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Local Attraction near Nenagh, Tipperary
Explore the 'Golden Vale' and let the natural beauty and old-world charm of Tipperary and Great National Abbey Court Hotel captivate you.
The Great National Abbey Court Hotel is uniquely located in the heart of the Midlands in Nenagh,
County Tipperary where so many places are easily accessible.
See below for some of the most popular attractions and hidden gems around Nenagh as well as its neighbouring areas.
Nenagh Castle
Nenagh Heritage Centre
Rock Of Cashel
Killaloe Ballina
Birr Castle Gardens
King John's Castle
Cahir Castle
Swiss Cottage
Mitchelstown Cave
Nenagh Arts Centre
Killaloe River Cruises
Semple Stadium
Thomond Park
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A 45-year-old Arlington doctor is accused of running an Oxycodone ring by writing, filling and selling fraudulent prescriptions in Virginia and beyond.
According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Virginia, Dr. Derron McRae Simon of Midlothian and five other individuals are accused of conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances, and possessing with intent to distribute.
Simon is also facing three counts of distributing a controlled substance to persons under 21 and aggravated identity theft.
Simon, who was the primary or only doctor at WithinMe MD in Arlington, would write hundreds of fradulent prescriptions of Oxycodone and other drugs, allegedly aware the drugs would be misused, distributed or re-sold.
According to documents, Simon would ask his assistant, 23-year-old Ereida Escobar to create fake patient history forms and medical records to make it seem as though the prescriptions were legitimate.
Simon and his co-defendants, including Escobar, are accused of distributing more than 11,000 Oxycodone pills valued at approximately $735,000. Documents say Simon and Escobar would receive between $500 and $1,000 for each fake prescription.
If convicted, Simon could spend up to 20 years in prison with a $1 million fine.

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Isn't it lovely how Amazon always seems to know so much about you? Lovely, creepy, and money-sucking?
Well, startup Ometria wants to make every online retailer a bit more like Amazon in that regard. Its products let ecommerce sites find you, understand you, and sell to you with real-time tools.
The London-based company has just raised $1.5 million from the likes of Huddle's co-founders to achieve that goal and get more customers onboard.
From the official statement on the raise, a more thorough description of Ometria's mission:
Ometria's platform helps online retailers grow quickly and profitably by attracting better customers and understanding their existing ones, and by providing both insights and actions relating to visitor behaviour and product performance. The real-time platform is aimed at mid-sized retailers who want to boost customer loyalty and maximise performance from their product range.
"Personalization and customer acquisition are the biggest challenges that online retailers face at the moment — and any that don't solve these problems will struggle to survive," said Ivan Mazour, founder and CEO of Ometria, in the press release.
"This is why our platform has been built from the ground up by retailers, for retailers — giving our clients the ability to … use customer lifetime value to determine which channels are sending the best customers and to get a clear picture on which products to merchandise to maximize profitability."
Ometria was founded in London in February 2013 with staff in Moscow and elsewhere around the world.


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Recently I have been working with several large System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM) environments where the number of groups have been creeping over 1000 which has led to some issues with certain cmdlets.
The Get-SCOMGroup -DisplayName XXX cmdlet is one of those that has been causing problems for some of our automation efforts.
When running this in certain environments we receive the error:
"The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan. This is a rare event and only expected for extremely complex queries or queries that reference a very large number of tables or partitions. Please simplify the query. If you believe you have received this message in error, contact Customer Support Services for more information."
This error was generated by the SQL instance behind the Operations Manager DB. After investigating the SQL instances they were behaving well with no errors or performance issues (that I could see but I'm no DBA).
To get around this error involves two lines of PowerShell (three to be 100% certain you've got the right object back):
#Get the Class Type where the display name is the name of the group to get
$Class = Get-SCOMClass | ?{$_.DisplayName -eq "<Group Display Name>"}
#Get the instance of the Class (this returns the group)
$Group = Get-SCOMClassInstance -Class $Class
#Optional line:
Get-SCOMGroup -Id $Group.Id
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1968 Firebird & 1970 Nova
We head to the Phoenix area to get the scoop on two very interesting brothers from England who are here for just one thing--muscle cars!
We first met Chris and Nick Hall at the Goodguys event in Scottsdale last fall. We were impressed with their pristine cars--a 1968 Firebird which belongs to Chris Hall, and a 1970 Nova that belongs to Nick Hall. They were eagerly pounding their machines through the autocross rather than posing in the car show, but that was only the beginning of the story. Both Nick and Chris emigrated to the United States to be closer to a good supply of American muscle cars and their parts. The love affair with Yank iron began in England when their family started buying and enjoying American cars--starting with a lowly Pinto, and progressing up through the ranks. The entire family would take vacations in the U.S.--not going to tourist attractions like Disney or Yellowstone--but to cars shows and swap meets.
Then last week we headed out to Phoenix where Nick and Chris now live, and we shot both cars for a feature. We'll have them in PHR in a few months, but in the meantime, check out the video of the shoot here!


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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Kermit G. Phillips, II went peacefully to be with God on August 25th. He was born June 25, 1934, to the late K.G. and Lillian Phillips of Greensboro, NC. A memorial service will be held to celebrate Kermit's life on Saturday, August 30th at 11:00 a.m. in Phillips Chapel at Canterbury School in Greensboro, NC, followed by a luncheon at the school with burial at 1:30 PM at Forest Lawn Cemetery. His successes were many and his friends were countless. Early in his career, Mr. Phillips began a life long interest in real estate and he developed residential and commercial property all over the southeast as founder and president of Phillips Management Group in Greensboro and as co-founder of ATC Development Corporation in Augusta, GA. Mr. Phillips was involved with many other business ventures both locally and throughout the south. One of his passions was travel, and with his wife, Monica, they enjoyed exploring wonders all over the world. Mr. Phillips was instrumental in the design and building of Phillips Chapel at Canterbury School in Greensboro, NC, which was named in his honor. Other beneficiaries of his philanthropic gifts were Woodberry Forest School in Woodberry Forest, VA, Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, NC and the Ocean Reef Medical Foundation in Key Largo, FL. He also supported the Kermit Glenn Phillips, II Chair of Cardiology for the Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Kermit especially loved his family and friends and will be deeply missed by them all. He is survived by his loving wife, Monica Dolata Phillips, his children: Kert Phillips and Keith Phillips of Greensboro; his step-children: Randy Sanger and wife, Sherri; Renee Redman and husband, Mike; Rick Sanger and wife Vicki, all residents of Wisconsin, and Robert Sanger and wife, Jennifer, of Chicago. His grandchildren were also a great joy in his life: Kevin and Katherine Phillips, Jordain Sanger, Austin Sanger, Alexander Redman, Brock Sanger, Brandon Sanger, Lillian Sanger, Jack Redman and Luke Sanger. Kermit also is survived by his brother, Jim and wife, Cindy of Charlotte, NC and sister, Anne Gilchrist and husband, Peter of Huntersville, NC. He was predeceased by his former wife, Jeanette "Cookie" Smith. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to: Canterbury School, 5400 Old Lake Jeanette Road, Greensboro, NC 27455. Hanes-Lineberry N. Elm Funeral Home is assisting the family and on line condolences may be sent to www.mem.com .
The Augusta Chronicle-August 28, 2008


