages in basic goods and rising rates of poverty, and leaving the country (for Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Panama, etc.) is becoming the only survival route for many of its citizens. Nicolás Maduro of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the elections in April 2013 on the programme drawn up in 2012 by his predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chávez, prior to his death.
The Venezuelan opposition will be virtually absent on 20 May. The majority of the leaders from the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), a broad coalition of opposition parties, which won a majority in parliament in December 2015, has decided not to take part in the electoral process, considering the conditions to be neither "fair nor transparent".
Cuba will be renewing its parliament on 18 April (the culmination of an electoral process that began last November), and the deputies will elect the new president, in all likelihood Raúl Castros current second-in-command, Miguel Díaz-Canel, which will bring a (symbolic) end to six decades of Castroism.
Former heads of state and government from the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA), meeting in Peru last week, called on the current Ibero-American leaders attending the 8th Summit of the Americas to "reject the presidential elections called by the Cuban dictatorship", arguing that the island's constitution and electoral system are "designed to prevent effective participation and the free and sovereign expression of its citizens' will". The same appeal was made regarding the elections in Venezuela, referred to as "sham presidential elections", held under conditions preventing them from being recognised as "constitutional, genuine, free, fair, transparent and competitive".
Meanwhile, in Colombia, where the first round of the presidential election is scheduled for 27 May, is likely to see a second round on 17 June and strong political division. Currently ruled by President Juan Manuel Santos (Social National Unity Party), the country has become polarised since the signing of the peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla movement, which is standing for the first time in history as a political party in presidential elections.
The peace process is a source of deep division amongst the candidates, Germán Vargas Lleras and Iván Duque from the party of former president Álvaro Uribe, the main opponent to the peace agreement with the FARC, and those on the left, Humberto De la Calle, Sergio Fajardo and Gustavo Petro, who are touting reconciliation as a political slogan.
In Brazil, the October 2018 election looks set to be the most uncertain in many years, in light of the tumultuous political situation, exacerbated by the unprecedented imprisonment of a former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who, according to the polls, would have won a landslide victory in the 7 October elections were he to be a candidate.
Dilma Rousseff, also from the Workers' Party (PT), was impeached by the Brazilian Congress in 2016 and the country has since then been ruled by right-wing Michel Temer – he and his entourage have also been accused of corruption – who is contemplating standing for election. Second in the polls for the October election is Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former army officer who advocates gun ownership, the use of torture against criminals and summary executions. No candidate has as yet emerged on the traditional centre-right, nor is there a clear replacement for Lula on the left.
In Mexico, which will be holding presidential, legislative and regional elections on 1 July (already considered to be the biggest in the country's history, in terms of their scale, cost and monitoring), the left's hopes are placed on the representative of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), Andrés Manuel López Obrador, widely known as AMLO, who has already stood for the presidency twice. He will try for the third (and last, he says) time, to secure the presidency. His main rival is Ricardo Anaya of the Citizens' Front for Mexico. Thirty-eight-year-old Anaya is the youngest candidate. He is the leader of the conservative Christian democratic National Action Party (PAN) and has joined forces with the centre-left PRD and Citizens' Movement in a bid to take the presidency. José Antonio Meade, the PRI's candidate, is third in the polls.
Amongs the factors marking the electoral process in Mexico, officially launched on 30 March, will be the corruption scandals plaguing President Peña Nieto's ruling centre-right party, the PRI. Others are the rise in violence – Mexico registered the highest number of murders in 20 years in 2017, which cost the country 21 per cent of its GDP, according to the Mexico Peace Index – and the relationship with the United States, especially in the midst of the NAFTA talks.
In the United States, the Republicans and Democrats are competing in legislative elections that will be decisive for the remaining presidential term of Donald Trump, who has already had problems passing his legislative agenda. The Democrats are two seats away from gaining control of the Senate, and to control the House of Representatives one of the two parties needs to win at least 218 seats. The Democrats have not had a majority in this chamber since 2010.
In Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez is the candidate for the ruling Colorados, the party with which General Alfredo Stroessner ruled the country with an iron fist between 1954 and 1989. The party has ruled the country almost continually since 1948, having lost the presidency on only one occasion, in 2008, to a coalition between leftist social movements and the conservative Liberal Party. Abdo Benítez is the son of Stroessner's private secretary, and his defence of the dictatorship has been a constant during the campaign.
The Liberal Party has tried to repeat the winning formula of 2008, in a bid to unseat the Colorados. Its presidential candidate is Efraín Alegre, who was a minister of public works and also the Liberal candidate for the 2013 presidential elections, when he lost against Horacio Cartes.
A key moment in defining the economic path for the next decade
The United States itself, Canada, the European Union and even China are flying over the election fever gripping the Americas, hoping to close free trade deals with countries such as Mexico and regional blocs such as Mercosur, which includes Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.
It was to Paraguay that International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde decided to fly on Tuesday 13 March.
The number of people at the trade union protest occupying the street in front of the Central Bank in Asuncion, where Lagarde was giving a relaxed talk, barely reached thirty. The average age of the demonstrators was substantially higher, and there were more police officers than activists and placards.
Although only an anecdote, the scene provides an illustration of the current dearth of labour movement organisation in certain parts of the Southern Cone. The highest representative of the IMF, which used to be the target of the main labour grievances in Latin America, is no longer confronted with street protests?
"Macri, Temer and Cartes are very similar. Paraguay used to seem like a Central American country within the Southern Cone, but now it's the same; they are all the same. The governments [of Latin America] have done everything they can to lower the social profile [in their respective countries, to make them appear more attractive to capital, to foreign investment," economist Lila Molinier, who studied at the Autonomous University of Mexico and teaches at the National University of Asuncion, tells Equal Times.
The European Union and Mercosur have been trying to close a free trade deal since 1992, so far without success. The spokespersons for both sides insist that the current negotiations are coming to a successful conclusion, although Europe's farming sector and South America's industrialists do not seem quite as sure.
"It would be regretful if an agreement were reached with the EU at this point, because it is a time when our governments are all much more vulnerable, following years of crisis in foreign trade and the agribusiness sector, the foundation of our economies," says Molinier.
The economist sees the deal with the EU as "an opening to total liberalisation" that is not reciprocal. "Both South American industrialists and the livestock sector are opposed to the deal and the trade unions and social organisations will not be far behind in voicing their opposition. But there is so much noise surrounding the elections at the moment that they are not aware of what is being signed and they are not reacting," she concludes.


