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Increasing sales volumes? Controlling unit inventory? Building a strong customer relationship base? Chances are you'd shake your head "No" to each one. While these three challenges might consume a good portion of your time and fall near the top of your list of concerns, it may be that dealing with the wants, needs and varied personalities of your staff is really what taxes you most.
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Technically minded, methodical, passive workers
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Keying into the management style that is most effective on each individual has another advantage: it enables you to communicate in a way that your subordinate will understand. It's a time saver. For example, once you know that your newest hire is on the reserved side, fact-oriented and analytical; you can feel free to get right to the point when speaking and do so in a businesslike, straightforward fashion. Save your anecdotes and more casual conversations for someone else.
When difficulties, challenges and disagreements are prevalent at a dealership, employees and employers often blame one another. A manager might wonder when his subordinate will start to live up to expectations, while that same subordinate may simply label the boss "a loser" and start looking for another job. Without question, there are times when two people just clash and there is nothing that can rectify the situation. Indeed, there may be such a bad fit, so little job or environmental compatibility that termination becomes the only option.
However, in other cases, it may be that the reason we can't stand working with someone is really because we haven't taken the time to understand the person. The truth is that there are actions you, as a manager, can take -- techniques you are free to adopt and apply that will make your job far less stressful.
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The United World College South East Asia (UWCSEA) has opened its new East Campus in Tampines. The school has installed the world's largest solar air conditioning and hot water system which costed over 10 million dollars. For that, the campus was presented the Singapore Building and Construction Authority's highest award – the Green Mark Platinum award – in recognition of its sustainable approach to construction.
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We've had snow! Alot of snow, and I've not been letting it stop me from doing things.
And I've taken some nice pictures.
I havnt really had anything major happen the last couple days so I didnt feel any great need for typing it up.
I have been sleeping a bit off again though, getting to sleep later and waking up later, but I think that'll change pretty soon.
My brother passed his driving theory test, wayhey!
Im happy for him.
I've kinda decided I'd like to start getting lessons again.
I want to be able to just drive, have that freedom.
The snow has made it pretty bad for driving lol so I dunno whether I'll be able to get to castlewellan tomorrow x] we'll have to wait and see.
Dart is completely gone now, dead, cremated, the lot.
Its so strange to think of him living here as long as I have, someone known to me as my dads best friend, and now he is gone.
I shall have to ring and see if Sara can still come for her birthday.
I have been treating myself like I deserve more, its rather strange. Nothing major, just expressing myself a bit more.
I left half a bowl of soup today. It was really filling and I felt like I had to stop, so I did.
Was weird, but a good kind of weird.
I've been playing alot of Persona 3 lately, Shinjiro just died :[ I dont like it one bit! Lol.
Its probably silly cos, hes a character from a game, but those kinda things tend to genuinely affect me.
Deaths in games/books/shows. That I like/am invested in.
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Yes late but still happening x]
Yesterday went alright I suppose, went shopping and mum was irritating me most of the time but I did okay.
Got a new cd, My Chemical Romance's new album, its pretty good.
Also got word of my dads best friend dying the night before. He was in the same kinda state that dad was in 4 years ago, so its a little strange to think of him actually dying. And he was supposed to be getting better. But it obviously turned out not to be.
Its kinda strange to think of where we live without the guy now, hes always been here.
Hes worked in our house.
Anyways, when my brother got home, we walked the dog, and I had a really long and frank discussion about things, regarding mum and our situation, everything to do with how life is atm.
And I felt alot better for venting and making myself more heard, in the proper way. And when I got in I repeated my new phrase to myself x] and I did believe it. Or start to, I dont want to jinx anything xP
When we got back he did more revision, before we played some Sengoku Basara, we played one story before he appeared online so I decided to talk to him [: and I physically did, on cam/microphone, which was nice.
I was talking to Sara at the same time, and we talked grand but, I got a weird feeling about it. Maybe it was nothing.
In any case, after they both left I went to sleep [:
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Its been a while since I put anything here, but Im back on track with it, I wanna keep more of a record, I want to show what I have to say a little more, I dont want to keep falling at the hurdle when it comes to actually speaking out.
I had a difficult day today.
I woke up early and spoke to him [: which was nice [and I was right in that previous blog btw, and me speaking up about how I felt had a positive knock on affect, who'd have thought? :P] and then went to town, visited my aunt, which was also nice, until I suppose when Mum came in. Im realising more and more, when shes around, I act less like myself. I either sit quietly and only answer when spoken to, or argue. I slip on to autopilot. And I think I tend to do that with almost all adults, cos I guess I see that as what they want from me. I dont think of myself as an adult, and dont seem to trust adults, certainly not to do right by me.
Today I did though, although it was hard to actually say, because I was already thinking about what would happen if I did answer, I did trust Eva today, and I do. I got myself through the exercise she wanted us to do in the session. I felt incredibly uncomfortable, but after awhile, I was starting to more than just repeat the statement, I felt like I was trying to assert it, against the responses she was throwing back at me, that I was believing when I was continuing to say "I deserve more".
I did end up with a bit of a headache afterwards, and I've felt a bit drained, I do get that with stress though.
I got home and ate well and such, I went with my brother to walk the dog.
I had a look briefly at certain parts of myself that im not a fan of right now, which of course made me feel bad.
Im trying to be more social in the house and stuff, but at the same time, mum smokes like a train, wont stop, wont go into a different room, wont open a window half the time, and I dont want to ruin my lungs, I want to be able to breathe, and I dont want to smell like that, and if I do stay downstairs and open windows, esp with winter, I end up really cold and get pains with that.
Plus she dumps all her stuff on me that she wants to remember, its no wonder I can barely remember my own stuff.
She doesnt listen to me. She says she'll do one thing, and then doesnt.
I feel like she doesnt want me involved in things at times, like with my brother, hes revising and testing himself atm for his driving theory, I said he should mark it and all himself, cos mum constantly wants to muscle in and mother him, and then they both just ignore me. I feel sometimes my brother and mum both kinda gang up on me to push me out, cos I challenge things, or attempt to, and they both prefer to stay how they are.
I think they like me to be quiet.
Which upsets me, but I get upset by myself. I went up into the bathroom and cracked up a bit, cried, asking myself, referring back to the counselling sessions "if I do deserve more, why is everyone desperate to give me so little".
After managing to calm myself down, I came into my room, and talked to my cousin on the laptop, and then talked a bit to myself too, to help myself.
I've cried again typing this, but I know with having this all out of my head and down somewhere, it'll help me to have it there.
I'll be glad to get to sleep tonight :]
Hope all is well.
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After a conversation, 2 weeks taken, things set on a positive note.
2 weeks more, and Im unsure of why.
The result of these 2 weeks would have no bearing on the situation, just on our willpower.
I dont understand anymore, after thinking about it lol.
I'll have to mention that I suppose.
Apart from that, also had an odd conversation with another person, bringing old times up lol fairly weird to think about now.
I've been thinking alot, about so many things.
Im eating better, and feeling a little clearer for doing so.
