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Salesforce Consultant
- Identified and executed efficient processes for companies owned by acquaintances
- Assisted in writing/delivering lectures for Dreamforce 2014
- Active participant in the Force.com Success forums with 100% positive reviews
- Produced and delivered a number of training tools (video, apps, dashboards) to facilitate quick and easy user
- Key contributor to defining SLA terms and pricing for Outbox Systems' products
- Pioneered technique for lead conversion tracking
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Salesforce Consultant
Conducted Design workshops with various stakeholders from business and sales teams for gathering requirements.
- Worked closely with various tracks to ensure consistency of requirements and setting right expectations for the design.
- Prepared High Level design and technical design documents.
- Developed Proof of Concepts and design prototypes for requirement and design validation with the stakeholders.
- Worked on fitment analysis for categorization of all requirements according to complexity and implementation feasibility in Salesforce platform.
- Worked on gap analysis of requirements with upstream and downstream teams to ensure accuracy in designs.
- Conducted breakout sessions with other teams to resolve design conflicts and address concerns.
- Demonstrated out of the box Salesforce capabilities and proposed business process changes to take full advantage of Salesforce capabilities.
- Development of various functionalities using point and click capabilities and Force.com features.
- Implemented security and sharing rules at object, field, and record level and created roles for Support agents and managers. Created various profiles and configured permissions for the business users according to the organizational hierarchy.
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Salesforce Consultant
Data analysis, management, and migration.
- Establish, Maintain & enhance security, using profiles and role hierarchy.
- Design, document, build, test and deploy enhancements to Salesforce instance
- Project management: Planned and outlined project requirements, and resources. Maintained budget and deadlines.
- Managed project deployments and rollouts using agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Create and manage workflows, complex formulas, basic triggers and flows.
- Designed and implemented custom Visualforce pages and apex classes.
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Salesforce Consultant
- Gathered requirements and prepared requirement documents and technical design documents to meet the business rules.
- Used Data Loader for insert, update, and bulk import or export of data from Salesforce.com objects. Used it to read, extract and load data from comma separated values (CSV) files.
- Created Validation Rules, workflow rules, time triggered tasks, email alerts, filed updates to implement business logic.
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Salesforce Consultant
- Served as the Communications Lead on an Accenture-led implementation of Salesforce Service Could and Sales Cloud at the United States Postal Service
- Led a team of 6 Analysts who managed the change agent network, conducted focus groups, diagnosed change readiness, and communicated to end users about the implementation
- Created and managed a project plan with 500+ rows of tasks, milestones and deliverables. Communicated progress as part of a large implementation project. Led all communication to both the Sales and Service organizations as part of the change management team.
- Facilitate a week of Service Cloud training as part of an elaborate train-the-trainer initiative. At the end of the implementation, the Change Management team transitioned into one unified training team focused on end user readiness.
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Salesforce Consultant
Create and administer training programs for companies based on their specific Salesforce Customizations from Contact Manger to Enterprise Editions
- Setup and configure custom fields, objects, reports, and dashboards to help companies optimize their use of time and data, with initial and reimplementation of Salesforce
- Review business processes with companies to implement best practices from marketing through customer retention
- Work with developers and install applications to create the most simplistic and automated process possible to save on cost per customer
- Connect salesforce.com to company websites for increased automation
- Develop workflow rules, approvals, and validation rules to keep data clean
- Clean data with pre-implementation and within Salesforce with preventative measures to assist clients with data quality moving forward with Salesforce
- 24/7 one on one customer support
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Student Salesforce Consultant
- Managed overhaul of sales database from Filemaker and Microsoft Excel to Saleforce CRM
- Educated full time staff on how to implement Salesforce CRM into their respective positions
- Developed successful marketing campaign to identify and contact entrepreneurial Haas alumni
- Researched and implemented Social Media marketing and analytics strategies
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Salesforce Consultant
Interacting with Executive Management Team to customize SFDC merged with Property Base for unique needs of Real Estate company.
- Creating custom objects and fields- using Force.com developer toolkit as well as App Exchange to develop custom business logic.
- Defining and creating custom reports- using function analysis to determine which fields are necessary for various level reporting- assisting managers better utilize SFDC as a sales and efficiency tool.
- Defining and creating custom workflow to replicate multiple scenarios of various real estate deals
- Defining and creating custom action plans to implement based on the multiple scenarios of various real estate deals
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Salesforce Consultant (sales and Service Cloud Implementation)
Performed an architectural audit on the custom application; identified and prioritized risks and problems related to performance, stability and security.
- Implemented and maintained Salesforce Service Cloud and Sales Cloud. Built custom solutions with Apex and VisualForce, which support most critical processes and workflows at Hilton.
- Salesforce.com Configuration and Design of Service Cloud, Sales Cloud and Force.com solutions, with an emphasis on Service Cloud solutions
- Implemented Service Cloud including: Service Console, Customer Portal & Communities, Case Feed, Knowledge Base and Entitlements.
- Designed and implemented a team development methodology that allows teams in the USA and India to independently work on features. This resulted in higher development productivity and lower number of regression issues.
- Continuous Integration with automated continuous unit test runs and automated deployments to QA, UAT and Production.
- Created data migration strategies and solutions (based on Apex Data Loader scripts) for the automated migration of complex datasets from one org to another; while maintaining referential integrity between different tables.
- Improved and extended the functionality of the existing custom application; designed and built multiple client facing custom modules with Apex and VisualForce.
- Designed and implemented critical business processes, workflows and tool on the Salesforce platform.
- Implemented and managed SCRUM based agile software development; managed a team of 15 professionals on a day by day basis. Chaired the weekly management meeting and played a crucial role in initiating and managing business improvement initiatives.
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Sr. Salesforce Consultant
Working for Opportunity to Quote Team on Specialist Forecasting.
- Designed Customized Forecasting system for the internal sales team at [company name]
- Designed Workflow rules, VisualForce pages and using Apex Code created triggers and classes.
- Created Batch Scheduler to be scheduled at specific time and also run the process on demand to meet the business requirement.
- Created Sharing rules and Permissionsets for user groups to share the records.
- Handled Security related Issues XSS and XSRF as needed to meet salesforce security standards.
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Beauty is the Gods
February 16, 2017
It is easier to see and appreciate beauty when it is pleasing to us. We look at a sunset and can see the hands of the gods at work in it. We can appreciate the beauty there and take it in with tranquility. But there is beauty in so many things and not all of … More Beauty is the Gods

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Deep Thaw (PG-13)
January 28, 2010
Deep Thaw (PG-13)
Tagline: Things are gonna heat up.
Locked in the grips of a global deep freeze, American president (Morgan Freeman) orders a rag-tag group of scientists and coal miners (Bill Paxton, Hillary Swank, Randy Quaid, Omid Djalili) to drill to the Earth's core in the hopes of triggering geological activity to (hopefully) warm the planet.
Robert Duvall, plays a marine turned preacher, comes out of retirement to lead the crew – but ultimately jeopardizes the mission when he starts to believe they are really in Hell.
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Duvall: "We're moving too slow. Now I'd say the Indian guy (Djalili) & the boy (Swank) weigh about the same as my trunk full of bibles, so we have to kill 'em."
Rainbow Girl (PG-13)
December 29, 2008
Rainbow Girl (PG-13)
Genre: Drama
Reimagining of the 'Rainman' legend in which selfish yuppie, Fanny Houlihan (Emma Thompson), is reunited with her estranged, autistic, tourettes suffering brother, Mickey (Joe Pesci) on a road trip across the USA in search of the doctor who may hold the secret to a cure (Morgan Freeman).
Unfortunately, Mickey's condition turns out to be highly contagious to people who share his DNA, and Fanny is faced with the choice of losing the brother she loves, or losing her mind.


