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The poor condition of the dam that holds in the waters of Austin's beloved Lady Bird Lake continues to vex city officials. Emails obtained in a public information request reveal challenges the city faced in performing maintenance on Longhorn Dam, which crosses the Colorado River beneath Pleasant Valley Road. Documents tell of water lost through the dam's gates that could potentially stay in upstream reservoirs, and show city departments struggling to assign responsibility for the structure and plan a long-term solution.
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Use the winter to peruse gardening catalogs to plan what new things to try next year. Photo by: Gary Bachman/MSU Extension Service
January 5, 2019 10:16:52 PM
As I'm writing this last Southern Gardening column of 2018, I'm trying to take one more look back before plunging headlong into the 2019 gardening season that's just around the corner. But I'm having trouble concentrating because the mail carrier is distracting me.
It seems like every day there is at least one new shiny thing in the mailbox that grabs my attention. And they're being delivered earlier than ever this year.
To what am I referring, you ask? To gardening catalogs, of course!
When I get a new catalog, it brings me back to my younger days going through the Sears catalog toy section. Now it's just big boy toys, and you know how it is with boys and their toys.
I've shared my obsession with gardening catalogs before, and it hasn't changed. Even though times have changed and most ordering is done online, there's still something I enjoy about thumbing through the latest catalog. The tactile sensation of turning the pages is like walking a winding garden path and wondering what's around the next curve.
When I'm looking through garden catalogs, I always have a stack of sticky tabs so I can mark the pages I want to go back to and have another look.
It's pretty common for me to get more than 30 different catalogs each year, not counting duplicates. That's a lot of reading that I thoroughly enjoy, but to tell you the truth, I only order from three or four favorites in any given year. I know avid gardeners who order from a completely different set of their favorites, demonstrating the wide variety to choose from in the garden catalog world.
I also start most of the plants I grow from seed. There's something I like about considering the potential that's contained in a tiny seed. It reminds me of an Internet meme that was shared this fall. It asked: "Can you describe an acorn?" Of course, the answer is, "In a nutshell, it's a tree."
When I look at a tomato seed weighing 1/100th of an ounce, I don't see that small seed. I see a tomato plant that in three months will gift me and my family with 10 to 20 pounds of fresh tomatoes. If only we all lived up to that much potential.
Now, I'm not going to bore you with a list of my very favorite garden catalogs. If you're that interested, you can search the Southern Gardening archives online to see what I shared from time to time in the past.
What I'd like to see you do is not just toss those garden catalogs you get. My New Year's wish is for you to take the time this winter to find some plants you are interested in growing next year. You may end up not ordering anything, but I guarantee you'll be inspired to have your best garden and landscape yet in 2019.
Happy New Year!
Gary Bachman is an Extension and research professor of horticulture at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center in Biloxi and hosts Southern Gardening television and radio programs. Contact him at [email protected]
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As discussed late last week, Jewel-Osco has made the decision to ditch their loyalty cards and offer "everyday low prices" instead.
Now, let's turn the lens toward your food retail business and whether you should follow suit.
"Ditch your loyalty program if you don't have the expertise to optimize it," says Jory Jones of SOMA Strategy. "Better yet, keep it and get help. ... You must motivate the right behaviors with the right customers at the right time or the financials will not work."
Generally, though, Jones adds, you should try to get customers to adopt earlier when they're still familiarizing themselves with your brand. If you introduce it later, there will be additional scrutiny and reluctance or skepticism. As for flip-flopping on it like Jewel-Osco has done? It seems to be a good PR move, but it doesn't mean you lose a window into customer behavior.
"A retailer may choose to change their gratification method at any point depending on the financial cost of the gratifications without reducing the customer relationship and marketing automation that it provides through the power of analytics," says Krishna Mehra, CTO, Capillary Technologies. "In fact, out of our 200+ retail customers globally, less than 50 percent use loyalty points as gratification but 100 percent manage relationships and user the power of analytics and data-driven marketing."
It's not exactly definitive, but the gist is this: If you have one, keep it and see how you can refine it. If not, ask yourself, truly, why you want to enter the fray when your competitors have been doing so for a while. Will you look like you're imitating them? Are you doing anything really different to make yourself stand out? Or are you just doing it to do it?
David Wolinsky is a freelance writer and a lifelong Chicagoan. In addition to currently serving as IFC's comedy, film, and TV blogger, he's also a comedy-writing instructor for Second City and an adjunct professor in DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media. (He also co-runs a blog behind the DePaul class, DIY Game Dev.) He was the Chicago city editor for The Onion A.V. Club where he provided in-depth daily coverage of this city's bustling arts/entertainment scene for half a decade. His first career aspirations were to be a game-show host.


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Explore the archive of exhibitions
The collections of the City Gallery of Bratislava house almost 33,000 works of art.
The selection of works presented in the Immortality exhibition is reduced to five series, mostly, because they can be a representative and concentrated image of the most substantial of Boďa's past work. The respective series Surprises (since 2007), Menu (since 2009), Soiled by Flies (since 1993), Juxtapositions (since 1996) and Sad Entertainment (since 2002) are open compilations of an unlimited number of works.
At the beginning of the nineties, Boďa has bought a country house close to Bratislava. Even if it may seem that this piece of information does not belong here, the opposite is true. The change of place provided him not only with generous studio space, but also the environment teeming with nature profoundly infiltrated his work. The attic and garden provided him not only with the typical "attic treasures" (old photographs, books and newspapers), but mainly with, at the time, important initiation material (larvae, cocoons, insects or skeletons and mummified remains of rodents, lizzards and birds), which has radically rebuilt the itinerary of his prior work. From the preserved skeletons and bodies of the found animals, he gradually began to create their "immortal form" and construct the first concepts of stories, gags and morals, which he has been assembling and arranging in transparent polyester objects, ever since. The format of an object has, over the years, become his basic framework, just like the surface of a canvas, paper or a TV screen is for other artists. If we return to the present, all the essentials mentioned above are present in his work to this day, either in their physical form or as a concept or an idea.
The work of Miloš Boďa is indeed far from superficial ideologies, schematism or mannerism, whether conceptual or craftfully effective. Boďa's insurrance and protection from a possible aberration lies in his characteristic sense of irony, a smaller or bigger dose of cynicism, even in the occasional incorrect dark humor, which accompany almost all of his works.


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Hub Programming Language: Does It Matter To You?
There are many programming languages today, sometimes too many to choose from for a new project. The good thing is that there aren't many main stream programming languages, so picking one is not a daunting task. And almost all main stream languages can achieve similar things, meaning any one of them will work. So in the end it's really a matter of team preference and sometimes company policy.
What if you can have one programming language that can be easily converted to others? This is what I call hub programming language, just like airport hub where you go anywhere easily. Writing code in a hub programming language, you can delay your choice or change your mind along the way.
Time to learn how to "Google" and manage your VMware and clouds in a fast and secureHTML5 App
The benefit may sound familiar to some of you. Yes, that is the promise of CASE in 80s and later UML. The CASE tools didn't work out. The UML works well in capturing high level design ideas and software architecture, but not good and efficient enough for describing system behaviors. So it cannot be used as a programming language.
- Not every language can be a hub language. To become one, it has to have these characteristics:
Wide adoption. It must have a big enough mindshare and market share; otherwise, there is no incentive to make tools for it being a hub.
- Ecosystem. It should have a good ecosystem with strong developer community, great tool support including IDEs, APIs and application framework, and middleware support.
- Portability. Note that this is on source code level, which is different from Java's byte code level. It does not have much platform specific feature that makes it impossible to convert to other languages.
Java happens to be such a language that satisfies all the above requirements. C# is yet another hub programming language that is designed with very similar principles as Java. Therefore they would be used even more by the developers. You can convert between them as well, for example, this Sharpen project.


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Charles William Mumy is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice actor, author and a figure in the science-fiction community.
He came to prominence in the 1960's as a child actor, when he was credited as Billy Mumy, an era which included memorable appearances in The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents television shows, as well as co-starring in Dear Brigitte with James Stewart and Brigitte Bardot, followed by an iconic three-season role as Will Robinson in the 1960's CBS sci-fi series Lost in Space.
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Rock Island city leaders are moving forward with plans for Jumer's Crossing, despite opposition from neighboring communities.
It's the battle between two cities.
"They're going to do what they think is necessary and we're going to do what we think is necessary," said Milan's Mayor Duane Dawson.
Monday, September 16, 2013, Rock Island city council voted unanimously to move forward with the project, but people living in Big Island voiced their concerns to try to sway the vote.
"We're being bullied, there's no doubt about that," said Big Island resident, James Webb.
Webb says his biggest concern is the safety of the levee.
"If that levee would fail Milan would flood again," said Webb.
"We would not do anything to harm the residents of Big Island or Milan," says Rock Island Mayor Dennis Pauley.
Although Mayor Dawson says he trust the Corps of Engineers, it's not enough for him to submit Rock Island's plan.
"It doesn't answer any of the questions that we have except the position of the road," said Dawson.
However, Mayor Pauley says the 30 percent is just a blue print to see if the plan would even get the okay from the Corps and says the project will help protect Jumer's from competition across the river.
"If we start losing market share, we start losing income from the casino, then what are we going to do," said Pauley.
Both Mayors standing their ground.
"We'll wait and see what Rock Island does next, the ball is in their court," says Dawson.
"It's kind of hard to set down with people when they don't talk to you," said Pauley.
Rock Island has said they might file a lawsuit so they can get the project moving, but nothing will be discussed until after their meeting next week at city council, when a vote on a second reading will take place. The public will be able to voice their concerns again at the meeting.


