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I earned my Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education at Kansas State University, my Master's Degree in Elementary Education at Friends University, my Library Media Science endorsement through Wichita State University, and my Educational Leadership endorsement through Baker University. I taught for nine years in the Derby school district at El Paso, Derby Hills and Carlton Learning Center as a kindergarten, second and third grade teacher. I had the pleasure of working with Mulvane Parents as Teachers for fifteen years, first as a parent educator and then as the program coordinator. During that time, I also taught at Munson in the library for thirteen years. I was principal at Bright Beginnings Early Childhood Center in Dodge City for two years before coming home to Mulvane as Munson's principal.
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We had G-man's car towed from Garage 1 to the Dealership yesterday morning (it was supposed to be Monday night....but that is a whole other frustrating story).
Dealership couldn't look at it yesterday, so they will look at it sometime today. Hopefully by this afternoon we will know whether we are fixing this car....or getting a new one. Additionally....we asked about a loaner car while our car is down....and we got the "well, we do offer that, but we don't have any loaner cars available." You are a car dealership and you don't have a car????
G-man is getting a rental car (at $45 a day....he is 6'4", so a compact car is a little squishy for him to drive). We only need it until Friday at the latest. If his car is fixed, then fine. Otherwise, he can take my car Saturday-Monday, then he is off of work on Tuesday. So even if the car is dead in the water....we have another week built in to figure something out.
Meanwhile, my car is still limping along.
The pool liner is FINALLY in. Our pool is slowly being filled, and maybe by mid-July it will warm up! End costs:
Liner - $216
Installation and tax - $451
Water - still unknown.
The outstanding OT also made it on to this week's paycheck....so we have the cash to cover the bill.
Now if we can just figure out the car.....
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Car Update....Pool Update.....
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The additional costs of car repairs drive me crazy! I understand how they may not have a loaner for you, but they should be able to get you a lower rate with the rental company.ReplyDelete
@Krantcents - you would like to think we could get a better rate.....nope. They said, oh...we don't do that.ReplyDelete
Used cars are at a premium nation wide. It is hard to find anything at a car lot or dealership right now. Trying to find a reliable used car for our daughter was a nightmare it took 6 weeks. The economy has dried up used cars as people are not trading cars in but keeping them. Good luck. Glad the pool is almost ready. One less aggravation.ReplyDelete
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While all eyes were on the 64th Filmfare Awards 2019 winners' list for the best in Bollywood cinema, ours were scanning the red carpet for some of the evening's most dazzling divas and alluring designer looks. And, like a good Bollywood epic – the fashion was big, bold, glitz and glam!
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If you haven't seen her gritty 'true-to-life' portrayal of heroic flight attendant Neerja Bhanot in the biographical thriller 'Neerja', let us tell you – Sonam Kapoor has some epic acting chops that have skyrocketed her to the top of Bollywood's 'It' List. We love her in this foxy fuchsia mermaid-tail couture gown from Ralph & Russo. Incorporate the season's most chic shade into your day-time look with this pretty-in-hot-pink pleated skirt from Miss Selfridge for RO19.5.
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Midway through studying for a degree in Management at the London School of Economics, I experienced my Mobile Five Internship. I wanted to know what a real job was like, and Mobile Five taught me. I imagined witnessing gender stereotypes and struggling to be heard whilst men dressed in tailored suits drank espressos. But all assumptions faded upon entering the office and seeing the lounge area, darts board, and ping-pong table.
Within the first week, I had the privilege to meet with each Head of Department – from the head of Project Management, Account Management, Strategy, Digital Designers, Developers, and QA Testers. Each and every one of them seemingly embodied their teams' distinctive role. Thanks to their expertise and pedagogy I quickly gathered a very broad understanding of the agency's functioning. I was invited to attend meetings and brainstorms to offer my opinions, insights, and suggestions. And despite being "just an Intern", my opinions were listened to just as much as everybody elses.
Working with self-motivated professionals taught me how we only become experts when we all put our heads together. When new projects came in, I witnessed teams coming together with such dedication to doing things the right way. The result of this process would be the delivery of an excellent experience and end product to clients. I'd never been surrounded by such hard-working, happy, and motivated people. Collaborating with these talented teams made each project an enjoyable learning experience.
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Payers' involvement in patient care, and their access to clinical data, has remained limited. They have traditionally relied on claims data, and the limited clinical data available on claims forms, to build care management applications as well as manage cost reduction programs.
For example, member outreach programs for a high-risk patient with a chronic condition are based on incoming claims data. With the claims processing cycle, it may take a month or more for a hospital visit to be reported. Member information provided by the hospital often does not contain critical clinical details like historical medical records and vital signs that would help the payer identify high-risk patients or optimize its outreach strategy.
The Case for Clinical & Financial Data Integration
Payers are quickly realizing that getting access to clinical data and effectively leveraging it is not just a necessity, but will soon become the basis for incentive payouts.
As of recent, quality reporting programs like Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set and Medicare Advantage star rating system have put some pressure on payers to adopt more patient-centric approaches for member management. Many of these approaches involve greater access and use of clinical data, reducing adverse reactions and cutting down on repeated clinical procedures like laboratory tests and scans.
The critical need for payers to gain greater access to clinical data has also been corroborated by recent surveys, which estimate that nearly two-thirds of healthcare executives believe there would be significant advantages. Especially in areas like Potentially Avoidable Complications (PAC), payers benefit greatly from aggregating historical clinical data and evidence of a particular complication to define risk-based patient cohorts for disease management and care coordination programs. These cohorts can help optimize PAC cost drivers and manage cost variations in clinical episodes, thus getting better control of pricing and claims.
The Clinical Data Challenge for Payers
For traditional payers, even where clinical information can be made accessible, integrating this data with their own systems and deriving actionable intelligence poses significant challenges. Payer-provider collaboration faces a number limitations:
Incompatible Systems
. While clinical data is available from a multitude of provider systems, payers don't typically own systems that have the ability to aggregate and leverage the data. Currently, their workflows are nowhere near ready to access and consume this information, let alone integrate it with their own data sources.
