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Story + Action: Teachers on DeVos
Tomorrow, the Senate will vote on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos, the nominee for Secretary of Education. DeVos is widely recognized as the least qualified nominee for this position in modern history. Below, nine public school teachers describe why we MUST do everything we can to encourage our Senators to vote no tomorrow.
"My school is a public school in Northern California; while part of a comprehensive school district, we are not what most people think of when they picture "school." We serve students in grades K-12 in an Independent Study format—students come to us seeking something the traditional sites did not, or could not, provide for them. Recently, many are seeking sanctuary from bullying. One of the reasons I do what I do is that I firmly believe every child needs access to the education that will work best for them. Betsy DeVos does not. DeVos is a hazard to our educational system and to see her installed as the Secretary of Education would be disastrous, as she has clearly demonstrated that she has no understanding of the ongoing mission of education, nor of what teachers do on a daily basis. Her vision of education would gut the public school system which serves 90% of American youth by shifting taxpayer funds to private institutions. Her lack of understanding and appreciation of the federal law protecting the legal rights of students with disabilities is, in my opinion, criminally negligent.
Call your senator TODAY. Find their number here: https://www.callmycongress.com/
Use this script:
"Hello, my name is ((name)) I'm a constituent from ((town/city)). I am calling to urge the Senator to vote against Betsy DeVos' nomination to serve as Secretary of Education because her nomination is not in the best interests of the young people of America."
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Story + Action: Why I March
For this week's Story+Action, Pantsuit Nation is proud to feature the following story by activist and Pantsuit Nation and Pantsuit Republic (Texas) member, Ligia Pesquera, about why she will be marching this weekend.
I'm a Latina woman and an immigrant. Given the concerns about the Women's March on Washington, from not being inclusive enough to maligning the voices of white feminists, I have been thinking about my participation. Why do I march?
As of January 19, 616 Sister Marches are planned around the world in addition to the Women's March on Washington, with an estimated 1,364,010 marchers worldwide.
To join a Sister City march, go the locator page.
Share your photos and stories with us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook using #pantsuitsmarching and #pantsuitsmarch. Tag us @pantsuitnation
See you out there, Pantsuit Nation.
As many of you know and have been commenting on, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the millions who are insured because of it will likely come under increasing fire in our next administration, and it is already a target for the Republican-controlled House and Senate. As Pantsuit Nation member and this week's featured writer for our Story+Action series, Janni Lehrer-Stein, writes, "the ACA presents critical support for the health care of Americans with disabilities, with its protection for those with pre-existing conditions, and many other supports and services critical to the vitality of the disability community may be at risk as well."
Janni has been legally blind for almost 40 years because of an incurable retinal disease. Her diagnosis and disability fuel her work. She is a mother, a lawyer, and an advocate for Americans with disabilities.
We all grow up with a basic understanding that we cannot take our lives for granted, that life may send us in unexpected directions, and that all of us will face challenges. But what happens if that person is you?
As we do this work, of listening, engaging, and advocating for each other, we also encourage Pantsuit Nation members this week to call your elected senators and representatives to tell them you support the ACA. Over 29 million people stand to lose their health insurance if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. Americans with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable groups but they are certainly not the only historically marginalized community that will suffer. An estimated 9.3 million low- and moderate-income people would lose marketplace insurance subsidies and many would also lose cost-sharing assistance that lower deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs. (Source)
See how many people in your state will be affected.
Call your senators and representatives. Tell them, "I am a <name your state> voter, and I support the Affordable Care Act. I want Senator <name your Senator> (Or Congressman/woman) to vote to protect the ACA." Call them every day!
The Indivisible Guide has provided detailed steps on how to engage with your elected representatives.
Stronger Together, Pantsuit Nation.
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My school days were hands down my good old days…The best time of my life was spent there that I always wish to get back. The time and the way I was as a person too. This is a story of one of my blunders in school days, there you go:
The very first event that comes to my mind when i think of a long list of my blunders is when i was in 9th grade.
I woke up in the morning particularly happy and cheery(which didn't use to happen very often) .
Started to get ready for school, preparing my school bag , putting gazillion books in it (making it so heavy that it would've been difficult for even Dwayne Johnson to lift it up).
Got in the car as my dad dropped me off on his way to his office.
Entered my school.
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We've known for some time that Pagani was planning an open-top version of its Huayra supercar. Now we know when the car will be unveiled.
A spokesman for Pagani confirmed to Autoblog that the new Huayra variant, to be called a Huayra Roadster, will make its debut in mid-August during Monterey Car Week.
The car will be shown privately before going on display August 19 at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. It will likely also be on display at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance highlight event that each year caps off the Monterey Car Week.
Like the Zonda Roadster before it, the Huayra Roadster should be identical to its coupe sibling, with all of the same mechanical bits. That means power will come from the Mercedes-AMG twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V-12, though hopefully this time producing more than the coupe's 720 horsepower and 737 pound-feet of torque.
The coupe's gull-wing doors will have to go, though. Pagani will likely give the Huayra Roadster a removable roof panel rather than an automated roof (just as it did with the previous Zonda Roadster), which means the curb weight should remain close to the coupe's 3,000-lb dry weight.
Just 100 Huayra Roadsters are expected to be built, matching the production run of the coupe. Of course, there will likely be limited edition models, too, similar to what we saw with the latest Huayra BC.
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Aquari-OM is happening at Maui Ocean Center on Tuesday, April 9th. Attend a yoga class in the Open Ocean Exhibit with sharks, rays, and hundreds of fish. Take your yoga practice to a new level while being surrounded by the beauty of marine life. Don't forget to bring a reusable water bottle! Reservations are required online. The class is 75-minutes. $20. 5:30pm. Maui Ocean Center, (192 Maʻalaea Rd., Wailuku); aquari-OM.com
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They say that, "A single picture, fibs, tells a 1000 words." They say that, "First impressions are often cured by a second look." So picture yourself, not in the mirror at home, but when you're strutting your stuff out in public. It's all about your Body Language.
So there you are, your approaching a prospective client, or a person of influence, or your walking into a boardroom meeting, or into a nightclub. So how do you look, how do you think you look. What message are you portraying or communicating the instant that someone sees you.
What is your body saying, your shoulders, your hands, or your eyes. What others will instantly do is make a snap decision on whether they like you or not, in about 2 seconds flat. So what type of information are you allowing them to gather about you.
If you haven't really thought about it, then you should be more aware. So listed are the top signals of instantly portraying nonverbal confidence when it comes to body language.
Clues In Body Language
People will instantly and subconsciously read into your body language, first, this by they using their instincts and defense mechanisms. So it depends entirely on how you pose, how you look at them, which reveals a great amount of information about yourself.
What they do is instantly digest how you look, and then translates it into what your mood, or what your confidence level is. So how you walk, or glide, depends on your confidence level, or if you're a nervous wreck. The aura tells all.
