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As 2017 begins, another year of successful SAMSI workshops has closed. Since the beginning of the 2016 academic year, in late August, SAMSI has hosted at least seven workshops that supported the goals of both the Program on Optimization (OPT) and Program on Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Methods for Astronomy (ASTRO).
Since the 2016 academic year began, the OPT Program offered a two-part course in Numerical Optimization and Applications. These courses, given in fall and spring semesters, teach students how to use various statistical and applied mathematical techniques to solve complex optimization problems. In addition to these courses, OPT has hosted four workshops, most recently, the Workshop on the Interface of Statistics Optimization (WISO).
WISO took place on the campus of Duke University, one of many SAMSI partners. The workshop lasted for three days and featured twelve lectures from some of the most esteemed minds in field of optimization. The scholars spoke to an audience of more than 100 participants from all over the world. An exciting element of LIVE STREAMING was added to this workshop which gave the event the capability to reach a wider audience. For those who were not part of the LIVE audience, SAMSI archived all the lectures on the WISO video webpage for future viewing.
The ASTRO program has helped to bridge the gap between astrostatisticians and astronomers so that, collectively, they can work together to potentially discover the unknown in our universe.
Since the academic year began, ASTRO has also hosted four workshops and two research related courses. The fall course, Analytical Methods and Applications to Astrophysics and Astronomy, was led by James Long of Texas A&M. Long and other visiting academic fellows at SAMSI worked together to provide instruction on the current methods used to capture astronomical data and how this data is being analyzed and interpolated. The spring course, Time Series Methods of Astronomy, is being led by Eric Feigelson of Penn State University and a team of others. The course focus is how big data sets are being used to accurately categorize and identify astronomical bodies such as "exoplanets" and distant stars in the universe.
In all, SAMSI has hosted approximately 530 academic scholars, undergraduate and graduate, Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows since the 2016 academic year began in late August.
SAMSI is also committed to bringing this same level of excellence to the 2017-2018 programs, Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Climate and Earth Systems (CLIM) and Quasi-Monte Carlo and High-Dimensional Sampling Methods for Applied Mathematics (QMC).
CLIM will bring together esteemed academic scholars in the various fields of the study of climate to explore current climate models, while also discussing how modern environmental issues will impact earth systems and the human population in the future. CLIM begins in August 2017 and runs through May 2018.
Finally the QMC program will tackle complex mathematical techniques that are used in advanced technology such as machine learning, computer graphics and PDE solving systems. The program analyzes further how complex mathematical sampling algorithms are used in these systems.
As 2017 begins, SAMSI takes pride in what was accomplished last year and looks forward to bringing their participants new and challenging programs emphasizing ways in which applied mathematics and statistics impact our world. Going forward, SAMSI will continue to offer the best programs to the best professionals in the field. For attendees and colleagues, that is what the SAMSI experience is all about.


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The first thing that you want to make sure of is your pay situation in your new job. Of course, in this case that means unemployment insurance. If you qualify for UI make sure you know the process and contact info in your area. It varies state to state, and with the economy as it is the Unemployment offices are overwhelmed by claims. Make sure you have a couple hours dedicated to opening your claim on the phone, and a half a day + if you go to an office.
OK, now to set up Job Search Central:
Unless you live alone or nobody else is home during the day, try to establish a workspace that is private and quiet. Have your desktop organized and if this is a place you also do other work (paperwork, bill paying, etc.), make sure that is put away when you are in job search mode. Only paperwork relevant to job searching should be around, everything else is just going to be a distraction. If you prefer to print things out instead of keeping folders on your laptop, make sure you have some color coded manila folders for things like: job descriptions (one for ones you have applied to, ones for consideration), resumes, cover letters, references, etc.
Work Day
Figure out how many hours you are going to dedicate toward job searching and stick to that. Where it is taking a little longer to find jobs these days, I suggest a minimum of 4-6 hours. I also suggest that you do no more than 8 hours either. It will become too much of a drain and you may start to lose steam. While you are unemployed, take advantage of having a couple hours to catch up on reading or doing something fun during the day.
You also want to try to do your hourly work all at one time and minimize interruptions and breaks except for lunch. Set a firm start time and COMMIT to it! If you set 9 am, then you have until then to check email, Facebook, ESPN, etc. but after 9 those pages should leave your browser and not come back until your work day is done. (OK, you can look on you lunch break, but no more than 1 hour!)
Work Attire
OK, think me crazy but I believe if you take job searching seriously you need to feel like it is a regular job. Don't work in what you rolled out of bed in. You dont need to put on a suit (unless that's comfortable for you), and even jeans are OK. Just think if you were going to be going out in public and what you would wear that day.
If you want to put on some soft music in the background, that's cool. No headphones though, because you WILL need to be working the phones and headphones hamper phone activity. And absolutely NO television or computer games. If you IM with people a lot, try to minimize that activity unless necessary. You can put a status: "job searching from 9-12, available 12-1"
Next time, we will get into getting the tools you need for the job in shape, daily metrics, and making job boards and networking sites work for you!

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Theatre production duplicated on to DVD
Media Plant was recently contacted by a local Scouts and Guides organiser looking to get their recent production on to DVDs.Held at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, parents bore witness to a joint production between the Scouts, Explorers and guides.
The DVDs were duplicated from a supplied master and packed into black DVD cases with a full colour printed (on one side) DVD wrap.
The DVD itself was for parents of the children to purchase after the event took place, we think it looks rather nice. So we thought we'd share it with you.
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This week, we look at Japan, where President Barack Obama is concluding a state visit. The US leader and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have vital business to discuss, from Japan's delicate and rather dangerous relationship with China, to the state of the Japanese economy and hopes for a major new trade deal. David Pilling, Asia editor, and Lindsay Whipp, former Tokyo correspondent, join Gideon Rachman to discuss
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As I've been working on the Libraries of Early America project I often find myself coming across probate inventories or other records which don't list the specific contents of a person's library, but do at least mention the presence of books. Seeking a way to document these, I lighted on the idea of an "Unitemized Libraries" compilation.
I've begun that compilation here, drawing on the body of probate transcriptions created as part of the Gunston Hall Plantation Probate Inventory Database (thanks to Gunston Hall for putting these online!). This encompasses more than 300 Virginia and Maryland probate inventories from 1740-1810, transcribed as PDF files. For each inventory, I've sussed out the spots where books are mentioned, and then placed the inventory either into the Unitemized Libraries page, or in the Collections to be Added section of the LEA wiki (which I like to call my permanent cure for boredom).
For the unitemized collections, I've noted the person's name and county, the inventory date(s), and the full value of the inventoried property. For each I provide a link back to the full PDF inventory (for those interested in other things than books), and then note how the books are mentioned. If the inventory is room-specific, I note where the books are located Here's a sample:
"Green, Sarah (York County, VA). Inventory taken April 1759, entered 21 May 1759. Full Inventory. Total inventory value £338/17/2.
- "A Parcel of old Books" ("In the Kitchen") - value £1, 10 shillings."
Some of the entries are amusing (including Francis Hammersley's "A Quantity of Books", valued at £2 and Jeduthan Ball's "a pretty Large quantity of Books" valued at £15), but most are just something along the lines of "a parcel of books" or "44 Volumes of Books different Sorts." A few made me laugh just because of where the books were placed in the inventory: Col. Thomas Williams' "a parcel books" (value: 40 shillings) appears on the same line as "5 sheep" (value 37 shillings, sixpence).
A couple depressed me, since it would be so fascinating to know more: Thomas Stone had a pretty hefty collection, with a "Law Library containing 530 Volumes" (value £454/1/4) plus the "Other Library containing 258 volumes bound & 121 pamphlets unbound" (value £85, 5 shillings). Henry Fitzhugh's "Catalogue of Books" was valued at £258/7/9, so it must have contained quite a number of volumes. I'm hopeful that I might be able to find out a little bit more about these larger collections, but the contents of most have been entirely lost to history.
This is just the beginning. I'll be on the lookout for additional probate transcriptions and sources to add more pre-1825 libraries (I have another few files from other states to go through already), both unitemized and those with more details. Feel free to send along potential lists, as well. In the meantime, back to cataloging Dr. John Jeffries' library - lots of interesting and fascinating medical titles in this one.


