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Zurich North America joins Ellevate Network to expand professional development resources for Zurich employees
Zurich North America has joined the Ellevate Network, a leading network for professional women. The move expands the professional development resources available to Zurich employees through the global insurer's Women's Innovation Network (WIN), a Zurich employee resource group. Open to all employees, WIN aims to support gender equity at Zurich by providing a professional network for inspiration, development and connecting with colleagues.
The move is aligned with Zurich's position that diversity and inclusion is vital to its business. The company is committed to creating a workplace environment that nurtures its people and sees the value that diverse and inclusive teams bring to its organization and the insurance industry.
"Zurich's collaboration with Ellevate is part of our commitment to help Zurich employees reach their full potential," said Lori Bailey, Head of WIN, North America and Global Head of Cyber Risk for Zurich Insurance. "We view this as a fantastic opportunity to further develop the leadership skills of our employees and to share these skills within the Zurich network."
"We're thrilled to be working with Zurich North America and WIN," said Ellevate Network CEO Kristy Wallace. "We believe that engaging employees with the professional development resources Ellevate provides fosters a culture of diversity and inclusion and ultimately leads to greater innovation. It's a pleasure to collaborate with a company that cares about their employees and believes in cultivating those employees' potential."
As part of the new relationship with Ellevate, Zurich has initially chosen 50 employees to receive a Zurich-funded Ellevate membership. The 50 employees were chosen in recognition of their contributions to WIN, as well as to Zurich. The benefits of this membership include but are not limited to:
- Local Networking Events including workshops to develop leadership, management, and business skills as well as mentoring meet-ups with women to share experiences and advice;
- Professional Development Resource Library with access to articles, webinars, podcasts, videos, and livestream events;
- Intentional Networking with like-minded women at the same stage of their career and customized by industry, affinity group, location, school, company and job. In addition, each will have the ability to join a "squad" which is a mastermind group of women at the same stage of their career; and
- Thought Leadership including learning how to position oneself as a thought leader by writing articles for Ellevate or other publications.
In addition to providing memberships for 50 employees, the Ellevate Network provides a number of resources for all Zurich employees. Various webcasts and in-person events and programs will be open to all employees to attend, helping foster further inclusion and development.
WIN is focused on creating insights into business success while providing networking opportunities with accomplished colleagues and industry experts. While women are the main audience, men are also welcome to get involved, as many issues affect both. The group is open to all current Zurich employees. Zurich's WIN has membership at our Corporate Center in Zurich, Switzerland, in more than 40 locations across North America, and in over 25 countries around the world. WIN events often offer live online participation from Zurich offices across North America.
About Zurich
Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 53,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 210 countries and territories. Zurich's customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. The Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872. The holding company, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN), is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt (ZURVY) program, which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX. Further information about Zurich is available at http://www.zurich.com.
In North America, Zurich is a leading commercial property-casualty insurance provider serving the global corporate, large corporate, middle market, specialties and programs sectors through the individual member companies of Zurich in North America, including Zurich American Insurance Company. Life insurance and disability coverage issued in the United States in all states except New York is issued by Zurich American Life Insurance Company, an Illinois domestic life insurance company. In New York, life insurance and disability coverage is issued by Zurich American Life Insurance Company of New York, a New York domestic life insurance company. For more information about the products and services it offers and people Zurich employs around the world go to http://www.zurichna.com. 2012 marked Zurich's 100-year anniversary of insuring America and the success of its customers, shareholders and employees.
About Ellevate Network
Ellevate Network is a global network of professional women committed to elevating each other through education, inspiration, and opportunity. Our mission is to close the gender achievement gap in business by providing women with a community to lean on and learn from. Ellevate also works with companies committed to gender diversity and has a proven track record of changing business culture from the inside out.


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"Healthy" and "Cookie" are two words that rarely belong together. No matter how hard we try, nutritious cookies most often resemble muffins in texture: cakey and soft, not crisp or chewy.
Most of the better-for-you cookie recipes that I've stumbled cross use non-hydrogenated margarine instead of butter and contain oats for added fibre. These are admirable steps in the right direction, but unfortunately do not address the sugar issue. Cookies are so delectable because they are SWEET. Reducing the amount of sugar to the point where the cookie still tastes good is no easy feat.
That being said, I did a double-take when I stumbled across this recipe for oatmeal cookies in my Moosewood 'Cooking for Health' cookbook. For two dozen cookies, it called for 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 tablespoons of oil, and 1/3 cup brown sugar. My favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe, as a comparison, uses ½ cup butter and ¾ cup sugar for the same number of cookies. As an added bonus, the Moosewood cookie was void of white flour. It was replaced by a bit of whole wheat flour and a whole lot of rolled oats. Something must be fishy here, I thought.
My skepticism was replaced with awe when the cookies emerged from the oven. For the first time, a legitimately healthy cookie that was crisp, not cakey. And they were sweet! Thanks in part to the addition of chocolate chips and dried cranberries.
The only downside to these cookies is the very loose "dough" that results from very little butter and a lot of oats. You might wonder to yourself "how will these things ever stay together?" as your stare at the gloppy mess in your hands. Miraculously, the cookies manage to firm up when baked. To help them take shape, press the dough together as best as you can once it's on the cookie sheet. Dipping your fingers in a bit of water works well.
Tonight I wanted to see whether this recipe could be used as a versatile oatmeal cookie base for a variety of mix'ins. The cranberries were replaced with banana chips and I omitted the nuts. The cookies turned out wonderfully, and actually held together a bit better than on previous attempts. I now know that the possibilities are endless! Any ingredient suggestions for my next cookie endeavour?
Oatmeal Cookies with Chocolate Chips, Cranberries, and Walnuts
(from Moosewood Restaurant: Cooking for Health)
2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
2 tablespoons vegetable, olive, canola, walnut, or hazelnut oil
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 large egg
½ cup whole wheat pastry flour (regular whole wheat flour works just as well)
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1-½ cups rolled oats (not quick-cooking or instant)
½ cup semisweet chocolate chips
½ cup chopped dried cranberries
½ cup chopped walnuts (or any other nut, e.g. pecan, cashew, almond, hazelnut)
- In a bowl with an electric mixer or a whisk, beat the butter and oil until well blended and smooth. Beat in the sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add the egg and beat until creamy and smooth. Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into the bowl and stir until well blended. Stir in the oats, chocolate chips, cranberries, and nuts. The batter will be chunky.
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop a dozen rounded tablespoons of the dough, evenly spaced, on each sheet. You may need to use your fingers to clump the dough together. Press each spoonful of dough down with a fork dipped in water. The cookies will not spread so flatten well!
- Bake in a preheated 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for about 10 minutes, until the cookies are light brown around the edges. Remove the cookies and place them on a wire rack to cool. Store in a covered container.
Makes 24 cookies. Per cookie: 98 kcal, 12 g CHO, 1 g fibre, 5 g fat (2 g saturated), 2 g protein, 69 mg sodium.

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CBU Talks Resume This Afternoon
Conciliation talks between Cape Breton University and its Faculty Association are due to resume this afternoon.
The latest round of negotiations comes after the union issued a strike notice when talks broke off earlier this month.
The Faculty Association says it will call for a strike to begin on Monday if a deal isn't reached by Saturday.
The association has been in a legal strike position since December 26th and a strike or lockout can happen with 48 hours notice.
The main issue in the contract dispute is a so-called layoff clause.


