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OTTAWA November 14th, 2008 -Cesario Ginjo pitched an idea to the Dragon's Den with implementation of a new concept; he wants to build a national brand of flower retailers and distributors according to the CBC Dragon's Den and the National Post. His position is that if he could find investors to finance his idea of creating a Canada wide florist, he can "hit the ground running, open a new location and do $200,000 to $300,000 a year in business.â€
To quote Mr. Ginjo: "With that base of sales you have the volume and the buying power to compete with the entire market. It would be like a chain store coming into the market. If you start plopping stores in seven to eight major locations in Canada, which is my idea. Now you can say, "We are a national brand.â€
This idea would be a unique one, except Bloomex has already implemented this business concept since 2005. Bloomex is Canada's largest florist. It has production facilities in 7 major Canadian cities, located in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. Bloomex is the only Canadian online florist that can deliver to over 97% of the Canadian population from it's own production facilities. President of Bloomex, Dimitri Lokhonia who has been in the flower industry for over 9 years, adapted the Bloomex business model after noticing a similar model being used successfully in the U.S.. He began with a store front flower shop in Toronto, but Mr. Lokhonia wanted to introduce a new idea to the floral industry, one completely different than even FTD, and unique to Canada. Bloomex business model is to buy the flowers directly from the growers, which eliminates the expensive middleman and overhead expenses. It also reduces transit time from growers directly to Bloomex production facilities, which equates to fresher flowers that last longer at a better price. Bloomex has more cost effective practices by reducing overhead expenses with warehouses as oppose to store front retail, passing the savings on to consumers. The Bloomex business model allows them to design and deliver fresh cut flower bouquets at 35-50% cheaper than traditional florists. Orders can be placed via Bloomex' secure online store http://bloomex.ca, or by their toll free number, 1-866-91-BLOOM.
This episode of the Dragon's Den, which aired on Monday Nov. 3rd, 2008 heard Cesario Ginjo propose his business plan to the 5 moguls by beginning with, "So today, you cannot buy flowers in any major city in Canada and get the same product over and overâ€. When asked by one of the moguls, "There's nothing equivalent in Canada?†Cesario replied "Noâ€. As a national Canadian florist, with a consistent supply chain to all company owned facilities, Bloomex provides the same products and services from coast to coast.
Mr. Treliving of the Dragon's Den responds to this proposal with, "We can't be in a situation where we are a startup thinking it might work. We should be taking this to another level. It's eight years old and hasn't taken off. Why? Is it a great idea and it's a small business or is it a great idea and a big business? That's what the due diligence will tell us.†Bloomex can state that it is a great idea and a big business; their success in the past 2 years has shown that there is a demand for a Canadian online florist providing fresh cut flowers at better prices.
Bloomex Public Relations Manager, Michelle Robitaille comments, "We are outraged that no research was done to recognize Bloomex's presence in this industry, being we are the largest and fastest growing florist in Canada whose continued growth is attributed to our patented F3 Fresh Flower Formula business model. Our unique model means we don't have to "Rape and Pillageâ€. Our extensive contributions to a national charity like the Canadian Cancer Society have demonstrated that Bloomex is Canada's floral preference. We welcome the challenge of others attempting to market a brand superior to Bloomex.â€
Since Bloomex's introduction to the market in 2005, they have bloomed to a staggering 200% sales increase just in the past 6 months. It has opened 4 new production facilities across the country, 2 of those facilities in Halifax and Winnipeg opened this past summer. They anticipate the opening of 3 new locations within the year. Bloomex had also launched a Flowers Wholesale division, which enables the general public to purchase bulk flowers for weddings, events, etc at a fraction of the regular price. Bloomex is the only Canadian wholesale florist that sells directly to consumers. Bloomex also has a wedding division of professional floral designers, arranging beautiful wedding flowers at practical prices.
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NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Jordan Trimble lined the first pitch of the bottom of the eighth over the rightfield fence to give top-seeded Louisville a 4-3 win over Notre Dame in the final game of the BIG EAST Conference Softball Championship Saturday at Melissa Cook Stadium.
Named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player minutes after the blast left the park, Trimble led the way for the Cardinals with a 2-for-4 day at the dish and scored twice as Louisville fought back from an early 3-0 deficit with four unanswered runs.
The top-seeded Cardinals matched Notre Dame's three runs in the first three innings with a trio in the next two to tie the affair at 3-3 to help force extra stanzas. Louisville (53-3) became the first team to win both the league's regular-season and tournament crowns since Notre Dame did so in 2003.
Notre Dame's Laura Winter, Amy Buntin, Kelsey Thornton and Katey Haus each were named to the all-tournament team.
The loss dropped the second-seeded Irish to 38-14 and snapped a 17-game winning streak in front of 1,065 fans, the second-largest crowd ever at Melissa Cook Stadium.
History was not on Notre Dame's side when the game went into the eighth inning. Of the 23 BIG EAST Championship title games, only four have gone into extra innings (2012, 2005, 2004 and 2003). Notre Dame has landed on the short end of three of those four contests, save for Andrea Loman's walk-off homer in the ninth inning of the 2003 title tilt against Villanova.
Notre Dame left a pair of runners in scoring position in the first but converted a tally in the second.
Kasey O'Connor singled the initial offering from Tori Collins into center and came around to score on Alexa Maldonado's single to left.
The fifth Notre Dame hit on the day came in the third when Buntin laced a sharp liner to right. Buntin was thrown out trying to leg the knock into a double.
The Irish made up for it when Haus smacked her seventh home run of the season, a two-run shot to put Notre Dame ahead, 3-0.
Taner Fowler bombed the second pitch of the fourth for a solo dinger and Trimble followed with a triple off the rightfield wall. The Cardinals cashed in on Katelyn Mann's squeeze bunt to score Trimble but Winter (27-9) and the Irish escaped with a double-play ball on a Hannah Kiyohara grounder to Jenna Simon at second.
Trailing 3-2, the Cardinals mounted a two-out rally in the fifth. Katie Keller singled over the head of Chloe Saganowich at shortstop and Alicja Wolny drew a walk to put two on base for Fowler, who singled to left to bring home Keller which tied the game at 3-3. Trimble flied out to center to end the inning.
Thornton was walked to start the seventh. Buntin moved Thornton to second with a sacrifice bunt and was joined on the pond when Miller reached first after four balls.
Thornton was tagged out heading to third on Emilee Koerner's infield grounder to bring up Haus with two away. Louisville inserted Chelsea Leonard (10-1) into the circle and the righty got Haus to groundout to short.
Winter retired the first two Cardinal batters in the seventh and knocked Wolny on the arm to put a Cardinal runner on base. Fowler flied out to left to push the game into extra innings.
Simon roped a two-out single into left in the top half of the eighth and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Maldonado grounded out to second for the third out.
Trimble's home run was the 10th hit on the day for Louisville. Mann led all players with three hits.
Winter allowed four earned runs and fanned a pair in her first loss since April 15.
Leonard needed a mere 1.1 innings to earn the win and allowed one hit.
