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To Chicago Bears Halfback Gale Sayers, 22, it all seems kind of humdrum.
He runs back a kickoff 96 yds., rambles 62 yds. with a punt, throws a 26-yd.
touchdown passlefthanded. So what else is new? He has scored as many as four touchdowns in a single game (against the Minnesota Vikings two months ago), averaged 4.4 yds. every time he has carried the ball, caught 26 passes for an average gain of 15.6 yds., broken a National Football League rec ord for touchdowns by a rookie (14), and virtually sewed up the...
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Coming soon - more highlights less shadow.
Bulcock Street in Caloundra has been one of my favourite streets on the Sunshine Coast, with its Avenue of overhanging figs, but all that is changing as the next few day's posts will attest.
Enjoy the highlights and shadows while you can.
This is one of many theme day posts, you can see lots more at http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au.
© Sunshine Coast Daily Photo - Australia
5 comments
- Tanya Breese said...
oh no...i hope the changes are good?
- 1 June 2016 at 22:40
- William Kendall said...
The place looks exceedingly busy.
- 2 June 2016 at 01:53
- Merisi said...
Looks not only like a gorgeous place, but also a favorite of many people. I hope the change to come is one that does not mar its beauty.
- 2 June 2016 at 04:48
- Kate said...
It isa lively scene demonstrating its popularity. Good photo for the theme.
- 2 June 2016 at 04:50
- Nathalie H.D. said...
Great photo but your words are quite mysterious. I wonder what's coming up?
- 2 June 2016 at 07:18
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IAVA | February 15, 2018
Read: Breakdown of Department of Defense's Latest Suicide Report
The week isn't even half over yet, but there has been a lot going on. With the release of the President's budget on Monday, the current immigration discussion in Congress, a budget deal reached late last week, and let's not forget the Olympics, it was easy to miss the latest suicide report out from the Department of Defense (DoD). While it may not get much primetime attention, suicide reports always provide important information.
What You Need to Know
Each quarter, DoD releases a suicide report, which allows for consistent reporting on the number of suicides within DoD. This report is just meant to give us the numbers. The full report for 2017, which will have demographic information and greater insights, will be released later this year.
Overall, 131 active, Reserve, and Guard service members died by suicide in Quarter 3 (Q3) of calendar year 2017 (July through September). Broken out further, 67 active duty service members died by suicide, 26 Reservists, and 38 National Guardsmen died by suicide. Q3 continues a troubling trend; those that died by suicide is increasing for Guard and Reserve. At the end of Q3 in 2016, 152 Guard and Reservists died by suicide. By Q3 for 2017, that number is 183.
Again, we will have to wait until later this year to see the full report, but these numbers give us some insight on a troubling trend and a sobering question: are our National Guard and Reservists being left behind?
Where to Go From Here
DoD has invested a lot of time and money in their suicide prevention programming. And they have made great strides. Most recently, DoD launched the "Be There" Peer Support Call and Outreach Center and DoD is coordinating with the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Homeland Security to provide mental health services to transitioning service members. These programs extend to Guard and Reservists.
So what's going on? I'm not sure we can answer that question right now. We will look to the DoD Suicide Event Report, released annually, with more information on the service members who died by suicide in 2017.
What we do know is that our Guardsmen and Reservists are an integral part of our community. According to our latest Member Survey, 59 percent of IAVA members are or were a member of the National Guard or Reserves. Of that 59 percent, 74 percent deployed as a Guardsman or Reservist.
And we know there is progress to be made toward suicide prevention. Passage of the Clay Hunt SAV Act in 2015 was the first step, but we are still monitoring its implementation. And while the President's Executive Order aimed to providing transitioning service members with mental health care is a step in the right direction, we will be keeping an eye on its its roll out. Mental health and suicide prevention has been a top priority at IAVA for a long time, and we will continue to fight for expanded access and services.
To see our full position on Suicide Prevention and Mental Health, check out our Policy Agenda. You can find DoD's full 2017 Q3 report here.


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Warm summer days are upon us, which means you'll be spending a lot more time in the sun. But keep this in mind: June is sun safety month. It may seem like common sense, but there are some simple sun safety tips you can use to decrease your risk of developing skin cancer.
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. It's scary to think 1 in 5 people will develop skin cancer. But it's also important to remember that most skin cancers can be prevented.
Here are some sun safety tips you can implement all year long.
Sun Safety Tip 1: Avoid Peak Hours
You don't have to completely avoid the sun; just take some precautions. If you can, try not to be out in the sun between 10a.m. and 2 p.m. because this is when the sun's rays are strongest. We know this is not always possible but when you can, plan activities for times of the day when you will be exposed to less sun. When you are outside, try to stay in the shade when you can.
Sun Safety Tip 2: Wear Broad Spectrum Sunscreen
Apply an ample amount of a sunscreen that has an SPF of 15 or higher and that provides protection from UVA and UVB rays. This should be done 30 minutes before you go outside. Remember to reapply sunscreen as needed and to include the areas people tend to forget like the back of knees, ears, and the tops of feet and hands.
Sun Safety Tip 3: Wear Protective Clothing
There is clothing made from fabric designed to protect you from the sun's rays. You can purchase some of this clothing but you probably won't be able to wear it all the time. Your regular clothes, such as loose-fitting shirts with long sleeves, can provide some protection from the sun. Make sure to wear sunglasses with UV ray protection and a wide-brimmed hat that covers your scalp, neck, ears and eyes.
Sun Safety Tip 4: Consider Water and Sweat Resistance
If you're going to be splashing around at the pool or exercising in the sun, you probably want to also find a sunscreen that holds up against water and sweat. It's important to note that no sunscreens are completely waterproof, so you'll still need to reapply on a regular basis. However, the FDA does approve certain sunscreens for either 40 or 80 minutes of water resistance.
Sun Safety Tip 5: Consider Skin Sensitivity
If you are someone who has sensitive skin or skin allergies, you may want to steer clear of sunscreens that contain para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) or added fragrances. Try a sunscreen designated for children—it's more likely to be gentle on your skin.
Sun Safety Tip 6: Consider Chemicals
The active ingredients in sunscreens are either chemical (UV rays are absorbed) or mineral (UV rays are reflected). There are pros and cons of both, but many people are gravitating toward the more natural mineral options to minimize the amount of chemicals they use on their skin. However, this often comes down to a personal choice and preference, so just be sure to research your options.
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Diane Wiscarson '96 demands civil rights for special needs students
September 25, 2015
Special education attorney and Lewis & Clark Law School alum, Diane Wiscarson '96, has made it her mission to assure that special needs kids in Oregon and Washington receive a fair and appropriate public education. Depending upon the child, this can mean a lot of different things. One issue currently facing special needs students in Beaverton schools is the right not to be shorted classroom time.
According to Diane and some parents of Beaverton students, special education buses are loaded and driving away from schools before the general education students are released for the day. Diane had pressed the district to change this policy, which essentially shorts every special education classroom student in the district by 10 to 15 minutes of education per day, or roughly 30 to 40 hours of instruction per school year. Those concerned with the issue say it's not only an injustice, but also an ADA violation.
Diane has filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights on behalf of one family, and OCR is currently conducting an investigation.
For more background and detail into the complaint, read recent stories by OPBNews, Oregonlive, and the Beaverton Valley Times. To learn more about Diane and her work, visit Wiscarson Law.


text: Classifying logs and boards has an essential economic impact on the forest products industry. In a modern production chain, quality control and raw material specifications are essential to fulfill production system demands as well as end user demands. The subject of the thesis is automatic grading of wood represented by its appearance in various stages of decomposition of a tree, i.e. as logs, boards, components or individual surface objects often labelled as defects. The main method used is based on multivariate measurements and data compression by means of principal component analysis (PCA) and prediction modelling with projections to latent structures (PLS). The thesis adresses mainly feature identification and feature extraction of properties that have an impact on automatic grading of sawn softwood boards. The features are modelled by means of their appearance in the multivariate image space obtained by scanning and integrating images utilizing different imaging sensors. The main goals of this thesis are: to introduce multivariate image analysis (MIA) and multivariate image projections to latent structures (MIPLS) combined with experimental design as a research tool for wood feature description and to give a survey of its applications to identify and extract features feasible for classification of softwood surfaces to investigate the use of an imaging spectrograph combined with a smart sensor for real time grading of sawn products to present the necessity of installing human evaluation and system interaction possibilities into automatic wood inspection systems to obtain good performance This thesis contributes to the wood research field by the multivariate approach so far with a limited use in wood technology research with a few outlayers. The main contributions are: the introduction of PLS and MIPLS as soft modelling tools for calibration and prediction modelling of wood features the evaluation of the imaging spectrograph/MIPLS concept to model the spectral behaviour of the interaction between visible light, the wood surface and the sensor the integration of a multisensor, i.e. a combination of sensors such as X-rays, R-waves and CCDs, and how to insert the obtained data into a linear or non linear model utilizing sufficient information from each sensor the recognition of useful information in softwood scanning. Utilizing electromagnetic wave interaction based sensor data, revealing the latent variables and their variations with respect to quality grading.


