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How To Find The Best Dog Board And Training Services
Training a dog to do what it is supposed to do is not an easy task to handle. It will call for extra skills and patience to see it fully trained. These are some of the things most people will lack whenever they choose to have a dog. This means one will need to engage a professional to train their pet. Today, most trainers have the ideal facilities where one can take the dog for boarding and training services. If this is the first time for your dog services, it is good to be keen on the service providers to settle for. This shows you must consider the following things first.
The first consideration ought to be the boarding facilities in the alleged place. In your area, there are various facilities to consider. The difference between the supposed facilities is the services offered. It is for this purpose one ought to see if their dog is going to be comfortable or not. Keep in mind that you are leaving this pet in that place for some days. It is your work to ask as many questions regarding the boarding services first. It is similarly good to visit the place to affirm it is quite excellent to accommodate your dog's needs.
Another observation is to understand the training services your dog will receive there. One of the main reasons for considering his option is to ensure the dog is well trained. It is much involving to ensure of this. Thus, make sure the place in mind is favorable for training services. This will include the right space and great items meant for training needs. The ideal place should give your dog an atmosphere to learn the expected training. If this is not real, it is good to think of other training facilities.
The other factor not to take lightly should be the person hired to train your dog. There are certain things you must look for in the expected trainer. First, get to understand the experience they have in training these pets. The second thing is to see the connection they have with other dogs. This should be realized when visiting the proposed place. It is also good to comprehend the expectations to have after getting the dog in the supposed boarding facility. The right trainer will be quick to give all these answers in advance.
There is also the importance to see the charges to pay for boarding and training services. Before considering the said boarding services, it is correct to know you can afford them. These charges may differ from different facilities and trainers. If you pick private trainers, they might ask for higher charges than the rest. But, the training and boarding services could be exceptional for your dog. It is quite imperative to compare different prices on the provided services before making other decisions.
With the discussed guidelines, it is the ideal moment to start looking for the finest dog boarding and training services now. To get prompt services, make sure to opt for local facilities.


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Augusta Chamber Of Commerce
The Augusta CCI is a member of the South West Chamber of Commerce, a powerful and effective group.
Local and state governments prefer to deal with recognised groups rather than individual businesses.
Therefore, The Augusta Chamber is your voice when dealing with state or local government agencies.
Things we can do for you
Stay Informed
Keep up with developments. The Augusta CCI keeps business owners informed of current and changing issues and trends within the community and local marketplace. Ensure you are among the first to know of any policy or legislative changes that may effect your business or community.
raise your profile
Raise your business profile in the community. As a member of the chamber of commerce, you will be listed in the chamber newsletter, e-newsletter, on Facebook and have the opportunity to be highlighted in other chamber publications. You also can grow your business by advertising with the chamber and sponsoring events.
Getting to know you. The Chamber provides many networking opportunities for local business proprietors. Connect with other businesses and discover opportunities for mutually beneficial partnerships and business-to-business commerce.
Get on board. Chamber events provide members with access to education and training in order to better manage their business. Joining a committee or participating in planning events enhances professional leadership development and provides opportunities to meet people you may not normally come across in your line of business.
Why we do it
Our aim is creating a vibrant sustainable economic future for Augusta
Reason one
To provide a visible, proactive advocate and resource for its member employers and the districts of Augusta.
Reason two
Committment to advancing our region's economic vitality and quality of life through the provision of strong leadership and through the formation of dynamic organizational and community partnerships.
Reason three
To provide quality products, programs, and services while influencing issues that enhance the economic prosperity and the sustainable development of our community.
Meet our executive
Some of the people that make it work.
"My role as President is to guide Augusta towards a positive and vibrant economic future. I'm looking forward to achieving these goals with our Chamber members and the wider community"
"Being involved in the Hospitality/ Tourism industry for the last 35 years, I would like to see businesses in Augusta embrace and grow tourism opportunities built around our natural environment."
"I am very excited to be the treasurer and membership recruitment, and therefore to play an important role, in a collection of people who are passionate about the growth and future of the businesses and community of Augusta."
"I am looking forward to learning more about Chambers of Commerce and their relationship with the community. I feel it will help me greatly in my business studies"

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We had our first big snowfall of the year this weekend here in Southern Ontario, and with that, I am so happy to be leaving in 3 short weeks. Yesterday was freezing and I am already living again in my furry hat. It won't come off until I step foot in the Toronto Airport. No wait, I will probably wear it on the plane, because I am always cold! Bring on the Sudanese Desert, I am ready to bake.
After literally one of the busiest weeks of my entire life, the time has finally come…we are officially moved out of our place.
It is Sunday evening and I am so relieved to have most of our loose ends tied up. Dave had a high school reunion on Friday and what a great way to start the holiday season catching up with old friends. It is almost too bad that we are leaving now that he has re-connected with his best childhood friend Avian. But thank God for the internet he can keep in touch all the way through Africa.
So here is a recap of the last week or so.
Things have been out of control.Between packing, moving, working, training and finishing up taxes and book keeping we didn't have a spare second to chill out. There are some great movies out there that I am itching to see before we leave!
Most of our bike parts have arrived, and with the exception of our wide tires from Schwalbe and our solar charger, everything is snuggly packed into our bike boxes. Looking great, but we have no idea how we are going to get the bikes from the bike shop to my brothers house. I don't think that those boxes will fit in the back of our car. Looks like we may be barreling down the 401 with two giant cardboard boxes strapped to the roof of our car. Can you say Chevy Chase's "Vacation?" I now understand why it is a good idea to take the driver service that The Tour d'Afrique offers in Cairo. I don't think that any taxi would be very thrilled to pick up two people with Giant boxes and backpacks in tow.
With other news, our Sudan Visa's arrived safely, and in typical Dave and Deb fashion, it didn't come easy. Yes, we sent them off nice and early, as soon as we received the accompanying letter from the Tour. But a couple of days later we received another letter from the Tour telling us to include it as well with our application. One problem, we already sent our application. No worries though, we will send it off with a letter explaining the situation. Great! All is well….until I get a call from the Sudan Embassy telling me that I sent the wrong amount of money. I managed to send the the fee for the Ethiopian Visa. It is $103 for a Sudan Visa and only $29 for the Ethiopian Visa. Not even close. They were very polite though and graciously asked me to please send a money order for Dave and myself for a total of $206, they would send my $60 cash back to me. (I sent $30 each and assumed that they would give me the$2 change) I was sure that they were going to deny my Visa application for the simple fact of just being too stupid to enter the country. Lucky for me the Visa's arrived safe and sound and the Ethiopian Visa's are already sent off.
We have now set up shop for the next couple of weeks at Greg and Jody's and we have taken over their spare bedroom with 2 backpacks, two suitcases, computer bags, carry on bags, a giant monitor and various other items that we are going to be needing for the next month. I feel more cluttered than ever and I know I am going to drive Dave crazy, but we have to downsize, fast.
In the meantime, 3 weeks left of work and Dave has started another quick 2 week movie. As much as the past couple of months have flown by, I think that December is going to crawl. It is funny, many people have asked me if I am excited or nervous or anything and all I can say is that I am tired and busy. I have work to be done, appointments to be kept, bills to pay and people to see. How do I have the time to think about a trip away when I have to make sure that my life runs smoothly while I am gone? I am looking forward to the moment when I do feel excited. Right now it doesn't even seem real that I will be in Cairo in less than 30 days!