Siloed, Manual, Incongruent Aggregation of Clinical Data
. A payer's IT infrastructure can have a vast proliferation of diverse applications, running on multiple technologies, at any given time. They include complex transactional systems and data models used for various analytics and risk management operations. With their current technology ecosystem, access to clinical data is severely restricted by a manual conversion processes. It is also necessary for the technology to accommodate various, incongruent data sources like national registries, imaging systems, genomics, telemetry, billing data, devices, etc.
Clinical Data Quality and Terminology Gaps
. While payer systems have been stringent in following industry standards, provider systems still struggle with compatibility. Many challenges exist due to the presence of numerous electronic transaction standards and clinical terminologies.
Clinical Data Convergence: Overcoming Integration Challenges
To overcome some of these challenges, organizations need to follow a structured approach to integration and data sharing. This would involve:
Defining a Roadmap
. The key to effective integration is to adopt a phase-wise approach, identify high impact use cases and prioritize applications in terms of criticality to the identified use cases.
Building a Mechanism for Seamless Sharing of Clinical Data. Organizations should focus their energies on building an efficient Master Patient Index that will act as the primary key for a customer data mart. Proper integration usually requires adapters that take in data from disparate provider systems, such as EMRs, lab systems, pharmacy systems and other clinical applications. Complete data integration systems would consist of turnkey tools that extract, aggregate and normalize data from various clinical and financial systems, for use in one cohesive application.
Going from Clinical Data Convergence to Actionable Insights
Beyond the technology challenges, organizations also need to focus on building effective mechanisms and processes to derive actionable insights from the integrated data.
Defining the Right Use Cases. The success of integration initiatives rests largely on the ability to address key challenges. It is necessary for decision makers to define use cases and business requirements clearly.
Making the Aggregated Data Meaningful to Payer Operations. Aggregated data will help payers view a patient's entire medical profile with insights from across the continuum of care, including primary and specialty care, hospital, lab, pharmacy and even state-based immunization systems.
To achieve this level of actionable intelligence, payers need to leverage an integrated analytics platform enabling them to define cohorts, build a reporting ecosystem and get a drilled down view of member performance. The resulting longitudinal records can help payer organizations build powerful analytics for risk stratification, care management and population health management.
Eventually, the effectiveness of payer-provider collaboration and the resulting intelligence relies largely on the technology team's commitment to following a structured, logical approach and organization-wide initiatives to ensure optimal use of data provided. If utilized effectively, clinical data exchange can have significant advantages for organizations across the care continuum.
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Galvanizing and inspiring, the creative community of South Coast is being offered an atmosphere of collaboration found nowhere else in the region. The advent of the Co-Creative Center this past July means a forging of shared creative energies in an environment that encourages and provides a platform for burgeoning talents and projects.
Located in the heart of downtown New Bedford, the CO+ makes itself available to those who are indulged in pursuits that have a wide range of goals and mediums. From conventional art such as painting, photography, and graphic design, they also include local businesses and nonprofit organizations. The CO+ provides a vibrant and kinetic atmosphere of community and interaction in a spacious and diverse setting. Whether it's building friendships or collaborative networking, the CO+ is about being immersed in an atmosphere of creativity and unifying purpose.
The layout of the facility is a large hall of approximately 4,000 square feet that can be partitioned into three separate rooms. The front room is a public gallery with shows that last six weeks each, while the second area is used most often for members to teach classes and host workshops.
Usually open to the public, the classes feature a wide array of interests. Past topics have included Grant Writing 101, paying taxes on your work, and how to exhibit your work. Other workshops have featured Lego Robotics and how to do 3D Printing. They have also opened their doors for live poetry readings. The topics taught at the space are highly versatile.
The well-lit and impeccably clean back room is the largest of all three segments with 20-foot ceilings and more than a dozen tables where members can focus on their work. In a lower chamber the facility includes a collection of eight open studio spaces used mostly for painting.
The back room also includes a wall devoted to the work of members where they can display their creativity with the opportunity to sell it.
Shared Strokes
"We provide affordable spaces for artists and creatives that gives them a place to work rather than isolating at home," says Program Director Dena Haden. "People may be doing marketing for their business or they may be pursuing a hobby. People come here for many different reasons. They mostly like to be around people and be active in the community. The atmosphere varies from day to day based on who is using the space at that time and the work they are doing."
Members pay a monthly fee with a range of dues. Starting at $20 and going up to $125, some of the memberships allow clients to use the facility 24 hours a day. Members schedule a space to work in on a monthly basis. The amount of time available to a client depends on the price of their membership.
Haden says that 75 percent of the work being done is on laptops.
"We want to keep people in the city doing the work that they love and connecting with people interested in the same thing," Haden says. "People who don't have the finances to open their own business can have an office or a studio that enhances their practice.
"We have a lot of people creating, marketing, and selling their work."
The CO+ is usually open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. On nights when they are hosting events they are open from noon to 7 p.m. On "AHA! Nights" that are held on the second Thursday evening of each month, the CO+ opens its doors for an event known as "Commune-N-Tea," an event that has the business open for browsing and socialization.
Haden is also the curator for the front gallery. She claims that they are booked through 2019 and into 2020.
"The main mission of this space is to support creative enterprise," she says. "We want to bring the entrepreneurial ecosystem together with the artistic ecosystem."
Haden stresses interaction.
"We provide something that the city doesn't have –by having people around each other, members are able to share ideas and bounce them off of one another. They may even form a partnership. We have a good sense of community that supports one another and their work. It's organic networking."
The CO+ currently boasts 38 members. Located on Union Street in the former location of Berk's Army & Navy Store, the space was renovated by WHALE with the mandate that the facility be a "shared workspace."
"People are making friendships as well as business partners," Haden says. "We have a positive environment where people can work as well as connect with others."


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As we are getting more and more confined to the virtual world, with virtual friends for company, social networking is emerging as a prominent feature on cell phones. Motorola in association with AT&T has launched a social network centric cell phone – Motorola Karma QA1.
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This messaging phone is designed for teenagers and youths who frequently remain hooked to social network sites such as Facebook or MySpace. It offers several ways of remaining connected. Motorola Karma will provide instant access to these websites directly from the home screen. Users are free to add quick launch icons of their favorite social network sites on the home screen. Instant messaging services, including Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger, can be speedily accessed from Motorola Karma.