Maybe tuesday will make me clearer still. :]
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Half a month later indeed.
Quite a bit has happened I suppose.
My great aunts birthday, my mums birthday, hiatus hernia, new medication, difficult counselling sessions, that are benefitting me, 2 positive weeks as far as me and him are concerned and two hospital appointments, both of which went well today.
Forms filled out and sent.
1 foil art completed. 11 to go.
New Vampire Knight book – 1st fanbook.
Persona 3, going well.
Final Fantasy 2, going well.
Tried Sengoku Basara, playing it with my brother, and its fairly decent, though I hate the talking covering up the bottom of the map where you start lol.
I still have to dye my hair, might do it tomorrow.
I have felt rather ill on and off, but Im starting to mentally get a grip on things.
I ate out in a place I was unfamiliar with for the first time in a very long time.
Was strange, but good.
I had a cheese and ham panini, and it was really nice.
I didnt touch the salad lol lets not be silly 😛
And I had an apple and blackcurrant sukie, and it was actually nice too.
Im slowly attempting to push myself some days. I really need to start getting strict about my exercises, esp with winter coming in now.
Hope all is well :]


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Public Sector bodies waste huge amounts of money on total balls. One of the most futile are the self-created league tables of performance indicators, showing where their organisation is on sorted lists against other similar organisations. Even though the government got rid … Continue reading
All children in Rotherham are safe
All children in Rotherham are safe. Sounds pretty sick doesn't it? These aren't my words, they are what the "Performance & Quality" team of Rotherham Council said here. Look…. This is a coloured scorecard, green signifies that that particular "theme" … Continue reading
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Why targets are good
Targets are good. They work. Comparing this quarters performance with last quarters, is good. It works Benchmarking performance against a group of other organisations, is good. That works too. Calm down! Let's go back a bit…. Q: What's the first … Continue reading
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Young children will enjoy this challenging wooden counting puzzle which teaches basic numbers and counting. As children try to work out which piece fits in what space they can learn the number that is printed on each piece and can also count each number with the help of the illustrations that sit underneath the pieces.
Age: 18+ months.
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- Author: Claudia Gabel
- Narrator: Arielle DeLisle
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
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Soon, Elusion® will change the world and life as we know it.
A new technology called Elusion is sweeping the country. An app, a visor, and a wristband will virtually transport you to an exotic destination where adventure can be pursued without the complications—or consequences—of real life.
Regan is an Elusion insider. Or at least she used to be. Her father invented the program, and her best friend, Patrick, heir to the tech giant Orexis, is about to release it nationwide. But ever since her father's unexpected death, Regan can't bear to Escape, especially since waking up from the dream means crashing back to her grim reality.
Still, when there are rumors of trouble in Elusion—accusations that it's addictive and dangerous—Regan is determined to defend it. But the critics of Elusion come from surprising sources, including Josh, the handsome skeptic with his own personal stakes. As Regan investigates the claims, she discovers a disturbing web of secrets. She will soon have to choose between love and loyalty . . . a decision that will affect the lives of millions.
Suspense, thrills, and romance fuel this near-future story about the seductive nature of a perfect virtual world and how far one girl will go to uncover the truth behind the illusions.
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R. Jeffrey Maxfield, Ed.D.
Dr. Maxfield is a professor at Utah Valley University and President of Maximum Performance Consulting, LLC. He previously served as an Associate Dean of the School of Public Services, Director of the Institute of Emergency Services and Homeland Security, and Director of the Utah Fire and Rescue Academy at Utah Valley University. He retired from the fire service as Chief Operations Officer of a large, metropolitan fire department.


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Scarred Hearts
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2016, Radu Jude, Romania/Germany, 141 min. With Lucian Teodor Rus, Ivana Mladenovic.
Show Times
- Sat, Mar 17th 5:30pm
- Wed, Mar 21st 7:30pm
"Alternately funny, raunchy and sad…becomes a metaphor for a confused European identity on the verge of generational shift." - Eric Kohn, Indiewire
"Feels almost literally like a window into the past…enough humor and emotion in the story to warm the film." - Allan Hunter, Screen Daily
While Hitler is coming to power in the outside world, a microcosm of 1937 Europe with all its follies, confusions and looming conflicts takes shape within the confines of an exclusive sanatorium, where promising young writer Emanuel (Rus) is being treated for a bone disease that is expected to be fatal. Director Jude (THE DEAD NATION, AFERIM!) draws on the semi-autobiographical novel by Jewish Romanian author Max Blecher for a narrative that is both effortlessly intellectual in its formal construction and filled with black-humorous scenarios, including a ward-wide drunken revel, and Emanuel's attempt at a sexual tryst in his hospital bed while encased in a full body cast. In Romanian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Big World Pictures. DCP digital. (BS)
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Shared Decision Making Council Nominations & Elections
Please consider participating as a member of our Council this year to have input on our school policies and funding. Five parent/community members and alternates compliment the Council configuration. Drop-off your self-nomination form in the Main Office during the week of September 21. Elections will take place Monday – Tuesday of the following week.
2015 – 2016 Shared Decision Making Council Self-Nomination Form: Nominations and Elections
The Shared Decision Making Council
A new "Shared Decision Making Council" has standing requirements to review: Staff development, Student Discipline, School Schedules, Guidelines for Equipment (including AUP and Tech Plan), Local Budgets and more. They will work as our decision making body for the school (in addition to the budget areas reviewed by the School Site Council.) Many issues for the next semester and next year need immediate attention from the newly formed Council. Our communication and decisions regarding Breakfast in the Morning and Schedule Adjustments/Changes for a 6/7 period day will be among the initial discussions.
New Council shall be comprised of 16 members: 7 Staff, 1 UTLA Rep, 1 Principal, 1 Non-certificated staff, 5 Parents, 1 Student


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Seven years ago my family moved to this sweet little suburb, a town we chose because it has stellar schools and lovely parks and an awesome library system. The first time I set eyes on the place, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
I'd been living in a suburban-sprawled, nightmarish commuting city for ten years and basically spent three hours a day driving my weary kids around in our minivan. I was also tired of fighting a losing battle on a school board where the majority of dingdongs thought schools didn't need librarians, so when my husband's job was transferred and I discovered this gem of a place only fifteen miles from his new office, we pounced on it.
People who live here have lived here for generations. The elementary school kids still walk home for lunch. Our neighborhood has block parties. The high school marching band practices marching by marching down our street. There is no traffic. I've gone weeks without driving my car. I can walk ten minutes and depending on which direction I go, I can arrive at a French bakery, a bookstore, a coffee shop, a Whole Foods, a library, a park, or a wine bistro.
It's a nice bubble. It has everything you could possibly want. Everyone here is just like you.
If You are upper middle class. And white.
People joke about the bubbly aspect but sometimes it doesn't feel funny to me.
I know what it's like to be outside a bubble. I grew up poor-ish. My mom was a single parent for a brief time and then she remarried. I was the only person I knew who had a stepfather.
