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Translating Evaluation Findings Into Action
As the phases of data collection and analysis wind down, work of another sort begins. Evaluators present their findings and, frequently, their recommendations; then program leaders begin the task of responding to them. Several factors contribute to the ease and success of this process: the strength of the findings, the clarity and specificity of the recommendations, how they are disseminated, and to whom. The relationship between the evaluators and the program leaders is key: When evaluators (external or internal) have ongoing opportunities to talk about and work with program staff on improvements, there is greater support for change. Conversely, if evaluators are fairly isolated from program leaders and leave the process once they have presented their recommendations, there is less support and, perhaps, a reduced sense of accountability among program staff. Of course, while frequent and open communication is important, maintaining objectivity and a respectful distance are also critical to obtaining valid research findings. Collaborations between researchers and practitioners should not be inappropriately close.
When program leaders try to act on evaluation findings, the structure and overall health of the organization play a role as well. Some program leaders meet with substantial barriers at this stage, particularly if they are trying to change the behavior of colleagues in scattered program sites or other offices or departments. The problem is compounded if there is a general lack of buy-in or familiarity with the evaluation.
In such circumstances, how can program leaders and evaluators translate findings into program improvements? Among the programs featured in this guide, there are a variety of approaches to using evaluation findings to effect change. In the CPS/VHS, for example, program leaders have used evaluation findings to persuade reluctant colleagues to make needed changes and have repeatedly returned to the evaluation recommendations to guide and justify internal decisions. Meanwhile, AZVA program staff use a structured, formal process for turning evaluation recommendations into program improvements, including establishing timelines, staff assignments, and regular status reports. The AZVA system, though time-consuming, has helped program administrators implement changes.
Use Evaluation Findings to Inform and Encourage Change
Chicago's CPS/VHS is managed and implemented collaboratively by three CPS offices: the Office of Technology Services eLearning, the Office of High School Programs, and the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Accountability. In 2005, Chief eLearning Officer Sharnell Jackson initiated an external evaluation to understand the cause of low course completion rates and find ways to help struggling students.
Evaluator Tom Clark of TA Consulting found great variation in students' ability to work independently, manage their time, and succeed without having an instructor physically present. The evaluation report recommended several ways to offer more support for struggling students, including having a dedicated class period in the school schedule for completing online course work and assigning on-site mentors to assist students during these periods. But when program administrators tried to implement these recommendations, they had difficulty compelling all participating schools to change. CPS is a large district with a distributed governance structure, making it difficult for the central office to force changes at the school-site level.
Facing resistance from schools, the program's administrators tried several different tacks to encourage implementation of the recommendations. First, they took every opportunity to communicate the evaluation findings to area administrators and principals of participating schools, making the case for change with credible data from an external source. Some school leaders resisted, saying they simply did not have the manpower or the funds to assign on-site mentors. Still, they could not ignore the compelling data showing that students needed help with pacing, study skills, and troubleshooting the technology; without this help many were failing. The strength of these findings, along with financial assistance from the district to provide modest stipends, convinced school site leaders to invest in mentors. Crystal Brown, senior analyst in CPS's Office of Technology Services, reports that most CPS/VHS students now have access to an on-site mentor, "whereas before they just told a counselor, 'I want to enroll in this class,' and then they were on their own." Brown says the program leaders say the evaluation also has been useful for prodding principals to provide professional development for mentors and for persuading mentors to participate. They use the evaluation findings "whenever we train a mentor," she says, "and that's how we get a lot of buy-in."
CPS/VHS administrators also are careful to set a good example by using the evaluation findings and recommendations to guide their own practices at the central office. To date, they have implemented several "high priority" recommendations from the report. For example, program leaders strengthened mentor preparation by instituting quarterly trainings for mentors and establishing a shared online workspace that provides guidelines and advice for mentors. The district also has implemented Advancement Via Individual Determination* programs in many high schools to boost students' study skills and support their achievement in the online program. As CPS/VHS expands, some of the earlier problems have been avoided by getting site administrators to agree up front to the practices recommended by the evaluation. Brown says, "We constantly reiterate what this study recommended whenever we have any type of orientation [for] a new school that's enrolling."
Finally, in some instances, the program administrators changed program requirements outright and forced participating schools to comply. Beginning this year, for example, all online classes must have a regularly scheduled time during the school day. (There are a few exceptions made for very high-performing students.) This change ensures that students have dedicated computer time and mentor support to help them successfully complete their course work on time. In addition, participating students are now required to attend an orientation for the online courses where they receive training on study skills.
Take a Structured Approach to Improvement
Changing behavior and policy can be difficult in a large organization and, as the above example shows, program administrators must be creative and persistent to make it happen. Sometimes a small organization, such as an online school with a small central staff, has a distinct advantage when trying to implement evaluation recommendations. With a nimble staff and a strong improvement process in place, AZVA, for example, has been especially effective in making program changes based on findings from its many evaluation efforts.
Several factors explain AZVA's success in translating evaluation findings into program improvements. First, its evaluation process generates detailed recommendations from both outsiders and insiders. That is, staff from their main content provider, K12 Inc., visit AZVA approximately every other year and conduct a quality assurance audit to identify areas for program improvement. Following the audit, K12 Inc. develops a series of recommendations and, in turn, AZVA creates a detailed plan that shows what actions will be taken to address each recommendation, including who will be responsible and the target date for completion. For example, when the 2005 audit recommended that AZVA create a formal feedback loop for teachers, the school assigned a staff member to administer monthly electronic surveys to collect information from teachers about the effectiveness of their professional development, their training and technology needs, their perceptions of parent training needs, and their suggestions for enhancing community relations. AZVA has responded in similar fashion to many other recommendations generated by K12 Inc.'s site visit, addressing a range of organizational, instructional, and operational issues (see table 4, Excerpts From AZVA's Next Steps Plan, in Response to Recommendations From the K12 Quality Assurance Audit, p. 47).
In addition to the audit, K12 Inc. also requires that AZVA complete an annual School Improvement Plan (SIP), which consists of two parts: a self-evaluation of school operations in general and a Student Achievement Improvement Plan (SAIP) that specifically focuses on student outcomes. In developing these plans, AZVA staff articulate a series of goals and specific objectives for improvement, again including strategies and timelines for meeting each objective. A strength of this process is its specificity. For example, one key SAIP goal was to improve student achievement in math, and the administrative team set the specific goal of decreasing by 5 percent the number of students who score "far below the standards" on the state standards test and increasing by 5 percent the number who meet or exceed state standards. To accomplish this, AZVA staff took action on several fronts: they aligned their curriculum to the state's testing blueprint, developed a new curriculum sequencing plan, implemented additional teacher and parent training, worked with students to encourage test preparation and participation, and developed individual math learning plans for students.
Another strength of AZVA's process is that it requires program staff to review evaluation recommendations regularly and continually track the progress that has been made toward them. The SIP and SAIP are evolving plans that are regularly updated and revised by "basically everyone that has any role in instruction," such as the director of instruction, the high school director, and the special education manager, says AZVA's director, Mary Gifford. As part of this process, team members continually return to the document and track how much progress has been made in reaching their goals. There also is external accountability for making progress on SIP and SAIP goals: approximately once a quarter, AZVA staff review the plans via conference calls with K12 Inc.
