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Blue Note Entertainment Group and Another Planet Entertainment have partnered to launch a new outdoor festival-style venue in downtown Napa, CA: The Oxbow RiverStage. Along with the City of Napa, they will produce a series of outdoor concerts and events at the Napa Valley Oxbow Commons, located at 1268 McKinstry St.in the Oxbow District of historic Napa.
Oxbow Commons is a Napa City park, nestled up against the backdrop of the Napa River, with scenic views of the rolling hills and vineyards. Oxbow Commons provides concert-goers grass fields, paved walkways, and great views. The venue is steps away from the world-renowned Oxbow Public Market and numerous top-rated restaurants and hotels.
Guests can sit back and enjoy the concert or walk around taking in the region's craft beers and spirits, local Napa Valley wines, tasty food, art by world-renown artist Gordon Huether, and sponsorship activations. In addition, through a partnership with Napa-based business Feast It Forward, the Oxbow RiverStage will offer a VIP wine bar lounge that rivals the VIP experience at many high-end festivals.
Founded in 1981 by Danny Bensusan, Blue Note Entertainment Group is a multi-faceted entertainment company that owns, operates, licenses and/or programs nine Blue Note Jazz Clubs worldwide, located in New York, NY; Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan; Milan, Italy; Waikiki, Hawaii; Beijing, China; Napa, California; Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. The company also owns and operates Sony Hall (New York, NY) and programs the Regattabar Jazz Club (Cambridge, MA). Blue Note Entertainment Group regularly presents shows outside of its club network. The annual Sony presents Blue Note Jazz Festival was established in 2011 and has since grown to become the largest jazz festival in New York City each June. Subsidiaries of Blue Note Entertainment Group include the GRAMMY®-nominated record label Half Note Records, whose catalog includes over fifty titles recorded live at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club, as well as Blue Note Travel. For more information, visit www.bluenoteentertainmentgroup.com.
Established in 2003, Another Planet Entertainment (APE) has produced and promoted thousands of events with artists as diverse as Radiohead, Neil Young, Chance the Rapper, Daft Punk, Adele, The Weeknd, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Lorde, Metallica, Bruno Mars, twenty one pilots, Bruce Springsteen, Mumford & Sons, Paul McCartney and Kanye West. Named the Top Independent Promoter (U.S.) by Billboard Magazine in 2015 and 2016 and Top Independent Promoter (Worldwide) in 2017 & 2018, APE is the exclusive promoter for the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, the Fox Theater in Oakland, the historic Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, The Independent in San Francisco, Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys, Another Planet Event Group and an artist management division. APE also produces three major annual festivals – Outside Lands (since 2008) and Treasure Island Music Festival (since 2007) in San Francisco, as well as Life Is Beautiful (since 2013) in Downtown Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.APEConcerts.com


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Waldwick is a small wholesome community with a lot of young families and children. Waldwick real estate is a mix of styles -- cape cods, colonials, bi- and split-levels -- on tree-lined streets. The town is blessed with a lovely 32 acre park and lake, and residents can enjoy boating, fishing, or just a peaceful stroll in the woods.
An active recreational department provides year-round fun for the entire family. Concerts by the fire department band, soccer, basketball, football, baseball, swimming at the municipal pool, Women's Club, scouting programs, and other civic organizations are all available. There is also a well-staffed summer program that utilizes all three owned parks.
The educational opportunity afforded students in the Waldwick public schools is outstanding. Waldwick's progressive educational programs include art, music, and language skills in the lower grades, as well as challenging science and mathematics courses through Waldwick High School. Waldwick has a fine public library conveniently located in the town proper. Local stores provide diverse shopping. Waldwick is excellent for commuting to New York City by bus, car pool or train.
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Hyundai Does Well in J.D. Power IQS; Lexus Back on Top
By Jim Henry | June 23rd, 2009 @ 7:21 am
Time for a brief flurry of reporting and analysis of the 2009 J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study, after which the results will sink from public view for another year, except for advertising blurbs, which many consumers discount anyway.
It's too bad there's so much spin control, profiteering and drum-beating surrounding J.D. Power surveys, because the results really do provide some sort of reflection, however distorted, of how car companies are doing at pleasing their customers.
Here's my short list of noteworthy IQS results, which were released June 22:
Lexus is back in the No. 1 position. This represents "The World Turned Right-Side Up," since Lexus has aced IQS almost since its debut 20 years ago. Lexus fell to No. 3 last year, behind Porsche and Infiniti.
Hyundai was No. 4, and the leading non-luxury brand, which Hyundai will be quick to promote, assuming Hyundai is willing to pay J.D. Power's eye-watering fee for using the results in advertising. Hyundai is on a roll in the United States, but its sister Kia division has some catching up to do.
Ford and Chevrolet came within an ace of reaching the 100 Problems Per 100 Vehicles benchmark, which was once owned pretty much exclusively by Lexus. It will take years of water dripping on a stone for U.S. brands to wear down their reputation for poor quality, but at least they're moving in the right direction.
Yesterday's J.D. Power press release – which goes a long way towards spinning news coverage of the results – highlighted improved scores for domestic brands, despite the turmoil in Detroit.
For all its flaws, IQS is at least some sort of third-party measurement of quality. As such, it's way ahead of whatever quality measures the car companies would provide to the public if it were up to them.
To read the car company pronouncements, you would think that IQS was like Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.
But over time, the survey results really do affect products, and the car companies really do want to score well. After the short-lived hoopla dies down, auto industry quality gnomes will dissect the results and the results for their competitors and keep chipping away, deep under the auto industry mountains.


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What inspired me to make this little cardigan is the little springy lambs in the fields, playing in the sunshine. This can be for little girls or boys, it will fit sizes 22" to 24". This pattern is 4 pages with detailed pictures. It is easy enough for a beginner to do. You will need 150gms DK in main colour and 50 gms in Sheep cream colour. Also a small amount in Brown for faces and legs. Carry the yarns loosely across the back of the work. You will need to know basic intarsia. you will need 4 15mm Buttons. In the photo I have crocheted the button bands, but knitting instructions are included as well.
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Deb Alderson was recently named president and CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions, and will join the Herdon, Va.-based security technology contractor on July 8.
The 25-year industry veteran joins the firm from her role as EVP and COO at SRA International, a position she elevated to shortly after leading more than 14,000 C4 employees as president of SAIC's defense solutions.
In a recent conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Alderson laid out some goals for her first months in office, including her emphasis on hitting the road to engage with her new colleagues and driving organic growth.
She also talked about Sotera's position in the GovCon and intell markets and driving long-term company growth.
ExecutiveBiz: What made this opportunity attractive to you?
Deb Alderson: What really got me excited was the team and the fact that their focus is totally aligned with my focus, which is on the mission and the people. I was impressed with Ares, the private equity firm that's invested in Sotera. I think they are in markets that are very attractive and have a lot of upside. I have worked throughout my career to have an opportunity to lead a group like this and it was clear it was the right move. I was very comfortable during the whole process, which was a strong sign to me.
I've been in the business for more than 25 years and there are gut checks that are very important when you make decisions such as this and I was impressed with the team, I was impressed with the mission and the array of national security technology solutions Sotera offers. I think my focus on organic growth and people engagement will fare very well here at Sotera. I'm really excited about this opportunity and am very proud to be in this position.
ExecutiveBiz: How will you work across Sotera's enterprise to learn the ins and outs of the company and integrate yourself as its leader?
Alderson: I'm pretty much known as a 'hands-on' type of a person and I think that's one reason that Sotera was attractive to me. I'm a nut about organic growth and creating opportunities for the people – my banner is 'People First,' always. In order to do that you really need to get in there and be actively engaged with the people and with the customer base, so I'm already working on how I can get out there and meet Sotera's employees and customers. We have quite a few people at client sites and I plan on getting out there and talking to them and their customers as soon as possible, demonstrating the value-add that I can provide to them. I will be out in the field quite often.