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|new sculpture finished summer 2017
I finished some sculpture this summer, finally. I started on this particular piece in 2016.
the same piece in 2016
The delays for this particular piece started with needing a bigger kiln, since it wouldn't fit in the one I had at the start of 2016. I didn't get it bisqued until the end of last summer. I did all the under glazing and glaze firing early this summer. Late in the summer I repaired the crack and started attaching the bike parts.
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The best thing about this sculpture, from my perspective, is that the blue parts attached to the bottom each spin on a bearing.The spinning parts attach to the base with different lengths of "stem." which makes for some oddly proportioned photographs when I was documenting the work. Overall I'm happier with the piece in person than in the photographs, but I think I have some that capture the sense of the piece.
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The City of Clayton is home to a world class public art collection including works from Botero, Milles, Ben Tre, Trova. As you travel through Clayton look for the public art shown below.
Clayton Public Art Collection Highlights
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In the latest issue of Radical History Review, "The Other 9/11: Chile, 1973: Memory, Resistance, and Democratization," contributors revisit the 1973 Chilean coup d'état that overthrew then-President Salvador Allende and allowed Augusto Pinochet to assume power. The issue foregrounds contemporary debates about freedom, terrorism, and democracy in post-Cold War Latin America.
In recent years, the date 9/11 has become firmly associated with al-Qaeda's 2001 attacks on the United States and the presumed advent of a new era of global conflict between democracy and fundamentalist jihad.
"The Other 9/11" reminds us not only that other seminal acts of violence occurred on a prior 9/11, beyond the borders of the United States, but that Allende's 1973 overthrow was an act of documented state-sponsored terror supported by the United States against a democratically elected government. Read the introduction to "The Other 9/11," made freely available.
Radical History Review has also published scholarship on the September 11 attacks in the United States. In "Historicizing 9/11," a special issue published in 2011, contributors discuss the meanings of 9/11 and critically investigate ties between memorializing and mythologizing. They probe the contested understanding of the attacks in political rhetoric, policy explanations, culture, and education.
Contributors address topics including the war on terror, changing accounts of 9/11, memorialization, and oral histories of 9/11. The issue also presents two series of original works of art that subversively reflect 9/11. Read the introduction, made freely available, here.
If you'd like to read more scholarship about 9/11 in Chile or in the United States, here are our book recommendations:
Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet's legacy of human rights atrocities. Steve J. Stern recounts the full history of Chile's democratic reckoning, showing how transnational events and networks shaped Chile's battles over memory, and how the Chilean case contributed to shifts in the world culture of human rights.
Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature, and Islam, September 11 in History asks whether the attacks and their aftermath truly marked a transition in U.S. and world history or whether they are best understood in the context of pre-existing historical trajectories.
Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time. He provides an original theory of power that explains not only current practices of war but the culture of insecurity permeating our contemporary neoliberal condition.
In Tourists of History, cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America's innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh.
In Orgies of Feeling, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly reframes political theories of sovereignty, freedom, and power by analyzing the work of melodrama and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic discourses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric, Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. She shows that the discontent that melodrama reflects is ultimately an expression of the public's inability to overcome systemic exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated threats to the nation.


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At 7P you can expect countless interesting assignments, national and international projects and of course, a lovely team.
We're all about working together. Within our teams, across our sites and on agile projects.
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"We had a session of baby massage with our physio Marilyne Lopes. My husband and I learnt how to massage our baby, how to read his cues – whether he's up to it or too tired – and how to alleviate colic, and also some magic trick to calm a fussy baby and put a sleeping baby into the crib without waking him up.
It was a great experience for our family; great for bonding with the baby and I must say our baby boy enjoyed it a lot. Since then we use these massage techniques almost everyday. Thank you Marilyne for helping us understand our baby better and take better care of him!"
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General formulation to calculate how much bleach is needed to add to a tank or a pipeline to disinfect it to a given chlorine residual using a given disinfectant. Usually someone wants to know how to meet an AWWA Standard (like C651-92, Disinfection of Water Mains). The equation below should be used to estimate the amount of sodium / Calcium hypochlorite (Chlorine Water is 6.00% sodium hypochlorite) needed to disinfect a given quantity of water to a desired chlorine concentration.
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How much 6.00% Hypochlorite would you need to add ?
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How much 12% Hypochlorite solution would you need ?
- (5,000 gal x 100 ppm) / (1,000,000 x .12) = 4.17 gallons
If you use calcium hypochlorite (the white, powder version of chlorine, like HTH pool cleaner), the equation becomes:
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- This is simply the previous equation multiplied by the conversion factor of 8.33 pounds per gallon of water.
Let's assume that we still need to disinfect 5,000 gallons at 100 ppm.
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Pink Cat Studio Digi Stamp Release
Hey Friends! Wow, it's been several days since my last post. I think this has been the longest that I haven't posted anything. Sorry about that! I'm so desperate to finish up my craft room organization . . .and I mean DESPERATE! I'm hoping to finish up by Sunday. I'm praying that I'll get it done.
Okay. . .sorry about the rant! Hey guess what today is? Today is the release of new Pink Cat Studio digi images. It's been a few weeks since the last release. . .bet you've wondering what happened. Well, don't despair, Pink Cat Studio is back with new images! Yay! This week is all about back to school!!
Another wonderful news is that there are several new Pink Cat Studio designers. Here is the new team, some old and some new and don't forget to stop by the PCS blog and check out the cool creations the design team created!
Do you see a change in my photo back drop? Well, my normal white back ground has lost its space in my craft room. I now have a sewing and crocheting section and well my photo box has been displaced. Right now it's sitting in limbo on the floor of our guest bedroom. . .I need to find a new spot in the house for it.
You're like shut up and tell us about your card. . .sorry about that. . .I just feel like ranting away today. Okay. . .my card. . .well, I colored it with my Copic Markers which by the way, I need to buy refills because some of them are running out of ink. I think until I get new refills for some of the ones that are drying out, I'll be using different color mediums. .. my neglected color mediums such as my Prisma pencils, watercolors, and other inks. Copic markers are not the only color medium in existence in the case you've forgotten! LOL!
Do you see the school bag? It's actually a minature craft embellishments by Lifestyle Collectibles. It's used for miniature doll houses and not a scrapbook embellishments. I found it in my pile of craft stuff that I organized. It's kinda fun because I've discovered stuff that I didn't know I had. One of the shocking stuff I found was a container full of already stamped and colored images that I had colored and saved from two years ago. OMG! None of which were colored with Copic Markers. . .most were watercolored. Interesting. I may use them. . .they actually look okay. I also found a bunch that I colored 3 or 4 years ago and I threw them away. Yuck. . I can't believe I actually thought they were pretty back then that I saved them. LOL!
Anyway, that's enough yapping for today. Be sure to stop by Pink Cat Studio and check out the new images. If you purchase an image or images today, you'll receive a free image! Yay!
Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!!!