Finally, AZVA's approach succeeds because it permeates the work of the entire school. As Bridget Schleifer, the K-8 principal, explains, "Evaluation is built into everybody's role and responsibility." Staff members at all levels are expected to take evaluation recommendations seriously and to help to implement changes based on them.
Table 4. Excerpts From AZVA's Next Steps Plan, In Response to Recommendations From the K12 Quality Assurance Audit
As the above examples show, whether and how evaluation findings lead to program improvements is a function not only of the quality of the evaluation, but of many other contextual and organizational factors. Program leaders can facilitate program change by working from the beginning to create an ongoing relationship between evaluators and program staff. Throughout the process, there should be opportunities for staff members to discuss the evaluation, its findings, and its implications for improving the program. Off-site staff and partners should be included as well. In short, program leaders should communicate early and often about the evaluation with anyone whose behavior might be expected to change as a result of its findings.
Once findings and recommendations are available, program leaders might want to consider using a structured, formal process for turning those recommendations into program improvements. One approach is to decide on a course of action, set a timeline, and identify who will be responsible for implementation. Whether using a formal process or not, program leaders should revisit recommendations regularly and continually track the progress that has been made toward them.
In some instances, recommended changes to an online program or resource may be technically hard to implement. For example, it may be difficult and expensive to make changes to the content or format of an online course. It also may be quite costly to change, repair, or provide the hardware needed to improve an online program. Insufficient funding may cause other difficulties as well. If the program has relied on external funding that has subsequently run out, there may be pressure to dilute the program's approach; for example, districts might feel pressured to keep an online course but eliminate the face-to-face mentors that support students as they proceed through it.
Online program evaluators need to keep these kinds of practical challenges in mind when formulating recommendations and should consider ranking their suggestions both in order of importance and feasibility. Program leaders should develop a plan for addressing the highest priority recommendations first. In situations where program funds are running low, evaluators can provide a much-needed external perspective, reminding stakeholders of the project's goals and helping them identify the most critical program elements to keep, even if it means serving fewer participants. More broadly, communication and persistence are essential when attempting to translate evaluation findings into action.
* Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a program that prepares 4th through 12th grade students for four-year college eligibility.


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The Wedding Covers Band
High standard of musicianship - Extensive & proven repertoire - Great production - Performing skill - Great client care
Who on earth are Milo Max?
Milo Max is a full-time, professional wedding covers band based in the south of Enlgand; we thrive on creating an energetic and fun experience for wedding couples and their guests.
For the last decade we have performed over 1400 events, including over 500 weddings, showing our clients a good time and leaving them with fabulous memories. We hope we have the opportunity to do that for you too!
Demos: The Band in Action
A Summer Wedding Show (6 piece line-up) (July 2018)
Take a journey with us through a typical Milo Max wedding show, with clips from the 1st dance, through upbeat funky set 1 to rocky set 2, and up to the last dance & finale! Live, real, and recorded on one camera with it's on-board mic.
What makes the best wedding band?
We know from speaking to clients that it can be a bit daunting knowing what to look for so we hope you find the following information helpful in making your decision in hiring a great wedding band.
A Fun but Professional band
We are professionals, music is what we do full time. This means that we provide a high quality of service. This comes from several things:
- High standard of musicianship
- An extensive and proven repertoire
- Great production (sound & lights)
- Performing skill – ability to engage an audience!
- Great client care
High standard of musicianship
Milo Max musicians are all experienced professionals. That means we all play to a high standard and have a track record to prove it (see the About Us page).
It means we can play the same thing in different ways, it means we can play at different volumes; it means we are excellent at delivering high quality live performances for varying client event requirements, it means we are expert at making sure you have a great evening, even if we change what we planned to do on the night inorder to tailor better to the evening!
With Milo Max you will be entertained by musicians and singers that have performed with and to people like Elton John, Elvis Costello, Paul Weller, Geri Halliwell, George Michael, Kylie Minogue & Take That.
We know a lot of songs!
It comes from being musicians full time. We are versatile and adaptable, we can change the vibe of the evening on request; we make sure this is absolutely your evening!
Song choice is tried & tested
We use a well proven play-list of crowd pleasing songs. A wedding covers band may know the right songs to play, but success of a playlist is also very much about the order you play them in and at what stage in an evening you play a certain type of song (a bit like a recipe).
We will consult with you when preparing the playlist for your wedding! (See our Songs menu to get an idea of the breadth & depth of our repertoire knowledge).
We know that often clients want the lowest price; but a good band means a package of things have to be there and it's worth balancing theses factors with price and your budget.
It's not just about the band's ability to play music.
It's whether the band organisers look after you on the lead up to the event and the logistics through the day, it's whether their production is of sound quality (excuse the pun!), it's about the depth of experience that enables a band to be flexible and tailor an evening of entertainment, and importantly successfully engage the audience!
Pro sound system
A top wedding band is only as good as their sound system. Milo Max uses a high end Yamaha, Mackie & FBT sound equipment and can accomodate up to around 350 people. For larger audiences we hire in PA appropriate for the size of the event. A common mistake people make is that they think that any PA will do the job.
Often either a poor quality system compromises the band and the event or the system is just not powerful enough to cope with the size of the event.
When you pay a bit more for a band typically you get higher end production and a superior show!
"Let there be light !!"
We are equiped with a professional dynamic lighting rig. This means that we can change the mood of the stage and dance floor area, from more static ambient lights to sound chasers that pulse with the bands pumping beat adding to the excitement on the dance floor!
Audience engagement
How well a band engages your audience often separates the professional from the amateurs.
A performance is about playing the tunes and providing a specific ambience.
For the main wedding entertainment your band should be putting on a show. It should be about engaging the audience: high energy performing and talking to and getting the audience involved. Quite simply you can not be the best wedding band if you don't score well in this area.
Great Client care
We understand that our clients want to have a great show but also want the whole process to be as stress free as possible.
Working with Milo Max means that we provide advice and ask you appropriate questions to ensure that your wedding entertainment is smooth and slick in regards to our contribution and how we fit in.
One factor in band pricing is the experience of the band members. Typically, the higher the price is then the better the experience of the band members.
So you may pay more for a 4 piece band compared to a 7 piece based on the more experienced CVs of the smaller band.
A great solo performer can mesmerise a room and a bad 8 piece band can empty a room! Contact Us and we can give you specialist advice on which Milo Max option is best for you.
Here is a summary of what you can expect from Milo Max:
- 2 hours of crowd pleasing, floor-filling live music!
- Highly professional singers & musicians!
- Professional sound system!
- Professional lighting rig!
- DJ options available to suit!
- Great client care from enquiry through your wedding day!
- Public liability insurance for your peace of mind!
We are confident you and your guests will be extremely happy that you have booked a quality wedding covers band out of the many on offer - contact us and find out how we will look after you and give you a live music experience to most splendidly complete your big day!
In many ways the value you get for your money comes from the production side of things: Sound & lights. It is not enough to compare a bands price based on how many people are in the band.
Experience & Track Record
Your band have some awesome experience, and band members have entertained:
Book Milo Max today!
