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This is not just about the hippies. It's about us all. The whole world. Life and love are about sharing and living and continuing to do so with the care, concern, and compassion for others. Living and looking past the labels, past the rat race, past the typical "american dream". We want you to love your life like we love ours.
So, why the side door. Well, I wasn't alive in the 60s and 70s when the true hippies were alive and well. I feel a little robbed when I think about. I actually think that maybe in my past life, I really was there and that's why I find myself drawn to "hippie" ideas. Unfortunately, the sign "Hippies Use Side Door" does not impart the most loving of nostalgic memories.
As far as I have found and talked to people, the sign was intended to discourage hippies from coming into businesses and scaring off the "good customers'. Being a dirty hippie was bad for business. Too bad a lot of people just never really dig below the surface about the whole hippie movement. It was just so wrong to be unconventional.
Being a hippie doesn't mean to be threatening. Yet, the ideas of the hippie movement seem to have shaken general society. There's a stereotype that this phenomenon was out to destroy mainstream, when instead it was about freeing people from the bondage of rigid thinking and revolutionizing the way we live. We need to break free of the constraints of the norm, politics, and social institutions.
Well, our family digs being out of the ordinary and mainstream. We tend to beat to our own drum and have ideas that are a little different than most. We don't mind so much when people don't agree with our ideas as we probably don't agree with others. We don't want to be slaves to some one else's ideal life. We want to be able to stand for something without being forced into some kind of hard drawn idea that what we are doing or thinking is so wrong. So, we won't MAKE you use the side door. We invite you to use our Side Door.