Books were a way out of that bubble. And a way to peek inside other bubbles.
What's it like to live in a little house on the prairie? What's it like to be a Jewish girl at the turn of the last century? What's it like to spend the night in the Metropolitan Museum of Art? What's it like to be a kid in a happy, safe, and stable family?
What's it like to be a white man? What's it like to be an African American woman? What's it like to live in Dublin? Denmark? Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi?
When I was twenty-three, I did a semester of student-teaching at a high performing magnet school in Memphis, Tennessee. My AP English students were reading about the Civil War and I was talking about slavery and it suddenly struck me that I was saying "we," and we meant a white we. There was one African American student in the class and I kept looking over at the girl and stumbling over how to phrase things and wondering how she felt and hating if I was making her feel uncomfortable.
Later I asked my mentor teacher how I could've handled the lesson better, and she said: "Oh! Don't worry about it. She's used to it."
I guess she meant that the girl was used to being in the minority? Used to being different in that particular bubble?
I will never know because I didn't ask the teacher to clarify, and no one in that classroom ever discussed race and all of the stories the students were reading that semester were stories written by dead white men with a sprinkling of dead white women thrown in to brighten things up.
The next year I was teaching in a racially integrated school, and when I taught the same lesson, I worried all over again. I wanted to be inclusive but I wasn't sure how to go about it. I didn't want anyone in my class to feel uncomfortable. To feel left out of the bubble.
I don't know if I succeeded. We read the same Dead White guy books for the most part--those were all pre-decided by the veteran teachers at the school and by the county curriculum. I tried to spend more time on the Harlem Renaissance poetry unit. Langston Hughes and Countee Culleen and Zora Neale Hurston. I assigned free choice reading and handed out a list with books by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison.
Somebody tell me – tell me, who decides which women is suppose to wear pearls in this world. I tell you I am a man – and I think my wife should wear some pearls in this world!
It's easy to live in a bubble. Race. Class. Gender. Sexual orientation. Sticking to your own group and seeing others as... Other.
Sometimes books are the only way out, to break down barriers, to walk around in other people's shoes.
What's it like to kiss a boy?
What's it like to be poor and live in Nebraska and love a boy named Park?
What's it like to be a brown girl dreaming?
It's important--essential, really-- for us to see ourselves in stories. Our faces on book covers. Our lives told on the pages.
But it's just as important, if not equally essential, for us to see others--other faces, other lives. Especially when we live in a bubble.
Especially when we don't even know we live inside one. And we're floating along, unaware, that an entire world is being lived on the other side of the filmy surface.


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China produced 13.64 million mt of stainless crude steel in the first half of the year, up 13.23% from the same period last year, according to data from China Special Steel Enterprises Association.
Production of Cr-Mn grades stainless crude steel, including some products short of international standards, stood at 4.77 million mt, up 30.37% on the year. Its share in total output rose 4.59 percentage points to 34.94%.
Cr-Mn grades have greater tensile strength because of their higher nitrogen levels. However, their lower nickel content makes them more susceptible to cracking after they undergo metal forming processes.
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High Chief Adetoye Odewole, the Secretary of the Royal Traditional Council of the Palace of the Ooni of Ife, has debunked media reports that Oba Okunade Sijuwade, was dead.
Odewole who made the clarification at a press conference at the Ooni's palace on Wednesday said the reports were the product of rumour mongering.
Also speaking at the conference, High Chief Joseph Ijaodola, the Lowa Adimula of Ife, who claimed to have spoken with the Ooni in London about one hour before the conference, said the monarch was "alive, hale and hearty.''
Similarly, Prof. Muib Opeloye, the President, Ife Development Board (IDB), denied the media reports while addressing a crowd that had besieged the Ooni's palace to confirm the news.
Opeloye urged the people to disregard the rumour, noting that if indeed the Ooni had died, there was a proper channel to announce the news.
The Street Journal recalls that media reports in the early hours of Wednesday were awashed with the story that the Ooni died in London, without attribution to any credible and verifiable source.
The Ooni, 85, ascended the throne of his ancestors on December 6, 1980 at the age of 50. Ile-Ife is the ancestral home of the Yorubas of South Western Nigeria from where tradition says they all descended.


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Fruit is added to pizzas in several ways, it can be as an adjunct to a savory pizza as in Gorgonzola bacon and pears, or pineapple added to a meat pizza to make a Hawaiian pizza. Sometimes figs are added to a ham to complement a savory pizza.
At other times a fruit pizza is combined with honey or cream cheese, or crème fraîche to make a dessert fruit pizza. A fruit pizza may also have savory spices: nothing brings out the flavor of fresh strawberries more than freshly ground black pepper and it makes a superb additive to a strawberry pizza.
The Pillsbury dough company has long promoted a fresh fruit pizza using their cookie dough but other recipes do exist to make a fruit pizza from scratch using a scone type of dough.
Here are some of the best fruit pizza recipes I know. Learning how to make fruit pizza is easy, but the complexity differs from recipe to recipe.
Let's begin with an oath fruit pizza recipe:
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Here's a very basic and easy sugar cookie fruit pizza recipe, in case you don't have a lot of time and need a quick dessert:
Here's a recipe for a fruit pizza with mascarpone, nectarines and walnuts. Stracchino cheese or mascarpone cheeses mix well with hazelnuts or walnuts and combined with nectarines they make a sublime fruit pizza.
Here's the recipe for a fruit pizza with pineapple and gorgonzola. Despite the fact that at first thought this combination appears to be revolting, it is a very pleasant mixture of flavors when tasted. The taste is a sophisticated blend of sweet and sour and the pizza makes an excellent appetizer.
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There is a reason if the name James Comey, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the FBI, rings a bell.
Comey, then deputy U.S. Attorney General, made a remarkably candid statement in 2004 when the Justice Department announced the highest-profile anti-terror case the Capital Region had ever seen.
Describing the arrests of Muslim immigrants Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain, two members of an Albany mosque, Comey told reporters it was "not the case of the century."
Aref and Hossain were charged — and convicted — of planning to launder money from the fictitious sale of a shoulder-fired missile. They are both serving 15 years in federal prison.
On Aug. 5, 2004. Comey told reporters in Washington: "This is not a case connected to the current terrorism threat. It was not real. We hope it will send a disrupting message to those out there who might be plotting."
Aref, a Kurdish refugee from Iraq and imam of the Masjid Al-Salam mosque in Albany, and Hossain, a Bangladeshi immigrant who owned the Little Italy pizzeria on Central Avenue, were arrested following a year-long investigation. An FBI informant named Shahed "Malik" Hussain claimed the shoulder-fired device would be sold to terrorists who planned to assassinate a Pakistani ambassador near the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan.
Comey, then a high-ranking official in the Bush administration, told reporters: "We really do want the bad guys to worry that anybody they deal with might be one of our people."
Obama recently nominated Comey, a Yonkers native and former Manhattan federal prosecutor, to replace outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller. Comey is known for among other things his refusal to certify the Bush administration's controversial warrantless eavesdropping program in 2004.
