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It is clear that major organizations are starting to integrate RPA solutions into their IT ecosystems and those that haven't are seriously considering the option, as the number of RPA users is doubling every 6 months.
In this rapidly developing climate, which platform will help your organization meet their digital transformation goals? Join Andrew Murphy in this webinar, where he will review the core competencies of modern BPM and RPA. Considering whether you should be using neither or both.
In this webinar, K2 will cover:
- Core competencies of Modern BPM
- Core competencies of RPA
- Identifying the key stages of the digital transformation journey
- Where BPM and RPA applies to these stages to help you achieve your short term and long term transformation goals
With low-code and no-code app development, IT departments can now offload some of that work onto the business. However, these platforms don't offer a solution for the complex, integrated processes that are essential to running an organization that has challenges beyond what's industry standard.
Watch this webinar to learn how to:
- Achieve low-code scalability and the power of BPM.
- Empower the business to do more on their own with a low-code platform, while also giving IT the power to build complex solutions
- Solve both simple and complex business problems with one platform.
A process or activity always takes place within a wider Business Context, and multiple BPM solutions often share common Business Contexts. Data-Centric BPM from IBM injects Business Context into BPM at the highest level to simplify the design and implementation of solutions. Business Context Data lives within the BPM platform but outside the context of any specific process. We start by making the richly defined data that describes the business context a first class citizen within BPM. We go further by implementing a facade between the richly defined BPM data and the real data that lives in multiple Enterprise repositories.
John Reynolds is a Product Manager for IBM BPM, focusing on empowering Business Users. He joined IBM in 2010 with the Lombardi acquisition, where he had focused on mentoring business and technical teams through their initial BPM implementation projects. John currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Teri.
While BPMN 2.0 has achieved success at standardizing process modeling, executable design is still highly proprietary and vendor-driven. It is relatively easy to copy a process model from one vendor's modeling tool to another, but there is no open, cross-vendor implementation platform for BPMN 2.0 business processes. This is different from the Java-World, which includes open middleware platforms for messaging, transaction processing and web services. We believe that the Java Platform of the future will provide a BPMN 2.0 process engine as a similar infrastructure service to applications. Our project camunda fox BPM platform delivers this vision and technology today, and provides BPMN roundtripping between any BPMN 2.0 compliant modeling tool and our process application development toolstack.
Jakob Freund has profound experience in BPM projects, especially in the area of strategic BPM, process modeling, and business-IT alignment. He is author of several books, founder of BPM-Netzwerk.de and gives lectures at the university of applied science in Zürich and Bern.
See a live demonstration of K2 and Blue Prism working together to demonstrate how you can deliver intelligence automation in Financial Services with RPA and BPA. Andrew Murphy, VP of EMEA at K2, provides practical insights on how to approach intelligent automation - resources, timing and tooling - to jumpstart your road to digital automation.Read more >
Realizing success with BPM, and similar technologies requires bridging the chasm between business execution and process automation. In business execution, goals provide an essential beacon guiding decisions and activities, yet in process automation business goals rarely control process execution.
This session will illustrate how goal-driven BPM and Adaptive Case Management is today used by UBS Wealth (a division of UBS Bank considered to be the world's largest manager of private wealth assets, operating in more than 50 countries) to enhance their global operations with client-centric collaboration, operational visibility, adaptive process improvement, through the 'PM1' portfolio management suite built with the Living System's Process Suite (LSPS) from Whitestein Technologies.
The case study based demonstration, a winner of the 2013 Global Excellence in Case Management Awards, will show the how to connect goals at the business execution level to goals at the process automation level. The resulting solutions become highly agile and event-driven, able to dynamically adjust execution, ensuring the alignment of all resources (people, processes, information) toward organizational goals.
Demonstrated will be how the application of Adaptive Case Management and Goal-driven BPM can be leveraged to address the inherently dynamic nature of customer-centric processes, requiring in coordination with events and situational change in order to adapt in real-time to a goal-focused execution path.
The last 12 months of BPM market has seen more changes, innovation and new development than any time in the past decade (perhaps even the prior decade combined). Driven by a mix of sector consolidation, M&A transactions, and new market entrants, the shifting sands of the BPM market landscape have been radically altered such that it is virtually unrecognizable from just a few years ago.
In this fast-paced and interactive session, Nathaniel Palmer will provide a spotlight on the key BPM Megatrends, including an analysis of the shifting landscape and resulting market consolidation. He will present the State of the BPM Market for 2013-2014, including current trends, considerations for adoption, and what the next 12 months means for any organization currently using or otherwise contemplating BPM. In addition, Nathaniel will provide facilitate a conversation with executives from Invensys Skelta, one of the world's largest automation software providers, and now one of the most visible emergent players in the new BPM landscape.
Participants We Learn:
• BPM Industry Megatrends, Including the Shifting Landscape and Market Consolidation
• Considerations for Adoption and What the Next 12 Months Means for BPM
• How and Why the BPM Market is Moving Towards More Comprehensive Platforms
• How BPM is Being Leveraged Inside Leading Firms
About the Speakers:
Nathaniel Palmer is VP and CTO of BPM, Inc. and Executive Director of the WfMC. Previously Nathaniel had been the BPM Practice Director of SRA International, and prior to that Director, Business Consulting for Perot Systems Corp, and Delphi Group as VP and CTO.
The last 12 months in the Business Process Management (BPM) market has seen more changes, innovation and new development than any time in the past decade. Among the most pronounced trends is the sea-change from vertical "stacks" to more comprehensive BPM platforms, with data-driven capabilities able to support the full spectrum of process execution styles. This is rapidly expanding the envelope for new areas of knowledge work addressable by BPM, often in areas previously thought of as out of reach.
As the first of a three-part series, Nathaniel Palmer will present the state of the BPM market for 2013-2014, including current trends, considerations for adoption, and what the next 12 months mean for any organization currently using or otherwise contemplating BPM. Additionally, one of the most talked about recent events in BPM was the August 2013 acquisition of Cordys by OpenText. In Part I of this series, Nathaniel will provide a spotlight on this event within the context of the industry and how it fits within the current market direction. Nathaniel will also facilitate a presentation by executives involved with both firms to discuss the nature of the acquisition, and what this means for their customers going forward.
A successful process application project needs a graphical interface that meets the needs of its users.
Bonita BPM integrates a set of tools to build graphical interfaces that work with your processes. But when some dedicated interfaces need more than what Bonita BPM natively provides, you can either extend the Bonita BPM Portal or to build your own applications over Bonita BPM interfaces. Bonita BPM integrates seamlessly into existing web application architectures.
This webinar will show you how to integrate Bonita BPM in a developed interface using the AngularJS framework, and how to deploy this interface in the Bonita BPM custom portal pages. We will also discuss Bonita REST API.
In this webinar you will see:
- A summary of the REST API
- A summary of AngularJS
- How to integrate Bonita BPM in a web page with AngularJS with the example of a user dashboard
- How to integrate this page into a custom page of the Bonita BPM Portal
Are you facing any of these situations?
• You've bought BPM technology, but are not sure how or where to get started?
• You got off to the wrong foot on BPM processes. Now how do you fix that?
• You've done process modeling of the As-Is processes? What do you do next?
Join us for an insightful and informative look at how to get started on the right path, and how to quickly correct if you didn't, with Business Process Management.
This workshop will address these three use cases and help you figure out what to next. For each scenario, the workshop will address:
1. What's most important here?
2. How do you engage executive sponsorship in the discussion and gain their commitment?
3. How can metrics help us make the point?
Learn best practices to get off to the right start. Use practitioner tips to refocus your BPM effort. Select and engage the right executive sponsor and process owner for support and success. Use joint model-driven process models to provide momentum for the BPM efforts.
It's been said that by 2020, there will be 10 times more connected objects than people. What does that have to do with BPM?
Connecting smart objects to BPM is a way of extending their intelligence.