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Reading the title of Claire Messud's latest novel, anyone of a literary turn of mind will immediately think of the madwoman in the attic, the 19th century's best-known "woman upstairs." In "Jane Eyre," Bertha Mason was the first wife of the master of Thornfield Hall, who shut her away and, in so doing, opened the door to more than a hundred years of impassioned feminist criticism. This connection is entirely intentional, as Messud quickly makes plain. "We're not the madwomen in the attic," argues her "reliable," "organized" protagonist, a teacher named Nora Eldridge, referring to unmarried women like herself, "numerous" in their 20s and 30s, "positively legion" in their 40s and 50s. "We're the quiet woman at the end of the third-floor hallway, whose trash is always tidy, who smiles brightly in the stairwell." Outwardly they may seem "benignant" (to use a Brontëan word), but inwardly, Nora declares, they seethe. "People don't want to worry about the Woman Upstairs," she reflects. "Not a soul registers that we are furious. We're completely invisible." In time, she will resolve to "use that invisibility, to make it burn."
At 37, Nora is a popular third-grade teacher at an elementary school in Cambridge, Mass., and a dutiful daughter who regularly visits her widowed father and aged aunt. She's also an artist manqué, having sidelined her dream of creating meticulous shoe-box-sized dioramas of the living spaces of her personal heroines, women like Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf and Edie Sedgwick. Her "nonexistent series" has a notional, questioning title: "A Room of One's Own?"
Nora's mother had urged her to avoid dependence on a man, to earn her own money. Nora had listened, perhaps too well. In her early 20s, she deferred her artistic ambitions and became a management consultant. In her mid-20s, she nearly got married, but broke the engagement when her fiancé's "very malleability, his likeness to myself" came to fill her with contempt. Leaving him and her career, she enrolled in an art course, but soon abandoned art for teaching: "It seemed worse to try and fail than not to try."
Recollected in hindsight from a few years later, the novel's action begins in 2004, a time when Nora has grown used to spending her days with 8-year-olds and her nights alone at home, dabbling with her shoe-box art. "I will be continent," she tells herself. "I will not spill into the lives of others, greedily sucking and wanting and needing. I will not. I will ask nothing, of anyone; I'll just burn, from the inside out, self-immolating like those monks doused in gasoline."
It's exhilarating to encounter such unrestrained vehemence in a work by this controlled, intellectual author. Messud's previous novels, albeit extraordinarily intelligent and well-crafted, are characterized by rationed or distant emotion. "The Woman Upstairs" is utterly different — its language urgent, its conflicts outsize and unmooring, its mood incendiary. This psychologically charged story feels like a liberation. Messud's prose grabs the reader by the collar, just as Nora grabs her favorite new pupil, a third grader named Reza Shahid, when he and another boy scuffle during a field trip. Reading Nora's turbulent testament of belief and betrayal, you feel less like a spectator than a witness.
Indeed, "Shahid" means "witness" in Arabic. And when three Shahids — Reza and his parents — arrive in Cambridge from Paris after his father accepts a year's fellowship at Harvard, they shine radiant light on Nora's small, contained world. Individually and collectively, the Shahids bewitch her. Each family member strikes her as magnetic in a distinct way; together they embody everything she lacks — success, confidence, belonging, direction. The Lebanese-born husband, Skandar, is writing a book about ethics and history. His Italian wife, Sirena, is an artist, known for her fantastical room-size installations of "lush gardens and jungles made of household items and refuse," accompanied by videography. Their son, Nora declares, is "a canonical boy, a child from a fairy tale." Nora takes pride in being the best-liked third-grade teacher, but as she gets to know Reza she feels the pull of the particular, the inadequacy of the general, and comes to wish he were her own son. The Shahids awaken her to an acknowledgment of all she still wants.
Meeting Sirena, her "ideal of an artist," Nora feels instant recognition, ravishment, "an epiphany." Her creative hopes come flooding back. "I looked at her and saw myself, saw what suddenly seemed possible for me, too, because it was possible for her." When Sirena asks if she'd like to share a rented studio, she accepts with "elation." And when Sirena's husband drops by the studio unannounced, Nora feels nightmarish dread before she learns whose "starting, stopping, ginger footsteps" are echoing outside. Skandar will praise her art, tell her she is "serious" and, as Nora is drawn into the family's web, he will shower her with brilliant monologues on "global politics, and Paris," on Heliopolis and Tyre, making her feel validated and special. The Shahids remind her of the "Black Monk" of the Chekhov story, a ghostly figure who flatters and encourages a demoralized scholar, reassuring him of his importance and talent. (Never mind that Chekhov's flatterer turns out to be a figment of the scholar's imagination.) Soon Nora comes to depend on the Shahids' nourishing attention. "If nobody at all could or would read in me the signs of worthiness — of artistic worth — then how could I be said to possess them?"
Fed by their affirmation, she throws herself into her dioramas: for Emily Dickinson, she builds a miniature Amherst bedroom box; for the painter Alice Neel, a tiny simulacrum of the asylum where she once recovered from a breakdown; for Edie Sedgwick ("the cool people's Marilyn Monroe") a windowed room in Andy Warhol's Factory. Exhilarated by her newfound sense of mission, Nora paints her face, slicks back her hair, strips off her shirt and dances "dervishly" in the studio. She also sneaks into Sirena's AstroTurf-carpeted "Wonderland," enveloping herself in her friend's creation.
Sirena's grander, more potent vision acts as a touchstone for Nora, sharpening her feelings about her own work. "I loved it, was lost in it, like one of my children," she thinks. "Children live on the edge of madness," someone had once told her. "Their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shared the same dream logic as crazy people's." Nora concedes that her motivations, like children's, "aren't always clear." But what is it that motivates the Shahids' overtures to her? Respect? Love? Or something less laudable? When Nora finds out, far too late, she'll want to kill them. But "don't worry," she'll add, "I won't. I'm harmless. We Women Upstairs are that, too. But I could."
Once, discovering herself unexpectedly alone in the studio, she had looked up from her Lilliputian shrines to find that her artist friend had gone home to her husband and son. At that moment, Nora felt that she was "alone in a tiny pool of light in a great dark room, as if I were myself the figure in someone else's diorama, manipulated in my own stage set by a giant I could not see." On one level, that giant is Sirena, on another it's Nora's vision of herself. But also, necessarily, it's Messud, whose narrative framework cunningly encases the mise en abyme in which she has placed her characters. In this ingenious, disquieting novel, she has assembled an intricate puzzle of self-belief and self-doubt, showing the peril of seeking your own image in someone else's distorted mirror — or even, sometimes, in your own.


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May 30, 2020 - Latest: What has happened to markets this year? by Darius McDermott
28th November 2015
Halifax has launched its first Help to Buy ISA offering a rate of 4% on deposits.
First-time buyers, aged 16 and over, are eligible to save into the new ISA, which has been set up under a government scheme to help people save for a property.
Deposits are limited to £200 per month, except for the first month of opening the account when an extra £1,000 can be saved. The government then adds 25% to the closing balance of the account up to a maximum of £3,000. This top up from the government is paid when the account is closed, as part of the conveyancing process.
Although one person can have just one account and receive just one bonus, joint buyers can use their combined savings and bonuses for a deposit.
The Halifax Help to Buy ISA will pay 4% in interest, and according to Halifax figures, savers depositing the maximum amount into the ISA over five years could turn £13,000 into £17,500.
Nearly half (48%) of first-time buyers said they are likely to open a Help to Buy ISA. The extra bonus is good news for savers as 52% of first-time buyers cite deposit as the main thing preventing them from buying a property although one in three said they were confident of owning their own home in the future.
Two-fifths of prospective first-time buyers are saving towards their deposit and putting away an average of £33.35 a week.
Many savers are concerned about their chances of buying a property with nearly one in three saying they don't think they will be able to get a mortgages and 42% worrying about how long it will take them to save for their first home.
Four in 10 worry they will never be able to afford to buy their own home.
Giles Martin, head of Halifax savings, said: 'It is clear from our research that while some people are still worried about the challenge of saving for a deposit, many see the new Help to Buy ISA as a genuine solution, with half of prospective first-time buyers intending to open an account.
'For those looking for an incentive to save regularly, opening this account, with a 4% interest rate from Halifax and a 25% government bonus, will make what they do save work much harder for them.'
Savers putting in £33.35 a week and funding the extra £1,000 on opening would turn their £2,734 into £3,516 within 12 months, including annual interest and the government bonus.
People are, on average, will to save for 5.3 years to save for a deposit and after five years, the total deposits of £9,670 would increase to £13,543.
Those able to save the full £200 per month plus the £1,000 opening bonus would deposit £13,000 over five years and the pot would increase to £17,524 including interest and the government bonus.