To me, my value is going to be doing whatever I can to help our people grow and create opportunities for them. In addition to our offices in Northern Virginia, we also have offices in Virginia Beach, Charleston, SC, Austin, TX, among others. We're also working with several Special Operations programs in Tampa. I'll be visiting all these offices in the near future. I'll go where the work is to learn the ropes from the people on the ground, doing the job. I think that a real emphasis on our people engagement is to get our people excited about serving the mission and about serving Sotera. The only way you can do that is to get out there and meet with the people. I'm not a 'behind-your-desk' CEO. I've been called a 'Road Warrior' and I was very flattered by that term.
ExecutiveBiz: What are some of your goals in the immediate term?
Alderson: You want to show value as quick as you can, especially when you bring a new leader in. I would measure that by the amount of excitement that you create within the first 30 days about having the leadership team out there engaged, driving growth, serving the mission, and getting people excited about being part of a team. You can see that in a lot of different ways. I'll measure that by the number of people throughout the organization that reach out to me.
I'm a very 'open-door' kind of a person; I'm not a chain of command type of person. The more people that want to reach out and talk to me is a very positive sign. There's also the number of customer engagements I have over the next thirty days and, of course, 'where are we bidding?' and how are we executing against some of the great contract vehicles that we have here at Sotera. There will be lots of signs in the first 30 days that indicate whether I am making a difference.
ExecutiveBiz: How has the build up of Sotera's platform distinguished it in the GovCon space? How will you work to continue to position Sotera as an industry leader?
Alderson: There are some technologies, specifically in data fusion, that are very much needed by our government customers right now and I think Sotera has a great reputation in those areas. Their focus on the intell community in general and in cybersecurity is very valuable. These are markets that will continue to grow even though the overall market is declining. They have an excellent reputation for performance and execution that I plan on leveraging. It's a real advantage to come into a company that is strong, with people who are focused, with a good reputation and good branding all based on outstanding execution. I don't think it gets any better than that and I plan on leveraging that to continue to grow the company and create opportunities for our people. It comes down to basic blocking and tackling, or the core elements of business development. We're going to take a look at the current space, with the mission focus that we're going after, then we're going to build a qualified pipeline and then we're going to bid and we're going to win.
ExecutiveBiz: Where would you like to see Sotera over a longer period of time, say 5 to 10 years?
Alderson: I would hope it would continue to grow significantly, with the focus primarily on organic growth initially and then there could be acquisitions down the road. No matter what size, my number 1 priority is the customers' trust and how much they rely on Sotera to be a partner serving the mission. I'm looking forward to a company that has a 100 percent win rate when it comes to our recompetes and that is outpacing the market when it comes to year-over-year growth. That's how we create opportunities for the people and that is my number on priority.
ExecutiveBiz: How do the president and CEO roles represent a continuation of your personal and professional growth to this point in your career?
Alderson: During my career, I've been a part of small companies, I've been acquired, I have worked with two companies – Anteon and SAIC – where they were private and then went public. I've always had a focus on organic growth as the number one priority, followed by niche acquisitions to help drive future growth. I've run profit and loss centers most of my career.
If I go back to the beginning, my experience as a program manager – being out in the field, understanding the importance of serving the mission, understanding the importance of taking care of your people, focusing on growth and the associated finances – were some of my core building blocks to get prepared for a position like this. I think sometimes people forget that you really need to be out in the field to understand the real challenges. I have progressively taken on more responsibilities throughout my career and it's made me very comfortable with my ability to make the right decisions, to lead an organization and to create and opportunities and growth.


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Leadership is not about striving to control what is uncontrollable, but about creating the conditions for individuals, organisations and communities to effectively and creatively cope with threats and leverage opportunities for greater social impact. Through his article, Victor Carter provides a unique insight of his calling to leadership of the Youth Table: a collective of young people of colour, who have organised to ensure that the voices of young people across America are heard in Obama's new national initiative My Brother's Keeper.
Carter's story illustrates how his 'calling' has developed from the adversities he faced growing up in New Orleans; a city he describes as having an abundance of potential and latent opportunity, yet strained by institutionalised social ideologies and conditions that put young people of colour at a disadvantage. In the midst of this uncertainty, Carter was able to not only find his leadership purpose but more importantly take action on it. I was attracted to this article through my own experience as a volunteer on the Handle the Jandal (HtJ) campaign, a Polynesian youth-led campaign in South Auckland, New Zealand, aimed at enabling youth leadership to take action on issues of importance to them regarding the enhancement of mental health and well-being for Polynesian young people. Through our own personal narratives we've been able to organise our constituency to attend to the issues they face as young Polynesian people. Many of their families migrated to New Zealand for better education and employment opportunities, and they experience the pressure of upholding their cultural community-based values, often in tension with the predominate western individualistic values in New Zealand systems. The connection between our narratives and leadership is thus twofold: it is what moves us forward and keeps us together. The road is long and the road is hard; we are prepared to go the whole way and it is our stories that remind and motivates us as leaders. Realising the aspirations of the Youth Table and HtJ (and campaigns/programmes alike) will only be gained through the efforts of a number of organisations in numerous sectors and at various levels, so I commend the article as a call to action.


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A diverse group of exonerated women will share the physical, emotional, social and material challenges they faced post-exoneration— both immediately after release and now— and what they still need to rebuild their shattered lives and productively reengage with life. They will also discuss the creative and resourceful strategies that are helping them cope with the reality of life after exoneration and the consequences of wrongful conviction, e.g. posttraumatic symptoms, physical health, mental health, stigmatization, compensation, jobs, relationships, and quality of life. The women will have an opportunity to speak out and be heard by other exonerated individuals who have been there and understand what they are going through, as well as by the broader audience of innocence movement activists and advocates providing support and assistance to the exonerated and working to promote social justice and criminal justice reform. All session attendees are invited to participate.
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Greenbrier Valley Real Estate Blog
Wednesday, February 07 2018
What you really need to know about buying — from the people who house hunt for a living.
Take the long view when you're buying, says Chicago agent Pekarsky. He plans to start a family in a few years, so he set his sights on a single-family with plenty of bedrooms.
One house you're looking at has the wraparound porch you've fantasized about, but it's on a high-traffic street. The condo you like has a doorman in the lobby (you can order online now!), but it has no dedicated parking. What to choose?
It's not every day that you buy a home and make decisions about the next three, five, or 10 years of your life. Since you can't exactly take a home on a test drive, how do you decide? That got us to thinking about real estate pros. When they've seen practically everything on the market, how do they choose?
Four pros who've seen it all share their advice and their stories of hunting for just the right home.
Compromise for Your Priorities
Veteran real estate agent Nancy Farkas knew exactly what she wanted in her home: ranch style, three bedrooms, high ceilings. But you know what she bought? A two-story Colonial.
For Farkas, an associate partner with C B Heritage REALTORS®, in Dayton, Ohio, the home's location and price trumped style. "I had a dog I had to go home and walk at noon, and the house was close [to work] and the right price," she says.
Her advice: Make sure your practical and functional priorities don't get lost in all the home buying hoo-ha (sparkling granite counters, new hardwood floors, a steam shower!). Remember, you can always add the hoo-ha, but you can't make a home fit all priorities, such as location and price.
Dig Into the Details (Dull, Yes, But Worth It!)
When Grigory Pekarsky, co-owner and managing broker with Vesta Preferred Real Estate in Chicago, was looking for his first home, one of his priorities was to minimize his maintenance costs. He made sure to find out if the house had a newer roof, good siding, and a newer furnace. But he recommends you go even deeper to uncover a home's not-so-obvious maintenance costs:
Seek a House That Matches Your Lifestyle
Having lived the high-rise apartment life as a renter, Pekarsky knew a single-family home was just what he wanted. He was tired of living in a relatively small space with no yard. He wanted a house he could "grow into in the next three to five years." That meant multiple bedrooms and bathrooms for the family he plans on having. So what he bought — a three-story, single-family with a finished attic bedroom (shown below) on Chicago's North Side — suits his lifestyle perfectly.
In addition, "you get the biggest value from owning the land," he says. "In a single-family [home], people aren't telling you what to do with the investment."
