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When you're in business for yourself, especially as a professional services provider, it's evident that people do business with other people – not with a product, not with a service. They do business with YOU.
Of course, you need to provide something that they need and deliver quality at a fair price, but they're only part of the buying equation. Bigger is the relationship component. All other things relatively equal, people will do business with you instead of your competitors because they like you.
Don't underestimate the likeability factor. Don't dismiss it as icing on the cake. As a solopreneur, it can be one of your biggest assets.
What being likeable means
Maybe it's best to start with what likeability doesn't mean. Being likeable doesn't mean that you agree with everyone all the time. It doesn't mean that you give your service or product away for next to nothing. It doesn't mean that EVERYONE will think you're the best thing since sliced bread. And it doesn't require that you're innately an extrovert.
It does mean that you exhibit personality traits that draw most people to you. It's about being genuine – and genuinely caring about other people.
Ways to boost your reading on the Likeability Meter
- Be yourself – You can't please all of the people all of the time, so don't try. Be real. People can spot a fake a mile away. But…
- Be nice! – When you're having a bad day, making it a bad one for everyone around you won't make it better. Just be honest if you're not at the top of your emotional game. No need to share the intimate details, but let others know that you're struggling and are operating at less than optimum. They'll understand and respect your candor.
- Lend a hand – Literally or figuratively, helping a client or prospective client with something that they hadn't expected you to will generate a ton of good will. It could be pointing them to a resource to solve a problem or question, offering advice (when asked) on a business process, or offering to help them move into their new office.
- Show your support on social media – Go beyond just "liking" someone's Facebook Page and following them on Twitter, interact with them. Don't go overboard and "like" every post or retweet every tweet, but regularly check out what they're sharing and make it known – via comments and sharing with your audience – when you find something interesting or helpful. What business owner doesn't love it when someone acknowledges that her/his social media efforts are noticed and appreciated?
Being likeable can do wonders for attracting new clients, maintaining those you already have, and gaining referrals from others in the business community. Make it work for your business!
What other ways can you demonstrate your personal likeability through – and for the success of – your business?
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If your lender won't give you a loan modification, join the crowd. Just because you asked for one, and just because being granted one could save you from going through foreclosure, doesn't mean your lender has to grant you one. Before you give up on getting a loan modification, make sure you've given it your best shot. If you still fail to achieve one, you have other options besides foreclosure.
Appeal a Denied Loan Modification
If your lender denied your request for a loan modification, don't take "no" for an answer. Ask why you were denied. If you make a mistake with the paperwork or leave something out, your application might not be reviewed, advises Bankrate.com. Make sure you included everything the lender wanted: paycheck stubs, a hardship letter, a budget and anything else your lender specified. If you need help, you might be eligible to get assistance from a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development counselor.
Principal Reduction Alternative
If you owe more than what your house is worth, you might qualify for a Principal Reduction Alternative through the Making Home Affordable program. You need to meet some qualifications, such as owing more than 115 percent of the home's value, having a mortgage payment greater than 31 percent of your gross income, having a financial hardship that puts you in danger of losing your home and proving you have an income that would allow you to make the modified payments.
Forbearance is a temporary measure to get you through a tough time. Under forbearance, you pay a reduced mortgage or your mortgage will be suspended. At the end of the forbearance period, you start making your regular mortgage payments again. People who are on reduced pay from disability, for example, might use this option if they will return to work shortly.
Short Sale
Your lender might agree to let you sell the house for less than what you owe and call it even. Your lender typically needs to approve the selling price. This procedure is called a short sale. You still lose your house this way, but it's better for your credit score than a foreclosure.
Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure
Another option where you lose your home, but don't damage your credit as much as you would by going through foreclosure is called a deed in lieu of foreclosure. Here, you give your home to the lender, and your lender may or may not forgive your deficiency balance.
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Marketing insights
There are lots of reasons to be excited about your future in marketing. Marketing is a broad skill set that's critical for businesses in all industries. Not to mention non-profits. Whether you want to conquer the corporate world or champion a charity you believe in, a marketing qualification will help open up the opportunities you've been chasing.
Skilled marketers are in demand all over the world. So if you've been dreaming of living and working overseas, becoming a marketing professional could quite literally take you where you want to go. There are also plenty of opportunities right here in Australia. For example, according to government projections, the advertising services industry is set to grow by over 13% by 2022*.
Interested in lots of different disciplines? Want real variety in your career? You've come to the right place. From consumer behaviour data analysis to persuasive writing, strategy and budget planning, studying marketing really lets you flex every part of your mind. You'll be able to take your skills to a variety of different roles. Diploma graduates work in a wide range of roles across many industries including as marketing and communication assistants to digital marketing coordinators and social media marketing managers. The Diploma course can also be a pathway to further study at university level. Pursue your newfound love of creative writing, data science, brand strategy – it's up to you.
Social media insights
The average large business spend on social media went up 50% from 2012-2017**.
Senior social media managers in Australia earn $70,000-$130,000 a year***.
The median salary for a social media manager is $75,000 a year***.
All this adds up to an exciting future for potential professional social media managers – like you.
The uptake of social media amongst businesses isn't slowing down in 2018. More businesses are establishing a social media presence for the first time. Many more are growing their social budgets, posting more often, and producing higher quality content. But social media management isn't something you can just pick up. It's incredibly data-driven, creative, and disciplined. You can get in on the ground level of this growth by formalising your social smarts with a Diploma-level qualification from Monarch Institute.
Don't want to be a full time social media manager? No worries. The Diploma can help you add strings to your bow that'll help you stand out as a general marketing professional. After all, many reports suggest that businesses – especially smaller ones – are still more likely to handle their social media marketing internally. Being able to handle social media responsibilities, and deliver measurable results, is a plus for potential employers. And the variety of tasks will keep you on your toes.
*Labour Market Information Portal, Australian Government Department of Employment
**Sensis Social Media Report 2017
***Hudson Salary Guide 2017 (Marketing & Communications)


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The City of Alameda is posting daily updates about the actions we are taking to protect the community and slow the spread of COVID-19.
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The City is monitoring the situation on the spread of the Coronavirus. For more information - Go to the CDC website.
Community Preparedness
The City of Alameda Fire Department coordinates the emergency management and disaster preparedness program for the City by working with the Fire and Police department, city staff, partner agencies, businesses and Community Members to minimize risk by actively seeking to mitigate hazards, to prepare for, respond to, and successfully recover from natural or manmade disasters when they strike.
In its efforts to prepare and inform the community and its residents in case of disasters, the City of Alameda Fire Department offers the following training programs, notification methods, and city planning and response information:
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program provides training to Alameda residents and employees of Alameda businesses to increase self-sufficiency in a disaster. Participants learn skills that will enable them to provide emergency assistance to their families and neighbors.
Help your neighborhood prepare with the "Map Your Neighborhood" program. This self guided program helps neighborhoods get to know one another, identify neighbors that may need a little extra help in the event of a disaster and learn skills you can use after a disaster such as locating and shutting off gas valves and other safety tips and ideas to help you prepare. The program is free to Alameda residents. For more information contact Patrick Preminger email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Personal Preparedness
It's everyone's responsibility to be prepared. The City of Alameda highest priority is to the safety of its residents, but when disaster strikes being personally prepared will lessen the impact on our community. So let's get started! Check out the links below to help you build a kit, make a family plan, and put together the kind of supplies that will help you and your family survive if disaster strikes.
For more information or question regarding the emergency and disaster planning, contact : Disaster Preparedness Coordinator
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PSA — Beware of Hackers
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Repost from CAILEY RIZZO NOVEMBER 19, 2019 / US News and World Report When you're traveling and your phone is about to die, most travelers will take a charge wherever they can find it. But, a new report from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office warns against using public USB power charging stations because of "juice jacking." Juice jacking is a scam that can drain important information from your phone while you use a public USB port to charge. Criminals can load malware onto the charging stations, rip out the real USB ports and replace them with their own infected ports or leave...


