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Madwire® Acquires SpaceCraft to Bring Powerful Website Building Technology to Their SMB Platform
October 8, 2019 7am
The addition of SpaceCraft's powerful website building technology will further enable SMBs to easily launch or grow their business with Madwire's #1 marketing platform® for small business, Marketing 360®.
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FORT COLLINS, CO and AUSTIN, TX – October 8th, 2019: Madwire®, LLC, a technology company focused on business...more
SpaceCraft Launches New Partner Marketplace
Austin, Texas - September 27, 2018 - SpaceCraft, a leading website builder and marketing platform, has announced their new Preferred Partner Marketplace. This new marketplace gives SpaceCraft customers an easy way to view complementary software solutions that can be integrated into SpaceCraft's websites and gives SpaceCraft's partners more visibility into SpaceCraft's growing customer...more
SpaceCraft Partners with BirdEye to Offer Customers Integrated Review Generation
Austin, Texas - May 3rd, 2018 - SpaceCraft, a leading website builder and marketing platform, has announced a new partnership with BirdEye, a next-generation business reputation and customer experience platform. The latest update to the SpaceCraft website platform displays data pulled from BirdEye. With this update, real-time customer feedback from top review sites populate in the SpaceCraft reporting...more
SpaceCraft Announces a New Listings/Digital Knowledge Solution for Customers
Austin, Texas - April 5th, 2018 - SpaceCraft, a leading website builder and marketing platform, has announced a new integration with Yext, Inc., the leader in digital knowledge management. This new direct integration pulls key customer information such as phone numbers, locations, hours and more directly from the SpaceCraft platform and syncs this data with approximately 150+ applications across the web. The new offering greatly simplifies a...more
SpaceCraft Provides Free SSL Encryption for All Websites
Austin, Texas - August 1st, 2017 - SpaceCraft announced today that they are offering free SSL encryption to all thier customers. Traditionally, other than ecommerce storefronts, most website providers have used the unsecured HTTP protocol. SpaceCraft has committed to providing a safe and secure experience by encrypting all website traffic using HTTPS. This means all SpaceCraft customer pages, content and data is secure and can't be...more
SpaceCraft Offers New Turnkey Marketing Packages - Includes Free Website Design
Austin, Texas - June 7th, 2017 - SpaceCraft, a leading web-based platform allowing individuals and businesses the ability to build, manage and promote websites, has launched three new marketing packages that include free web design services.
In addition to website design, SpaceCraft's new marketing packages offer SEO, PPC, social media advertising and remarketing...more
SpaceCraft Platform Celebrates Five Years of Stunning Web Design
Austin, Texas - May 15th, 2017 – SpaceCraft, a powerful online website publishing platform for small businesses, is celebrating its fifth year of operation this month. SpaceCraft is known for its ease of use, giving business owners the ability to create stunning websites designed to work on all devices.
What started as do-it-yourself platform to help businesses establish attractive and effective web presence has continued to grow over...more
SpaceCraft Launches New Partner Programs
Austin, Texas – January 26th, 2017 - SpaceCraft, a website publishing platform that offers solutions for small businesses, has just launched new reseller and referral partner programs. Now companies can choose to resell SpaceCraft's subscriptions and services at a discount, or receive a commission for referring SpaceCraft to those needing a turnkey website solution.
For resellers, SpaceCraft now has a fully white labeled version of...more
SpaceCraft Introduces Collections, A Turnkey Solution for Importing Partner Data Into End-User Websites
Austin, Texas - October 19th, 2016 - SpaceCraft, a content management system powering thousands of websites, announces a new platform component called Collections that allows partners to seamlessly connect their existing data sources with end-user websites. Partners can then manage and style their content using SpaceCraft's robust set of content and design tools.
Expanding on SpaceCraft's approach to utilizing structured data,...more
SpaceCraft Announces Powerful New Version of its Website Building Platform
Austin, Texas - June 17, 2015 - SpaceCraft today announced a powerful new version of its website building platform that makes it easier than ever for small businesses to build beautifully effective websites. The reengineered platform includes hundreds of new features, a fresh modern look, and amazing new design tools.
This new release incorporates years of research and feedback from SpaceCraft customers. The redesigned interface makes...more
SpaceCraft Named In Top 50 Austin Startups To Watch In 2015
Austin, Texas - February 17, 2015 - SpaceCraft, a website publishing platform that offers solutions for small businesses, has been named by Built In Austin as one of the top 50 Austin startups to watch in 2015.
"We're honored to...more
SpaceCraft Joins International Franchise Association Supplier Forum
Austin, Texas - September 30, 2014 - SpaceCraft, a website publishing platform that offers solutions for franchises, announced that it has joined the International Franchise Association's Supplier Forum. As a member of the IFA, SpaceCraft will expand its presence in the franchise space through the IFA's network of over 1,300 Franchisors.
"For over 50 years, the IFA has been the guiding voice for franchisors and their owners. SpaceCraft...more
SpaceCraft and Element to Merge
Austin, Texas - September 10, 2013 - SpaceCraft announced today that it has merged with one of Austin's leading digital design and marketing firms, Element Creative. The combined company will retain the name SpaceCraft and operate under the co-leadership of current SpaceCraft CEO Adam Moore and Element CEO Dan Isaacs. This strategic merger will...more
Cloudant Announces Accelerator Program, SpaceCraft Selected
Boston, MA - June 6, 2013 - Cloudant, provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), today announced its Accelerator Program, a sales program designed to help young companies go to market on the highly scalable, always-on Cloudant NoSQL DBaaS on a startup budget. The services provided through the Accelerator Program are identical to Cloudant's full-priced services,...more
SpaceCraft Introduces Major New Features
Austin, Texas - December 11, 2012 - SpaceCraft is introducing over 30 new features for its revolutionary website-building platform, making it even easier for small businesses to build a powerful website, with new plans starting as low as $8 per month.
The advanced platform now includes new premium themes and layouts; Facebook, Twitter and Google+ integration; more search engine optimization...more
SpaceCraft Announces Developer Tools
Austin, Texas - October 12, 2012 - SpaceCraft, a website publishing platform, announced today the launch of new tools for developers. SpaceCraft, which provides an easy-to-use content management system built using cutting-edge technologies such as responsive web design, HTML5, and structured data, will now enable access to a toolset to web developers who want to customize sites created with the...more
SpaceCraft Helps Small Businesses in Austin Get Online
Austin, Texas - May 4, 2012 - SpaceCraft, a new website publishing platform for Small Businesses, announces a series of free workshops in Austin to help your business get online. Attendees will learn how to create an effective website from Co-founder, Jeff Williams and the SpaceCraft team. "Our live, three-hour workshops are more than an introduction to the SpaceCraft platform. They are hands-on...more
SpaceCraft Launches Product to Create Websites That Work Across All Devices
Austin, Texas - May 1, 2012 - SpaceCraft, a website publishing platform for small businesses, announced today the public launch of its product. The new website publishing platform brings cutting-edge technologies to the small business market, providing seamless functionality on mobile phones, tablets, and PCs. The newly relaunched LanceArmstrong.com is one of the first high-profile sites to be built...more
SpaceCraft Begins Forming Sales Team with Eric Tarlo
Austin, Texas - February 1, 2012 - Austin, Texas - February 1, 2012 - SpaceCraft, a software company based in Austin, Texas has begun hiring a sales and support team for their website publishing platform with plans to continue staffing at a rapid pace.
