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Did you catch these two Carmex coupons in this week's Walgreens weekly ad? Yes, there are two coupons you can use. On the main ad there is a coupon to make Carmex items $0.99 and in the wrap around ad, there is a coupon to get them buy one get one free. Combine both coupons to get two items for $0.99.
According to Walgreens coupons policy you can use more than one Walgreens coupon per item. So bring this one with you!
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What Is a Deposit Multiplier?
A deposit multiplier, sometimes called a simple deposit multiplier, is the amount of cash that a bank must keep in reserve and is a percentage of the amount on deposit at the bank. For example, if the deposit multiplier is 20% the bank must keep $1 in reserve for every $5 it has in deposits. The remaining $4 is available to the bank to loan out or invest.
The deposit multiplier requirement is key to maintaining an economy's basic money supply. Reliance on a deposit multiplier is called a fractional reserve banking system and is now common to banks in most nations around the world.
The deposit multiplier is sometimes called the deposit expansion multiplier. This is the inverse of the required reserve ratio. The deposit multiplier provides the basis for the money multiplier, but the money multiplier value is ultimately less, due to excess reserves, savings, and conversions to cash by consumers.
Understanding Deposit Multipliers
Keeping a deposit multiplier minimizes the risk that a bank will not have enough cash on hand to satisfy day-to-day withdrawal requests from its customers. Its reserve requirement ratio also determines how much money it has to loan out or otherwise invest.
Calculating a Deposit Multiplier
A deposit multiplier can be calculated using the following formula:
Central banks such as the Federal Reserve in the United States establish minimum amounts to be held by banks, known as the required reserve. The bank must continually maintain this minimum in an account deposited at the central bank to ensure that it has sufficient cash to meet any withdrawal requests from its depositors.
Key Takeaways
- The deposit multiplier is key to maintaining an economy's basic money supply.
- It is the main component of a fractional reserve banking system.
- Banks in the U.S. must keep minimums set by the Federal Reserve but may set a higher deposit multiplier.
The deposit multiplier is sometimes expressed as the deposit multiplier ratio, which is the inverse of the required reserve ratio. For example, if the required reserve ratio is 20%, the deposit multiplier ratio is 80%.
Deposit Multiplier vs. Money Multiplier
The deposit multiplier is frequently confused with the money multiplier. Although the two terms are closely related, they are not interchangeable.
The money multiplier reflects the change in a nation's money supply created by the loan of capital beyond the bank's reserve. It can be seen as the maximum potential creation of money through the multiplied effect of all bank lending.
Banks may keep reserves beyond the requirements set by the Federal Reserve in order to reduce the number of checkable deposits.
If banks loaned out every available dollar beyond their required reserves, and if borrowers spent every dollar they borrowed from banks, the deposit multiplier and the money multiplier would be essentially the same.
In practice, banks do not lend out every dollar they have available. And not all borrowers spend every dollar they borrow. They may devote some of the cash to savings or other deposit accounts. That reduces the amount of money creation and the money multiplier figure that reflects it.


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Three Ways to Add Soul and Meaning to Gifts of Money
Many women have the great combination of big hearts and a big purse to go with it. Are you one of those fortunate women? Or maybe you have a big heart and an average pocketbook. Even if you have a tiny little purse, and an average sized heart, gifting money to someone else just might change your life.
Because money is an easy way to give to others in need, we write checks. We send them off to organizations that solicit us for money, and we don't want to say NO. However, from countless conversations I have had with women, I have found we want our money to feel like more than the funds behind the gift. But how do we go about adding that deeper piece to our 'money gift'?
It's becoming easier to give financially and feel really great about it at the same time. Many of us see the world truly as a global village and want to commit and connect much more.
So, There are three ways to infuse your gift with a piece of your soul and feel connection, too.
1. Buy gifts for your friends or family that give back to the women who produced them. These gifts include the cooperative where the women work and often include the name or even photo of the woman who made your special item. It might include a tag signed by her, too.
In this way, you give a real monetary gift to the creator of the item – her livelihood is fed by your purchase. Examples of organizations with wonderful connections to women and their crafts are Global Goods Partners, Ten Thousand Villages, Women's Peace Collection, Global Mamas, and many more.
2. Loan your money to a person through KIVA. This non-profit organization's mission is to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty and help people help themselves. It's monetary based, but it's a loan for someone to create a business, buy a cow or purchase farm supplies, dig a well, etc.
You choose a borrower. You make a loan. You get repaid. If desired, because you felt good and could watch the project in action, you repeat. For more information, go to kiva.org. Watch the video, and for $25 you can make your first loan.
3. Join a group like and gift financially, as this organization says, 'changing the world, one dinner at a time'. Chapters meet often and share a meal together. They connect and enjoy common interests, and they raise funds for the featured program of the month. The topics improve the lives of women and their families and cover topics such as grass roots programs in education, healthcare, sustainability and leadership.
The clever core of this program is that women eat together in someone's home and the money they would have spent to go out to eat is then donated to Dining For Women's cause of the month. For more information go to diningforwomen.org. Maybe there's a group already in your town, or consider starting one!
These are just a sampling of the many creative ways you can gift money and connect your heart in meaningful ways to women around the world, and also near home.
Have these ideas for gifting money inspired you? What other ways have you given money that was creative and meaningful? Let's develop the conversation. Please share below.


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Notable Role of Content in the Brand Building Process
Business magnets, tycoons or visionary leaders in the corporate world always focus on simplifying the communication process to boost brand building. Lack of any such strategies or ignoring the elements that could ease communication would otherwise directly or indirectly push brand building strategies in the backward escalation. The big question is to understand the pivotal elements which are capable to take the businesses and their promotional campaigns at the zenith of success for the better rewards to achieve to write the success stories.
To smoothen communication strategies, what you need the most is nothing other than the first and foremost one—quality contents. Contents can be in any form. Whether as texts, in the audio or video forms and or in any digital shape, contents always prove helpful to engage potentials—so do they impress your readers besides inviting the Google crawlers. Resultantly, contents offer extensive SEO benefits.
Through gaining popularity amongst the human readers as well as by getting recognized by the machines, your contents play a pivotal role to ascertain that your business brand develops gradually. This is how you build your company as a brand and witness its fast popularity amongst the target customers.
You must not forget this proven fact that brand building is a daunting task. So, you can't expect an outcome in a day or two for supposedly being the one day's task. It takes time, plenty of efforts and last but not the least your willingness and zeal to achieve targets. With the advancement of technology over the period of time and the demographic diversities, the ever-growing digital marketing industry has indeed completely metamorphosed the ways through which individuals are consuming any type of information. The role of content in brand building is always vital thus it cannot be ignored in the long run.
Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has rightly said that your brand is what other people say about you when you are not in the room. Being an entrepreneur or a manager of a company, you must, therefore, give enough priority to brand building. 89% of the marketers believe that brand awareness is their top priority and that need to be adhered to stringently.
