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July 30-31: Summer Musical TheatreCamp features the musical DooWop Wed Widing Hood, performed by elementary school age students.
Show times are 2 p.m. July 30-31 in Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College, 14 Granada St., downtown St. Augustine.
Tickets are $10 for adults, and $5 for children. Tickets can be purchased one hour prior to each performance at the auditorium box office. Seating is general admission.
It's the 1950s, hula-hoops are in high demand, and so is Little Red Riding Hood! Wise Prince Jason (winner of the Math Olympics and the Nobel Prize), Strong Prince Justin (who can bench press his own mother) and ordinary Loud Prince Frank all want to woo Red Riding Hood. The king and queen hire the Fairy Godmother to set three tasks for the princes.
Only the prince who can find the missing girl, defeat the dragon, and awaken a castle visitor from her slumber earns the right to woo Wed Widing Hood. Complete with the big bad wolf and a sock-hopping 1950s score, this adventure is guaranteed to end in happily-ever-after laughter for audiences and performers of all ages.
Cast list: Andi Barbour as Big Green Riding Hood; Kohie Balzer, Emma; Nazerra Balzer, Sophie; Moselle Balzer, Grandmother; Jacob Busbee, Mr. Hood; Jack Coghlin, Strong Prince Justin, Lily Crevasse, Medium Purple Riding Hood; Maci Gardner, Gerald; Kaitlin Hamlett, Queen; Arabella Jackson, Narrator #2; Jake Karger, King; Riley Kirschling, Fairy Godmother; Peter Paul Leone, Loud Prince Frank; Alexis Tesori, Mrs. Hood; Sasha Thorpe, Wise Prince Jason; Owen Wallace, Hedgehog; Aoife Weaver, Evil Queen; Claira Williams, Little Red Riding Hood; and Zoe Zeichner as Big Bad Wolf.
Mike Beaman serves as Artistic Director for the summer program. Long-time staff member, Joe Kemper, returns to the summer program as a production director. Nikki Falcao returns as a production assistant director. Carl Liberatore is Technical Director. Curtis Powell works as Administrator and Music Director for the program.
The Summer Musical TheaterCamp is widely as the leading training ground for young actors. Since its inception in 1995, with 30 kids ages 5 to 14, the educational program has produced 34 musical theater shows with over 1400 kids and teens in participation. For the past thirteen years the SMTC for teens has produced full-scale Broadway musicals on its stage. Additionally, for a seventh year, the middle school/high school group will present its own full-scale musical in an effort to give these younger actors the skills and opportunities to be on stage in leading rolls. The actors have come not only from St. Augustine and throughout the state, but from across the USA including New Jersey, California, Ohio, Wisconsin; and even England and Malaysia. Many kids and teens have spent up to thirteen years in the program with several now working as professional actors throughout the county. This summer over 150 kids ranging from age 5 to 18 will take part in the 2016 summer season.
- 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 30-31
- Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College, 14 Granada St., downtown St. Augustine
- $10 for adults
- $5 for children
- Tickets can be purchased one hour prior to each performance at the box office at Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College
- Advance tickets are not available
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Gulab Jamun Recipe in Urdu Shireen Anwar
Gulaab jamun
Milk powder 2 cups
Baking powder 2 tsp
Eggs 2
Ghee melted 2 tbsp
Flour 1 tsp leveled
Ingredients for sugar syrup
Sugar 2 cup
Water 3 cups
Green cardamom 4
Orange color 2 drops
In a bowl mix together milk powder, baking powder and flour, add in melted ghee and mix well, add to it eggs and knead well to form into a dough, if required add 1 or 2 tsp milk, make into tiny balls, heat ghee in a wok and deep fry balls on low flame, continuously stirring with a spoon.
Method for sugar syrup
In a pan take water, sugar, green cardamom add orange color and cook till sugar dissolves for about 10 minutes, add your fried jamuns in the sugar syrup . Cover and cook for 10 min on very low flame.


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Tom Clarke and Duane Dwyer spent countless hours, arriving at the material chosen for the tactical application of a knife. As with Duane's metallurgy expertise, he suggested to use the 3V steel for the working blades. Some of the typical applications of 3V are; Punches, Dies, Shear Blades and Chopper Rolls. If the steel is tough enough for those types of uses, TC agreed it would be great for blades.
Source Crucible.com
CPM 3V is a high toughness, wear-resistant tool steel made by the Crucible Particle Metallurgy process. It is designed to provide maximum resistance to breakage and chipping in a high wear-resistance steel. It offers impact resistance greater than A2, D2, Cru-Wear, or CPM M4, approaching the levels provided by S7 and other shock resistant grades. CPM 3V is intended to be used at 58/60 HRC in applications where chronic breakage and chipping are encountered in other tool steels, but where the wear properties of a high alloy steel are required.
Impact Toughness CPM 3V offers impact toughness approaching the shock-resistant tool steels, with much greater wear resistance.
Wear Resistance CPM 3V offers substantial improvements in tool wear life when compared with conventional tool steels such as A2 and D2. CPM 3V's high vanadium content offers wear resistance similar to M2 high speed steel.
- Carbon 0.80%
- Chromium 7.50%
- Vanadium 2.75%
- Molybdenum 1.30%
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Financial website Quartz recently published an article on the launch of the 220 days of Watch Apple to make a review, pointed out that the development of this device is stagnant, the most important reason is that the iPhone over reliance on iPhone to remain independent, and need to increase the network connection and improve hardware design. The following is the main content of the article:
7 months later, Watch Apple is still the second choice I get up every day. Although I still like to use this device and recommend to buy, but I began to feel the limitations of this watch.
The main question is: I still use it to complete a few tasks, and this situation has not changed.
Current situation is, I have learned to rely on this watch to implement several functions, from the simplest to check the time to taste of futurism monitoring Uber car walking paths. Notice is a smart watch the first creation of several important targets, the current looks very reliable and very useful. In addition, I use this to carry out a large number of text input, quickly reply to the message, to track their fitness.
But it's just that. These uses are exactly the same as I used to use. The platform seems to have stalled.
I don't think I'm lazy. I've been searching for this new device with a new and attractive use, but no gain. While in this period, Apple launched the watchOS system's second edition, so that the application developers to more control of this watch, including its sensor and digital table crown.
I can not help but recall the 2008 iPhone application reform began, when all people want to talk about this. How can the application of the Watch Apple application be popular?
To prepare for this report, I have to New York and Silicon Valley several well-known start-up companies to understand, ask them if there are some of the companies that are worth attention to Watch Apple as the main interface for development? Their common answer is: there is No. In contrast, the latest TV Apple streaming media player has been out of the end of 10, a number of interesting new applications and some ideas.
Where is the problem? It may be that it is just a iPhone accessory, but to become another iPhone.
This watch at the beginning of the design is ready to become a iPhone supporting products. Its function is limited: everything is optimized to save power, relying on iPhone to set up and Internet connection. From the beginning, this has become a well-known problem.
But after a few months of use, I feel more and more clearly, this is the most need to be changed. The watch needs to be separated from the iPhone to get the speed, independence and the ability to directly access the cloud. The latter it is only a lovely decoration. Other smart watch manufacturers are starting and working to provide direct connection to the cellular network, regardless of the apple in second, third or more in the future to achieve this feature, it is the beginning of the Watch Apple has become interesting.
In addition, another obvious problem is that now from the watch based service launch seems more and more far.
So far, the application developers are mainly to reduce the existing iPhone applications to adapt to the Watch Apple screen, but the success of the case is not much. The reason for this device to choose the application mode is also very easy to understand: This is a developer and consumer understanding of the third party distribution channels, and the company also achieved great success through this model on iPhone. But Watch Apple did not continue this success.
To be honest, Uber and Instagram were born after the revolution of iPhone application. It takes a lot of time to master a new interface, the use of new devices, and to create a network effect.
On watchOS, multiple circular and lovely application icons are arranged in a mesh, giving a feeling that is being used by iPhone, but this does not help. Wake up the screen, click the correct application, wait to open, and then complete their tasks. This is the wrong model, the most simple reason is for the immediate and simple tasks, so will increase the time and workload. The application icon of the screen may be the most attractive screen, and the market is very powerful in marketing: Hey, look at these icons! But this is the most useless.
Apple has begun to adjust the hardware - first from the appearance of.