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Your health will be good after you put into consideration what you eat. You should always consider taking various food nutrients which are very efficient for the body functioning. Calcium is a very vital nutrient in your body. Insufficiency of calcium will make your bones weak because the body will extract it from your bones. However, calcium intake can be enhanced by eating foods that contain calcium such as dairy products, milk, juicing of green vegetables or you take calcium supplements. Taking of calcium has several advantages as listed below.
Prevention Of Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a situation that makes children develop an abnormal skeletal structure which is caused by the deficiency of calcium. Intake of calcium will help you in the strengthening of teeth and bones. It is essential for children when they are developing their teeth and bones. By taking enough calcium and incorporating it with vitamins, it will help in increasing bone mass hence can reduce losing of bones when you are aging.
Prevention Of Premenstrual Syndrome
Lack of or low intake of calcium into your body impact negatively on levels of estrogen and progesterone that will trigger a condition called premenstrual syndrome. This is a condition that affects women that is why it is recommended women should take 1000 grams of calcium on a daily basis.
Prevents Heart Diseases
It is evident that if you take enough calcium in your daily diet, then you will be reducing the risk of being attacked by hypertension or cardiovascular diseases. Presence of calcium in the body will help in transmission of nerves and functioning of muscles. Muscles in the body are like the heart, blood vessels that undergo innervation of your nervous system. Similarly, lack of calcium can lead to high blood pressure and related heart problems.
May Prevent Cancer
Experts advise that sufficient intake of calcium may combat three types of cancer that is breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and colorectal cancer. However, the calcium should be taken moderately because too much of it may cause prostate cancer. However, it is still advisable to take calcium as a measure of avoiding cancer.
Enhancing Fetal Development
Development of the body entirely relies on the intake of calcium. On the other hand, the skeletal body structure is also based on your intake of calcium. Expectant women are therefore advised to take enough calcium that will help the fetus in developing and growing. Similarly, a baby who developed well before birth will keep health as it grows even after delivery


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So far we have seen how a Dynamics CRM integration can be connected to Azure ML to receive the predictions. Once we got the integration going there is no dearth of possibilities. You may like to build an alert / flagging functionality that can alert a Customer Service rep to contact a customer if their predictors are indicating that they might churn. You may incorporate predictions into exec reporting so that the execs are aware of the churn trends and make decisions to minimise churn.
One of the things I discussed at the start of this series was to be able to get some insights into the key drivers of customer churn e.g. how do you know which features are most likely to cause churn. Answering such questions begins with analysing your data, few starting points can be
1. From your data find out what fields change with respect to the Churn variable e.g. does the churn rate increase as the income of the customer goes up or is it dependent on their usage?
There are measures like correlation, covariance, entropy, etc that can help you answer such questions.
2. Find the distribution of your data and identify any outliers e.g. check if there is a skew in the data or if the classes are unbalanced. You may need to apply some statistical techniques like variance, standard deviation to have a better platform to delve into some of these insights.
Azure Machine Learning does provide some modules straight off the bat that can make the job easier e.g. it has the following modules
Getting advanced insights can be tricky based on your algorithm or setup of the experiment (project). But there are ways e.g. with bit of a Python code you can produce a decision rule tree below. The last label in the box class= {LEAVE, STAY} tells us if the customer will churn based on what path they fall under
Above is the automatically generated insight that tells us that overage is most important variable in deciding customer churn. If overage exceeds 97.5 then a customer is more likely to churn, this does not mean that every customer whose overage is more than 97.5 will churn nor does it mean that whose overage is less than that will stay. It is just that Overage is the strongest indicator of churn based on our data.
We can even derive decision rules from insights like these e.g. customers with overage less than 97.5 and Leftover minutes less than 24.5 minutes are most likely to stay. On the contrary customers with overage more than 97.5 and average income more than $100059.5 are most likely to leave.
Here is another one that shows the impact of House Value, Handset Value and other features on the churn
Once decision rules have been identified based on the above insights, policies can be made to retain such customers who are at risk of churn e.g. give them discounts, offer them a change of plan, prize them with loyalty offerings, etc.
Where to from here?
Hopefully by now you appreciate the potential of machine learning and recognise the opportunity it provides when it is complemented with traditional information systems like CRMs, ERPs and Document Management systems. The field of machine learning is enormous and sometimes quite complex too as it based on scientific techniques and mathematics. You need to understand and lot of theory if you need to get into the black box i.e. how machine learning does what it does?
But great thing about using Azure Machine Learning suite is that it makes entry into machine learning easier by taking care of the complexities and giving you an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use environment. You have full control over the data structure and algorithms used in your project. It can be tuned as per the needs of your organisation to receive the best possible results.
For example you can tune the example I provided in the following different ways
1. Rather than going with Random Forest you can choose Support Vector Machines or Neural Networks and compare the results.
2. You are not restricted to Javascript, you can call the web services from a plugin. That way in a data migration scenario, while you are importing data you can set the prediction scores as the data is being imported
3. You can also change the threshold of confidence percentage to ignore the predictions score where confidence is less than a certain amount.
So there are lot of possibilities. Hope you enjoyed the series.
Happy CRM + ML!!


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By Columbus ex-pat Hanif Abdurraqib
When I come back home to visit, I always drive. People often ask, man…why don't you just fly?
And the most reasonable answer is, well…because there are no direct flights to Grandpa's Cheesebarn, of course.
At the conclusion of another trip back home to Ohio this spring, I found myself sitting in the parking lot of Grandpa's Cheesebarn at 10:30 a.m. It was a Sunday, and they don't open until 11 a.m. on Sundays. I knew this, and purposely delayed the start of my trip back to my new home of Connecticut just so that I could pop in before exiting my beloved home state once again. Around 10:45, someone who I would like to imagine probably recognized my face from all of my trips there (but in reality, someone who just felt pity for a person sitting in an otherwise empty parking lot on a Sunday morning) opened up and let me in early.
In a way, that is the best representation of my relationship with Grandpa's Cheesebarn: I'm always waiting for it to let me in again, sometimes even directly after I leave it.
