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ISLAMABAD, Jun 9 (APP): National Vocational and Technical
Training Commission (NAVTTC) has launched the Recognition of Prior
Learning (RPL) to recognize and certify the competence of skilled
workers in the informal economy.
According to an official of the NAVTTC here Friday, under this
new initiative, the skilled workers, who have learned various skills
informally, undergo a competency based assessment and upon
successful test they are issued national certificates.
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Diet is a four-letter word and not a nice one at that. Diets are part of what got me into the mess I was in when I weighed 430 pounds.
Part of the problem with a diet is i had been been programmed to believe I could eradicate a lifetime problem of losing and regaining weight by going on a "diet" for a short period of time, and then going back to the way I'd grown accustomed to eating.
Diet Lies
This is a lie straight from the pit of hell. I'm really sorry to say that because I, more than anyone else, wish it was true that I could just lose weight and go back to Grandma's oatmeal cake.
A diet is a short-term fix to a long-term problem. Still I prayed for an easy answer to my monumental problem. There must be a new pill or diet or magic shake which would remove the weight. Something so I could have my cake (weight loss) and eat it too (the literal cake).
Even weight loss surgery did not fix me. After a while, I found a way to eat sugar. That stopped when I reached the turn-around point, the time when I made the commitment to lay down my addiction to food a day at a time.
Food Addiction
People say, "Once an addict, always an addict." This is true to some extent. I can never proclaim that I have beaten my food addiction. I can only say, I now have tools God gave me to work on my addiction.
It is a lot easier now than it was five years ago, because I have changed my habits. I'm rarely tempted and if I am, I know how to get through it hanging on to Jesus every moment. I more readily recognize those moments of temptation and am reminded, I never want to go back to where I was.
That picture of me when I weighed 430 pounds wasn't a coached picture. No one told me look unhappy. They were actually telling me to smile. In my pictures today, no one has to tell me to smile, either. Joy flows naturally when I don't have to lug 260 extra pounds around with me.
Getting rid of the physical pounds, as well as the emotional baggage, is such a relief. It's another of a long list of reasons I am opening #KickWeight, a lower price point Christian weight loss coaching class. I want you to experience that same thing.
#KickWeight is not a diet program, however we will talk about food. I'll tell you how I eat, since everyone seems to be interested in that. Right now, eating is the furthest thing from my mind. However, tapping into what God has next for me is always on my mind. Food is simply the fuel to get me there, not the entertainment along the way. That mindset shift is a major one for me.
What I do in #KickWeight is inform, encourage, inspire and coach my tribe towards a lifestyle change. We'll talk about how to change your mindset towards becoming healthy so, "your body will glow with health and your very bones will vibrate with life."1
Information alone, though, is not enough. We have way too much information already. What is needed is to have mentor who knows what you're going through, someone who's lost weight with God's help. That's where I step in. I will be so bold as to say it's actually my calling. Without your involvement, though, no change will happen. It will take your dedication and hard work.
What Do You Want?
You have to want to get healthy. It has to be #1 on your list and you must realize it is #1 on God's list for you. You cannot accomplish the things He's put you here on earth to do if you aren't healthy.
God always gives us a choice. He never forces us. He simply gives us a multiple choice test and then, tells us the answer.
"Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!"
I opened #KickWeight just for you. This is the first time I'm offering a coaching class at this extremely low, rock bottom price point. #KickWeight is a combination of information and coaching. It is exactly what I needed when I was super, morbidly obese. That's why I know it's what you need as well. To find out more and reserve your spot in the group, click HERE.
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Spaces of Exception
Чрезвычайные и Полномочные
Artplay, Moscow
11 - 26 September 2013
Open every day from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Free admittance
Participating artists: Yuri Albert, Ivan Brazkin, Chto Delat, Yevgeniy Fiks, Nikita Kadan/Alexander Burlaka, Gulnara Kasmalieva/Muratbek Djumaliev, Gert Jan Kocken, Irina Korina, Jiri Kovanda, Maryanto, Taus Makhacheva, Renzo Martens, Metahaven, Aernout Mik, Marina Naprushkina, Nikolay Oleynikov, Anna Parkina, Dmitry Prigov, Tima Radya, Willem de Rooij, Haim Sokol, Jonas Staal, Roy Villevoye, Carey Young, Katarina Zdjelar
Choreographer: Anna Abalikhina
Exhibition architect: Maria Kalinina
Curated by Elena Sorokina & Jelle Bouwhuis
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents the exhibition 'Spaces of Exception'/ Чрезвычайные и полномочные" in Moscow, featuring Dutch, Russian and international artists. The title of the exhibition refers to the economic state of emergency becoming permanent today. The current conflict between the rights and the markets affects the liberal democracies or would-be democracies, as their merits and values are constantly tested and questioned, or even intentionally ignored. The 25 artists participating in the exhibition use its 'exceptional' space within the realm of art for political maneuvering and blunt, or subtle, commentary. Reviving the utopian image of "artist as legislator", they question, dispute or temporarily suspend some of the existing or historical laws and regulations, proposing their own alternatives. The exhibition is conceived as part of the Dutch-Russian Year, and as a special project for the Moscow Biennial 2013.
A text published by the Russian collective Chto Delat in 2005 and originally reflecting on the Bush-doctrine ruled world, resonates in this project with a new relevance: "Not so long ago, 'state of emergency' still sounded like an abstract juridical notion, and seemed reminiscent of the fascist regimes of the last century. Yet today, as the result of recent catastrophic changes in the situation, a "state of emergency" is in the process of becoming a quotidian reality, a strange new 'norm' that affects all areas of life, a grey backdrop for the everyday. New systems of surveillance are implemented; public space is privatized and placed under strict control; censorship dams the flow of information; passport controls and travel restrictions limit freedom of movement; suspicious individuals are searched and detained; elections are falsified, all in the name of the battle for democracy and human rights."
The oldest work in the exhibition is the Book of decrees (1977) by the legendary Russian conceptualist Dmitry Prigov (1940-2007). The book consists of only six pages, but each of them proudly enunciates a decree signed by "D. Prigov, chairman". Included were the following: the decree of the animal, decree of the air, decree of closeness, decree of unit, decree of black, and ultimately, the decree of decree. Prigov's decrees evoke an absurd revolutionary hero in times of stagnation, blending sincere imitation, stylization and parody in Russia. Decree is the legal language of the "state of exception", associated with revolutions and wars, and, in Prigov's case, a conceptual work.
'States of Exception' takes up the myth of the 'artist as legislator' from today's point of view, when artists assume multiple identities: producer, researcher, worker, romantic entrepreneur, cognitive proletarian, etc. The 'legislator' replicates Prigov's conflicted set of ideas, celebrating and questioning it at once, and highlighting its performative and transformative aspects. 'States of Exception' works around it as a space of homage, investigation and analysis. The exhibition defines itself as a space of imagination or counter-imagination of the artists, hosting their legal utopias, proposals, analysis, and reflections.
The exhibition will in turn serve as a stage for the choreographer Anna Abalikhina. She will appropriate the show and use it as an exceptional space of rehearsal after its opening. Engaging with the entire exhibition, she will reconsider the Soviet tradition of the parade and its lavish mass ornaments as a carnival-cum-demonstration. The results of this collaboration between the curators and the choreographer will be performed on September 17th.
The exhibition is accompanied by an edition of SMBA Newsletter (bilingual English/Russian) with an introduction by the curators, Elena Sorokina and Jelle Bouwhuis, as well as information on all of the exhibited works. This Newsletter is available in the exhibition space in Artplay and in SMBA, as well online on www.smba.nl
Elena Sorokina is an independent curator
Jelle Bouwhuis is head curator of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
On 11 and 14 to 17 September, the exhibition space also hosts "The Dutch Art Assembly". This is a series of lectures and debates on the changing role of the art curator, initiated by the Mondrian Fund (The Netherlands) and programmed by Elena Sorokina. The full schedule can be found on www.mondriaanfonds.nl
"Spaces of Exception" is organized by Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), the Netherlands. It is a Special Project of the Moscow Biennial 2013, held in the framework of The Netherlands/Russian Federation Year 2013. It has been made possible with support of the Mondriaan Fund, the Netherlands.