At a single glance, most can also discern and sense if you're outgoing, aggressive, apprehensive, or relaxed. But with a bit of practice, and knowing the cues, you can learn and use the steps which can project full confidence, by using your body language correctly. This way, you can appear as confident as possible, even if you're not.
Ways Of Improving Body Language
Walk By Taking Wider Steps
When you strut down the sidewalk, a confident dude or gal never wants to be labelled as being: creepy, aloof, sneaky, snobby, or scurrying, so pay a lot of attention to the way that you walk.
If you're wanting to show your confidence using body language, what you want to do is take large wide steps, this especially for guys, which makes you seem purposeful, as well as suggesting a personal tranquility. What this denotes is confidence.
Stand Up Straight Shoulders Pinned
Standing up as straight as possible is one of the most important indicators which projects confidence. This can however be a challenge, especially if you happen to have a bad or sore back, or you're a natural sloucher. So because of that, be extremely conscious of it.
Standing up as straight as possible is perhaps one of the most important means of communicating that you're a confident outgoing person. So always concentrate on keeping your shoulders held back slightly, especially when standing still.
One such motion will do wonders, and others will take instant notice, so it's important that you check out your posture in front of the mirror. You may be surprised how much more confident it makes you look.
Keeping Your Eyes Focused And Forward
Attempting to keep your eyes as level as possible might be one of the most difficult, if not the trickiest ways of showing confidence. When you're walking around anywhere, the most natural and instinctive thing to do is lower your head slightly down, and watch where you step.
What this posture does is it immediately tells others that you're not interested in engaging in any conversation or interaction. No eye contact for you. It's also an extremely easy habit to acquire as well.
So make sure that you always keep your chin up, and your eyes focused forward, even if you happen to be walking down the street by yourself. And stop texting.
Make Sure That You're Properly Groomed
Imagine that your walking into a room of complete strangers, or a meeting room filled with your colleagues, or gasp… a party. Also consider what your appearance will look like if you have: 4 days of unshaven stubble on your face, bad oily skin, bad tacky clothing, and your hair crispy, unkempt and dirty.
The point is that grooming is an absolute essential component of being confident when it comes to body language. So you'll want your hair styled and organized trendy, your face scrubbed dry, you smelling great, and wearing acceptable clothing for the situation, as all will work in favor for you. So find the proper products which will work the best for your body type.
Giving Out Firm Handshakes
Part of showing confidence before you even say a word is having a firm handshake. There's nothing worse than someone reaching out for your hand and they getting a palm full of moist cold dead fish.
So don't be that guy or gal. Make sure that you grip the other person's hand as firmly and as confidently as possible. If you're shaking hands with someone that you already know, then you may even consider a firmer two-handed grab. This involves placing your other hand on the person's elbow, which adds warmth as well as enthusiasm to the handshake.
Just make sure that you don't get carried away. A handshake also isn't a kung-fu grip contest, so don't try crushing the other person's hand either, or hold on for too long.
Stay As Still As Possible
People who fidget is a clear sign of being nervous. So someone who's not able to keep still is someone who's tense, worried, and not that confident. How you use your hands could be your worst enemy. So make sure you keep them as still and steady as possible.
Although you may talk with your hands, try keeping your gesticulations as calm as possible while being under control. Also, when you're sitting down, try avoiding that impulsive rapid leg vibration humping motion that some people will nervously do.
Keep Your Hands Out Of Your Pockets
Keeping your hands in your pockets is a sign of being unsure, or uncomfortable about yourself or the situation. Having your hands stuffed firmly down your pockets is how others will view you.
On instinct, what we do is hide our hands once we're nervous, so keeping your hands out in the open portrays confidence while showing others that you have nothing to hide.
Also, know that when you put your hands in your pockets, what that does is it encourages slouching forward. So as an alternative, place your hands on your hips, if appropriate, as that's a much more confident posture.
Just Smile Sara
Those who are confident easily smile since they have nothing to hide, or worry about. So as an experiment, try smiling at someone, a complete stranger that you pass on the street, or someone walking around in the office.
The chances are extremely good that they'll naturally and instinctively smile back at you. So wouldn't having that type of effect on others, all the times, be a good idea.


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Old Joliet Prison - Joliet, IL
Joliet was originally known as Illinois State Penitentiary. It was built in 1858 by using convict labor that was leased to the state contractor and warden. The limestone used was quarried right on site. There were 33 inmates that arrived in May that year to begin the construction and the last were transferred in July 1860. At the time, both criminals and prisoners of war were held there during the Civil War.
In 1865, the first corrections officer was killed there. His name was Joseph Clark. In 1872, the population had reached a record number for the time of 1,239. The original plans consisted of a "female cell house" located inside the male penitentiary. They were house adjacent to the men's cells from 1859-1870 until they were moved to the fourth floor of the central administration building. in 1896, they built a separate, 100 cellblock across the street for the women. It was built as an exact mini-replica of the male prison. In 1933, all female prisoners were then moved to Oakdale Woman's Reformatory.
The prison was slow to modernize. There was no running water or toilets in the cells until 1910. In 1917, Stateville Correctional Center began construction and was meant to lead to closure of Joliet but that didn't happen for a while and both prisons operated for the rest of the 20th century.
Joliet hosted a few well known prisoners. 1924 saw Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb for life sentences for the kidnap and murder of Robert Franks. 1932 saw Lester Joseph Gillis, aka Baby Face Nelson escaped during a prison transfer in February.
The most famous movie filmed here was "The Blues Brothers". Some of the characters in the movie "Saw II" were based on ex-prison inmates. After it's closure, it hosted a few more film and tv projects. Films like "Derailed" and "Let's go to Prison" were filmed here as well as some tv shows like "Prison Break", "Bones", "Warehouse 13" and a few others. It's also been featured in some music and fiction.
Joliet closed as a prison in 2002. As of 2018, the Historical Museum started running tours of the prison and you can currently do historic tours, photographer, and paranormal.
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Pickpockets is the situation when without a person's knowledge or approval is a crime, a form of larceny which involves the stealing of money and valuables from the person of a victim without their noticing the theft at the time. It needs considerable dexterity and a knack for misdirection. Anybody who picks pockets is called pickpocket.
Put your MP3 player to a belt loop, and conceal the earphone loops underneath your shirt. Preferably, store your money, credit cards, and ATM cards inside different wallets. Make use of a security cable attached to your K-slot to secure your laptop to one of the within straps of your carrying case. Confirm that your necklaces, earrings, and bracelets are tightly locked. Put extra money in different pockets. You never know when a pickpocket will dip into your wallet and leave you with no money for urgent situation needs.