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Ruadh's sophomore album contains six tracks of epic, Scottish Atmospheric Black Metal with Folk elements that are massive in both scope and scale, taking you through the Iron Ages in Scotland. It also explores the history and mythology of the people of Scotland, conveying both sorrow and uplifting, almost heroic tones. 'The Rock of the Clyde' is an evolution from their debut album 'Sovereign'. It has a much more melodic feel, yet has more visceral elements too.
New edition (Release date: April 24th, 2020) of 199 copies on transparent blue vinyl, incl. download.
Exclusive, limited shirt with b/w artwork. Available from Cân Bardd and Northern Silence.
Exclusive vinyl edition of Remete's fantastic first full length album, limited to 93 copies on transparent blue vinyl with gold splatter (only available one copy per customer from the Northern Silence shop and Remete while stock lasts!) and 199 copies on gold vinyl, incl. download.
Much demanded vinyl edition of Arctos' brilliant debut full length, limited to 99 copies on transparent red vinyl with black splatter (only available one copy per customer from the Northern Silence shop and Arctos while stock lasts!) and 185 copies on gold vinyl, incl. download.
"Aftermath" is the debut album of Skyforest, the Russian solo-project which rose from the ashes of Annorkoth. Originally released in 2014, it is now for the first time ever available on vinyl.
The second album from Germany's Gateway to Selfdestruction delves into the power struggle between the child and the motherly, pathologic presence of a woman suffering from mental illness, whose self-destructive behavior is expressed through child abuse, perversions and prostitution in both obvious and hidden ways. Musically, the band went from the Depressive Black Metal with atmospheric Doom influences of earlier days to a more Progressive Extreme Metal sound with extensive use of clean guitars, guitar solos, different vocal styles, clean vocals, choirs and extreme screams.
"A New Dawn" is the third album of Skyforest. It was written entirely in the first half of 2019 and takes us further into the Atmospheric (Black) Metal territory that we know from "Unity" and "Harmony". Lyrically, it is about the journey into a new chapter of one's life...
Faidra is a Swedish Atmospheric/Orthodox Black Metal solo project that formed during late summer of 2019. The music is primarily inspired by Scandinavian Black Metal of the early 90s, with Burzum being perhaps the most prominent influence. The man behind Faidra has played in different bands of various genres since the late 90's, and for Faidra chose to keep his identity undisclosed in order to let the music speak for itself.
The music on SEDER's debut album could most appropriately be described as Cascadian Black Metal, and is recommended for fans of Wolves In The Throne Room, Fauna, Skagos and similar acts.
Etoile Filante play Cosmic Black Metal. Their second album "Magnum Opus Caelestis" is highly recommended for fans of this sub genre and bands such as Midnight Odyssey, Mesarthim or Mare Cognitum.
Belore is an Epic Black Metal solo project influenced by heroic fantasy and medieval worlds. The debut album is recommended for fans of Summoning, Caladan Brood, Cân Bardd, Saor, Eldamar or Moonsorrow.
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Odoo POS Solutions – powered by openfellas
openfellas has successfully implemented POS solutions in 10 different cities and four countries (Germany, Austria, Denmark and Switzerland). The main POS market segments we have worked with so far include high-end technical solutions, food retailing and fashion stores.
All implemented POS terminals are PC-based systems and meet the legal requirements according to GoBD. In Austria, our cash register systems also meet the legal requirements of the Austrian Cash Register Security Regulation (Registrierkassensicherheitsverordnung or RKSV) and are directly connected with the Federal Ministry of Finance (Bundesministerium für Finanzen or BMF).
Although the higher costs for the initial implementation and the periodic updates of PC cash registers may initially pose an obstacle from the customer's point of view, the advantages are obvious. They add up to a clear Plus for the use of PC cash registers and their connection to the merchandise management system.
The POS systems implemented by openfellas are connected to the Odoo versions 8, 10 and 11 and are supported by barcode and handheld scanners, card readers and electronic scales, depending on customer requirements. Desktop PCs, laptops, tablets or industrial touch screens may be used as POS hardware.
The main advantage of our solutions is the seamless integration into the existing merchandise management system. This integration is complemented by an automatic transfer of cash registers and ERP data via standard interfaces, and their correct reconciliation as to time and date. The main Odoo modules linked to the POS solutions are Sales, Warehouse and Finance.
It goes without saying that customer-specific business processes or requests are also taken into account. For one of our customers we even included the transfer of on-site weather data and the control of discounts directly at the check-out via the ERP system. Key figures and statistics may be generated and analyzed either with the cash register software or in Odoo ERP.
The main challenges of a successful POS implementation are the exact definition of the data and the data record structure and the application of customer specific processes. These include CRM activities at the POS, complaint handling and stock movements that are not linked to financial processes, e.g. rejects, free product samples and decorative material. The exact and legally correct mapping of these processes is ensured by appropriate preparatory work in the design phase.


text: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post1959917473376245307..comments2020-08-06T02:27:06.363-05:00Comments on Review This Reviews!: The Rose and The Thorn (MacPherson Brides) Book ReviewSylvestermousehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post-33969755005408748162016-05-25T06:35:53.475-05:002016-05-25T06:35:53.475-05:00Ah, a book genre without all the nasties! Sounds l...Ah, a book genre without all the nasties! Sounds like a good choice, Cynthia.Treasures By Brendahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post-2502986263653797522016-05-20T12:18:48.506-05:002016-05-20T12:18:48.506-05:00LOL, Mouse. You are SO funny! Yes, HISTORY tells ...LOL, Mouse. You are SO funny! Yes, HISTORY tells us that marriages were once 'arranged'.Wednesday Elfhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post-60415790790472931512016-05-20T11:50:29.997-05:002016-05-20T11:50:29.997-05:00We have been blessed in many ways Barbara. A brie...We have been blessed in many ways Barbara. A brief look at history and we find much to be grateful for in our lives. You are quite right about the possibility of making a bad choice ourselves and suffering for it. At least it is a lot easier to walk away in today's world if need be. We aren't legally forced to stay in an abusive marriage. I look forward to hearing more about that Sylvestermousehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post-41978880685634680432016-05-20T11:45:54.269-05:002016-05-20T11:45:54.269-05:00Thank you Susan! I have almost finished the secon...Thank you Susan! I have almost finished the second book in the series. I don't like it as much as The Rose and The Thorn, but it is also a good book. Certainly better than a lot that I have read.Sylvestermousehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post-21917935521484576012016-05-20T11:43:19.256-05:002016-05-20T11:43:19.256-05:00Well, in all honestly, I have only "heard&quo...Well, in all honestly, I have only "heard" that marriages were arranged back in the 1800's myself Elf. I can't say that I actually experienced it firsthand, thankfully! (I really am rolling with laughter over here right now!)Sylvestermousehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post-90369980933221234372016-05-20T11:14:49.566-05:002016-05-20T11:14:49.566-05:00That's exactly the kind of book I like, for th...That's exactly the kind of book I like, for the same reasons. Nobody said it would be easy to live a Christian life, and Jesus certainly didn't. The book I just finished I one you'd probably like, too. WE are so fortunate to live at a time and place in history where we can choose our own husbands, yet, even so, many make choices just as bad and suffer just almost as much. BarbRadhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post-18813802038293102512016-05-20T09:34:53.832-05:002016-05-20T09:34:53.832-05:00I really like your concluding statements, Cynthia,...I really like your concluding statements, Cynthia, especially "Since Christianity is not a fairy tale, neither is the life of a Christian." Another excellent book review of what sounds like an excellent series!Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874262419752354657.post-28670637636040313362016-05-20T07:08:00.476-05:002016-05-20T07:08:00.476-05:00I've heard that marriages were 'arranged&#...I've heard that marriages were 'arranged' back in the 1800s (as some in other countries still are today). What terrible trouble and unhappiness can occur when a marriage is not based on love and one partner is abusive. Thanks for this book review of The Rose and the Thorn. I'd heard of the title, but didn't know what the story was it was about. Wednesday Elfhttps://email@example.com


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Course Funded in Memory of Jordan
Gift From Honey Jordan Fund Pays for UCR Course
(August 8, 2002)
NEWS MEDIA CONTACTName: Kris Lovekin
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Dr. Kenneth Jordan of Riverside designated more than $12,000 from the fund established in memory of his wife to pay for a course taught by Edmond Otis, a licensed psychotherapist and head of the nationally recognized martial arts program at UCR. The course focuses on the causes and dynamics of human conflict and the ways people reconcile those conflicts within their own lives.
The class is part of a yearlong series on human conflict organized by a team made up of Otis, Max Neiman, professor of political science, and Joseph Childers, associate professor of English and associate dean of the graduate division at UC Riverside. Other sections of the class focus on conflict in groups and between nations, and conflict in the arts and literature. It has been funded by a grant in previous years, but recent budget cuts put the class in jeopardy.
"Dr. Jordan's gift is generous and timely," said Childers. "Without it, we would not have been able to teach the course at all, since it was conceived as a year-long series, each quarter integral to the entire course. With Ken's gift, we hope to get our students to think critically about conflict of all sorts, and as a consequence perhaps we can participate in making a permanent contribution to Honey's memory."
Honey Jordan volunteered extensively in the community, working with the Junior League, Riverside Art Museum and Temple Beth El in Riverside. She was shot to death during a car-jacking in San Bernardino on New Year's Eve. At the time of her death she was about to take over as president of the San Bernardino County Medical Society Alliance, an affiliate of the county medical society. The Jordans had been married 31 years.
The Honey Jordan Memorial Fund is a registered charitable organization accepting tax-deductible donations. Donations can be made to The Honey Jordan Memorial Fund, Business Bank of California, P.O. Box 1530, San Bernardino, CA 92402-9923.
Long-range plans include supporting programs on conflict resolution and scholarship support for needy secondary school students. If he can raise enough money, Dr. Jordan said he would like to endow a "Center for Human Conflict" in the Inland Empire, in his wife's memory, that would try to answer the question of how to prevent human violence.
"We want Honey's fund to be a catalyst for lessening the violence in our world by improving our understanding of the causes and remedies for human conflict," Dr. Jordan said. "As a family, we find a purpose in making the world a better place than it was before Honey's death."
The University of California, Riverside offers undergraduate and graduate education to nearly 15,000 students and has a projected enrollment of 21,000 students by 2010. It is the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse campus of the preeminent ten-campus University of California system, the largest public research university system in the world. The picturesque 1,200-acre campus is located at the foot of the Box Springs Mountains near downtown Riverside in Southern California. More information about UC Riverside is available at www.ucr.edu or by calling 909-787-5185.
The University of California, Riverside (www.ucr.edu) is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world. Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment has exceeded 21,000 students. The campus opened a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of more than $1 billion.
A broadcast studio with fiber cable to the AT&T Hollywood hub is available for live or taped interviews. UCR also has ISDN for radio interviews. To learn more, call (951) UCR-NEWS.