On the other hand, Matt Difanis wished he'd bought a condo when he bought his first home, a small bungalow ranch in a charming, historic neighborhood in Champaign, Ill. It was first-home love — until it rained.
"If I didn't clean out the gutters before every rainstorm, the basement would leak," says the broker-owner of RE/MAX Realty Associates in Champaign. He didn't realize that taking care of a single-family home wouldn't be his cup of tea. "I should have opted for a condo without gutters to clean and a lawn to mow," he says.
Agent Amy Smythe Harris of Urban Provision REALTORS®, in Woodland, Texas, bought a home with a sizable downstairs suite her parents could use now (and she could use years from now). She says her millennial clients aren't forward-thinking about their lifestyles. Some are childless and say they don't care about schools, pools, and tennis courts. Then they become parents a few years later and have to move.
"Once they have kids, the first question [they] ask is about school districts, and the second is about where the parks and pools are," she says.
The pros' bottom-line advice: Think of your lifestyle preferences and how those might change in the next few years. After all, the typical homeowner lives in a house for a median of 10 years before selling, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® data shows.
Look at the House Through the Lens of Resale
All the real estate pros we talked to — no surprise here — emphasized resale. Take appraiser Michelle C. Bradley of Czekalski Real Estate Inc. in Natrona Heights, Pa. When she built her current home — a 2,200-square-foot ranch — she included a full, unfinished basement, even though she has no use for one and rarely ventures into it.
Why would she do that? Because basements are standard in her southwest Pennsylvania market. But Bradley's not going to finish the basement until she's ready to sell. That way, she avoids having to clean it and ensures she'll install the most fashionable bathroom fixtures at sell time.
Her advice: "Don't buy or build something unique that you can't resell. If you're not in an area with log homes, don't choose a log home. If you're not in an area with dome homes, don't choose a dome home."
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I don't understand why Google wants me to have this omnipresent search bar on every home screen if there obviously is Google Now / Google Search embedded into the launcher if you go to the left page. So after some searching I found a way to hide it. But it will show again if you go to the left screen; no functionality is lost. Of course digging through the code I found some more things which are customizable :)
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– Google search bar / automatically show search bar on Google Now
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– app dock / auto hide
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Icon Pack Support [XGELS Premium*] – supports any icon pack
– automatically applies new icon packs
– dynamic calendar icon (free: unthemed, paid*: themed by icon pack)
Notification Badges [XGELS Premium*] – using MissedIt!
Gestures: [unlock all gestures with XGELS Premium*] – swipe down left, middle, right
– swipe up left, middle, right
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– pull down notification bar
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– folder colors (background, font, preview)
– text colors on homescreen and app drawer
– resize icons
– resize icon texts
– hide shadows
System UI:
– hide clock on default homescreen
– open the app drawer when pressing the home button on default homescreen
– change the icon of the home button to an app drawer icon on default homescreen
– go to sleep when pressing back button on every screen or only on default homescreen
– change the icon of the back button to a power off button
– rotate launcher
– all widgets are fully resizeable
– set your own default homescreen
– lock desktop
– continuous scroll (experimental)
– overscroll left or right to open the app drawer
– overscroll in app drawer goes back to homescreen
– close app drawer after launching an app
– disable wallpaper scrolling
Backup/Restore: [requires XGELS Premium*] – backup / restore homescreen layout (icon and folders)
What's New
Trebuchet on Lollipop is currently not supported but will be in the future.
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Thank-you for all your help in raising funds for our school through Boosterthon. Our class met the goal of $78 per lap. Tuesday, we will celebrate with Team Jersey Day. Your child may wear any shirt for a favorite team. The rest of the uniform should follow the uniform guidelines. Great job, Wright's Winners! A Boosterthon envelope was sent home on Friday with your child's balance.
Mid-term grades will be available on Net Classroom on Tuesday, Sept. 13. The class with the most participation will win a doughnut party. Please print the midterm and return the copy by Wednesday, Sept. 14.
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Tuesday: Team Jersey Day, Addition Timed test
Friday: Spelling Test, Bible verse test, Reading Test
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Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.


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Housing bonds to assist citizens in purchasing HDC homes
State housing bonds will soon be made available for public investment.
The initiative is a policy promise of the People's National Movement (PNM) and was announced in the 2019 Budget last October.
Speaking at the Post Cabinet media briefing on Thursday, Finance Minister Colm Imbert hailed the housing bond initiative (which will offer financing support for the development, construction, and sale of houses) as a tremendous game changer for the construction sector and home-ownership in T&T.
Imbert said a submission of $1 billion was approved by Cabinet for the housing bond, which will be issued in multiples of $5000.
The housing bonds can be used as part payment for State housing constructed by the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).
This is only the first housing bond to be issued as Government intends to convert the bonds into a form of Government savings bonds so that they will be available on an annual basis for citizens who want to continue to use part of their savings, invest it into housing bonds to earn a good yield and use them to purchase a home.
"As we go along, we will look and see whether these housing bonds can be used for other types of housing construction," Imbert added.
He went on to explain how the bonds could be used.
"A person can purchase $50,000 in bonds or $1000 in bonds, depending on what their means are and if they qualify and get access to HDC housing, they will be able to redeem or cash in these bonds as a reduction in the purchase price.
Let's say you have housing bonds totalling $100,000 and you are purchasing an HDC house for $500,000 you would present your bonds of $100,000 and your liability in terms of the payment of the balance of $400,000."
The bonds will have a life of five years and will earn interest at the rate of 4.5 percent per year - the same rate of the NIF five-year bonds.
The Finance Minister noted that the initiative will provide the HDC with critical and urgent cash that it needs to proceed with its housing programmes.
"At current rate of construction, the HDC, according to the information I have, they are quite limited in the number of houses they can complete or construct in any given year.
This $1 billion will allow them to accelerate their programme and ramp up the delivery of housing into the thousands," he said.
Imbert stressed that the initiative is geared toward individual homeowners and not corporations.


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The SAT Adversity Score: A Revolutionary Tool or Another College Board Band-Aid?
Perhaps you've heard the news that the SAT will give students a new "adversity score" that will share more about their social and economic background with colleges? If not, you must not work in college admissions, college counseling, or a high school setting, be a teenager, have a teenager, know a teenager, or know someone with a teenager. The news exploded with so much force on Thursday as to almost—almost—eclipse the big bang of #OperationVarsityBlues.
If you're curious about what's behind the Environmental Context Dashboard (ECD), you can click here to learn more about it and its impact thus far from Michael Bastedo, on whose research the system is based. One especially notable aspect of the ECD is that it's offered as its own dashboard, and it is entirely separate from test scores. That means colleges who access the ECD can consider it for any student—those who took the ACT, those who opted to apply test optional, and, of course, those who took the SAT.
The ECD's aims are admirable, and I want to like it. So, why don't I?
I think I can crystalize my thoughts in three words: the College Board.
This private, ostensibly non-profit company has had a headlock on the standardized testing industry for decades. The College Board is synonymous with its most famous product, the SAT, but you may or may not be aware that they are behind many more tests, including AP exams, the PSAT, and the SAT Subject Tests, to name a few.
Given all of that, you'd think they'd be better at this testing thing by now. But in recent years, they've been plagued by massive cheating scandals involving recycled test questions, sophisticated scams in China, and leaked tests. And then, of course, there is the more recent exploitation of extended time featured in #OperationVarsityBlues.
Most importantly, it has long been known that the SAT favors wealthier white and Asian students, with large gaps between their performance and that of black and Hispanic students.
The fact that the College Board has their finger in another pie while failing to fix the major issues with the content and administration of the SAT feels like a giant smokescreen. While we were worrying about all the cheating going on and inherent biases in the test, the College Board was developing this shiny new tool. Tough to get excited about that.
At a time when people are clamoring for more transparency in the process, we now have a new score that is shrouded in secrecy. We don't know much about how the score is tabulated, we don't know which colleges have adopted it thus far, and a student will never know what is reported as their score.