I want to know whether the Apple Corp will be the popularity of aluminum alloy "movement" of the strap surprised. Now look, Apple Watch starting when many luxury and fashion at the time of the strap is a matter of expediency. This fall, Apple has highlighted several new sports bracelet and several colors, looks very good. Do not know whether Watch Apple will eventually join the new shell design, and has been using a square screen?
Watch Apple's sales seem to be very good, enough to allow the Apple Corp to continue to focus and invest in this product. As of now, the product sales may have more than 500 blocks, so that Apple's market leader in the future for a period of time to become smart watches. But this product is far from can create a great sensation.
In addition to improving hardware speed, increase the network connection and to improve the design of strap. I also hope to see Apple's next will be how to use the high level concept. The company will learn the lessons of the first generation of products, and then launch a number of more focused, smart things? Or that the fun app icon screen will keep going on?
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Bethesda's upcoming free-to-play title, BattleCry will be available to play in its pre-alpha build at PAX Australia this weekend, and to get the fans hyped up for the game, developers have released a new teaser trailer.
The video showcases the warriors, environments and the bloody melee combat of the game which looks awesome.
BattleCry is a complete online experience that will allow up to 32 players to participate and battle each other in team based matches.
Developers behind the game have emphasized that this upcoming game will be unique in its own way as compared to the other titles in the same genre.
Some lucky fans did get to try out the game back at E3, and they only had good things to say about the upcoming title.
If you are living in Australia, then play the game at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre as of today, and share your impressions with us in the comments below.
However, if you are not planning to attend the event, then you will have wait until next year, as developers revealed that beta for BattleCry will begin sometime in 2015.
What do you think of the little gameplay that has been shown in the above video? Are you excited about it? Let us know!


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In his steps
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent
Matthew 20:27-28
Jesus said to his disciples, "Anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be your slave, just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Jesus did not inspire his listeners to great sacrifice by his words; he inspired them by his actions. But his disciples often seemed to have trouble getting his main point.
Before the penultimate act of Jesus' life on earth, his crucifixion, and the ultimate act, his resurrection, the disciples' ambition was to ascend into heaven with Jesus, to sit on his right and left, to bask in his glory, to be glorified themselves. They kept returning to this desire, regardless of Jesus' emphasis on service.
That changed after the Holy Spirit filled them with fire. It was then that they went their own ways around the world. Perhaps every one of them suffered a martyr's death. They "descended into hell," following the downward path of their leader, in order to ascend into heaven. And they knew they were heading in the right direction.
For me, too, it's one thing to listen to someone invite me to be a servant, and it's another to see them be one. And that's most manifest in my own life. My words often sound more righteous than anything I'm doing.
But when I spend real time or real money with real people doing what they need, not what I need, words aren't very important. Jesus just shows up. Prayer stops being demanding and becomes grateful. I am aware of what I have, not what I lack. I discover the art of making something out of nothing, and stop taking things for granted. Less becomes more every time.
Jesus, of course I don't know what you "knew" and what you didn't when you prayed on the cross, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." But your actions speak for themselves, regardless of the words. Your trust of your Father inspires me to trust you. And to walk into fire, following you.
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Expert's answer: Yokogawa AXR limitations
Loop-powered magmeters like Yokogawa AXR have surprisingly few limits. Sometimes, you won't have a two-wire device in the exact size or accuracy you need from one manufacturer or another, but that's about it.
Today, most of the options on the market offer the same level of quality that as a four-wire device. For a new application, you should use a loop-powered device to save money on the installation.
However, when we talk about loop-powered Coriolis meters, we still have size limits. Sometimes you'll run into a "fake" loop-powered device, where you have to install a converter to have the 4-20 mA.
So in your case, you can install a loop-powered magmeter without fear and reduce your installation costs!
Other resources that might interest you:
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Problems when installing magnetic flow meter? – We need to cut a concrete sewer pipe and install a magnetic flow meter suitable for partially filled pipes. Can you foresee any problems with this installation? Will I need earthing rings?
Yokogawa AXR field zero adjust – How do you do a zero adjust on a Yokogawa AXR? Here's what you need to know.
Yokogawa AXR electrodes! – Are there magmeters with three electrodes? How do they differ from Yokogawa AXR?
How to do a magmeter check for a magnetic flow meter? – For over 10 years I had this magnetic flow meter which appear to have stopped working. It gives a reading if there is nothing passing through it. I removed it and found no coating or damage to the internal wall. I just wondered if there is anything else I can check?
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Spam filters be warned, new research predicts the amount email marketing is due to explode over the next five years, estimated that the average email inbox will receive more than 9,000 marketing messages annually by 2014.
Forrester research is predicting email spend to "balloon" to $2bn (£1.2bn) by 2014, a nearly 11% compound annual growth rate.
Falling CPMs, a high return on investment, and growing consumer use of social email accounts will fuel the use of email by direct marketing professionals, the company said in its annual Email Marketing Forecast.
David Daniels, Forrester analyst, said: "By 2014 direct marketers will waste $144m on emails that never reach their primary target. Successful direct marketing pros will alter their tactics to overcome inbox clutter and increase relevancy."
The study also found that retention email - email that recipients have "blessed" with their permission - will continue to replace paper communications and will make up the largest share of marketing messages.
Retention emails will account for more than one-third of all marketing messages in consumers' inboxes by 2014, representing increased competition for marketers.
While the bulk of the market will continue to deploy email marketing on a self-service basis, the growing complexity associated with data integration and new tactics to increase relevancy will drive healthy grow in use of email service providers, research found.
Spending on ad-sponsored newsletters will also double over the next five years as traditional print publishers face falling circulation and ad revenue.
Daniels said: "The use of email in social networks will be one of the biggest challenges for direct marketers. Over the next five years, marketers must bridge the gap between social and traditional inboxes with social sharing tools."
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CARLSBAD, Calif.—Next Level Security Systems, a provider of unified networked security solutions, announced on Feb. 5 that its 2012 sales increased 123 percent from the previous fiscal year.
SILVER SPRING, Md.—Jay Hauhn, chairman of the board of directors for the Security Industry Association, sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging "a comprehensive solution" concerning security in the nation's schools, according to a statement from SIA.
LANCASTER, Pa.—ECKey, a provider of smartphone readers and access control systems, announced that it has expanded its sales and marketing team, according to a company statement.
NEW YORK—MSA Security, a provider of high consequence threat protection and specialized training for corporate and government clients, is hosting a free symposium to help school officials better understand and address an active shooter threat, according to a statement fro
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Professional Security Consultants and Design is being sued by Knox County and the Public Building Authority for allegedly installing faulty security systems throughout the Knox County School System, according to a report by the News Sentinel, a newspaper
FAIRFAX, Va.—General Dynamics Information Technology was awarded a $27 million contract by the city of Los Angeles to enhance the closed-circuit television and video management system at the Los Angeles International Airport, according to a company statement.
NEW YORK—Several analysts boosted the price target on shares of ADT last week, according to an article by dailypolitical.com.
FAIRPORT, N.Y.—Bosch Security Systems, a developer of security and life safety solutions based here, trained nearly 8,500 customers in North America in 2012 through its Security and Communications Training Academy, according to a company statement.
NEW YORK—TOTUS Solutions, a manufacturer of outdoor lighting-based platforms, has joined the MOBOTIX Global Technology Partner Network, according to a statement from MOBOTIX.
MELVILLE, N.Y.—Honeywell has teamed up with Opower, a utility solutions company, to introduce new technology that will attract homeowners to programs that curb demand for electricity, according to a report from cleantechnica.com.
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A user friendly dictionary of UX terms, phrases and abbreviations
In the week that Samuel Johnson, the 18th century lexicographer who wrote the English language's most comprehensive dictionary, celebrates his 309th birthday, it's only right that he is bestowed with one of the greatest honours known in the modern world…
To be mentioned off-handedly in the introduction for an online dictionary of UX terms that he could barely fathom in his Georgian-era brain.
What would he make of such complex, futuristic ideas as 'multivariate testing', 'wireflows', 'conversion rate optimisation' or 'actor'. Well okay, that last one he'd technically get right, but he'd be wildly off the mark with 'quick and dirty'.
So it's a good job that I'm here to present this comprehensive dictionary of UX terms and phrases, and not the 'father of the modern dictionary' because it turns out he'd be rubbish at it.
