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ESRI's Built-In Springtime Color Support
As an ArcMap user for many years I have long been fascinated by the color choices that come packaged with ESRI products. It's not that they are bad color combinations it's just that they are so distinctive. You can pretty well determine at first glance if someone used an ESRI product to make his or her map.
What I am particularly fascinated by is the vivid seasonality evoked by the default color ramps. In particular the bold choices offered by these pastel beauties. While I'm personally a big fan, I can't say that it'd be my first choice for displaying serious information. You'll notice that none of our projects feature such a color scheme. But since it's Easter, I figured I'd go ahead and run with some Easter-Bunny inspired pastel 3D models and maps.
The Easter Bunny color scheme really shines when mapping categorical data. Here we have Land Use in Auckland, NZ. But as you can see it could easily double for a pile of Easter M&M's.
Of course for good measure I had to see what Easter looks like in 3D. Here we have value per hectare as the z value and land use as the symbology. The result might as well be a map of Easter eggs per hectare though.
This actually turned out looking a lot better than I would have expected. That said, I think I'll stick with our current color schemes. Cynthia Brewer and the ColorBrewer website offers some awesome advice for beautiful map-making.
On that note, here's a long overdue shout out to Jenks. Thanks Jenks, whoever you are, for breaking up our data so naturally.


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Record bird sighting in Alice Springs
A species of Wagtail never before recorded on the Australian mainland has been spotted in an Alice Springs backyard
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"It's called a Forest Wagtail," says local birder and photographer Chris Watson.
"It's from a different family to our Willy Wagtail...this bird is more common in the broad leaf forests of Thailand and Cambodia and that part of the world."
The backyard sighting marks the first time the Forest Wagtail has ever been recorded on the Australian continent, and it's causing plenty of excitement in the birding world.
"These birds are sort of short distance migratory birds and they'll come down in Winter maybe as far as Indonesia," says Chris.
"In the case of this sort of vagrancy, they might get a bad wind and they just overshoot their target destination - this one's just a little bit more mind bending because normally you'd expect a vagrant bird to land in Darwin or Broome."
The discovery began when Chris was called to a friend's guest house in suburban Alice Springs.
Will Cormick, owner of the guest house and a fellow twitcher, had seen the bird but was having trouble identifying it.
"I knew it was pretty certainly a bird that wasn't in the Australian bird books, so I had a good look at it, I thought it was a wag tail but I didn't recognise which wag tail," he says.
"And so began a good hour of hide and seek as the little bugger walked casually around the garden. At first he was a bit flighty, so we retreated..."
"He came back towards us and walked right up to within about seven metres of me, but always managed to keep shrubbery, cyclone fence or miscellaneous garden clutter between us." (From Birds Central, Chris Watson's blog)
"I wasn't actually aware of what I was looking at," says Chris.
"I was vaguely aware that it wasn't from here but I had to put some photographs on Facebook and get some opinions from some other more learned people than me, they're the ones that eventually told me what it was."
The discovery of the Forest Wagtail in the Red Centre is already making waves in birding networks across Australia and Chris says twitchers from far and wide are already en route to Alice to see if they can spot the bird.
"A friend of mine is driving down from Katherine," says Chris
"He's a tour guide - he was on a tour, and he just left all his passengers out in the bush, jumped in his car and he's barrelling down the Stuart Highway at high speed!"
The next step is to get it officially registered but Chris says there's no doubt about the species.
"We've got an organisation called the BARC [Birds Australia Rarities Committee] which is a group of about a dozen of the top ornithologists and scientists in the country," he says.
"It'll be subject to some taxonomic reviews but it will get added to the [Australian] list because it's a pretty safe identification."
Chair of BARC and ornithologist Tony Palliser agrees.
"I've seen the photographs, it all looks convincing...it would be almost a zero chance of being an escapee or an introduced species," he says.
Tony says the last recorded sighting of a vagrant Forest Wagtail was on Christmas Island, off the coast of Australia, in 2009.
"The record that occurred on Christmas Island was of a similar time [May 17th]...this one has just gone the extra mile at the same time of year!"
(Follow this link for video footage of the Forest Wagtail shot by Chris Watson)


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Everybody's favorite monkey is back in Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle! We were so excited to receive a copy to preview and our family loved this movie! My daughter was carrying the box around with her for the rest of the day. This is definitely a movie you will want for your home collection.
Have a look at these banana themed recipes for the release of Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle. What a fun way to celebrate this super cute movie. The "man in the yellow hat" is a memory for every child, young and old! Wait to you see the mischief George gets into in the jungle!
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For examples I think it is now too fuzzy and there are too many labels. So I decided to take a bit of time to reorganize my blog, make it better and more professional and somehow more personal.
If you are a reader, please bear with me, I will be certainly back, sometime in September.
Hopefully see you then!


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At this point in the winter season, when we've all had our fill of snow and frigid temperatures, our sights turn to warmer climates and waterside escapes. One appealing antidote? Chile. And specifically, Chile's Central Coast featuring the towns of Valparaiso and Viña del Mar.