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Pineapple (Upside Down) Eyeball Bread
Pineapple (Upside Down) Eyeball Bread
Prep: 20 Minutes
Cook: 10 Minutes
Serves: 12
Submitted by: Neens from Ono Yum
Meet the Chef!
Neens from Ono Yum
Neens grew up in the island-style communities of San Diego. Far from Hawaii, but close to plate lunch, surfing and ukulele jammin, Neens is the creator of the Musubi Map and the I Love Poke Festival, both vehicles that reflect his passion for all things Hawaiian. He was raised on local-style home cooking thanks to his Mom, Gles, also known as the Filipina Betty Crocker. This recipe is one of Neens' favorite dishes that he grew up eating, courtesy of his Mom. Thanks, Mom!
Recipe Details
1 20 ounce can Sliced pineapple, drained
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup Brown sugar, packed
1 8 ounce can Maraschino cherries
1 12-pack KING'S HAWAIIAN Original Hawaiian Sweet Dinner Rolls
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.Step 2
Spray a 24-muffin pan with cooking spray.Step 3
Pat the pineapple and cherries dry between several sheets of paper towel, and arrange evenly on the bottom of each muffin cup with a cherry in the middle of each ring.Step 4
Melt the butter and brown sugar in a pan and pour over the pineapple and cherries.Step 5
Cut individual KING'S HAWAIIAN Original Sweet Rolls in half lengthwise and place one half on top of the brown sugar mixture.Step 6
Bake for 7–10 minutes or until golden brown. Keep an eye on the bread, and cover with foil if bread is toasting too quickly (ovens vary).Step 7
Let the bread cool for 5 minutes. Run a knife along the edges of the pan, and then invert the bread onto a serving dish. Serve warm or at room temperature.Step 8
DECORATIONStep 9
Using a black food pen, draw dots in the middle of M&M's to make an eyeball.Step 10
Cut full-sized marshmallows in half. Using your fingers, separate the center of the smooth half, creating a sticky spot to place the M&M.Step 11
Place the marshmallows on top of the pineapple, covering the cherry. Place an M&M in the center of each marshmallow.Step 12
Using a red food decorator pen, draw red lines (blood vessels) throughout the marshmallow, starting at the center and working your way to the side.
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The trailer for Whitney Houston's final film, "Sparkle," debuted on NBC's "Today" show Monday, giving her fans a glimpse of the big-screen performance that would be the superstar's last.
The remake of the 1976 Supremes-inspired flick is due to hit theaters in August, and marks Houston's first return to movie acting in 16 years. In the film, Whitney plays the mother of Jordin Sparks' character, a singer who never quite made it to the big time.
Take a look:
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Tyler Perry Gives Bobbi Kristina A Job
Bobby Brown's Sister Accuses Ray J Of Giving Whitney Houston Cocaine [VIDEO]
Whitney Houston's Cause Of Death Revealed
Ray J Finally Breaks His Silence
Bobbi Kristina: "It's A Lot Of Pressure But She Prepared Me For It"
Whitney Houston Leaves Everything To Bobbi Kristina In Will
Whitney Houston's Mother Cissy Kicks Out "Secret Son" From Atlanta Home
Houston Family Sells Funeral Coverage For Bobbi Kristina
Whitney Houston Laid To Rest Beside Her Father [PHOTOS & VIDEO]
Bobby Brown Releases Statement On Why He Left Whitney's Funeral [VIDEO]
Whitney Houston Celebrated At Funeral [PHOTOS & VIDEO]


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|Recording venue: St. Jacob the Greater, Jihlava
I was particularly glad to make the discovery of several new-to-me composers. (Since research revealed them to be also responsible for operas, I was also visited by compunction for not having known about them before.) Czech composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster figures prominently, with his haunting setting of the Stabat Mater opening the disc. The performance of the disc's lone sacred work by the Choir Association Campanula Jihlava was lucid and involving, and pleasingly free from heavy-handedness or sentimentality. I was also fascinated by the excerpts from Foerster's Lieder der Dämmerung, a loosely linked cycle setting poetry by authors from Heine, to Rilke, to Verlaine. Here as elsewhere, Ladislava Vondrácková played with limpid sensitivity. The lieder of Carl/Karl/Károly Goldmark were also new to me, and sung by Petra Froese with admirable clarity of diction. Although she had a tendency to drift slightly flat, I appreciated being able to understand every word.
Alphons Diepenbrock is the CD's third best represented composer, and was (Really Shameful Confession) equally unknown to me. His lieder--even "Der König in Thule"--were much brighter than those of the other composers represented, despite being written for baritone, here Felix Rumpf. On repeated listenings, I kept expecting to suddenly find disturbing undercurrents, and didn't. The contrast to Bruno Walter's moody "Der junge Ehemann" (von Eichendorff, and, yes, that Bruno Walter) is notable. Nestled in among the rarities are a few gems from my favorite composers of weird romantic/modern lieder. Hugo Wolf is represented by the delicate "Zitronenfalter im April" and the yearning "Blumengruß," while Schoenberg gets the surprisingly full-bodied romanticism of "Hochzeitslied." Strauss's "Ruhe, meine Seele" was given with an unusual restraint, which I confess I was not quite convinced by; if restrained, I feel, Strauss should at least be taut with the effort of that restraint. I was delighted to find Pauline Viardot alongside the other composers, with her febrile, ardent "Die Beschwörung." To me, the disc feels like a cornucopia. It may be unlikely to make converts to the art of lieder--it's all so deliciously unusual--but it may provide aficionados with happy discoveries.


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A global effort: Golder Trust for Orphans
The Golder Trust for Orphans was established in South Africa by Golder employees in 2003, at a time when there were many children orphaned or displaced by the HIV AIDS pandemic. With the realization of their ability to make a significant difference in the world, our people decided to act and not be bystanders to the devastation caused by this disease.
Since then, the Trust has evolved from a small grassroots operation and today is an enterprise focused on developing sustainable solutions that empower the community and improve the lives of vulnerable children. To achieve this objective, the Trust supports and partners with organizations who share the same mission, and currently funds 15 projects in 8 African countries where over 4,000 children benefit from food security, healthy living environments, and education.
Indigenous Relations
Golder has a long history of working with Indigenous communities. These relationships are guided by our corporate values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, caring and ownership. We are committed to working with Indigenous peoples in ways that are respectful, welcoming and culturally aware.
As a signatory to the UN Global Compact, Golder's work in this area supports the UNGC's focus on social and environmental sustainability.
"There are opportunities to involve Indigenous people in business ventures as owners, suppliers, contractors and employees. This can contribute to the long-term success of projects and help embed business in the local community."UNGC, Social Sustainability, Indigenous Peoples
Our Indigenous Relations Policy outlines our commitment to work with Indigenous communities and businesses to maximize their participation in our projects, and develop profitable partnerships that contribute to capacity development and foster community success. In doing this, we support our clients in fulfilling their commitments to Indigenous peoples.
Maximizing economic benefits to Indigenous communities
Golder has developed an Indigenous Participation Model to assist our clients in achieving their Indigenous engagement, procurement, and training goals. Our model consists of a seven-phase process:


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The 2011 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award of the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society is presented to Brian Wyvill of the University of Victoria.
Brian Wyvill is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. He earned his B.Sc. in 1970 at the University of London and his Ph.D. in 1975 at the University of Bradford, both in the United Kingdom. He took a post-doctoral position at the Royal College of Art in London in the department of Design Research and worked subsequently at a company called System Simulation. In that position he can proudly point to a sequence in the movie Alien that bears his personal touch. He held faculty positions at the University of Calgary from 1981 to 2006 before taking on his present position at the University of Victoria. In these positions, in the last six years alone, he has published over 30 refereed articles. During his career to the present he has supervised 10 PhD students and over 20 MSc students.
The central theme of Brian Wyvill's research in computer graphics since the mid-1980s has been a search for new concepts and methods that enable a wide variety of users to easily visualize complex models and processes. He has focussed on models and processes that are expressed implicitly rather than explicitly. As a brief summary, an implicit model is one defined by a process that, when given a point, can identify whether or not the point belongs to the model. An explicit model, by contrast, would be defined by a process that generates all the points, and only the points, of the model. Implicit models have certain advantages that make them very appropriate for use in a number of graphical design and visualization applications. Brian Wyvill's approach is to represent a solid model as the volume inclosed by an iso-surface in a scalar field. The scalar field can be generated in a variety of ways to obtain a large catalog of basic volume elements, and these can then be combined by the use of tools that extend those used in solid modelling. Implicit surfaces have some very attractive properties for modelling, for example gradient and curvature metrics can easily be found, and blending and collision detection are more easily done than with other representations. While some issues remain to be addressed regarding the speed of visualization, the capabilities of interactivity, and the provision of methods for parameterizing implicit surfaces, considerable progress has been made towards easing the adoption of implicit techniques by the modelling community.
Brian Wyvill is recognized as a pioneer of implicit modelling. Many of the algorithms he has developed in his research have had a significant impact on the field. In 1986 for example, together with his brother, Geoff Wyvill, Brian Wyvill developed the first polygonizer for implicit surfaces and iso-surfaces in volume data. Their work incorporated a number of innovative features, such as the use of a hash table to avoid storing every cube, the identification of ambiguous cases, and the use of voxels to avoid considering primitives that do not affect a particular volume. The polygonizer was ground-breaking, seminal and highly influential, and it has been widely cited.
In 1999, Brian Wyvill took the CSG tree, the basic data structure for representing solid-volume models, and developed an extension to this data structure to include implicit models, which he has named the BlobTree. The BlobTree is a tree-structured set of nodes wherein the leaves are implicit primitives and the higher nodes are operations. Recently the set of possible operations has been enlarged to include a wide range of BlobTree nodes, such as blend, warp, animation, bounded blend, precise contact modelling and many others. This provides many tools for shape control that all use the implicit metaphor. The result is a consistent, homogeneous system in which evaluation of objects is done by traversing the tree to find a field value for a particular point in space. Moreover the BlobTree provides a test bed for trying out ideas in implicit modelling and provides basic support for many projects. Future research directions are based on new, faster visualization techniques coupled with innovative and intuitive ways of interactively creating implicit fields. Implicitization methods using radial basis functions enable a real object to be scanned to become a BlobTree primitive. By combining modelling techniques with existing objects, the possibility exists of finding better ways to build complex objects. The BlobTree has become a common way of organizing data for implicit modellers
Brian Wyvill's 1986 algorithm for the polygonization of implicit models is well known in industry, both for surface representation as well as the visualization of iso-surfaces from volume data. The potential function introduced in 1986 is often called the "Wyvill function" in the modelling community. Visualizing implicit surfaces requires a search through space to find the surface; techniques pioneered by Brian Wyvill's research have greatly improved the search speed to the point where implicit surface techniques are now a viable alternative to traditional methods. Work with Kees van Overveld in the early-1990's led to a new polygonization technique that combined CSG and implicit modelling, and for the first time, offered a method for overcoming artifacts in a mesh approximation.
One of the main thrusts of Brian Wyvill's recent research has been on developing interactive techniques for building implicit models by sketch-based methods. This has included work on a technique for hierarchical spatial caching to speed tree traversal, a method for interactively generating implicit sweep surfaces, and a sketch based modeller itself, called ShapeShop. A disadvantage of implicit modelling compared to parametric modelling for use in games and the animation industry is the difficulty of applying textures. Brian Wyvill and his collaborators offered a solution in 2006 via an interactive technique called decal compositing. Recent work with sketching has led to a new method for applying free form deformation to implicit models. And working with collaborators in France, Brian Wyvill has contributed to a breakthrough in offering solutions to three well known problems of implicit modelling: blending at distance, unexpected blending, and lack of fine detail.
Along the way, during Brian Wyvill's research career, he has published in areas as varied as interactive modelling, sketch-based systems, illumination and rendering, animation, texturing, hierarchical and subdivision methods, biological and medical models, and physical simulation. Brian Wyvill has promoted the implicit modelling field through journal and conference papers; he has started two conference series and given many invited international lectures and seminars. Other fields of modelling, such as the Level Set research community, owe much to the methods developed by the implicit modelling community based on his algorithms.
No coverage of Brian Wyvill's activities would be complete without mentioning that he is a stage actor of considerable experience with a resume that includes 14 roles, and counting, together with 6 plays directed, and counting, and 4 plays written, and counting. Add to this a novel just completed. Add further to this an avocation of mountaineering and rock climbing. To his credit in this activity can be counted three routes up El Capitan as well as a number of first ascents, including a route on Cerro Torre in Patagonia and several long routes in the Rockies.