Be careful for potential "set-ups," for example someone bumping into you or asking a question as a distraction while someone else steals your wallet. Become visible confident and look like you know where you're going. Says safety specialist Bruce Schneier, "People who are targeted for street crimes look like victims." Take note to your instincts. If somewhat feels strange, go inside a store, cross the street or seek help. Stay your purse in sight at all times. Avoid hanging it on the back of a chair, the hook on a public washroom door, or leave it unattended while shopping or trying on shoes.
Make use a wallet that can attach to your belt (also called as money belt) and keep it out of sight. All time keep purses closed and carry them close to the front of your body, or held tightly under your arm. Don't carry all your cash in one place, otherwise carry only a small amount of cash. Stop keeping your social security number in your wallet--it puts you at risk of identity theft. Always carry only what's necessary, and nothing more.
Call the local police department right away. Make a list of everything in your purse or wallet, including credit cards, checks, ID cards, cash and other items. Call your credit card companies and report your cards as stolen. Call your bank and tell them your bank cards/checks have been stolen.
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On a warm summer day, a light breeze blew on a Free State Farm. In a pretty garden was were two people promised to love one another for rest of their lives..that was us. There was a beautiful sunset on the horizon, a shed filled with eucalyptus, light wood, fairy lights, family and friends. We experienced peace, love and favour. We are thankful for all the blessings and that we can have memories to look at time and time again. It was the biggest day in both our lives and we can cherich all of it. Our day was just like we dreamt and prayed about, perfect.
We were very blessed to go on honeymoon. The honeymoon was a suprise.. I had to close my eyes when we arrive at the places where we stayed over.
South Africa is so beautifull and we discovered a bit of it. We were in Jeffreysbay for two nights and from there we went to Mosselbaai. We stayed at the beautifull Pinacle Point Estate for five days. From there on we went to Cape Town Sea Point and stayed at the Cape Peninsula All Suite Hotel for four nights.
My hair was curled. It was mostly tied up with some curled hair that was loose. It looked very nice. My makeup was done by my sister in law. I had false eye lashes on and the shading on the eyes was a light plum colour with silver, complimented with a smokey eye. My shoes was a low Nude Hedge and it was very comfortable. My earrings were medium long pearls and I had a bracelet that also had pearls in with some diamants. My dress was exquisite. It was an A-line dress with a square top. Part of the top was see- through and the back was covered in lace with parts that was also see-through. It was a Sherri Hill dress that I hired from Carmen's Bridal Boutique in Welkom.
We got married on a farm outside of Kroonstad on the Viljoenskroon / Bothaville road. The ceremony was in the garden between trees, with a view of the plains. The reception was in the corrigated iron shed. Most of the guests were from Kroonstad, so they went home after the wedding. Our other guests stayed in guesthouses or with friends / family in Kroonstad or nearby areas.
I use Vitaderm products and just kept going on with my normal routines. My sister in law is a beauty therapist and she did my facials. I also went to Tina Scholtz Spa in Potch for a Detoxifying Volcanic Ash massage & wrap. I didn't really train or ate healthier.
Our flowers were eucalyptus and there were a few white roses and gyp our table. The décor was very plain. We only had fairy lights, candles and some eucalyptus against the corrugated iron. We made wooden underplates and lanterns. Everything complimented each other and it looked very beautiful. We had fairylights in the shed.
The look was very much of a farm style. There was a lot of raw light wood and it looked beautiful with the dark green eucalyptus. It was a very comfortable feel yet elegant because of the simplicity of the wedding. The colors of the wedding were olive green color (eucalyptus), raw light wood color and a bit of white and silver.
The groomsmen wore navy pants with light brown shoes and belts, white shirts and navy ties. The groom wore a navy blue suit also with a white shirt, light brown shoes and belt.
The groom's suit was bought at Markhams and the pants of the groomsmen were bought at Woolworths.
The belts and shoes were also bought at Markhams.
My bridesmaids wore long light grey dresses. The dresses were very plain and had a navy lace ribbon around the middle.
The idea / look was found on Pinterest. It was made by Hanlie Odendaal in the Kroonstad District.
Alan Ogilvie from the Cell Church in Kroonstad
Francois Slabbert from Palm Photography took our photos. He is an excellent photographer and he doesn't make you feel uncomfortable. He knows exactly what he is doing and he is very professional. Our photos is amazing.
Werner did our video from First Kiss Videography. He knew what he was doing and were very pleasant.
Our video is beautiful and we get tears every time we watch it.
My brother in law surprised us with a photo booth. It was very cool and the people had a lot of fun with it.
No, we did not have a planner. We planned the wedding ourselves and family and friends helped.
Two Toyota Fortuners of our friends picked up the bride and bridemaids and the groom and groomsmen ride with Bakkies.
Our food was out of the books! Johan Badenhorst from Johnique made our food. He is situated in Kroonstad.
My sister in law made our wedding cake and it was very nice. We still ate some of the cake on honeymoon:)
We did it ouselves and it was a priviledge to be so involved in your own wedding.
We can dance pretty good so it wasn't necessary to go for lessons, though we did not even practice once since there was just no time..but it all went well. The first dance was beautiful. We had a DJ, Steven McGowan from Kroonstad. The music was very good and all the guests danced the whole night. We did the lightning ourselves. We kept the lightning simple, we only had fairy lights in the shed and it looked beautiful.


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Grace For The Journey
Today we'll take a look at the motivating power of the Gospel and what gets it going in the life of the believer. This is what the Bible teaches is the impact of "Gospel Grace" and it is available to every child born of grace.
This truth is presented in Luke 7:36-50, "One of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him, and He went into the Pharisee's house and took His place at the table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that He was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed His feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, 'If this man were a prophet, He would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.' And Jesus answering said to him, 'Simon, I have something to say to you.' And he answered, 'Say it, Teacher.' 'A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?' Simon answered, 'The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.' And he said to him, 'You have judged rightly.' Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, 'Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for my feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss My feet. You did not anoint My head with oil, but she has anointed My feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven – for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.' And He said to her, 'Your sins are forgiven.' Then those who were at table with Him began to say among themselves, 'Who is this, who even forgives sins?' And He said to the woman, 'Your faith has saved you; go in peace.'"
This story paints one of the Bible's most powerful portraits of the supernatural power of the Gospel to motivate us to graciously respond to it. Jesus was invited to the home of Simon, a Pharisee, for dinner. In that culture, the diners did not sit at a table, as we do; they reclined at the table – leaning on their side with their feet stretched out. Suddenly a prostitute approached the table. It was not uncommon in those days for uninvited visitors to enter a home and sit along the wall to listen to the conversation. What was uncommon – unheard of, really – was for a woman of ill-repute, known in the community as "a woman of the night," to walk into the home of a Pharisee.
Odder still, she had not come to listen to the conversation. Instead, she went straight to Jesus, stood behind Him, and began wetting His feet with her uncontrollable flood of tears. But then she did the unthinkable. She let down her hair – no big deal today, but a shameful act for women in public in biblical times, and all the more odious because this was what she did in the service of her sinful profession. She knelt at the feet of Jesus and began wiping His feet with her hair and even began to kiss His feet. In her final scandalous act before the shocked crowd, she anointed His feet with the expensive ointment that was an absolute necessity for those who were selling themselves in prostitution.