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Fascinating fact: 100% of 1965 Rover-BRM Le Mans car owners also own Sterlings. I also came across this ad just minutes before I would have forgotten forever that either of these vehicles existed.
The appeal of owning a Sterling is somewhat muted due to the fact that they aren't really British cars. Sure, they were sold in England as the Rover 800, they have all the requisite rich leather and burl, and some minor suspension changes were made because the Japanese just "didn't understand". But in the end, its an Acura underneath - for better or worse.


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I was 7 years old when I watched diffused pictures of Aldrin and Armstrong on the moon, and ever since the Apollo program, my dream has been to participate in space exploration. After school, I studied electronics and aerospace science at German universities. In 1991, I began to work as a scientist at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). The first task was the design of a fuselage concept for the German "Sänger" project, which was a concept for a two-stage-to-orbit transport system. The next step was the design of an advanced ceramic-based thermal protection system (TPS) for this vehicle. After cancellation of the Sänger program, my task was to build up high-temperature test facilities for TPS and hot structures needed for the European "Hermes" space taxi. In parallel, further TPS concepts for reusable space vehicles were designed.
Today, I am the project manager for the TPS nose development of the Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station. The CRV is designed to offer a safe return to Earth in case of emergency evacuation for up to seven astronauts on board the space station. It is planned to launch the CRV within the cargo bay of the space shuttle and dock it to the station where it will stay for up to 2 years. In case of an emergency, the astronauts will move into the CRV and release it from the station. After ignition of the de-orbit module, the CRV will reenter Earth's atmosphere and will automatically be guided to a suitable landing site. The final approach will be performed via a controlled large parafoil. The shape of the CRV is taken from the X-24 lifting body, which flew in the early 1970s during development of the space shuttle.
The design lead for the CRV is at NASA. However, a significant share of the vehicle's structure and avionics will be delivered by European companies. One part of this is the TPS nose cap, which is under development at DLR. Located at the tip of the vehicle, the nose cap has to withstand very high thermal and mechanical loads. The surface temperature during reentry is estimated up to 1750°C for 15 minutes. This is much higher compared to what the space shuttle experiences, which does not exceed 1500°C. The challenge during design was to handle the thermal expansion of the nose shell and to insulate the aluminium substructure against the high surface temperature within a very small distance of 50 mm.
Nose of Crew Return Vehicle X-38.
One flight hardware set of the nose cap system has already been delivered to NASA and will be mounted on the X-38, which is a prototype of the CRV. X-38 is nearly finished and is planned to have its unmanned maiden flight including a real reentry in 2003. The development of the X-38 hardware took approximately 4 years from the first concept drawings until delivery of the hardware. During this time, it was necessary to deal with aerothermodynamics, new materials like fibre-reinforced ceramics and high-temperature resistant metals, static and dynamic structure analysis, thermal analysis, quality assurance, and management. It was exciting to have a close cooperation with different national and international companies and agencies.
Aerospace is a rather young science for engineers and scientists. The first powered aircraft flew only 100 years ago, and the first modern rocket had its lift-off only 60 years ago. Both types of vehicles allowed humankind to enter a new sphere. At present, the fascination of technology and the possibility of leaving Earth is alive. Air transport is a fast-growing market and brings people together. The world becomes smaller. Flying into space opens a new horizon in looking back to Earth from an even greater distance. Exploring other planets is the great adventure of our generations and generations of the future.
Working in the field of aerospace science was and is a big challenge for me. You are working close to the limits of technical feasibility. One requirement for having success is teamwork and national and international cooperation. Aerospace science covers a lot of disciplines like structural architecture, fluid- and thermodynamics, electronics, mathematics, physics, etc. Thus, specialists and people who are able to combine all aspects are needed. You have to be open for new ideas and visions.
The current outlook for aerospace engineers and scientists is good. The civil aircraft industry in Europe is growing. Space activities are mainly supported by public money. Thus, the market for engineers and scientists depends on politics and is a little more uncertain. Nevertheless, an education in aerospace science also offers very good chances within other fields of technology.


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Classic One-Pot Chicken and Rice Recipe
History of Rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima (Asian and African rice). It is the most popular food for a large part of the world's human population. It is the third highest production in the world. The two main varieties are white and whole grain rice. The production of whole grain rice is not very much, so it is high in nutritional value, white rice processed is high, so that the outward covering is removed, leaving it with less nutritional value. People choose different types of rice for specific flavors, dependent on their culinary needs, and the possible for healthy benefits as well.
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Health Benefits of Rice
Some of the health benefits of rice are explained. Rice is a great source of energy. It is full of carbohydrates; it acts as fuel for the body and aids in the normal functioning of the brain. All vitamins, minerals, and different organic components increase the functioning and metabolic activity of all organ systems and further increase the energy levels.
Rice does not contain harmful fats, cholesterol, or sodium, and that's why it is beneficial for your health. It is an integral part of balanced diet. Low level of cholesterol and sodium is also helpful to reduce the obesity and the health conditions with being overweight. It is one diet, which is most widely used and eatable foods in the whole world because small quantities of rice can keep people healthy and alive.
Sodium is very low on rice, so it is considered one of the best foods for the patient of high blood pressure and hypertension. Sodium is also associated with heart conditions like atherosclerosis, heart attacks, and strokes', so evading extra sodium is always a good idea. Whole grain rice like brown rice is also used in the prevention of cancer. Many researchers and scientists have faith in that such intricate fibers are vital for caring the body against the development of cancer cells.
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Rice powder can also be used for skin care. The phenolic compounds that are found in rice have anti-inflammatory properties, so they are also good for soothing irritation, redness, wrinkles and other premature signs of again that can affect the skin.
Chicken is one of the most favorite foods, and people enjoy anywhere is the world. Children and adults people like various dishes which is made by chicken because it is a versatile kind of meats that can be cooked in various ways. In term of food content, chicken is full in protein, a nutrient that is important for growth, repair of tissue and body functions. It is also rich in nutrients as vitamins fat and minerals.
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- 1 large, intact chicken (best-case scenario, this would be an old tough bird/laying hen
- 4 quarts cool water to cover
- 1 yellow onion (peeled and split)
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 sprigs thyme
- 2-3 tablespoon koshers salt
- 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups white rice
- 3 Tablespoon butter
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Put the bird in a large heavy bottomed pot (skillet) and breast up, the split onion, thyme, and bay leaf. Cover the bird, just scarcely with cool water. Add two tablespoon salt and 2 tablespoons black pepper in the skillet. Cover the pot and cook for about an hour or until the bird is falling to pieces. When the birds are falling to pieces, turn off the heat and cover the pot for 30 minutes. Remove and reserve the bird. Discard the onion, bay leaf, and thyme. Split the chicken meat into medium pieces and put back into the pot. Bring the broth and simmer the chicken again. Now add the rice and cook about 12 minutes. The time could vary, depending upon the Variety of rice. The rice should be cooked and should hold its shape. Turn off the heat and add your butter. Add little amount of lemon juice for balance. Enjoy you Classic One-Pot Chicken and Rice with family.
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It's Sunday evening and Beth Turner, administrative director for the Baptist Women's Health Center, faced a common situation. "I was sick."
In former days, Turner may have pursued the most common option: call her doctor Monday morning. Instead, with MyChart, her health care reality is different. "I got on my cellphone, found a primary care doctor and scheduled an early morning appointment on Monday."
It's this type of very real-world problem that MyChart solves for patients. In its short history, MyChart has gained strong support from users very much accustomed to using the "My" technologies to make life easier. With each new feature, MyChart has added another layer of convenience, truly creating new behavioral norms within the entire industry from patient to Baptist team members. For advocates like Turner, there's no going back.
"I feel so strongly about this technology that I changed my long-time personal doctor a year ago because he wasn't using MyChart. But, I want all of my records and my family history together. It's just too easy and convenient to use."
When thinking about scheduling doctor's appointments, traditionally time and access come to mind…or lack of time and many phone calls to get an appointment. Two of MyChart's features, Open Scheduling and Fast Pass, make all the difference in the world for users.
"I love the MyChart mobile app. I use it to keep track of my mother's and my meds and test results. I also use it to message physicians. It is very helpful also to schedule appointments after hours when I have the time to deal with personal issues," said Randy King, vice president of metro operations.
With Open Scheduling, new patients browse physician directories and care clinics to find a physician and schedule an appointment. With the mobile app, using MyChart feels no more cumbersome than ordering a pizza or checking a bank balance.
"I love MyChart because I can literally do the 5,000 things a busy mom does, and remember that I need to ask my child's physician a quick medical question or schedule our annual appointment," said Paula Casey, the outpatient coordinator at Baptist Women's.
She uses her phone app "while I am watching Liam swim in the pool, or walking the dogs or even after everyone has gone to bed. It is amazingly convenient."
Even making payments is painless.
"The bill pay function makes it very easy to pay coinsurance and deductible amounts," said King.
With Fast Pass, the technology handles those hard-to-get appointments with greater efficiency. When a doctor's schedule is full, a user can request to be wait listed for an earlier appointment. "This is great value to a patient because Fast Pass will send messages to a phone if there is a cancellation for an earlier appointment. And if you book the earlier appointment, Fast Pass will cancel the first appointment," said Chris Hopper, system director of Baptist OneCare.
Even patients in a hospital can gain greater visibility to their treatment simply by signing up for Inpatient Day at a Glance. With this feature, a hospital patient can view scheduled tests, medications and appointments.
With e-visit, anyone can have a quick visit with doctors or nurse practitioners at their primary care office related to 10 different non-urgent conditions. Live at three clinics, e-visit allows a fee-based visit through MyChart where patients can ask questions about their issue and the provider responds back with appropriate treatment or information. This is much faster than a visit to the office and the cost is often less than a typical copay.
For women hoping to schedule mammograms, MyChart now allows patients to not only schedule a screening, but to set up a diagnostic appointment. "A doctor has already opened an order. When he does, that sends a patient notification they can pick an appointment time for their exam," said Turner.
From unscheduled life sickness to everyday health management, MyChart fits either scenario, further empowering patients to manage their own time—and more importantly—their health.