Don't miss out on booking one of the best wedding bands performing in the south of England today; it should go without saying that booking a professional level wedding band will provide the optimum experience you're seeking for your big day, however contact us today for pricing and availability and to find out how we can provide you with a tailored and highly-memorable experience.

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Missy Henriksen – National Pest Management Association
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
As I have mentioned before, friends and acquaintances often entrust me with their secret pest problems. I often "pinky promise" that I won't reveal their challenges with rodents, roaches, or bed bugs because, all too often, people are embarrassed by their unwelcome invaders. Well, yesterday, I got a panicky call from a friend who had a mouse in her house. She was awoken in the middle of the night by her cat chasing a mouse in the bedroom. Yuck! That's the stuff nightmares are made of! As her husband was out of town, she valiantly trapped the mouse in her husband's closet. (Payback for being out of town when she needed him most?) She then used an entire roll of duct tape to seal the gap at the bottom of the closet to trap the critter.
Her husband was concerned about potential damage the tape would cause to the closet's new paint job. My friend was worried about the mouse's impact on her mental health. I think she had the better argument. Just saying.
She called me to detail the late-night escapade. She explained that she felt a bit safer as the mouse was trapped in a sealed closet. Did I dare tell her that the mouse was likely not alone? Did I burst her perceived safety bubble by explaining the mouse could chew through the tape barrier or create an escape tunnel by chewing through the drywall? No. I couldn't. Instead, I suggested she contact a pest professional to determine where the mouse was gaining access into her home as I know it's important to prevent entry by future rodents, not just deal with the visible ones. She was reluctant as she had heard that rodent problems were somewhat unmanageable. I disagreed but anxious to help, I offered my husband's services to come and get the mouse from the closet. (While I am The Bug Lady – I don't do pest control myself. I am smart enough to leave that to the pros and instead, I help with public education about pests.)
Well, my husband assisted with the mouse that was in the closet and this morning my friend called me for guidance on choosing a pest management professional. Coincidentally, she actually saw a mouse going into a vent on the outside of her home and my lesson on removing entry points was made crystal clear! Mice can enter homes through openings as small as a dime! I hate saying I told you so, but well, Friend, I told you so! Glad your mouse problem is now behind you. Sleep well…


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Hillary Clinton's money problem
Hillary Clinton is having a very hard time being rich.
After two weeks of verbal gaffes and unflattering headlines, Democratic operatives, political historians and counselors to the nation's wealthy agree that Clinton's current strategy — acting like she's not incredibly rich and made her money the old-fashioned way — is not working and needs to change. Fast.
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"Her responses so far have come off as somewhat disingenuous, probably because she has a lot of ambivalence about her own wealth," said Jamie Traeger-Muney, a psychologist whose Wealth Legacy Group focuses on counseling the affluent, an especially busy business in the current era of hostility to the 1 percent. "It feels like there is a lot of shame in there, and that is very common for wealth holders, especially in today's climate."
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton starts her book tour)
It's unclear whether a super-wealthy Democratic presidential aspirant can succeed in a populist era defined by a tepid economy, flat wages and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Some Democrats argue these early dust-ups won't matter unless Clinton gets a primary challenge from the left. But the current criticism over her wealth could influence her decision to run — and if she runs and gets the nomination, Republicans could paint her as out of touch with average Americans, much as Democrats did to Mitt Romney in 2012. There's also a chance Republicans will wind up nominating a populist, Wall Street-basher of their own, such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
What is clear now is that the status quo for Clinton and the conundrum of what to do about it are quickly giving new meaning to the phrase "Hard Choices."
Traeger-Muney said Clinton needs to figure out a way to "own" her own wealth and success and not sound defensive about it while continuing her current strategy of pointing to all the work she's done for the middle class and poor over her long career in public service.
"It would be great for her to explore her own ambivalence around wealth and what it means to have her policy views and be a wealth holder," Traeger-Muney said. "The moment she's at peace with that for herself, the need for coaching would diminish."
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton's 50 influentials)
Many Democrats are offering a version of the same advice. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) last week told MSNBC that Clinton "needs to be comfortable that they've made a lot of money," adding that it's "very American, making a lot of money. Many of our modern-day presidents have made a lot of money, so I don't think she needs to be defensive about that."
The defensiveness began with Clinton's comment that she and her husband were "dead broke" upon leaving the White House. Then she suggested she was not among the "truly well off" and banked all her huge speaking fees by "dint of hard work." She also said she pays "ordinary income tax," unlike those real fat cats on Wall Street.
If Clinton can't figure out how to get beyond this and wear her riches more comfortably, the next bit of advice from Democrats is pretty simple: Stop talking about it.
"The appropriate solution is to never discuss it again," said Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran Democratic operative. "Whatever she says is going to wind up in negative ads run by independent committees lined up against her and will probably include a backdrop of a lot of poor people."
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton delivers keynote address in D.C.)
Republicans are already having a field day with Clinton's comments, calling her the Democrats' version of Romney. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that all the stories about Clinton's wealth are giving Americans "Hillary fatigue."
Even Clinton's possible 2016 rival, Vice President Joe Biden, jumped in last week, noting that he was the "poorest man in Congress" and did not even have a savings account or own any stocks and bonds. (According to disclosure reports, Biden does in fact have both a savings account and mutual funds.)
Sheinkopf, echoing a number of other Democrats who did not want to go on record discussing the party's possible presidential nominee, said there's little Clinton can do to eliminate negative press around the hundreds of thousands of dollars she earns speaking to bankers and other industry groups or the way she talks about it.
"By talking about money you automatically raise the hackles of people who are never, ever going to be able to make that kind of money," he said.
One other possible solution? A strengthening economy that finally raises wages enough to ease the current deeply negative views Americans hold about their own prospects and the direction of the national economy. "Should the economy improve significantly between now and 2016, it will be a lot easier," Sheinkopf said. "The attacks will have a lot less value."
The problem with that hope is the economy actually contracted by nearly 3 percent in the first quarter. And while the rest of the year promises to be significantly better, there is very little chance that a fresh economic boom will arrive in the next two years to blow out the current mood that President Barack Obama himself recently diagnosed as "sour."
And even a new boom might not be enough to erase Clinton's problem.


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Implode 3D
Mac OS Games
Set up the explosives in such a way that concrete structures will collapse like a house of cards! Should you even wiggle your finger – a spectacular rattle of explosions takes place, creating an opera of destruction!
Implode 3D – filled with unusual locations, opportunities, and unique types of explosives and packed with lots of fun and excitement! Demonstrate your analytical skills to the full, calculate the plant sites of varied bombs and implode, implode, implode! It will be a pretty sight, challenging, and devilishly fun!
Game features
• 3D destruction – three-dimensional fun!
• Realistic physics – in reality this is exactly how everything flies up into the air.
• Stunning graphics, nice visual effects – for the demolition aesthetes
• 80 game levels, 4 unique locations.
• 4 different types of explosives – for the sophisticated and the inventive.
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Lisa C necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Darim Online, a nonprofit helping Jewish orgs use social media well. http://www.JewPoint0.org
This project is for a logo for a new program called the "SOCIAL SERMON". The logo should include the words "social sermon" and do not need to include the name "Darim Online" or our logo.