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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Being at Grandma and Grandpa Pendletons in California
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you are so lucky that you guys were able to visit both sets of parents (grandparents) in the same trip!! Great pictures!
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The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Server Project on Thursday released Version 1.3.27 of its popular Web server software, an upgrade that includes fixes to three security vulnerabilities.
The new Apache HTTP server (download new version here) was described as principally a security and bug-fix release. It plugs a hole that exists in all versions of Apache prior to 1.3.27 on platforms using System V shared memory based scoreboards.
That vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code under the Apache UID to exploit the Apache shared memory scoreboard format and send a signal to any process as root or cause a local denial-of-service attack.
Another bug that made Apache susceptible to a cross site scripting vulnerability in the default 404 page of any Web server hosted on a domain that allows wildcard DNS lookups was also secure.
The Apache Foundation said some possible overflows in ab.c, which could be exploited by a malicious server, were also fixed.
It has been fitted with a new ErrorHeader directive and configuration file globbing that can now use simple pattern matching. Apache has also made the protocol version (eg: HTTP/1.1) in the request line parsing case-insensitive, a key upgrade over previous versions.
Other highlights include:
On specific platforms, new features in the upgrade include support for Caldera OpenUNIX 8 and the ability to use SysV semaphores by default on OpenBSD. It also implements file locking in mod_rewrite for the NetWare CLib platform.
The Foundation said several minor bugs found in Apache 1.3.26 (or earlier), including mod_proxy fixes, have been included in Apache 1.3.27.
Separately, the Jakarta Ant-Dev has released Version 1.5.1 of Apache Ant, a Java-based build tool that allows full portability of pure Java code. (Download new version here. The Jakarta Ant-Dev upgrade also fixes several bugs in older versions.


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FundsLibrary announce Values Awards Winners
The first quarter of the year has been incredibly busy, with lots of great work and client collaboration already undertaken. We have recently announced our strategic partnership with 360 Fund Insight with whom we can broaden what we offer to our client base as one of the UK's leading digital platforms, and also enable us to become one of the pre-eminent firms within Europe. We completed the annual refresh over 30,000 KIIDs in a timely and accurate manner and also held a successful Solvency II breakfast panel in London. The next three months are set to be just as busy and we look forward to lots more activity and teamwork.
The quarterly Values Awards provide the opportunity to celebrate great examples of FundsLibrary employees who have contributed significantly over the past three months and who have successfully demonstrated the company's core values, the key standards by which we approach our business. Every member of the business is given the opportunity to nominate who they believe has demonstrated what it means to deliver a professional, high quality service with passion. Our five core values are:
Successful Client Collaboration
Inspired Team Working
Taking a Stance for Quality
Having a Winning Attitude
Demonstrating our Expertise
The nominations have been collected and counted and we now proudly present the winners of our Values Awards.
Gemma Bennett: Gemma joined the business in November 2018. She has taken on her role with confidence and enthusiasm and has a fantastic attitude, driving jobs and projects to be completed quickly and efficiently.
Tom Pillar: Tom exemplifies the effort put in by the Data team on a daily basis. He organises himself well and often goes the extra mile, displaying a great level of commitment. His client collaboration is fantastic, helping to deliver great results and build excellent working relationships.
Jack Rose: Jack has been a real driver of front-end quality. He is always keen to share his knowledge and expertise with his co-workers. His colleagues often say that they have learnt valuable skills working alongside him.
Becky Blinkhorn: Becky has demonstrated her dedication and commitment to quality within the various legal projects she has undertaken over the past three months. Becky has a calm and patient attitude and is always approachable and happy to share her valuable knowledge and advice at all times.
Chris Bawn: Chris is easy to approach and quick to help where he can. He has a calm and knowledgeable presence, is excellent at communicating progress both internally and with clients. He is a valued and safe pair of hands within the Data team.
Congratulations to all the winners!
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My Nano tip is to wrap your mind around the fact that you WILL finish no matter what. The last three years, because I'm always behind by about 30k words, I've barely participated in the Thanksgiving festivities in order to ensure that I reach my goal. Three years in a row and going for my fourth win, although this year I'll stay ahead of the word count.
You don't have to write 1,666 words all at one time each day. Break it up into spurts of writing if that is more manageable. Ten minutes here, twenty minutes there–it all adds up. Write even if you don't feel like it, you can make sense of the nonsense later.
I was an utter failure at NaNo! Here's my tip: Look ahead at your schedule in the month of November. Instead of attempting to write the same number of words each day, plan low-word days and high-word days that average out to equal your goal number of words.
Just keep writing. Write in any spare second you find. If you get stuck, skip ahead (or behind) and fill in the details later. I found out you can get 50,000+ words even while working part-time, celebrating three family birthdays, Thanksgiving holiday with family, and a book release.
Find a writing partner or group to check in with a few times during each week. You can meet in person at the coffee shop/diner, library, etc. or online, doesn't matter. You'll need someone to cheer you on and hold you accountable for those daily goals.
Just keep writing every day, even if you're under the daily word quota. The best thing about NaNo is it gets you into a routine, and that's how you finish your book, even if it's not within the month.
Everybody else is going to talk about word count and getting ahead, all good advice. My advice is to get up and walk around about every half hour, even if it is just around your chair. Save your progress, take a walk. You will be able to work longer and write better. The only person who may be disappointed will be your chiropractor.
It's about quantity, not quality. I've had characters burst into song whenever I couldn't think of what they could say.
— Marvelle
My best tip for NaNoWriMo, I'd say, is to plan ahead! I know some people are pansters, but I've found that if I start doing NaNo without some sort of outline ready, or if I start with an empty plot… I'll find myself a few days in and have ran out of things to write! So, definitely plan ahead. And if you do find yourself stuck…writing prompts are lifesavers!
If we pantsers jot down the key plot points & black moment details on index card/Post-It Notes…it will keep us on track without losing spontaneity.


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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "Huh. It works. It makes sense."~ BARACK OBAMAThe Republican congressional leadership, unable to keep a single promise of consequence, is bloodied and in retreat, and the imbroglio over the budget deficit is its Waterloo.
The retreat is no surprise because Mitch McConnell and John Boehner find themselves between a very big rock and a very hard place.
The rock is the reality that Republicans will be blamed if there is a debt default, while the hard place is the right wingers who have hijacked the GOP, demanding lower taxes and smaller government.
Compromising for the greater good, as well helping to insure long-term policy successes, was once a Republican virtue, but it has no place in an era in which ideological purity is demanded of GOP officeholders.
Representative Eric Cantor, who has replaced an exhausted Boehner at the negotiating table, has succeeded in making the House speaker seem like a pillar of probity, and President Obama has taken pains to praise him for "acting in good faith."
Cantor, meanwhile is being childish.
"[He] has shown he shouldn't be at the table and Republicans agree he shouldn't be at the table," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid late last week. "He has walked out on the meetings with the vice president of the United States."
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Having committed time and again to protecting the rich while trying to rob the poor, Cantor has nothing to bring to the table except empty rhetoric for the benefit of the GOP's base, which has become a demographic nightmare with dire long-term electoral consequences for a party whose loudest voices are inchoate Tea Party babbling.
The Republican march to failure was inevitable because of two linked-at-the-hip factors:
* The party leadership's feigned affection for the Tea Party. While few Republican bigs took the Tea Party seriously, they saw it as a source of votes. What these bigs did not take into account is that they would become beholden to the Tea Party and its insurgent freshman congressfolk in unanticipated and unpleasant ways.
* When the leadership, all aglow over its empty Pledge for America, promised to cut $100 billion from the federal budget this year without raising taxes and repeal health-care reform.
The budget slash-and-burn was unrealistic because of the party's innumerable sacred cows, while the health-care initiative was dead on arrival because the people who embrace reform are not, of course, the Republicans' favorite targets -- illegal immigrants and layabouts whom they claim would rather collect unemployment insurance than work -- but rather middle class voters whose lives have been ravaged by the Bush Recession.