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A wheelchair cannot fit through this space. A person using crutches could not safely pass by. An elderly person should not have to walk across loose stones on a slope (slope not seen well in the photo) to get by a parked pickup truck. This is not even a particularly large truckbed. You may not use the sidewalk, but others do.
I very nearly "accidentally" banged myself/my watch on this truck as I walked by. Please think about how your actions, even actions as small as parking, can affect others.


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On Tuesday, May 28th, it's the 8th anniversary of marrying my wife Lauren. On these milestone holidays (i.e. birthdays), I get really contemplative. I think about the story that God is telling through our lives. In this case, it's the story that he's telling through the life of Lauren and me together. I look back today feeling blessed beyond measure that Lauren is my wife, the family we've built, and by his grace become vessels of his love to our community and world.
But the background… God was building our story together even before we knew each other.
It all started when I graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in August 2006. Later that year, I accepted a job in Washington, DC at the Library of Congress doing web strategy.
DC is a funny place. It'll always have a special place in my heart. Every person you meet wants to change the world. They work in Congress or a non-profit. They all wore the same suits and got the same haircut. Or at least that's what it felt like to me. In that way, I felt like a misfit. I wore corduroy suit coats, not Brooks Brothers. I opted for the beard vs going for the standard DC clean cut. I also had a passion for how entrepreneurialism and technology could change the world and not Congressional policy.
While I went out and had the occasional girlfriend, looking back, nothing had that forever feeling. At in hindsight, I wanted to be with someone more than wanting to be with the right person. I wasn't ready.
While I wasn't investing myself in a significant other, I dove into the technology and entrepreneurial community of Washington DC. I'd go to a couple of meetups a week. I'd co-host my own gatherings and un-conferences to bring like-minded individuals together. And while during that season I'd probably preferred to find miss right, the connections I made and skills learned are still paying off more than a decade later.
It all changed May of 2010. I was at a church party at a friends house. I went to a Rwandan Anglican Church, which was mostly 20 somethings. I was in the backyard and headed to the bathroom where there was beer in the bathtub. And there she was. Lauren.
We both had been going to the same church for a while and it wasn't a big church. I swear I had never seen here before. But she was there. I really think that prior to that party I wasn't ready to see her. God showed her to me at that right moment. And what I was about to find out was that our story was intertwined in ways I couldn't have imagined. But we'll get to that.
So I met Lauren on the way to get a beer out of a bathtub. It was 5 or 6 at night. So the light was peering through the trees as it was starting to decline in the night sky. The light surrounded her as if she glowed. From the first moment, it was as if God was saying, "She's special. Pay attention."
In addition to finding Lauren very attractive, she talked about traveling the world on a year-long mission trip. She was into new technology companies. I remember talking about Airbnb. She had just used it on a recent trip to Boston. The company was no more than a year or two old. No one had heard of it and most thought it was nuts to stay inside someone else's house. Similar to me, she had an early iPhone when most people thought it was crazy to spend so hundreds of dollars on a phone. Suffice it to say, she was different like me. My interest was piqued.
Later that night, we became friends on Facebook because that's what ya did then. Ha!
Fast forwarding a few steps…
Well, I invited her to my birthday party which was a few weeks later. It was at a beer bar in DC, in the basement. I invited Lauren along with a bunch of other friends. Most of the night, I bounced around. At the end of the night, I sat down at the table Lauren was at. A mutual friend of ours Laura was there too.
The new iPhone 4 was about to come out. Laura parlayed the convo to the app Bump, where you could bump phones together and exchange numbers. She slyly suggested that Lauren and I show her how the app worked by bumping our phones. I didn't have the app, quickly realized that I was about to get Lauren's number, downloaded the app, connected to go out on a date. We've been talking every day since.
At some point, she started checking out my family on Facebook (and vice versa). She noticed that my sister and she had many mutual friends. Prior to DC, Lauren lived in Indianapolis. She went to Butler University. My sister worked as a nurse at a hospital in Indy.
Well, my sister lived not that far from the Butler campus. Lauren lived 4 or 5 blocks down the street from my sister. They went to the same church. Lauren's closest church friends lived across the street from my sister. One of Lauren's closest church friends was renting a room in my sister's house. Coincidentally, my sister tried to set me up with that housemate.
Like a good brother, I visited my sister as often as I could. I went to my sister's church. Chances are Lauren must have been there at least one of the times. Or… Lauren was across the street visiting friends when I was at my sister's house.
Lauren was under my nose. God had her picked for me and our paths crossed, even before I was even ready to see or be aware that she was there.
As those of you that are married know, it's a change to go from me to us. It takes a grace-filled covenant partnership with that other person. When you let someone else into that circle, it exposes all of your weaknesses and shortcomings that you've been hiding but in a way that makes you really want to work and grow together.
I thank the Lord for weaving Lauren and me together even before we met. I can't imagine a better partner for life. Every moment has been a blessing that I don't deserve.
Before I met Lauren, there were certainly those moments where I wondered if I'd ever meet her. Would I have to change who I am in order for it to happen? (There was that time I really got into running and the time I got really into trying to learn to play guitar.)
If you're struggling, I hope that Lauren's and my origin story together will demonstrate how we have a big God. He's bigger than your circumstances. He loves you and has a plan for your life. By his grace, he can take any sadness or imperfections and turn it into something beautiful.


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It's been a long time coming, but we're here now! (No, not breaking into 2NE1's Fire).
2014 was a poo year, but the ending to it was lovely, because I've came across strangers with big hearts -- yes, you're one of them. It sucks that we live half the way around the globe from each other. If we had lived closer, I'm sure we'd bloom into something bootiful.
As with every [b]romance, a first date is where all it starts~
My inspiration for first-date make-up:
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I adore you, yes, but soz, ain't nobody got time to dress like the next Kim K to impress. Expect me in a fresh, light and natural mood!
Expect lots of things to be done on a first date... And by that, I mean endless chit-chatting whilst we pig at all Taco Bell has to offer. Therefore, a long lasting lippy is essential. Rimmel's Provocalips in Make A Move* would be my pick.
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Ah, my Asian-lashes may be non-existent but it's fixable. Best bet for the longest and most fluttery lashes [to get eyes-to-eyes so your eyes won't linger elsewhere] is with Australis Lash Length Extensions Mascara -- a fibre mascara that'll build and build and build and build.
With its tubing formula, it can be easily pinched off with water, SO DON'T YOU DARE MAKE ME CRY@!@#@!#!
After pigging, we'd head back for a few [hundred] games of COD up til evening, or perhaps you'll take me out to watch the V'tines movie that all couples are watching, 50 Shades Of Grey..? Either way, Rimmel's Wake Me Up is one that'll last the few hundred games of COD. Looks natural, fresh, dewy and most of all, will last.
Of course, some blusher for me to use as excuse when embarrassing moments arise, such as, not being able to relate to and understand them American jokes (we both know this happens way too often). Or when I have no idea what you're talking about, because your vocab is always in Shakespeare-mode. I just can't understand that much, OK!!?!!
Ben Nye Blusher in Fresh Coral would be a cute one to pair with this lippy! It's barely visible in the photo.. (⊙﹏⊙✿)
This one's not really for you, it's for me. Some nail candy!! @$@#$#@$@#$
And that's how I imagine our first date to be! ( ˘ ³˘)❤
Happy Valentines/Single Awareness Day everyone!
Basically a FOTD/NOTD post (and a peek into my love life, lol, not really), but my cheeky friend suggested that I should just confess my love to him over a post... So that was it!
I'm still single (and dateless) at the end of the day...
Hope you like the post though..... not so much with the cheesiness, but perhaps the FOTD!?
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Hope you like the post though..... not so much with the cheesiness, but perhaps the FOTD!?