We are looking for a look that is contemporary but not super modern (don't want the COLD feeling of modern). Inviting, warm, energetic, curious, exciting, feels like community not like technology, etc.
Any text should be easy to read. Graphics should focus on PEOPLE and COMMUNITY messages, however direct or subtle.
Darim Online is a nonprofit organization helping Jewish orgs use social media well. We have many programs and product, and the "Social Sermon" is one new campaign we're launching.
We are fun, casual, provide real assistance and value, and are helping the Jewish community learn about and embrace 21st century culture. We are NOT specifically a religious organization (or bring any religious assumptions) but we do work in the Jewish community. We are a small team of dedicated entrepreneurs who are doing what we love, and making it (technology for social good) feel infectious.
Our current org logo is attached (developed in 2000 - before Twitter!). We use Requiem and Gill Sans -- not required to use this in this logo at all, just for context.
Our org is going through some rebranding now, and if we like the design, we may want to work directly with you for other materials (logo, letterhead, web site, twitter, blog, etc.) for consistency in the near future.
Rabbis, teachers and other leaders of Jewish organizations. These are people who are perhaps using Facebook and Twitter already, or people who are interested in using them, but want to do so in a meaningful and purposeful way. They range from early 30's to retirement age, though I'd guess the majority are 40-60. The vibe should feel mission centric for THEM -- about community, learning, connection, meaning, Torah study, etc though it need not include any religious iconography such as a 6 pointed star or a Torah image or Hebrew lettering (not off limits, but not required).
Logo needs to translate well to B&W since we'll be making B&W copies that include this logo frequently. Please include the names of fonts you use since we may want to buy and use in coordinating materials.
Logo will mostly be used at the top of an 8.5"x11" page for marketing materials. If the depth of the logo and type treatment is more than banner depth, you may also want to include an alternate version which can be used in paces where space is limited.


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School Closings
Forecast: School's Open.
But don't worry, we update this page regularly so you'll be the first to know if your school is closing or will have delays due to bad weather.
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John Stewart Bowerman Travel
Passionate Unpretentious Luxury Travel advice from a world traveler residing in San Francisco and focusing on points South! Friendly, Foodie, Active, and Fun Travel. www.johnstewartbowerman.com
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With a background of world-wide travel and a compliment in the hospitality and event management fields, John Stewart Bowerman Travel is outbound travel from the U.S. focusing on points South including New Zealand where John recently skied off the trail at Treble Cone while gazing at the Tasman Sea.
John's passion for travel includes adventure (anything outdoors, really) and culinary (most often accompanied by a favorite beverage) experiences. With his firmly held belief that red wine is necessary for your health and well-being, John frequently tramps to New Zealand, gleefully forcing himself to sample whites as well, maintaining his relationships with his local partners who help craft indelible memories for his valued clients.
John Stewart Bowerman Travel, 450 Sansome Street, #1100, San Francisco, 94111, United States.


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Russell-Silver Syndrome
Russell-Silver syndrome (RSS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by a wide variety of symptoms and physical findings that can vary in range and severity from person to person. The characteristic findings are:
• Growth delays before birth and after birth with growth
deficiency often resulting in short stature in adulthood
• Unusual, distinctive facial features
• A pinky finger that is fixed or 'locked' in a bent position
• Undergrowth of one side or structure of the body resulting in unequal (asymmetric) growth
• Often normal intelligence but potentially increased risk of learning disabilities
Special Health Services pays for growth hormone treatment and medical food for individuals with Russell-Silver Syndrome.
Individuals through 18 years of age who are diagnosed with this condition and living in North Dakota can enroll in the program without regard to family income.
In order to access services, families must complete an enrollment form .
For more information, please contact Special Health Services at:
Special Health Services
North Dakota Department of Health
600 East Boulevard Avenue, Dept. 301
Bismarck, ND 58505-0200
Phone: 701.328.2436
Toll Free: 800.755.2714
Fax: 701.328.1645


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Over the last few years Triple Scoop Music has been actively growing
their music library. To capitalize on the increased options we are
proud to announce a new add-on plan, called TSM 10K. This new
plan provides access to the full Triple Scoop Music library of over
10,000 songs and is available to all users for $100 a year.
Beginning November 9, 2012, we invite all Zenfolio users to try the new
TSM 10K plan FREE for 30 days. Get more information on the partnership
and preview the music on the
Triple Scoop Music partner page.
We have added support for StatCounter, a popular free tool for monitoring and understanding website visitors. To use StatCounter with your site you first need to have an account with StatCounter, then attach the code they generate to your Zenfolio account. You can find more details under PREFERENCES | Visitor Tracking.
All Zenfolio slideshows can now play videos, in addition to photos. If videos are included in the source gallery or collection they will be play in sequence, along with the photos, creating a complete and dynamic presentation.
Similarly to how you customize the website Home page, you can now create events by turning Groups into mini-sites. By selecting a portfolio-style layout for a Group page, and then placing a slideshow with music and links to specific galleries, you can create personalized presentations for your clients. Selecting the layout with slideshow for an empty group allows you to present different categories of your portfolio as slideshows.
You will find these settings under Customize Visitor View | Page Layouts and Page Options while looking at a Group page.
Selecting the layout with slideshow for an empty group allows you to present different categories of your portfolio
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HAMPDEN, Maine — The people who most needed to hear what members of the Constitution Coalition of Maine had to teach them did not show up Saturday afternoon for a seminar on the Maine Constitution held at the Hampden municipal building on Western Avenue, according to organizers.
Instead of the elected officials and candidates for public office invited to attend the three-hour session, nine people, excluding the three speakers, attended. Half a dozen of them were members of the Maine Militia, according to state coordinator Mack C. Page of Belfast, who was in attendance.
"If we are successful with the summer symposiums, we will have created a new breed of legislator, a new breed who will enter the Maine Capitol building already knowing the Maine Constitution and knowing that they must make law under the mandates of the Maine Constitution," said Phil Merletti, one of three men who presented material during the session. "If a bill enters a committee without being constitutional, they will have the knowledge and constitutional power to send it back to where it came from."
State Sen. Andre Cushing, R-Hampden, said after the seminar in an email that he had been invited to attend the seminar but had a long planned, prior family commitment. He said that he had not received nor read information from the coalition.
"I have read through the Maine Constitution and do substantial reading on the history of Maine and its elected leaders to better understand the reason why many of the decisions where made previously in regards to our state and its policies," Cushing said. "While I believe deeply in the oath I took each time I became a member of the Maine Legislature — to support and defend the Constitution of the State of Maine and the United States — and I strive to maintain this commitment when dealing with policy issues that come before us, I also do not believe the members of this organization are the sole source for promoting or defending the principles of the Constitution."
Merletti and his coalition colleagues adhere to a strict interpretation of the original U.S. Constitution and the unamended version of Maine's Constitution from 1820, according to previously published reports. The coalition has asked legislative leaders without success to take the necessary steps to reinstate some provisions and remove others from the Maine Constitution.
Last month, Merletti told the Bangor Daily News that the coalition is less of a formal organization than it is a group of like-minded constitutionalists who are operating mostly independently of each other, though toward similar goals. Members also feel lawmakers routinely pass laws in Augusta that violate provisions of the state constitution.