UX terms we'll be covering (click on a term to jump straight to the definition)…
5 second test
A/B test
Card sorting
Conversion rate optimisation (CRO)
Customer journey map
Diary study
Ethnographic study
Expert review
Guerrilla testing
Heuristic review
Information Architecture (IA)
Interaction Design (IxD)
Lean UX
Mental model
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Multivariate testing
Qualitative research
Quantitative research
Quick and dirty testing
Remote user testing
Tree testing
User Centred Design (UCD)
User experience (UX)
User experience testing
User interface (UI)
User research
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A super accessible guide to UX terms
The following descriptions are taken from articles found around our site, which I've linked to individually below. Where I've needed help with definitions, the sources are fully credited and to them I offer my humblest gratitude.
5 second test
A simple usability test in which a participant is shown a webpage for five seconds and is then asked some simple questions around what they can remember – such as, "Who is this site for?" or "What can I do here?" It's basically to gauge a user's first impressions and helps to test the focus and clarity of the webpage.
A/B test
A/B testing requires you to use a third-party piece of software that helps you set up two different webpages, where one page has an element that's slightly altered from the other. For instance, if you can't decide on the text for a 'buy' button, you could use an A/B test to present one version of the button that says 'add to cart' to half your traffic, and the other version that says 'buy now' to the other half of your traffic.
Then you can then see whether or not changing the text of this button has made any difference to the number of people clicking on it.
When customer journey mapping (see further down the page), the actor is the person who is experiencing the journey. It's the person you're focusing on – either they represent your customer base, or it's someone else you're interested in researching.
Also there's the cast, who are the people influencing the actor's journey – i.e. if the actor is a B2B purchaser, these people could be clients, colleagues or stakeholders.
Card sorting
Card sorting is a test you can run to improve the navigation of your website. Participants are presented with a list of items (for example, all the products featured in an online supermarket) and asked to group them in a way that makes the most logical sense to them.
Depending on the type of card sort, participants can also choose names for the groups they've put together, forming the potential categories and subcategories of a website.
All of this will hopefully create an easier, more logical way of navigating your site. You can validate your card sorting results by using tree testing (see further down the page).
There are three types of card sort:
- Open card sort: participants are asked to group cards into categories that makes sense to them, and then they label each category in a way that they feel accurately describes the content.
- Closed card sort: participants sort cards into category groups that you've already labelled and defined. For example, this is handy if you're launching a new page for 'watches' and you're not sure whether to put it under a parent category 'Accessories' or 'Jewellery'.
- Hybrid card sort: this is a mixture of open and closed. Participants can sort cards into categories you've already defined and then create their own categories if they think your categories are inaccurate.
Conversion rate optimisation (CRO)
Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) is the process of tweaking your website in order to increase the number of visitors who will complete a specific action on the page. More often than not, a conversion tends to mean a purchase, but it can also mean a newsletter sign-up, or a whitepaper download, or an account creation.
Although easy to get confused with UX, CRO is more directly focused on business goals rather than improving the user experience.
Customer journey map
A customer journey map tells the story of your customer's experience. From initial contact, through the various points of engagement, to the eventual long term relationship.
The customer journey map can focus on one particular part of the story or it can give an overview of the entire experience. Either way, it should always identify the key interactions a customer has with your organisation.
It's within these interactions where you will find out what the user is feeling, what their motivations are during each phase of the journey and surface any questions they might ask when interacting with each of the touchpoints.
The goal of a customer journey map is simple: to teach organisations more about their customers.
Diary study
Diary studies gather information about a user experience over an extended period of time. Participants write about their experiences with a particular product or service in a diary. They may also take photos or perform other activities to record their experiences. Once the study period is over, the researcher analyses the findings.
Ethnographic study
Ethnographic studies involve talking with people and observing them perform their tasks in their own natural context. Its aim is not just to gather information on how people behave and interact, but also how their location, environment and other contexts affects their day-to-day lives. UX designers take this ethnographic research and use it to solve a problem through a product or technology.
Expert review
In an expert review, a UX professional examines your product to identify usability, design and accessibility problems. Unlike other more traditional usability inspection methods, such as heuristic review (see further down the page), an expert review doesn't follow a strict process. Instead it relies on the reviewer's own expert knowledge of usability and design best practices.
This usability test should be seen as an early activity that occurs before using a research method that involves actual users.
Courtesy of Jim Ross, via 'User research methods: has beens and all-stars'
Guerrilla testing
Guerrilla testing is a way to gather cheap and fast feedback from the average person, by going out and asking people what they think of your idea or getting them to use your wireframes (see further down the page).
A popular way of carrying out guerrilla testing is by setting yourself up in a coffee shop (or other public place where your potential audience might hang out) with your website or other digital product open on a laptop, then ask people to test in exchange for a coffee and a muffin.
Heuristic review
Heuristics are basically 'educated guesses' – a quick, but well-informed way of solving a problem. In UX, a heuristic review comprises a team of usability experts who evaluate your website and compare it against a set of established usability principles, the most widely used being the '10 heuristics' as developed by Jakob Nielsen.
It's largely outmoded now, as gathering three to five usability professionals together in a room is a luxury few can afford. It also lacks actual user feedback.
Information Architecture (IA)
Information Architecture refers to the way content is presented and accessed from any given page on your website – whether through menus, breadcrumbs, categories, links – whatever takes you from one page to another.
A good IA can help people on your site understand where they are, what's around, and what to expect.
Information Architecture typically focuses on…
- Structure: the way information is laid out i.e. people should be able to predict where to find what they're looking for
- Organisation: grouping information in a way that makes sense to people
- Labels: ensuring elements are appropriately titled so people can find information
Interaction Design (IxD)
Interaction design is a very broad term that relates to the design of how a user interacts with a product. According to the Interaction Design Foundation, the goal of interaction design is to create products that enable the user to achieve their objective in the best way possible.
There are 'four dimensions' of interaction design, as developed by Gillian Crampton Smith, an interaction design academic, with a fifth added by Kevin Silver, a senior interaction designer.
- Words: the text on clickable buttons should be meaningful and simple to understand. They should communicate information to users, but not too much information to overwhelm the user.
- Visual representations: graphical elements like images, typography and icons that users interact with. These usually supplement the words used to communicate information to users.
- Physical objects or space: through what physical objects do users interact with the product? A laptop, with a mouse or touchpad? Or a smartphone, with the user's fingers? And within what kind of physical space does the user do so? For instance, is the user standing in a crowded train while using the app on a smartphone, or sitting on a desk in the office surfing the website? These all affect the interaction between the user and the product.
- Time: this mostly refers to media that changes with time – animation, videos, sounds. Motion and sound play a crucial role in giving visual and audio feedback to users' interactions. It also refers to the amount of time a user spends interacting with the product.
- Behaviour: this includes the mechanism of a product. How do users perform actions on the website? How do users operate the product? It also includes the reactions, emotional responses or feedback of people using the product.
Lean UX
In Lean UX, non UX-trained people carry out UX activities involving all members of a development team. This method would be used when if your team has adopted the Agile method of development – where you work in rapid, iterative cycles. Lean UX is all about what you can achieve 'here and now' based on the team's 'assumptions', which have been generated in a workshop.
Source: Interaction Design Foundation
Mental model
A mental model is a concept that allows you to understand and analyse any usability problems in your interactive design. They are developed from observation, perception, immersive experience and, most importantly, culture. Mental models are beliefs based on cognition and not facts.
The reason that people make mistakes when interacting with a system is often because their mental model is different to the developer's mental model. Since all people perceive the word in an individualistic way, all users generate individual mental models. The challenge here is to ensure that developers develop a product with the users' mental model in mind. Designers typically create systems based on their perceptions, assuming users will understand the process in the same way they do.
Courtesy of George Kalyvas, UX researcher at WhatUsersDo
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
In product development, the minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to be considered 'working', i.e. it achieves the purpose it was built for in the most basic way.
Building an MVP means you can test the product fairly cheaply at an early stage, helping you iron out problems and gain feedback for future iterations.
Multivariate testing
Multivariate testing is the same as A/B testing (see further up the page), only you're testing multiple versions of the same page rather than just two.
Personas are a way to help organisations understand their potential and existing audience in a more personal way.
In essence, personas are detailed profiles of a particular audience member, who represents a distinct group of people – in that they share similar behaviour, attitudes, personalities and preferences of your product, but are the 'figurehead' for a larger demographic.
Personas are constructed by researching and interviewing real people to gain qualitative data (see below), and this information often shapes the development of a product.