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Launch, 21.3.2016
Diane Fahey's A House by the River, published by Puncher & Wattmann, will be launched by Michelle Borzi on Monday 21st March, 6 for 6.30pm at Collected Works Bookshop, Level 1, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne. R.S.V.P. if possible:
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Who hasn't had his or her enjoyment of a great story ruined in English class by the assignment of having to identify metaphors and similes — as many as you can find?
Not only is your engagement with a piece of literature interrupted (maybe even corrupted) by this assignment, but your appreciation of metaphors and similes can quickly be stunted in the process.
If you can put that experience aside for a few moments, you might enjoy spending some time with a new book that collects great metaphors and similes in short passages from English literature. There is no story here to interrupt, so you are free just to enjoy this age-old tool of lively writing. Who knows, it might inspire a metaphor or simile from inside you.
Michael Dirda, who confesses "no flair" for creating either one, reviews Farnworth's Classical English Metaphor in The Washington Post, with several great examples from the book.


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The Personality of Jesus
To do synthesize this in short form for a blog is difficult at best; however, what follows may give a starting picture.
Personality is the sum of its parts interactively. This parts include emotions such as love, anger, compassion, sorrow, joy, pity, exasperation, fear, drive, and the need for companionship, to name a few.
In the Bible, we are told that Jesus loved the following people: the rich young man (Mark 10:21); Martha, Mary and Lazarus (John 11:5); Lazarus (John 11:3,36); one of the disciples (John 13:23; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7,20). Paul, in the Letter to the Ephesians, talks of Jesus' love for us: Christ loved us and gave himself up for us (Eph 5:2); the love of Christ surpasses knowledge (Eph 3:18-19); Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Eph 5:25). We see Jesus' great love for his mother as he was dying on the cross when he asked his close friend and disciple John to look after her (John 19:25-27).
I think it would be fair to say that we can see Jesus' love for people when he was healing them by touching them. Some examples are Mark 1:31; 1:41; 5:41; 8:22-26. Furthermore Jesus allowed himself to be touched (Mark 6:56) and kissed (Luke 7:38,45). The disciple leaned close to his chest during the Last Supper (John 13:25).
The New Revelation
(1420.6) 129:1.9 At the Capernaum synagogue he found many new books in the library chests, and he spent at least five evenings a week at intense study. One evening he devoted to social life with the older folks, and one evening he spent with the young people. There was something gracious and inspiring about the personality of Jesus which invariably attracted young people. He always made them feel at ease in his presence. Perhaps his great secret in getting along with them consisted in the twofold fact that he was always interested in what they were doing, while he seldom offered them advice unless they asked for it.(1425.3) 129:4.4 The Son of Man experienced those wide ranges of human emotion which reach from superb joy to profound sorrow. He was a child of joy and a being of rare good humor; likewise was he a "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." In a spiritual sense, he did live through the mortal life from the bottom to the top, from the beginning to the end. From a material point of view, he might appear to have escaped living through both social extremes of human existence, but intellectually he became wholly familiar with the entire and complete experience of humankind.
(1425.4) 129:4.5 Jesus knows about the thoughts and feelings, the urges and impulses, of the evolutionary and ascendant mortals of the realms, from birth to death. He has lived the human life from the beginnings of physical, intellectual, and spiritual selfhood up through infancy, childhood, youth, and adulthood — even to the human experience of death. He not only passed through these usual and familiar human periods of intellectual and spiritual advancement, but he also fully experienced those higher and more advanced phases of human and Adjuster reconciliation which so few Urantia mortals ever attain. And thus he experienced the full life of mortal man, not only as it is lived on your world, but also as it is lived on all other evolutionary worlds of time and space, even on the highest and most advanced of all the worlds settled in light and life.
(1784.5) 161:1.8 3. That Jesus was on terms of mutual association and perfect communication with man; that Jesus was the Son of God. That the relation of Son and Father presupposes equality of communication and mutuality of sympathetic understanding; that Jesus and the Father were one. That Jesus maintained at one and the same time understanding communication with both God and man, and that, since both God and man comprehended the meaning of the symbols of Jesus' communication, both God and man possessed the attributes of personality in so far as the requirements of the ability of intercommunication were concerned. That the personality of Jesus demonstrated the personality of God, while it proved conclusively the presence of God in man. That two things which are related to the same thing are related to each other.
(1589.5) 141:3.4 The Master displayed great wisdom and manifested perfect fairness in all of his dealings with his apostles and with all of his disciples. Jesus was truly a master of men; he exercised great influence over his fellow men because of the combined charm and force of his personality. There was a subtle commanding influence in his rugged, nomadic, and homeless life. There was intellectual attractiveness and spiritual drawing power in his authoritative manner of teaching, in his lucid logic, his strength of reasoning, his sagacious insight, his alertness of mind, his matchless poise, and his sublime tolerance. He was simple, manly, honest, and fearless. With all of this physical and intellectual influence manifest in the Master's presence, there were also all those spiritual charms of being which have become associated with his personality — patience, tenderness, meekness, gentleness, and humility.
(2090.1) 196:0.14 Jesus' earthly life was devoted to one great purpose — doing the Father's will, living the human life religiously and by faith. The faith of Jesus was trusting, like that of a child, but it was wholly free from presumption. He made robust and manly decisions, courageously faced manifold disappointments, resolutely surmounted extraordinary difficulties, and unflinchingly confronted the stern requirements of duty. It required a strong will and an unfailing confidence to believe what Jesus believed and as he believed.
I write this blog out of love for people and God the Father. It is my supreme hope that any reader would either study the Bible or the New Revelation. I simply prefer the New Revelation as it is so much more detailed and understandable in modern English prose.
To know the personality of Jesus is the closest we can ever get to knowing the personality of God. Jesus was manly, strong, moral, understanding, lovable, honest, compassionate, sincere and so much more. However, one must read so much more to understand him spiritually, and his relationship with God the Father.