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Hi there, SoSG readers. I'm Nick Masset, and the fine folks over at SoSG have asked me to write tonight's Post-Game Thread. You may not know me, since I've been on three teams in four years, and I've only pitched around 150 innings with a 4.38 career ERA. But my coach, Dusty Baker, broke a toothpick in two when Bronson Arroyo loaded the bases in the sixth, so he put me in. To face Manny Ramirez as a pinch hitter. At home. On his own bobblehead night. With a sellout crowd going nuts.
And sure enough, Manny drilled the first pitch into the left field stands just inside the pole (which they call "Mannywood"), hitting a grand slam home run. What was a 2-2 game became a 6-2 game, before I could even break a sweat. And that's it, the Dodgers coast to a victory. And not only do we get swept, but this makes 12 straight games that we've lost here at Dodger Stadium. I mean, SoSG Sax has a friend who is a Reds fan, but he won't even email to say hi, he's so embarrassed at this stage.
I don't know if you can blame me for one bad pitch, but we are a woeful Reds team. We came in three games under .500 and leave six games under .500. And you get a day off before facing the Marlins this weekend. Don't you guys know anything about hospitality?
UPDATE: Manny's 21st GS is second all-time; this was his first pinch hit home run in his career. Wow. ESPN recap here.


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For most Americans, this is not an election year, or the upcoming elections involve only the county coroner and other local offices that no one pays much attention to. But not in New York City, whose population is larger than 40 states', and where a City Council district is larger than a State Assembly district. The odd years are where the action is (second only to the even years)!
The NYC primary is less than a fortnight away, and in a one-party city like New York, the primary is the only election that matters (except in the mayoral race).
This afternoon, I'll be back at the subway handing out flyers for Melissa Mark Viverito. Melissa is running for the open City Council seat in the 8th District, which includes East Harlem above 96th St, a chunk of the South Bronx, and the West Side from 96th to 110th (plus Central Park and Randall's & Ward's Island"s", but those don't have many voters). She has been endorsed by the New York Times and El Diario, and has picked up many other endorsements including former Gov. Cuomo, Rep. Rangel, Rep. Nadler, the United Federation of Teachers, SEIU, and the Working Families Party. I don't live in the district, so I can't vote for her, but perhaps you can!
My City Councilperson is unopposed in the primary, so nothing interesting is happening there. However, I remain open to being swayed in the Democratic primaries for mayor, public advocate, Manhattan borough president, and Manhattan district attorney. (But I'm definitely not voting for Bernie Goetz for public advocate.) Feel free to post comments about why I should vote for a particular candidate.
In the general mayoral election I'm voting for whoever wins the Democratic primary, because I haven't forgiven Bloomberg for the Republican Convention, and because I believe that Blue America should elect leaders who reflect our blue values (if we're not going to be as successful at the national level for now). That said, I don't have the same singleminded focus on this as I did in the 2004 presidential election ("Anyone but Bush") or any congressional election ("A vote for [moderate Republican senator] is a vote for Bill Frist"). Bloomberg's reelection wouldn't be the end of the world the way Bush's election and the Republican control of Congress are shaping up to be. Therefore, I feel freed up to vote in the primary based on who I think would be the best mayor, rather than who has the best chance of beating Bloomberg in the general election. This primary isn't going to turn into the clusterfuck that was the 2004 presidential primary, with everyone swallowing multiple levels of meta to vote for the candidate deemed to be the most "electable".


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Yes, I think that we should encourage Asian immigration. Many people from many Asian countries are very talented and could potentially bring a lot to the table. Skilled immigrants are desired and useful to the United States. We could use more entrepreneurs and intelligent, hard working people in this country.
The US should encourage all immigrants, not just Asian immigrants to the US. Immigration ensures that a population will have the best and brightest of the world in its borders, and allowing many people who would work hard and take risks just for the chance at a better life is something worth having.
I think if the US encouraged the immigration of Asian Americans it can help put us on better terms with other countries and show that we are willing to let people of all races in and can make friends with any country as long as they show us the same respect.
The United States should encourage Asian American immigration. There would be nothing wrong with this and here in the United States we are free people. They should invite anyone who wishes to come here the right to do so. I think that it would be up to the President to extend the hand of immigration.
I have absolutely nothing against Asain American immigration into the United States, but with all our issues with unemployment and the economy, it doesn't seem like we should be encouraging immigration from anywhere. I think we need to figure out how to handle the country with who we have as of now first.