A UX prototype is a simple version of your final product, which you use to test the design before launch. The earlier you test a prototype, the more user-centred the development and the less likely you'll waste time and money launching a failure.
You may hear the term fidelity when it comes to prototyping…
- High fidelity prototype: the model is as close to the finished, fully workable and realised product as possible.
- Low fidelity prototype: the model is incomplete, simple and has the very broadest idea of what the finished product will look or feel like.
Qualitative research
Qualitative research is any kind of investigation, experiment or study where the results aren't in numerical form. These will be the observations, comments, thoughts and feelings of the participants. You may also hear this referred to as empirical research.
Qualitative research can take the form of conversations, interviews, open-ended questionnaires or focus groups.
At WhatUsersDo we mainly deal with qualitative research. If you run a UX test on your website using our panel of testers, you'll receive videos of those tests in which you can see the user interact with your site and, crucially, you'll hear their thoughts and feelings spoken out loud as they navigate.
Quantitative research
Quantitative research is any kind of investigation, experiment or study where the results can be presented with numerical values. The data you'll uncover in quantitative research is all to do with 'how many, how often and/or how much, etc.'
For a complex example of quantitive data, just take a look inside the analytics of your website – pageviews, sessions, bounce-rate, frequency of visits over time – are all quantitative data.
For more detail, read our guide to the difference between qualitative and quantitative research.
Quick and dirty testing
As the name implies, this is a way to get fast user feedback on your product without any scientific rigour whatsoever. There's no time or thought given to recruiting the 'right' participants, you just show it to the first person you find and see what they think. This can give you immediate insights into quick and simple fixes, can be done at any time, as often as you like, with anyone remotely suitable.
The arguments for quick and dirty testing are that doing some usability testing is better than none. The arguments against are that the results might be as good as doing no usability testing.
Remote user testing
Remote UX testing is the use of video recording software to capture the actions and spoken thoughts of users as they interact with your website, content or other marketing assets. It shows you what works, what doesn't and how to improve the user experience.
When customer journey mapping, the scenario is the specific journey that's being mapped. You should have something specific in mind for this. For instance, imagine you're a businessperson looking for a new phone and price isn't a priority, but you want unlimited minutes and low overseas call rates plus good customer support. These details can all form your specific scenario.
Tree testing
Although tree testing shares many similarities with card sorting, the method you use to arrive at your results is reversed.
In tree testing, the main categories and subcategories for a website are already established. Test participants are asked to explore these categories in order to find a particular item or piece of content. They click through the various links until they find the category where they expect the item to reside.
During a tree test, you'll set a task for your participant to complete. For instance: "You are on a camping supply website, where would you go to find a sleeping bag? Click through the main menu until you arrive at the location you'd expect to find it."
Then you can look at the following measures in order to help make improvements:
- Directness: the percentage of users completing the task without hesitation and getting the correct answer first time
- Success: the percentage of users that completed the task vs. failed attempts
- Time: the time it took users to complete a task
User centred design (UCD)
The central tenet of user-centred design is that the person using the product is the focus of every single stage of its design, development, production and iteration, rather than business goals or mere hunches from the design team.
User experience (UX)
User Experience (UX) is everything that happens to your users when they interact with your business or organisation via your website, application or online communications. It includes everything they see, hear and do as well as their emotional reactions.
User experience testing (also: UX testing, user testing, usability testing)
As you can see above, user experience testing has several names but they all refer to the process of understanding what users do and why they do it.
Traditional UX testing involves individual test participants who are recruited to sit at a computer and be observed carrying out tasks that they are given. The process of watching and listening to real people carry out these tasks provides insight into what works, what doesn't work and, critically, why it doesn't work.
User Interface (UI)
The means with which you interact with a product – be it physical or digital – is called the user interface. So to take this website as an example, the UI consists of its layout, the navigation, the search box, the links… basically all the visual components that you can use to interact with the site.
Much of what we call UI nowadays is really GUI (graphical user interface), i.e. the images and icons on your computer or mobile.
User research
In order to design a truly relevant, useful and successful product, you need to clearly understand your potential audience. And the only way you're going to understand the people who might use your product is if you talk to them first.
There are many different types of user research. You can go out to observe and interview people in their own natural environment (which is documented in this collection of user research war stories), you could invite people in to your office to be part of a focus group or hold one-on-one interviews.
Alternatively you can run UX testing on your prototype, in order to get some early insight into how people will use your product. Bear in mind it's much easier and cheaper to change a prototype than a finished product.
Wireframes are used to show webpage layout ideas. It's a quick and cost effective way (because you don't necessarily need more than a pen and paper) to get early user insight. This is also known as paper prototyping.
Workflows map out a users' movements across the wireframe or prototype. So this has more in common with a customer journey map (see further up the page), in that it highlights interactions – but doesn't go into the details a user would see on the screen.
A wireflow presents a combination of wireframes and workflows. Wireflows document the process of a user working through a task on the product or website, but with each step you can see wireframe mock-up of the relevant page.
I have undoubtedly missed out many other terms in this dictionary, so please let me know of any more that should be included. Likewise, if you'd like to challenge or add to one of the descriptions, then I will see you at dawn with duelling spears please hunt us down on Twitter.
For an in-depth and entertaining guide to getting started with user research, read our brand new comprehensive e-book: User Experience Research 101.
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Christopher is the Content Marketing Manager, which basically means the skipper of the good ship 'UserZoom blog'. So far his requests for changing its name to the 'USS-erzoom Blog' have been rightfully denied. In his spare time, Christopher is a filmmaker and the editor of wayward pop culture site Methods Unsound. He used to be the deputy editor of Econsultancy, editor of Search Engine Watch, staff writer for ClickZ and features editor of CMO.com.


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back at it again-maybe, and the keys to life.
How's that for a commitment? Not too forceful, and probably not anything anyone would believe but myself. I have had a great many days to figure out just how I want to live my life, and that's a good thing because while thinking about it I WAS living my life.
I've got it down to a few simple goals, simple in that they are all things that I can control should I choose to. Not simple at all to do. That takes discipline. I never like that word. Discipline. Sounds too hard. Discipline is what great athletes have, you know, the ones that make it, and say they practiced everyday of their lives since they could walk. Yuck! I would be too bored to have done that.
But now, in my wisdom, I understand that discipline is just another way of saying do what you like, often, and always, and don't stray. It means do all the things that you need to do to reach or achieve your goal. It means line up everything in favor of what you want. It means focus. Focus hard. It also means filter. You have to filter out the distractions. Whether these distractions are internal, as in your mind – your thoughts, or external as in everything and everyone in the whole dang world. Filtering and focus are both at your disposal, and they are the best f*cking tools you'll every know.
Oh don't forget belief, self-confidence. You have to, have to, believe that you can do whatever it is you want. I don't care one bit if it is a realistic goal or not. Judging your goal is a major distraction. Don't do it…and never let anyone else do it (judge your goal) for you!
Discipline, focus, filter and believe. The keys to everything.
Please add any other keys in the comment section below.
It's a great day! Enjoy.
because I said I would
The other day, I stumbled onto this little known non-profit it's called,"because I said I would" The premise behind the concept is that when people are true to their word and follow through on their promises and commitments the world becomes a better place. I tend to agree. Also the action of writing your promise down on paper really can solidify your commitment. I found the "because I said I would" concept completely complimentary with my Dad's mantra "be true to yourself", which is now how I live.
Rewind back to last year when we struggled to raise funds for our dog, Batman's, wheelchair. It was during that process I really understood how difficult it is to raise funds after you have tapped out your resources. So I promised myself that I would donate once a month to a cause. Not to a huge corporate fundraising machine, but rather to an individual or a family. (In my mind someone that's who really needs it and I know the money goes directly to their fund, a win-win)
I wasn't sure how I could keep this commitment because money is so very tight. I had to come up with an amount that I could handle regardless of what other emergency pops up, and they pop up all the freakin' time so I settled on ten dollars. How could I remember to give ten dollars? My answer; ten on the tenth.
So here you have my first "because I said I would." 10 dollars every tenth of the month to a fundraiser on youcaring.com. ( a free fundraising site)
What will you do because you said you would?
New year, another chance? pffffft !
So many times we think of the new year as the starting line. The moment in time when we are going to get our shit together and make a real difference in the time we spend here on earth. How silly is that? I mean so many years I have considered the New Year as the day of change. I waited for that very date to start, to be better, then over the weeks I stop, and I usually failed.