SpaceCraft has hired Eric Tarlo, most recently of BigCommerce, to begin the process of creating a customer service focused sales and support team. At BigCommerce, Tarlo served as the...more
SpaceCraft Announces Launch of Private Beta Program
Austin, Texas - January 27, 2012 - SpaceCraft, a web-based publishing platform for small businesses, announced today the successful launch of their private beta program.
SpaceCraft empowers small businesses to create and manage websites through a powerful content management system (CMS), producing websites that function seamlessly on mobile phones, tablets and PCs. Through a design technique known as responsive design, SpaceCraft sites...more
SpaceCraft Team Grows to 6 with Hiring of Rob Lifford & Brandon Gredler
Austin, Texas - October 12, 2011 - SpaceCraft, a web-based publishing platform for small businesses, has announced the hires of Rob Lifford as Senior Developer and Brandon Gredler as Business Strategist.
Rob Lifford will be concentrating on the front-end development of the SpaceCraft product. Lifford studied communications at Cornell University and has built a career as a user interface designer and developer over the last 11...more
SpaceCraft Secures $1.35 Million in Series A Funding
Austin, Texas - August 11, 2011 - SpaceCraft, a web publishing platform for small businesses, announced today the close of a $1.35M Series A financing round led by Capital Sports & Entertainment (CSE). This is the first outside capital that SpaceCraft has raised.
CSE partner Bart Knaggs will take a seat on the Board of Directors, joining Board members Dave Marmonti and SpaceCraft co-founder and CEO Adam Moore. Since 2001, Knaggs has...more
SpaceCraft Identifies Tim Paciolla as Director of Product
Austin, Texas - June 20, 2011 - SpaceCraft has announced that Tim Paciolla of frog design will serve as Director of Product, effective immediately.
Paciolla brings 12 years experience leading product strategy and execution for both advertising and consumer web products and desktop software products. Paciolla will lead the overall execution of the SpaceCraft product line.
Most recently, Paciolla served as Creative Director at...more
SpaceCraft Names Dave Marmonti to Board of Directors
Austin, Texas - May 31, 2011 - SpaceCraft, a web publishing platform for small businesses, has announced that Dave Marmonti will serve on its Board of Directors effective immediately. Along with being an early investor in SpaceCraft, Marmonti is the first outside addition to the Board of Directors joining co-founder and CEO Adam Moore.
Mr. Marmonti has over 30 years of experience having held senior leadership positions at several...more
SpaceCraft Hires David Wood as Chief Architect
Austin, Texas - February 7, 2011 - SpaceCraft, a web publishing platform based in Austin, Texas announced the key hire of David Wood as Chief Architect.
Bringing over 10 years of CMS implementation and development experience to SpaceCraft, David will focus primarily on the overall technical approach and development of the SpaceCraft product.
Prior to joining the company, David served as Technical Architect at global innovation...more


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Go beyond my present limits
Renewal!!! On one hand you have the territory of what you already know: your comfort zone. Feels good hey!
On the other hand you have the territory of the unknown! Scary!!!
To go beyond your present limits! This very core idea must shift! Comfort zone is boring. New stuff is exciting!
Go an explore the world. Right now, take a white paper and write down 10 exciting things you never did before! Which of these things can you do within one hour, one day, one week or one month? Which ones are easy? Which ones are exciting?
Renewal means taking steps! It means as well taking at least small risks! This is for the day by day stuff.
Designing a long term plan or vision? Apply the same principle! I must tell you: the pleasure you can gain from simple daily steps is immense. Make it a habit of at least once a day, going beyond your natural limit.
Taking action is a thrill. It stimulates your life force, brings excitement and gives you an energy-kick.
Now you have the choice: sit back and contemplate this idea until it fades away or stand up and take action right now. The solution is in front of you!

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Dear Postcards from New York Reader,
Dinner and a Movie for $30! This has got to be one of the best deals in town, at one of my favorite midtown get-a-ways . Why a get-a-way? Smorgas Chef Restaurant in the lobby is open and airy, large scale photographs of blue sky and mountains hang from the walls, an enormous birch tree with wide branches appears to spurt through the floor and successfully brings the outdoors inside. See if you agree, do you feel surrounded by snow-covered mountains and open sky?
Have you heard Icelandic reggae? Well, see "Back Soon" (Skrapp ut) this weeks feature film. While French, German and Italian films are readily accessible at small foreign film theatres around town, with the usual lines trailing outside the theatre to buy tickets; films from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland are not so easy to find. See the upcoming features here at Scandinavia House and mark your calendar.
Lady Liberty holds out the Welcome Torch. With over 190 different languages spoken and the United Nations headquartered here, New York seethes with cultural diversity. A visit to Scandinavia House is a chance to immerse yourself in the culture of the lands where half of every year is spent in darkness. Discover a host of activities: story readings for kids, lectures, exhibits, talks and numerous concerts. Begin the adventure with fine Nordic cuisine and a movie. Call 212-847-9745 for reservations.
Ideally situated in midtown, Scandinavia House and Cultural Center is easy to reach, only four blocks from Grand Central Station on Park Avenue. Smorgas Chef Restaurant is a real find. Open for Breakfast, Lunch ($14 Prix Fix), Dinner and Brunch on weekends, it is a terrific place to enjoy tea or a dessert of Scandinavian Vanilla Waffles in the late afternoon. For dinner, definitely try the Seafood Chowder with mussels, salmon, cod and shrimp, Swedish Meatballs and Lingonberries, and the Norwegian Smoked Salmon. The smorgasbord tasting plate is a delicious sampler.
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Roberto Cavalli posts annual loss of 26 mn euros
By Prachi Singh
14 Apr 2017
Coveted Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli saw its revenues decline 13.6 percent in 2016 to 155 million euros (164 million dollars), Reuters reports. The company reported loss before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of 26 million euros (27.6 million dollars) and said that the restructuring costs contributed to a net loss of 55 million euros (58 million dollars).
However, the report adds that CEO Gian Giacomo Ferraris, said in a statement direct sales were "stabilised, if not slightly growing in the first quarter of 2017."
Ferraris had undertaken a complete overhaul of the group six months ago, to cut costs and improve profitability. His strategy led to almost 200 of the company's staff losing their jobs in October. In the same month, its creative designer Peter Dundas, whose hippie chic style received a cold response, left the company.