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Here we are with the fourth generation Google Nexus phone, the Google Nexus 4. It all started on January 5, 2010, when the Nexus One was made available to the public to purchase. The Nexus One was manufactured by HTC to run stock Android. Next we were given the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus by Samsung. And on November 13th of 2012, LG joined the game bringing us the Nexus 4. The announcement and launch of this phone is pretty bizarre. The Nexus 4 was supposed to be announced with its big brother, the Nexus 10 in New York City on October 29th, but Hurricane Sandy changed those plans. Both devices, and Android 4.2 still got announced on that day. Now fast forward to November 13th. The day that the Nexus 4 became available in the Play Store, it sold out in minutes. So is this going to be a popular phone? Of course. But should you leave Sprint, or Verizon to go to a GSM carrier like T-Mobile or AT&T? Let's find out in the full review.
The Nexus 4 is just beautiful. Its' front and back has Gorilla Glass 2, which is supposedly good enough to protect the device from damage. We'll have to keep that in mind. There's also a chrome ring around the front of the phone, with a rubber type frame going around the phone next to the chrome ring.
Starting at the top, you've got your headphone jack and a microphone hole, then on the left side is your volume rocker, making our way down to the bottom we have our charging port. And finally on the right side we see the power/sleep button. Now on the front of the device you'll see the 4.7" 1280×768 IPS display, with the notification light below the screen, and the 1.3MP front-facing camera up top.
The Nexus 4 feels very solid, yet very light. If you owned the Galaxy Nexus, like me and many others, you'll find that the Nexus 4 is even lighter, as well as thinner. But that might be due to the non-removable battery inside.
The Nexus 4 has a 4.7-inch 1280×768 HD IPS display. Now I've used the One X and the EVO 4G LTE in the past few months for a small bit, and I've got to say this display is right on par with the HTC One X and the HTC EVO 4G LTE. Now as far as comparing it to the HTC Droid DNA, that display is 1080p and the Nexus 4 is 720p but is still gorgeous. The display doesn't look washed out at all, as I've heard from other reviewers. The Gorilla glass also feels pretty strong compared to other devices.
Android 4.2
Yes, the Nexus 4 is one of the four devices to currently be running Android 4.2 (in addition to the Nexus 10, 7, and the Galaxy Nexus). It runs great! There are many new features in Android 4.2 – Jelly Bean, including a brand new camera app, actionable notifications, Miracast, Daydream, Android Beam enhancements, Google Now enhancements, Gesture-typing, and more. I've gotta say my favorite new feature is Daydream along with Photosphere, which you'll see some examples of those photospheres later in the review.
As far as how smooth it runs, Android 4.2 is even smoother than Android 4.1 was when Project Butter was announced. Although the extra gigabyte of RAM may have helped out. There's no more of that stuttering you may have seen on the Galaxy Nexus in Android 4.0 or 4.1. At least so far. The Nexus 4 is buttery smooth, that's about the best way to put it. And yes, pun was intended.
User Interface
Not much has changed on the User Interface (UI) front from the Galaxy Nexus – Android 4.1 to the Nexus 4 – Android 4.2. It's still the holo theme we've grown accustom to since Ice Cream Sandwich was introduced last year. The biggest UI changes are probably the quick settings and the lock screen widgets, but we'll get more in-depth with those in the next section of the review. There are some minor tweaks in the UI, for instance the app drawer is now 5×5 instead of 4×5 like it's been for, what seems like, ever.
There are so many new features in the Nexus 4, but the most of them are from Android 4.2, so you'll see it on the Galaxy Nexus as well. Let's start with the camera and photosphere. In Android 4.2, a new camera app was introduced. It brings you a minimal UI (sort of) and also brings in a new camera mode called Photosphere, that's in addition to the regular camera, camcorder, and panorama. Photosphere lets you take pictures in a sphere, that look a lot like street view on Google Maps. In fact Google has said that soon you will be able to upload them Google Maps for street view. Currently you can only get the full effect of photosphere on Google+ or in the gallery app on Android 4.2. Hopefully other photo sharing apps and sites like Instagram, and Twitter will change that soon. In addition to photosphere, we also have some new editing tools in the camera app. You can add a filter, similar to Instagram's, crop, straighten, rotate, mirror, and more. The camera app has seen a huge overhaul in Android 4.2. Check out the camera section of the review for some Photosphere images.
Next up let's talk lock screen widgets. From the lock screen, if you swipe the entire screen from right-to-left you'll be shown the camera, and you can start taking pictures without unlocking your device. Now if you swipe from left-to-right, you be shown the pages where you can add widgets. But one major drawback is, that you can only add one widget per page. As shown in the pictures below.
Quick Settings, something we've seen in manufacturer skins and custom ROMs for quite a while now. When you pull down the notification drawer you will see a new icon in the right-hand corner, tap that and you'll be shown the quick settings. You can also pull down the notification drawer with two fingers and get to it even quicker. Starting in the top left corner you can tap your name and picture and you'll go directly to your contact card, then tapping the brightness icon will allow you to change it, followed by the Settings icon will take you to the settings. In the second row you've got your Wi-Fi settings, Network which tapping will take you to your data usage, followed by the battery usage. Finally on the last row there's the Airplane mode toggle, and your Bluetooth settings. The only bad thing, so far, about quick settings is that there is no way to customize them. I'm really hoping that changes in Android 4.2.1 or in some custom ROMs when they start showing up.
The new clock app. You've probably seen the new clock app plenty of times by now, especially since it was ported to the Galaxy Nexus and it's been in the news a lot lately. It does look quite different from the Android 4.1 clock. The app looks much nicer and more polished than in earlier versions of Android. But the most notable changes that most of us will notice are the clock widgets, both analog and digital. Along with the changes in color and appearance around the app.
There are plenty of other new features in Android 4.2, but if we went through them all it would take you a week to finish reading this review. So here's a quick rundown. Miracast I wasn't able to try out since I don't have a TV that supports it. Now that new keyboard. The gesture typing is pretty cool, although I still prefer Swiftkey 3, which I've been using for a few years so I'm very used to it. Multiple Users, again I was unable to use it since Google is only putting that feature on the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. Daydream is pretty cool as well, I think it would work better if we had a dock already. But Google is taking their time with accessories.And did I mention this thing is buttery?
Bloatware? This is a Nexus. There is no bloatware, unless it's a Verizon Nexus. As you can see above there's very few apps pre-installed on the Nexus 4.
Developer Settings
Where are they? They must have disappeared. Actually they haven't. Google has just hidden them. We did a post about a week ago about how to enable developer settings again. Just go into Settings, About Phone and tap the Build number until you get "You are now a developer" then the developer settings will appear where they should be. And thanks to Google for making me a developer.
Ever since the Nexus 4 was announced a few weeks ago, there have been a ton of complaints of the lack of storage in this thing. I've even heard people saying Google will make another Nexus with LTE and a micro SD card slot. The LTE model 'may' come, but as far as the SD card slot, that won't be happening in a Nexus for a very long time. As Google is trying to phase the SD card out of Android. But many manufacturers are still putting SD card slots in their devices. With the 8GB version you'll get about 5.67GB free, which if you're on unlimited data is plenty of storage since you can use the cloud for most things. The 16GB gives you just over 12GB of space which is enough for most people with only a few gigs of data. The bottom line on storage is, if you need more than 16GB of space you're going to need a different device, as the Nexus 4 isn't the one for you.
Battery life
Battery life is slightly better on the Nexus 4 compared to the Galaxy Nexus. But if you're coming from the Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2, or Droid Razr Maxx you will be disappointed by the battery life. But unless you're a heavy user, the Nexus 4 should get you through the day, even if you're not on Wi-Fi at all. Check out the screenshots below, the one on the left is all on 3G/HSPA+ and the one on the right is all on Wi-Fi.
Vellamo is a benchmark that measures both HTML5 and the CPU. As you can see in the images above, the Nexus 4 scored well in both. Although the HTML5 one was a bit lower than the CPU performance benchmark.
Linpack is another benchmark that measures your CPU performance and compares it against other devices based on millions of floating point operations per second (MFLOPS). And the Nexus 4, once again, did great.