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We need to experience a "breakthrough" or breakthrough so we have "shaken" Satan of us!
Image of Åge Samuelsen who lacked these "breakthrough" or breakthrough. He sings in a song based on Psalm 84. 7 When they walk through the tear valley, they make it a source vang,
We sing the song Åge Samuelsen: "I walk through the valley tear does he (God) it a blessing." But this is not the WORD, where it says that WE make it a BLESSING! Then in Psalm 84 verse seven. In other words, when we go through the tear valley, we make it a source vang. Notice what it says in Psalm 84 it says that THEY do it. Citing portions of Psalm 84. 7 again, "they wander through the tear valley, they make it a source vang."
Åge sings that this makes God, but the psalmist sings that there is something we do. If we want victory and a breakthrough, then we wanted to and do it. God has done all that is to do for us through Christ Jesus, there is everything perfect. The rest is now up to us!
From my commentaries Colossians Dispenser Letter 4.1. You who are masters of slaves, to treat them right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
This verse actually belongs home in chapter 3. Here dishes Paul a strong appeal to those who have slaves to treat them with dignity and inntregeitet. For you know you have the Lord in heaven. This can not go on the Father, but in Jesus as Lord. Jesus is the executive person and is therefore also Lord. Father waits for son to perform everything, secondly gives son back the Kingdom to the Father. This will happen after 1000 årsriket and judgment before the white throne.
2 Be persevering in prayer, keep watch and pray, giving thanks to God!
Having a stayer ability and could hold out is crucial. Some answers to prayer come right away while others must we wait for. Some answers to prayer does not come at all. Reasons for this may be many, but there are obstacles to prayer that may lie in ourselves, in others or in those evil spirits. We would do well to be utholdne while thanking prayer.
3 Pray also for us, that God may open a door for the Word, that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ; for its sake I sit now in jail.
Paul did not ask them to pray about his imprisonment would end, he had the knowledge that he would be a free man again. But when he got out and otherwise; "Pray also for us, that God may open a door for the Word, that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ". This praying is important that there is a formula prayer. Paul would have specific prayers and concrete answers to prayer. Here was the opening for preaching of the Word and the truths that God had entrusted him he would get passed on.
4 Pray that I may declare it as I should.
Paul showed his reach hearts and get the right opportunity was of great importance. One day a man may be very open to God and spiritual signals, the next day completely closed. Using the right words is very important if the result should be the salvation of souls and God's kingdom progress. There is no guarantee of success, we need all the great grace and wisdom. When Paul needed prayer we can also boldly ask for intercession by other fellow brothers and sisters.
(End of quote).
We contradict says the apostle Paul - but not according to the flesh.
2 Cor. 10. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 and are ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
The biggest and deadliest battle we have in our own minds, which we do as the Apostle Paul teaches, "our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge about God, and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and are ready to punish all disobedience. "
We can do within a relatively short time, we do not have to spend years and days on this. Therefore, to have victory in mind, the mind is of utmost importance.
Word. 16. 32 The long-suffering is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.
Stronger than this may well not be said? Whoever "who controls his temper is better than he that taketh a city."
From my commentaries Ephesians 4 23 You have to be renewed in mind and spirit
"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he ... .." (Proverbs 23: 7)
Why do you like to do? Have you ever thought about what it is that makes you think as you do? What gets you to reason and make decisions you make? All the different thoughts that flowed through your mind today, what is it that has caused them to appear in your head?
We read here that you are as you think! Therefore, we are a product of our thoughts. It is our thought-life that govern our entire lives. We take provisions and selection think and act according to what is in our minds.
All men are more or less tied up in different thought patterns. God wants you to have RIGHT mindset. The Bible says that we therefore have to go through a process called "Mind renewal". Man Found creature where spirit and soul belong together. And the body is the outer man but the spirit and soul is the inner man teaches the word of God. Replacing the body's heart, so it is with the inner man. This heart Lord has switched from having a heart of stone to a heart of flesh that he can shape, form and let life flow in and through!
And 3. 17 so Christ by faith may dwell in your hearts, and you can stand rooted and grounded in love.
In this new community of Jews and Gentiles is love crucial. We are called to love one another as Christ loved us. How is it possible? Only in that Jesus will stay in our hearts and love through us!
But it is again possible only by being rooted and grounded in his love.
Here user Paul two statements, one from botany and from the building industry. We must have deep roots in the love of Jesus and his love must be the solid foundation we build our lives on.
This love of Jesus is most clearly demonstrated at the cross. Jesus himself says in John 15.13: No one has greater love than he who gives his life for his friends. It was just that he did and that we again have been reminded this Easter.
How do we oppose this love? How does Christ live in our hearts? Yes, Paul says that it is by faith. But we must not think that believing is just something we would imagine. How we use often this phrase: "It's just something you think."
No, to believe in biblical language the same as coming to Jesus. Another expression of faith is to accept Jesus. When we become one with him.
Again to quote Luther: "If belief holds that we learn right, namely that by the united way with Christ that the believer and Christ is a person."
Specifically, this means that we can say to Jesus: "Jesus, thank you that you live in me. Now you see that I do not get it to love my perverse neighbor, but you will love him through me? - Jesus, I do not have patience enough with my children, but you work with your patience in me? "
In Galatians 2:20, Paul says: "I am crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me."
ROM 12,21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good!
KOL 3,8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, wrath, malice, -.
1PE 2:21 It was this you were called; Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his tracks.
1PE 2:23 He reviled not again, when he was reviled, he did not threaten when he suffered, but committed his cause to him who judges justly.
But under this verse stood referred to Rooms 6,1ff. I rarely turn up cross-references, but that day I did it - and read:
ROM 6.3 to 4 Know ye not that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him when we were baptized with baptism into death in order that we may live a new life, as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's mighty power.
(End of quote.)
Jesus won and had "victory" over Satan, and Satan kept himself away from Jesus. This is what I call "We need to experience a" breakthrough "or breakthrough so we have" shaken "Satan of us!"
Luke 4 13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a time.
But there are people who, among other things January Aage Torp who never experience these things, but Satan and "spiritual struggles" over decades. This writes Jan Aage Torp on his blog: "Although I have written and said many times, I repeat that I have made some errors that dad. Especially for some years in the 1990s to my children when I entered the "spiritual battle" and failed to be sufficiently present and compassionate towards how they felt. In retrospect, I understood what "spiritual pressure" that prevailed. "
What is this? This is not spiritual battle, but spiritual obsession. God does not force anyone, it is Satan who makes it. Here is a person who imagines that he has spiritual battle on God's behalf, soap he is captured by the forces of darkness who rule and govern in his life. They do not let go, but hold on and live there as they have been invited by the competent through their disobedience. So we must not confuse spiritual battle with the obsession that it sets.
Matt. 12. 43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, but finds none. 44 Then he saith, I will return to my house whence I came out. And when it comes, it finds it empty, swept and garnished. 45a Then goeth he, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last gets worse with the man than the first.
This is where the person is, captured seven times worse than before they became a believer!
Final Comment:
What is a "We need to experience a" breakthrough "or breakthrough so we have" shaken "Satan of us"?
It is short, an area in our lives that we struggled with, was defeated, but we have victory over today! Here I can write page after page, but the article is so copious and long, and I think I ended with this:
A is a "breakthrough" or breakthrough so we have "shaken" Satan of us "?
What is a "breakthrough" or breakthrough so we get "toasted" Satan of us?
It is short, an area in our lives that we struggled with, was defeated, but we have victory over today!
Could have continued indefinitely here, but will stop. Think it holds for this time and then we'll take up this and other topics later in other article. There is already so much on Youtube, the Heavenly blog, undervisnigsbloggen and home. That there is more than enough to read throughout the summer for those who want it, dear friends!
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by Matt Lee Contributions — Published on May 24, 2004 03:55 PM
A gratis copy of Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture will be sent to all active Associate Members as of 15 June 2004.
To celebrate the recent addition of Lawrence Lessig to the FSF board of directors, and to show appreciation for our members, we will be giving away copies of Lawrence Lessig's latest book, Free Culture. Any member active on 15 June 2004 will receive a copy of the book at no charge. This means that if you are already a paid current member, we will be sending you a copy of the book. Make sure your account information is up-to-date!