Collins was tagged for eight hits and two earned runs in the first 4.0 frames with Caralisa Connell adding 2.2 frames of one-hit relief.
Haus and Kasey O'Connor paced Notre Dame with two hits apiece.
Notre Dame awaits its NCAA Tournament destiny with Sunday's selection televised on ESPNU. The field for the road to the Women's College World Series will be announced at 10 p.m. (ET).


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Turning Drumming into Physical exercise: All About POUND Fitness
Do you discover your common physical exercise class dull? Perfectly, if that is the situation
Do you discover your common physical exercise class dull? Perfectly, if that is the situation the most recent trend in physical exercise could be right up your road. Pound physical fitness is the most recent physical exercise trend getting the entire world by storm. In this short article I am heading to inform you all about it as properly as what can make it so common.
Do you discover your common physical exercise class dull? Perfectly, if that is the situation the most recent trend in physical exercise could be right up your road. Pound physical fitness is the most recent physical exercise trend getting the entire world by storm. In this short article I am heading to inform you all about it as properly as what can make it so common.
What is a Pound Class?
Have you at any time pretended to be a rockstar? Possibly banging out some rhythms on imaginary drums with a pair of bread sticks? Okay, so visualize you can do that as a kind of physical exercise! If that appears like the best concept at any time established for you, then it is time to hit a POUND class!
Pound is a physical fitness class which is inspired by drumming. It makes use of two evenly weighted drumsticks which are particularly designed for physical exercise identified as Ripstix.
The exercise session will leave you feeling the melt away throughout your total system. Combining cardio, power education and conditioning it is engineered to give you a significant depth exercise session. But as the premise of the class is to focus on rhythm and tunes and not imagine about counting physical exercise reps or exercise session time.
Due to the fact this session focuses on musicality, it can make you really feel at a person with the beat. Obtaining missing in the tunes and staying equipped to rock out with your ripstix is a person of the matters that make this class so addictive for quite a few persons who test it.
From commencing to conclude a pound class is fast paced and will easily make you eliminate observe of time in the best way possible. You will discover a thirty moment session flies by tremendous speedy and the consistent intense times leave you no time to get bored. There is no keeping poses or slow and continual actions every little thing is fun and fast.
You will working experience a complete system exercise session. With your ripstix operating your upper system and maximising each and every arm motion and performing most of the session in a squatted position will leave your lower system severely pushed to its restrictions.
The best portion is, even though it will perform your total system, you will not really feel overly fatigued at any place. If just about anything, the loud pumping beats will leave you energised. Even better focusing on drumming will assist ease the problems and woes for a brief time aiding to reduce your worry levels.
Courses last typically thirty-forty five minutes and will go by means of a warm up, exercise session and interesting down. Classes are out there for all potential levels and excellent instructors will provide choices on their actions to make them simpler or more challenging to suit absolutely everyone in the class.
How Was Pound Developed?
Pound physical fitness is the brainchild of two previous drummers Kirsten Potenza and Cristina Peerenboom. They took the fun of drumming and their appreciate of physical fitness and combined it to make this extremely common exercise session.
The two previous athletes were being normally heavily into operating out and employed standard types of physical exercise to hold themselves in condition. However, soon after a drumming session without a stool, squatting in excess of the kit gave them the concept on how to convey fun again to physical fitness.
This inspiration was all it took to develop Pound physical fitness. What begun as a person small class is now practiced in in excess of 35 nations around the world and has created up a workforce of in excess of 7000 instructors.
What are Ripstix?
Ripstix are a piece of exercise equipment particularly engineered to aid you during a pound session. Due to the fact these evenly weighted drumsticks include bodyweight to each and every motion they knock your system off balance, creating you perform more challenging particularly your core.
They also give a small sum resistance which is efficient for the total system but particularly excellent for your arms and shoulders.
What are the Positive aspects of Pound Fitness?
The selection a person gain of Pound is probably how considerably fun it is. This satisfaction issue is what will get you hooked and hold you heading again to periods 7 days in and 7 days out. Typically persons discover it tough to remain enthusiastic and stick to physical exercise classes, so having so considerably fun is absolutely a excellent issue.
Also pound will leave you feeling a significant melt away. With a class burning in excess of 900 calories for each session it will leave you perspiring!
There are a selection of other benefits pound has to provide like advancements of:
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So if pounding out your worry with a pair of neon drumsticks appears like the best possible way to exercise session, why not test a POUND session ASAP.


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Archive for May 2011
New IFSB chief faces challenging task
Points of Essence
- The change of leadership at the Islamic Financial Services Board has set yet another challenge for the new chief to spearhead a greater inclusion of the global financial community in the sphere of Islamic finance
- While his predecessor has successfully put in place the institutional workings of the IFSB, the new chief will need to command a greater authority and respect to bring Islamic finance in parallel with the global financial system.
By MUSHTAK PARKER | ARAB NEWS
Published: May 8, 2011 19:39 Updated: May 8, 2011 19:39
Jaseem Ahmed officially took over at the beginning of this month as the new secretary general of the Kuala Lumpur-based Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB), the prudential and supervisory standard-setting organization for the global Islamic financial industry. He succeeds a prominent predecessor, Professor Rifaat Abdel Karim, who has been at the helm of the board for the last 8 years since it started operations in March 2003.
End of journey for Rifaat at the IFSB
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- There has been a shift of stewardship at the Islamic Financial Services Board since April this year.
- An interview with the IFSB's former Secretary General, Prof. Rifaat Abdel Karim, will shed some lights into the pioneering efforts behind the establishment of the IFSB and the challenges it faced to emerge a global Islamic financial authority.
By MUSHTAK PARKER | ARAB NEWS
Published: May 8, 2011 19:39 Updated: May 8, 2011 19:39
Professor Rifaat Abdel Karim is the inaugural secretary general of the Kuala Lumpur-based Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB), the multilateral prudential and supervisory standard setting organization for the global Islamic financial services industry. He was appointed in November 2002 and the board officially started operations in March 2003. During his watch, the organization increased from its nine founding members to 195 to date, including 53 regulatory authorities and central banks from 41 jurisdictions. During that time the IFSB has also published 14 standards relating to various products governance issues. Rifaat resigned last year and his tenure came to an end in April 2011, making way for a new secretary general. In the first installment of a two-part in-depth and unique interview, Rifaat discusses with Arab News the circumstances of the establishment of the IFSB; the major role that the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the Basle Committee and the Asian Development Bank played in its early years and continues to play today; and the political battle that had to be resolved to decide where the new organization would be located.