As an example, Jack McCarthy of Woodland pointed to how public schools are funded — a combination of federal, state and local taxes. Article VIII, Section 1 states that the "Legislature shall require towns to support public schools," he pointed out Saturday.
"I read that section every time I go to a town meeting to discuss the school budget and all I get is a blank stare," McCarthy said. "You can't demand that a man on Congress Street in Portland pay for schools in Hampden. A proper amendment, passed through the proper process would be the way to change it. If it's not changed, it's a crime [to fund public schools the way they now are funded]."
The little-known coalition that has been labeled anti-government extremists was thrust into the state and national spotlight on June 30 when Mike Tipping, a Maine liberal activist, detailed the group's numerous meetings with Gov. Paul LePage last year and allegedly has been linked with the Sovereign Citizens, described as a terrorist movement by both the federal government and the Maine Department of Public Safety, according to previously published reports.
Merletti, McCarthy and Wayne Leach of Winslow, who also was a presenter at Saturday's session, have denied those allegations but have said they met eight times with LePage in 2013. The three men on Saturday protested being labeled "domestic terrorists."
None of the people who attended the Saturday symposium appeared to be concerned about the company they were keeping.
"I came to be educated," Maine militiaman Page said during a break. "I know most of this but it's always nice to have a refresher. I'd like to have seen some of the representatives here. How can you be in the Legislature and know what you're there for?"
Saturday's event was the fifth seminar the group has held, according to Merletti of Lee. Previous sessions were held in Auburn, Ellsworth, Presque Isle and Houlton. The next session will be held from 1 to 4 p.m., Aug. 9, at the Kennebec Valley Assembly of God Church, 44 Hallowell Road, in Chelsea.


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Jim & Mike necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Nerd Crossing
We are launching an honest, trustworthy, friendly alternative to the Geek Squad and are calling it Nerd Crossing (think yellow traffic signs - Deer Crossing, Road Work Ahead, etc). We want to portray ourselves as a fun, friendly company but one that also knows how to get the job done.
Both founders are very engaged in community service so giving back to the community will be an integral part of the company's core values.
1. People who need reliable help with computers, smart phones, iPods, home electronics, and other technology needs.
2. People who are frustrated with the Geek Squad.
3. Baby boomers and non-profits - we plan to offer discounted services to both seniors and non-profit organizations.
4. Non-tech savvy computer users
We need a character new logo for our company. This logo will be used to create brand recognition that will be integrated into our new website, stationary, apparel, hats, t-shirts, magnets, signs, etc.
Our initial idea was to use the diamond-shaped yellow "deer crossing" sign, replace the deer with either a picture of one nerdy-looking cartoon character or a "Nerd Herd" (maybe three nerds walking across the street carrying computer, monitor, smart phones, etc.). The nerd picture would be surrounded with the word "Nerd" on top, and "Crossing" on the bottom. We are open to other plays on the traffic sign concept (road work, call box, speed limit, etc.). In addition, the final character will be used as the company's mascot, in animation and in various poses and views.
Please give the logo in as many formats as possible along with source format - we will be using these for both print and web.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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Writing in his blog on the New York Times yesterday, David Pogue, one of the Times' tech columnists, advises toning down the alarmist rhetoric over SOPA, suggesting that opponents of the bill (and its Senate cousin PIPA) should Put Down the Pitchforks. He takes particular issue with people who have criticized SOPA without actually understanding the text of the bill. Then, after this preamble, Pogue proceeds to offer an explanation of SOPA that makes it clear that he does not understand the text of the bill.
Here's his description of what's at stake:
If the entertainment industry's legal arm gets out of control, [opponents] say, they could deem almost anything to be a piracy site. YouTube could be one, because lots of videos include bits of TV shows and copyrighted music. Facebook could be one, because people often link to copyrighted videos and songs. Google and Bing would be responsible for removing every link to a questionable Web site. Just a gigantic headache.
That's Pogue's perspective: Letting Hollywood decide whether any given site with user contributions facilitates piracy would amount to nothing more than "a gigantic headache." (Me, I'd have gone with "a violation of the First Amendment.") To come to a conclusion like this, you'd have to believe that traditional media companies are committed to balancing their desire for control with a respect for citizen rights, and indeed, Pogue does seem to believe this (hence the observation that bad things would happen only if the entertainment industry's legal arm gets out of control.)
If their legal arm gets out of control? This is an industry that demands payment from summer camps if the kids sing Happy Birthday or God Bless America, an industry that issues takedown notices for a 29-second home movie of a toddler dancing to Prince. Traditional American media firms are implacably opposed to any increase in citizens' ability to create, copy, save, alter, or share media on our own. They fought against cassette audio tapes, and photocopiers. They swore the VCR would destroy Hollywood. They tried to kill Tivo. They tried to kill MiniDisc. They tried to kill player pianos. They do this whenever a technology increases user freedom over media. Every time. Every single time.
And they don't just want control — they want it at low cost, and high speed. Pogue talks about the bills' allowing the Government to sue. What he doesn't mention is that the bills were also written to allow "market based" system allowing media firms to get injunctions against sites they don't like, or that they were written so that firms who host user conversations would have incentives to censor their own users in advance, rather than waiting for notification from a copyright holder, as happens now.
I know David Pogue, and he's a smart guy. I don't think he's intentionally trying to obscure the way the bill imagines letting media firms escape due process and impose "market-based" censorship. I think he simply cannot imagine that the bills are as bad as they actually are.
This is a general problem — there is a reasonable conversation to be had about sites set up for large, commercial operations that are designed to violate copyright. And because there's a reasonable conversation to be had, Pogue (and many others) simply imagine that the core of SOPA must therefore be reasonable. Surely Hollywood wouldn't try to suspend due process, would they? Or create a parallel enforcement system? Or take away citizen recourse if they were unfairly silenced? They wouldn't imagine the possibility of a longer jail term for streaming a Michael Jackson video than Jackson's own doctor got for killing actual Michael Jackson? Would they?
Hollywood wants to take the law into their own hands — they had our representatives add a vigilante clause, for God's sake, to protect overzealous censors from legal challenge by users — and like a Scooby Doo™ episode, they would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for us meddlesome kids.
Chris Dodd, lobbyist-in-chief for the MPAA, who is watching the thick end of a hundred million bucks of paid-for legislation swirl around the drain, has been reduced to bizarrely indirect defensiveness, touting the First Amendment credentials of the bill's co-sponsors, as if that meant these bills must therefore be clean as well. Yet the very first substantive section of SOPA, Section 2.a.1., gives the game away, by being a little too touchy about its constitutional implications: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impose a prior restraint on free speech." Got that? This bill is not about prior restraint. Totally not! What would make you even think such a thing!?
And arguments like Pogue's are dangerous not because they are pro-SOPA — Pogue himself is glad it is in trouble — but because they obscure the core historical fact: The American media industry tries to stifle user freedom. Every time. Every single time.
We should delight in the stand we've taken in favor of things like, say, notifications, and trials, and proof before censoring someone, but we should get ready to do it again next year, and the year after that. The risk now is not that SOPA will pass. The risk is that we'll think we've won. We haven't; they'll be back. Get ready to have this fight again.