After a long holiday season filled with seemingly endless work hours for both myself and my friend Jessica (a dear friend of mine from my time in Rome who returned to her childhood hometown of Providence, Rhode Island when she left Italy), we were looking for an escape. She's a jewelry designer in constant search of quirky keepsakes from her travels, which she then "translates" into original pieces of wearable art. I'm a chef in constant search of new flavors and cultures from which to draw inspiration in the kitchen. We travel well together. And we decided Chile would be the perfect spot: it offered warm weather in December and January (southern hemisphere summer), good food (ceviche!), good wine (more on that in another post), and interesting and eclectic culture and history (always a good thing for market trips, sightseeing, and interesting travel). An added bonus for me? The beach! With the help of suggestions from a dear high school friend who'd moved to Chile a few years ago, we were able to cobble together a nice 10 day vacation with work benefits built in. We began and ended our journey in the Chilean capital of Santiago (look for my Santiago dining post to come soon), but spent New Year's Eve, and several relaxing days afterwards, kicking off the new year in sunny, 85 degree weather on the Pacific. And though these two sister towns are right next to each other, they offer visitors a yin and yang of Chile's central coast.
Valparaiso ("Paradise Valley") is historically a port town -- until the Panama Canal opened, it was South America's busiest -- a working class city-on-a-hill. Actually, it's built on more than 45 hills, or cerros, which are covered with colorfully-painted houses, often constructed out of the corrugated metal torn from shipping containers, that look like candy confections tossed on undulating hills tumbling towards an azure sea. "Valpo" as it's called, is Chile's second-largest metropolitan area, and though it's on the sea, it's not a beach town. It's a somewhat chaotic jumble of South American culture and topography, Caribbean color, Germanic and Slavic immigrant influences in architecture and food, and a summertime climate that mirrors L.A. in the daytime and San Francisco at night. Confusing, yes. Eclectic, of course. And it's a lovely place to pass a few languid days recovering from New Year's Eve.
First off, I must mention Valpo's impressive fireworks display. Until the last couple of years (when a certain Middle Eastern city decided theirs needed to be the biggest and brightest on the planet), Valpo's fireworks show was the most expansive and explosive in the world. After having seen it, frankly I'm not sure I'd want one larger or longer. At just under a half an hour, and done over the C-shaped bay that runs along the Pacific coast to several towns north, the fireworks display was synchronized so you could see the grand fireworks right in front of you as well as those in the distance, all themed the same with the same colors displaying at the same time: really something to behold. We celebrated at a restaurant/bar/music hall called La Piedra Feliz, right on the water in the Errázurizneighborhood.
It was probably the busiest area in the city that night, and knowing public transportation was sketchy for the holiday, forewarned was forearmed: we walked from our lovely apartment across town to the restaurant, and were able to see most of the waterfront area of Valpo in the process. Once we (finally!) arrived, we enjoyed a prix fixe dinner with plenty of champagne and pisco sours. We watched the fireworks out of the window of the restaurant on the second floor, and many locals were gathered on the street below us. Once we toasted to 2014, we wandered around the place -- live music and dancing were everywhere, but of course as a chef, I found my way to hanging out at the bar with the staff: our waiter and the Uruguayan chef, and some locals who were friendly and fun...and made sure we never saw the bottoms of our glasses of delicious Chilean red wine.
We were excited to eat the fresh seafood for which Chile is justly famous, so our dinner hours were spent seeking out great fish spots -- and of course for me, this trip was the "Cevichepalooza" I'd been craving, so I had it at every meal I could manage! At Oda Pacifico, we had the place practically to ourselves, and enjoyed the view out over the hills down to the water (it got windy and chilly the night we went, though it would normally be lovely to sit at a table outside on the back patio). Service here, as in most places we went, was slow but extremely warm, and our waiter advised us on what was fresh that evening. We started with a massive portion of mixed seafood ceviche with passion fruit -- two of my favorite things in the world, together in a big bowl! It was delicious, and perfect with our crisp Chilean sauvignon blanc.
Main courses couldn't live up to the ceviche, but I enjoyed a local specialty: conger eel, here grilled and served over a stew of tomatoes, corn, and peas, topped with peppery watercress. Jess had tilapia cooked in a banana leaf, with a coconut-laced sauce. Again, the portions were huge and we couldn't come close to finishing them, but we did manage to wash it all down with more vino blanco. We were on vacation, after all.
Valpo has countless great vistas from which to view the port and the water below, but one destination on a hill, and viewpoint not to be missed, is poet Pablo Neruda's local home, La Sebastiana. The cozy multi-level house resembles part of a ship and fits in perfectly among the pastel houses surrounding it. The decor is often nautically themed, and is quirky and built to entertain, much like the man himself. It's filled with glasses and plates and artwork and bric-a-brac from Neruda's world travels, and like all of his homes, there is a dedicated bar area where he would mix libations for his guests after a day of writing. The view from his home is undoubtedly inspiring.
Viña del Mar
Just next door is Valparaiso's louder, more social sibling,Viña del Mar. It is the Miami Beach of Chile, to put it in U.S. terms, and it's bustling and full of life while Valpo is relaxed and laid back. The shoreline is both rocky and sandy at turns, and the lawns and flower beds are as manicured as the high-rise hotels and condos lining the beach. There is a downtown as well, and boulevards lined with shops and malls and churches and outdoor arcades. This is no sleepy beach town, and it's been the place where locals and the wealthy and famous from Santiago come to play, where they have second homes. It lacks the character and vistas that Valparaiso has, but it makes up for that with the beauty of the coast and the lively, infectious atmosphere in its streets.