This new year is different. No, really it is. Why? or How? you ask. I'm about to tell you.
Here's the thing. Every second we have the power to change. But we get lazy, we become out of tune with ourselves and many times just completely over powered by circumstance we do not control. We listen to those who do not have our best interests at heart. We follow ideals that are impossible to achieve. And we worship the wrong gods. This is what has to end. We can only be led to follow the wrong direction if we stop paying attention to ourselves.
It's all about personal awareness. It's all about keeping the life you want forefront in you thoughts and actions. Its about really making what you want into a priority. Not only on January first, but during every second of you life.
Now I am not saying this is easy, heck no. If it was easy I certainly would have mastered it by now. It's not easy. For some reason, however, this time, I don't see my life as drive, guts, or ambition. I do not criticize myself based on achievements or willpower or anything thing like that. All I see as real is awareness. Be aware. Recognize your thoughts and change them to align with who you want to be. Identify your feelings and process them. Calibrate your actions to fall in line with your life and only your life.
Everything will fall in place if you remain aware. Get ready to be amazed and enjoy!
Start today.
I am deeply troubled by the state of our country.
I deplore the past actions and the more recent actions of our police force.
We are living in what can be best describe as a police state, the early stages.
Moreover, I can say with confidence that racism is rampant and it can't hide any longer.
The global and national protests give me hope.
We are not alone.
I pray our voices stay strong, loud and undeterred.
We can stand united. We will be heard.
We can teach tolerance.
We can choose love over hate.
Join us.
Start today.
Speak up, even if your voice shakes.
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ~ Elie Wiesel
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
I get it.
Today I am heading outside to work on a project that has nothing to do with "unpacking" any rat. I have already spent an hour freezing my butt off at the dog park, and as if that wasn't enough, I am heading back to the woods to work with my camera.
I have to leave it behind. "It" being all the external stuff that isn't me.
I had a particularity bad day yesterday.
I believed ( for the bazilllionth time) that people could overcome past hurts and heal. Now, I know that belief only holds true for me. Why? Because it is my belief – mine not theirs – and that makes all the difference in the world. They do not want to change anything. And no matter what I do, say, or try, no matter how much I care, I can not, and will not, see my desires come to fruition.
These people are no longer worth my efforts, energy or thoughts. I will never have what I want with them. I should know, because I have spent my entire life trying. Really trying.
On top of realizing that whole "belief" issue, it has taken me a long time to also understand that I get to choose what that bad day will do to me next. If I choose to stay in it, (dwell on negativity) I will be hurting myself and every single moment of today.
Today- I am here to say, "I get it."
It's a beautiful day, the sun is out, and I am okay.
I am taking control of my thoughts and focusing on my real life and how I want to shape it. It feels good but it is a constant effort.
I am off walk in the sunshine, feel the crisp breeze, and let each fresh moment fill me with love and gratitude.
Thanks for reading. Cheers!
We are all alone.
Even those of us in the best of situations are alone. It's scary. No one really knows how you might feel at any given moment. No one can see the years of pain and suffering inside, because in our society, and probably in every other society, people put on the "face." The face of happiness and contentment.
Even on the internet, people say things, they think will "read well" and won't make them look like a jerk or like a pitiful sour person. Which, may be exactly how someone is feeling at the time. Facebook is notorious for this. If an alien came down to earth and used Facebook to gauge human feelings, they'd ask to smoke what all the Facebook posters are smoking right away. "I want what their having"
Life is hard for everyone, and if it isn't hard for you now, it will be difficult sooner or later. And that's most often when you will find yourself: alone. Just you and your thoughts.
On top of that, our society has painted a picture that being alone is bad. Having it all, isn't being alone. Plus did you know everyone can have it all ? That is if they are rich, or thin, or beautiful or if they buy this or that. Maybe if you had college degree, you would be a more worthy person, or if you drove a certain car people would respect you. If you drink this beer, you can get laid. If you shop at this store, she will love you.
We've also been conditioned from an early age to worship youth, which is ridiculous. Insane even. The one truth in a life span is aging. Everyone ages it can not be stopped. And we age alone.
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So it goes to reason after hearing these twisted messages from birth, when you find yourself alone, you may feel depressed and lonely.
No one, no thing, nothing outside of yourself can make you whole. No one can repair your sadness or erase your fears. No God is going to swoop down and fix you, no secret angel has your back. There is no magic.
The only thing you can do is stop waiting, and start growing your love. Be kind to yourself. Try to eliminate hateful and negative feelings, especially the ones you direct towards yourself. To grow your love, start with yourself.
I am starting with me. For my "new me resolution" ( which I have already started, because a calendar means nothing) I am attempting to totally redesign my life to eliminate all the falsehoods that I have grown up believing. The only thing I know is real is love. Love is limitless and timeless, and it feels good and it makes me happy. And if I am alone, which we all are, then I have to make my love grow.
So during this time of year which is heavily promoted as the best of all possible times for people who "have it all" or are trying to "get it all" – if you find yourself alone, don't sweat it, everyone is alone.
Focus on what is real; cultivate love, be generous with your love, and appreciate any small miracles that follow.
Recommended reading: Return to Love


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The end of the year marks the start of direct plate exposure (CTP). Kösel develops and builds its own machine for the first time. This enables the production of brochures with folded flaps and protruding edges in one single operation on the glue binder.
Acquisition of a 6 hectare plot outside Kempten in Altusried-Kurgzell. The planning of a new production building begins.


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October 16th-17th, 2017 Meeting
The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center
Join us in Kansas City and enjoy real KC BBQ
at the Mill Dinner.
There are no Saturday Oct. 14 room nights available in our room block.
The Room Block reservations for all other room nights closes on Sept. 15. After that we cannot guarantee a room reservation.
October 16, 201712:30 pm – 2:30 pmCFA Board of Directors Meeting
Westin Kansas City Crown Center; Penn Valley Room
3:00 PM – 5:00 pm – Note special start timeGeneral SessionWestin Kansas City Crown Center; Shawnee Mission Room
Randall Bernhardt, Sr. Consultant for forensic Structural Engineering Systems, Inc.
Harold O. Sprague, PE, Fellow ASCE, Principal Technical Consultant
Michael A. West, Emeritus Vice President, Computerized Structural Design
Our presenters will explore the collapse of the Hyatt Regency Walkway in Kansas City in 1981. The collapse caused the death of 115 people and injury of more than 180 and traumatized countless others as well as the Kansas City Community. The effects were felt throughout Kansas City and the United States and served as a wake-up call to the engineering community.
The presentation will compare and contrast provisions of the 19765 and the 2016 editions of the AISC Code of Standard Practice for Steel Buildings and Bridges that are pertinent to the walkway collapse. The tragedy was the result of multiple actions and inactions. The presenters will discuss how current standards such as the 2016 edition of the AISC Code of Standard Practice and AISC's Certification program now provide additional checks and balances that wil help prevent such incidents in the future.
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Mill Dinner & Reception
JACK STACK BARBECUE101 W. 22nd StreetKansas City, MO 64108
We've rented out the whole place!
IT STARTED WITH A STOREFRONT: Started by Russ Fiorella in Kansas City back in 1957, Jack Stack began as a traditional storefront barbecue with a modest selection of five to six items. Jack Fiorella, the eldest son, worked with his father until 1974, when he decided to branch off and start Fiorella's Jack Stack of Martin City.
To stand out in the competitive Kansas City barbecue scene of the mid 1970's, Jack and his wife, Delores, began cooking gourmet meats over hickory wood and created the most extensive barbecue menu in the country. The menu included Certified Angus Beef® Steaks, fresh seafood, award-winning Lamb Ribs, and mouth-watering side dishes like Hickory Pit Beans and Cheesy Corn Bake.
Today, Jack Stack Barbecue is in its third generation of the Fiorella family and has evolved into the largest, full-service wood cookery in the industry. Along with five Kansas City restaurants, Jack Stack operates a Catering company that serves at events all over the nation, ranging from intimate gatherings to celebrations feeding several thousand, and a Nationwide Shipping division that delivers their delicious barbecue to anywhere in the country.
Tuesday, October 17, 20177:30 am – 10:00 amFabricator Round Tables and Large Group DiscussionWestin Kansas City Crown Center; Shawnee Mission & Penn Valley Rooms
Contact CFA with any topics you would like to see discussed via email@example.com.