The Role of Contents in Brand Building
Let's look at the innumerable role which contents play in brand building strategies. It's also important to know how it helps your business to reach the success path. In this post, we are not going to tell you what the best brand-building methods to use. Instead, you'll understand the importance of brand building and fundamental components which make it worth and work for good. Google processes over 3.5 billion searches daily in the current context. Therefore, you should carefully use each strategy to establish your brand thus boost sales.
1. Improves Brand Reputation
Great content helps to build goodwill, establish trust and improve organic rankings. If you get success in creating such persuasive contents which are highly relevant, thoroughly engaging and value-adding to the best extent possible, then you are surely going to add value to your brand. If the contents you generally don't have any such features and value, then for sure you are going to miss out your website visitors. And, at the same juncture, you also drive down your ranking in the search engine results.
It is therefore vital to publish only original, valuable and problem-solving contents because customers don't want to be lied to by their existing or prospect companies. It is thus essential for the companies to encourage the customers to visit their websites by providing them original contents and to let their customers feel valued.
2. Makes You an SME
Yes, it does if you have the right knowledge about a particular subject. In order to create valuable contents which intrigue as well as inform the potential clients, you must have valuable, specialized knowledge to that subject you offer them. Contents always enable the brands to showcase the subject matter expertise. Every time a blog, article, whitepaper, video or a slideshow is published, the brand is announcing to the world how much it knows about that particular industry and its challenges.
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3. Optimizes SEO Efforts
SEO optimized contents help in building a brand and to improve its organic ranking. Search has become increasingly complex over the period of time now, but contents have always that irrefutable importance. As per a report, Google made over 3,200 improvements to search in 2018 alone. Be updated with the latest SEO techniques and don't fall prey to the bad link building "black hat" pieces of advice.
Creating optimized contents remains the most effective SEO technique available nowadays. Apart from helping brands to achieve good search engine rankings, it also assists in improving the brand's visibility. This way you can improve your branding.
4. Helps to Improve Conversions
Professionally developed contents help the organizations improve conversions. Research suggests that 61% of the US consumers who purchased online decided to do so after reading the recommendations on the blogs. If you are a success to improve the conversions, then your brand would be established as a reputed one.
5. Develops Your Content Marketing Strategy
Remember that your brand's strength is driven by both reputation and visibility elements. And, it is possible only if you have an effective content marketing success plan ready and in place. It employs valuable & educational contents to attract, nurture and qualify the prospects. Increasing visibility alone, without strengthening your brand's reputation, is rarely offering you any success. Content marketing increases both visibility and reputation at the same juncture.
Above mentioned methods let you understand why do content marketing strategies are always important for the organizations of all sizes. The content was king, is king and will remain king. Not only does content marketing help you build brands and also boost your visibility, but also it can equally assist you to build the stronger relationships with prospects, leads and last but not the least valuable customers.
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- The Arkham Story Begins: Batman: Arkham Origins features an all-new single-player campaign written by Dooma Wendschuh and Corey May, with Geoff Johns consulting. Players become an early-career Batman as he encounters for the first time many of the super villains that shape his future.
- Enhanced Detective Mode: Batman's detective skills are tested as never before with an all-new Crime Scene system that allows players to scrub through the evidence in order to find key pieces of information. Players use Batman's Cowl and Bat Computer to digitally recreate crime scenes, allowing them to track clues that normal eyes would miss.
- Gotham City as Never Seen Before: Explore areas of Gotham City before its transformation into Arkham City, and experience all new areas and other iconic locations. The dynamic and rich environments are filled with a variety of enemies, "crimes-in-progress" and other content that will encourage exploration and player engagement.
- Most Wanted Side Missions: Hunt down villains who are connected to, but not part of the core story. It's the player's choice if and when they want to complete these threads.
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The Irish TimesMon, 16 July 2012
Boross, the self-styled pitch doctor has written a very breezy guide to his subject, as one would expect. It is packed full of good advice in bite-sized chunks for those who want to make a stronger impact with their presentations.
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Paul Boross tells The Sunday Times what you should never, ever do when making a pitch.
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'Pitch Doctor' Paul Boross has instructed the likes of Richard Branson and Ainsley Harriot on the dark art of corporate communication. Here are his tips for ensuring your pitch hits the mark every time.
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Energy stored more efficiently: At the FILM EXPO, DORNIER presents the latest technology for separator film production for lithium-ion batteries
The replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energies requires an efficient energy storage systems. DORNIER as system supplier for plants that produce separator film for lithium-ion batteries, makes its contribution with the latest production technology - to be seen at the FILM EXPO in Osaka (22.-24.5.).
The innovative technology offer from Germany is of particular interest to film producers from Japan, South Korea and other Asian industrial countries, who determine the world standard in the production of highly specific separator film for photovoltaic energy storage or batteries for electric cars. For decades, DORNIER has been represented on this growing market with efficient and durable system components for film production. Among other things, the family-owned company supplies transverse stretching and fixing machines, casting roller mills and longitudinal stretching machines "Made in Germany" to producers in Japan.
With a view to megatrends such as energy turnaround and digitisation as well as the increasing demand for battery separator films for lithium-ion batteries, DORNIER is constantly providing new impulses. Thanks to improved mechanical relaxation, a new type of clip improves the quality of the film produced with it. This increases the durability of lithium-ion batteries. The new development also allows the film shrinkage, especially the MD shrinkage, to be adjusted even more effectively. This ensures very good dimensional stability of the film even at high process temperatures in both the longitudinal and transverse directions. "Whether smartphones, tablets, electric cars or photovoltaic accumulators - battery separator film manufactured with DORNIER system technology is part of many megatrends," says Patrick C. Fischer, a company's sales engineer for film stretching lines.
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We're all guilty of listening to the same song on repeat.
It might last for days, it might last for weeks; sometimes it's impossible to move your playlist on.
Listening to the same old tunes on a loop is the most natural thing in the world. But why do we do it?
Researchers have been exploring the notion of 'extreme re-listening' in the journal Psychology of Music, and their findings might throw a little light onto your embarrassing and yet all-consuming Kelly Clarkson habit.
Scientists from the University of Michigan interviewed 2.04 men and women in their 30s and younger, about the music they were listening to most often at the moment, their connection to the song, what aspects of the song hooked them in and how the music made them feel.
According to BPS Research Digest, participants cited a wide array of songs, from pop and rock to rap, country, jazz and reggae.
60% claimed to enjoy re-listening to their chosen song almost immediately, with some saying that they listen to it up to four times in a row.
When it came to the feelings songs invoked, tunes tended to fall into one of three categories – happy and energetic, calm and relaxed, and bittersweet.
And it was the latter category that was the most listened to.
In fact, bittersweet tunes got an average of 790 listens, compared to 515 for calm songs and 175 for happy ones.
Bittersweet songs were most likely to evoke the deepest connections, enabling the listener to build a 'mental model' of the song – meaning that they were more likely to be able to replay the song in their head.