As for the food scene in Viña? Again, seafood is king here, but the variety of dining options is greater. Chile has great primary ingredients, great wine, great pisco. But as for a native cuisine, its neighbor Peru is better known. Case in point? All the ceviches. Seviche, as it's usually written here, comes in so many varieties that it makes sense to go for a sampling of types. At Sazon Peruana, we indulged in the trio at left, which included an octopus seviche with aji amarillo, the spicy Peruvian yellow pepper, as the base. We had local white fish with sweet potato and choclo, the ubiquitous oversized corn kernels. And we had salmon and shrimp with leche de tigre (the citrus juice and spice base of most seviches) with red pepper. I could have bathed in the stuff. We enjoyed mixed grilled seafood atop a salad.
Jess had the seafood soup, a slightly spicy stew of local treats from the Pacific made more substantial with yellow potatoes. And I pushed the boat out, as it were, with a light-as-air fried seafood platter (shrimp, squid, Chilean sea bass) with yucca, tartar sauce, and salsa criolla -- a topping of thinly sliced red onion, cilantro, and fresh chile pepper. The meal at the Peruvian restaurant turned out to be one of the best meals of my trip to Chile!
In Valpo, we lived like locals, renting an apartment in a residential area with a gorgeous view of the entire city from our balcony. In Viña del Mar, we went touristy -- but sometimes, you need to splurge.
The Sheraton Miramar is perched on a rocky curve of the coast, on the way into town, and it jettisons out into the bright blue-green Pacific. All glass-and-steel, with soaring ceilings, this location was clearly built to allow guests the greatest appreciation of the sea. The shot above was taken from our balcony: the seats to the left are outdoor restaurant tables, as scenic for a seaside lunch as they are in the evening for dinner and drinks, to view the sparkling lights of the bay surrounding you. The pool overlooking the sea is a dramatic spot for sunbathing, by water both salty and fresh. Attached, there is a wonderful spa and gym where you can work up a sweat and then relax with a massage or facial. Not a bad way to pass an afternoon in January!
All in, we had a wonderful time on Chile's central coast -- not enough time, in fact. There were so many small beach towns lining the coasts both north and south of the Valpo area and we weren't staying long enough to explore them. Places like nearby Reñaca, surfer's paradise Concón, former whaling town Quintay, and the beautiful and aristocratic town of Zapallar: each offer a different taste of this stretch of the Chilean coast. We did make it to Quintero for an afternoon of lazing on the beach and eating empanadas, though it took a mini-hike to discover some less-trodden beach paths. Most of the beaches are rocky, and it's hard to get out of sight of the huge tankers that seem to be permanently parked in this part of the Pacific. But the water is beautiful and the trees and topography are stunning. Another positive? We were the only gringas in sight, always a good sign.
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By Cycling Dad:
With two kids to look after, finding time for a workout has become more difficult. Essentially, every activity involving the children seems to take at least twice as much time as before. Alex is doing a great job taking care of Johanna and Konstantin, but I want to be there to support her on weekdays at least in the mornings and in the evenings, getting the kids ready for the day and ready for bed. So in order to be able to keep cycling, one has to be creative.
Bang! Wednesday morning, 5.22am. Cycling Dad sporting Lycra again, getting ready for a two-hour workout before getting the kids ready and heading to work. This shall be an experiment to figure out whether super-early workouts can be a viable option to get in some mileage during the week.
Johanna has kept us up more or less the whole night, demanding a fresh bottle of milk roughly every two hours. Her screaming then usually wakes up Konstantin, who figures that he might as well ask for a bottle. Today is an exception, and the sibblings' wish for a lift to the big bed was granted.
Aren't they adorable? It's really difficult to leave the family behind in the warm bed, when you feel like curling up next to them and getting in an extra hour of sleep…
First stop before getting the bike ready was the kitchen. I picked up some easy to digest food – bananas, white bread and multi fruit juice. Coffee would've been nice, but I was eager to hit the road…
I left the house in complete darkness, using an excellent set of USB-chargeable Blackburn head and taillights (will post the review soon). Already around 6am, the sun already started to dawn. Paradoxically, watching sun dawns while riding my bike reminds me of a few memorable days in the summer of '96, when I used to come home in the mornings after parties. Only that this time I wasn't drunk .
The ride was beautiful, with birds singing all around and hardly any traffic on the roads. I even spotted a couple of deers right next to the road. However, in the absence of sunshine, this was one of the coldest rides this season. Make sure you dress warmly!
I rode for one hour and 50 minutes, 46k, covered 540m in elevation gain, burned through a bit more than 1000 kcal and arrived at work feeling fresh around 8.30 am. Not bad at all, especially considering that this would have been a week without any riding on weekdays. The experiment worked out. Super-early morning rides can be one component of our strategy to stay on the bike as Cycling Parents. Commuting to work by bike is the other. I will try to establish a routine from both shortly.
How about you? Do you go ride early in the morning, or commute to work? Let me know!


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NHL: Detroit Red Wings at Columbus Blue Jackets
Columbus Blue Jackets center Ryan Johansen, who scored 30 goals last season as a 21-year old, is a restricted free agent that almost every team in the NHL would like to have.
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PHILADELPHIA – Waiting to see what Flyers GM Ron Hextall has up his sleeve?
Here's how he can do it:
Threaten the Columbus Blue Jackets that he'll sign restricted free agent Ryan Johansen to an offer sheet.
Now that would get the hockey world talking because Johansen, 22 on July 31, is a 6-foot-4 center who's one of the game's rising superstars.
Can the Flyers pull this off given their cap situation?