10:00 am – 1:00 pmPEER LEARNING GROUP Session (for committed members only)
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Second Annual 'Pie in the Plaza' Treats 2,400 to BC's Largest Blueberry Pie
September 11, 2017
For immediate release: September 11, 2017
Surrey, BC – The City of Surrey's second annual 'Pie in the Plaza' welcomed residents and visitors to taste BC's largest blueberry pie this past Saturday. In celebration of Agriculture Week and created in partnership with PricePro, the John Volken Academy and City of Surrey Farm Fresh, the pie spanned 8 feet in diameter and fed 2,400 attendees.
"Pie in the Plaza was a great success, both as a celebratory event and an education opportunity to showcase Surrey's thriving agriculture industry," said Mayor Linda Hepner. "Surrey's roots lie in agriculture, and the industry is a key contributor to the city's economy and community health."
Presented by Westminster Savings, Pie in the Plaza drew over 5,000 guests throughout the day. After the pie was distributed, attendees enjoyed afternoon of live music and education about Surrey's agricultural sector at the Surrey Urban Farmers Market tent and other agricultural exhibits. Family-friendly activities also included pony rides, an inflatable corn maze, seed planting, face painting and a photo booth.
"Events like 'Pie in the Plaza' help Surrey residents and visitors to understand the many benefits of local agriculture," said Councillor Mike Starchuk, Chair of the Agriculture & Food Security Advisory Committee. "The event took a fun, family-oriented approach to highlight the importance of purchasing and consuming local produce."
"As a credit union with a strong community focus, we were really pleased to sponsor an event that brings the community together to celebrate food and farming in Surrey," said Greg Oyhenart, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Strategy Officer at Westminster Savings. "Sponsoring the Pie in the Plaza event aligns with our core values and our commitment to help make our neighbourhoods better places to live, work and play."
For more information, visit www.surrey.ca/events.
Photo caption: Surrey resident and farmer, Mike Bose, helps Councillor Mike Starchuk, cut the 8' round blueberry pie.
For event information:
Mary Rukavina
Manager, Special Events & Filming
For media interviews:
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Our planet Earth has so many awe-inspiring travel destinations it would be impossible for one person to visit them all in a single lifetime. Each and every country offers stunning natural and man-made sights to behold. Selecting a unique travel destination ultimately narrows down to personal appeal of the traveler. A budding archeologist could travel to see a bone-yard from the dinosaur age. A naturalist could spend a blissful time at an amazing bird watching site. Let's take a journey to four uniquely distinct travel destinations that will undeniably endow a happy traveler with wonderful memories to keep and amazing stories to share.
Our first travel destination is a very unique nature center on the island of Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. With over 450 species of tropical birds and 600 species of butterflies, the Asa Wright Nature Centre has spectacular bird-watching areas and breathtaking hiking trails. Newcombe Wright and his wife Asa, amateur ornithologists themselves, purchased a run-down coffee-citrus-cocoa plantation shortly after World War II.
In 1967, the nature center, with over 1,500 acres, was created with the stipulation that it would be protected tropical rainforest land forever. Visitors to the center are able to see over 2,300 kinds of flowering plants, many of which are different varieties of orchids. The Birding Veranda, a roofed-over screened-in porch situated on one side of the estate house, has sitting stools on which to look out over the tree tops at amazingly colorful birds such as the Turquoise Tanager and the Orange-winged Parrot. King Vultures, White-tipped Doves and Ruby-topaz Hummingbirds are also among the tropical birds that inhabit the island. The Asa Wright Nature Centre tops the list of unique travel destinations.
Our next stop is the island of Grenada which is only 73 nautical miles from Trinidad and Tobago. The wonder to behold here is the Underwater Sculpture Park created by Jason deCaires Taylor. Similarly to the goal of the Asa Wright Nature Centre, Mr. Taylor has successfully created a way to bring back and preserve the underwater storm-damaged marine world of the shallow waters off the coast of Grenada.
While it is not uncommon for coastal communities to create man-made reefs to encourage the growth of marine life, it is most uncommon and unsurpassed what Jason has accomplished. His underwater sculpture groups such as the "Grace Reef" (statues based upon 16 local women), and Vicissitudes" (16 children in a circle holding hands) celebrate the cohabitation of art imitating life and the marine creatures who live in and around the art itself. Visitors to the site can view the life-like sculpture of the person who is using a typewriter while sitting at a desk either up close as a diver or by using snorkel gear. Above water there are glass-bottomed boats through which one can see the magnificent human-like statue and the living coral growing on top of the desk. The Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada is an unequalled travel destination to see a man-made creation interacting with nature.
From Grenada we are going to travel approximately 2, 600 miles to the west and about 68,000 years back in time. Our unique travel destination is Waco Mammoth Site in Waco, Texas, United States. Pre-historic Columbian mammoth bones are the colossal attraction at this dig site. The first bone was discovered by accident by two boys who were scouting the area for fossils and arrowheads. They took the bone to the Baylor University where it was examined by staff members of the Strecker Museum. Over the course of the next 12 years a total of 16 mammoth remains were excavated. The diggers thought they were done. But wait, there's more! Seven more years worth of digging rewarded them with six more mammoth skeletons. What an amazing find!
In 2009, the site became open to the public with the help of the Waco Mammoth Foundation. Visitors have the unique opportunity to view a portion of the dig site from a platform suspended from the ceiling of the building encompassing the site. To this day it is unclear how the mammoths died en masse. Some scientists believe a massive flood event trapped the animals in a river bed. In any case, it is a trip back in time worth taking to see the Waco Mammoth Site in Waco, Texas.
Finally, the last stop on our journey to unparalleled travel destinations is the Lava Beds National Monument located in Siskiyou County in northern California, United States. Established in 1924, the monument is both a historic and geological landmark. In 1872-1873 the Modoc Indians found a large lava formation to use as a stronghold as they fought with the US Army.
A live volcano would be an amazing tourist attraction if we could only get close enough to experience the explosive bursts of lava shooting out of the crater. At the Lava Beds National Monument visitors get to see the next best things: spatter cones, lava tubes, chimneys and cinder buttes formed by the lava as it was spewed out of the volcano thousands of years ago.
When the Medicine Lake Volcano last erupted about 1,000 years ago, the lava boiled, bubbled, spattered and flowed. The lava flows left behind lava tubes that in some cases have since collapsed exposing the inside of the tube to be a cave-like structure. The hot lava bubbled and spattered out of chimneys and cones that are still standing today. Lava Beds National Monument gives its tourists a glimpse of some of the ingredients that make up our planet from the inside out.
We've traveled to four uniquely different destinations. Each one has its own individual characteristics to hold the attention of even the most seasoned traveler. There are many diverse attributes within each landscape or locality, climate or culture, ecosystem or economy, season or scenery and all are unique in their own way. Traveling to see uncommon people, places and things takes preparation and imagination. To get where you're going you need to prepare for the journey. To get the fullest enjoyment once you arrive at your destination you need to use your imagination. What was it like when mammoths roamed the earth? Who were the people that created this paradise? Enjoy your trip!


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The approved school uniform for Moulton School can be found here.
School uniform is not available to buy at the school office. We have two online providers - School Trends and Tesco.
Click on following the links :
Simply go to the website address, then select 'Find My School' and follow the order instructions. You can either pay online or if you prefer, you can order online and send a cheque to School Trends at the address shown on the order form.
Alternatively, if you do not have access to the internet you can collect an order form from school and order by post.
There are no minimum order quantities and your uniform will be delivered directly to your chosen address. Please do not be tempted to purchase items from the 'plain' range of buttons on the left hand side of the screen as these are NOT part of our approved school uniform!
Other ordering information including sizes, delivery information and the returns procedure is also available online.
We hope you will find using this new service an improvement in our school uniform supply.
(Please note that there is a stall on Northwich Market that sells cheaper versions of our labelled uniform items. We do not get any commission from this seller but school have no issue with any parent purchasing their uniform from them)


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(A) A trust company acting in any fiduciary capacity, including, but not limited to, the capacities described in section 1111.11 of the Revised Code, may purchase any service or product, including, but not limited to, insurance or securities underwritten or otherwise distributed by the trust company or by an affiliate, through or directly from the trust company or an affiliate or from a syndicate or selling group that includes the trust company or an affiliate, provided that the purchase is otherwise prudent under the Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act and the compensation for the service or product is reasonable and is not prohibited by the instrument governing the fiduciary relationship. The compensation for the service or product may be in addition to the compensation that the trust company is otherwise entitled to receive from the fiduciary account.
