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Conscious Business
Hermes wants to be
the point of reference for companies looking to develop a culture of conscious business,
by investing in the human qualities of their personnel.
Your corporate strategies translated into action
International studies claim that just 50% of strategies drawn up by managers of European firms are actually implemented. To put it another way, this means that one in two strategies fail, because companies simply do not understand how to transform their paper thoughts into real life processes. And, of course, this failure is not without consequence: it results in increasing frustration and an enormous waste of energy, time and resources.
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For almost 20 years, Hermes has been helping boards of directors to hone and develop their precise visions. This vision is then instantly followed by the establishment of a clear strategy, which the board themselves produce. By helping top-level managers to develop a highly effective collective thought process, which represents them as a working team, we can help you to generate a vision and a strategy which your company truly "owns". We can help you to nurture the energy and consistency which makes your board of directors the driving force and sponsor behind any successful company.
A specific business culture is key to the implementation of any strategy: identifying "how" your company operates will help you to achieve your goals, enabling your team to understand the values, behaviours and systems with which your company identifies. Working on your business culture is key, here, as well as ensuring that every member of your team is on the same page.
Hermes is convinced that the most successful companies are those who recognise the strength and the innate importance of their corporate values. That's why we have developed a series of original and effective methods to make managers more aware of the values which create their company's identity (who are we? what are we really working for? what drives us as a group? what makes us feel secure when we work together?).
Because your corporate values, when correctly communicated and applied, act like the DNA in our bodies: each individual cell, in addition to its specific function and specialisation, is aware of the overall framework of which it is a part, is familiar with the objective towards which the entire "corporate body" is striving in order to achieve health and wellbeing.
This is why it is so important that your board of directors becomes more aware of these values as a strategic tool to allow concrete "implementation" of corporate strategies. And finally, that they also know how to communicate those values effectively, to motivate and inspire those around them.
Hermes wants to be
the point of reference for companies looking to develop a culture of conscious business,
by investing in the human qualities of their personnel.


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Sunshine all the way for little gardeners: Tall order as green-fingered pupils take up Carrick in Bloom sunflower challenge
Four thousand packets of sunflower seed are to be distributed to schoolchildren in the hope of turning their fingers green.
The initiative in Carrickfergus will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Britain in Bloom scheme, Europe's largest community gardening campaign.
Carrickfergus and Whitehead towns will represent Northern Ireland this summer in the Britain in Bloom finals.
Carrickfergus in Bloom is asking the borough's green-fingered youngsters to join the thousands of young gardeners throughout the UK in a mass planting of sunflower seeds during National Gardening Week (April 14-21).
A council spokesman said: "Carrickfergus Borough Council is distributing the sunflower seeds to primary and secondary schoolchildren as part of the Carrickfergus in Bloom Tallest Sunflower Competition.
"What better way to celebrate this huge anniversary for Britain in Bloom than a mass planting of beautiful golden sunflowers?
"These gorgeous and uplifting plants have been known to grow an astonishing four metres high, which reflects the sort of spirit and drive we associate with our local young people and other volunteers who transform our borough each year.
"We're providing the seeds as a big thank-you to all the industrious and passionate young people who work to ensure that our borough stays clean, green and beautiful. It is also a chance to do something big for the environment – sunflowers provide vital food for pollinators in summer."
The Carrickfergus in Bloom Children's Community Competition has a total prize fund of £350. Other competitions include poetry and painting. Entries for these competitions must be received by September 30.
"Everybody who lives within the borough is invited to take part in Carrickfergus in Bloom. There is something for everyone," the spokesman said.
"By entering you not only brighten up your own house but you also aid our borough's entry to the Ulster and Britain in Bloom competition.
"The winners and runner-up of all Carrickfergus in Bloom competitions will attend a prize-giving ceremony at the Town Hall in October. In 2013, 1,850 people took part in the Carrickfergus in Bloom community competitions."
Belfast Telegraph

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A project, funded by the Green Industry Innovation Programme inBulgaria. The overall objective of the Green Industry Innovation programme area is to increase the competitiveness of green enterprises, including greening of existing industries, green innovation and green entrepreneurship.
The project is aiming at developing innovative environmental technology for producing industrial lighting fixtures with built in their corpuses LEDs. The advantages of the new industrial lighting fixtures include:
Expected positive results are based on secured effective mutually complimentary cooperation between the project partners, due to their past experience and competences. ENSI involvement in the project includes:
Partners: ATRA 96 Ltd. and Technical University – Gabrovo
Client: Green Industry Innovation Programme Bulgaria
Location: Bulgaria - Plovdiv
Duration: 11/2014 – 04/2016
A project, funded by the NGO Programme in Bulgaria under the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2009-2014, under Thematic Area 'Sustainable development and protection of the environment'
Major objective of this project is to create interest for the formation of school clubs in sustainable energy in Bulgaria. Specific objectives include:
ENSI role in the project comprises the following activities:
Partners: Euro Perspectives Foundation (Bulgaria)
Client: Open Society Institute – Sofia, Operator of the NGO Programme in Bulgaria under the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2009-2014
Location: Bulgaria - Sofia, Burgas, Ihtiman, Balchik
Duration: 02/2014 - 07/2015
Assisting Bulgaria to comply with EU directives and norms on the energy performance of buildings by introduction of the ENSI methods and tools for energy auditing of buildings. This includes development of a Bulgarian version of the ENSI Key Number Software (for calculating the energy performance of buildings, later named EAB Software) and Manuals on Energy Auditing of Buildings, arranging a "training of trainers" programme and training programmes for Bulgarian professionals (supporting the trained trainers), and introduction of the methodology in the University education programmes.
Local partners: Technical University of Sofia, EnEffect
Location: Sofia
Client: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Duration: 06/2002 – 05/2005
ENSI were providing the Lead International Training Consultant the National Capacity Building portion of the GEF project "Energy Efficiency Strategy to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Bulgaria". Development and implementation of energy auditing and financial engineering education and training activities, focusing on training the trainers. Furthermore, ENSI supporting the trained Bulgarian trainers in implementing new training programmes.
Local partners: EnEffect and local UNDP office
Location: Sofia, Stara Sagora, Gabrovo, Kazanluk, Rousse, Korlova, Blagoevgrad
Client: UNDP
Duration: 1998 – 2002
Development and implementation of a combined capacity building and project development programme on Financial Engineering, focusing on the development of complete Business Plans for real, concrete projects through an interactive Training Programme. Participants were from Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia. The primary target was to build capacities and skills enabling the participants to develop, arrange financing for, implement and maintain energy efficiency projects and hence contribute to sustainable development.
Location: Pecs and Budapest, Hungary
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January 20, 2011
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My brother Sam is Dead is about a boy (Sam) who comes from college in 1775 and announces to his family that he's joining the Rebels to fight against the British. When his dad finds out the that he joined the rebels he was furious because his father was on the British's side.
Sam's brother Tim has no say in the argument because he claims that he's a Quaker (a person who doesn't believe in violent). The main character in this story is Sam and Tim.
If you are looking for a book that has drama, violence, and sadness this is the right book for you.
Abdi, Class of 2014
The WHS Library owns My Brother Sam is Dead on audio.
January 7, 2011
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
The book Code Talker was a very interesting book. It is good for people who like stories that take place during World War II. It is about how Navajo Marines helped the U.S. defeat Japan with the help of their language that was used as an unbreakable code.
The story is told by Ned Begay a Navajo who joined the U.S. Marines. Begay like many Navajo children was sent to boarding school and encouraged to forget his native language and ways. Then during WWII the U.S. Government discovered that the Navajo language could be used as a way to communicate that the Japanese could not decode.
The reader taken on a journey through many battles during WWII as seen through the eyes of Begay. People who like stories about WWII and historical events will like this book. It is amazing to learn the details of the Navajo's involvement in the war since it was kept secret from the end of the war until 1969.