In January 2006, The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program may have "played a role" in the investigation of Aref and Hossain.
Terry Kindlon, the Albany-based lawyer who defended Aref and once called the case a "low point in federal criminal justice," gave the president's pick a big thumbs up.
"I'm a big fan of James Comey," said Kindlon, who had been in the same Marine regiment as Mueller during the Vietnam War. "I think he's smart. I think he's honest and I think he's not afraid to speak truth to power. His entire career demonstrates that."
And, of course, Comey also doesn't think Kindlon's client was part of the "case of the century."
Graffeo touts law
Law school is expensive and jobs are scarce, but that did not sour Associate Judge Victoria Graffeo from giving the field a ringing endorsement to 228 graduates of Touro Law School.
"Let the sense of accomplishment sink in as you prepare to join a wonderful profession with unlimited opportunity for improving the lives of others and ensuring we all have adequate rights," the Court of Appeals judge said May 26 while delivering the keynote address at the school's graduation in New York City. "We expect great things from you and I know you will deliver."
Graffeo received an honorary degree from the school.
Also speaking was Touro's dean, Patricia Salkin, who local law students will remember served as associate dean and director of the Government Law School at Albany Law School.
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Ok, I have to admit, I have a few baby clothes left-over from when my kids were...well..babies. They are my absolute favorite and although they'd never see the light of day again, for some silly reason I just don't want to chuck them out. So when I saw this idea of using baby clothes to create buttons for a keepsake frame I thought you little rippa - that's awesome, i'm doing it.
Baby Clothes Keepsake Frame
December Daily: The How To...
Ok, let me stop any confusion and explain just what exactly is December Daily (DD) first off:
- its a mini scrapbook done over the month of december (usually from 1st-25th) which captures the moments of this festive season by documenting a story a day.
Welcome To Rachel Hodge
Welcome! So this is new... I am trying out a new blog to keep you up to date about all things new for Rachel Hodge designs and life for me in general.
You'll still be able to find things on my website, but you'll get the the full picture and all those extra little details here.
Well, that's a wrap for blog#1, short, sweet and simple :)
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2017 Honda Ridgeline AWD Review
2017 Honda Ridgeline AWD - When the Honda Ridgeline at first appeared in 2005, we tossed it into a contrast test versus the mid-size pickups of the day, and the Ridgeline triumphed. Now there's a new Ridgeline, and Honda is sticking to its non-traditional design, although it did work around the edges to make the Ridgeline fit better into the pickup landscape.
2017 Honda Ridgeline AWD Split ProfileThe Ridgeline is not a body-on-frame pickup; it when once again makes use of a unibody architecture, shown the Pilot SUV, the next-generation Odyssey minivan. And as much as the back half of the Ridgeline now looks just like a standard pickup, the effectively rounded front half is basically raised straight from the Pilot.
Honda extended the Ridgeline's freight bed by 4 inches, to 64.0 inches, making it the longest of the lot in their traditional lengths. And with 50.0 inches between the wheel wells and the Ridgeline is the only mid-size pickup that can bring four-by-eight-foot sheets of item flat on the floor covering.
That mentioned, GM, Toyota, and Nissan also offer a longer, six-foot bed on long-wheelbase designs. In crew-cab type, those trucks in fact extend the significance of "mid-size," nevertheless some supply the longer bed with a smaller sized taxi. Honda, nevertheless, as quickly as once again establishes the Ridgeline with simply one taxi setup, one wheelbase, and one bed length.
2017 Honda Ridgeline AWD Engine
The Ridgeline blasted to 60 miles per hour in 6.6 seconds and through the quarter-mile in 15.2 at 93 miles per hour. Increasing moderate grades, you need to get your foot well into the throttle prior to there's a downshift, providing the impression that the Ridgeline has a tough time to protect speed. Mash the gas-- when, state, jumping out into fast-moving traffic-- and the Ridgeline roars ahead.
Searching for to prevent the prejudgment of front-wheel drive, the previous Ridgeline came traditional with 4x4. Bearing in mind the appeal of competitors' two-wheel-drive pickups-- specifically in California, the single most substantial market for the trucks-- Honda opted to risk of the embarassment of the FWD label and is supplying two-wheel drive this time around.
Yes, the Ridgeline's 19/26 mpg (two-wheel drive) and 18/25 mpg (4x4) EPA city/highway ratings are tops among six-cylinder pickups. And the two-wheel-drive GM trucks match the Ridgeline on the highway, nevertheless they're down by 1 mpg in the city and with 4x4.
Performing at a consistent 75 miles per hour in our highway-fuel-economy test, with 28 mpg, the Ridgeline overachieved its EPA number, which tied the figure we tape-recorded with our last GM diesel pickup. the Honda engine is also commendably smooth, and the Ridgeline is the quietest mid-size pickup we have really examined.
On the skidpad, the Ridgeline's 0.80 g rapidly tops the field of mid-size pickups. with half of its suspension components revamped for pickup duty More stiffly sprung than the Pilot, , the Ridgeline offers business nevertheless little kicks over a great deal of bumps-- wheel control usually is outstanding, and the tires' high sidewalls (all variations ride on 18-inch wheels with 245/60 rubber) soothe harmed pavement. The Ridgeline offers the impression of having a stiff, strong body-- and unquestionably, the Honda's torsional tightness has really increased, although the rear fenders are not an essential marking with the bedsides nevertheless are now gotten in touch with bolts and adhesive.
Braking, regretfully, is one area where the Honda acts just like a conventional truck. Its 195-foot stop from 70 miles per hour was 10 feet longer than our last result for the Tacoma in addition to additional behind the Colorado. We also bore in mind a soft brake pedal.


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2017 Drillbotics Finalists Selected
2016 SPE Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section Drillbotics Competition Winner
SPE On Demand Webinar on Drillbotics. This webinar describes the contest, what skill sets are necessary to successfully compete, and what types of innovative features are likely to emerge from this competition.
The Colorado School of Mines' Robot Pentathlon team won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' (ASME) West Student Design Competition held at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, competing against 10 other teams, reported the Colorado School of Mines website's Newsroom section. Mines team's remote-controlled robot competed in five different events designed to test its speed, strength and ability, and the technical design skills of its creators: stair climbing, weightlifting, sprinting, throwing a tennis ball, and hitting a golf ball. Members of the team are Daniel Schmerge, a sophomore in mechanical engineering; Jacob Aas, a junior in physics and mechanical engineering; and John Wiens, a freshman in electrical engineering and computer science. Their robot won in the stair climb, weightlifting, and throwing events, as well as the overall championship.
The Mines team will next head to the World ASME Conference in November in Tampa, Florida, to compete against the top teams from other regional ASME E-Fests.
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How did the Democratic Campaign Text Books of 1876 and 1880 rewrite the history of Washington DC and why does their version persist.