Despite the disappointing performance last year, the Florence-based fashion label, which was acquired by Italian private equity firm Clessidra in April 2015, expects to return to profitability in 2018.
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Anyone interested in applying for a scholarship to attend the 2012 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia June 7 to 10, should download the application and submit it by the deadline, March 1, 2012. Scholarships cover the 2 day conference registration fee. Scholarship winners can also apply at the same time for a supplemental grant from one of the Sections to help with travel. If you received a scholarship to last year's conference in Vancouver, you are not eligible to receive one this year.
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By reading this, you are stating that you are 18 years of age. If you are under the age of 18, it is necessary to exit this site. ARRESTING by Cynthia Rayne Copyright © Cynthia Rayne, 2009 All Rights Reserved, RED SAGE PUBLISHING, INC.
Jasmine Winslow smacked the punching bag again. "Quite a work out." Jasmine turned around to see Mark Truman standing in the doorway. He was hot, she'd give him that. Earlier, when she'd been straddling him in the car, she'd gotten a little carried away. She didn't know if she wanted to punch him in the mouth or kiss his lips. "What the hell are you doing here?" "Is that any way to talk to a colleague?" She punched the bag twice. Three times. Trying to keep her tempter in check. "Yeah, well, in case you didn't get the memo, FBI, you and I are not colleagues. You federal boys are supposed to be better than us poor stupid cops. Right?" She turned to look at him. "That's why you horn in on our investigations and steal our prisoners right from under us." "I didn't steal anything. He committed a federal crime, so I have jurisdiction. " He nodded to the bag which swung wildly. "You got one hell of an arm there." "Thanks." She looked him up and down. She really hated to admit it but he rocked that black suit. He was tall, handsome, and just screamed authority and order. Not to mention the fact that he was handsome as hell. And the way he'd touched her. Yowza. He was really good with his hands. "How did you get in here? This place is for cops only." "Honey, I'm the FBI, we have our ways." "That's cute, but really, how? This place is locked up tighter than freaking Fort Knox." When he didn't answer, she put her hands on her hips. "I'm waiting." "Actually, I got a key from your captain." He lifted it up in the air. "You looked pissed when I last saw you. Thought maybe we should talk, since we were, uh, intimate earlier." She laughed dryly. "That wasn't intimacy, FBI. That was a little sex." "Oh? Is that all it was to you?" She narrowed her eyes. "Oh my God. You came here to finish it, didn't you? No thanks. I've had a violently bad day and I don't need any crap, especially not from you." "Maybe I could make it better," he offered, moving closer to her. "I don't think so. Shouldn't you be guarding the serial killer?" "He's under protection right now. I called in a detail to watch him. We're flying him up to Pennsylvania in the morning." "Goody for you." "We got some DNA evidence on him. He snatched a girl from Elizabethtown College there and her body showed up in a ravine, outside of Frederick, Maryland. She turned her back on him and hit the bag again. "Great." "You don't seem very happy about it, Jasmine. I just told you we are about to put a serial killer away. That's your name, isn't it? Jasmine?" She was still pissed at him. "Yeah, that's me. You'd think you'd remember a girl's name after you manhandled her." He stood behind the bag. "Well, I think we both did some manhandling, today. If you don't mind me saying so, you look a little tense." She brought one arm to her chest, pulling it tight and stretching her arm muscles, then the other arm. "Yeah, well, I've got some serious anger going on. Not to mention adrenaline." His eyes raked over her, she could feel him staring hard at her gym shorts and her tank top. "Maybe I could help you with that." "I'm not going to fuck you. So don't ask," she countered. "I only played a hooker to distract you, so we could get the perp." "You made that clear and that wasn't an offer for sex. I was just thinking we could spar." "Yeah, horizontal sparring," she quipped. "I didn't miss the way you eyed me." "And how did I look at you?" The agent said, a sly smile sliding across his handsome face. The asshole was toying with her. "Like you'd like to bend me over one of those machines and have a go at me." "You're direct aren't you?" He smiled at her. "I like that in a girl." She blew out a breath. "I'm sorry, Mark, I'm in super bitch mode. I really wanted to nail that guy. He snatched two girls from Georgetown and God only knows how many others in the D.C. area. I wanted to take him down today. Get him to confess to the murders." "I know." She shook her head. "No, you don't. You didn't see their mothers. You didn't see what the dorm room looked like." She shuddered. "He hurt them in their own college dorm room. Blood smears on the mattresses, blood on the carpet, even some on the bathroom floor. God only knows what Stanton did to them before he finally killed them." "Why didn't anyone come to help them?" Mark asked. She noticed the sympathy in his eyes. At least he knew how she felt. His eyes looked haunted, too, as though he'd seen a lot in his time as well. Eyes that were much too old for someone who looked to be in their mid-thirties. "It happened during a break from classes," she said. Some of her anger was dissipating. She shouldn't be taking all of it out on the FBI agent anyway. They were both on the same side. More or less. "You sound like you need to blow off some steam, too. Do you want to spar?" Plus, the idea of wrestling the big bad FBI man had a lot of appeal. He was hot. Six and half feet tall, dark brown hair and eyes. Body that wouldn't quit. She wouldn't mind kicking his ass at all. Maybe it would make her feel better about losing Stanton. "Let's do it. Hand to hand? No weapons?" "You're on."
To My Readers: Don't you love G Men? I have to admit I have a thing for FBI agents. They are powerful, intelligent, fit, and they have the whole hero thing going for them. Maybe it is my location. Living in Northern Virginia, I come in contact with a lot of them. They roam the streets, guns lashed to their hips, with chiseled features and hard bodies. You can't blame a girl for noticing (and drooling a little) can you?


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BRENTWOOD, MO – A man arrested for shooting a man on the MetroLink platform in Brentwood, MO Sunday night has admitted to the crime.
According to St. Louis County Police, a 26-year-old man was shot in the leg on the platform along Eager Road around 9:30pm Sunday. The victim was waiting for an eastbound train when was approached by a man he knew. The two men began to argue, and the suspect fired one shot, striking the victim, before fleeing the scene.
On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Brandon Thomas, 21, of St. Louis with one count of Assault in the First Degree and one count of Armed Criminal Action. He is being held on a $200,000 bond.
According to police, Thomas admitted to shooting the victim.


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Facilitating the Use of Native Bivalves and Seaweeds in Aquaculture
The adoption of new underutilized, native species into aquaculture and the seafood market is an important step in establishing a diverse, local and sustainable food sources. It is also a relatively easy step given that the infrastructure and expertise to culture bivalves is already in place at most of California's aquafarms, and these "new" products are consistent with the priorities and growing demand of the sustainable, localvore food movement. We have two efforts just starting or underway.