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If you want to get away from that crackly old static (Sferics) that plagues the lower radio frequency range there is not a lot of chance on Earth as the approximately 100 lightning strikes per second around our globe travel further than the circumference.
NASA has released some audio of the Sferics from the storms on Saturn this rules out that region as a quiet remote receiver location. Seriously though its the Sferics that many of people are interested in, studying everything related, including weather forecasting.
Its quite a feat getting data back from the Cassini Spacecraft, I don't know the system used but given a slow data rate, (it was captured on March 15th 2011 and released on July 6th) it should be a piece of cake to get the 12 second 1.65MB clip back home. After all they do high quality pictures pretty good.
The recording is digital of course, we don't even record in analogue much at home these days, and compressed in time, I think it is 1 minute compressed to 12 seconds, obviously there is a fair bit of bandwidth limiting, I think there is probably frequency shifting and from the characteristics the audio spectrum, could even, I suspect, be inverted. I would like to hear it turned upside down.
Anyway the results when analysed using SpectrumLab look and sound very much like the Sferics on Earth.
Coming down to Earth we had some heavy rain on July 7th, no lightning here but it was all around, the sky went black there was a double rainbow and a terrific noise from the shack when a downpour started. There had been heavy showers all day but those rain drops had no free electrons sitting on them for a ride.
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acann3 posted a topic in Baseball 101I just finished my freshman year of college (I am 19 years old), and I am considering trying to pitch again at a high enough level to get on my college club team. I used to play up until my freshman year of highschool, but I was always relatively mediocre without very high velocity. After reading The MVP Machine, I believe that I went about a lot of what I did when I was younger in the wrong way. I always had good command but never really commited myself to building velocity. In highschool I threw discus, wrestled, and played football, so I am athletic and believe I could pick pitching back up at a relatively quick clip if I apply myself. Do you all think this is possible? If so, what do you think would be my best way to approach this?


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I stumbled across this link today and thought I would share it with you all as well as a couple of other ones I found.
Of course there is GQ for men, but I have found some interesting facts and fun for females as well
Then there is the Over Anaylst. (She was on The Bachelor)
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I am pleased to announce that my latest, and undoubtedly most important, book is now available:
The Story of a Secret Civilian Army in World War Two
This is a project that I have been working on since October 2014, and it is very close to my heart. Much has been written about Italy in World War Two, most of it derogatory. This book tells the story of the outstanding courage of those Italian civilians [some ex-military] who helped the 25,000 Allied escapers and evaders who were on the loose in Italy after the Armistice of September 1943. It was proved after the war that more than 82,000 Italian families helped Allied escapers and evaders. Men, women and children were involved, and more than 200 gave their lives for the Allied Cause. Helping Allied Escapers was punishable with death, or, even worse, deportation to Mauthausen Concentration Camp where the inmates were worked and beaten to death. I have decided, for the first time, to self-publish this book in English through Amazon, so that it is available to all at a modest price in time for the 75 anniversary of the Italian Armistice this September. I am seeking an Italian publisher for the Italian edition.
British Senior Officers, writing the citations for the 149 medal winners whom I have been able to identify amongst the Italian civilian helpers, repeatedly used the terms:"outstanding courage, magnificent courage, superb courage, indomitable courage". Hence the book is entitled: "Italy's Outstanding Courage" - a British judgement of Italy's courage in World War Two. In late 1947/early 1948, the Labour Government of Clement Attlee, for mainly political reasons, imposed an embargo on the grant of all British medals to Italian Nationals - a decision described in a Special Operations Executive memorandum as perfidious - with the result that none of the medal winners received their medals after the war.
Readers of the book will make their own judgement. Hopefully, even after seventy-five years, it is not too late to obtain some recognition of this Italian heroism on our behalf.
The photograph below shows some of the victims of Mauthausen, treated, as all inmates were, whether alive or dead, as human waste.


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I've been doing some chakra meditation and healing specifically related to my past sexual trauma. Interestingly enough, I had spider fall right in my face the next day. Spiders are represented by creative feminine energy. This is blocked when you have a blocked sacral and solar plexus chakra as I do. The very fact that I wasn't afraid of it shows me that I have been releasing that from myself.
I also put two and two together in relation to the back and forth abnormal pap tests I've had for years. As I've been harboring so much pain from my past in those areas of my body, I have created dis-ease.
Healing myself through meditation and visualizations is becoming a daily ritual in my life. I've been doing daily if not twice daily energy cleansing on myself for weeks now, and I feel amazing after I do so. Now, I am taking what I've learned and directing it specifically to the chakras and points of resistance in myself, opening up waves of energy to flow freely.
I am healing myself. We all have this amazing ability to heal our own body, mind and soul. Remembering that, is taking us back to where we belong in this universe. To who and what we truly are.
I remember, who and what I am. And even though I may never have the memories from my early childhood back, I have been able to somewhat bypass that and find my true soul nature anyways. And in the process I've healed a lot of the wounds myself.
There is still lots of work to do but I know I'm SO on the right path.
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I really love peach pie, and maybe I love it too much. For years, my cousin Leslie and I would fight over the delicious peach pies another cousin baked and brought to the annual family reunion. Evidently, what we thought were our good-natured pie brawls became a little too much for the baker (and other family members) to handle, and she stopped bringing pies altogether. Oops….
Well, you can imagine how pumped up I was when I had the opportunity to be one of the judges for the PEACH PIE CONTEST at the Puyallup Fair on Monday. I mean I'm crazy about The Fair, and I LOVE peach pie, so I felt like the universe had plopped me right into my own special synergistic event. As excited as I was, I was also a nervous wreck because I wanted to be a great judge – I knew it would be a challenge to stay focused on the reason I was there, not just indulge myself in peach pie ecstasy.
So how lucky could I get that there were 17 pies entered in the contest, and the three other judges and I were going to taste each one! "Just remember that you can't make a good face for a good pie or a bad face for a bad one," said the official judge, Marlene Angell. "The people will be sitting right there and want you to engage with them, but you can't give anything away." Good advice as I bit into my first pie and thought it was delicious. Fortunately, the awesome clerk assigned to help me, Holly, had cut a small slice, which she served me with the reminder "All the judges will be sampling this slice – don't eat the whole thing." Got it.
The judging part was actually more difficult than I thought it would be. So many things to consider with each delectable bite: How is the aroma? What's the appearance of the pie – is the crust golden brown, too light or too dark? What about the bottom crust – is it soggy? Does the filling stay in the slice or ooze out (not a good thing) on the plate? What about the peaches themselves – are they flavorful, mushy, too firm? If there's other fruit in the pie, does it complement or overpower the peach flavor? And finally the recipe – is it easy to follow, creative and are the ingredients and their measurements listed correctly? Not that all of the rules and details took away from my enjoyment of the pies, but it certainly made me think of pies in other terms than my usual "more please!" approach to pie eating.
So many amazing pies to taste! Pies with fresh, frozen, roasted and canned peaches, a deep dish pie (loved it!), pies with brandy and liqueurs, a sugarless pie, pies with brown sugar and oat crumble toppings, pies with peaches and blackberries or raspberries or blueberries. About halfway through the judging, one of my fellow judges, Kathleen Merryman of The News Tribune, looked at the crowd and announced "Everything is delicious, but I sure wish I had some vanilla ice cream or whipped cream to go with it!" Although I agreed with her idea, I was really wanting a cup of black coffee, but as there wasn't any ice cream or coffee, Holly offered to refill my water glass and I dove into another bite. It took the four of us (Dorothy Wilhelm, local host and producer made up the rest of the team) about an hour and a half to taste, write notes and hand our results off to the clerks for tabulating. There was a tie in points between second and third place, so the judges had a taste off (damn!) to determine the winners.
Our hands-down favorite was "Rosey Peach Pie" from Kim Arnold – a scrumptious combo of peaches and raspberries whose delicious taste really surprised me when I had my first bite. Unfortunately, she didn't stay around to collect her ribbon and $100 prize, so we got hugs and appreciation from the 2nd and 3rd place winners, Kathy Sayan-Scott, and Kelly Maguire. Sayan-Scott, 2nd place winner with her "4th of July Peach Pie" was thrilled to be chosen. "I'm just shaking" she said. "I've been entering this contest for 8 years, and every year I watched what the judges chose and tried to make a recipe that was like the winners." Well congratulations Kathy – you did it! And here is her exceptionally delicious recipe for you. If you're like me, you'll make this, taste it, and say "I just LOVE peach pie!"
4th of July Peach Pie – Kathy Sayan- Scott
- 2/3 cups shortening; 2 cups flour
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 4-5 Tbsp cold water; 1 tsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp melted butter
1) Mix flour and sugar
2) Cut shortening into flour
3) Add water 1 Tbsp at a time until forms ball
4 ) Divide dough in half
5) Roll 1/2 onto pastry sheet
6) Place in pie tin and crimp edges
7) Brush melted butter on bottom crust
8) Roll other 1/2 of dough out and use star-shaped cookie cutter to make 13 stars
- 5 fresh peaches
- 1/3 cup frozen blueberries
- 20 red hots
Dry ingredients:
- 1/4 cup toasted coconut (Toast coconut by placing on cookie sheet at 350 degree oven for about 5 minutes, let cool)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 Tbsp flour
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp allspice
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp tapioca
1) Peel core and slice peaches
2) Mix all dry ingredients and coconut
3) Add to peaches and stir to coat
4) Place peaches in pie pan
5) Add Red hots and frozen blueberries randomly over peaches
6) Bake at 450 degrees in oven for 15 minutes
7) Add stars and sprinkle white sugar over top of pie
8) Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes
"Pardon this digression; but Pie really forms as important a factor in American civilisation as the 'pot-au-feu' does in France." George Augustus Sala, British journalist; 'America Revisited' (1882)