I left Ohio in July of 2014 to officially become a resident of the Northeast. A land with very few barns, none of them holding any cheese and/or finely smoked meats inside. The history of Grandpa's Cheesebarn is a bit vague, and I'm no detective. According to lore, in the early-1900s, some dude named Grandpa Yarman only had one possession, and it was a portable RCA radio. And he apparently decided to sell it for a wheel of Swiss cheese. Shortly after eating this wheel of Swiss cheese, it seems that he was like, "Alright, time to start smoking some meats," and then his reputation spread through all Ohio. I imagine that his reputation was also that of a liar, since he clearly had more possessions than just that portable RCA radio. Seems like he may have also had a meat smoker. But, again, I'm not here to play detective. The only complaint I have about Grandpa's Cheesebarn is that it doesn't take out of date electronics as payment for cheese. If Grandpa Yarman could exchange an RCA radio for a wheel of Swiss, why can't I take my old Sony Discman in there and get some aged Ohio cheddar? It's a mystery, really.
There aren't many places one can stop and sample homegrown cheese and meat, and shake hands with a guy named "Grandpa."
It becomes a bit more of a tourist pit stop every time I'm back. I don't particularly mind that. Ashland, Ohio, isn't exactly famous for anything else. (It proclaims to be the "World Headquarters of Nice People," though the folks working at the Perkins next to Grandpa's Cheesebarn don't appear to have gotten that memo). I've driven almost all around the country. There aren't many places one can stop and sample homegrown cheese and meat, shake hands with a guy named "Grandpa"—the third generation of his kind—and hear stories about the 1930s and '40s when the Cheesebarn clawed its way through The Depression. Then you can head right next door to Sweeties Jumbo Chocolate shop to see what kind of fudge has been prepared for the day.
There just aren't many treasures like that on the road anymore. It reminds me of home, and what I've always loved most about Ohio. Where you can find a small beacon in the midst of all of the dead grass and water towers. Stop, be fed, laugh, leave full and happy. It is true that Ohio is a lot of things—not all of them great—but that's the thing I don't ever want to see change. Not just Grandpa's Cheesebarn itself, but the comfort it represents.


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- 3 slices wholemeal bread
- 1/3 bunch parsley
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- 1 ½ cups cold mashed potato
- 1 egg
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Without cleaning bowl, add tuna flakes, mash and egg and mix reverse speed 4 until combined (about 10 seconds).
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Monck Provincial Park
Monck Provincial park is located amidst the open rolling hills of Nicola Valley, 22 km north of Merritt. This family-friendly park sits on the north shore of Nicola Lake and is surrounded by ranchland. The hot, dry climate of this area makes all water-based activities a delight here: swimming, canoeing, waterskiing, and windsurfing can all be greatly enjoyed on Nicola Lake. For those interested in fishing, Nicola Lake is reputed to have 26 species of fish, including rainbow trout and kokanee. There are 5 kilometres of interpretive walking trails in this park providing spectacular views of Nicola Valley. The campsites are set on a gently sloping hillside with easy access to the lake.
|Campsite privacy
|Fun for kids
|Lots of shade
Number of campsites: 120, reservable: 72, nearest town: Merritt (22 km)
Additional Information
This park is located on the north shore of Nicola Lake, 22 km north of Merritt, 12 km off Hwy 5A via narrow paved road.
Contact Information
B/L Parks Contracting Ltd.
E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Gatehouse and park information: 1-250-315-0253 (May to September)
Please go to www.discovercamping.ca to reserve a campsite.
Camping Information
Vehicle Accessible Camping Fee: $19.00 per party / night.BC Senior Rate (Labour Day to June 14 only): $9.50 per senior couple/night.
Operation Dates
Campground opening and closing dates: April 15 – October 31. Campground dates with full fees and services: May 1 – September 30.
Campground reservable dates: May 8 - September 7.
Vehicle Accessible Camping
Monck provides 120 vehicle accessible campsites, including 17 double sites. Sites are sunny but each receives some shade throughout the day. Most sites can accommodate larger units.
Picnic Areas
The day-use area is located next to the lake on a large grassy field. There are 40 picnic tables; 15 of them have a roof shelter. There are a few ponderosa pine trees to provide some shade. There is a large parking area adjacent to the day-use. No campfires are allowed in the day use area.
RV Sani Station
There is a sani-station near the entrance of the park. Sani-station Use Fee: $2.00 per discharge.
There is an adventure playground and horseshoe pitch near the day-use area.
Boat Launch
There is a concrete boat launch located next to the day-use area.
Wheel Chair Accessibility
The flush toilet buildings each have 2 stalls that are wheelchair accessible.
Rainbow trout and kokanee are the most common fish, however there are 26 species of fish in the lake.
There is a 5 km self-guided interpretive hiking trail that loops around the park. In 2005, the Park added 1.3 km of trail to the east of the existing upper trails. The loop is best walked from the upper end.
Swimming is very popular at the sandy beach. There are marker buoys sectioning off the swimming area.
Canoeing / Kayaking
Canoes and kayaks should stay close to the shore due to high winds occurring daily on the lake.
Waterskiing is popular on Nicola Lake.
Wind Surfing
Windsurfing is very popular on Nicola Lake due to the daily high winds this area receives.
Wildlife Watching
Excellent bird-watching opportunities are available in spring and fall. There are deer and bear sightings in the fall.
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After losing my job last summer I thought I could become an Etsy sensation. I quickly learned that there are a lot of great things on Etsy and I was drowning in the mix. Not only was I drowning on Etsy, I was competing with free printables I was founding through Pinterest and some of them are amazing.
Here is my first ever round-up of free printables that I did not design. I have linked the printable to the number on the image. I hope you enjoy these prints as much as I do.


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Free Digital Stock Photography
Digital photography has many applications in many spheres in the real world. Free digital stock photography is not used to connote that you will get the digital pictures for free. If you are getting the digital stock photography that is free from royalty you will need to pay the fees only for one time for a particular photograph. You can from the next time use the photographs without any cost. It is up to the wish of the customer for how many times he will use the free digital stock photography. Generally it can be used for many times and for quite a long time.
But the fact is that for such free digital stock photography you may once pay the price but use it many times but the royalty still is remaining with the original photographer. It is also the fact that the free digital stock photography that is obtained cannot be sold at any condition. Only the permission for usage has been obtained by paying the price for once. The usage of the royalty free digital stock photography is also restricted.
When the customer who have acquired the free digital stock photographs he must understand the terms and conditions for usage of the photographs. In some cases they may be allowed to use the photographs on the websites they own. In many cases they may not have the publication right of the pictures. And in some cases the sale is done on the basis of printing purpose or the use for electronic purpose only.
Theses types of photographs
are available in many cases and are gradually becoming all the rage among many.