Islamic Economics, Banking, and Finance – The Indonesia Experience: Dr. Antonio Syafii
Dear Islamic Bankers,
If you happen to be within the vicinity of the University of California, Berkeley and are interested to know the state of Islamic banking in Indonesia, just head to the university hall and meet an Indonesian scholar for the related insights. Check out the details below:
Date: May 12, 2011
Time: 12-1 p.m
Venue: International House, Home Room, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Syafii Antonio
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Dr. Muhammad Syafii Antonio is a renowned Islamic Banking expert from Indonesia, and has over 16 years of experience in the field. He holds Ph.D in Finance from University of Melbourne, obtained Masters of Economic from International Islamic University Malaysia and first degree in Islamic Law from University of Jordan and Islamic Studies Program from Al Azhar University, Cairo. He has published nine books on Islamic banking, economics, zakat and leadership. Currently, he serves as Board of Commissioner and Shariah Advisor in several Islamic financial institutions, as well as member of Indonesian Central Bank's Expert Committee on Islamic Banking and National Shariah Council.
At International House, UC Berkeley, Dr. Syafii Antonio will present an overview of Islamic Economics, Banking, and Finance and will highlight Indonesia's experience in establishing such system.
This event is free of charge and open to the public.
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Apple may abandon its plastic MacBook design in favour of aluminium, a source close to the production of the notebook case claims.
An assembly worker at a Taiwanese case manufacturer said in a forum posting that his employer has received orders from Apple to produce aluminium enclosures for new versions of its MacBook and MacBook Pro.
More fuel for the fire
Soon after the worker violated his non-disclosure agreement and posted information about the aluminium MacBooks, a promotional picture surfaced on the web showing the possible redesigns.
First published by MacRumors, the image shows aluminium MacBook and MacBook Pros featuring what looks like a substantially altered design.
Since the site first published the pictures, it has denied any claim that they are real and said that the legitimacy of the designs can be put into question considering how similar they look to current versions.
Apple has yet to comment on the leak, but look for much more on this as we get closer to the Worldwide Developer's Conference this summer, where Steve Jobs is expected to announce updates to the company's current product line.


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Well it's been interesting transferring drawings to readymade objects to say the least. But so far so good with the exception of a few accidents which kept delaying the project. There is nothing like nearing completion only to see it fall apart in your hands ha ha
This sculpture was made for the 'Woof Woof' exhibit at Gallery Yampu, Port Adelaide for the annual SALA festival. Opens August 9th and I hope to see you there!


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Waste and Resource Center Guide - Greater Seattle Area
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Hello, friends! I've put together the guide (link below) to waste and resource centers around the greater Seattle area. This includes recycling facilities, wastewater treatment sites, composting centers, landfills, and our local watershed! If I've missed any that should be added to the list, please leave a comment below. Most of these centers offer tours, but for private tours they request groups of 10 or more. If you're interested in touring a facility as a group, please email at email@example.com CLICK HERE TO OPEN GUIDE Thank you! Elise
5 Low-Cost Tips for a Low-Waste Kitchen
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You don't need fancy stuff to start a sustainable lifestyle – in fact, that's missing the whole point! Anyone can take small actions to live a greener existence. I find it's easier to start with one room and pinpoint ways you can reduce waste. Here are 5 easy tips for a more sustainable kitchen that are low-cost and time-friendly! 1. Cut up fabric instead of paper towelsYou can cut up an old bed sheet or towel for kitchen rags/ reusable napkins. Store them in a drawer in the kitchen and use as necessary. For the dirty ones, you can...
8 Commitments in 2019
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2018 has been an incredible and difficult year all rolled into one, and I'm grateful to be alive and healthy heading into the beginning of 2019. This year was all about learning, failing, experimenting, testing, and finding my way as a small business owner in this world. 2018 was made up of tiny moments of vulnerability, love, uncertainty, and peace. To be able to carve out a bit of space in this world and cultivate a seed of passion is something I feel so lucky to do. For 2019, I want to continue to grow and learn. I want to connect more with our...
Zero Waste Holiday Decorations
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Hello my friends! Over the last couple of weeks I've been trying to make some zero waste holiday decorations that are easy and sustainable. I love decorating for the holidays and I put together a sustainable Thanksgiving "tablescape" (honestly I cringe at that word but it's a good describer). I was happy how it turned out given the time I had, but next year I want to do something even more Sandra Lee-esque - bigger the better! This year for the Christmas holiday, I've tried to create some of my decor with a two yard piece of holly fabric I've been...
Kindness & Self Love Advent Calendar
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Okay, I'm a little late to the game and didn't have time to make a physical advent calendar, so I made a digital one instead! This advent calendar is focused on kindness and self-love. Each week has a theme (joy, laughter, giving, cheer, love, and celebrating) and each Sunday is focused on some self love & care! Some of these may be a wee bit corny, but that's the point! Let's try to not take ourselves too seriously and put our whole heart into the daily acts. If you'd like to complete these with me, please download the link below to have...


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Swedish Back Massage Therapy for Back Pain Relaxation & Flexibility
Swedish massage is the most common and best-known type of massage in the West. If it's your first time at the spa or you don't get massage often, Swedish massage is the best place to start. Swedish massage and other types of therapeutic massage are performed by trained, licensed massage therapists.
Swedish massage is the foundation for other types of Western massage, including sports massage, deep tissue massage and aromatherapy massage.
Benefits: Pain management, Increased blood flow, Rehabilitation for muscle injuries, Increased flexibility, Reduced stress, Improved immune system
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VANCOUVER — A quick update from the morning skates.
Jason Demers did not skate and, though Todd McLellan said decisions would be made later in the day, it's a very safe bet that No. 60 won't be in the lineup.
Kent Huskins remains the likely replacement as he was off the ice while Justin Braun and a handful of the other "black aces" (hockey's term for players who practice with teams in the playoffs, but rarely get into games) were still on the ice.
So how big a challenge was it, getting back into action during the Western Conference finals after missing games for three months?
"It helps having been there before and knowing what to expect and the kind of intensity you have to gear yourself up for and bring to the table," said Huskins, who was on Anaheim's Stanley Cup winning team in 2007.
"But as far as conditioning, I've done a lot of work with the coaches to get myself as physically ready as I could for this situation," he added. "Then it's just little things like reading the play at that speed. It just takes a couple shifts to get back into things."
Other than, it was pretty much more of the same today as the Sharks prepare for tonight's Game 2.
There was some continued joking around about Joe Thornton's attempt to fight Ryan Kesler at the opening faceoff of Game 1. Devin Setoguchi was asked if he would try to fight Kesler at that point tonight. Logan Couture was asked if he'd drop the gloves with Henrik Sedin at some point. Both said that was pretty unlikely.
Kesler, by the way, made it clear he wasn't going to drop the gloves anytime soon with an "I don't fight in the playoffs" declaration.
And Canucks coach Alain Vigneault weighed in when he was asked what he thought of Thornton's invitation to fight/
"Hockey is an emotional game," Vigneault said. "I'm not going to get into every little thing that happens on the ice. It's two players that want to win.
*****Beyond that, there was much talk of the Sharks need to play a more physical game with Dan Boyle noting that the hits players absorb early in a series may not pay immediate dividends, but can slow a team down by the time it gets to a Game 6 or 7.
And here's what McLellan had to say when the subject of puck placement came up:
"This is the fourth time we've met since we played. My story really hasn't changed. Mentally we weren't very strong. We didn't give ourselves an opportunity to forecheck.