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Take a moment away from our lives to fantasize…
It may sound crazy and positively out of whack for a fashion person to not be in love with red carpet glamour gowns but I prefer more wearable clothes that a regular person has use for in her wardrobe.
>> See all the stars in 2010 Golden Globes Red Carpet Fashion Photo Gallery
Glamorous gowns are the fantasy. Unless you are heavily involved in black-tie charity benefits, have a lots of friends or relatives getting married, or find yourself a mom on the Bar Mitzvah circuit, gowns are not really the most relevant article in your wardrobe. Let alone having the closet with a rack high enough to hang up those gownsŚit becomes quite the ordeal.
As a stylist, I could get lost in the glamorous fantasy of to-die-for gowns and drop-dead jewels, my portfolio certainly had plenty of magazine covers to show that– it was fashion escapism rather than a fashionable reality. I much prefer the latter.
However, every once in a while, we need to don an evening gown. Or take a moment away from our lives to fantasize about the stars, and the effort, and the fuss and the circumstance that all that razzle-dazzle creates.
The great thing about this year's Golden Globes is that it wasn't the usual tittyfest, with the exception of Mariah Carey, with stars exposing their girls and anything else that they can. It was a much more an elegant and chic affair with dresses that showed a woman's shape, not exploit it.
We are also just dang thrilled to see Cher looking fabu at an awards show, it there was anyone who started the red carpet fashion phenomenon it was Cher! No matter what, she will always be my honorable mention.
>> Golden Globes Hair: Get Rose Byrne's stunning hairstyle
What does make celebrity red carpet gowns so exquisite is the quality, the construction, and the fit.Śmost dresses start in the few thousands and can go up to six figures, whether borrowed or bought they are spectacular. That's a lot of change for dress that a star can only wear once, but think about it, you can only wear a gown once in the same circles of friends too.
What I do love about that Golden Globes as compared to the Oscars red carpet is that it is a notch down on the scale of souped-up extravaganza. There are even celebrities in short dresses! Some could argue that that a celebrity is underdressed in a cocktail-length dress, but in this economy and in lieu of recent world events, it makes sense. I love that concept of both obtainable and inspirational fashion and so should you.
Ginnifer Godwin wore a purplish blue one-shoulder, Vionnet knee-length goddess dress that we can't stop thinking about. The draping was aaaahmaaaazing It was a standout color and the perfect youthful, yet sophisticated choice for someone her age. Her simple diamond drop earrings, cuff, and clutch were the perfect touch sparkle. She is our new poster girl for modern, timeless elegance.
Julia Roberts looked incredible in her vintage Yves Saint Laurent knee-length jersey little black dress with a heavy gold necklace from Van Cleef & Arpels– it suited her personality and her figure. We hear that Roberts purchased the vintage piece directly at the Frock store in New York's NoLita (frocknyc.com). I think she stood out above the crowd because of her paired down simplicity.
For pure glam movie star fantasy– giving the folks what they wanna see, Diane Kruger and Marion Cotillard were the most gorgeous.
Kuger in a breathtaking Schiapparelli pink Christian Lacroix Haute Couture gown that was beyond fashion. It was constructed so perfectly, so flawlessly that it was a museum-worthy fashion sculpture that worked to perfection on her frame.
Cotillard's dark jade silk charmeuse, one-shoulder Christian Dior gown was pure fashion magic. The elegant gown draping gave way to an aboveŚthe-knee black satin and less underdress. Surely it will be knocked off in an instant and sadly the end result will surely not have the same elegance as the original.
There were plenty of on-trend butterfly light, blush colored gowns which have a tendency to wash out on mostŚexcept for Emily Blunt who looks like perfection in her Dolce & Gabbana peachy-blush ethereal, figure-hugging gown with rough edged tuille layers for a flightful and modern feel.
What you should find inspirational for a gown in your wardrobe are the many versions of classic but never boring black– timeless dresses that you will want to rewear over the years. Penelope Cruz in Giorgio Armani PrivÚ and Vera Farmiga in Dolce & Gabbana were both splendid in embellished black embellished, figure-hugging tulip dresses.
Meryl Streep in a portrait neckline and Courtney Cox in an understated strapless gown by Victoria Beckham followed the less is more both in simple matte black fabrics.
We did a little hunting to find you a few dresses in the spirit of the 2010 Golden Globes, take a look to get the look for less:
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>> See all the stars in 2010 Golden Globes Red Carpet Fashion Photo Gallery
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Career Readiness Handbook
As a student or graduate of Sam Houston State University, you are encouraged to utilize the services provided by Career Services. We suggest you begin your exploration of careers and interesting job opportunities as early as your freshman year. As you begin your job search you will want to fully utilize our services and resources. To view our student policies and procedures.
Student Career Planning Guide
Although everyone progresses at a different rate, this is an example of a typical career action plan year by year.
- Freshman Year- Self exploration phase
- Sophomore Year- Career and occupational exploration phase
- Junior Year- Career planning and experiential training phase
- Senior Year- Job search, interviewing and job acceptance phase
Career Counseling
Come meet with one of our career counselors at main campus or The Woodlands Center to explore your interests and plan your career goals. We can help you gain information regarding the best use of your degree in a chosen field, and decide what steps need to be taken next.
We also offer Career Assessments. Discover how your personality type and interests can direct your career choices that best suit you. Come in for more information on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Strong Interest Inventory® assessments.
The BEARKATS GET HIRED online job posting system is a powerful tool for success. Its many features include:
- Job/Internship Postings
- On-Campus Interview Scheduler
- Online Resume Critiques
- Resume Creator
- InterviewStream
- Career Coaching
- Employer Information Sessions
- Upcoming Hiring & Networking Events
- Employers Attending Hiring Events
Schedule an appointment to review your completed resume with a Career Services graduate student or career counselor. You can also submit it online or upload it to BEARKATS GET HIRED for critiquing. We suggest that you begin this process in your Junior year or sooner.
Mock Interviews
In order to prepare for future interviews, you may want to practice your interviewing techniques. Mock interviews can be scheduled to identify strengths and weaknesses to better prepare you for the world of work through feedback from a career counselor. You will also be given tips on marketing yourself professionally and making a good first impression.
Career Fairs
Each year Career Services hosts a variety of career events open to all SHSU students and alumni including Career Expo and Graduate/Professional School Fair (all majors) Fall and Spring Teacher Job Fairs, Victim Studies Job Fair, STEAM Job Fair (Sciences, Technology, Engineering Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Mathematics), Summer Camp Job Fair, Criminal Justice Job Fair, and Health Sciences Job Fair. Log onto BEARKATS GET HIRED before the event to see a list of the employers that are coming, and the positions for which they are hiring.
On-Campus Interviewing
Many employers representing a wide variety of industries schedule on-campus interviews with SHSU students and graduates. Log onto BEARKATS GET HIRED to sign up during interview season!