And more - the "things" in the Internet of Things provide another way to interact with a process. (Instead of kicking off a process by clicking on a web form, imagine kicking it off with your garage door opener!)
Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about the BPM of Things.
What we'll cover:
The new market opportunity that BPM of Things offers
What is a smart connected object?
How to integrate an object in a process
Proof of concept: an example
Mobile frameworks have no notion of process, while BPM solutions lack a "sense" of mobile. A mobile BPM solution is more than a task list or activity stream. BP Mobility enables customized, purpose-built native mobile apps that understand the process. Our approach is essentially the opposite of what the major BPM vendors are doing. Instead of one general-purpose app, we are creating custom, purpose-built apps that yield better enablement, adoption, and ROI over time. Process-specific REST APIs allow mobile app developers to build richer applications while Business Process designers are able to incorporate mobile features into their process designs – location, social, or media.
Scott Francis is CTO and Co-Founder of BP3, a specialist firm focused on accelerating process innovation for customers, where he has helped customers deploy 100's of processes to production. Scott has previously spoken at a several conferences, and is the primarily author of BP3's blog.
Social collaboration features must be integrated within BPM and Case Management solutions and be accessible to users whether working at their desk or on a mobile device. OpenText Touch lets knowledge workers receive updates on followed processes, cases, tasks, and users via event streams, submit tasks and approvals via a mobile device, access all case information, and retain the event stream as a part of the case or process history. It is an independent cloud-based mobile and social application integrated with BPM and Case Management, which is different than making BPM or Case Management social or mobile enabled. Touch also supports multi-tenancy and offline requirements.
Rhonda Gray is part of the OpenText product management team that focuses on advancing OpenText's leadership position in BPM and Case Management. A pioneer in the process management space, Rhonda has been a product manager for BPM products since the late '90s. Prior to her product management roles, Rhonda held technical and management positions in software development and customer support.
Many BPM software vendors have added social capabilities to their products recently. To insure full adoption of "Social BPM", it is important to connect BPM to social media, not the other way around. This means providing connectivity to mainstream Enterprise Social Media Platforms such as Salesforce Chatter, or to other social media like Twitter, Facebook or Google Talk. In this demo, we'll show how social features can improve a business process, using Chatter to send task notifications during process execution, and how to integrate community contributed social media connectors into Bonita Open Solution.Read more >
Kofax TotalAgility is a BPM and Dynamic Case Management platform that enables organizations to achieve significant operational gains through better management of unpredictable processes. More efficient, flexible and better-executed business processes mean lower costs plus greater and earlier ROI. Designed from the ground up to fully exploit the capabilities of Microsoft's Windows Azure Cloud platform, Kofax TotalAgility helps customers realize the full potential of Cloud-based deployments. Kofax TotalAgility enables customers to rapidly provision the platform upon which BPM solutions are built. It accelerates the speed of deployment through ease of use and preconfigured integration with Microsoft and non-Microsoft infrastructure components.
Carl Hillier is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Kofax Inc., responsible for Product Marketing and Strategy for BPM and Cloud Computing. With over 20 years of experience, he has held avariety of management positions in Europe and the US such as Fujitsu and FileNet Corp. (now IBM).
WebRatio makes it easy to generate social BPM web applications from graphical models. In our demo, a company collects feedback from social networks regarding a prospective new product. The product manager posts on Facebook invitations that include a link to the new product page, and collects feedback as Facebook likes and comments. The system aggregates the comments and makes them available to the internal business process. The process logic is defined in BPMN, and process activities are modeled in WebML, a graphical modeling language that defines the user interface, data connections, and business logic by connecting widgets in a diagram.
Emanuele Molteni began his career in WebRatio in 2002 as an analyst/developer and then as Project Manager. Over the years he has increasingly dedicated himself to pre and post sales services. From 2008 until 2011, he assumed the role of Head of Customer Services. From 2012, he is the Chief Product Officer and Director of Product Business Unit.
A Remote Service Portal is implemented as a BPMN process receiving and acting on events triggered by aggregated data from physical sensors monitoring factory operations. Incidents generated by the events are handled by BPM users, who can take remedial action immediately, schedule preventive maintenance, or take other actions. A KPI dashboard provides drilldown views of factory operations.
Tom Debevoise is a Senior Director of Bosch Software Innovations. He is an executive technologist with 20+ years experience as a BPM/Business Rules architect and consultant. He has specific business rules experience in the fields of physical sercurity, supply chain management, petroleum, and health care. Tom's recent book is "A Microguide to Process Modeling in BPMN" (2011).
Troy Foster is the CTO of Bosch Software Innovations for the Americas. Prior to joining Bosch, Troy held product management and technology roles at IBM, VMware (EMC), BroadVision, Sun Microsystems, and Raytheon. He has over 18 years of experience in enterprise software, where his focus has been on e-commerce, business process management, business rules management, enterprise content management, Internet and mobile technologies and cloud computing. Troy has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from DePaul University and a BA in Accounting and Spanish from North Central College.
Paul has been working at business process redesign since the late 60s. When he first began, process redesign was almost entirely a matter of studying people, noting how they performed, and thinking of ways to improve human performance. In the decades since the computer revolution has changed the way we work and how we approach business process redesign. It rare, today, to find an organization in which people don't work with computers. It's equally hard to find process practitioners that don't depend on software tools to do their work. This keynote will consider way software applications and tools have changed the nature of work, and speculate on the ways new technologies will change the way we work in the near future.
Paul Harmon is a Co-Founder and Executive Editor at Business Process Trends (www.bptrends.com),an internationally popular website that covers trends, directions and best practices in business process management. He is the author of Business Process Change: A Guide for Business Managers, BPM and Six Sigma Professionals (2nd Ed. 2007). and twelve other books. Previously, Paul managed major process improvement programs at Bank of America, Security Pacific, Wells Fargo, Prudential, and Citibank. He was a Senior Consultant at Cutter Consortium and edited their Expert System Strategies, CASE, and Business Process Reengineering Strategies newsletters.
The experience shows that the synergy between various business methodologies and information technologies does not happen spontaneously. It must be architected for guiding the use of methodologies, technologies and tools together.
The presentation will discuss how several modern technologies (systems approach, enterprise architecture, digital, microservices, blockchain, explicit coordination and predictive decision-making) can be combined together to achieve an organisation which is defined by software. Thus such an organisation will systematically and agile adapt for new business challenges.
Speaker's bio:
Alexander Samarin wrote his first software program in the year 1973. He obtained a PhD (in computer graphics) in the year 1986. He has worked for a variety of international clients in Switzerland, UK, France, Australia and Africa. He specialises in architecture, implementation and evolution of enterprise-wide solutions with the holistic use of enterprise architecture, business architecture, BPM, SOA, ECM, IT governance and IT strategy. In October 2009 he published a book "Improving enterprise business process management systems". Since August 2013 he works as an architect for achieving the synergy between strategy, good business practices and disruptive digital technologies for digital systems.
Smart Cities is one of the essential endeavours right now. Smart Cities use many existing and emerging information technologies, Smart Cities must change lives of many people and each Smart Cities programme and project is a daunting task. Therefore Smart Cities must be considered as a system which perfectly delivers its desired capabilities.
This presentation will discuss how several modern techniques, such as systems approach, standardisation, reference architecture, patterns, explicit security, can be combined to enable world-wide cooperation and coordination in delivery of various Smart Cities.
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Alexander Samarin wrote his first software program in the year 1973. He obtained a PhD (in computer graphics) in the year 1986. He has worked for a variety of international clients in Switzerland, UK, France, Australia and Africa. He specialises in architecture, implementation and evolution of enterprise-wide solutions with the holistic use of enterprise architecture, business architecture, BPM, SOA, ECM, IT governance and IT strategy. In October 2009 he published a book "Improving enterprise business process management systems". Since August 2013 he works as an architect for achieving the synergy between strategy, good business practices and disruptive digital technologies for digital systems.
