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A new report estimates the share of commercial emails opened on mobile devices will surpass 50%in the next six to 12 months, according to new research from data and digital messaging solutions provider Knotice.
The "Knotice Mobile Email Opens Report: 2nd Half 2012" reveals that most brands will likely see at least half of their commercial emails opened via mobile devices by the end of 2013. Currently, 41% of commercial emails are opened on mobile devices, up from a 27% mobile email open rate a year earlier. Key findings include:
° The number of emails opened on a mobile device (smartphone and/or tablet) during the second half of 2012 rose to 41%. This is a 51% increase over the former mobile email open rate of 36% from the second half of 2012. Data shows the steady, strong increase in mobile open rates continues, which underscores the importance of having a mobile-first mindset.
° Nearly half of all emails opened in the consumer services industry were opened on mobile devices during the second half of 2012. For other industry segments, the mobile tipping point is rapidly approaching and email and mobile marketers need to begin planning for a point in time when mobile users will be the majority audience.
° If a consumer doesn't act on the email when they open it, it is highly unlikely they will reopen that email on a different device. Knotice data found that only 0.07% during the first half of 2012. This means that even if a compelling subject line was created and the right offer was delivered, if it the email renders poorly on a mobile device or if there isn't a seamless optimization of the post-click experience, there is a missed opportunity with the mobile opener.
°The Hospitality and Consumer Services industries have seen the highest mobile email open rates with 44% and 49%, respectively.
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The summer solstice celebrates the power of the sun on Mother Earth and her people. It is the longest day and shortest night of the year. The summer solstice marks the beginning of summer and a time for self-reflection. It is an opportunity to get rid of old patterns that are no longer of use to us, to open new doors and set new goals. It is a time to look within ourselves and decide what we really want out of life. We should all embrace this day and use the power of the solstice to assist us in growing and bettering ourselves.
Chinese medicine recognizes the fire element of the sun which symbolizes strength, force, courage, initiative, fertility, and rejuvenation. Emotions accompanied with the fire element are joy, empowerment, and well-being. It is a time to celebrate not only yourself but also those around you. It is also a time to celebrate rebirth and encourage change. Let the power of the sun enhance your connection with life, love, happiness, and health.
With this year's summer solstice we encourage you all to embrace a new beginning and let yourself blossom into a "new you".
" It is a time to look within ourselves and decide what we really want out of life. "
This statement clearly defines us this month. New beginnings, changes, new ideas, and goals. We made the decision to say goodbye to one of our blogs {Entangled Botanicals By Ashley November}. With the demands of Motherhood, a new job as a Florist, and a new flourishing relationship, time is a very demanding commodity.
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Back to school and back to my backstage inspection series, this occasion at au jour le jour garçon Spring/Summer 2015 show held during Pitti Uomo 86 in Florence.
The event was included in the Firenze Hometown of Fashion program curated by the Pitti Italics initiative supported by Pitti Immagine that intends to support young designers every edition.
au jour le jour, was founded in 2010 by Italian duo Mirko Fontana and Diego Marquez who presented their new line garçon at the Dogana, right after having premiered their womenswear collection in Milan Fashion Week last season in February.
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When I first got involved in eDiscovery / eDisclosure in the late 1980s, the components of the problem were relatively straightforward: lawyers needed to find evidence; they were required to comply with some civil procedure rules; they needed to make a profit from a largely mechanical task seen by clients as being of low value; new technology began to appear which purported to help lawyers perform their obligations.
These were interesting times because there was no inherited knowledge to draw on, nor was there anyone with skills, let alone qualifications, for managing the transition from paper-based discovery to electronic discovery. People stepped up to manage new problems, moved sideways from other skills, and developed new ways of working. Part of this was narrowly technical – the ability to use a new type of software, for example; part of it involved developing processes and best practices; part of it involved taking skills like project management from unrelated industries and disciplines and repurposing them.
It is arguable that technology has just about kept pace with the problems of growing volumes and greater demands. Jason Baron of Drinker Biddle, doyen of information governance experts, has been heard to say that in the race between growing volumes and improving analytical technology, technology is losing; others think differently. What is a much greater problem is that we are desperately short of people who can straddle the ever-wider range of components of the task.
The root of the problem lies with the clients. They grasped the technology which enabled ever-faster creation of ever-wider ranges of data types, and many of them grew the skills needed to manage each part of the problem – IT, security, records management and the rest all developed relevant skills to cope with each succeeding wave of expansion and modernisation. What is lacking, in most organisations, is any overall control which brings together the costs and risks and hidden value which lies in all this data.
The umbrella title for this grouping of skills and knowledge is "information governance", defined by the Information Governance Initiative as being:
the activities and technologies that organizations employ to maximize the value of their information while minimizing associated risks and costs
Defining it is a start. Who is going to take charge of it, and what skills do they need?