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In making programming, there are normally steps you have to take to take care of business. These means would comprise of:
– Systems investigation: This way you need to figure out what the application you wish to make will do. This may include making a prerequisites determination. This report will contain data regarding how the product will work, the information it will utilize, and the capacities the product will perform.
– Software configuration: Now comes the fun piece of really taking the necessities determination and making the product. You will make the genuine framework or diagram, maybe, and make information structures and explicit arrangements of directions the developer will use to make the product. This is known as the structure particular.
– Programming: This is the place the software engineer (you except if you don't know programming), will take the structure detail and really run a program that you will use to type in the vital code to make the program.
– Testing: After the program is kept in touch with you should test it to ensure it works. In the event that it doesn't you need to return to discover why. On the off chance that it does, you order the code and make it as an independent application.
Yet, consider the possibility that you are not a software engineer. Would you be able to in any case make programming for your specialty market of clients? All things considered, think about something for a moment. There are ways and occasions where the product can be made by another person. Be that as it may, before you even make programming, you should know who you are focusing on. On the off chance that you don't have the foggiest idea about that, it won't benefit you in any way to make the product in any case.
When you make the product, you center around getting it out to the individuals who matter the most. You present it to your customers so they can test drive the product. On the off chance that everything is great, they will report your product works. All things considered, you will possibly need to alter the product so when it is executed, the program will play out specific errands that might be required by the organization to take. These activities will require your customer to pay for the product.
Furthermore, when I discharged my appraisal producing programming to people in general, I saw that numerous other entrepreneurs exploited the product and utilized it for their very own motivations. These reasons included creating customer leads, pre-qualify customers, gathering information during admission, utilizing self-appraisals to increase the value of their instructing programs, thus considerably more. Clients become extremely innovative, even past your very own creative mind!
Things being what they are, how might YOU create programming programs for your intended interest group?
Here are the means:
1. Encircle yourself with your intended interest group – individuals in your specialty advertise – by perusing what they read, going where they go, meeting a couple of them face to face or by telephone, visiting their message sheets, and looking over them. This can be cultivated a lot quicker in the event that you definitely know who your intended interest group is, and on the off chance that you speak to your intended interest group here and there.
2. Discover what their most serious issues and difficulties are and what programming or electronic help could make their lives multiple times simpler.
3. When you have a thought for a product program, do some examination online to see whether any other person is offering something to that effect. On the off chance that it as of now exists, how might you improve it? Extraordinary? Simpler? More affordable? In the event that it doesn't exist, approach a couple of individuals from your intended interest group (4-5 individuals) and offer your thought with them. Request legitimate criticism on whether they think it'll be valuable to them.
4. When you settle on a choice to proceed with building up your product, work out a decent depiction of what you need it to do. At that point, go to RentACoder.com and post your task. Software engineers from everywhere throughout the world will offer on it, and you'll have the option to pick the individual you need to create it for you.
This asset has been my distinct advantage for over a year now! I've paid as meager as $300 for a completely created programming, and can't suggest it exceptionally enough.
What programming might You be able to create for your intended interest group? What's absent in your industry?
Keep in mind, effortlessness is the key – commonly enormous programming organizations neglect littler apparatuses they could produce for specific gatherings of individuals, and you can undoubtedly hop in and make it!
Start thinking critically and pose yourself this inquiry: "What apparatus would make the lives of my objective customers simpler?"
Making a product program or item for individual entrepreneurs or business visionaries will enable them to expand their productivity similarly as you would for making it.