APIs and microservices power today's digital stack. You want to be able to tap into these APIs to quickly build and deploy new applications to better engage with customers or improve operational excellence. But, if you're not a developer, how can you take advantage of all these new technologies to help your company accelerate the journey to digital business?
In this webinar with Constellation Research and TIBCO, learn:
-How organizations today are helping their business users to capture business opportunities up to 10 times faster through building smart business apps
-How to create enterprise-ready apps that automate operational processes or improve and unify existing systems
-How to extend IT reach, scale change and turbocharge innovation
Is your IT department too bogged down by costly and rigid service management applications and putting out daily fires to provide the extraordinary IT service your organization needs? Don't let manual processes and inflexible applications tie up your IT department!
Join OpenText Business Process Applications (BPM) experts Andy Scott and Nathan Pryor as they discuss the launch of Assure for ITSM, a comprehensive IT Service Management solution featuring out-of-the-box best practice frameworks that support ITIL.
You will also discover how Assure for ITSM is built around our enterprise-grade BPM platform, providing unrivaled flexibility to give you easy customization and integration with other business systems.
During the webinar you will learn about:
- Our future plans and roadmap for the product
- Where Assure sits within the OpenText EIM portfolio
- Your organization's journey to realize extraordinary service management
Register today and discover how you can begin delivering extraordinary IT services in as few as 30 days
Business users are a driving force in improving customer engagement and operational efficiencies. They want to craft their own solutions to solve actual business problems using tools sanctioned and centrally controlled by IT. This webinar highlights how to enable your business teams, in collaboration with IT, to drive your digital transformation and increase productivity via a low-code application development platform.
This TIBCO Tech Talk covers:
-How to help business users take on problems occurring in customer journeys and operational processes
-Why integration is a key enabler for building apps that modernize, simplify, and unify legacy systems
-A demo on how to innovate and create business value at speed with quick connectivity and low-code app development


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PRACE and the BioExcel Center of Excellence are bringing together for the first time the main developers of four of the major and most popular codes for molecular modelling and simulations - GROMACS, AMBER, NAMD and VMD. This is a great opportunity for novice and experienced users to learn from the very authors of the software.
The 2017 Spring School is organized jointly between PRACE, the main HPC resource provider in Europe and the BioExcel Center of Excellence. The school program will allow participants to get a comprehensive introduction to the different codes; to understand their scalability and performance, as well as ways to avoid potential issues; to learn the best practices about using them on HPC systems. Extensive hands-on sessions will cover more than half of time during the school.
The course will take place at the computer laboratories at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm under the guidance of the PDC Center for High Performance Computing. Participants will be able to run on the PRACE Tier‐1 system Beskow, the largest Tier-1 system within the Nordic countries.
The school is also supported by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC).
The program is free of charge (though you are responsible for your own travel and accommodation costs). For the hands-on sessions, participants can bring their own laptops, in that case you have to make sure that all the required software (a detailed list including expected versions will be communicated in advance) is installed once the course starts.
Researchers, academics and industrial researchers residing in PRACE member countries, or European Union Member States and Associated Countries are welcome to apply to attend the school. All lectures and training sessions will be in English.
Registration Opening: 23rd of January 2017.
Registration Deadline: extended until 24th of March 2017
Free of charge (not including travel and accommodation).
Please note that the number of places is limited, so register early to be sure of a place.
Additionally, BioExcel will be providing a limited number of travel bursaries for a fixed amount (€120 per day of the course) for this event.
If you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, please contact Vera Matser - email@example.com. Please note that the travel grants will be awarded on a competitive basis and additional documentation, such as a letter of support and a biography, will need to be submitted in order to apply. More details about the travel bursary are found on the BioExcel webpages.
On the organisers and the venue:
KTH, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, is situated in the heart of Stockholm. The PDC center for HPC is a third party in PRACE, the Partnership for advanced computing in Europe, via the Swedish Research Council represented by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) and is situated at KTH. BioExcel, the dedicated CoE for Biomolecular Research has recently been established in Sweden with KTH as the coordinating partner. The KTH main campus is easily reached from the airport (30‐35 min by express airport shuttle train and metro) and is surrounded with multiple restaurants for lunches and dinners. The city center is within walking distance.

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TEDxTulsa - Brett McKay - "Reviving the Lost Art of Manliness
Brett McKay is the founder and editor-in-chief of " The Art of Manliness" blog, a men's lifestyle site dedicated to reviving the lost art of manliness. After noticing most of the men's magazines on the stands talked about the same old things every month - six pack abs, $2,000 watches and hat babes - Brett created "The Art of Manliness" in January 2008 to change the tone and discussion on what it means to be a man. "The Art of Manliness" has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and The Toronto Star and on CNN. In 2009, Brett, along with his wife, Kate McKay, tuned the blog into a book and published " The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man." TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
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Mumbai, August 21, 2011
is looking forward to the Indian release of his acting debut, Bol, but
if all goes well, Pakistani singer Atif Aslam will be part of a much
bigger partnership. He might just end up collaborating with big-ticket
musicians like John Mayer, Coldplay and Jimmy Page (the founder of
famous hard rock band Led Zeppelin). Aslam is a member of The Sonic
Peacemakers' 'Pakistan America: Peace Through Music' — a project aimed
to bring Americans and Pakistanis closer, and support and develop the
country's artistic talent.
"Whenever I'm in the US, I keep
aside a week to work only on my collaborations with artistes. Be it
raising money or tying up with musicians, I'm doing everything on my
own," says Atif. "We are planning to collaborate with Mayer, Coldplay
and Jimmy Page, but nothing is finalised yet."
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Bollywood singer too, Atif says, "I'm keeping my fingers crossed
because, after all, they are busy people." But is it likely to happen?
"We will keep everyone informed about it," he says.
has already recorded four songs with the ex-members of iconic American
band Guns N' Roses — Slash, Gliby Clarke and Chris Pitman for the album
The Dreamer Awakes. "With the initiative, I plan to bring Pakistani
singers — including our Sufi singers — and American artistes together
for musical collaborations," he says.
Regarding the
upcoming release of Shoaib Mansoor's Bol, Atif mentions, "It's always
exciting to work on new projects. Bol is a very serious film and not
just meant for pure entertainment." Admitting that he was nervous about
the film, he adds, "Although I have acted in my music videos and that
helped, mouthing dialogues, that too intense ones, is a completely
different ballgame. Shoaib Mansoor is a one-of-a-kind director. I loved
his last film, Khuda Ke Liye."
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NYADEC was started in 2000 and was registered as a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in 2006. The organization aims to prevent, rehabilitate and reclaim gullies in order to allow agriculture to persist as a way of life for the farmers of the Nyando River Basin in Kenya. NYADEC works to encourage, enable, and facilitate community involvement in finding and implementing solutions to gully erosion and other environmental issues. Currently there are over twenty major gullies in the Nyando River Basin, where on average gully erosion is accountable for half an acre of land loss and an additional half an acre of land degradation for each farmer affected. All members of the organization belong to the community being directly affected by gully erosion; most members have lost land that they depend on for farming and fuelwood to the gullies. Since its establishment, the organization has received support from over ten thousand members and continues to expand its influence throughout the entire population of the Nyando River Basin.
NYADEC's program of sustainable land management encompasses gully rehabilitation, water conservation, forest conservation, restoration of degraded lands, adaptation to drought and flooding, and income generation. Recognizing the complex linkages between all these factors, NYADEC aims to better understand those linkages as they strive for better natural resource management. Challenges faced by the organization include eutrophication of Lake Victoria and sand harvesting, which increases the rate at which erosion occurs, raising concerns about enhancing the level of poverty. Approximately 63% of families in the Nyando district live below the poverty line. The result of this high poverty level is that many people are pressured to carry out the hard labor of sand harvesting while receiving very low compensation because they cannot find other work. Increasing environmental degradation and poverty threaten the community and cause challenges for environmental conservation efforts. NYADEC therefore takes factors like the socioeconomic context into consideration when organizing strategies for conservation management.