The easy scroll navigation, all-in-one view messages and IM-style text will make conversing with friends extremely easy. The JuiceCaster app of AT&T will be preloaded in Motorola Karma. This will help users to instantly upload and share pictures and videos with friends on their social network sites.
JuiceCaster also allows users to upload videos and photographs on YouTube and Flickr. Users can contact friends and also find new friends through Yahoo, Gmail, MS Outlook and Hotmail.
Motorola Karma QA1 specifications
To provide speedy connectivity, Motorola Karma will support 3G network. The full QWERTY slide out keypad has been designed to ease the messaging task. Motorola Karma features a 2.5-inch QVGA display, 2-mega pixel camera, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, 3.5-mm headset jack, MP3 player, 100MB internal memory and micro SD memory slot for expanding storage space to 16GB.
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Sit down at Harry's Daughter and enjoy wings alongside a full menu of tasty food and amazing drinks. You can also get wings and plantains catered!
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Bamburgh is our collection of elegantly classic, chrome and enamel taps. This swan-neck designhas just one lever to control both hot and cold water, andit works well with a countertop bowl sink because of its height.And because its mixer spout can be swung from left to right, you needn't worry about it getting in the waywhen you're washing yourface.
All of our bathroom fittings are made from brass, a metal alloy that's a mix of copper (which makes them easier to make in a mould) and corrosion-resistant zinc.
The Bamburgh collection shares the same high-shine, cool-toned finish. The chrome coating isn't just for aesthetics, it makes Bamburgh easier to clean too.
Most taps use either rubber washers or ceramic cartridges inside to control the flow of water. We use the latter because they're much more resilient. They also give you more control over the flow, so the levers only need a quarter turn to be fully on.
Also known as a flow regulator, an aerator is a small sieve-like piece that's fitted discreetly into the end of the tap's spout. Its job is to mix air in with the water so you'll use less. It may take a little longer to fill your basin completely, but generally you won't notice a drop in the pressure.
The pop-up waste is a lovely extra feature of this tap that means you needn't reach into the basin to unplug it. It's controlled by the lever mounted onto the back of the spout, which is why it's only included with this style of tap.
The maximum water pressure that our taps can take is three bar and the minimum is 1.5.
On our own basins, we include a 'flip-top' (also known as a swivel) plug, but this is easily replaced should you prefer to use the pop-up that comes with this tap.
All our taps are WRAS (Water Regulations Advisory Scheme) approved, which means that they won't contaminate your water or waste it unnecessarily.
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full of beans
1. Nonsensical. His explanation is totally full of beans and doesn't answer the question at all.
2. Very energetic. Whenever my daughter is full of beans, I have her run around and play in our back yard.
full of prunes
Nonsensical. From the idea that prunes cause gas (and being "full of hot air" is synonymous with "nonsensical"). His explanation is totally full of prunes and doesn't answer the question at all.
prune (something) of (something else)
To make something more trim, clean, or neat by pruning away that which is superfluous, undesirable, or unnecessary. I want to prune the tree outside of its dead and overgrown branches. As your career evolves, you'll need to start pruning your résumé of less relevant work experience.
prune away
To remove something superfluous, undesirable, or unnecessary (from something else). A noun or pronoun can be used between "prune" and "away." We need to prune away these dead branches to allow the tree to grow new ones in their place. As your career evolves, you'll need to start pruning less relevant work experience away from your résumé.
prune off
To remove something superfluous, undesirable, or unnecessary (from something else). A noun or pronoun can be used between "prune" and "off." We need to prune off these dead branches to allow the tree to grow new ones in their place. As your career evolves, you'll need to start pruning less relevant work experience off your résumé.
prunes and prisms
Intentionally formal or prudish speech or action. The phrase originated in Charles Dickens' novel Little Dorrit as an example of proper speech. When you talk to your grandmother, stick to prunes and prisms so that you don't offend her. If you want to become a proper lady, be sure to practice your prunes and prisms.
prune something away
to cut away something unwanted or unneeded. Please prune the lower branches of the trees away. They are starting to annoy pedestrians. We pruned away the dead branches.
prune something of something
to clear, clean, or groom something of something by pruning. Sally was out in the orchard pruning the apple trees of dead branches. They pruned the roses of their unneeded branches.
prune something off (of) somethingand prune something off
to cut something off something. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) Claire pruned the dead branch off the apple tree. She pruned off the dead branch.
full of beans
1. Lively, energetic, in high spirits, as in The children were full of beans today, looking forward to their field trip. This expression has no valid explanation. [c. 1840]
2. Also, full of prunes. Acting foolish, talking nonsense, as in One cup of coffee won't hurt you-you're full of prunes. [c. 1930] Also see full of crap.
full of beans
If you are full of beans, you are very happy and energetic. Jem was among them, pink-cheeked and full of beans after his long sleep. He's a likable extrovert, full of beans. Note: This originally referred to a horse that was well-fed and therefore full of energy.
full of beanslively; in high spirits. informal
This phrase was originally used by people who work with horses, and referred to the good condition of a horse fed on beans.
prunes and prismsused to denote a prim and affected speech, look, or manner.
In Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit ( 1857 ), Mrs General advocates speaking this phrase aloud in order to give 'a pretty form to the lips'.
full of ˈbeansvery lively, active and healthy: Ray is certainly full of beans again after his illness.This phrase was originally used to talk about horses that were fed on beans.
full of beans
mod. full of nonsense; full of hot air. Oh, be quiet. You're just full of beans.
full of prunes
mod. full of nonsense. (see also full of beans. Prunes can cause gas = hot air = nonsense.) You're just silly. Completely full of prunes.
full of beans
1. Energetic; frisky: The children were too full of beans to sit still.
2. Badly mistaken: Don't believe him; he's full of beans.
full of beans
Lively, high-spirited. The earliest appearance of this expression is in Robert Smith Surtees's Handley Cross (1843), a continuation of the adventures of a sporting grocer, John Jorrocks ("Ounds, 'osses and men are in a glorious state of excitement! Full o' beans and benevolence!"). A slang dictionary of 1874 defined the term to mean arrogant and offensive concerning one's newfound prosperity (nouveau riche snobbery) and held that it came from stable slang. It was so used for a time in the late nineteenth century, but then was superseded by the earlier (and present) meaning, which survives in the cliché.