Among the ironies here is that the deficit is a product of Bush era profligacy, something that many voters seem to understand, while congressional Republicans have further tied their own hands by overwhelmingly supporting the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a piece of flapdoodle that states its signers will oppose hikes in most income tax rates and any reduction or elimination of deductions and credits unless matched by reducing tax rates.
Another irony is that the GOP leadership has allowed itself to be played by Obama and has no answer to his contention that the party has a "gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners."
This is because it is true.
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Great Republican Retreat of 2011
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Ekaterina Dashkova
There is an obligatory stop if you walk along Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg: the monument to the great Caternia II the Great of Russia. This Polish Empress reigned in Russia for 34 years to the late eighteenth century and one of the reasons why it deserves some attention is her patronage of culture (see: the Russian Academy of Sciences). She had contact with people like Voltaire or Euler and before news of a recess in the publication of the Encyclopedia, Diderot offered to finish the job in Russia.
The main reason to mention her here is the appearance in this monument of Ekaterina Dashmova (1743-1810) among her most influential men of his reign: in 1783, Catherine II named her director of the Russian Academy of Science. She was philologist but this woman was one of the most important women in science in front of a great country.
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The Zoological Museum in Saint Petersburg
The Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences is a very beautiful building and a very interesting museum located next to the Russian Academy of Sciences. This post should be more interesting if this blog was a botanical blog but if we we set our sight at the top of the dome we'll see a representation of a celestial globe. Maybe it's silly, but it can not go unnoticed.
The Russian Academy of Sciences
In the period 1697-1698, Emperor Peter I of Russia traveled to England and the Netherlands and he could observe the development of culture and science in those countries. Peter I saw the necessity of promoting a cultural program in Russia to develop Russian science and began corresponding with Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) about the state of Russian science. The result of this relationship was the establishment of a scientific academy in St. Petersburg which Leibniz would give precise instructions to found it as buying scientific books and founding museums and libraries. Leibniz also suggested that the new academy had to be conceived in the new Western European style so Russian science could have the same level as English, German or French cultures. Peter I decided to travel to Paris to visit the Paris Academy and he had the opportunity of attending one of its meetings in 1717 and this institution was the final model to establish the Russian Academy. So the new Academy would have a small group of scientists with direct royal support in spite of the decentralized model of the Royal Society of London and Peter I ordered to choose the best European scientits and to persuade them to joim his ambicious project in 1725. Peter I died on 28 January 1725 and his wife Enpress Catherine I took the responsability of the final founding of the Academy: the first meeting were held in November of that year with great scientisit as Nicolaus and Daniel Bernoulli, Johann Duvernoy, Christian Goldbach and Gerar Müller; Leonhard Eurler joined the Academy two years later in the physiology chair.
Catherine I died in 1727 only a few months after Euler's arrival and she was succeeded by Peter II, grandson of Peter I, who was 12 y.o. His reign (1727-1730) was influenced by the royal conservative courtiers and after moving the Russian capital from St. Petersburg to Moscow, the Academy began a period of decline. His successor was Anna Ivanova (or Anna of Russia) whose reign ended at her death in 1740. She came from the German duchy of Courland in the Western Latvia) and she established herself as an autocratic and very unpopular ruler. She brought some advisers from Courland and her expensive and strange policies caused people to think that the problem were her German courtiers so xenophobia started to increase among the citizens. The Empress was hated by her people but so were the foreign scientist who worked in the Academy. Furthermore, the leadership of the Academy was formed by German members meanwhile Russian mathematicians, physicists, astronomers,… occupied lower positions. Although the situation of the Academy was so bad, it became worse when the Empress died in 28 October 1740 and her grand-nephew Ivan VI Antonovich (born in 23 August 1740) was crowned as the new Emperor. Ivan's mother Anna Leopoldovna was appointed to regent and in chaotic situation of the period 1740-1741, Euler and his family decided to move to Berlin to take up a position in the new German Academy: Russia had lost its great scientist!
In 1741 Elizaveta Petrovna was declared new Empress of Russia. She exiled the most unpopular German advisers of her court and started a period of anti-German policy. She was very extravagant but she loved the theatre, the music and the architecture so her reign was the perfect place to raise the cultural level. She transformed her court in a leading musical and theatre site and a lot of French, German and Italian actors, actresses and musicians traveled to Russia to play for the Empress. There also were a new revival for the Russian science and the St. Petersburg Academy which was associated to an University. Despite the new situation of the institution, the scholars of the Academy didn't have good conditions to work and they often were supervised by inquisitorial and restrictive rules. Elisaveta died in 1761 and she was succeeded by her nephew, Peter III who reigned in the period from 5 January to 9 July 1762. His wife Catherine led a coup against him and ordered his murder so she became Empress Catherine II in June 1762.
Her ascension to the throne made a more favorable environment for arts and science. She was a very cultivated and clever woman because she had been educated reading the French encyclopedists d'Alembert and Diderot and Voltaire too. Catherine issued the Statute of national Education in 1786 and during her reign, Leonhard Euler came back to the Academy from his position in Berlin. According to E. T. Bell (Men of Mathematics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961):
Catherine received the mathematician as if he were royalty, setting aside a fully furnished house for Euler and his eighteen dependents, and donating one of her own cooks to run the kitchen.
Euler lived in St. Petersburg until his death in September 1783. During his second Russian period, Euler wrote nearly half of his 856 listed works and the Academy published most of them posthumously.
Catherine II was succeeded by her son Paul I and in his only five years of reign he changed the reformist policy of his mother. For example, he decreed that no Russian could attend Western-style schools, attempted to prevent foreign books from reaching Russia, and cut off all funding for academic institutions. The Academy was saved by Paul I's son alexander I who in 1803 presided its major reorganization. It was renamed Académie Impériale des Sciences and its annual publication also changed its name for its French version Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. Those years were a new height for Russian science until the Russian Revolution of 1917. In 1925, the Soviet government moved the Academy to Moscow and now the building placed in St. Petersburg is the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Location: Russian Academy of Sciences (map)
The Latvian Academy of Sciences
We can see this great building from a lot of streets and squares of Riga. This old building is one of the Soviet symbols which we can see in the Latvian capital. It was built in the 1950's and his architect Lev Rudnev used the Stalinist design to its construction.
The resolution on the construction of the building was decided by the Central Comittee of the Latvian Communist Party and the Cabinet of Ministers on 17 February 1951. The construction was the beginning of a development plan that would transform its neighborhood near the Central Market of the city. From that decision, the Moscow government guaranteed the financing of the construction as a gift to the Baltic states. In 1958, the Academy of Sciences LSSR took possession of the building to fund the final phase of construction. Today, on the 6th floor there is the Institute of Mathematics and Latvians know this architectural aberration and propaganda as the "cake of Stalin".
If you want to visit it, you will talke a fast lift to the 15th floor and toy'll be able to admire a beautiful panoramic view of Riga.
Location: LSSR in Riga (map)


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When the god of small things and the Indian goddess of music get together, then Phour Trakk might be the cause. After his previous side trip to the roaring maze of western metropolises, he packs his bags again in order to leave eastbound while in his mind he has already arrived there. And it goes without saying that he has remembered to slip into clothes both typical for the country and comfortable.
Consequently, his fourth EP on iD.EOLOGY comes along in a guise just as colourful, elegant and rich in texture as a dhoti by Manish Malhotra. Hilarious Bollywood-style vocals meet earthy downbeats, eastern harmonies contrast smoky blue-notes and breezy tabla-rhythms blend with deep fretless basses heavy as lead. While the memories of the skyscrapers' silhouettes slowly fade, all these details, all these small things coalesce to generate a wistful anticipation of a far-away culture.