GLBenchmark tests the graphics performance of your device. It includes 8 different tests including a battery test, which you can see them all in the screenshots above. You may know about GLBenchmark from all the leaks we see. But based on the benchmarks above, the Nexus 4 is still a beast. Not that we didn't already know that.
Camera Stills
The camera in the Nexus 4 received a huge bump over the Galaxy Nexus. Being upgraded from a 5MP camera to 8MP, should ideally see a big difference in quality and it does. We talked earlier about the new camera app and how much better it looks. Below we've got a few pictures from the 8MP camera on the Nexus 4 for you to check out.
Here are a few Photosphere's. If you want to see them in action, just click the picture and it'll take you to my post on Google+ for the particular Photosphere.
Photosphere with the vintage filter applied:
Camera Video
Here's a 720p sample video from the Nexus 4:
And a 1080p sample video:
Call and Data Quality
Yes people still use their phones for making phone calls. And in my area I only get about 1-2 bars on T-Mobile, but call quality was still great on this device. Didn't have any dropped calls at all. Which is pretty good, especially where I just switched to T-Mobile and I'm sure many of you are switching to their pre-paid plans or their value plans for the Nexus 4.
As far as data goes, even with the poor connection at my house I was still able to pull down 6mbps, and just a few blocks away I can grab almost 25mbps as shown in the screenshots above. For me, coming from Sprint that is a huge increase. When I am somewhere that I can get full bars I can pull down 25-30mbps easily, check out the screenshots below if you don't believe me. So all of you that are complaining about the Nexus 4 not having LTE, what are you doing with your phone to need more than 20mbps connections?
Network Connectivity
We just spoke about the Nexus 4 not having LTE and how many people were upset about it. So we know that there's no LTE, but it does support DC-HSPA+ which theoretically maxes out at 42mbps. In addition to HSPA+, the Nexus 4 also has Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and Miracast.
So far there's only one official accessory for the Nexus 4. Available on Google Play is the bumper, which is only available in black and costs $20. Google has said there will be a wireless charging orb available "soon" but no price has been confirmed for it. As far as third-party accessories, there are very few out right now but we should be seeing more in the coming weeks. Right now Cruzerlite is doing a pre-order for their Androidified TPU case for the Nexus 4 which is currently on sale for $12.90.
Color Options: Currently the Nexus 4 is only sold in black, but there are rumors of a white version. It also comes in both 8GB (about 5.67GB free) and 16GB (about 12.92GB free) sizes.
Pricing: From Google Play the Nexus 4 sells for $299 for the 8GB and $349 for the 16GB version. T-Mobile is also selling the 16GB version for $199 on contract and $499 off contract.
- It's a Nexus, which means it will get support from the manufacturer much longer than any other device, and it will also get updates before any other device
- Snapdragon S4 Pro; I haven't noticed any type of lag that wasn't related to data speeds. This thing just flies. Can't wait for custom ROMs and kernels for this thing.
- The price, $299 for the 8GB and $349 for the 16GB is a steal! Especially for an unlocked device.
- Non-removable battery; battery life isn't the best. But it is a big improvement over the Galaxy Nexus
- No expandable storage; you've heard about WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) right? Well with the Nexus 4, what you buy is what you get. Nothing more and nothing less.
- No LTE; for some coming from Verizon and even AT&T LTE devices (Sprint not so much), you'll miss having LTE. But if you're on a carrier with good HSPA+ speeds you'll be fine. I was able to pull down 24mbps and up a consistently on T-Mobile in the Detroit area.
What YOU wanted to Know
While I was writing this review, I asked everyone on G+ if there was anything specific they wanted to know about the Nexus 4, and here's what they asked:
- App Speed and the UI compared to the Galaxy S3 and Note 2: Of course opening apps will be faster on the Nexus 4 than on any Samsung device. Android 4.2 is completely optimized for the Nexus 4. Unfortunately I don't have a Galaxy S3 or Note 2 to compare it with for everyone. The UI is the standard stock Android UI, so none of that Touchwiz or Sense stuff we see on other devices.
- Does the Nexus 4 heat up as much as the Galaxy Nexus? Well I owned the Galaxy Nexus (Sprint variant) since May of this year, and I only noticed it getting pretty hot when playing games, downloading a few apps over 3G, etc., but doing that on the Nexus 4 doesn't make it get hot. Only when it is charging and you're playing Angry Birds, Dead Trigger or Riptide GP does it get warm. I've also heard that when using the wireless charging it gets very hot.
- How long does the battery last with everything turned on (e.g. Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Brightness maxed)? Well Just check out the images below.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
The Nexus 4 is probably the fastest phone on the market right now. Adding the price to get the Nexus 4 unlocked from Google Play makes this a no-brainer. Sure the battery life could be better, sure we'd love an LTE version of the device. But the Nexus 4 in it's current state is the best device you can pick up right now.
With each Nexus device, Android on both hardware and software seems to be improving. Just take a look at the Nexus One, it launched on Eclair with some specs that right now we would call a budget phone. But for it's time was top of the line, and was when HTC made some great hardware. Now that we've gone through the Samsung era of Nexus phones, it's LG's turn. And I've got to say, LG did a great job with this device.
Now the big question is, should you upgrade. Well actually you're the only one that can answer that. If you're one who has to have the latest and greatest version of Android, then yes you should upgrade to the Nexus 4. But if you have the Galaxy S3, Note 2, One X, or some other high-end device that came out in the last six months, it'll be a tough choice. My suggestion is, buy one, try it out. If you like it keep it. If you don't sell it. You may lose some money on shipping and taxes, but you should be able to get most of your money back right now since there is such a demand for a Nexus device. Which is great to see, by the way.
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The company's UK director of acquisitions and development, David Carroll, said 2013 was on track to become one of the company's "biggest years in the UK".
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We know that the past 20 years have changed how you sell. Some say it's easier, some say it's harder. Well, we want to celebrate and learn from your successes!
Join Brandon Lee as he celebrates sales wins with Mike Garrison, a key industry sales leader.
This was originally posted on our Yip Yip corporate blog: Celebrate the Wins: Episode 1: Mike Garrison
We know the past 20 years have dramatically changed how you sell. Some say it's easier now. Others say it's harder now. We just like to celebrate your successes. Come learn from others while helping us celebrate with those who have found great successes in sales.
Join Yip Yip CEO Brandon Lee, the guy who loves to celebrate sales wins, as he talks with Mike Garrison, a key industry sales leader.
Brandon Lee: All right everybody, welcome back to Celebrate the Wins. I'm so excited to have you here. Thank you so much, and I have my friend Mike Garrison here with us. Mike, welcome to Celebrate the Wins!
Mike Garrison: I can't wait. I love winning.
Brandon Lee: You do love winning, haha! We have a format, right. As you know, we do five questions in 18 minutes or less. So we are on a boogie, and you and I have a problem of turning a 15-minute conversation into an hour and a half. So we got to work really hard to get to the point, be concise and move this thing forward. Sound good?
Mike Garrison: I'll be good. I'll be good.
Brandon Lee: We'll pound that one together?
Mike Garrison: Oh yeah!
Brandon Lee: Question number one. Do you think sales are harder or easier today than they were 10 years ago?
Mike Garrison: Only an idiot would think it's harder.
Brandon Lee: You really have a strong opinion about that.
Mike Garrison: No, seriously. Sales is much easier than it used to be, and I can tell you when I broke into sales, I was cold calling for copiers in Washington D.C., and there was no way to find out information about your prospects, except to go to the library and try and get the latest trade journal, which was three months old. Because print … there was no digital. You had one week.
I talked about this with Tim Hughes when I was interviewed last week. You had one week to capitalize on that information before everyone else you compete with did. Sales is so much easier now. The problem is, is people have forgotten that it's sales. You can't get away from research, preparation and effort. Now, if you apply analog sales techniques with a digital mindset, bam. You are unstoppable.
Brandon Lee: Okay. So it's Celebrate the Wins. You're here, we want to celebrate with you. What is the win that you want to celebrate today?
Mike Garrison: I would say the win I most want to celebrate is the fact that my particular referral system that I've spent a year transforming digitally is now starting to just rock the house. I've gotten three referrals … actually four referrals in the last five days.