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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – Common Sense, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology, has recognized TURNAGAIN as a Common Sense School.
TURNAGAIN has demonstrated its commitment to taking a whole-community approach to preparing its students to think critically and use technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate, while limiting the perils that exist in the online realm, such as plagiarism, loss of privacy, and cyberbullying. The recognition acknowledges our schools commitment creating a culture of digital citizenship.
"We applaud the faculty and staff of TURNAGAIN for embracing digital citizenship as an important part of their students' education," said Liz Kline, VP, Education Programs, Common Sense Education." TURNAGAIN deserves high praise for giving its students the foundational skills they need to compete and succeed in the 21st-century workplace and participate ethically in society at large."
TURNAGAIN has been using Common Sense Education's innovative and research-based digital citizenship resources, which were created in collaboration with researchers from Project Zero, led by Howard Gardner at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The resources teach students, educators, and parents tangible skills related to internet safety, protecting online reputations and personal privacy, media balance, managing online relationships, and media literacy. The free K-12 curriculum is used in classrooms across all 50 states, in more than 50,000 schools, by more than half a million educators.
"We're honored to be recognized as a Common Sense School," said Helena Batman. "By preparing our students to use technology safely and responsibly, we are providing them unlimited opportunities to maximize and personalize their learning."
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I wrote this the day that the leader of the Republican party released his budget for the fiscal year 2018. I offered it to an outlet I thought would like it and they didn't take. Since then I've been wondering what to do with it. However, I thought it was fitting to publish today in light of Attorney General Sessions testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. For reasons.
Two weeks ago Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) tweeted the picture below captioned with the words, "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck it must be government waste."
To be fair, Rep. Walker has been royally roasted for this tweet both on Twitter and in the media more generally. (Some examples here, here, and here.)
With the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities, drastic cuts to Medicaid, and intermittent fears of the beginning of WWIII the ducklings story can seem like an aside, both a silly thing for a Congressman to take issue with and a sillier thing for people to engage. Yet, this duckling tweet sums up the current ethos of the Republican party perfectly.
There are several levels here. The first is that this, apparently, is the type of government waste that the GOP wants to speak out about publicly. Not the hundreds of thousands of dollars, per day, it costs taxpayers to keep the first lady and son in their Manhattan penthouse, nor the Mar-A-Lago visits, but ducklings. Setting aside, for now, the hypocrisy of how Trump and the rest of the GOP criticized Obama's golfing as a waste but have been silent about how much Trump is costing taxpayers with these indulgences, the choice to focus on criticizing a duckling ramp is just weird. It begs the question: what's really at issue here?
To begin answering that we need to understand why the ducklings have the ramp in the first place. According to City Wildlife, a non-profit involved in helping get those duck ramps to the Capitol reflecting pool, they are there because without them the baby ducks can't get out of the pool and would die of exhaustion or starvation. Now, perhaps you don't care whether or not a bunch of baby ducks die, but imagine for a moment what it would be like if they died in the reflecting pool, a place, it's worth remembering, where our nations elected officials are supposed to be able to reflect on the nation, the duty of governance, and other weighty matters. Well, the reflecting pool would then be spotted with duckling carcasses. One of two things would happen next. The most likely thing is that someone would have to fish the dead baby ducks out of the water and dispose of them. In manpower alone, this solution would cost more than the two duck ramps. There is, of course, another possible outcome which I'll get to in a minute. For now, let's explore the ways in which Rep. Walker's tweet neatly captures the dark heart of the Republican party: disdain.
What is really at issue with Rep. Walker's tweet is the larger Republican disdain for preventative measures of any kind. It's still true that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The problem is that the Republicans are in bed with the makers of cure. This has been in evidence for years from attacks on Head Start funding to one of the biggest benefits of the ACA, proven preventative care services. Then, of course, there's the old conservative bugaboo: food stamps and welfare. The SNAP program is consistently under attack from conservatives despite the fact that every $1 of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 of GDP. Then, of course, there are the numerous states who have passed legislation requiring welfare recipients to undergo drug testing to receive benefits. All those studies have shown is that welfare recipients use fewer drugs than the general population and fewer drugs than some congressmen. All of these measures are designed to prevent something whether it be illness, hunger, or abject poverty and all of them have been under attack by the GOP for years.
Then, three days ago, Trump released his proposed budget for the fiscal year 2018. Granted, the first draft of the budget is more of a wish list than a set of policy guidelines. However, as has already been said, you can learn a lot about people from what they wish for. Let's leave aside that this budget breaks presidential tradition and seems to be based on some very dubious math, and focus on what the budget actually does. It breaks a lot of campaign promises by cutting social security and other programs Trump said he wouldn't cut. This, however, is to be expected as words mean nothing to Trump. This budget is so bad that the non-partisan National Priorities Project labelled it as "War on the Poor." The lowlights include the following proposed cuts:
- $627 billion to Medicaid
- $195 billion to food stamps
- $18 billion to the CDC
It's no accident that these cuts attack not only programs that work on preventative measures but the programs that are of the most use to the the most vulnerable among us. This is because Republicans disdain the helpless almost as much as they disdain preventative care. This returns us to Rep. Walker's tweet: what's more helpless than a baby duck? Yet, when Walker looks at a preventative measure to help the helpless all he sees is government waste–an ethos writ large in Trump's proposed budget.
What makes this opposition to helping the helpless, particularly through preventative care measures, absurd to the point of galling is that there are decades worth of evidence that tell us that both of these things are good moves. Some of the sources cited above already include references to the benefits of preventative care and investing in the vulnerable, but some other evidence can be found here, here, here, and here for starters.
Part of what is so perfect about Rep. Walker's tweet is that he saw something and instead of asking why it was there, using his phone to google the rationale behind duck ramps, say; he immediately disparaged it as waste. This is evidence of the GOP's widespread disdain for experts which seems to stem from the dangerous belief that they have nothing to learn. From their decades-long attack on higher education to charts that would embarrass a seventh-grade algebra class being used in congressional hearings to their party's leader praising conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, it seems that everything the Republicans do is aimed at showing their flagrant disregard for experts or even truth.