Before fascination and rapture now make you light a candle and start making oblations to the gods, you might as well slip into something more comfortable and give this e.p. another thorough listen or two. After all, Phour Trakk has hidden quite a few more niceties for the attentive listener. Or was this, too, the god of small things in the end?
01. Intro
02. Eastbound
03. Running On Karma
04. Spirit Cave
05. Paravan
06. Pappachis Moth
07. Sarasvati
08. Everyday Lantern
09. Soft Arc
10. (Bonus Track 01) Bhang Lassi
11. (Bonus Track 02) Voodoo Shop Dub
12. Outro


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With the launch of Samsung's Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and 10.5, Samsung continues to impress the technology world with its hardware and software prowess. The Tab S (8.4in and 10.5in), billed as the "world's greatest", these aren't just grandiose words. No other tablet on the current market rivals its resolution in terms of razor sharp clarity, crispness and color reproduction all in an ultra-thin and lightweight design.
The Tab S offers a spectacular display with 16:9 screen aspect ratio which Samsung says make for a better experience when watching video. The Tab S uses the WQXGA Super Amoled technology which Samsung's mobile devices have become well known for, but this time have a super high resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels, giving it a pixel density of about 360 pixels per inch (ppi) for the 8.4in (287 ppi for the 10.5in) versus the iPad's 324ppi. This yields "next generation" screens which are capable of reproducing 97% of the Adobe RGB color coverage, whereas the retina displays on the iPads can only manage around 70%.
Samsung also cites the Adaptive Display technology as one of the key features of the Tab S, which allows the screen to adjust its saturation and sharpness based on the application and viewing environment. Results are a visually immersive user experience and HD content that looks better than real-life.
At 6.6mm (0.26in) for both models, the Tab S is not only thinner than the iPad mini 2, it is even thinner than the Samsung's own Galaxy S5 smartphone. As well, at 295g (0.65pounds), the Tab S is 40g lighter than the iPad mini 2, while still maintaining its premium, chic appeal.
The Galaxy Tab S is not only ultra-thin and lightweight, but also comes with fast and flawless performance due to Samsung's own powerful Octa-core Exynos 5 chip along with a massive 3GB of RAM, and 1.9 and 1.3GHz quad-core processors. The tablets come with either 16GB or 32GB of storage along with a memory card slot to add up to an extra 128GB of storage if needed. One battery charge lasts around eight hours of mixed use, involving gameplay, internet browsing and video playback.
Both tablets have an 8-megapixel rear camera (with an LED flash) and 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera on the front.
The Tab S comes in "dazzling white" and "titanium bronze" and plastic dimpled back, similar to the Samsung Galaxy S5.
Its vibrant screen and sleek looks make it the perfect medium for entertainment content with a myriad of software features, including Paper Garden (Samsung's new magazine service which comes with free magazines like Vogue and GQ thanks to its partnership with Conde Nast); "Galaxy Gifts", 29 gifts for trial subscriptions to sites like the New York Times and the Wall Street; Milk Music, a free streaming music radio service; and SideSync, an app for easily syncing your Galaxy S5 onto the screen of your Tab S for file sharing (creating a seamless connection that allow users in the network to edit documents at the same time, in real time) and managing phone calls.
To learn more, go to: http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytabs/
Key Features:8.4in / 10.5in display with 2560 x 1600 pixel resolutionExynos 5 Octa-Core CPUAndroid 4.4 (KitKat)6.6mm/ 294g (8.4in); 6.6mm; 467g (10.5in)3GB RAM; 16GB storage$399.99 (8.4in), $499.99 (10.5in)
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|Christ at Heart's Door, by Warner Sallman
Dear Friends,
By 5 pm on any given day, each of us has opened or closed roughly a dozen doors. To open or close a door is a natural, unthinking act- unless we have forgotten our key or our arms are too full to manage the door.
Doors are an integral part of life. They provide passageway to where we want to go. They offer us privacy or protection from unwanted elements. Doors are also instruments of power. We can shut people out or admit them.
Advent is a time for opening some doors and closing others. It's a time to open the door to a deeper, stronger relationship with the Holy One, to open our hearts to new and renewed relationships with people, to open our minds to new attitudes, practices and ways of thinking that birth in us a future full of hope.
Maybe you can recall seeing the well known painting by the artist, Warner Sallman, which shows Jesus standing at the door and knocking? Jesus comes to the door of the human heart, knocks and waits for an invitation to enter. The outside of the door has no knob, which says that the human heart can only be opened from within. We have the power to welcome or refuse entry.
In order to hear Jesus' knock, we need to be awake
– awake to His coming here and now
- awake to His coming birthday
- awake to His coming at the end of time.
Are you continually alert? I'm not. We get distracted by the sheer business of our lives.
Being busy is not a bad thing, unless it prevents us from doing the work of Advent, which is to welcome God into our lives in fresh new ways.
The knock comes, and we react to it in different ways. We may be cautious, curious to see who's there, irritated to be interrupted, ashamed that our house is not in order. We may be curt at the door, guarded, fearful, elated – or we may ignore the knock completely. Go away, God! I don't want to see you today.
You may think that this idea of opening some doors and closing others is a mild-mannered approach to Advent. But let's think about two doors to close which require personal discipline and hard work.
Close the door to noise, even briefly everyday and welcome quiet to let the gifts of the season seep into our consciousness. Be with the silence. "Well. Ok," you might say, "but then what do I say to God?" Say "Come, Lord Jesus!" or maybe say nothing at all. Let God speak to you in the silence.
Close the door to violence. Isaiah talks about beating our swords into plowshares, i.e. making peace with what could be the weapons of war. We are surrounded by war and violence in our culture, we find it in the words we say to one another, in our subtle lack of respect for people, things and ourselves. We need not support violence, participate in it, give it a place in our homes, encourage it or buy it.
As we move through Advent, two figures help us open our doors to Jesus knocking.
Mary, who did not let her hesitation keep her from extending a welcome to the invitation of God. Mary is every person who has stood at the door of an unknown future and said Yes.
Jesus is called the Key of David, in the ancient collection of Advent prayers called the O antiphons:
Jesus, Key of David, is the one who opens and no one shuts, the one who shuts and no one opens.
Jesus is the key to our future.
During Advent, let the physical doors we open and close throughout the day remind us that our comings and goings are opportunities to meet and welcome Emmanuel, to offer kindness, a cookie, a cup of teas to others.
The key is in the lock.
The divine visitor is at our Advent door.
Don't open it a crack. Open it wide.
~Joan Sobala, SSJ


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very humorous take on "gangstas" and their own inadequate behaviors. Quite a dyfunctional group of misfits who take on something bigger than they are capable of, yet you just know ONE of them HAS to be smart enough to pull the whole thing off and benefit in some way from their plans.
Not a huge " twist " for an ending but a nice touch.
I must say, I do enjoy the Norwegian, Swiss, Danish humour and films I have discovered over the past year and even more so when I discover MORE from just the previews and/or searching for films available with certain actors in them.
...and much better then most of the straight to formula stuff being put out on straight to DVD in good old U.S of A or Canada.
Fans of Crime/Gangster films would be seriously remiss to overlook this F-in BRILLIANT and at times blackly-hilarious addition to the genre (I'm talking actors-acting-with-voices /subtitled version here; NOT some khadafull dub-job);(pissed-off Norwegians can be awe-inspiring to the non-Nordic; sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-stopping [male or female ~yes, just some well-delivered WORDS can get the ''Boys'' to retreat when you treat a Grrl poorly!!). Homage is payed to Q. Tarantino and other Masters and the return proves that these Scandys are more than pretenders to the Throne (don't flush this one); They are storming your village, Hollywood! (Now that I think about it, those guys will probably make an incredibly shinier, sadly inferior ['specially the aftertaste] 'merican version of this in English soon-'nuff; so just wait, Xenophobes!) SKOL!!!