– Ethan, Class of 2014
January 5, 2011
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
This book is a great read for people with a military mind because it gives great detail. It makes the war seem real to you, so if you like the military or any realistic fiction books this would be a good book for you. This book is about a 17 year old man named Richie Perry who enlists in the army. This story takes place during the Vietnam War. Richie was put into a company where he was told he wouldn't see much action but they were wrong, on the first day of patrol his best friend is killed by a land mine. After this Richie was not the same. His squad has gone through many squad leaders because they are killed in battle. This happens until Corporal Brunner is picked as squad leader and leads them into a mission to find a group of Vietcong. This mission results in a injuries to many of the squad and Richie being sent home.
Sam C., Class of 2014
The WHS Library owns Fallen Angels.
Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes
Soldier boys is a book about WWII and the struggle of both sides, The Americans from Spencer's point of view, and the Germans from Dieters point of view. Spencer is a 16 year old boy who doesn't know what he wants to do with his life so he decides to drop out of school and go become a paratrooper. Dieter is a 15 year old German who has been in the Hitler youth sense he was a child He was just promoted and is drafted into the military and can't wait to see battle. There worst fear would be that the war would end too soon.
I would recommend this book to anyone who like adventure and war. This book shows the struggles and obstacles two teenagers whose views are very different but also the same. They both want to return to there friends and family a hero. But one of them will not be returning.
Josh A., Class of 2014
April 2, 2010
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
I really like this book because it's about a teenage boy and how he trains and how is acts over in Iraq. He tells you how to train for fighting over in Iraq and he tells us his life story when over there. I really recommend this book to the men and women who want to know how it feels like fighting over in Iraq and how they train you to do so. Once again I think it's an amazing book and I couldn't stop reading it!!!
Josh R., Class of 2010
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The colour is fine, medium-deep ruby red. On the nose aroma of licorice, raspberries, wild berries, tobacco, and forest floor. On the palate dense but fine, elegant and juicy with very good length and excellent structure. Great ageing potential.
Alcohol: 13,5% vol.
Acidity: 5,9 g/l
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All people of the world have been given the right to self-determination by the Creator. This principle is now commonly embraced by the global world political community that it is the founding premise for the Wolastoqiyik Nation and the Wabanaki Confederacy as a spiritual covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Today, the First Peoples and all their descendants on Turtle Island, after a struggle over many generations, effectively demand to be the makers of their destiny.
The citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation of the eastern door claim control and jurisdiction over those matters which are regarded as internal and territorial to the citizens not in a sense of ownership but rather in a sense of occupation.
The citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation also claim effective control over those resources which belong to the Nation by virtue of original jurisdiction given to them by the Creator.
Furthermore, the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation also declare that their relationship as a Nation to other Nations will be based on their original jurisdiction which defines their inherent rights, a just interpretation of the treaty process and other agreements in which we, from time to time, entered or will enter with representatives of other Nations under the Wabanaki Confederacy member of the Great Confederacy of all the Nations on Turtle Island.
The Wolastoqiyik Nation is composed of family clans that form 8 communities or Tribes of Wolastoqiyik citizens sharing their communal sentiments and united through shared history and cultural heritage and language within a political and spiritual system. The Wolastoqiyik Nation cannot be subjugated to other Nations, as each Nation is a unique web of people, values and historical experiences.
The history of the Wolastoqiyik Nation is unique in the sense that all the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation experience sovereignty in practice. The Wolastoqiyik were never subjugated to human central government as such which determined the destiny of all the citizens. However, the citizens maintained a common bond with other Tribes or Nations through upholding the Creator's Laws through original jurisdiction according to their customs, traditions and values, through a common language and through covenants, sacred ceremonies, wampum belts and treaties with other Nations.
As a Nation with a history of covenants, wampum belts and treaties, the Wolastoqiyik have always valued peaceful and reasonable relationships. The same holds true in the history of our relationship with the newcomers, the French and British, to our lands when we invited them under our original jurisdiction to join the Great Eastern Confederacy of our Nations in 1701 and in 1752 and 1759.
The fundamental reality underlying this charter for self-determination is that the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation joined as a Nation with other Nations in a territorial structure, as it deems necessary and will exercise full political and spiritual authority over the territory provided to them by the Creator. Our Nation is sovereign in determining its future.
The treaty process, essentially is a recognition of our original jurisdiction to sovereignty. Implicitly, there were representatives of sovereign Nations which deliberated and negotiated the treaties of 1701, 1752, 1759 and many other treaties in the eastern part of Turtle Island.
Therefore, the sovereignty principle underpins this constitution under the Creator's gift of our original jurisdiction. The Wolastoqiyik Nation is a sovereign entity which regulates its internal and territorial affairs. Our relationships with other peoples will therefore be based on a Nation to Nation principle.
The Maliseet Nation is constituted upon the principle of original jurisdiction to self-determination. The original jurisdiction of the Wolastoqiyik Nation is based upon the inherent rights in its definition of itself and what spiritual and material rights and resources that come under its proprietorship.
The true fact for the Wolastoqiyik Nation is that our original jurisdiction is based upon our relation with the Creator. Our inherent rights are given to us by the Creator and are expressed and exercised through the citizens.
All sovereign Nations and governments have come into being because of the inherent right to do so. The Wolastoqiyik Nation is based upon the same principle and we proclaim and declare under our original jurisdiction that we do have the inherent right to sovereignty, to nationhood and to govern and take care of ourselves while at the same time respecting other sovereign Nations and governments. The Wolastoqiyik Nation will therefore exercise its original jurisdiction with its corresponding responsibilities and obligations.
All our ancestors representing the Tribes of the Wolastoqiyik Nation entered into treaties with representatives of other Nations including the Nations of the newcomers on Turtle Island in 1701 and 1752. The citizens did not concede their original jurisdiction through the treaty making process. However, the treaty making process is a sacred and living testament of the existence of our original jurisdiction.
The spirit and intent of the treaty was fundamentally one of peaceful co-existence. We agreed to share the land, up to a depth of six inches with the newcomers to our land in order that they too would survive. Our ancestors understood the sacredness of the land and life in general. Land was not a commodity to be sold or given away. We were placed on our lands on Turtle Island by the Creator and we were given stewardship over Mother Earth.
The citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation proclaim and declare that they never relinquished any rights to the land and its resources. They will continue to use the land and its resources as they have done in the past.
Our sacred treaties are therefore implicit in this sacred hospitable gesture of the Wolastoqiyik. The Elders continue to reaffirm their commitment to these treaties with its corresponding obligations.
We the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation recognize and declare:
that the Laws of the Creator are the only supreme Laws of the Wolastoqiyik ;
that the Creator gave us our spiritual beliefs, our language, our culture and a place on Mother Earth which provided us with all our needs for our existence and sustenance;
that we know the Creator placed us here;
that the Creator gave us our Laws that govern all our relationships to live in harmony with Mother Earth, Nature and Humanity;
that the Laws of the Creator define our original jurisdiction, our inherent rights, responsibilities and obligations;
that we continue to exercise our original jurisdiction to fulfil our responsibilities and obligations given to us by the Creator for the lands upon which we were placed;
that the original jurisdiction, responsibilities and obligations given to us by the Creator cannot be altered or taken away by any other Nation;
that we have maintained sovereignty, tribal and nationhood government, territory, oral history, culture, language, and our customs and traditions from time immemorial;
that within our territorial lands given to us by the Creator, that the Government of the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation will exercise its sovereign inherent rights, responsibilities and obligations;
that the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation through authority by the citizens, will exercise complete jurisdiction upon its territorial ancestral lands, its resources, its air space and waters, its citizens and their corresponding corporate entities, organizations services and programs;
that the Government of the Wolastoqiyik t Nation will be financially supported through the resources of Mother Earth provided by the Creator;
that the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation with its respective original jurisdiction, inherent rights, responsibilities and obligations shall be guided by the Creator's Laws;
that the Creator granted rightful stewardship of Mother Earth and its resources to the First Peoples on Turtle Island; and
that the original jurisdiction, inherent rights, responsibilities and obligations given to us by the Creator are non-negotiable with any Nation or anyone.