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Basic tax explained for startups & small business
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If you're planning to start a business or about to start one, welcome to the world of business taxes. Here in this world, your new best friends will be called GST, BAS and PAYG.
Say hello to them:
- GST: Goods and Services Tax
- With GST comes the BAS: Business Activity Statement
- IAS: Instalment Activity Statement
- PAYG: Pay As You Go withholding and instalments
A Short Breakdown
GST is a tax based on the transactions you make in your business – that is, the sales and purchases. There are some GST-free sales and purchases, like overseas sales and purchases, but in general the GST is 10% of most of your business transactions. You need to register your business for GST if you currently earn gross sales of $75,000 or more in a financial year.
You can voluntarily register your business for GST if you earn less than this amount. You may want to voluntarily register if you are incurring a lot of expenses like when you are in startup mode. That way you'll get back dollar for dollar the GST you are paying for your business purchases. This can help with the cash flow for your business.When you invoice your customers you need to charge 10% GST, and your invoices need to look a certain way to comply with the tax rules.
Refer to: ATO info on GST
When your business is registered for GST, it actually becomes a tax collector for the government, as the GST you collect on your sales, less the GST you paid on your purchases, has to be remitted to the government via the BAS. This needs to be completed annually, quarterly or monthly, depending on the business reporting obligations.
It's annually if you are not required by law to register for GST and quarterly if you are required to be registered for GST (you earn Gross Sales of $75,000 or more). It's a monthly requirement if you import goods and are required to be registered for GST by law.
Refer to: ATO info on BAS
If you employ staff, then wages tax or PAYG withholding must be deducted from the gross wages and remitted to the tax office via the BAS or IAS each quarter or month, depending on the amount of wages you pay your staff.
Refer to: ATO info on PAYG witholding
When your business makes a profit, and you start paying tax on this profit, then PAYG income tax instalments will be payable via the BAS. Note: Once you lodge your first business tax return, your business will be entered into the PAYG income tax instalment system, and you will need to pay tax on your business income in the year that you earn it via the BAS each quarter.
Refer to: ATO info on PAYG installments
The tax system in Australia runs from 1 July to 30 June, and the quarterly periods are: 1 July to 30 September, 1 October to 31 December, 1 January to 31 March and 1 April to 30 June each financial year.
Tax Deductions
With business taxes, you also get tax deductions. Here's my list of the top 3 tax deductions for businesses:
1. 100% tax deductions are available for asset purchases that cost less than $6,500, including cars.
Small businesses, whether run by sole traders, partnerships, trusts, or through companies, are now eligible to instantly write off new business assets costing less than $6,500, including cars costing $6,500 or less, for as many assets as they purchase from 1 July 2012. That's a 100% tax deduction right there.
2. Businesses are now entitled to write off the total balance of their general asset pool where the value of the pool is less than $6,500.
Assets costing $6,500 or more can access accelerated depreciation by being consolidated into a single pool and depreciated at 15% in the first year and 30% flat each year after, with no need for prorating the depreciation claim in the first year.
Tip 1: The $6,500 threshold is applied on a GST-exclusive basis if the business is registered for GST.
Tip 2: The $6,500 threshold is applied on an asset-by-asset purchase basis. There's no need to aggregate identical or substantially identical assets to claim the threshold.
3. Instantly write off of $5,000 of the cost of a car costing $6,500 or more.
Small businesses can now instantly write off the first $5,000 of the cost of a car when purchased from 1 July 2012, whether new or secondhand. Cars, motorbikes, vans, trucks, utes, and scooters all fit the definition of a motor vehicle and are eligible for the instant $5,000 upfront deduction.
Tip: The business-use percentage of the car as per your logbook affects how this is claimed. If the business-use percentage times the cost of the car is less than $5,000, then you get an instant 100% tax deduction. If the business-use percentage times the cost of the car is more than $5,000, then the first $5,000 is a tax deduction. The remainder of the cost of the car is consolidated into a pool and can access the accelerated depreciation rate of 15% in the first year of allocation and 30% each year after that.
It's important to meet all your tax and compliance obligations this EOFY.


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No, it's not Jennifer Lopez dressed in a leopard skin-tight leotard top. Or is it?
Because if the editors of Glamour could put two and two together, they might find that the real solution on "How to Shake Off Anxiety and Live Happy," might have a lot to do with not being overly concerned with the "12 Naughty Sex Questions You've Been Dying to Ask," or the "10 Things More Important Than Those Last Five Pounds."
Nah. The real casualties in this phony "War on Women" aren't the voices of the many women not being profiled in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, or Vanity Fair opinion pieces because they hold different views than those in the thrall of the Sex in the City driven mythos of the modern woman. I reckon authenticity isn't racy enough.But they are not benefitting from the missing-in-action voices of women like these,
Run for the hills! Other women with a different point of view exist! Stop them at all costs!
*Share their voices, if you please, because no one else is. Sign up to be heard here.
UPDATE: Elizabeth Duffy on "The awful moment when you realize that being pretty doesn't get you anywhere with God."