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Secoué par son éviction brutale du 20h de France 2 au printemps dernier, David Pujadas n'a pas mis longtemps à retrouver un poste à la télévision. A noter qu'en arrivant sur LCI , David Pujadas , comme nous l'annoncions début juillet, devient également producteur de son émission avec sa société, Particules Productions. Lire la suite »
Préavis de grève à partir du 1er septembre — Air France
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TN CM, OPS express confidence on merger
Jayalalithaa's death will prove AIADMK General Secretary V.K. Sasikala innocent, T.T.V. Dinakaran, a leader of one of the AIADMK factions, said here on Friday. However, it soon became apparent that there were hurdles to the merger talks, with leaders of both factions starting to leave the venue. "As early as possible, a good decision will be reached". Lire la suite »
Russian Federation boots neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer from .RU domain
And some companies have complied-GoDaddy and Google have refused to provide hosting services for the Daily Stormer; Twitter has suspended a number of accounts; and Apple has cut off its services to white supremacists. He chose to stop working with The Daily Stormer after its team suggested that Cloudflare sympathized with its Nazi ideology. You may believe it should be restricted. Lire la suite »
Summertime blues knock £2800 off house prices, Rightmove says
Hackney leads the way with the largest year-on-year increase, up by 8.9 per cent, or £10,308, and also bucking the summer holiday blues with a 1.5 per cent rise this month. On a yearly basis, house prices climbed 3.1 percent, up from 2/8 percent in the previous month. "Properties in the counties that have seen above-average price rises over the a year ago are clearly meeting the needs of home-hunters at relatively affordable prices". Lire la suite »
Wealth manager Rathbones confirms merger talks with Smith & Williamson
Sky reports that Canadian firm AGF, which owns 30% of Smith & Williamson, has been looking for an exit for some time. The alliance will attribute a valuation of close to £600m to S&W, a market source said this weekend, and will involve issuing Rathbones shares to its target's investors. Lire la suite »
World's fastest train to begin in Sept
The trains will service the route from Beijing to Shanghai starting in September, making the 1,250km journey in just four hours and 30 minutes. The line is also one of the most profitable in China, reported the South China Morning Post. According to the China Railway Corporation, after several successful test runs, the train, called "Fuxing" (rejuvenation) will operate regularly from September 21 with an average speed of 350 kph and a maximum speed of 400 kph, reports Efe news. Lire la suite »
Vocus Slumps 16% as Takeover Talks with KKR, Affinity End
KKR made its bid on 7 June while Affinity approached Vocus in July. In June, Vocus received an indicative and non-binding proposal to acquire 100 per cent of the ASX-listed telco from US-headquartered private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Lire la suite »
Another lackluster performance in LA as Chargers fall to Saints
After a three days joint practice sessions, the Los Angeles Chargers play host the New Orleans Saints in second week of the action-packed 2017 NFL Preseason. Conner, the former University of Pittsburgh star who overcame Hodgkin's lymphoma and a serious right knee injury to reach the National Football League, broke off runs of 17 and 19 yards, leading to Bart Houston's 6-yard touchdown pass to Justin Hunter. Lire la suite »
Aperio Group LLC Buys 351 Shares of Energizer Holdings, Inc. (ENR)
Other hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Parametrica Management Ltd acquired a new stake in Energizer Holdings during the second quarter valued at $201,000. TRADEMARK VIOLATION NOTICE: "Energizer Holdings' (NYSE:ENR) Hold Rating Reiterated at Deutsche Bank AG" was first reported by Sports Perspectives and is the sole property of of Sports Perspectives. Lire la suite »
Ott Tanak wins in Germany as Sebastien Ogier builds title advantage
Stranger things have happened, although he's now sitting in third, 33 points off the lead, with just three rounds of the championship remaining. Tänak grabbed the lead through Friday's stages and remained at the head of the pack throughout the remainder of the event to triumph, to add to his Rally Italy win. Lire la suite »
Donald Trump's response to the Barcelona terror attack has sparked outrage
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Delhi airport flight operations resume after brief pause over drone scare
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Scuffles in Barcelona between far-right & counter-protesters following terrorist attack
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Spanish suffers second terror attack after 14 die in Barcelona
Spanish media reported that the speeding vehicle driven by the terrorists overturned and when the attackers, wearing explosive belts, got out, they were quickly gunned down. IS, which once controlled a self-declared "caliphate" across large parts of Iraq and Syria, has suffered major military losses in both Arab states this year. Lire la suite »
Scaramucci Won't Back Trump Over Charlottesville
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Scaramucci Won't Back Trump Over Charlottesville
But investors shrugged - Merck's shares briefly ran in front of a modestly rising market before sliding back to the pack - and for most of Monday, the other executives on the business panels kept quiet. "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms", the father and son said. The president blamed the violence, which saw a woman get killed after a auto plowed into a group of anti-racism protesters, not only on white nationalists but also on anti-racism ... Lire la suite »
Huddersfield vs Newcastle 20th Aug 2017: EPL Preview and Predictions
If they continue winning and doing well, they'll say he's a great manager, but if they lose games and can not progress, they'll say, "OK, we'll see what happens". We're two completely different sizes of football club and this is why regarding the Premier League , he hasn't given me advice - regarding opponents, he will for sure". Lire la suite »
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CEOs quit Trump council after Charlottesville riots
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(a) No prior approval requirement. SBA will reimburse a PSB Surety for the guaranteed portion of payments the Surety makes to avoid or attempt to avoid an Imminent Breach of the terms of a Contract covered by an SBA guaranteed bond. The aggregate of the payments by SBA under this section cannot exceed 10% of the Contract amount, unless the Administrator finds that a greater payment (not to exceed the guaranteed portion of the bond penalty) is necessary and reasonable. The PSB Surety does not need to obtain prior SBA approval to make Imminent Breach payments, except that the PSB Surety may request SBA to approve payments that exceed 10% of the Contract amount prior to the Surety making the payment. In no event will SBA make any duplicate payment under any provision of these regulations in this part.
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Raccoon distemper suspected in Bellevue, elsewhere | Residents are urged to exercise caution and take precautions to protect pets
King County residents are reminded to avoid feeding wildlife, keep domestic pets away from wild animals, and be sure their pets' vaccinations are current, in response to a suspected outbreak of canine distemper in area raccoons.
Samples from a raccoon collected in Bellevue have been submitted to Washington State University for disease testing, and final results are expected early next week.
Canine distemper is not transmissible to humans but is highly contagious among dogs, ferrets, and certain wild animals such as raccoons, coyotes, skunks, weasels and harbor seals. Cats are not affected by canine distemper.
"Dogs are normally vaccinated against canine distemper, but the disease has become generally uncommon and some pet owners are not getting their pets vaccinated," said Dr. Sharon Hopkins, the Veterinarian for Public Health – Seattle & King County. "If you have questions or concerns about your pets' immunity to canine distemper, contact your veterinarian."
Distemper causes encephalitis, inflation of the brain, in animals. Infected animals may have runny eyes and stagger, tremble, foam at the mouth or snap, according to veterinarians. Daytime activity by a raccoon does not necessarily indicate the animal is sick.
In recent days, local officials in Bellevue, Redmond and Renton have received a number of reports of sick raccoons. King County Animal Care and Control responded to a call for assistance last week from Issaquah law enforcement and captured a raccoon believed to have distemper. Animal Control Officers have also picked up three deceased raccoons on the East Side of King County at the request of citizens.
"Wildlife disease epidemics tend to occur in cycles, appearing when animal populations are high," said Kristin Mansfield, staff veterinarian with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
"While we have seen an increase in the number of raccoons this year at our wildlife hospital that appear to be infected with canine distemper, we encourage people not to panic," said PAWS' Wildlife Veterinarian Dr. John Huckabee. "The best way to avoid potential exposure to pet dogs and ferrets is to avoid feeding or otherwise attracting wildlife, intentionally or unintentionally."