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April 13th, 2017
April 12th, 2017
I hope everyone enjoys the additional low heights of grass surrounding greens #3, #4 & #5. Just as we started to dry out from the melting snow and rains we had the previous few weeks we received 0.3" of rain last night. Fortunately, the forecast is for more dry weather most of week!
April 11th, 2017
It is a beautiful day for our opening day on the golf course! Check out our new flags and flag sticks with the prism built right into the stick for your rangefinders!! Enjoy!
April 07th, 2017
About 1.9 inches of rain fell here in Lake Winola yesterday and overnight on an already saturated golf course! This additional amount of rain is making is nearly impossible for my staff complete work on the course. Its currently snowing here! I'm looking forward to dry and warmer weather!
Covered areas vs. uncovered
the areas which were covered this winter show a lush green versus the uncovered areas show dormant grass!
Covers are off!
We removed the greens covers today and the greens look fantastic! We are also currently mowing them to remove the winter growth. Unfortunately, the golf course is saturated and not playable. Hopefully, we don't receive too much rain this week
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SAN DIEGO — For corporate success, no story in San Diego is as good as the story of Qualcomm. The company was founded in a living room and became the world's largest maker of smartphone chips, one of the area's largest employers and its chief corporate benefactor.
Qualcomm sponsors robotics classes for schoolchildren, subsidizes museum memberships for young adults and raises money for the local police. Irwin Jacobs, a co-founder of the company and its original chief executive, is a prolific philanthropist whose name is on the engineering school and the medical center of the University of California, San Diego, along with a food bank, a music center, a contemporary art museum and a playhouse.
People here are so accustomed to everything that comes with being Qualcomm's home that they're having a hard time imagining the city without that distinction. But suddenly that's the prospect they are confronting.
With its profits sagging and a growing thicket of legal and regulatory disputes, Qualcomm has gone from a lion of the cellphone industry to a plum takeover target. Last fall, Broadcom, a rival chip maker, offered to buy the company in a $105 billion deal that would be the largest technology buyout in history. After Qualcomm's board rejected the bid, Broadcom raised the price to a "last and best offer" of $121 billion, which the board also rejected.
"As a businessperson in San Diego, if you're not following this you're living in a cave," said Jason Hughes, chief executive of Hughes Marino, a commercial real estate brokerage.
Mr. Hughes is something of a microstudy in how deeply Qualcomm has embedded itself into the region. In a recent interview at his downtown office, he ticked off various leases his brokers had secured for Qualcomm, as well as the dozens of start-ups that have grown up around it — along with law firms, banks, furniture dealers and architects that all get an outsize portion of their business from the local giant. His company once handled a lease for a health equipment manufacturer that outfitted the employee gyms that dot Qualcomm's sprawling campus.
"It's almost like they're our flag," Mr. Hughes said.
And in raw economic terms, they are. With 13,000 local employees whose salaries average about $105,000, Qualcomm generates about $7.4 billion, or 3.6 percent, of the region's annual economic output, according to Kelly Cunningham, a principal with the San Diego Institute for Economic Research. For each job the company generates, San Diego gets almost two and a half more out of the indirect economic effects, according to a 2013 report from the San Diego Workforce Partnership and the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation.
Qualcomm and the Jacobs family also form the bedrock of giving to local charities and arts and educational institutions. A little over a decade ago, Mr. Hughes was brought in to rescue a children's museum and had to line up donors to help pay off its debt. "The first people I went to were Joan and Irwin Jacobs," he said, referring to Mr. Jacobs and his wife.
Economic research shows that corporate charitable contributions tend to fall off after a headquarters leaves town. And while there is no reason to think a new owner would pull out of the area altogether, Qualcomm would almost certainly see big cuts — prospectively $3 billion a year, or more than 10 percent — across the company, said Stacy Rasgon, a longtime analyst of the semiconductor industry at Sanford C. Bernstein.
Broadcom has its own California roots, but wound up based in Singapore after a takeover. (It has announced plans to become a Delaware corporation.) The company's chief executive, Hock Tan, has been a driving force behind the consolidation of the chip industry and has expanded his company through a strategy of buying rival semiconductor companies and cutting costs unrelated to their core business.
Qualcomm, by contrast, prides itself on an inventive corporate culture in which employees who've been granted patents are given special business cards with the word "inventor" in the lower right corner.
"Broadcom is not rewarding people for going out and making speculative bets," Mr. Rasgon said. "They'd rather wait and buy the winner, so these are fundamentally different cultures."
On a recent morning, as short-sleeved employees had periodic meetings in an outdoor courtyard, the security desk at Qualcomm headquarters was playing a reel of commercials promoting the company's hidden role behind the smartphone revolution. ("Invention comes first." "We make the technology that makes every smartphone awesome.")
That message is reinforced at a winding company museum that starts with exhibits on early technologies like briefcase phones and progresses to flip phones, smartphones, tablets and GoPro cameras. The displays chart how Qualcomm chips have enabled companies from Silicon Valley and elsewhere to cram ever more pictures, videos, songs and tweets into our pockets.
Qualcomm's takeover battle is coming at a sensitive time for the San Diego ego. While the city is one of America's innovation powerhouses and a hive of start-up activity and venture capital investment, it has had less success in attracting big companies — or, for that matter, keeping the growing companies it creates.
Years of corporate acquisitions have left the impression that San Diego's biotech industry is a sort of farm team for East Coast and European pharmaceutical giants. Amazon is expanding its local office but left San Diego off its list of finalists for its second headquarters. Even the city's sports teams seem to be up for grabs: Last year, the Chargers football team (whose home field was Qualcomm Stadium) moved north to Los Angeles. It was tracing the steps of the Clippers basketball team, which left San Diego for Los Angeles in 1984.
"We think of ourselves as a very innovative community that does a lot of start-ups and creates the companies of tomorrow," said Jerry Sanders, mayor of San Diego from 2005 to 2012 and now chief executive of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. "We have a pretty good idea that once they get a certain size, they may be gone."
Qualcomm was the exception. Mr. Jacobs, the original chief executive, moved to San Diego in 1966 to join the faculty of the University of California, San Diego. Two years later, he founded his first company, Linkabit, a consulting firm that did contract research to help clients like NASA solve deep-space telecommunications problems and later started designing and building circuit boards, chips and other components.
As Linkabit grew, it attracted engineers from powerhouse institutions like M.I.T. and Stanford to the San Diego area. And as the university grew, Linkabit started finding more of its engineers locally. One built off the other, and suddenly there were the embers of a telecommunications cluster that today drives a little under a quarter of San Diego's economic output, said Mr. Cunningham of the research institute.
And just as Silicon Valley's ecosystem can be traced to a chain of events that saw employees leave one company to form another, so can Qualcomm's. Linkabit engineers moved on to seed new companies in the area. Mr. Jacobs departed in 1985 and soon got together with a group of former colleagues to create a company centered on quality communications, or Qualcomm for short.
Today, dozens of large and small telecommunications companies across San Diego have Linkabit in their genealogy, and Qualcomm is by far the largest.
Despite the anxiety here, it helps to remember that industrial development is more alchemy than science. Aside from a few basic ingredients — an educated populace, a good university and a reputation as a nice place to live — economists have almost no idea why industries coalesce around some cities instead of others, at least until they have done so.
But more than any one big company, economists say, a location's greatest asset is its ability to maintain whatever dynamics keep new companies forming. And Qualcomm has helped to create a critical mass of engineers and investment that is now baked into the region.
"Cities are incubators for new ideas, but when the idea gets sufficiently mature, it moves on," said Edward Glaeser, a Harvard economist who studies cities. "The important thing is that San Diego keeps on churning out new success stories and never becomes too dependent on any one company."


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Haldane Martin is a preeminent South African designer and brand, renowned for iconic furniture and high-concept interiors for brands and businesses with signature identities that translate into extraordinary spaces.
For Haldane, a design is intuitively recognised as iconic when it marries innovation with beauty and captures the zeitgeist of the day in a timeless fashion. Seamless integration of indigenous craft, sustainability, cultural identity, biomimicry, geometry and digital design has seen the iconic Songololo sofa and Zulu Mama chair – among others – become highly sought after by design collectors and connoisseurs worldwide. The Haldane Martin brand is also growing a name as an interior design consultancy. Haldane's 20-year experience in furniture design has set him apart as an interior designer. His keen understanding of how things are built lends a higher level of innovation. His honed skills enable him to create and execute high-concept interior elements that capture and express each client's unique identity at the same time as solving complex functional design challenges. The brand's first large-scale commercial project, Truth Coffee's steampunk-inspired HQ in Buitenkant Street, Cape Town, was named "world's best coffee shop" by MSN Travel in 2013. This concept interior with its unique bespoke elements is exemplary of their ability to tap into the essence of the client's brand identity and express it through objects and space. This ability, coupled with a close working relationship with their client, has contributed to the huge cult following that Truth Coffee is currently enjoying. Haldane Martin won a Gold Loerie for the Truth interior in 2015, in the category Three Dimensional & Environmental Design – Interior Design & Temporary Structures, a subcategory of Communication Design. Haldane Martin iconic design also ranked 2nd overall in Communication Design as well as in the small agency category in the official Loerie Rankings for 2015.
South Africa's maturing design climate has facilitated a renewed business model for Haldane Martin's furniture, which is more akin to the European model that favours a differentiation between furniture designer and furniture producer. Haldane Martin's furniture range is now being manufactured, distributed and sold under license by high-quality furniture producer, Leon at CCXIXin Woodstock, Cape Town. New furniture ranges, such as Soft Office, are also being developed in collaboration with Ergoform, award-winning manufacturers of premium office furniture. This differentiated way of working allows Haldane to focus on design: both of striking new furniture pieces and concept-driven interiors with bespoke furniture designs. Each new project further reinforces Haldane Martin's reputation for iconic design that inspires.
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Blinds & Shutters Print Collection: Brian Jones & Anita Pallenberg, Vogue session, London 1965
From the Blinds & Shutters Print Collection.
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary publication of Blinds & Shutters, six iconic Michael Cooper photographs are now presented as exclusive limited edition prints and available for purchase.
Each numbered print is one of just 25, making them highly collectable.
Print specifications
Master printed in Argentina, under the supervision of the photograher's son Adam Cooper, on 310gsm Canson Luster Fine Art Paper.
Numbered and sealed with the official Michael Cooper Collection Archival Stamp.
Size 16" x 20" (41cm x 51¾cm) unframed.
Framing available on request
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Sam and I have always paid good attention to our fantasy life, fostering its growth and making a safe place for its expression, within the bounds of our marriage. After all, if we aren't safe in disclosing our darkest fantasies to each other, we are doomed to repressing them. In my experience repression leads to all sorts of ills that are difficult to sort out the longer they are allowed to incubate.
One thing we've discovered, that I can now say is verified by science, is that the cock does not lie. No matter how forbidden the subject matter, a man comes equipped with a surefire indicator of his interest, and it's his dick. Johnson's response also corresponds closely with the man's orientation. Girls, well, they like to keep their options open.
"The Northwestern researchers measured the psychological and physiological sexual arousal in homosexual and heterosexual men and women as they watched erotic films. There were three types of erotic films: those featuring only men, those featuring only women and those featuring male and female couples. As with previous research, the researchers found that men responded consistent with their sexual orientations. In contrast, both homosexual and heterosexual women showed a bisexual pattern of psychological as well as genital arousal. That is, heterosexual women were just as sexually aroused by watching female stimuli as by watching male stimuli, even though they prefer having sex with men rather than women."
So the vagina is a natural, open-minded party girl, in some ways, while guys are a little more single-threaded.
"Typically, men experience genital arousal and psychological sexual arousal when they watch films depicting their preferred sex, but not when they watch films depicting the other sex. Men's specific pattern of sexual arousal is such a reliable fact that genital arousal can be used to assess men's sexual preferences."
Add to this the fact that we have a few friends whose orientation is a bit dubious, and you can see why I dredged this study up from a 2003 archive to bring it to you now. While I've always believed that the cock tells no tales, I have wondered about men who aren't being honest with themselves about their orientation, and then I read:
"Even gay men who deny their own homosexuality will become more sexually aroused by male sexual stimuli than by female stimuli."
The plot thickens. Now if only those of us who are questioning would show themselves some love and spend some quality time with some porn, it might put an end to unhappy repression. It might also become rigidly obvious to the neocon set that once and for effing all, it isn't a choice, and the hating can stop at any time.
Just days before we were married, Sam and I met Sidney Poitier and Dirk Dehner (Tom of Finland's widower). Sidney wished us "100 years of Happiness". Dirk urged us: "Love him for all that he is." I'd like to think we're making good on both wishes. And that's my wish for you this holiday season: "Love each other, for all that you are."