And that also means being able to relieve the moments in our lives that we first made that connection to a particular tune.
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The Library recently announced its new catalog and search interface, Search@NDNU that searches for millions of books, journal articles, videos, and e-resources at once. The Library will present four Search@NDNU workshops for students and faculty to give an overview of how to use the new system and its unique features.
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PIQUA — A Michigan man is dead from an apparent medical condition suffered behind the wheel of his truck on Looney Road near East Ash Street on Wednesday morning.
An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper spotted a semi sitting in the roadway on Looney around 10:30 a.m. The rig was stopped with the cab in one lane and the trailer in the other.
It appears as if the driver may have just left the Home Depot store on East Ash Street.
Lt. Joe Gebhart of the Piqua Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said a trooper found the driver, George Lee Matteson V, 47, of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, slumped over the wheel and unresponsive. The trooper pulled Matteson from the truck and off the roadway where CPR was started and Piqua Fire Department medics called to the scene.
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I can't believe I forgot to put Lady in the Water on my list from yesterday's Worst Movies blogfest. Or as my husband calls it, Ron Howard's Daughter Is in My Pool. I love M Night–hey! we have similar names!–but this movie was just . . . It was awful. Really. A cute idea in theory but hamhandedly executed.
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Last week, President Obama vented his frustration at Congressional Republicans for storming out of White House budget talks over raising the debt ceiling. Anyone who thinks the president overreacted should look to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) latest budget forecast, which warns that the national debt is poised to spiral out of control.
Released on the same day GOP negotiators abandoned their post at the budget talks, CBO's "Long-Term Budget Outlook" predicted that the debt will reach 100 percent of GDP in less than a decade, then zoom to twice the size of the U.S. economy by 2037. In other words, we are moving inexorably toward the unsustainable level of debt (about 150 percent of GDP) that has plunged Greece into crisis.
CBO's grim forecast, said the fiscal hawks at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, "should erase any thoughts of waiting until after the election – or worse, until markets force our hand – to make the needed changes to our budget." Such warnings, however, have fallen on deaf ears among Republicans, who refuse to even talk about debt reduction if it includes tax hikes.
GOP intransigence boosts the odds that Congress will fail to raise the debt ceiling by the August 2 deadline set by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. If that happens, the federal government would have to cut government programs drastically, or else risk defaulting debts to foreign creditors — "the first-ever failure by the United States to meet its commitments," notes Geithner.
But even if the White House and House Republicans somehow strike a deal over the debt ceiling, the larger challenge of closing America's enormous fiscal gap will remain. Before the Republicans quit the talks, the goal was to cut the debt by as much as $2 trillion over the next decade. The president's Fiscal Commission, however, concluded that we need to close the gap by closer to $4 trillion. There's no politically responsible or feasible way to get to that number by cutting government spending alone; that's why tax revenues have to be on the table.
So do entitlements. The CBO report makes clear that we need a comprehensive deficit reduction plan that not only stabilizes and reduces the debt over the medium term, but also grapples with long-run spending on healthcare and Social Security. The CBO projects that by 2035, health care spending under both the baseline and alternative scenarios will grow 5.1 to 9.2 percent and 8.5 percent of GDP respectively. Similarly, the CBO expects Social Security to grow to from 4.8 to 6.1 percent of GDP under both scenarios.
President Obama is right: With the deadline for raising the debt limit only a month away, it's time for an outbreak of fiscal sobriety in Washington. In truth, there is neither time nor political will to forge a comprehensive solution to America's exploding debts before August 2. But lawmakers could put together a reasonable down payment that would include temperate cuts in domestic and defense spending; more tax revenues from closing backdoor spending through the tax code, such as oil and gas subsidies; and adoption of the "chained CPI" something I wrote about earlier, would lower spending growth on big entitlements like Social security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Either way, the debt ceiling must be raised, and a grand bargain on deficit reduction must be struck. So President Obama is right to reject the invitation from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to come hear Hill Republicans rehearse their undying opposition to raising taxes. We're in the fiscal red zone now, and the time for posturing is behind us.
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The Girlfriend was leaving town, and there are things more important than blogging. It's stunning the number of long-distance relationships there are in Singapore sometimes - a function of the fact that so many of us study overseas. Sigh. Will return to random postings now.
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St. Ann's Club to celebrate centennial anniversary
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NORWALK -- Ever since a handful of people from the Italian town of Jelsi gathered in a South Norwalk garage to celebrate both the homeland they left behind and their arrival in America in 1914, St. Ann's Club has carried on the tradition of a celebration of their century-old heritage.
"The club was started in a garage on Wilbur St., off Bouton St., by a handful of people from Jelsi," said Nick Allegretta, chairman of the St. Ann's Club 100 year celebration committee.
In recognition of the 100-year milestone, St. Ann's Club members are planning a year-long series of celebrations.
"On New Year's Eve we kicked off the celebration with an anniversary cake," Allegretta said. "Members have each received an anniversary pin and we are planning special events at our feast in July."
According to the club website, "Jelsi natives celebrate the annual Wheat festival (La Sagra) that is held every year on July 26th honoring St. Ann because she saved Jelsi from total destruction during the earthquake of July 26th 1805."
Also in the works for the centennial celebration will be an Aug. 23 dinner dance at Continental Manor.
"That's going to be a big event," Allegretta said. "We have people coming from Italy and Canada for it, along with our members. We're planning to have Italian-American bands, dancers, and a performance by Italian tenors."
The club's history in Norwalk dates back to 1914, when immigrants from the Italian town of Jelsi carried on the tradition of honoring St. Ann, according to the club website.
"A big part of what the club founders did was to collect a little bit of money so that if someone got sick, or died, or had to go home and didn't have money, there would be money there for them," Allegretta said.
By way of continuing that spirit of giving which begun in that garage, Allegretta said that St. Ann's continues to give back to the community.
"Last year alone, St. Ann's donated over $70 thousand dollars. We donate scholarships, give donations to our troops, to the Whittingham Cancer Center and to Notre Dame," he said. "There have been projects in Jelsi that we donate to as well."
Allegretta reflected on what the founders of St. Ann's Club would think if they could see how the club has grown from its humble beginnings.
"We're an all-volunteer organization, and what we've accomplished with the club house, the marina, the house next door, and giving away all this money," he said. "We're one big family here and I think they'd be proud."
For St. Ann's Ladies Auxiliary president Betty Tavella Brink who has been a club member since 1990, the 100-year celebration is something to be proud of.
"What is so special to me about this anniversary is that we are celebrating our proud heritage and bringing both the love of our ancestors' homeland and our love of this country together," said Brink "The club was created 100 years ago for the first members to maintain their ties with Italy as well as to take pride in their new country."


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|The Guest Book
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|Basic Configuration
|License? What license?
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Here is the version 1.1 page.
Here is the version 1.0 page.