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Frankenmuth celebrates a fish passage success story
Rock ramp revitalizes river habitat and downtown aesthetics.
There are more than 300 dams in the Saginaw Bay watershed. These structures were originally built for a variety of purposes including timber transportation, hydroelectric power generation, and flood management. Over the years dams have had a host of secondary impacts on river habitat in the watershed and on Great Lakes fisheries. Dams impede fish migration limiting access to the river tributaries where many Great Lakes fish species spawn. Dams also fundamentally change river habitat conditions impacting the volume, temperature, depth, and velocity of water at different points in the river. Dams can even influence dissolved oxygen levels and sediment loads.
Over the past century, as scientists have come to better understand the full impacts of dams on the environment, dam infrastructure has also aged. Today communities across the Saginaw Bay watershed and Michigan struggle with high maintenance and repair costs on dams that in many cases no longer serve their original purpose. However, removing dams entirely can be expensive and communities often have concerns about altering the river profile that landowners and recreational users have grown accustomed to. The potential impact of dam removal on invasive species proliferation is also a concern. Some aquatic invasive species like sea lamprey are prevented from spreading upstream by dams. It is important for any fish passage project to include provisions to prevent invasive species from expanding into new habitat.
While the debate surrounding dams in Michigan is complicated, many communities are finding creative ways to improve fish passage and habitat while also minimizing the potential disadvantages of dam removal. Recently the City of Frankenmuth celebrated the completion of a new rock ramp that opened up more than 73 miles of historic spawning habitat to Saginaw Bay fish species.
A rock ramp is just one method used to help fish breach the barrier of a dam without significantly altering a river's profile. A rock ramp is essentially a series of manmade rapids leading up to a dam from river level allowing fish to move over the dam without significantly changing water levels upstream (imagine being able to climb a staircase rather than trying to jump over a wall). The end result is significant habitat improvement for a variety of fish species as well as new recreational opportunities for anglers and kayakers. The Frankenmuth rock ramp was officially completed in the fall of 2015 and provides a real success story of several regional collaborators coming together to solve the problem of an aging dam.
Michigan Sea Grant helps to foster economic growth and protect Michigan's coastal, Great Lakes resources through education, research and outreach. A collaborative effort of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University Extension, Michigan Sea Grant is part of the NOAA-National Sea Grant network of 33 university-based programs.
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I once had a pair of bright pink earrings that dangled from my ears and sometimes touched the sides of my neck if I tilted to look upwards. Each had a long stem with a delicate bud attached at the end. I always wondered about the kind of flowers those buds would blossom into if they were for real, their flowers would look so beautiful, so stunning. I found the answer after 25 years. A walk through Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, revealed to me the inspiration behind the pair of earrings I wore as a teenager. My Singapore tour package revealed to me some hidden gems of this Lion City.
Dangling from perfectly straight bright green stems, the buds of the dark pink fuchsia plant were a hit with the constant stream of tourists within the Cloud Forest. People craned their necks to take in the 35 metre tall man-made mountain with vertical walls of begonias, orchids, ferns and ominous carnivorous pitcher plants arranged wonderfully each on top of the other.
I touched the delicate buds and looked for the flower. A stunning blossom with a tubular stalk, the flower of the fuchsia plant borrowed physical traits of the rose, hibiscus and lotus and angled down like a shy bride. A couple of clicks later, I moved on.
The Cloud Forest is just one of the numerous attractions at Singapore's splendid complex of waterfront gardens, easily accessible by cabs, trains or buses. Spanning 101 hectares, Gardens by the Bay threw its doors open to the public in 2012. With about 380 varieties of plants, it is known for its many architectural wonders, mainly the Conservatory, which nurtures plants from all over the world, the Supertrees Grove – some embedded with environmentally sustainable functions like photovoltaic cells to harvest solar energy, and a suspended 128 metre long walkway between two Supertrees that offers a bird's eye view of the gardens and Marina Bay, which lies at the southern tip of the island city.
Apart from plants and a man-made waterfall, Gardens by the Bay has a number of cafes and restaurants that serve an eclectic array of food. European, Asian and Italian cuisines offer delicious choices for vegetarians. For those looking at Singaporean delicacies, the Majestic Bay Seafood Restaurant offers classics like Chilli Crab, Black Pepper Crab and Peking Duck.
Though Singapore is notorious for its unstable climate with the hot sun quickly replaced by stormy clouds and heavy rains, flooding or chaotic traffic jams are uncommon in this little nation. It's not very unusual to find Singaporeans shielding themselves with umbrellas or walking around with prams that are fitted with tiny fans to keep their babies cool! Most shops sell ponchos for those unaware of the unpredictable weather.
The day ended perfectly with a spectacular display of lights from the Supertrees that dazzled the night sky. I did look back at the Cloud Forest but didn't have the heart to pluck the buds that reminded me of my teen years. How brilliant their blossoms would be! The best part of visiting Gardens by the Bay is that it is free. So even if your Singapore tour package doesn't include it, you can explore it on your own.
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Strategic placement of a coin counting machine at a grocery store is a smart way for managers to maximize overall sales numbers. Shoppers today are often inclined to get in and out of supermarkets as quickly as possible. However, a wider variety of onsite services may encourage people to stick around for longer periods of time.
The Tampa Bay Times cited a recent report from the Florida-based digital marketing company Catalina that found American consumers are creatures of habit when it comes to browsing the aisles at grocery stores. In fact, the report, which surveyed nearly 10,000 individuals in the U.S., concluded that shoppers buy less than 1 percent of all the products on display throughout the course of a year. This means the average person will purchase only 260 different products in the same time period.
These trends may come as troubling news for an industry that is already facing competition from online businesses that allow customers to purchase goods without even leaving their own homes. According to The Wall Street Journal, companies with online grocery options are rapidly expanding into different cities throughout the country. Because of this growth, brick-and-mortar establishments must find unique ways to step up their game and offer services that can't be found anywhere else.
One of the easiest ways to do this is to introduce more customer-centric amenities onto the store premises. For example, tools such as self-service coin counting machines allow shoppers to complete multiple errands in one trip. Diversification of services may even lead guests to spend more time in the store. As a result, they may discover new products and ultimately purchase a larger percentage of the store's overall offerings throughout the year.
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Phone: (920) 929-3535
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- Crisis counseling
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Fond du Lac County residents are generally screened through our Crisis Intervention services. Out of county residents must go through the Crisis Intervention service in their county of residence for approval of admission.
Unit Phone: (920) 929-3513
Patient Phone: (920) 929-6891
For both mental health and AODA issues
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- Fond du Lac County residency ("fixed place of habitation")
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- As the public AODA and mental health services provider, DCP offers services to individuals who are uninsured/underinsured, or on certain kinds of Medical Assistance benefits. A few private insurance companies contract as "preferred providers" with us.
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Helpful Hint: If you do have any kind of insurance, including Medical Assistance HMO insurance, it is important for you to contact your insurance company to see if DCP is a "preferred provider" under your coverage. If not, you will need to go to the preferred provider that your insurance company has identified for your services.
- Dial the Intake Phone number to reach the Intake desk.
- You will be asked first if you are a Fond du Lac County resident and to confirm your qualifying address.
- The Intake staff will then ask you to come in to the facility during the hours listed above to complete necessary paperwork which includes the following:
- Information sheet
- HIPAA form
- Primary Care and Physician forms
- Any other release forms for other agencies, previous treatment providers, probation/parole officer, court, etc.
- Ability-to-Pay form
- DCP is required by State law to do "Payment Level Determinations" using the State of Wisconsin Uniform Fee System. See their website.
- A member of our clinical staff will review your information to make sure you are seen by an appropriate clinician.
- You will receive a telephone call from the Appointment Desk staff to schedule your appointment.