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In fact, it's common for some to pack on five to 10 pounds of body fat onto their normally "cut" athletic bodies during the holiday season, which can compromise performance at winter races and make for a slow return to peak form in the spring.
Fortunately, the situation is far from hopeless. It's possible to enjoy all the festivities--including the special foods that help make the season so enjoyable. Read on to learn about 10 nutrition and fitness strategies that will help you maintain peak fitness during the holiday season.
1. Eat four to six smaller meals rather than "saving" yourself for that special holiday meal
Do you honestly think you can resist the smell of a holiday kitchen when you're starving? Chances aren't too favorable. Not only do smaller, more frequent meals enhance metabolic activity (meaning you burn more calories during the day), your less likely to binge on those holiday treats.
To help curb your appetite before a party, choose to snack on "heavy" foods or those that contain a high water content like broth-based soups, fruits and vegetables. Appetite-control researchers have found that your brain may monitor how much you eat based on the weight of your food. One study discovered that people automatically stop eating when they consume a particular weight of food, regardless of the amount of fat or calories.
If the food was light, but high in calories, study participants could easily consume 1,000 calories without feeling satisfied. But they stopped eating heavier low-calorie foods after just a few hundred calories. For example, for 300 calories, you could either have a couple handfuls of chips or five oranges. So instead of eating lightweight foods like chips, crackers, rice cakes and popcorn to curb your appetite, choose heavier foods like fruits and vegetables.
2. Plan a workout before a holiday party or big meal
Why not use all those scrumptious holiday foods as recovery from a hard run or bicycle ride? In the one or two hours after intense exercise, our bodies are more sensitive to the hormone insulin, which helps transport sugars to our depleted muscles. All those precious carbohydrates found in starchy holiday dishes like mashed potatoes, or sugars found in cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie are excellent for glycogen replenishment. And the protein you'll get from that holiday turkey meal will help repair damaged tissue. Furthermore, our metabolism is heightened after a hard effort, meaning we're more effective at burning those little "indulgences" that may otherwise pack on the unwanted weight for upcoming training.
3. In contrast to our "sports mentality" to pick up the pace, when eating, SLOW DOWN!
If you're competitive by nature, you may be inclined to "hurry" your meals. Unfortunately, you won't win a medal by eating fast and you'll make it even harder to win one at your next race with those additional pounds slowing your pace. It takes at least 20 minutes for our brains to signal that we're actually full, which means a slow eater will consume less calories before feeling full than someone who races through their meal. So rather than attempting to finish your plate first, see if you can outlast the competition by being the last to finish.
4. Remember the law of diminishing returns
Doesn't the first bite always taste the best? When looking at brain chemicals signaling "pleasure," scientists have found that we receive less pleasure the more we eat of a food. So rather than feeling like you must eat a full serving of every dessert at a holiday meal, take a bite or two and receive 90 percent of the pleasure at 10 percent of the calories.
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It was fantastic to watch the inauguration this week, hearing the leavened President Obama being so publicly scathing about George Bush and his legacy. I know everybody talks about how impossible the task ahead for Obama is, and how he can't live up to expectations, but it would be hard to imagine that he won't make a vast improvement on the mess that Bush has left behind.
This image is from the Stop the War march in London in 2006, protesting against the bombing of southern Lebanon.
On a related topic, I've just heard the news that the BBC has refused to broadcast the Disaster Emergency Committee's appeal for Gaza, on the grounds that it will jeopardise their impartiality. What has got into them? They've broadcast previous appeals for peoples around the world that have been devastated by military action. Why is this different?
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GSS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 124 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
We are an emerging small technolgy company that is developing a go-to-market strategy for a hosted mapping solution. The company is wanting to infuse an image that is young, fresh, and innovative to help differentiate itself from its competitors. Currently, most of our competitors consist of service type businesses. Here, with the launch of GISDriect.com, we are shifting to a product based company and projecting a new fresh image.
The solution addresses many of the barriers presented by traditional desktop software applications by emphasizing ease of use, direct (internet) access, low setup cost, hassle-free experience, and being modular by design. Our goal is to develop a brand centered around a product that people identify with regardless of the company that is standing behind the product (think Salesforce.com).
We are looking for a logo to represent the brand name GISDirect.com.
1. We want the emphasis to be on the name and .com (GoDaddy.com)
2. The words "GIS" and "Direct" and ".com" should stand apart from each other (see attached file for concept). The .com should have some emphasis being this is a cloud solution.
3. Colors should be comprised of orange, black, and grayshades but we are willing to consider combinations that incorporate colors from our company logo (primary colors include orange, lime green, sky blue).
5. We are open to a using a graphic element with the logo but we are leaning towards just using GISDirect.com as a standalone logo.
6. The logo should have a trademark emblem.
7. Typeface and color should be clear, simple, and bold. It will be used on hats, shirts, and tradeshow apparel so should not be overly complex.
8. Lastly, we will need a variation that works well on a white background and another variation that works well on a black background.
The files we require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg, layered .psd (RGB), .png.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
Examples of desired look and feel of resulting website/brand:
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One day, this may be me. Photo: Flickr/Ryan Van Eng
As a prolific beer drinker with a minor Diet Coke addiction, I leave behind vast clinking, crumpled sums of empty cans and bottles every week. Given New York's nickel-deposit law, there's cash in my trash. But instead of trading my vessels for coins to buy more carbonated pleasure, I consign my waste to a recycling bin or bag it and tie it to my fence—a present for the muttering shopping-cart men clattering down my block, collecting bottles and cans like magpies.
Chalk it up to sloth. When I was 22 and residing in Astoria, I had more time than money. Laboring as a part-time receptionist barely netted enough to afford both Krasdale-brand macaroni and cheese and Coors Light. Every nickel counted. Thus, several times a week I'd gather my gleaming cans, root around my neighbors' rubbish for more, then tromp back to C-Town and feed the recycling machine. The three or four wrinkled dollars I earned made me feel as flush as a Saudi Arabian king. Well, a king that subsisted on cut-rate carbohydrates, but you get the point.
Nowadays my time is more valuable than a five-cent bottle deposit. Hell, I'd gladly burn a $20 bill if meant an extra hour of shut-eye. To the average drinker, the nickel deposit is viewed more as an additional tax than an incentive to return the glass carafes. To someone sucking back a $14 six-pack of Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA, 30 cents is a pittance. A small deposit is small potatoes.
Then I visited a country where the bottle deposit socked me in my wallet. Over Christmas and New Year's, my girlfriend and I ventured to Mexico's sunny, Caribbean-hugging Yucatán peninsula. It was a 10-day trip to recharge our batteries, to stop arguing about who'd walk our dog every frostbitten, 15-degree morning. It was just what the relationship doctor ordered. I read trashy detective novels. She received deep-tissue massages. We ate tacos stuffed with sautéed fish caught that morn; queso tamales drenched in habañero-spiked salsa; and, in my case, enough cochinita pibil—pork marinated in citrus, wrapped in banana leaves, then slow-cooked till softer than a toddler's tush—to make me carve a new notch in my leather belt. Accompanying every meal was a liter-size bottle of cold Sol beer.