2.1 Creator's Laws
The Creator's Laws are the guiding principles of our original jurisdiction, our inherent rights, responsibilities and obligations. The seven teachings of the Wolastoqiyik which are hereby confirmed, accepted and ratified as the basis of our relationships, practices and laws:
2.1.1 Humility
2.1.2 Kindness, respect, love
2.1.3 Honesty, truth
2.1.4 Faith, strength
2.1.5 Wisdom
2.1.6 Knowledge
2.1.7 Caring, sharing
2.2.8 Collective rights
2.2.1 Inherent rights
Our original jurisdiction includes our inherent right to sovereignty, nationhood and to govern or to take care of ourselves as well as our special relationship to the land, resources and other people and Nations. All these rights spell out other self evident, naturally occurring given rights by the Creator. Inherent rights also include all those rights exercised in our traditional societies.
2.2 .3Sacred Treaty Rights
Our sacred Treaty is basically a recognition and confirmation of our original jurisdiction. Because of the treaties, our people maintain a special relationship with other Nations as one Crown and the Crown of the English people and the Crown of the French people on a Nation to Nation basis. The Crown of the Wolastoqiyik Nation still maintains the right to enter into treaties with other Nations.
Some of the responsibilities and obligations confirmed in the treaties include education, health, economic development, fishing and trapping, trust obligation and financial arrangements of the Nations that enter into treaty with the Wolastoqiyik Nation, political and bilateral relations, co-existence between parties and to treaty benefits as stated reserving lands and resources.
2.2.3 Environment rights
The Wolastoqiyik Nation hereby recognizes, affirms and ratifies the original jurisdiction of the Wolastoqiyik to be stewards of the environment upon the ancestral territories given to us by the Creator to occupy for our protection and our preservation.
2.2.4 Resource rights
The Wolastoqiyik Nation hereby recognizes, affirms and ratifies the original jurisdiction of our people to access, use, benefit, trade from the resources provided by Mother Earth.
2.2.5 Universal rights
The Wolastoqiyik Nation herby recognizes, affirms and ratifies the original jurisdiction to universal rights of the Wolastoqiyik to humanitarian services which include social assistance, education, employment, unemployment insurance, health, economics, to enter universities and security and protection.
2.3 Individual Rights
The individual rights of the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation include the following:
2.3.1 The right to speak the Wolastoqiyik t language.
2.3.2 The right to security from violence.
2.3.3 The right to be treated fairly before the law.
2.3.4 The right to personal freedom and mobility.
2.3.5 The right to freedom of belief and expression.
2.3.6 The right to freedom of speech and expression.
2.3.7 The right to peaceful association and assembly.
2.3.8 The right to property and land.
2.3.9 The right to vote in tribal, national and confederate elections in accordance with Tribal, National and Confederate Election Codes or on Referendum.
2.3.10 The right to access public information.
2.3.11 The right to privacy and confidentiality.
2.3.12 The right to be treated humanely and with respect.
2.4 Elders Rights
The Elders of the Wolastoqiyik Nation will maintain the right to special respect in accordance with customary practice.
2.5 Underprivileged and the Disabled
The underprivileged and the disabled of the Wolastoqiyik Nation shall retain the right to receive priority of the fundamentals of survival.
3.1 Political Rights and Authority
3.1.1 The Wolastoqiyik Nation has always been a political unit for the citizens and their Communities. Their original jurisdiction to exercise nationhood and sovereignty has never been relinquished. All political power is inherent within the citizens and with their communities governments founded on their authority. The Government of the Maliseet Nation is therefore based on the principle of a Government by the Wolastoqiyik, of the Wolastoqiyik and for the Wolastoqiyik.
3.1.2 The Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation is the sovereign authority through which the citizens manifest their will, issue their direction and conduct their affairs.
3.2 Responsibilities and Obligations of Governments
The Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation through the Grand Council of the Wolastoqiyik Nation exercises the following responsibilities and obligations with and through their communities Tribal governments:
3.2.1 To deal with other Nations Governments inclusive of each Tribe of theWolastoqiyik Nation, international governments and the federal crown of Canada and their respective political on a bilateral basis.
3.2.2 To represent all political issues of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
3.2.3 To be an official advocate and voice of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
3.2.4 To introduce and pass tribal and national laws for the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
3.2.5 To cause agreements through negotiations which will enhance the position of the Wolastoqiyikt Nation.
3.2.6 To ensure the protection of and enhance the inherent rights, sacred treaty rights, responsibilities and obligations, and the constitutional rights of the Wolastoqiyikcitizens.
3.2.7 To ensure economic and financial development of the Wolastoqiyik Nation in the goal toward self-sufficiency and efficiency.
3.2.8 To ensure the development of proper administrative departments for the Wolastoqiyik Nation at the community tribal and national level.
3.2.9 To expand and promote the overall jurisdiction and best interest of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
3.2.10 To be accountable to the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
3.3 Original Jurisdiction
The Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation exercises jurisdiction on the following areas:
3.3.1 For all the MWolastoqiyik citizens and communities.
3.3.2 For all establishments regardless of location, including organizations, corporate entities, programs and services.
3.3.3 For and on all territorial ancestral lands.
3.3.4 For all waters on territorial ancestral lands.
3.3.5 For all resources on territorial ancestral lands.
3.3.6 For all airspace above territorial ancestral lands.
3.3.7 For all jurisdictions which are shared or overlapping with other jurisdictions as per arrangements with other Nations and Governments.
3.4 Wolastoqiyik Nation, National and community Tribal structures
3.4.1 The structure of Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation with its accompanying establishment consists of diagram 1 and 2 as per attachment.
3.4.2 The Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation is comprised of a Grand Council composed of Sachems, and Sagamo. Each one is chosen by the qualified Maliseet citizens of each of the community Tribes of the Wolastoqiyik Nation for as long as their respective Tribal term of office.
3.4.3 One National Grand Sachem which is elected by the whole of the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation and exercises the following duties:
18.104.22.168 effects all meetings of the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation,
184.108.40.206 acts as official spokesperson of the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation,
22.214.171.124 organizes the formation of Government operations with respect to the various community tribal representatives,
188.8.131.52 acts as chairperson of the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation sessions,
18.104.22.168 votes to break all ties.
3.5 Term of office for the National Sachem ,community Tribal Sachems and Sagamo
3.5.1 The National Sachem is elected for a four year term of office.
3.5.2 The Tribal Sachems are elected for a term prescribed by each of the Election Codes of each of the community Tribes.
3.5.3 The Tribal Sagamo are elected for a term prescribed by each of the Election Codes of each of the community Tribes.
3.6 Elections
3.6.1 National Sachem
All the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation who are 18 years of age on the date of the election are eligible to vote or run for the position of National Sachem.
Election to the National Sachem will be handled by an impartial Electoral Officer appointed by the Tribal Sachems of the Grand Council of the Wolastoqiyik and subject to an Election Code prescribed and approved in consensus at general assembly of the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation in each of the Tribe's community.
3.6.2 Tribal Sachems and Sagamo
All the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation who are 18 years of age on the date of the election are eligible to vote or run for the position of Tribal Sachem or Sagamo.
All the citizens of the Maliseet Nation who are 18 years of age on the date of the election can only vote or run in their respective community of their respective Tribe.
Elections to Tribal Sachems and Sagamo will be handled by an impartial Electoral Officer appointed by the Maliseet Tribal Government and subject to an Election Code approved in consensus at a general assembly of the Maliseet of that Tribe.