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The Caroline 48" Single Bathroom Vanity Cabinet Set by Virtu USA adds a budget friendly makeover to your bathroom instantly. The Caroline collection has a beautiful, clean design that will rejuvenate any bathroom. It is constructed from a high quality solid oak wood, finished in a classic Espresso, Grey or White color and equipped with state of the art, soft closing door and drawer technology. Take notice in the beautiful countertop that's sheer size alone guarantees that it will outlast the rest. Virtu USA has taken the initiative by changing the vanity industry and adding soft closing doors and drawers to their entire product line. The premium soft-closing hardware not only increases the safety of the vanity, but also its lifetime reliability.
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PUNE, India --- According to the new market research report "Flexible Battery Market by Type (Thin-Film (Lithium-Ion, Lithium Polymer), Printed, Curved), Chargeability (Rechargeable, Single-Use), Application (Packaging, Smart Card, Wearable Devices, Consumer Electronics, Medical Devices) - Global Forecast to 2022", published by MarketsandMarkets, it was valued at USD 69.6 Million in 2015 and is estimated to be worth USD 958.4 Million by 2022, at a CAGR of 46.6% between 2016 and 2022.
"Smart packaging application held the largest market size in the overall flexible battery market during the forecast period"
The smart packaging application of the flexible battery held the largest market size in terms of value in 2015. Smart packaging includes printed electronics products such as disposable batteries, sensors, printed displays, and circuits as well as other electronic features such as anti-theft tags, RFID tags, and smart labels. The packaging requirements have been growing over the years as the packaging of products has a direct impact on customers' decisions. Therefore, packaging manufacturers are integrating sound and display text and interactive media in packages using flexible power sources. These factors are driving the growth of the market for the smart packaging application of the flexible battery market during the forecast period.
"Thin-film battery segment to hold the largest share and grow at the highest rate by 2022"
The thin-film battery type is expected to dominate the global flexible battery market between 2016 and 2022. Thin-film batteries are used widely in applications such as smart packaging, smart cards, wearable devices, and medical devices. The trend of miniaturization in the products used in these applications has increased the demand for thin-film batteries, thereby driving the growth of thin-film battery market significantly. Thin-film batteries have a low self-discharge rate and cost less than lithium polymer batteries. Thus, they have a huge demand in electronics devices, thereby driving the growth of the thin-film flexible battery market.
"APAC expected to grow at the highest rate between 2016 and 2022"
APAC is expected to be the fastest-growing market for flexible battery during the forecast period. Major consumer electronics manufacturers in this region are innovating their product designs to run on thin power sources for compatibility with the flexible designs of their products. Thus, the advancement of technology in the smart packaging, consumer electronics sector, and the growing popularity of wearable devices in this region ate the major factors fueling the growth of the flexible battery market in APAC. Moreover, the penetration of Internet of Things (IoT) in medical devices and the miniaturization of wireless devices would further drive the demand for thin and flexible batteries in this region.
Major players involved in the development of flexible battery include Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (South Korea), LG Chem Ltd. (South Korea), STMicroelectronics N.V. (Netherland), Enfucell Oy Ltd. (Finland), Blue Spark Technologies Ltd. (U.S.), Rocket Electric Co. ltd (South Korea), Fullriver Battery New Technology Co., Ltd. (China), Paper Battery Co. Inc. (U.S.), BrightVolt, Inc. (U.S.), Panasonic Corporation (Japan), Ultralife Corporation (U.S.), and NEC Energy Solutions (U.S.).
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A real countryside wedding this one. Welly boots, farms, tractors, the works. Tam and Andrew, the wonderful couple of humans, got married at a family church in beautiful West Norfolk then made their way to the brilliant Godwick great barn for their reception. Swaffham Florist with the gorgeous florals, House of snow providing Tam's stunning dress and the ever-suave Slaters for the suits. Shout out to Back to your place for feeding the masses and the Nomadi Pizza for putting out the best pizza in Norfolk once again! Take a look below and leave the gorgeous couple some love in the comments.
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AusStage: a very Australian story
AusStage is Australia's on-line database for the performing arts. It is freely accessible, at no costs to users and, after seventeen years of continuous operation and enhancement, it is the leading performing arts database in the world.
AusStage is a unique national resource. It reflects our history and our passions as a nation, making available information on 240,000+ events, artists and arts organisations that define our collective story. There are many on-line databases in the performing arts area. Only AusStage has the capacity to convey a national narrative.
AusStage is a database containing information about the past but its focus is also the future. For individual researchers, arts organisations, policy makers and governments, it makes available the artistic facts of our development as a modern, multicultural, pluralist state. It tells us what we have done and points the way to what we can do next. It is a crucial resource for the unfolding of our national imagination.
AusStage contains tens of thousands of stories. And yet those stories are at the same time one story: the story of the performing arts in Australia, as the country has journeyed from colonial settlement to modern democracy. It is this capacity to reflect both the plurality of Australian culture, but also its common historical trajectory, that makes AusStage a resource for everyone.
AusStage is simple to use yet sophisticated in its capacities and tools. It can represent information numerically, verbally and graphically. It can produce maps showing the locations of events, artists and arts organisations, and how the lines of aesthetic transmission between them have developed over time. At the touch of a button it can create charts and tables to steer research, inform arts programming and shape cultural policy.
The stories in AusStage are singular, but they belong to all. Taken together they show the cultural labour Australians have engaged in to produce the vibrant performing arts sector we have today. They show the importance of Aboriginal performance traditions, the impact of the European theatre canon, and the struggles of our national drama. AusStage contains vital information assisting sophisticated analyses of our different cultural legacies, and of performing arts activities and debates today.
As an exemplary national resource, AusStage helps transmit the complex, pluralist identity of our country overseas. It helps us participate in an international conversation about the performing arts, and culture generally. It actively demonstrates in a way that no other resource can, the breath, complexity, depth and originality of the artistic imagination in Australia, past, present and future.
AusStage can not rely solely on ARC funding to keep the database up-to-date so we are seeking donations from users and interested parties. By putting together a plan of shared action now to ensure that AusStage is not vulnerable to sudden changes in research priorities, it will thrive in future and provide good data to both researchers and a society, where good data increasingly matters.


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EuroSALT Manufacturing
Since its inception, more than a decade ago, EuroSalt mission is to change for the better the Romanian Spice market, aiming to become the leading supplier of high performance products for our partners and the consumer.
Since then we evolved by adapting to the requirements of the market in terms of quality-price ratio of our entire product line.
We proud ourselves to be the only Romanian manufacturers of sea salt that provide all assortments and packaging arrangements to cover all Retail market requirements, either International Key Accounts or Traditional Trade.
We have continuously optimize and grew our product line, offering partners the saw-after competitive advantage to differentiate themselves from the competition. At the same time, our team believes in providing quality products with an attractive profit margins to help increase our partner's profitability and overall performance.
The varieties of salt manufactured by our company under IFS & Iso quality standards:
- Fine and Coarse Sea Salt packed in 1kg Bag
- Fine and Coarse Sea Salt packed in 1kg Box
- Himalayan Pink Salt packed in 500 grams Box and 250g bottle
- Fine Sea Salt packed in 400 g bottle
- Coarse Sea Salt and Himalayan Salt grinders
By Including our product line in your portfolio, you will enjoy the following benefits:
- Maximize profit margins
- Gaining a competitive advantage
- Gain customer satisfaction and loyalty
- Increase market share.
From our client portfolio we name a few:
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- Dedeman
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Gabriella Hegyes was born in Hungary in 1954 and settled in Australia in 1977. She studied fine arts at Wollongong, the National Art School, University of Western Sydney and Monash University. Trained in sculpture, photography and print making she moved to installation based work where all these skills could be employed.
Gabriella combines conventional forms of sculpture, printmaking and traditional crafts with computer manipulated images to create installations. Her work is inspired by memory/place/identity. Gabriella has participated in numerous solo and selected group exhibitions around Australia, Japan, Mexico and Poland. She has curated several exhibitions and developed and coordinated a number of community public art projects. Her 25 years of teaching experience include fine art and design at tertiary level as well as workshops for communities, regional galleries, arts organisations and schools.
Her recent artists in residencies and installation projects include: Terrain Mapping Strathnairn Land Art Event 2013, Strathnairn Canberra ACT, Belconnen Art Centre, 2012 and Western NSW Local Health Network Orange 2009 – 2011.
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Construction Research has shown that from an energy perspecitve the reuse of an existing building is far better than building anew. This is mainly due to the fact that many building materials and products not re-usable and they need to be produced, transported and processed, whereas they are already present in the existing building. It is important however in that case, that this building economically and ecologically adaptable to modern living/working comfort.
The equating of an existing building for re-use against new construction can conflict economicaly, although in practice we have different experiences than previously theoretically believed. It is important is that the shell is structurally in good condition.
We saved a Listed Buiilding villa in Breda from demolition, by demonstrating that a new contstruction was more expensive than renovation. Part of the motivation was emotionally supported, because of the beautiful appearance of the villa and the specific details, which you do not find in new constructions.


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It involves Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and parts of France, Germany and the Netherlands. It has an area of 845 000 km² and is home to 180 million people. Considered as one of the most dynamic and prosperous areas of Europe, it also faces a number of environmental, social and economic needs and challenges.