The ECD could very well be the tool that will finally help to increase diversity at colleges across the country. I applaud that goal and really hope that it is achieved. But I can't help but wish that the College Board would do one thing well—delivering equitable tests and more foolproof delivery systems for those tests—rather than doing so many things at a sub-standard level.


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ATLANTA–The Aliera Companies, a holding and management company that provides compliance, accounting, human resources, and training services for its subsidiaries, today announced former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has joined its board of directors and advisory board.
Strickland was elected Ohio's 68th governor in 2006 at a time when the nation was on the cusp of the Great Recession. During his time as the state's chief executive, he worked with legislators on both sides of the aisle to make strategic investments in job creation that laid a foundation for economic progress and a thriving middle class.
Prior to his service as governor, he was elected to six terms in the United States House of Representatives. As a democrat representing Ohio's 6th Congressional District, Strickland served one term on the House Committee on Education and Labor and 10 years on the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
"We are honored to have Governor Strickland join our board of directors and advisory board," said Shelley Steele, CEO of The Aliera Companies. "He is an accomplished leader that will make an immediate impact and help guide our company's continued growth. For more than 30 years, he has demonstrated the ability to unite people with diverging viewpoints in working to resolve contentious issues and will be instrumental in helping the board govern the company."
After leaving public office in 2011, Strickland became a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and served as an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. He was also a member of the Governor's Council at Ohio's Bipartisan Policy Center.
"America's need for quality, affordable health care is greater than ever before and this demand will only increase over time," Strickland stated. "As such, I look forward to working with Aliera and its board to help improve access to innovative, reliable health care solutions that simplify the complexities."
Throughout the governor's time in public service, he served as an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, a psychologist, an assistant professor of psychology at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio and a consulting psychologist for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Most recently, he served as president of The Center for American Progress Action Fund and as a fellow at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.
Strickland holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Kentucky and a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY.
About The Aliera Companies
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., The Aliera Companies supports multiple wholly-owned subsidiaries with a combination of services dedicated to providing innovative solutions that simplify and redefine the health care experience. The flexible structure and highly experienced management team afford each subsidiary the opportunity to scale quickly, diversify and grow. The company employs more than 400, with operations in Atlanta and Dallas. For more information, visit alieracompanies.com.
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Bartizan will demo the popular iLeads Mobile App, now available for Android phones.
Bartizan will debut the Android version of the iLeads app at the premier conference for event professionals on December 7-9, 2010 in New Orleans, LA. The event attracts an average audience of 2,500 exhibition and event managers from around the world. Bartizan will be giving product demonstrations of the iLeads app at Bartizan's booth 1101.
"With this latest release on Android, the majority of smart phone users globally will now be able to experience the benefits of iLeads," said Lew Hoff, president, Bartizan Connects.
The Android version of iLeads will contain exactly all of the functionality of iLeads for the iPhone. Using the iLeads app, exhibitors can capture, qualify and manage tradeshow leads anywhere with the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android phones. Exhibitors can follow up instantly with tradeshow leads gathered with a text, email or phone call and send updates right from the tradeshow floor to headquarters, customers and prospects
"We are thrilled to be exhibiting at Expo! Expo! Exhibiting is an easy way to stay connected with our customers and meet new prospects," said Elizabeth Mazei, executive vice president & COO, Bartizan Connects.
Visitors of Bartizan's booth will be able to view product demonstrations of iLeads, Bartizan's first-of-its-kind Mobile App for tradeshow lead retrieval now available for Android phones.
The Android application is expected to be available for free download via Android Market the first quarter of 2011. Currently, iLeads is being developed for Blackberry phones and will be available the 2nd quarter of 2011.


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Visit of Aylesbury 'Buffalos' to CCHU
The CCHF was contacted by Anthony Aldred, Provincial Grand Secretary of the Royal Andeluvian order of Buffaloes, Aylesbury, with the promise of a donation! Who could resist?Dr Ann Watson (Chairman CCHF) and Marie Pennel, (Haematology nurse), met Tony and three of his friends, David Robinson, Provincial Grand Primo, TFW Smith, Deputy PGP, and Geoff Cox, Provincial Grand Constable in the comfortable surroundings of the Cancer Information Centre, Cancer Care and Haematology Unit, Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The four friends had clubbed together, along with other lodges in the province, to raise a generous donation for the charity, from their own pockets. We were able to share memories of friends and family who had benefitted from the care given in the Cancer Care and Haematology Unit and to hear more about the Buffalos. Thank you all , not only for your kind contribution to our funds, but the life and fun you brought with you. A lovely visit.
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For a bunch of years, I had more responsibilities than I wanted.
My kids were younger, and my job was difficult. It was hard to find a place of solace and rest. I had a pretty wind range of negative emotions related to this: anxiety, resentment, confusion.
I felt like I never was off-duty. I never had a break. There were so many things which wanted to split my attention and time. When I was at home, work was on my brain. When I was at work, I was worried about things at home.
I don't experience this as much as I used to. In fact, I am learning something about myself, back then. I am learning that I kind-of loved to hate it.
As much as I wanted a break, as much as I wanted for things to be easier, I was also fed by all this. It made me feel important, this idea that nobody but me could handle things. There is no denying the negatives about this all. But also, there was validation, and inflation of my ego.
One of the reasons that I am aware of all this, these days, is that I am learning to embrace multi-faceted reality. I can hold the idea that I loved it, and I hated it. I can accept the possibility that it was both good for my self esteem, and bad for my self esteem. I can agnowledge that I am so thankful that the season of my life is over, whole also affirming that I really miss it.
There is something else, though. Another reason I have to reflect on all this:
There is a sort-of analogy when I sit down to meditate. Especially for those first few minutes.
My mind is become brilliant at fabricating all these incredibly "important" things that must be done right now. It can be so persuasive, explaining why I can get back to meditating later, but really it would be so very efficient, convenient, wise, kind, loving, responsible if I started the laundry, did the dishes, sent that email, wrote that blog post, prepared that lesson plan, checked in with that family member… etc, etc, etc.
It is hard to resist this voice. But it is getting easier.
I am learning that I love to hate many of these responsibilities. I have this inflated sense of importance I get from deluding myself into thinking that all these things I do are so very important that they must be completed right now, at this very moment.
The possibility that the world might continue to spin, even if I am not working at this thing, or that thing… That's a pretty scary prospect. Recognizing that the world will be ok if I stop for a while is an act of humiliation, in a way. It requires me admitting that I am not the center of the known universe.
More than this, resisting the urge to act right in this moment, making the conscious decision to simply accept what is, to be in the moment with out interfering with the universe… it actually calls into question the very idea that I should be acting in the universe at all.
If the world is going to be ok for this half hour while I meditate… Doesn't that suggest that it actually will be ok for the next half hour, too? All these things I have been doing, that I said were so important… Are they actually all that important, after all?
This is not a battle cry for apathy. I am not saying that the things I might do are not with out value. For me, the learning curve is in understanding that I don't have to formulate an opinions, I don't have to take decisive action over every single thing. I am learning that my desire to take action, my desire to form and express my take on every single situation I encounter: these are all forms of ego, attempts at asserting that I am somehow extra-important.
Perhaps, if you meditate today, you will put a little extra attention into holding both sides of a tension that it might be tempting to resolve. Maybe, also, you could be aware of the ways that your brain will try and sabotage the time you are setting aside to sit.


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Chelsea eye Slavisa Jokanovic as Fulham boss plots Championship play-off final glory
Jokanovic has impressed with his work at Craven Cottage and Roman Abramovich is said to be considering Serb as a replacement for Antonio Conte
CHELSEA are considering raiding neighbours Fulham for manager Slavisa Jokanovic, according to reports.
The Blues are yet to decide the future of Antonio Conte as manager with the Italian expected to leave after two years in charge at Stamford Bridge.
And the Express say one of the shock names on the list of potential successors is Fulham boss Jokanovic.
The 49-year-old is understood to have made a huge impression on the Chelsea board with his work just up the road at Craven Cottage.