Sure, but the trick here is doing it in a slick way so that the Blue Jackets feel it's in their best interest to make a trade with the Flyers, who love Johansen so much that they might be inclined to give up two of their best young players, centers Sean Couturier and Brayden Schenn.
The Flyers certainly wouldn't begin negotiations by offering Couturier, but they might reluctantly agree to include him in a deal for Johansen, who is seeking a long-term contract while Columbus prefers a short-term deal and called his last offer "disrespectful" and a "slap in the face."
Yes, we know the Flyers (and Flyers fans) don't want to lose Couturier, but Johansen, who scored 30 goals and 63 points last season, is a special player still not in his prime.
The Flyers, who were quiet on Tuesday's first day of the unrestricted free agent signing period aside from signing backup goalie Ray Emery, have been intrigued with Johansen for years. When they traded center Jeff Carter to Columbus three Junes ago, then-GM Paul Holmgren pushed hard for Johansen, the fourth pick of the 2010 draft who was coming off his rookie NHL season.
Holmgren ultimately settled for a deal in which the Flyers landed two standout players – Carter for right wing Jakub Voracek and the eighth overall pick of the 2011 draft, which was used to select Couturier.
Again, the Flyers' plan here would be to keep Couturier, but if even if they'd lose him and Schenn, they'd be set at center for their top three forward lines with Claude Giroux, Johansen and 2013 No. 1 pick Scott Laughton.
So here's what Hextall can do:
Trade center Vinny Lecavalier ASAP to free up more cap space, then tell Columbus to work out a trade ASAP or else the Flyers will sign Johansen to a six-year offer sheet for around $40 million.
At the moment, the Flyers are $1.24 million over next season's $69 million cap. By rule, teams can go 10 percent over during the offseason, thus the Flyers can take on another $5.6 million even with Lecavalier, who figures to be gone soon. (Keep in mind that the Flyers will gain $4.94 million cap space once the season begins when Chris Pronger is permitted to go on the long term injured reserve (LTIR).
The Flyers really have nothing to lose here by giving Columbus a scare, and as we know, they have a precedent of being creative with restricted free agents.
How can we forget two Junes ago when the Flyers signed Nashville restricted free agent Shea Weber, a superstar defenseman, to a frontloaded 14-year, $110 million offer sheet?
Word is Holmgren warned Predators GM Dave Poile to negotiate a trade or else Weber would be signed to an offer sheet Nashville can't match.
There was no trade, Weber signed the offer sheet and then Nashville used all 10 days it had to decide before matching with ownership using its own personal wealth.
New rules allow teams to offer just seven years to others' free agents nowadays and eight to their own, so no one will be offering Johansen a Weber-like deal.
But the Flyers have nothing to lose threatening Columbus with an offer sheet … and then signing Johansen to it.
Of course, Johansen has to be willing to come to the Flyers.
If he's willing, then the Flyers, despite not having much money, can make a big splash.


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The Monsters was a community development project conducted in the lead-up to the 2013/14 Woodford Folk Festival. Children throughout the Sunshine Coast were asked to submit monster drawings from which three were selected to be made into monster-size, internally operated puppets.
I worked as the Head of Department for this project alongside giant puppet company kneeHIGH to coordinate a team of student interns and volunteers as they learnt the skills necessary to build and operate the puppets.
I also facilitated the continued involvement of the children who designed the monsters, supporting them to perform in front of 10 000 people in the festival's opening ceremony.
During the festival I managed the monster's daily performances, focusing on developing our team's skills, confidence and sense of initiative. As a result, the team reunited for 2014/15 Woodford Folk Festival with one of the students now at the helm, bringing the monsters back to the streets of Woodfordia as a firm favourite.
The original designs below: Bob by Angus (7yo), Softie by Hardsheep (10yo) and Spike by Alli (9yo).


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I had a chance to meet Matt Wallace at WorldCon in Spokane this year. I really enjoy the Ditch Diggers podcast that he and Mur Lafferty put out, so hearing him read upcoming work was a real treat (I also discovered that he is a mean Munchin player, but I digress).
Envy of Angels is the first novela in a series about a private catering company called Sin du Jour, which caters exclusively to supernatural creatures. Two new chefs inadvertently join the ranks of the Sin du Jour staff, and are whisked along for the ride as the company must prepare an unorthodox meal with a highly irregular main ingredient.
Envy of Angels is hilarious. It's irreverent. It's dark and demented and it's awesome. It's a quick read (although, I must confess that I read it much more slowly than I ought to have). Wallace nails perfectly a twisted, dark, yet light-hearted sense of humor. This isn't a heavy book, and unlike so many other dark tales, this one stays fun and fast paced without getting bogged down by gore and violence.
I finished the book and immediately sighed with regret, knowing that it would be a long time before the next one comes out. THEN I remembered, hey this is a novela! It's shorter than other books. What do you know? The next one in the series, Lustlocked, comes out in January. Hooray!
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Seann William Scott and Jackie Chan are teaming for the buddy action comedy "Skiptrace" from Exclusive Media and Talent International Film Co.
The story follows Bennie Black (Jackie Chan), a Hong Kong detective who has been tracking the notorious crime boss Victor Wong for over a decade.
When Bennie's young niece Bai (Fan Bingbing) gets into trouble with Wong's crime syndicate, Bennie must track down the only man who can help him: a fast-talking American gambler Connor Watts (Seann William Scott).