They are accessible on the various CD's and also on different websites. But
these types of free digital stock photography also have some disadvantages
associated with it. Anyone can purchase these photographs. Free digital stock photography
can be even used as many times as the user wants. So the purchaser is not aware
that the same photographs they are purchasing can be used by the other user at
the same time.
The customers can get the photographs from the websites. By the free stock photography the digital photographs have achieved a new dimension. The photographers take the picture and put forward the photographs to the agencies dealing in stock photography. They can also use the photographs to create their websites and in this way they create their own public relations.
There are no fixed
categories of the photographs and there are many types of photos that are
available. Generally the deliveries of the photos are from the electronic
mails. Thus this even reduces the cost of delivery. So enjoy the service of
free digital stock photography to get the optimum benefit from the different
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text: Dave writes, Milo (Bodacious was his former name) is doing just fine. He is over the Kennel Cough he came home with and his surgery has heeled fine. He is the brown dog with the chew bone in the photos. The other dog (Finney) came from Furry Pals at about the same time, he is thought to be 10 months old and Milo a year and a half. They get along very well as you can see from the second picture, in fact they liked each other from the first minute. Being young dogs they play constantly, in fact, they are the first dogs I have ever had who will play tug of war with each other. They must have had some house training before I got them because that has been a minimal issue and now seems to be resolved almost completely. They are both people dogs, getting along with everyone who comes to the house; Milo is a lover, if there is a lap around he will be in it. While they can be in the back yard as much as they want they mostly follow me around. They are great dogs and are well on their way to many happy years.


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Important Things to Remember When Registering Your Litter with the UCA
The sire and dam of the litter must be UCA registered before the litter will be registered. You may send in the single registration application at the same time that you register the litter.
The sire and the dam of the litter must be in the current owners' name in our files before the litter will be registered. You may send in the transfer of ownership at the same time that you register the litter.
If the owner of the sire is different from the owner of the litter the owner of the sire must fill out and sign the litter registration application on the top portion of the litter registration application before the litter will be UCA registered.
Please remember to register all of your dogs on the litter application. If you do not register all of the dogs in the litter the dogs that were missed may not be able to be registered at a future time. If a pup is still alive it is in your best interest to register the pup at the time
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Jaya Remond: "Nature's imprint/nature in print"
- Date: –15:00
- Location: Engelska parken - The Rausing Room
- Organiser: Department of History of Science and Ideas
- Contact person: H. Otto Sibum
- Seminarium
Office for History of Science
Jaya Remond, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: "Nature's imprint/nature in print: The challenges of depicting exotic plants in France and the Netherlands ca. 1600-1700"
My paper explores prints and drawings depicting exotic plants—mostly from the New World—made in France and the Netherlands ca. 1600-1700. Focusing on the graphic production of figures as diverse as botanist Charles Plumier and artist Maria Sybilla Merian, I look at the intrinsic construction of pictures to explain some mechanisms of knowledge-making, particularly the control of image-makers over the production chain of knowledge from the first drawing to the finished print: ultimately, printing nature is about capturing nature's imprint and truth. Such graphic productions question the epistemic status of botanical images: did the discovery of species largely unknown until then in the West generate a special kind of visual attention? How did it stimulate new practices of observation and description? What was at stake in the adoption of certain pictorial strategies, particularly zoomed-in and up close views of plants? Drawing upon my on-going research on discourses and practices of botanical image-making, I hope to shed some light on the operations that turn the act of observation into a graphic act.


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LAT Home
What happened on July 10, 2005
Cool hangouts next to the pool
Jane Engle, Times Staff Writer
Agents closing their office doors and going home to work
Jane Engle, Times Staff Writer
A shutterbug family comes of digital age
Mary McNamara, Times Staff Writer
Vacation + kids = ingenuity
Judi Dash
Deal of the week
Another fan hears the beat of Barcelona
Your aim must be straight and true
Sandwiches she has known, loved
Susan Spano, Times Staff Writer
He who books late gets the cheap cruise
Arthur Frommer, Special to The Times
A tour from the top down
Maggie Barnett, Times Staff Writer
Angling for the sunset over Bali
Fur flies about animal passengers
Budget Caribbean cruising
Jane Engle
A fresh surprise in Old Europe
Beverly Beyette, Times Staff Writer
At Wynn's namesake, he's on par with himself
Tom Gorman, Times Staff Writer
Less-trod trails near San Miguel
Judith Fein, Special to The Times
What's in a star? That depends on the hotel rating service
James Gilden, Special to The Times
Billionaire on Malibu: I'll take it!
Ruth Ryon, Times Staff Writer
Amid Santa Ana's bustle, fanciful Floral Park
Tony Dodero, Special to The Times
Secret retreat among the trees
Ruth Ryon, Times Staff Writer
Average mortgage rates and indexes
Boomers' shifting demands reshape lending industry
Tom Kelly, Special to The Times
Help! My apartment's going condo
H. May Spitz, Special to The Times
Clients, agents and friends
Smoking restrictions in condos, apartments
Where there's brush ...
Jennifer Lisle, Special to The Times
Planting the seeds of fire prevention
Jennifer Lisle, Special to The Times
Users of Assistance Dogs Leave a Trail of Lawsuits
Myron Levin, Times Staff Writer
Banks Ignore Tools to Protect Consumers
Nobody Does Web Radio Better Than BBC
David Colker, Times Staff Writer
Scrushy's Acquittal Could Turn Off Believers
Making California a Safe Place for Consumers
Kathy M. Kristof, Times Staff Writer
CNOOC's Threat Already Reality
Avoid the Pitfalls of Portfolio Inertia
Tom Petruno, Times Staff Writer
Electrical Unions Versus Solar Contractors
Amgen's GDNF Shows Signs of Effectiveness
Cleaning Up the Mess From the 20th Century
A Good Reason to Stay Home to Watch Movies
Rivals, and Friends?
Charles Duhigg, Times Staff Writer
'Open Wide'
Hillary Johnson, Hillary Johnson blogs daily about beauty at www.jackandhill.net.
Bright Whites, Big City
Meghan Daum, Meghan Daum is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.
The Great Alaskan Morel Rush of '05
Nancy Rommelmann, Nancy Rommelmann last wrote for the magazine on home funerals and green burials.