3.7 Oath of Allegiance
All the representatives elected to the Wolastoqiyik national and communnity tribal Governments will make an oath of allegiance to the Wolastoqiyik Nation Constitution and the Wolastoqiyik Citizenship as soon as possible after the date of the election. The oath of allegiance shall be arranged by the Electoral Officer and will include a feast and dialoguing of a specific mandate with the Elders of the community Tribes. Such a mandate will be consistent with the term of the Wolastoqiyik Nation Constitution.
3.8 Wolastoqiyik Nation, National and community Tribal Governments sessions
3.8.1 National and community Tribal sessions will be held at least 4 times per year at a place to facilitate the presence of the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
3.8.2 A quorum in the Grand National Council representing the Wolastoqiyik National Government session shall consist of 8 community Tribal representatives not to include the National Sachem.
3.8.3 A quorum in the Wolastoqiyik Tribal Governments sessions shall be established by each of the Tribal Governments according to the number of Sagamo elected.
3.8.4 All decisions of the Wolastoqiyik Nation National and community Tribal Governments require the consent of a quorum for passage with the exception of Laws.
3.8.5 All items, issues, bills and so forth shall require a period of debate and /or question and answer period upon introduction and before a vote is taken.
3.8.6 Any representative who is absent from national and community tribal Government sessions forfeit his/her vote to the majority side in decision making. This ruling will not apply to emergency sessions with a notice of less than 1 week in advance.
3.8.7 Adequate notice of at least one week in advance will be given to representatives of any National or Tribal Government sessions to occur.
3.9 Recall
3.9.1 An individual representative of the National or Tribal Government will be subject to recall at any time for any of the following reasons:
18.104.22.168 embezzlement or fraud
188.8.131.52 abuse of position and power
18.104.22.168 a criminal offence
18.104.22.168 serious breach of the Wolastoqiyik Nation Constitution
3.9.2 In the event of a recall, a factual statement will be registered with the Council of the Elders and if required with an independent Chief of Justice who shall cause an impartial investigation to occur. The Council of Elders shall declare the position concerned either vacant or in operation at community Tribal General Assembly upon the conclusion of the investigation.
3.9.3 Any person who is recalled will not be eligible to run for any of the Wolastoqiyik Government positions for at least 10 years or as prescribed by the community Tribes.
3.10 Vacancies
In the event of any vacancy, the position should be put up for by-election within one month of the vacancy occurring.
4.1 National General Assembly
A National General Assembly will be held at least once a year as a form of gathering and as prescribed by the representatives of the National Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation at a place central and accessible to all the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation, on the Wolastoqiyik ancestral territory for the purpose of:
4.1.1 Accountability to all the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
4.1.2 Review the Nations Laws, concerns and to seek national direction.
4.1.3 Public information and education purposes on matters that are of importance to all the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
4.2 Community Tribal General Assembly
A Community Tribal General Assembly will be held at least once every season or four times per year for the purpose of:
4.2.1 Accountability to the citizens of the community Tribe.
4.2.2 Review the Tribal Laws, concerns and to seek Tribal direction.
4.2.3 Public information and educational purposes on matters that are of importance to all the citizens of the community Tribes.
4.3 National and Community Tribal Special Councils
4.3.1 Special Tribal Councils will be established from the citizens at large for consultation and advisory purposes and will include:
18.104.22.168 an Elders Council
22.214.171.124 a womens council
184.108.40.206 a mens council
18.104.22.168 a youth council
4.3.2 National Special Councils will be established for each category from the Tribal representatives.
4.3.3 National Special Council meetings will be held at least once every season or four times per year.
4.3.4 Tribal Special Council meetings will be held at the discretion of each councils representatives.
4.5 National and Community Tribal Legislation
The process for ratification or repeal of the Wolastoqiyik Nation Laws shall include the following:
4.5.1 Recommendations from the Tribal Council and /or General Assembly, Clan Meeting, administrative meeting.
4.5.2 Preparation of draft by legal advisors and/or technicians.
4.5.3 Review by the Justice Commission for submission to the Wolastoqiyik Nation Government.
4.5.4 First reading and review, debate and rejection or ratification by each of the Tribal councils by consensus.
4.5.5 Notification to each of the Tribes.
4.5.6 Second reading and review, debate and rejection or ratification by the National Council.
4.6 Justice System
A Justice Commission shall be established by the Wolastoqiyik Nation Government to rule on all the ancestral territorial lands for a four year term to review impending laws for ratification by the Wolastoqiyik Government through a Government order with a specified mandate which will include:
4.6.1 To act as a Supreme Court.
4.6.2 To oversee the operation of the justice system.
4.6.3 To deal with appeals and enforce justice
4.6.4 The justice system will be independent from the political affairs of the Wolastoqiyik Nation and subject to a Justice Code.
4.6.5 A Chief Justice with other magistrates shall be appointed by the Wolastoqiyik Nation Government for four year term.
4.6.6 The justice system will include a Peacemaker's court and a process of appeal.
4.7 Public Administration
4.7.1 A public Administration department and other department organisations or corporations will be established to handle the administrative affairs, programs and services for the Wolastoqiyik Nation and shall receive their legal capacity through the National and Tribal Governments for theWolastoqiyik Nation in accordance with Wolastoqiyik Nation Laws.
4.7.2 The primary purpose of any board or commission is the shaping of policies for particular programs, services or organisations.
4.7.3 A Public Administration, Labour Laws and Corporations Act and all other pertinent Executive and Administrative Laws shall be enacted.
4.7.4 All Boards and those Commissions specified by Government order shall be subject to democratic elections for a term of up to two years.
4.7.5 The Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation may create commissions by appointment for emergency purposes.
5.1 Citizenship
5.1.1 A Citizenship Code shall be enacted prescribing the general Laws of citizenship and immigration and shall not be developed according to the Indian Act.
5.1.2 The Citizenship Code of the Wolastoqiyik Nation will be based primarily on those who have family ties to the existing citizens and other provisions shall be enacted according to customs and ruled by the Council of Elders of each community Tribe.
5.1.3 Anyone Applying for citizenship will need the endorsement of at least 2 members of the Community Council of Elders.
5.2 Land and properties
5.2.1 A Land and Properties Act shall be enacted regulating lands and properties of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
5.2.2 All the land of the Wolastoqiyik Nation shall be held for the Common good of it's citizenship through the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
5.2.3 No land under the jurisdiction of the Wolastoqiyik Nation shall be sold leased or rented to a non citizen of the Maliseet Nation without a Tribal or National Referendum.
5.3 Economics
5.3.1 The Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation will endeavour continuously to achieve the goal of self-sufficiency for its citizenship through:
18.104.22.168 trade
126.96.36.199 investments
126.96.36.199 manufacturing ventures
184.108.40.206 business enterprises
126.96.36.199 creation of employment
188.8.131.52 distribution system
22.214.171.124 tapping into and creating marketing systems
184.108.40.206 gaming and lotteries
220.127.116.11 monopolizing traditional commodities, products and industries
188.8.131.52 environmental and resource development
18.104.22.168 other economical ventures which serve the best interests of the Maliseet Nation
5.4 Laws of Application
5.4.1 Any Law which is inconsistent with the Constitution of theWolastoqiyik Nation shall be deemed to be of no force or effect.
5.4.2 All Laws of force and effect in the WolastoqiyikNation shall be ratified by the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation and are subject to treaty agreements with other Nations.
5.5 Taxation
5.5.1 The Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation shall maintain the prerogative to negotiate and levy taxes on foreign or external entities for their use of natural resources, land, air, water, and others.
5.5.2 Any internal taxation shall be based on the principles of negotiations and consultations with the citizens for the purposes of subsidizing programs and services and creating employment, as the principle of taxation is not new to the citizens. This was present at one time in the form of sharing, offerings and gift giving according to our tradition.
5.6 Finance
5.6.1 The Wolastoqiyik Nation, through its Government, reserves the right to fiscal arrangements with other Nations or with the Canadian Government as per fiduciary obligations.