(B) A trust company shall disclose at least annually any purchase authorized by this section that was made by the trust company during that reporting period. The disclosure shall be given, in writing or electronically, to all persons entitled to receive statements of account activity, and shall include any capacities in which the trust company or an affiliate acts for the issuer of the securities or the provider of the products or services and the fact that the trust company or an affiliate may have an interest in the products or services.
(C) This section shall apply to the purchase of securities made at the time of the initial offering of the securities or at any time thereafter.
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Last wash day---I pulled my hair up into a bun. And there it stayed until this wash day. Ha-ha! I kinda moisturized and sealed. I kinda detangled. I kinda---didn't really wrap my hair at night. Inspite of my neglect, something amazing happened. As I prepped to wash my hair again, it felt AMAZING. It was still moisturized. It was still fluffy. It was still soft. Needless to say, I totally wanted a repeat performance of last week's wash day!
- Extreme Deep Condition- I deep conditioned on unwashed using Matrix Ultra Hydrasource Conditioner on my roots and Joico K Pak on my ends. Then I massaged my stands with extra virgin coconut oil, covered with a plastic cap and left it in overnight.
- Tea Rinse- using 2 Bamboo tea bags steeped in 2 cups of water + 2 tbsp of glycerin.
- Air Dry- with Extra Virgin Coconut Oil applied to wet hair then wrapped in a satin scarf.
- Leave ins- I used Jessicurl Too Shea Extra Moisturizing Conditioner to moisturize, my kitchenista Tangerine Vanilla Whipped Hair Butter to seal and then faux banded my hair.
It took me less than 45 minutes to tangle! Now, this may not seem like a big deal to you---but this is AMAZEBALLS for me. I'm totally crushing on everything about Matrix's Hydrasource conditioner. It's not often that I fall head over heels in love with a conditioner after two uses. The slip is to die for. The scent is heavenly. And the moisture---y'all---I've never experienced moisture overload before, but this conditioner just might do it! This week, I decided to throw a strengthening conditioner on my ends. I've been protein layering for several months now; it's safe to say that my ends are in great shape because of it.
I wish that I would have taken a picture of my detangled and banded hair. I love the look of big hair on me! To style, I set my hair on a few Caruso steam rollers for about 30 minutes and went on about my day. I promise that I'm not abandoning bantu knots---I think!
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June Margaret Howard, age 81, of Alva, passed away December 13, 2015 in Fort Myers. She was born June 5, 1934 in LaBelle to the late Lewis Jackson Nobles, Sr. and the late Bonnie Belle (Raper) Nobles. She was a former resident of LaBelle and Naples.
Survivors include her husband: Cary Carl Howard, sons: Michale Lewis (Cindy) Howard and Timothy D. Howard, sisters: Dorothy Mae Pinion and Joanne Craft, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by her son: William Cary Howard and an infant son; and brother: Lewis Jackson Nobles, Jr.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 12:00 pm at Akin-Davis Funeral Home, LaBelle with Pastor Rankin McGougan, Pastor Bud Stephens and Pastor Kevin Compton officiating. Interment will follow in Fort Denaud Cemetery in LaBelle. Visitation will be Thursday for1 hour prior to the funeral service at Akin-Davis Funeral Home in LaBelle.


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I know you thought I forgot, K T Cat. I didn't. It just always takes me forever to get around to these!
So. Her challenge was to write a memoir. In SIX words.
I intentionallydid not read other people's because it would mess with me. And unfortunately. This is what I came up with:
Got a booger? I'll tell you.
(You weren't expecting anything brilliant, I hope.)
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Mack upgraded the Pinnacle's cab with a series of new features
Mack's models are among the best truck's you'll find on today's market and the company was always a leader when it comes to comfort and new technologies.
The company has recently made available a new series of features for the Pinnacle model, designed to increase the driver's comfort.
Jerry Warmkessel, Mack highway marketing manager declared, "Driver retention is critical, and one way to positively impact that is to improve driver comfort. A comfortable driver is also a more productive, safer driver. We listened to what our customers told us they wanted in their cabs, and we're delivering it with this series of interior enhancements that result in a more comfortable, productive cab environment."
Mack's new features include an optional center storage console with interior lightening and a 12 volt power slot. There is also a new optional ambient floor lightning and a standard rest pedal for the driver's left foot.
The Pinnacle's cab will be fitted from now on with a new standard dash-mounted single DIN Mack mDrive automated manual transmission shifter.
Mack has come also up with a series of improvements to the PowerLash and Engine brake controls to improve the driving performances.
Other new features include self-cancelling turn signals and a remote in-dash sleeper auxiliary HVAC switch which is standard for 70-inch and 60-inch sleepers and optional for the 56-inch and 48-inch sleepers.


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China's rural-to-urban migration has affected 12.6 million school-age rural children who have migrated with their parents and another 22 million who have been left behind by their migrant parents. Not enough is known, either theoretically or empirically, about the causal impact of migration on the well-being of this large number of Chinese children affected by migration. Propensity score matching methods are applied to estimate the effects of migration in children 10–15 years old from a 2010 national survey (N = 2,417). Children's migration has significant positive effects on their objective well-being but no negative effects on their subjective well-being. There is little difference between the left-behind and non-migrant children across multiple life domains. The Rosenbaum bounds tests indicate that the causal effects of child migration are sensitive to hidden bias for certain outcomes, but not for others.
We are living through an extraordinarily interesting period, historically. The world has largely been peaceful since the end of the Second World War. The Cold War ended in the unambiguous victory of the West. Economic development and industrialization have been happening in many parts of the world, beyond Europe and Northern America. The world has become increasingly globalized, connected by internet technology, inexpensive air travelling networks, and English as the de facto international language. This is a fortunate time to be a sociologist. While technological advances and economic prosperity are sure to continue predictably, social issues studied by sociologists are becoming more prominent, requiring serious research, both for policy making and for public discourse.
Situated in China's market transition, this study examines the relationship between economic sector and a worker's happiness in post-reform urban China. Using datasets from the Chinese General Social Surveys 2003, 2006 and 2008, we find that workers in the state sector enjoy a subjective premium in well-being – reporting significantly higher levels of happiness than their counterparts in the private sector. We also find that during a period when a large wave of workers moved from the state sector to the private sector, those remaining in the state sector reported being significantly happier than did former state sector workers who had moved, whether the move was voluntary or involuntary. We attribute the higher level of reported happiness in the state sector than in the private sector to the disparity by sector in the provision of social welfare benefits. Those who made voluntary state-to-private moves experienced a trade-off in enjoying higher payoffs while losing job security, whereas involuntary mobiles experienced downward mobility and suffered a long-term psychological penalty.
This paper addresses the debate over the significance of family's monetary versus non-monetary resources for children's achievement and development, within the context ofcontemporary China. We use data from the 2010 baseline survey of the China Family PanelStudy to examine the relevance of several proposed determinants in Chinese children's cog-nitive achievement. Our findings suggest that: (1) family income is significantly associatedwith children's achievement, but family's assets and direct measures of monetary resourcesare found to have little effect; (2) non-monetary resources, particularly parenting, are ofgreat importance to children's achievement; (3) parenting practices do not vary greatly byfamily's economic resources.
Scholars have noticed that centrally-appointed officials in imperial China were not only beholden to their superiors but also acted as brokers of local interests.We characterize such a structural position as 'dual accountability'. Although accountability to superiors is readily understandable within the Weberian framework of bureaucratic hierarchy, the reasons behind local responsiveness bear explanation. This paper attempts to explain such responsiveness by investigating the larger ideological, structural, and institutional contexts of the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE). We explore two existing explanations– practical necessity and 'Confucian' or classical paternalism – and add a new explanation of our own: the emphasis on virtuous reputations in the system of bureaucratic recruitment and promotion. Our argument is supported by empirical evidence from a range of sources, including administrative records and inscriptions on ancient stelae.More generally, we question Weber's hypothesis that the Chinese imperial system of administration fit the ideal type of traditional bureaucracy, and we examine the rational bases underlying an 'inefficient' system that was in place for two millennia.