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[Intro: T-Pain]
Oooohhh, yeah yeah
Woo! yeah yeah
T-T-T-T-Tmix, baby
Pizzle, Woo!
Look at it
I mean this shit can't be against the rules now
I fuck with these niggas
Get the nigga who did Desiigner adlibs, get him on the phone because this shit about to be lit
[Verse 1: T-Pain]
Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda
I got hoes up in Brooklyn, my Jamaican bitches be cooking
She sit me down at the table, I let you know how it was looking
Rice and peas, macaroni cheese, collared greens
No she don't bullshit
She Steph Curry with the curry chicken
She just make a whole bunch of good shit
I been out the ghost, I got the rice sitting on the tow truck
Had to hit me with some bands
He can get me that brown paper bag
Get me more bucks
I'm goin fine, securing lines with my zoes bro down in Florida
I stack it, stack it, pack it, pack it, stack it, pack it, stack it, pack it, in that order
Hold up, I'm all the way up
I need to put something in my soda
I don't need no lunch, Imma go get a bunch of Asian bitches up in the Rover
My legacy, fuck that
They thought that T-pain wasn't gon' to come back
Now go tell them that when you run back
You a hoe, so you already done that
Hold up, I'm all the way up
I need to put something in my Sprite, bitch
If you think you're doing it, I'm about to ruin it
You're niggas are going to learn tonight, bitch
If you think I'm lit now, watch what happens when I come and turn on the light switch
I will not plan this shit, I come and handle it
Boy that ain't shit but a flight, bitch
[Bridge: T-Pain]
I mean really though
If you think about it, really think about it how hard do they really go?
(Bitch, I'm really dope)
Now you really know
They ain't ready bro
Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda
[Verse 2: T-Pain]
I got bitches in the Bronx, nigga
They can get me in the back door
Rob a nigga in the trap house, bitch you just walked in the trap door
Caught the body in the Bugati, go put the bricks in the wrapper
Thought they was sleepin on Pizzle
Somebody go ask these niggas what they takin' a nap for
Illuminappy, that the squad, nigga
Without that shit I would've been dead
But I swear to God I'mma keep killin' niggas and I put that shit on my kid's head
Cash Know. I'm an asshole. So don't fuck with Pizzle and his bread
I'm the type the type of nigga that'll find a nigga then go and find his chick and a get bitch head
Yea, I'm all the way up
¿Dónde estás, mi amigo?
Don't put your eye in that peephole
Cause I'll turn the back of your head to a peephole
Think again, and then go and murk all your people
You already know the weapon is lethal
Flip the clip, guy get back, pull the hair trigger
Yeah nigga, back for the sequel, oh
I got problems in my head, nigga
Smokin' that shit from the West Coast
The major key is when you hatin' me, you could fuck around get your neck broke
You fuck around with the Winsquad, they could find your body at the Texaco
The summer comin' and you comin' with nothin'
You ready pussy-nigga, let's go
[Bridge: T-Pain]
All I say is "Panda, Panda" and they handle-handle my shit
While I'm chillin' up in Alabama tryna show a bitch how fast a lambo can get
With all of this green up under these gold chains, they mistakin' me for the king
Bitch, I make platinum, I'm comin' after them
Passin' them, all I do is fucking win, bitch
[Verse 3: Young Cash, (T-Pain), Together]
I got broads out in Cali, I got hoes gettin' ratchet
Hit dispensaries and grab it, wrap it all up in that plastic
USPS, I'm a track it
Two day priority, I have it
They're makin' a [?] and I'm taxin'
Two hundred racks in the mattress
I don't know about y'all, but I'm a street nigga
Ain't gotta sound like nobody, I'm just me, nigga
Been on tour with T-Pain, that's for free, nigga
That's why I still fuck with them bricks and the weed, nigga
And that's why I hop in my jag, my nigga go hop in that Benz
My nigga go hop in that porsche, and no we don't need no new friends
Cause we'll go hop in that ghost, and yeah that we'll still got the Benz
Look at that lift on the fours, look at the mothafuckin' rims
And I keep tryna tell you we from Florida, babe
Still fifty-grand sofa, now mercedes benz
(The baddest bitches in the world that'll drive you crazy
From the cocaine era, I'm a eighties-baby
Oh yeah)
[Outro: Desiigner]
Panda, Panda
Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda
Panda, Panda, Panda
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It's important at this time of year, to maintain a balance between Christmas cookies and healthy, wholesome meals. Because as long as we take full advantage of winter's nutritious harvest at meal times, no one need turn down a scrumptious holiday cookie (or two, or three..)
We've had our fill of both at my house—perhaps leaning towards the indulgent side—but leafy greens and bright orange squash are still part of our everyday diet. I had this recipe for chicken stew with butternut and quinoa marked for a long time, and like most recipes I finally get around to making I think, why did I wait so long?!
This is definitely a keeper in my recipe book, as it's everything I love in a wintertime meal. Hearty, healthy, balanced, wholesome, cozy, savory, sweet, filling, and lick-the-bowl GOOD!
Chicken Stew with Butternut Squash + Quinoa, adapted from Cookin' Canuck
- 1 1/2 lb. butternut squash, peeled, seeded + chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 1/2 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 T olive oil
- 1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 t kosher salt
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 t dried oregano
- 1 can (14 oz) petite diced tomatoes
- 2/3 cup uncooked quinoa
- couple handfuls kale, roughly chopped
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1/4 cup minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
Steam the butternut squash until barely tender, about 10 minutes. Remove half of the squash pieces and set aside. Steam the remaining squash until very tender, an additional 4 to 6 minutes. Mash this squash with the back of a fork and set aside.
In a large saucepan set over medium-high heat, bring the chicken broth to a simmer. Add chicken breasts, cover, and cook until chicken is cooked through, about 15 minutes. Transfer chicken to a plate and allow to cool. Pour broth into a medium-sized bowl.
Return the saucepan to the stovetop, lower heat to medium and add olive oil. Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until starting to turn brown, 8 – 10 minutes. Add minced garlic and oregano. Cook, stirring, for 1 more minute.
To the saucepan, add tomatoes, squash pieces and mashed squash, stirring to combine. Stir in reserved chicken broth and quinoa. Bring to a simmer, cover and cook until the quinoa turns translucent, about 15 minutes.
Shred the chicken with your fingers or a fork. Stir the chicken, kale and pepper into the stew and simmer, uncovered, to heat, about 5 minutes. Stir in parsley and serve!
Then to balance out all that healthy goodness, follow up with a plate of these… ;)
Happiest holidays!