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Administrative region of Voronezh Oblast, Russia
Voronezh Oblast is a administrative region found in the nation of Russia. Home to 2,378,803 people, it is the 23rd largest division in Russia in terms of population.
Voronezh Oblast gained its current status as a administrative region in the year 1934. The government of Voronezh Oblast is lead by Alexey Gordeyevand is based in the administrative region capital of Voronezh (Population: 848,752).
The most populous cities in Voronezh Oblast are: Voronezh (Population: 848,752), Borisoglebsk (Population: 68,597), Rossosh' (Population: 64,323), Rossosh' (Population: 62,000), Liski (Population: 55,939).
Voronezh Oblast Administrative region - Quick Facts
|Region Type
|Administrative region
|ISO Code
|Time Zone
|Year of Establishment
|Voronezh (Population: 848,752)
|Head of Government
|Alexey Gordeyev
|Total Population
|Total Area
|52,400 sq km (20,232 sq miles)
|Population Density
|45.4 sq km (117.6 sq miles)
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The Missing Post Box
It would seem that the Post Office has decided to not replace the Post Box which has been missing from beside the War Memorial for the last two months or so.
One of our residents has been communicating with the Royal Mail on a regular basis and from the correspondence it would seem that The Royal Mail is getting ready to decide NOT to replace the box due to need and the proximity of another box on the main road at the top of Church Lane.
The biggest reason is probably also that not enough people have complained…. So IF you want your Post Box reinstated, YOU NEED TO VOICE YOUR COMPLAINT NOW!
Tomorrow, Next week, Next month will be too late.
You need to email The Royal Mail at email@example.com
Telephone is 03457 740 740 but you don't have a record
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Siblings to Help Save Sumatran Rhino
July 27, 2013
Rhinos worldwide are facing a crisis as the price of rhino horn skyrockets. Demand for the traditional medicines made from black market rhino horns has never been higher in China and Vietnam. As the value of rhino horn increases, so do the efforts of poachers killing rhinos for horns. While all rhinos are threatened, Sumatran rhinos are the species most in danger of extinction. When our book Emi and the Rhino Scientist came out in 2007 there were about 300 of these small hairy rhinos living in the forests of the southeast Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. By the time we updated the book for its 2010 paperback version, the species' wild population numbers were down to 200. Today, only half as many remain. How many will exist in another three years? If a hundred more are lost, no Sumatrans will live in the wild. None. "What does it say about humanity," asks rhino scientist Terri Roth, "if we cannot find a way to share the earth with such an ancient, peaceful, non-threatening species like the Sumatran rhino."
In an effort to keep the species going, Terri is going to try breeding two of Emi's offspring. Harapan has just returned to the Cincinnati Zoo. The six-year old male had been living at the L.A. Zoo. Terri and the other scientists at the Center for Conservation & Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) hope to breed him with his older sister, Suci, who never left the Cincinnati Zoo. "No one wants to breed siblings, it is something we strive to avoid," explains Terri. But with no other captive Sumatran rhinos available, inbreeding is a lesser worry than extinction. "And I am not willing to sit idle and watch the last of a species go extinct."
Want to help save Sumatran rhinos? You can tweet "I'm a fan of Harapan – #RhinoCrisis," join in the Cincinnati Zoo's Letter Campaign for the Sumatran Rhino, or download the Sustainable Shopper App to help you choose rhino-friendly products. Learn more and keep up to date on rhinos at Rhino Signature Project.
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The country's name is on all the coins as Confoederatio Helvetica, the Latin name of the Swiss Confederation, orHelvetia specified.
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Test your machine learning IQ
How much do you really know about machine learning?
Answer 10 quick questions to find out now.
What is machine learning?
Machine learning is the process of teaching machines how to learn by providing them with guidance that helps them develop logic on their own and giving them access to datasets you want them to explore. The result is some form of artificial intelligence, or AI.
"Despite its name, there is nothing "artificial" about this technology – it is made by humans, intended to behave like humans and affects humans. So if we want it to play a positive role in tomorrow's world, it must be guided by human concerns."
Fei-Fei Li on "human-centered AI", New York Times
How does machine learning work?
Machines, most often computers, are given rules to follow known as algorithms. They are also given an initial set of data to explore when they first begin learning. That data is called training data.
Computers start to recognize patterns and make decisions based on algorithms and training data. Depending on the type of machine learning being used, they are also given targets to hit or they receive rewards when they make the right decision or take a positive step towards their end goal.
As they build this understanding or "learn", they work through a series of steps to transform new inputs into outputs which may consist of brand-new datasets, labeled data, decisions, or even actions.
The idea is that they learn enough to operate without any human intervention. In this way they start to develop and demonstrate what we call artificial intelligence. Machine learning is one of the main ways artificial intelligence is created.
Other examples of artificial intelligence include robotics, speech recognition, and natural language generation, all of which also require some element of machine learning.
There are many different reasons to implement machine learning and ways to go about it. There are also a variety of machine learning algorithms and types and sources of training data.
Why is machine learning growing so quickly?
In recent years, there have been 3 things that have contributed to the widespread interest in machine learning.
- Growth in all types of data
- Declining cost of storage
- Massive improvements in computing power
As with anything, there is evidence of other contributing factors and business drivers, but these three advances have clearly been dominant in terms of paving the way for accelerated use of machine learning and new and innovative applications of artificial intelligence.
2018 Machine Learning
Facts & Figures
Every MINUTE of every day in 2018:
- Amazon ships 1,111 packages
- 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube
- Google conducts 3,877,140 searches
- 2,083,333 snaps are sent on Snapchat
46 trillion, 200 billion calculations per second 478,200,000,000,000
93 quadrillion calculations per second 93,000,000,000,000,000
2000 – $10
2005 – $1
2010 – $.10 (a dime)
Today – $.02 (2 pennies)
- Automated Customer Service Agents
- Diagnostic and Treatment Systems
- Intelligent Processing Automation
- Automated Preventative Maintenance
- Expert Shopping Advisors
- Public Safety and Emergency Response
Why invest in machine learning?
Organizations in both the public and private sector are investing in machine learning because it allows them to improve in the following ways:
- Speed
Get answers and perform sophisticated calculations faster.
- Power
Process more data and conduct more complex analytics than ever before.
- Intelligence
Uncover new insights by tapping into data previously indecipherable.
- Efficiency
Conduct more analysis with fewer human resources.
No matter what industry you are in, you will probably find a solid use case for machine learning and be able to justify the investment through anticipated return to top line and/or bottom line revenue numbers.
Machine learning has been proven to reduce and even eliminate manual data entry, detect spam fight fraud, recommend products – to consumers and to your R&D team! It can be used to predict
when maintenance will be needed on all sorts of equipment and infrastructure, it can tell you more about your customers than you've ever known before, improve customer satisfaction and diagnose a myriad of health and medical issues.
If you haven't already invested in machine learning, you need to ask yourself why not? What is preventing you from getting started?
What is machine learning used for?
Retail and eCommerce
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being used to boost conversion rates, improve customer experience, deliver personalization and more
Search relevance
Online shoppers don't have the luxury of asking a salesperson where they can find a product. Your onsite search engine fulfills that role. By interpreting search queries, assessing user intent and using that information to train your search algorithm, results become more relevant which results in higher purchase conversion.
Customers seek a more personalized experience when shopping online. Providing recommendations to shoppers or search results based on their past behavior can help create stronger user engagement and retention.
Enhanced customer service
Chatbots act as a virtual shopping assistant. Like an employee, they both need to be trained to know not only what you sell, but also the terminology people use for the many products on your site, make sure they have the training data they need.
Search engines and other leading technology companies use machine learning to deliver innovative products and improve user experience
Search relevance
Search engine algorithms use machine learning to drive stronger user engagement. By interpreting queries and assessing user intent, search results become more relevant, which creates higher user satisfaction.
Analyzing data activity and preferences can help search engine and social media providers personalize content feeds and recommendations, enhancing online customer experiences.
Natural language processing (NLP)
NLP can analyze language patterns to understand text, for example on social media. This technology can be used to track customer sentiment and develop engagement strategies.
Financial Services
Leaders in financial services use machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve customer acquisition, retention and overall experience
Risk management
Anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), and fraud detection programs require sophisticated tools to spot potential threats. Relying solely on employees to spot patterns in financial records can be both time-consuming and costly. Machine learning and artificial intelligence allow financial institutions to sift through data and find anomalies quickly, preventing illegal activity and saving potential company losses.
Revenue generation
Machine learning algorithms are now being leveraged by financial institutions to create investment strategies, freeing up financial advisors to engage more with their clients.
Enhanced customer experiences
With today's expectation for on-demand customer service, chatbots have a crucial role to fill. Chatbots help to delight customers with real-time feedback and a streamlined experience.
Accelerate machine learning with training data for self-driving cars and improve speech-recognition systems, in-car navigation and user experience with more accurate field testing
Autonomous vehicles
While self-driving cars are extremely complex machines, their Artificial Intelligence (AI) is powered by machine learning. As the car moves forward, it processes a lot of visual data —just like a driver does when looking out the windshield. Vehicles need to assign meaning to large volumes of image data, such as identifying a tree or pedestrian, and then feed that back into the car's AI to teach it.
Voice recognition
Traditional dashboards—and more recently, mobile devices—take a driver's hands and eyes off the road. Speech interfaces don't. Connected cars need access to large-scale speech data collections to train the speech interface, providing consumers around the world with the best user experience.
Predicting behavior
Advances in voice recognition and cameras that can help track driver emotions are an important next step in Human Machine Interface, giving cars the ability to identify speakers' emotions as well as their words—so they can tell when users get frustrated, and respond accordingly.
Improve emergency response, defense initiatives and law enforcement with secure data services
Using social media monitoring, computer vision, and data annotation, government agencies are now able to extract information to aid with terrorist surveillance, monitor national security threats, and more.
National emergencies
Emergencies like natural disasters or coordinated attacks can happen without a moment's notice. When lives are at stake, responding immediately and with coordination is key. Using translation, voice recognition, and text data collection, emergency responders around the world can communicate efficiently with those in harm's way.
Law enforcement
Secure transcription allows law enforcement to accomplish many objectives, including capturing files from Body Worn Video, official record keeping, and archival record solutions.
Exciting uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in Healthcare are transforming patient care
Predictive analysis
Evaluate trends, anticipate outbreaks, and forecast patient needs.
Chatbots and virtual healthcare
Provide faster and better customer service.
Advances in underwriting
Use machine learning to build stronger underwriting models based on a wide variety of data points.
What are the top machine learning methods?
"Most of human and animal learning is unsupervised learning.
If intelligence was a cake, unsupervised learning would be the cake, supervised learning would be the icing on the cake, and reinforcement learning would be the cherry on the cake. We know how to make the icing and the cherry, but we don't know how to make the cake. We need to solve the unsupervised learning problem before we can even think of getting to true AI."
Yann Lecun, Director of AI Research, Facebook
Supervised Learning
This type of machine learning is probably the simplest and most accurate form of machine learning.
Basically, machines are given labeled training data that has both inputs and target outputs. The machine's task is to learn the logic used to derive the target outputs by following the examples it was given. Eventually, after deriving the logic from the labeled training data, when it gets new inputs it will arrive at the targets or outputs independently.
Two examples of models commonly used for supervised machine learning include classification and regression.
Classification is easiest to understand. The data is evaluated to determine which class it falls into. An example might be a machine learning model which asks a machine to determine if a picture is of a horse or not. That's a simple yes/no response and an example of binary classification. After providing training data with enough pictures of horses and non-horses that the machine can learn the distinguishing characteristics of a horse, the machine will be able to to look at a picture on its own and tell you if it's a horse or not.
Regression is slightly different. Instead of separating the data and assigning it to a class, the machine is asked to predict a response or output based on the responses it got from the initial training data.
An easy to follow example is if the initial inputs of 3 and 5 had a target of 8, the learned logic would be to add the two inputs. Ultimately the model would use regression analysis to predict the target for inputs of 4 and 6 to be 10. Supervised learning is task-oriented "Find me XYZ target."
Semi-Supervised Learning
As you may have guessed, semi-supervised learning is a hybrid model. Algorithms using semi-supervised learning are trained on a combination of labeled and unlabeled data. This approach can be more practical because because it can be expensive to have a data scientist or data engineer label data. Other times it's taken because the size of the data is so massive the task of labeling it would be herculean. Another reason teams take a hybrid approach is to avoid any sort of human bias that can happen during data labelling.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist the facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
Sherlock Holmes
With semi-supervised learning your model may benefit and be able to work faster by having some targets or labeled data, and the work it does to make sense of the unlabeled data may reveal insights and provide you with outputs you hadn't discovered yet. It's a win-win in many scenarios and often used approach.
Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning is the most abstract approach and based entirely on the machine, often referred to as the "learning agent", learning through trial and error. The machine determines which actions to take in order to maximum its performance in a given environment based on a definition it's been given of a reward. That kind of trial and error activity is called exploration. The knowledge it gains from understanding which actions earn rewards is called exploitation.
Through exploration and exploitation of its environment, the learning agent, fueled by advanced machine learning algorithms, ultimately gains enough knowledge to begin to demonstrate almost human-like levels of artificial intelligence.
Robotics provide the best example of reinforcement learning. Their use in factories relies heavily on their ability to use reinforcement learnings to adapt as needed to their environment and complete human like tasks and behaviors with continually improving error rates.
What kind of data do you need for machine learning?
"Machine learning can only be as good as the data you use to train it."
Daniel Tunkelang, Led machine learning projects at Endeca, Google, LinkedIn
There is no end to the number of articles that speak to the importance of making sure you have enough of the right data to support your machine learning projects.
As Tunkelang, quoted above, goes on to explain in the article Machine Learning: 10 Facts Everyone Needs to Understand "you can have machine learning without sophisticated algorithms, but not without good data."
So what kind of data do you need? It depends.
Structured vs. Unstructured Data
Structured Data
Structured data is logically organized and easy for a computer to read and understand. It could be machine generated transactional data pulled from an ERP or CRM system or simple time-stamped data about actions coming from sensors. It could also be human generated data input into a spreadsheet. This type of data is most often used in supervised learning and it can typically be processed very quickly, even with incredibly large volumes.
Unstructured data
According to industry leaders more than 80% of the data in the world is unstructured and the amount of it is growing exponentially. Unstructured data is everywhere. Human generated unstructured data includes MS word and other text files, presentations, videos, images, audio, social media posts, and much more. Examples of machine generated unstructured data includes surveillance footage, satellite imagery and different types of scientific data. Supervised and reinforcement learning are incredible tools that can be applied to gain insights and do more with unstructured data than ever before.
How much data is required for machine learning?
The short answer is, you need a lot of data. The best algorithm in the world will struggle to yield the right results with insufficient data.
"AI techniques require models to be retrained to match potential changing conditions, so the training data must be refreshed frequently. In one-third of the cases, the model needs to be refreshed at least monthly, and almost one in four cases requires a daily refresh."
McKinsey Global Institute, Notes from the AI Frontier
Why? Greater volume drives greater accuracy.
There are many reasons for that. One reason is that for most machine learning models, you are trying to get a computer to make sense of a data-set with an incredible amount of variation.
As an example, consider voice recognition applications and variation in speech caused by differences in gender, age, dialects and more. Some experts say that a model needs at least 10,000 hours of audio to deliver outputs with modest accuracy levels. Others say that while the total volume of data required depends on the complexity of the model or the problem, 100,000 instances is a minimum requirement for most models.
Does "quality" matter?
Yes! Maybe even more than quantity.
"More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data."
Peter Norvig, Computer Scientist, Google and Industry Leader
What makes data "bad?" It could be irrelevant to your problem, inaccurately annotated, misleading, or incomplete. In that case, it will require some data cleaning or preparation.
If your model is tasked with classifying data, your training data may have to be properly labeled first. Sometimes formatting is an issue. For example, if you are working with image data those images may need to be resized so the model analyzes vectors of the same length.
Any data that you use will require some level of clean-up. Experts report that the work that needs to be done doesn't end with the extracting, transforming and loading (ETL) of data. Even after that, the clean-up required to make it suitable for data science typically represents an average of 80% of the total workload in any machine learning project.
"You can have the most appropriate algorithm, but if you train your machine on bad data, then it will learn the wrong lessons."
Appen, An Introduction to Machine Learning Data
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Signals that are broadcast using BLE are considered public, meaning another mobile app can potentially use the signal for their own purposes. This is practice is known as piggybacking. However, beacon manufacturers have started rolling out features that prevent others piggybacking off your beacons. For example, Estimote have rolled out secure UUID which uses a mechanism called UUID rotation. Beacons with this feature change their ID at a fixed time interval on pattern that is safely stored in the cloud. This means that even if someone manages to sniff out the ID's of your beacons, they are not able to piggyback off them as the ID's keep changing and it's not possible to identify the pattern.
Here are some of the most common beacon security myths:
In order for beacon technology to proliferate special consideration has to be given to the end users privacy. If consumers are constantly bombarded with unsolicited or low value content they are likely to delete your app or revoke location permissions. What's more, companies leveraging beacon technology must be as transparent as possible and clearly explain to the user how you are going to use their location and what value they should expect from your app.
Here are some key recommendations related to privacy:


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Cape Town in the news:
- Cape Town City v Stellenbosch: Did the Western Cape Derby live up to expectations?: The Western Cape Derby took centre-stage this weekend and certainly showed signs of becoming one of the foremost derbies to look out for in years to come. While the Derby did not have the same glamour …: "Cape Town" – BingNews
- Several motorists attacked on N2 in Cape Town, police keeping close watch: The N2 highway close to Somerset West was closed briefly on Sunday evening after several motorists were attacked. Cape Town law enforcement spokesperson Wayne Dyason said some vehicles were stoned …: "Cape Town" – BingNews
- 'It's not about gangs, it's about a society that is hurting': "When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town's inner city", it reads, "it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention." The …: "Cape Town" – BingNews
- Amazon Opens a New Region in Bahrain – AWS Middle East: However, according to the blog post about the opening of the Middle East region, Amazon is planning to have nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Cape Town, Jakarta, and Milan in …: "Cape Town" – BingNews
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Drilling into potential synergies between blockchain and cloud, Cuomo pointed to "a wedding ceremony" arranged by IBM between Hyperledger Fabric – the Linux-based greenhouse for incubating enterprise blockchain projects – and Kubernetes – a platform for automating and scaling clusters of services across hybrid cloud systems. Kubernetes is a technology Red Hat has lots of expertise in, as exemplified by its OpenShift platform.
Cofactor is a large, structured listing of people, places, and things. Here you can find the description of each topic.


text: Joshua Tobey expresses his passion for wildlife in a creative and personal way through his bronze sculptures, giving each one a distinct character and voice. His original patinas also contribute to the mood and visual texture of each piece. In recent years, the smooth surfaces and patinas of his bronzes have moved his work beyond the limits of Western art, bringing him recognition in the broader world of contemporary art. Tobey was honored as the featured artist at the prestigious 2014 Fall Arts Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He is the first sculptor in the event's thirty-year history to be honored. "Jackpot" was awarded the Montana Memorial Prize for outstanding work at the National Sculpture Society 81st Annual Exhibition at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina in 2014. "Keeper of the Trust & Big Dog" was awarded Presidents Choice Award and the People's Choice Award at the Gilcrease Museum in 2014.


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Donnie Yen's 23-Year-Old Son is His Spitting Image
By su on June 19, 2018 in NEWS
Above: Donnie Yen with his three children.
Married to Cecilia Wang (汪詩詩) since 2003, Donnie Yen (甄子丹) has often showed off his love for his current wife and two children through social media. However, this Father's Day, Donnie surprised fans and shared a lovely group photo of his two children, Jasmine and James, as well as his oldest son from his first marriage.
While Donnie's 23-year-old son, Jeff, from his previous marriage with Jowan Leung (梁靜慈) was no secret, Donnie rarely gets to see his son due to his divorce and rarely talks about him in public. Since Donnie never shared any pictures of Jeff, the group photo of his three children came as a shock to fans. Although Donnie photoshopped sunglasses onto his children, many noticed the strong resemblance Jeff had to him. Donnie captioned the photo, "I'm the luckiest father in the world!"
In everyone's eyes, Donnie is the perfect husband and father, but not many recall his divorce with his first wife back in the early 1990s. Getting married after less than a year of dating, Donnie and his ex-wife went splitsville and were not on great terms. Only realizing that she was pregnant with Jeff after the divorce, Jowan decided to raise the child as a single mother.
Although Donnie has provided alimony since the birth of his son, his efforts of wanting to meet Jeff was met with nothing but broken promises. His ex-wife would often go back on her words and not let the father-son duo meet when they were younger, resulting in Donnie having to go through his lawyer every time he wanted to see Jeff. Hopefully now that Jeff is an adult, the two will not have to take the legal route just to spend some quality father-son time.
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This happened awhile ago, but I thought I would bring it to everyone's attention. As we all know, Wow Wow Wubbzy Wubbzy Wubbzy Wow Wow the calf is quickly becoming increasingly popular, and is quickly rising to stardom. Wubbzy's celebrity presence has easily converted a large following among the masses. And rightly so, I might add, noting he is probably the most charismatic calf you'll ever meet.
Wubbzy's stardom is actually becoming so great that he attracted the attention of the actual creator of Wow Wow Wubbzy. Bob Boyle, the creator of Wow Wow Wubbzy, commented on the first blog posting about Wubbzy the calf.
To be perfectly honest I was a bit skeptical at first to the authenticity of the claim until I clicked on his name which brought me to his blog. The blog of Bob Boyle is actually pretty cool, and the work that he does is inspiring. Browsing though his blog, you can tell that Mr. Boyle is no lazy cartoon creator; he actually visits schools and talks frequently with actual kids. Working with kids is very admirable, but helping them to be creative and inspiring them is even more admirable!
Here is what Mr. Boyle commented on the posting about Wubbzy:
"As the creator of Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, I have to say that your calves' name is awesome!" "He sounds like a scrappy fella. I'd like to meet the little guy sometime!"
The sheer randomness of Bob Boyle's visit to Crazy Moos was pretty awesome so I thought I would point this out. It's pretty cool! So Bob Boyle, if you do read this posting, know that you can visit our dairy anytime to meet Wubbzy (note though that he has grown quite a bit though so he's not really that scrappy fella he used to be :). Just let me know when you're in Northern California!
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Tent accommodations and marquees are the perfect solution to realize a temporary event location or to expand your permanent event location. Any event must offer suitable facilities and at the same time have the right look and feel to make the party or event a fantastic experience for all visitors!
At Kontent Structures we rent and sell a wide range of tent accommodations to facilitate all types of events. Corporate and private parties, fairs, congresses, festivals, sporting events and VIP accommodation. National and international. From small to (very) large, in one large accommodation or a combination of several smaller tents or marquees.
Your event tent can be composed or designed entirely according to your wishes to create your own look or appearance to create a targeted customer or brand experience. We are happy to work in partnership to create a successful event by empathizing with you about your temporary space and about creating a unique experience for your visitors.
Width: From 2.75 up to 50 m
Length: Unlimited, in 5 m sections
Side height: 2.5, 3, or 4 m
Width: 3×3, 4×4, 5×5 m
Side height: 2.30 m
Width: From 15 up to 40 m
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Side height: 7 m and higher, depending on specific type and version
During our 20 years of experience we have supplied tents for any event imaginable, from corporate events to major public events. In the past years we have supplied tents for:
We maintain a minimum of 250 m² for even tent rentals.
Tent structures can be fitted out completely to your liking, whether you're buying or renting a tent. Through these optional items you can create a more luxurious appearance or additional comfort to your tent. A selection:
Our pagoda tents can be equipped with promotional banners and bar counters, to match the overall appearance of your event.
Pagodas can also be fitted out with coloured roof covers. Below a selection of available colors:
Should you have different wishes or ideas, we are happy to discuss these with you!
Tents floors are highly recommended for event tents. Our floors not only provide a dry and solid surface for your guests, but they also contribute to tent anchoring. We always supply the right anchoring for your tent structures, allowing it to stand up to unfavorable weather.
We have two types of flooring systems available:
A heavy-duty floor frame consists of a strong metal construction, inlaid with high-quality plywood. The standard and most used size of a single floor frame is 2.5 x 5 m.
Due to the high weight, floor frames always need to be handled by a forklift. Therefore, it is important to make sure that the intended event location is suitable for driving with a forklift truck.
Floor frames can of course be used without any cover, but the surface is perfectly suited for carpet tiles or other floor covering or decoration in the style of your event or corporate identity.
Due to their weight, heavy-duty floor frames also contribute to the anchoring of a tent accommodation. This depends on the size and type of tent. For some tents or marquees, only the heavy-duty floor is sufficient so no additional anchoring like ballast blocks or anchor rods is required. In the case of tent halls and marquees with larger dimensions, the floor frames only reduce the required additional anchoring in the form of anchor rods or ballast blocks.
A cassette floor is constructed from a leveled aluminum ring-beam layer; upon which the panels or floor cassettes are then laid. A single floor cassette consists of aluminum beams with high-quality plywood on top and has a size of 1 x 2.5 m.
No fork-lift truck is required when placing this floor system and a cassette floor takes up relatively little space during transportation.
Just like floor frames, floor cassettes can be used without any cover, but is suited for carpet tiles or other floor covering or decoration.
If you use a cassette floor, additional anchoring is always required by means of anchor rods or concrete blocks to be able to ensure safety.