The Last Resort
Rwanda's Evil Hits Home
Still a Woman's World
A Senior Moment
Dan Neil
Now Really Is the Time to Embrace Green Design
The Latest Picture Show
Vive les Ants
Numerical Order
Ellen Slezak, Ellen Slezak is the author of a novel, "All These Girls," and a short-story collection, "Last Year's Jesus," both published by Hyperion.
The Red Sox's Bloodiest Day
J.R. Moehringer, J.R. Moehringer is a Times national correspondent.
A Surprise in the Ring
Kurt Streeter, Times Staff Writer
Marine Cpl. Carlos Pineda, 23, Los Angeles; Killed During a Rescue
Jessica Gresko, Times Staff Writer
Claude Simon, 91; French Novelist Won Nobel Prize in 1985
From Associated Press
Olvera Street's Steed
Veronica Torrejon, Times Staff Writer
Keeping the Faith in Public Television
Dana Parsons, Dana Parsons' column appears Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. He can be reached at (714) 966-7821 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. An archive of his recent columns is at www.latimes.com/parsons.
Motorist Killed on Pomona Freeway
From Times Staff Reports
Motorcyclist Dies After Hitting Telephone Pole
From Times Staff Reports
5 Injured as MTA Bus Is Rear-Ended
From Times Staff Reports
Election Strategy Drove Budget Accord
Evan Halper, Times Staff Writer
Other Deaths
Bill Targets Scams Against Seniors
Catherine Saillant, Times Staff Writer
Courtroom Drama Ahead for KOCE?
Jeff Gottlieb, Times Staff Writer
Woman Is Injured in Car-to-Car Shooting
From Times Staff Reports
Rosemead Man Dies in Parking Lot Crash
From Times Staff Reports
A Ride-Along Through History of Crime Busters
Cecilia Rasmussen, Times Staff Writer
Today's highlights at the O.C. Fair
Filmmaker Held in Iraq to Be Freed
Henry Weinstein, Times Staff Writer
Job Seekers Hope to Erase Past Mistakes
Doug Smith, Times Staff Writer
Farm Collectives Cultivate Ties to School Lunch Plans
Fred Alvarez, Times Staff Writer
Cameras on Watch Across L.A.
Jessica Gresko and Natasha Lee, Times Staff Writers
Capital of Campaign Mailers
Mark Z. Barabak, Times Staff Writer
Umberg Is Retiring From Reserve Duty
From a Times Staff Writer
Lillian Kinkella Keil, 88; 'an Airborne Florence Nightingale'
Valerie J. Nelson, Times Staff Writer
A Surprise in the Ring
By Kurt Streeter, Times Staff Writer
Army National Guard Sgt. Arnold Duplantier II, 26, Sacramento; Killed in a Sniper Attack
Wendy Thermos, Times Staff Writer
Trial Ordered in Slaying of Sportswriter
From Associated Press
TV Thief Regains Life Taken by Jail Sentence
Elliott Minor, Associated Press Writer
Humans Declare War on Baboons
Clare Nullis, Associated Press Writer
New Penalty Trial Set in Nevada Attack
From Associated Press
Orthodox Church Seeks Independence From Moscow
Mara D. Bellaby, Associated Press Writer
To Shape Up, Ship Pulled Out
Anthony Deutsch, Associated Press
U.S. Routinely Frees These Illegal Crossers
Pauline Arrillaga, Associated Press Writer
Hurricane Dennis Races Toward U.S.
Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post
Orphans Help Father Cope With Grief
Aida Cerkez-Robinson, Associated Press Writer
Military Gears Up for a New Battle of the Bulge
Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press Writer
Researchers Feeling Pressure to Fake Data
Martha Mendoza, Associated Press Writer
A brilliant, original mind
Miranda Seymour, Miranda Seymour is the author of many books, including "Robert Graves: Life on the Edge," "Mary Shelley" and "Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend."
Bestsellers / Paperbacks
Susan Salter Reynolds
Tale of family baggage shatters a tote-full of taboos
Jane Ciabattari, Jane Ciabattari is the author of the short-story collection "Stealing the Fire."
Martian mayhem
Gavin J. Grant, Gavin J. Grant is co-editor of the 2004 and 2005 editions of "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror."
Dining on discourses of the intellectual elite
James D. Squires, James D. Squires is the former editor of the Chicago Tribune and the author of "Read All About It! The Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers."
Crime and wit in the City of Angels
Dick Lochte, Dick Lochte is a critic of crime fiction and author of the suspense thriller "Sleeping Dog."
All was right -- and wrong -- with the world
David J. Garrow, David J. Garrow is the author of "Bearing the Cross," a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and an editorial advisor for "Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963."
Hearts, minds of POWs were in their hands
Claire Panosian Dunavan, Claire Panosian Dunavan is a tropical medicine specialist, a medical writer and a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
The damaged child inside the man
Heller McAlpin, Heller McAlpin is a regular contributor to Book Review and other publications.
Blood and vengeance: All in a day's work
Eugen Weber, Eugen Weber is a contributing writer to Book Review.
Wendy Smith, Wendy Smith is the author of "Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940."
A pearl of poetry and paint
Stanley Meisler, Special to The Times
Corgan rocks
The foley field is some racket
Susan King, Times Staff Writer
Your phone plays 'name that tune'
Chris Pasles
A wrong done to Frank Lloyd Wright
These shows may not have a prayer
Mike Boehm
Seeing is believing for DVDs
Steve Hochman, Special to The Times
A golden state for art buyers
Diane Haithman
Scroungers? Not
Strength in numbers
Soren Baker
To think like the masters
Carina Chocano, Times Staff Writer
Stars help get things started at the Bowl
Ready to patch up those who suffer for their art
Susan King
A change in the recipe
Natalie Nichols
So ... is life still a cabaret?
Matthew Gurewitsch, Special to The Times
It's a 'Wicked' good party
This isn't Eazy's street
Soren Baker
Spanish accented
Robert Abele
To think like the masters
Peter Rainer, Special to The Times
Surprise arrival in the big time
David Gritten, Special to The Times
At HBO, the bonfire of the vanity projects
Tim Burton gets squirrelly in 'Charlie'
Susan King
Charting romantic travails
Natalie Nichols
Plain-spoken to a fault
Steve Hochman
Taking both sides of Middle East conflict
Shlomi Simhi, Times Staff Writer
A flickering light amid the darkness
Scott Martelle, Times Staff Writer
Rumination rock, anyone?