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There are certain features that every thumper should have. Not all do. Do not handicap your fault finding capabilities by buying ½ a thumper. Here's what is needed:
Multiple Output Voltage Ranges
Don't make five faults in the process of finding one. To minimize damage to the insulation and accessories, thump at the lowest possible voltage while delivering the highest possible energy, or joules. Multiple output taps, all delivering the full joule rating of the thumper, are necessary. Some thumpers have only one output voltage, requiring thumping at the maximum, too high a voltage to get all the energy out of the thumper. Some thumpers offer two taps. HVI thumpers offer three full joule output taps. 1000 joules @ 5kV is the same energy to the fault as 1000 joules @ 15kV.
Hipot/Burn Operation
There are some thumpers on the market that have no hipot/burn output, essentially half of what a thumper needs to be. A hipot output is needed to:
1. Apply voltage to a cable to verify the fault and identify the bad cable
2. Apply voltage to learn the breakdown voltage of the fault to select output voltage tap
3. Burn cable to decrease arc-over voltage to permit lower voltage, less damaging thumping
4. Hipot the cable after repair
5. Enhance the use of TDR/radar
A thumper without a variable hipot output and cable burning capability lacks the necessary tools for fast and efficient fault locating. For the same money or less, you can buy the most full featured, highest burn current thumpers on the market. Why buy a thumper that has no hipot/burn output?
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There are many advantages to having a TDR/radar unit not built-in to the thumper. Use the TDR without dragging out a 300lb thumper. More easily replace or repair the thumper or TDR without losing both. More easily upgrade the TDR or get a new one express shipped overnight if it fails. Take it into your office to download traces, or for training. Mount anywhere in the van most convenient and not be restricted to standing over the thumper to view it. Buy the thumper now and the TDR later.
Don't handicap your fault finding capabilities by buying a thumper with only half the features necessary. For the same money, you can buy a full featured thumper. When specifying, require:
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The consolidated draft text of the Environment chapter of the Trans-Pacific
partnership Agreement and the accompanying chair's commentary have been posted in Wikileaks:
The documents are dated 24 November 2013, the final day of the Salt Lake City round in November.
The chair's commentary records the countries that objected to, and in some
cases that supported, different aspects of the text. They are consistent with
the chart:
That Wikileaks posted in December showing one country's assessment of the 12 countries' positions on many TPPA issues.
Updates on TPP & Fast Track Legislation by Alyssa Burgin, Texas Drought Project:
Any day now, Congress will vote on fast-track authority for the Trans Pacific
Partnership. In Austin, we must thank Congressman Lloyd Doggett for his
unwavering opposition to fast-track authority--he understands what is at stake.
But at the same time, we should admonish a rising star in the Democratic Party,
Congressman Joaquin Castro, who has supported this at every turn. Congressman Castro may not be Austin's representative now, but if he plans to garner its support for future statewide (or greater) office, then he should know where we stand. Fast-track authority, which is what is to be voted on soon, will be THE VOTE on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. After that is done, our elected officials will not be able to modify, limit or cancel the agreement. We must act now.
Austin EcoNetwork
And from Move On:
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a binding international pact being written
by and for big corporations, at the expense of good-paying jobs, affordable
medicine and the quality of the air we breathe, water we drink, and food we feed our children.
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This program will also give me advantages for my school years. A special event I has participated was our schools Science Fair for 5th grade and I had won 1st place. I had also went to the district to compete with other science projects. I have also gotten Honor Rolls for years and this year I had got one. My family is one thing that inspires me to get a good career and education. They had been the one who inspired me. The science fair encouraged me to keep trying and never give up. The honor roll inspired me to be the best I can to get certificates and awards. The science fair inspired me to learn more about engineering because you can use our imagination to build robots, rockets, or even alarms. I feel that I will be chosen because I have good grades, I have participated in some things, and I take effort in m papers. I also take interest in my work and projects.
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Khamenei delivered a speech today in Tehran on the Lausanne nuclear agreement. The Iranian leader said there was no agreement in Europe, that the US is lying and that NO military inspections will be allowed.
Khamenei tweeted out similar remarks earlier today.
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Hours after the #talks, Americans offered a fact sheet that most of it was contrary to what was agreed.They always deceive &breach promises.
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Journalist Omni Ceren from The Israel Project sent out this translation and notes this afternoon:
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Khamenei ruled out cooperation with the US and downplayed the prospects for a nuclear deal – but those parts won't be any more problematic than his "Death to America" chants, which the White House has found ways to maneuver around. Instead, the headache for the Obama administration is going to come from what Khamenei said specifically about the Lausanne announcement and about post-Lausanne negotiations.
(1) Politically, the most damage will probably come from Khamenei's declaration that nothing was agreed to at Lausanne, and that White House claims otherwise are "incorrect and contrary to the substance of the negotiations." The statement is likely to boost increasingly vocal claims that the administration exaggerated negotiators' progress in order to forestall Congressional action:
There are those who ask, why has the Leader not made his positions known concerning the latest nuclear negotiations? The reason for the Leader not taking position is that there is nothing to take a position about. The officials of the state and those responsible in the nuclear field say no job is done and there is no necessity… If the question is posed to me: 'Are you for or against the latest nuclear negotiations,' I would answer that I'm neither in favor nor opposed to it, since nothing has happened yet… All the trouble arises when the details will be discussed… the White House, only two hours after the end of the negotiations, published a few pages, which in most regards was contrary to the realities, explaining the negotiations… they were producing a statement which was faulty, incorrect and contrary to the substance of the negotiations.
(2) Substantively, Khamenei's new red lines – if US negotiators ultimately accept them – would detonate the possibility of a verifiable, enforceable deal. The main areas involve sanctions and verification.
On sanctions, Khamenei declared that all sanctions would have to be lifted at the time any deal is signed. The scenario that would trump the phase-out which the White House has declared is necessary to keep the Iranians honest.
Instant annulment of all sanction is one of the demands of our officials… This issue is very important, and the sanctions must all be completely removed on the day of the agreement… Should the removal of the sanctions be related to a process, the foundation of the negotiations would be senseless, since the goal of the negotiations was to remove the sanctions
On verification, he blasted inspections of military sites and ruled out any "unconventional inspection or monitoring" in general.


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Blast2GO in Windows 7 with Chrome
So here is just a quick guide how to use Blast2GO with Google Chrome in Windows 7.
The reason I write this is that I have had enormous trouble getting Blast2GO to work on my system since the JAVA update. Furthermore, finding other related posts on JAVA problems didn't fix mine.
So the error message I kept recieving was: "Unable to launch application". This error seems to be caused by the new JAVA 7 update 25.
So the solution is simple, but it took me long to find it.
Step 1) Remove JAVA.
Step 2) Download Java SE Runtime Environment 6u45 x86 offline here. (you will have to register with Oracle…)
Step 3) Install Java 6 (which you have just downloaded).
Step 4) Go to Control Panel -> Java -> Update
Uncheck "Check for updates automatically'.
Step 5) Still in the Java Control Panel go to -> Advanced -> JRE Auto-Download
Check "Never Auto-Download".
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Jonathan Spencer - Trumpet, Corinne Hart - Soprano.
Outstanding!! We had lots of extremely positive comments from our wedding guests. John, the organist who accompanied you, said to my Dad 'I haven't enjoyed a wedding service as much as that for a long time!'
'Excellent. Very flexible and accommodating.'
Lucy Graham, 5th March 2011
Riverside Opera's run of Aida has come to an end; what a fantastic week! The London Productions Orchestra directed by Oliver-John Ruthven provided the pit orchestra for the productions. Thanks to all involved and looking forward to seeing you on the next London Productions Orchestra booking!
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The London Productions Orchestra are supplying all of the musicians for Riverside Opera's production of Aida at the Playhouse Theatre 23rd-26th March 2011. Here are some photos of the rehearsal. More info about the London Productions Orchestra here.
feature music trumpets Paul Mason, Craig Burnett, Jonathan Spencer and Dave Williams were performing 'Childe Roland', 'Fand First Movement' and 'Fand Finale' with the Enid last night at the Apex, Bury St. Edmunds. It was a great gig in a great venue!
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Consider the very idea of what America means, and what it might be.
American Studies, the oldest cross-disciplinary program at Washington College, is the closest thing to a DIY major at Washington College. It enables students to sample a number of disciplines not just as a preliminary to deciding on a major but as part of their major. It also provides the experience of double-majoring or even triple majoring within a single major, which greatly reduces the complexity of requirements, reduces the total number of courses students are required to take, and requires the completion of only a single Senior Capstone Experience rather than more. Cross-disciplinary training—competence in both humanities and social sciences disciplines—can be more in keeping with a variety of career choices—education, marketing, public service, law, public relations—than concentration in a single discipline.
Extraordinary career preparation is provided by the partnership between the American Studies Major at Washington College and the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, which sponsors a number of paid internships of the type that have led to employment for many Washington College graduates. The Center is the oldest and best-endowed at the College, is most directly related to the College's heritage, and hosts residences for world-renowned American Studies scholars as well as talks and seminars by visiting ones.
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Turk McCleskey, a historian who teaches at Virginia Military Institute, is the author of The Road to Black Ned's Forge. He speaks October 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Hynson Lounge.
Taylor Frey '17 had a front seat to history while working as a White House intern over the summer.
A Veterans Day performance to be staged in Decker Theatre is built around student interviews with area veterans of WWII, conducted for the C.V. Starr Center's StoryQuest oral histories project, "The Real War." The November 11 event includes music, projected images and spoken word performances.


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"Midnight Moment" was the theme for Prom this year.
We love the tradition of seeing the cousins all dolled up before they leave.
Samantha and Carie looked gorgeous!
Clark looked pretty fabulous, too!
He is such a good sport to put up with the traditional "kissy" picture!
The evening was not without drama...
We spent time with Clark helping him get ready, fixing the handkerchief just right,
and asking him a million times if he had his ID, money, tickets, and corsage.
When we were confident that he was good to go,
Cassidy and I left to go see Carie and Sam.
About 20 minutes later, I received a call from Clark...
as he was getting into the car to leave, he heard a big rip,
only to realize that the entire crotch of his pants had ripped!
Thankfully, he was laughing and not overly concerned!
(A big difference between boys and girls!)
He hurried and changed into his other suit (thankfully he had one)
and was only a few minutes late picking up his date.
Boy, did we have a good laugh!
Danielle and Clark
Pictures at Glausers, dinner at Charleston's, the dance,
and trampolines at Desert Devils were the fun for the evening
Love that these 3 found each other and took a picture!
From all accounts, everyone had a FABULOUS TIME!