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What Marketers Can Learn from Miles DavisMike Gospe
January 19, 2010 — 1,474 views
I'm listening to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and pondering one of life's deep questions: what defines great jazz? We all know great jazz when we hear it. But why exactly is his music so good while jazz performed by so many other jazz musicians just doesn't quite measure up? The simple answer for me is this: it's his bands' ability to listen to each other and the spaces between the notes.
Great jazz groups are great not only because each musician is an expert with their own instrument. That goes without saying. Their greatness is defined by their ability to play as a group. They know how to listen to each other as well as the music they collectively create. They know how to lock in a structured rhythmic cadence with piano, drums, and bass, and yet have it feel as comfortable as a favorite sweater – all this while a trumpet or sax caresses the melody and brings the notes and phrases to life. They know when to speed up the tempo, and when to turn down the volume. And when it comes to soloing, they know never to play over each other because that would destroy the tune. Too many notes played at once create chaos and confuses the ear. Instead, they take turns highlighting the uniqueness of each instrument. Listening and adjusting for the greater good of the tune is what it's all about. The star may be Miles, but do you think he discounts the value Bill Evans brings on piano? No way. It's a partnership all the way.
The same goes for understanding what makes great integrated marketing campaigns. The marketing functions are the instruments, with each function played by an expert. But the campaign is the tune.
Consider a new product launch campaign that seeks to capture attention and build momentum leading up to a product introduction event. To begin, a cadence is set where "thought leadership" webinars, executive presentations, and refreshed website content set the mood, just like a piano, drums, and bass trio. As the product introduction date approaches, momentum builds with direct marketing and social media commentary added to the mix, just like a trumpet sounding the notes of a mesmerizing melody. Then, with rising anticipation, a press announcement and customer event punctuate the timeline just like a euphoric saxophone solo played by John Coltrane.
Don't confuse the campaign as being a singular product launch event. It's much more than that. The campaign is a rhythm that unfolds with each marketing vehicle being highlighted at the right time, all with a single purpose of adding value to the campaign song. For me, this lesson hit home when I joined a jazz combo group. It's easy to play with a group and sound crappy - just let your ego take control. As a musician, when you let your ego take control you forget how to listen. Playing like Miles takes the guts to check your ego at the door, and the discipline to truly listen to each other. That's the secret.
My prescription for success: take time out of your busy week to listen to your favorite jazz tune. Listen for the spaces between the notes. And enjoy!


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LOGAN — As Utah State University students gear up for the start of the fall semester next week, students can have more peace of mind with the help of an app.
This week, USU launched Utah State Safe, a free safety app that will send users campus alerts through push notifications, allow quick access to call 911, and provide information on campus resources.
"It puts the students, faculty and staff in direct contact with the (USU) Department of Public Safety," said Earl Morris, executive director of the department.
Morris said the app is offered to "anyone who has a smartphone," and will be particularly helpful in situations when someone might not be able to pick up the phone and call the police.
"Pull up the app, push a button and immediately it dials straight in to 911," he said, adding the app has GPS built in.
Additionally, the app includes a feature that allows a friend to track your destination home.
"If you're afraid to go home at night, you can actually call a friend and ask them to activate their 'walk with friends' feature," he said. "If a friend notices an interruption from travel, from point A to point B, the friend could alert the police," he said.
He said the app is tied in to the school's Code Blue Alert System, which issues campus alerts and updates when there is a significant emergency, ongoing threats or safety concerns.
The app also has a feature to report tips of suspicious behavior through USU's online crime form, and provides advice on how to assist a student in distress.
"It's the first time we've had anything like this," he said.
The app will notify students of emergency events ranging from school closures to severe weather and natural disasters.
In situations where someone needs to barricade themselves, users could communicate with first responders to track down their location.
According to a news release about the new app, USU has been working on the app and alert system "due to limitations in its prior system."
In February, the school released a statement apologizing for sending an emergency notification about an "armed aggressor" on campus after technicians had "inadvertently triggered" the alert, which caused panic in the campus community.
Because school hasn't commenced, Morris said the app has been popular so far among faculty and public safety personnel. He hopes "at a minimum" that every single student, faculty and staff member downloads the app.
He said there are future plans to introduce the app to the university's satellite campuses in Price and Blanding.
"It's exciting. It's something that we can build upon," he said.
In Salt Lake City, the University of Utah's Department of Public Safety has its own safety app called U Heads Up!
Stuart Moffatt, associate director of emergency management at the U. Department of Public Safety, said their app stemmed from the need to inform local residents and businesses of campus alerts, because currently, only students, staff and faculty are able to sign up for the university's campus text alert system.
"We're co-located in a fairly dense neighborhood with a with a lot of neighbors and partners," he said. "And they cannot sign up for the campus (text) alerts because they're not affiliated with the university."
With a limited number of characters, he said text alerts will oftentimes direct people to a website for more information, whereas the safety app can provide more complete information during an emergency situation.
In addition to sending push notifications to the community, the app includes pre-planning and pre-incident information.
He said students can look up the app's emergency response guide, which contains "a number of hazards or incidents that may happen on campus." The guide also provides recommendations on how to react to certain situations, like how to respond to someone having a heart attack, how to put out a small fire, or events as minor as noticing a trip or fall hazard on school grounds.
He said the school relies on both the school's text alert system and safety app.
"You can't use just one tool … you have to have many tools," he said. "While we recognize the app might not have a lot of downloads, or as much interest as the campus alerts, it serves a purpose."
Through their student account, students can add up to three contacts to receive the school's text alerts to a communication channel to be bridged in case of an extreme emergency.
While having the app on your phone is important, Moffatt advised that students should follow the "16 and 12 Rule," which reminds students to always carry 16 ounces of water and 1,200 calories in snacks with them.
"If (students) have to evacuate, if they have to shelter in place ... they've got food and water so that they can take care of themselves," he said.
Most schools require students to first enroll in their school's alert system before they can receive notifications.
According to Dixie State University's emergency-alert system website, emergency notifications are issued when there is a significant or dangerous situation occurring on campus. Weber State University's Code Purple Emergency Notification System announces health and safety emergency information by text, voice and e-mail messages.
Utah Valley University, Snow College and Salt Lake Community College feature their own emergency text messaging alerts system for their campus communities to opt in and use.