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Cathy Lloyd is Professor of Health Studies in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University.
Professor Lloyd gained her PhD at University College London before taking up an American Diabetes Association post-doctoral Fellowship at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Professor Lloyd studied with the Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) team of investigators, following a large cohort of adults with Type 1 diabetes.
On her return to the UK, Professor Lloyd was awarded an RD Lawrence Fellowship from Diabetes UK to study the role of stress and depression in young people's management of their diabetes with a joint appointment between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. During her time there she instigated the first psychological service for people with diabetes in the Trust. She worked alongside practitioners at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital to develop new ways of involving people with diabetes from minority ethnic groups in research, people who are often excluded due to language and literacy difficulties. She currently leads an international study in 18 countries; the International Prevalence and Treatment of Diabetes and Depression (INTERPRET-DD) Study*, and is a founder member of CoIN-DD (the Community Intervention Network for Diabetes and Depression http://wels.open.ac.uk/coin-dd).
* Lloyd CE, on behalf of the INTERPRET-DD study investigators. The INTERPRET-DD study of diabetes and depression: a protocol. Diabetic Medicine, 2015; 32: 925–934 Diabetic Medicine, 2016; 32(7): 925-934
* Lloyd CE, Nouwen A, Sartorius N, on behalf of the INTERPRET-DD Investigators. Prevalence and correlates of depressive disorders in people with type 2 diabetes. Results from the International Prevalence and Treatment of Diabetes and Depression (INTERPRET-DD) Study; a collaborative study carried out in 14 countries. Diabetic Medicine 2018; DOI 10.1111/dme.13611
Professor Lloyd is a member of the Language Matters Group which, supported by NHS England, published a review of the literature* and developed a Position Statement** on the language used in clinical encounters with people with diabetes.
* Lloyd CE, Whicher C, Wilson A, Holt RIG, Kar P. Language matters; a UK perspective. Diabetic Medicine 2018, https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13801
** Cooper A, Swindell B on behalf of the Language Matters Group. Position Paper. Launched by NHS England and Diabetes UK, June 2018; Published in Diabetic Medicine June 2018.
Published online by NHS England; (https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/language-matters-language-and-diabetes/ and https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/language-matters.pdf
Professor Lloyd has an international reputation for research in the psychosocial field of diabetes. Her research interests centre on diabetes and mental health within which there are two overlapping strands. The first of these focuses on the relationship between diabetes and mental health and how this might impact on the individual and on health service provision. The second strand is her commitment to taking an inclusive approach to her research, pioneering alternative ways of involving minority ethnic groups in research where they are often excluded due to language and literacy difficulties.
Professor Lloyd's current research interests include diabetes prevention, diabetes-related distress, community-based interventions for diabetes and depression in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the care pathways for depression and other psychological problems in people with diabetes.
In collaboration with service users from minority ethnic groups, Professor Lloyd has developed culturally appropriate versions of scales used to screen for depression, diabetes self-management and emotional well-being, as well as the Michigan Diabetes Knowledge Scale (including a simplified 'True/False' version) in collaboration with Professor Tom Fitzgerald and other colleagues both in the UK and the U.S. These questionnaires have subsequently been used in a wide range of studies across the globe - please contact Prof. Lloyd for details of and permission to use these scales.
She is the Project Lead for a global study, the International Prevalence and Treatment of Diabetes and Depression (INTERPRET-DD) Study investigating the prevalence of recognised and unrecognised depression (using a standardised clinical interview), diabetes-related emotional distress, the impact on diabetic control and complications, and the care pathways that are initiated to treat co-morbid diabetes and depression.
Professor Lloyd Co-leads CoIN-DD (Community Intervention Network for Diabetes and Depression) in collaboration with Professor David Ndetei, founder of the African Mental Health Research and Training Foundation, funded by a Global Challenges Research Fund Networking Grant. Other CoIN-DD members are in Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
Current PhD supervision:
1. Experiences of diabetes care for people with learning disabilities - Lorna Rouse, The Open University.
2. Eating disorders in people with diabetes - Catherine Mackenzie, The Open University.
3. The experience of those who care for people with diabetes - Anne Turner, ESRC Doctoral Training Programme, The Open University.
Co-Lead for the Health Studies Research Group. Special interest groups include:
- Mental Health
- Living with disability and long-term conditions
- Public Health
Professor Lloyd leads the Health Care And Health Science degree in the School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care.
She is Module Lead for K213 Health and Illness, a core module in the degree, and co-edited the module Reader:
Lloyd CE and Heller TJ, Long Term Conditions: Challenges in Health and Social Care practice. SAGE, 2011; ISBN 978-0-85702-749-8, ISBN 978-0-85702-750-4 (pbk)..
She is a Module Team Member for K219, Critical Issues in Health and Wellbeing.
Her external examining roles have included:
The Masters in Public Health, University of Manchester,
The Clinical Psychology Programme at the University of Birmingham,
Various PhD examinations in the UK and US.
The Language Matters Group, UK
Warwick University, Dr Krys Matyka - Fear of Hypoglycaemia study
Cambridge University, Prof Martin Roland - IMPROVE study
Middlesex University, Prof Arie Nouwen - INTERPRET-DD study
INTERPRET-DD investigators in Argentina, Bangladesh, China, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine.
Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) Study, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
CoIN-DD (Community Intervention Network for Diabetes and Depression)
Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) Study
Dialogue on Diabetes and Depression (DDD)
International Prevalence and Treatment of Diabetes and Depression (INTERPRET-DD) Study
Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes (PSAD), a study group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
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|Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes (AIMHP)
The INTERPRET-DD Study is investigating the links between diabetes and depression (and other psychological disorders) in 20 countries across 4 continents. We have looked at the impact of depression on diabetic control and complications and the care pathways that are initiated to treat those who have been diagnosed with depression. Baseline data in 3,000 participants has been analysed and follow up data collection is now underway. Our first paper, describing the protocol, has been published in Diabetic Medicine: Lloyd CE, on behalf of the INTERPRET-DD study investigators. The INTERPRET-DD study of diabetes and depression: a protocol. Diabetic Medicine, 2015; 32: 925–934
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We will establish the first consortium to focus systematically on building evidence and community practice to tackle comorbidity between mental illness and other long-term conditions (LTCs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Such comorbidity is increasing rapidly and presents a major challenge to SSA health care provision. Community-based interventions appear to be an efficacious response to this problem. However evidence to support this is still weak, especially in SSA. This proposal builds on our existing collaborations which have begun to examine the scope for inclusive and affordable community practice to tackle such comorbidities (Lloyd et al., 2015; Meddenhall et al., 2017). This proposal will build a sustainable research network of African and UK researchers to: 1. Generate a greater shared understanding of existing research on the interrelationships between mental health and other LTCs and the role of community engagement in SSA in tackling the challenge; 2. Identify gaps in current research and practice in different SSA countries from a range of disciplinary perspectives and experience; 3. Develop methodologies for combining research and practice to create and evaluate partnerships with communities for problem identification, decision-making and shared actions for prevention, treatment and management of comorbid mental and physical LTCs; 4. Develop and submit research proposals based on these methodologies; 5. Support the development and training of novice/early career researchers from SSA; 6. Create low cost-effective networking among a new strong and sustainable African network with UK partners for a long term impact in health research.
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Rates of diabetes in pregnancy are increasing rapidly; a trend that looks likely to continue. Diabetes can lead to serious complications for women and babies during pregnancy and birth. Pre-conception care is known to have a positive impact on these health risks; however, the uptake can be low and it is not clear how improve this. Why do some women not access pre-conception services? Understanding that women do not always 'plan' a pregnancy will be part of the solution. This research aims to review the existing literature in the field and conduct empirical work to understand why women with pre-existing diabetes do, or do not, access pre-conception care, focusing specifically on the factors that facilitate or discourage uptake. The research also aims to investigate the views of staff and stakeholders in this area to explore their views on existing and future provision of services. This research is funded by the NIHR's HTA programme and is being conducted by The Open University in collaboration with Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and University of Birmingham.