CLICK Here for a PDF of the presentation: Dragging Washington through the mud – Election 1876 (and 1880 too!) [PDF]
Guest Speaker presentation for Cindy Gueli's "Scandalous Washington: Uncovering DC history", Fall 2016
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Author's Note
Having spent a few miserable hiking trips dealing with a backpack that didn't suit my needs (I bought it at Costco. Hint: don't do that) and learning what I should have been looking for in a pack while researching this article was eye opening. Here's the kicker: Though this article tells you what you need to look for when buying a backpack, there's really no substitute for going to a reputable camping or outdoor store and trying packs out, preferably with the help of a knowledgeable staff member. So, while it's smart to research and shop for a lot of things exclusively online, a backpack isn't one of them.
Related Articles
- Camping Gear. "Selecting the Right Backpack." (July 7, 2012) http://camping-gear.ca/bags/selecting-the-right-backpack.htm
- Hiking Trails and Gear. "Hiking Backpack Guide: Choose Your Pack Wisely." (July 7, 2012) http://www.hiking-trails-and-gear.com/hiking-backpack.html
- REI. "Backpacks: Finding Your Torso and Hip Size." REI.com. (July 6, 2012) http://www.rei.com/expertadvice/articles/backpacks+torso+hip+size.html
- Wood, T.D. "How to Choose a Backpack." REI.com. April 2012. (July 6, 2012) http://www.rei.com/expertadvice/test/backpack.html?s_tnt=42401:2:0


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In the last of the 4 Pike Matches held at UEA we saw a good turnout of 10 rods and a 9 fish haul! Best action in the series, with over 70lbs of those toothy Esox.
You were very lucky if you drew a riverside peg out of the bitterly cold gales at times blowing from the south.
Paul Roberts not only bagged his first fish in the 4 match series but also got the biggest at 15lb and match first place. Well done Fella. Steve Barnes hit 2nd with a 12lb12ozer.
The 4 Match series produced 24 Esox, with none of the big girls giving themselves up. lol Some decent Critters too over 16lbs have been landed to pleasure day rods. There is still time this season for a 20lb+ Toothy lump.
Thank you all for your support and I look forward to the new Match Season.
Sunday 10th January 2016 Pike Match (No 3)
1st C Browne 4lb 6oz, 5lb 1oz, 8lb 6oz
2nd M Edridge 12lb 9oz
3rd R Hall 9lb12oz
4th P Dennis 4lb 4oz
Other rods
S Bennett
R Humphrey
M Rideout
P Roberts
S Barnes
S Williams
Sunday 6th December 2015 Christmas Invitation Match Report by Roger Humphrey
The usual faces turned up for "wind full in your face "fun packed day, at UEA Broad. With a full complement of anglers the draw took place and we all battled to set up our pegs in the horrendous wind.
Most of us decided early on it was going to be a feeder that would give the best chance of a few bites…and that's what most of us had….a few bites!
Great to see Mr Edridge get jammy with a few Bream….its been a long time coming. Well done Fella!
Brian even wangled a quality Roach! Graham at 3rd place decided to dunk a hook and catch!
I'm feeling very emotional!
1st Martin Edridge 9lb 2oz
2nd Brian Hipperson 7lb 8oz
3rd Graham Northwood 6lb 3 oz
Sunday 8th November 2015 Pike Match (No 1)
Our first in our series of 4 Members Pike Match's saw 8 eager rods set up in very mild conditions, and as I predicted due to the unusual mild Autumn so far that it was going be hard going. There has been no sign of Essox chasing prey lately?? And… it was hard with only 1 solitary Pike out to Mike Rideout at 6lb 12oz. Well done Mike. Colder weather will get them feeding soon!
Sunday 23rd August 2015 Afternoon Match 13:00 to 18:00 Report by Roger Humphrey
So the last match of the season…it seems so early to be saying that! Maybe next season we can get a few extra matches in?
11 anglers turned up on a warm and sunny day with a tricky wind blowing in our faces as the match is pegged on the North Bank.
A mixture of feeder tactics and pole were tried by the intrepid anglers. Plenty of bites to be had for some. The wind coming from the left continued to play havoc for some and at one point it dropped and decided to turnaround and blow from the right. In the last hour the skies greyed over and promptly emptied on us. Drenched to the skin most of us were finding that our waterproof clothing is not so waterproof as the label states!
1st Ash Dennington 14lb 12oz (pole, Peg 47)
2nd Roger Humphrey 8lb 14oz (whip/feeder, Peg 51)
3rd Martin Edridge 8lb 4oz (feeder, Peg 46)
Thank you to all who attended the summer matches. Maybe next year we will see some more new faces for this series of matches. Big thanks to Stephen Bennett and Peter Dennis who helped in various ways to make all the matches and match weigh-ins successful.
Sunday 9th August 2015 Afternoon Match 13:00 to 18:00 Report by Roger Humphrey
The first ever "Sunday Afternoon Members Match" to be held, had a disappointing turn out. Only 7 anglers!
There was a tricky s/w wind blowing which will make float style fishing hard. It'll be a hard time for most.
With the whistle everyone put in for the next five hours. Lots of small silvers fish caught…but no large Roach or Rudd. The sun was belting down on us for the start but clouded up during the match. Good to see everyone caught.
A big groan went up when I dragged my net in.
1st Roger Humphrey 9lb (Roach, skimmers, Rudd)
2nd Stephen Bennett 8lb 10oz (Bream)
3rd Martin Edridge 5lb 14oz (Roach, Rudd)
July 29th 2015 Evening Match 18:00 to 21:00 Report by Roger Humphrey
With a light shower during the afternoon I was hoping for a better turn out to the last evening match and that a few new faces may turn up. Unfortunately no such luck. So with the usual inane banter at the draw everyone rushed off to their nominated pegs and proceeded to be rained on whilst setting up. If there's one thing that rattles my cage is rain when setting up! So with the rain backing down after the starting whistle, we all tried our favorite tricks to entice a few bites.
A general quietness came over the Broad as individuals started to get a few bites together. The results show that we all struggled.
1st Matt Thirtle 9lb 3oz (Bream and roach)
2nd Roger Humphrey 6lb 7oz (lots of baby Roach and Rudd!)
3rd Brian Hipperson 4lb (Roach and Rudd)
7 attended the match with 3 not weighing in.
July 15th 2015 Evening Match 18:15 to 21:15 Report by Stephen Bennett
A lovely balmy evening greeted the match anglers in calm conditions. The top 3 were very close with the average net weights now going up. Brian Hipperson clinched top spot with 10lb+ Toby London second with 9lb+ and Paul Thirtle third with 8lb+ all other rods weighed in with Roach and Perch but top 3 bags contained some nice Bream.
July 1st 2015 Evening Match 18:15 to 21:15 Report by Stephen Bennett
Disappointed only to see 6 turn up on a lovely warm evening. Poles and float rods the order of the day. With Matt bagging 9lb for first spot and brov Paul with second. All bags were small Roach and Rudd with the odd Perch and Skimmer.
Just nice to be out in lovely conditions.