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Two days before its initial public offering, Redfin disclosed in an updated regulatory filing today that its co-founder and former CEO is threatening litigation against the company over one of its pending patent applications.
The letter was received from a lawyer for David Eraker on Monday of this week, according to Redfin's updated S-1 filing:
On July 24, 2017, we received a letter from counsel to David Eraker, one of Redfin's founders and our former CEO. The letter asserts a variety of claims against us, Paul Goodrich, a director, and Madrona Venture Group, an investor, related to events prior to Mr. Eraker's departure from Redfin in August 2006. Mr. Eraker released all claims against Redfin in connection with his departure. The letter focuses on allegations about the inventorship of one of Redfin's patent applications that has not issued and does not cover our current products or services. The letter threatens litigation, but no complaint has been filed. We believe these claims have no merit. We will defend ourselves vigorously if Mr. Eraker sues us. However, litigation is uncertain and expensive, and any judgment or settlement could harm our business.
The specific patent application is not identified in the filing. We've contacted Redfin and Eraker for comment. Madrona declined to comment.
Eraker, who co-founded Redfin in 2004, is now the co-founder and CEO of real estate brokerage Surefield, focused on home sellers. Redfin previously settled a separate lawsuit, a stock-related dispute, with one of his other co-founders, Michael Dougherty, as well as former Redfin CTO David Selinger.
Eraker is named on a number of Redfin's issued patents, covering a variety of online real estate technologies.
Seattle-based Redfin, which describes itself as a "technology-powered residential real estate brokerage," plans to go public on Friday, aiming sell 9.23 million shares in the $12 to $14 per share range. Nasdaq pegs the total offering amount at $148.6 million. It will be the Seattle region's first tech IPO of 2017.
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Tanks are armored warfare vehicles designed and built specifically for front-line combats. They are known for their fearsome firepower, all terrain mobility and highly advanced defensive capabilities.
In the 20th century, main battle tanks (MBTs) became essential to the art of modern warfare. They were first used by the British Army on Sept. 15, 1916 at Flers-Courcelette, during the Battle of the Somme, as an effective means to break through the deadlock of the trench fighting. Since then, these combat vehicles have profoundly changed the way wars are fought.
Following is a top ten of the best tanks in the world, as rated by a leading U.S. military magazine. The rankings are based on the vehicles' operational mobility, their offensive and defensive capabilities.
T-90A/S (Russia) 俄罗斯T-90A(S)
Weight: 46.5 tons; Length: 9.53m
Width: 3.78m; Height: 2.22m
Crew: 3
Primary Armament: 125mm smooth bore gun with autoloader
Operational Range: 550–700 km; Speed: 65 km/h
The T-90 is a Russian main battle tank (MBT) derived from the T-72 design, featuring improvements in its firepower, mobility and protection. The T-90, which came into use in 1992, is manufactured by the Uralvagonzavod Plant in Nizhniy Tagil, Russia. It is currently the most advanced tank used by the Russian Ground Forces and Naval Infantry. At present, Russia operates about 500 of these MBTs. Sources claim that more than 1,600 T-90 MBTs of all variants have been built. The T-90A, sometimes called the T-90 Vladimir, is the Russian army's version, featuring a welded turret, V-92S2 engine and ESSA thermal viewer. The T-90S is the export version of the T-90A. A T-90 tank was worth US$2.77- 4.25 million in 2011.


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Cook the Book: 10 No-Cook Things To Serve For Dessert Recipe
Today's recipe (or non-recipe) goes out to the frazzled cooks already overseeing a turkey, six sides, and the tricky business of wine pairing. I doubt that Ina Garten, author of this week's Cook the Book selection, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, would use the word "hacks," but that's just what these ten no-cook desserts are.
Composed from store-bought items, these sweet courses can be as elegant as the host or hostess chooses to present them.
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1. Vanilla ice cream drizzled with saba (substitute a good balsamic vinegar, lightly reduced)
2. Fresh pears, English Stilton, and aged port wine
3. Vanilla ice cream mixed with chopped crystallized ginger and store-bought almond biscotti
4. Store-bought brownies, coffee ice cream, and chocolate sauce
5. Store-bought pound cake toasted and drizzled with honey and fresh raspberries
6. Clementines, dates, good chocolates, and demi-sec champagne
7. Passion fruit sorbet and vanilla ice cream with Grey Goose vodka poured on top
8. Strawberries macerated with sugar and good balsamic vinegar
9. Store-bought chocolate cake with melted vanilla ice cream as a sauce and fresh raspberries
10. Macoun apples, English cheddar, and store-bought ginger cookies
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Friday, July 11, 2003
checkmate on Tenet
the White House is obviously angling for George Tenet's resignation -- something that the neocon firebrands have been demanding since Bush took office.
But now, if Tenet resigns, it will look like Dean has drawn blood -- and an implicit confession that there is something very serious and very wrong going on inside the Bush administration.
On the other hand, if the White House backs down, and keeps Tenet, Bush will look like he's either:
a.) Conceding his responsiblity for the Niger uranium fiasco.
b.) Allowing a lying, incompetent CIA director (and even worse: a lying, incompetent Clinton-appointed CIA director) to remain in office because he doesn't want to take the political heat for firing him.
Even if these scenarios were unintended, they shouldn't be now. I think the Dean campaign has a nice blueprint for its rhetoric regardless of what Bush does. Either way, the heat stays on Bush - where it should be.
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About Nation-Building
Nation-Building was founded by Aziz Poonawalla in August 2002 under the name Dean Nation. Dean Nation was the very first weblog devoted to a presidential candidate, Howard Dean, and became the vanguard of the Dean netroot phenomenon, raising over $40,000 for the Dean campaign, pioneering the use of Meetup, and enjoying the attention of the campaign itself, with Joe Trippi a regular reader (and sometime commentor). Howard Dean himself even left a comment once. Dean Nation was a group weblog effort and counts among its alumni many of the progressive blogsphere's leading talent including Jerome Armstrong, Matthew Yglesias, and Ezra Klein. After the election in 2004, the blog refocused onto the theme of "purple politics", formally changing its name to Nation-Building in June 2006. The primary focus of the blog is on articulating purple-state policy at home and pragmatic liberal interventionism abroad.


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May 13, 2016
Opened in 1933, the Marché Jean-Talon is one of North America's largest public markets, with dozens of stands selling fresh fruits, veggies, meats, cheeses and more. For those lucky enough to live nearby, the Jean-Talon is a daily part of life. For the rest of us, it inspires fits of jealousy. Why isn't there a market like this in my neighborhood? It's a valid question, so somebody answer it!


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Beertown is dropping its news website format and will continue as a blog.
Since 2015 I've operated Beertown.NZ as a news website with regular updates, articles and even job listings. I took on advertising from April last year, allowing me to continue to provide free content and craft brewing news.
Unfortunately this year I've struggled to generate enough advertising and I haven't had an income.
Craft-beer media has changed a lot since I launched Beertown. In particular, the Society of Beer Advocates allied with Pumpt Advertising to operate Pursuit of Hoppiness magazine. Pumpt Advertising is extremely efficient, and Pursuit's ad take has gone from less than $30,000/yr in 2015 to more than $85,000/yr in 2017 (at publicised ad rates). I simply don't have the resources to compete against an advertising agency and continue to research and write Beertown's articles.
And SOBA's incorporated society status means it can run Pursuit at no profit. The Society gathers $36,000 or so in subscriptions each year on top of its $85,000 ad revenue and it's amassed substantial cash reserves. The Society could run Pursuit at a loss indefinitely and that's something no business can match.
This formidable combination of a commercial advertising agency fronting for the not-for-profit Society, plus Pursuit's unpaid content, is something Beertown.NZ Ltd. hasn't been able to compete against. So from today Beertown is switching from a news website to a blog – no more ads, and less frequent updates.
I'm not blaming SOBA/Pumpt Advertising for Beertown's financial woes. Beertown's a one-man-band and when a one-man-band is out of tune you know who to blame. Until now I've treated Beertown as a full-time job and accepted the fact I've had no income during the start-up phase.
I love beer writing and plan to continue finding, writing and publishing the great beer news. While the free content/advertising model hasn't worked I now have the opportunity to work on new Beertown features and develop a sustainable business model.


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Residents of Điện Biên District refer to Pá Khoang Island, which sits in the middle of the northern mountainous district's pristine Pá Khoang Lake, "the island of cherry blossom".
There are about 1000 cherry trees on the island, which bloom brilliantly during spring (January to April). The trees, imported from Japan and grown locally, are called higan sakura with "higan" a reference to a spring Buddist holiday celebrated by Japanese.
They were nurtured by Dr Trần Lệ, a Vietnamese scientist who specialises in plant tissue culture. Lệ spent months wandering the country to find a suitable place for the trees, after a Japanese friend had given him the seeds.
He found the island in 2006, where he successfully planted them. Out of the 10 initial seeds, eight survived and after eight years a large part of the 600ha-island is covered with sakura petals during spring.
The beautiful cherry blossom started attracting visitors in recent years. Besides the trees, a large collection of exotic plants and flowers are gathered from across the country on the island. — VNS