"They're a very mobile group on the back end. They have the ability to break out. You certainly make it a lot easier on them when the retrievals are in spots where they can get to them efficiently, get their eyes up and get going. In turn, that makes it tough on us because we expend a lot of energy for nothing."
*****McLellan was also asked if he watched the Boston's 6-5 victory over Tampa Bay on Tuesday night and if he'd like to see that kind of game at Rogers Arena tonight.
"Well, if we're Boston, I would be happy to see that type of game, obviously. I thought the game was exciting. There was a point where you were going to turn it off and move on to your next task, and all of a sudden Tampa was right back in it.
"I think that's the way it is, that's the way it will be. I think that's great for hockey. Nobody's ever out of it.
"Ton of energy, a lot of passion. There were a lot of fans not sitting in their seats, but standing in them. That's great for our league. At this time of the year, that's what you like to see."


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One Giant Leap: Iconic and Inspiring Space Race Inventions that Shaped Historyby Charles Pappas Lyons Press
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- 09/2019
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On July 20, 1969, Americans had their eyes and ears glued to their TVs and radios. NASA's successful moon landing left the nation in awe. This moment inspired inventors and engineers across the nation. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, we share with you 20 patents that were inspired by the space race and how they reshaped the world.
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Other patents in the book reflect the general surge in space-related inventions in that era: Dispersed space based laser weapon, Toy ray guns, Flying saucers, Propulsion systems, Lasers, The modem, Integrated circuit, and Astro Lamp (Later called the Lava Lamp).
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A new stage of the World Series of Triathlon arrives, this time the circuit reaches Gold Coast (Australia).
From Australia Fernando Alarza that takes the exit with the number nº2 sends us his impressions on the test, the circuit and his state of form.
"We reached the Gold Coast (Australia) second race of the World Series of this 2017.
This time Gold Coast will be a different race to those we have been seeing here in recent years, change of circuit and sprint distance.
Regarding the circuit, one lap swimming, 4 laps on bike and 2 laps running.
Swimming is done from pontoon outlet, you must be attentive to the currents both the day before and the day of the test to choose the best position in the pontoon outlet. After swimming we face a completely flat bike without being too technical. The difficulty of this circuit, as is usual, will be marked by the twists and steady starts as well as the wind that is making these last days in the area.
After the bike a completely flat foot race in which you can run very fast; but everything will depend on the wind at the time of the race.
I think in general it's going to be a fast triathlon where the wind can be a protagonist at certain times, so from the start we will have to be well positioned in the race.
After what happened in Abu Dhabi, I have taken a lot of confidence in my foot race, I think I can run very fast here; but to run fast and to be able to compete the race we have focused on improving swimming during these weeks and I think we have taken one more point to be able to leave well positioned in this sector.
The last weeks of training have been spent at home. Weeks in which we have focused on improving swimming, being even more consistent running and being able to be faster and faster. Worse these weeks also has taken a fundamental role in bike training, for them we wanted to give a hard point to the trainings with several cycling races that have allowed us to learn to become even better in the squads, to know how to fight the position better and to have a pace more in bike, something that can favor us in the last sector.
I get to Gold Coast very motivated, the trainings have gone as planned and you have a pretty good state, now only wait for Saturday, everything goes as planned and try to add another good result facing the general of the Series World Cups.


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Witness Ministry
The witness ministries of the church shall give attention to developing and strengthening evangelistic efforts of sharing of personal and congregational stories of Christian experience, faith, and service; communications; Lay Servant Ministries; and other means that give expressions of witness for Jesus Christ. - ¶ 252 2.c) The Book of Discipline of the UMC
At St. Paul United Methodist Church, every member is a minister, called to do his/her best to recognize and take advantage of everyday opportunities to share his/her faith and to be an example of Christian living. The Witness Ministry of St. Paul empowers the congregation to witness in their daily lives through contagious Christianity. We also seek to reach out and invite people to attend church activities and worship at St. Paul through advertisements, social media communications, and personal invitation.
Our United Methodist heritage is rooted in a deep and profound understanding of God's grace. This incredible grace flows from God's great love for us. Did you have to memorize John 3:16 in Sunday school when you were a child? There was a good reason. This one verse summarizes the gospel: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (NIV) The ability to call to mind God's love and God's gift of Jesus Christ is a rich resource for theology and faith." - (http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/our-wesleyan-heritage)
For John Wesley, there was no religion but social religion, no holiness but social holiness. In other words, faith always includes a social dimension. One cannot be a solitary Christian. As we grow in faith through our participation in the church community, we are also nourished and equipped for mission and service to the world. - (http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/our-wesleyan-heritage)
"From Wesley's time to the present, Methodism has sought to be both a nurturing community and a servant community. Members of Methodist Societies and class meetings met for personal nurture through giving to the poor, visiting the imprisoned, and working for justice and peace in the community. They sought not only to receive the fullness of God's grace for themselves; but...they saw themselves as existing 'to reform the nation...and to spread scriptural holiness over the land.'" - (http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/our-wesleyan-heritage - Excerpted from "Who Are We? Doctrine, Ministry, and the Mission of The United Methodist Church, Revised Leader's Guide," Kenneth L. Carder (Cokesbury, 2001), p. 46. Used by permission.)
As disciples of Jesus Christ, our witness is an integrated part of everything we do and say. It is the prayer of the St. Paul Witness Ministry Team that we can all make witness a part of our worship, our service, and our lives.


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Davina of the Dead
Or, "Day Twenty-Eight in the Big Brother House…"
Or, "Diary Room of the Dead."
Charlie Brooker's zombie TV show Dead Set is billed as a drama, which puzzled me when I heard the concept, especially given Brooker's track record as a humorist. It's basically a British zombie apocalypse movie centred around the reality TV show Big Brother, and I worried that it followed too soon on the heels of SHAUN OF THE DEAD to succeed as a comedy, while having an in-built satiric point that would prevent it from functioning as serious horror. If the besieged humans are in the Big Brother house, then the slavering hordes outside must be us, the viewing public, right?
I was also somewhat wary of using Big Brother at all, for any reason. I regard reality TV much as the butler in SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS regards poverty: "It is to be avoided, even for purposes of research. it is to be shunned." Even by talking about Brooker's show about Big Brother I feel uncomfortably close to providing the oxygen of publicity to something that should really by locked in a vault and allowed to quietly asphyxiate in the dark.
This, after all, is a show that began life in Holland with a first run that drove the least popular contestant to suicide. For future series, a psychiatrist was employed to prevent anyone suffering fatal emotional damage — anything less than fatal being not only OK but essential to retaining viewing figures. This touching faith in psychiatry was somewhat dented when contestant Shahbaz Chauhdry suffered an emotional meltdown live on air, proving to be exactly the kind of vulnerable character the show had pledged to avoid exploiting. In reality, anyone volunteering to appear should be regarded with some clinical suspicion.