Mikel Jolett
Call of the wild
Robert W. Welkos, Times Staff Writer
Vince Vaughn takes humor seriously
John Cook, Special to The Times
It's a return to the dark side
Susan King
Playing The Field
Adam Baer, Special to The Times
Lack of Flexibility Hurts McPherson
Mike DiGiovanna, Times Staff Writer
O'Brien's Play Good as Gold in U.S. Victory
Grahame L. Jones, Times Staff Writer
Russia Leads U.S. in Fed Cup
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Palmeiro Does His Share for Orioles
From Associated Press
These Rivals Under Pressure
Paul Gutierrez, Times Staff Writer
Armstrong, With Little Help, Is Feeling the Heat
Diane Pucin, Times Staff Writer
Broken Bone Sidelines Halladay
From Associated Press
Harvick Wins Busch Series Race
From Associated Press
Cerritos Lifts Earthquakes Over Crew
From Associated Press
Child's Play Is Fine, but Let's Be Adults About It
T.J. Simers
West Win Has Very Familiar Ring to It
From Associated Press
Michels Earns Two Victories at Irwindale
Steven Herbert
Mobley Is Target for the Clippers
Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer
Dodgers Give In Weakly
Steve Henson, Times Staff Writer
It's Another Road Loss for the Galaxy
Brian Costa, Newsday
Lewis Extends His Lead to Three
From Associated Press
Runaway Ride
Thomas Bonk, Times Staff Writer
Angels, Lackey Three Falling
Mike DiGiovanna, Times Staff Writer
Surf Cat Remains Calm Amid a Storm and Wins
Bill Christine, Times Staff Writer
He Was Always a Player of Some Note
Larry Stewart, Times Staff Writer
Rockies' 1-0 Win Is One for Books
From Associated Press
Rogge Wants to Show It's Democracy First
Alan Abrahamson, Times Staff Writer
Big Fields at Churchill
Robles Turns Into Money Well-Spent
Steve Henson, Times Staff Writer
Chivas USA Ends Its Misery in Grand Style
Paul Gutierrez, Times Staff Writer
Radio, TV Stations Side With Angels
Bill Shaikin
One in a Million
Bill Plaschke
Pine Tar Still a Sticky Matter for Angels
Tim Brown
State Honor for El Camino Real
From Times Staff Reports
The facts
Recent Attacks Raise Olympic Stakes Yet Again
Jim Litke, Associated Press
Hayden Looks to Come Full Circle at Raceway
Shav Glick, Times Staff Writer
Lava Man Runs Hot in Gold Cup Romp
Bill Christine, Times Staff Writer
It's Tennis' Best-Kept Secret
Lisa Dillman, Times Staff Writer
Gold Cup Today
Paul Gutierrez
Costa Rica Wins and Advances
Grahame L. Jones
Vintage Men and the Sea
Pete Thomas, Times Staff Writer
Historic Home Run Made '71 a Classic
From Associated Press
Hogwarts fans, you're stupid, stupid, stupid
A mother's gratitude
Image revolution
High aims, mixed results
Comet show is a big hit
Three Jokes
Time is running out for the bad guys
Accountability Corner
Michael Soller
Reporters aren't above the law
An attractive King/Drew
Race and character
Blogotorials are bad, bad, bad
Jamie Court, Jamie Court, author of "Corporateering," is president of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.
Bush acts like a dictator
The real danger
Reading between the lines on juror's remarks
Term limits: Time's up?
A note about Current
Bob Sipchen, Editor, Current
The latest fictions on a horror story
Ava Chin
Out of order!
Joel Pett, Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.
Pity poor 'unpack'
Brendan Buhler
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pervez Hoodbhoy is a member of the Pugwash Council and is professor of nuclear and high-energy physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
His media muscle has gone flabby
Laurence Leamer, Laurence Leamer is the author of "Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger."
Evil targets God's chosen
Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager's nationally syndicated radio show is heard daily in Los Angeles on KRLA-AM (870). He may be contacted through his website: www.dennisprager.com.
The Patriot Act and how patriots act
Al Qaeda answers CIA's hiring call
Michael Sulick, Michael Sulick is a former CIA associate deputy director for operations and former CIA chief of counterintelligence.
We can't win this war the old way
Timothy Garton Ash, Timothy Garton Ash is professor of European studies at Oxford University and a Hoover Institution senior fellow.
By The Numbers
Box office blues stem from blue-state bigotry
Govindini Murty, Govindini Murty is an actress, screenwriter and co-director of the Liberty Film Festival. She is also a film columnist for Newsmax.com and editor of Libertas, a leading blog for conservative discussion on film: www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas.
Police Arrest Suspect in Black Church Fires
From Times Wire Reports
Cost Expected to Rise for Catholic Sex Abuse Cases
From Times Wire Reports
Discovery Crew in Place for Wednesday Launch
From Times Wire Reports
Church Vandalized After Gay Marriage Endorsed
From Times Wire Reports
FBI Investigates Arson Attempt at Mosque
From Times Wire Reports
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At the end of the second day of shading, we threw this little guy on her hand.
She'd asked for it last time, but we didn't really get around to it. This visit, she walked in the door and I think the first thing she asked was if we could do her hand this time.
I don't take doing hand or neck work very lightly at all, so it really has to be the right combination of client and image. After having known her for a couple years combined with the amount of tattoo work she's already got, I was super comfortable doing it.
Drew it up on the spot and it felt good to capture the moment and go for it.
I'm really happy with how it fit on the hand and ties in to the rest of the arm without having to bring the background down all the way.
For a hand tattoo, I really like seeing some skin around it. I think that helps set it off, and not just look like they pulled their sleeves down and have stumpy arms...


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Shahab-1 missile is rated at 120 miles respectively. The Sajjil-2 missile is Iran's most advanced two-stage surface-to-surface missile with a 1200 mile range.
Shahab-3 uses a combination of solid and liquid fuel in its most advanced form, which is also known as the Qadr-F1. It can carry a nuclear war head. Solid fuel is seen as a technological breakthrough for any missile program as solid fuel increases the accuracy of missiles in reaching targets.
Fateh, Tondar and Zelzal missiles, which have a range of 120 miles, 93 miles and 130 miles respectively.
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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. I installed the Asset Forge from itch.io.
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On this day, October 27, 1948, Bernie Wrightson was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Wrightson is best known for his horror illustrations and comic book art. He did the Famous Artists School course and then began working for The Baltimore Sun as an illustrator in 1966. He was inspired to produce his own stories, creating Swamp Thing with writer Len Wein.