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SINGAPORE, May 23, 2017 – This week at BroadcastAsia2017 in Singapore, Promise Technology showcases its portfolio of innovative products for media production professionals. Promise will demonstrate a spectrum of solutions tailored for the entire rich media workflow; from ingest and editing to delivery, including media asset management tools and cloud archiving. New product highlights include the Apollo Cloud private cloud device, ideal for personal sharing, viewing and saving digital media; the Pegasus3 (Thunderbolt 3™ direct attached RAID storage) and SANLink3 (Thunderbolt 3™ to SAN bridge); the VTrak All Flash Array EFA5310 (16G fibre channel SSD array storage); the VTrak A5000 SAN appliance (with thin provisioning and SSD caching); and the VSkyCube Series hyperconvergence infrastructure.
Ingesting, Editing, Delivery with MAM and Long Term Cloud Archiving
Promise will demonstration of each stage of the rich media production workflow featuring solutions appropriate for any scale operation from a single editor to a large post-production operation. Specifically, Pegasus3 will appear in the 'Ingesting' workstation to highlight the 40 Gpbs performance of Thunderbolt 3, (twice the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 2). Apollo Cloud will be showcased as a personal cloud storage device, ideally suited for convenient sharing of small clips or low resolution review files. The 'Editing' demonstration includes the Promise latest VTrak All Flash Array EFA5310 (16G fibre channel SSD array storage), especially suited for a medium-sized enterprise that requires a high-bandwidth solution with RAID reliability and performance, and SANLink3 to link Thunderbolt 3 enabled workstations and laptops to the shared production SAN.
For large post-production studios, Promise will showcase its latest additions; the VTrak A5000 shared SAN appliance, the VTrak Flash Array EFA5310, and the VSkyCube C100 hyperconvergence infrastructure to be featured in the 'Delivery' and 'Long Term Cloud Archiving' demonstrations. Special emphasis will be on the advantages of cloud archiving with simplified deployment and unified management for the media workflow. These new enterprise solutions deliver outstanding performance for multi-user workflows with high resolution (4K, 5K, 6K, 8K) footage for Post-Production and Broadcasting, House of Worship, Sports and Education environments.
"Promise designs blazingly fast post-production tools that simplify and accelerate the workflow of creative professionals," said HC Chang, General Manager, Promise Technology APAC (excluding China). "From incredible Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth capabilities to robust all flash array storage systems to enterprise, we are excited to showcase such a wide range of new solutions as a part of the intelligent rich media workflow that enable faster access, editing, sharing and distribution of all file sizes and formats."
Promise will demonstrate its range of solutions, including its complete shared storage solution featuring Thunderbolt 3 for 4K environments through its Pegasus3, SANLink 3, Apollo Cloud and VTrak E-Class offerings. Visit Promise on the show floor at booth 6K4-01, from May 23 – May 25 at the SUNTEC, Singapore. For more information, go to www.promise.com and follow Promise Technology on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
About Promise Technology Inc.
Promise Technology is a recognized global leader with 29 years of experience in the storage industry. Promise creates innovative solutions tailored to the unique needs of the IoT, Cloud, IT, Rich Media, and Surveillance markets. From personal cloud appliances, to scalable enterprise IT Infrastructure, blazingly fast post production tools, video security solutions and hyperconverged systems, Promise adapts its products to meet the real-world challenges customers face every day. Promise's highly experienced sales and engineering teams are strategically located throughout the Americas, EMEA, and JAPAC regions to provide unparalleled services and support to its customers around the globe. For more information, visit: www.promise.com.