The issues that have been adressed in 1.2 relates to spam:
The guest book is a JSP that will allow any JSP-enabled webserver to operate a "guest book". A guest book is a kind of simple forum where users can post messages. Messages are sorted by date. Very primitive, but allow a form of interaction with your readers.
download the ZIP file and extract the two files (guestBook.jsp, guestBook.css) in your webserver repository. You then just need to specify where the guest book jsp should store the messages. Open guestBook.jsp in your favorite text aditor and modify the line (on top of the JSP file):
public static final String PGB_FILE = "C:\\messages.txt";To hold the file in which you want the guest book to store the messages. All the messages are stored in a text file.
For example, if you want the guest book to store the messages in "
Just replace the above line with:
public static final String PGB_FILE = "C:\\gb\\messages.txt";The last step is to create a JSP in which you will call the guestBook API. The simple JSP is listed below:
<%@ include file="guestBook.jsp" %> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>guest book</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <% writeGuestBook(out,session,request); %> </BODY> </HTML>Note: The guest book needs to know the URL used to access it. It does call
for this purpose. If you use any mechanism which change the URL mapping (such as
struts), you can specify a name (relative or absolute) for the JSP
to generate its own links. Instead of calling
writeGuestBook(out,session,request), just call
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Tense walk-through turns personal
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Things got a little more heated than usual at this week's walk-arounds, as Scott, Shelly, and Domain's managing editor Alice Stolz made their way through the biggest master suites The Block has ever seen.
Jason and Sarah – who have all but thrown in the towel this week – copped the obvious "why are you so behind?" questions, and Georgia started second guessing her decision to make space for a hallway, after Alice admitted she wasn't sold on the idea.
But it was Josh and Elyse who had the most justifying to do.
To keep their master suite, walk in robe and ensuite open and spacious, the young couple have decided to forgo a door; an idea they think is genius. Alice? Not so much.
"I think this a beautiful space, but I'm so alarmed you don't have a door," she said.
Shelly, too, was unconvinced, saying she was worried noise from children or house guests would carry upstairs and straight into what is supposed to be a private place.
"It's obvious you don't have kids."
The jabs didn't stop there, with Scotty playfully scolding Josh about his recent behaviour towards Elyse.
"We all think you need to be a bit nicer to your girlfriend," the ever-protective Scott said.
Josh, characteristically, was not happy, Jan.
"I'd like to see anyone else go through this; it's one of the toughest things anyone can go through."
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Republican-backed proposal to allow Wisconsin residents to carry concealed weapons without a permit is drawing opposition from at least one Republican member of the state Senate.
Sen. Luther Olsen says he opposes the bill that was circulated Tuesday for co-sponsors. Olsen says it's important for people wanting to carry concealed weapons to get firearm safety training. He also opposes changes under the bill that would allow concealed weapons on school grounds that don't prohibit them.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he is "generally supportive" of the bill and will monitor public support before determining next steps.
The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action praised the Wisconsin bill, which would make the state the 13th to pass a so-called "constitutional carry" law.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Hidden handguns could be legally carried without a license in Wisconsin under a far-reaching, Republican-backed proposal being circulated for co-sponsors.
The bill unveiled Tuesday would also allow licensed concealed carry permit holders to bring firearms into places where they are currently barred, including school buildings, unless signs are posted prohibiting them.
Bill co-sponsor Republican Rep. Mary Felzkowski says its intent is to remove the "barrier of the concealed carry permit" so people can exercise their constitutional right to carry a gun.
The measure would also create a new concealed carry license that doesn't require holders to pass a gun training course.
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The Unprovability of Consistency
An Essay in Modal Logic
- Author: George Boolos
- Date Published: January 2009
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The Unprovability of Consistency is concerned with connections between two branches of logic: proof theory and modal logic. Modal logic is the study of the principles that govern the concepts of necessity and possibility; proof theory is, in part, the study of those that govern provability and consistency. In this book, George Boolos looks at the principles of provability from the standpoint of modal logic. In doing so, he provides two perspectives on a debate in modal logic that has persisted for at least thirty years between the followers of C. I. Lewis and W. V. O. Quine. The author employs semantic methods developed by Saul Kripke in his analysis of modal logical systems. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in logic, mathematics and philosophy, as well as to specialists in those fields.
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1. G and other normal modal propositional logics
2. Peano Arithmetic
3. The box as Bew
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5. Semantics for G and other modal logics
6. Canonical models
7. The completeness and decidability of G
8. Trees for G
9. Calculating the truth-values of fixed points
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Electricity is something we often take for granted. Because it's so intertwined into our daily lives, from powering your smartphone to providing lighting in even the most obscure locations, we can often forget the dangers that come with it. When not properly installed or respected, there are significant risks of injury or fire from electrical hazards.
May has been designated as National Electrical Safety Month. The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) uses the month to raise awareness about electrical safety hazards both on the job site and at home. This year, they're focus is on the importance of understanding electrical safety precautions when preparing, weathering, and rebuilding after a natural disaster.
Electrical Safety in the Workplace
Live electrical contact is a leading cause of workplace injuries and fatalities, with nearly 4,000 injuries and 300 deaths each year. This is why it's important to talk about electrical safety as part of your daily safety protocols. Here are a few key things to keep in mind while working:
- Never overload electrical circuits. Extension cords plugged into power strips that are connected in series with other strips is a common, but significant risk. Not only is this practice is a regulatory violation, it can also cause a fire.
- All electrical panels and equipment should have penetrations properly sealed, making sure there are no exposed wires or access points into live electrical exposures. To avoid injury, equipment should not be opened by employees unless they have received the proper training.
- Proper training to understand the energy sources of equipment is required when providing service or maintenance or when troubleshooting equipment. Lockout/tagout processes should be followed by anyone involved in, or affected by these tasks.
- Inspect any tears or frayed connections leading into corded tools or electrical equipment. These can lead to exposure points and result in live electrical contact. Also, always ensure that equipment is unplugged before attempting to change tooling or perform repairs.
Natural Disasters and Electrical Safety
High winds, rain, flooding, and lightning can disturb the secure installation and status of electrical equipment. Being proactive and having a plan in place can help mitigate the effects of the event. Electrical safety needs to be a top priority during these times here are a few reminders when a natural disaster strikes:
- Never touch downed power lines, and always assume the lines are still live. Stay at least 35 feet away, and report the downed power lines as soon you see them.
- If equipment was submerged, it can present injury or damage risk even after the flooding has subsided. Always have a qualified electrician perform inspections prior to using equipment.
- When working near wet conditions, a GFCI should always be used with any electrical tooling.
- Make sure generation equipment is installed properly and carbon monoxide detectors are operable. Never use a generator inside your home or in an enclosed location as a large majority of carbon monoxide deaths are associated with improper generator use.
Always Keep Electrical Hazards Top of Mind
Whether you're on a job site, sitting at an office desk, or in your own home, electrical exposure could be present. Make sure you understand how to approach a situation and prevent injury or death from electrical contact. Although May is designated as Electrical Safety Month, you should observe proper electrical safety behaviors every single day.