Simon could not believe that Jesus would allow such a person to come near Him, much less handle Him like that, which convinced him that Jesus could not be the prophet He claimed to be. Jesus quickly corrected his error and went on to explain what had just happened.
Jesus started with the parable of the moneylender and the two debtors. One owed a small amount and the other a much larger amount, but neither of them could pay their debt, yet the moneylender forgives both debts. Jesus asked Simon, "Which of them will love the moneylender more?" Simon answered, "The one who had the larger debt cancelled." Jesus responded, "You have judged rightly."
Now the holy hammer falls on the self-righteous Pharisee. Jesus compares the treatment He received from religious leader and the wretched woman:
- It was customary to wash the feet of those who entered your home because of the conditions of the unpaved and dusty roads. Simon offered no water but the sinful woman cleaned Christ's feet with her tears.
- It was customary to greet others with a holy kiss. Simon offered no kiss, but the sinful woman did not stop kissing the Lord's feet.
- It was customary to anoint the head of a guest with oil. Simon provided no oil, but the sinful woman anointed Jesus' feet with an entire flask of expensive ointment, worth a year's wages.
Why such a marked difference between the treatment given to Jesus by Simon and the sinful woman?
Jesus answered this question with a single word: "Love!"
Those who do not sense their great need of forgiveness love little,
And those who understand their great need love much.
The Pharisee believed he was in no need of forgiveness, because he was the one who was good, right, and holy. And yet he didn't even show Jesus Christ what would be considered common courtesy in that day, let alone any sign of love. But the sinful woman, with a sense of overwhelming gratitude for having her countless sins forgiven, lavished her love, devotion, and worship on Jesus. And to do this she entered the home of a man whom she knew full well would not welcome her, but rather judge and condemn her.
It was "Gospel grace" that empowered this woman to overcome every obstacle that stood in her way and publically display her love and gratitude to Jesus because of what He had already done for her.
Her love was not a means to receive forgiveness.
It was a response, because she already had it!
She knew how sinful she was, and having the assurance that her sins had been forgiven, Gospel grace opened the way for her heart to beat for her Savior. May God grant that our hearts would beat just as hers did, until they beat no more.
This is God's Word For Today … This Is Grace For The Journey
Rest and Rejoice in this eternal truth!
Pastor Terry
Ephesians 4:7 – "But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it."
Hebrews 4:16 – "Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."


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In a chat with Potpourri, she
explained in insightful details,
reasons why she will never
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desires a partner with horse power in bed.
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the fact that I lovehim we will work on it; the world has gone past
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Facebook Inc. suspended another data firm after allegations surfaced that it may have improperly handled users' information.
The social media giant said it suspended Cubeyou pending an investigation. CNBC reported the data-analytics company was misleading users by saying information it collected through quizzes was for academic research, even though it was in fact being shared with marketers.
"These are serious claims and we have suspended Cubeyou from Facebook while we investigate them," said Ime Archibong, vice president of product partnerships at Menlo Park, California-based Facebook, in an emailed statement. "If they refuse or fail our audit, their apps will be banned from Facebook."
Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify before Congress this week, as lawmakers seek answers about users' privacy on the site. Facebook has lost has lost billions in market value since a whistle-blower revealed last month that political firm Cambridge Analytica was misusing consumers' data. Last week, Facebook said that as many as 87 million users may have been affected by the Cambridge Analytica case.
Facebook reached the decision to suspend Cubeyou after CNBC contacted the company with the allegations. CNBC reported the suspension earlier Sunday.
Cubeyou's website says it has more than 10 million "panelists" contributing consumer opinions, interests and traits throughout the U.S. and that it's used by more than 1,500 marketers. The company, whose press releases have said it's based in San Francisco with offices in Milan, didn't immediately respond to request for comment left outside regular business hours.


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IDF soldier gets 9 months for torturing Palestinian detainees
Combat soldier from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion found guilty of administering electric shock to suspects in the West Bank
Tamar Pileggi is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
The Jaffa Military Court on Tuesday sentenced a combat soldier from the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion to nine months in prison for torturing Palestinian suspects by electric shock on two separate occasions last year.
The soldier, who was found guilty of abuse under aggravated circumstances by the same court, was also handed a six-month suspended sentence and demoted to the rank of private, Army Radio reported.
According to military prosecutors, after arresting a Palestinian suspect near the West Bank city of Jenin last October, several Netzah Yehuda soldiers blindfolded, handcuffed and beat him. Then, one of them attached electrodes to the man's neck and shocked him.
When the detainee pleaded with him to stop, he increased the voltage, according to the indictment.
Several days later, the soldier did the same thing to another Palestinian man arrested by his unit in the West Bank village of Attil outside Tulkarem. The prisoner was blindfolded, handcuffed and beaten before the soldier shocked him using electrodes attached to his temples, the indictment said.
In addition to the soldier sentenced on Tuesday, three other soldiers were arrested in October in connection with the incidents, including one who was said to have filmed the incidents on his cellphone.
Last week, the Jaffa Military Court sentenced one of them to seven months in prison for participating in the torture the judges called "humiliating, degrading and cruel." The soldier, who confessed and expressed remorse, was demoted to the rank of private.
The other two were released shortly after their arrest as investigators determined they had not taken part in the torturing.
According to a report in Ynet, the judges noted the violence against the Palestinian prisoners did not occur out of anger, but "was violence for its own sake."
A spokesperson for Honenu, a far-right advocacy group that is providing legal counsel to the soldiers, previously called the case against his clients "way overblown," and accused the military prosecution of "abusing" the suspects.


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UAE children sign up to share 'protect mum' message
DUBAI // Primary school pupils are working to spread breast cancer awareness across the UAE and beyond with a catchy slogan and a message to mothers that regular self-checks and screening can help to detect the disease early.
Children from across the UAE have joined the Protect Your Mom awareness campaign, a Facebook-led drive that targets the young and their mothers.
Nine-year-old Brent Adrial D'Souza, a Grade 5 student at the Kindergarten Starters in Dubai, is one such campaigner.
"Starting from my home, first I campaigned among the neighbourhood mums, then took my message to my school through speech, art and dance," said Brent, who was seven when he joined.
Dubai resident Premi Mathew, who founded the PYM group in 2011 after breast cancer affected her family, appointed Brent as an ambassador.
Brent said he wanted to help spread the message to Africa and, earlier this year, he visited St Joseph of Tarbes School, in Embu county, Kenya, and spoke to 500 children.
"I distributed pink ribbons to all students from Grade 4 to 12 to tie them to their right hands," Brent said. "Students felt responsible for their own mother's health."