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Bringing the War on Waste to your home or neighbourhood
Now in its second season, ABC TV's War on Waste continues to ask the tough questions and offer take-home solutions for individuals, families and communities to reduce waste.
War On Waste kick-started a national conversation about waste when it first screened last year, with host Craig Reucassel tackling the big issues around recycling and where our waste ends up.
The program sparked ongoing action around the country, including here in south-east Queensland where waste warriors are bringing people in their communities together to tackle their burning issues at a local level.
Living Smart has brought together some of the best resources from War On Waste and beyond, creating a go-to place for ideas on reducing waste for your household and community. We'll also be shining the light on south-east Queensland waste warriors who are collaborating with individuals and businesses in their community to take action.
Check in regularly for the latest tips and to find out what's happening in your 'hood.
War on Waste podcast episodes
We've selected some of the most compelling War On Waste videos that are relevant for south-east Queensland waste warriors.
Get Involved
There are loads of ways to join the War On Waste: take action in your own household, support an existing campaign or start a group in your neighbourhood. Checkout the resources below to get started.
Do you know a Waste Warrior?
If you know a waste warrior who is doing good in your 'hood on the Sunshine Coast, Redland City or Moreton Bay, we want to hear about it!
We're looking for waste warriors who make a difference in their communities to shout their stories from the rooftops and celebrate their achievements. It could be a kid or parent at the local school who is championing zero-waste lunchboxes, a local bar phasing out plastic straws or a business creating alternatives to single-use items like coffee cups. Or it could be you!
If you are or know someone who is active in this space with a story to tell, email us below with the details including:
- Name of person or business
- Your name and contact phone number
- 200-300 words or a brief video
- Photos are also welcome!
Find out more about waste and recycling in your area from your local council websites.
Sunshine Coast Council
Council provides a comprehensive waste collection, disposal, recycling and advisory service for residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Morten Bay Regional Council
For information about bin collection services, recycling and sustainability, waste facilities, education programs and waste forms and fact sheets.
Noosa Shire Council
Council encourages recycling, and provides yellow recycling bins for the disposal of various household packaging and containers.
Redland City Council
Information on bins, bin collection, waste and recycling in the Redlands.
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Laid Off to a Rude Awakening
HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. - As chief financial officer of a top New York advertising agency, Jeff Boose boasted annual pay exceeding $400,000, a spacious office and a lifestyle to match.
Boose and his family live in a sprawling house in this affluent suburb, belonged to a country club and took numerous lavish vacations each year.
But since he was laid off in late summer 2008, they've made a head-spinning pivot. It's no surprise the country club membership, the vacations and a Volvo sport-utility are history. More tellingly, the Booses question every dollar they spend, sometimes eating pancakes for dinner and borrowing from their parents to pay the bills.
Boose, 43, is equally dumbfounded by his inability to land a position despite a resume brimming with accomplishment and a steady, 20-year rise to the upper echelons of Corporate America.
"I never thought this would happen to me," says the burly, easygoing Boose. "It's a punch in the face."
Highly compensated executives such as Boose, a group typically insulated from heavy job losses during recessions, have been hit much harder in the current slump, experts say.
"Relative to a typical downturn, this has been a much more egalitarian recession," says Lawrence Katz, a labor economics professor at Harvard University.
To be sure, the carnage has not been nearly as widespread for senior executives as for those at lower levels. And they generally have bigger financial cushions that often include generous severance packages and substantial nest eggs.
But they're competing for far fewer positions - keeping them out of work longer, in many cases - and grappling with professional failure for the first time in their lives. They're also saddled with significantly higher expenses, such as large mortgages.
As Boose has found, severance and retirement savings can eventually run dry, making for a more dramatic adjustment.
The Labor Department doesn't track unemployment by salary level, but some barometers suggest those earning $150,000 and above are feeling more pain than usual. The jobless rate for chief executives averaged 3.4% in the third quarter. That's below the U.S. unemployment rate of 10% but higher than the 2.1% jobless rate for CEOs in the third quarter of 2003, when unemployment born of the 2001 recession was peaking.
Similarly, unemployment for all management workers was 5.1% in the third quarter, vs. 3.4% in 2003. Katz cites severe job cuts and consolidation on Wall Street during the financial crisis, as well as a deeper slump that prompted panicked employers to slash costs, and in some cases, view high earners as big targets.
Some firms reassigned executive duties to middle managers, easing the need to reinstate top-level jobs at least until they gauge the strength of the recovery.
Many senior executives, meanwhile, "don't know how to look for work because they never had to," says Matt Bud, chairman of the Financial Executives Networking Group. Many were with their companies for decades or were recruited by executive search firms. Those 50 or older often face age bias, Katz says.
Boose, who has a master's in business administration, began his career as an analyst at Moody's Investors Service with a goal of earning $100,000 a year by the time he was 30. He blew past that milestone at 28, rising to become CFO of Grey Healthcare, a unit of WPP Group, a British-based ad giant, at 35.
In 2007, Momentum Worldwide, an event sponsorship company, recruited him to be CFO after winning a bidding war for his services with WPP, which brought Boose a 30% raise. He increased its available cash by 20% and widened the profit margins of clients such as Budweiser and Microsoft.
The Booses' lifestyle grew proportionately. They moved from a tiny apartment to a townhouse, then to their current 4,000-square-foot brick house here on a quiet, winding street lined with expensive homes, having four kids, now ages 7 to 14. Several years ago, they began splurging on vacations, taking seven a year to places such as Hawaii and Costa Rica, and spending $500 a night at the Four Seasons. They joined the country club in 2007.
"Every year, the bonus got better, the salary increased steadily," Boose says as he and his wife, Karen, sit in a family room dominated by a large Christmas tree and a 52-inch flat-screen TV, the thermostat set at 66 degrees, on a recent weekday. "I just never thought it would end."
But as companies chopped advertising as the financial crisis deepened last year, Boose, a relative newcomer to the firm, was laid off. He wasn't worried.
"I thought I would be easily employable," he says, noting that a day later, the family took its annual trip to Hilton Head. By January, he realized, "This isn't going to be as easy as I thought."
Boose has sent out 300 resumes, mostly for CFO jobs, answered hundreds of online ads and enlisted top executive search firms. He's come in third place for two spots, second place for four and was the lead candidate for a job that was put on hold.
His main obstacle? "There's only one CFO position" at a firm.
Meanwhile, so many executives are job hunting that employers are being extraordinarily specific about their requirements. Boose lost out on a CFO job at an ad agency because he didn't have "interactive media" experience.
"Before, if you had eight out of 10 things, you were in good shape," he says. "I start to question if my skills are as good as I always thought them to be."
Each month or two, he has reduced the salary he's willing to accept by about $20,000.
Downsized lifestyle
The Booses, meantime, have gradually, sometimes painfully, downsized their way of life. In late 2008, they suspended the country club membership, stopped maid service and didn't schedule anymore vacations. In the spring, Boose laid his own mulch in the yard instead of hiring a landscaper, saving $500. Last summer, they turned off the air conditioner and axed their DirecTV NFL package.
Recently, they put off their kids' semiannual (AT)dental checkups and braces for their 11-year-old, Emily. They didn't put up their outdoor Christmas "icicle" lights to save power.
"If he comes home with a sandwich for lunch, I'm like, 'Why did you spend money on that?' " Karen says. "It's not the stuff I miss; it's the insecurity, the not knowing."
The kids are feeling it, too. Christmas lists were halved to five items. Still, Jillian, 10, said, " 'Mom, you can take off two things, cause that's a lot of money,' " Karen says. "They know, and that breaks my heart."
Jeff, whose $450 a week in unemployment runs out in March, adds: "When you read about people who can't afford to buy food you said, 'How do they do it?' Now, we're living day by day."
Gone are the couple's $200,000 in retirement savings and Jeff's six-month severance. "People say you should have three months in reserves," Karen says. "We had that, and it didn't do any good. No one says (have) 15 months."
Boose, meanwhile, struggles with the loss of professional stature. "I've been used to being in firms that make and spend a lot of money and meeting with very senior people. Now, I'm looking at the guy in Home Depot, thinking how lucky he is to have a job."
Their ravaged balance sheet has strained relationships with friends still enjoying the good life.
"We're kind of on the outside with everyone still taking vacations," Boose says. "They know we're not going to spend $200 on dinner, so they don't even ask you. Then you feel slighted that they don't even ask."
The travails of some senior executives have been compounded by the housing downturn. In 2005, Dave DeGeorge was recruited by Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services to be vice president of information technology development. DeGeorge moved his family to Phoenix from New Jersey, buying a new $750,000 house loaded with amenities to ease the transition for their two boys, ages 9 and 13.
He was laid off in late 2007 just as the real estate market tanked. His house is worth half of what he paid. While DeGeorge, 53, has had periodic contract work, the wages don't approach his former $215,000 in pay. He now collects $265 a week in unemployment. Besides $75,000 in credit card bills - about $50,000 rung up after he lost his job - he owes a $4,500 monthly mortgage payment that he's seeking to modify.
"I was really in denial for a while, and what I did was try to maintain the same lifestyle with some cutbacks," he says.
Since he owes far more than his house is worth, DeGeorge can't sell it, forcing him to limit his job search to the Phoenix area. And he can't get a home-equity loan to pay off his other debts. His wife recently took a part-time job at Barnes&Noble, and DeGeorge filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection. Unlike Chapter 7, which lets a debtor relinquish his assets and walk away from his debts, Chapter 13 sets up a long-term payment plan.
"It's extremely tough," he says. Before, "I borrowed, I paid back." He routinely paid his credit card bills with a yearly $55,000 bonus.
Low-key on background
Some try to break the executive-suite logjam by targeting growing industries such as health care.
Doug Ryan, 43, who lost his job in May as finance director for a top energy and mining concern, barraged health care firms with his resume. Little good it did in a market flooded with out-of-work executives of every stripe.
"They're dead set on hiring people with health care experience," says Ryan, of New Orleans.
Others seek jobs at lower corporate rungs.
Since losing his marketing director position at a publishing company last year, Fred Cecala, 44, of Mount Prospect, Ill., has applied for slots that pay at least a third less than his former $150,000 compensation.
"Every hiring manager tells me, 'You're way overqualified for this . . . and we know when the market turns around, you're going to leave.' You can't win for losing."
To combat the bias, executives sometimes downgrade titles or achievements on their résumé. Chris Campbell, head of the Executive Network Group of Greater Chicago, advises against that, noting employers can easily do background checks. "Inevitably, they question your . . . integrity."
A few find refuge at small start-ups. "It's not going to pay as much, but some of these folks are getting in on the ground level and getting equity," says Scott Kane, founder of Gray Hair Management, a career coaching firm.
Many give up, and launch franchises or consulting firms. Campbell, a former senior vice president at Mattel, earns half as much consulting, but, "I enjoy it twice as much. I work with a variety of customers."
To make ends meet, some executives take unusual part-time gigs. Nicholas Tucker, of Wilmette, Ill., worked behind the counter at See's Candies this holiday season after he was laid off last August from his job as project manager at a health care service company. He put in 15 hours a week - at $10 an hour, a far cry from his former six-figure salary.
"I'm not too proud," says Tucker, 58, who lives with his teenage son. "The fact is, I'm meeting people, helping them make choices. The skill set is no different than in business, and it beats the hell out of sitting at home."
Meantime, the market for upper managers seems to be brightening.
Sales for Korn/Ferry International, the top executive search firm, rose 20% its last fiscal quarter, vs. the previous quarter after falling 50% during the recession, a sign employers have more senior executive slots to fill.
Yet, even after Boose lands a position, he and his wife say they won't return to their old lifestyle.
"My Coach bag, my $150 woven baskets, my designer pocketbooks that sit in my closet," Karen says. "They just seem so silly now when they were so important before."
Adds Jeff: "We've seen the other side of it."


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The Buster PiX10Hub is here! Created by the Community, for the Community.
I did download the latest AHP, and it all looks as bad as in the past. While my "host" computer was supposedly connecting to the MyHouse web server, the remote could never attached. About 4 out of 5 times the remote would fail to even connect to MyHouse server. And when it did, then it would just hang on "connecting to system xyz" (supposedly trying to connect to my "host" computer"). I opened ports 80, 443, 8080, and 8888, none helped. I see posts in these forums with others with the same problems that have gone unresolved.And, since I have to assume the mobile apps use this same interface, I'm not going to pay for them only to find they can't connect (or connect reliably) either. Nothing is going to fix this stuff until they either fix their "in between" MyHouse server or eliminate it and allow peer-to-peer. I'm back to HomeDomination for my software, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it WORKS and it doesn't suck all the resources on my host computer either.
And do these mobile apps really work are all the bugs basically out of them, I might try one.
For me they work fine then they all stop working. I just got x10 cameras when i plug them in i lose WIFI i think my router is 2.4 ghz.