(I met Shahbaz at a party in Glasgow, years ago. And was snogged by him. He was going around kissing all the straight-looking men. I guess I qualify as straight-looking, by virtue of my sartorial incompetence. His fun-loving full-on attitude masked insecurity and and a need to provoke those around him, which the BB headshrinkers were no more able to spot than I was.)
Brooker has a long history with BB, having reviewed it extensively in his other job as TV critic. He's obviously fascinated by it, repelled and attracted in equal measure. And when you gaze into the abyss of reality television…
(Can't embed it, but you can follow the link.)
But the show is good. It is funny, and it is effective as drama. I'm rarely scared by zombie films, although Romero has successfully pulled the odd "Boo!" on me. But I find them compelling as tales of survival (or its opposite) and as visceral meditations on decay and dismemberment and all the ills that flesh is heir to. Brooker's zombiethon does all this, and avoids too many comparisons to SHAUN by going with the oft-disparaged fast-moving zombies of the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, and 28 DAYS LATER and its sequel. One sequence, a prolonged chase in which the undead pursuer shows no signs of ever being likely to tire, actually makes this conceit interesting for the first time.
We also get a wheelchair zombie, which I believe to be first. And a vivid demonstration of the fact that many disabled toilets are way too narrow for wheelchair users, alive or dead, to actually use.
Visual style, courtesy of director Yann Demange (can this be a real person?) is dark and very shaky, with occasional moments of more classical framing. While this looked likely to be distracting/annoying at first, it turned out to be easy to get used to, and basically worked for the show. A few moments devolved into incoherence, and this look is never going to be my favourite visual style, but it was well enough done. The half-hour episodes feel a little short to allow us to get into the story, but I'm looking forward to the feature-length episode next week. Not sure if it's a compendium or a standalone or what, but I reckon it should work better.
Stop press — have now watched the compendium episode, which ran the whole series together and actually worked better than the episodic approach. The apocalyptic ending is probably the most blood-soaked drama ever made for TV, and outside of BRAIN DEAD one of the goriest things of any kind ever. And where Peter Jackson's antipodean splatterthon gaily splashed on the crimson, this show ventures further into the abject with dark, grimy and squalid zombies that you can practical smell through the screen. The show more than justifies its billing as drama by moving outwith the comedy comfort zone of even the most hardened Mansonite, into a vaguely depressing, nihilistic Nookie Hut of despair.
The cast of fleshbags dangled before the snapping jaws of the unwashed provokes an engaging mix of sympathy, amusement and horror. What's quite touching is how some of the housemate characters start to emerge from their jerry-built media personae and reveal actual human traits and feelings, prior to their dismemberment and consumption by the undead hordes, of course. This is not true of fictional BB producer Patrick Goad, played with gotch-gutted aplomb by Andy Nyman, whose furiously articulate hatefulness marks him out as a sort of Brooker self-portrait gone very rotten, and whose belching, pissing and shitting (his attack of diarrhoea during a zombie attack by BB host Davina McCall may qualify as the most horrific moment in any zombie movie) drives home the show's Albigensian horror at our physical being.
Davina, playing herself along with various former housemates (including Brooker's unlikely chum Aisleyne Horgan Wallace), makes an effective man-eater. Davina, who may for all I know be a charming person in real life, always struck me as a weirdly aggressive and mean personality as presenter, so I tend to avoid her. The addition of zombie contact lenses does nothing to soften her mad staring eyes.
The rest of the performances are convincing and even affecting, with Ray Winstone's female mini-me Jaime very strong in the lead, the actor Kevin Eldon making good use of the queasy alarm he displayed in Chris Morris' seminal series Jam, and everybody else generally putting DIARY OF THE DEAD to shame as far as horreur-verité goes.
What's grimly effective about the show is how it plays to our contempt for the braying masses who uncritically eat up reality TV (it may play differently to those masses, I don't know) but then carries the joke too far, so that laughter not only dies in the throat, but resurrects to go on a decomposing rampage.
Big Brother is watching you…you…you…
17 Responses to "Davina of the Dead"
Is it me, or does Davina look a little bit like Mrs. Thatch?
I absolutely agree — a surprisingly straight zombie apocalypse story, with none of the satire that I was expecting. In retrospect, that was probably a good thing, as everyone probably thought of all the satirical points that could be made from a big-brother-meets-dawn-of-the-dead yarn as soon as they heard about it.
It didn't do anything particularly new with the genre, but it did it all much more effectively than anything I've seen for a while.
I detest reality tv with every fiber of my being. It is a cancer that will destroy all(very few) remaining vestiges of humanity.
I gotta say, David, you never cease to amaze me. You're pretty much all over the map when it comes to source material for your blog, but in your case that's definitely a good thing, because more often than not it works. Seeing that frame of Davina's face at the beginning of this entry definitely got my attention. My feelings re. reality tv aren't quite as strident as Arthur S.'s, but for me life's too short, you have to pick and choose, so I choose not to be bothered. Since I reside here on the other side of the pond I don't have access to Dead Set, and your YouTube clip is "no longer available". When you mentioned the accelerated pacing of the zombie's actions I thought of how diametrically opposite they were to those of White Zombie or I Walked with a Zombie. And all that gore you speak of, unless I saw it and could judge for myself, it's either gratuitous or appropriate in context, I may never know which. This whole thing having to do with bodily functions does sound like something humorous, but apparently as you've related it comes across as anything but. This is unrelated, but I've been revisiting HBO's Deadwood these past couple weeks. If you haven't seen it, I'm wondering as to what your take on it might be. I've mentioned before how Ian McShane is a central player as brothel owner Al Swearengen. In the second season Al comes down with a case of the gleets, which I believe is the more archaic term for kidney stones. The Doc, played by Brad Dourif, has to go in with a catheter and try to fish them out. All this comes after Al has fallen from a balcony into the mud of the street below. The writing of this show is very rewarding, echoes of Shakespeare and Dickens abound. I just acquired the first two seasons in trade, so I'm a happy camper. Swearengen is just that, a "swear engine", an incredible amount of profanity issues from the mouths of most all parties involved. This is not your mother's or your father's Lovejoy.
not enough people refer to him as 'the actor kevin eldon'. though really, too few refer to him at all.
I was very pleasantly surprised by Dead Set, though I love Charlie Brooker's ScreenWipe series so I should have guessed that it would be good. I also agree about the pleasantly large amount of gore at the end – seeming to be remaking the 'choke on 'em!' ending of Day Of The Dead!
I'm not a big fan of running zombies – somehow to me it just seems more plausible (!) that if dead and decomposing bodies were brought back to life you'd be shambling around like a confused old person rather than sprinting like an elite athlete!
I agree with Diarmid – Dead Set didn't exactly do anything new with the genre, and didn't really push its satirical targets beyond the basic premise (though I liked the nod to Dawn Of The Dead in the shopping mall at the end!), but it is certainly one of the most effective of recent zombie films.