Connecting local chefs with the Olympia oyster
Tapping into the diversity of native shellfish species provides economic and ecological stability by providing portfolio effects for each system. Thus, this project uses interdisciplinary methods to determine the marketing potential of native Olympia oysters to local restaurants and markets. This goal is met by addressing barriers as to why there is currently no culinary demand in Southern California for the Olympia oyster. The project looks at the biological characteristics of the Olympia oyster as related to aquaculture and marketing, and the economic and social potential of this oyster as an avenue to enhance awareness of the product. Collaborators: Carlsbad Aquafarm, Inc., Acacia Pacific Investments LLC, Dominique Barnes, CMBC at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Mark Jacobsen, UCSD. View Dominique's capstone report here for a look at some preliminary findings.
Increasing efficiency of aquaculture production: Assessing the biological, economic and social feasibility of farming native bivalves and seaweeds.
The viability of aquaculture can be improved by (1) increasing yield per unit area, (2) reducing production costs, (3) diversifying the portfolio of products, and (4) by securing better prices through the production of high quality product and by improving marketing effectiveness. Facilitating the farming of a diversity of native species that are primary producers and consumers while utilizing existing infrastructure can meet these four requirements. In particular, relying on a diversity of species increases stability of ecological, economic and social systems through such mechanisms as portfolio effects. Marketing native bivalves and seaweeds that naturally recruit within and around aquaculture facilities increases production per area and alleviates many of the environmental concerns of aquaculture. Being native and local eliminates concerns about invasive species and genetic or disease contamination by farmed species, while being producers and filter feeders in a productive estuary avoids the production and waste of feed, and improves water quality. Natural recruitment within and around the aquaculture facility, and growth in existing grow-out areas makes use of existing infrastructure and expertise. Adoption of these novel species is, however, too risky for most aquaculture facilities given the uncertainty about the economic costs and benefits, the culture protocols, and whether these species will sell.
We will improve the marketability of local bivalves and seaweeds, such as Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida), common littleneck (Leukoma staminea) and red ogo seaweed (Gracilaria pacifica) by (1) quantifying the biological characteristics of these species to develop culturing protocols and marketing strategies, (2) assessing the economic viability of farming and marketing these species, and (3) raising public awareness of the culinary, ecological and socio-economic value of these species, and aquaculture in general. Products like these are consistent with the priorities of a sustainable food system, namely locally-sourced, native, unique and low resource requirement, and may serve as a gateway to public acceptance of a diversity of other farmed species.
Collaborators: Paul Dayton, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Paul Olin, California Sea Grant


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There are websites, and then there's Wikipedia. The internet behemoth boasts 30 million articles written in more than 285 languages, tweaked by 70,000 active editors and viewed by 530 million visitors worldwide each month. As mountains of information go, it's Everest. Teasing out trends from the open source encyclopedia's archives is a task few would even attempt. Yet Erik Zachte did just that.
Zachte used his statistical intuition to create "Wikistats," an online statistics package that's more than a trove of charts and graphs for data geeks. It's the most direct measure yet of Wikipedia's success in achieving its central objective: making the sum of all human knowledge available to everyone everywhere.
"When I discovered Wikipedia I felt thrilled from the outset," says Zachte, who was working as an IT guy at KLM Airlines in the early days of the Wiki revolution. Not content simply to edit articles, he joined the mailing lists in which a fervid network of volunteers debated how to increase the site's functionality. As Wikipedia exploded in popularity, power users complained there was no consistent way to measure its growth in article count from the beginning.
"In 2003 there was already an online page counter if I remember correctly, but not much else," says Zachte. He realized it was possible to extract far more descriptive data from historical metadata in Wikipedia's massive database dumps, copies of all raw content that available to anyone in XML format.
He started crunching numbers and quickly became famous among fellow Wikiholics for developing Wikistats. The site's monthly reports filled a valuable niche for descriptive metrics in the Wiki community, with measures like article count, number of editors, and edits per article that serve as proxy indicators of Wiki quality. Impressed by Zachte's stat-fu, the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation that supports the Wikipedia infrastructure made him its data analyst in 2008.
Since then, Zachte's figures – all of which are open source and in the public domain – have revealed ongoing challenges to the organization's growth, as well as noteworthy trends.
Wikistats data made it clear that a core of Wikipedians does an outsize portion of the editing. As of October, 4.7 million people have contributed to the English language Wikipedia, but just over 26,000 people have made more than 1,000 edits. In fact, that relatively small group of people has made 73 percent of all edits. While a small core of very active editors has remained stable, a larger pool of active editors (those making at least five edits monthly) in all Wikipedia language editions peaked at 90,000 in 2007 and has dropped since. As of October, the count stands at 70,000.
That has some worried that a shrinking community indicates declining quality and concerted efforts within the Wikimedia Foundation to boost editor engagement, which the organization considers one of the foremost indicators of Wikipedia's success. In 2009, the organization launched an ambitious five-year strategic plan to drastically increase language and content diversity by encouraging internet users in the "Global South" – particularly the developing regions of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America – to contribute. Wikistats metrics gauge its progress each month.
"Many projects exist within WMF to influence editor influx and retention," says Zachte, "but in the end Wikistats gives the final count: Are we on the right track?"
The numbers show reason for measured optimism. While the largest and most densely populated language editions like English, German, French, and Japanese, have seen the number of active editors level off or even decline since about 2007, newer editor networks in highly populous languages like Chinese, Arabic, and Persian continue to grow. In addition, the global share of page edits is slowly shifting to populous Global South countries1, some of which, like India and the Philippines, use and edit Wikipedia overwhelmingly in English.
Zachte's reports also reveal idiosyncratic patterns of activity in different languages.
For example, some volunteer coders program bots to create article stubs in massive bursts, hoping other users will expand the articles over time. While bots can supplement the work of active editor networks, Wikistats summaries show that some language editions are populated almost entirely by bot-created stubs – like the Cebuano and Waray-Waray Wikipedias, which rocketed to almost one million articles this year despite tiny editor networks that are unlikely to fill in those blanks anytime soon.
The data also provide raw material for striking visualizations, which Zachte sometimes creates and posts on his blog, Infodisiac and compiles from other authors on Wikistats.
For years, Zachte was the only staffer working on general metrics about Wikipedia, but today the Wikimedia Foundation now has many analysts and engineers crunching data. The organization is preparing to absorb Zachte's work into a much more powerful data infrastructure.
"The plan is to take the existing functionality of Wikistats and modernize it across the board," says Toby Negrin, Wikimedia's director of analytics. "Erik's work is amazing, but we need to make the data more accessible and update it faster."
One recent update is a streamlined Monthly Report Card that tracks user engagement by language and geographical region, with customizable graphs measuring factors like unique visitors, page views, and editing activity over time. Other extensions will capture and analyze all Wikimedia traffic, and provide metrics for editor engagement projects like Wikipedia Zero, which gives users in developing countries free Wikipedia access on their mobile devices.
Zachte embraces the changes. "Most of what I built will be phased out over the coming years," he says. "I'm fine with that. All software has a limited lifespan."