Brother and sister Aaditya, 10, and Aditi Gandhi, 8, who were born and brought up in Dubai, are also members of PYM.
"Breast cancer is a bitter reality," said Aaditya, who recalled visiting her great-grandmother in India and finding that she was suffering from the disease.
"Although she survived after surgery and chemotherapy, that phase is still a cause of misery to everyone in the family.
"So, when we heard about Protect Your Mom, we decided we had to be a part of it."
The siblings travelled to Russia, where they talked to residents and tourists in Moscow, St Petersburg and Pereslavl-Zallesky about their campaign.
"Even though we encountered the issue of language in a few cases, it did not deter us from our goal," said Aaditya. "We made them aware that the survival rate is as high as 95 per cent if breast cancer is detected early.
"We told them that a simple, cost-free, five-minute self-examination every month is all that it takes."
Divyasree Sureshbabu, a 12-year-old Grade 7 pupil at Delhi Private School in Sharjah, has been a brand ambassador of PYM for three years, and her work has taken her to Chennai, in eastern India, where she held a presentation.
"When I hear about cancer, I get very scared because people talk about it in a very secret way," she said.
"My parents motivated me to do social causes, so I became an ambassador for PYM and started spreading awareness."
Sister Harishri Sureshbabu, a nine-year-old Grade 4 pupil, has been on board for three years.
"I have encouraged many people to talk to their mums, sisters and friends about early detection," she said."
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/protectyourmom.
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KNOXVILLE, TN, /GLOBE NEWSWIRE/ -- Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB: PVCT, www.provectusbio.com), ("Provectus" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing PV-10 as the first small molecule oncolytic immunotherapy for solid tumor cancers, today announced that the Japan Patent Office (JPO) had granted and the European Patent Office (EPO) had allowed the Company's patent application for the combination of PV-10 with systemic immunomodulatory therapy (i.e., immune checkpoint inhibition). Pfizer, Inc. is a co-assignee on the award and allowance.
The JPO patent and EPO patent allowance are related to U.S. patent (USP) 9,839,688, "Combination of rose bengal and systemic immunomodulative therapies for enhanced treatment of cancer," which was awarded by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in December 2017. USP 9,839,688 is one of the continuations of the Company's foundational cancer combination therapy patent, USP 9,107,887, which was awarded by the USPTO in August 2015.
Provectus' patent portfolio provides global intellectual property protection into the 2030s for the synthesis and use of PV-10 and other halogenated xanthene-based therapeutics as monotherapies and part of combination therapies for cancer.
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Provectus' lead investigational cancer drug product, PV-10, the first small molecule oncolytic immunotherapy, can induce immunogenic cell death. It elicits tumor immunity via activation of dendritic cells mediated by the release of damage-associated molecular pattern molecules. PV-10 is undergoing clinical study for adult solid tumor cancers, like melanoma and cancers of the liver, and preclinical study for pediatric cancers.
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Provectus is a clinical-stage biotechnology company leading the development of a new class of drugs based on halogenated xanthenes. Information about the Company's clinical trials can be found at the NIH registry, www.clinicaltrials.gov. For additional information about Provectus, please visit the Company's website at www.provectusbio.com.
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Intermediate Band is for students who have completed a full year of Beginning Band at VCS, or have at least one year of experience elsewhere. New students must have director's approval. Percussion is also available on Wednesday mornings. Students will continue learning music theory along with more advanced Band repertoire. Students will perform at annual school concerts, as well as a music festival at Disneyland in the Spring. This is a full year class that runs for the entire 2018-2019 school year (September to May).
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Add some spice to your life with ginger and turmeric
Ginger and turmeric are 2 ancient spices which have used both in food and as medicines for centuries. Research is showing that they have numerous health benefits, sometimes even performing better than pharmaceutical drugs!
Both ginger (Zingiber officinale) and turmeric (Curcuma longa) are rhizomes from the Zingiberaceae or ginger family and probably originated in India.
Both ginger and turmeric have powerful anti-inflammatory effects. They have been used successfully for arthritis and ulcerative colitis. The main ingredient in turmeric, curcumin, has been shown to be even better than some drugs at treating rheumatoid arthritis.
Not only do these 2 spices contain anti-oxidants which help to prevent cancer from occuring, extracts of both ginger and turmeric have been found to stop tumour growth in some studies.
Stomach issues
Turmeric and ginger are both beneficial for stomach ailments. Ginger is well known for it's benefit in reducing nausea and vomiting relating to motion sickness, morning sickness or even related to chemotherapy. Turmeric, on the other hand may help with indigestion, relieving bloating or gas.
More and more people are being put onto statin-drugs to try to reduce their cholestrol. These drugs do bring the cholestrol down, but have numerous side effects and are not actually solving the problem.
Oxidative stress is at the heart of the problem. Oxidative stress arises from free radical damage in our bodies which is unchecked by antioxidants or phytonutrients. This oxidative stress damages the walls of our arteries. Cholestrol then is deposited, in the form of plaques, in an effort to "patch up" the damaged areas, leading to higher levels of LDL cholestrol.
By merely decreasing cholestrol in the body, we are not solving this problem. Turmeric actually addresses the oxidative stress and inflammation, and so is far more effective long-term.
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Transition from High School
Common ACT/SAT myths — An expert sets us straight
By Mark Skoskiewicz
For most students (and many parents!), standardized tests like the ACT and SAT are stressful. They are also more than a little misunderstood.
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By dispelling common misconceptions about these exams, you can help your daughter or son prepare more effectively and perform better on test day.
Misconception #1: Your ACT or SAT score determines where you can go to college
In general, high school students and their parents place far too much importance on test scores. Yes, they are important. They are important because research shows they tend to predict success in college, and because the quality of a high school curriculum, or a particular high school class, can vary so much. As a result, colleges need something standardized so they can compare applicants. That's why they use the ACT and SAT.
However, your student should know that academic performance is the strongest driver of college admissions success: i.e., the depth, breadth, difficulty level, and grades in high school classes. The GPA comes first. After that, admissions committees consider other key but less important factors such as test scores, activities, essays, community service, and recommendations.
"Many colleges, including Wake Forest, are now test-optional, which means each applicant may decide whether or not she would like her standardized tests considered in the admissions decision. Regardless of whether or not scores are submitted, the high school record remains the most important factor in the admissions process. Even the highest standardized test scores fail to compensate for mediocre academic achievement." — Martha Allman, Dean of Admissions, Wake Forest University
This is not to say that students shouldn't prepare conscientiously for the ACT or SAT. But understanding that it's not the be-all and end-all should relieve some stress and this, all by itself, can lead to improved performance. Students who work hard, take difficult classes, and earn a high GPA set themselves up for success. Scoring a few points lower than their peers will not doom an applicant. Instead, the ACT or SAT is just an opportunity to further strengthen an application.