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Avec ton chien ChiChiLove tu auras l'impression d'avoir un vrai petit animal de compagnie à tes côtés ! Tu pourras l'amener partout et t'en occuper tout au long de la journée. Cette peluche filoguidée de 25cm avance, aboie et se trémousse en bougeant la queue. 2 piles LR6 incluses. A partir de 3 ans.
CCL Glam Fashion
The cute Chi Chi LOVE Glam Fashion steals the show from every other dog. The small cuddly chihuahua is wearing an amazing silver shawl and a matching bow on her head. The shiny pink bag can be used to take the pup for a walk or to any party. The cute Chi Chi LOVE Glam Fashion measures 20cm tall and is suitable for children aged 5 years and over.
CCL Happy
The sweet Chi Chi LOVE Happy is sure to put a smile on the face of every young dog owner. The cute chihuahua reacts to touch and listens to 12 different voice commands such as "Hello", "Bark!" or "Come here!". When told to do so, the pup starts to bark, to walk or to wag its tail in joy. The cuddly plush dog is wearing a wonderful pink collar featuring a heart-shaped pendant. The design is also incorporated into the pink bag that displays lots of white hearts. This bag can be used to carry the cuddly dog or as a stylish accessory for the dog owner. Chi Chi LOVE Happy measures 30cm tall and is suitable for children aged 5 years and over.
Retrouve ta peluche ChiChiLove avec son adorable chiot. Grâce à ce superbe sac aux motifs d'empreintes de coussinets tu pourras transporter tes peluches partout avec toi !
CCL on Tour
The cute Chi Chi LOVE on Tour never misses a trip. It feels really happy inside its small bag with a bow design and can see what is going on through the heart-shaped net. Chi Chi LOVE on Tour measures 20cm tall and is wearing a wonderful lilac collar. Suitable for children aged 5 years and over.
CCL Paris II
The cute Chi Chi LOVE Paris can be taken for walks in the small bag. The dog attracts all the attention in its beautiful pink dress. When the dog needs a rest, it can relax on the blanket included with the set. And there's no chance of losing your dog once night falls, as its collar and the hearts on the dress light up in the dark. Suitable for children aged 5 years and over.
Chi Chi LOVE Star
Every dog owner will immediately fall in love with the cute little Chi Chi LOVE dog with its large eyes. The cuddly pup is wearing a bonny pink outfit with a matching bow on its head. On the bow there are lots of little white stars which begin to glow in the dark. The matching bag has the same design as the bow. The countless stars on the bag ensure young owners will also love going for walks in the dark with their dog and experiencing the dazzling spectacle of the star-filled sky. Another special accessory that comes with the cute chihuahua is a pendant in the shape of a dog's head, which also glows beautifully in the dark. The pendant can be attached to the bag or worn by the owner as piece of jewellery. Chi Chi LOVE Star measures 20cm tall and is suitable for children aged 5 years and over.
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Jakarta, Nov 10 (ANTARA) – An integrated ASEAN market will only become a market for multinational companies if it is not used optimally by the South East Asian countries` own business communities, an industry ministry official said.
Agus Tjahajana Wirakusumah, the Industry Ministry`s director general of international industrial cooperation, said here on Thursday the ASEAN market had so far been used optimally by multinational companies (MNCs) from outside the Southeast Asian region. The MNCs had built factories and were marketing their products in the ASEAN region.
"If the ASEAN economy is driven only by the multinational companies, I am afraid ASEAN`s own business communities will end up being only onlookers in the ASEAN Economic Community to be formed in 2015," Agus said.
Therefore, he said, ASEAN entrepreneurs must build a business and cooperation network among themselves in order to be able to remain competitive not only in ASEAN but also in the world.
"In my view, our entrepreneurs so far have yet to take full advantage of the ASEAN market in terms of investment and marketing," Agus said.
He pointed out that a number of Indonesia`s entrepreneurs such as Sinar Mas Group preferred investing in China rather than in the ASEAN region.
"In my opinion, ASEAN`s economic integration has not been used optimally up to the present. Therefore ASEAN entrepreneurs should take advantage of it before investing outside ASEAN," he said.
According to data from the ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN countries, except Laos and Myanmar, were mostly exporting to countries outside the region.
Only Laos and Myanmar were ASEAN-oriented in foreign trade as 80 percent and 50 percent respectively of their exports went to other ASEAN countries.
Indonesia`s foreign trade orientation was just the opposite. In 2009, Indonesia`s total trade with ASEAN reached US$52 billion with a composition of US$24.6 billion in export and US$27.7 billion in import.
The figure was smaller than that obtained in Indonesia`s trade with countries outside ASEAN which was recorded at US$160.9 billion with the composition of US$91.8 billion in exports and US$69 billion in imports. (ANTARA)
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NBA Daily Fantasy Helper: Tuesday 1/8/19
If you're new to daily fantasy basketball -- maybe you started your DFS journey during the MLB or NFL seasons, or maybe basketball is your sport and this will be your first year giving it a shot -- you're in for a treat. The NBA scene changes hugely on a week-to-week, day-to-day, and -- depending on injury news -- even a minute-to-minute basis, making every slate a unique one that requires an ever-changing approach.
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We'll also be coming at you with this primer every day, breaking down a few of the day's top plays at each price point.
Let's take a look at who you should target on today's main slate.
Best of the Best
Russell Westbrook ($11,800): Westbrook's minutes are up lately -- from 34.8 per game on the season to 36.5 per game over his last 10. In those 10 games, he has played no fewer than 34.5 minutes and has topped 36 minutes five times. Unsurprisingly, that's translating to big fantasy numbers (55.3 FanDuel points per game). He brings that into a plus matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves, who play at a top-12 pace and rank 16th in defensive rating and 19th in rebound rate. Our models project him for the slate's top fantasy score. Russ has scored fewer than 50 FanDuel points in only one of his last eight games, and with his consistently high minutes, he offers a great floor, making him an especially strong cash-game option.
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To make the special outings more fun, I decided to draw numbers to make it random. I announced on Sunday who was going out with me next.
This week Alaine's number was picked. Today was the chosen day. She was so excited! Unlike Gavin who talked up a storm, Alaine only said a few things but she smiled the whole time.
We went to Sonic for an ice cream treat. When I asked her what she wanted she pointed to a pink milkshake, strawberry banana. When she got back, she told everyone about her "banana shake."


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I am a new Fogbugz user today. I would like to use it to document software testing as well as bugs. Here is an outline of the process as I conceive it:
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First, I'll say that FogBUGZ could be used for just about any collobarative effort, and collaboration aside, any organizational effort. It also makes a great customer service system.
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Shared bikes popular in Tibet
Shared bike service represented by Mobike, one of China's popular bike-sharing operators, has seen rapid development since the second half of 2017 in southwest China's Tibet.
Shared bikes seen on the street of Lhsa, capital city of southwest China's Tibet.
Zhou Ya, chief expert of Mobike, said in a recent interview with China Tibet Online, people used to think the climate in Western China was not helpful to shared bikes, but in practice, the demand there is very high.
Taking Tibet as an example, bike-riding works very well there, and the local government also welcome themandhas provided them with preferential policies.
He added that while Lhasa's daily usage rate cannot compare to inland China, locals and tourists are very excited about this, for it's much easier to ride a bike than walking in such a city with high altitude.
As more supportive policies issued by the region's government and aid from inland China strengthened, to start upa business via Internet has become a hit in Tibet where many young people are exploring business models suitable to the local area.