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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination." -John Keats- Let's go back to evolution. Go through the argument again.
- Darwin's theory of evolution is natural selection of chance mutations. When we breed dogs for height we make sure other possibly advantageous qualities aren't given a chance to develop: not health, age, color, shape, strength, only height. We have difficulty imagining how in nature the equivalent conditions, a substitute for the breeder, could be found. A long neck is good for a giraffe, but so are many other qualities. Another problem is that a greater height and longer neck will come at the cost of other useful qualities. Hip problems, breathing problems for example are common with certain breeds of dogs. The dog breeder puts together tall dogs with tall dogs and ignores the problems, but it's hard to see what nature without the interference of a breeder could do about it. Another problem is the complexity that has to be maintained and extended for the development of specialized organs. For this to happen, useful changes must not interfere with existing structures, rather they have to extend the potential of existing structures. Hard to see how this could happen by chance.
- OK. You've said chance selection of random change in evolution, the spontaneous organization of the free market out of impersonal economic transactions are examples of myth and ritual. I don't really get that.
- The Guru brought over last night a girl who told me she'd prostituted herself the night before.
- You're living with a prostitute?*
- For the time being. I asked her if she was a prostitute, and she said she wasn't. She is living her life, living out the myth popularized by singers whose message is Be who you are are, everyone is as good as everyone else, find your power.
- Where is her power? Did she tell you?
- She told me. It's power over men. She was extremely defensive, she took everything I said to be an evasion or an attack. Her life was a struggle for power. She had to give up all other human qualities, sincerity, kindness, etc in the pursuit of being who she'd decided she was. At least for the time being. She was young, wanted to apply for film school.
- She was evolving herself into role like the dog breeder guides the evolution of his breeds.
- Yes. The politician does the same, saying or doing anything to get and keep the job.
- Evolution then is modeled not only on myth, but also on everyday social behavior?
- Lewis Mumford said that physical technology grew out of the historically prior social technology, the complex hierarchies of Middle Eastern empires.
- How does this connect with what you said about ritual?
- The politician, the prostitute, in every act of gaining and solidifying power passionately attempts to make up for the loss of personal alternatives, looking ahead to the power of newly established social relations.
- If the theory of evolution is merely a clumsy translation of social technology of ritual, how does evolution really happen? Or do you deny evolution altogether?
- Let's try to imagine a kind of social technology that could support evolution.
- Sure, if you can.
- We need to be able to get rid of the breeder artificially limiting which good adaptations are to persist, and we need to protect complexity. We have technology which does this.
- What technology is that?
- When we see something as beautiful we have taken a step back. We've stopped responding to immediate demands of the world, we see a limited part of the world and feel ourselves to be safe with it. Within that safety of defined relation of ourselves to the world, small changes can be allowed that do not imperil stability of relation, and which, if they too can establish a new, safe, beautiful relation to the world, will be acquired and take their functioning place in the complex world we already live in.
- Lost me.
- We we speak, we have confidence we will be understood and in the words we've already learned how to use. That is the background of beauty and complexity. We add one word on top of another, without knowing the end of the sentence. When the sentence works out to be a good one, a beautiful one, we have maintained complexity and evolved a bit our knowledge.
- Do you mean that individual animals learn to remake the world into something beautiful, in which condition evolution then can occur?
- If we assume we living things have something inherent in them similar to our conscious endeavor to create and live with beauty, evolution works**. Something like what we do when we use language takes the place of the breeder.
- But, this is difficult. Do animals take a step back like you say we do when we speak? Do they have a sense of beauty? Do they in fact act on the world to make it beautiful?
- I think it is possible that any form of life can identify different basic kinds of relation to the world without using language as we do in naming some things beautiful and others ugly. I think it is possible that adaptation and evolution could proceed with beauty, with making the world beautiful as a priority.
- Evolution may still be seen as a struggle for existence, but beauty may be its necessary condition.
Further Reading: Einstein & Intellectual Physics
* See the story The Wife, The Writer, The Guru...
** Complexity respected, a single path of adaption pursued, disadvantages taken into account along the way. In the example of language production: 1. Complexity respected: retained as the motive behind speaking. 2. Single path of adaptation: the course of the sentence being produced. 3. Disadvantages dealt with: sentence direction alters as obstacles of meaning encountered. From outside, natural selection. From inside, random change plus this additional factor (reaching towards beauty) selecting between changes.
Evolution thus modified applies also to property relations. The chance acquisition of property, limited by the demands of beauty, and selective pressure of the claims of other people yields something like anarchist economics.
For anarchist economics:
Property Is Silence
The Tools To Remake Our Lives
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If anyone had thought that credit crunch has faded in significance, had been replaced by a deepening – and now acknowledged – global recession, but that basically things were back to some sort of known territory where we've been before and know how to get out of it eventually, this morning we were reminded that this was not the case.
Clearly, we are very, very far from being out of the woods, with banks continuing to be on the brink of disaster and still struggling to quantify the extent of their losses.
The new £50bn plan: The new bailout plan, announced in the UK this morning, will allow the Bank of England to buy up to £50bn of risky assets directly from any company (not just financial institutions) that agrees to enter into a voluntary insurance scheme for its expected losses on specified toxic debts. In return, banks have to pay for this insurance – typically with cash, but possibly also their shares. The scheme aims to insure companies against 90% of their losses on specified debts which resulted from the collapse of the sub-prime market and the ensuing global meltdown.
Two bailouts, two stories: This scheme, of course, exists on top of the first bailout in October 2008 where several key financial firms received £37bn as a capital injection to top up their reserves. The second UK bailout, however, has very different features to the first one. Not only the recipients of "aid" are different, but the insurance scheme "twist" is a new one. It is closer, albeit not idential, to the earlier US's bailout model of buying up bad assets from struggling firms. Read the rest of this entry »
It would have been a bombshell for many, but in good old British tradition details of this annoucement were leaked this weekend, so here we are picking this apart before Alistair Darling has made his speech due later on today.
The jist of it: Labour want to spend their way out of this unprecedented recession. And we are all seriously concerned that the numbers behind the justification of the intention to spend our way out of the recession just does not seem to add up.


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Tonight I'm making pizza! Pretty simple but it's what I felt like eating.
1 kg plain flour
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs salt
1 tbs yeast
1 cup warm water and more if needed.
mix all ingredients until a dough is formed. Leave in a warm place to rest for a couple of hours until it is well risen.
2 cans tomatoes
2 onions roughly chopped
4 garlic cloves
Saute onion and garlic until soft add tomatoes and reduce for 30 minutes until a nice thick sauce forms. Puree until smooth, season.
Completely up to you. Today i felt like ham and pineapple and cheese.
I also felt like Ham, Salami, capsicum, pineapple mushrooms and capsicum cheese.
Other options are a bolognaise sauce base with roasted zucchini, pumpkin and capsicum topped with cheese
Roasted mediterranean vegetables with feta cheese.
Seafood like prawns, scallops with a white sauce.
chicken with homemade barbecue sauce, ham and pineapple and cheese
tandoori chicken with a tandoori sauce base, capsicum, onion mushrooms and cheese
potato and herbs
garlic butter
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Ying and Yang: The Dark Knight and his villains
I know a number of people who were disappointed with the character of Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. Some had issues with his voice but many felt he had no presence and paled in comparison with the Joker.
One reviewer complained that Bane was too similar to Batman.
I think that was the point. I believe that Bane is the yang to Batmans ying (just as the Joker was). Bane is what Batman could have been had he chosen to follow the league of shadows.
Film critic, Mark Kermode made this interesting comparsion. Batman wears a mask and has his mouth in his full view but Bane has his mouth covered and his face in full view. They are opposites. They are versions of each other.
I think that's the great thing about the villains in these Batman films. Each of them are versions of Batman. Each of them are what Batman could have been.
We cannot change many of the situations and events that we encounter in our lives. Both Batman and Bane ended up in the pit. But we can change how we react to those events. Batman chose one path and Bane chose a different one.
How will you deal with the situations that you come face to face with today?
Violence in The Dark Knight Rises
It's always the same.
Every time an atrocious incident takes place (eg the Colorado shootings) films are blamed. Many people have come out to complain about "The Dark Knight Rises" and how it is responsible for corrupting minds with its violence.
On the website, "red letter christians" there is an article about the link between the shootings and the film and towards the end of the article, the writer says this:
"It is truly a tragedy when 12 people are killed by a deeply senseless act of violence. It is also a tragedy when the human mind is molded to enjoy and celebrate similar acts of violence on the big screen."
What the writer seems completely unaware of is that in Nolans' series of Batman films, the filmmakers are keen to state that it is because of Batmans violence that more violence takes place. The violence in the Dark Knight series escalates because of Batman himself.
If there were no Batman there would be no Joker, there would be no Bane and there would be no (spoiler) Talia Al'Ghul. These people exist because of Batman. The Joker strikes Gotham to show Batman that every one of us will be come a blood thirsty murderer if pushed far enough. Bane and Talia want to destroy Gotham because Batman killed Raz Al'Ghul.
These films demonstrate the circular nature of violence. These films are not pro-violence.
This is a great message to discuss with young people.
Where does violence take us? Does it really get us anywhere?
In fact, the only way that evil is dealt with in these films is through sacrifice. It is Harvey Dents supposed sacrifice (really Batmans) in the Dark Knight that leads to the Dent Act that removes criminals from the streets and it is Batmans sacrifice at the end of the Dark Knight Rises that brings victory.
The Batman films, rather than promote violence, shine a light on its fallacy and show that the myth of redemptive violence leads us straight to the pits of Bane's hell.
Give us our endings!
Here's a post I wrote for the website "reel faith"
We all love a good ending don't we?
The problem is, Hollywood (and every other network) does not seem to want to give us one.
This Summer we have had 'Snow White and the Huntsman', 'Prometheus' and now 'The Amazing Spiderman' which all fail to tie up loose ends in the hope that we will tune in for another installment.
And it's not just films that are guilty of this.
I enjoyed the six part 'Hit and Miss' drama on Sky Atlantic a couple of months back until the last episode which refused to tie up any plot strands and left us instead with a "second series cliffhanger". Can't we just have a TV series that ends well and doesn't force us to watch the next series in the hope of some resolution?
The truth is, this is nothing new. Films and TV shows have been doing this for years. I gave up on 'Lost' a number of years ago after failing to resolve any plot strands after two seasons.
This probably all sounds like I'm against 'cliffhangers' in TV shows and films but I'm really not. There are plenty of TV shows and films that weave it in successfully. I enjoy 'Fringe', 'Dexter' and 'Breaking Bad' and they all tease another series in each of their season finales.
Films like 'Batman Begins', 'X-men 2' 'Spiderman' (admittedly all super hero films) all end with a sequel tease and, in my opinion, pull it off well. In fact, I think these examples make the film better.
So why do some work and others don't?
Films and TV shows need to be able to stand alone. If I choose not to watch the next series or the sequel, I need to feel like that film or series' main plot strands have been wrapped up. Let's use 'Batman Begins' as an example.
At the end of the film, Bruce Wayne has become Batman and the villain (Raz Al'Ghul) has been defeated. The films' main plot has been resolved. Yes it then sets up the introduction of The Joker but if I decided never to see 'The Dark Knight' I'd be happy that the film delivered what it set out to accomplish.
The problem comes when a TV show or film fails to tie up its main plot strands and expects the audience to tune in to the next series or sequel to find resolution. That's not right. I've spent my money; I've sat through a series; I expect a conclusion.
For me, I have similar ideas when it comes to my Christian faith. I like doubt. I like questions. I like the grey areas of faith.
As a youth worker, I walk the fine line between answering all of the young peoples' questions and leaving room for ambiguity. Faith shouldn't be wrapped up in a neat little box. We shouldn't be able to answer all of the questions. We need to leave room for the 'what ifs'. We need to need to help young people find some answers but also leave them wanting more.
It's okay not to resolve all the 'plot strands' of the christian faith but we need to be sensitive to the young people we work with in order to know which ones to resolve and which ones to leave open ended.
Should Christians Be Causing More Chaos?
I watched "The Dark Knight" again last night and I am still pretty much in awe of it. Both as a film and as a series of ideas, of which there are many.
This time around what I was most intrigued by was the Joker's conversation with Harvey 'Two Face' in the hospital. He said, and I paraphase slightly, that when things go according to plan, everything is fine. People Don't react. But when you don't follow the plan, you bring about chaos.
Christians, by there very focus on the hope of the Resurrection and the eventual return of Christ and the merging of Heaven with Earth do not follow the plan of the world. We see things differently.
Should we then be causing more chaos?
As a youth worker seeking to discuss with young people the hope of Jesus, should I be encouraging them to cause more chaos by the way they act?
To the point, is there such a thing as good chaos?