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It's time to play a rousing game of "pass the buck" in this fifth installment of
I never did quite figure out why this installment in the Devourer series was boldly titled "Herald." It's almost unnecessary, since this story--like the entire series itself--mostly spotlights the Silver Surfer, rather than Galactus. In his search for a planet with sentient life-forms to satisfy his master's hunger, it's the Surfer who comes into contact with the Kree, who help determine his next course of action. And it's the Surfer whom the Shi'ar later focus their military might on. All Surfer, all the time.
In the interim, we have the Avengers and the Fantastic Four sitting down to dinner, and Alicia Masters making an uncomfortable analogy about Galactus currently satisfying his own hunger in a far more deadly manner to innocent life forms--a very odd segue from the elements in the story which should be getting our attention, seemingly existing for the sole reason of Alicia's statement seeing print:
I can't say what reasons other readers might have had for picking up this series, but I'd be willing to bet my last comic book that it wasn't to have the story interrupted by meaningless--and irrelevant--scenes like this.
Yet once the fight for drumsticks is over, the heroes have resolved to head out and stop Galactus, with Reed having some new weapons (and hopefully a plan) to bring into play. In the meantime, the Surfer has encountered a Kree vessel, and hears a compelling argument for a possible way out of an impossible situation:
The Kree are hardly beings of altruism, of course. Having been conqured by the Shi'ar, their motives in this matter are more self-serving, which the Surfer realizes. Yet, grasping at straws, he reasons that the suggested course of action might be the best one to finally bring this problem to an end:
The one running theme through this series that I've found interesting has been a subtle one--the tendency to solve a deadly problem by endangering others for the perceived greater good. Those two concepts are in such conflict that they should cancel each other out, yet the "greater good" always seems to be the deciding factor in the heat of the moment. For example, the Mole Man, willing to put innocent lives in danger, in order to hijack a treatment plant that will help his people. The Surfer, choosing to save one world he favors--Earth--by offering up countless other worlds to Galactus in its place. Mantis, who points the Surfer to an alternate world to sacrifice to Galactus, by virtue of the fact that the other world's life lacks the level of "sentience" of her own. The Surfer again, who gambles on the Shi'ar homeworld's safety in order to hopefully bring Galactus' threat to an end. And Galactus himself, who continually touts his need to survive in order to rationalize murder.
Then there's Reed Richards, who virtually rubber-stamped the Surfer's decision to rejoin Galactus in order to save the Earth, with only the hope that the Surfer might be able to alter Galactus' plans. When faced with almost the exact same scenario the last time Galactus threatened Earth, Reed was of a far different persuasion:
Gee, whatever happened to that Reed Richards?
So in this story, the buck has been passed again--only the Surfer's desperate plan has almost immediately been thwarted, since the Shi'ar are throwing everything they have at the Surfer instead of making plans for Galactus. Even to the point of self-sacrifice:
It's only when the Starjammers enter the fray--a development which seems intended to stack the deck in terms of the issue's guest-stars--that the Surfer lets himself be taken out in order to reach Lilandra and divulge his intentions. (Strangely, the Imperial Guard have been conspicuously left out of the fight--is there anyone reading this who wouldn't have preferred the Guard to the Starjammers?) By this time, though, the Surfer has devastated much of the Shi'ar's forces, making the plan to have the Shi'ar face off against Galactus almost moot when the issue reaches its crescendo, with the arrival of Galactus:
(Hey, there's the answer to a question I'd raised earlier!)
And now the circle finally closes tightly around the Surfer. He's returned to precisely the same decision he had to make when he first came to Earth and rebelled against Galactus, And it mirrors the decision he made when this series began, to preserve one world at the cost of another:
Yet this vicious little circle also includes another: Reed, who has arrived with the FF and Avengers in tow, and who has apparently decided to intervene where before he chose to see things play out from the sidelines:
And we'll find out more about that plan when we get to our final post of this series. Let's hope Reed's packing more than a drill this time.


text: Known to her fans simply as Ella, Ella Fitzgerald was one of the single most influential American singers of the twentieth century. Through the course of her more than sixty-year-long career, Fitzgerald made hundreds of recordings and won no less than fourteen Grammy awards. Her simple and direct singing style was popular with audiences all over the world, and Fitzgerald is often credited with gaining countless new fans for jazz music with her performances and recordings of standards from the 1930s and 1940s.


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UN News
Reconstructing Gaza – and the Peace Process
Article by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
We Must Work Together to State Loud and Clear That Violence Against Women Will Not be Tolerated
Message of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on International Women's Day, 8 March 2009
Sex equality benefits men and women both
Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Opinion Piece on the International Women's Day
Centennial of the Drugs Control System
Criminals Exploiting Licit Commerce to Manufacture Illicit Drugs, INCB Annual Report says
INCB Annual Report launch today in Vienna highlights threats posed by the Internet and prescription drugs, relationship between security and drugs in Afghanistan and West Africa becoming a major hub for cocaine trafficking into Europe
Growing Green
Article by Ban Ki-moon and Al Gore
Economic stimulus is the order of the day. This is as it must be, as governments around the world struggle to jump-start the global economy. But even as leaders address the immediate need to stimulate the economy, so too must they act jointly to ensure that the new de facto economic model being developed is sustainable for the planet and our future on it.


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With the resident chef having worked at the Presidential Palace in Kazakhstan, it's no wonder why Russians in Korea are making the trek to Seocho-gu's Bangbae-dong and savoring the 30+ authentic Russian dishes being served at CCCP. Familiar international favorites are on the menu, such as beef stroganoff and borsch, but then it goes deeper into the regional cuisine that keeps the place packed, such as qozon kabobs and shashlik. Adding to the ambience is the Russian staff and musical talents that serenade visiting diners.
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"Robots in Disguise" (2015) Legion Class Windblade Toy Review
General Information:
Release Date: January 2016
Price Point: $5.99 (Varies by retailer)
Retailer: General Release (Toys R Us, K-Mart, Target etc.)
Accessories: None
Official images and text in italics below from Amazon.com:
Decepticons beware, because Windblade is out to cause some major mayhem for her enemies! This hardcore Windblade warrior figure converts in 3 steps from robot mode to super-fast jet mode and back. Can her enemies handle what she's got? Not as long as she keeps converting back and forth! Transformers and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro.
Kicking off 2016's "Robots in Disguise" figures was a wave of Legion Class figures that featured characters who had not been previously seen on this scale. Among them was the Autobot Windblade. Introduced in the first season, Windblade made quite an impression as Primus' chosen warrior to go to Earth. This character is of course based on the "Generations" character who was introduced as part of the IDW Publishing comic book series so if you wanted a Deluxe version of the figure she's already out there.
Windblade is packaged on a blister card. The bubble is formed around the figure roughly in the shape of the figure. The packaging features artwork for the character in front and instructions on the back followed by a ton of legal information. The artwork is based on the promotional art released for Windblade's appearance on "Robots in Disguise", not her "Generations" appearance. I do wish the "Robots in Disguise" packaging had some type of tech specs, but to be fair, most of the target audience is more likely to rip the figure out and toss the packaging away than to save it so I can understand why it doesn't have any bio information at all.
Robot Mode:
Windblade's design in "Robots in Disguise" heavily mirrors her "Generations" figure. Many of those features carry over to this simplified figure. She has the general shape of "Generations" Windblade including two large wings on the back, thin arms and legs and a head with a "fan" design on the back. Each wing has the distinctive hover blades on them and her torso is designed to look like she is wearing some type of vest. There are even tiny details like grooves along the top of her head's "helmet" section and grooves on her forearms. It's a good looking sculpt for this class of figure. I appreciate the way it mirrors the Deluxe figure in many respects.
Windblade is cast in metallic red and black plastic. The red is a bright color, but it has a metallic shine to it. The black is a flat color. Gunmetal grey is used to paint details including the fans on her wings, the top and sides of her "helmet" section and the feet. The chest is painted black, taking inspiration from the animation model. Blue is used for line details on the chest and her knee armor, both of which are also details from the animation model. White is used for the face and well, it doesn't look that great and obscures sculpted details (if you stare, you can see her eyes and mouth). Yellow is used to paint the "fan" part of her head. The finishing touch on the figure is a scannable Autobot symbol on top of the fan on her left side wing. The deco is a mixed bag. On one hand it deserves praise for some of the smaller detailing such as the blue on the torso and yellow on the head. On the other hand the face deco looks pretty ugly.
There are eight points of articulation on this figure. This includes the shoulders, arms and two in each leg. The arm and hip joints are ball joints, allowing for a wide range of motion. Both of Windblade's hands have 3mm ports in them that allow you to attach weapons such as those included with "Transformers Prime" Bumblebee. In addition, her wings have 3mm ports too! That means you can connect up to four weapons to this figure at one time which was really a pleasant surprise.
Transformation to Vehicle Mode:
- Straighten out the arms and legs.
- Connect the two lower legs together.
- Pull each of the arm/wing sections down, then push the tabs on the forearms into the grooves on her hip joints.
- Swing the jet cockpit forward.
Vehicle Mode:
Windblade's vehicle mode is a thin jet with wings that feature VTOL fans. The ends of the wings have long pods on them and the rear section has two triangular horizontal stabilizers and a single vertical fin. The cockpit section has distinct lines on the cockpit cover, mirroring the design from the animation model. Overall the designers did a great job of taking the animation model and turning it into a simplified Legion Class figure.
This mode mostly shows off Windblade's red plastic with some black peeking through via the arms towards the back. Black is used to paint the cockpit window and the fan blades are painted gunmetal grey. The nosecone is painted silver (though on the show it's an off-white). I do wish there had been some more blue paint used for this mode since the character has several blue "lights" in vehicle mode on the cartoon. The result is a somewhat unfinished looking vehicle mode in terms of deco.
Thanks to the 3mm ports on her wings, you can attach two 3mm peg weapons to this vehicle.
Final Thoughts:
Windblade is a neat little figure. I really like having a Legion Class figure of this character since it goes nicely as a "Cityspeaker" figure to go with Titan Class Metroplex. Unfortunately she's not perfect. The face deco in robot mode is bad and I wish the vehicle mode had more colors on it, but I still like the figure and I'm happy to have it as part of my collection.


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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Day 176: Locker Tags
Day 175: Ancient Technology – Slide Projector
"Oh my gosh. Mr. Whiteley, what is this and do you know how to use it?" I got that a lot when I busted out the slides to show my students photos of my college research in Central America and Utah, my graduate work at UNM in Albuquerque (and of course some balloon fiesta photos), and my semester in Granada, Spain in 1980. I am 19 to 22 in most of the photos and have to apologize for the fashions (although the Ray-Ban Aviators are very chic). They were a bit surprised to find that I had done such interesting things.
Day 174: Jeopardy Style Quiz
Astronomy quiz tomorrow includes 18 of these. Student must answer in the form of a question. Generator is found here. Do you know the answer?
Day 173: Welcome to Jeopardy
With 15 minutes to spare on a Friday I decided to share my love of Jeopardy and tell the students about the current run of Julia Collins (19 wins and counting). Some had never seen the show and few knew how it worked. They loved it and tried to beat me and the contestants to some of the answers. I think I may do this once a week in advisory next year. To girls who feel like they need to dumb themselves down, she offers this piece of advice: "If someone doesn't like you because you're smart, that's their problem."