1st Matt Thirtle 9lb
2nd Paul Thirtle 6.12lb
3rd Peter Dennis 6lb
4th Stephen Bennett 4.10lb
5th John Ford 3.2lb
6th Toby London DNWI
June 17th 2015 Evening Match 18:15 to 21:15 Report by Stephen Bennett
Lovely evening with 9 anglers in draw. Became very dark and cloudy, but rain held off until weigh in aghh!! All rods caught Rudd/Roach to float and whips but a single feeder rod found 3 Bream on peg 45 to take top spot, well done Nev with 6.14lb.
1st Nev Thompson 6.14lb
2nd Matt Thirtle 6.9lb
3rd John Ford 5.10lb
4th Pete Reed 5.9lb
5th Brian Hipperson 5.4lb
6th Steve Bennett 4.12lb
7th Toby London 2.5lb
8th Jason Howes 2.4lb
9th Peter Dennis DNWI
3rd June 2015 Evening Match 18:15 to 21:15 Report by Roger Humphrey
A Small gathering turned up for this Evening Match. Fishing the north bank Pegs 46 to 56.
The usual banter between the competitors occurred during the match draw... some things never change!
Everyone scurried off to their allotted pegs and prepared their tackle and bait for the starting whistle.
The wind was a little troublesome blowing left to right, but half way through the match a lovely calm occurred. With the shrubs becoming quite large over the years trying to see what's happening in other swims can be a little frustrating. So you really have to settle into a method and stick with it.
9 anglers competed, 4 did not weigh in.
1st Roger Humphrey, 7lb 12 ozs, Peg 48
2nd Paul Thirtle, 5lb 5 ozs, Peg 52
3rd Neville Thompson, 4lb 12ozs, Peg 49
Stephen Bennett will be running the next two evening matches as I am unable to attend......at least it gives you guys a fighting chance to get 1st Place ;-)
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Creating a panelGridLayout or tableLayout structure
It may be tempting to go crazy with panelGroupLayout components in ADF Faces and ADF Mobile. The panelGroupLayout is not the universal hammer. In many cases, you will have a simpler structure (easier to maintain, more predictable, faster performing, more flexible) if you build your structure using a panelGridLayout or tableLayout instead.
When you are given a mock-up of what the application should look like, you may not know how to break it down into something simple. Either print out the design on a piece of paper or open it up in a graphics program where you can draw some lines.
- Draw vertical lines representing potential column divisions (red)
- Draw horizontal lines for potential row divisions (green)
- Now that you have a basic grid structure, use a different color (yellow) to draw x marks where you see cells that need to span multiple columns or rows:
- You may find that your column lines really don't make sense (in this case, the 2 middle columns had no cells in them that didn't need to span into a nearby column. This is an indication that there probably ought to be 2 separate grids or tables. Use a new color (magenta) to draw a line where the division makes sense and repeat the process again:
Now you can go back to coding your gridRow/gridCell or rowLayout/cellFormat components because you can visually see where the content goes and where you need to use a special columnSpan or rowSpan. As an added bonus, you now have the ability to specify the sizes for your cells as well as the horizontal and vertical alignments of your cells–something panelGroupLayout would not allow you to control.
Notice that the labels and fields of grid 2 (columns 1 and 2) are showing separate components. This is done so that there can be matching horizontal alignment among the fields of the two rows. If these were input or select components, you would need to use simple="true" (to hide the built-in label) and then use separate outputLabel components that reference them.
While we are only using consecutive grids in the example discussed in this article. You might come across a need to nest a grid inside of another grid. Do not excessively nest panelGridLayout nor tableLayout components (if you have 3 or more deep, consider a re-evaluation of your structure). You may find it helpful if someone else reviews your structure. Your goal should be to create something simple.
Mac JDeveloper – Show in Finder
Ever wanted to easily reveal a file that you're working on in JDeveloper in the Mac OS X Finder?
Here's how to set up a toolbar button and context menu item to do just that:
- Go to Tools – External Tools
- Click New…
- Choose these settings:
Type = External Program
Executable = open
Arguments = -R ${file.path}
Caption = Show in Finder
Add Item to Menus = Tools Menu, Window Context Menu, Source Editor Context Menu
Add Buttons to Toolbars = Main Toolbar
Log Output to Messages Log = unchecked
Enabled = When a file is selected or open in the editor
Once you've created that tool, simply right-click a file in the application navigator, right-click an editor, or use the toolbar button to switch to have JDeveloper automatically switch over to the Finder and open a window with that file selected.
CSS Shorthand Tokens
In CSS, you will come across some shorthand notation for the
border-width, and
padding properties. It isn't obvious or easy to remember which token in the value applies to which side of the element so here's a handy list of the 4 possible varieties:
- One token — all-sides-use-the-same-value
- Two tokens — top-and-bottom right-and-left
- Three tokens — top right-and-left bottom
- Four tokens — top right bottom left
At least the four-token example can be remembered by associating the element with a clock where time progresses clockwise.
HiDPI Images in MAF or ADF Mobile Applications
Whether you are developing a MAF (or ADF Mobile) application or a classic ADF Faces application, it is becoming more and more important to support HiDPI screens (high resolution or "retina" displays). There is no easier way to make your application look out-dated than to use grainy, unprofessional image assets or use them improperly.
In HTML, the "px" unit (sometimes referred to as a "dp" or density-independent pixel) corresponds to the same amount of space regardless of the DPI of your screen (however, the number of screen pixels may vary). The original iPhone models did not have HiDPI displays. Each point of color on those screens corresponds to one HTML CSS "px" unit. Newer iPhone models introduced a HiDPI (or "retina") display that has 4 screen pixels in the same amount of space that 1 screen pixel used to take up (2 screen pixels wide by 2 screen pixels tall); on these new screens, the width and height "px" values use twice the amount of screen pixels.
Why is this a common problem? Since MAF (or ADF Mobile) uses HTML, displaying an image is not as simple as just specifying the source path and magically hoping the browser will know that you are using a high resolution image. You must specify dimensions to go along with the source path.
Let's work with an example. You have an image named "image-64.png". This image has a size of 64 by 64 individual dots of color (individual points of color information). If you coded your page like the following, the image will be shown with a width of 64px and a height of 64px (one color dot per "px"):
<amx:image id="i1" source="images/image-64.png"/>
This would look just fine on a classic low-DPI display. However, on a HiDPI display, it still takes up the same space but since there are more screen pixels, the image will look very grainy.
In order to look crisp and professional, you need to set a size so that each dot of color corresponds to at least one screen pixel. For a HiDPI display, this means your image needs a width and a height specified such that you use 2 dots of image color information per HTML CSS "px" unit (e.g. a 64 by 64 sized image should be specified to use a width of 32px and a height of 32px. In code, your page should look like this:
<amx:image id="i1" inlineStyle="width:32px;height:32px" source="images/image-64.png"/>
Even if you still want to support legacy screens for your application, this same image (with the same specified width and height) will look beautiful on low-DPI screens because of how images are processed modern browsers.