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Since we've just wrapped up the holiday party season, I decided to post a dessert recipe that is easy on the waistline. Baked apples are naturally gluten-free, easy to make, and delicious, plus you use not-so-stellar apples if you have them. On top of that, you can make as many as you need (1? 12?) and they can go into an oven with pretty much anything else.
Wash your apples well and core them cleanly. Some recipes recommend leaving a little bit uncored at the bottom so that the filling doesn't fall out, but this always seemed a bit too fiddly to me. You can peel them if you want (I never do) but if you , rub them with a cut lemon to keep them from turning brown. Place them in a baking dish that will hold them all without crowding them or leaving loads of extra room. Make your filling with anything you have around the kitchen – dried fruit, nuts, flaxseed, coconut, other fruit such as pears or pineapple, cubes of stale cake, bits of stale cookie, whatever you think would taste nice. The classic combination is raisins and walnuts, but grated carrot, coconut, raisins, and walnuts is nice and a bit reminiscent of carrot cake. Coconut with stale cake cubes would be nice, as would raisins and stale cookies. I wouldn't recommend anything that melts, like chocolate, but almost anything goes.
Bind your filling with something slightly sticky, like honey or a syrup. Alternately, you can whip sugar into margarine and bind the filling with that. It doesn't need to stick together completely, rather just slightly. Stuff the cored bits of the apples with your filling all the way to the top of the apple. Top each apple with the tiniest dollop of margarine and about a teaspoon's worth of sugar. Fill the pan with enough water to cover the bottom and sprinkle in a bit more sugar if you want a thicker syrup. Pop in a medium oven until the apples are soft, between 45 minutes and one hour. Baste apples with the pan water syrup at the bottom when you take them out, and eat hot or cold.


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If you have just upgraded the air pump in your car exhaust's air injection system, it would also be better if you pair the new part with a higher-quality hose - the OES Genuine air pump hose is a good choice. The air injection unit is a supporting assembly to your exhaust system, and it is designed to help trigger some sort of combustion in the exhaust. The purpose is not to improve performance, but to burn the fuel that may have not been burned in the engine. This unburned fuel poses a great threat to the environment once released, so it has to be burned while on its way to being discharged. The air injection is designed to supply the air needed for fuel burning.
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"A work that probes deeply into the African background of a community of people in the African diaspora and shows how particular social and political conditions in their African place of origin influenced the ways in which they coped with and creatively responded to the harsh realities of slave life in the Americas. . . . The contention that new identities constructed in the America—like Coromantee—had real meaning for those who identified with those labels is important and timely. The strength of the work is its attention to the fluid and dynamic nature of culture and identity." —Rebecca Shumway, College of Charleston
"Walter Rucker explores the origins and fates of one African regional group, known as Coromantees, in just the way that Afro-Atlantic history should be done, through careful study of the primary sources of the time in both Africa and the Americas. In so doing he has made a stellar contribution to the study of the way in which Africans and African culture was disseminated across the Atlantic." —John Thornton, Boston University
"A profound, original study denying slavery meant social death and explaining how diverse lower class enslaved Gold Coast Africans reconstituted themselves as a coherent, unified, defiant culture group known as Coromanti and A(Mina) in the Americas." —Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Michigan State University
"An impressive monograph highlighted by a prodigious body of original research spanning three continents. Gold Coast Diasporasreveals a deep engagement with the most important work in the field even as it pushes the historiography forward in wonderfully innovative ways. This book is both a call to action and a model for future research. His discussion of 'commoner consciousness' and 'social resurrection' will likely guide the way we discuss cultural identity in the African diaspora for years to come." —Jason Young, Michigan


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You can prepare this for a special holiday, the day before.
• 2 lbs/1 kg mascarpone cheese
• 8 egg yolks
• 7 oz (200g) sugar
• 17 fl oz (500ml) liquid cream
• 21 oz (600g) ladyfingers
• 2 cups espresso coffee
• 5 fl oz (150ml) rum
• 2 packs vanilla sugar
• cocoa for decorating
• chocolate cream
• chocolate whole cereals/ walnuts/ peanuts
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Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar until they become a thick paste; add the whisked mascarpone, the cream and the vanilla sugar and mix together until thoroughly combined.
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In a shallow plate, mix the cold espresso with the rum.
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In a large enough trey, place plastic wrap. On the bottom, place a layer of mixture cream. Dip each ladyfinger for a few seconds on both sides in coffee, then place it above the first layer. Repeat: one layer cream, 1 layer ladyfingers.
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The allure of playing with technology for advertising efforts is stronger today than ever before. The ability to turn an advertising story into an all-consuming, always-on, everywhere narrative through digital, social, mobile and more is incredibly exciting for those in the marketing and advertising business. The problem is that many creatives get caught up in the delivery and forget the importance of a good story. Here are two illustrations of what good and bad looks like.
Johnson's Baby follows the lead of Pampers in Brazil to give new moms an experience that would make their pregnancy and child's birth one to truly remember. As part of the pregnancy women often get an ultrasound to see how their unborn baby is holding up. The purpose of those visits it to ensure that everything is alright. Johnson's Baby wanted to turn it into a much more powerful emotional experience. To accomplish this, they found an ingenious way of turning ultrasound data points into musical notes, thus turning the ultrasound reading into a symphony. In other words, a mother could hear the melodic power of her unborn baby. The video is very powerful. Have a look.
A less exciting example of how technology is used to create a unique experience comes from Mercedes. To be honest, I am a big fan of much of the work that Mercedes does, but this project is simply too smart. They are trying to do experiments where they create magical experiences and happenings that reflect an engineering feature on or in one of their cars. The exercise is simple and nice to watch but it feels like a compromise idea. If they really wanted to show car features in and exciting way, how about take inspiration from VW's Fun Theory (see here).


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Day 236: 10/23/2013 Entry
I love tea. I used to drink at least a cup every single day. I haven't been able to touch it since Brandon's death…I haven't wanted to.
Yet I have started to enjoy drinking it again. 236 days…236 days without wanting to touch any of my tea, and I have finally been able to brew a cup, hold it in my hand, watch the steam rise and the loose leaf flakes settle to the bottom, and feel a little slice of peace.
This is such a small thing, but it feels monumental. This is such a small thing, but it's a NORMAL thing…I'm doing something normal, something that I used to love, again. I'm able to enjoy doing something I used to love, without him. It breaks my heart.