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Secondary Geography Teacher, Vigo, Spain
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Start date: September 2018
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
We are seeking to appoint a talented and inspiring Teacher of KS3 and KS4 Geography who will join us in September 2018 to strengthen our Geography Department. We are excited to have the opportunity to invite like-minded teachers to join our enthusiastic, happy, caring team.
O Castro British School is a happy, inclusive and successful school in Vigo, Spain with over 700 students in Primary and the growing Secondary school. We follow the National Curriculum for England and the Cambridge International Curriculum for KS3 in English, Maths and Science and IGCSE and A Levels.
Are you someone who can offer the following:
- A desire to ensure every child fulfils their potential
- High expectations of achievement and behaviour
- Creative and inspirational approaches to learning and the curriculum
- Excellent questioning skills
- A commitment to making a positive difference
- A commitment to personal learning and professional development
- Excitement when faced with a challenge
- Focused in helping children achieve high levels of progress in a happy and effective learning environment
- Committed to differentiation and SEN inclusive practice
- Can effectively monitor, assess, record and report on pupils' progress
- Possess secure IT skills and have good IWB knowledge
We can offer:
- Engaged, lively and creative learners who take pride in their school
- A commitment to quality CPD
- A strong, forward thinking, collegiate leadership team
- Highly motivated, supportive and committed colleagues
- An exceptional learning environment where all pupils can flourish
- An engaged and supportive governing body
- A relocation package of 300 Euros plus 200 Euros for flight and free accommodation provided for up to one month. We also offer free Spanish classes and free lunch and snacks.
Successful applicants will be selected for interview via Skype.
Our school is committed to the safeguarding of children and promoting child welfare. The appointment will be subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
To apply please email CV with photo and a letter of application and 2 referees to:
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Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced
Cooler Master surprised as at last year's Cebit fair with a second Mini-ITX chassis, the Elite 120 Advanced. It's very different than the older model, the Elite 100, which was very small like the Antec ISK100. The Elite 120 is a bit bigger.
Still compact with a volume of 20 dm³, it does have room for a dual-slot graphics card, a 3.5-inch hard disk, two 2.5-inch drives, a full-size optical station, and an ATX PSU. There's even an opening for a water cooling tube, and with a USB 3.0 port, two USB 2.0 ports and audio jacks, the Elite 120 is modern enough.
The chassis has two built-in fans and is one of the better at cooling. It's easy to install components, and the finish is very good. All things considered, we really like this chassis. And to top it off, it only costs £36.


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In the present study, we revealed, by means of electrophysiological, immunohistochemical and molecular biological methods, that two distinct subgroups of LHRH neurons are involved in the control of two different modes of gonadotropin secretion, i.e., one is for preovulatory surge secretion and the other for pulsatile secretion, .1.LHRH surge generating neuronal systemIn the rat, LHRH neurons located in the preoptic area constitutes the LHRH surge generator with GABA neurons as an estrogen-responsive element. The generator receives the clock information from the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) probably through neuronal pathways. Estrogen affects GABA neuronal activity by acting at mRNA transcriptional level and increasing glutamic acid dehydrogenase, and exerts inhibition on LHRH neurons. The inhibition mediated by GABA neurons is disrupted somehow in the afternoon of proestrus to make the surge of LHRH secretion. We are currently studying what is the mechanism for disrupting inhibition by GABA neurons on LHRH neurons and what kind of neurons send clock information from the SCN to the surge generator.2.LHRH pulse generating neuronal systemLHRH neurons located in the mediobasal hypothalamus constitute the LHRH pulse generator with opioid neurons as a mediator of negative feedback effects of estrogen. We are focussing the current study on what is the mechanism of synchronizing firing in LHRH neurons.
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Categories: Desserts
Tags: Corn-Free,Gluten-Free,Refined Sugar Free,Soy-Free,Vegan
It's the start of strawberry season where I live in the rolling mountains of eastern PA. Roadside stands are popping up with strawberries for sale, the farmers markets are coming to life again, and all this leaves me feeling like I am on cloud nine. Nothing speaks to my vegan eating sensibilities more than fresh, local fruits and veggies. My absolute favorite time being that all too brief period when strawberries, in all their cheery, bright red glory, are available in abundance. And the flavor... enough to make my toes curl in happiness. So all winter when I see the sad, drab, flavorless imported strawberries in their sterile plastic containers stacked at the grocery store, I dream of warmer weather and real, luscious strawberries. And of course what to make with all the quarts and quarts I bring home and then battle to use before they *gasp* go bad. I know, let's not think of it! One of the flavor combinations I love is peanut butter with strawberries, strawberry jam to be exact. So I had been devising this recipe in my head for awhile and this weekend, with quarts of strawberries piled on my counter, it was time. I wanted to keep these bars light, cool, and refreshing... something for the summer, and for picnics 🙂 The crust is crunchy and salty, the peanut butter is fluffy and creamy, the strawberry jam a fresh pop of sweetness and all of this together is... orgasmic. There, I said it. It literally invokes that involuntary moan upon the very first bite. Normally I would say that could be trouble, but this is refined sugar-free, gluten-free, soy-free, corn-free, etc - so moan away people 🙂 Happy strawberry season to all! Mmmmmm...
- 1-1/3 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 7 dates
- 3/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 cup almond meal or almond flour, packed
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
Peanut Butter Mousse:
- 2 cups creamy peanut butter
- 1 - 13.5 oz can of coconut milk, refrigerated at least 2 hours
- 1/8 cup agave syrup, I used light
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar, or brown sugar (optional)
- salt to taste, only if your peanut butter isn't salted, mine was
Fresh Strawberry Jam:
- 1 quart of strawberries, stems removed and quartered
- 1/4 cup + 1/8 cup agave syrup, I used light
- 2 TBS lemon juice, fresh squeezed
- 1 TBS agar-agar flakes
- 1/2 cup of chopped, salted peanuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 8 x 8 non-stick square cake pan with cooking spray. Place the oats, shredded coconut, dates, and salt into a food processor and process for a minute or two until everything is flour-like consistency. Add almond meal and pulse 4 to 5 times to combine. Next add the coconut oil and pulse until it just starts to come together as a dough. Sprinkle this mixture evenly into the prepared pan. Then use your fingers to gently press the crust down, leveling as needed. Make sure it is pressed in pretty well and then transfer to the oven. Bake for 13-18 minutes until the edges are golden. Set pan on a wire rack to cool to room temperature.
When crust has cooled, place the 2 cups peanut butter, coconut milk, agave syrup, vanilla, and coconut sugar into a medium bowl. A quick tip for an easy way to measure the peanut butter is to spray your measuring cup with cooking spray first, then the pb will come out easily. The coconut sugar is optional, I know it's not readily available out there yet, add more agave or even stevia for a sweeter mousse. Using a mixer with a whisk attachment, beat for a couple of minutes, scraping the sides down occasionally, until everything is combined and light and fluffy. You could also use a high powered blender for this step. Scoop and pour the peanut butter mousse onto the top of the crust. Place directly into the fridge to chill.
Next, in a large saucepan, mash the strawberries (I used a potato masher, but you can use whatever you like). Add the lemon juice, agave, and agar, stir well. Bring mixture to a slow boil. I used medium heat to achieve this. Once the mixture comes to a rolling boil, set a timer for 10 minutes. Reduce heat a bit (medium-low), and let the mix boil for 10 minutes, whisking occasionally to keep agar from sticking to the pan. After 10 minutes remove from heat and let it cool for about 20 minutes, whisking occasionally to help it cool down. It doesn't need to be room temperature, but it should only be just warm as you don't want to melt the peanut butter mousse. Pour the fresh jam carefully over the top of the cooled mousse and place in the fridge to set and chill through. I let mine chill for about 3 hours. Then remove it to serve or cover with plastic wrap and place back in the fridge to enjoy later. To serve, sprinkle with the peanuts. These are best kept chilled, and only add the peanuts right before serving as they will turn greasy and brown if left in the fridge (they still taste good though). Cut bars into 2" squares, this makes 16 evenly sized bars.