So, what's the future of the U.S. given the conservative ethos of disdain so neatly summed up by Rep. Walker's tweet about baby ducklings? Well, let us return to the second possible outcome of a Capitol reflecting pool without duck ramps. The ducks would die and, the alternative to their carcasses being fished out by sanitation workers is for the dead ducklings to float around the reflecting pool until they do the things that dead bodies do. Namely, bloat and then release the putrid remains of liquefied duckling organs into, and I really want to emphasize this, the Capitol reflecting pool.
Hold that image in your mind for a second: a Capitol reflecting pool spotted with the decaying corpses of baby ducks and the carrion eaters that will descend on them. It's a terrifying and terrifyingly apt image of the logical outcome of the Republican ethos now based, almost entirely, on disdain.
P.S. If that last image horrifies you please consider making a few calls with fivecalls.org. #Resist #Persist


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Syria Complains to UN After Strike: Israeli Aggression Has Become a Norm
Those who attack the Syrian army support terror groups, says foreign ministry
The Syrian Foreign Ministry filed a complaint to the United Nations Security Council and the Secretary General on Thursday, following the earlier strike it blamed on Israel.
"The Israeli aggression has become a norm," it said in the complaint, adding that Israel is trying to aid terror groups such as Nusra Front and ISIS, while the Syrian army makes advances. The Security Council's inaction in the matter, the complaint added, is "unacceptable."
The Syrian government demanded the Security Council denounce Israel's aggression and act to prevent future acts of belligerence it claimed could harm the fight against ISIS and other terror groups. "Those who attack the Syrian army are direct supporters of terror groups," the complaint read.
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From chignons and beachy waves to updos, a bride-to-be is flooded with an assortment of choices regarding the means to style their hair for the D-Day. However, irrespective of the hairstyle you opt for, there is one essential component that they must make certain not to steer clear of, that is hair accessories.
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To present your locks in a subtle way, then purchasing hair pins might be an ideal means. Add numerous pins all across your hair to get a subtle yet stylish look, whether a Grecian style plait, chignon, or a bun.
Headbands –
In case you want to skip wearing a veil on your D-Day, you can opt for a netted headband to accentuate your hairdo. Headbands are extremely versatile, and can be sported with hair all up, down, and half up. Lace headbands, being a magnificent vintage look, goes well with your wedding attire and hairstyle. If you have decided to sport a hairstyle with all your hair swept to one side, position your headband with side decorations on the side where the neck is without any ornamentation.
Tiara –
The ideal way to put in height to the hairstyle, tiaras can look awesome with any hairdo, provided the positioning of the hair accessory is perfect. Don the tiara about half back from the hairline to make certain that it balances your facial features and enhances your face. Tiaras are embellished with intricate floral decorative features. For fashionable brides-to-be, who want to look like a princess on their wedding day, tiaras are simply perfect. While tiaras with additional sparkle or complex detailing are a show-stopping look, thin tiaras on the other hand, are an excellent means to add some glitz to the hairstyle.
Head chains –
This bohemian-styled hair accessory, much the same as a wedding crown, is crafted from chains, and hence, fits loosely on your head. Owing to this loose-fitting aspect, you need to add lots of pins to secure the head chain properly to your hair.
Wedding vines and hair combs –
In case you have decided to sport your hair up on your D-Day, hair comb is an ideal option as it can make the braid, bun or chignon more prominent.
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The all-rounder among tarpaulins
Best suitable for indoors and outdoors a tarpaulin is a particularly popular product. The low light transmission and tear resistance of the frontlit material and the weather resistance make the tarpaulin the ideal advertising surface for almost all occasions, whether on equipment, construction sites, as advertising tarpaulins on facades or for event and party decoration.
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Community Care
Family & Fellowship
Youth Ministry
Leadership & Administration
The Worship Ministry team harmonizes all aspects of regular and special worship services, where believers offer their best and regularly experience liberating, fulfilling, and challenging experiences of connection between God and God's people.
During the year this ministry will focus on Intergenerational Worship – ensuring that time and space are created to facilitate the connection of all age groups with God and with each other.
Worship Planning & Leading
Plans and executes worship services to facilitate consistent life-giving worship, where believers offer their best and connect with God and each other.
Children's Worship
Positively influences the quality of worship among children while providing a sense of belonging and providing an outlet for children's expressions of their relationship with God.
Facilitates the use of musical gifts and talents in worship and ministry among all age groups
Dance, Speech & Drama
Facilitates the use of dance speech and drama as ministry tools in worship
Ensures a warm, comfortable, safe and welcoming space for visitors and members alike.
Audio Visuals
Employs the use of high quality audio visuals, manned by a team of trained technicians to enhance the worship services
Leadership & Administration
The Leadership and Administration Ministry (L&A) facilitates the spiritual growth and development of the congregation while overseeing the work of all ministries and supporting the smooth administration of the church.
During the year this ministry will focus on Stewardship – mobilizing the entire family to partner fully with our Lord in all aspects of Kingdom building.
Has primary responsibility for spiritual growth and development while facilitating the holistic health and well-being of congregants, adherents and the wider communities.
Finance & Administration
Plans, organizes and optimizes the financial and other resources.
Sees to the efficient maintenance of all properties.
Planning & Training
Responsible for strategic planning and ensuring the effective, on-going equipping of the body.
Manages the congregation's data base and facilitates the full engagement of the body in giving and in service.
Ensures timely, complete and effective communication internally
Facilitates discussions, action and the broadcasting of a Christian perspective on issues of National and Global importance
The Discipleship Ministry equips and supports followers of Christ in growing deeper (in having the nature and character of Christ manifested in daily living) through the continued development of: (1) Spiritual Disciplines, (2) Sharing Christ and (3) Stewardship.
During the year the Discipleship Ministry will focus on The Spiritual Growth Initiative launched on Discipleship day 2012. This will be the platform from which individuals will measure personal renewal and transformation. We envisage that all districts, auxiliaries and small groups will be engaged in this process.
Prayer Power
Maximises the power of individual, family, small group and congregational prayer through intercession for spiritual growth and awakening. Initiatives include regular Bible Study and Prayer Meetings on Wednesdays at 5:45 p.m.