If for some reason you really needed or wanted to specify alternate images for each kind of screen, you have the option to use a screen properties EL variable to toggle the rendered state of alternate amx:image components or simply use that EL to alter the inlineStyle and the source path as desired.
PNG vs. SVG?
Consider whether using PNG is really the right choice to begin with. SVG (scalable vector graphics) files tend to be smaller file sizes when created without excessive anchor points, no embedded bitmap data, reduced decimal number precision, excess whitespace removed, and comments removed. If the resolution of your display gets better, the SVG will look that much better; you don't need multiple resolution versions of the same image resources. If the SVG was given the proper width/height to begin with by its creator, you won't even need to muck with inlineStyles since the image will naturally be displayed at the proper size.
Oracle ADF Mobile Mock Component Gallery Demo
In the past I posted a link to the Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client demos (server-based web applications). Now that the Oracle ADF Mobile framework for native iOS and Android applications has been released, a similar demo is now available: the Oracle ADF Mobile mock component gallery.
This mock component gallery is based on the real component gallery application bundled with the ADF Mobile JDeveloper extension. The recommended best place to view this demo is using the mobile Safari or Chrome browsers on your iOS and Android devices. Doing that will give you the closest experience to how the components will appear and behave in real ADF Mobile applications. However, you can also view the demo using desktop Safari and Chrome for an approximate experience when access to a mobile device is not available.
When did I unlock my Mac?
Prior to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, you could open Applications/Utilities/Console.app, pick the log called "secure.log" and then see whenever you recently logged in or unlocked your screen saver (with a password).
Starting in Mountain Lion, secure.log doesn't exist anymore.
Now, that same information is available via an Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app shell command:
syslog -k Time ge -10h | egrep -e 'loginwindow'
This will get all of the syslog records chronologically for the last 10 hours and filter that with the term "loginwindow". Based on that, you can then see each time you logged in–like what secure.log used to provide.
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Velorutionary - Paul McAneary
Striding Architects on their Stridas
Paul McAneary
I went to the international design award winning Paul McAneary Architects offices in the heart of London to speak with Paul about his passion for Strida bicycles. The connection between the British design classic Strida and the leaders in warm minimalist British design was much more than I first expected.
Paul gave me a tour of his newly built architects studio and material research laboratory and talked me through the solid oak facade; he told me the story of the sustainable and locally sourced Oak and how he personally went to pick the specific tree for this contemporary installation. However looking across the open-plan space my attention was instantly caught by his collection of Strida bikes.
Which bike are you riding?
The Strida Carbon, the first delivered in the UK. It's absolutely epic. The evolution of Mark Sanders' Strida design to this lightweight carbon edition takes this design icon forward to another level.
How many have you owned?
This is our 15th! I bought my first Strida Mk1 eighteen years ago, and have been collecting them since.
What kind of design are you into?
I'm a new type of minimalist - very into my warm natural materials but am equally into provocative and progressive structural design - I guess that's the attraction to Strida.
Why Strida?
Image is of course important and thanks to the greaseless Kevlar belt we arrive at meetings with no matching chain marks on our hands and trousers! Joking aside, our symbiosis with Strida goes well beyond practicality; its boundary-pushing, minimal design and its elegantly engineered form strongly inspires us and echoes with our ethos.
Does Strida's small wheels affect its speed?
Actually Stridas have proven to have the quickest journey times due to their generous fixed gear ratio and their speedy folding mechanism, allowing us to jump on the tube for longer journeys and quickly to site at the other end. Their small wheel base and offset steering design means they are perfect for weaving between London traffic on short journeys - sometimes being the fastest on the road!
So why do you have so many Stridas?
Whilst we are presently designing all over the world, we build a lot in Central London. Travelling to meetings - often racing the team through the West End on our small fleet is a lot more fun!


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LondonJazz TransLATES with Bobby Wellins and Kate Williams
"Wellins' is a totally original voice, and in his late seventies, he's still capable of producing storytelling magic." Glasgow Herald
"The Scottish saxophonist Bobby Wellins and English pianist-composer Kate Williams sound made for each other... the best qualities of jazz, irrespective of style or fashion - about sharing, spontaneity, communication and surprise... an unpretentiously delightful encounter." The Guardian
Bobby Wellins' uniquely haunting saxophone sound and his phenomenal imagination as an improviser mark him out as a unique presence on the European jazz scene. In TUNES FROM SOHO TALES, a programme specially devised for Crazy Coqs, Bobby Wellins and Kate Williams will share memories of Soho from the 60s and 70s through story and song. Expect stories of musicians and Soho characters, nostalgia and humour from a true jazz master.
The LondonJazz TransLATES series is devised, and the singers and songs will be introduced and explained by jazz journalist, Sebastian Scotney, editor of LondonJazz News.
Photograph of Bobby by Garry Corbett.


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Cairo's "City of the Dead" is one of the oldeset and biggest cemeteries in Cairo.
Named by the locals "El'Arafa" (Arabic: 'the cemetery'), the cemetery is a 6.5 km long plot filled with tombs and mausoleums, as well as living people who live and work among the dead. These are the poorest residents of Cairo, similar to those residing in "Zabbalean" – the garbage city.
|Cairo's City of the Dead on Wikipedia
|Cairo's City of the Dead on Tripadvisor
|Cairo's City of the Dead on Google Maps
Points of Interest in the Area
|Simon the Tanner Monastery
|Saladin's Citadel
|Al-Azahar Park
A 360 Degrees image of an abandoned tomb complex in the "City of the Dead" of Cairo


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Gerard Morris, West Coaster and former coal mining journalist, looks at issues of the Pike River recovery expected to come under scrutiny.
The Royal Commission into the Pike River mining tragedy which opens a preliminary hearing in Greymouth today will delve into the reasons behind the tragic explosion which killed 29 men at the Pike River mine near Greymouth on November 19 last year.
What it will also likely uncover are the related tragedies of the disrespectful manner the authorities, the mining company and receiver have treated the victims' families in the four months following the tragedy. Also the fact that no specialist mining expertise or mines rescue recommendations were followed by the police, company and receiver in the prolonged rescue and recovery process.
The authorities in charge of the rescue and recovery operation have run it as a CIB exercise without full regard for the feelings of the families and the local community. Not only did they create false hope in the early stages after the first blast, but they have continued to give the strong impression they are focused on recovering the bodies.
Consider this. The footage showing the ferocity of the first blast on November 19 taken at the mine portal, where the blast ignition point was more than 2km down the drive, was only made public after a New Zealand Herald journalist's inquiry to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, November 23.
Prime Minister John Key had been to the mine the previous day and was visibly shaken when he was shown the footage there and saw first hand the power of the blast. The authorities in charge of the rescue operation had viewed this footage within 12 hours of the first explosion.
On that Tuesday Claire Trevett asked Mr Key: "What did you think of the Pike footage?"
This caused the vital footage to be released to the families almost immediately, after it had been withheld by the authorities for seven briefings over four days.
Mining families like those of the Pike River miners understand coal mining and should have been allowed to make up their own minds about the ferocity of the first blast much earlier by viewing this footage.