5.6.2 Financial budget reports shall be submitted at each General community Tribal and National Assembly.
5.6.3 A Finance Commission shall monitor overall fiscal expenditures which shall include all programs and organizations under the jurisdiction of the Wolastoqiyik Nation at the National and community Tribal level.
5.6.4 Expenditure of budgets shall be done with the appropriations made by National or community Tribal laws or policies.
5.6.5 An annual audit shall be submitted to the citizens.
5.7 Referendum
5.7.1 It shall be the responsibility of the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation to cause Tribal or National Referendum on any contention issues with the exception of those mandatory items mentioned in this constitution.
5.7.2 Each Referendum will disclose the appropriate information to the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation, at least two months in advance of the date set for the Referendum.
5.7.3 All Referendums must receive a majority vote of those casting ballots in order to be declared effective.
5.7.4 Referendums shall become effective upon final ratification by the Government of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
5.8 Flag
5.8.1 All public institutions of the Wolastoqiyik Nation will exhibit the legal flag of the Wolastoqiyik Nation.
5.8.2 The flag must receive endorsement of all the citizens of the Wolastoqiyik Nation through the process of a Referendum in order to be legal.
All amendments to the Constitution of the Wolastoqiyik Nation will be subject to the referendum process for endorsement.
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How many of you are terrified at the idea of doing mouth-to-mouth recusitation on strangers? We've all seen the doctor TV shows when people drop on the streets from a heart attack, and bystanders start basic life support (hopefully). It's always a dramatic scene of pounding on the chest and mouth to mouth breathing. Unfortunately, a more real-life scenario involves someone falling down — and a crowd of people watch and do nothing. Well, I'm happy to say that it's now a lot easier to be a good samaritan and help someone; it's now official that mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths are not the top priority; the chest compressions are key. More specifically, the previous guidelines of A-B-C (airway — breathing — compression) are now C-A-B (compression — airway — breathing).
What that means is that, when you see someone who needs CPR and you've called for help, you start chest compresions first. Don't stress out about the mouth-to-mouth and getting hepatitis and all that. Just start pushing on their chest as the video below describes — it's a lot better than nothing, and it may save the life of a loved one.
Here's a quick 3-minute video from the American Heart Association (with Chinese subtitles) which may save someone's life. If you cannot see the video below, please click here.
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Two recent, very different, instances of drones deployed in dangerous situations
If you frequently read articles about robots, you may have heard of the "3 D's," also known as Dull, Dangerous, and Dirty.
Those are the three big reasons, in a nutshell, why robots are developed by scientists and engineers. Robots allow humans complete dull and repetitive tasks, or help distance people from uncomfortably dirty situations. And, of course, robots can enter dangerously radioactive environments or disable improvised explosive devices.
Drones (aircraft that are remotely controlled) and aerial robots (aircraft that fly with very little or no human input) can also assist in dull or dirty situations, but are perhaps best suited to complete dangerous tasks. The distance an unmanned aircraft provides from a dangerous situation is the reason why so many journalists are experimenting with this technology, especially when it comes disaster reporting.
Case in point: how close can you get to a volcano? If you're piloting a DJI Phantom quadrotor drone, like the one Shaun O'Callaghan piloted above the Yasur Volcano in the Republic of Vanuatu in the south Pacific, it turns out you can get very, very close.
Apparently a drone can get so close to a volcano that lava and ash can fly past the camera. From O'Callaghan's uploaded video, it appears he had to take evasive maneuvers from flying volcano ejecta. And yet, the intrepid drone returned unscathed.
I don't know what lengths O'Callaghan had to go through in order to obtain that stunning video. But contrast his video against this 2012 documentary of an expedition into the Marum Volcano, which lies on a different island within the Republic of Vanuatu.
According to the description on YouTube, researchers were only able to walk within 30 meters of the volcanic lake without breathing apparatus or heat proximity suit. With a drone, however, you can film as long as you have sufficient battery charge. That is, if your drone isn't obliterated by liquid rock.
O'Callaghan wasn't a part of a research expedition, or a National Geographic photographer with a support crew. He appears to be an ordinary man aided by a relatively inexpensive piece of equipment, who just so happened to shoot some of the best volcano footage ever recorded.
Now compare O'Callaghan's footage to the work of a photographer who arrived at another fiery, explosive scene. Wednesday in New York City, a gas explosion leveled two apartment buildings.
According to a New York Times report, firefighters were still attempting to subdue the blaze during that afternoon. Eight people are confirmed dead, five are still missing, and 60 were injured.
It shouldn't have surprised anyone that at this day and age, at least one person in a city of eight million owned a DJI Phantom, and decided to fly it near the disaster. Below the orbiting news helicopters, and above the heads of the firemen responding to the emergency, the photographer flew his quadrotor.
"I got some good shots that ain't nobody getting," the pilot told a reporter for Animal New York.
No doubt Wilson's images were interesting, and allowed him to observe a dangerous situation from a distance. But the question remains whether the drone pilot made the situation even more dangerous by flying a small remote controlled aircraft above an active emergency, while people were injured, dead, and missing.
The relatively low-cost DJI Phantom is an attractive product for many photographers, but PSDJ members have pointed out its limitations. Drones such as the DJI Phantom use GPS to aid flight and navigation, and cannot accurately determine position or speed without a GPS fix.
Without a fix, pilots have to rely solely on their wits to fly quadrotors, which are notoriously disorienting to fly. It can be difficult to obtain a GPS fix in a city, where buildings act like concrete canyons that block satellite signals. The DJI phantom is not a sophisticated aircraft equipped with multiple redundant systems.
Almost six months ago, an RC enthusiast flew a similar model around Midtown Manhattan, and lost control of his aircraft. It struck a building and fell more than 200 feet, nearly landing on a pedestrian.
Even with a GPS lock, the Phantom is vulnerable to radio interference. The Phantom's 5.8 GHz control station operates in the same band as wireless routers, cordless phones, wireless intercom systems, and WiFi GoPro cameras, just to name a few.
The ISM band, which includes 5.8 GHz, is as Wired put it "a ghetto for unlicensed wireless transmission." For devices operating in this range, according to the Federal Communications Commission, "interference must be accepted," meaning there is no legal recourse for anyone whose devices are being affected by RF noise.
We can safely assume that an active disaster scene, in the middle of a GPS-limited concrete canyon, dense with radio and microwave-blocking airborne particulate matter, and ringed by crowds of smartphone-wielding onlookers and reporters, is not an ideal environment for a radio-dependent drone.
And what if the aircraft were fall from the sky? A 1.16 kilogram DJI Phantom 2 Vision falling from 121 meters (the prescribed altitude limit for hobby aircraft) would hit a bystander's head at a speed of 175 kilometers per hour. The force of the impact would be 1375 joules.
According to a 2011 article published in the Journal of Forensic Biomechanics, as little as 80 joules of force could fracture a human skull and kill a person. Working the F = M*A equation in reverse, a DJI Phantom dropped from 26 feet could fatally injure someone.
In an interview for The Daily Beast, I said that journalists should only observe, not interfere with emergency situations such as the Harlem explosion. That story's writer, Abby Haglage, told me the pilot's decision to fly near the blast site was influenced by the dismissal of the FAA v Pirker lawsuit.
This might just be the first of many incidents that we have due to a lack of legitimate FAA regulations. Drone journalists need to be sure that when they're using a drone to separate themselves from a dangerous situation, they're also not making that situation more dangerous in the process.
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Juvenile-In-Justice by Richard Ross
"I got into a lot of trouble; running away, drinking, drugs, robbing people, fighting. I will serve ten months in and then five months out. I did these tattoos on my hand with india ink at home. I want to be a tattoo artist."
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Here's today's things….
how to grow beets, with brian campbell.
It turns out I'm no Dwight Schrute when it comes to beet growing so I really appreciated that. This is only the second time I've grown beets. I could not figure out why my seedlings were so close together. I had no idea the beet seed was actually several seeds. And I had so many questions about thinning.