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Buying a home can be an exciting, yet confusing process. It is literally not something you do every day (unless you're a realtor), and it helps to be well-informed when it comes to each step of the procedure. Before you buy a home, these tips will serve as a helpful guide on your journey.
Define Your Goals
It's good to decide what you want and then start doing your homework. Decide what kind of house you're looking for, and start looking at your finances to determine how much you can afford to pay. The latter will have a great impact on the former; it will help you be realistic as you begin your search.
Engage A Realtor
No, really, you should not do this without the advice of an expert. It's a complicated matter and no two transactions are alike. You need an experienced professional to guide you through the property search, financing, negotiation, and transaction. The market is constantly changing and it's best to engage someone who knows the local area well.
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You need to know how much you can spend. Preapproval means going to a lender and letting them take a look at your financial situation and credit history. They'll determine the amount you can borrow, and you can start looking for homes in that price range. It will also make you a "qualified" buyer, which make work to your benefit when you decide to make an offer.
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If you have a clear view of what you want, it'll be easier to find what you want. How many bedrooms do you need? How many bathrooms? How much square footage? Fenced in yard or zero-lot line? Which neighborhood? The Internet makes initial searches much easier, and allows you to more efficiently narrow down the houses you want to see in person. It is important to see homes in person – and here again, it's useful to take along the experienced eye of a realtor who will likely notice things you might miss.
Let us help you along your journey.
Make an Offer
If you've found a home that suits your criteria and feels like "the one" it's time to make an offer. There are contracts specific to transactions in your area, and they provide a way for you to offer a sale price and include any clauses, like deposit, closing and possession dates, and any other conditions. You and your realtor should go over these clauses carefully to make sure they represent your interests accurately.
Your offer may be accepted right away. It also may be rejected. Or it may come back with a counter-offer, and that's when negotiating comes in. Negotiations can involve many factors, such as market conditions, home condition, and buyer's financial health. A realtor can be especially helpful during the process of counter offers, with their deadlines for response, and meeting of conditions until an agreement is reached.
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Once you have an agreement and a pending sale, it's time to finalize If you've been pre-approved, this should be pretty straightforward. If you haven't gone through the pre-approval process, you'll need to choose a lender and get approved for the loan, finalizing a down payment, determining an interest rate, and scheduling a payment plan.
Close The Deal
Once all that heavy lifting is done, you are in the home stretch and the last few details associated with closing the deal include doing a title search (and title insurance is recommended in case the records have errors), the final walk-through to make sure everything is in the same condition, and the settlement where you go to a lawyer's office and sign mountains of paperwork. The settlement is also the time you pay closing costs, legal fees, and any transfer taxes. It's also the time you get the keys to your new home!
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Everybody is Important
Look all around you.
Walk through an airport terminal.
Stroll along main street.
Ride in an elevator.
Sit on a bus.
Everybody is important.
Everybody thinks the world revolves around them.
You. Me. Everybody.
That's human nature.
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Everybody is important, especially your connections, customers and constituents, especially those on the receiving end of your messages.
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University of Port-Harcourt, UNIPORT registration portal re-opening notice to returning students. The portal will be available for 2 weeks.
This is is to inform all the returning students of the University of Port-Harcourt (UNIPORT) that the Registration Portal will be open for two (2) weeks, from Tuesday, 3rd to Monday, 16th May, 2016. This is to enable the students concerned to conclude their registration for the 2015/2016 session.
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Indian River Festival
The Indian River Festival offers a summer long series of concerts in a magnificent heritage church set within sight of beautiful Malpeque Bay. Discover excellence in classical, jazz, Maritime, world and contemporary music by the finest artists from Prince Edward Island and across Canada, all in the world class acoustical setting of St. Mary's Church, Indian River. This summer we celebrate another season of bringing the very best Canadian artists to beautiful, summertime PEI. You'll see that we have an amazing range of musical styles on offer, all chosen to honour and highlight the renowned acoustics of our cherished venue.
Open: June 1 - September 30
Website: www.indianriverfestival.com
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A piecewise-linear model with a single degree of freedom is derived from first principles for a driven vertical cantilever beam with a localized mass and symmetric stops. The aim is to show that this model constitutes a considerable step toward developing a vibro-impact model that is able to make qualitative and quantitative predictions of the observed dynamics. The resulting piecewise-linear dynamical system is smoothed by a switching function (nonlinear homotopy). For the chosen smoothing function, it is shown that the smoothing can induce bifurcations in certain parameter regimes. These induced bifurca tions disappear when the transition of the switching is sufficiently and increasingly localized as the impact becomes harder. The bifurcation structure of the impact oscillator response is investigated via the one- and twoparameter continuation of periodic orbits in the driving frequency and/or forcing amplitude. The results are in good agreement with experimental measurements.
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|Nonlinear Dynamics
|Pages (from-to)
|Publication status
|Published - 2014
- Vibro-impacting beam
- Piecewise-linear
- Piecewise-smooth
- Smoothing
- Cantilever beam
- Single-degree-of-freedom model
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Elmegård, M., Krauskopf, B., Osinga, H. M., Starke, J., & Thomsen, J. J. (2014). Bifurcation analysis of a smoothed model of a forced impacting beam and comparison with an experiment. Nonlinear Dynamics, 77, 951–966. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-014-1353-x


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Hello TED heads!
Join the Happiness Coach Natalia Dewiyani and I in this conversation with TEDx Melbourne curator Jon Yeo.
You may have seen TED talks before and thought: 'Oh they must be naturally good presenters.'
Getting on the TED stage is not just about your skills as a speaker. It's about your ideas. And as curator and lover of ideas, Jon works with the speakers to help them turn those ideas into a succinct, engaging presentation. They spend countless hours creating, refining and practicing the presentation until it's ready for the stage. That's what makes them so effective.
This episode is a bonus one because it's on a slightly different topic to what you'd normally hear on this show. We don't just talk about TED, we also talk about where Jon got his curiosity from, his views on life and happiness, and he also shares an interesting near death experience story that changed his whole outlook.
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Startup Weekend Cebu 5
Below is the Summary of the thesis paper from Dr. Sheryl Satorre entitled "Technology Startup Ecosystem in Cebu City, Philippines".
The study assessed the status of the technology startup ecosystem in Cebu City, Philippines during the Calendar Year 2015, to plot out a local technology startup ecosystem canvas.
It is a descriptive research that utilized survey questionnaires, structured interviews, content analysis, focus-group discussions, and non-participative observations. There were fourteen (14) startup founders, ten (10) mentors, and seven (7) university representatives as respondents of the study. Snowball sampling method was used to identify the samples of startup founders and mentors.
Startup ecosystem elements examined in the research were the Founding Team, Startup Capability, Support System, and External Environment. The research revealed that local infrastructure is not conducive for startups, and there is no visible support from the local Cebu City government.