Misconception #2: The ACT and SAT are in part IQ tests so studying can only take you so far
This commonly held belief just isn't true. Most of what students encounter on the ACT and SAT reflects specific math, reading, and writing skills they have already learned in school. General academic performance will, in many cases, predict performance on standardized tests. Students who have worked hard and earned A's are in great shape to do well on the ACT or SAT.
The misconception comes from the fact that — in addition to explicitly testing math, reading comprehension, verbal reasoning, and writing skills — both the ACT and SAT take basic or foundational concepts and ask test-takers to apply them in ways that can seem tricky. The tests also try to measure critical thinking and problem solving ability, abstract skills that are built into all high school subjects rather than taught in a particular class.
Why are tests constructed like this? Writers of standardized tests aim to ensure that test results do two things: 1) reflect whether a student can excel at college-level coursework, and 2) create some variation among applicants so admissions committees can understand how much better one performed when compared with another. Excelling in college requires a mix of concrete and abstract academic skills (not to mention softer interpersonal and communication skills that these tests don't address!).
So, when the SAT or ACT presents a "strange" problem that requires applying a core mathematics skill in a creative way, it's measuring critical thinking and problem solving abilities in addition to the targeted math skill. This isn't to say that your student needs a high IQ to answer it. Students just need to have an understanding of the target skill fully developed in their brains, stay calm, and think creatively about ways to reach a solution.
Misconception #3: You shouldn't take practice tests too early in the ACT/SAT prep process
It might sound trite, but practice really does make perfect. Timed practice tests should be a continuous element of your student's ACT or SAT preparation plan and there is no reason to wait.
A student might review all of the practice problems in a given test prep book and feel confident, but be very surprised by a poor practice test score. If this first practice test comes three weeks before the exam date that could be problematic. Applying a concept under time pressure without the benefit of a book is very different from reading how to do the problem and feeling as if you understand it. The only way to truly know where you stand is to take timed practice tests. Time and stress management on the ACT or SAT is, for better or worse, part of the key to scoring well.
Don't worry! Remind your student that the confidence that comes from having taken 10 practice tests will far outweigh any potential dip in confidence he or she may feel by taking a practice test and not doing so well early on (before fully reviewing all key concepts). The key to test prep success is to take a practice test, diagnose conceptual strengths and weaknesses, study concepts, do practice problems, and repeat!
The ideas introduced here are explored in depth in my Amazon Kindle eBook, Plan, Prepare & Perform: A Strategic Approach to Test Prep Fueled by Expert Tutor Insights and Scientific Research on How We Learn. Download a free introduction and summary here.
About the Author
After spending three years as an economics tutor at Indiana University and then earning his MBA from Northwestern University, Mark Skoskiewicz founded MyGuru, an education start up focused on helping students improve academic performance through customized study plans, better study habits, and 1-1 instruction. MyGuru recently acquired Viking Tutors, a tutoring company offering affordable ACT/SAT prep. He recently published a book on how simple mindset shifts, customized planning, and specific study habits can lead to improved performance on standardized tests called Plan, Prepare & Perform.
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Jan 11
Horizon Women Present... StartUp Your Faith
Horizon women and friends are invited to take part in an evening of connection and conversation on Thursday, Jan. 11th from 6:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. This event includes a delicious dinner immediately followed by an illuminating presentation by Lead Pastor, Chad Hovind, entitled StartUp Your Faith.
The New Year is a great opportunity to reevaluate and re-engage in new patterns. As we think about goals related to our health, our families, and our future, faith can be an important starting place for infusing purpose and significance into all areas of our new year. Come discover how Jesus invited people to explore new horizons in a very challenging but comfortable way. Join us to see if you, too, may have a new horizon in front of you in 2018.
This evening is designed to comfortably connect your friends with a taste of what Horizon has to offer. This Horizon Women Present… event complements the message series entitled, StartUp: Exploring the Visionary Leadership Strategy of Jesus. This series begins at Horizon on Saturday, Jan. 6th at 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 7th at 8:50 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11:10 a.m.
$25 per person includes materials, a catered dinner and wine. Casual attire is the preferred style.
• RSVP by Sunday, Jan. 7th. Seating will be limited. If you are interested in attending, please contact Susan Venderbush at email@example.com or call 513 272-5800.
Consider inviting a friend so they too can experience some of what Horizon has to offer!
Childcare will not be provided.
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|Thursday, January 11
|6:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Horizon Community Church
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Cincinnati, Ohio 45244
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PAPAYA:  Also
spelled papaw and paw-paw. Refers to two different fruits. One is a tree of the
custard apple family, growing in the central and southern United States and having
an oblong, yellowish, edible fruit. May be eaten raw or cooked. The tree grows wild
in the central states. The other is a large melon-like fruit that grows from the
trunk of a tropical tree of America, Hawaii, and the Phillipines, resembling a palm,
having a bunch of large leaves at the top. The fruit may be eaten raw or cooked
and also is valued for its juice. The papaya is much used in preparing meat tenderizers.
See Meat Tenderizers.
PAPILLOTE, EN (French):  Cooked in a paper bag, as pompano en papillote.
PARBOIL:  To
cook food in a boiling liquid until partially done. This is usually a preliminary
step to further cooking. Beans and ham, for instance, are parboiled, later baked.
PARCH:  To
expose to heat so as to dry or roast slightly, applied to corn, peas, etc.
PARE:  To
cut or trim away the skin or covering, as potatoes, apples, etc.
dessert of ice cream, fruit, and whipped cream, or a frozen mixture of egg whites
or yolks cooked with hot syrup and combined with whipped cream.
PARISIAN SWEET:  A confection made by grinding together a mixture of dried
fruits and nuts.
PARKER HOUSE ROLLS:  Named after a famous Boston hotel, they are yeast-raised
PARMENTIER (French):  The name of the man who introduced the potato into France
and the inventor of many ways to cook potatoes. Dishes bearing this name denote
the use of potatoes in the dish, as Potage Parmentier: cream of potato soup.
PARMIGIANA (Italian):  Parmesan cheese. It frequently appears on menus as "alia
parmigiana." It is a style of cooking in which sauteed veal or eggplant is baked
with tomato sauce and cheese.
PARTRIDGE:  Game birds (often called partridge) shot in the United States
are not partridge at all, but ruffed grouse, or one of several varieties of quail.
Varieties of true partridge, imported from England and various Continental European
countries, are sometimes available in markets and are bred commercially in this
Partridge, grouse, and quail can be treated alike in cookery. Expert cooks like
it to hang for at least four days to allow its delicate, fragile flavor to develop.
PASSION FRUIT:  See Granadilla.
PASTA (Italian):  The macaroni products. See Macaroni.
PASTE :  This
term is used in various ways.
Pastes for culinary purposes include: (1) A foodstuff, pounded or ground until fine
and made creamy, etc.; examples are almond paste, fish and meat pastes; (2) a jelly-like
candy; (3) a mixture of flour or starch, water, i. e., the Italian pastes (pastas).