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Tamilnadu & Kerala 11 Days
11 Days / 10 Nights – Chennai – Mahabalipuram – Pondicherry – Chidambaram – Tanjore – Trichy – Madurai – Periyar – Kumarakom – Alleppey – Cochin
Day 1 – Arrive in Chennai
On arrival at Chennai airport our representative having a placard displaying your name will meet you to pick you up and transfer to your hotel. Overnight at hotel in Chennai.
Day 2 – Chennai – Mahabalipuram
After breakfast, half day city tour of Chennai. First of all visit the Museum to see the art and bronze gallery. Drive through the Flower & Fruit Market, High Court, Fort Museum, Marina Beach, Saint Thomas Cathedral.
Afternoon, drive towards Mahabalipuram. Arrive and check in to the hotel. Overnight at hotel.
Day 3 – Mahabalipuram – Pondicherry
After breakfast visit Mahabalipuram. Visit the 7th-century Shore Temple which is surrounded by lush gardens. Later visit the 7th-century Five Rathas. After the visit drive to Pondicherry. Arrive and check in to the hotel. Evening walk in the busy market of Pondicherry.
Day 4 – Pondicherry – Chidambaram – Tanjore
Morning after breakfast visit Pondicherry. Visit the city and Sri Aurobindo Ashram the serene world of distinct spiritual vibration and thus renowned as Sacred Land. Later drive to Swamimalai. En route visit The Nataraja Temple at Chidambaram. The roof of the sanctum sanctorum is covered with gold plates. The presiding deity of the temple is represented by air, one of the five elements of the universe and is known as Akasa Lingam. After the visit continue drive towards Tanjore. Arrive and check in to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel in Tanjore.
Day 5 – Tanjore – Trichy – Madurai
After breakfast visit Brihadeeswarar Shiva Temple at Tanjore, built by King Raja Rajan from the year 985 AD - 1010 AD. This is one of the superb temple architects of the Chola dynasty. Later visit Raja Rajan art gallery to see bronze statures of 9th-16th century. After the visit drive to Trichy. Arrive and visit Srirangam Vishnu Temple. It has 21 gopurmas (towers); one of the gopurma is 73 meters, highest in India. Continue drive towards Madurai. Arrive and check in to the hotel. Later in the late evening attend Puja (worship) ceremony at Meenakshi Temple. Overnight at the hotel in Madurai.
Day 6 – Madurai – Periyar
Breakfast at the hotel visit Madurai city. Visit Meenakshi Temple, which is 1000 pillared hall carrying some beautiful sculptures of the seventeenth century. Also visit Thirumalai Nayak Palace. This Palace was built in 1636 by King Thirumalai Nayak with the help of an Italian architect. The building we see today was the main palace where the king lived. The original palace complex was four times bigger than the present structure. This palace consisted mainly of two parts, namely Swargavilasa and Rangavilasa. In the afternoon drive to Periyar. Arrive and check in to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 7 – Periyar
In the morning take boat ride in the Lake Periyar to watch animals in their natural habitat on the water's edge. While cruising on Lake Periyar, you are likely to see animals like wild boars, sambars, wild dogs, Langur monkeys and wild elephants. Later you will be taken to visit a plantation garden. In the afternoon elephant ride of 30 minutes in the plantations. Rest of the day is free at leisure. Overnight at the hotel in Pariyar.
Day 8 – Periyar – Kumarakom
After breakfast drive to Kumarakom. Arrive and check in to the hotel. Rest of the day free at leisure. Overnight at the hotel in Kumarakom.
Day 9 – Kumarakom – Alleppey
Backwaters cruise till Alleppey
After breakfast visit the Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary is the most visited tourist venue in Kumarakom. This marshy stretch of land is the natural habitat of various species of birds. Migratory birds make this sanctuary their home during the winter season.
In the afternoon check in to traditional Kerala house boat for a cruise, which is totally a delightful experience. Cruise through the palm fringed canals, watch the paddy fields and village folk, while relaxing on board hearing the lullaby of the wind & waves. This mysterious strip of emerald green land is stuffed with endless miles of placid backwaters that appends to its charm. Freshly cooked local food is served onboard. Dinner and overnight stay at the houseboat.
Day 10 – Alleppey – Cochin
Breakfast at the houseboat. Check out and drive to Cochin. Arrive and check in to the hotel. Rest of the day is free at leisure. In the evening attend Kathakali dance show. Overnight at the hotel in Cochin.
Day 11 – Cochin – Transfer to airport
After breakfast visit of Cochin including The Dutch Palace at Mattancherry, renowned for its wall murals depicting scenes from the Ramayana. The Jewish Synagogue at the heart of what is locally called the Jew Town. The St. Francis Church, the oldest European church in India. In the late evening transfer to the airport to board the flight for your onward destination.
All of our sample tours can be customised to suit your personal preferences, or request your own personal tour of India.


text: A style appearing in the United States in the late 1950s that in its methods and concerns recalls Dada, whose ideas were introduced to American artists by the composer John Cage. Rejecting the overblown rhetoric and adamant nonfiguration of Abstract Expressionism, which then dominated the American avant-garde, Neo-Dadists embraced depictions of the real world and strove to integrate art and life through the use of real objects in paintings and sculpture. Two principal adherents are Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.


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CiviCRM is a web-based, open source, internationalized suite of computer software for constituency relationship management.https://civicrm.org/
CiviCRM is a web-based, open source, internationalized suite of computer software for constituency relationship management, that falls under the broad rubric of customer relationship management. It is specifically designed for the needs of non-profit, non-governmental, and advocacy groups, and serves as an association management system.
CiviCRM is designed to manage information about an organization's donors, members, event registrants, subscribers, grant application seekers and funders, and case contacts. Volunteers, activists, voters as well as more general sorts of business contacts such as employees, clients, or vendors can be managed using CiviCRM.
DISTRIBOOTED installs WordPress together with a MySQL database. Once installation is completed please browse to the IP of the server to continue setting up your Wordpress site. After which follow the instructios above to enable the CiviCRM Plug-In.
WordPress runs in an Apache Webserver container. To start and stop the service - sudo service apache stop - sudo service apache start
WordPress files are located at
We will soon be launching WordPress and CiviCRM High Availability with clustering, caching and CDNs pre-integrated. Stay tuned.


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Spencer Ogden places 5th in The Sunday Times International Track 200
Spencer Ogden has ranked fifth in The Sunday Times International Track 200.
Spencer Ogden's listed international sales growth was 237.10 per cent last year, making us the highest placed recruitment agency on the list.
As international sales hit £17.5m in 2012, our CEO David Spencer-Percival notes that Spencer Ogden has operated "an aggressive international growth strategy and our success is now clear. It is always great to feature on a list like this, but to place so high is amazing - especially when there are only nine recruitment agencies on the whole list."
The Times highlighted that nuclear energy in Finland, gas in Venezuela and fracking in America have all driven the energy market forward and have enabled Spencer Ogden to thrive.
Spencer-Percival continued, "It's interesting to note that the number one placed company, Mark Group, also operates within the energy industry. Energy is a market that is defying the economic downturn, and businesses that operate within it are on the lookout for highly skilled energy employees – we've made ourselves the go to recruitment agency for the sector – the result has been a dramatic increase in annual sales."
Since the start of 2012 we have opened new offices in Cape Town, Singapore, Houston, Dubai, Hong Kong and Calgary, with plans to launch further bases in Brazil, Russia, Germany, New York, China and West Africa. As our staff numbers recently rose to over 250 with the opening of an additional floor in the London Office, Spencer Ogden is now reclassified as a medium-sized business, and it continues to grow.
The International Track 200 ranks the UK's mid-market private companies with the fastest-growing international sales, and is an extension of the International Track 100 league table, which has been published for the past two years, with the minimum sales threshold having increased from £5m to £25m.