Given my preference for bitter, strong India pale ales, I didn't care much for bubbly, innocuous Sol; the lager is a clone of Corona and other clear-bottle Mexican lagers. But the beer glided down easy on a 90-degree day, was omnipresent and, most importantly, cheap. I could nab a liter (technically 940ml) for around 20 pesos (about $1.75), or a 1.2-liter missile for a few pesos more. Tax was included. The deposit was a humdinger: Each bottle was assessed a refundable fee of five to eight pesos, or about 25 to 30 percent of the beer's cost. My cheapskate alarm sounded loud and shrill.
"That's, like, three dollars worth of deposit!" Itold my girlfriend that first night, pointing to my quartet of cold, sweaty bottles. In New York, that was the equivalent of 60 beers, a sum that'd take me at least a month or more to suck down. "Well, you better start drinking," she said. She didn't have to tell me twice.
Whenever I'd disappear a Sol, I'd carefully rinse the bottle and return it to the store. Grinning, I'd give the clerk the bottle, as proud as a 5th-grader presenting a straight-A report card to dear old dad. In return, I received a handful of shiny coins. "This makes you so happy, doesn't it?" my girlfriend said, watching me gaze upon the coinage as if I were Gollum with his precious ring. "It's my reward for being a good drinker," I said.
This made my brain juices flow. How high would a deposit need to be for you to eagerly return your empties? For example, Brooklyn suds emporium Bierkraft requires a $4.50 deposit on its growlers. I treat the jug as if it were gold, as I do my refillable bottle from organic dairy Milk Thistle, in which I've invested a buck. Why should beer be different? Let's jack the deposit. Make it a quarter on cans and 12-ounce longnecks, a buck for larger bottles—there's equal value in the vessel and its liquid. No doubt this notion is destined to fail, much like Bloomberg's soda tax. But maybe, just maybe, I've caught lightning in a bottle.


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Videogame journalist and host Geoff Keighley from Spike TV's GTTV
Over the past two decades Geoff Keighley has established himself as one of the leading media figures, live event producers and on-camera personalities in the video game industry. Whether he is anchoring YouTube's live coverage of E3, producing tentpole events like The Game Awards and the landmark 5-hour Discovery Channel series The Rise of the Video Game, or new ventures such as the live theatrical production The Last of Us: One Night Live, Keighley and his GameSlice brand have deftly moved between mediums to chronicle, celebrate, and cement games as the leading form of entertainment. Newsweek says that Keighley is "Mike Wallace meets Kurt Loder for the video game generation."
Sensing a shifting media landscape, in late 2014 Keighley created, self-financed and produced The Game Awards, a new awards show for the video game industry built from the ground up for digital and streaming platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Created in partnership with the CEOs of Activision, EA, Konami, Nintendo, PlayStation, Rockstar Games, Xbox, Ubisoft, Valve, and Warner Bros Interactive, The Game Awards 2014 was streamed 1.93 million times in just 3 hours and generated over 500 million impressions on Twitter. The Game Awards 2014 was nominated by Cynopsis as one of the best live digital events of 2014 alongside NBC's coverage of the SuperBowl, MTV's EMAs and the WWE's Wrestlemania.
After producing live coverage of E3 for networks like G4 and Spike TV, in 2015 Keighley's GameSlice studio partnered with YouTube for the launch of "YouTube Live at E3." Featuring exclusive game reveals and appearances by top YouTube creators, this day-long live event was "one of the largest live streams in the history of YouTube" according to TubeFilter, with over 8 million views in just 12 hours.
Before founding his own production company, Keighley spend over a decade working in front of the cameras for G4TV and Viacom Media Networks, where he hosted and produced video game programming across Spike TV, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and VH1. Whether it was a weekly news-magazine show (GTTV on Spike), a roundtable talk show (The Bonus Round on GameTrailers.com), the annual Video Game Awards, or even Spike TV's live coverage of E3, and Comic-Con, Keighley established Viacom as a leading outlet for gaming coverage both onair and online. Keighley executive produced and hosted live TV launch specials for both the Xbox One (featuring Macklemore and Deadmau5) and the PlayStation 4 on Spike TV, and produced half-hour TV specials for a diverse slate of game franchises including the live launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops II in Times Square, Madden NFL, Halo, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Gears of War, Tomb Raider, Uncharted and many other blockbuster franchises.
In 2011 Keighley founded his own publishing group to create a groundbreaking series of iPad apps that Fast Company says are "pushing the limits of storytelling" and "serving as a model for publishing a la carte journalism." Called The Final Hours, these 15,000 word multimedia experiences give a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the ups and downs of game development at the world's top studios behind games like Portal 2, Mass Effect 3, Tomb Raider, and Titanfall. These "futuristic magazine articles" (according to Kotaku.com) reconnect Keighley with his roots as a game journalist, having spent six years after college writing about games for Entertainment Weekly and penning feature stories for Business 2.0 magazine on companies like Cirque du Soleil and internet news entrepreneur Matt Drudge.
Today Keighley is also seen as a host on GameStop TV in 4,300 retail locations across the US, and serves as the chairman of the Game Critics Awards, an independent body of game journalists who award the annual "Best of E3" honors. He also works with Fathom Events to bring video games to movie theaters nationwide with the PlayStation E3 Experience, which brings the annual PlayStation E3 press conference live to fans in every state across America.
Keighley, who was named one of the top 30 journalists under 30 in 2004 by NewsBios, is a graduate from the University of Southern California.


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What Are IP Addresses in Home Networking?
Every device on a home network must be uniquely identified with an IP (Internet Protocol) address. An IP address consists of four sets of numbers from 0 to 255, separated by a decimal, such as:
Although the numbers in an IP address may appear random, there is a method to the madness. Each of the four numbers that comprise an IP address is known as an octet because it consists of 8 bits. With 8 bits, there are 256 possible combinations from 0 to 255.
IP addresses are assigned to organizations by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). That's right, organizations. So how do you, an individual, get your very own IP address? Your Internet service provider (ISP) can lease a permanent IP address to you, but that isn't really necessary, unless you're running your own Web or e-mail server on your home network.
More often, your ISP dynamically assigns an IP address to you from a pool of addresses that IANA has assigned to your ISP. If your high-speed Internet connection is more or less always connected, you essentially get a permanent IP address anyway.
Of course, there's no guarantee that you'll always get that same IP address (for example, if your router is reset or your ISP has a timeout set on your connection you may get a different IP address assigned), so if you're running your own Web or e-mail server, you'll need to get a permanent IP address from your ISP and manually configure it on your server.
Your ISP will give you only one IP address, and that one address is assigned to your modem or router. You still need to assign a unique IP address to each of your network devices. Fortunately, IANA reserves three ranges of IP addresses for private use:
10.0.0.1 to 10.255.255.254 172.16.0.1 to 172.31.255.254 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.255.254
These IP addresses are never routed over the Internet, so you can use them on your home network as you see fit. But IP addressing can get very complicated very fast, so it's best to keep your IP numbering scheme as simple as possible.
The easiest way to do this is to make the first three groups (or octets) of numbers in your IP address the same, and focus only on the last group. In the last group, start numbering the routers, computers, and other devices on your network from 1 to 254. For example, if you have a variety of devices on your network, you might assign them IP addresses.