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High Lakes Healthcare has opened a new Urgent Care center on Shevlin Park Road near their primary care clinic. High Lakes Urgent Care is designed to treat common illnesses and injuries on a walk-in basis with no appointment necessary.
Patients have the luxury of checking online to see the wait time for the urgent care and reserve an appointment to come in at their convenience.
The clinic will be open extended hours including nights, weekends and holidays to allow patients easy access to care when they need it most.
"The way people consume healthcare has changed over the years. For routine preventative care, most people don't mind making an appointment and having it on their calendar. But more and more, as injury and illness strike, people want the ability to get it handled right away by people they already know and trust," said Jeff Caba, director, High Lakes Urgent Care.
Urgent Care Centers have steadily grown in popularity since 2007 and earlier this year, Forbes magazine calculated the Urgent Care industry as around $18 billion dollars and expected to go an additional six percent in 2018. This makes sense as healthcare focuses more on population health and value-based initiatives to keep acute episodes from developing into more serious
health conditions.
"As Bend continues to grow, we see people wanting to get the care they need closer to where they live, work and play," said Caba. "Traditionally people would make a special trip to an area of town they don't normally go to — like a medical zone — to get care. But now, people expect the care to fit into their daily lives, so they can get the treatment they need and get back into action as quickly as possible."
High Lakes Urgent Care will treat most common injuries and illnesses including, but not limited to:
• Cold and flu
• Sore throat and cough
• Sprains, strains and fractures
• Cuts, wounds and burns
• Headaches
• Nausea and vomiting
• Urinary tract infections
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Allergy, asthma and rashes
• Respiratory illness
In addition, High Lakes Urgent Care will have the ability to do some lab work on site and has partnered with The Center to provide imaging services to patients.
High Lakes Urgent Care
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431% Surge in PA Student Borrowers Who Have Depended on CFPB For Help With Their Lender, Just As Congress Tries to Eviscerate Agency
Washington, DC – This week, the US House Financial Services Committee will hold a Wednesday hearing on the so-called Financial CHOICE Act. The bill leaves Pennsylvania consumers and our economy even more vulnerable to Wall Street's recklessness than before the '08 crisis by taking aim at all of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act's protections caused by unfair bank practices abetted by regulatory failures.
In particular, the bill would eviscerate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even as its latest report shows a critical need for the bureau to protect Pennsylvania students. Student loan complaints from Pennsylvania have surged 431 percent from last year at this time to this year, likely driven by publicity around its January enforcement action against servicing giant Navient. Pennsylvania's spike in complaints ranks tenth highest in the nation, while the national total is 325 percent. Against a backdrop of more than $1 trillion in student loan debt in the country – where total national student loan debt has usurped credit card debt – the agency has prioritized enforcement action in student lending this year.
In fewer than six years since its creation, the CFPB is the only federal agency whose sole mission is to protect consumers, providing almost $12 billion in relief to 29 million Americans who have been wronged by financial bad actors. More than 26,000 Pennsylvania seniors, veterans, students, and others have depended on the CFPB for help in dealing with their bank or lender. Now, some members of Congress, including Congressman Keith Rothfus (PA-12), are working to eviscerate the agency, starting with tomorrow's hearing in the House Financial Services Committee.
Michael Roles, Director of the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group (PennPIRG), said, "71% of Pennsylvania's Class of 2015 is saddled with student loan debt, with $34,798 of debt on average, ranking second highest in the country per state. The CFPB continues to demonstrate to Pennsylvania borrowers that they're standing in their corner. Unfortunately, some of our elected officials, like Congressman Rothfus, are attempting to deliver a low blow by weakening the bureau and undermining its ability to pursue its mission."
"In just under 6 years, the nascent CFPB has restored order to financial markets torn asunder by a decade of weak regulation that emboldened corporate wrongdoers and led to the 2008 collapse," said Ed Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director at U.S. PIRG. "This reckless piece of legislation makes the wrong choice for consumers and the economy while Wall Street and predatory lenders cheer."
The CHOICE Act, set for a hearing on Wednesday, eviscerates consumer protections by:
- Reversing 150 years of federal policy, the bill eliminates independent funding for the CFPB by placing it under the politicized Congressional appropriations process, giving powerful special interests massive influence over regulation of our financial system and economy;
- Neuters the director by allowing he or she to be fired at will and moving the agency fully under the executive branch;
- Terminating the CFPB's UDAAP (Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts and Practices Authority) authority, limiting its ability to protect consumers and end dangerous practices;
- Eliminating the CFPB's supervisory authority over all banks greater than $10 billion in assets and returning that authority to the bank regulators that infamously ignored warning signs of or even encouraged dangerous practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis;
- Eradicating the CFPB's public consumer complaint database that forces wrongdoers to respond to consumer complaints;
- Making the CFPB's key offices, of Older Americans, Financial Empowerment, Service Member Affairs and Students "optional," so a future anti-consumer director could simply eliminate them. The Office of Students has led the bureau's lawsuit against Navient, the massive student loan servicer, and has also protected student victims of numerous failed for-profit schools.
The CHOICE Act also eliminates numerous important safety-and-soundness and investor protections also enacted in the Dodd-Frank Act after the 2008 collapse. The committee is expected to vote on the bill as early as May 2nd and bring it to the floor in May as well, the group said.
"The CFPB is our consumer cop-on-the-beat, standing up for students, seniors, veterans, and indeed all consumers. It is shocking that our own elected officials are listening to special interests in Washington to tear it to ribbons just 9 years after the second-worst financial collapse in our nation's history," concluded Roles.
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Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Jose Serebrier, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Cedille CDR 900000 106. 2-Disc Set.
In the accompanying booklet note, violinist Rachel Barton Pine thanks various people for making this recording possible, but she forgets the one person who may have contributed most to its success: Cedille recording engineer Bill Maylone. Although these are lovely interpretations prepared with utmost care, it is the recording quality that sets the performances apart from the competition (in the Beethoven, anyway). The sound is warm, ambient, spacious, yet wonderfully detailed, with a wide stereo spread, a realistically balanced soloist, and about as good a sense of orchestral depth as I've heard in a while. Thank you, Mr. Maylone.
Here's the thing: Everybody knows the Beethoven Violin Concerto, but who's this Clement guy? Well, it turns out that when Beethoven wrote his Concerto in 1806, it was probably Clement who inspired him. Clement had premiered his own Concerto in 1805, with Beethoven in attendance. When Beethoven premiered his violin concerto a year later, he inscribed it to Clement and even asked Clement to perform the inaugural reading. The funny thing is, according to the booklet note, some critics at the time compared Beethoven's Concerto unfavorably to Clement's of the year before, saying that in Beethoven's work "the continuity often seems to be completely disrupted, and the endless repetitions of a few commonplace passages could easily lead to weariness." The Beethoven Concerto went on to become one of the mainstays of the classical repertoire, and the Clement Concerto died in obscurity. Again, the note explains that it hasn't been played publicly in two hundred years, and this Cedille disc represents its first recording!
The similarities between the Clement and the Beethoven Concertos are striking, besides their both being in D Major. Both begin with long, massive opening movements, which are nevertheless filled with affection and geniality, in which the soloist doesn't enter until after a lengthy introductory passage; the slow middle movements are serene and contemplative; and both works close with Rondos of high-spirited charm.
Ms. Pine plays both pieces with an expressive glow, never showboating with pyrotechnical wizardly but rather taking a leisurely approach in all but the final movements. So, you won't find as much excitement here as with a number of other violinists, but you will discover some other sublime pleasures, interpretively and sonically. The two-disc set is a delight.