Additionally, Cebu City has a dynamic set of business and technology communities that promote development at the grassroots level but lacks a platform that would scale up to the next level. Based on the significant findings of the study, it is concluded that Cebu City technology startup ecosystem is less vibrant.
Furthermore, it is recommended that the local technology startup ecosystem canvas, which is the output of the study, be publicly available and regularly updated in order to help the newcomers.
Please click HERE to see the latest version of the Cebu City Startup Ecosystem Canvas.
What's next?
1) If you are a startup or tech/startup advocate, chime in, volunteer to help and connect with our community! Review the Cebu City Startup Ecosystem Canvas HERE and contact the appropriate person. Or, join us in our meetups or email email@example.com
2) If you are a startup based in the Philippines and want to be listed on startupPH.org, please click HERE.
About Dr. Sheryl Satorre
Sheryl B. Satorre is an I.T. professor at the University of Cebu. She is sharing with you a couple of documents generated from her PhD Thesis entitled "Technology Startup Ecosystem in Cebu City, Philippines", wherein Tina Amper, founder of TechTalks.ph, served as one of her advisors, along with Dr. Cecilio S. Baga.


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Official images have come from TakaraTomy Mall of the fifth giftset in the Unite Warriors line. It is UW05 Convoy Grand Prime, comprised of Convoy, Sunstreaker, Ligier, Ironhide, and Prowl. All are respectively redecos of the Generations Combiner Wars figures of Optimus Prime, Sunstreaker, Mirage, Ironhide, and Prowl. While the individual figures themselves are colored to be more cartoon-accurate, the combined form of Convoy Grand Prime is colored to homage Grand Convoy Super Mode from Transformers: Super Link (Optimus Prime Super Mode from Transformers: Energon).
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"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis
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Remarks to OMB on Impact of Proposed Public Charge Rule
Published: June 29, 2018
Type: Comments, Letters, and Testimonies
Issue: Policy and Advocacy
Jeffrey B. Caballero, MPH delivered remarks in a meeting with the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C. on June 29, 2018 discussing the potential impact of the administration's draft proposed Inadmissibility and Deportability on Public Charge Grounds rule (RIN 1615-AA22). The remarks complemented presentations provided by staff from the National Association of Community Health Centers, California Primary Care Association, Asian Health Services, and ASIA-International Community Health Center. This is a transcript of Mr. Caballero's remarks.


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Everyone from Everywhere
Everyone wants to be in Highland (notice, no "s".) Residents call it "Highlands", "LoHi", "North Denver"….But no matter what folks call it, the City of Denver calls it Highland–the area of West 38th Avenue to the north, a Union Pacific Railroad line on the east, the South Platte River to the southeast, Speer Boulevard on the south, and Federal Boulevard on the west.
Pure and Clean
Highland includes Potter Highlands, Scottish Highlands, West Highlands, East Highlands, and Highlands. Originally, though, William Larimer, Jr named it "Highland." The area–across the river from the bottom lands, where it was smoggy and dirty–offered clean, puritan living. Ruth Eloise Wiberg points this out in her book Rediscovering Northwest Denver, "They were proud of their gardens, their trees, their churches, their pure air, their pure water, their pure morals—especially their pure morals."
Many Denverites have been to Highland by way of REI, Confluence Park, Little Man Ice Cream or Olinger's. But the neighborhood spreads north and east, including North High School and some of the original tuberculosis homes. The original Highlands Masonic Temple is in the neighborhood as well as countless Victorian homes, historic register homes and red stone homes. Many famous Denver founders lived in the neighborhood, too.
Each block holds something fun to see. From old homes to new scrapes and everything in between, Highland showcases all price ranges and all styles. There is something for everyone–but the prices in Highland have skyrocketed in the past few years. Whereas folks eventually moved to Highland for the clean air, now folks move for the quick access to downtown.
Old Next to New with Great Downtown Views
Walking through Highland, you'll find many locals out walking their dogs, boutiques waiting for your dollars, and homeowners tidying up beautiful and unique yards. Occasionally, you'll find small parks with small tot lots, and if you want to get off the hill, you can go down to the Platte River for a meander. Regardless of where you go when walking in Highland, there's always something interesting to see.
The Route:
Start at 3700 Lipan St. Walk west on W 37th Ave and turn left on Alcott St. Take a right on W 36th Ave. Take a left on Bryant St. Take a right on W 35th Ave.
After crossing Elati St, sneak up behind the Highlands Masonic Temple and take a look at its facade facing Federal. When finished, return back to Elati, turn south.
Take a left on W 33rd St, take a right on Bryant St. Notice the tuberculosis home on the corner. Continue to Vallejo and take a right. Take a left on W 28th Ave, notice the homes particularly on the south side of the street. At one time, some were fraternity homes!
Take a left on Central St, take a left on 15th St. Take a right on Boulder St. Take a left on 16th St. Grab an ice cream at Little Man Ice Cream, then continue to the right on Tejon St, heading north.
At W 32nd St, take a right. Take a left on Shoshone. Take a right on W 35th Ave. Take a left on Quivas St, take a right on W 37th Ave and continue back to your starting place.
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Throughout history, numerous straight people have observed gay people with an eye of contempt. We can find one useful guide to this statement in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. If you grew up in[…]
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The Step by Step Paradigm on the Journey from Dating to Divorce II
3. Marriage We must take anything formally if it arises from a pledge. The vow of marriage is an ancient oath that two people make to connect their souls. Isn't that why "the two becomes[…]
The Step by Step Paradigm on the Journey from Dating to Divorce
No one can claim to be an expert in 100% of relationships. If anyone professes to have this capability, you should be concerned to they might brag about other things that are not genuine.
Top Five Representations of the Real Patriarchy
Let's discuss my top five representations of the real patriarchy. A few years ago the mainstream media implanted the word "patriarchy" into the imprecise lexicon of everyday people. They delivered a new boogieman to the many socially and economically disenfranchised wives, daughters and even sisters of the global society claiming that their husbands, brothers, and fathers are rapey patriarchs who oppress them.
Ten Things Men Should Do When Faced With Misandry Pt. 2
Many of these suggestions go against the rational principle of life. From a very young age, society teaches men to be expendable. It fills the boy with the idea that he must learn a trade so he can support his family instead of teaching him to learn how to help himself.
Ten Things Men Must Do When Faced With Misandry
We live in a world where man-shaming has become a trend. The liberal faction of the mainstream media (led by CNN) has deliberately interpolated the idea of man-shaming into the court of public opinion. This court of public opinion often denies religious pedagogy because some priests and pastors were gay, pedophiles and adulterers.


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Week 6 Power Rankings: Starting Pitcher
There's a major shakeup in our updated ranking of the top 150 starting pitchers in college baseball, led by new No. 1 Tanner Burns of Auburn.
Preseason Power Rankings: Relief Pitcher
Stanford's Jack Little leads our list of the top 125 relief pitchers in college baseball heading into 2019.