Until the new infrastructure can take over, Zachte maintains the scripts that populate Wikistats reports while working from home in Leiden, the Netherlands. Occasionally, he works on analytic pet projects. His next idea focuses on measuring content diversity across different Wikipedia language editions.
"In early years Wikipedia was often characterized as mostly geek content: physics and sci-fi," he says. "People don't do that anymore, but is our content really balanced now? Do we have similar depth of content for ballet or folk culture or fashion?"
Most articles in larger Wikipedias are assigned multiple categories – for example, the English-language entry for Barack Obama lists 45. But users can assign a single article many different categories, and each category can have an unlimited number of parent categories. That makes it difficult to easily compare the number of articles in each category as an indicator of content diversity.
Zachte's idea is that comparing word frequencies within articles to word frequencies for all named categories in a language (the English Wikipedia has over 1 million, according to a 2012 estimate) can more effectively categorize articles, and create profiles of which topics receive more heavy coverage. He has written a proposal, but it's still unclear how it fits into Wikimedia's current budget. It might just be a hobby project – or, open source to the end, he concedes that someone else might as well scoop him.
"Now I have given away the basic concept," he says. "Someone can base her thesis on this, and beat me to it, which is fine. Science would progress faster if it did not thrive on secrecy."
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EC Access at Wal-Mart Demanded
For Immediate Release: Jan. 30, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the same time Wal-Mart faces the largest gender discrimination class action lawsuit in U.S. history, affecting 1.6 million women, three Massachusetts women are now suing Wal-Mart over its failure to provide access to emergency contraceptive pills.
Wal-Mart's decision not to stock or sell emergency contraception — also known as Plan B or the "morning-after pill" — unnecessarily denies women everywhere their right to access a legally-approved drug. The lawsuit charges that Wal-Mart is violating a Massachusetts policy requiring pharmacies in the state to dispense all "commonly prescribed medicines."
Wal-Mart's CEO Lee Scott should not decide what medicines women may or may not take. Wal-Mart's actions are clearly an outrageous intrusion into the health and privacy of all U.S. women. When a doctor prescribes emergency contraception for a woman, Wal-Mart does not have the right to overrule that decision.
To be most effective, emergency contraception should be taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure. Because Wal-Mart has put so many smaller stores out of business, in a number of areas it is the only pharmacy for miles. No woman at risk for unintended pregnancy, be it the result of a broken condom or sexual assault, should be turned away by Wal-Mart and forced to find another pharmacy while the clock is ticking.
Wal-Mart's statement that they choose "not to carry many products for business reasons," rings hollow and dismisses the heartfelt concerns of many women in this country.
We strongly support the lawsuit brought in Massachusetts and will fight to make sure all women who work at Wal-Mart or choose to shop there are treated fairly and equally and have access to all legally-approved medications.
We call on Wal-Mart to stop discriminating against women, reverse their policy on blocking access to emergency contraception pills, and to ensure, in the future, all legal medicines are provided to women at Wal-Mart pharmacies across the U.S.
Paul Blank
Campaign Director
Dr. Martha Burk
Director, Corporate Accountability Project
National Council of Women's Organizations
Kim Gandy
National Organization for Women
Nancy Keenan
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Karen Pearl
Interim President
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Saturday Night Funnies
Posted by Shaw Kenawe at 4:23 PM
3 comments:
- peppylady (Dora) said...
We be much better if he total left politics and start to play golf.
Coffee is on
- April 15, 2017 at 9:41 PM
- Shaw Kenawe said...
Thanks, peppylady. You are absolutely correct. He doesn't do much in the way of governing anyway.
- April 16, 2017 at 10:35 AM
- Ducky's here said...
I'd say that when Snake & Bacon makes more sense than the Happy Hands administration we'r really up the junction.
- April 16, 2017 at 5:23 PM
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Community Foundation Update (5/14/16)
The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County has announced the appointment of Phyllis Coletta as director of the Conversation Project in Boulder County, for which the foundation serves as fiscal sponsor. Modeled after the Conversation Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the initiative was established in 2013 to help foster effective and meaningful conversations about end-of-life care in the region.
The Cape Cod Foundation has announced a bequest from the estate of Shirlee Burd to establish the Robert D. and Shirlee G. Burd Animal Welfare Fund, which will provide grants totaling approximately $50,000 to five named beneficiaries working to provide programs and services for the benefit of animals, wildlife, and marine life. Funds also may be allocated on a discretionary basis to respond to significant opportunities with the potential to have broad impact benefiting animals, wildlife, and marine life on the Cape and in its waters.
The Southeast Michigan Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, a group of funders that includes the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan working in support of early childhood education in the region, has announced a second round of grants totaling $1.4 million from its Detroit Head Start Innovation Fund. The funding will support three system-wide goals: the recruitment and retention of qualified early childhood educators; attracting more Head Start-eligible families; and supporting shared data and program evaluation. The recipients are Matrix Human Services ($450,000), Metropolitan Child and Youth ($200,000), New Saint Paul Tabernacle Church of God in Christ Head Start Agency ($300,000), and Starfish Family Services ($450,000).
The Omaha Foundation has announced grants totaling $110,000 from its Fund for Omaha. Grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 were awarded to College Possible, Food Bank of the Heartland, Girls Inc. of Omaha, Children's Respite Care Center, the Women's Fund, and the Nebraska Enterprise Fund.
New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Community Foundation in Concord has announced a $250,000 impact investment to the Nature Conservancy to help expand a collaborative effort between local fishermen and the University of New Hampshire aimed at improving local ecological health and restoring fisheries in the Gulf of Maine. The investment was made through the foundation's Impact Investment Fund, which was established this year with $3 million in initial capital.
North Carolina
The Community Foundation of Henderson County in Hendersonville has announced that the deadline to apply for a grant through its competitive grant cycle is June 1. The foundation has revised its application, which is available on its website.
The Cleveland Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2016 Cleveland Arts Prizes. Dancer and arts administrator Mary VerdiFletcher received the Lifetime Achievement Award; ceramic artist Kristen Cliffel and musician Liza Grossman received Mid-Career Artist Awards; and electronic music composer John Elliot and poet Dave Lucas received Emerging Artist Awards. Each award comes with a $10,000 prize. In addition, Dee Perry was awarded the Robert P. Bergman Prize, which recognizes an individual who has demonstrated passionate leadership in the arts; William Boehm was awarded the Martha Joseph Prize, which recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the vitality and stature of the arts in Northeast Ohio; and architect Peter van Dijk was named a special honoree, which is given to a previous Cleveland Arts Prize winner.
West Virginia
The Ritchie County Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation, has recognized the service of retiring board member Cynthia Torbeck Haught.