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By Katherine Rees
sales of tobacco products to underage
youth reached an all-time low in 2007
under the Synar Amendment program,
a Federal and state partnership program
seeking to end illegal tobacco sales
to minors. SAMHSA recently released
the newest data in FFY
2007 Annual Synar Reports: Youth Tobacco
The states and the District of Columbia
have continued the downward trend of
retailer violation rates (RVR), hitting
10.5 percent in 2007, the lowest national
average RVR in Synar's 11-year
history. This is a stark contrast with
the 1997 national RVR average of 40.1
For the second year in a row, no state
was out of compliance. In 2007, Mississippi
held the lowest RVR at 3.2 percent.
Only 11 years ago, all but four states
did not reach the 20-percent goal.
In 2007, 45 of the 51 states achieved
an RVR of no more than 15.0 percent,
and 26 states achieved an RVR of 10.0
percent or less.
Enacted in 1992, the Synar Amendment
is named for the late U.S. Representative
Mike Synar of Oklahoma. The full report
is available on the SAMHSA Web site
at http://prevention.samhsa.gov/
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The Best Outdoor Recipes
While Camping all you think about is how to come up with easy campfire recipes. People are not used to making meals using open fire this is challenging because making meals using spacious light is not easy.
Within one hour you can prepare some easy campfire recipes, and they can be ready to consume. You can use the resources in your home to prepare this easy campfire recipe.
You may make the easy campfire recipes in other occasions like when you are outside, and you want to prepare something without necessarily getting into the house. Some of this occasions can be when your friends have come to your place, and you want to spend time outside.
Starting a regular fire with the standard wood is not easy, natural campfire recipes that end up being a disaster because the first thing first most people cannot be able to start a regular fire hence that is they are used to the stoves so much that they are not able to have a good meal while outside.
You can be able to make three straightforward campfire recipes using your utensils this method doesn't require a lot of experience and a lot of effort this means almost anyone can make the meals with some lesson.
It is challenging to prepare a regular fresh fish if you are only used to the healthy fish that is in the form of fish fillets however you can use a little bit of seasoning, and some creativity and all you will have is a ready to cook fish.
You may not require removing the head of the fish or tailor even the scales of the fish all you need is to remove the intestines of the fish to let the fish to be cooked evenly. You can prepare the fish using different things that are you can use foil, or you can even roast it using just fire and the fish hooked to stick.
It is straightforward to make kebabs because it only requires some protein to compliment it this protein can be chicken beef pork or fish, you can cut the meat into peace and marinate it to let the flavors sink in hence having a balanced diet.
Another meal that is delicious among the easy campfire recipes is the potato hash that is fried this type of potatoes has a lot of work preparing than cooking but when made it is worth it all you have to do is to peel the potatoes and then add some onions for flavor after doing this you can fry them in a pan using oil or butter until it is crispy.


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Paul McCartney Enlists Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and More Stars for 'Queenie Eye' Video
The music legend gets a little help from some high-profile pals in his new music video
Paul McCartney has made a new music video – with a little help from his friends!
Famous friends, that is. The singer released a video for the single "Queenie Eye" from his latest album, New, on Thursday, and it opens with him playing a piano in Abbey Road Studios, where he first recorded with the Beatles.
"Being in that room and especially being in that room with Paul … is quite a rush because that's the room that changed the world," Johnny Depp, who is one of the many celebs featured, says in behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the video.
Meryl Streep, Kate Moss and Jude Law can also be seen dancing and shouting throughout the video.
See who else is jamming out to McCartney's latest tune below:


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Singer, Simi, wasn't pleased with the kind of advice a relationship expert based in Ghana, recently gave to married women with cheating husbands.
The Relationship expert who was a guest on a radio show, said
''If you are a busy woman or a career woman, if he is cheating let him cheat. When he finishes, he will come because you are too busy taking care of him. Marriage needs a lot of sacrifice. Women we need to learn this. Men have got ego. You can't change it, that is the way they are. Women need to submit. No matter what you do, the man is the head, give him that respect''
Reacting via Twitter, Simi who got married to singer, Adekunle Gold in January this year, wrote;
''Ori eleyi o ma pe ke. And the idiots cheering her on, gbogbo yin ma go ke. If you a woman and geneuinely feel this way, pls raise your hand I want to tell you something


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With over 250,000 lakes and countless rivers and creeks, Ontario is one of the world's best places to fish. Ontario Parks' staff across the province have lots to say about bass fishing. You can read what they think on this here. Ontario Parks also offers good trout fishing. We've listed a couple of choice places below. And the Ontario Parks downloadable guide to fishing in parks is available. There is also a new online fishing map tool from Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources which shows anglers how to find their next best fishing spot by searching via fish species, waterbody, GPS coordinates or distances from Ontario cities, check it out.
Algonquin Provincial Park
54 different species of fish have been recorded in Algonquin Provincial Park's 1,500 lakes and 1,200 kilometres of streams. Some of the finest Brook Trout and Lake Trout fishing is found here due to this park's deep, cold water lakes located in remote areas accessible only by canoe. On lakes along Highway 60 through the southern portion of Algonquin Provincial Park, special regulations are in effect to ensure no overfishing. Friends of Algonquin Park suggest anglers refer to Canoe Routes of Algonquin Park Map to find the best backcountry fishing spots.
Quetico Provincial Park
The many interconnecting lakes and waterways of Quetico Provincial Park were once water routes travelled by the Ojibwa and fur traders. Today, Quetico largely attracts experienced canoeists. A variety of fish are found in this park. During spring, Lake Trout are plentiful. In summer, Smallmouth Bass and walleye are common catches. The park is accessible at four points by canoe and two by car (Dawson Trail Campground and Lac la Croix Ranger Station). The best fishing is in the park's interior where limited access and a high release practice has enabled this park to retain some of Ontario's best fishing.
Wabakimi Provincial Park
Wabakimi Provincial Park is the second largest park in Ontario's provincial park system (after Polar Bear Provincial Park, near Hudson Bay). The Canadian, a VIA Rail passenger train carries canoes up to 18 feet long and makes mile post stops in Wabakimi Provincial Park. The train also stops in Armstrong near the park. The town has outfitters who provide fly-in services, outpost cabin and lodge accommodation and complete canoe-outfitting. Wabakimi fish species include walleye, Northern Pike, Lake Trout, perch and whitefish.
The Park Locator, a valuable search tool found at OntarioParks.com will help you locate other provincial parks that offer fishing opportunities. More Ontario outfitters are found at Paddling Ontario, an alliance of adventure outfitters.


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Phili Lewis.
One of the most useful aids to driving in recent years has been the Satnav. For those with a questionable sense of direction it's enormously comforting to be able to select the 'home' option and be directed right back to your door. There are horror stories of course of people blindly following the comforting voice only to end up in the middle of nowhere and hear Sally Satnav say; 'You have reached your destination'.
They have improved as well; now they can detect disruption on the route before you get there and warn you about it. Sadly, the warning is often followed by; 'It has not been possible to calculate an alternative route'. It least you can go and have a cup of tea.
In our reading today, Thomas was lost and asked Jesus for directions. Jesus answered by pointing to himself as the way and as with the Satnav, there is no alternative route.
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
The words of Jesus don't sit easily in our society where we are told 'there's no such thing as absolute truth'. Strangely, proponents of the view are absolutely certain there is no such thing as certainty. These are not my words, or even the words of someone who was just a great teacher; they are the words of Jesus, the eternal Word. He didn't claim to merely know the way; he claimed to be the way. The answer to the most critical question of life is found not in a set of rules to be followed but in a relationship with a person – Jesus. His mission was to die on a cross for sinners like me and you. It wasn't a small thing; it was the most significant event of all time. The son of God dying on a cross, the perfect son forsaken, his body breaking down as the life flowed from him. He didn't die to give us another option to consider; he died because; "No one comes to the Father except through me."
"Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father."
John has made it clear from the very beginning of his Gospel that Jesus and the Father are one. It isn't an easy thing to grasp, to be honest I'm not sure anyone can truly understand it. How can the Word be with God and yet be God? But it isn't about something that is easy to grasp, it's about what is true. It might be easy to explain how a computer works in terms of lots of little people moving files around inside it but it wouldn't make it true. We are dealing with the creator of the universe and we have barely scratched the surface in understanding what he has made, never mind the one who planned and formed it. If the trinity was something that was only taught here there might be a case of looking at it again to see if we have it wrong, but it's something found throughout the New Testament and our response should be to believe what God has said.
"You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."
It's incredible that during his last night on earth, Jesus was looking to the future. He knew he was going to the Father (14:12) but spoke of the works the disciples would go on to do in his name. Jesus will go on to pray not only for the disciples but all who will believe their message (17:20) and so much of his teaching at the Last Supper is for all believers so perhaps we should be bold and ask for the things that will bring glory to the Son and the Father.
'One Way, Jesus, You're the only one that I could live for.
One Way, Jesus, You're the only one that I could live for. (x2)
You are the way the truth and the life.
I live by faith and not by sight for You.
We're livin' all for You…' (Joel Houston, Jonathon Douglass)