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Everyone has their own style, but when it comes to professions, there are certain dress codes that need to be followed. Big companies often have strict dress codes on custom t shirts, or at least a definite and clear one that employees can just follow. However, it might be more complicated and challenging for people who work in a free work environment.
A good example is a tutor. Tutors are still teachers; they are just not teaching in regular schools. The work environments of tutors are offices, tutorial centers, and houses. So, with the workplace being different from that of a regular school's teacher, one might get confused as to what clothing articles are appropriate and what are not.
Why is it important to dress accordingly and is it really necessary to do so?
Before we tackle the clothing articles that are good and appropriate for tutors, let's first expound the importance of dressing accordingly. Following the dress code is nowhere near discriminating against genders or races, as some might argue. How one dresses is an extension of their personality, and that amplifies if you're actually employed in a company. It's important to dress accordingly because what you wear and how you wear them say a great deal about who you are and the company you are representing. So, yes, it is only imperative that you dress well.
Now that we've settled that, let's move on to what tutors should and should not wear when teaching.
Do Go for Smart Casual
As a tutor, you want your student to be relaxed in your company as you are not in a strict environment, but you still want to give them the impression that you are the authority, hence, the smart casual attire. Smart casual means that you dress with formal clothing articles with a mix of casual ones. Denim with polo shirts for men and cardigans or light blazers for women would be ideal for a smart casual look.
Do Wear Bright Colors
This is not to say that you shouldn't wear dark colored clothes. However, being a tutor means that you handle younger students that need help with their studies. If that's the case, bright or pastel colors would be ideal. These shades give off a friendly vibe which students like.
Do Be Comfortable
Yes, you still need to look respectable, but you still need to be comfortable with what you're wearing. Tutoring is usually a one-on-one job that takes hours. You don't want to be massaging your feet after three hours because of the high heels or tight leather shoes you opted to wear. Sneakers can be acceptable in most cases, while flats are allowed for female tutors.
Do Not Wear Anything Revealing
This is pretty much common sense. You are giving knowledge and providing assistance to children's education. Do not wear anything that you wouldn't want your own child to see their teachers wearing. Sleeveless, short shorts, open backs, a custom t-shirt with inappropriate language printed on it and such are not ideal – at all.
Do Not Wear Too Formal Clothes
Like we already established, we are going for smart casual. Tutoring isn't like any other business transaction. Suits and long cocktail dresses may seem to be extreme choices.
Do Not Wear Flip-Flops
Yes, you have to be comfortable, but flip-flops are just not right. You are not visiting a friend, even if you are tutoring in houses. It's still a professional job, just in an unconventional workplace sometimes.
The most important thing to remember is to make sure that you are presentable. Being presentable doesn't mean wearing fancy or expensive clothes – it means wearing appropriate ones, so give the tips above a go to look your best.


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2017 Mitsubishi Triton Review: The Most Reliable Truck in Its Series
The upcoming car from Mitsubishi, 2017 Mitsubishi Triton Review is a new design of truck that soon will be released. The company promises this truck will be very steady and durable. This is actually not a brand new car because there are some old generations identified. But, the 2017 Triton series will adapt the 2016 model to meet the market trend and demand. The 2017 model will be equipped with many improvements and overhauls. The company will make sure that new Triton will have a stylish and stunning appearance and comfort. This car is actually offered into three different trim models which are GLX, GLS and Exceed. Each type will have slightly different features and designs so you can choose based on the design that you like.
2017 Mitsubishi Triton Exterior and Interior Design
From the outside, 2017 Mitsubishi Triton Review looks appealing and modified. It will be installed with aluminum steel composite in the body that make the car becomes lighter. Moreover, it is also equipped with front and back HID lights that have smooth shapes that make the truck appear to be more masculine. There are also lighting features such as LED daytime and haze lights. At the front part, this car has huge grille size with the logo located in the middle. It is perfectly finished with vertical lines and shiny finish look.
Inside the cabin, 2017 Mitsubishi Triton is very roomy that creates a spacious feel inside. This suggestions car is also equipped with complete safety systems such as airbags, robbery caution, GPS tracker and Google maps. The guiding haggle is covered with calfskin to make sure its solidness and the dashboard looks very stunning with sufficiently bright color. Added with six inch touch screen make the entertainment experience in this truck becomes very convenient and unforgettable. Other features that can be found in this car are rearview camera, 3D satellite, and Bluetooth.
2017 Mitsubishi Triton Engine Performance
The performance of 2017 Mitsubishi Triton is undoubted with 2.4 liter 4 chamber turbocharged diesel engine. With this engine this truck is able to produce a high torque 430 lb-ft and 133kW. This power will be transmitted using 8 speed programmed transmission. Some rumors said that a mix powertrain will be equipped in this car like 2017 BMW 4 Gran Coupe Review.
Even so, this truck will be very efficient on the road because it loses some weight that makes this car becomes lighter and it needs to create 23 mph on the city way and 25 mph on the roadway. In some countries such as in Australia, this truck will be available with 2.4 liter and 4 diesel engine. 2017 Mitsubishi Triton Review becomes one of the powerful truck in its class.
2017 Mitsubishi Triton Release Date and Price
There is no official announcement yet about the price and release date of 2017 Mitsubishi Triton Review. However, some reliable sources said that it will be released in the last quarter of 2016. The cost for this car will start from $25,000 and $30,000 for the base model. This car will be released in selected countries such as UK, USA, Australia and Canada.
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The MCLA Athletics department encourages prospective student athletes (PSA) to contact the head coach and schedule a visit to campus.
Please join us for one of MCLA's Fall Open Houses or Spring Accepted Student Days. It's a great opportunity to explore all MCLA has to offer. From our beautiful campus to our small class sizes and supportive faculty, you will discover why MCLA was ranked as a top 10 public liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report for four consecutive years.
- Spring 2018 dates coming soon
Daily Tours Monday - Friday at 11:00 am & 2:00 pm
Our students lead tours every weekday. You're welcome to explore the campus after the tour and meet with students and counselors.
Often times, the PSA is interested in staying overnight to meet players, view practice, and see the campus atmosphere. In order to stay overnight, prospective student athletes need to fill out the following form and return to their respective head coach 7-10 days prior to arrival.


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The results are in! Our 2018 Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark surveyed 2,400 consumers across the globe about their most recent customer service experiences, including 11 different channels, both agent-assisted and self-service — over 4,600 total interactions.
What did we find out? Consumers expect more and they're ready to buy more from companies that deliver a great experience every time.
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Mansions Of Madness Board Game Lures In Intrepid Investigators
From designer Corey Konieczka comes Mansions of Madness, a 5-player game of horror, combat and good old fashioned fun.
Konieczka has created a number of popular games based around Battlestar Galactica and Runewars and according to reviews delivers again with his Mansions of Madness horror boardgame. The game is based of off the horror fiction written by H.P. Lovecraft and is designed in such a way that players get a different story each and every time they embark on an "investigation" to discover just what is happening in anold mansion near Arkham.
Depending on the way the cards fall, players will encounter different monsters and challenges as they progress in their attempts to both defeat the bad guys and solve the mystery. Speaking of bad guys, it's important to note that one out of the 5 players gets to be the bad guy or "dungeon master" and has the job of making the game more difficult for all of the other players. Masters get to buy special skills and throw things in the path of investigators that come their way, as well as forcing them to do multi-turn puzzle challenges.
Combat in the game is handled through cards and from what we've read there are a great many cards in the game divided into multiple decks. Some minor gripes about the game include the fact that it can take some time for combat to be completed while searching for the right card combination, but making more decks may or may not be the answer to that.
There is some math involved in the game - rolling "skill checks" against statistics using 10 sided dice and things of that nature - but it is far more streamlined that other games of its type.
Mansions of madness comes with a large number of detailed figurines and a large playing board and the entire box is quite substantial, owing to the massive amount of stuff you get when you go to play the game. Be sure to set aside several hours - the game will not be something you can knock off in the length of a typical TV show.
Interesting in going mad? You can buy Mansions of Madness at Amazon.
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It sounds challenging enough and since I liked a lot BSGO I am convinced that I will like Mansion of Madness as well. This kind of games are topping the industry at this point, it's easy to understand why.