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Paris: Italy's euroskeptic Deputy Prime Minister has seized on the collapse of a bridge in the country's north to question whether it should respect European Union budget constraints.
Matteo Salvini who also heads the euroskeptic League told reporters in Catania, Sicily, that the failure of a roughly 50-year-old suspension bridge in Genoa showed how important it is to increase investment spending. He hinted that EU spending limits could put lives at risk.
"If external constraints prevent us from spending to have safe roads and schools, then it really calls into question whether it makes sense to follow these rules," Salvini said.
"There can be no trade-off between fiscal rules and the safety of Italians."
At least 35 people were killed, Ansa newswire reported, when a section of the 1100-metre long bridge gave way following heavy rain around midday. The road was built in the 1960s and sits on thin pylons as it crosses a river, railroad tracks, and buildings carrying traffic through the heart of Genoa.
The tragedy comes as Italy's anti-establishment coalition is preparing its 2019 budget, with Salvini and his populist ally Luigi Di Maio of the Five Star Movement already demanding the EU bend its rules on deficit targets to allow them to boost spending and cut taxes. Previous Italian governments have long pressed for certain types of investment to be excluded from EU calculations.
Salvini's allies picked up the baton, with Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli pledging to reverse the shortfall in maintenance and Claudio Borghi, head of the budget committee in the lower house of Parliament, complaining about years of spending restrictions.
"The safety of the Italians must come first," he said on Twitter.
Less than three months after taking power, the populist coalition is still enjoying a honeymoon period with voters and Salvini's League in particular has surged in the polls. That will enable them to score political points by targeting bureaucrats in Brussels, said Francesco Galietti, founder of political consultancy Policy Sonar.
"The clear lack of maintenance on this bridge is some one else's legacy," he said. "But it could make it easier to push Brussels to accept more public investment."
Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi from the centre-left Democratic Party, who has clashed openly with Salvini and Di Maio, criticised the Deputy Prime Minister for playing politics, even as he acknowledged the concerns about the highways.
"Maybe finally it is the time to discuss infrastructure, but without ideology," he wrote on Twitter. "But today, please, is a day only for silence."
In the coalition agreement presented in May, the League and Five Star said they'd seek a deal with other EU members and the European Commission to exclude some investments from deficit calculations to allow for "consolidating economic growth and the country's development."
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, an academic roped in to arbitrate between Five Star and the League in government, travelled to Genoa from a brief holiday in his native village in the south. He said he was following the situation, but avoided making political comments. Di Maio made similar comments.
President Sergio Mattarella echoed Salvini's demand for safety.
"Italians have a right to a modern and efficient infrastructure that they can safely rely on in their everyday lives," he said in a statement. He said the public institutions and private operators companies that manage Italy's infrastructure must be conscious of the need to prevent accidents and upgrade transport networks.
Atlantia SpA, which manages the stretch of highway said it was committed to rebuilding the bridge as quickly as possible and would cooperate with any inquiry.


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Designed By Julie A. Bolduc
This cape would look lovely with any Fashion doll outfit. The dress that the doll is wearing is a pattern here at this site.
Materials Needed:
Small amount size 10 crochet cotton. Southmaid was used.
Christmas shades and red.
Size 7 steel crochet hook
Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Yarn Thickness: 10thread
Gauge: 10sc=1"
Finished Size: =Fits an 11½" fashion Doll
Skill Level: Beginner
With Christmas Shades
ROW 1: Ch22. Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across. Ch1, turn.
ROW 2: Sc in first sc. *Sk next sc. Dc, ch3, dc in next sc. Sk next sc. Sc in next sc. Rep from * across. Fasten off and weave ends into work.
Turn work around so that you will now work on the starting chain on the other side.
ROW 1: Join red on the first st of starting chain. Sc in first ch and in each ch across. Ch4, turn.
ROW 2: Sc in first sc. Ch4. Sk next sc. Sc in next st. *Ch4, sk next st. Sc in next st. Rep from * across. Ch1, turn.
ROW 3: Sc in first sc. *Dc, ch3, dc, ch3, dc in next ch 4 lp. Sc in next sc. Rep from * across.
ROW 4: Sc in first sc. Sc, dc, ch3, dc, sc in each ch3 sp across. Sc in last sc. Ch3, turn.
ROW 5: Dc, ch3, dc in each ch3 sp across. Dc in last sc. Ch1, turn.
ROW 6-18: Repeat rows 4 & 5 until you reach row 18. Fasten off and weave ends into work. You can add a ribbon to the collar if you like. I didn't because it stays on the doll very well without it.
Design written in September 1998 Copyright © 1998 by Julie A. Bolduc f113011
This pattern is for personal use only and not to be resold.


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10 Mental Health Tips to Make Your Life More Relaxed (by Charity Ritter)
Stress is a natural part of life. Feeling stress is by itself an okay thing. Its purpose is to trigger our fight or flight response when danger is presenting itself. Stress alerts us when it is time to make a change. However, it's important to remember that stress, left untreated, threatens both our mental and physical health.