Bennie races against the clock to bring Connor back to Hong Kong and the unlikely pair embark on a perilous adventure from the snowy mountains of Mongolia to the windswept dunes of the Gobi desert.
Jay Longino, Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka, David Posamentier and Geoff Moore all worked on the script, while Sam Fell ("Paranorman") is slated to direct.
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The conversation around workplace design is undergoing a revolution. Today's office has a direct impact on productivity, happiness, wellness – not to mention a company's ability to attract and retain top talent. In fact, a 2014 Hassell study found that a potential employee is more influenced by a company's culture and facilities than its salary and benefits.
Alissa Wehmueller, director of interiors at Helix Architecture + Design, spends her time helping companies create a successful workplace by determining a design that embraces an organization's goals, working styles, culture, and potential challenges. She says there are three basic things a company can do to give its space a competitive edge: providing a choice at work, incorporating wellness into the workplace, and letting design tell your company's story.
While the open office style seems to be dominating modern office design, Wehmueller notes that one size does not fit all. The same saying goes when it comes to working styles. A well-designed office takes into consideration how each department works best and comes up with a design that reflects its goals.
"Imagine if you came to work and decided where you wanted to work depending on what you needed to do," she said.
That might mean in the morning, you grab coffee and your laptop and sit outside and check emails, followed by a mid-morning meeting in a small conference room with acoustic privacy and shared screens. Over lunch, maybe you grab a bite in a work café where you can sit down and socialize with coworkers, followed by some quiet focus time in the afternoon in a small enclave with plenty of natural daylight. Late afternoon could meet changing postures for a stand-up impromptu meeting with coworkers.
Providing different kinds of areas to accommodate a range of working styles can also address generational differences in the workforce. Today, four very different generations work side by side, each driven by different motives and social views.
"Those generations will keep changing and as a result, the way they want to interact with each other and their space needs are going to keep changing," she says.
Every year in the United States, 45 million sick days are used. To put that in perspective, that's equivalent to Salt Lake City taking the entire year off. The health and wellness of employees has a huge impact on a company's productivity and ultimately, its bottom line.
"Wellness also encompasses mental health and wellbeing, and that's hugely at play when it comes to the workplace," Wehmueller said. "What if you could leave work healthier than when you walked in?"
There are aspects of design that can help employees remain more active during the day, whether it's popping up to grab coffee or go work in another area of the office or take the stairs, these opportunities to get blood flow going can't be understated. Furniture solutions like sit-to-stand work stations or opportunities to change posture or even walking treadmills are viable options.
Wellness encompasses more than just the physical; It's also about mental wellbeing. Consider that on an average workday, we're interrupted every 7 minutes. Then consider that it takes 15 minutes to get back to a place of focus, and you can see how distracted today's workforce really is.
Wehmueller says this goes back to having a choice of where in the office to work.
"If I have a place I can go and shut the door and be in a quiet, focused place, then I'm going to be more productive without those interruptions," she says.
Other things that aid mental health and wellness include access to outdoors and nature. That connection to daylight, views and fresh air have a direct correlation to mood, happiness, productivity and efficiency. Wehmueller says companies should thoughtfully lay out their office in a way that everyone has access to views, and that no one is sitting with their backs to windows all day.
Lastly, a workplace that fosters relationships and friendships is an important part of mental health. The Harvard Business Review recently found that employees with friends at work perceive their jobs as more fun, enjoyable, worthwhile and satisfying.
"We joke about ping pong tables but the reality is that for two people to take ten minutes away from what they're doing is a good mental break, good physical break, and great relationship building," she said. "There really is something to providing that kind of space to your associates."
When you're walking recruits or clients through your space, what kind of message are you sending? In a recent Gallup poll of 3,000 workers, only 41 percent could identify what their company stands for and how it differentiates itself from its competitors.
"Telling your story really goes beyond having a logo on the wall," Wehmueller said. "It's creating a space that could only be yours. You shouldn't be able to take that logo down and put someone else's up and have the office work in the same way."
Internal messaging should reinforce your company's mission, and that messaging looks different depending on the company. A law firm doesn't have the same personality or values as an advertising company.
Messaging goes beyond words; It's color schemes, furniture, art on the wall, and the types of spaces provided. It's seeing in through the details, Wehmueller says.
"That's where you tell your story through every detail," she says. "It's a critical piece of communicating your values through your space."
All things considered, Wehmueller says that in the same way that we couldn't predict ten or fifteen years ago how we'd be working today, we can't predict how we'll be working ten or fifteen years from now.
"The only constant is change," she says. "Regardless of any trends, providing choice in where you work and being thoughtful about associate wellness and health and really effectively telling your story are things that are timeless. These things are all a critical piece of creating an efficient happy place for all of your associates to work."


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Title: The Impact of Price Discrimination on Revenue: Evidence from the Concert Industry
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Concert tickets can either be sold at a single price or at multiple prices corresponding to different seating categories. We study the relationship between price discrimination and revenue by examining variations in the number of seating categories across concert, tour, artist, location, and time. Offering multiple seating categories leads to revenues that are approximately 5 percent higher than with single price ticketing. The return to price discrimination is higher in markets with more heterogeneous demand, for musical groups that appeal to a more fragmented audience, in smaller venues and in more competitive markets. The return of increasing from three to four categories of seating is about half that of increasing from one to two.