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Belmont Race 8
Here is a great betting race due to the entry of Giant Moon and Icabad Crane. Two horses that will attract much betting action that have only a small chance of winning. When you have two horses who promice to take huge action this sets a up a great betting race. The pick here is Manteca who is running second off the layoff and ran huge from off the pace last out. Not only does Manteca have a great chance to win but he should be a generous price. Should be plenty of value in the Grand Slam that ends here and in exactas or trifectas with some of the other horses underneath with Manteca keyed.
60 9-9-10
strike rate 15%
cumulative return $96.80
06 February 2009
Power Play Of The Day
Posted by G. C. at 5:15 AM
Labels: play of the day
2 comments:
- G. C. said...
Icabad Crane decided to stay in Sleepy Hollow today which changed the betting dynamics of this event. Manteca did win easily at 2-1 the second betting choice.
61 10-9-10
strike rate 16%
cumulative return $103.60
- February 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- Anonymous said...
Ms. Troll here checking in-you finally hit one-lets see ya do it again to get back into positive roi
- February 7, 2009 at 10:26 AM
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FacultyShare Presentation by Theodore Christou
my clock hit 00:00, signalling a new day
Thursday, January 30, 2014
3:30 - 4:30 pm
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Duncan McArthur Hall
Dr. Theodore Christou is Assistant Professor of Social Studies.
The paper to be shared at the FacultyShare explores my search for Byzantium. This search began in Fredericton, New Brunswick and led me to the archives of the Patriarch of Constantinople in Istanbul, to the monastic communities upon Mount Athos, to the Patriarchal Institute in Thessaloniki, to Athens, to the Vatican Library and Archives, to Venice, and to Florence. Outside of our history of education textbooks and despite our general omission of a context spanning continents and an entire millennium in our North American depictions of the history of educational ideas, Byzantium is relevant. I found that it is alive and breathing. The paper shall explore its relevance to my own search for meaning in and through history, philosophy, and story.


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The Hop brings the world to Hanover, and Hop members get the closest view of the diverse, groundbreaking work we present and create.
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Each Hop season brings amazing opportunities for members to connect with the arts in profound and meaningful ways. From the Members' Season Preview and receptions with visiting artists, to opening night celebrations, Hop members are invited to unique events that enrich their experience at the Hop.
With the help of member contributions, the Hop brings the arts into area classrooms and communities, providing unforgettable and often free or subsidized opportunities for students and community members to learn from the diverse artists the Hop presents.
Please contact Kimberly Shreve at [email protected] or 603.646.2006 with any questions about membership.
Becoming a member ensures you'll have access to great seats and join a vibrant community of arts lovers.
See our full policies for details and limitations.
Maximum number of tickets per membership per performance is 4 adult tickets. An additional 2 youth-priced tickets may be purchased for children age 3 to 18.
For non-members, a processing fee of $3 per ticket is added at checkout. Hop members will not pay this fee, nor will they see this fee displayed online at checkout.
Tickets must be exchanged for tickets to a different live performance at the time of the exchange. If a ticket is being exchanged for a lower-priced ticket, the difference, less any applicable handling charge(s), may be used towards additional Hop event tickets or placed on account for future use during the current Hop season. Funds placed on account and not used within 12 months will be forfeited. Click here for full exchange policy.
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We feel grateful to have a world-class facility like the Hopkins Center in our backyard, and like to support its mission to provide the community with such wonderful arts presentations. We are particularly grateful for the Hop's family performances so that local children are exposed to the arts at such an early age.
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Worldwide media acknowledges that there's nothing more inspiring than reading about people going the extra mile to help others. Publications like Reader's Digest and Time Magazine annually release feature articles that commemorate a certain individual, groups or organizations who may have achieved something exemplary or have rendered remarkable service.
For 2014, TIME magazine's Person of the Year is actually a group of them from different professions, nationalities and organizations banded together by one humanitarian goal. Collectively, TIME called them the Ebola Fighters, and among their ranks are dedicated nurses.
The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME's 2014 Person of the Year.


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Homepage > See & Do > Sport & leisure > Sport > Mountain Biking > Transporting MTBs on public transport
Start planning your MTB holiday, checking the rules of MTB bicycle public transportation.
The transport of bicycles is subject to limitations. Not all companies guarantee transport. It is advisable to plan ahead.
Planning your trip with public transport sbb.ch
Post Bus: Bicycles can be transported on the condition that there is sufficient space and that passengers are not disadvantaged in any way. There are a limited number of places available and it is advisable to inquire in advance!
Ticino Region information:
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TPL (Transport Public Luganesi): Transport of bicycles is not permitted.
ARL (Bus Regional Luganesi): Transport of bicycles is not permitted.
Monte Tamaro: montetamaro.ch
Take advantage of RailAway and Arcobaleno offers only available to visitors that use public transport to get to the Tamaro.
Monte Brè: montebre.ch
N.B.: Bicycles can only be transported between Suvigliana and Monte Bre! Rent a mountain bike at the summit.
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Chocolate Roulette
A grown up, little piece of chocolate fun. The chocolate roulette contains 16 chocolate thins, made from our signature, smooth dark Belgium chocolate. One of the 16 thins has been infused with the very fire-y Carolina Reaper chilli- the question is which one???
There is no way to tell until you take that first bite! Are you brave enough??
The chillies used to flavour the chocolate thin are grown by Charlye and Cecile Woolman in their market garden in Dorridge, a local village (less than 10 miles from our chocolatierie). They just happen to have a large greenhouse in their garden (it used to be used for chrysanthemums and now it's put to great use growing chillies for our chocolate bars). Cecile and Charlye start the plants off on a windowsill in the house very early in the year and move them out into an unheated greenhouse when the weather warms. The bright red chillies start to ripen in late July and there is a wonderful glut for the rest of the growing season.
The chillies are delivered fresh to us in Wootton Wawen, where we dry them to preserve their flavour. Cocoa butter infused with the dried chillies to mixed with our beautifully smooth signature dark chocolate to give it's fire-y kick. Of course, each batch is taste tested for heat. Carolina Reaper chillis are the hottest British grown chilli variety we can find and certainly take no prisoners!
Allergens: all the chocolates contain SOY lecithin, a natural emulsifier which gives the chocolate its smooth taste and texture.
The chocolate thins are made with no dairy containing ingredients and so are suitable for those on a vegan diet.
All of our chocolates are made in an area where nuts and other allergens are used and hence there is a minor risk of trace contamination. Please contact us for further information if you suffer from a severe allergy.


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Start360 has 12 members on its Board and three Ambassadors
Start360's Board is made up of 12 people who bring a wide range of skills, knowledge and experience to the organisation.
Our current Chair is Alan Ledlie and our Vice Chair is Glynis Hobson. Our Treasurer is Tony Hennessey.
Our Ambassadors promote and represent the work of Start360 in their own specialist areas of work.
To find out more about becoming a Board member or Ambassador, contact us at email@example.com.
Board Members
|Alan Ledlie
|Vice Chair
|Glynis Hobson
|Tony Hennessey
|Brian Higgins
|Gareth Walls
|Kathryn Higgins
|Paula Logue
|Alistair Hutchinson
|Tony Morgan
|John Rogan
|Bill Wolsey
|Peter Dixon
|Colin Jess
|Michele Marken
|Kristian Nairn