Engages and challenges members to be consistent and intentional in their quest for consistent spiritual growth. Equips congregants to accept accountability for their personal spiritual growth given their covenant relationship with God and the Church.
Faith Builders
Integrates new disciples/members into the Faith, Church Family and Fellowship through long-term supportive relationships which intentionally move them towards Christ-like spiritual maturity.
Visitor Contact
Contacts first and returning visitors, encourages repeat visits aimed at regular attendance, salvation (where applicable), and active membership.
Membership Guidance and Integration
Facilitates the embeping of the core values of God's word into all prospective members.
Cradle Roll
Maintains meaningful contact by providing nurturing support and parental guidance to the parents of babies blessed at Webster.
Church School
Teaches and establishes our children in the knowledge of the Word of God, towards a lifelong service commitment to Christ and His Church.
Young Church
Shares and celebrates Christ with our teens, in appropriate ways, in order that they might commit their lives to Him and His Church, grow in discipleship and partnership with others to transform the community, nation and the world.
The Evangelism ministry encourages the development of bold Christians who recognize and act on their responsibility to be God's messengers of the Good News to people around them wherever they may be.
During the year Evangelizing children, youth and men will be the main areas of focus during 2013. This will mean creating specific programmes and approaches that will speak to the specific needs and realities of these groups. Special emphasis will be placed on the spouses, children and other family members of our members
Exposes new and existing members to the principles and practices of evangelism through workshops, the worship services and other media.
Provides opportunities for the unsaved outside the walls of Webster to give their lives to Christ. Initiatives include Prayer and Praise in the Park (Emancipation) and community based evangelism.
Altar Calls
Facilitates the deliberate and intentional inclusion of altar calls and so provides opportunities for persons to commit or re-commit their lives to Christ.
Fosters the development of a praying culture within the Evangelism Ministry.
Community Care
Community Care is the vehicle that responds to the changing needs of individuals and the community. It reflects our commitment to facilitate and help our sisters and brothers in need and to support them to assist themselves.
During the year the Community Care Ministry will focus on both the in-reach and out-reach arms of the Welfare Ministry. This will provide opportunities for meeting people at the point of their need, for worship, evangelism, discipleship, service, fellowship and for integrating our young.
The Webster Basic School
Delivers culturally relevant Christian Early Childhood Education
Impacts the spiritual and social lives of wards while offering opportunities for possible earnings and a smoother re-entry into the society
Values individuals and builds communities by providing food packages, clothing, financial and spiritual direction in order to improve quality of life and promote self-sufficiency for members (in-reach) and non-members (out-reach) resident in surrounding communities.
Personal Financial Support
Through financial guidance and counseling, assists members to cultivate financially sound road maps, thus ensuring their financial suaveness and proactive response to changing market conditions.
Rolph Grant
Senior Citizen's Home
Provides quality, residential Christian care to adults in their senior years.
Senior Life
Engages active seniors in a range of programmes aimed at enhancing their spiritual, physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Skills Yraining
(Early Childhood Education)
Partners with HEART/NTA to provide level two and three certificate training thus equipping graduates for employment in early childhood facilities.
Provides practical assistance in employment and job transition issues. Services include support for enhancing resume writing and interviewing skills.
Education Fund
Manages a scholarship fund that provides need-based education scholarship.
Provides practical support and guidance to bereaved persons – includes bereavement from sources other than death.
Home Work Programme
Facilitates the spiritual and social development of participants while providing homework assistance.
Family and Fellowship
The Family and Fellowship Ministry fosters the building and maintenance of an environment of love and trust from which members, adherents and visitors will experience a sense of belonging, acceptance, significance and support.
During the year the Family and Fellowship Ministry will focus on the building and maintaining of authentic relationships within the context of intergenerational fun.
Ministry Leadership
Builds and strengthens Family and Fellowship as an integrated Ministry of support, service and partnership of men, women, young people, couples and children in fellowship - the interconnected Family anchored and growing in God.
Women's Fellowship
Makes a difference in our Church Community by seeking to unite, empower, educate and widen the fellowship among women in the Church and community and promoting warmer fellowship within God's family as we continue our Season of Renewal and Transformation.
Young Adults Action Movement
Is on a path to rebuild the Action Movement through increased involvement and visibility of Young Adults in the mission and ministry of the Church, while speaking to and sharing their joys, concerns, fears and hopes.
Provides opportunities for couples within the Webster context to strengthen their marriages based on Biblical principles.
Men of Purpose
Serves the congregation and surrounding communities by facilitating programmes that will build unity and, thereby advance the will of God.
Play Church
Provides care and Christian stimulation to infants and toplers during the worship services.
Youth Ministry
The Youth Ministry facilitates the development of spiritually mature young people who are disciplined in worship, nurtured through discipleship, growing in fellowship, engaged in ministry and active in evangelism.
During the year the Youth Ministry will focus on intentionally integrating the young into all areas of congregational life.
Boy's Brigade
The Webster Company is part of the international Christian youth organization that caters to the needs of boys between the ages of 4 and 18. Activities include drill exercises, local and international camping. The Webster Company has a very active marching band.
Girl's Brigade
The Webster Company is part of an international Christian Youth Organization that caters to the needs of girls between the ages of 4 and 18. Activities include drill exercises, local and international camping.
Youth Fellowship
The Youth Fellowship is part of a national United Church body and caters to the needs of young people between the ages of 13 and 25. Activities include national competitions in the areas of Bible Knowledge, sports and the use of the performing arts in Ministry.


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Tallahassee's Backpacker's Box isn't just a great name - it's an honest reflection of what you're gonna get - mouth-smacking good flavor culled from the operators' real travels across the globe. Brought back to Tallahassee and collected under one mobile roof are dishes as varied as Kalua pork, Thai honey chicken and Caribbean lentils, all prepared as fresh and authentic as their original inspirations. And whichever road you choose, all should eventually end at the Japanese fried cheesecake. Because really, how else would this journey to end? Give Backpacker's Box a visit next time you're in Tallahassee and gain a world of taste - one that travels straight to you, no effort on your part.