Categories: Appetizers, Entrees
Tags: Nut-Free,Refined Sugar Free,Soy-Free,Vegan
One of the things the hubs misses most about his pre-vegan/pre-vegetarian days are those things they serve in bars, deep-fried, and covered in hot sauce. I refuse to say what they are because what they are makes me want to cry. Especially considering the fact that they sell these by the dozens, it's heart-wrenching to my animal loving, vegan soul. And yes, I am one of those people that cries when I pass a truck full of cows, pigs, chickens or any farm animal as I know that wherever they are going it's sure to be a sad ending. I send my prayers up to the universe that they please have an amazing and safe place in heaven to be free, play in the sun, mud, or even just to feel the grass at their feet. And I also ask that if there isn't a special place in heaven for them, that I want them to go to mine. I promise that I will take care of them when my day comes. So maybe sometime when we all cross over into the next journey you'll be able to find me surrounded by thousands of animals. That would surely be heaven. So it's my duty to give you something so good that whenever you think of Buffalo hot sauce, it's complete with a vision of vegan beer-battered covered, deep-fried seitan... or shall we say seitan Buffalo bites? Either way it equals yumm. The batter, by the way, is also awesome to make onion rings with. The recipe that inspired us came from Saveur Beer Batter. The batter recipe makes a lot, so you may want to make rings regardless 🙂 I like to promote healthier recipes, but honestly this isn't one, so please eat sparingly. But if it saves a few sweet chickens then I have to support it and share it. Especially in case there are any of you out there who want some traditional bar food deep-fried yumminess to scarf down with a nice cold summer pale ale. And the best part is that this is bar food with compassion. Cheers!
- 1-3/4 cups flour
- 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 1-1/2 T hot paprika
- 1 T dry mustard
- 1 T baking powder
- 2 tsp sea salt
- 2 tsp agave syrup
- 16 oz beer, whatever kind you like
- 12 or 16 oz container of seitan
- 1 bottle of your favorite buffalo or hot sauce
- canola oil for frying
Rinse seitan well under cold water, drain, and pull into 1/2" to 3/4" chucks or strips. You don't need to be exact even the shape, just try to get similar sized portions. Next dry the seitan very well with paper towels. Try to get as much of the moisture off as possible. In a large bowl whisk together the dry ingredients, flour through salt. Add agave and beer and whisk until smooth. Add more beer if the batter is too thick, it should be similar in consistency to pancake batter. Let sit for 10 minutes. While batter is resting, preheat 2" of oil to medium-high heat in your favorite frying pan, the oil should only come about halfway up the pan or less so there is room for the bubbling during frying. We actually use a medium soup pan, as it has high sides and we just fry up small batches of 3 or 4 at a time. The ideal temperature is 375 degrees, but you can test the oil for correct temperature by adding in a small drop of batter, if it instantly sizzles and floats to the top you are ready.
Depending on the size of your pan, dredge 3-4 pieces of seitan in the batter and add carefully to the hot oil, one at a time. You don't want to crowd the pan, leave lots of room for these to swim around. These will cook quickly, so after a minute or two flip them over and cook again another minute or two until they are golden and crisp. Transfer to a wire rack with paper towels or a dish towel underneath to catch any crumbs or oil drips. Repeat the dredging and frying process until all the seitan is cooked. Now you can either toss them gently in a bowl with the hot sauce until they are well coated or you can just serve them with the hot sauce in a dipping bowl on the side. Completely up to you. They will lose their crispness quickly after being drenched in the sauce, but they are still melt-in-your-mouth amazing. Serve these up with some celery and carrot sticks and don't forget the beer! Serves 6-10 people (depending on how many everyone eats).
Categories: Entrees
Tags: Corn-Free,Nut-Free,Soy-Free,Vegan
I still love pizza. Granted it's no longer the grease laden, cheese filled, pizza of the past, but I still love it. For me, the idea of making pizza from scratch is so romantic. It reminds of me of Italy, even though I have never been... *sigh*. When I think of Italian cuisine, it's handmade patiently and with love. That is pizza, pizza is love. Well, it should be anyways and I think vegan pizza most certainly is. Pizza is also art, it's one of those foods that can suck you in instantly just based on how beautiful it is. So I embrace vegan pizza made from scratch, it's compassionate, thoughtful, and delicious! Plus you get to play with your food and be creative, hello!? 🙂 As some of you know already, I don't enjoy the faux cheeses that are available out there now (I know, apologies to Daiya)... instead I aim for pizzas that are so orgasmically good you never even give a passing thought to cheese, whether it's faux or real. And folks, this pizza is all grown up. Bitter broccoli rabe, paired with spicy cherry peppers, and sweet caramelized onions with garlic in the supporting role makes for one piece of amazing adult pizza. Call the babysitter, invite some friends over, and uncork a good bottle of wine... It's pizza night! Ciao!
- pizza dough, enough to make 2 - 12" to 14" pizzas, I used this recipe
- 2 large sweet onions, halved and thinly sliced
- 2 TBS canola oil
- 1/4 tsp agave syrup, I used light
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 bunch of broccoli rabe, the bottom 3" of stems discarded and the remaining chopped into 2" long pieces
- 3/4 cup of sliced hot pickled cherry peppers, more or less as desired, seeds and stems discarded
- 3/4 cup of sliced mild pickled cherry peppers, seeds and stems discarded
- 1 - 28oz can of chunky tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes
- 2 TBS minced garlic
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- olive oil
- handful of basil leaves
- salt & pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Heat 2 TBS of canola oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Add onions, salt, and agave cook stirring occasionally for 20-25 minutes until onions are golden and caramelized. Set aside. While onions are cooking, bring about an inch of salted water in a large skillet to a rolling boil. Add the broccoli rabe and cook for 2-3 minutes. Remove from pan and put into a metal colander. Rinse the broccoli rabe with lots of very cold water to stop the cooking process and the keep the bright green color. Let the broccoli rabe drain in the colander until ready to go on top of the pizzas.
Next form your pizza dough into 2 - 12" or 14" diameter pies. Place each round on a sheet of parchment. Drizzle a little olive oil over each pizza, add 1 TBS garlic to each pie and use your hands to smear the garlic and oil evenly across the top. Do this liberally and make sure you hit every nook and cranny so every piece is infused with garlic. Next spoon the tomato sauce onto the pizzas making sure to leave a nice edge for the crust. Use as little or as much sauce as you like. Sprinkle on the Italian seasoning and pepper flakes. Now you are ready to add the broccoli rabe. Grab a handful and squeeze it over the sink or above a paper towel. You want get as much juice out as you can so your pizza does not become watery. Distribute the broccoli rabe evenly between the 2 pies. Now add the cherry peppers, pat them dry with a paper towel if they are wet. Next up is the caramelized onions. I like to add these in little spoonfuls to the top, but add them however your creativity sees fit. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and you can drizzle a little bit more olive oil over the top, but it's not needed.
Carefully put pizzas into hot oven, leaving them on the parchment. I use a pizza peel to do this as it makes life so much easier, but you could also flip a cookie sheet upside down to help you slide the pizza into the oven. Bake for 10-15 minutes until the crust is crisp on the bottom. Alternate the pizzas after the first 7 minutes, they should switch places in the oven. That way they will cook more evenly. When done, remove from oven and sprinkle each pizza with basil leaves. Cut into slices, I usually cut mine into 6 slices each, and serve while still hot. Serves 4-6 people. If you only have a single serving of dough for one pizza, just cut the remaining ingredients in half and it will turn out perfect.


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Joey Semz, 31, graffitist who turned to folk music
Joey Semz, 31, a prolific Lower East Side graffiti artist and musician, died unexpectedly at his parents home in Staten Island on April 7. He gained fame for spray-painting SEMZ all over the city, and for co-founding the graffiti crew IRAK in the late 1990s. More recently, he recorded the CDs Cowboys in IRAK and A Great Believer. He played his acoustic folk music at the clubs Joes Pub, Don Hills and 205.