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CRM optimization
Many of our clients ask us how they can ensure that their sales teams adopt and apply improved selling behaviors, methods and tools, after they have been exposed to sales training and development content.
In addition, many organizations invest heavily in customer relationship management (CRM) and supporting sales enablement applications to increase productivity. However, despite these investments, many users often resist using these applications, resulting in undesirable outcomes – and potentially, failed projects.
To address these adoption and usage challenges, Richardson Sales Performance (formerly Sales Performance International and Richardson) offers CRM Optimization, a service which aligns sales process and methodology with your CRM application. Our consultants work with you to understand your current CRM's configuration and usage, and then recommend ways to ensure it is fully optimized for with your improved sales processes and methods.
Richardson Sales Performance's CRM Optimization provide a clear path to ensure your sales processes are successfully aligned with your CRM. We will provide a comprehensive plan to ensure your CRM is fully optimized to drive higher levels of usage, improve consistency in reporting, and increase the quality of opportunity reviews.
CRM Optimization typically includes:
- Interviews with selected members of the client's sales operations team to better understand their implementation of CRM
- A review of the client's CRM via sandbox site access, online meeting, or onsite visit
- Development of a tailored CRM Alignment Guide to summarize the recommended changes to your CRM, with phased implementation steps
- Walkthrough of the CRM Alignment Guide recommendations and plan
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The end result is a CRM configuration that aligns fully with your improved sales processes and methods, which makes use more attractive and easier, producing improved application adoption – and ultimately, improved business results.


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Solve cybersecurity-based challenges at this year's hackathon!
The description of the challenge problems that SASEhack will comprise of this year has been updated, as well as the schedule (note that the event is still overnight, but will end much earlier than last year).
This year, SASEhack will be based on problems to be solved individually (not teams) for points, and judging will be based on the number of points earned throughout the competition. The information below has been changed to reflect this.
Interested in cybersecurity and problem-solving? Join us at SASEhack 2018, SASE's fourth annual hackathon!
- Friday, Oct. 5 at 9PM to Saturday, Oct. 6 at 7AM (~10 hrs)
- Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (Room: Utopia A & B)
- Learn to use real-world hacking tools to solve challenges
- Interact with Booz Allen Hamilton representatives throughout the competition
- Attend a free STEM career fair with 70+ top tech companies
This year, SASEhack will break from the group-based format of previous years to dive deeper into the hacker's mindset with a jeopardy-style Capture-the-Flag (CTF) style event. The challenges are designed to build the skills of information security enthusiasts through hands-on challenges in areas such as forensics, web exploitation, scripting, and binary reverse engineering. Individual problems are solved for points, and participants will compete for the highest number of points throughout the night.
- Register on this Devpost like any other hackathon
- Register for SASEhack through SASENC18 registration: Choose the "Undergraduate Student" or "Graduate Student" option, then choose the free "SASEhack Only" option on the next page (or any other paid option if you are also interested in attending SASENC18 talks and sessions)
Friday, Oct 5
- 8pm - 9pm: Registration for SASEhack
- 9pm - 10pm: Welcome, speakers from Booz Allen Hamilton, and introduction to the topic and hacking platform
- 10pm: Hacking begins!
Saturday, Oct 6
- 12am: Midnight snack
- 6am: Hacking ends!
- 6:30am - 7am: Winners announced and closing remarks
- 8am - 9:30am: Breakfast
- 10am - 4pm: STEM Career Fair -- attend at your leisure!
SASEhack participants are free to attend the STEM Career Fair, which will be in the same building. For those participants who have registered to attend conference sessions as well, the main conference will also take place in the same building. It will be up to you to get to the Renaissance Schaumburg, as the hackathon will be in-person.
SASEhack will be located on the second floor in the Renaissance Schaumburg -- there will be stairs and elevators.
Food and drinks will be provided FREE for the duration of the event. Snacks will be continuously put out throughout the night, and there will be a larger midnight snack. You are welcome to bring in outside food, but please clean up after yourself.
Booz Allen Hamilton (Lead Sponsor)
The U.S. Marine Corps
Mentors who are well-versed in the challenge problems and have experience in cybersecurity will be available to give students advice throughout the competition.
$1,500 in prizes
1st Place - $500
2nd Place - $400
3rd Place - $300
4th Place - $200
5th Place - $100
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Participants must be college students -- undergraduate or graduate. Note that this will be an individual competition, rather than the team-based competitions we've had in previous years.
Automatic Judging System
Judging Criteria
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NFC stands for near field communication that allows users sharing content/information between two NFC-enabled devices just by touching them with each other. The following blog will help you discover that how this technology is going to be the game changer in future.
Before beginning any explanation, first understand what the technology called NFC is all about? It is a technology that transfers data between devices when they are physically closed to one another. The devices in the activity must be enabled with this technology. It uses an off shoot of radio frequency identification protocol to transfer data between physically touched devices. So this technology works when two devices are in closest proximity.
Let us explore the history of this technology. In 2004, three companies, Sony, Philips and Nokia came together to establish NFC protocol. They then formed strict guidelines for companies wanting to add this technology in their devices. Major ones include compatibility of technology regardless of device brand, security, etc.
Here are the top features of this technology:
- It is based on RFID that operates at 13.56 MHz.
- Its maximum range is 10 cm. Devices beyond this range will not respond to data transfer
- The data transfer speed goes up to 424 kb per second.
Here are the top benefits of this technology:
- The technology of NFC is suitable for a wide range of industries.
- Almost all the NFC transactions happen by simple touch between of two devices
- With NFC, other wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth have also become quick and easy.
- It is also supported by the presently available contactless card technology
- Because it works when two devices are in closest proximity; data transferred between these devices can never be hacked or purged at all.
Here are the top types of applications which can use NFC.
- NFC can be implemented for contact-less payment system. It can be a better option for POS (point of sale) where users can pay for their purchases just by touching the device to a terminal.
- This technology can be better choice for reading special offers and various sorts of coupons. It can also be used in billboards and smart posters.
- With NFC enabled app, It will become easy to store tickets while travelling. Various sorts of authorized accesses can become more secure.
- Transportation and parking access system can be simplified with NFC.


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Bruichladdich Octomore 06.1 57% Vol (5 Year Old)
Tasting Notes: By Tasos Protopapas
Nose: An explosion of intense aromas of Peat, (167 PPM) burnt wood and ash will make you want to get a whiff of your glass over and over again. Tinges of characteristically sweet and tardy odour, sea breeze, iodine, freshly squeezed lemons and distinct traces of red fruits. Adding a drop of water strengthens the fruity and sweet aromas, with vanilla and acorns being dominant.
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Finish: Big, warm and long finish. The smoky aromas seem to last forever!
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Here, we pay tribute to its pedigree, to the land from which it came and the raw materials that gave it life: Octomore Scottish Barley.