People should feed pets indoors, and secure garbage and compost. Bird feeders and chicken food also attract raccoons. Residents should also secure pet doors so that raccoons cannot enter indoor living spaces.
WDFW offers advice for dealing with problem wildlife on its website and PAWS Wildlife Center can offer tips for solving and preventing conflicts by calling 425-787-2500 x817.
King County residents who encounter raccoons exhibiting symptoms of canine distemper can call 206-296-PETS to receive information and suggestions about potential resources. Animal Control Officers will also pick up deceased raccoons.
Raccoons present a risk of transmitting other diseases including leptospirosis, raccoon roundworm and rabies. For information about these risks, see here.
People bitten by raccoons should contact their health care provider and Public Health at 206-296-4774.
WDFW also maintains a list of Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators (NWCOs), who are licensed by the department to respond to problem wildlife. Contact information may be found on the WDFW website here or by calling WDFW's North Puget Sound regional office at 425-775-1311.
This article was originally published in the Bellevue Reporter on April 16, 2010.


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India reminds me of a giant distracted child playing Lego. There are always pieces mislaid, left over or gone missing.
Look around you. Nothing ever seems to be well thought out or executed in its entirety. We see this in almost all aspects of our daily life.
It begins when you step out of your gate and almost fall over a pile or into the pit that was dug a few days ago for the electricity or TV cable. Why should covering up and restoring it to its former state be of any concern? The cable has been laid. Proceed further, and a heap of building rubble on the side of the road is clogging traffic. Someone from somewhere at sometime is supposed to collect and take it away; except that no one does. Unfortunately, besides inconveniencing you and I, this attitude is costing us.
So, here in Delhi, we have a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) system that as the Mayor of Bogota in Colombia pointed out is not a system at all. We have implemented only parts of it: the parts that do not inconvenience drivers of private vehicles but instead jeopardize the lives of those who use the BRT. On the other hand, we have equally dysfunctional flyovers because the bits that would have made them a functional whole are dispensed with at the drop of a hat. An underground tunnel that will facilitate a signal-free crossing cannot be built as it is considered a threat to VIP security. Chipping into a rock to create more space for traffic is also not a viable option, as it may unsettle the Gods (more likely the priests!) who dwell atop it. The easier option it seems is to cut trees and reduce the width of the service lanes in front of houses and blame the owners if they object that in an emergency an ambulance or a fire-engine will not be able to reach them.
And now with much fanfare comes the "Swachh Bharat" campaign. Thousands of toilets will be built but whether they will be maintained thereafter and kept clean is anyone's guess. All of us have experienced public and sometimes private toilets in which you fear to tread because you may puke or pass out when the stench hits you. Pick up the broom, pass the dirt around, pile it up in a corner, preferably behind something, and then throw in a bucket of water for good measure; it's as clean as it can be.
It gets even more terrifying when history and science begin to bear the brunt, as the consequences can be life threatening. Clinical trials and vaccines for HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), that prevent cancer of the uterine-cervix, which kills millions of women in India, have been at the receiving end. Someone, somewhere, pressed the panic button and the rest of us reacted reflexively without thinking things through. How can progress be made without clinical trials or lives saved without vaccinations?
If only we could be clear and farsighted and fixed in our commitments. What prevents this? Perhaps it is an inability to wear our mortality lightly. Contrary to what we may espouse, our actions indicate that we believe that there is only one lifetime in which to achieve and accumulate. Consequently, speed is of the essence as there are likely to be at least several million more wanting to do the same. So go ahead and don't worry about how all the pieces fit together. That is not your problem.


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After marked airway obstruction with laryngeal mask (LM) placement in neonate piglets, anatomical observations in cadavers revealed a large epiglottis advancing markedly over the soft palate. CT imaging in vivo confirmed that the LM pushes the epiglottis caudally thereby obstructing the larynx. As a new approach, in 20 piglets a flexible PVC bougie placed under laryngoscopy was used to guide the LM to the correct position at the larynx. Placement of the bougie was easy and the LM was positioned successfully in all piglets at first attempt. In 14 piglets, the epiglottis was positioned dorsal to the soft palate before LM insertion and had to be pushed downwards to advance the bougie. In case of failure of LM placement with potential airway obstruction, the use of a bougie to guide the LM over the epiglottis was simple, rapid, and improved the success rate without complication.
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Got out at the wrong time again: Shane Watson
Australia's star all-rounder Shane Watson laments missing out on opportunity to capitalise on a good start in Boxing Day Test
Melbourne: Australian all-rounder Shane Watson, despite posting his highest Test score in nearly a year, lamented the missed opportunity to capitalise on the good start he got and score a big century yesterday.
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson
Watson was under pressure following a prolonged run-drought but he scored a patient 52 on day one of the Boxing Day Test against India here at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) to show signs of resurgence. "It was nice to feel good out there. Unfortunately I just got out at the wrong time again," he said.
"It's a beautiful batting wicket, and unfortunately I wasn't able to go on with it again."
Watson failed to take advantage after he was dropped just before lunch on 37 but reached his 22nd half century in 54 Tests in which he has also hit four hundreds.
"I feel like I've still got a lot of improvement to go. I'm not really someone who talks about a lot of things, I work through it in my own mind. Today I felt like I was free in my mind with the way I batted, until I got out."
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When I renewed my Flickr Pro account last year, I received a bonus, a free photo book at Snapfish. Snapfish is one of the partners with Flickr and in addition to print on demand books, they also have the usual print products. I finally used my coupon and I received the printed photo book so I decided to do a quick review. I've only made a couple of photo books at a different service so I can't claim to be an expert on photo books, however I figured there is some value in one person's opinion of the Snapfish service.
Snapfish has a web-based album creation application that worked well. My photos from Flickr transferred over to Snapfish successfully. I was able to pick a style that I liked and was able to layout the album the way I wanted. It took a bit of experimentation and it wasn't completely obvious at first to get the exact photo layout I wanted. Then I found the button that cycles through various photo layouts which gave me the extra flexibility I wanted. So far so good. I placed the order and received the book in less than a couple of weeks which seems reasonable and met my delivery expectation from the service.
The print quality of the photo book, however, was below my expectations. Way below. I understand that the 4 color printing process used for these books does not match the quality of standard prints you get from mini photo-labs. I've done some print testing of Bay Photo, Costco and a local camera store which I wrote about here and here, and to make it clear, I am not comparing my photo book's print quality to these labs. Also, I didn't expect quality anywhere near the quality that I get from my Epson inkjet printer which I talked about in this post. I was however, comparing the print quality to my previous photo books that I've made as well as quality that I have seen from my friend's books. I'm not expecting complete color accuracy and color matching with the computer screen, I'm generally satisfied if the colors look bright and colorful on the finished product. The Snapfish product was dull in color and had a pronounced yellowish color cast. Maybe there was a setting to disable auto-correction mode, which I missed, but auto-correct at other labs has not changed colors to this extent. The photos lacked any kind of liveliness, the images were not only dull but seemed fuzzy. I can also clearly see some patterns on the photos themselves as though they were printed at a lower resolution. I tend to be picky about certain things and I use my wife as a sanity check to see if I'm being too exacting. My wife is easy-going and things generally look OK to her so it does take a noticeable drop in quality for her to notice. In this case, even she commented how the print quality did not look that great with the Snapfish photo book.
Beyond the print quality, there were other factors that made the book look and feel cheap. The cover used a hollow sounding cardboard that had rough edges and a shinny surface on the outside. A flat black paper applied on the inside felt low-grade. A linen type cloth covering, which I've seen from other companies, would have added a touch of class and would have given the cardboard a more upscale feel. The paper quality was also uninspired. There was a semi-matt finish with a slight sheen which lacked any kind of texture, pop or impact. The paper was thin but felt even more unsubstantial since it was used on a 8×10 book. The same paper thickness used on a smaller book might be acceptable but on a larger book, the thinness of the pages was emphasized. Finally, the binding had an unfinished stitched look that you can see from the photograph above. If the pages are in fact stitched together, this could be a positive over glued pages, however, the exposed stitching looked rough and unfinished.