Compare this to the Erebus tragedy in 1979 when, within 48 hours, the nation saw for itself the sad sight of the DC10 tail with the proud koru lying on the ice. We were allowed to make our own call on the seriousness of that situation and manage our emotions based on reality.
On the Sunday after the first blast at Pike, we had mine management telling New Zealand live on television that there was a fractured compressed air line part way up the Pike drive and the missing miners could be gathered around this air supply. Pike chief executive Peter Whittal made this statement fully aware of the ferocity of the blast from the portal footage and knowing that oxygen only makes a methane fire worse. He knew the mine was likely to be on fire at that point.
There has been almost three months' delay to the boring of a critical hole at Spaghetti Junction in the mine which will show the extent of the rock fall and roof collapse that happened at that intersection underground as a result of the fourth explosion at the mine on November 29. Experts say this will provide conclusive evidence that it will be near impossible to get past the point safely without a new bypass drive that would take many months to drill and significantly lower the value of the remaining asset the receiver is trying to sell.
Meanwhile, the authorities and the receiver continue to give the families tortuous and cruel hope that the bodies, likely to be on the other side of this rock fall, will be recovered some time soon.
The receiver has said he has set aside $5 million to recover the bodies when the Pike Coal Company was spending this amount each month to put the stone drive into the coal seam over more than two years.
The sidelining of the rescue expertise in the recovery and rescue operation will likely come under extreme scrutiny by the royal commission given that one of the commissioners is a world expert in coal mining safety and methane mines, Queensland's Stewart Bell.
It is widely believed within the local coal industry that the tragedy most relevant to the Pike inquiry is the Moura Disaster in Queensland where 11 lives were lost in 1994. Both Pike and Moura had methane issues.
Australian mines rescue experts arrived at Pike to assist the world-recognised New Zealand Mines Rescue team within 36 hours of the first blast. Their expertise was effectively sidelined by the authorities, reportedly under direction from Wellington.
How could a police team from outside the West Coast and Department of Labour advisers hold superior knowledge and sway over experienced coal mining rescue experts from Australia and New Zealand?
After all, from more than 120 years of methane plagued coal mining in the Paparoa Range prior to the Pike tragedy, there have been around 90 mine deaths in those hills, and only two bodies had been left entombed where they fell.
The Royal Commission will inevitably reveal tragedies within the bigger tragedy of 29 West Coast men killed where they worked. Let's look forward to learning from the lessons that are about to unfold.


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Yup, we're looking for new staffs. We don't need so many staffs, but here's a list of jobs:
- Forum management.- Gallery/Fan stuff.
Sorry, but that's all.. If you want to get a job on HF, but not one of the jobs listed above, just e-mail us and tell us what kind of job you want, and we will consider it. This is what you got do to:
- Subject your e-mail with Staff Wanted.- Tell us you first name, and nickname, if you got one.- And we need to know your e-mail/msn, of course.- Then you have to tell us why you deserve the job.- The last thing you have to do is to tell us about your talents. And if you got one, give us an example.
Please e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Innovation Game: What Next for Analytics?
Thursday 7 July 2016
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We are now living in a time of great uncertainty. Previously inconceivable ideas have come to fruition, leaving the general public with an unclear future for generations to come.
That's right – Ikea will soon be selling flat-pack bikes.
If self-driving cars on the road sounded dangerous, imagine the horrifying spectacle of Aunt Mabel straddling a homemade rattling, rickety, Allen-key inspired two-wheeler down the high street.
Perhaps this is a pointless product, a leap into the world of unnecessary DIY that is one flat-pack too far. On the other hand, this is a marvellous idea that promotes environmentally friendly, user-serviceable travel at an affordable cost to the mass public.
This is exactly what product innovation should do – polarise initial opinion by ignoring convention. By challenging the norm, forward strides are made and genuine technology advancements are possible.
A prime example of successful innovation is the MacBook Air, a notebook not released to universal praise back in 2008 due to Apple cutting down the number of ports and omitting the optical drive. Three years later it accounted for almost one-third of Apple notebook sales. The market responded quickly, with online software distribution allowing users to continue installing programs while no longer having to rely on relatively slow physical media. This allowed the size of notebooks across the industry to decrease dramatically since the original launch, with the ease of downloading software and the falling cost-per-GB of flash-based storage driving factors.
A product that innovates is one that takes a risk by driving existing ideals in a new direction, allowing a change of outlook to deliver an approach that is future-proof while meeting the existing demands of users.
For business intelligence, the need to innovate has never been greater, as user interaction with consumable internet services continues to leave an unprecedented amount of data in its wake.
The figures are astonishing, with 40,000 Google search queries per second, 300 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute and 500,000,000 tweets sent every day.
By shifting away from the traditional tools that have slowly evolved over time, not only can this data be collected and stored but leveraged in future data analysis.
Innovations in analytic solutions allow the previously inaccessible unstructured data, such as tweets and videos, to not only be individually analysed but analysed alongside structured data to gleam greater insight from a much wider spectrum of records, regardless of origin. This breakthrough has far-reaching ramifications for industries that can innovate based on better understanding and utilisation of customer sentiment analysis.
To combat the surge of data available, innovations in self-service analytics allow user-friendly access to the powerful reporting and dashboarding tools that were previously only available to those well-versed in the analytic field. Now, through the power of search, users are able to quickly navigate through a huge amount of data through natural language queries with the simplicity of an internet search engine.
For end users, this game-changing technology implementation ensures that a new generation of analysists will not need vast statistical knowledge to perform complex analysis. Instead, it will be completed by a wider range of personnel, empowering future workforces to pro-actively drive business change.
As data continues to be collected in both structured and unstructured format, only with innovation can the big data challenges be addressed, utilised and learned from to better understand future outcomes. The end result will be an adaptive, educated and prepared workforce of data analysists who understand the bigger picture, utilising a range of innovative technologies to their advantage.


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The OnQ legrand CM5002-BR Ball Camera comes with a new studio design and offers an inconspicuous way to monitor a nursery, patio, or front door. Although it delivers crisp color video, it is also optimized for low light conditions to enable the best possible pictures in all situations. The camera includes studio style plates for both in-wall and in-ceiling installation, and it mounts in a standard single gang box with a convenient RJ45 connection.
This product is also available in Light Almond and White.
- Overall Dimensions: 5.20 H x 3 W x 0.2 D Wall Mount
- Humidity: Up to 95% RH (Non Condensing)
- Material: ABS Plastic
- Power Requirements: +24Vdc, +/-1.5Vdc, 0.75 A Differential Driven or +12VDC .75A for Single Ended mode
- Mounting: Via Standard NEMA 1-gang Wall Box
- Cat5 Cable Rating: CAT 5e UTP, 4 pair Solid Conductor (24 AWG)
- Connection Method: Single RJ-45
- Operating Temperature Fahrenheit: 0 to 55 Degrees Celsius
- Overall Dimensions: 5.20 H x 3 W x 0.2 D Wall Mount