Of course I don't apply this to 28 Days/Weeks Later due to the stealthy subsitution of 'infection' for 'reanimation' to get around the problem, but I have found this my main stumbling block to all the zombie films that have followed (and if I'm being uncharitable they use fast zombies to get around the problem of having to show the ghouls in full make up and detailed gore scenes, instead reducing everything to a fast blur of movement and a brief scream from the victim!)
I liked Kevin Eldon too (though I hope likening him to Golum isn't going to stick too much in people's mind and affect future roles he'll be offered!) – it reminded me a little again of 28 Days Later: the opening scene in the animal testing lab in which one of Armando Ianucci's comedy partners from his Friday Night Armistice show, David Schneider, appears as one of the well meaning but ill-fated animal lovers! Perhaps it didn't affect most people in the same way (particularly outside of the UK) but his appearance almost threw me out of Danny Boyle's film as I began to expect a dark comedy instead of a straight horror!
I think Kevin Eldon is much better used in Dead Set because most of the satire is ever present in the Big Brother house location anyway, so the addition of a well known comedy player doesn't really detract from the show, and in a way adds to the satire, since he's playing the 'loser' character and was the only recognisable face in the cast of housemates!
I'm not sure about Davina as an actress since it was not as if Dead Set gave her that much to do to prove her thespian skills – present the Big Brother show as you normally would; briefly make a 'wanker' gesture to your assistant while speaking to the slimy producer (that must have been cathartic!); have your throat ripped out, and then spend the rest of the time banging on a door and growling!
She did it with gusto though and there's obviously no ill will felt towards Mr Brooker for the mention of Davina's adverts for hair care products in his annoying adverts feature! ( http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ik7bDGQ4uO8 )
"Is Davina's mum in the room or in her head?" "The last time I heard someone talking to their mother like that it was Norman Bates"
Since in ScreenWipe Brooker had done a reality television segment featuring one of the Big Brother contestants, Aisleyne, and since he shows a reunion of a number of real contestants from the series including her in the green room early in Dead Set, I was hoping that she would turn up near the end as an ass-kicking Milla Jovovich type character! Sadly I think the satiric potential of her and the other real Big Brother contestants (as well as Davina) wasn't really fully exploited, though that might be down to Dead Set being created in conjunction with the company that makes BB.
In the end the hostility seemed to be equally shared out between the zombie hoards of the general public who watch the show religiously, the almost equally braindead characters inside the house (one of the great things about the series was that it suggested that the only difference between the two groups really was that at least the zombies could work together for a common goal!) and the horrible producer exploiting the idiocy of both parties to stay on top of the ratings. Like Big Brother, it seemed that Dead Set liked to have its cake and eat it too, rather than fully condemn any one party in a satiric way.
The only major issue I'd have with the series was the one you allude to by talking about how well it worked in its omnibus form. Having seen the nightly version I was left with a strange feeling that some of the scenes were rushed to fit everything in while other scenes felt like padding. I'd have liked to see more of the search of the farmhouse and time spent in the Big Brother house to get to know and feel at home in those locations – ironically something the real Big Brother series manages through simply having hours and hours of tedious live footage of the compound – before the characters make their fateful decisions to leave their security, or before their isolated idyll is invaded by the undead. This was something that the original Dawn Of The Dead managed to do beautifully, and Night and Day for that matter, and something that I don't think a zombie film has captured to the same extent since.
On the other hand why did we need all that comic stuff in the green room with the two characters trapped by Davina and having to defecate into buckets? It felt as if that particular thread of the action was artificially held up until it worked for the show for them to actually tackle Davina and escape that location.
However I thought the final episode did the whole 'slide into anarchy' finale of zombie films brilliantly. It even created a good reason for Eldon's Joplin to have let the vile producer Patrick go: because all the other housemates were bitchy scumbags. If the only people left alive in a zombified world is a bunch of Big Brother contestants, who treat you with disdain, wouldn't it be better to open the gates and kill 'em all? (At least that was the message I was getting from the ending of the programme – they all deserve to die – even if Joplin doesn't really intend for that and just panics, letting all the zombies in) I think that also plays in to the actions of our heroine at the end of the show – stay trapped safe but alone in a tiny room, lamenting the loss of her boyfriend and starve to death, or go out in a futile fight and join the masses as an unthinking zombie?
I especially liked in the final attack the one way mirrors that vibrate with the blows of the ghouls and then the zombies smashing through them into the house, finally violating the rules of no outside contact with housemates imposed by the makers of the reality TV show – "the audience is coming to get YOU!"
Just found out that the Pippa, the evicted Scottish housemate who gets stuck in the green room with the vile producer and says things like "I don't like it" "You can't do that in here!" and "You killed Davina!" after the undead hostess is destroyed, is played by Kathleen McDermott, who played Samantha Morton's friend in Morvern Callar!
"the actor Kevin Eldon". Lovely. Someone else watched This Morning With Richard Not Judy and Fist of Fun as well (Mr Tony Blairs, the Curious Orange, moon on a stick …).
Arthur S is right about Deadwood. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this magnificent drama.
Heard something interesting today on National Public Radio, today the day before the election. Both Obama and McCain cite HBO's The Wire as their favorite TV show. My take on these extended cable series is this: One, it's a lot like reading some sprawling saga of a novel (not that I read many of those), and Two, I find them to be just as satisfying if not more so than a great many films I've seen in my time. There's quantity and there's quality, and sometimes there's both in combination. I've never subscribed to Premium Cable, everything I've watched is on DVD. I no longer have television. I HAVE a television, but I refuse to pay for cable of any sort. Too much for too little. Two of the actors on The Wire, two of their main players, were Brits portraying Americans. I didn't discover this until I heard them speak off the set in interviews. The creators made a deliberate decision to use East Coast and British actors as opposed to hiring anyone from Hollywood/The West Coast. I thought that was pretty cool.
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Yes, it seemed as if 28 Days Later was a film that succeeded despite rather than because of its creators (see also the three or four alternate endings!), as if the public were in desperate need of a bleak drama of fantastical devastation to death with a world beginning its 'War on Terror'. An example of the times choosing, and elevating, a film rather than the film actively making an effort to hit a cultural nerve through its own research. It seems obvious that the celebrated opening sequence is a remake/rip off of the novel of The Day of the Triffids, rather than any response to modern terrorism etc, seemingly made innovative by the way it had not been properly portrayed before.
My big criticism of Dead Set is that it similarly didn't do anything innovative with its location beyond the early Big Brother gags (zombies watching the housemates on TV! How droll!) – I'd have hoped something more could have been added to the situation than I as a viewer already brought to it with my own sense of the ironic and gags about being trapped in the BB house during a national emergency that I'd built up over the years watching the show itself! And I'm sure I'm not the only person who had to think up different scenarios to fill the hours of tedious bitching that the show presented as entertainment, even before I swore off watching the last three series for the sake of my sanity!
So I enjoyed the show much more for the way it 'preached to the converted' and played out all those gags rather for anything novel or shocking it did with the premise.
"I always feel that Les Enfants du Paradis achieves something unusual, in that you can feel nostalgic for the first half while still watching and enjoyong the second."