The net effect of the print quality and the quality of the materials mean, that this book will remain safely hidden on my bookshelf. It may be a nice memory of my vacation but because of its lack of quality I would feel embarrassed to show it to anyone beyond my family. It certainly will not be used as a coffee table book and forget about using this as a portfolio to showcase of your photography. So can you tell that I'm disappointed? I added an extra page to the standard package and with $6.99 in shipping charges plus taxes, my "free" book came out to about $10. Since I'm underwhelmed even with the greatly reduced price, I can't imagine how I'll feel if I paid the full price for this thing. I would probably would have asked for my money back. At $10, I'll keep it but I doubt Snapfish will be getting anymore of my business.
I must admit, this is a pretty negative review and I feel bad writing it. It's aways nicer to write about products and services that you are happy with. Keep in mind that, your mileage may vary. Maybe the printer was not working properly and I got a book that looks a lot worse than normal. To be fair, I should print more books to see if there are any quality differences. Also maybe there are other premium features that I could have chosen to upgrade the paper and the cover. However, the fact remains that, ultimately I am not a happy customer. Even giving Snapfish the benefit of the doubt and assuming that the printer was not working properly, there is no way to explain the quality of the cover and paper. Any service that uses these grade of materials is not one that I would want to continue having a relationship. That is why I would not even bother asking for a reprint. Their choice of materials has doomed the service for me — one that does not care about quality. Some may argue that having a "basic" quality option allows for a less expensive option. Possibly. Though I would say spending a few dollars more to get a high quality is worth it to me and if I were running the service, I would not even bother having a low-grade option, if that in fact, is what I ended up getting.
As for Flickr, while I'm glad for the value add for renewing my Pro account, unfortunately, this experience has slightly diminished my opinion of Flickr. Flickr is a photo enthusiasts' site and anyone that upgrades to a Pro account is even more serious about their photography. They need to make sure they pick partners that complement and enhance their service. My less than stellar Snapfish experience, has worked against Flickr (and Snapfish) and diminishes their brand. That is unfortunate since I'm sure this promotion was created with the best of intentions as a win-win for Flicker, Snapfish and the Flickr Pro user. I hope my experience is in the minority and there are many happy Snapfish customers out there. What's your experience with Snapfish, please leave a comment with your opinion.
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Flight to Canada
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(1976), Ishmael Reed's fifth novel, extends his permutation of literary forms such as the Western and the mystery to the foundational genre of African American letters, the slave narrative. In it, Reed turns his historical revisionism, formerly directed at the Crusades, the Old West, and the Harlem Renaissance, to the antebellum South and the Civil War.
The two main protagonists of Flight to Canada are Uncle Robin, a house slave who alters his master's will, leaving the plantation to himself, and Raven Quickskill, a runaway slave whose poem "Flight to Canada" is simultaneously the impetus for his escape and the means for tracking him down—suggesting both the power and the risk of writing. Both of these characters—like the central figures in Reed's previous books—are tricksters. They represent different generations (the old folks and the young "blood") with different strategies for surviving and "getting over." Uncle Robin, a "radical" alternative to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom, prefers to turn things his way rather than turn the other cheek; moreover, he stays "home" and works to undermine the slaveocracy from within, instead of "flying" north. Raven does fly (by jumbo jet!), but in the end, the promise of Canada proves illusory, and the novel concludes with his return to the plantation. Among other things, Reed implies that freedom is something we have to create, not simply seek.
Reed's use of anachronism (Lincoln's assassination, for example, takes place on television) is a strategy he has employed before, allowing him to challenge the neat, linear ordering of events that characterizes both our writing of history and our sense of time, of "progress." It also enables him to bring the past into the present in ways that notify us we haven't gone as far as we might think in redressing old problems, in resolving persistent contradictions in the American experiment. Thus, Reed's takeoff on the slave narrative is not just another example of his ongoing effort, begun in his first novel, The Freelance Pallbearers, to play with, and assert the play in, the texts of the African American tradition. Published in the year of the American bicentennial, this story of a runaway slave serves as a reminder that, two hundred years after the establishment of the nation, there still is something "fugitive" about black writing and the experience it articulates.
As has been the case with the majority of Reed's novels, some commentators have persisted in employing a laugh meter to evaluate his work—that is, assessing the degree to which Reed is funny or not. Still, with the exception of Mumbo Jumbo, Flight to Canada is Reed's most critically acclaimed work of fiction. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in his essay on Reed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (vol. 33, 1984), considers Flight to Canada to be a major work, while Edmund White, reviewing the novel for the Nation (18 September 1976), went so far as to call it "the best work of black fiction since Invisible Man.
Hortense Spillers, "Changing the Letter: The Yokes, the Jokes of Discourse, or, Mrs. Stowe, Mr. Reed," in Slavery and the Literary Imagination, eds. Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad, 1989, pp. 25–61.Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, "Ishmael Reed's Neo-HooDoo Slave Narrative," Narrative 2.2 (May 1994): 112–139.
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HVA to host annual auction this Sunday
The event will begin with a champagne reception, silent auction and music by the Ram Miles Band at 1 p.m.
The live auction with auctioneer Mitchell Borenstein of Applebrook Auctions in Brookfield will begin at 3 p.m.
The GW Tavern in Washington Depot will host a patron's choice of a pre-auction brunch or a twilight supper.
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Mile 1:
The starter got us underway with an underwhelming "3,2,1…go" and I flew off along the seafront in a desperate bid not to be trampled by all the quicker runners behind me. But where were they all? I had 2 guys in front of me, and my trackmate (wingman) Andy on my right shoulder, matching me stride for stride.
I became aware of another guys footsteps with us, his cadence was quicker and it was putting me off, I zoned out and focussed on my footsteps and breathing.
Split Time: 5:35 (a 1mile PB – Ha! Try holding on to that, muppet)
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Still feeling very comfortable, the 2 guys in front weren't going anwhere, Andy and Quickfeet were still on my shoulder. I was still wondering where everyone was. Approaching the turnaround point I nearly got taken out by a radio-controlled car, it stopped me from eyeballing the 2 guys ahead as they came back the other way which was a shame. I came to a standstill as I hit the turnaround and launched into the headwind. I was surprised to see that my group had 30m or so on the next runner. I still didn't know who Quickfeet was but he was hiding right behind me, and I could hear that Andy was starting to struggle. My pace was starting to drop in the wind and I hit Mile 2 in 5:50.
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The reassuring presence of my wingman suddenly disappeared as the wind took its toll. And suddenly, Quickfeet came by me, I slotted in straight behind him and took some shelter. He was really strong into the wind and I lasted about a minute before he dropped me. (In hindsight, I should have stayed with him as he never got further than 30m ahead, once he'd made the gap it was too hard to reel it in). And that was pretty much it, a hard slog into a 16mph headwind with no-one for company.
Split: 6:17 + 0:28s
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A MASSIVE NEW PB: 18:11 – thats an 82s improvement and 4th place Overall. I'm over the moon but also cursing that wind.
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Bella and Edward get married. Jacob is upset when he finds out that Bella wants to perfect her marriage honeymoon. The wedding Bella and Edward spend their honeymoon on a private island beautiful Cullens. But to their dismay, they discover that Bella is pregnant. The fetus is growing at a rapid pace and everyone fears growing at Bella's safety. He will continue the pregnancy, what is the cost? The Quileutes close in as little unborn child poses a threat to the Wolf Pack and the towns people Forks city.


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Changthai comfort guest house in Udon Thani offers ideal conditions to enjoy a relaxing and comfortable holiday in natural surroundings.