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has announced a grant of $1.25 million to the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in support of efforts to reduce the health risks and economic burden of asthma in children. The funding will support a five-year study focused on identifying and reducing irritants in the home that trigger asthma symptoms, an effort that has the potential to improve health and reduce medical costs for people affected by asthma, especially children of color living in urban Milwaukee. To that end, the research and community health team will assess participants' level of exposure to asthma irritants in the home and make recommendations as to how families can eliminate or lessen their exposure to irritants. The research also will incorporate a preliminary genetic study that examines associations between participants' genes, the irritants that trigger their asthma, and their response to environmental interventions. Data about these differences could inform additional research in the future.


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Very rarely comes a time when I do not feel gratitude for my life and the little people in it. But this weekend marked one of those times when I was seriously looking into finding a boarding school that takes young children. It seemed like the roof came off the house. There was screaming, there was crying, and then there were the kids.
Sunday I found welcome relief in an opportunity to hold a house open and get out for a few hours of work. It was pretty darn convenient that the house was directly across the street from my own. Not only do I really know the area, but also it was deeply satisfying answering the question, "How are the neighbors?" with a solid "Awesome!" And only twice did I have to call Brent to come grab one of my kids who had wandered over yelling "Mama!" Nothing screams successful real estate agent like a baby on your hip.
It is taking a lot for us to get a groove going as we adjust to life with another adult in the house. Our au pair is fabulous but we are still working out the kinks. As a mother, I often feel like I am waiting for things to get easier. Truth is that although something might get easier in one area there are usually other areas that meet me with challenges.
As many of you know, our children attend a year round school in town and we just ended our six-week stretch of summer. Georgia started Kindergarten and Olivia went into the second grade. I was thrilled for both of them to start up again (think Staples commercial with parents dancing in the isles).
When Tuesday rolled around the school posted the class lists outside the office. We drove straight over from swim lessons only to find out that Georgia did not get the teacher her older sister had in K/1. We knew this was a strong possibility but this news was still a bummer. Georgia put on a brave face for everyone as we stood in front of the class assignments but when we got into the car her face crumbled. Not only did she not get the teacher she had thought she was going to get, but also none of her closest friends were in her class.
As she sobbed in my arms I wanted to cry for her too. I was upset that things didn't go my way. I wished that the outcome had been different for her but I also kept a brave face because I knew that she would eventually love the teacher who's class she got assigned to. And I believe that everything happens for a reason. It was just interesting for me to witness my own insecurities around her teacher assignment. I am so sensitive it begged the question, "Who's going into kindergarten, her or me?"
Sure enough when I had to take Georgia out of school early on Friday, she threw a temper tantrum all the way to the doctor's office because she was so upset to be missing instruction on the number 2 (that and the fact that she was extremely hungry).
By the time we got to the weekend my entire family was feeling fried. Our au pair had the weekend off which was great for her except that she was rudely awakened each and every day. Sometimes I wonder if she thinks about finding another family.
Discipline issues were afoot all weekend and we ended up canceling television, iPad use, and a birthday party. These times can be hard but I continue to remain optimistic that as I get more consistent with consequences, things will be better. Goodness knows yelling like a banshee doesn't work. All that does is make me look foolish and the emphasis gets put on crazy mommy and not on the need for the children to improve their behavior.
Today is a new day, it's Monday and I'm excited for the week ahead. There is never a dull moment in the Blaustein house that's for sure. It is going to be interesting to say the least. I know this because I must somehow get my kids to and from school with the van door stuck in the open position. I am going to do my best to get it fixed straight away but if you see me driving with an open van door, do not be alarmed, I am well aware of the situation. Thanks in advance for your honking, gesticulating movements that would prompt me to want to close the door, etc. Despite popular belief, I promise I am not the crazy lady you think I am. Good times. Great times.


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#3 Reuse, Reinvent, Recycle - Nike did something magical with their Foundation. Instead of doing the expected thing and get involved in some philanthropic work connected to sport, they decided instead to apply the organisation's ability to think really big against one of the world's greatest problems – world poverty.
And so the girl effect was born. This is the unique ability of adolescent girls to solve poverty for themselves, their families, communities, nations and ultimately the world. Nike landed on the most powerful global force for change and then applied it's greatest thinking and communications skills to bring it to the world.
My last couple of years at Nike were spent applying the 14 years of brand mastery I'd had the privilege to learn in the business to creating local brands for girls in Africa that inspired them, empowered them and started to shift the conversations around girls. Ni Nyampinga in Rwanda, Yegna in Ethiopia – the beginnings of real change for girls, their families and their countries.
Frederic Hudson, one of the greatest greats of coaching, would have approved. He reminds us that we must 'know how to recycle yourself…weave, unravel and reweave your life, over and over'.
That indeed is a gift that keeps on giving!
#2 Without Risk there is no Genius – when Nike decided to get into football, everyone thought they were crazy. Here was an upstart American company who new nothing about the world's favourite game. But it was for the very fact that it IS the world's favourite game, that Nike decided to go after it.
They rallied, created an incredible football organization, signed the Brazil national team, threw everything that was brilliant at product innovation and before long, became the credible force they are in the game today. They just believed they were going to succeed. And so they did.
I loved this constant sense of risk. It was addictive to be around. Yet so often as individuals, the fear of failure gets to us before we even try.
Sheryl Sandberg asked the question in her book Lean In: 'What would you do if you weren't afraid?' and I think it's a brilliant question because it not only encourages us to go places we don't usually allow ourselves to go, but it also starts to show us that maybe the answers really just aren't that scary once we say them out loud.
I've seen so many people get to grips with their fears through coaching and every time it thrills me to see the leaps that people make when they break through the invisible barriers that fear creates.
Bring it on…
Having written the previous blog, I was asked what I actually talked about in the Lancaster speech so thought I'd share a quick summary. (these are the last blog posts about Nike and then I promise to shut up about it…).
So here they are, my 3 biggest gifts from Nike (and there were many….)
#1 The Guts to Lead from the Front - Nike's first sponsored athlete, Steve Prefontaine, had a race plan that meant leading from the start line. It was a confident, some might say cocky, strategy that pretty well always paid off for Pre.
Nike always takes this approach. Whether in product innovation or brand marketing or pretty much everything they do, they just refuse to follow the lead of others, to worry what other people might think or what the competition might do. For sure they passionately care about what their consumers care about but for everyone else, they pretty much block them out.
In my coaching, I'm constantly staggered about how much people worry about what other people think, the constant pull to follow the herd. Yet when people don't follow, when they forge their own path and refuse to listen to the naysayers, that's when the magic happens. That's when people feel liberated, when they grow and feel mighty. That's when people take stop blaming and complaining, take control and see extraordinary things happen in their lives.
Pre died tragically very young but his legacy lives on in Nike and certainly continues to be a great lesson for the rest of us.
[2016] I was recently asked to give a speech to the current incumbents and alumni of Lancaster University's MBA program on the subject of 'Is there life after Nike?'.