See,ya'll? Years of gardening experience and there are still things I have to learn.
This is pretty neat. Barreau&Charbonnet created this window garden for people with little space. It extends out during the day so plants can get sun and retracts back in at night.
It's a cool concept. It's probably not super flexible to different window designs but I bet someone with DIY skills could build neat custom designs.
Caleb Phillips and Ethan Welty founded Falling Fruit , an online resource map for dumpster divers, freegans, and foragers. I checked out my local locations and no freegan sources have been added but lots and lots of fruit & foraging spots. This is the sort of map that thrives with user input. My hope is that freegans will be conscientious when adding comments about the personal and legal safety for other divers. As I've touched on here before, some dumpster divers' main concern isn't the food safety but more the risk of harassment and arrest , and other issues to do with privilege.
Recently, the pair has begun speaking at food justice conferences, contacting online freegan communities and handing out stickers, expanding the site's fan base. Calling it the most extensive and diverse map of its kind, the pair's ultimate goal is to shed a bright light on the enormous quantity of food that goes to waste–in this country and abroad.
Phillips and Welty are raising money to create a FallingFruit mobile app for foragers and divers through Barnraiser.us, a newly launched crowdfunding site specifically designed for food and sustainability projects. They hope to raise $10,000 by the end of May.
To create the dumpster map, men spent months combing the Internet for dumpster location information and painstakingly checking each entry before adding it to their site. Their hope is that other freegan sites such as trashwiki.org and freegan.info will embed the FallingFruit map.
To date, there are at least 2,500 bins on the map with up to five new ones added daily. Welty estimates that around 500 people are using the site every day and he expects the numbers to rise as summer kicks in. Along with most U.S. cities, map users have entered dumpsters in Antarctica, Jamaica, and even the North and South Pole, says Phillips.
"We wanted to take [dumpster diving] from being a secret hobby to something that illustrates first-hand how ubiquitous food waste is," says Welty. Despite the fact that 40 percent of the food produced in the U.S. goes uneaten, few people spend much time thinking about food waste. But, Welty adds, "You can only feel [the magnitude of] it when you open up a dumpster and see what's in it."
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Picture: Rod Stewart suit shopping at the Ralph Lauren store in Bond Street with his fiancee's brother Oliver London, England - 31.05.07
Veteran rockers Rod Stewart and Jerry Lee Lewis are celebrating after they both scooped their first ever GRAMMY AWARD last night (13FEB05).
Stewart won the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for STARDUST... THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK VOLUME III, while Lewis scooped a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Stewart, who was absent from the Los Angeles ceremony because he's in Australia preparing for a tour, says, "After all these years I was quite liking not winning, but somehow I'll learn to live with it.
"In fact I intend to take it with me everywhere."
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE singer Lewis, 69, says, "I feel great about this award because you earn it. I just thank God I'm living."
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Hunting Puppies Walking Cane. England, circa 1900
A great carved ivory cane, the elephant ivory handle is 6 cm high, 5,5 cm to the side and 5 cm wide. It depicts a nicely detailed composition of two hunter's puppies with sulphur glass eyes, watching carefully its prey. There is a gilded collar with English hallmarks on top of a sound malacca shaft, it has a horn ferrule. The OL is 89 cm. The hair lines are very clear, as you see on the pictures but with any chips or cracks, the condition is excelent.
Time and time again mythology portrays the sacred Dog as being brave, powerful and vigilant. The hunter Orion of Greek mythology was always accompanied by his faithful Dog Sirius. The Goddess Artemis is also depicted with divine hunting Dogs. In South Africa we see this creature portrayed as an Ancestor spirit that gives humankind fire, and in Japan the images of Dogs often stand guard at temple doors.
With all this in mind it's not surprising when a Dog spirit guide chooses to bless your life. They are exactly where they wish to be, close to a human heart who will cherish them. As a side note, an actual living Dog can be a Divine messenger and helpmate too. Some people believe that Angels can turn themselves into Dogs for the purpose of safeguarding a person or family and offering aid in times of trouble. * whatismyspiritanimal.com
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Today, DART was joined by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, DFW International Airport Executive Vice President of Operations Jim Crites, Dallas County Commissioner Mike Cantrell, U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, U.S. Rep Marc Veasey and others from the Federal Transit Administration and North Texas Council of Governments to send a message to Congress that it's time to fund a long-term surface transportation bill.
The event was held near Union Station in front of the brand new Dallas Streetcar. Johnson heralded the Dallas Horseshoe project and Crites spoke about the growth of DFW International Airport as other reasons why a long-term surface transportation solution is essential.
"We need a multi-year surface transportation bill," said DART President and Executive Director Gary Thomas. "Today is about more than a streetcar."
Stand Up for Transportation Day is a nationwide effort where hundreds of a transit agencies came together to urge Congress to provide a long-term investment in our nation's transportation infrastructure. More information about Stand Up for Transportation Day can be found at standup4transportation.org/.
"I call on anyone with a voice in Washington to speak up! Stand up for public transportation," said Rawlings.
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Multilateral Trade Liberalization and regional Trading Arrangements (RTAs) have brought about significant erosion of border tariffs in international trade in recent years. Concurrently Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) have assumed greater importance in regulating trade-related activities. If developing countries want to enter the global market, they must be able to comply with many export requirements such as standards and technical regulations usually referred to as Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT).
Compliance with a reliable Quality Infrastructure (standards, technical regulations, metrology, testing, quality assessment, certification and accreditation) is therefore a key determinant of export competitiveness for developing countries. Current global trade is based on technology-intensive manufacturing and other processes on the one hand, and growing demands for safety, quality and innovation from consumers on the other. A sound Quality Infrastructure (QI) is therefore a gateway for developing countries to improve their competitiveness and connect to global value chains. It also builds investor confidence in developing countries keen to attract much needed foreign direct investment for their development.
The weakness of the QI sector in ACP countries, many of which are small and vulnerable economies creates impediments for their trade with third countries in spite of generous duty-free and quota-free market access granted to them by the EU and some other developed countries. Addressing TBT obstacles and building the capacity of their QI sector is no doubt an important trade facilitation step in boosting exports of ACP countries.
Addressing this problem at the country and regional levels is one of the objectives of the TBT Programme. So too is strengthening the capacity of ACP countries and their regional organisations in complying with TBT on external markets and encouraging their effective participation in the shaping of TBT issues and defining and enforcing legitimate and adequately harmonized technical regulations on their internal markets in conformity with existing WTO agreements.
The Programme addresses TBT issues in ACP countries at three levels, namely:
- Upgrading and strengthening Quality Infrastructure and related institutions
- Empowering economic operators and export sectors to comply with international market requirements
- Disseminating results, good practices and experiences.
The Programme is financed by the European Union under the 10th European Development Fund. It is a demand-driven Programme responding to requests for capacity building from ACP countries to ensure full ownership by the ACP beneficiaries.
The TBT Programme is your Programme for addressing technical barriers to trade in your countries and the PMU invites you to derive the utmost benefit from it.


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I think back to the first time I remember being online --- way back in 1994. I only had internet (AOL of all things) at my dad's house and I only saw him every other weekend but it was there, taunting me with it's promises of "You've Got Mail" and ways to look up interesting things about my imaginary boyfriend, JTT. Oh, it was so addicting! I couldn't imagine ever getting tired of this incredible place where I could chat with people (back before a/s/l was considered creepy), find pictures of cute boys and email my friends (imagine talking to your friends without actually talking to your friends!). The days where 'social media' meant getting excited when someone sent you an email are long gone, huh?
what I legitimately assume my locker looked like in 6th grade
It's difficult to explain that sometimes I feel overloaded by social media. There are so many ways to connect with people now --- and so many of them are important to the success of your blog --- that I feel guilty when I get burned out. I needed to take a small break when I started my new job so I could get refocused and figure out how to manage everything at once.