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Nonlinear Resonators: Introduction
|UHQ resonators enable light to build-up in power in a small volume. A milliWatt of optical power can be magnified to over a kiloWatt of continous, circulating power. This makes possible access to nonlinear physics at remarkably low power levels. In this section, a brief introduction to this behavior is given in the context of third harmonic generation. Many of the applications under study in our group use a host of other nonlinear phenomena to control and manipulate light.
Intuitively, one can imagine that a whispering gallery resonator is like a traffic-round-about except with photons replacing the automobiles. In this analogy, high-Q resonators would be very inefficient round-abouts in which the probably of exiting each round trip becomes smaller and smaller as the resonator Q factor increases. In such a situation, one could imagine that a small trickle of incoming photons would lead to a large number of photons trapped in the resonator round-about. This would, in turn, cause traffic jams with only a small input rate of photons. As it turns out, these photonic traffic jams are both interesting and very usefu and they provide one way to apply resonator, high-Q physics.
Figure 1: Third harmonic generation.
|The photonic realization of a traffic jam is optical nonlinearity. Photons very weakly interact in materials, however, when concentrated in a high-Q resonator their collisions become more and more likely. Eventually, a weak input of photons to a small, high-Q resonator causes frequent collisions (i.e., strong nonlinearities). For example, one kind of nonlinearity that we have studied involves the collision of three photons. These photons fuse together through a nonlinear interaction called third-harmonic generation and create a single new photon (Figure 1). Through energy conservation this new photon has three times the energy of the colliding photons and therefore three times their frequency. This means, for example, that three infrared photons with wavelengths around 1.5 microns (not visible to humans) will fuse together to form a visible photon with a wavelength near 0.5 microns. In fact, by tuning the frequency of the invisible photons one can generate a whole spectrum of colors.
|Two measurements of third harmonic generation are presented in figure 2. In the upper-half of the figure orangish-red light is being generated by infrared photons trapped inside a microtoroid resonator (dashed lines give the outline of the microtoroid). Also, in the lower half of that figure, two frequencies of infrared light are introduced in the microtoroid. Curiously, these are circulating in opposite directions in the round-about microtoroid so that we see two distinct colors (yellow and green) emerging as a result of the collosions. It is also fun to realize that unlike an actual round about, the colliding photons that enable the generation of the green and yellow light in each direction are magically able to pass through eachother when propagating in opposite directions. This feature results from the wave nature of the photons and is not captured by our simple traffic analogy. More details on this experiment was performed can be found in reference 1.
Figure 2: Measurement of third harmonic generation.
Another kind of photonic collision is more of fender bender in that two photons collide and simply exhange energy and momentum (as opposed to fusing together as in the example above). This particular interaction leads to a phenomena called parametric oscillation which our group was first to observe in microcavities [2]. Also, when the collisions cascade, as is easily arranged in a resonator, the compounding fender benders produce optical frequency combs. Frequency combs are an active area of research in our group.
Sometimes the high concentration of photons in the resonator enables interactions with phonons. As one example, the subject of cavity optomechanics, whose name we coined, involves interactions between lightwave and radio-frequency sound waves. Also, a class of laser that we are currently studying, the Brillouin laser, uses microwave-rate phonons to create highly coherent lightwaves and even electrical microwaves. These areas are described in more detail in other parts of this website.


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How to use Twitter effectively
Twitter is the most suitable social media to get initial social signals. It has hash tag to spread tweet for targeted users.
By bringing up the account, you come to be able to spread information to many users. In order to do that, you have to bring up your account correctly.
Grow up your account
After you created a new account, it is weak, therefore you have to bring up it. The social signals are easily detected by twitter, therefore you have to get good social signals.
Get follower
At first, you have to do is getting followers. But a user who uses twitter seriously to get information uses lists. It is because if they follow thousands of accounts, it is impossible to catch important information.
But the number of follower is necessary to bring up the account. Of course the quality of followers are important. Therefore you have to collect mutual followers who is interested in same topics.
The followers are similar to external back links on SEO. If a person who has grown account follows you, the account's authority become much greater than before.
The most effective way to get good followers is tweeting good tweets. When social signals happens, some people will follow you.
Tweet and Social Signals
Getting social signal is one of goal to use twitter on SEO. When following facts are fulfilled, those happen.
- Tweet message for proper target
- Original message is included in the tweet
By using hash tag, you can easily spread the tweet. It is the most attractive point of twitter.
Clean time line
When you tweet, it is located on your time line and follower's time line. You should create a time line with few useless tweets.
That is because when a user interested in your tweet, and also interested in you, then the person will check your time line. Then a lot of useless tweet are there, the person will avoid to follow or add you into the list.
Followers increases by bringing up account
By bringing up the account with keeping the quality, followers naturally increases. Because the Twitter's recommend mail come to suggest to follow you .
When the social signals occur, the chances to be suggested increases. Keeping account's quality is very effective to add followers.
User's usage and seo effect
Twitter uses use following functions to bookmark tweet of users. The most valuable signal is follow. But each signal has value as much as or more than book mark.
Favorites are used to bookmarking a tweet. When a user favor a tweet, then the tweet is listed in the FAVORITES list page.
The favorite signal is relatively easy to get. And this is first step to learn how to get natural links. The mechanism people set natural link on their website or blog page is same.
And favorite signal is useful to check the page's point of view. That is because they favor your tweet for theirselves. They do it because the tweet is necessary for them.
By tweeting a message which has link to your web page, you can check if the theme of the page is generally demanded or not.
But when the tweet is not demanded, it does not means the information is useless. The information is not comprehensive to general persons. Comprehensive information and useful information is different.
Just select comprehinsive ones for sales copy.
On the contrary with favorites, retweet is done for other users. When users feel
- The tweet has suitable information for the followers
- The tweet is worth spreading
One more reason is necessary for retweet to occur. A popular person's tweets are easily retweeted, but it is difficult for new accounts.
That is because people think information from popular account has much possibility to be accepted by other person. Or if the information is really useful for a person and the person think the information is popular, the person will not retweet
Therefore I think you have to aim at favorites, after bring up your account, you'll come to be able to get it frequently.
If your message was valuable, and a user interested in you, the person will add your account to a list. This is almost same with follow. Just the number of follow does not increase.
When you added to the list, your tweet appears on the list's time line. Therefore the possibility that your next tweet will be read become high.
Heavy users of twitter tend to use lists efficiently. Therefore your account is frequently added to the list, that is proof of the value of your information.
And I personally think the list is most appreciated signal. Because the users who are using lists really use the twitter. That means you are appreciated by serious users.
Follow is the most heavy relation ship in twitter.
But who follows too many accounts without arranging lists does not read the message. Their goal is the number of followers.
Unread message has no meaning, and the search system, which uses social signal of twitter, knows the greater number of follower does not means important account.
Therefore, an account with hundreds of following accounts is just a greeting.
If you continuously get other signals, follower will naturally increase. We have to remember the goal of Twitter marketing is to spread information to suitable persons, and to be appreciated by them.
How to use the hash tags
Twitter has hash tags function to spread tweet for users who is interested in the topics. The reason why Twitter is suitable for the first approach of social media marketing is this function.
Research hash tags
There are some websites to check the number of tweets with hash tags.
By using them, we can check how many tweet with each hash tag are posted. We have to select tags which are used frequently. Frequently used tags are searched by many users.
The hashtags.org shows graph of usage.
By watching it, you can set proper time to tweet when you use the tweet scheduler.
And you have to select and research some main hash tags for your site theme before starting tweet. Once you do it, you can use the tags efficiently.
Select the correct target for the tweet
After researched the hash tags and the popularity, you have to research who are checking the tags, next.
That is because the tweets which are added to the favorite is suitable ones for the users, neither excellent nor useful ones.
For example, the "#seo" tag's watchers are whom are finding latest information about SEO. They are not who start to learn SEO.
We also have to research the demands of tag watchers. This is very important task.
In order to research that, access the Twitter and actually search by the tag.
And check following things.
- Which tweets are added to the favorites
- Which tweets by account with few follower is added to the favorites
- Research them on Top and All section of the tag's time line
By researching these facts, I guess you can image how to get favorites, and difficulty of shown on the Top tweets.
If you find tags which is popular and seem to be easy to be appeared on the Top tweet, it is a chance. By choosing the tags which is suitable for current account's growth and tweet's impact, we can bring up twitter account step by step.