Brandon Lee: Four referrals in five days? Whoop whoop!!
Mike Garrison: Appointments. Referral appointments. Two of them signed up before I even met with them.
Brandon Lee: Take one of those in particular and tell us a little bit about it, and in kind of leading you, you had a really big … what you thought was a very big success. I'd love for you to talk about and tell us why do you consider that such a big success?
Mike Garrison: Well the biggest success I had was this interview with Tim Hughes, the author of Social Selling. The reason it was so impactful for me is because a year and a half ago I thought I was out of business.
Brandon Lee: Right, and I want to just clarify, because you were interviewed by him for his podcast. You weren't asking him for a job or anything. You got asked by Tim Hughes, the author of Social Selling, to be on his podcast?
Mike Garrison: Yeah.
Brandon Lee: That was huge.
Mike Garrison: Tim's the number one authority in my opinion, which is quite frankly all anyone needs to know. But he's the number one authority on social selling worldwide, and the reason is, is he doesn't pull any punches, he comes from enterprise sales, he's old enough to understand what analog sales was. So what Tim really does is help people digitally transform … companies and people to transform from analog to digital. Because all those things that you did before Facebook work even better on Facebook. Right?
Because social selling is not just being social. You have to apply modalities, structure, systems and accountability. It is a lot of fun, but that's why it was so big a success for me, because a year and a half ago, I asked a friend of mine, I said, "Are referrals done? My way of doing referrals face, is it done?" He said, "No, it's even better. Start reading." So I went and read that book. He hadn't even read the book, the guy that referred it to me.
Read the book, and in it Tim says something profound. He says, "Social selling is applying traditional word of mouth networking techniques to digital," and I went, "Win." Out of that, I developed my system, which is not really my system, it's 3,000 years old. You might have heard of it. Cultivate, plant, reap.
Brandon Lee: So next question. In your process of doing and celebrating this win, in the process of getting there and turning this into a win, what did you do well?
Mike Garrison: What I did well … and this is going to sound kind of strange for people that have known me for a long time. I had empathy. Two of the people that are working with me are over 50, and they have been intimidated and felt kind of archaic. In the process of cultivating and planting, in a very short period of time I was able to show them that everything they'd done in their life had perfectly prepared them to excel in a digital world. I think that's what people don't understand is there are no get rich quick schemes in sales. I mean, it's shocking. Shocking.
Brandon Lee: What? No rich quick schemes? [jokingly]
Mike Garrison: My system is cultivate, plant, reap. It's a way of interacting with people at the top of the pipeline. Most people don't walk around saying, "Hey, I need a sales coach." So you have to be able to break status quo. I realized that going in, Brandon, and I knew that I needed to be patient, that I needed to be consistent with my [inaudible 00:05:46], and I needed to talk about things from their perspective. Then I had to be predictable. That it couldn't be random acts of charity.
You know, rain drops and gummy drops falling out of the sky. So what I did with these people is I connected with them. In most cases … in half the cases I already knew them. I'd already picked them out and selected them from my network, and I just talked about and said, "What's your vision for what you're trying to accomplish?" Because coaches can't take anybody. You can't eat potential.
Brandon Lee: Got it. That's great.
Mike Garrison: They have to engage you because of a perception of something more they can do.
Brandon Lee: Right. They need to see the outcomes.
Mike Garrison: Yeah, because you can't coach somebody past their own limitations.
Brandon Lee: Right. There you go.
Mike Garrison: It's impossible. You can't make Usain Bolt faster genetically. All you can help him do is achieve more and more of his God-given potential.
Brandon Lee: Got it. Yep. So as a John Maxwell guy, as a member of John Maxwell team, I'd say it's the law of the lid. In the 15 laws of growth, right, your lid … you're constantly going to hit that as a ceiling, so what you need to do is expand your lid.
Mike Garrison: Yeah.
Brandon Lee: I move your lid for you to move. Is that similar to what you're saying?
Mike Garrison: It's similar. I like John. He's cool, written a couple of books. I would say that there's only one lid, and that's what you were created. You can't get past what you were designed for, but unfortunately we create artificial lids that aren't real.
Brandon Lee: Yeah, okay. Okay.
Mike Garrison: So I think most people live in a small fish tank of their own design.
Brandon Lee: Yep. I can [crosstalk 00:07:28].
Mike Garrison: Inside a much larger tank, designed by somebody far better.
Brandon Lee: Got it. So let's move into the next one, then. We got the W of what you do well, and the second one is improve. So knowing what you've done, the success that you had, the win that we're celebrating today. Where would you want to improve?
Mike Garrison: I need to be more consistent. One of the challenges … I've reflected on this over many times we're talked. Even though I talk about with my clients, you got to always continually prospect. You got to be really consistent. I still find myself doing that little sine wave where I get some business, get a lot of stimulation, and slip efforts down. The reason I'm doing so well now is because I realized I was dipping my prospecting levels. I was sliding more toward the surprise Chicken Little Marketing concept, as opposed to proactive cultivate, plant, reap. So I would say what I need to do is be exactly what I say to my clients. Be consistent. Predictable referrals come from predictable behavior.
Brandon Lee: So the improve part is not getting distracted when success and wins start coming your way?
Mike Garrison: That sounds better. Let's do that.
Brandon Lee: To stop doing what got you there … the activities that got you there in the first place. Right?
Mike Garrison: Yep. There's no way around it. I hate all these people that tell you referrals are easy. They're lying, they're [inaudible 00:08:58] and they're charlatans at best. All prospecting is difficult. You have to work. If you want to be a higher performer, you don't get there by sitting on the couch eating bonbons and watching Jerry Springer.
Brandon Lee: Starred it. My day is shot now.
Mike Garrison: I think you'll be okay.
Brandon Lee: Yeah. Planning on doing that and watching all the sales and signed contracts coming in.
Mike Garrison: Yeah, exactly. That's what people forget. Referrals aren't easy. They're a lot more fun. They can be more personally rewarding if you're into human-to-human contact. But they're not for everybody in every organization. Because they have their own risks, their own problems.
Brandon Lee: Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so one of your things you would improve upon is being more consistent.
Mike Garrison: I follow my system better.
Brandon Lee: What's that?
Mike Garrison: I'd follow my own system better.
Brandon Lee: Follow your own system better. Yep. Be more consistent with your own tactics, of course. Hey, you know what? Gosh, I would imagine that there's a lot of people listening to this just shaking their head right now going, "I get it," and, you know, it's that sense of feeling like a hypocrite sometimes.
That we're either going to let it make us feel like a failure and a hypocrite and bring us down, or look at it and just go, "Man, I'm human like everyone else, and let's move forward. I know what to do. I got off course. Let me get back on the horse and go." Right?
Mike Garrison: Absolutely, and that's part of having a system. If you don't have a system, it's really hard to get back on track.
Brandon Lee: Yeah, because you don't know where track is.
Mike Garrison: Yeah. You're measuring everything with emotion.
Brandon Lee: Anything else in the improve? Anything else you'd want to improve upon?
Mike Garrison: Some plastic surgery. Look better. You know this whole video thing's challenging for me. This face made for radio, right?
Brandon Lee: Love that expression.
Mike Garrison: It's so true.
Brandon Lee: I love that.
Mike Garrison: Seriously, it's just … I'd say the other thing to improve on is to stop worrying about how I look to other people. One of the problems with any kind of referral-based, human-based system, is it's easy to get distracted or wounded by do people like me. The Sally Field concept. That's dating.
Brandon Lee: Absolutely. You want to flesh that out a little bit for the people who are going, "What do you mean, Sally Field?"
Mike Garrison: No. Google it. Google it.
Brandon Lee: You like me, you really, really like me.
Mike Garrison: Really, really like me.
Brandon Lee: Yeah, I'm there too. I remember that.
Mike Garrison: That's one of the most painful moments in television history.
Brandon Lee: Yep. Here's the thing, and I think you and I have talked about this before, is that one of the, I think, elements of social selling that gets overlooked and we don't talk about is are you prepared to be a celebrity, if you will? Are you prepared to be a public figure?