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The 4th annual women's 2.0 pitch competition is accepting submissions right now. The competition is open to early stage ventures from around the world. The ventures must be in beta stage.
Dead for your submission is October 1st, 2010!
Requirements for application:
- The founding team must have at least one female.
- The founding team must have a technologist* on the founding team. A technologist is an engineer, scientist, mathematician, biologist, etc.
- Your venture must be in beta. This means you should have a prototype (alpha or beta version) or the product is already in the market.
- PITCH is focused on companies with high-growth potential.
The competition is looking for the business that has best pivoted and has figured out their product-market fit. The competition is really a "business model" competition rather than a "business plan" competition. Meaning that they are not looking for the best looking plan on paper but what business has demonstrated learning and has made adjustments in their markets.
Every application will receive written feedback from the judges whether they are chosen or not to compete.
Finalists will be notified October 14th, 2010 and invited to present at the Women 2.0 PITCH event in San Francisco on November 4th, 2010. If you are selected as a finalist, the entire team must present at PITCH.
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As a new assistant director in the Human Resources Branch at Canada Revenue Agency, I would like to share my thoughts on two topics that I am extremely passionate about: social leadership and a public servant's pride.
One of the fundamental challenges a new manager faces is determining what type of leader they want to be. We are all influenced by the various management styles that we have experienced through our careers. You cannot determine your leadership style without first defining what leadership means to you.
Leadership can be defined as a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, toward the achievement of a goal. To me, this is a clear definition of social leadership because there is nothing in the phrase that indicates a position of authority over others; it speaks to a common goal and it is inclusive of the expertise of others.
I recently read an interesting article in Forbes that details the "10 Principles of the Future Manager". Without specifically mentioning social leadership, this article details the key attributes of a social leader as someone who: leads by example; is technologically savvy; is conscientious of personal boundaries; believes in sharing and collective intelligence; gives real-time recognition and feedback; and adapts to the needs of the future employee.
The qualities listed above are what I would term social fluency – a key attribute for any leader. Social fluency is the concept of demonstrating proficiency in social situations and/or interpersonal relationships. Social fluency will provide a wealth of information and networks and facilitate collaboration. Today's workplace is constantly evolving and leaders must evolve too in order to remain effective.
Social leaders must:
• Embrace the use of technology and encourage their employees to do the same;
• Identify issues that employees are passionate about and let them run with them;
• Find their own passions and pursue them and employees and colleagues will follow;
• Be vulnerable. It's only through open, honest dialogue that a leader can establish the trust and buy-in of employees and provide meaningful feedback; and,
• Provide real-time recognition as a source of inspiration that keeps momentum going.
Social leadership is my passion and I encourage you to research and embrace it too!
Not only is adaptability a key attribute for social leaders; in a constantly changing environment, it is also an essential skill for all public servants as evidenced by the diagram below.
As a past chair of the Federal Youth Network, I am extremely proud to share with you the Public Servant's Pride. This document was developed by members of the Federal Youth Network to engage public servants. It is comprised of six elements designed to recognize individuality yet create a concrete identity for each public servant that enables us to respond to the needs of Canadians.
Stay tuned! The Federal Youth Network will be introducing new engagement activities on this topic. For additional information on the Public Servant's Pride, please visit the GCpedia page or contact the current chair of the Federal Youth Network, Lisa Sullivan, via Twitter @LisaLjsullivan.


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Well, meltdowns are always fun, right? I thought this would be a good opportunity to highlight to people the level of difficulty of what I'm doing and explaining just how high the costs are for living the way I live, with my background and problems I live with every day.