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This log band saw is designed for professional use. Our customers are full-time custom sawyers and above all sawmills that use our main log band saw as a main saw or as a hardwood saw.
The second largest softwood sawmill in Schleswig-Holstein is growing steadily. The company Mangelsen was established in 1993 and cuts about 11,000 solid cubic metres of timber in a year with 15 employees. Recently, Jörg Mangelsen purchased the fifth band saw. As the "the first blue" of Zenz Landtechnik, this also convinces with its stability and cutting accuracy. This saw runs like a sewing machine, in the words of the owner. Well equipped with PLC control and professional line operation (here the entire saw is operated via two joysticks) and many other useful accessories, Mangelsen set about cutting the 25-metre long mast from Douglas fir for the sailing yacht Hanseatic cog.
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The Wimmer saw gets its name from its developer Bernhard Wimmer, who has more than 20 years of practical experience in custom cutting. For some years now, the company Zenz has been continuously developing this log band saw and has expanded the product range of Wimmer saws. Our designer Josef Schußmüller owns his own log band saw and therefore has a great deal of practical experience.
All moving parts are provided with wear bushings or plates. For you, this means they just need to be replaced and you do not have to purchase any expensive machine parts. Many companies in Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and Siberia have been sawing for many years with our log band saws in continuous use, i.e. about 8,000 hours per year and average a cutting capacity of up to 1200 solid cubic metres per month.
There is no compromise for us here. Our base frame is welded. We design our log band saws from scratch for the respective diameter. From the base frame with a standard sturdy beam to powerful hydraulic components to a solid Wimmer saw head with sufficiently large cast wheels and sturdy guides, all parts of the Wimmer saw are tailored to the respective clearance diameter.
Since the entire production takes place in-house, we can cater to almost all customer requests. These requests are discussed in-house directly with our designer (Mr. Schußmüller) and the production manager (Mr. Albusberger). The direct route saves money and avoid misunderstandings. Due to the modular design of our log band saw, our customers receive their dream saw at a reasonable price.
We have succeeded in constructing an accurate, reliable log band saw without much technical falderal. In production and assembly, we use standard parts almost exclusively, which also makes a supply of spare parts on site possible. However, if you should need our help, our service department is available to you at any time.
The demand for log band saws is growing and the conditions of use are becoming more diverse. That is why we design structures specially for our customers for all of our log band saws.
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Dr. Faustine Ondore brief
Dr. Ondore is a Senior Lecturer and the Chairman of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering at Technical University of Kenya (TUK).In 1995, he earned his degree in Engineering Studies from the University of Hertfordshire, in 1999; he acquired his PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Brunel.
He is a Chartered Engineer, (United Kingdom Engineering Council),Chartered Member (The Institution of Mechanical Engineers),Corporate Member(Royal Aeronautical Society),Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Founder Member of Aeronautical Society of Kenya and Member American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics.
One of his achievements includes founding of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation engineering academic staff meetings to improve the department's performance. The other is development of new courses in Aeronautical engineering degree program with piloting Studies. He has researched and published widely in the area of detecting further effects of turbulence as it affects aircraft design, systems and engines.
There is ongoing public conversation to the effect that we have inept engineering graduates, moreover, others say that we have a crisis in engineering capacity in Kenya. What is the state of engineering education in the country in your view?
There is need to first focus on the challenges that engineers face around the country. As from this we can discuss how training comes to play. Like in any other country, engineering is vital to development and there is no country that develops without good engineering capability. At the moment the coherent of engineering capability in Kenya is weak and that doesn't mean that there are no engineers, they are there but there is no single body in Kenya that articulate the roles of engineers in the country, therefore, there is no voice or influence hence there is lack of coherence among engineers.
Engineering education in Kenya is a lifelong issue, it is not something you do in a patchy way to attain those capabilities and competencies. Therefore, you start with a student before or undergoing secondary education. They need to be encouraged to develop interest in science and mathematics, so that by the time they leave high school, they have mastered technical subjects. After high school, the engineering journey begins with a degree in University which takes around 5-7 years. With a proper program curriculum, then one can have the right to move to a period of industry training or experience. This formal training done within a minimum of five years after graduation should be recorded and adequate to acquire basic engineering competencies. The design of our curriculum must reflect a proper foundation in an engineering graduate.
The next phase in engineering education is Continuous Professional Development (CPD). This development is a requirement and necessary for one to remain in the national register. We all know that if we don't keep on practising to the right level over time you will lose your competencies thus for this to be maintained, an engineer must adhere to the code of ethics and can act in different capacities like being a mentor to young university students. With this, an annual assessment is done on how an engineer is practising and if they meet the requirements or standards then they remain in the national register if not they are removed.
Considering the number of registered practicing engineers in Kenya (less than 2000), there surely is a problem seeing as it is that we need engineers to spur our development. Does the problem begin at training?
I think the combination of both before and after the training period contributes to insufficient engineers. The problem of training begins prevalently after graduation. We can acknowledge that there are courses that have not been registered by EBK that result in the low number of practicing engineers. Also, the design of curriculum as approved by CUE, if it is not delivered or implemented in a certain way, certain outcomes will not be achieved. The overall output when one graduates can prove that there could be several gaps of knowledge such as lack of laboratories, workshops or even shortage of qualified lecturers. EBK has clearly stated that for one to supervise a project, he or she must be professional engineer with professional experience
What is the difference between engineering training in Kenya and engineering training in other countries you have visited and practised?
I will give you an example of a place i used to work as a lecturer while still doing my PhD research in United Kingdom (UK). I was very lucky to do my PhD research at the same time be employed as the head of Aircraft design. In UK, they place a lot of emphasis on industrial training not only academic work. In UK, the practical element is given prominence, for example, at Brunel, one would undergo three-year training in Aerospace, and after one year, studies are suspended. One year would accommodate industrial training to help a student acquire knowledge of what the industry wants in terms of job skills or attitudes and thereafter he or she becomes a potential employee after being trained in different departments of an organisation. When it comes to engineering training in UK, professional bodies like the Society of Mechanical Engineers come up with schemes for initial professional development skill.
Here in TUK, in the department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, we have come up with something almost similar to that of Brunel. We have started preparing all the finalists students set to graduate this year to have an industry mentor who are either attached at Kenya Airways or Wilson Airport. This has been useful as the students acquire information on career, job prospects and attachment areas.
What are your experiences while training engineers both in Kenya and abroad?
Training period differs. In Kenya there is no clear specification of what engineers need to train at each stage so; it can be difficult to judge how competent one might be. As a member of Aeronautical Society of Kenya, we have written to the Engineering Board of Kenya (EBK) to come up with regulations that are in line with international practice to ensure that we train engineers in such a way they can work or practise internationally.
What are your experiences with the students you have been training in Kenya to become engineers, are they cut out to be entrusted with engineering projects so many Kenyans will depend on?
Training student engineers in Kenya is brilliant and they could do very well when entrusted with different projects. The students are not the issue and the experience gained is dependent upon the conditions of the universities, which tend to vary as time goes by. There is lack of that formality or rigidity in an academic environment where we should expect things such as research seminars, workshops taking place. As academicians we have a big role to play in provision of leadership training as students depend on the guidance they are given. It is clear that we don't have sufficient and experienced lecturers in senior positions.
What is accreditation and how do you get engineering courses accredited in Kenya, could you compare it to the process elsewhere?
Accreditation is a quality assured mechanism for ensuring that the end product, that is the outcome of the student experience can reach a certain level. This mechanism has its components or standards that must be applied. There must be a very clear guidance or statement of what must be done and to what extent. So how do we accredit a university curriculum? For example, we can't have programs simply because we want to fill university spaces. It is a national and expensive issue and the government is paying a lot of money to put up these programs. Therefore, there should be a main reason why a certain program should be mounted in the university curriculum. Each course proposed should run for a specific reason in a way that the graduate is guaranteed a job. The components of that course must point out what has to be done throughout the study year.
Another thing, there should be an overall course rationale or a background so as to come up with the overall objectives(reasons) of what is expected after the program. To ensure the program is credible, there is need to examine the components of the course itself. Like, what must you do to be able to do one thing or another, how many teachers, workshops and technical staff, do you need? After evaluating this, we have an approved program by Commission for University Education (CUE). The program is accredited with a curriculum and then it is implemented.
Accreditation is about delivering the outcomes of a competent program or implementation of a curriculum. If we have a case whereby a person has passed from year 1-5, someone can't say the program is accredited, but partially approved. Partial or provisional approval means that we are confident in people who have undergone the program and that they can be in a scheme of training that leads to registration. But the course can't be accredited because there is nobody employed from the program thus; we need to acquire a positive feedback from the industry trainers so as to declare a course accredited. After a period of five years, we make an assessment to prove whether the program can be accredited. Accreditation is not a matter of paper work; it is a matter of ensuring that people coming out of a program have attained certain competencies up to the level they are graduating and assuming they are trained well by the industry, we can then say we have accredited engineering courses.
In Brunel University, when Aeronautical engineering was started, the courses were similar to established ones thus accreditation of engineering courses would not take long. In Kenya, some courses are very new so accreditation may take longer than usual.
Considering that EBK has refused to recognize your engineering programs (TUK), do you think you have good quality programmes resulting in proper engineers?
All programs must be by nature developmental so there is no university around the country that is 100% good, that is never the case. The issue that arises is how a university is doing a certain course. So the question should be, how well are they developing the course as all of us have not achieved what would be required internationally. TUK has various inherent advantages when it comes to engineering. It has had previous involvement with the industry and the industry knows it well. This exploited to the right context can actually produce substantial improvements.
In 2014 and even in the past EBK has made some moves/announcements with the aim to protect the engineering education and practice in Kenya, are they justified?
To me i don't see any justification of EBK protecting engineering education if they keep shutting out people in the registration process. What EBK needs to do is to go out to the industry, find out those engineers who are not registered then try and register them to combat unemployment issue among engineers. The oversight body should advise unregistered engineers on the value of being registered not arrest them.
We have seen the EBK take a central role in accrediting engineering programs in Kenya, what is their role juxtaposed with that of Commission of University Education (CUE) and the learning institutions.
Engineers Board of Kenya is an oversight authority established under Engineers Act of 2011. One must say that this Act needs a lot to be worked on. For example, the Act only refers to engineers as a 'he' not 'she', which is wrong. An oversight body should address equality and quality in what they do. We need to see a clear objective of offering courses that result in jobs to engineers. One thing that the body (EBK) can do is to facilitate industry training and experience for engineers. The issue of guidelines and standards must also come out clearly in any aspect of what an engineer would be doing once they are registered.
CUE is a guardian standard in intellectual base set by-law to approve courses.CUE chief's objective is to ensure that only quality programs are delivered in the country. When a course is proposed, CUE does the due diligence to approve it and gives reasons why the course is necessary to be approved. CUE does monitoring of the baseline requirement for a course to continue existing. After CUE approves the courses, learning institutions play a role in delivering the programs as proposed by CUE.
We have been seeing the continued conversion of established technical colleges into universities, what drives this phenomenon and is it good for the country.
The reason for the transformation is because the government needed this cadre as it is critical to providing technical manpower for the realization of Kenya Vision 2030. This was a fantastic job that the government did or will continue to do for the industry.
What right mix should Kenya pursue with respect to training for technical skills at both the universities and the vocational institutes like polytechnics?
There should be more regulations put across when it comes to formulating different programs at either the university or polytechnic level so that they are broadly in line with the international practice. Our engineers should be given quality education so that they can also participate in international projects.
To support the academia produce the best qualified graduates for the job market, what role do/should the industry play?
The industry needs to come up with collaborations to support graduates. Like here in TUK, we have formed partnership with Kenya Airways (KQ) and Boeing Corporation to help students get attachments or internships. Also, Toyota has come in with the aim of forming a long strategic partnership to fund and support automotive students in pursuing their projects and attachments too.
Should there be any post university training for a graduate to be registered as an engineer, how best should the path to registration as a practicing engineer be structured in Kenya?
No. I do not think post university training is required when registering as an engineer. A post graduate training can be useful to people who are doing a transition in education. Registering a practicing engineer should be structured in a way that it does not punish the engineers but encourage them to register and shows them the importance of registration.
In the effort to delivery your duties as a tutor, do you encounter challenges? What in your view are the challenges that plague engineering education in the country?
Inadequate manpower and poor pay is one of the reasons why we have people not ready to join the academic career. The pay in academia is very low and someone having a master's education will earn more than any other person with a different qualification. But being a lecturer is a calling in a way and issues of development and exposure among lecturers have to be solved.
What is the future of engineering education in Kenya; can the engineers deliver what Kenya requires?
The engineers can deliver so long as we do what is required and treat universities not as places of commercial activities when it comes to education. Universities should be places where scholars enjoy working and studying. We need more engagement with the community and promote research and innovation locally and internationally. I believe Kenyan engineers can do much better than foreigners.