He began his graffiti career at 14 with stolen magic markers, tagging on Staten Island. Around 1997, he began writing his name all over Manhattan. Semz painted a backyard mural at the Sweet and Vicious Bar on Spring St., showed his work at Clayton Pattersons storefront gallery at Essex and Stanton Sts. and displayed his art at the aNYthing store, established by the IRAK crew at 51 Hester St.
I met Joey in 97 or 98 when he was king of the city, said Ben Solomon, 24, a filmmaker and D.J. at 205 and the Anchor Bar, who goes by the name King Solomon. He had SEMZ on everything. The vandalism cops had a huge vendetta on him. As he grew up, he moved away from graffiti and into music, to keep his name alive and express himself.
On Autograf, a Web site of autobiographical pieces, Semz wrote that he was arrested by the police about 13 times, but that the charges did not stick. His last run-in came when he was picked up by the police on Spring St. in the summer of 2002. After being questioned for four hours, he confessed to numerous graffiti crimes. He served five days in jail with five years probation. At that point, he stopped creating graffiti and began painting on canvas and writing music instead.
Ive known Joey since I was in high school. We met through graffiti and mutual friends, said Nico Ponce de Leon Dios, 24, another IRAK crew member. Our paths crossed again and again. He was very natural in his art and in his music. It flowed from him. He would write songs on the Staten Island Ferry. He was very atypical in that he dressed like a construction worker. He didnt wear flashy clothes.
Joey and the IRAK crew are a legend, said Clayton Patterson, who is a photographer as well as a gallery owner. His songs were about decadence and drugs and youth culture.
A lot of his music is about the darker side of being young and coming up in New York City, said Solomon. It was about the highs and lows of being an artist and trying to live freely in the world.
Joey Semz was born Joseph McCarthy, Jr., in Staten Island to a kindergarten teacher mother and a steamfitter father. He attended the College of Staten Island for a year and then took classes at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. To make money, he painted murals in peoples homes and did carpentry and wall painting.
At 21, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, according to his mother, Nancy McCarthy. She said that during his manic phases he was very creative. He took medication to treat the condition.
By all accounts, Semz was outgoing, generous and easygoing.
He was friendly and funny and never said anything bad about anyone, said Ms. McCarthy. For the last 10 months he had been living here, and I got used to having him around. I keep expecting him to walk through the door.
On his MySpace page, Semz wrote that his influences were people who take all the bad and make something beautiful, people who love life through its horror and its joy.
The cause of his death has not been determined. His mother said there is a history of heart disease in the family.
Joey Semz is survived by his mother and his father, Joseph McCarthy, on Staten Island, and a sister, Elizabeth McCarthy, of Westchester. A memorial service was held in April on Staten Island.
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The novel is told in the third person, present tense, from the perspective of Simon. This point of view is used to initially guide the reader towards sympathizing with Simon when he first arrives in Novilla. The people and the culture of Novilla are very strange and unfamiliar and the reader's confusion about their customs and behavior is reflected in Simon's own confusion as he struggles to make a life for himself in this new world.
One of the limits of Simon's perspective is that at some point – for reasons that are never made clear to the reader – all of the characters in the novel lost their memories of what life was like before the present moment. They were "washed clean" (19) as Ana puts it. This means that although the reader is able to discover new things about the present day through...
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The government is in the midst of a mass typhoid vaccination program after a 2009 epidemic caused by poor water supply and another outbreak in May 2010.
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Synthesis of novel fluorinated compounds possessing a potent and selecive anti-HIV-1 activity were studied by the introduction of fluoroalkyl or fluoroalkylene groups into various substrates with carbon-carbon bond formation by using fluoroalkanoyl peroxides as key materials. It was clarified that a series of fluoroalkylated or fluoroalkyleneated oligomers containing carboxyl, sulfo and cationic segments with carbon-carbon bond formation were prepared by using fluoroalkanoyl peroxides or polymeric fluorinated organic peroxides.The biological activities of these novel fluorinated oligomers thus obtained were studied. These compounds were shown to possess a potent and selective anti-HIV-1 activity. Interestingly, there was some correlation between the anti-HIV-1 activity of these fluorinated oligomers and their structures, and the more oleophilic oligomers, especially oligomers containing silicon segments were found to become more active. Furthermore, fluorinated sulfonic acid oligomers
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Lynching should have been stopped in America because I think its a disturbing and violent method of killing. Attacking people in mob for, hanging them, burning them at the stake, these are all practices that should not occur in America and sometimes, the lynchings were unjust and were done due to race and not true means.
Lynching should have been stopped as soon as it began. It is shameful that America freed it's slaves
but didn't take the proper steps to protect the ex-slaves from an angry
population. There is no statute of
limitations on murder, yet the vast majority of lynchers were never brought up
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- Filipino illegal recruiter arrested at NAIA
- Victims are sent to Thailand to work as prostitutes
- Suspect has an accomplice working at POEA
|A red light district in Bangkok
The report said that the suspect is part of a syndicate offering victims domestic helper jobs in Saudi Arabia but deploys them on tourist visas.
Instead of Saudi, victims are actually brought to Thailand to work as prostitutes. Once in Thailand, the working visa will be pasted over the tourist visa.
"Ipapatanggal yung employment visa para pag na-check sa immigration hindi mahalata. Tourist siya kunwari," Tecson said.
"Ipapatanggal yung employment visa para pag na-check sa immigration hindi mahalata. Tourist siya kunwari," Tecson said.
It was at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 on Wednesday, where the suspect was apprehended by members of the National Bureau of Investigation - Anti Human Trafficking Division at Terminal 1. The suspect was with a female passenger who is believed to be his latest victim.
During the NBI's arrest, Tecson presented himself as a lawyer. He later admitted that he was an illegal recruiter after initially denying the accusation. He also revealed that he has an accomplice working at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).


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Practice run.
You know it is interesting you say that. So many times when people talk about the inspiration for the 9-11 attacks they will bring up Ramzi and Bojinka..which of course was not a hijacking/kamikaze plot but an explosives plot. I have to think that given the year this occurred, that Bin Laden must have been inspired by what was clearly a Muslim intentionally crashing a plane while reciting all of the religious phrases that were uttered. I do think that this was where the plot began.


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Taking Marc out for a spin
We are her just for three days, but already have a fixed tradition every morning: Getting Vitamine Water. The drinks are very refreshing, are in many tastes, and every drink has some special vitamins. For brunch this morning we went to SoHo at Delicatessen. A really nice place to start the day with delicous food, awesome interior and a very good spot to watch people. Than we took our Marc's (Jacobs) out for a spin for shopping. Yesterday Hunter Linda had her vintage moment. Today it was Hunter Niels turn. He got a velvet Jil Sander waistcoat, a fur scarf and a tuxedo Prada shirt. Hunter Linda kept her wallet in her pocket, except for some Ugg's for her mother. Now we go and change to preppy style, for the show of Tommy Hilfiger. Check out our photo diary from today:


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The latest content marketing industry shows that consumers' demand for content is still high, business2community.com revealed.
The research (compiled by bodies like the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and ExactTarget) shows that although only around six per cent of consumers said they wanted to receive content from a brand, over double that said they did want product-related content.
This could leave some marketers slightly confused, though, but Jeff Rohrs (one of the authors behind the research) clarified the findings. He said: "If you really take a look at the research, consumers are actually desperate for content from brands… They are asking for helpful content through those channels."
As such, Joe Pulizzi (the CMI's founder) urged brands to focus on their content creation and delivery – be it through channels like SMS or social media, or via email. He encouraged them first to create a content marketing mission statement.
"Start with your mission statement about how you can be truly useful to customers," he said. From this, marketers can decide what product-related content to push in their SMS marketing, or the types of blogs they should include in email marketing strategies.