Because I don't care if you're just putting it Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter or Instagram, or whatever. You start putting it out there. It takes guts, because people are going to comment. Normally, my experience is the first time you put something out there, the people who show up first are the critics.
Mike Garrison: They're the predators.
Brandon Lee: The what?
Mike Garrison: The predators.
Brandon Lee: The predators, yeah, and they knock you down, and you've got to be prepared to say, "Am I ready to be public," and have thick skin and be okay, and be consistent, even though some of the comments are going to kick me in the knees.
Mike Garrison: You know, one of the greatest ways I explain that to clients was when I was doing some customer service work before I got fired by one of my best friends.
Brandon Lee: You know, you throw a lot of little like zinger nuggets that I-
Mike Garrison: They're all true, though.
Brandon Lee: We're going to have to come back to that. We're going to pull that one in some day and flesh it out.
Mike Garrison: I had made the mistake of hitting reply all on an issue.
Brandon Lee: Ouch.
Mike Garrison: Yeah, and I got a great piece of advice. It's from doctor Ivan Misner, who's the founder CEO of B&I. He said, "Mike, you got to treat everybody like they're a reporter." I think that that advice really captures what you were saying. That when you put it out on social, when you're doing social selling, you have to be aware that you're talking to reporters. Because everyone is a publisher now. That doesn't mean that you should be fake. That's even worse. You need to be authentic, but you need to be … not cautious, but you need to speak in your own voice. Don't say things that you won't stand behind.
Brandon Lee: Yeah, absolutely. Okay, in the name of time. We've gotten into well, you followed your system. Improve, you want to be more consistent. What specifically, one or two things, that you will do next time, as specific as you can get, to turn this win into the next win?
Mike Garrison: Well, I'm going to double down on my system, and I wrote an article called The Best Way to Ask Your Customers for Referrals, and I will humbly ask all of my customers, past and present, over the last 20 years, for referrals.
Brandon Lee: Very cool. That is very specific. So will you promise me this? When you implement that, in however long, three months, four moths, six months down the road. Will you come back and share with us that win so that we can celebrate that win with you? Share how you went from this win … went through what I called my win method. What did you do well, what do you want to improve? Specifically what are you going to do next time, and then catapult one win to the next, bigger win? We'd love to hear all about it.
Mike Garrison: Love to.
Brandon Lee: Awesome, awesome. Okay, Mike, before we go. Last question. Are you ready?
Mike Garrison: I'm ready.
Brandon Lee: Your best sale ever.
Mike Garrison: Her name was Jocelyn Ruth-Simmons and she's my wife of 23 years. I will say that it has a lot more to do with Jesus than it does with me. But when we first met she was not even 21 and she's like "I don't want to get married until I'm 30, 32."
Brandon Lee: And the salesman came out?
Mike Garrison: That's right.
Mike Garrison: Age 25, baby. Woo.
Brandon Lee: There goes another one of those conversations that we're going to have to flesh out another time.
Mike Garrison: No, I mean, I'd say the best sale I ever made was with a really good friend last week. He manages about 30 different sales consultants, and he's having a hard time helping them grow effectively because he didn't have a digital system. So I was able to, thanks to stuff I've learned in the sales enabling society. Thanks to Tim Hughes, thanks to guys like you, I was able to gently shepherd him into a different way of viewing things.
He's so talented, all he really needed was a different lens. It's kind of like when you put glasses on one of those kids for the first time and they can see. Or the cochlear implants. That's all we really need to do in sales, is help your client be a better version of themselves.
Brandon Lee: That's awesome. Awesome. Mike, thank you so much for sharing your experience and especially sharing your win with us so that we could celebrate your win with you. So we celebrate you. Thank you so much to coming, and I'm looking forward, three to six months. I want to hear about the next win.
Mike Garrison: Absolutely, with Chris in Atlanta.
Brandon Lee: With Chris in Atlanta, here we go. All right, thanks Mike.
Brandon Lee: Hey everybody, thanks for joining us again. We really shoot to do five important questions to celebrate people's wins within 18 minutes or less, and if we went over 18, you won't know the difference because our editors are going to make us look like we were much more concise than we are.
So thanks for coming and, hey, if you know somebody or you are somebody that'd like to join us on the show and celebrate your win, or let us celebrate you and your win, comment down below, get in touch with us at goyipyip.com. We would love to have you on and celebrate your win with you. Thanks again for coming, Mike, have a great night.
Mike Garrison: Peace.
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By Donna Estrada
According to Pew, by 2020, the use of Big Data will improve our understanding of ourselves and the world and that 'nowcasting' or real-time data analysis, and pattern recognition will surely get better. This is the reason why the people in the business sector opt to incorporate the 'nowcasting' in their company instead of depicting the future through forecasting. Usually, forecasts for the next 0-2 hours are called nowcasting (NWC), from 2-12 hours very short-range forecasting (VSRF).
The business sector gave value to the effects that nowcasting more than forecasting could give. With the advent of social media, that fact is even more apparent as people rely on minute-by-minute updates for things like the news. These real-time updates can be an advantage to the organization as long as the data that were given is accurate.
Now, your question might be, can nowcasting help improve your business?
Helps you prepare for the present
You may ask if how nowcasting works. On a study entitled: Statement of Guidance for Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting, nowcasting techniques use extrapolation of observations, applying heuristic rules to modify these observations into the future.
Once the businessman knew how to track the progress of their company, it will be easier for him to be able to prepare himself for the upcoming threats that his business will face. Nowcasting contributes a lot on by studying the possible problems that will occur out of the data found. Since nowcasting is the task of predicting the present, it can manage to deal successfully with the possible issue that will occur.
You'll be prepared with the innovation
The right information at the right time can be the differentiator between business success and failure. If your business has the real-time data that could track your progress everyday, you will have an idea on how to improve your business. May it be relocating your business or expanding it to cater your customers' needs. Once you have known the possibilities of relocation in advance, you can prepare what you need for moving. Since in business, time shouldn't be wasted, you need to be prepared of the unplanned situations.
You'll know your future consumers
How you reach your target audience changes as the time goes by. Your avid consumers might learn not to patronize your goods. The worst case scenario would be: the product that you're presenting might be not acceptable to them anymore. Most especially to the younger generation, which is known as the millennials. For example, if you're an owner of a restaurant, if you have knowledge to the current trends about your business, you will start reinventing your product so that your customers will get interested to purchase it.
Millennial workforce impacts how businesses are run on the whole. Since millennials are composed of 92 million people which made them surpass the population of the baby boomers. This is the reason why companies should shift their focus and create new marketing strategies for this generation.
It adds up to the quality of your business
Price forecast in commodity market remains an important part of export activities, especially for developing countries but nowcasting of price of primary commodity markets is a key factor to macroeconomic policy planning. How can nowcasting be relevant to macroeconomics and not in microeconomics? It is because former focuses on trends in the economy and how the economy moves as a whole while the latter focuses on the smaller factors that affect choices made by individuals and companies.
You'll be updated of unemployment rate
If you think that employment rate won't matter to your business, think again. You will not be able to see the overall economic increase without statistics of the job growth. The unemployment rate could weaken consumers' purchasing power. When a person is unemployed, there will be a lesser chance for him to afford to buy what he wants. Since the most integral part when you're having a business are customers, if there are an inadequate number of employment rate, fewer people will be buying, and the retail sector will decline.
Why is it that you really need to keep track of your business' data?
Data is essentially the plain facts and statistics collected during the operations of a business. They can be used to measure/record a wide range of business activities – both internal and external. While the data itself may not be very informative, it is the basis for all reporting and as such is crucial in business.
The question: "Isn't it that information is much important than data?" No, it's not because information can't be formed if there are no data that can support the information that has been disseminated.
Being able to have nowcasting is essential to the company since it can give an edge to the business. If the industry will just rely on the old information, it will not surely catch up with the latest trends and innovations in the business. Having the information in real time lets you address the problem today rather than next week or month.
Donna Estrada is an editor for Scoopfed and a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. She spends her time reading books, blogs, and sometimes writes contents for Aviv Movers. @scoopfed.