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Review of THE GOLDEN COMPASS by PHILIP PULLMAN
(first in HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy)
This is truly a work worthy of exuberant admiration. In HIS DARK MATERIALS, Pullman creates a vivid, detailed world with a grand, epic plot, complicated politics, and a varied assortment of memorable characters and relationships.
The book is fast-paced. Near the very start Lyra, our eleven-year-old protagonist, prevents an attempted murder and, through spying, learns of a mysterious substance called Dust, the mention of which seems to rile and rankle the adults around her. From there, it's one climatic event after another as Lyra finds herself swept up in an intricate journey. She moves from one clear goal to the next, but throughout the book the sense builds that Lyra has a greater purpose, one she doesn't know about yet and probably wouldn't even understand if she did.
Let me backtrack and describe this world a little bit. Lyra lives at Jordan College in what seems an alternate universe to our own rather than a completely fictional construction. The geography is very similar, but history is quite different. What strikes me as the most obvious difference, however, is the dæmons. Every person is mystically linked to an animal, their dæmon, essentially a physical manifestation of their soul. Children's dæmons can shapeshift into any creature, often symbolic of the human's emotions, but during puberty the dæmon starts to remain in one form more than others until by adulthood it never changes from that form again. Do I need to mention the incredible metaphorical power of Pullman's premise? And I'm only giving you a concise summary of an elaborate society. Pullman has carefully considered his imagined universe and understands how dæmons fit into this world. For example, when two people interact, so will their dæmons; however, the relationship between the latter is often all the more telling. Another intriguing fact is that humans, while they frequently touch their own dæmons, will never lay hands on another's. As Lyra informs us, no one ever told her not to touch another person's dæmon and yet she instinctually knows it's forbidden, not by law but nature: it's an unspoken rule.
Lyra is awesome. This story wouldn't be half as incredible without her as the lead. She's a spunky, fierce, brave, arrogant, funny, outspoken child who causes all kinds of mischief both mundane and heroic. Nor is she the only likable character. I personally adore books with a huge cast. I've met many people who don't, because they say it becomes tricky to keep track of everyone, but I feel books overstuffed with characters both major and minor are far more realistic. Also, some authors (yes, Pullman) can pull it off and not once did I find myself mixing up characters or forgetting who someone was. Pullman shows us at least a little of everyone's mind. Though there are lots of characters I adored, they never feel like cookie cutter heroes; each individual has their own morals, opinion, and vibrant personality. The villains are easy to pick out, but most of them believe they are doing right, not just for them but for the world.
You will find every kind of emotion you can imagine in these pages from Lyra's comedic, childish tomfoolery to the complicated adult romances she can't yet comprehend to tragic losses that strike the reader with real grief. I've said it before, but it bears repeating: this is a beautiful, allegorical story about growing up both as an individual and as one tiny part of a huge, complex world.


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The North Carolina Visitor Center
At the NC Visitor Center, we are always on the lookout for ways to promote independent businesses and to support local farmers. We are very pleased to be able to do both in introducing P.R. Moore's Produce to our readers.
P.R. Moore's Produce, located at 2427 W Main Hwy, Biscoe, NC 27209, is one of the best places in North Carolina to buy quality produce. They also carry jams, jellies, relishes, chow chows, cured pork, hoop cheese, grits, peanuts, old fashioned candies, live ornamental plants, garden ornaments and antiques. P.R. Moore's is part produce stand, part old country store, part nursery and part… well just a little bit of everything good. They also carry hard to find sodas in the bottle, like Blenheim Ginger Ale from Dillon County, SC. (http://blenheimshrine.com/) Be sure to try the fried pies, homemade, using a 100 year old recipe.


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I also made new months and other calendar pieces for our math board.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
New Concept Question Board
I also made new months and other calendar pieces for our math board.
14 comments:
I wish I had one. The pieces you made are very cute.ReplyDelete
Ms. M
Your boards are so cute! Love the colors.ReplyDelete
I got one too! A plum one :) Working on a scrapbook for my friend, nothing for my class yet lolReplyDelete
I have one and love it. I made palm trees for my word wall, as I had the "Chicka Chicka" theme this year moving up from K with my class. I made some owls that say "WooHooooo for GREAT work!"...I don't have pics of them but can take some and send them to you when I return to school next week. I've also made snowglobes with my kids individual pictures inside to display their new winter work in the hall. I cut letters, shapes, you name it for the room as it's such a great resource! :O) Congrats on your purchase and your room looks great!ReplyDelete
Forgot to say I don't have a blog..yet...but is there a way to post pictures?ReplyDelete
I love the Changes Board! I have a Silhouette machine and love it! You don't use cartridges! It uses whatever fonts or art you have on your computer! I LOVE it! I am so making a changes board for our next unit! I start An Egg is An Egg next.ReplyDelete
I bought one right before thanksgiving! We have been using it like crazy in my classroom with projects. I also found that Hobby Lobby has scrapbook paper on clearance 6 for a dollar all the time in the clearance section! They have all of the really thematic papers that most people wouldn't use but work great in the classroom. I just added pictures of my kids making pattern necklaces from light shapes I cut out on my cricut! Enjoy yours!ReplyDelete
It all looks great! I do have the newest Cricut and have been using both for school and scrapping. I love it. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful ideas on this blog. I especially love the Pete the Cat video. It's a must for me.ReplyDelete
Take care,
first grade teacher in Chicago
I also have a Cricut! I use it most for making titles and such for my classroom but I'm also a big scrappbooker so I use it a lot in general! Congrats on your new purchase! May you enjoy it and put it to great use!!!! Becoming a follower now! -CyndyReplyDelete
I have one and I use it mostly for bulletin board titles.. would love to have lots of ideas on how to use it more!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2011 at 6:14 PM
I've been toying around with the idea of buying a cricut for a long time now... I think your blog is what will finally encourage me to stop thinking and go for it! Hehe..ReplyDelete
Good! I'm glad! I use my for so much! I love it...I've also googled some blogs that are about ways to use it in the classroom. :)ReplyDelete
I have one... I have only used it for a couple of posters. I plan on using it more next year. I love what you have done with yours.ReplyDelete
I love your idea of the Concept Question Board! =) I'm going to make one for my classroom next year!!!ReplyDelete


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This year, more businesses are taking advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) in order to step up their customer relationship management (CRM) and provide round-the-clock customer service. But how exactly is AI making customer service teams more productive?
It's been said that AI-use in enterprises is projected to grow to 62% this year. In fact, IDC believes it will be a $47 billion market by 2020. This is because AI automates loads of processes that were once solely run by people. What's more, it does it faster and more accurately, which can really help reduce your customer service team's workload.
AI, for example, can delegate easy stuff such as answering simple questions to bots, so your agents are more freed up to concentrate on more complex, higher-value things. Imagine that someone wants to update their account, or has a FAQ they need answering — you can train your bot to deal with this simple request.
Here are some more things we can do with AI for customer service:
- We can gain real-time insights across all of our customer contact channels
- We can resolve customer service cases faster and more confidently
- We can optimise agent availability, wait times, and opportunities for proactive service delivery
- We can automatically escalate and classify cases using sensitivity and domain expertise predictive analytics
- We can power chatbots to deliver knowledge using automated workflows
- We can allow field agents to deliver service based on access to CRM data
- We can deliver personalised services anywhere
- And we can optimise scheduling and routing using complete CRM data.
Revolutionising the workplace
Loads of people have been a bit anxious about AI and bots, wondering if it's going to be replacing their jobs. But those people really needn't worry. Customer Service AI is simply here to help your agents make better, more informed decisions and generally be more productive when solving cases. What most people don't realise is that AI will in fact create more jobs, including bot monitoring professionals, data scientists, automation specialists and content curators.
Salesforce Einstein for Customer Service
Great customer service always makes a lasting impression, helping to instill loyalty and trust in your customers. Imagine how great it would be if every customer service experience was super quick and easy to solve, with intelligent, predictive insights right at your fingertips? Your customers would absolutely love you.
Service Cloud Einstein aims to provide that experience for your customers and service agents, every time. It's basically AI for your CRM that's data-ready, modeling-ready, and production-ready. This means you don't have to do any data preparation or manage models, it's automatically fit for your organisation, and you don't need any DevOps.
With Service Cloud Einstein, Salesforce are bringing together advanced AI capabilities like machine learning, deep learning, predictive analytics, natural language processing and smart data discovery. It leverages all of this to make your service team smarter and more effective for your customers.
- Einstein Supervisor
This empowers managers with real-time data like agent availability, queues and wait times, helping them to take smarter actions. It can even predict customer satisfaction and make specific recommendations to improve the customer experience.
- Einstein Case Management
With this, high priority cases get quickly routed to the next available agent who knows what the case is about before they even pick up the phone, making the experience seamless for the customer.
- Intelligent Mobile Service
This means companies can now provide mobile employees with a connected service app on iOS and Android so they can deliver personalised, exceptional service on the go. Round-the-clock service for your customers!
- Bots
Salesforce wanted to make it easy-peasy to implement bots. So, they've offered an integrated bot which is intelligently trained on historical data with a simple setup. This helps agents focus on more complex issues while the bot takes over in the background routing calls, helping customers, and collecting loads of data along the way.
Want to learn more about how Service Cloud Einstein can make your team more productive? View Salesforce's rundown of the features right here.