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Term Paper Writing Guide- The Introduction
Once you've decided what your thesis is going to be, you must be able to frame it in a manner that provides an effective entry into your work. No matter how great your argument is, it will not do much good if no one is enticed into reading it. The two most important functions of your introduction are to serve as a grabber (a stylish, creative lead-up to what you're trying to say) and as justification (an explanation of why your argument is even important in the first place)
Some Basic Guidelines
DON'T summarize - Though it might seem easy to preface your thesis with only a synopsis of the texts you're writing about, this is a particularly dull way to begin a paper.
DON'T keep reiterating your thesis - Your thesis should appear in your intro as the culmination of the previous thoughts, not just something you mention and then keep restating to fill up a paragraph.
DO ask yourself questions - Why is your thesis relevant? How is its being proven important to the understanding of either text or fact? By linking your argument to a larger issue, you will give your argument both universality and interest.
DO be creative - Think about what aspect of your topic you find the most interesting, and figure out why. Use this to make it interesting to your reader.
Some Freebies
The following are some pre-packaged introduction ideas. It is important, however, not to just adopt one and use it for every paper, particularly for the same instructor. This practice will become trite very quickly.
The quotation - Find a quote from one of your sources or, even better, from elsewhere that seems to get at the problem you're dealing with. State it at the beginning of your intro and discuss how it relates to what you're trying to prove.
The question -Throw out a broad question of universal interest, and demonstrate how a possible answer can be related to your thesis (Example: "What do women want? It's a question that's plagued mankind since the dawn of history...the works of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath yield two different paradigms of feminine self-realization")
The anecdote - This works particularly well for a historical essay, and even better if you have some ability at creative writing. Pick a specific incident that represents the underlying conflict of your piece, and briefly narrate it like a story. Explain afterwards how the instance reflects a problem you're attempting to solve.


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By night I'm mostly sleeping - but the rest of the time I'll be found eating, reading, obsessing over beauty products and planning a wedding (too excited about this bit!)
This blog is a place to chat about all the in between stuff that makes me happy and hopefully connect with others in the process.
Thanks for stopping by and do say hello!


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A Moving Train
Moving Train
Written in the Austrian Alps. Spring of 2010.
"When I die, I will be very sad to leave you. But, know that I will be alright."
She said looking out the window at the country side that passed by us quickly. The golden light of the day caught in her hair, and her blue eyes, and she looked suddenly quite young. There was nothing dark in the words she had spoken. Nothing foreboding in the future she told. Only what was true.
I sat opposite her, and suddenly, I wished I sat beside her. But, I could not move, so holy a picture she presented me with, I felt I would have disturbed it to stir.
"Someday I will die you know, but you will be alright. " She looked at me, and a shadow passed over her face. I had never seen her look more lovely.
The train rocked, and yet somehow, she was still. I will ever hold it in my memory. The look of peace, and wisdom that settled on her face. Her face so familiar to me, taken by an unearthly glow that I had never seen. My heart ached to think of such things. I hated to know the suddenness and constancy of change in this life. It seemed to me that nothing so good as a mother could ever pass away. Nothing so sure as her love could ever become intangible. I wanted a way to tell her it was not true, but there was truth in every breath she took, in every word she spoke.
I anxiously shifted my toes inside my shoes, and looked out my the window to the green fields.
Oh, why didn't they stop moving? I could only for a moment capture in my mind the hints of beauty that passed by me so quickly. The golden flowers. The grand and sweeping mountains. The housewife in her garden. In ethereal watercolor and smudged pastel it passed away. Oh, why wouldn't it slow down?
With every disappearing landscape, and every stop, a feeling of insatiable urgency settled around my mind. Soon, I would have to get off. I would have to leave the movement, beauty and wonder of the magnificent train ride.
"We're almost there, honey. Get your bag."
I gathered my things in a delirious rush. The train slowed down. Momma opened the compartment and stepped out. And, I, with sadness in my heart followed her. Time seemed to creep as we walked down the narrow train car. The train stopped.
The train heaved a great mechanical sigh and the doors opened to the platform. I could see a suspicion of green from behind the grey station. Momma climbed carefully down the train steps, and turned to the right; she was hidden from my sight. I hesitated a moment, and then all in a breath, I found myself treading on solid ground. Behind me, the doors shut. The whistle blew. The tracks screamed. And I felt the wind pass behind me, and toss hair into my eyes as the train passed away into tiperary. It was gone. I would never again ride on that train. I would never again see the fleeting beauty. The impression of reality. It had died in my mind. I turned, and then, I saw the truth. The solid vast country side, reaching beyond my gaze. The real beauty, the honest truth.
"Ah, we've finally arrived." Sighed my momma. I finally understood.


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Bitcoin – An Elusive $4,000 Opens the Door for the Bears
Story by: Bob Mason
A relatively choppy day saw Bitcoin rally to an early morning intraday high $3,997.4 before hitting reverse. The rally saw Bitcoin break through the first major resistance level at $3,988.3 to came up against stern resistance at $4,000.
The reversal saw Bitcoin slide to a late morning intraday low $3,933.3 before finding support. Steering clear of the first major support level at $3,912.7, Bitcoin recovered to an afternoon high $3,989.6 before easing back late in the day.
A mixed week leaves Bitcoin with a 2.05% gain, Monday through Thursday. More significantly, Bitcoin has failed to hit $4,000 levels since 24th January. The longer the drought lasts, the more likely a sell-off before any sustainable recovery.