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General News
- Regarding the inFamous: Second Son price hike in Canada to $69.99, Associate Product Marketing Manager Cristian Cardona said, "SCE [Canada] is responding to changes in the market environment, including but not limited to currency values." [Source]
- Konami konfirmed today that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 would be getting a new piece of DLC on March 25th in North America and March 26th in Europe. Titled 'Revelations', the new content will see you playing as Alucard and is set "just before the apocalyptic events of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2." [Press Release]
- Obsidian doesn't know the release date for South Park: The Stick of Truth in Germany and Austria, saying that Ubisoft will reveal the date "at some point hopefully soon…!" [Twitter]
- After releasing in North America and Europe in January 2013, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch has now crossed over 1.1 million units shipped worldwide (includes digital downloads through the PlayStation Store). Looking at the Ni no Kuni franchise as a whole, it's shipped 1.7 million units. [Press Release]
- Nothing's confirmed yet, but a PlayStation Vita version of Peter Molyneux's Godus could eventually come to the PlayStation Vita. [Source]
- As if there was any doubt it would happen, Lollipop Chainsaw has crossed 1 million copies sold worldwide! [Via, Source]
- According to ESPN Sports Business Reporter Darren Rovell, RBI Baseball will be released for the PS3, Xbox 360, iOS, and Android on April 10th. No official news has been given from the developers, so we'll have to wait for confirmation on dates/systems. [Via, Twitter]
- If you're having connectivity troubles with Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition, contact Climax Studios, not Housemarque. [Twitter]
- The latest update to the EA Sports UFC roster gives you a look at Ronda Rousey. [Screenshots]
- The PlayStation Vita version of Football Manager Classic is set for release in April. Stay tuned for more details next week. [Via, Twitter]
- In addition to the PS4, Galak-Z from 17-Bit will also be coming to the PlayStation Vita when the game launches later this year. [Source]
- Having a little fun, Bruce Straley recently said on Twitter, "Can there be a good video game movie? There's always a first. #TLOUMovie." [Twitter]
- Europe will be getting a PlayStation Vita LEGO Mega Pack this Spring, which is available either for €44.99 in an 8GB memory card bundle, €49.99 in a 16GB memory card bundle, or €199.99 in a PS Vita 16GB System Bundle. The games you'll get are as follows: LEGO Harry Potter: 5-7 Years, LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, LEGO Batman: The Videogame, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. [Source]
- Nascar '14 received a new patch recently that includes fixes for various freezing issue experienced by some players, a fix to sound issues experienced by some players, and more overall fixes. [Press Release]
- By pre-ordering Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on NewEgg.com, you'll receive a $5 gift card. [Check it Out]
- Ahead of its release date of May 20th in North America, NIS has revealed that Mugen Souls Z is now available for pre-order. What's more, it looks like future PS3 box arts will look slightly different, as shown off by Mugen Souls Z [Press Release]:
- Sony Santa Monica showed off how Ares from God of War 1 could have looked much different [Twitter]:
New Videos
- I feel like this live-action inFamous: Second Son trailer would have been better with Troy Baker as Delsin:
- Here's a short teaser for Rocketbirds 2: Evolution, coming later this year on PS4 and PS Vita [More Info]:
- Strike Suit Zero is coming to the PS4 later this month. Here's a couple videos:
- WWE 2K14 is the latest game to get "reviewed" by Conan O'Brien:
- By pre-ordering Drakengard 3 between now and April 9th, you'll receive the Nier Costume Pack as part of the wave 2 pre-order bonuses (the wave 1 pre-order bonuses has ended). Here's an interview with Producer Takamasa Shiba:
Are you excited to lose an hour of sleep this weekend?


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Sue Schaefer (a.k.a. "Mrs. Pudding") stopped by J.W. Walker School last week to talk to Grade 7 and 8 students from local schools about diabetes, as well as healthy eating and active living. She also offered a free presentation last Tuesday night at La Place Rendez-Vous, which was presented by the Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre, Métis Nation of Ontario Health and Wellness, the Valley Diabetes Education Centre, and Riverside Health Care Clinical Nutrition.


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Christmas Morning Must Have: Gingerbread Protein Pancakes
We are TOTALLY making these pancakes whether it be Christmas morning or the day after!!
(makes 8 vegan and gluten free pancakes)
•½ cup unsweetened apple sauce
•1 cup non-dairy milk (almond, coconut, etc.)
•2 Tbsp blackstrap molasses
•1 cup gluten-free all-purpose flour
•One scoop Vega Sport Performance Protein, Vanilla
•1 tsp baking powder
•1 tsp baking soda
•1 tsp cinnamon
•1 tsp ground ginger
•¼ tsp ground cloves
•1 Tbsp coconut oil
•Optional toppings: banana slices, chopped nuts, maple or agave syrup
Whisk together non-dairy milk, apple sauce, and molasses. Set aside
In a separate bowl, mix remaining dry ingredients
Incorporate the dry ingredients into the wet, mix until just combined. Add more non-dairy milk if batter appears too thick
Melt coconut oil in a non-stick pan over medium heat, or use a griddle
Add a quarter cup of the batter into the pan. Flip once bubbles have formed and popped (approximately 2 minutes per side)
Top with desired toppings.
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We are delighted to welcome two new trainee solicitors to Castle Chambers, Naomi Newell and Claire Roberts. Both attended the UEA law school and have been very active in voluntary work. Naomi is also currently on the committee for the Law Society's Norwich & Norfolk Junior Lawyers Division. Both ladies admit to a passion for baking, which will guarantee them a very warm welcome across all departments here! We wish Naomi and Claire all the best for their training contracts with us.
Cozens-Hardy are please to welcome two new trainees
To find out more, call us on: 01603 625231


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Arriving in Uganda as Women in Leadership (WIL) craft volunteer I didn't really know what to expect of my six week women empowerment adventure ahead. But being my third time visiting Uganda I was excited to integrate myself into the community and share my craft skills gained from years of experience in the UK. One thing I knew for sure was that swapping the cold of an English October to help empower women in the warmth of the Ugandan sun seemed like a rather good deal! Crafts play a crucial role in Women in Leaderships work here in Busembatia Eastern Uganda and their work has already touched many women and girl's lives since they began two years ago. In Uganda women and girls face many hardships throughout their lives, hardships that many western women couldn't even imagine. Due to cultural norms particularly in rural areas some parents feel it is a waste of time and money to educate girls. These girls are often left behind but skills such as crafts can be a life line, giving them access to invaluable skills and knowledge to help them make a better future for themselves. The women who come to the sessions can use their craft knowledge to help them generate their own sustainable income. They can sell their things individually in the village or stay as part of the group making crafts for sale on WIL's etsy store: (https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BaNyaboand in the UK.) Susan
16th November 2016
Posted in Blog by ucl_admin | Tags: busembatia, craft, rural village, school programme, uganda, volunteer, volunteering


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The Cluster Series3 products
The EarClimberZ Cluster Series is a beautiful style earring that has a cluster of stones at the bottom that covers the hole in the earlobe then "climbZ" up the ear. There are currently 3 styles in this series. The Merlot (small), Cabernet (medium) and the Chardonnay (long). These styles are so beautiful and perfect for every moment of the day or evening. Because the cluster covers the hole on the lobe of the ear, it hides enlarged or torn piercings in the ear.