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Helikon Gallery in Denver has brand new print releases from two exhibits currently on display.
The first exhibit is called 'Pixel Palette II: The Art of Digital Painting' and it features 19 artists from around the world whose work is created using the computer as a painting medium. All work is available to be purchased through their online store HERE
The second exhibit is a solo show by John Vogl called 'Gazes' which features a huge array of original digital paintings printed as giclees and screenprints with a small selection of original works as well. All work is available on their online store HERE


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About: What does your current tax and business advisor do for you?
Steven Feinberg, CPA and the staff of Appletree Business Services are in the business of creating business financial confidence for clients by helping them to better understand how money works in their business.
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As accountants, we help small business owners with a disciplined approach, so they understand where their business is NOW, giving them the confidence to know where their business is GOING, and helping them know, with certainty, what their business, tax, and payroll situations look like in the big picture.
We do this with our unique and simple 6 step process, a "Business Financial Confidence Map", that we provide FREE to new clients.
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Oceanic flags
Adopted in June 12th of 1902, Aotearoa is the current New Zealand's flag. The Union Jack (British flag), located in the canton, points out the belonging of New Zealand to the Commonwealth, and its past dependency to the Crown. In order to differentiate from its Australian neighbour, the Southern Cross have solely four stars. The white edging around the stars was added to be more noticeable.
Asian Flags
Uzbekistan was the first of the Central Asian republics to declare their sovereignty and adopt a post-Communist symbology. The flag was adopted in November 1991. Despite being a predominantly Muslim country, the crescent represents the rebirth of the Uzbek nation, leaving aside the religious aspect, and the twelve stars are counted by the twelve months or signs of the zodiac, but it is also true that twelve are the districts of the country. The interpretation of its colors is varied, although the most widespread associates blue with sky, white with justice, green with the hospitality of its people, and red with the strength of the nation. A second interpretation associates the color white with monoculture cotton in Central Asia.


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Illegal Parking by Hoboken Royalty
Here's a real good photo timeline of "privileged parking" in action in Hoboken!
Submitted by Hoboken411 reader (and occasional contributor) estevens. Thanks again!
In plain sight
So I'm at 2nd and Washington and a Mercedes SUV pulls up and parks illegally on the corner. Mark Settembre, partner in URSA – as in Tarragon/URSA (Northwest, Northwest Edge Redevelopment) – exits the vehicle and sits down at the Brass Rail's sidewalk café.
Minutes later, Dominic Lisa, Chair of the Hoboken Zoning Board, parks his Lexus illegally on the same corner and joins Settembre.
Of course, the parking privileges are what first caught my eye. But the real question is: Why is the Chair of the Zoning Board lunching with Hoboken's mega-developer? This is the third time I've seen them (the first two times at Tutta Pasta). Also… Lisa lives at One Marine View Plaza (4th and Hudson). Why does he drive to the Brass Rail (Second and Washington)?
See what did (and didn't) happen after the jump!!
(Hoboken Royalty – continued…)
Settembre and Lisa proceed to have lunch (Settembre – gray shirt; Lisa – black shirt). This is just wrong…
Traffic cop couldn't care less…
However, a motorcycle cop was ticketing cars in vicinity… and an HPU employee was checking metered parking… no problem for these two!
Wouldn't you like to just park anywhere for a quick sidewalk lunch?


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What is Chopscityball.com? Is it trusty?
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TRB141 Profiles
The information in this page is updated in accordance with firmware version TRB14X_R_00.02.03.1
Summary[edit | edit source]
Configuration profiles provide a way to create multiple distinct device configuration sets and apply them to the device based on current user requirements. This chapter is an overview of the Profiles page in TRB141 devices.
Profiles[edit | edit source]
This section displays user defined configuration profiles:
To create a new profile, configure the device in accordance with your needs, go to this page, enter a custom name for the profile and click the 'Add' button. A new profile with the given name will appear in the "configuration profiles" list:
The 'Apply' button applies the adjacent configuration on the device.
Scheduler[edit | edit source]
The Profile Scheduler provides a possibility to set up a schedule of when the device should use one configuration or another. Different configuration profiles use differently colored dots for distinction. Select a profile from the dropdown below and click on time interval boxes in the scheduler table to indicate on which days/hours the profile should be applied.
If you plan on using the Scheduler, don't forget to enable it:


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If this is the future of the IndyCar Series, we don't know what to think.
DeltaWing Racing Cars--a design consortium spearheaded by team owner Chip Ganassi and Ganassi Racing engineer Ben Bowlby--pulled the wraps off of its bizarre IndyCar Concept on Wednesday afternoon at the Chicago auto show, stunning onlookers that included journalists and IndyCar drivers.
Intended as the answer to the Indy Racing League's desire to launch a new chassis and engine formula in 2012, DeltaWing claims that its concept--"it looks like a land-speed car crashed into a Cessna," said one onlooker--will deliver 235-mph laps of Indianapolis Motor Speedway with just half the power and fuel consumption of today's car, "answering the call for high performance with efficiency and sustainability."
"Today marks a fundamental shift in how race fans and the general public will view all racing cars in the future; this is a game-changer," said Dan Partel, DeltaWing's CEO. "This radical prototype takes open-wheel racing to a new level from both an engineering standpoint and the overall spectator experience."
By targeting reduced aerodynamic drag and lighter weight--just 1,000 pounds including the driver--DeltaWing said the design achieves record-breaking performance with only about 300 hp. DeltaWing claimed it will design, engineer and supply a running prototype by this August.
Watch a simulation of the DeltaWing car on the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course below:
The ultranarrow front-track design is intended to save weight, while fairings for the Firestone tires reduce drag and prevent cars from interlocking their wheels during races. A venturi tunnel underneath the car generates downforce, which DeltaWing said is highly efficient while producing negligible wake to ensure a minimal loss of aerodynamic performance for a trailing car and therefore increasing overtaking on the track. The highly prominent tail fin is intended to increase yaw stability without inducing aerodynamic drag on straightaways
"We are confident that this car will outperform the current-generation IndyCar and do it in a more environmentally friendly way," said Partel. "Auto racing has always been a powerful marketing tool for propelling new technology into the hearts and minds of consumers. This new car was specifically designed to be more closely aligned with the new reality of automobiles that are arriving on the road today. Consumers are choosing cars that provide impressive performance capabilities but with greater fuel efficiency. This prototype IndyCar features those same characteristics, making it much more relevant to the public and the auto industry. It is our goal to make participation in the series highly attractive to the automobile manufacturers as well as the fuel, technology, information and entertainment corporate sectors."
DeltaWing anticipates that the final car will weigh 50 percent less than today's car, and crucially, will generate only half of the aerodynamic drag, leading to speeds of more than 235 mph while delivering "a 100 percent improvement in fuel efficiency."
The first prototype will be powered by a 2.0-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder engine. Final horsepower figures will be based on the car's performance on the track, but by using state-of-the-art computer modeling, it is anticipated that the engine will need to produce approximately 300 hp to attain the performance targets and will run for more than 4,000 racing miles before requiring a rebuild, a 100 percent improvement over the normally aspirated Honda V8 used now.
Just as intriguing as the design itself, DeltaWing's planned business model is not what you would expect. Instead of attempting to land a contract with the Indy Racing League to build and supply all of the cars, the company wants to do the exact opposite.
"Once we have successfully production-engineered and manufactured the first generation of team cars, those cars will form the beginning of a constant evolution formula," Bowlby said. "Our intention is to publish the entire design detail via the DeltaWing Web site, where access will be available to everyone and [will] provide a unique participation opportunity and insight into the engineering world of modern racing cars. Just as we hope to see multiple engine suppliers with different configurations and displacements, we also hope to create a framework that will allow us to see a varied and ever-changing grid of racing machines in a sustainable, cost-controlled and high-value manner. We will be unveiling these plans once the prototype is up and running. . . . The goal is that more teams and drivers will have the opportunity to compete in the Izod IndyCar Series. At this point, we anticipate a complete car with engine will sell for $600,000."
"What's to keep Audi [or other carmakers] from asking [chassis maker] Swift to make one of these?" said Ganassi. "Nothing. We are not a chassis manufacturer; it's a concept, not a car."
IRL officials have not approved the concept for production, but they will announce their plans for 2012 in the spring. Lola, Dallara and Swift have all submitted designs and plans in the past week. All three seek to be the sole manufacturer in an effort to reduce costs.
Reaction to the unveiling was mixed at best, but DeltaWing supporters insisted that the concept will appeal to a new generation of fans.
AutoWeek asked defending IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti whether the car is too weird, especially after Dallara and Swift released renderings of far more conventional race cars.
"I think people can get used to it," he said. "I was just thinking that when the first rear-engine car showed up at [Indy], and the first car showed up with wings on it. people went, 'Oh my God, that's so revolutionary.' This is something really different, and I like it. And we've got to do something. It grabs your attention, and as a lifelong race fan, I've seen all different kinds of cars, and this is the first one I've looked at in a long time and gone, 'Oh, my . . .'"
Team owner Jimmy Vasser, the 1996 CART World Series champion, added: "I think it's very cool. If people are flipping through the channels on the TV, and they come up on a bunch of these cars racing, they are gonna stop and watch for a while. And we need that."
Specifications and technical info (estimated), as provided by DeltaWing:
Weight with driver: 1,030 lb
Horsepower: 300 hp
Wheelbase: 125 inches
Front track: 24 inches
Rear track: 70 inches
Aerodynamic drag: Cd 0.24
Key technical features: Engine and transmission are "nonstressed members" of the chassis structural design, which allows teams to install a wide variety of lightweight powertrains.
The prototype will feature a four-cylinder turbocharged engine that will produce approximately 300 hp at 7,000 rpm and weigh only 160 pounds fully dressed.
Engine capacity, RPM and configuration freedoms are anticipated given only that the rate of fuel delivery to the engine will be controlled by a specially developed fuel flow rate control unit.
Vehicle weight distribution is necessarily more rearward than traditionally seen with 72.5 percent of the mass on the larger rear tires. Eighty percent of the aerodynamic downforce acts on the rear of the car. Inline traction under acceleration through the rear tires is greatly enhanced by rearward weight and aerodynamic distributions.
Unique amongst today's racing cars, 60 percent of braking force is generated behind the center of gravity giving a dynamically stable response. The locking propensity of the inside front wheel on corner entry is greatly reduced.
The transmission features six-speed oval and five-speed plus reverse road-course configurations with sequential paddle-shift actuation.
The differential features full torque vectoring active technology with driver control for balance adjustment. "Active stagger" removes the expensive necessity for staggered rear tire diameters for ovals.
Advanced computer modeling of structures, impact-energy management, aerodynamics, vehicle dynamics and tires has been used to develop the virtual DeltaWing car.
The car's performance has been simulated on each configuration of racetrack encountered during the IndyCar Series championship.


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We were almost skipping with uncontrollable delight here at 5D headquarters this week when the 5D YouTube channel received it's 150th subscriber. Now of course that figure is some way off the 1000 subscriber mark until any money could be gleaned from the venture, but nevertheless it's safe so say that I was as chuffed as a middle-aged Geek could be. After all dear readers, you know me by now….. it's not the money I'm in this game for, nope not at all. Rather, it's the sheer unadulterated superficial adulation, positive affirmation and public appreciation of my self-absolved musings that keeps my ego going.
One of the reasons for the boost in subscribers (apart from the incredible 5D Podcast and the outstanding 5D Conversations) is no doubt the current 5D Competition that is currently running. The winner of this 5D competition will receive a package of assorted goodies; A copy of the brand new Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, a Patient 62 t-shirt, a copy of Brit fantasy film Knights of the Damned and the horror classic The Evil Within. If all that wasn't enough a few other goodies are included, such as a Marvel notebook, a Star Wars notebook and a Star Wars; Rogue One poster book….. there may yet even more added. The winner will be chosen at random when the 200 subscriber mark is achieved.
Not satisfied with just one current 5D competition, 5D teamed up again with the wonderful chaps at 8fifty2.com for a slightly different prize. Zack from 8fifty2 will be creating for the lucky winner a one-off digital download 3D piece of art – namely a classic sci-fi vehicle of the winners choice from the following list;
* The DeLorean (Back to the Future)
* Batmobile
* Millennium Falcon
* Starship Enterprise (Next Generation)
* Thunderbird 2
* Tardis
* X-wing fighter
* Ghostbusters
* Death Star
* TIE fighter
* War of the worlds alien
The lucky winner can also request the context/scenario of the setting for their choice and Zack will aim to accommodate the request as near as possible. This piece of art will NEVER be replicated and will be genuinely one of a kind.
This competition will only be open to the kind souls who opt to become a patron of The 5D Patreon page and will run until the end of February. If you are not chosen at the sole winner you will still receive a digital download piece of 3D art from Zack, though this will not be an exclusive one time only piece…but nonetheless, still great. In addition, by becoming a Patron, people will get to experience first some exclusive interviews, blog entries, roundups, and longer versions of some articles – and they will also be part of a select community of subscribers.
Patrons can potentially appear/advertise on the Podcast, contribute to a 5D Conversation as well as sending me ideas or suggestions, such as films, comics, books and events to promote on all the 5D platforms. If you wish to become a fully paid up member of the 5D universe then just visit our Patreon page and do that thing you do!
Talking as I was a couple of paragraphs ago, about the 5D Podcast (which of course can also be accessed in the Podcast page of this very website) Zack and I this week provided some of our usual nonsensical musings on all manner of geeky delights; The subjects this time included some chat about Zack's new obsession, Star Trek: Discovery, a rather less than satisfying viewing for me from a recommendation by Zack and some shared excitement about a rather exciting new series due to hit Netflix at the beginning of February, Altered Carbon.
If all that wasn't enough for my rampant need for self-indulgent musings I also found time to produce a blog article in celebration of the 70th birthday of my favourite ever director, a certain Mr John Carpenter. The link can be found RIGHT HERE and highlights my unadulterated love for his work, in particular the classic Assaults on Precinct 13….. a sheer delight.
So until the next 5D Diary update – have yourselves a marvellous week.!