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Delivery times current status as 1st November 2018 – I'm located in Bendigo, Victoria.
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Creation Date(s): [between 1934 and 1947]
Physical Description:14 photographs : b&w prints. - 2 postcards. - 0.1 cm textual records
Bio Sketch / Admin History:The Right Reverend William Archibald Geddes, BA, DD, was born in 1894 in Gridstone, on the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. He came to Yukon in 1920 and was ordained deacon and priest by Bishop Isaac Stringer. His first assignment was in the Porcupine River area on the Arctic coast. He worked amongst the Inuit there as a missionary, first on Herschel Island and later at Shingle Point. In September 1928, Geddes was elected Bishop of Mackenzie River, and was ordained in Winnipeg at St. John's Cathedral on February 3rd, 1929. Later that same year he married Beatrice Terry, a nurse working in the Mackenzie River area. On June 1st 1933, Bishop Geddes took over the duties of Administrator of the Yukon Diocese following the transfer of Bishop Arthur Sovereign. He served the Anglican Church as the fourth Bishop of the Yukon from 1934 to 1947, and as interim rector of Christ Church in Whitehorse on two occasions (February to May, 1936, and August 1938 to April 1939).Bishop Geddes served the Church during particularly troubled times. He saw his diocese through the depths of the Depression and the unsettling years of World War II. Throughout all of this he maintained a grueling travel schedule which eventually took a toll on his health. By the mid 1940s he was wintering in Vancouver, British Columbia, and traveling around the Yukon only in summer. Geddes died in 1947.
Scope and Content:This fonds consists of graphic materials collected by the Right Reverend William Archibald Geddes during his term as Bishop of the Yukon, between 1934 and 1947, as well as one textual document. The graphic documents include images of the interior of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Dawson City, a portrait of Bishop Geddes, a photograph of the Dawson City Bank of Montreal, a photograph of Mrs. Valentine, and several images from other Northern communities. The textual document is a Diocese of the Yukon booklet published in 1947 in celebration of Dawson City's Golden Jubilee.
Accession Number(s): 1991.49 (TD 253)


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Pastel colors together with minimal designed, handmade furniture prevail in this type of room in Hersonissos. We have created a private space of discrete luxury, peace and comfort, very suitable for families who wish to stay in a modern romantic accommodation.
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I think this is going to be photo heavy. We have been canning, preserving, and gardening. My youngest and I canned Bing cherries yesterday. She pulled the stems and sorted while I washed them, filled jars, and processed. We did 14 quarts and froze the rest (9 lbs frozen?) A total of 36 lbs. Oh ya. I made a pie too. I think I prefer pie cherries for that but the family liked it.
Sugar snap peas have been abundant and long lasting this year due to our cooler and wetter conditions. We have eaten them until everyone is complaining, sold some, froze 20lbs, and given some away to family.
Potatoes are going great guns. The reds are popping out of the top of the soil and many of them are huge. The vines are still going so I don't feel like I can quite harvest them yet but I have pulled a few here and there for a couple meals. They are great. I am a little concerned that with all the rain they may not store well.
|These were great roasted with garlic
Beans are coming along and I have high hopes for them. Tomatoes not so much. Maybe some green tomato relish. I haven't got but one ripe tomato this year. Just too cold. I'm glad I didn't plant corn.
Last year I submitted a photo of one of our baby ducks fresh out of the shipping box to the dept. of Ag for a photo contest. see it here It was placed on the first inside page so this year I submitted four more photos. Let me know what you think.


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text: Luis Pérez-Oramas is the Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art for the Department of Drawings and Prints. He received his PhD in Art History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, in 1994. He has taught art history at the Université de Haute Bretagne-Rennes 2, Rennes; Ecole Régionale Superieure des Beaux Arts de Nantes; and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón, Caracas. Prior to joining MoMA, he was the curator of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas. Among the exhibitions Pérez-Oramas has organized during his tenure at MoMA are: Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings (2006); New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions (2007); Latin American and Caribbean Art: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (2008), for the New York State Museum, Albany; and Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel (2009), a traveling exhibition with venues at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009–10) and Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre (2010). Pérez-Oramas was Chief Curator of the São Paulo Biennial, The Imminence of Poetics (2012), and curator of Inside/Outside. Helio Fervenza, Odires Mlazho, Lygia Clark, Max Bill, Bruno Munari, Brazilian Pavilion, 55 Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Venice Biennale, Venice (2013). He is co-curator (with Connie Butler) of Lygia Clark, a major retrospective of the Brazilian artist opening at MoMA in May 2014. He has also published six books of poetry, including Prisionero del Aire (2008).


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10 Rad Bands That Are Keeping Punk Alive
Ever since its inception in mid-'70s basements and garages, punk has been reinvented by each generation. Everyone from Cloud Nothings to Cerebral Ballzy has taken a stake at appropriating the hard-edged genre. While punk music doesn't necessarily exist in the limelight today — we have hip-hop to thank for that — punk still continues to live in anti-authoritarian lifers that revel in rebellion and confrontation. So forget Blink 182 and Green Day for a bit, and check out other punk bands that are keeping the nihilistic genre alive.Click to start the list


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Develop confidence and competence in a non-competitive setting.
Does your daughter love the smell of horses, hay, and leather? Does her definition of happiness include being on the back of a horse? If so, then consider a summer with Camp GooseChase at Old Meadows Farm, a place where girls come back year after year to be a part of our farm family.
Camp GooseChase is a summer camp for girls who want to experience the joy and satisfaction of spending unrushed summer days on horseback, in the barn, and exploring the farm's fields and forests. There are opportunities for nature studies, the creative arts, gardening and cooking. Each girl will be able to participate in the daily care and training of our horses and explore all that the farm has to offer. When weather, wisdom, and need dictate, we'll participate in other aspects of farm life that could range from cleaning tack and stacking hay bales to gathering blackberries and making jam.


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Author: jasongoodnight
Discussing Righteousness
Being a righteous person and being perceived as a righteous person are not always synonymous. Being righteous sometimes causes people to perceive you as wicked. And being perceived as righteous sometimes requires a person to do wicked things to maintain that perception. The difference is in the secret motive of a person's heart. Take the Christ for example – the only perfect Person ever. Misunderstood, rejected, crucified and killed. Righteous.
A Friend: What wicked thing can be done with a Christian motivation?
Me : Is the word Christian an adjective or a noun?
Peeing in the Easter Basket
After listening to a sermon the other day I posted on Facebook a very strong opinion about how preachers should do their preaching. The specific preacher I was listening to at the time was circling round and round a point for what seemed way too long, never really saying much. Being entertaining, but not communicating the point he had set out to make. I was fed up, as I am with most preaching, and spoke my mind in public.
Most people loved what I had to say. Many people have never been on the underside of ministry like I have, nor have the perspective of church things like I do. And they seem to act giddy when someone is willing to speak the truth, even about the church.
The truth that I've found and that is central to my message to the Church is that Christ is the One who has earned ultimate authority over man kind and it is our job as the Church to point others unto the glory that is completely His. So that they may begin to walk uprightly with God through the life and presence of Jesus Christ… and in and amongst those who call themselves church.
Relational vs. Robitic
Soooo, it might be best if we quit faking the funk. Some days are hard. Even for the best of us on the best of days.
Maybe if we quit pretending to portray things that we're not we might be able to be honest enough to live rightly as the love struck Bride of Christ, revealing the goodness and active engagement of God. Revealing the eternal dance that we're involved in. And hang up the robot act; religious, stoic, unmoved, "happy", and seemingly disinterested in reality.
Right Aim
Sometimes it does exactly the opposite.
Relationship with God must be the most central target of our spiritual unction. When that is primary God can and will take care of all the other minor details. As well as put us in harmony with the people He is calling us to love.
Not So Among You
My friend Kelsey once introduced me to her dad as her pastor, a title I both love and hate. It's a biblical term and one that I am called to. I love pastoring and shepherding people, helping them to get disentangled from the evil that seeks to entrap them. Much to my surprise, Kelsey told me after the fact that I had a funny facial expression when she introduced me. I had no idea at the time but I do know that I have a hard time hiding the way I'm feeling so it made sense.
My knee jerk reaction when that title was publicly awarded me has some association with what our culture interprets when they hear the word "pastor". Nine times out of ten it isn't good. The other ten percent seems to be a title that people give one another when they have ducked out of their responsibility to walk with God as individuals and rely upon others to represent God for them.
Pursuit of the Holy
The winds rage
As the determined press in
Seeking the eye of the storm
False convictions knock us down
Demanding we submit to the religion of the day
For when men chose to use God as their means of demand
They do not back down
Even when they argue with God
So few even know that a deeper place exist
Beyond the ease of the piety of men
Beyond the choice to put on a suit
The is blood has been spilled for a greater
More meaningful habitation
A place of miracles and open visions
A place of encounter with the Living God
If I told you that this place was available to you
Would you pursue it?
Would you take my words to heart?