Putting a focus on a content strategy could help brands raise their awareness and engagement levels, comments from the I Scream Social blog (hosted at wordpress.com) suggest – something which could see consumers spreading the word more themselves, making less work for marketers.


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"We Certainly Strive to Keep it Weird."
On the website of Cease, Cows, editor Heather Nelson offers this bio: h.l. nelson is Founding Editor/Executive Director of Cease, Cows and a former sidewalk mannequin. (Yes, that happened.) Pub credits: PANK, Hobart, Connotation Press, Red Fez, Bartleby Snopes, blah blah blah. She is working on an anthology, which includes stories by Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, xTx, and other fierce women writers. h. l.'s MFA is currently kicking her ass.
Interview by Alex Quintanilla
How and why was Cease, Cows founded? Had you ever undertaken something of that scale before?
One day in March of 2013, after reading several great and not so great online literary magazines, I decided to start my own. I wanted to see more magical realism, among other weird genres, so I felt there was a need in me that wasn't being filled. Much like many things I do in life, I flew by the seat of my pants regarding the setup, name, and soliciting writers to send pieces. I had been editing for another online magazine for almost a year by that point, but I'd never undertaken anything of this scope before. It's been the best ever.
Did you know beforehand that Cease, Cows would be an online journal? I've noticed that many, if not all, of the pieces published have some sort of media accompanying the work. What are your thoughts on the print versus online debate?
I did know beforehand that CC would be an online magazine, because I wanted to prove that online magazines can and should publish exceptional work. Just because something is printed on paper doesn't mean it's any good. I've read a lot of crappy printed fiction. There are, of course, monetary and ecological considerations, too. Overall, I'm very happy that the general consensus about print vs. online is changing. When a journal like Ploughshares gets a smaller amount of readership than an online one like Monkeybicycle, you know something's up.
Freak us the fuck out, in the best possible way. Please.
In your submissions guidelines, you state that you only accept "Rare Flash" and "Well-Done Prose Poetry." Can you elaborate on the choice to focus on these two forms? And what exactly is "Rare Flash"?
My staff and I very much enjoy flash fiction and prose poetry, so it seemed an easy leap to just focus on these. The "Rare" and "Well-Done" are kitschy category titles, since we have a cow theme. You know, steak preparation and all. Clearly, we aren't vegetarians (actually, our Poetry Reader is! Poor girl). We don't take ourselves seriously, and I think that's part of our appeal. I wish I could make a cow pun right now, but I've not had enough coffee.
Ah, very clever! Now, I notice you're based in Austin. Are you committed to "keeping Austin weird?" What has been your relationship with the local community so far? On a similar note, who is your intended audience?
Our intended audience is an audience that enjoys weirder fiction. Being based in Austin, we certainly strive to keep it weird. But, we would strive to do the same were we based in, say, Wichita. "Weird" is a state of mind, after all.
How do you see Cease, Cows growing in the future? What submissions would you like to see more of?
It's possible we may switch to an issue-based format. That's very appealing. There's been talk buzzing around about monetization. I don't know — I rather hate money, personally. As far as submissions, we'd love to see more straight-up magical realism and just plain bizarre pieces. Freak us the fuck out, in the best possible way. Please.
Born and raised in Texas, Alexandra Quintanilla earned a B.A. from Rice University and is currently teaching English in rural Western Spain.


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Home sales at Weston were far better than anticipated this year and officials of Arvida Southern, the builders of the development, say the first residents may move in soon after the new year begins.
"I think it was beyond our dreams and expectations," said Arvida Southern President Sandy Miot.
Miot said Arvida has not adopted any new strategies for marketing Weston, although several new types of homes will be offered in 1986.
"We're not looking to appeal to a specific market. We're promoting it as a city," Miot said of the development south of State Road 84 and west of Interstate 75.
In addition to single family-homes, Arvida has preliminary plans to build a rental-apartment complex, Miot said.
The Country Isles section of Weston is the first neighborhood being built, with single-family homes ranging in price from $90,000 to $126,000. Windmill Ranch Estates will be a community of custom-built homes on 1 1/2-acre lots, starting at $300,000 and going for as much as $1 million.
According to Tom Bateman, director of sales and marketing for Arvida Southern, 98 homes at Country Isles have been sold so far this year, and 23 lots have been sold and Windmill Ranch Estates.


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How To Become A Bodyguard
So, you need to find out how to become a bodyguard? What does a bodyguard do? A bodyguard is a person that works to protect another person(s). Bodyguards have different levels of experience and skills. Some will work for celebrities or corporate executives and some work for politicians. You can expect to make between $200.00 to $700.00 dollars a day depending on what type of contract you have with the client. The more experience you have, the more money you can make, and this type of work may require you to work in any country.
- STtudy and read books and publications about how to become a bodyguard. Use the internet as a resource to help you get information about becoming a bodyguard. Graduate from high school or obtain a GED. Improve your chances by getting a four-year degree at a college and make sure your degree is closely related to the law enforcement field of study.
- Get training to help you become a bodyguard. Try to attend a bodyguard training school and complete all the training. Develop a personal body conditioning program for yourself to keep you in shape. Learn how to use a firearm by attending a firearms training program conducted by a police department for the public so that you will be able to protect you and your clients. Take defensive driving courses to improve your driving skills so that you will be able to get your clients safely to their designated location and get them away from the bad guys.
- Join a bodyguard organization to continue your training and improve your skills. Apply for bodyguard jobs and submit your resume and cover letter to bodyguard companies to find work as a bodyguard. Continue this process and you will become a bodyguard. You may have to accept a position as a security guard until you can find the job you want. Keep trying, because the opportunity to become a bodyguard is a good one.
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Table of ContentsDefinition / general | Additional references
Cite this page: Merkel cell carcinoma - staging. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/skintumornonmelanocyticmerkelstaging.html. Accessed December 12th, 2018.
Definition / general
- TNM Descriptors (required only if applicable)
- m (multiple)
- r (recurrent)
- y (post-treatment)
- Primary Merkel Cell Carcinoma Pathologic Stage (pT)
- pTX: Primary MCC cannot be assessed
- pT0: No evidence of MCC
- pTis: In situ primary tumor
- pT1: Less than or equal to 2 cm maximum MCC dimension
- pT2: Greater than 2 cm but not more than 5 cm maximum tumor dimension
- pT3: More than 5 cm maximum tumor dimension
- pT4: Primary tumor invades adjacent tissue e.g. bone, muscle, fascia, or cartilage
- Regional Lymph Nodes (pN)
- pNX: Nodes not examined pathologically
- pN0: Nodes negative by pathologic examination
- pN1: Metastasis in regional lymph nodes
- pN1a: Micrometastasis
- pN1b: Macrometastasis
- pN2: Transient nodal metastasis
- Distant Metastasis (pM)
- Not applicable
- pM1: Metastasis beyond regional lymph nodes
- pM1a: Metastasis to skin, subcutaneous tissues, or distant lymph nodes
- pM1b: Metastasis to lungs
- pM1c: Metastasis to visceral sites
- Stage grouping:
- Stage 0: Tis N0 M0
- Stage IA: T1 pN0 M0
- Stage IB: T1 cN0 M0
- Stage IIA: T2-3 pN0 M0
- Stage IIB: T2-3 cN0 M0
- Stage IIC: T4 N0 M0
- Stage IIIA: Any T N1a M0
- Stage IIIB: Any T N1b/N2 M0
- Stage IV: M1 (Any T, Any N)
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Mountain gorillas are one of the most endangered animals in the world today. Scientists estimate that there are about 600 Mountain gorillas, living in two populations of about 300 individuals each and separated by about 20 miles. There is only 285 square miles of high-elevation rain forest in the whole world, which is in east-central Africa, and the gorillas' natural habitat. These gorillas are highly endangered due to habitat loss, but also to poaching and war.