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Its name in the Tamil language means "The Gift of the Forest". Kodaikanal is referred to as the "Princess of Hill stations" and has a long history as a retreat and popular tourist destination.
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Though the sci-fi film hasn't even come out yet, Michael Fassbender is already set to reteam with his Prometheus director Ridley Scott on Scott's next project. When famed author Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men) surprisingly turned in his first spec screenplay a few months ago, Scott quickly attached himself to the project. We heard at the time that Fassbender was talking to Scott about possibly starring, and now Deadline confirms that the actor will star in The Counselor. While plot details are thin, the pic is described as "No Country for Old Men on steroids" and concerns a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip his toe in the drug business without getting sucked down.
Production is set to begin on May 1st, but Fassbender is also poised to reteam with Shame director Steve McQueen on the period pic Twelve Years a Slave so it's unclear if he'll do Slave before or after The Counselor. The actor recently committed to developing and starring in a film based on Celtic warrior Cuchulainn. A number of high-profile actors are apparently talking with Scott about joining The Counselor, and the director's chair was a highly sought-after gig. While I'm super excited about Prometheus, I'm interested to see Scott take on a straight drama following a number of large-scale pics. [Update: Deadline has updated their story to add that Scott is now looking to cast the villain role, with actors like Jeremy Renner, Brad Pitt, and Bradley Cooper mentioned as possible candidates. This is shaping up to be one hell of a movie]


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|Updated 2018 Taxable Maximum Wage Subject to Social Security Tax
Post Date: 12/4/2017
|Last Updated: 12/4/2017
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In October of each year, the Social Security Administration announces adjustments that take effect the following January that are based on the increase in average wages. Based on the wage data Social Security had at the time of the October 13, 2017 announcement, the maximum amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax (taxable maximum) was to increase to $128,700 in 2018, from $127,200 in 2017. The new amount for 2018, based on updated wage data reported to Social Security, is $128,400.
This lower taxable maximum amount is due to corrected W-2s provided to Social Security in late October 2017 by a national payroll service provider. Approximately 500,000 corrections for W-2s from 2016 resulted in changes for three items based on the national average wage:
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No other items based on national average wages were affected.
The change to the taxable maximum does not take effect until January 2018 and the updated bend points in the benefit computation only apply to people who initially become eligible for Social Security benefits in calendar year 2018. This does not affect current beneficiaries.
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Audrey LLEVOT
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Polymeric networks
Education and Experience
Dr Audrey Llevot received her master degree from the Graduate School of Chemistry, Biology and Physics of Bordeaux (ENSCBP, France) with a specialization in polymer science in 2011. In 2014, she obtained her PhD degree of the University of Bordeaux in polymer chemistry under the supervision of Profs. H. Cramail, S. Grelier, and S. Carlotti at the Laboratory of Organic Polymer Chemistry, University of Bordeaux (France). During this period, she worked on the synthesis of novel bio-based polymers from resinic acid and lignin derivative dimers. In 2015, she joined the group of Prof. M.A.R. Meier at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) as a post-doctoral researcher with a focus both on green chemistry and macromolecular engineering. Then, she was recruited by the LCPO in September 2017 as Assistant Professor in the team 1 headed by Daniel Taton, working on polymerization catalysis and engineering.
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This marks the fifth year for the meeting. Educators representing a wide variety of nonprofit and city, county, state and federal agencies and facilities, including, nature centers, science museums, gardens, arboretums, aquariums, state parks, the N.C. Forest Service, the Wildlife Resources Commission and Soil and Water Conservation Districts attended. The participants shared ways they can improve standards-based program offerings for schools and partner more effectively with teachers, school administrators and the Department of Public Instruction. "North Carolina has a unique partnership that encourages collaboration between schools, school districts, NC DPI and the nonformal education community to support science learning and environmental literacy," said Debra Hall, elementary science consultant for the Department of Public Instruction.
The meeting provides an opportunity for educators to get updates on curriculum standards for NC DPI and instructs them on how to access support documents and resources to help them align their educational programs and field trips with the state's essential standards for science. Participants heard from several guests speakers, including Renee Strnad with Extension Forestry at North Carolina State University who gave an overview of the North American Association's Guidelines for Excellence in Environmental Education. These guidelines set professional standards for environmental literacy and work in concert with both national and state level educational standards.
Chris Goforth, the head of citizen science with the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, spoke to the group on how citizen science can be used to engage classroom teachers and students in authentic science experiences. Tom Randolph, lead interpretation and education ranger with Mt. Jefferson State Natural Area, discussed best practices for curriculum-based programs and field trips emphasizing hands-on, outdoor experiences for students and their connection to better classroom performance.
The meeting was held on the same day that the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act was signed into law. The Every Student Succeeds Act includes language that supports environmental education and environmental literacy programs. The act also supports hands-on learning" and "field-based or service learning" to enhance understanding of STEM subjects which will provide additional opportunities for environmental science education programs. "North Carolina has one of the strongest nonformal environmental education communities in country and the inclusion of field-based environmental science support in the Every Student Succeeds Act will further enhance the already diverse and effective environmental science programming in our state," said Lisa Tolley, program manager with the Department of Environmental Quality.


text: Posted over 1 year agoOverview Who we are: GitPrime is pioneering data-driven engineering. We report on the work patterns and the people-side of software development so engineering leaders can advocate for resources and show they're driving business value based on objective data. We have strong product-market fit with hundreds of happy customers and we are growing rapidly. Who we're looking for: This is a typical player-coach role. Our engineering group is divided into teams of about five engineers. As the team lead, you will be asked to run projects typically one to three months. As a team lead, you are responsible for the successful timely delivery of the project. You're usually given a detailed spec that provides nearly complete UI comps, business requirements, and some implementation guidance. Your job starts with a detailed review of the requirements, gathering questions from your team, coordinating the kickoff meeting with the business stakeholder. We give ample time for engineering feedback into the spec and recommendations for timeline and adjustments to the deliverable. At that point, your job is to run point for the team, make implementation decisions, coordinate pull requests, get early feedback, and generally own the usual responsibilities for software delivery. This position is ideal for the senior candidate seeking both a managerial and individual contributor development position. You should have no less than ten years of commercial experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You must be able to write clean code and ensure scalability. When we say commercial experience, we mean daily hands-in-the-code development experience. Demonstrated leadership ability, and on time delivery of applications is a must for this position. Please give specifics on team size, delivery challenges, and consistent track record of success in your application. Responsibilities: Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance Create well designed, testable, efficient code Participate in all phases of the development lifecycle Assist in preparation and production of releases of software components Ensure designs meet specifications Investigate alternatives and technologies and present them for architectural review, in order to support continuous improvement Manage team workflow and assume personal responsibility for requirements and timeframe compliance Requirements: 10+ years commercial experience mostly in Java and related technologies Significant experience in designing and developing applications using Java, the Spring framework Experience with Docker Experience with Kafka and the Samza framework a plus Good knowledge of SQL and ORM technologies, including JPA2 and Hibernate BS degree in Computer Science required MS preferred Why work for GitPrime: Join high-growth VC funded Y-Combinator startup at liftoff and share the upside Work with a tight-knit group of highly-motivated professionals at the top of their game Compensation package at $140-170k depending on experience, with healthcare, stock options, and benefits We are headquartered in Durango, CO, so you're in for a treat. Located in the heart of the San Juan Mountains, forget the hassles and headaches of city life and enjoy the incredible work-life balance at your doorstep—hiking, mountain biking, paddling, and skiing—that only Colorado can offer. This is a remote-friendly company. Very little travel is required and you're welcome to work from anywhere in the U.S. How to Apply: Complete the short application, including a paragraph about why GitPrime is interesting to you. If you advance, we will ask you to complete several short screening exercises to assess your skills and ideas. If you are shortlisted, we will fly you to Durango Colorado for face-to-face interviews and meet the rest of the team.