I've decided I'm initiating selective avoidance. I can't constantly check Twitter. I can't always be in the mindset to read and return emails. I won't always remember to post to the groups I belong to on Facebook. I'm a little worn down, what with two jobs and two blogs plus a non-digital life that includes The Boy and three pets plus family and friends. I think I'm going to start some new practices like using email filters, maybe batch my email subscriptions, giving myself "x" amount of time per day to goof off so that I can actually get what I need/want to get done, well, done.
Point being, I want to be able to enjoy the internet again. I want to be excited to check emails, see what people are up to, etc. I just have to figure out a way to do it.


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Brentwood Business Networking review – Essex Business Forum 2nd May
Chairman's Blog – Meeting Thursday 2nd May 2013
Good attendance, 27 in all including guest Barry Hicks from RM Magazine and Magician.
A Lively meeting was very effectively kicked off by David Plumley's Education Slot when he emphasised the importance amongst other things of fully preparing your 60 seconds and 10 minute presentations. As if to illustrate this he explained "I have got something here and I am working through it". Your comments are invited as to what that might have been or could have been.


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William Faulkner and I have both written trashy books about Memphis. Here's where they intersect: A Cheap Idea
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I reviewed Gary Krist's EMPIRE OF SIN and Michael Ross' THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS KIDNAPPING at WSJ Books.
The reviewer became the reviewed in the comments section, where one reader made the best observation of my work that I've ever seen:
'Surely <<animating idle fingers with the morally dissolute music seminally called "jass.">> is the raunchiest wordplay yet published in a family newspaper!'
That's epitaph material.
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Last month, we discussed some aftermarket replacement cylinder heads obtainable for Ford's small-block V-eight engine loved ones, which involves the 221, 260, 289, 302 and the tall-deck 351 Windsor. To make horsepower, you want some heat to be retained in the combustion chamber with no detonation or preignition, which makes aluminum a wonderful selection. Straight ethylene glycol and methanol have been less corrosive than the proprietary items, which contain inhibitors of iron corrosion. The Vortec head drastically outflows their non-Vortec service replacement head and gives a 20-40 hp boost over earlier cast-iron heads.
We've gone to great lengths to make improvements over the stock cast iron Vortec cylinder head. The Freedom Series 185cc heads tested Initial in peak horsepower, Initial in average intake-port flow, 1st in average power, and Second in typical horsepower per dollar. Stud girdles made for stock Chevy castings as well as other aftermarket pieces that have normal valve angles will not match properly. Raylar large block Chevy / GMC cylinder heads out flow every single eight.1L cylinder head on the market.
This variety of surface would probably be okay on a cast iron or aluminum cylinder head offered the scratches are not also deep and do not generate leak paths. Too numerous instances guys tend to buy cylinder heads primarily based on higher lift flow numbers that are simply accomplished with big ports and valves, but do not necessarily supply them with the performance they are searching for," added Feeney. Engines with 1/2" head bolts holes (351-w and 302 CI SVO) need to use ARP #154-3603. These aluminum heads feature 195cc intake runners and 68cc combustion chambers.
Your heads have been washed in a water soluble chemical agitation tank and blown out with higher stress air three to 4 times just before they have been boxed. Precoating the aluminum with lubricant and using lots of coolant should stop clogging. Keeping all moving components inside the block has an advantage for physically large engines in that the camshaft drive gear is tiny and so suffers less from the effects of thermal expansion in the cylinder block. Dart created the Iron Eagle heads for street efficiency, bracket racing, oval track competition, and higher-functionality marine use.
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We are back with another Free Cut Friday! Today's file was created by Ashley Harris.
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Have you ever wondered what every playboy centerfold would look like if it they were all put into one image? Chicago based Photographer, Jason Salavon created a series of portraits that combined every centerfold from the 1960s to the 1990s. While you can't see explicit details of each centerfold, you can see a silhouette figure that mimics that of foggy glass. This process, called amalgamation, was done with a program called ImageMagick.
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as you can see, the 80s was much HOTTER than the 90s .... :)
looks like the shroud of turin!.... but sexier.............
hmmm, is it just me or does the 'center mass' show a progressively smaller profile as the years pass?
The 70ies is by far the best :)
I'm not sure I understand the point of this, or what the end products are supposed to demonstrate. They're too indistinct to draw any conclusions about the 'style of portraiture' as he describes on his website. Can anybody enlighten me?


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Bursting Gartner's 'Algorithm Economy' Bubble | @CloudExpo #Cloud #MachineLearning
Gartner's hype around algorithms is mostly obvious and nothing new
By: Jason Bloomberg
Jun. 17, 2016 04:07 PM
Remember Mad Libs? You'd get a book that contained paragraphs with key words missing, replaced with hints as to what might fill the blanks. You and your friends would come up with silly words to complete the sentences, with predictably hilarious results.
Well, it's time for some Gartner Mad Libs. For this game, the same word belongs in all the blanks. See if you can figure out what the missing word is (here's the source if you can't resist peeking).
The current software ecosystem allows only whole products to be commercialized - not functions or features.... While the number of existing _________ is significant, very few engineers or scientists commercialize their _________, mostly due to the limited prospects of real success.... Another profound aspect of a marketplace is its ability to allow _________ to be reused.
If this quotation came from 2005, you'd probably guess the missing word was services. Back in the day, we talked about services as ways of breaking up monolithic applications in order to support the commercialization and reuse of those services.
Perhaps this quotation came from 2012, in which case the missing word is likely to be APIs. People still talk about the API Economy, after all - what might happen when enterprises and others expose application functionality in order to commercialize and reuse it.
If you guessed either services or APIs, however, sorry, you're wrong. This quote is from 2016, and the buzzword Gartner is hyping today is algorithms.
Gartner is now treating algorithms like they are some kind of innovative addition to the modern digital discussion. Presumably the brilliant minds there have some novel insight into algorithms and, yes, the Algorithm Economy that CIOs should sit up and take notice of.
Well, it's time to let some hot air out of this balloon, and if Intellyx won't do it, who will?
Nothing New Under the Sun
The point to the Mad Libs exercise, of course, is to underscore how repetitive Gartner's thinking about algorithms actually is. If they can simply switch out one buzzword for another every few years, then are they actually bringing any new insight to the table at all?
Let's see if we can peel away the layers of hype to see if we can find such a hidden nugget of insight. Our starting point: the definition of algorithm.
According to Wikipedia, an algorithm is "a self-contained step-by-step set of operations to be performed." Your grandma's muffin recipe, therefore, is a type of algorithm, although the history of algorithms focuses primarily on mathematical algorithms.
Algorithms, therefore, aren't new. In fact, they date to antiquity, as the well-known Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm for creating a list of prime numbers illustrates.
The story of algorithms gets more interesting, however, with the invention of machines that could follow them - or at least, theorizing about such machines, as computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, and Alan Turing did.
In any case, while algorithms are unquestionably fundamental to computer science generally - not to mention your grandma's cooking - we still have the question as to why Gartner is focusing their hype engine on them now. Let's go to the source and see what we can uncover.
Gartner on Algorithms
In particular, he distinguishes algorithms from data (in particular, big data), because "big data is not where the value is." Instead, "algorithms are where the real value lies, because algorithms define action." He then ties this notion of defining action to digital transformation by stating that "dynamic algorithms are at the core of customer interactions."
For Gartner, algorithms are central to the "post app era," where by 2020, Gartner predicts that "smart agents" will facilitate 40% of interactions. According to Sondergaard, "Agents enabled by algorithms will define the post-app era," and calls out Apple Siri and Microsoft Cortana as prototypes for this new era of virtual assistants and other smart agents that will replace apps.
Siri and her brethren are unquestionably innovative, and no one doubts such technology will continue to improve rapidly. But let's take a closer look at Gartner's thinking and see how well it holds water.
The Obviousness Department
By stating that data alone have no value without algorithms, he's essentially stating that computing breaks down into data on the one hand and code on the other. This division is at the core of digital computing ("digital" in its original sense of using zeroes and ones), as it has been since ENIAC.