Despite their endangered status, Mountain gorillas had been one of conservation's greatest success stories. Decades ago these gorillas were on the brink of extinction, but conservation efforts were able to reverse the decline and lead them onto the road to recovery. However, the Mountain gorillas now face a new threat, which is the aftermath of a tragic civil war that erupted in Rwanda in the early 1990s. This war claimed the lives of 500 000, and created refugee camps that contained 750 000 people living in poverty and desperation on the borders of the gorillas' reserves. Ongoing political unrest is threatening to unravel almost 20 years of extraordinary conservation work.
There are no Mountain gorillas living in captivity. Only the other subspecies, the lowland gorilla, can be found in zoos. Mountain gorillas live at high altitudes of 10 000 feet or higher on the slopes of mountains or volcanoes. They are herbivores, eating plants like thistle, nettles and wild celery that grows in the cool, moist mountain climate of their range in Rwanda, Uganda and Zaire. Gorillas live in family troops led by the largest male, called the silverback. They are fiercely protective of their young and will literally defend them to death. Poachers that are after baby gorillas for international trade often kill entire families in order to capture their bounty.
From early in the 20th century, hunters and collectors from the United States and Europe began to kill or capture Mountain gorillas. 50 gorillas were taken as trophies or for collections in 25 years. Africa's first national park was established for the gorillas in Zaire in 1925, by the Belgium government that was ruling at the time.
The gorillas were fairly well protected until 1960, however, civil war then erupted and park protection disappeared. Gorillas were caught in poachers' snares that were set up to capture animals for food. They were also killed intentionally for their meat and parts: gorilla heads and hands were sold to tourists as souvenirs.
The gorillas have also lost large amounts of their habitat due to agriculture. They live in countries that have some of the highest human populations in the world. Every acre of land that is not protected is farmed. Mountain gorillas therefore live in islands of mountaintop habitat in a sea of human settlement. Terraced fields climb right to the border of the gorillas' park, high up in the mountains. Sounds of children playing in the fields can even be heard in the park, an intense reminder of the relentless pressures the expanding population places on gorilla habitat.
In the late 1970s, a new era in conservation began when international conservations organisations established the Mountain Gorilla Project to educate Rowandans about the gorillas, anti-poaching and bringing gorilla tourism to the area. The program had profound effects on the local people's attitudes. Gorillas were placed in carefully controlled areas so that tourists could view them at close range. This was so successful that at one time gorilla viewing was Rwanda's third-largest earner of foreign currency. Similar programs were initiated on the Ugandan and Zaire sides of the volcanoes of the gorillas' habitat. Rwandans realised that protecting the gorillas was in their economic interest.
When the Civil war broke out in Rwanda in the early 1990s, it surprisingly did not decimate gorilla populations itself. It did, however, inhibit gorilla tourism, cutting off the flow of much-needed foreign money. Despite tens of thousands of soldiers and refugees passing through the gorilla's habitat, and other animals being poached for food, few gorillas were actually killed in the war.
Guards and researchers remained in the park to protect the gorillas until they were forced to leave; they did this at great personal risk. Some have managed to return to the park, but operations have not been able to resume to their formal level. Civil unrest continues to be a major problem, and forests in the habitats in Zaire are being denuded for firewood in refugee camps.
The future of Mountain gorillas is depending on whether a stable government can be reinstated and maintained in Rwanda, and whether the country can feed and house its refugees without destroying the park.
This video shows the Virunga National Park and their efforts to save and protect the gorillas, as well as demonstrating the danger that rangers subsequently face. The Virunga website.
For more information: WWF Mountain gorillas and Bagheera Mountain gorilla, an Endangered Species.


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I know I'm caught up in the same mess at times, but isn't it a shame how those of us who are sports fans have our moods dictated by whether or not our favorite teams win or lose.
The Tennessee Titans are winless so far this season. They've won only 9 games in the last 2 years. Media vultures are circling. That's all you hear about on radio talk shows and TV sportscasts. Fire the coach!
I always remember one of my best friends - as loyal, caring and good hearted a fellow as you'd ever want to be around. He was such a die hard Tennessee Vol football fan that if they lost a game in Knoxville, he'd take it so hard that he might not drive back to Nashville after the game. He told me that a number of times he simply slept in a rest stop on the interstate because "he didn't want to come home and cuss his wife or kick the dog." It would ruin his Sunday. Monday, he'd still be a grouch, chewing on every play that went wrong. Tuesday, he was still stewing in his own juices. Wednesday, he was starting to think about the next game. Thursday, he was starting to get fired up about "winning big this week." By Friday, he had his game face on and was pumped. I'd laugh at him and tell him that I hope they don't lose, because then the cycle would start all over again.
Now if they won, it was an altogether different story. How many of us do that? I think some of it comes from the fact that we've got bosses telling us what to do and what we've done wrong all week long, but by golly, when Saturday or Sunday comes, "my team is going to make me feel good." I think that's one of the reasons that football is so popular and auto racing to some extent, because in football they can get away with pounding somebody else for us. Or on a race track they can drive, and take out their frustrations the way we never could.
We live through them! We call them our team.
All that changed for my Vol Fan friend back in 1995 when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. After a year long battle, I was at his bed side two days before he died. We hugged, we cried and he told me that he was a fool for having been so fanatical about "his team." What was it worth now?
Our moods affect everybody around us and to have those moods affected by a mere game!
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Striving for Civility
From left to right: Dr. Robert Prescott, chair of the English department, participates in a panel discussion with Dr. Jackie Hogan, chair of the sociology department, and Frank Mackaman, director of the Dirksen Congressional Center.
By Frank Radosevich II
April 16, 2013
Rancorous rhetoric and fervent partisanship seem to be the norm for today's political environment. But a push for promoting civil public discourse was underway on Bradley's campus.
The University's Institute for Principled Leadership in Public Service hosted a half-day symposium examining the causes of hyper-partisanship and promoting constructive communication, collaboration and leadership in government.
"Our belief is that we can't address any important public policy issue unless public officials engage in more civil, substantive discussions," said Brad McMillan, the institute's executive director. "We'll continue to have a stalemate until we change the style of public discourse that takes place."
Attending the seminar were students, faculty, community members and politicians, both newly elected and seasoned veterans. Topics ranged from how campaign finance reform, gerrymandering, 24-hour media coverage, structural changes in Congress and demonizing groups can all create barriers for civil discourse.
"The words and images we use in our public discourses do matter," Dr. Jackie Hogan, associate professor and chair of the sociology department, told the audience. "They have real, material affects that can shape the political process and social justice for better or for worse."
The symposium featured noted experts from the field of politics and beyond, including Bradley's own Dr. Hogan and Dr. Robert Prescott, chair of the English department; Jonathon Miller, co-founder of the No Labels movement; Mickey Edwards, former congressman and director of the Aspen Institute-Rodell Fellowships in Public Leadership and keynote speaker Jim Leach, a former congressman and current chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Miller, who referred to himself as a "recovering politician," said dysfunction in government has become an almost circular problem—negative campaigns keep good candidates away and invite remaining ones to fight dirty. His group No Labels, a movement of Democrats, Republicans and others promoting common sense problem solving in politics, seeks to improve public discourse and build trust between political factions.
"Our first essential step is getting Republicans and Democrats working together," said Miller, who served two terms as Kentucky's state treasurer.
McMillan said it was important for students attending to learn about a different way of governing other than political infighting, especially since many of them have only been exposed to the world of hyper-partisan politics. As America's next generation of civil servants, students should be encouraged to usher in more civility in public discourse.
"The students will be the country's future leaders. They need to understand how to make change happen in the political realm," McMillan said.
Megan Ramlo, a junior studying history and secondary education who attended the symposium, said she was touched by the speakers' emphasis on understanding and sharing someone else's perspective. Considering a career in teaching, Ramlo said the importance of civil discourse goes beyond politics and reaches into the classroom.
"It doesn't have to relate to politics and parties. It can relate to your workplace or interacting with people who have opposing viewpoints," she said. "We need to learn how to listen to them, be empathic and take into account what they are saying before trying to reach an agreement."


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