Because private IP addresses cannot be routed over the Internet, your router or firewall must translate your private IP addresses to a public IP address (or IP addresses), which can be sent over the Internet. This is known as Network Address Translation (NAT) or Port Address Translation (PAT).
NAT translates a private IP address (such as 192.168.1.2) to a public IP address (such as 184.108.40.206). PAT translates a range of private IP addresses (such as 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.254) to a single public IP address. Most home routers and firewalls sold today are preconfigured to perform NAT, or you can easily enable it, usually through a check box option or setup wizard depending on your router or firewall model.
Although NAT and PAT are distinctly different, the overall function (that is, translating IP addresses) is the same. Many router and firewall vendors do not distinguish between NAT and PAT in the user interface and simply refer to the address translation function as NAT.


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Savosolar Plc
Savosolar in brief
Savosolar is a Finnish company manufacturing the most efficient solar thermal collectors in the world. The uniqueness of the company's products is based on vacuum coating process where the complete absorber structure is coated, which means that the direct flow design is utilized. The Savosolar team has extensive know-how and experience in vacuum coating techniques as well as in international sales and business management. The company uses the latest manufacturing technologies in its processes and the quality system meets the ISO 9000 requirements. Our company is expanding rapidly and supports our customers in reaching their environmental and business targets by significantly reducing their energy costs. Savosolar invests in constant product development to always offer the best solutions to the needs of the growing environmental energy market.
Our mission
- Contribute on solving the climate change challenge by using sustainable solar energy
- Improve living conditions creating a clean and secure environment
- Contribute solving water shortage by utilizing solar energy for water desalination and cleaning
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Here we go again. A handful of politicians and citizens get their low-information artistic panties in a twist, get insulted by whatever work of public art they decide offends them, and start a brouhaha to remove it. The act is always the same. Even though no one else has any objections, city and state politicians become so terrified of standing up for art and alienating any voter that they roll over. Especially if there's a penis or vagina involved and if the location of the public sculpture happens to be one of the most extraordinary spaces in all of Christendom. Welcome to the farcical version of Death in Venice.
After allowing the Punta della Dogana — a triangular seventeenth-century customs house that sits on a point between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal — to decay for decades, in 2007 Venice signed a 33-year lease with the bazzillionare French-luxury-goods magnate François Pinault to turn it into a public museum. When it opened in 2009, Charles Ray's incredible hyper-naturalistic stark-white eight-foot high Boy With Frog was installed on the point. The sculpture depicts a naked boy holding up a large frog by its leg and looking at it. Because he's enlarged, naked, and rendered in classic realist style, you instantly connect the boy with David. The frog becomes Goliath. In fact it is a goliath frog. Echoes of other free-standing male nudes come to mind, from ancient-Greek sculpture to Michelangelo, Donatello, and Rodin. The enlarged boy is an alien being beholding an alien being, coming to grips with otherness, acting with the most human quality of all: curiosity. It's a sort of abstract Birth of the World. To the art world, Ray seems to be saying, "Contemporary art feels played out, so I'm retrieving familiar forms and techniques to make something old new again." A rebirth of the world.
The sculpture instantly became a beloved citizen of Venice. Tourists constantly have their pictures taken with it. But although Pinault's lease is good for decades, the tip of the Dogana is controlled by the city. Four times a year, the permit has had to be renewed to keep the sculpture there. It always has been, until now.
Enter the unhappy offended few, demanding that the sculpture be removed because, according to the New York Times, they missed a nineteenth-century cast-iron lamppost that had once been there. Never mind that the original lamppost isn't what would go back — a reproduction of it would. Others didn't like the penis. (They call themselves Italians?!) The crybabies should look closer and complain that the boy only has one nipple.
The Times reports that locals reacted in an "uproar" at the sculpture's proposed removal. But Italian politicians are too scared to defend contemporary art, nudity, and what Franco Miracco, former member of the board of the Venice Biennale and an adviser to various Italian cultural ministers, called Pinault a "Napoleon of contemporary art." (The fight wouldn't be complete without a little xenophobia.) And so this tiny minority of malcontents and moaners will get their birdbrained way. On Tuesday, Boy With Frog is to be removed and a reproduction of a lamppost will be erected in its place. Idiot winds blow.


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A magnificent beach in front the hotel.
The 3 star Hotel Marina Corfu is situated at the edge of a cove in the quiet residential Cala Egos district of the popular resort of Cala d'or on the southern east coast of Majorca. The hotel is approximately 60km east of the capital Palma and the Son Sant Joan International airport, and around 2.5km from the Cala d'or marina and pedestrianised centre of the resort, where you will find a wide selection of bars, restaurants and shops.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Consider Other Points of View
In this section, you will expand your understanding of word study by comparing the ideas from the workshop video with passages from various publications. Read and respond to the ideas presented as they relate to your own teaching practices.
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First of all, I'm really glad we have a diligent teacher like you.
I'd like to thank you, as a Japanese citizen, for your sincerity.
Please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm an English teacher at a 'cramming school' called 'juku,' and I've been teaching students (mainly) aged 7 to 16. And...I know how hard it is to teach English to little kids, especially when they are beginners.
It's virtually impossible to expect them(your little kids) to produce grammatical English sentences as they've never learned English grammar, and it would be extremely hard(almost impossible) for you to teach them English grammar as they hardly understand your words. They are not learning English in the natural environment (where it is spoken/used in everyday lives).
So...all you can do right now is...
1. playing games
2. repeating the same sentence patterns and reviewing them
eg. 'How are you, ....? - I'm fine, thank you. And you?'
'How's the weather today? - It's cloudy(sunny, fine, rainy, stormy..).'
'What time is it now? - It's ten past eight.' etc....
I think...you'll need some assistance from your Japanese colleagues.
I suggest you use some Japanese in your class. (Well...you don't have to actually speak Japanese.)
Let me try to give you an example.
First, you prepare an 'English sheet' like this.
Introduce yourself! ( JAPANESE TRANSLATION )
Hello, my name is........................( JAPANESE TRANSLATION )
I live in ............................( JAPANESE TRANSLATION )
I go to .....................elementary school.( JAPANESE TRANSLATION )
My homeroom teacher is Mr./Ms........( JAPANESE TRANSLATION )
I love/hate him/her very much.( JAPANESE TRANSLATION )
I like tennis/soccer/volleyball/video games...( JAPANESE TRANSLATION )
Thank you.( JAPANESE TRANSLATION )
Second, you ask your Japanese colleagues
1.to translate English into Japanese and write it in the brackets.
2.to write 'katakana' below each English word (to show how to pronounce it...Well...'katakana' does not show correct English pronunciation, but...it's helpful. It's your job to correct their pronunciation.)
Third, you photocopy the sheet and give it to your kids for homework.
You could probably say... 'Next week we're going to use this sheet. I'd like each of you to introduce yourself in English with the sheet. Please fill in the blanks and prepare for the self-introduction next week....etc'
Your kids will try to get more involved in your class as there's something they can understand there - Japanese. Naturally their parents will be much happier.(Well, don't worry too much. They ARE happy now. I think they know you've been trying hard.)
Please try this if you're interested.
Good luck!
And I'm really sorry for my poor English.
English Teacher


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