Seventy years later, Gartner suddenly discovered that digital computing divides the world into data and code, and that data aren't really that useful without code. Good for it. However, the fact you have to do something with data to get value out of them shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Sondergaard also calls out algorithmic stock trading as an example of how algorithms can be disruptive. To be sure, using software to trade stocks disrupted the earlier, manual approach - but isn't he just saying that using computer programs to automate manual processes is disruptive? Again, true, but both obvious and nothing new.
The bigger picture here is that software continues to improve, and enterprises are becoming increasingly software-driven, in part because of such advancements. Algorithms are part of this story, but are not a particularly interesting or insightful angle on the broader trend of software-driven business transformation.
Heading in the Wrong Direction
I'm afraid not - in fact, they're a big step backwards. The reason why service marketplaces were possible - and why API marketplaces are increasingly feasible - is because services and APIs are ways of abstracting software functionality into loosely coupled units that support the consumability and reusability of the underlying software.
In the case of algorithms, however, we're stripping away all such abstraction layers and even the fundamental abstraction of written code itself, leaving the underlying patterns such code must follow laid bare for all to see.
As the limited success of Web Services in the 2000s would suggest, there are perhaps better ways of packing up algorithms for consumption and reuse than services. RESTful APIs improved matters to be sure. What, then, would be the next step on this path of evolution? Not algorithms, but microservices.
In fact, you could think of a microservice as a properly encapsulated algorithm if you like, as they are in essence units of execution with well-constructed APIs. But strip away the encapsulation from any microservices-based system and you end up with a tightly coupled, unimplementable tangle.
Are We Nearing the 'End of Applications'?
The crux of this issue is how we might define application. Today when we use the word app we're more likely than not referring to a mobile application, a simple bit of code we might download from an app store to our smartphone.
But of course, the world application has long meant more than that. Any tool, after all, has an application - the application of a hammer is hammering nails, for example. Early digital computers were purpose built with a single application, like cracking Nazi codes or calculating missile trajectories.
Only with the development of programmable computers like ENIAC did the word application come to mean computer program, as these devices were essentially general purpose, and thus had many possible applications.
Today we still think of an application as a computer program, although some uses of the word are narrower than others. But certainly, wouldn't Siri or Cortana be just another kind of application?
The Intellyx Take: Are We Nearing a Post-Algorithmic Age?
This question is a philosophical one that attempts to divine the essence of modern artificial intelligence (AI) - as well as where AI is heading over the next several years.
If we look at machine learning or deep learning algorithms, we're essentially teaching computers to learn on their own so that they can come up with new ways of doing things - with resulting behavior that may look nothing like "a self-contained step-by-step set of operations" that is the essence of an algorithm.
In other words, AI broadly speaking introduces two levels of computing: the human level where people code the AI programs (which are still algorithmic), and the self-learning behavior of those programs themselves that potentially leads to novel behaviors (which I posit may become post-algorithmic).
Seen in this light, we may in fact desire post-algorithmic behavior from our virtual assistants. After all, if they're simply following recipes - even complicated ones - then they're not really doing anything more than a traditional, human-coded application can do.
Only when the agent can come up with novel behaviors based upon unpredictable, independent learning will our virtual assistants become truly useful. At that point, algorithms - and Gartner's poorly thought out opinions - will become things of the past.
Copyright © Intellyx LLC. Intellyx advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, none of the organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Lindsey Turner.
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I should have anticipated this disappointment. There is no reason that I should not have seen this coming. I was looking forward to Doctor Sleep for at least a year, and such anticipation never bodes well for the book in question.
We all know that I love Stephen King, which is what makes this so hard for me to say: Doctor Sleep is a terrible, terrible novel that is disrespectful to the previously untarnished memory of its predecessor. That was really verbose, but it needed said.
King starts out strong, which makes the steady decline of the novel only that much worse. He tackles the question of whatever happened to little Danny Torrance from The Shining. Well, he discovered that his terrifying ability could be muted by excessive amounts of alcohol. After years of substance abuse, Danny finally turns himself around when he moves to Frasier, New Hampshire and serendipitously meets an AA regular. Years of happy sobriety pass and Danny has put his "shining" to use at a nursing home, where he is able to help the residents easily pass into the next realm when their time has come. Mind you, up until this point, I had no issues with the novel. Dick Hallorann makes a few appearances, and Danny comes to terms with his amazing skill.
Awesome. And then, just as suddenly, not so awesome. King switches gears and introduces a rambling troop of vampires known as the True Knot. Okay, I guess technically they are not vampires, but they follow the same basic concept, just instead of feeding on blood, they feed on the essence of children with the shining (referred to as "steam"). Enter Abra, a little girl who shines a lot, perhaps even brighter than Danny did. The True Knot is hot on her trail, and only Danny can save her! Gasp!
Let's start with something positive: I did like the novel's early reference to Charlie Manx, the antagonist of Joe Hill's N0S4A2. Hill is Stephen King's son; the very son that The Shining was dedicated to upon its original publication. We've come full circle.
The True Knot ruins this book. I understand that a new element had to be added, but vampires? I'm not sure which direction I expected this book to go in, but that certainly wasn't it. Moreover, I know I was supposed to like Abra, but I didn't. I adored Danny as a child in The Shining; he elicited such empathy, and I genuinely cared about his wellbeing. Abra just feels like a cheap knockoff, a generic version of Danny Torrance. Maybe it's because she is a bit older and more self-aware, whereas Danny was just coming into an understanding of his abilities. Whatever the reason, I did not like her, so I was annoyed that Danny risked his life for her because, in spite of the offensive plot, I still love Danny. Really, it can't be helped.
There is also the random revelation that Abra's mother, Lucy, is Danny's half-sister. This required Danny to postulate that his father's drunkenness was assuredly linked to an unfaithful marriage. Maybe I'm just being naïve, but Jack's primary mistress was booze, and he was so dedicated, I doubt he had time for another woman. This one seemed like more of a stretch than the soul-sucking steam-loving vampires.
I try to pretend that Doctor Sleep never happened, but once innocence is lost, it can never be reclaimed. Don't read this book – don't make my mistakes. Stop at The Shining and draw your own conclusions regarding Danny's fate – they are bound to be better than what King dreamt up in this lackluster sequel.


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One Dev Question with Raymond Chen - What Programming Language is Windows Written In?
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Was that a joke about C#? Or is it really not that common for Windows apps?
What about the drivers and so on? Also mainly C/C++ ?
Sure somethings are better written in assembly, and dispite of it's being architecture specific, how good are compilers this days, so one can write "almost everything" in C ?
Thank you for these very interesting videos.
I have one question for Raymond: Why explorer do not shows the file extensions by default? I think this can improve the security by showing the user that this ".docx.exe" document isn't a document for example.
i still enjoy windows programming with Win32 api & mfc & alt and especially com using c++
but programming with c++/cx is hard for me because it created for c# developer
maybe kenny kerr make it easy for us!
I wrote lots of C code...but windows all low level functions..
C++ is good. What about C# and F# ...
@Shaun: many Windows apps in Windows 8/8.1 time was written in HTML/JS stack, yes. Not the majority, but something like 38%. I heard that once in russian conference.
Today C# rules. M$ abandoned JS way to develop apps and I also abandoned developing Windows apps because M$ did this with JS. *Cries in Angular*
Why is there a MAX_PATH variable in Windows?
I take videos with my mobile S7 Edge.They are transported onto my PC.But some of my video`s on PC are positioned incorrectly?How do I turn the video round to the correct viewing position?I am very new to the computer world,only started at age 55yrs?I`m now 56yrs.
@KenyaWest: You may want to check again. Nothing like that happened. not sure where you got that severely wrong info.
There was an anecdote in an old copy of Petzold about code being written in QuickBASIC by Bill Gates. I always presumed it was a mistake?
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