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The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) hosted the fourth annual Go Forth commissioning event May 7 – 11 to thank, celebrate and prepare departing and transitioning missionaries to successfully move into new careers while striving to live out lifelong Catholic mission.
Nearly 130 missionaries attended Go Forth, which included seminars by several FOCUS alumni with advice on navigating relationships and evangelizing in their new parishes, workplaces, families and communities. A veteran career counselor provided tips on updating resumes and honing interview skills.
"My experience at Go Forth helped me to reflect and to respond with gratitude to everything that I received during my four years as a FOCUS missionary," said Veronica Halbur. "I am excited to continue this mission as I transition into parish life and live out my baptismal call to make disciples of all nations."
"One unexpected blessing during the retreat was a conversation with a maintenance worker at the event location who asked why we were there," added Halbur, who most recently served at Boston University. "After I told him about Go Forth, he said he used to be Catholic and asked me what he needed to do for his soul to be saved. I shared the Gospel message with him and explained that God wants him to come back and receive His mercy. I encouraged him to go to confession and back to the sacraments. He tearfully thanked me and said he wouldn't forget our conversation! My training with FOCUS has given me the confidence to be bold in proclaiming the truth of God's love and inviting those around me to experience this as well."
Go Forth provided several opportunities for prayer and discernment, including a special Commissioning Mass celebrated by Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and a daylong retreat with FOCUS National Chaplain Father John Lager, O.F.M. Cap. The reflection time helped missionaries process the impact of their work on campus, as well as listen for God's guidance as they move into the next phase of their lives.
"Go Forth enables us to both celebrate and thank our departing staff as well as prepare them to be fruitful missionary disciples of Jesus Christ wherever God leads them," said FOCUS Alumni Senior Director Deborah Fowlkes. "We want to continue to help our alumni share Christ as they live out their faith in the workplace and community. Go Forth provides the first steps to do so."
The FOCUS Alumni department connects, inspires and equips FOCUS student and staff alumni to continue in their roles as missionary disciples. Resources on focusalumni.org include a Job Board, networking opportunities for advice and connections with others across the country.
Newly-formed FOCUS Connect regional communities help alumni stay connected in areas across the country, such as Indianapolis, St. Louis, Denver, Chicago, Boston and Northern Virginia. Three regional events brought alumni together this year in Omaha, St. Louis and Baltimore.
FOCUS Alumni manages the Lifelong Mission Track at national FOCUS conferences. More than 1,000 people participated on the track at SLS18, including 300 alumni. Many are expected to attend SEEK2019 held Jan. 3 – 7, 2019. The annual St. Francis Xavier Alumni Award for Excellence in the New Evangelization will be presented at SEEK2019. Registration is open at Seek2019.com.
Copyright 2018 Leslie Prevish for FOCUS
About FOCUS: The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) was founded in 1998 and invites college students into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His Church, inspiring and equipping them for a lifetime of Christ-centered evangelization, discipleship and friendships in which they lead others to do the same. During the 2017 – 2018 academic year, more than 660 missionaries are serving full-time on 137 college campuses, located across 38 U.S. states and at four international locations (two campuses in Austria, one in England and one in Ireland). More than 24,000 students have been involved with FOCUS, who after graduation have the opportunity to move into parish life to continue their missionary work. Within this number, 674 have made decisions to pursue Catholic religious vocations. By 2022, FOCUS expects — God willing — to have 75,000 students transitioned into many of America's 17,000+ Catholic parishes. FOCUS missionaries are typically recent college graduates who devote two or more years of their post-collegiate lives to reach out to peers on campus. To learn more, visit us at Focus.org.


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We just posted the 48-item Reeds Jewelers Black Friday sale listing along with the 4-page Reeds Jewelers Black Friday ad scans!
The ad states that the sale runs from November 26-27, however there's a duplicate Pre-Black Friday Sale ad that runs from November 19 - 22, and will be extended until November 25. This is a bonus for anyone looking to shop Black Friday, because there's no reason to wait. There will also be additional discounts that are not featured in the ad, offered both in-store and online.
Here are two discounts that we are already aware of:
- $100 Off $500+ using coupon code "19588615"
- $20 Off $100+ using coupon code "19588607"
Both coupons exclude Alex and Ani as well as Pandora. If you are looking to purchase either Alex and Ani or Pandora Black Friday exclusives, you will have to wait until November 26. The ad may look similar to last years, with a lot of the items being the same and some being priced higher.
Thanks for Visiting and Happy Shopping!


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VRZ: The custom track bike you can (almost) 3D print
Most people don't realize that before buying a bike, you should make sure it fits your body. It probably didn't matter when you were three feet tall, and just dying to get those training wheels off, but now that you're an adult, a bike that's a little too small, big, short, or long for you can cause some real issues.
Even the slightest angle change can affect the performance of professional riders, which is why designer Ralf Holleis is developing the VRZ. Using a combination of carbon fiber track bike frame, and 3D printed titanium lugs, Holleis has created a super-light, fixed-gear bike that can be customized for an individual rider in a very small period of time.
Normally obtaining a bike that's custom built for your body takes a) a lot of money or b) a lot of welding know-how. With Holleis' new hybrid method, however, the time and cost are reduced."You could change the geometry to what ever fits you best, then the lugs gets generated by a software," explains Holleis on his website. "The generated 3D files are produced with laser-cuseing process. Afterwards the printed parts need to be finished and bonded to the tubes."
Ok, so it still takes a fair bit of know-how. But considering how quickly 3D printing technology is disseminating through our culture, one can only expect that it will become easier and cheaper over time. And the benefits for bikers will be huge.
Not only is the VRZ safer and healthier because it's created just for a specific person's body, it's also lighter than almost every bike we've ever seen. At a trim 4.9 kg (10 pounds 11 ounces) it's the perfect vehicle for whipping around the track in style.
VRZ 1. a tack bike frame with 3d printed lugs from Ralf Holleis on Vimeo.


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"We have worked with Stacey Goodwill twice now. She is patient, thorough, and hard working. She walked us through the process of buying our first home, and then refinancing it. We have recommended her to family, friends, and even our dentist. Thank you Stacey, for making this process so quick and easy!"


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- Help tune and maintain the existing game balances
- Identify issues and offer solutions related to gameplay and balance
- Drive the design and creation of new game systems and game mechanics
- Own the execution of approved game content to the highest standards of quality
- Lust for playing video games
- Experience as a Systems Designer on shipped products
- Proven ability to deliver strong systems designs (player classes, mechanics, equipment/items, commerce, UI /UX, game balance)
- Work on general game design, rules systems, play balance, interface design and multiplayer features
- Expert balancing skills
- Live development and post-release experience
- Ability to both conceptualize and implement game ideas using various tools and technology
- Knowledge of social, browser and mobile games, specifically free-to-play games
- Fluent written and spoken English (other foreign languages will be a plus)
- Creating art assets that drive the visual identity and user interface of the game
- Mostly designing and modeling 3D objects but is to handle 2D art, flash animation, icons, advertising, web ready art, et cetera.
- Lust for playing video games
- Rapid sketching and storyboarding experience
- Ability to identify and define visual design issues and solutions
- Solid grasp of the effective use of color, form, lighting and composition
- Experience in games development is a plus
- Clear understanding of 3D lighting, and its effect on texture, bump, and displacement mapping results.
- Expert knowledge of UV-mapping techniques
- Excellent Photoshop skills (CS3-4) compositing, texture painting, tiling, retouch, filtering, scripting
- Knowledge in low poly modeling and material optimization via use of light, shadow and occlusion maps, etc.
- Knowledge in 3D physics engines, ik bones and weights
- Fluent written and spoken English (other foreign languages will be a plus)
- Developing integrated front-end systems for online games
- Creating technical design meets product and business requirements
- Writing high performance and quality code
- Lust for playing video games
- Experience Flash/iOS/Android development
- Expert level development experience using ActionScript 3/Objective C/C++
- Expert experience using Flash CS5 IDE/Flash Builder/OpenGL ES/Cocos2D/Gideros/Unity 3D/Corona etc.
- Strong animation skills using Flash, After Effects and other tools
- Extensive knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Strong problem solving, analytical skills, attention to detail
- Strong Object Oriented design and programming
- Familiarity with new technologies, frameworks, resources, and open source libraries
- Fluent written and spoken English (other foreign languages will be a plus)
- Developing web and mobile applications
- Addressing critical issues on some of our game titles
- Writing coherent, organized code and working on a complicated code-base
- Lust for playing video games
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent is a plus
- Software development experience
- Experience in multiple and current PHP projects
- Passion for software development and OO Design
- Strong knowledge of all of the following: Linux, Apache, MySQL
- Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
- Experience with version control systems such as Subversion or CVS a must
- Solid grasp of Facebook, iOS, Android etc. platform requirements
- Comfortable working with huge data sets and massively high concurrent-user load
- Fluent written and spoken English (other foreign languages will be a plus)
- Searching new distribution and monetization opportunities
- Developing and executing regional market strategies
- Following and analyzing social game market
- Data analyzing and reporting the lifecycle of projects
- Coordinating internal teams
- Lust for playing video games
- Capable of a broad range of technologies
- Analytical, deductive and management skills
- Excellent presentation skills and result oriented
- Creative and self-disciplined
- University degree (degree on economics and administrative sciences is a plus)
- Fluent written and spoken English (other foreign languages will be a plus)
- Producing design solutions to communicate messages with high visual impact and various game assets ranging from user interface and graphics for our games and websites to advertising campaigns and illustrations.
- Artistic capacity, technical knowledge and strong verbal, visual and written communication skills
- Lust for playing video games
- Strong portfolios that showcase examples of their best work
- Brainstorming and mocking up design ideas
- Ability to identify and define visual design issues and solutions
- Excellent designing skills, both artistic and technical, and keeping abreast of emerging technologies in new media
- Working with a wide range of media, including vectors, bitmaps and photography
- Good understanding of typographical principles
- Experience in Flash including creating optimized movies, buttons, and animation
- Knowledge of HTML and basic video editing is a plus
- Fluent written and spoken English (other foreign languages will be a plus)
- Up to you :)
- Lust for playing video games
- Being a fresh graduate or student
- Extremely motivated to join a fast paced, result-oriented and multinational environment
- A hard worker, a strong communicator with positive attitude
- A self-starter, highly adaptable, able to multitask and prioritize
- Passionate about internet technology, market evaluation and industry dynamics
- Committed, able to handle work in a timely manner and with a minimal supervision
- Looking for hands-on experience