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I have added a page to this website that contains all the images in my thesis that are examples of my practice. https://insightimages.wordpress.com/thesis-illustrations-of-practice/
I have added a page to this website that contains all the images in my thesis that are examples of my practice. https://insightimages.wordpress.com/thesis-illustrations-of-practice/
The blurring of passing people has proved an interesting challenge: to decide the right amount to anonymise people on private property, but still retain a degree of recognisability. I want to keep some character, to suggest who they are, what they look like, but with enough abstraction to allow sufficient scope for the viewer's imagination. Images on the public street don't have the same restrictions of privacy (in the U.K.), but I still prefer some blur to show movement, direction and temporality.
The image above is a detail from a larger image (below)
Joined Orcid yesterday to create a unique ID in the research community (yes, even more unique than my name!)
My Orcid page/number is:
My research is titled:
The flow of life: Photographing architecture as populated spaces.
This is the Blog of my practice led research that is located somewhere on the (indistinct) boundary between still and moving images.
There is a brief biog on the 'about' page if you are desperate to know about my background
I am a 2nd Year PhD student at MIRIAD (www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/), Manchester Metropolitan University
To produce an alternative to conventional architectural photography: one that will show presence and movement within the built environment, over a period of time. It is intended that the resultant images will be of value for research within the architectural design process.
I anticipate that my research will investigate questions relating to:
I am interested in networking with other researchers who address similar debates, and/or those whose artistic practice aims to inform the design process of the built environment.
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Y'all know I like to make wreaths, right? So I made one for March, for St. Patrick's Day. And bonus since green is my favorite color (most of the time).
Cute, right?
I decided to put the words "Kiss Me" on this one instead of lucky. After all, it's not luck that I believe in :)
And these flowers … LoVe them! No sew, and super easy to make. You can find a great tutorial here.
I love it. Too bad I'll have to take it down in a few weeks!


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A viewer says his girlfriend's ex had assaulted him. Although he was criminally charged with simple assault, is it possible for the viewer to sue him? Personal injury lawyers Greg Fellerman and Ed Ciarimboli explain the viewer's legal options.
Dave Kuharchik: "The Law & You" time once again here on Eyewitness News. Back with us, as always, attorneys Greg Fellerman and Ed Ciarimboli. Nice to see you guys.
Ed Ciarimboli: We are ready to get it right tonight. Let's do it.
Dave: They're ready to rock and roll. Our question tonight comes from Sid in Berwick. Sid says, "I was recently assaulted by my girlfriend's ex-husband. He was criminally charged with simple assault and I want to sue him. Can," Sid take some action here simply?
Ed: You certainly can, Sid. You absolutely can bring a civil suit against this guy for what's called a battery. Now, the question's going to become, "Can you recover any money from this knucklehead for the damages that he's done to you?" That's a different issue. It's really going to depend on whether this guy owns his own home and has homeowner's insurance for his house. If so, then you might be able to make a claim for that.
Greg Fellerman: And a lot of times it's the first question we ask when we get these calls is "Do you think the guy owns his own home," because there's insurance. The insurance would cover this guy's negligent acts, which would be assault. The other thing, don't forget, is with a criminal action if you're successful, you can get restitution through the court for your outstanding medical bills, any future medical bills, anything you show the court that you're going to need; Then you make a claim for your personal injury, your pain and suffering, and then the civil action so there's really two components. It's a double edge case, again.
Dave: And those who need legal advice or maybe direction in a case like this and they want to talk to you, how could they reach you?
Greg: They can call us at 570-714-HURT or see us at the web at 714hrt.com
Ed: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat we're on all of the social media outlets. Put a question on their and we'll do our best to answer it on an upcoming segment.
Dave: These guys are well connected. Results matter with attorneys Greg Fellerman and Ed Ciarimboli we'll see you guys next time.
Greg and Ed: Thanks Dave.
Dave: pahomepage.com and "The Law & You" are there for you.
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Sweet Harmony
My latest oil and cold wax painting entitled Sweet Harmony. 24"x18" on cradled panel. I was playing (and playing and playing and playing....) with a balance of sweet colors, peaches and plums and teals. Lots of texture! Sweet color palette actually gets very intense close up! Available exclusively through UGallery.com. They have fabulous shipping! Click this link: Sweet Harmony


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Although it may be difficult to contemplate for both you and your parent, their estate plans should be considered. Time has probably passed and given their illness, they need to determine if their Will is still in keeping with their desires and plans. Part of the estate plan may include making charitable donations. Not only do donations give the satisfaction of contributing to worthy causes, they also provide tax relief whether the donation is made while the individual is alive or through a Will.
Although saving money on tax may not be the primary incentive to contribute to a particular cause, your parents will want to be confident that the intended recipients of any donation will actually benefit. Unfortunately, various schemes have been created that appear to represent legitimate charities but are in fact fraudulent. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) provides this resource that allows you to determine the status of a charity of interest:
The charitable donation tax credit has two levels as well as maximums allowed in a particular tax year. The first $200 of eligible donations will reduce tax payable at a rate of 15% of the donation amount. Any amount donated over the first $200 per year reduces tax payable at a rate of 29%. The amount of credits claimed can generally not exceed 75% of net income in the year the credit is being claimed. The credits cannot be carried forward but the donation itself can be spread out over up to five years. Please speak to your advisor for more details.
The 2013 Federal Budget included an enhanced Federal Tax Credit for first time charitable donors. First time donors are those who have never claimed a charitable donation tax credit or those (or their spouses) who have not made a claim subsequent to the 2007 tax year. Please speak to your Advisor for more details.
There are different ways to make charitable donations which will have different tax/financial effects. For example, your parents can donate to an eligible charity or to the government. Cash, life insurance or property can be donated. Property can include gifts of eligible securities. If your parents donate securities (such as stocks or bonds), they will receive a tax credit for the fair market value of the donation and they do not have to pay capital gains tax on any increase in value from when the securities were bought to when they were donated. This is clearly preferable to selling the security and donating the cash since capital gains taxes would have to be paid. Your advisor can provide more details.
There are also advantages with respect to ordering of gifts. Your advisor will have much more specific information in regards to the details of charitable donations and the best approach for your parents.


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Hospital stays can be expensive, and can quickly extend beyond your budget. A hospital indemnity plan, or HIP, is an optional, supplemental policy that helps pay for covered hospitalizations. Combined with the Lasso Healthcare MSA, our HIP provides additional financial coverage of the MSA's member responsibility amount.
Medicare MSAs and HIPs can be good complements to each other.
Let's consider an MSA...
Medicare A/B costs...
under deductible = member
above deductible = plan
MSA members are financially responsible for all costs until reaching their deductible amount. Then, the plan pays for 100% of any additional Medicare-covered expense.
That's a relief!
This gives members assurance that their financial responsibility for Medicare A/B services is capped at the plan deductible amount, should they be faced with a catastrophic health event.
Member Responsibility
Members can use the MSA deposit toward their health costs and deductible. They will need to use some out-of-pocket funds, too, in order to reach the deductible. We call that the member responsibility amount.
Supplemental Insurance
We encourage MSA members to plan for how they'll cover their member responsibility amount before enrolling. It's usually a combination income plus assets plus supplemental insurance policies, but can be different for each member.
Focus on healing
not on
figuring out finances
Finding out, in the midst of an major health event, that you lack the funds to cover the member responsibility portion can cause undue stress at an already stressful time.
A HIP is a supplemental plan that can help pay hospitalization-related expenses, particularly those incurred prior to reaching the MSA deductible, in the member responsibility space.
With many supplemental insurance plans available, how do you know if a Lasso Plus HIP might be the right option? Consider your comfort in covering the MSA member responsibility amount, plus past and potential future hospital stays.
Your Hospital Stays in Past 12 Months + Your Likelihood of Hospital Stay During MSA Benefit Year
Able to cover the MSA member responsibility amount?
(HIP not likely to be financially beneficial)
Unable to cover the MSA member responsibility amount?
Our three HIPs complement our three MSA plans. Most HIPs on the market pay a per diem, or set dollar amount per day of hospitalization. Our HIP pays the full benefit amount for each covered hospitalization stay, up to the maximum amounts.
Lasso Healthcare Insurance Company currently offers HIPs in these locations, with more coming soon.
If you're enrolling online in the MSA, you'll have the option to apply online in a HIP. You can also use the dropdown below to print and mail a paper application. Or, call us at 1-800-918-2795 to enroll via phone.