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SUBJECTS: John Setka; Australian unions; Labor's aspirations for all Australians.
PETA CREDLIN: Tonight in Sydney, to get her thoughts on where to now for Labor, as well as the John Setka saga, is Shadow Communications Minister and Federal Member for Greenway, a seat in Sydney's western suburbs. It's Michelle Rowland. Michelle, great to have you on the show.
MICHELLE ROWLAND MP, SHADOW MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS: Thanks Peta.
CREDLIN: You were one of the first out of the blocks on the issue of John Setka, saying that he should stand down after the comments attributed to him. Lots of other people have come out after you but to go first is pretty brave. Why did you think you needed to go?
ROWLAND: I stand by those comments Peta, and I think that Anthony Albanese, in his capacity as Labor Leader, has done the right thing in saying that this person is no longer welcome in the Labor Party. Now, as to what this individual's position will continue to be within his union and the union movement, that is a matter for them. And they are, I think, a lot is a lot is still to play out in that area. But I would say three things. Firstly, I think as we were reminded last week at Bob Hawke's memorial, here was a person who led a great Labor movement, a great Labor Government in partnership with Paul Keating over a long period of time and that was done because of the reconciliation between business, unions and a Labor Government. And I think that that is really one of the key planks on which Labor has to look moving forward.
The other issue I think is it's very unfortunate that this one individual has continued to tarnish the brand of unionism generally, and I think irrespective of where you fall in the political spectrum, it is a fact that unions have been involved in some of the most important economic and social reforms in this country. In particular, construction unions involved in everything from workplace health and safety, industrial manslaughter regulations against that, against wage theft, even in the case of James Hardie and getting justice for those victims. The construction unions were very important there. So they have a very important role to play but that role can't be played when you've got this sort of headline appearing day after day.
The third point I'll make is that unions continue to be relevant today and continue to adapt, and it's important to note that you've got unions such as the HSU, for example. Now, I wonder whether five or so years ago anyone would say the HSU would be held up as a model union who turned itself around after many years, having certain individuals bringing that union into disrepute. Now under the leadership of Gerard Hayes, it has a good financial position, it has been focused on its members, it's doing excellent policy development. Union such as that, unions such as the Transport Workers Union and some of the rail and other transport unions – irrespective of a move towards digitisation, you still need to be able to transport freight; you still need to be able to transport people. And they have been looking very closely at issues like the sharing economy, what unions can do and contribute towards that policy development.
So I recognise, and I think the vast majority of Australians recognise, that unions have an important role to play. We need to make sure that we have their voices being heard and that good people are allowed to continue their work because we're going into some very challenging times.
CREDLIN: Yeah, look I'm certainly not anti-union. I think there's a real role that unions play, but I think they have to be in step with the community, they have to be in step with the workers they represent. You talk about the HSU; it's the old Health Services Union. And of course, that's where Craig Thomson was involved in a whole range of corrupt behaviour whilst really modest wage earners working in hospitals and the health sector we're paying for his largesse. So, I think that's where the criticism is. And then the case obviously of John Setka, it's a lot of thuggery; it's militancy that's out of step with most ordinary workers as well.
In relation to your seat, I mean you're in the middle of Western Sydney. In and around you, you held on, in and around you Labor suffered some really serious swings, and seats like Lindsay fell back to the Coalition. What does Labor need to do now to reconnect with your old working-class, blue-collar base that feels, I think, pretty disenfranchised from where Labor is now, turning its head constantly to the concerns of the inner city voters who probably even end up voting for The Greens and not you anyway?
ROWLAND: Well, I think we need to go back to the Labor narrative, and there's been a lot of debate about what that narrative is. But I think ultimately what it comes down to, and I'm a product of it, it's that you want your children to have a better life than you had. You want your children to be able to have opportunities that you didn't have. That was the same for my parents, I'm sure it was the same for yours, and it continues to be the same for families throughout West and North West Sydney, which is a growth area, has a lot of people who have migrated and made the decision to be Australians.
CREDLIN: And you've never been scared of aspiration. If you look at the last campaign, it seemed that there was some in your party that were embarrassed about aspiration.
ROWLAND: I take your point Peta, and on election night I actually said to my supporters, we were talking about Bob Hawke who'd recently passed away, but I made the point that I only need to look around my family, my husband grew up in a public housing estate in Mount Druitt and went to the local public primary school, the local public secondary school. Thanks to good policies and a lot of luck, and a lot of people who cared for him, got double degrees in economics and law is now partner in a law firm. Couldn't speak English when he started school. That is exactly the Labor story that we need to be fostering, that we want people to succeed, that we want people to do well, whether it be as wage earners, whether it be as entrepreneurs. And I think that that has been the Labor narrative. I think it got lost during this campaign. I think it got lost for a number of reasons.
CREDLIN: How do you get it back?
ROWLAND: I think listening is a good start, and I think your colleague Laura Jayes made the point there that Labor needs to go away for a little while. Now, I take that on board in a good way actually. That is – go away and have a think, don't rush to solution. Go away, have a think about our policies, because that's the second part of it: having good policies. Look, I think we had some good policies during the campaign. But again, I don't think that they were fully appreciated or came to the fore.
CREDLIN: But you had some dog policies. I mean, I listened to Chris Bowen today saying you're crazy in an election campaign to put the same policies up to the next campaign that failed the first time and expect a different result. You know, you don't do the same thing twice and expect a different result. But in fact, that's exactly what you did. The policies that you took to the election in 2016, let's say on negative gearing, franking credits, certainly negative gearing, capital gains tax changes. They were the same policies that then were served up in 2019. They weren't adjusted for the downturn, or certainly the fall away, in property prices in our big capital cities.
ROWLAND: Now, I take your point, but I guess there's two things there Peta. The first is we wanted to ensure that people saw we could pay for our promises. But I think where that actually turned into a negative for us is that we had so many policies that people were saying 'well, how can we afford all of these things' when the answer was well, we've got these policies to be able to afford spending extra where it's needed on hospitals and education and so forth. So I think that's the first part. The second part is, you know, we took negative gearing to the 2016 campaign as you said, but I don't think we lost in 2016 because of negative gearing on its own.
CREDLIN: No, I agree. I agree with that.
ROWLAND: And it also went, as you would be well aware, to a number of by-elections as well where we still had that policy in place. But I think the difference here was that, and let's be brutally frank about, it under Malcolm Turnbull the Liberals really didn't know how to campaign on this issue and turn it into a negative. In 2019 they did.
CREDLIN: That's true. And I'll have to have you back, because I wanted to get into a whole lot of stuff to do with your portfolio, but I've run out of time. But I find you are full of refreshing common sense and prepared to answer the questions. So thanks for coming on Michelle.
ROWLAND: Pleasure.


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Germany can expect slightly less cheerful consumers in November, a monthly study from market research firm GfK said on Wednesday, as reports of weak global growth made themselves felt.
The survey of around 2,000 people forecast a slight fall in GfK's headline consumer confidence index to 9.7 points, from 10.0 in October, AFP reported.
Analysts surveyed by Factset had predicted that the indicator would hold steady. "The weakening of consumers' mood in Germany has less to do with hard economic facts at home and is more a consequence of the more difficult external economic environment," the pollsters said in a statement, as forecasts predict global growth "will remain weak".
Consumers' expectations for the future rose slightly after three consecutive falls however, with GfK suggesting that "consumers seem to have digested the decision of the British to leave the European Union" in June.
The firm also pointed to boosted government forecasts for growth in the German economy and growing employment and private incomes as reasons for the increase.
But consumers' expectations about their own income and inclination to make purchases both fell back. The public's cautious outlook stands in contrast to businesses' newfound optimism.
A survey from the Munich-based Ifo institute on Tuesday showed that companies were more confident than at any time since April 2014 in October, continuing a recovery from July and August's post-Brexit plunge.
Regardless of the mismatch, GfK predicted that "private consumption will make a decisive contribution to economic growth in Germany this year".


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Peg Perego Primo Viaggio Kinetic Convertible - Agio Black
The New Agio Primo Viaggio Kinetic convertible car seat offers an advanced protection system with comfort for a rear and forward-facing child, from their first trip up to 65 pounds.
The Primo Viaggio Kinetic includes two safety features not seen on other convertible car seats: an integrated anti-rebound bar that minimizes the rotation of a seat in a crash and energy-absorbing kinetic pods on the sides of the car seat. The pods are the first point of contact in a side-impact collision, serving to deflect forces away from your child.
To keep your rear-facing child comfortable, the anti-rebound bar includes a spacer that adds two inches of leg room and can be stowed away when not in use.
The Primo Viaggio Kinetic includes three cushions that properly position your child's head, neck and torso, each of which can be removed as she grows. An included cup holder on the side of the seat keeps a drink handy.
The Agio version includes an industry-leading 5-year warranty—offering four additional years over the non-Agio version of the car seat.
The Agio Primo Viaggio Kinetic convertible car seat is made in Italy by Peg-Perego, a manufacturer of premium baby products since 1949.