And Roman Abramovich appears to now have added his name to the list of candidates to take control of Chelsea if Conte does part company with the club.
Jokanovic is currently busy preparing his Fulham side for the Championship play-off final against Aston Villa on Saturday.
The Serb has one year remaining on his contract with the club but his long-term future may depend on the outcome of the game at Wembley.
The way he has built, on a limited budget, a young Fulham side that plays entertaining football has led to a number of Premier League clubs showing an interest in him.
MAN FOR THE JOB West Ham confirm Manuel Pellegrini as new manager to replace David Moyes
And if the Cottagers fail to see off Villa this weekend, Fulham's plans to tie him down to a new long-term contract could be in jeopardy.
Chelsea are taking their time before making a final decision on Conte's future, ensuring they will only dump the Italian if they have a viable alternative in place.
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Jokanovic's brand of football and success in the Championship both with Fulham and Watford is understood to have caught the eye.
But he remains only a contender for the job, along with ex-Barcelona boss Luis Enrique and current Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri.
Enrique has been considered one of the leading options for the past year, but he former Spanish international's wage demands are understood to be a stumbling block.
Over the past fortnight it is Sarri who has emerged as the most likely to replace Conte should he be relieved of his duties after two years in which he has delivered a Premier League and an FA Cup success.
Sarri is expected to leave Napoli over the coming week after failing to agree a new contract with the Serie A club - and has indicated his next role will be overseas.


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Review: Gallipoli, 1915: Churchill's Greatest Gamble08 May 2019 3
Review: Gallipoli, 1915: Churchill's Greatest Gamble
Released 28 Jul 2014
There is an old saying about the British army, that it will lose every battle in a war, except for the last one. GMTs Gallipoli 1915, Churchill's Greatest Gamble is a hyper detailed tactical treatment of the first four days of fighting from one of those battles which was absolutely not the last one. ANZAC Day remembers this debacle and has only recently passed, so this is a good time to put the game thru its paces.
From the history side, this thing is unbelievably well researched with accurate game play that delivers the battlefield frustration the contest was known for. As for playability, well...
Bottom Line. This thing is for Grognards only, and veteran Grogs at that. Here's why.
Seriously? This is GMT for Pete's sake, so you know the game is going to have lots of paper and cardboard and all of it will be drop dead gorgeous, and all yours if you have $105.00 US or thereabouts. There are six countersheets each with 280 playing pieces for a total of 1680 cardboard markers. Of these two sheets are devoted to game or terrain markers such Rifle Pits, Gun Pits, Entrenchments, Hiding markers, Searchlights, and everything you need to scale steep terrain off a narrow beach. The other four sheets represent the combat forces involved, with not only the Ottoman and Commonwealth ground forces available for play, but also Royal Navy units and the French army as well. I was particularly pleased to see the latter because too often we forget that, like the Crimea, the French were on the scene regardless of what Mel Gibson might imply. The counters include a lot of HQ units and mission markers, but for the fighting formations themselves we are talking about infantry half battalions or companies, artillery batteries or sections, all supported by a host of smaller fare such as machine gun platoons or squads. All combat counters are very info intensive.
These forces fight it out on two, beautifully drawn 34 x 22 inch map sheets that fit together diagonally to form the boot like shape of the real estate being contested. Each hex on the map represents 400 meters, regulating movement and combat across game turns that each represent two hours per during the day, or four hours at night. Again, the historical detail is superb.
Managing how said counters operate on said maps is a very heavy lump of paper which includes an indexed 40 page rule booklet for the Fire & Spade series this game falls under, and an indexed 36 page game book which includes not only three intro scenarios and their more complex cousins, but also historical notes, bibliography and related material. Supporting the actual playing of the game is a 16 page Setup and Reinforcement book, six Counter Sled sheets, two Amphibious Landing Sled sheets, two Army Holding Box sheets, four Army Status sheets, a Counter and Terrain Effects sheet, an Extended Sequence of Play (adds Amphibious Assault) sheet, a Turn Record sheet, a Free Landing Charts booklet, five 10 sided die in different colors and finally, two 8 page Charts and Tables booklets. The rules booklet did mention planning maps (hold that thought, because I know what you're gonna ask), but these did not seem to be included. Sad because the most important of these charts are the Charts and Tables Booklet along with the Army Status sheets, and planning maps would have been helpful. Regardless, a lot of trees were killed making this game.
Like everything that GMT does, all of the above is full color glossy with lots of examples supported by lots of pictures. The text is presented in a hierarchical outline style and prose is very direct and business like, though not without a bit of humor here and there. The author, for example, notes that an empty coffee cup is preferable for pulling chits vice one full of java, while in describing the sound of one letter from the Turkish alphabet he notes, "Too complicated to describe. Pretend you didn't see it." Nevertheless, I thought the proofing and editing could have been a bit better, not necessarily for spelling or grammar, but for clarity of content. Why mention planning maps as if they were included when they are not? Likewise, and even though it is defined in the rules book, all charts should have an accompanying legend. For example, on the Army Status sheets there is a Change Orders Matrix where one result is "P." This means Prohibited, but there is no legend with the chart to confirm this.
Game Play
Like most hex and counter games, Gallipoli has a lot of rules and supporting gameplay that are pretty standard and need not be discussed. These include movement rates, terrain effects, line of sight, stacking and so on. The big emphasis is Command and Control.
In general the sequence of play goes like this: Step one has both sides receiving reinforcements in parallel, followed by the Supply Phase check to see if their Brigaments (a game term meaning either a brigade or regiment) are within logistics radius. Step three is called the Command Phase where both sides in parallel add or remove Isolated markers on units, form units into Flying Columns, check Officer Points status, Change Orders or determine if current unit orders will continue, and finally complete the Load the Cup segment (seriously, that's what its called). Next is the Activation Phase where players, Brigament by Brigament, roll a modified 1D10 (high die wins) for Initiative to determine who gets to select a Brigament chit from his side's coffee cup, with an additional modified die roll determining whether the winner gets to select the chit he wants or must select randomly. For the Brigament selected, subordinate units may perform one action per turn choosing from Engineering, Commanded Fire, Movement or Assault. Once all Brigaments from the opposing armies have been selected and all unit task completed, the turn ends. Yes, it is possible for one side to win several die roll offs in a row and thus activate multiple organizations before his opponent gets to use a single friendly counter.
I like the concept here, because its pure chaos theory, and despite those "I did everything right so I should win" gamers, that's pretty much the way war is. So bravo for this, but on the other hand... well let's just say using your Brigaments when it's your turn is just a bit different than what you've likely played before. The big reason for this is that Gallipoli requires you to issue orders. These orders are Initial Attack, Attack, Stalled Attack, Defense, Cordon Defense, Disorganized Defense, Regroup or Withdrawal, General Reserve – March and March-Rapid March. The rules describe in painstaking detail what each order specifically means, what its Objectives are, what constitutes Progress, Continuation of the order, what constitutes Failure and issues surrounding Changing an Order. The latter includes both voluntary and involuntary procedures as well as specifying what orders a unit might Change to. On top of all this is a requirement to set a geographic objective by delineating a specific row of hexes to secure and a path of march detailing how your units will get there. Remember those planning maps? Well this is the reason they could come in real handy.
The game supports this concept with something called Officer Points (OPs), which represents command presence and the friction caused when officers and NCOs get shot. Each historical division begins with a specific number of OPs for its Brigaments to use, and subordinate companies, half battalions and so on expend them to perform certain functions. For example, 1 OP is expended for each stack of units moving to Assault an enemy position, another 1 OP per stack when attempting to Rally adjacent to an enemy formation. OPs can be lost thru combat or regained at night, and this is important because the number of OPs remaining to a Brigament will modify a die roll that determines whether the current Orders will Continue or Change. If Change is allowed, another die roll controlled chart determines success, here using two 10 sided die with lower numbers good, higher numbers bad. The "low numbers are better" paradigm is also used on the Fire Results Table where a single 10 sided die is used to determine the number of strength steps the enemy loses. The results are often a fraction such as 2.69, indicating two strength steps lost automatically with a 69% chance of another killed as determined on a second 2D10 die roll. Here die roll modifiers are not arithmetic, but refer to column and row shifts.