That is also similar to the way I feel about Dawn Of The Dead – I feel similarly nostalgic for the shopping centre that our heroes went to great lengths to seize, and end up siding with them and hating the bikers for doing what basically amounts to the same thing just in a less classy manner(!)
However I also consciously realise that the shopping mall itself was an illusion of a society now gone and needed to be abandoned, as well as enjoying the glorious chaos of the final sequence! That dichotomy is what makes Dawn stand out as a great film for me.
I agree on Return Of The Living Dead being a great zombie film – I especially like the escalation of the whole situation and the admirable focus more on the older guys trying to dispose of the evidence that the zombie-fodder teens!


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I think of my parents often. My father passed in 2012 and my mother recently passed in 2015. I would give anything to have them back. That would be selfish to say, as it would have meant them suffering and not living a full life. I know they are in heaven smiling down.
With the experience of caring for my parents, I was able to secure a job as a direct support professional. I was later offered a job as a case manager and excelled to become a team leader. Gradually I was promoted to being a care coordinator and from then on, I just knew this was meant for me.
This is my calling; this is my life's purpose. I went on to experience greater things in this field of Human Services. To care and help individuals and families find support and services needed to navigate the system to meet their needs, is such an honor and rewarding experience to be involved in.
I look back, and a decade has passed since I started and it is now 2017. I would love to thank my parents for giving me the opportunity to have the experience of caring for them and go on to do something great with helping others find care and support in the community.
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09 May 2019 | News
Sandoz is the first multinational pharmaceutical company to receive such an approval under the recently introduced QCE system
Sandoz has announced that it has received regulatory approval from China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its generic Rosuvastatin, under the NMPA's Quality Consistency Evaluation (QCE) system.
Sandoz is the first multinational pharmaceutical company to receive such an approval under the recently introduced QCE system, which aims to ensure that all generic medicines marketed (or manufactured) in China meet internationally recognized quality standards.
The QCE regulations are part of a wide-ranging package of healthcare system reforms introduced by the Chinese government over the past few years, which also offer the potential to accelerate national generic registration timelines significantly.
Francesco Balestrieri, ad interim CEO, Sandoz said, "This first-of-a-kind generic approval for a multinational company demonstrates our strategic focus on pioneering access to high-quality medicines in China, which is the world's largest generics market and offers enormous future potential to address unmet needs, particularly in the area of chronic diseases."
He added, "Specifically, this regulatory milestone helps to pave the way for Sandoz to compete in future generic tenders in China, as the evolving tender system increasingly moves to favor QCE-approved molecules. We see great potential to grow long-term in China and have the commitment and capabilities to succeed, including programs to conduct R&D and clinical development in China, specifically for the Chinese market."
Sandoz aims to continue submitting new generics applications in China, with a particular focus on areas of greatest unmet need, with the goal of further expanding access to its existing global portfolio of high-quality generic and biosimilar medicines.
Rosuvastatin belongs to a group of medicines known as statins, which reduce the risk of heart disease and help prevent strokes and heart attacks.


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Blue Springs, Missouri – May 30, 2016 – Forget stock markets and mutual funds, as investment in real estate is the real thing investors prefer today. With the assistance of property management firms, renting out properties is the best means by which landlords earn handsome income as like investors. Premier Real Estate Management, a leading property management and real estate firm reveals the specifics.
"At Premier Real Estate Management Inc., we know your property is a valuable investment and it is our business to maximize its ROI through professional property management," says a spokesperson, "As a property investor, you have defined a set of goals for your investment property. We recognize that no standard package of investment property management services will fit those defined goals, so we offer a customized approach to professional property management tailored to your income or investment property."
The company is a pioneer in property management service, having had years of experience in managing several real estate properties for clients. Their experienced property managers have successfully managed and secured properties through regular maintenance and repairs, periodical inspection of properties, conducting background checks on prospective clients and minimizing vacancy rates on properties.
Besides property maintenance, the firm also implements proven marketing and advertising strategies which are tailored to take aim at a target market that attracts the best qualified tenants possible. Rental income is then maximized through market-appropriate rates and efficient maintenance which utilizes only high quality tradespeople to ensure that their clients' investments are maintained to the highest standard.
"Our experienced property managers aim to build strong, long-term relationships with you to make investing easy and enjoyable. They are easily contacted and enjoy sharing their great depth of knowledge to provide peace of mind as well as adding value to your significant investment," claimed the spokesperson. He also reassured the transparency of their services, which includes absence of hidden charges and simplicity of statements furnished.
Apart from their acclaimed property management service, the firm also assists people in buying and selling of properties. Their full service real estate brokerage offers a range of services to assist clients discover a property of their dreams or sell them for a fair price.
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ir834bICMS4
About Premier Real Estate Management, Inc.:
Premier Real Estate Management Inc. is a leader in property management and real estate service. Their experienced property managers offer comprehensive assistance in maximizing ROI on investment properties.
Visit http://propertymanagerskc.com/
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Marigold Ashford Poncho in Brushed Fleece
*This item is FINAL SALE
Introducing our Ashford Poncho in Marigold Brushed Fleece. Throw on over your shoulders and zip for an easy, warm, and chic look this fall and winter. Made out of a beautiful, soft marigold sherpa fleece that is machine washable, this poncho is sure to become a wardrobe staple. Zip all the way up and fold over for an oversized collar, or keep unzipped. Made with pockets for extreme ease of wear. Our signature pineapple embroidery at the top center back.


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analytics, blackboard, gamification, hackboard, leaderboard, LTI, REST
An 2.0 version of this tools is available in a newer post.
Gamification: "the use of game mechanics and experience design to digitally engage and motivate people to achieve their goals" (Burke, 2014).
Problem domain:
While STEM industry is growing as much as 28% since year 2000, compared to 6% in other industries, and 230,246 STEM jobs were created in 2014-2015, skilled workers are not available. Universities produced only 30,835 graduates from 2014-2015. The attrition rate in STEM education is significant. 48% of bachelor's candidates and 69% of associate's candidates left STEM majors. There are many reasons, but some are associated with myths college faculty hold on to about teaching and learning. Shedding light on those myths and disseminating the science behind Scholarship of Teaching and Learning may help address the problem.
Technical elements:
- Responsive design adopted to resize the graphs as the screen size changes
- Encryption provided by no cost Let's Encrypt SSL certificate: https://letsencrypt.org/
- User data is never stored on the server side
- Privacy is ensured by generating random student names
- Accessibility ensured by text representation of graphical elements updated in real-time
- Game changer app: De-emphasize the meritocratic view of failure in education introduced by Napoleon (merit is rewarded; failure means your own doing; everyone can be successful; nobody else to blame for failure, but yourself). Instead, the Greeks had a more balanced view of failure to stress that bad things happen to good people. Life can be tragic and learning, catharsis, and empathy may be more important than success. Schools are focused too much on meritocracy and Big Data is taking us into dark places for learning.