Across the top 10 cryptos, it was a mixed bag on the day. Leading the way through the day was Binance Coin, which rallied by 3.97%. Close behind was Litecoin, which ended the day with a 2.43% gain. The pair have outgunned the broader market through the current week. Binance has rallied 32.28%, with Litecoin up by 19%.
Elsewhere, Tron's TRX fell by 1.04% on the day to limit the current week's gain to just 2.35%. Ripple's XRP, Bitcoin Cash ABC, and Ethereum also saw red on the day, though the losses were not enough to pull them into the red for the current week.
Bucking the trend through the current week was Stellar's Lumen, which was down by 1.59%.
The market favorites continue to be Binance and Litecoin as the weekend approaches. For Binance, a new swing hi $15.91, struck on Thursday, reaffirmed a near-term bullish trend formed at an early December swing lo $4.17.
Litecoin may be some way off forming a near-term bullish trend, but a breakthrough the 23.6% FIB of $60 would certainly draw more interest. Litecoin struck a fresh 2019 high $58.87 on Friday.
The sizeable moves through the week saw Litecoin take back the number 4 spot from EOS, by market cap. Now up to number 7, Bitcoin Cash is in its sights.
Binance Coin's success story comes off the back of the launch of Binance Launchpad. Binance Coin has since been involved in fundraising events since the launch and there are more to come. With the ICO market continuing to be lackluster, Binance Coin will be looking to take over Ethereum's number 2 spot.
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At the time of writing, Bitcoin was up by just 0.03% to $3,965.5. A relatively range-bound start to the day saw Bitcoin rise from a morning low $3,953.6 to a high $3,975.0 before easing back.
Moves through the early hours saw Bitcoin steer clear of the day's major support and resistance levels.
For the day ahead
A hold onto $3,965.0 levels through the morning would support another run at the first major resistance level at $3,996.77. With Bitcoin continuing to hover at just shy of $4,000 levels, it's now or down going into the weekend. A breakthrough to $4,000 levels would bring the second major resistance level at $4,029.13 into play before any pullback.
Failure to hold onto $3,965.0 levels could see Bitcoin hit reverse. A fall through the morning low $3,953.6 would bring the first major support level at $3,932.67 into play. Barring a broad-based crypto sell-off, we would expect Bitcoin to steer clear of sub-$3,900 levels ahead of the weekend.
In the event of a sell-off, the third major support level at $3,836.83 would likely prevent a slide back to $3,700 levels.
Original story: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-elusive-4-000-opens-030825951.htmlby


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For the past ten years I have been living in Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city, which is also one of the fastest growing cities in the region, hence, earning its unofficial name as the Silicon Valley of Latin America. I want to first clarify that the purpose of this article is to show a personal experience in regards of the situation and to show a face to this problem, rather than just numbers.
As an expat residing in Guadalajara, for the majority of time I have been blinded from the reality that many people in this fast pacing city deal as their reality. A reality that is so raw that forces its poorest inhabitants to be involved in either the consumption of drugs or the illegal commercialization of it to escape poverty.
It wasn't until 2016's Spring Break where I went, together with a couple of classmates, to one of the most impoverished communities in the city called "El Rehilete", which basically means in English "The Windmill". Another thing that you need to take into consideration about this community is that it is an illegal settlement, which is a result of the immigration of indigenous people to the city for better job opportunities in an area that was not predetermined by the government to become a residential area.
The reason of my visit was to introduce some educational projects that will guide its residents towards a better future. So to be more specific, we gave a first aid course, a course about how to prepare soaps and toothpastes, and a course about how to prepare your own compost and urban orchard, while at the same time making integrative activities for the children of the community so that they could let their parents assist the courses while they interact with other children of their community.
So in order to make a presence in "El Rehilete", we went from house to house to promote our activities and gain interest from the residents of the community. So each morning we would do that for two hours or so.
Everything was so new to me. All the houses were built by using recycled materials such as tires, wood panels, and other types of materials that most of us would consider rubbish. Also, derby was everywhere, thus to protect houses from flooding when rain hits the area. There weren't much cars though, which really denounced the ones who had one, and also that most of the them were polarized (a clear indication of narc involvement in Mexico). Another thing that I noticed is the huge business of cockfighting. While walking on the streets we saw some "cholos" preparing their rooster for a future fight. It can be considered a really important factor in people's life in the area due to the fact that it can boost some revenue for the families that participate in this violent event. Another thing that I noticed is the "flying people" which was an acronym given by some kids in the community to the junkies/ alcoholics, which you could usually see them prowl throughout the streets at every moment of the day. So from this experience comes my first learning about the poverty in Mexico; people are escaping their reality by drugs and violent activities such as cockfights and being involved in dealing with drugs.
I learned that most people get into drugs by not even wanting to and by a relative young age due to hunger. Yes, by hunger. People inhale thinners and other substances to get high to forget about their hunger and survive another day. This addiction can develop I'm the consumption of marihuana, heroin, or cocaine. So basically if you don't have money you either need to become the consumer or the provider.