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Top seed Lars Schaenzler has been eliminated from the men's singles event at the International University Sports Federation (FISU) World Badminton Championships in Kuala Lumpur after losing his third-round encounter against Singapore's Soh Shi Xuan Dominic.
The German was beaten 10-21, 21-9, 11-21 at the Malaysian capital's Stadium Juara as his hopes of triumphing came to an end.
Soh went onto suffer defeat in his quarter-final match against sixth-seeded Chinese Ren Pengbo, losing 7-21, 13-21.
Awaiting Ren in the last four is eighth-seeded home favourite Satheishtharan Ramachandran after he overcame third seed Lee Chia-Hao of Chinese Taipei 13-21, 21-16, 21-17.
The other semi-final pits two unseeded players, China's Lin Guipu and Chinese Taipei's Lin Chun-Yi, against each other.
Lin Guipu beat South Korea's Cho Geonyeop 17-21, 21-14, 21-17 in the quarter-finals, while Lin Chun-Yi defeated Singapore's Ong Soon Yang Bernard 21-18, 21-18 at the same stage.
In the women's singles event, top seed Chua Grace Hui Zhen is well on course for glory after winning her opening two matches today.
The Singaporean firstly beat Poland's Oliwia Socha 21-8, 21-8 in round two before registering a 23-21, 21-17 quarter-final win over Malaysia's Saranya Navaratnarajah.
Standing between Chua and a place in the final is South Korea's Lee Dahui, who defeated China's Fan Mengyan 21-12, 22-20 in the last eight.
Lee's compatriot Jung Hyunji is also through to the semi-finals thanks to a 21-14, 21-18 victory over second-seeded Thai Supanida Katethong.
Jung's next opponent is fourth seed Hung Yi-Ting following the Taiwanese's 17-21, 21-8, 21-7 win at the expense of fifth seed Reshma Karthik of India.
The semi-finals and finals in both the men's and women's singles events are scheduled to take place tomorrow.


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10pc. Chakra 6-Facet Pendulum Assortment #2 - This is a great assortment of 10 different Chakra Pendulums faceted with 6 sides that have a silver chain with a round crystal bead on the end. These Chakra pendulums come to us from India and can be ordered in sets of 3, 7 or all 10 stones. Each of these Pendulums is unique; some longer and thinner, some shorter and fatter. The multiple facets help guide the energy of this crystal during a scrying session.
Each stone corresponds to a specific Chakra as follows:
The 7pc. Chakra set includes 1 each of the following stones:
Crown - Clear Quartz
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Throat - Lapis Lazuli
Heart - Rose Quartz
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Root - Red Jasper
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To scry using a pendulum, you hold the small end in your hand, remaining very still, and ask a yes or no question. If the pendulum moves in a circle, the answer is yes, and if it moves from side to side, then the answer is no. This is a very basic explanation, but let your intuition guide you. When asking questions, try holding the Pendulum over your favorite stone or crystal for clearer answers.


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High-rise Construction
The Tower at PNC Plaza in Pittsburgh achieves the client's sustainable business objectives. And its execution required a degree of testing and modeling by the Building Team that's unusual for most U.S. office buildings. Photo: Connie Zhou/Michael Ash Partners. Click here to enlarge.
The Building Team designed the 800,000-sf tower to use 50% less energy than a comparable building...read more
The ground floors of Oceanwide Center's two towers will be lifted up five stories to create an "urban room" with pedestrian crossings. Image: Foster + Partners
One of Oceanwide Center's buildings will be the city's second tallest.
A 24-story building with 241 affordable housing units will include a charter school, medical center, cultural spaces, and a supermarket. Image: Dattner Architects
The 24-story curved building would be 70% more efficient than comparable housing in New York City...
Vista Tower. Renderings courtesy Studio Gang.
The 1,186-foot tower will be the third-tallest building in the city.
Rendering courtesy Anders Berensson Architects
The structure, which will be made entirely out of cross-laminated timber, will rise 436 feet into...read more
Renderings courtesy bKL Architecture. Click here to enlarge.
The mixed-use H700 Shenzhen Tower will have sky gardens, angled recesses, and an attached plaza....read more
The latest addition to Atlanta's Tech Square innovation center is Coda, a 1-million-sf mixed-use complex that is designed for collaboration between researchers and the private sector, and will include retail space activated by an outdoor plaza. Image: John Portman & Associates
A much anticipated, Portman-developed tower project will include collaborative office spaces, a d...read more
Renderings courtesy Ingenhoven Architects. Click here to enlarge image.
The Toranomon District will add a business and a residential high-rise, both of which feature gre...read more
Renderings courtesy OMA. Click here to enlarge.
The goal is for the Toranomon Hills Station Tower to transform its neighborhood and serve as a hu...read more
The tower of Dubai Creek Harbour, designed by Santiago Calatrava. Renderings courtesy Santiago Calatrava. Click here to enlarge picture.
The slender structure will have 10 observation platforms, two Hanging Gardens decks, and a illumi...read more
Photo Credit: Jorge Figueroa, flickr Creative Commons
The mixed reality headset will allow people to take a holographic tour of the building while keep...read more
Screenshot of the Downtown Miami Interactive 3-D Skyline Map, which depicts what the city's skyline could look like after all of the planned, proposed, and under construction projects are finished.
The Downtown Miami Interactive 3-D Skyline Map lets users see the status of every downtown office...read more
Rendering © Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
The hat truss-supported office tower was topped off in January, rising 25 stories above the Salt...read more
The 1975 novel was first published when the Barbican Centre towers were being built in London. Photo: Riodamascus, Wikimedia Commons
The story, which was originally thought to be a critique of London's city planning, takes place i...read more
A view of London with approved tall building proposals outlined in red. Image credit: ©Visualhouse and photographer Dan Lowe
More than 100 tall buildings have been added to the plans for the capital city since this time la...read more
Seattle. Photo: sama093/Creative Commons.
Research at an advanced stage.
Image: WestonWilliamson+Partners, via Dezeen. (Click here to enlarge)
The towers will connect between the 21st and 25th floors. The entire complex will sit above a hig...read more
Renderings courtesy Vasily Klyukin (click here for larger view).
The skyscraper, which can change colors and would house a nightclub in its "mouth," is the latest...read more
Renderings courtesy HOK/Greenland Group
Recently approved for development, the 67-story building will have more than 900 units.
Image courtesy OUE Skyspace LA
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Wangjing SOHO, Beijing. Photo courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects via CTBUH
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Rendering courtesy Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
The tower would be the centerpiece of Next Tokyo, a mini city in Tokyo Bay adapted to climate cha...read more
Renderings courtesy SHoP Architects
Developers plan to incorporate a landmark bank into the tower's footprint.
Rendering Courtesy of Tegmark
Coming in at just under 'megatall' status, the 595-meter Nexus Building forgoes the central core...read more
Renderings courtesy Tishman Speyer
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A 230,000-sm factory in China's Hunan province spent several months producing modules for the 57-story J57 Mini Sky City tower, in Changsha. Using advanced prefabrication techniques, China-based contractor Broad Sustainable Building erected the tower in less than three weeks. Photos courtesy Broad Sustainable Building
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are clearing out the vaults from the sessions for their most recent effort I'm With You with the release of 18 songs that didn't make the cut, releasing them digitally and on vinyl over the course of the year.
The songs will be released two at a time on 7" vinyl as well as digital downloads, "Strange Man" and "Long Progression" being the first set for release on August 14.
The second and third releases are slated for release September 11 and October 2, respectively. The titles of those releases have been announced with "Magpies" and "Victorian Machinery" being issued first and "Never Is A Long Time" and "Love Of Your Life" following next. Release dates for the final pairings have been set for November 6, December 4, and December 18. The last set will come in early 2013. Song titles for those releases have not yet been announced.
Artist Kelsey Brookes will do the artwork for each of the nine vinyl releases with a concept being created where fans can create a single, larger piece of artwork by placing each of them side-by-side, something of a musical Rubik's Cube (some of you may have to look that reference up because I'm getting impossibly old).
The Chili Peppers recently released an EP of covers of Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame artists, having been enshrined themselves just this year. We Salute You was a four-song set released in May.
The band is still on the road in support of I'm With You, the first album with Josh Klinghoffer on guitar, replacing John Frusciante.