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And of course there's fantasy, not in itself a terrible or deleterious element of a constructive course of psychotherapy, but when prescribed by an amateur or a petition of social media users as a way of helping 58 shaken victims by confronting them with an image directly associated with the violent trauma they have experienced, as the above appeal that I came across posted on facebook three days after the shooting, started by Emily Sanchez, requests of Welsh-born star of The Dark Knight Rises Christian Bale, then it starts to sound a little bit less healthy and a bit more deranged.
The request tacitly acknowledges that the film will be indelibly associated with the horrifying experience inflicted on theatregoers by James Holmes. Else what would be the efficacy in having Bale dress up as Batman except as some kind of reparation of the image in the victims' minds for the upset that it may still be continuing to cause as a psychological symbol. But let's stop for a second. If you are dealing with the mental trauma associated with gunshot wounds or even being witness to an attack like this, in which your memory is clouded with smoke, gunfire, bodies falling, running all around and screams of terror and anguish and hovering above it all in your grey matter is the image of the DC Comics hero, larger than life looming towards you on a cinema screen, what is going go be the effect of seeing the actor himself, striding purposefully towards you in a hospital bed, wearing the exact same costume, replicating and amplifying the imaginational icon of fear for you? I can think of nothing more fear-inducing.
Thank goodness cooler heads prevailed and I do think it's good and noble of the actor to have gone to visit the victims of the shooting as himself, but isn't there a strong chance we'd be seeing a second set of headlines about further upset caused if this insane appeal had been acted on? The philosopher Slavoj Zizek, in an analysis of The Joker, Batman's nemesis and the character that James Holmes allegedly identified himself with before opening fire, says that the clown prince of crime is 'not a man without a mask, but, on the contrary, a man who is his mask — there is nothing, no "ordinary guy" beneath it.' What kind of message are we sending if there is no ordinary guy beneath the mask of The Dark Knight, that there is no piecing together the brokenness of violence, no dissembling the experience of trauma?
Not only is this attempt to deal with the tragedy dangerous, but it is also insultingly trivialising for the victims. You would not see an appeal like this with any other situation in which a group from the public have been deliberately terrorised: not a Holocaust survivor, not a refugee from Iraq, not a family member who has lost a loved one in an IRA bombing. You may as well send Adam West, belly sagging over his utility belt, Robin at his side smashing fist against palm crying, 'Holy travesty Batman! We've just made light of an unspeakable horror!' And if that sounds flippant, it is only to illustrate the undeniable flippancy in Sanchez's probably well-intentioned and unfortunately popular effort.
The worst part about this campaign is that it seems to actively deny the real problem. It attempts to engage with nightmares through the use of escapism, instead of engaging with the issue in real, complicated terms. That poor, unfortunate community in Colorado, has sustained terrible loss and yet, as is the worrying trend in the wake of gun violence in America, firearm sales have spiked for fear that those pesky legislators in Washington DC may try through their dictatorial power of democratic process pass a law in some cockamamy attempt to protect the scaredy cat, commie citizens of this beloved nation. Fascists masquerading as elected representatives seem oblivious to the fact that we have to bear arms to protect ourselves from the fearsome colonial overlords trying any minute to quarter themselves in our homes. We must continue to perpetuate a perfectly healthy paranoia in the national psyche about ourselves and continue to desensitise our children to violence while guillotining any serious, difficult discussion about the real reasons individuals end up blurring the line between the value of human life and the enacting of a twisted psychological vision.
Until we, as a nation, recognise our collective culpability and initiate difficult national discourses about these issues, without leaders who only seem to grudgingly acknowledge days after the event that something must be done by the government of America to protect the citizens of America, I fear these unspeakable acts of violence will continue. Much will come out in the next few weeks about James Holmes and the unregenerable evil within his dark pit of a soul. It is almost certain that somewhere, he confused symbols of fantasy with his version of reality. Let us try to fight the good fight and refuse to give in to the same temptation. What do we become otherwise?
And I do know how it is. You see something in the sidebar or in front of you as you're scrolling down and it's a nanosecond of your time and an iota of effort to 'like' or 'share'. I've liked everything from Matt Smith to Debbie Harry and I'm pretty sure I've shared a map of Panem because I thought, 'Yeah, that makes sense with what the book says,' but there must be a line at which you stop and think about spreading an arguably callous, wrong-headed campaign. I also think that Facebook and other social media can be a force to effect great social change and information sharing, as jives with Tim Berners-Lee's great vision, but we also have to act conscientiously in what is by nature a superficial environment that often feels like it is all surface and no substance.
I have a feeling there are those who might think that I am spoiling a well-intentioned act, but there are many well-intentioned efforts that have ended in a jeremiad of despair, attempts to create a stronger German state for instance in 1938; more recently the attempt to prevent bloodshed through the location and elimination of weapons of mass destruction annihilating thousands of innocent Iraqis in the process; the effort to monitor the usage of libraries and the internet by free citizens in the name of preventing terrorist atrocities, swapping freedom for an anxious sense of security. We all mean well, but the extent to which we carry out our 'good intentions' can pave the way to a better world or a very bad place, as the adage goes.
I would end by saying that if I have caused offence, 'that you have but slumber'd here' but that would be to attempt an escape again, to elide the real and dark chapter in our nation's history that we must scrutinise unflinchingly if we are to avoid repeating it.
Do remember, I may disagree with you, but I'll do as Voltaire would have done to defend your right to say it.
This post was informed by the following article:
And Jason Farago speaks to our tendency as a nation to avoid complex national discussions in this article:
This BBC Radio show features a fascinating discussion. Only about 28 minutes does someone finally call in and add a sensible voice to the discussion:


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I use json readers extensively in an app I'm updating from extjs 3.
When I create a store using a json reader, if there was an object metaData in the root of the json, it would automatically update the model.
It doesn't seem to do that anymore, although, when I look at the code, in readRecords it still is there, but it's somehow bypassing readRecords and read in the json reader.
Also, I detected when the meta data changed using the metachange event on the store, which is also gone. Any ideas of how I can effectively grab some meta data from a server response and get it in before the data tries to be read?