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Airbnb, Inc. is an online marketplace for arranging or offering lodging, primarily homestays, or tourism experiences. The company does not own any of the real estate listings, nor does it host events; it acts as a broker, receiving commissions from each booking.The company is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
The company was conceived after its founders put an air mattress in their living room, effectively turning their apartment into a bed and breakfast, in order to offset the high cost of rent in San Francisco; Airbnb is a shortened version of its original name, AirBedandBreakfast.com.
Airbnb is a company that provides an online marketplace and hospitality services. The company enables consumers to lease or rent short-term lodging, including vacation rentals, apartment rentals, homestays, hostel beds, and hotel rooms. It allows users to book accommodations for various time periods via its websites and mobile apps. Airbnb exists to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere, providing healthy travel that is local, authentic, diverse, inclusive and sustainable. Airbnb uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents to become hospitality entrepreneurs. Airbnb's people-to-people platform benefits all its stakeholders, including hosts, guests, employees and the communities in which it operates.
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Another Christmas Come and Gone
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Monday, Dec. 27, 2004
You know I love ya, but I have only a half hour to shower, change, and hit the road. We're heading for Winfield to spend the evening with Gloria and Roy, and will spend the night there. If I don't wangle out of it tomorrow, Gloria and I are going cross-country skiing.
While Dad, Scott, and my brother-in-law Dick went to the airport to pick up my brother Cameron on Christmas Eve, we gals played a few rounds of Scattergories. Above is my ma, myself, and my beautiful sisters. I'm the one behind the chair, trying to be like the old woman who, as Isabelle Allende wrote in a book I just started reading, Portrait in Sepia, was "happily counting her wrinkles."
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If Monument Australia is useful to you, please make a donation to keep this historical and educational resource available. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Centenary of Rugby LeaguePrint Page
A plaque commemorates the centenary of Rugby League and the historical significance of the site.
The Group 9 rugby league competition was established at a meeting at the Grand Hotel, Harden, on 27 April 1923. Group 9, which includes foundation sides Cootamundra, Young, Junee and Temora, has traditionally been one of the strongest competitions in Country Rugby League. This oval is the major venue for the game in Harden.
The Centenary Plaques Programme was put in place by the Centenary of Rugby League Committee to commemorate sites of historical significance to Rugby League - such as stadiums, suburban grounds and club formation sites. Nearly every aspect of Australia's Rugby League landscape is covered by a Centenary Plaque – with plaques dedicated to the commemoration of Indigenous Rugby League, National Rugby League (NRL) first-grade clubs, foundation clubs, former Premiership clubs, New South Wales and Queensland Country, and those sites which were host to the foundation of the game itself in Australia.
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- Title
- The role of locus of control and achievement motivation in the work performance of black managers.
- Creator
- Bothma, A.C., Schepers, J.M.
- Subject
- Work performance, Black managers, Locus of control, Achievement motivation
- Date
- 1997
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- uj:6329
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1075
- Description
- The primary objective of this study was to predict the work performance of Black managers by using three measures of Locus of Control and five measures of Achievement Motivation. Work performance was assessed by superiors with the aid of the Performance Appraisal Questionnaire of Schepers (1994) which yields three scores, viz, Work Performance, Creativity/Initiative and Management Skills. The sample comprised 102 Black male employees in supervisory and more senior positions in a diversified and geographically dispersed chemical company. In analysing the data, the three sets of measures were intercorrelated and subjected to a factor analysis. Three factors were identified; amongst others a factor representing work performance. A composite score was accordingly computed which served as the criterion measure in a regression analysis. Furthermore, a canonical correlation procedure was used to maximise the correlation between the predictor variables and the dependent variables. Two statistically significant canonical correlations were obtained. It was found that both the Locus of Control Inventory and the Achievement Motivation Questionnaire can be used as predictors of work performance as assessed by means of the Performance Appraisal Questionnaire (PA).
- Publisher
- Journal of Industrial Psychology
- Rights
- Complies with the rights as specified by the publisher: http://www.sajip.co.za/ & Copyright University of Johannesburg
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Developed the proposition and product roadmap through primary and secondary customer research to understand customer needs, complains and feedbacks; competitors assessment of direct and indirect competitors and cross industry best practices; market trends analysis of fundamental services, value added products as well as revenue generating offers.
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Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis Volume III
Developments in Major Fields of Economics
Edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz D. Kurz
Chapter 37: Technical change and innovation
David Haas, Heinz D. Kurz, Nicole Kathrin Palan, Andreas Rainer, Marlies Schütz and Rita Strohmaier
The problem of technical change, its causes, forms and effects, has been high on the agenda of economic analysis ever since its systematic inception in the second half of the seventeenth century and its full blooming at the time of the French and English classical political economists. This is hardly surprising, since around the same time Western Europe experienced the Industrial Revolution and in its wake the take-off on a path of sustained growth of income per capita. Technical change was discussed in the writings of François Quesnay and the Physiocrats, who emphasized the importance of education, learning and knowledge. It played a particularly important role in the works of Adam Smith and David Ricardo and an even more important one in that of Karl Marx, who saw the capitalist economic system incessantly in travail because of deep reaching and all spheres of life encompassing technical and organizational revolutions. The concern with economic dynamics and its prime mover, technical progress, lost momentum towards the end of the nineteenth century with the rise to dominance of Marginalism and its focus on the static problem of the allocation of given resources to alternative uses. The issue of innovations – "new combinations" – resurged with Joseph A. Schumpeter's explanation of the restlessness of capitalism at the beginning of the twentieth century. While Schumpeter, like the classical economists and Marx, understood technical change as an endogenous phenomenon, coming from within the economic system, neoclassical growth theory championed by Robert Solow and Trevor Swan in the late 1950s treated it as exogenous. This was criticized in the 1980s both by advocates of an evolutionary approach to the problem under consideration, especially Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter, and by protagonists of what became known as "new" or "endogenous" growth theory, especially Paul Romer. In more recent times the concepts of "general purpose technologies" and "national systems of innovation" gained prominence in theoretical and applied research on technical change and innovation. Smith defined the task of The Wealth of Nations (1776 [1976], hereafter WN) as consisting of an investigation into "[t]he causes of this improvement, in the productive powers of labour, and the order, according to which its produce is naturally distributed among the different ranks and conditions of men in the society" (WN I.5). Smith saw a virtuous circle at work: the increase in labour productivity is the result of a deepening of the social division of labour, which is propelled forward by a growth of markets. The growth of markets, in turn, is seen to depend on the speed with which capital accumulates; this is why the "frugal man" is the hero in Smith's story. Higher labour productivity, in turn, implies higher incomes and profits and therefore more capital accumulation, and so on and so forth. According to Young (1928: 529), Smith's "theorem" is "one of the most illuminating and fruitful generalizations which can be found anywhere in the whole literature of economics".
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