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- Start: North side of footbridge over A4 (Bath Road) opposite St Peter's Church, Knowl Hill; grid ref SU824796; layby parking near Seven Stars pub and next to church
- End: North side of footbridge over A4 (Bath Road) opposite St Peter's Church, Knowl Hill; grid ref SU824796; layby parking near Seven Stars pub and next to church
- Country: England
- County: Berkshire
- Type: Country
- Nearest pub: Knowl Hill – Royal Oak (01628 822010), Seven Stars (01628 822967 on the A4), Littlewick Green – The Novello (01628 825753 on the A4), The Cricketers (01628 822888), Waltham St Lawrence – The Bell (0118 934 1788)
- Ordnance Survey: OS Explorer 160 and 172
- Difficulty: Medium
Steve Davison leads the way on this six mile circular walk (with shorter option) to the west of Maidenhead, passing some picturesque villages, churches and pubs along the way...
Steve Davison leads the way on this six mile circular walk (with shorter option) to the west of Maidenhead, passing some picturesque villages, churches and pubs along the way...
Walk Summary:
Start/finish: north side of footbridge over A4 (Bath Road) opposite St Peters Church, Knowl Hill; grid ref SU824796; layby parking near Seven Stars pub and next to church
Map: OS Explorer 160 and 172
Distance: 6 miles (9.5km) or 3 miles (4.7km)
Terrain: stiles/gates, fairly level, field/woodland paths and country lanes
Time: 2 to 3 hours without stops
Knowl Hill Royal Oak (01628 822010), Seven Stars (01628 822967 on the A4)
Littlewick Green The Novello
(01628 825753 on the A4);
The Cricketers (01628 822888)
Waltham St Lawrence The Bell
(0118 934 1788)
1 (SU824796) From the north side of the A4 footbridge head towards Maidenhead, cross Warren Row Road and continue over the grassy field and through the scrub for 300m. At the wooden pylon turn right up some steps and carefully cross the A4, turn left and shortly right to follow the path through the car park of The Novello. Go through the gate behind the pub and head across the field in an easterly direction passing some farm buildings and crossing a metalled track. Keep ahead following the field boundary on your left side and then walk along an enclosed path to reach Littlewick Green.
Littlewick Green is a picturesque village with cottages and a pub The Cricketers, clustered around the cricket green; a setting that is often used as a backdrop for TV dramas such as Midsomer Murders. Long term resident and prolific playwright Ivor Novello (1893-1951) lived for many years at what is now the Redroofs Theatre School; the blue plaque on wall says composer, dramatist, actor and man of theatre lived here. Look for the quote on the village hall sundial overlooking the cricket pitch: tis mine the passing hours to tell,tis thine to use them ill or well; the cricket club is 200 years old this year.
2 (SU837801) Turn right passing The Cricketers and at the junction, next to the Redroofs Theatre School, turn right along School Lane. Continue through the trees to join a metalled track, here you have a choice: short or long walk.
Short Walk: Keep ahead along the metalled track as it bears right and after passing Orchard Farm turn right along the lane for 100m. Turn left along the waymarked track later bearing right along the lane and right at the junction to reach St Peters Church and the A4 footbridge. Detour onto Knowl Hill Common to admire the view from the seat.
Long Walk: Keep ahead along the metalled track and just before the right-hand bend bear left at the footpath sign following a path over the fields, to reach the far right field corner. Turn left following the lane over the railway built by the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the busy railway connects London to West Berkshire and beyond. Continue with care for just under half a mile and straight after the house on the right, turn right along the tree-lined track. Later keep ahead to join a metalled drive passing Shottesbrooke Park to reach the Church St John the Baptist (church key is available locally see sign on door).
Sir William Trussell, a former lord of the manor, which was known as Scotesbroc in the Domesday Book, was responsible for the building of the beautiful Church of St John the Baptist in 1337. The church, with its central slender spire said to be based on the one at Salisbury Cathedral, must surely be one of the most idyllic in the county and it has been said that it is the perfect English church. The present brick manor house of Shottesbrooke Park is Tudor and dates from the 16 century.
3 (SU841771) Head west through the churchyard and continue between brick walls, later passing under a low bridge. Go through the trees and follow the field boundary on your right side to cross a stile, keep ahead now following the field boundary on the left to a stile next to a house. Cross the lane and through a kissing gate before bearing half-left over the field, go through a gate and trees to reach another gate. Follow the field boundary and turn right at the gate, later passing some allotments. Go right along road in Waltham St Lawrence to reach The Bell; through the lychgate and past the magnificent yew tree is St Lawrences Church.
The peaceful village of Waltham St Lawrence has a picturesque setting with the church, village hall, pub and cottages clustered round the old cattle pound. St Lawrences Church has Norman origins, however, most of what you can see is 14th and 15th century. The timber-framed 14th century pub The Bell Inn, is a great example of a Wealden hall-house and was given to the village in 1608 by Ralph Newbery, Lord of the Manor and one-time Master of the Royal Printing House of Queen Elizabeth I.
4 (SU829769) Stand looking towards the church and cross the stile next to the gate on the left following the waymarked track between the buildings of Church Farm. Continue straight on along the track for three quarters of a mile, crossing the railway at Weycock Bridge along the way. Go through the kissing gate by the copse, ignoring the byway to the right. Keep heading northwards, crossing the gravel track and following the enclosed byway ahead, with the Castle Royle golf course on either side. After several crossing paths (private), continue up between the houses, cross the lane and up the steps opposite. Turn right along the drive and take the narrow path between the houses (footpath sign) before crossing a track. Continue over Knowl Hill Common you can detour up to the left and admire the view from the seat before turning left along the lane past the Royal Oak and St Peters Church; cross the A4 via the footbridge back to the start.
To learn more about Steve visit: www.steve-davison.co.uk
For more challenging walks in the Thames Valley see Walking in the Thames Valley by Steve Davison (Cicerone 12).


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"More than 4,000 known bugs in SAP and 5,000 in Oracle software pose security threats"
In July this year the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert citing this study by security firms Digital Shadows and Onapsis that highlights the risks posed to thousands of unpatched business systems from software makers Oracle and SAP.
The report highlights that:
- 17,000 SAP and Oracle software installations are exposed to the internet at more than 3,000 companies, government agencies and universities
- At least 10,000 servers are running incorrectly configured software that could subject them to direct attack using known SAP or Oracle exploits
- More than 4,000 known bugs in SAP and 5,000 in Oracle software pose security threats, especially in older systems that operators may consider uneconomical to fix
The Oracle and SAP security patches that should fix these issues are time-consuming to apply, requiring significant time and effort from your entire team to fix often non-customer facing issues. Many companies ignore these vendor patches until they need to upgrade, but this can put you at significant risk!
A cautionary tale: If you break the weakest and most insignificant link in a company's security, you damage the whole brand
On 9th October, Google launched the Google Pixel 3 and 3 XL phones. Both use AI to deliver perfect photos and provide an 'intelligent' digital assistant, technology which Google is hoping will let them break into the duopoly of Apple and Samsung at the top of the technology most-wanted list.
But because of a failure to properly invest in security for their failed social media experiment – Google Plus, the BBC headline for the launch of the Pixel 3 was "Google Pixel 3 phones launch during privacy storm".
Google have since said that they will be discontinuing public access to Google Plus this year, but the damage caused to their brand (after not properly protecting the personal data of 500,000 members of the social network) highlights the need to protect not just your mission critical systems, but all systems that are exposed to the internet.
Your Oracle and SAP systems are especially at risk
This is one of the reasons that Support Revolution implements the Trend Micro Deep Security product for its customers (Gartner recommended). This solution creates a firewall around your servers hosting the databases from vulnerabilities at a server level. Our solution is far more responsive and does not require any downtime to patch the fixes, and if a major threat is detected the fix can be applied in as little as 12 hours.
This means that Support Revolution acts as your safety net for those 'uneconomical to fix' security issues that may just cost you much more than you could possibly imagine.
Reach out to a member of our team if you want to learn more about how we keep our customers protected throughout the year – or click here to use our free calculator to see how much you could save by moving to 3rd party support.


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A unique collection of treasures – from rustic home decor to vintage-inspired items & pocket watches, jewelry to everything in between.
Based in the North East of England, Family run by Mother and daughter duo Carol & Laura who have a creative eye for upcycling, recycling and rustic trends.
We stock a large collection of treasures from various jewellery & vintage inspired pocket watches, reclaimed wood items to handmade baby clothes! We really do have something for everyone! All our items have been individually chosen by ourselves or made by our own hands!
We sell from various Markets, country shows & festivals across the northeast however due to popular demand we have finally opened up our online shop! Don't worry we will still be attending our usual shows head over to our events tab for dates of our next events.
Make sure you give us a like on Facebook, follow us on Instagram & Etsy or tweet us on Twitter too! We love to hear from you all and also love sharing your treasures in their new home!
If you need any help or have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch we have an old-fashioned sale approach and love to talk to our customers and value your feedback.


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Taranis is due shortly to launch a TM44 portal for the Clients.
This portal will ensure that the client has direct access to their asset register at any moment, where the priorities against budgets to replace equipment to gain maximum return of investment can be seen at a touch of a button.
This forms a major investment on behalf of Taranis Engineering and is our commitment to our client base to ensure they keep up to date with current legislation and governmental requirements surrounding TM44.
We are proud to offer this function and will be available to all our existing client base.