2019 College Top 350 Prospects
Oregon State's Adley Rutschman headlines a star-studded list as we unveil the College Top 350 Prospects list for 2019.
2019 Conference Previews: The American
The American Athletic Conference is loaded with legitimate postseason contenders as usual, led by ECU, Houston, UConn and UCF.
Top 25 Breakdown: No. 11 East Carolina
Reigning AAC player of the year Bryant Packard headlines a balanced, experienced roster for East Carolina, which has its sights set on its first trip to Omaha.
Fall Report: East Carolina
Newcomers like Thomas Francisco have bolstered a very strong group of returning stars for East Carolina, which has its sights set on Omaha in 2019.
Fall Workouts Buzz: October 11
The latest buzz covers Arizona St., Texas A&M, ECU, SHSU, Pitt, Va. Tech, UAB, Miami (OH), Morehead State, Tennessee, Ga. State, Charlotte, Davidson, Saint Louis and SIU-E.
2019 College Top 150 Prospects: 1.0
Oregon State's Adley Rutschman leads our overall list of the Top 150 MLB Draft prospects as fall workouts begin.
2019 College Top 50 Prospects: Pitchers
Duke's Graeme Stinson spearheads an impressive list of arms as we unveil the Top 50 draft-eligible arms from the Division I and other levels.
Cape Cod League Prospect Rankings: LHP
Stanford's Erik Miller flashed huge potential this summer for Orleans, making him one of the Cape Cod League's top lefthanded pitching prospects.
Cape Prospects: Top 40 Pitchers
Fresh off an exciting summer at the Cape Cod League, Duke's Graeme Stinson leads an impressive crop of the league's Top 40 arms.
Cape Cod Scouting Trail: Harwich
It was a busy summer at Harwich, and our David Seifert takes an in-depth look at the top hitters and pitchers with prospect reports on the headliners.
Notebook: USA Baseball Summer Rewind
Oregon State's Adley Rutschman had an outstanding summer to lead Team USA, as skipper Paul Mainieri (r) reflects on a memorable summer with USA Baseball.
Scouting Team USA: Day Five Pitchers
Our David Seifert takes an in-depth look at more USA Baseball prospects, including East Carolina's Jake Agnos, plus others from Rice, Ole Miss, Kentucky and Duke.
Team USA Notebook: Three Early Standouts
Players from LSU, Baylor and East Carolina have stood out early this summer for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team. Aaron Fitt takes a closer look at Daniel Cabrera, Shea Langeliers and Jake Agnos.
Scouting Team USA: Day Two Pitchers
David Seifert broke down some standout prospects from an exhibition game between the Coastal Plain League and the Collegiate National Team.
D1 Digest: Saturday, March 24
Red-hot Jonathan India hit a grand slam to help propel Florida to a blowout win over Arkansas, one of several big stories from Saturday's action.
D1 Digest: Wednesday, March 7
Rylan Thomas helped power UCF to its second win against top-ranked Florida in two days, headlining an exciting slate of Wednesday games in college baseball.
D1 Digest: Saturday, March 3
USC's Quentin Longrie tossed an absolute gem as the Trojans shocked Arkansas. That upset is one of the highlights of our look back at Saturday's action.
Power Rankings: Starting Pitchers
Florida's Brady Singer headlines our list of the top 100 starting pitchers in college baseball in 2018.
2018 Conference Previews: American
Preseason All-American Tim Cate leads talented UConn into what should be another grueling battle royale in the American Athletic Conference.
College Top 100: Prospect Watch Lists
Earlier this week, we released the D1Baseball Top 100 Prospects. Now, we look at the players who narrowly missed the 100 and prospects on our watch list.
Fall Report: East Carolina
Spencer Brickhouse is back to lead a physical, powerful lineup for hungry East Carolina, which also has more high-end depth on the mound.
Cape Cod League: Top 200 Prospects
Who were the Top 200 prospects in the Cape Cod League in 2017? Check out our complete rankings and in-depth scouting reports.
Cape League Top Prospects: 101-125
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Inugo is a parking app that is trying to change the way we park the world over.
The app is currently active both within New Zealand and also America. Because of this, the client needed the site to be sophisticated enough to detect the user's location and serve content based on their whereabouts. This allowed for the messaging to be tailored to suit each audience, and dynamically update.
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Holland Park: Weekend Travel Flash
I remember it well, the first time I ended up in Holland Park. It was in 2012, during my internship period, and me and a few friends were looking for a quieter alternative to famous London parks like Hyde Park and St James's. My little eye fell on a description of this London park in my Lonely Planet, and it felt to be like the perfect location to spend a lazy Saturday. Packed with a blanket, Pimms, wine and snacks, we embarked on the Central Line and got off at Holland Park tube station.
With little trouble at first, wirling down the beautiful lanes of the residential area, we finally found the main gate to the park.
Upon entering the park, we were afraid that it wouldn't be much more than a forest, as we saw trees lined up close to each other (in the heart of London!). We were really looking for an open spot to enjoy the bright spring sunshine.
Luckily for us, the tree line quickly parted and made way for the Kyoto Garden. A completely different sight from the 'forest' we encountered at first. Large koi-carp swam around in the pond, and the Japanese trees and flowers in the surrounding area were beautiful.
Not far from the Kyoto Garden and the Belvedere, we found a large open field. In summer months, this would be the setting for the famous opera's, as we would learn later.
We settled down on the grass, accompanied by other sun-seekers, squirrels and the slightly intimidating peacocks, and enjoyed a wonderful afternoon in Holland Park.
This January I returned by bike and enjoyed a wonderful winter stroll through one of London's most beautiful parks. Note: All photos in this post are mine and taken in January 2015.


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"Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be."
One of my favorite things in the morning is to have a nice cup of iced coffee. Many people have different styles of coffee in the morning. I like to have ice with cream and sugar in my coffee. One of my favorite quotes to remember every morning is "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."~ Kevyn Aucoin
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Computing in Business Essay Sample:Cloud Computing for Small Businesses
For all businesses, especially small businesses, the ability to react to change is critical. Demand fluctuates, suppliers come and go, and changes in government policy at all levels can strongly influence the business environment (Burgess 2002: 199). Faced with these changes, organizations need to be able to change the way they do business reasonably quickly, or they risk becoming uncompetitive. Information technology and computing, unfortunately, can become barriers to change. Hardware and software can both represent substantial upfront and ongoing investments for small businesses, both in terms of purchase costs and also in the time and effort required to make these solutions part of the everyday work pattern. Furthermore, computing can represent a source of inefficiency for a small business if a certain level of technical expertise is required, since a small business may not have sufficient scale to fully utilize a properly qualified (and therefore expensive) member of staff dedicated to technical support (Molnar and Scheschter 2010: 333).
Cloud computing is an attractive solution to these negative aspects of information technology, since it enables small businesses to outsource technical support and gain resource flexibility via fee-for-service models, or even via services provided for free and supported by advertising. In the analysis that follows, we will examine the benefits that cloud computing can bring, while also covering several potential barriers to implementation that should be borne in mind.