It's a fair question - having chosen to leave after 17 years many people questioned my sanity. What was I going to do next? It's better to get a job from a job! What brand could you possibly want to work for that beats Nike? You only get to play your Nike trump-card once so you better use it well! And on it went…
So what did I do? Nothing. I just left. I decided to a) take the summer off and b) refuse to answer any of the 'big questions' that kept coming my way. Instead I made one rule and that was that was to say 'yes' to any opportunity or idea that came my way. For the first time in a long time (or possibly ever) I created the space to let destiny unfold.
Within days I was asked to coach some of the smartest people I had come across whilst working at the Nike Foundation. Amazingly bright, talented individuals from all corners of the earth. Each one striving to make a better world. I'm constantly in awe of their energy, their drive, their ability to balance crazy ambition to create change with swathes of compassion. So I said yes.
Three weeks later, whilst sitting in Sussex doing a silly-strict detox retreat, I got a call from my great friend, mentor and creative guru Chris Baréz Brown saying that his equally talented wife, Anna was looking for a partner to create a new coaching-based programme for women. I had no idea what it was or what I could do to help but I said 'yes', rerouted to Lyme Regis for a decent meal and got to work. 6 months later we launched Shine, a workshop for women to build a bigger vision and plan that gives renewed energy and focus to their professional and personal lives. Shine is now firmly established with our 4th workshop this week, we've made it into the illustrious pages of the Sunday Times and I now get to belly-laugh at least twice a week with my very shiny co-founder Anna.
A month after that, Tiger for a Day Ltd. opened it's doors for business and I now work with extraordinary individuals and teams across the world. I'm attracted to people who are basically restless. People who want more, expect more, will put in everything to achieve more. Running Tiger for a Day is fun, thrilling, creative and at times, massively challenging.
This all came about for two reasons. Firstly, I did nothing. When I left Nike I literally left a huge gaping space and didn't try to fill it. When we allow that to happen, we find out what our true value is in the world. What others really wanted from us. We end up doing what we're good at and what we love and as many of us discover to our surprise, that doesn't always come from a 'sensible' plan based on our CVs. How often do we allow that to happen in our lives?
Secondly, I said 'yes'. Saying yes opens up avenues and presents experiences that we just don't seek out otherwise. It creates some fear for sure but the kind of fear that comes when we're moving out of our comfort zones and growing. Just like the 'doing nothing' approach, it also creates the environment for happy accidents to happen, to meet people you wouldn't usually meet, work with people you wouldn't usually work with, do things that you discover you enjoy. Now I'm giving speeches, running workshops for some of the highest performing teams in the world, putting more women in the limelight, coaching cellists, social entrepreneurs and future presidents. How did that happen?
Seems there is life after Nike...


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My life is officially complete! America's wine country officially has its own music festival! Just last month Napa Valley held its first ever 5-day music, food, wine, comedy and beer festival with over forty bands, 300 wineries, Napa's finest culinary talents, and exclusive comedy shows. Welcome to the Bottle Rock Celebration!
Thanks to WillPower Events, BottleRock Napa Valley was created for a good cause. For every ticket purchased the festival donated a portion of its proceeds to support the local community as well as to raise awareness, and support for many smaller non-profits, and charities (Celebrating the art of music and wine never felt so good). To see a list of the non-profit partners and benefit groups check out the BottleRock Causes page here: www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/causes.
With three main stages spread over 26 acres of the Napa Expo, musical talent rocked the vineyards for an estimated 40,000 attendees while the "comedy closet" simultaneously hosted some of the industries finest comedians including Natasha Leggero, Anthony Jeselnik, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan and Wyatt Cenac.
The Seattle, Washington hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis kicked off the inaugural BottleRock festival with a sold out benefit performance opening night to support Autism ARC and The City of Napa Parks and Recreation Foundation for Recreation. Over the next 4 days the gentleman of "Thrift Shop" were followed by and incredible lineup of bands and performers including Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Zac Brown Band, Jane's Addiction, The Shins, Train, The Black Crowes, Cake, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, X and many more.
To be apart of next years event visit http://www.bottlerocknapa.com for tickets, VIP passes, lodging and transportation information.
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Between the Film Festival and Bottle Rock I just may be spending more time in wine country. Cheers to the entire team behind BottleRock! I cannot wait to be apart of this incredible movement! Who's coming with me next year!?


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Job Title: Early Years' Coordinator
Application Deadline: 2019-05-20
Aga Khan Education Service, Tanzania (AKES, T), is a private, not for profit, service company registered under the Companies Act and operates four schools in Tanzania. AKES, T vision is to provide accessible, world-class education, which prepares students to become self-confident, open-minded articulate and ethical young people with academic qualifications to enable them to make productive contributions to their own community and their wider society. It is part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private development agencies working to improve living conditions and opportunities for people of all faiths and origins in specific regions of the developing world,
AKEST is looking to hire a qualified Early Years' Coordinator, for the Aga Khan Nursery School, Dar es Salaam. The candidate will have to have a proven track record in leadership, strategic and financial planning and IB- PYP Educational administration.
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- To coordinate, and ensure the growth and success of the Aga Khan Nursery, Dar es Salaam, as an IB Early Years, PYP School.
- To provide an appropriate Early Years learning environment, with reference to the IB-PYP standards and practises, where students have the opportunity to develop and grow intellectually, emotionally, physically and spiritually.
- To work collaboratively with staff and parents to set high expectations for all children and to ensure that they achieve their developmental potential through the IB-PYP and within the context of an Early Years setting.
Key Responsibilities
- In collaboration with the AKNPS Head of School, continue to develop the IB-PYP curriculum in the Nursery section of AKNPS, ensuring equal access to an appropriately broad and balanced learning experience for all children.
- Be responsible for maintaining and delivering a vertically aligned curriculum that fully meets the developmental learning outcomes for the students.
- Provide mentoring, coaching and continuing professional learning opportunities as appropriate to meet staff collective and individual needs.
- Develop and maintain effective systems of programme planning, assessment record-keeping and reporting.
- Ensure high quality teaching and learning, supported by the principles of internationally accepted best practices in Early Childhood education, through a rigorous programme of monitoring and evaluation.
- Ensure the key performance indicators for the AKNPS Nursery sections are met annually.
- Set high expectations for guiding students' achievement across all developmental milestones.
- Maintain effective systems for tracking students' progress; monitor progress using ASQ3 annually.
- Ensure close parental and community involvement in the day-to-day life of the AKNPS Nursery section.
- Provide regular, informative communication between the AKNPS Nursery section and the home.
- Ensure that all regulatory requirements are followed and that the necessary supporting documents for all IB- PYP, ECD and Government Inspections, are available consistently and in a timely manner.
- Ensure that the equal opportunities policy is followed.
- Ensure that the AKNPS performance evaluation cycle is conducted for all Nursery section staff.