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Network processor card boosts performance of IA/x86-based apps
Keywords:Netronome Systems? virtual machines? processors? processor card? network card?
Netronome Systems Inc., a provider of deep packet inspection, content flow and virtual machine technologies, announces the availability of the company's first network co-processor card. With pricing starting at around $6,000, this product is designed to boost performance in IA/x86-based network and security applications.
The NFE-i8000 Netronome Flow Engine card can be used to increase performance of existing applications, or as a development environment enabling engineers to develop networking and security applications. Netronome said the card can speed time-to-market by reducing development time for new or upgraded applications.
Leveraging PCIe
Leveraging the Netronome-developed PCI Express interface and so-called zero copy drivers, along with an Intel IXP2855 network processor and Intel IXCP210 cryptographic accelerator, the NFE-i8000 card acts as a tightly integrated network co-processor for IA/x86 servers, supporting up to 4-Gbit/s throughput along with encryption.
Additional features include PCI Express with four active lanes, a Netronome-developed custom PCI Express interface that ensures low-latency transfers between IXP and IA (it confers significantly higher speeds while dramatically reducing CPU overhead), and support for multi-processor motherboards and multi-core processors. The card also includes a 4x 1Gbit small form-factor pluggable transceiver port for connectivity.
Cryptography acceleration
The NFE-i8000's hardware cryptography acceleration includes an integrated symmetric crypto unit, integrated asymmetric public key co-processor, and true random number generator. A mezzanine expansion connector provides support for future co-processors, such as pattern matching types.
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How Dogs Learn - Kerri Bee looks at reward based training.
Reward based dog training is based on the simple truth that if behaviour is rewarded, it is more likely to be repeated. This is true of humans as much as dogs, after all, how many people would go to work if they didn't earn any money?
If you think of all the reasons why you as a human do anything you should find that it all comes down to motivation. Motivation however, can be created by the threat of something unpleasant as well as the promise of something pleasant. This applies to so many things in life, for example we generally clean our homes to be rewarded by living in a pleasant environment but there is also the threat that if we don't, germs will take over. It's how we feel about these motivating factors that affects our relationships.
How does this affect dogs? Well, dogs don't really do things just to please us and even dogs that appear to do that will be motivated by other factors – you just have to look more closely. The key is how we motivate them which determines how our dogs (and cats and children and......) feel about us.
Positive reward based training develops trust and loyalty between dogs and people. It also helps develop your dog's personality rather than suppress it like traditional methods. Dogs really enjoy this kind of training because it taps into their natural love of learning and it stimulates their brains, making for happier, well behaved pets and therefore owners.
This kind of training is fun, positive and quick because dogs and people learn best when they are relaxed and happy. You can learn how to teach your dog anything without even raising your voice. In fact shouting or physical force of any kind are strictly prohibited in class, because such punishment teaches nothing and is therefore unkind and since there are positive ways to teach, there is simply no need.
Dogs learn by simple association. If they sit and receive a food treat at the same time or immediately after they are likely to be motivated to sit again. Dogs cannot understand our language without help, so in order to learn a word for an action they must hear the word a number of times at the same time as performing the action, before being able to perform the action when asked. One way to train dogs (and nearly all animals) is with clicker training.
Using Rewards in Training
The kind of rewards, the variety, and how they are used in reward based puppy and dog training is essential to success – rewards are wages!
Most dogs are motivated by food and toys to different degrees. With toys, it is the games that people play with them that make them exciting or with toys such as Kongs, it is the food they are stuffed with.
We usually start with food treats to teach a dog new behaviour because most are motivated by food and small easily eaten food treats make the training process quicker and easier to understand. Toy rewards are useful at the end of sections of training and in more progressive training where the dog has built up a desire for the toy.
Food treats must come thick and fast to start with to cement the learning, and then as the training becomes more automatic the food can be gradually phased out. It is a good idea to continue to treat your dog occasionally, even when he knows the cue well. It will strengthen the bond between you in the same way that an occasional word of thanks for doing the dusting, works for you!
What treats to use
It is well worth making a list of your dog's top ten treats, bearing in mind that your dog although strictly an omnivore (eats anything!), he or she is mainly a carnivore and so meat will probably forms at least six of her top ten. Her daily kibble may or may not be in that top ten.
Liver cake is loved by about 99% of dogs I meet. It's cheap and easy to make, but quite yucky, so I often sell some in class. To make it, liquidise a packet of liver, add an egg (optional) and enough wholemeal flour to make it the consistency of cake mixture. Pour into a tin lined with foil and greased and bake until it's firm. When cool cut into squares and freeze – you can defrost as much as you need.
Tuna and other fish can be made into cake as above if your dog likes it as many do.
Cheese good for vegetarians, dogs love it, keeps well, easy to use – try cheap mild cheddar. Use in moderation with young puppies and don't over-rely on it for any dog. Cheese is so easy to use it can get boring and too much may upset tummies - variation is the key.
Chicken - a top favourite. Save scraps from your meals, cut them small and freeze in pots. Cook cheap portions in stock, so it doesn't shrink as much.
Beef doesn't have to be expensive. Again, bits from your own meals, cooked or raw cheap mince and sandwich meat. You could try whizzing up cheap mince, an egg and flour and baking – this makes it go a lot further.
Sausage is a big favourite but they are usually full of salt so use your dog's fondness for them sparingly by adding one or two tiny bits to each handful of treats – it will add incentive. Try Tesco smokey bacon cocktail sausages!
Sandwich meat can be really convenient as it is already sliced. Dogs like garlic sausage, chicken roll, all that kind of thing.
Commercial Treats are liked by many dogs but usually come nearer the bottom of their Top Ten, making them useful for 'ok' responses whilst reserving the top treats for new work and 'wow' responses. Choose ones that list meat as the first ingredient and look out for added salt, sugar and artificial ingredients, especially colours.
Using Toys
Try to develop a habit of playing tuggy or retrieve or chase after each segment of training. It reinforces the training more and allows your dog a quick break before re-starting training.