We are living through an extraordinarily interesting period, historically. The world has largely been peaceful since the end of the Second World War. The Cold War ended in the unambiguous victory of the West. Economic development and industrialization have been happening in many parts of the world, beyond Europe and Northern America. The world has become increasingly globalized, connected by internet technology, inexpensive air travelling networks, and English as the de facto international language. This is a fortunate time to be a sociologist. While technological advances and economic prosperity are sure to continue predictably, social issues studied by sociologists are becoming more prominent, requiring serious research, both for policy making and for public discourse. Let me mention a few: social inequality, education, health, culture, family formation and dissolution, fertility and mortality, social cohesion and collective efficacy, public trust, social organizations and institutions, neighborhoods, social networks, racial and ethnic conflicts, gender relationships, domestic and international migration, feelings of happiness and alienation, crimes and deviant behaviors, and intergenerational relationships. I mention these topics not only because they figure prominently in past sociological research, but also because they are unlikely to have solutions that are solely, or even mainly, technological or economic in nature. Take divorce as an example. We know that divorce rates have risen in many countries since the end of the Second World War, coinciding with a period of rapid economic development and technological advances, as well as the large improvement of women's social status relative to men, especially in education. In short, divorce is a social phenomenon, and understanding of its causes and consequences requires sociological research. The same can be said of other social phenomena. This is a particularly exciting time to conduct sociological research on China. After a ''century of humiliation'' between the Opium War that began in 1840 and the end of the Second World War in 1945, the China unified by the Communist Party in 1949 stayed poor, undeveloped, and isolated from the rest of the world until 1978, when a new era of the economic reform began. Since 1978, China has been undergoing a social transformation whose scope, rapidity, and significance in impact are unprecedented in human history. I hold the view that China's ongoing social transformation since its economic reform is a watershed event in long-term world history, comparable in significance to the Renaissance that began in 14th-century Italy, the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Germany, and the Industrial Revolution in 18th-century Britain.
Knowledge of poverty prevalence is essential for any society concerned with improving public welfare and reducing poverty. In this paper, we estimate and compare poverty incidence rates in China using four nationally representative surveys: the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of 2010, the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) of 2010, the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) of 2011, and the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) of 2007. Using both international and official domestic poverty standards, we show that poverty rates at the national, rural, and urban levels based on the CFPS, CGSS, and the CHFS are all much higher than the official estimates and those based on the CHIP. This study highlights the importance of using independent datasets to verify official statistics of public and policy concern in contemporary China.
This study investigates how reporting heterogeneity may bias socioeconomic and demographic disparities in self-rated health, a widely used health indicator, and how such bias can be adjusted by anchoring vignettes among Chinese adults. Drawing data from the 2012 wave of the China Family Panel Studies, we find strong evidence of systematically different cut-points applied by people of varying groups to rate their overall health status. In many cases, such cut-point shifts are not parallel in that the effect of certain group characteristic on the shift is stronger at certain level than another. We find that the resulting bias of measuring group differentials in self-rated health can be too substantial to be ignored. We further demonstrate that anchoring vignettes prove to be an effective survey instrument and statistical tool in obtaining bias-adjusted estimates of health disparities. We also find it sufficient to administer vignettes to only a small subsample (20-30% of the full sample) in order to adjust reporting heterogeneity in the full sample. Using single vignette can be as effective as using more in terms of anchoring, but the results are sensitive to the choice of vignette design. Our findings suggest that future research using selfrated health should guard against reporting heterogeneity and employ adjustment techniques such as anchoring vignettes whenever appropriate.
New data reveal that in the past three decades, China has become a major contributor to science and technology. Four factors favor China's continuing rise in science: a large population and human capital base, a labor market favoring academic meritocracy, a large diaspora of Chinese-origin scientists, and a centralized government willing to invest in science. These factors may serve as an example to other nations aspiring to advance their standing in science. However, China's science also faces potential difficulties due to political interference and scientific fraud.
We document a rapid increase in income inequality in China's recent past, capitalizing on newly available survey data collected by several Chinese university survey organizations. By now, China's income inequality not only surpasses that of the United States by a large margin but also ranks among the highest in the world, especially in comparison with countries with comparable or higher standards of living. We argue that China's current high income inequality is significantly driven by structural factors attributable to the Chinese political system, the main structural determinants being the rural-urban divide and the regional variation in economic well-being.


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Location: Bloomfield, KY
Date Of Injury: March 2016
On the night of March 25, 2016 a horrible camp fire accident occurred severely injuring and burning my beloved little 23 year old sister Margaret "Margie" Kjera. Luckily friends that she was with at the time were able to help put the fire out and she was stat flighted to the University of Kentucky Hospital. She is suffering from 1st and 2nd degree burns to her hands and face. Due to the extensive recovery time needed she will be out of work for months with no income. It could take up to three years of recovery and therapy to get her back on her feet and to get her back to her oldself that we all know and love so dearly.
Margie is one of the most beautiful, kindest, selfless, and most genuine people you will ever meet and it's devastating to my family and I as well as all of her friends that something such as this had to happen to her. She has remained extremely strong and in good spirits since the accident which only further exemplifies her character and the type of person she is.
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Government departments and agencies around the world grapple with budget pressures caused by tax revenue shortfalls, an environment of spiraling costs, and increasing demands from citizens. They have to do more with less, and improve their service, responsiveness, efficiency, productivity and collaboration.
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- Driving the adoption of mobility
- Supporting the collaboration of teams across multiple locations
- Reducing annual expenses for government travel
- Sharing visual data for reports and complex projects
- Streamlining the daily operations of government bodies
- Providing American Sign Language (ASL) support to constituents
If you're considering video conferencing equipment for your government offices, there are numerous ways to use them in your day-to-day operations. Whether you're a public library, police department, waste treatment plant, airport, or another public facility, you can benefit from integrating video conferencing into your government entity's workflow processes.
Benefits of Video Conferencing Systems for Government Offices
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- Boost Operation Efficiencies: Travel is an integral part of government operations. In fact, more than 40 percent of employees at the federal level travel each month, which averages to a loss of 3.5 hours each week. With video conferencing equipment for your government offices, you can minimize government travel and increase productivity by maximizing the time teams have for projects. Instead of traveling hours to discuss a proposal, for example, your staff can resume discussions in minutes.
- Improve Constituent Communications: Local and state governments often struggle to engage with their constituents. For many residents, time is often a significant factor in attending a public meeting or community event, which is why video conferencing is so valuable. With a video conferencing system for your government office, you can broadcast and record town meetings, which lets people attend on their terms.
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- Brooklyn Public Library: For the Brooklyn Public Library, which has strong ties to its community and offers an adult literacy program for inmates at correctional facilities, it was essential to provide the children of these individuals an opportunity to visit with their parent in a comforting, warm setting — the library. By purchasing video conference equipment for government use and installing it at their location and select correctional facilities, the library has helped more than 200 families stay connected.
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This was always a popular post, and it is a gorgeous place to visit. I hope to go there again, but I'd love to go in the winter months and see it frozen!! I cannot imagine what that must be like!!
Live well my friends, and make it a great day!!
According to our tour guide and the IMAX Theater, I just saw the 7th wonder of the world~ which hundreds of thousands of millions and gazillions of people already experienced! But I am still in awe of the beauty and power of the Niagara Falls! So I'm thinking I might need to see the other six!!
The Seven Wonders of the World are……………….ummm which list do you want look at? There are the 7 Ancient Wonders, the 7 Modern Wonders, the 7 Man-made Wonders, the 7 Natural Wonders, and a few other Wonder Lists!! And I didn't see Niagara Falls on any of them!!! What the heck!!! Didn't anyone tell Canada?? Do they even know??
I don't want to dispute any list, or any country that thinks they are on the list so I'll just move on…
My girlfriend and I did a bus trip to Ontario, Canada to see…
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EBC - a construction firm - is making one of its forays into property development with a proposal at the corner of Scott/Clifton (the Buddhist temple lot) for a 20-storey tower. I have just recently been briefed on this and my office will be working over the next few days to set up a public consultation on the proposal. In the meantime, you can view the proposal details here.
In my very early comments to City staff, I've noted that I consider this to be too tall to contemplate in advance of a refresh of the Westboro secondary plan, am extremely concerned about the traffic implications for Clifton (which we've been seeking to try to calm further than it is), and too much of an incursion into the residential zone as it wraps around onto Clifton with no discernible plan for affordable housing near transit.
We'll apprise residents of whatever arrangements we make for an open house as soon as possible.