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#Speech4Breakfast: Day 3
Harvey Milk – The Hope Speech
"I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings."
"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.
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Janet Mock's speech from the Women's March on Washington
"Our approach to freedom need not be identical but it must be intersectional and inclusive. It must extend beyond ourselves."
"So we are here. We are here not merely to gather but to move, right? And our movements, our movements require us to do more than just show up and say the right words. It requires us to break out of our comfort zones and be confrontational. It requires us to defend one another when it is difficult and dangerous. It requires us to truly see ourselves and one another… Read More
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Aung San Suu Kyi – "Freedom from Fear"
"Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power."
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Noble Peace Prize winner who is also the head of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar. Suu Kyi spent many years in detention for her efforts as a Democratic organizer. In 1990 Suu Kyi led her party to victory in the national elections but the military dictatorship refused to give up control. Her "Freedom for Fear" was speech was given during this period.
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Corn Vegetable Casserole
This casserole is great for a potluck or anytime you need to make a dish ahead of time, then bake before serving. Corn is a favorite at our house—when we had this at Thanksgiving it was a big hit.—Roy and Jerretta Logan, Ferguson, Missouri
Total TimePrep: 10 min. Bake: 35 min.
Makes12 servings
- 3-1/2 cups fresh corn
- 3 cups chopped broccoli, parboiled
- 2 cups sliced carrots (1/2-inch pieces), parboiled
- 1-1/2 cups pearl onions
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of celery soup, undiluted
- 1/2 cup milk
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- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
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- Combine corn, broccoli, carrots and onions; place in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish.
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THE West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says the examination record of President Muhammadu Buhari has always been with the council, and that it is just that the president had not requested for it officially, until last week.
Sunday Tribune recalls that on Friday, the registrar of the examination body, Dr Iyi Uwadiae, led a delegation from WAEC, including its Head of National Office, Nigeria, to the State House in Abuja to present an attestation of result to the president.
The development received a lot of media attention, and elicited several comments, including from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, which has insisted that the president never sat for WAEC's examination, and that what was delivered in Abuja was a procured political document akin to the Martin Luther King Award presented to the president last year.
However, speaking with Sunday Tribune on telephone on Saturday, the Head of WAEC's Public Affairs in Nigeria, Mr Demianus Ojijeogu, said the president did write the examination, and that the council has his examination record.
There had been claims too that the 1961 examination in the northern region of Nigeria was conducted by the Cambridge University Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), and not WAEC, therefore questioning the appropriateness of WAEC issuing an attestation for an examination it did not conduct.
To this, Mr Ojijeogu simply asked: "The question implies that when Cambridge finished conducting the exam, they went with the records? There was no handover?"
The WAEC's spokesman said the current controversy over the president's examination record would not have arisen if he (Buhari) had applied for it much earlier.
He said: "He (Buhari) didn't come for it. And it's only he or the court that can compel us to produce the result.
"We have (President) Buhari's record with us. He didn't come for it, till last week that he applied. He has the record with us; it has always been there.
"Had it been at the heat of that election (2015) he had approached WAEC, we would have given attestation or even confirmed that result to INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) then. That would have rested it."
Ojijeogu also sneered at the claim that a certain group, Move on Nigeria, once contacted the Accra office of WAEC and obtained a letter claiming that Buhari's record could not be found there.
"How can they find his record in Ghana? How can the examination record of a Nigerian be found in Ghana? And how can a Ghanaian record be found in Nigeria?" He asked.


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What is DevOps, really? In this course, we look the problems faced by today's IT departments and how a DevOps transformation can help focus on value and streamlined delivery.We'll explore:
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- Where organizational change is required
- How to confront the inevitable objections
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Course Overview
Hi, everyone. My name is Richard Seroter. Welcome to my course, DevOps: The Big Picture. I'm a vice president at Pivotal, a Microsoft MVP, InfoQ editor, and longtime Pluralsight author. This course has the information you need to understand what DevOps is all about. Is it a role? Is it a team? Is it a product? Just hype? We'll find out together. Some of the things we're going to cover include pain points that lead you to DevOps, required organizational and cultural changes to succeed with the DevOps model, common objections and the responses, and technologies that support DevOps. By the end of this course, you'll know what you need to move forward with adopting a DevOps style that lasts. This is a topic I care a lot about, and I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn about DevOps with this DevOps: The Big Picture, course here, at Pluralsight.


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Dreaming of one's own throat is an ill omen, relatives or friends may pass away.
Married woman's dreaming of her own throat means bad news in her parents' family.
Dreaming of sore throat, or tumour in throat means there will be gains / revenue.
Patients' dreaming about sore throat means there will be long-term of being bedrid.
Prisoners who have been sentenced to death dreamed about pain in throat means death is imminent.
Tourists' dreaming of sore throat indicates possible robbery and all the money will be taken away.
Zhougong's Dream Dictionary
In the Chinese culture, dream is linked with a virtual person called Zhougong after a popular book Zhougong's Dream Dictionary (周公解梦) which has been passed down from thousands of years ago. The book categorizes seven types of dream that people usually have during sleeping. With thousand of years' history, Zhougong's Dream Dictionary (周公解梦) has been popular in China as well as in the Chinese communities for its excellence in explaining different dreams, in particular those unusual and weird. While some believe that the book shows people's superstition, others believe that the objects or scenes that show up in our dream have close relationship with what have happened within our body (e.g. health status), in daily life, or mental status.


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- Human Rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others' alleged killers have been named
- Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet released their names on Saturday, July 2
- They are Frederick Leliman, Stephen Chebulet and Silvia Njoki
The three Administration Police officers linked to the disappearance and murder of human right lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and their driver Joseph Muiruri have been named.
According to Nairobi News, they were named by Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet.
They are Senior Sergeant Frederick Leliman, Corporal Stephen Chebulet and Constable Silvia Njoki.
READ ALSO: Police service distances itself with three APs linked to murder of lawyer
According to Nairobi News, the naming came after the Law Society of Kenya chair Isaac Okero demanded for the resignation of Boinnet, Deputy Inspector-General Samuel Arachi and Interiro Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery over the killings.
The three were arrested yesterday, Friday, July 1, after the bodies of the three were fished out of Ol Donyo Sabuk river in Machakos county on Thursday, June 30. They had been missing for a week.
Yesterday, Boinnet issued a statement confirming their arrest, assuring the families of the deceased and Kenyans that anyone linked to the murders would be prosecuted regardless of their citizenship status of where they worked.
In the same breath, he also distanced the National Police Service from the behavior of the three at the same time The United States government added its voice to the fray, condemning the killings.
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President Barack Obama condemned the killings of the employees of the International Justice Mission which is a non-governmental organization with the United States.


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A massage is a pampering experience that relaxes and rests the tired mind and body. There any many benefits to having a massage, some more important than one is likely to assume.
Chronic muscle pain, constant fatigue, and tenderness of body are often a common occurrence in those leading busy lives. It, in fact, is a symptom of Fibromyalgia, which is a condition that is prompted by stress and lack of sleep. Having regular massages have been found to help with this condition, as it alleviates muscle pain and is good for reducing stress too. In fact, massages are often prescribed to patients with Fibromyalgia, as a simple massage can do wonders for this feeling of pain and fatigue that is experienced by many.
There is a reason why there are many a spa resort in Maldives, Bali and other popular destinations. Massages have been found to drastically improve the mood, as it takes away stress and subconscious pain from the body, allowing the mind to relax. Furthermore, the oils and even the music used in spas during massages have been found to relax the mind, put it at east, thus ensuring that the mood of the client is at an optimal level by the end of the massage. This does not mean one feels giddy, though. A massage simply puts your mind at ease, and in a good mood.
A migraine is a type of a headache that is difficult to deal with. It often is triggered by lack of sleep, stress, or in some cases, even food. A migraine is not a headache that can be treated with a painkiller, nor does to go away after a couple of hours. Studies have found that those who go for regular massages have a lower frequency of a migraine than those who don't. They are able to have a better sleeping cycle and have often experienced no headache for up to three weeks after receiving a massage.