And thru all of this, details abound, so a few examples. This is a game that specifies three different Entrenchment statuses for units like rifle companies. You can be Inside, Hiding or On Top, the latter meaning you have entered or departed the field work that turn and thus can trigger Opportunity Fire. Likewise Gallipoli specifies a Messaging Range of either two hexes if you are in close terrain or a connecting trench, one hex if not (pesky snipers) or forever if you have a field phone when calling anyone else on a telephone. In some cases certain units automatically have phones, but in other cases the phones are actually printed on the map (like Serafim Farm) where they were historically. Finally there is the Us-Them Counter. This is placed on a hex where the terrain is so bat-shit-crazy that units from both sides may occupy the same location. This means bush and shrubs so dense you can barely see each other though the lads trying to kill you are only a few meters away. Relevant combat counters are placed in a holding box and if any single rule epitomizes the mantra of this game, this is it.
All in all, Gallipoli is a wargame with emphasis on the "war" and not "game," almost a legitimate military simulation. This means you'll have to leave the game set up for a long time even with shorter scenarios, so beware the prying hands of kids, or in my case, Max, the household Flerken Kitty.
This is a solid game that works well for its intended purpose, so if you like low level tactics with an uber amount of detail, you will enjoy GMTs Gallipoli. It's a game that's tough to play and even tougher to win, often making a session an advanced lesson in frustration. However, this degree of realism is perhaps its greatest strength. The game does convey the difficulty of fighting such a campaign in such difficult terrain, and it hammers home the how difficult management of military assets actually was in 1915. All of sudden those idiot commanders don't seem so stupid after all. I strongly you play one of the intro scenarios first and play without the amphibious landing rules if possible, because you are talking about a very big learning curve. But if you really want a challenge and some idea as to what it was really like, here you are.
Otherwise Gallipoli is going to be a very niche product in what is already a niche hobby. For the rest of us - personal preference begins here, BTW - this game is probably overkill especially if playing solitaire. There is simply too much to do, far more than a real commander would be responsible for and this makes the game tedious. As a rule of thumb, in my gaming I tend to go by the generic US/NATO military standard that says a commander should have management responsibility for two levels of command below his own. That means corps commanders worry about brigades and no lower. In this game the player is deciding on the type of ammo and elevation technique of two gun artillery sections. Just not my cup of Earl Grey.
Exacerbating the issue are game processes that lack a common methodology. By this I mean some functions require a single die with a 1 – 10 spread, others two die for a percentage. In some cases higher die roll numbers are good, and in others low die roll numbers are better. In some cases DRMs directly add or subtract from the roll, in others they indicate table column or row shifts. There are also lots of fractions, not just ½ but fractions like 1.88. I've designed successful wargames, and this just seems contrary to accepted norms. Its not that the game doesn't work, it does. I just think it could work a lot easier.
Then there is the $105.00 price tag. Well there is little else out there, but this subject does seem like a John Tiller game just waiting to happen. At less than $40.00 including an AI to keep records and do the math, that's going to be a pretty attractive alternative.
Yet there is one overlooked gaming pool that might be very interested in the game, and this is the miniature gamer. GMT's Gallipoli is definitely a labor of love by an author who really knows his history. I mean, really, who reads the Turkish General Staff Study in Turkish to design a game? And when you consider the cost of reference material and the investment in time for research, Gallipoli could be manna from Heaven, so please take a look.
Addendum: You can download the aforementioned Planning Maps as a PDF from GMT's website.
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Feedback found on restaurant review sites can greatly hurt or help your business. Here is why a good review matters and which sites you should pay attention to.
Restaurant review sites influence diners and their opinion of you. In fact, 77% of customers care more about online reviews than they do about reviews from professional critics. With the culture of influencers and social media, an endorsement online can make or break your establishment. Word of mouth is no longer enough—you must pay attention to your online reputation. Here are the most popular restaurant review sites you should be checking out and why it's so important.
Restaurant review sites play a prominent role in shaping your reputation. When a customer is hungry, what do they do? They look you up on Google to see what others recommend. It's vital to the success of your food establishment that you stay up-to-date on the top restaurant review sites. Pay attention to what diners are saying about you and address any concerns right away.
Why Reviews and Comments Matter to Restaurants
Checking out the reviews on your establishment isn't just about weeding out the trolls. Negative comments will happen (it's the internet). There will probably be reviews that will make you feel frustrated and annoyed, like when a customer gives you one star because "It was closed on a Monday when we wanted to try the food," or "I couldn't find it."
It's enough to drive a restaurant owner to throw their computer through the window. But the reality is, restaurant reviews are critical and reputation matters. It's far better to find out about a negative review or comment before customers stop coming in the door.
While you can't undo every negative comment, reading restaurant reviews offers you a great opportunity to interact with your patrons and hear a candid account of their experience. A wise restaurant owner will listen to the comments and extract lessons for improvement.
When you come across a dissatisfied customer, you can directly address them and try to resolve the issue. Sometimes all that's needed is acknowledgment and chances are, you can change their mind.
Even better–if you read a nice review from a customer, it's a great opportunity to share and promote the accolades on social media. Thank your loyal customers and boost your ratings by sharing the good news in your social media stories or via a post.
And why do good reviews matter so much? You're confident in your chef and you know the ambiance is killer so who cares if someone didn't like it? Haters will hate, right?
Well, the somewhat scary truth is, a good review matters more than you think. Restaurant review and reservation site, OpenTable found 60% of people check out a restaurant online before they go out. This means, customers are already making up their minds before you have a chance to win them over. So, if the internet is giving the first impression, then it's crucial you know what's being said.
How can you find out how your online reputation is faring? Check out the top restaurant review sites so you stay on top of the conversation.
The Top Restaurant Review Sites Restaurant Owners Should Check
1. Yelp
Founded in 2004, Yelp is one of the most popular restaurant review sites out there. As a trusted source for restaurant ratings, Yelp provides a great platform for business owners like yourself to promote your restaurant, make improvements, and measure customer impressions of your food, ambiance, style, and more.
Now, everyone in the restaurant industry has heard horror stories about fake Yelp reviews and nefarious competitors posting about their foes. But Yelp has taken steps toward ensuring the integrity of their site. Yelp prides themselves on a "customer first" policy, helping restaurateurs provide better customer experience. By enabling restaurant owners to better engage and communicate with their customers, they've started to offer a more interactive experience, which is also good for restaurants. In fact, Yelp reported that the majority of customers provide between four and five-star reviews.
As part of their growing trend toward customer-centric experience, Yelp is one of those restaurant review sites that understands the challenges that come with reviews. In fact, they offer tips and advice for responding to both positive and negative reviews–a helpful feature for business owners.
When negative reviews happen (and they do), they often feel like a "personal attack." Yelp advises restaurant owners that by "contacting your reviewer and establishing a genuine human relationship, you have a chance to help the situation and maybe even change this customer's perspective for the better."
The best piece of advice from Yelp is for restaurant owners to keep responses simple, polite, and to-the-point. If you read a negative review when you're checking out restaurant review sites, respond with a courteous message like, "Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We will do our best to resolve the issue." And then take the message to heart—when a customer makes a valid complaint or voices a concern, aim for a positive resolution.
2. Zomato
Zomato is a unique and quirky restaurant review site that prides on being part of the "foodie" culture. Zomato users become honorary "foodies" (aka amateur food critics) where they can wax on about the best brunch or the most fabulous smoothies in town. Zomato provides strict review and photo guidelines to help ensure feedback given to restaurant owners and managers (as well as shared with the public) is accurate and helpful.
Restaurant review sites like Zomato are fantastic for the restaurant industry because they establish an atmosphere of foodie culture in every town. The focus is on local food establishments and capturing the beauty and joy of dining out.