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Wi-LAN, a Canadian patent licensing firm, filed patent infringement lawsuits Nov. 1 against 22 technology companies, including Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel. The lawsuits target chip suppliers, equipment vendors and electronic retailers.
Wi-LAN contends the companies are violating its patents involving Wi-Fi and power consumption in DSL products. Wi-LAN claims a patent portfolio of more than 280 issued or pending patents.
"While we prefer to resolve patent infringement through business discussions, we have consistently maintained that litigation was always a possibility when negotiations do not result in a license within a reasonable time," Wi-LAN President and CEO Jim Skippen said in a statement.
Other companies named in the lawsuits include Acer, Atheros Communications, Belkin, Circuit City, Best Buy, Broadcom, Buffalo Technology, D-Link, Gateway, Infineon, Lenovo, Marvell Semiconductor, Netgear, Sony, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Westell Technologies and 2Wire.
Further reading
To read about Wi-LAN's purchase of WiMax patents, click here.
In a conference call, Skippen said there are "significant economies of scale" when suing a large number of companies. He added that company officials "have carefully vetted the costs of these litigations and are very confident we can afford these litigations, and more litigation, if they become necessary."
Wi-LAN has taken on the large tech companies before, with Cisco Systems signing a licensing agreement with Wi-LAN to settle a pending infringement lawsuit. Cisco also bought from Wi-LAN patents related to WiMax and antenna technology.
Skippen said his company has successfully negotiated licensing deals with a number of technology companies. Founded in 1992, Wi-LAN's patent portfolio includes such fundamental wireless technology as CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), DOCIS, DSL, GSM/EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution), V-Chip and WiMax.
Check out eWEEK.com's Mobile & Wireless Center for the latest news, reviews and analysis on mobile and wireless computing.


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Is it possible with just Hitflm Express to recreate the old intro for the ABC Novel for Television Intro
Here is an uploaded version of it
I think you could achieve it with a bunch of images, and the background logo, and animate the movement of each layer.
Definitely doable in Express. The layers look pretty simple, and all the animation appears to be linear (not surprising given the date this was made).
Totally doable in Express.
The two layers of horizontal lines are easy to create with a small plane and the grid filter.
The background is a plane with a gray gradient, the ABC circle is a masked plane with a gradient, and the text... Has a gradient.
The only thing here that will take any time at all is creating that grid of lights, which is manually placing small lens flares on a single plane.
Otherwise animation is simple sing-axis moves with linear keyframes.
"The only thing here that will take any time at all is creating that grid of lights, which is manually placing small lens flares on a single plane."
...or using the Half Tone effect on a mid-grey plane to make an array of white circles on a black background, blurring them, and using Demult to kill the black.
...or make a single white circle over black. Demult, Blur, Tile.
@jsbarrett nice! Two simple elegant solutions! I think I like your half tone idea, with glows after the Demult.
Or having a PNG with vertical lines, a PNG with horizontal lines and a PNG with circles. Mix them with care in a composite shot then add glow and bake 20 min at 180°F while keyframing the position
@Emecorp that would work also. :-) I'm just one of those people who always tries to find a solution using Hitfilm's tools before saying, "Well, first you need to go into another program..."
Pros and cons--creating your elements procedurally in Hitfilm means that you can instantly change the look of the elements inside Hitfilm by adjust the filters used (so changing the spacing on horizonal lines by adjust the grid points), and you don't have external media to keep track of with the project file. On the other hand, creating PNG elements and animating those might be a little faster to render since Hitfilm isn't creating assets on each frame, just positioning something already created. That said, this is a simple enough project I don't think there's be much lag.
Bottom line SolidSnake2003 is you can absolutely create this in Hitfilm Express using multiple methods (there are other ways to do this that haven't been brought up yet).
Incidentally, if you don't have it yet, here's the font you'll need to recreate the ABC logo: https://www.ffonts.net/Velocity.font?text=abc (Look for a small RED "Download" button, not the big BLUE "Download button that installs some adware crap.)
Or, you can use this font: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/neometric-font/
Or, if you don't want to install the font, this page will create a bitmap graphic for you to import: https://fontmeme.com/abc-font/
EDIT: I've personally downloaded and installed both linked fonts. They both work correctly in Hitfilm.
Ah, the hell with it. Here. I built it for you in Hitfilm Express 2017. This is in 1080p, using the entire 16x9 aspect ratio. If you want to redo this at a 4:3 aspect ratio or different resolution you can either modify this project or use it as a guide to create your own.
The actual ABC logo animates for 4 seconds before becoming static. I animated for 5 seconds because of the additional width of the HD aspect ratio.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qnoiex02wgwycw8/ABC Novel ForTV Intro.hfp?dl=0
I used the free font "Abril Fatface" for the "Novel for TV" text and the "Velocity" font for the "ABC" logo.
Took about 20 minutes, start to end.
@Jsbarret man, you were totally right about the halftone effect. Good call, again!
@Emecorp if you want to grab the project file I linked in my prior post, go for it.
One thing I've realized lately is that GRID is an underrated effect. I'll be using Grid to make alignment guides in the Hit-U tutorial going up tomorrow, and using Grid to create graphics elements in a tutorial that should be on the official Hitfilm channel next week.
@Triem23 I use Grid for a single alignment '+' at 0.0 and saved it as a Preset called 'Alignment Grid'. Leave where it is, or drag around to where you need things to sit.
You can drag two of those onto a plane layer and move the centres about to make boxes of varying sizes for Text etc. to stay inside., like custom 'safe' areas.
Edit: Oh, your Layer in the project is also called 'Alignment Grid'
I once used grid with 3d extrusion to make a set of shelves
Yeah! I already dissected your file, actually change the Half-Tone settings as I thought the circles where too close together, and boom. Few clicks and it's done.
Thanks again for enlighting us
Triem23 - Thanks for the project file. It is working perfectly. I couldn't have done it better myself.


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Vintage JCPenney TV commercial
It's time for the JCPenney Bassett Bedding Bonanza! If you happen to be looking for both bedding and a bonanza, all at the same time, you're in luck! JCPenney has you covered.
This is a cheesy old Penney's commercial that, according to the YouTube uploader, was recorded Memorial Day weekend of 1985. And in '85, these were some pretty slick and cutting edge TV ad graphics, let me tell you! The sound effects are quite amazing too. :D
Note: Video is Flash format. If you don't see it, you must temporarily disable your ad-blocking programs.


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#ALTERED0202, Altered, Houston, IRromance, Law school, Liv & Nicholas, multicultural, New Adult Fiction, NewAdult, Novel, Romance, WeNeedDiverseBooks
I write what I see. And what I see is a diverse population going about their business, living their diverse lives.
I suppose my life experience is very much similar to many while at the same time being very different from others. I live in a culturally diverse neighborhood. My daughters attended culturally diverse schools. I work in a culturally diverse environment. The relationships I see every day are both culturally homogeneous and multicultural.
When I set out to write ALTERED, I patterned Liv after my daughter who is Creole, and Nicholas after Robert Sheehan, the actor, just because he was my celebrity crush at the time. It didn't occur to me that I was doing anything special or outside the norm, but when it was time to market ALTERED, it was deemed a multicultural romance.
When writing Scale Steps, my heroine, Faith, is biracial (African-American and Irish) and she meets an actor, Andrew, from her favorite television show in Scotland, who is indeed… Scottish. Again, I didn't set out to write a multicultural relationship, but rather a natural relationship born out of my usual surroundings.
So now I have branded myself a multicultural romance author because apparently that's what I write. To me, I'm just writing about everyday life.


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Feeling New and Excited
Rebooting Your Excitement about Your Goals
Power Episode#384 –Each day you should wake up feeling new and excited about what the day will bring. When it comes to your goal achievement it is important to stay energized. On Designing Your Life Today, Pat Council shares 3 strategies for rebooting your excitement about your goals. When you can stay as excited about your goals as the first day you made them, you will find it easier to stay on course. As you listen to today's Designing Your Life Today, find out reasons to have an authentic why and the value of being conscious of the outcome you imagine. Get inspired to take responsibility for the outcome of your personal environment.
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