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Texas Medigap Plan D – Benefits and Coverage
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|Medicare Part A Coinsurance & Hospital Costs – up to an additional 365 days after Medicare benefits are used up
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Texas Medigap Plan D is one of the standardized Medigap plans available to Medicare beneficiaries. Do not confuse this with PART D, which is for prescription drugs.
A Medigap Plan D covers all the Medicare cost-sharing that you would normally be responsible for except the once-annual Medicare Part B deductible and the Medicare Part B Excess charges, if any provider that you seek charges excess. Excess charges occur when your doctor doesn't accept Medicare assignment. They can add up to 15% to your total bill.
Sometimes our clients feel confused by the terms Part D and Plan D. If you find this confusing, please call us and we'll help break it down for you.
Our family-owned agency can help you with Medicare Supplement D information such as:
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Craft Beers, Breweries and making the most of your Promotional Stubby Holders!
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After recently attending Beers by the Bay an event held each year at the Mornington Racecourse, conveniently located near to the Coolaz factory, it dawned on us that more and more people are turning their hand away from the traditional stubby and onto a micro brewed beauty-of-a-beer!
The event saw local Victorian breweries such as the Mornington Peninsula Brewery, Red Hill Brewery and Prickly Moses pouring their offerings into the glasses of beer enthusiasts and keen critics. Along with some bigger names like Crabbies and Kopparberg bringing their brews of ginger beer and cider to tempt us in a sweeter direction. Crabbies Ginger Beer trying the hardest with their new advertising campaign 'say goodbye to cider'…!
You could also grab yourself a beer recipe and home brew kit from Brew Smith and purchase bottled versions from most breweries as takeaways for consumption after the event! The trend, it seems is for the modern movement of the craft beer to be bottled into a 330ml sized vessel, which is music to the ears of a Coolaz team member, as we pride ourselves on the fact that our customisable stubby holders are capable of fitting 375ml and 330ml bottles as standard! As you can see the Beers by the Bay team also took advantage of this and added us to their event merchandise stand for a second year running! Cheers guys!
Customised stubby holders for craft beers are a fantastic merchandise idea for events like this, but also for the breweries to promote themselves. Beer promotional merchandise is a great way for microbreweries to not only make some extra revenue to put towards their next brew, but also as a promotional product that will create word of mouth and 'in-hand' brand awareness!
If you consider the sensible functionality of a stubby holder as a promotional product for a brewery you will clearly see the value of being able to spread your message by using an item that is placed directly into the hand of your target audience, and onto a product that is useful to that user and relevant to the drinks market. Essentially creating a business card, that is a cooler and an advert, wrapped around your beer… the perfect marriage of a beer cooler to a beer drinker with the brewer as your witness!!
There are many neat tools available that allow you to make the most of your promotional stubby holders too, for example our high quality printing allows us to be able to easily print QR codes onto your coolers. These codes are becoming more visible and are a great way to create a call to action and/or to push people to a website. They can also be used as a marketing tool to track your visitors and the success of your campaign and promotional product.
Perhaps you are a musician or band that plays live at events such as beers by the bay and are looking for an inexpensive merchandise idea to get your name out there. The great thing about Coolaz coolers is that there is no minimum order quantity and so you can purchase a small amount to get you off the ground, we can also print several designs across your volume so that you can include your favourite band shot on one design and your album artwork on another, thus getting more bang for your buck!
Coolaz stubby holders can also make great personalised gift ideas for a special occasion or personal event such as a birthday bash, wedding celebration, engagement party or your hens & bucks parties! We have hundreds of design ideas on our website or you can send through your requirements and our design team will create a unique design to suit your special occasion!
For the beer lover they can also be a great idea for a blind tasting!! Whether at a party, event or just for fun you can design your own coolers to use as an outer layer, not only to keep your beer at the perfect temperature but also to disguise the bottle or can so that there is no cheating when trying to guess which beer is which, a great party game for any event!
For more information about promotional stubby holders or customised stubbies for your event please contact the Coolaz Team – 03 5976 8600 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Happy Brewing!


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How can SMEs adopt a customer-centric approach? Halito!'s Customer Success Manager sat down with us to explain their approach and share a few useful tips.
The importance of customer centricity and flawless customer service have been discussed many times before. But in practice, how can customer-centric SMEs really build better relationships with their customers on a day-to-day basis? We talked to Halito!'s Customer Success Manager, Kevin Mulders, to learn more about their strategy.
Halito! is active in the event industry, offering an online platform for guest registration and communication in the Netherlands, Belgium and Ukraine.
The focus in their customer service efforts? 'The happy flow', a powerful framework they've designed which boils down to the following: "how we organise our business can't be too complicated. Simplicity and speed are essential in everything we do, and we never forget to smile while we're at it."
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A customer-centric approach isn't built overnight
Today, Halito! caters to multinationals, SMEs, event agencies and governmental entities alike. But their customer service department wasn't built overnight: it took time to develop and tweak. "We've always measured customer satisfaction about our product, service, staff, and processes. But for a long time, we thought we should just offer support in a reactive manner: we were there when they called us."
"For a long time, we just offered support in a reactive manner: we were there when they called us."
"A year ago, we figured there's more to it - our customers and the market simply expect more: they want you to proactively solve questions. That's when we started our Customer Success department. Now, my colleague Annick, our Customer Success Officer, is the first point of contact for customers. Proactive support has increased our customer satisfaction, and customers are more involved. In just a year's time, Customer Success really has become one of the most important departments."
Customer centricity now the heart of it all
Initially, Halito! struggled to truly place customers at the heart of what they did. "We didn't bridge the gap enough, lacked customer satisfaction metrics, … But we want to be more than a supplier, we want to be a long-term partner offering added value and helping customers deal with any questions they might have. We want to take their event to the next level."
Now, Halito! strives to exceed customer expectations. "We want to delight. Continuity, added value, involvement, excellence, and scalability are crucial elements in our journey to become a customer-centric business. By sharing our knowhow and expertise, we proactively guide customers to help professionalise the event industry. We maintain closer relationships - and I think that's an important aspect."
"Attention makes the difference."
"We have set ourselves an ambitious target: we want customers to rate us a 9 in customer satisfaction surveys, not a 7. This helps turn customers into brand ambassadors, raising awareness and helping you attract new business opportunities. People will start referring their own network to you, promote good news about you, and exchange their own insights. It's a win-win, really."
So how did Halito! adopt this new approach? By implementing the following 5 changes:
1. Measure customer satisfaction
"First, we send out really simple customer surveys at a regular interval, mainly focusing on 5 key performance indicators (KPIs):
- Focus
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- Friendliness
"We then ask customers to fill out this survey as honestly as possible, along with one open-ended question (Do you have any tips to help us improve?). This, combined with our Net Promoter Score, gives us key insights into how we are perceived, things we do well and factors we can improve upon."
2. Regular, personal, face-to-face communication
"Our Marketing team sends out monthly newsletters to customers through MailChimp. We can segment our database based on interests, for instance, to send targeted emails concerning a specific trend or theme. We also attend several fairs throughout the year, where we meet up with our customers. In fact, we send out personal invitations in advance because we want to hear from them. Personal contact on a regular basis creates room for fresh ideas. This allows us to align our product development and services with the needs of the individual customer."
"Many of our customers really value this personal relationship, and so do we. It allows us to increase customer involvement, exchange ideas and get inspired. And it's also an important step towards building a community of stakeholders and customers around our business."
As a software supplier, customers can sometimes ask for the impossible. "Just another reason why communication is key. On an internal level, we will explain our developers why customers feel this request is important, so they can understand their perspective. If we can't deliver what customers ask, we'll openly communicate why, thank them for their suggestion and explain that we'll take their feedback into consideration in the future, which we really do. Input from our customers is paramount for each and every new feature we release."
3. Tailored training
Halito! used to believe their product was self-explanatory enough to not require any formal training or manual. Today, however, customer expectations are constantly on the rise. It's not that their tool lacks intuitiveness, but training sessions allow them to connect with new and existing customers alike. "They help us gain insight into what drives them, and what they worry about - which creates a long-lasting bond."
This year, Halito! started to provide personal training sessions at their offices, as well as online. "Online training helps us save time and with today's technology, you can share your screen to demonstrate what the user will need to do. The training we provide at our offices is more personal and tailored to the needs of that particular customer. We really take our time to listen - we're not there to tell them what to do, we're there to hear what they need."
"These in-house training sessions also allow us to share our personal findings and best practices, and introduce customers to our software at their own pace."
4. Keep an eye on important business metrics
"As an IT business, we really are into numbers - which is why we started using Cumul.io, a rich data analysis platform that allows you to quickly get actionable insights, to gain a better understanding of our statistics and KPIs. In terms of our customer service, Teamleader's ticketing module allows us to see our first and average response time, when we receive most tickets, the full resolution time for each issue, and even assess individual performances within our team."
"Each email our customers receive related to a ticket now contains a link to the full ticket history. As a result, they won't have to ask what was discussed previously and what this email pertained to. This greatly improves their convenience. We also created custom fields in Teamleader to grant the marketing team some key insights. This way, we can filter on specific segments and get the right message to the right audience."
5. Ticketing and project management
"Teamleader helps us manage customer relationships. The biggest advantage? The ability to centralise all information and manage your entire business in one tool. The customisation options are great too: suppose you'd like to send a personal email with a special offer or call customers on their birthday."
"Taking a genuine interest in customers matters. Did you know that Halito! translates as 'Feel welcome'?"
"To help solve questions of our customers, we use Teamleader's ticketing module. We first had our own ticketing tool, but it's just way easier to combine multiple functionalities in one software. Practical questions are picked up by my colleague, Annick. If we receive technical questions, we simply assign tickets to the right developer, which helps us focus and maintain a clear overview."
"Aside from those practical questions, we also manage projects for our customers from start to finish when, for example, an event is complex. In these cases, we need to maintain close communication with customers. They experience stress and trust you to make sure everything goes as planned. It's crucial that we make them feel we are there when they need us the most. Thanks to Teamleader, we can grant our customer insight into the status of their project online. Again, this helps us improve customer relationships and involvement altogether."
These 5 simple, yet effective changes helped Halito! focus on customer centricity and prepare for what's to come.
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Metropolitan Police Under Siege
Series historical adviser Daniel Czitrom explores the hostility the New York Police Department faced during the Civil War.
The shocking attack upon the Sixth Precinct police takes the murder and blood off the Five Points streets directly into the station house. As the ensuing hostage crisis unfolds, we get a visceral sense of just how violent Civil War New York could be. No one understood better than the police the tight connection between the war on the battlefields and the increasingly brutal reality on city streets.
As the 1865 Annual Report of the Metropolitan Police Board noted, "A state of war is a school of violence and crime…. During the war there has been a marked tendency to crimes of violence towards persons, and other crimes of the graver character…Probably no city in the civilized world is human life so lightly prized and subjected to as great hazards from violence as in New York." The city swarmed with soldiers on their way to and from battle, along with thousands of men who had been discharged, many of them armed. Police noted more and more criminals carrying concealed weapons. And, as the commissioners put it, "The practice of taking human life on slight or no provocation has fearfully increased."
The NYPD's heroic actions fighting rioters during the cataclysmic Draft Riots of 1863, featuring the effective deployment of small groups of cops against large crowds of rioters, laid to rest lingering questions about the force's discipline, devotion to the job, and its ability to maintain order. But fighting organized gangs of violent criminals presented different challenges. The sense of police under siege helps explain the extremely insular job culture among New York police. Station houses by necessity served as dormitories, where men on reserve slept in spartan quarters and ate bad food, squeezed in among prisoners, homeless lodgers, and the endless bustle of precinct routine. New men learned the job from the accumulated experience and knowledge of veterans, who honored physical courage and loyalty to other cops above all and subjected recruits to extreme forms of hazing. The shared risk of death and injury, the feeling of isolation among hostile citizens and unreliable politicians, the sense that they were forever misunderstood—all these shaped the policeman's identity and the unique job culture of the force.Read More