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Quadjay in 1996
Quadjay Today
Founder, Wayne Jones, had more than three decades of work in various aerospace and precision machine companies in the southeast. In 1996 he decided he could take his experience and offer a better service and product than what was currently in the marketplace. Wayne and his wife, Pam, purchased their first $60,000 CNC mill on credit cards. The move was a huge risk for his family, but the former Marine knew tactical risks were often worth the gamble and he was correct. His attention to detail and speed at which he was able to deliver parts opened the flood gates. One of the Jones's first customers asked them to purchase more machines to support their demand.
With a new thriving business, Wayne and Pam brought on their adult children, Waylon and P.J., to help with the shop and administrative duties. This is where the name Quadjay was born, four "J's" to represent each of the four members of the Jones family which were now involved in the business. In 2013, Wayne and Pam decided to retire and sold the business to their son, Waylon. To date, Waylon has invested more than $1,000,000 in equipment and software upgrades, while growing the business up to 30% each year. Waylon and the team at Quadjay are now continuing the vision of delivering quality parts in a efficient manner with superior customer service.


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Software Design (CMSE322)
Modular software design. Different architectural design styles for software. UML diagrams, Client/server paradigm. Choice of appropriate software and hardware system capabilities. Dealing with timing constraints. Formal software design specification techniques. Configuration management. Software design for distributed systems. Reusability and commercial off-the-shelf software modules.
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Lecture Hour (hrs/week): 4
Lab (hrs/week): 0
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| 17°C Belfast
Ringo Starr hopes Theresa May can help bring peace and love to the UK by delivering Brexit.
The former Beatles drummer spoke on his 77th birthday on Friday at an annual event where he encourages fans around the world to chant the slogan at midday.
When asked whether the Conservative leader or Labour's Jeremy Corbyn was more likely to bring peace and love, he said he hopes it is the sitting Prime Minister.


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5/5 thumbs up! I love this body cream.
This is the best body cream that I know. It is therefore my favorite one. This is quite rich and moisturizing without being heavy on your skin or feeling sticky. It absorbs very quickly, but its effect stays all day long on your skin. I totally recommend this body cream. It claims to leave your skin with a glow, I am not so sure about that. Surely after applying it looks glowy, but I do not think this is really a long term effect. You can find it in México at the supermarkets, I usually get it at Comercial Mexicana, but surely many others have it too. Since it is a rather rich cream I mostly use this during the coldest months. Usually for summer I try to get something lighter, like a body lotion.
Would I buy it again? Yes, I have and I will continue doing it as long as the quality stays the same!


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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s Americans discuss black livelihood in the context of recent high-profile black deaths at the hands of police officers, a merciless villain is quietly snatching away thousands of black lives each year: infant mortality.
To be sure, medicine has gone a long way toward keeping black babies alive. In 1850, the black infant-mortality rate was 340 per 1,000 (compared with 217 per 1,000 for whites). Still, despite progress, last year over 7,000 black babies died in the United States before reaching one year of age — one baby for every 87 born. Troublingly, the infant-mortality rate is far higher for blacks than for other races: The CDC reports that non-Hispanic black babies die at a rate of 11.4 per 1,000, while for Hispanic and white babies the figure is 5 per 1,000. For Asian babies, it's 3.6 per 1,000.
Why the discrepancy? In a comprehensive study, the CDC finds that there are five conditions in particular causing high mortality rates for black babies: low birthweight, congenital malformations, maternal complications, unintentional injuries (e.g., accidental suffocation or strangulation in bed), and sudden infant-death syndrome (SIDS). Of these, the two conditions that cause black infants to die at the highest rate relative to non-black infants are low birthweight (which causes four times more black infant deaths per capita than white infant deaths) and maternal complications (a 3.5 factor by the same measure). Both of those conditions happen to be among the top three leading causes of black-infant mortality, which helps to explain why the infant-mortality gap between blacks and other races is so dramatic.
Breaking down the data further, we see that there are two main issues at play: First, conditions deadly to infants are simply more prevalent among black babies and their mothers than among babies and mothers of other races. Of black infants, 13.3 percent are of low birthweight, but just 7.1 percent of white infants are. Moreover, black infants are at three times greater risk of accidental death than are white babies, and at more than four times the risk of developing SIDS. Black mothers, too, are more likely to have adverse conditions: They are three times more likely than white mothers to have uterine tumors that induce postpartum hemorrhaging and slightly more likely to have preeclampsia (the sudden rise of blood pressure). And on average, as the American Journal of Public Health reports, black mothers are 30 percent more susceptible to physical "weathering," the premature aging of one's body due to social stresses. Indeed, these discrepancies help explain why black mothers themselves are at more than twice the risk of dying during pregnancy than white mothers, though it should be noted that the maternal-mortality rate is roughly 30 times lower than the infant-mortality rate.
Second, even when the mortality rate is adjusted for the prevalence of given conditions among black and white people, black babies still fare worse than other babies. Here is how this adjustment is made: If one group has a condition twice as often as another group, and dies from the condition ten times as often, the prevalence-adjusted mortality rate is 5:1. The prevalence-adjusted black–white infant mortality ratio is 2:1 for low birthweight and 3:2 for congenital malformations. These discrepancies, of course, are partly attributable to the compounding effect of having several adverse conditions at once. (For example, having a low birthweight tends to be more dangerous for black babies than for white babies, given that black babies are more likely to be experiencing other harmful conditions on top of the low birthweight.)
Some might reflexively claim that the infant-mortality issue is easily amendable; after all, deaths by accidental strangulation and suffocation have been linked to uninformed parental practices, which can be corrected through education. Still, accidental deaths such as these account for just 4.5 percent of the black-infant deaths. It is also deeply misguided to write off most black-infant deaths as attributable to unlucky genetics: Study after study has demonstrated that most pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
Rather, deep structural issues seem to be at play. The CDC observes that 10.2 percent of black mothers receive late prenatal care or none at all — 2.3 times higher than the rate for white mothers. In addition, 33.4 percent of black mothers receive no first-trimester care, as opposed to 17.6 percent of white mothers. Given that prenatal care is essential to diagnosing and treating dangerous conditions, as well as to establishing important doctor–patient relationships, this gap is alarming. And even when black mothers receive sufficient medical care, they tend to report being discriminated against or neglected by medical professionals in a way white mothers don't.
Joedrecka Brown Speights has studied the black–white infant-mortality gap extensively over the decades. She and colleagues highlight many key determinants of the gap, including "socioeconomic status, maternal behaviors, access to health care, nutrition, social capital." Certainly, lowering black-infant mortality must be tied into broadly improving the health and wealth of black communities, the achievements of which are themselves massive undertakings. But the reports of discrimination and bias tell us that there is an intangible element at play as well, a certain inability of the medical field to connect with black patients and understand their specific problems. This disharmony makes sense: Black people are 13 percent of the population but just 5 percent of doctors, though they are much better represented in nursing.
To solve the problem of poor prenatal care for black women, the Center for American Progress (CAP) suggests several measures — for example, "offer African American women tools to navigate the health care system." Also, "train providers to address racism and build a more diverse health care workforce." Finally, "dismantle care barriers with a comprehensive approach." Striving toward a more diverse health-care system does not mean abandoning merit; it is precisely through facilitating connections with black mothers and saving black babies that diversity could here prove meritocratic. Moreover, expanding access to care for pregnant black women does not mean abandoning fiscal responsibility; even just managing preterm births presents a $26 billion annual burden on the economy, and investing in proper care could ease much of the problem. Neither do CAP's strategies necessarily need to come out of a government budget: Bill and Melinda Gates have donated $100 million toward addressing adverse birth outcomes. Through increased media coverage and heightened societal awareness, other charitable givers as well could also be encouraged to focus their efforts on infant mortality.
The issue of infant mortality directly affects many thousands of people each year in the most devastating way possible. Lowering the infant-mortality rate for blacks even to the level of other racial groups would be a tremendous victory for equity, and it would save the lives of roughly 4,000 babies annually. It is toward this goal, among others, that the truest advocates for black lives in health, public policy, and philanthropy are sure to gravitate in the coming years.