Unlike bigger restaurant review sites like Yelp, which has expanded to include other types of small business, the food industry is Zomato's focus. The community is one that both patrons and restaurateurs can trust. Zomato identifies verified users with a special blue badge so their reputation matters too.
It's important to Zomato to maintain the authenticity of their "foodies" and the verification process is an effective way to weed out the strange and sometimes off-the-wall reviews that are featured on other sites. Zomato encourages reviewers to "write informative, unbiased and useful reviews that help the foodie community."
Community-centric restaurant review sites seem to be a growing trend. The honesty and authenticity resonate with owners and eaters. When checking Zomato for feedback on your business, look for the trusty blue badge of a reliable foodie to get the most accurate and fair information.
3. Eater
The restaurant industry can be a tough gig to work in. Long hours, hard work, and stress are the norm. Eater seeks to support those working in the food industry with a one-of-a-kind blog-style restaurant review platform.
Eater is unique from other restaurant review sites. The staff is made up of a special team of food critics and editors who report on food and restaurant business spanning across 24 different cities. The critics offer perspectives on multiple meals and many different restaurants in a given town, so you get an idea of local flavor and personality included in the review.
Moreover, the reviews aren't limited to just the food. Eater paints an honest picture of restaurant industry positions, jobs, and the atmosphere behind the scenes. If you want a 360 degree industry insider view, Eater is a great site to check out.
With writers and tasters in many popular areas from Charleston to the Twin Cities, your business receives more than just a star rating and a few sentences from Eater. The sophisticated reviews include photos and an in-depth blog post on the overall dining experience. Expect to learn the critic's take on your restaurant's ambience, service, menus, bathrooms, specials, drinks, food, and more.
As a restaurant owner, it's important to know what restaurant review sites are saying about you—especially if some of those reviews are coming from local industry experts. If you're searching for an expert's opinion online, Eater is the place to go.
4. Zagat
Zagat may seem like an old name in restaurant reviews—in fact, many restaurateurs remember the books and ratings long before there were restaurant review sites online. Founded in 1979 in New York City as a guide for travelers, Zagat has continued to grow with the times. This blog-style restaurant review site has in-depth, high-quality information and a critical reputation that's unparalleled in the restaurant industry.
With reviewers expanded now to nearly 40 major cities, Zagat is unique in the way reviews and content is presented. Instead of rating food establishments on a scale of 1 to 5, Zagat rates specific categories. For example, "Best Outdoor Dining in Chicago," and "Best Pre-Theater Restaurants in Chicago" are just two of the many categories offered by the rating site. These specific and relatable topics are a great way to rethink your customer experience and to really understand when and why customers dine with you.
Zagat also offers a unique opportunity to check out your competitors and peers. What other restaurants are ranking in your category? What are they doing well, and how can you learn from their approach to service? Restaurant review sites like Zagat are great for conducting personal research and setting goals for restaurant growth.
Restaurants still proudly display their Zagat ratings right in their window. If your establishment is lucky enough to rank in a Zagat review, let patrons know on your website and in your window. The authority of a Zagat rating is something to be proud of.
5. OpenTable
OpenTable is one of the more established restaurant review sites. They've been around for many years and started out as an online reservation portal. That said, you don't need to offer reservations anymore to be included and reviewed on OpenTable.
OpenTable approves all the reviews before posting them on their site. This extra measure ensures that the user-submitted reviews are authentic, helpful, and relevant. This platform gives restaurant owners a nice, full-overview of reported diner experience.
Diners that submit frequent reviews on the site can earn VIP Status. In order to become a VIP of OpenTable, users must have fulfilled at least 12 reservations set through the site, so you can rest assured they're giving an honest and thorough account.
Many of the OpenTable VIP members are loyal foodies who appreciate the restaurant experience and will likely influence other potential diners who come across your page of reviews on OpenTable. Their reputation is trusted.
If a review raises a concern, restaurant owners can address the review and respond to the customer to resolve the issue. (Restaurant owners can also respond to positive reviews as well, of course.) Acknowledging your customers is a sure way to stay on top of things and maintain a healthy online presence.
6. Instagram
Yes, you read that right! Effective restaurant reviews aren't found only on restaurant review sites and apps. In fact, one of the most effective sources for restaurant reviews and customer engagement is with social media. Instagram especially plays a large role in the world of restaurant reviews. In fact, many customers today are turning away from the more traditional sites to social media.
Online influencer and restaurant reviewer Felicity Spector said that when looking for places to dine in her area, Instagram is a must, "The most helpful thing for me is to look it up on Instagram–I do it all the time. It's a visual thing so you know what you're getting."
The best draw of Instagram is that users are connected with all their closest friends plus trusted businesses, influencers, and more. This offers serious engagement potential unlike any other social media platform. There are no random users or anonymous reviews, just real life photos, stories, and captions of real experiences from restaurants. Photos don't lie, and restaurants have worked to make their food more "Instagram-friendly."
As a restaurant owner, it's important to also know the role geotags play in tracking your restaurant reviews. Searching by location on Instagram is an effective way to see what posts up under your food establishment's name and what diners are saying. Users "tag" each photo with a location, so even if they don't use the @ in their tag, you can still get an honest take on their experience.
Searching your tagged posts, hashtags, and geotags on Instagram is a great way to directly interact with your customers. If they tag your restaurant's profile in a positive post, like it. If they post a negative review, take the opportunity to send a direct message apologizing for any inconveniences and inviting the customer back in for another try. Don't underestimate the power of Instagram among other reliable restaurant review sites.
So why do restaurant reviews matter? 88% of restaurant consumers say they'd trust an online review just as much as they would an in-person recommendation. Your potential customers care about what your past diners have to say even if they don't know them. It's important for your restaurant's reputation to stay on top of the feedback on restaurant review sites. Communicate with your customers and listen to what they're saying about their dining experience, good or bad!
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I will freely admit that in my naive pre-BattleKid era I was firmly against a child of mine having a dummy. No way, Jose! Ha. If I could go back I'd give my childless self a good shake and say "wait and see". We ended up having a collection and when it came time to ditch the dummy, we were apprehensive to say the least.
We survived a little over a week after the birth of BattleKid before I sent my husband to the shops to procure said pacifiers in the hope I'd get some much needed rest. I was exclusively breastfeeding at that stage and was being used as a pacifier in between feeds. And I was exhausted. I know many of you will think "oh but you were only a week into Motherhood, so why give in so quickly". Because I had to! Cluster feeds and little or no sleep in those first few weeks are worse than what I imagine hell is like, and coupled with an awful recovery from birth I wasn't prepared to play the martyr. Show me a new mother who is prepared to do that and I'll gladly shake their hands.
As it turns out it was our saving grace a week later when I ended up back in hospital for an episiotomy repair and BattleDad was left to fend for himself with a 13 day old new-born who had been fed by me exclusively up till then. They survived the 12 hours together and so began another 12 weeks of recovery for me before I felt somewhat normal. To be honest I don't think you can ever feel fully normal again.
Life soon found its natural rhythm in the BattleHousehold. Again, naively I had thought "oh I'll ditch the dummy when he's one". First birthday came and went. As did the second birthday.
Before we knew it we had a 2 years and 7 month old toddler who still relied on the dummy for naps and bedtime. We occasionally brought it with us on days out to calm him down if he got overtired and I must admit to being embarrassed my son still needed one at that age. I felt like everyone around me was staring and judging but no one ever passed comment. I think it was all in my head. I never judge a parent doing what works for them and their family but sometimes these thoughts creep into our heads. Either way it was time to ditch the dummy.
But how? How could we get rid of that life saver? How would he settle at night?
We decided that just going cold turkey with the dummy was the only way to do it. We had already been limiting his use of them and everything we read, and we read a lot around the subject, suggested cold turkey was the quickest way to do it. So we decided to take the plunge. Ditch the dummy time had come and we needed to face it head on.