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All eyes on Argentina
World leaders converged on Buenos Aires, Argentina this past weekend, transfixing politicians and markets worldwide. The Group of Twenty (G20) summit represents the world's largest economies; the nations there will account for over 80% of the global economy.
The annual meeting is typically a headline event, but this year's summit will be especially meaningful for Americans as they watch their leaders interacting with foreign dignitaries.
Trump and Xi face off
Alongside the regular meetings, President Trump prepared for a one-on-one dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two leaders were to meet to resolve the ongoing trade war between their nations. Stakes are high, as both leaders' reputations are on the line, and President Trump has threatened to double tariffs if China doesn't strike a deal.
If the dispute is resolved or even de-escalated, trade with China could rebound, which could be a boon to exporters from both countries. U.S. consumers could regain access to low-priced Chinese goods, and U.S. farmers could again aggressively sell soybeans, pork, sorghum, cotton, and other products to the world's biggest commodity buyer.
Russian talks
on ice
President Trump had planned to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as well, but abruptly cancelled those talks on Thursday morning. In a tweet, Trump cited recent Russian belligerence against Ukraine as the reason for the cancellation. However, President Trump's domestic critics charge that he cancelled the meeting due to rising pressures coming from the Robert Mueller probe after Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen plead guilty to lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings with Russia.
Either way, a military standoff between Ukraine and Russia loomed over the G20 meeting, with severe implications for both nations as well as the NATO alliance, which has been called upon by Ukraine to come to its defense against Russian aggression.
New NAFTA deal
Finally, leaders from Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. met on Friday morning to sign a revised free trade deal. This should cement our neighbors as some of our strongest trading partners, while potentially helping U.S. dairy farmers and auto manufacturers. The deal still has not been approved by the nations' legislatures, which could present a roadblock.
Despite the accord, there are still lingering trade disputes over U.S. imposed steel and aluminum tariffs, which resulted in counter-tariffs from Mexico and Canada against U.S. goods, including pork, grains, machinery, and even whiskey.


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It's not the same thing!I would reply:
It's not the technology, but the principle behind its design.It is one thing to have a lot of sensors checking for possible collisions, but it is worth asking what else is being sensed. As the old cliché goes, context is everything. What happens when the system has to choose between two undesirable situations, one of which can harm a pedestrian in the path of the car and the other of which will harm the driver? I, for one, would not like to be an indirect participant in making such a decision by providing a technology that makes it for the driver. Mind you, since I live in a moderately large city, I see a lot of bad driving; so I suppose I am highly sensitive to new technologies that may ultimately turn bad drivers into worse drivers.


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Is Your Website Accessible?
Unique ID: 7615c5bc-da5b-40a7-87b6-9b5be1b85a2c
As consumers have moved away from yellow pages and turned to Google and Yelp, it's rare if a company hasn't yet embraced the internet. Consumers are looking for convenience based on their schedule, ease, speed and assurance that their information will remain private. It's simple – just give the consumer what they want, ensuring it's safe, compliant with privacy laws and accessible to those with disabilities.
That's right, disability accessible. In the current risk arena it's common practice for companies to evaluate their website vulnerability to cyber exposures, but we don't often find resources to ensure website disability accessibility.
While the issue of website accessibility isn't new, it gained momentum in 2015 with actions taken against two universities for failure to provide content accessibility to non-course related material. While the need to ensure all students have equal access to the course material is evident, it didn't appear consideration had been given to the differentiation in learning experience that had now precluded a group of individuals who didn't have equal access to material on the website.
As a result of this inequality, in 2015 the Department of Justice stated they were going, "to explore whether rule making would be helpful in providing guidance as to how covered entities could meet their pre-existing obligations to make their websites accessible." This was a change in direction from the guidance provided by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in their Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released in 2010. This guidance from 2010 claimed as long as an entity provided equal degree of access in an alternative method, this was acceptable. While the DOJ hasn't published rules for website accessibility, a Federal Judge in the District of Massachusetts ruled the DOJ rules weren't required for litigation.
When evaluating your company website, below are some key components that should be considered:
- Website compatibility with assistive technology (AT)
- Non-text content available in a text alternative
- Ability to request information in alternative format
- Sensory items that are properly described, providing equal interpretation of content
- Font and contrast considerations
- Accessibility through keyboard functionality
- Ability to extend or eliminate the time of content displayed on a timely basis
If you'd like help in deciding if your website is accessible, we're here to help. Contact an Assurance advisor today.
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A third season for The Daily Herald's Pro Picks Blitz has arrived with the National Football League season opener.
A third season for The Daily Herald�s Pro Picks Blitz has arrived with the National Football League season opener.
Participants need to go to the Herald�s website www.c-dh.net, click on the Pro Picks Tile Ad on the right and register where the contest will appear all 16 weeks of the regular season and all four weeks of postseason, concluding with the Super Bowl.
Participants can also sign-up directly at www.dhcontest.upickem.net. Bookmark this page so that you can go back often.
The NFL opener is Thursday as Denver hosts Baltimore. The NFL has a nationally televised game each Thursday.
The weekly first place prize is two luxury box seats for a Tennessee Titans home game valued at $574. They are provided by Richard Lyons and Zach Lyons of Lyons Chevrolet/Buick/GMC of Lewisburg.
The second place finisher each week will received a prize valued at $60 provided by the designated sponsor for that week.
Robert Vaughn was the first place winner of The Daily Herald�s 2011 contest, and Ron Stone the runner-up.
Vaughn also ranked eighth in the contest among all participating newspapers in the country two years ago. The overall winner from the Pro Pick Blitz contest receives a week for two in Hawaii.
Participants can keep up with standings on their Facebook page, smartphone or iPad/tablet. Contestants are encouraged to have their own contest among friends or co-workers.
Women are encouraged to participate. In fact, two top finishers, including champion Amanda Barnett, were among the top five for The Daily Herald participants.
Though the contest is entirely on the website, two specialty pages of The Daily Herald sports section will appear each week. A representative of the participating sponsors will be matched with a celebrity sponsor. The celebrity will include community leaders, musicians, former pro or college athletes from local circles, former coaches and representatives of The Daily Herald.
Joey Allen, manager of Bostelman Automotive, was the top celebrity picker and the Pro Bowl Division winner.
The small advertiser season was a tie between Glenn Truelove, owner of Truelove�s Pizza & Grits and Mike Patterson, owner of Ace Hardware.
Vance Belew, the head coach of the 2010 state championship football team, was the sports celebrity winner with 184 points.
Thomas Browne, digital advertising specialist, was The Daily Herald employee winner, outscoring sports editor Marion Wilhoite with his Super Bowl choice.
See Wednesday�s sports section for the games and the picks.