Kerri Bee FdSc CBT,
Kerri holds a Foundation Degree in Canine Behaviour and Training from the University of Hull and she has also been a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers UK. Kerri is also a behaviour advisor for SPPOT (Supporting People & Pets through Opportunity & Training) is an innovative Community Interest Company which interests and inspires people who encounter it, whether they are the people for whom the organisation was set up, people who love dogs or fellow professionals working in either of SPPOT's dual spheres. Visit her at http://www.sppot.co.uk/
Some products that might be useful for training your dog
Spiffy Dog Treat Bag£7.30
Box Clicker£3.00
Spiffy Dog, Red Black Collar£16.30


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Erin Mackey (former Glinda – Broadway, Los Angeles, Chicago; former ensemble, u/s Glinda – Chicago; former swing – 1st Ntl. Tour) will perform in SING FOR YOUR SUPPER on December 9 at 7:30 PM. Hosted by Sean Hartley, this concert will offer a history of the American musical theatre through duets, trios and quartets. With musical direction by David Loud, attendees can expect to hear Irving Berlin's "You're Just In Love," Frank Loesser's "Standing on the Corner" and the "Tonight Quintet" from WEST SIDE STORY, as well as songs by Rodgers and Hart, Frank Loesser and William Finn.
This concert will conclude the BROADWAY CLOSE UP concert series at Kaufman Music Center's Merkin Hall in New York City.
For more information, visit kaufmanmusiccenter.org.


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Amending the constitution is a recipe for disaster, says Adetuyi
Adetuyi stressed this while speaking with The Guardian in Akure yesterday, warning that such bid would not only be a "recipe for chaos, but also a lethal poison to true federalism in the Nigeria context."
He dispelled the justification for the amendment, which he said was to satisfy the selfish interest of the governors, whom he emphasized, borne out of his experience in the course of service, to serve the whims and caprices of the state governors. He remarked that if the directives of the governors are within the purview of the Police Act, it is serious dereliction of duty for any police commissioner to ignore such order.
"Most times, what brings conflict is when the governor asks the commissioner to do something outside the Police Act," he stated, referring to such excesses when he served as Commissioner for Police in Kogi State. "I told him that was not my duty. The governor didn't like it and said I was romancing with the opposition party. A few days later, I was transferred to Yobe State, but I didn't care."
The ex-police officer turned lawyer who represented the police in the 2014 National CONFAB in Abuja, said the committee on security, only recommended that there should be decentralization of powers for police and not state police. Adetuyi advocated that instead of creating state police, the lawmakers should decentralize the police for better performance and make better legislation to address the poor conditions of police officers.
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2019 All-Hazards Disaster Planning Guide
The official Tampa Bay All-Hazards Disaster Planning Guide includes hurricane evacuation zone maps for participating coastal counties in the Tampa Bay area. When necessary, each county's Emergency Management office will recommend a hurricane evacuation by Level (A, B, C, D or E) as shown on these color-coded maps. The maps also show the location of hurricane evacuation routes and hurricane shelters/evacuation centers.
The Disaster Planning Guides also provide preparedness information for other hazards, including floods, tornadoes, hazardous materials, and terrorism.
Printed copies of the Disaster Planning Guides are available throughout the region. For a list of pick-up locations, or if you need assistance in locating your zone, evacuation route, or evacuation shelter, please contact your county's Emergency Management office.
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Google has released a chrome extension that brings the voice-activated "Ok Google" command to the browser. When installed, it allows those on the desktop to speak their commands to the browser using the "OK Google" hotword.
The extension also supports reminders, so you can say "Ok Google, set a timer for 30 minutes." Once installed, you'll have to give Chrome permission to access your computer's microphone. Then, a "Say OK Google" notice will appear in the Google.com search bar. When it recognizes your voice, a red microphone will appear and Google will type what you say before giving you an answer. The extension is explicitly labeled as a beta, but it seems to work well.
Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why Google no longer has that 100 links per page webmaster guideline.
Cutts says "It used to be the case that Google bot and our indexing system would truncate at 100 or 101K, and anything beyond that wouldn't get indexed, and what we did, was we said, 'Okay, if the page is 101K, 100K, then, you know, it's reasonable to expect roughly one link per kilobyte, and therefore, something like 100 links on a page.' So that was in our technical guidelines, and we said, you know, 'This is what we recommend,' and a lot of people assumed that if they had 102 links or something like that then we would view it as spam, and take action, but that was just kind of a rough guideline"
Matt Cutts, head of Google's search spam team has put a new video discussing about Disavow Links tool. Should webmasters use the disavow tool, even if it is believed that no penalty has been applied?
Cutts said "the main purpose of the tools is for when you have done some "bad SEO" yourself or someone has on your behalf."
Google launched a new feature for Gmail users today that lets them save email attachments directly in their drive account without ever leaving Gmail.
Now you'll be able to click a new drive icon next to attachments and select a folder to save right within Gmail. This new feature is more convenient for Drive users, saving an attachment to drive make it easier for Google to keep you within the Gmail browser window and sell more drive storage.
Google has officially announced the launch of Google helpouts after several months, it's a new offering that people and businesses can use to make money via live social video.
Google said on its blog that its goal with Helpouts is simply to "Help people help each other." Helpouts can open a new brand new revenue stream for the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company.
Five ways Google can make money of its new Helpout service.


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Perennials for the bergen county n.j. climatic zone of 5 to 6.
Perennials for the bergen county n.j. climatic zone of 5 to 6.
Residential landscaping makeover of existing garden beds and planting of seasonal color.
Outdoor living area design and build by almost perfect landscaping of paramus new jersey located in bergen county
Learn how to identify a maple tree. Discover the history of syrup making and how technology has changed the way we gather sap over the centuries. The group will check tapped trees and boil down sap to make fresh, warm maple syrup, a sweet treat for all.
A priceless jewel in Bergen County, NJ is tucked away in a residential area of Wyckoff; the James A. McFaul Environmental Center. It's seldom crowded, and on a nice day the wildlife you see is inspiring.
Landscaping project in Montclair New Jersey – complete bank makeover design and build
75 Amazing Plant Birth Images – how many can you identify?
Retaining Wall Design and Build Retaining Wall – Garden Path Design – Landscaping
Shade garden design / build. garden path design – outdoor living area – landscaping
Creating garden spaces within the inner city. Revitalizing our inner cities with plant life.