This LTI and REST application will allow instructors to create a web link to display their class in gamefully designed tools. A progress graph, or leaderboard, will show all students and their current progress in course points. This data is mined in real-time from the Blackboard Grade Center through REST API. When students view the graph all names are randomized with the exception of their own. The embedded tools allow for deeper analysis of the data and simulations.
The updated version of the software and instructions are available here:
ORIGINAL ARTICLE for the 2017 Hackathon:
Version 1 of the Blackboard software:
Installation instructions for Blackboard Administrators
- Ensure your Blackboard Learn system has REST API enabled.
- Navigate to SysAdmin -> REST API Integrations
- Create Integration with Application ID:
- Create or select an existing user with access to all course gradebooks.
- Navigate to SysAdmin -> Building Blocks -> LTI Tool Providers
- Select Register Provider Domain
- Provider Domain: apps.dataii.com
- Generate a Tool Provider Key and Secret: generate LTI information
Directions for Instructors
- Navigate to your course
- Select Build Content -> Web Link
- Name:
- URL: https://apps.dataii.com/bb/coursegames/?analysis=true
- Make sure to select "This link is to a Tool Provider." This will only work after the above steps are completed by the Blackboard Administrator.
Instructors can display the current progress without the analysis buttons by removing "?analysis=true" from the URL in step 4: https://apps.dataii.com/bb/coursegames/
For The Nerds
Always read the footnotes and the research behind the solution.
An LTI Tool Provider is a 3rd party tool that implements the LTI protocol. LTI provides the seamless integration of externally hosted web-based Learning Tools. If the LTI Tool Provider is already configured, links can be created to the available Tool Providers. If you have been in contact with the Tool Provider directly, a key, secret, or a block of configuration XML may have been supplied which can now be entered.
REST API. Representational state transfer (REST) or RESTful Web services are one way of providing interoperability between computer systems on the Internet. REST-compliant Web services allow requesting systems to access and manipulate textual representations of Web resources using a uniform and predefined set of stateless operations. Other forms of Web service exist, which expose their own arbitrary sets of operations such as WSDL and SOAP.
Burke, B. (2014, April 4). Gartner Redefines Gamification. Retrieved March 2, 2016, from http://blogs.gartner.com/brian_burke/2014/04/04/gartner-redefines-gamification/


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Prominent third-wave feminist activist and writer Jennifer Baumgardner (Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism And The Future) made a splash three years ago when she distributed a controversial t-shirt that had, writ large on the front: "I Had An Abortion," and was worn by Gloria Steinem, Ani DiFranco, and countless women's studies majors and Take Back the Night attendees. Baumgardner is making headlines again today with a new tee, one that says "raped" on it. The letters are smaller this time — it's a pale pink shirt with an illustration of a safe, and inside the safe is a note emblazoned with the words "I was raped" — but the spirit of provocation remains the same. "By having an object like this," Baumgardner explains to the New York Times, "that's so mundane, it sort of forces [rape] into everyday conversation."
Baumgardner came up with the idea for the t-shirt while interviewing women for a documentary she's making about sexual assault. She's hoping that the shirt is "empowering" for people who experience rape, because it will help "divest themselves of some of the shame and secrecy of it ." But will embracing their experience in such a sartorial way really be so cathartic? We can all agree that rape victims have nothing to be ashamed of, but most people don't feel comfortable having any aspects of their personal lives broadcast, especially not on something so crass as a t-shirt.
A friend of Baumgardner's, Christen Clifford, volunteered to wear the shirt in public and also spoke to the Times. "There really are so few spaces where it's considered appropriate to talk about [rape]," Clifford says, referencing a dinner party where rape came up and conversation just halted. Call me old fashioned, but I'm not sure rape is something anyone is ever going to feel comfortable discussing at a dinner party. Isn't there some medium between hiding away in shame over something traumatic and wearing a t-shirt announcing it?
Rape Worn Not on a Sleeve, but Right Over the Heart [New York Times]
I Was Raped: Wear Your Voice Out [Scarleteen]
Related: Rape T-Shirt Could Be Even Bigger Than Abortion T-Shirt
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics


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Google Earth's Ocean and Sea Map Feature Lets You Explore the Sea Floor, Animals, and Shiprecks
Google Earth Now Offers Deep Ocean Views
Since ancient times, man has been enticed by the great riches and secrets of the ocean. This has often compelled him to explore the deep seas to find the hidden treasures, mysterious monsters or long lost ancient cities. Wouldn't it be exciting if you had a chance to do the same? What if I said that you can do it right now without leaving the comforts of your home?
Google recently launched a feature to their famous Google Earth application that allows you to explore the ocean depths. Now you can explore the world's oceans just by clicking your mouse without having to board any type of ship. Let's have a look at the different features Google's new ocean data provides.
What Do the Google Ocean Maps Let You See?
The new deep-ocean views work in the same way as the land views provided by the popular 3-D mapping tool Google Earth. Google Ocean allows you to virtually dive into the oceans and explore every square mile of mysterious depths. Up until now you would have only heard about the under water volcanoes, mountains that are ten times the size of Everest and endless deep dark ravines, but now you can actually explore and see them with unprecedented clarity.
For those who are fascinated by the mysteries of the lost world and treasure laden ship wrecks, the ocean data allows them to plunge into the sea and explore the intriguing sites themselves. Not only that, it allows you to view the melting glaciers at the poles and track down the Mid-Ocean ridge, the 30,000 mile long mountain range, the longest in the world.
Google Ocean also allows you to thoroughly explore interesting marine life. Now you can see thousands of marine species and even keep a track of whales and sharks in their natural habitat. The ocean feature also allows you to actually follow marine animals tagged with satellite tracking devices. The blue 3D world not only inpires awe but also helps to provide awareness regarding the issues affecting marine life. Google Earth now offers hundreds of photographs and videos of unknown and endangered marine species which you might be seeing or hearing about for the first time while you view the underwater worlds.
This virtual marine world has been created with the help of some of the best scientists and oceanographers in the world.
Now those coral reefs are not unreachable anymore.
Google Ocean in the News
Google's ocean maps have become quite popular because of the distinct features it provides. This has been the reason for it being in news several times since its release in February 2009.
It's been discovered that the satellite tracking system of Google Ocean is so strong that it is able to locate even the tiniest phytoplankton which provides a major contribution to the ocean's food chain. Not only that, it has also been able to locate the sites of Algal Blooms on the ocean floor.
Recently, there was a lot of buzz about Google Earch due to the discovery of grid like pattens on the ocean floor which were spotted off the coast of northwest Africa near Canary Island, the proposed location for the lost city of Atlantis. This grid-like pattern was proposed to be the remains of the lost City of Atlantis. Some even speculated the grid pattern as sea-floor farming by aliens.
Google denied the speculations and came up with it's own scientific explanation. You can read more about it here: Lost city of Atlantis?
So want to start your exploration now? Download Google Ocean for free here - Google Ocean
Has google Ocean uncovered Atlantis by Matt McGee
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