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YANGON-A severe fire broke out at the Petroleum Product Warehouse in Industrial Zone-1 in Dagon Seikkan Township, Yangon Region, yesterday night injuring about 20 people including firefighters and factory workers, according to the reports.
The fire started at the warehouse of Petroleum Products near Beauty Shampoo Factory located in Industrial Zone-1 in Dagon Seikkan Township, around 7pm on September 10th.
All firefighters from Yangon Region were dispatched in order to combat the fire which was rated a Level-4.
The Eleven Media Group arrived at the incident and they reported that a fire severely broke out over 9pm. All firefighters were striving to control the blaze.
The witnesses said that the fire was enormous within a half hour and then the incident was very close to the storage of petroleum products.
Moreover, an official from Fire Services Department was injured during the fire. The fire was extinguished about two and a half hours.
The authorities are now investigating the cause of fire.


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So we all have those books that stick with us. The stories we come back to for the plot or the moments we overlooked or the characters we love and wish to be. For me that list of books is pretty long. In my house you can tell which books are most beloved because of where they are on the bookcase in my room.
One of these books for me is Stephanie Meyer's The Host. I know what you're thinking. I hate Stephanie Meyer. She can't writer and her stories are lifeless and sad. I'm not making excuses for Twilight because quite frankly I don't want to get into that whole mess, but I will say a bit before I get into The Host. I have read them and at the time I enjoyed them for what they were. I was fourteen when I read Twilight and I thought that it was a sweet love story and at the time vampires were all the rage I eagerly awaited each new book and the release of the movie. It was only after I watched the first Twilight movie that I realized the books I'd loved as a teenager didn't hold up to the ideas I loved as a young adult.
When The Host came out I did not plan to read it. A friend told me to borrow it and after it sat on my bookshelf for six months I knew I was gonna need to get it back to him so I begrudgingly got started. I was reading before class and a friend saw what I was reading and asked how much I loved it. I replied with a deadpan, "this is the worst book I've ever read." That continued for the next two days and I could not stop reading. On the third day when she asked me what I thought I freaked out and started getting so excited cause I was almost done. Obviously my initial impression of The Host was wrong, but before I talk about what I loved let's talk about why I didn't love it at first.
It was long. Like 800 pages of exposition and wandering through the desert before you get into the main plot. The first 200 or so pages are mostly just Wanderer (the alien) and Melanie (the human) talking to each other. And it took me a while to care about any of the characters. It didn't happen until there were other characters to put everything in perspective.
So while I spent a lot of time complaining about reading The Host it's one of my favorite books to read. The length is one thing I love about it. Every time I reread it I feel like I'm seeing something new in it, and the relationships are some of my favorite. Recently The Host was adapted just like every other YA book out there, but it was never written or promoted as a Young Adult book so it's not Twilight or any of the other movie adaptation. And as adaptations go it was incredibly faithful to the story. There were differences and things that were left out, but again it was a 800 page book. How would that have been condensed into a two hour movie?
There are a few others, mostly books that I reread when a new book in the series is coming out so I remember everything that's happened. Occasionally there are some books I like rereading my favorite parts because I liked the characters to the story so much. Lately I've felt the need to defend Stephanie Meyer and point out that Twilight wasn't the only book she wrote and that The Host is one of my favorites. What are some of your favorite books to reread? Comment below?


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Senior Student Records Officer
- Recruiter
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 27 Jun 2019
- End of advertisement period
- 17 Jul 2019
- Ref
- 2746
- Job Type
- Professional Services, Registry
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Location: London Liverpool Street
Closing date: 17/07/2019
Salary: Competitive
Employment type: Permanent
Department: Operations - Registry & Scheduling - Student Records & Advice
Role summary
Responsible for the co-ordination of all registrations, student record keeping, related queries and other activities in line with Student Records Processes. In addition the post holder is responsible for the supervision of the Student Records Team (London) and the management of 6 Student Records Officers.
Key Responsibilities:
- The day to day management of the Student Records Team (London) to ensure SLA's are met and all processes are followed to a high standard.
- The planning and delivery of successful student registration events in London, supporting all late and temporary registrations. In addition, overseeing the co-ordination of other nominated regional campuses. This includes the allocation of staff, room set up and communication to students and local staff.
- Working alongside all Senior Student Records Officers to ensure Student Records are maintained in compliance with BPP's policies as well as satisfying the requirements of external and validating bodies and such as the UKVI, QAA, SRA and BSB.
- Maintaining an accurate, central record of information on the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and additional University platforms. Ensuring student information is consistent, reliable and relevant.
- Responsible for the implementation of effective processes for student and staff queries via the online queries portal and central mailbox.
- Assist with the internal resource planning and operation of HESA Returns.
- Reporting on registration statistics to internal (senior managers) and external (regulatory bodies) stakeholders and the distribution of reports on data quality and accuracy.
- Oversee the staff training of the Student Records Database and Student Records processes.
- Assist with the development and testing of system upgrades, i.e. Banner. Managing programme specific variations to standard processes and ensuring all staff are fully trained.
- Supervise the student query communications sent to BPP University students to ensure consistency across all BPP University Campuses and programmes.
- Represent the Student Records Team as required at meetings and events.
- Coordinating the recruitment, induction and training of new and temporary staff.
Other duties and responsibilities
- To focus on the development of the new case management system (CMS)
- To focus on the development of the new online registration system
- Managing programme specific variations to standard processes
- Complying with GDPR
- Proactively and independently developing a detailed knowledge of BPP's regulatory framework, programmes and courses
- Undertake any other reasonable duties as required commensurate with the grade of the position.
Knowledge/Experience and Skills:
Education: Qualifications & Training
- A degree or equivalent level qualification
- Knowledge of the Higher Education Sector
- Knowledge of Banner or a similar student information system
- Experience of planning, prioritising and organising team tasks and staff to meet deadlines and service deliverables
- Experience of engaging staff from other teams to support service objectives
- Experience of producing reports and commentary on complex data that is easy to understand for multiple audiences
Skills and Abilities
- Proactively working with others to achieve institution objectives
- Strong Excel skills and analytical skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- Ability to adapt to change


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The latest original is also a new template design - Grrrnade! He's available right now, right here.
Wow I haven't posted anything on NPT for awhile. Time to play catch up! First off congrats to all the folks in the Papertoy Monsters book. I happened to get mine on Papertoy Monsters Day and it is just an amazing collection, just so much great work in there, I'm going to be pretty busy building. (Just as an aside - where do you keep your papertoys? shelves, display case, refrigerator...?)
I have a few of my own books to announce now as well- Batman: Built for Action, Green Lantern: Power of the Ring and Spongebob Squarepants: Spongebob and Friends. The Batman and Green Lantern books each feature 6 Cubeecraft each. It looks like the Spongebob book may have 7. All 3 books will have die-cut pieces so assembly is as easy as "pop and fold".
The Batman: Built for Action book is available from Amazon right now and should be making its way into stores over the next month. The Green Lantern and Spongebob books are available for pre-order. I will have copies of all three available on Cubeecraft.com in the future.
Since my last post here on NPT I've added 24 fan art pieces and only 1 new original to Cubeecraft.com which I feel is a bit of a shame - not that I don't like doing fan pieces or originals but I'm looking to try and shift the scales a bit more in favor of AT LEAST a balance of original and pop culture influenced releases and I'm working on a lot more over-sized originals for upcoming some upcoming events like...
PAX East (March 11-13)
Too Art for TV 5 (opens March 18th)
MOCCA Fest (April 9-10)
Toy Street (April 22)
(If you are in NYC for any of the last 3 dates please come out and say "hi".)
Hopefully I'll have more updates and original releases over the next few weeks... stay tuned.
Special thanks to all the new friends on NPT and everyone for their support! I think I've told this story a thousand times but I started this site to just to challenge myself to create something at least once a week and I honestly didn't think I'd make it a month and here we are 3 years in with over 300 paper toys... it's staggering. On top of that meeting all of you guys and gals and being part of this whole paper toy movement and seeing all this amazing work being done... it's just awesome and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Thank you all for your support and keep up the good work yourselves!
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