Built and opened in 2014 by Ms. Wan and her family, the guesthouse combines Thai hospitality with German professionalism.
This Ms. Wan acquired during the eight years she lived in Germany, near Kaiserslautern. Accordingly, the menu of Changthai restaurant serves Thai dishes and very tasty German and international food.
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Here are some specials from the Chang Thai kitchen: all dishes are available as take aways in practical plastic containers:
The Thai menu includes the most famous classic dishes from Thai cuisine
Breakfast is served on the 130 m² terrace overlooking the 14-acre lake and the swimmingpool.
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The 12 x 7 metre pool has a separate children's area, and provides an opportunity to keep fit. Afterwards, the shaded beds next to the pool are perfect for relaxing. Visitors who want to spend a stunningly beautiful day at Chang Thai are also welcome. Fishing in the lake costs 80 Baht per rod, and tackle can be rented for 80 baht more. The swimming pool costs 60 baht for adults and 40 for children. The large terrace and excellent cuisine provide excellent conditions for private parties and barbecues. Please contact Ms. Wan to make these arrangements.
The lake at the house offers ambitious anglers the opportunity to catch some fish for an evening barbecue by the pool, or you can float around the lake on a pedalo. Also table tennis and badminton rackets are available at the pool terrace.
Ms. Wan can assist in arranging hiring cars or mopeds for her customers. She and her staff are fluent in German, English and Thai.
The guest rooms are all equipped with air conditioning, fan, satellite TV, minibar and bathroom with shower.
Changthai comfort guesthouse offers discounts for longer stays. For any inquiries or bookings, please email them at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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|Chang Thai is located in the countryside next to a large lake, about 13 kilometers from the city center of Udon Thani.
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On New Year's Eve, the 31st of December 2017, there will be a big buffet at Chang Thai guest house. The menu contains dishes from both Western and Thai cuisine.
From 6 pm the buffet, overlooking the hotel's lake and swimming pool, starts on the large terrace of the guest house. Timely reservation is recommended as the number of available places is limited. As in previous years, for entertainment and good mood will be taken care of.
Contact information, a map and further details about Chang Thai on Udon-News.
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|Please park in the West Lot and enter the Lundquist Community Life Center (CLC). It is important that a parent or guardian visits the check-in table with the younger sibling.
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This fun overnight visit is designed for younger siblings of current Bethel students. Students and their sibs will have an opportunity to spend time together doing fun activities. There will be prizes too! Siblings must be 8-18 years old.
What to bring: Sleeping bag, pillow, towel, toiletries, winter attire (sleds for sledding, snow pants, warm jacket, hat, mittens, boots, etc.), and (optional) money for shopping in the Campus Store.
Housing: Bethel students either host their younger sibling overnight in their own on-campus housing (if sibling is same sex as student) or arrange for appropriate on-campus housing with another student (if sibling and student are not same sex).
Parent permission form: Parents, please read the authorization form before completing the online registration.
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- 4-6 p.m.: Check-in for parents and the younger sibling in Lundquist Community Life Center (CLC) Lobby (just outside Benson Great Hall)
- 5-6:30 p.m.: Dinner in Monson Dining Center (included in weekend cost)
- 8 p.m.: The Voice competition (prizes for sibs who attend!)
Saturday Schedule
- Breakfast in Monson Dining Center (not included in cost; arrange this with Bethel son/daughter)
- 10 a.m.: Saturday Visit Day option for sibs who are interested in attending Bethel (Please register here or on the Saturday Visit Day page.)
- Lunch in Monson Dining Center (included in cost)
- 1 p.m.: Winter activities, including sledding, hot chocolate, and snowman contest (Meet in Brushaber Commons Atrium.)
- 6 p.m.: Dinner and The Good Dinosaur movie in the Underground (included in cost)
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Big Bike Giveaway is organized by a husband and wife team in London Ontario who are local community ambassadors. They collect and repair bicycles and give them away for free on one day each year. The goal of the program is to get as many people on bikes as possible and to encourage healthier lifestyles in the community. The program is intended to specifically help those needing this resource to get ahead due to poverty.
May 13, 2018 at 12pm - 4pm
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London, ON N5V 1P7
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Dogs need not sacrifice style for function. For example, the Stay On Bowl and Mat Collection from JoJo Modern Pets features a variety of brightly colored food bowls and mats, with the latter including a light magnetic layer that keeps the stainless steel dishes in place. No more flipping or scooting during mealtime!
JoJo Modern Pets has generously offered to give two Dogster readers their own placemat and bowl set. The set comes with an 18.5-by-11-inch mat and two dishwasher-safe bowls, with each holding four cups of food or an equal amount of water.
Winners can choose between Sky Ombre (at the top of this page) and Safari Orange (above). The set regularly retails for $44.99, but follow these directions for the chance to win one for free.
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Who's Name Will Be Called Next
I arrived a few minutes early for a meeting at a local Starbucks. The line wrapped away from the entrance to the store. As I was standing in line the newcomers took a few seconds to acclimate to the procedure of where to stand in line to order.
One of the ladies in front was dilly-dallying at the baked goods as an older guy walked in. He quickly gathered his bearings and saw the line and the opening caused by Mrs. Dally. He stepped to the front of the line and ordered his drink with authority.
I hate standing in lines. Patience has never been one of my strong suits. It's not only the close proximity to strangers that bothers me, it sometimes like this time, is their actions. There always seems to be someone who thinks they're above standing in line with the "regular" people.
Not many of us like to be "cut" in front of. Many times it gets a little dicey when the to-cool-for-school cutter gets called out. "HEY," "NO CUTS"! Just like grade school all over again.
We all have a sense of what's fair. Most of us play by the rules, subjecting ourselves to what's equitable to everyone involved. When someone comes along in line and takes their turn out of order, we get a little upset.
We feel the anger, sometimes regret having said something, sometimes for having said nothing. We always sense the injustice in someone going before his or her turn.
So it is in this life. This life is like a big line and God hasn't passed out any numbers. He knows the number of our turn in line, we don't.
There aren't many people looking to take cuts in this line. No, this is the line where you dread your turn at the front of the line.
When I was a freshman in high school for about a week during P.E. we had mandatory square dance lessons. Everybody dreaded it. After a couple days of being forced to dance like cowboys and cowgirls, we all were beginning to enjoy it. (Although all of us denied it)
The boys would line up in a long line coming out of the boys locker rooms on one side of the gym and the girls on the opposite side. As the boys line walked towards the girls line to pair up in the middle of the gym, there was more serious calculating in this scenario than in the math class.
Boys and girls alike counting from the front of the line back, seeing who fate would pair us up with. There was pushing, jumping out of line and finally settling into an accepted fate, good or bad.
Similarly we all want the perfect position in the line of life. Like in the square dance line, one can only move back so far before the inevitable turn has to be taken.
As we all move closer to the front of the line we all witness other people cutting in line. God calling them out of what we know as the proper order. Like a line at the post office, we feel anger or sadness, almost always injustice, especially when He calls the young ones.
What a person believes will impact how they're going to react to being in the front of this life line. When we are called and pass through the doors that no human we know has come back from, what will await us?
Will we become grasshoppers in another life? Some people in the line think that it's over. No soul, no nothing, just a permanent dirt nap. Others think that if they've been "pretty good," and there is a God, things will work out.
As I look around I see and hear them taking. I wonder as we move closer to the front of the line, with absolutely no authority to jump back in line and time, how anyone can think they have the authority as a God to determine their value or worth.
How can they judge for themselves if they are worthy or not? If they had that authority to judge themselves, they would also have the authority to have command over they're own life and death.
I'm learning that as we share this line of life, we need to reach out and do our best before God to help them understand what's on the other side.
Each day that passes gets us a little closer to the front of this line, no one is looking for cuts now.
None of us know for sure who's name will be called next.