Another thing that I learned is that although drug consumption is a prominent problem that has affected the community of "El Rehilete" , it is still part for the no ending cycle of poverty, which would be the main cause of what the residents of the community are experiencing on a daily basis. So basically, if you don't go to school, you cannot get a higher paying job, if you don't have that job you cannot pay for basic services, and if you don't have basic services such as water and food, you can't send your kids to school (they don't accept kids who do not look clean at school) and you will need to drug your kids so that they won't feel the hunger, and this goes on and on…
I also learned that a great amount of residents are willing to take action to change the unfortunate situation they are living in; it was awe inspiring experience to see hope in their eyes while giving them the courses previously mentioned. People in the community accepted us and welcomed us as if it was our second home, and that's that before arriving to the community we were bombarded by articles and governmental reports warning us about the situation in the community. For which I came with this last lesson and conclusion: numbers may scare, while an open heart attracts love and hope. So in order to create change in impoverished areas, we need to start looking up to the community's faces rather than its numbers. And don't get me wrong, it's plausible to refer numbers to have a more objective analysis in regards of the situation in there; however, if we want to improve the quality of life of these people, we should start providing them with a solution based on a face to face contact.


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Welcome to Ramsgate Holy Trinity C.E. Primary School
Please click the following link to Learn more about the 'in-year' application process.
The oversubscription criteria are as for Reception applications.
Thank you.
Mr T. Hunter-Whitehouse
Executive Headteacher
Mrs. E. Price
Head of School
Ramsgate Holy Trinity C.E.(A.)
Primary School,
Dumpton Park Drive
Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 1RR
Telephone Number: 01843 860744
Mrs. Couch is our School Secretary
Ramsgate Holy Trinity C.E. Primary School is committed to Safeguarding Children.
The 'Designated Safeguarding Lead' (DSL) is Mrs. L. Joyner (SENCo)
Mrs Joyner can be contacted through the school office.
O Lord, bless our school,
That working together and playing together,
We may learn to serve You,
And to serve one another.
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Make glowing liquid easily by using tonic water that contains quinine. Quinine is a chemical that reacts to UV light.Under an ultraviolet "black light," the quinine in tonic water makes the water fluoresce a brilliant, bright blue.
Tonic water can be found at almost any grocery store and it's cheap to buy. The more black lights you add the more the tonic water will glow.
You can make ice-cubes with tonic water and use it for your drinks. You can also make glowing decorative shapes. It's a simple and fun experiment. Give it a try!
Quinine not only gives tonic water a characteristic bitter taste but this chemical can also be very fluorescent under the right conditions.


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Philip Seymour Hoffman's mother has broken her silence about the tragic actor's death, insisting his whole family has been left devastated by his loss.
The Capote star was found dead in his New York City apartment on 2 February and now his mom, Marilyn O'Connor, has released a statement publicly addressing Hoffman's passing for the first time.
Her tribute was read out on Friday by the actor's friend, retired film critic Jack Garner, at a film series held at The Little Theater cinema in Rochester, New York in Hoffman's honor.
The statement read: "It has been a devastating loss for us, but I know that you also feel a great sorrow.
"We miss and cry for the little boy and the man, the brother, the uncle, the husband (sic), the father, the friend, and while we will miss seeing him, we will also miss his talent, his knowledge of his craft, and seeing results of his hard work. He was a gift to me for 46 years. I wanted more.
"My heart is broken and will never be the same again. I know many of you feel the same. We will find our way through this and hear his clear voice and laughter as we do, because he is cheering for all of us to go on, to shine, to be the best that we can be.
"Thank you all and especially, The Little Theater, a place Phil loved to go and watch movies."
O'Connor's statement was released shortly before coroners revealed that Hoffman had suffered from a fatal mix of heroin, cocaine and prescription drugs. They listed the 46 year old's cause of death as acute mixed drug intoxication.
The late star, who had three young children with his longtime girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell, was also saluted during a special tribute at the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, when his friend Cate Blanchett honored Hoffman as "a sublimely talented actor". The Sopranos star James Gandolfini and film critic Roger Ebert were also remembered during the awards show.
All three are expected to be included in the In Memorium segment during the Oscars on Sunday night.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's mother has broken her silence about the tragic actor's death, insisting his whole family has been left devastated by his loss.


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Devops Engineer Trainee (Internship) @ING Romania, în Bulevardul Iancu de Hunedoara Metropolis Center, București, Municipiul București, România
About the TEAM!
Tooling team develops, implements and rollout continuous delivery as a service for the development teams within ING Software Development Center by providing a standard set of tools and processes configured per development technology.
The goal of the team is to automate and optimize the development process so that the developers can concentrate only on coding and configuration. Continuous integration, automated build, automated code scanning, automated deployments and automated testing are some of the automation themes in which the tooling team is responsible of.
You'll work on developing a continuous delivery pipeline as a service that is going to be used worldwide within ING group. Deliver business value across the entire application chain together with your team.
This team has the responsibility to describe and draw the continuous delivery pipeline architecture, implement the technical improvements in order to have the pipeline support new technologies, onboard different application development into the CD pipeline, train and coach the development teams on using the tools and continuous delivery approach.
We are looking for an intern that will join us for a 3 months paid programme. He/She will work closely with our Devops Engineers Team and will have the opportunity to learn about both the business and the IT field.
If you:
- Are a student in IT field with good communication skills, you speak fluently English and you're creative and like to learn and experiment;
- Have an interest in learning scripting Languages like Python, Ksh;
- Want to know more about Confluence, Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, Fortify, SonarQube;
- Want to experience continuous delivery way of working;
- Have an interest in learning more about administration and configuration of Linux operating systems;
- Want to learn how to run applications in Docker containers and develop new flows for release automation with CA Release Automation (Nolio)
…then we eager to meet you !
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