Traditionally, businesses have physically installed hardware, and locally maintained software, to satisfy their information technology requirements. McAfee (2011: 90) describes the "cloud computing" alternative as follows:
"With cloud computing, in contrast, companies lease their digital assets, and their employees don't know the location of the computers, data centers, applications, and databases that they're using. These resources are just "in the cloud" somewhere."
Small businesses have not typically differed from the traditional pattern of local hardware and software ownership. However, due to their size they will face different challenges to larger businesses when it comes to maximizing the benefits of information technology, as noted by Burgess (2002: 4). In fact, uses of information technology by small businesses are different from those of larger organizations. Dixon, Thompson and McAllister (2002: 16) note that:
"Small firms use ICT more as tools to support specific organisational (sic) tasks such as administration and accounting, rely on standard, off-the-shelf solutions, and on external support."
Small businesses, therefore, typically rely on off-the-shelf hardware and software, and often restrict the range of products in use to office productivity software running on commodity desktop hardware, supported by entry-level server hardware for file sharing. The remaining typical small business requirements are either specifically on-site by nature for instance, printing or already in the cloud such as company blogs, third-party payment options and many others. Research by the Mississippi State University College of Business's Office of Business Outreach (2008:77) indeed shows that small businesses are already on a path that sees an increasing share of their computing resources hosted remotely, leading to an eventual situation where only those services that are unavoidably on-site, as mentioned above, remain local. This research does indicate reluctance among small businesses to move down this path, though:
"Unfortunately, many SMBs are slow to adopt Web 2.0 tools because they find the technology too confusing or expensive, or they don't see its relevance yet." (Burgess 2002: 12)
Still, the advantages of cloud computing to small businesses, both in cost and flexibility, are clear. In addition to cost savings due to the reduced hardware specifications needed to work on documents that are hosted in the cloud (since the remote server handles most of the computation load and the local machine simply displays output), Dimitrova (2011:19) identifies several additional benefits, including the automatic backup of data, remote availability of documents and ease of collaboration and data sharing, either between employees or with suppliers and clients.
This last point, though does highlight the key concern regarding cloud computing, namely the security of data that is stored remotely via a third party. Unfortunately, no system that allows remote access can ever be entirely secure, and examples of data breaches leading to the sharing of confidential data are all too easy to find (ClearCenter 2012: 109). So for a business contemplating a move to the cloud, the key decision will be whether the risk of a data breach outweighs the obvious benefits of the move in terms of cost savings and flexibility. Some businesses are in fact legally prevented from utilizing remote data storage: for example, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in the USA exclude many remote data storage solutions for health records.
In making this decision, though, it should be remembered that a small business will in all likelihood not represent an obvious target for data theft, and that even in the case where such theft might be a possibility, it is not clear that data stored in the cloud is in fact less secure than locally-hosted data. In fact, cloud computing may well enhance data security. As Molnar and Schechter (2010: 212) point out:
"Transitioning to a cloud-hosted infrastructure may also have security benefits; some security measures have high up-front costs, may become affordable when amortized at cloud scale, and impact threats common to both cloud- and self-hosted infrastructures."
For example, data that is stored in the cloud need no longer be carried around on a USB stick that could be left behind or lost, and will also be backed up to a higher degree of reliability than a small business would typically manage via a local solution. It seems that only those businesses that are legally restricted in their choice of data hosting services need be restricted by security concerns, once the particular risks and mitigating practices of remote data storage are understood.
Cloud computing offers clear advantages to small businesses. Under a cloud computing model, upfront capital costs are reduced, flexibility to adapt to changing requirements is increased, and small businesses gain access to services and security practices that have in the past been prohibitively expensive to them due to their lack of economies of scale (European Commision 2003: 89).
Moreover, security concerns regarding the possibility of a data breach should be considered in light of the fact that remote data storage can actually increase security, both by providing access to more reliable backup services and by reducing the need for unsafe practices such as data sharing via removable media (Office of Business Outreach 2008: 189).
Burgess, S. (2002). Information Technology in Small Business: Issues and Challenges. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.
ClearCenter. (2012). Twitter Breach Revives Security Issues with Cloud Computing. New York: Rutledge publishers.
Dimitrova, M. (2011). Save your Business a Fortune with Cloud Computing. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.
European Commission. (2003). Commission Recommendation of 6 May 2003 Concerning the Definition of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Official Journal of the European Union, L 124. Brussels: European Union Publishing.
McAfee, A. (2011). What every CEO needs to Know about the Cloud, Harvard Business Review, November 2011. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing.
Molnar, D. and Schechter, S. (2010). Self Hosting vs. Cloud Hosting: Accounting for the Security Impact of Hosting in the Cloud. Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2010), Microsoft Research, 8 June 2010.
Office of Business Outreach. (2008). Small Business in 2018: Information Technology Trends, White Paper. Journal of Information Technology, 12(4), 14-233
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Funding for connected and autonomous vehicles to include public testing
Business Secretary Greg Clark has announced plans for the first phase of £100m investment in connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) testing infrastructure, which will be used to support projects including public test facilities.
Revealed alongside new research into the benefits of CAVs at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders' (SMMT) Connected conference, the investment will be matched by industry over the next four years and is intended to create a "cluster of excellence" in CAV testing along the M40 corridor between Birmingham and London.
The programme forms part of the Government's Industrial Strategy commitment in the 2016 Autumn Statement to develop a world-class CAV testing infrastructure and is being launched as a grant through a series of funding competitions.
The first competition will allow bids for an initial share of £55m of the test bed funding and will support projects including public test facilities in a complex, real-world urban or city environment as well as a controlled test environment representative of driving in a city and a realistic and controlled high-speed, test environment.
Greg Clark said: "By 2035 the global market for connected and autonomous vehicle technologies is predicted to be worth £63bn. Our investment and collaboration with industry to build on our strengths and create a cluster of excellence that will ensure we are at the forefront of its development and perfectly positioned to lead and capitalise on this market."
Mike Hawes, CEO of the SMMT, added: "We want the UK to be the destination of choice for the development and testing of this new generation of vehicles. Government support and investment, such as we are seeing today, will help this technology flourish allowing the UK to reap the economic and societal benefits."
The announcement at the SMMT conference comes as the association reveals research showing that CAVs will transform the lives of six out of every 10 people in the UK.
In particular the study on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Revolutionising Mobility in Society identifies benefits for those with limited mobility and young people. According to the analysis, 71% of those aged 17 to 24 believe their lives would be improved by the technology. And almost half (49%) of people with mobility-related disabilities say a CAV would allow them to pursue hobbies outside of home or go out to restaurants more often (46%).
Amongst all drivers, automatic braking and parking and the car's ability to self-diagnose faults were cited as features most likely to reduce stress – the biggest attraction of owning a CAV.
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