Organisation and Resources:
Manage and monitor finance, material and human resources effectively nd efficiently, with regard to the development plan and the key priorities of the Nursery section.
Together with the AKNPS Head of School, be responsible for the day-to-day management of the annual budget for the Nursery section.
Maximise the use of the buildings and facilities to promote effective teaching and learning.
Ensure effective supervision and security of the Nursery section environment and ensure good maintenance though AKES, T policies and procedures.
Ensure the health and safety of all children and adults whilst on the Nursery campus.
Together with the AKNPS Leadership team, develop and monitor the school development plan, as it pertains to the Nursery Section.
Staff Management and Development:
Together with the AKNPS Head of School:
Recruit appropriately qualified staff, with the potential to develop and grow as IB-PYP Early Years practitioners.
Implement the AKNPS performance evaluation and goal setting cycle, identifying the professional development gaps of the Nursery staff, and ensuring that they have access to suitable training and support through a clearly articulated CPL (Continuing Professional Learning) Plan.
The requirements
Applicants should have the following qualifications and experience:
Bachelor's degree in Education from a reputable, accredited university;
At least five years' experience, with demonstrable achievements of leading a reputable Nursery international school; the experience and drive to lead an intense school improvement and change process and resilience when experiencing difficulties inherent in an emerging system;
Proven track record in the effective and efficient management of fiscal and human resources;
Experience with the International Baccalaureate Programme in an Early Years PYP setting;
Excellent team-building skills, with proven experience in leading, motivating and empowering teams;
How to Apply
Applications should include a detailed Curriculum Vitae, copies of relevant certificates, testimonials and names of three professional referees, emailed by 20th May, 2019 to:
The Human Resources Manager
Aga Khan Education Service Tanzania
P O Box 125
Email: email@example.com
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It was Nicodemus who came to me in my prayers today.
It was Nicodemus that made me reflect and ask Jesus some tough questions. Jesus tells us to seek and we shall find in the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. Are you afraid to ask God?
It was Nicodemus that came to Jesus at night asking a very deep question. It was he, the Pharisee of the Jewish ruling council that said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." Nicodemus came to Jesus at NIGHT; in the dark with some deep questions. How do you ask your deepest questions with Jesus? In the book of John, we read Jesus's words, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."…
When I lay my head down at night, looking into the deep darkness of the room, I re-evaluate my day. I thank Jesus for my re-birth in Him. But, when I have some serious questions that need answering, it is then that I write in my journal; it is where I feel comfortable enough to ask God my hardest questions. It is a place where my soul connects with the resurrected Jesus and my questions are tenderly answered.
I come as professional writer seeking answers to even some unasked questions. Jesus knows what we will be asking. Matthew 6:8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. My pen connects with my journal and revelations enter my heart and soul; revelations that I can share. I enter as a writer but leave as a personal follower. I become blessed through the words that flow.
An ember of Gods love fell into my heart today; an ember that will most certainly ignite into flames of burning love. It is yet another rebirth that will escort me to write words of encouragement and hope.
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Departments have multiple effects, but their general purpose is to divide up the helpdesk and control access.
Every ticket must have a department (but can't have more than one).
Department permissions
Agents may only have permission to view tickets in certain departments.
For example, suppose your helpdesk has a Research department and a Customer Service department. You might not be able to see Research tickets; another agent might not be able to see Customer Service tickets, and a third agent might be able to see tickets in both.
The advantage of this is that you only have to sort through the tickets that are relevant to your particular role.
Assignment and following always overrule department permission.
If you're not normally allowed to see Research department tickets, but one is assigned to you or your team by someone who can, you can then see it. Similarly, if a ticket you are following is moved to the Research department, you will still be able to see it.
You may be allowed to assign a ticket to a department that you don't have permission to view. It depends on your permissions, which are set by your admins.
In the example above, if you found a useful customer suggestion among the Customer Service tickets, your account might let you assign it to the Research department. If you tried to access the ticket afterwards, you would see a No Permission error message.
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Department names
Departments can optionally have a different name that's visible to users. For example, your admins can create an "Abuse" department, but configure it so that users see it as "Customer Service".


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Breaking the Ice (Or the Bank)
Breaking the Ice (Or the Bank)
Beaudoin, Kate
Ambitious to say the least, the proposed $1- to $3-million Bozeman Ice Tower would be the first large-scale, competition-grade ice climbing venue in the U.S., potentially putting Bozeman in the running for the first U.S.-hosted Ice Climbing World Championships as soon as 2013. Part of an initiative by local mountaineer Conrad Anker and MSU's schools of engineering, architecture, and business, the tower has landed supporters such as the Gallatin County Fairgrounds, the city commission, and Bridger Bowl, who see many other uses for the 80-foot structure: outdoor concert venue, training facility, and community recreation center. Skepticism about the project abounds, but if $3 million falls from the sky, why not freeze it and climb it?
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Based on the Radeon Vega graphics, the AMD Vega 10 GPU, has been shown at many levels including at the recent CES in which it has been pictured in a video published by LinusTechTips. The upcoming technology can be seen running a DOOM at 4K resolution along with the Ryzen CPU
The Graphic Card which is pictured and published by LinusTechTips, is still in its engineering state as the product is months away from the debut for consumers. However, there are still many interesting things which Raja Koduri and Linus talks about in the video.
We already know that AMD Vega 10 graphics cards will be available for the consumers, workstation and server variants. The consumer variants will be branded Radeon while the professional cards feature the new FirePro WX and Instinct branding. The engineering sample that was running at CES 2017 use a longer version of the cooler shroud that is featured on Radeon RX 480 and it looks really neat for the graphics card itself.
Linus had managed to get special permission from AMD and took off the side panel to leak out an interesting Vega 10 based Radeon Graphic Card.
From the video, it is revealed that PCB on the back remains bare. The card utilizes a blower style cooler and it has a dual slot body. The Radeon logo on the side has red LEDs which light up when the card is operating. The cooling assembly has some various parts; the heatsink block is attached above the GPU and it is held in place through a metal bracket that can be viewed on the back. The cooler shroud is held by several screws, which are located on the PCB, reports WCCFTech.
The PCB also doesn't have any traces for GDDR5 memory, as all the memory is held on the interposer itself since its HBM2 based. The power connections which are still a secret as AMD decided to put tape on the input ports. The reason they did this is because the Vega sample board is also not indicative of the final GPU and graphics board. So it's there to avoid any confusion between sample and retail boards.
AMD's high-end Vega 10 GPU will be available to consumers from first half of 2017. The chip spans a die size of over 500mm2 from early calculations and sports two HBM2 stacks, which is incorporating up to 16 GB of HBM2.
The consumer variant that was demonstrated using DOOM and Star Wars: Battlefront featured 8 GB of HBM2 VRAM. The specific device ID for the consumer variant is 687F:C1.
The graphics card is looking to be a killer 4K AAA gaming product and now can't wait for it to launch in summer 2017.


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