I don't want to ever enjoy anything I used to love without him…yet it seems that is a fight I cannot win, no matter how much I try to dig my heels in. Time keeps marching on, and with every passing second, minute, hour, day – I get further and further away from him, from us. And that is a road I do not want to follow. But it is a road I cannot leave.


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I like my LS-25 Mk II - you might listen to an Ayre
Looking to upgrade my preamp, suggestions?
Decided it is time to try out a newer preamp, have upgraded everything else over last couple of months bar this so...
Present pre is an ARC LS2 with gold lion tube and herbies tube damper.
Rest is Esoteric sa-50, bat vk600se and b&w 804d.
Listen exclusively to rock music, old and new
Important to myself, solid bass, vocals and soundstage, a remote might be nice too...lol
Thinking along the lines so far of bat vk32se, a newer ARC like ls17 or 27. Yes all tubes
Suggestions along solid state lines please?
budget is about 3500 max
Prefer to hear from actual owners of preamps suggested for your actual experiences
thank you all in advance
Present pre is an ARC LS2 with gold lion tube and herbies tube damper.
Rest is Esoteric sa-50, bat vk600se and b&w 804d.
Listen exclusively to rock music, old and new
Important to myself, solid bass, vocals and soundstage, a remote might be nice too...lol
Thinking along the lines so far of bat vk32se, a newer ARC like ls17 or 27. Yes all tubes
Suggestions along solid state lines please?
budget is about 3500 max
Prefer to hear from actual owners of preamps suggested for your actual experiences
thank you all in advance
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Yeah lots of ARC used options in your price range would no doubt be good options. One other that has recently piqued my interest is Linear Tube Audio. They now have a remote version of their preamp at half your price range new, and I think they offer in-home trials that would be great at least for perspective if nothing else. Another good option would be VAC, but they're pretty tough to find used in your price range.
I'd hesitate to recommend a solid state pre. I just think you're used to the tubed sound, and although there are certainly some great solid state pres out there that may indeed help in the bass area there may be other trade-offs that might not be worth it. Plus there are so many great tubed options out there. FWIW and best of luck.
If you want used, my BAT VK51SE originally sold for $9k, but I see them go for just about your $3500 budget. It would have nice synergy w/your amp. I've considered replacing it a couple of times and just couldn't find anything that suited me more without spending a boatload. The solid metal remote, mono switch, polarity switch, programmable name display, and programmable volume for each input all combine to make it very convenient. I always like to think of myself as someone who won't sacrifice sound quality for convenience, but I must admit these features are useful and nice to have.
If buying new, I strongly suggest checking out Backert Labs preamps. They sound amazing, are a tube roller's dream and offer great value. If I ever make a change, that's the first brand I will consider. Cheers,
I decided to go with some convenience factors as well just to reduce the amount of "boxes" all connected up!
Went with a McIntosh C48. which has yet to arrive so hopefully not a bad choice, but this will allow me to get rid of the phono preamp, the headphone amp and to plug the digital inputs from the tv and the Vault direct into the Mac rather than going through the Esoteric.
Sometimes it cannot all just be purely what is the best sound but a compromise as well.
Hopefully the sound will not be a compromise but will soon know!
I use a premium streaming service DEEZER, 16/48 and vinyl but most of my content is from DEEZER. I listen to old and new hard and prog rock. My system also consists of a older class D Rotel amplifier and B&W 600 series towers. My goal was to upgraded some components to take the edge off at higher volumes and add tube qualities to the sound. I added a Wadia 321 DAC and upgraded my preamp to a Rogue Audio RP-1. I am pretty satisfied with the results. I like the Tube/ Class D combination at this point. Maybe go full tube someday. Rogue also makes an RP-5 that comes in at about $3,500, it's the next step up in the line from the RP-1. I like the people at Rogue. They answer the phone if you call them and gladly talk about the product. The only thing I don't like is the remote does not turn on the unit and it does not work with my Furman on/off switch. There are lots of youtube vids about their stuff and reviews out there. Here is the chief designer Mark Obrien talking at Wilson Audio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lSaMkzqTiA. PS Audio just came out with a new DAC/Preamp combo for $1,500 and I think they have or had a trial program going (solid state option). http://www.psaudio.com/products/stellar-gain-cell-dac/. I have never had any of their equipment other than power cords but their shop is just down the street from my house and they are really nice folks as well and when I called them to talk about the products they invited me down for a tour which I thought was cool.
Thank you everybody for your valuable input.
Yes I was drawn to another ARC like an ls26 or 27 but with the feature set of the C48 filling EVERYTHING i needed I gave it a whirl.
And what a whirl, already have it set up to my liking and yes I am liking it a lot.
Definitely tube like, warm, not sterile and plays MY music just how I like it.
The phono stage is particularly impressive for a built in one, better than the seperate phono pre I was using previously.
Time to stop spending money for a while......
You are correct, the ARC LS2B IS an excellent preamp and one I have enjoyed for near on 4 years but it was time for a change and convenience.
The ARC is now for sale right here for much less than I paid so hopefully somebody will snap it up, enjoy it as much as I did and get themselves a very good buy in the process!
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Had quite a few hours with the C48 now and can sum up a little better.
Life with the LS2 was good but cd fed through its balanced inputs always sounded just a little forward, bright and aggressive, not terrible but compared to vinyl fed through rca it was very noticeable. The vinyl always sounded rich and warm and highly detailed.
Well the c48 manages to pull that off with every different input whether it is cd through balanced, vinyl through rca or the bluesound vault2 through digital coax. Everything sounds very warm and natural, very highly detailed and one track in particular I was listening to last night by Rush ,with my eyes closed ,startled me as it sounded like Geddy was singing to me personally over my right shoulder!
So far I am of the impression that the C48 is doing what a good preamp should and that is imparting negligible sonic influences on the actual music.
Combine that with all the convenience factors of built in phono, headphones and 4 digital inputs and I would say I have just what I was looking for.
Oh and the remote, keep my backside in the sofa now!
The arc ls2 only has one tube and yes it was fairly new and a big improvement over the old one.
i tried both dig inputs through the cd player and through the c48 but stuck with the c48 as just about every input whether digital, rca or balanced sounded very very similar, whereas there was a noticeable difference on the older arc depending on whether rca or balanced input.
Not saying the c48 is the last word in sound but for me with the convenience of the digital inputs(5 in total) two sets of xlr ins and rca inputs, plus mm and mc phono inputs and a headphone out...and a remote that also controls my mvp851....
well just a lot of convenience factors that were also very hard to ignore there!