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but in this case Bez knows more about Hamilton than curtis does about Mullins
Doubt bez would bring in a lazy player
we already have boyd to fill the "at one point showed promise" spot
I really hope that Shaffelburg continues to develop...he seems like a good kid and I like the spark that he has brought to the Reds in the last while. But the really important point about him is the burst of creativity he has brought, not on the field, but here on the Boards. The nicknames are amazing--Schadenfreude, Shuffleburg, Shaff Man, ShuffleDemon (I added that one!).
Let the Shuffle Monster reign:
(Sorry it is not the best song, but so on point)
Nothing about this trade is very important, however we're missing more important news to talk about so we are focusing on a pretty marginal player being traded for another marginal player, neither of whom are likely to play much (except given the "TFC curse" they will of course play Hamilton against us and he'll score.).
When marginal players are playing more than the starters out of necessity they arent exactly marginal anymore.
Its an unfortunate move, because it doesnt appeal to the Jozys Gotta Go crowd or the Capable and/or Versatile Backup Striker crowd.
Its just trading one player who doesnt cut it for another who probably wont, given how Mullins has played lately.
I think he ran out of chances, plain and simple.
I'm all for giving opportunities for Canadian youth, however not everyone is going to be the next DeRo. It would be wonderful if a change of scene turns him around. However, its much more likely that he won't be in MLS much longer.
If thats the case moving forward, you need a substitute who can somewhat contribute in an appreciable way. We dont have anyone who can do that Hamilton, Akinola, Boyd, and now Mullins.
If Mullins somehow picks up his best form he could be somewhat useful in that role, but otherwise hes as deadweight as our regular bench (not bench this season) players. If he plays like he has played, we still have no strikers worth playing.
FWIW - Mullins scoring a goal every 117 minutes in 2018/2019 combined, post-injury. Hamilton a goal every 247 minutes with way, way more minutes than Mullins during that span. Not saying he is better or worse but those goals per minutes metrics don't go in Hamilton's favor either.
Technically though 1 goal every 117 minutes isn't bad but I think the more minutes he gets, that number gets worse.
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Bez recognizes this and in his interview talked about Hamilton as "depth." He's not exactly planning on him to be the next Messi or a key part of the Crew's squad.
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Hamilton is one of those guys people will always think is just about to break out but never will. People will still be thinking that a couple years from now when he's serving them ice caps through the Tim's drive-thru window.
Big question is how come Hamilton gets so much love and such a long leash when Osorio is better, does more, did more, and actually earns his place out there yet gets shit on even when he plays well?
Uhhh yeah that's just false about his time at TFC II. 5 goals and 2 assists in 9 games in 2017 and 8 goals and 1 assist in 10 games in 2018. He's an MLS level player. I'm not sure he ever progresses past a bench MLS player but to suggest he struggled at the USL level is not true.
I have no faith in TFC youth development considering they couldn't recognize Kaye's potential while giving contracts and opportunities to so many flops. Hamilton needs to move on to get a fair chance.
Hamilton has a nose for goal. You can't teach that really, it's instinct. He can finish. Many strikers we have had cannot do either. But he is ineffective in a one striker set up - is it lack of talent? Effort? Desire to do the physical dirty work needed? I don't think any of us can say - but there is a parallel to Jozy and Sunderland. The same things were said about him there (Dozy Jozy) and then when he came here and played in a "2" with Seba his career took off. Hamilton can be the same kind of player. It's why he has been a more effective sub than starter - he is brought on in circumstances where we need a goal and are playing a two up front. He's not a hold up player at the moment. Maybe he will develop into one when he gets the desire / strength / experience, like Jozy did - but it doesn't meant he is not a striker.
Any guesses who is the unnamed player that Columbus gets first right of refusal on?


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