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ALLEN, TX – The Allen Americans beat the Utah Grizzlies 4-2 last night to take a 2-1 series lead and reclaim home ice advantage. Allen tallied the only goal of the first period, relinquished the lead allowing two Utah goals in the second period and won the game with three unanswered goals in the third period.
– It was a penalty filled game with a total of 15 power play opportunities. Utah's Tim Daly was given a game misconduct for spearing and in a separate incident, Allen's Bryan Moore was given a match penalty for high sticking. Neither of these penalties come with automatic suspensions but both come with the ominous phrase, "supplementary discipline can be applied by the Commissioner at his discretion" so it remains to be seen if additional discipline will be forthcoming.
– Allen won the special teams battle as they went 2-7 on the power play while holding the Grizzlies to 1-8. The Americans also scored an empty net shorthanded goal with six seconds remaining in the game.
– Allen delivered on two keys to the game. They scored first and that has been magic this season as the Americans have won over 90% of the games when they score first. In this series, the team that has scored first has won all three games. The other key to the game was winning the special teams battle which Allen accomplished. Just like scoring first, the team with the most power play goals has won each of the first three games.
– Goal scorers for Allen were Bryan Moore (2), Zach Hall (1), Greger Hanson (1) and Spencer Asuchak (1). You can see all of the goals, many great saves by both goalies, some big checks and a couple of the penalties including the high sticking match penalty on Bryan Moore. You can watch the highlights above.
– I had a chance to touch base with coach Steve Martinson after the game and get his take on the win. Here is what he had to say:
"It was a tough night for special teams. We need to do a better job to zero in on our scoring chances. I can't remember a team that flails and falls as much as Utah. While they are falling they still manage to look at the referee to see if he is buying their dives. It is not playoff hockey. Playoff hockey is supposed to be a battle of physicality, skill, and will."
– The teams have the day off today before the series resumes tomorrow (Friday) with a 8:05 pm puck drop Allen time. Game five is also in Utah on Saturday night.
– In other playoff action last night Kalamazoo beat Toledo 8-5 to tie the series 1-1, Fort Wayne beat Quad City 4-3 in overtime to take a commanding 3-0 series lead and Colorado won in Idaho 4-2 to take a 2-1 lead in that series.
– There are three ECHL playoff games tonight. Manchester is at AAdirondack(Manchester leads the series 2-1), Florida is at Orlando (Orlando leads the series 2-0) and Reading is at Brampton (Brampton leads the series 2-1).
– Steve Martinson talks frequently about the affiliation he has with the San Jose Sharks and Barracuda and says it is the best affiliation he has ever had. Affiliations can be good or bad and it is clear Allen's is one that benefits all three teams. It means you look after the interest of each other, not just yourself. It is easier to say than to do. Here is a story about the affiliation titled, "Sharks Organization Finding Success at All Levels" that describes what the relationship means up and down the line. https://www.sjbarracuda.com/news/detail/sharks-organization-finding-success-at-all-levels
DID YOU KNOW: Past isn't prologue but game four has been critical to Allen in their four straight championships. Playing almost all game fours on the road over the last four years Allen has a record of 10-4.
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MURFREESBORO - The joys of summer: cookouts, vacations, swimming, kitten adoptions….wait…kitten adoptions? That's right, during June, Adopt-a-Shelter Cat Month, do not forget the many cats and kittens at Rutherford County Pet Adoption and Welfare Services that are in need of a forever home. The adoption fee for all cats and kittens will be determined by the adopter during PAWS "Name Your Own Price" month long event.
All of the cats available will be spayed or neutered, current on their rabies vaccination, feline distemper vaccination and have a feline leukemia test performed.
"We have been fortunate to offer our Name Your Own Price adoption fees for cats and kittens for some time. This has resulted in an increase in those adoptions of 35% this year alone. Unfortunately, we have numerous litters of kittens in the shelter that need a great home. We encourage folks to come to the shelter to pick out the perfect cat or kitten to add to their family." states Michael Gregory, Rutherford County PAWS Director. Potential adopters will be screened using the shelter's standard adoption procedure.
Rutherford County PAWS is located at 285 John R. Rice Blvd., Murfreesboro. Adoption hours are Monday-Friday, 12:00-5:30 and Saturdays 11:00-1:30.


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Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited Recruitment 2017, has announced the recruitment notification for the post of Assistant General Manager (AGM). The last date for submission of application form is on 13/04/2017.
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited Recruitment.
Name of the Post: Assistant General Manager (AGM).
No of Vacancy: 03(posts)
Age Limit: up to 50 years.
Pay Scale: Rs.50000/-pm.
Educational Qualification: Graduate in B.Com from UGC recognized University / Institution with CA / ICWA or M. Com / MBA (Finance).
1] The candidates with M Com / MBA (Finance) shall have relevant post qualification exp. of minimum 15 years with at least 8 years as a Manager / Senior Manager in an infrastructure company.
2] The candidates with qualifications of full time Degree with ICWA / CA shall have relevant post qualification exp. of minimum 10 years with at least 8 years as a Manager / Senior Manager in an infrastructure company (preferably PSU).
Relevant experience shall be in
a) Finance & Accounts / Audit matters.
b) Procurement & contracting mainly of High Value civil contracts, electrical and system contracts including scrutiny of
contracts based on KTPP Act, CVC guidelines, FIDIC / International funding agencies Procurement Guidelines.
c) PQ, Technical and financial evaluation of bids.
d) Scrutiny of contractors bills for payment.
e) Taxation and other related matter.
f) Drafting notes and indicating with analysis criteria for appropriate decision making .
g) Coordination with CAG, statutory & internal auditors.
h) Preparation of MIS especially on Contracts Management.
i) Project finance .
Selection Process: Interview.
How To Apply: Eligible candidates may fill in the application on-line, take a print out of the same and forward along with relevant documents in support of qualification and experience. Such applications may be addressed to the General Manager (HR), Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited, III Floor, BMTC Complex, K.H.Road, Shanthinagar, Bangalore 560027 super scribing the envelope as "APPLICATION FOR THE POST OF Assistant General Manager.
Last date: 13.04.2017.
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Katy Grand Park & Ride
- Mark Wade, EFI Panels
- Location: Katy, Texas, United States
- Year Completed: 2017
- End Use: Parking Garage
- Architect: NewQuest Properties, Houston, Texas
- General Contractor: Arch-Con, Houston, Texas
- Developer: NewQuest Properties, Houston
- Installer: EFI Panels, Simonton, Texas
- Owner: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
The Katy Grand Park & Ride is a massive, 600,000-square-foot garage built on an 11-month acelerated schedule to accommodate the growing number of Metro bus riders in West Houston. Located on the northeast corner of Grand Parkway and the 16-lane, I-10 West (known as the Katy Freeway), the $21.1 million garage offers 1,650 spots to park and ride commuters. A dedicated bus lane on its west side makes for easy drop off and pick up. Architects from the developer worked with Cambridge Architectural's engineers to specify stainless steel mesh for the structure.
Cambridge's Cubist mesh pattern (80 percent open area) and Eyebold attachment system were used to secure more than 20,800 square feet of metal fabric to the parking structure. Although metal mesh is hung vertically on most projects, a combination of upright and sideways-mounted panels were used on the garage to provide an engaging aesthetic feature to the facade and corner stairwells. There is an iridescent sheen to the metal created by the sunlight that creates a rainbow-like effect. At night, the mesh is illuminated with LED uplighting and gel filters create a splash of color against the stainless steel fabric. The garage is a high-profile project with hundreds of thousands of vehicles passing by every day.
Cambridge - a participant in the International Parking Institute's Green Star program for sustainability - uses a cold forming process for the mesh that gnerates less environmental impact than processes for heat-treated products. The mesh is not susceptible to the weather, is virtually maintenance-free and has an indestructible life cycle.


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You have to register and give email info, but you can get a TON of free samples from Freeflys! Some are easy to get and some require some hoop jumping. They are some pretty nice samples though!
They just sent me an email listing some new samples including John Freida Frizz Ease shampoo and conditioner, Avon sunscreen face lotion and Jif togo peanut butter!