If one is to analyse the duration of spa treatments and massages of higher end spas like Anantara Dhigu Maldives Resort, it would be apparent that a minimum of 30 minutes is dedicated to a massage. This is because a massage of 30 minutes or more has been found to help sustain healthy levels of blood pressure, provided they are carried out regularly. The ideal would be to have a massage once a week and keep it to a routine.
Carpal Tunnel syndrome is common among those who use their hands in the same position over an extended period of time. It is painful and uncomfortable, often without an immediate cure. It has been found that having regular massages can help with conditions like Carpal Tunnel syndrome. Although the complete treatment of it is a long process involving surgery and medication, massages have been found to help reduce the pain and even restore a semblance of normalcy into the way Carpal Tunnel patients operate in their daily lives.


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Keywords: baryon, fermion, hadron, strangeness, neutron
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A hyperon is any baryon that is not a neutron.
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Grand National Cross Country Series Round 1 Overview:
Location: Palatka, FL
Beta Factory Race Team Results:
- Mike Witkowski grabbed the holeshot and finished round 1 on the XC2 Class podium in 3rd place.
- Cody Barnes finished round 1 on the XC3 Class podium in 2nd place.
The next race for both riders will be at the 2nd round of the Grand National Cross Country Series on March 16th-17th in Washington, GA.
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National Powersport Auctions expects 2018 to be a strong year for the powersports industry, due to a good mix of inventory and the growing number of lenders in the space, Tony Altieri, NPA's director of business development, told Powersports Finance.
"We are cautiously optimistic to gear up for one of our better years," he said. The number of lenders in the powersports space is likely to increase in 2018 as auto and other lenders set their sights on the market, he added.
Huntington Bank, for example, expanded its subsidiary FirstMerit Corp.'s recreational vehicle and marine business into 34 states this year, up from its prior 17-state footprint.
Current lenders are also likely to expand offerings, such as adding payment options, Altieri said.
Separately, NPA expects that new-unit sales will "continue to be flat-ish," he said, but that preowned will fill that retail void. While new-unit sales have been slow to recover since the 2008 financial crisis, preowned unit sales have stayed robust, said several panelists at PowerSports Finance 2017 in October.


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Who is a multi-modal transport operator & how do they differ from freight forwarder ?
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It is always nice to get some feedback and inputs from the readers of the blog.. Here is one question that has come up : Who is a multi-modal transport operator and how do they differ from a freight forwarder..?? Before we go to the question, lets discuss what is a Multi-Modal transport.. As the name may indicate, it is … Read more here..


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What do social sciences and humanities have to do with nuclear physics? According to Dr Kai-Henrik Barth, the professor teaching Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q)'s first required natural science course this semester, the answer is "everything".
His course, Nuclear Know-How for Presidents, gives students majoring in economics, history, culture and politics, an introduction to the science behind nuclear weapons and an understanding of why that knowledge matters for policy makers, not just for scientists.
"From the Iran deal and North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, to Fukushima and Chernobyl, it's clear that nuclear technologies continue to shape international politics. Now more than ever, global leaders need to be able to understand scientific arguments in order to make informed decisions on issues that will have a tremendous impact on our world," explains Dr Barth, who studied nuclear physics in his homeland of Germany before receiving his PhD in the History of Science and Technology from the University of Minnesota, US.
"I am really pleased that through this course, students will gain a broad understanding of nuclear science and technology, in both military and civilian applications, so they are better prepared to engage in discussions and debates on the complex issues surrounding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy," said Dr Barth, who is also the senior assistant dean for Research Support at GU-Q.
Ayesha Iqbal, a second-year student majoring in International Politics, had considered a career in physics before a love of politics brought her to GU-Q.
With required readings including books by nuclear physicists, the curriculum is rigorous enough to challenge, without being overly technical. "I didn't expect to go this deeply into technical concepts of nuclear physics, so I'm really enjoying it."
With hopes of pursuing a career in security studies and defence policy, she says the science has helped her understand the stakes involved.
"Studying the amalgamation of nuclear physics and politics has made me take any headline I see on CNN or BBC about nuclear programmes or nuclear threats far more seriously. These aren't just abstract diagrams and concepts in my physics coursebook any more. The threat is real, and leaders are gambling with something that has the capacity to cause incalculable harm."
This course isn't GU-Q's only foray into the issue of nuclear technology.
Dr Barth also spearheads the university's partnership with the Qatar's Ministry of Defence's National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons, a joint initiative that raises student awareness about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
Also, the school is exploring possibilities of expanding its natural science offerings in the future."For students in the social sciences and humanities," says Dr Barth, "scientific literacy is a life skill".
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This is one of our "refreshers" targeted at graduating seniors looking for a "tune-up" in their MIS fundamentals ahead of interviewing for jobs this spring. It's good to have the core MIS concepts on the tip of your tongue when your favorite job opportunity is on the line. This is your chance to be ready!
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A new edition of the Prize of the Belgian Development Cooperation has been launched. This call is open until March 31st, 2011. You can read in the regulations whether you comply with the criteria for participation.
The sociology thesis which Eric Bologo dedicates to the Zaï, an agricultural technique of endogenous origin, applied by a part of the peasant population of Yatenga (Burkina Faso), is based on solid agronomic foundations and forces the operators of rural development to question certain issues. The work is built around a well-delimited field of research, and, above all, the author brings together and develops very recent viewpoints from the socio-anthropology of the development.
We are here confronted with a real sociological thesis, the principal merit of which is to offer, via a case study, relevant conclusions, not only for the agronomists, but also for the "developers", the peasants' organizations, the various schools for social sciences which are dealing with development isssues in developing countries . Two essential lessons can be derived from it:
1. A technique the origin of which is endogenous can, ipso facto, not be generalized easily, not even in a homogeneous sociocultural environment.
2. The diffusion of a tried and tested cultivation technique, familiar to the farmers and mastered by them, is more defined by the configuration of social actors and what is put at stake hereby, than by the efficiency of the method itself.
The notion "arena", which the author derives from contemporary sociology, shows in this particular case that it is not so much the cultural heritage, characteristic for a population, that is at stake in the adoption or the diffusion of a practice, as the social relations that have recently been created by the institutionalization of the rural development and its actors.


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For the occasion Meghan opted for an ivory button-front Givenchy shirtdress with lace appliques adorning the waist. The 36-year-old accessorised with a thin back waist belt and matching pumps, completing the ensemble with a black and white Philip Treacy fascinator. While Harry looked smart in a black top hat and suit with tails.
Meghan Markle Commemorates One Month of Marriage With (Another) White Givenchy Gown
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The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle joined Prince Harry at the Royal Ascot on June 19th, coinciding with exactly one month since the royal wedding.


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I spent last weekend walking with my brother in the Brecon Beacons. It's an idea that had been brewing since the weather on a weekend away last March ruined my plan to walk Sugar Loaf. We drove down on Saturday … Continue reading
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North Shropshire walk with the Midland Hillwalkers
North Shropshire, a set on Flickr. Here are some shots from last Sunday's walk with the Midland Hillwalkers. It was 14 miles from Stoney Stretton in North Shropshire to just over the Welsh border in Kingswood. Now I have a … Continue reading
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Rutland Water Walk
Rutland Water, a set on Flickr. The latest Midland Hillwalkers trip was to Rutland Water. It was pretty flat so we had a longer route than usual at 15 miles. The weather was beautiful (I'm very glad I brought the … Continue reading
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Cadair Idris Walk
Cadair Idris, a set on Flickr. On Sunday I headed out again with my hillwalking club, following last month's trip to Stanage Edge. This time we climbed Cadair Idris, a mountain on the southern edge of the Snowdonia National Park … Continue reading
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Stanage Edge Walk
Elentari86's photostream on Flickr. I recently joined a hillwalking club, because I've been meaning to get more into walking. Yesterday was my first time out with the Midlands Hillwalkers and it was to Stanage Edge, in the Peak District. I've … Continue reading
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3 Peaks Challenge Complete!
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My 2010 in review
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