Two days after an operation to extract some of my nasty wisdom teeth, BattleDad and I were in BattleKid's room for some reason and he said "will we do it" and I agreed. I blame the strong painkillers I was on for my moment of madness. We left the landing window open until BattleKid arrived home and placed a toy motorbike on his bed. When we took him upstairs for bedtime we explained that some birds had gotten in the window and took his soo's (soothers/dummies) for their babies who didn't have any. His initial response was "oh dear me".
We went through our bedtime routine and only then did he really cry for his dummy. We explained again that he was a big boy now and that the bird's babies need them now as they had none and he had a motorbike for bed instead. He seemed to accept it and we said we would come back up five minutes later and check on him. We didn't and he fell asleep no problem after a few little cries for his dummy. He woke once during the night, obviously looking for his dummy, but we repeated our words from earlier, ensured he had his bike close by and he settled back asleep.
The next day our Fairy came to live with us and he brought BattleKid a KTM bunny to go with the KTM bike the birds had gotten him in exchange for his dummies. We told him Kyiri (the fairy's name) would watch over him at night and he insisted his bedroom door be left open so he could see the Fairy door. There were a lot less tears at bedtime on Day Two and none by Day Three.
Naps were as easy too and nursery just carried on where we had started at home. Within a few days there was no mention of the soo at naps or bedtime.
Don't get me wrong, he occasionally asked for it when he was tired or ill, particularly at bedtime, but we gently reminded him he didn't need them now as he was older and he soon accepted it. He did give out to birds quite often for a few weeks for taking his dummy.
Ever since the dummy left the house BattleKid has slept with a motorbike in bed every night. He will hold it until he falls asleep and we move it out of the way when we head to bed ourselves. The make and model of the bike changes every now and then but that initial KTM bike was a great substitute for the dummy and made our transition as smooth as it could be.
In some ways I am glad that we waited until we did so we could explain things to BattleKid in ways he understood and in others I wish I'd gotten rid of it sooner. Either way, by the time we travelled to New York last September the dummy had been well and truly ditched. I was particularly glad of this as there are no photographs from that holiday featuring a dummy!
I'd love to know if your children had pacifiers/soothers and if so, at what age did you ditch the dummy?
Thanks for reading,
Cath x


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Under the Dome: "Speak of the Devil"Posted: September 3, 2013 Filed under: Under the Dome | Tags: barbie, big jim, julia, max, speak of the devil Leave a comment
Grade: C
Airdate: 9/2/13
C is the only grade I could have given this episode of Under the Dome. It was very average. I am starting to think it is a good premise trapped in a bad show. The dialogue got even worse with week, being bad for both the bottom rung of Joe (Colin Ford) and Norrie (Mackenzie Lintz) all the way to Big Jim (Dean Norris) at the top. Come on show, if Dean Norris can't even make your lines sound good it's time for new writers.
The episode opens with the pink star gang staring up at the constellations that the mini-dome created last week. Apparently, it also created some LSD fumes because everyone sounded like they were tripping. They decided Julia (Rachelle Lefevre) might be the monarch and Joe runs off to tell her. Junior (Alexander Koch) and his spastic lunacy then decides to leave the gang because Angie (Britt Robertson) will not be his girlfriend.
Meanwhile, Julia answers her front door and Max (Natalie Zea) is there. But, she might as well had been a terminator because she said something that had about as much meaning as "Are you Sarah Connor?" and then shots her in the chest. What? Barbie (Mike Vogel) and Joe find her and take her to the hospital. I would say rushed her but the show does take the time to tell us Joe has his temps but not his license and plug in their electric car. Obviously, Julia isn't going to die. The show has been renewed for a second season and Alice was the emotional season one death. I've decided Carolyn has gone to visit Ruby in the Land of Lost Characters.
While this is going on Angie goes to track down Junior and it is storming inside the dome. This was one of the interesting point elements surrounded by terrible dialogue and Julia's anti-climatic and temporary death. She dies just as Angie and Junior are screaming at each other. The tornado is about to touch down but it goes away as Junior saves Angie from getting hit by a flying bench and Barbie brings Julia back to life.
The pink stars gang is convinced the dome was trying to tell them something. Joe thinks Barbie is the monarch and the tornado was contacted to Julia's life. Angie told Junior the dome was creating the storm because he left and it stopped when he come back. Because it is conveient for him to be a nut at that moment, he believes her.
Big Jim is causing all sorts of trouble this episode. First, he tells Linda (Natalie Martinez) that Barbie is the real danger to Chester's Mill, not him and the propane smuggling drug ring. He then runs into Max, who says she shot Julia because Barbie crossed her and will do the same to Junior if Big Jim does. Nobody is really evil in this show, just sometimes threatening psychos.
Big Jim decides he is going to kill Max and enlists Barbie's help. They go to where all shady things in town happen: the cement factory. Max, her bodyguard and the bad dialogue find them. They make all kinds of threats to each other, which don't matter because Barbie is able to disarm them. He plans to take them to Linda, but then Big Jim just shots them. So, Big Jim kills the only villain the show had but instantly fills her shoes by threatening to shot Barbie. He is quickly able to disarm him too, but Linda shows up right when Barbie has a gun to him.
He is forced to knock out Linda and run away. Good idea, Barbie. Haven't you been paying attention? Running from the police is just going to end up with some sort of police officer shooting you. Big Jim then goes on the radio tells everyone that Barbie shot Julia, killed Max, her friend and her mom that he let drown last episode. And he says Barbie will have a fair trial but says he will get the death penalty. Sure, Jim and isn't the towns entire criminal justice and legal system made up of Linda and Junior/ the two biggest idiots in town?
Earlier in the episode, the pink star gang figured out that mini-dome had created a star map of big dome. But, four stars are in a line and out of place. The gang goes there and all puts there hands on the dome at once. Big Jim then appears outside the dome. He starts bleeding from four stab wounds and the gang finds themselves each holding a knife. Junior freaks and runs to find daddy. As Angie and Norrie agree that Big Jim must die and they have to do it.
If it was in a better show, the plot would be getting really good. But for every cool plot twist there is Max delivering lines like, "He said the one word a woman never wants to hear: no," and long linger shots to show us all the phones are Microsoft produces.


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This is one of the best harp drawings I made using a combination of trace art, free handed drawing, and photoshop. I traced Bulletproof from a screenshot taken from a classic episode The Case of The Big Little Green Men. Then, I did freehand drawings of the harp. Next I did the hands and the background freehandedly using a few other screenshots from a few episodes as models for the drawing. I combine them all together using Photoshop and came up with what I think is one of the best harp drawings I ever made.
Years ago, I used to have a C.O.P.S. Bulletproof figure, but I gave him away because I was cleaning up the clutter in my bedroom when I used to live with my mom, and I didn't want the C.O.P.S. figures any longer. Today I'm into The Punisher whom I'm portraying as a harpist in fanart and toy photography form. Perhaps soon I'll be able to order another Bulletproof figure from ebay. This time I'll make him play a miniature harp and display him doing a solo performance in front of my Punisher figures.
Here's the intro to the TV series to help you relive the memory of seeing C.O.P.S. on TV.
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By Bernnett Asiamah Brako
Bernnett is the mastermind and creative director of Bello couture. Bello has been in existence for 4 years but seems to be breaking all odds to place the nation Ghana on the fashion map. He graduated as a medical laboratory scientist and worked at korlebu teaching at a hospital for a year, and after two years he resigned to join the world of fashion. He has been on allot of
fashion platforms, he was the official designer for Mr model Ghana 2016. He has clothed many celebrities such as TXT, Akwaboah, Abeiku Santana, Obibinii, Fiifi Banson, Kafui Dey, Okyeame kwame, Abochi kwaw kese , Giovani, Blaque boi, Kuleaperry, kwame owusu danso, IBK and Foster
The collection was inspired by the day to day lifestyle of a gentleman in Ghana, where most people assume who you are and what you are made of by what you wear.


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I wrote this post as part of the Austin Food Blogger Alliance City Guide, but really, that was just an excuse to take a culinary romp through a restaurant menu where no choice is a bad one. I ham in love with Texas Honey Ham Company. This hidden gem in Westlake offers more than just … Continue reading
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