This is the subject of an interesting paper jointly produced by the discovery recruitment expert APT Search and information governance consulting company Big Red Consulting Group. The paper is called Information Governance: the skills and knowledge that organisations need which looks at the need to develop in-house capabilities in eDiscovery, security and compliance.
Amit Pandit, managing director at APT search, explains it this way:
"Information governance is a broad discipline that touches on most aspects of the business. It has become a real challenge to find and hire the right people to lead it – 20 percent of CIOs in regulated industries are forecast to lose their jobs in the next few years through failures in information governance2. In the past, companies were quite prescriptive. That view has more recently broadened. Organisations are now starting to find the most appropriate people with a wider skillset such as IT and e-discovery, and from project management or compliance backgrounds."
This paper is worth reading not only by the organisations whose problem it describes, but by those who purport to advise them. You can download a copy here.


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Buying The DreamCloud Adjustable Bed Frame
If you're a fan of DreamCloud or interested in exploring their different products, we think you'll enjoy their adjustable bed frame because we know we did. Similar to DreamCloud's mattress, your adjustable bed frame will also ship in a box the height of a small human. It'll usually ship via FedEx or UPS, but sometimes it does get sent through a different carrier. Either way, it should take about five business days to get to your home.
Once you receive your new bed frame, you'll have 50 nights to make sure it lives up to your expectations. If you decide you don't like it, you can reach out to DreamCloud and they'll either pick up your mattress for you, or they'll help you donate it to a charity near you. You should expect to be refunded within the next week or so.
If you decide to keep your bed frame, it comes with a warranty—DreamCloud will cover your entire adjustable bed frame for three years, from the framework to the electronics. So you can rest easy knowing DreamCloud stands by their products.
See Also: DreamCloud Mattress Review
The Ins And Outs Of This Bed Frame
Getting a box full of unassembled pieces of furniture can sometimes be daunting, and DreamCloud knows that. On their website they claim "it's the fastest adjustable frame assembly in the industry," and even though we haven't tested out every adjustable bed frame out there, we thought it was pretty simple.
They included all the tools you'll need to set up the bed frame, so you won't have to go rummaging through your tool box every 10 minutes for a different tool. It took us about 30 minutes to set up the bed frame and a few extra minutes to figure out the motor clamp, but we think you could get it done a little quicker.
For a queen size mattress, the dimensions of the frame are 60" x 80" x 15," and it obviously gets bigger or smaller depending on the model you choose (twin XL, full, queen, king, and split king). We think it's great you can purchase both a king and split king bed frame, because proper king adjustable bed frames are a little hard to come by. For those of you who go with a split king bed frame, you can take a look at your owner's manual to learn how to sync the two sides together. That way, you can use the split king bed frame with a normal king size mattress if need be.
Whichever one you go with, you'll still have about 10" of storage space to put your winter clothes, extra linens, or whatever else you want to keep under your bed. When the head of your mattress is elevated, it can get up to 40" tall. Then when the foot of your bed is elevated, it can get up to 21" in height. So you have a lot of options as far as which position you want your mattress to be in.
The core is made out of black metal, and it has a grey upholstered border that we think looks good in any bedroom, whether your accents are black and white or pink and yellow. To make sure your bed doesn't go slipping and sliding around the bed frame, there's also a metal bar at the bottom of the frame to hold your bed in place. One thing we don't love about this bed frame is how you can't have a headboard or footboard attached to it, because they would restrict the frame's movement. So if you have a headboard you absolutely cannot part with, this may not be the bed frame for you. Or else, secure the headboard to the wall and just know that there will be some space between the headboard and the bed frame.
On the flip side, we do like how it's not very audible when you're adjusting your bed frame up or down. Sometimes adjustable bed frames can be disruptive and loud, but we think the DreamCloud adjustable bed frame sounds more like a bee buzzing around in the distance. Just make sure you don't put too much pressure in certain sports while it's moving or while in massage mode, or else it does make some noise.
DreamCloud Adjustable Bed Frame Features
With DreamCloud's adjustable bed frame, you're getting a lot more than just a foundation to keep your mattress off the ground. We'll start the list off with one of our favorite features which is the massage setting. You'll be able to control three massage zones (head, flat, and foot) with the wireless remote that DreamCloud will provide for you, and your massage will last fifteen minutes. We're not saying it's a deep tissue massage you'll get in a resort spa, but you'll definitely feel the vibration.
The next feature we really love about this bed frame is the "Zero Gravity" setting, which is the "ZG" button on the wireless remote. Nasa came up with this position for when their astronauts were in space to provide them with support and proper alignment. When you're in this setting, it almost feels as if you're weightless and it's proven to relieve back pressure and boost circulation.
You also have a USB outlet with two ports on the right side of the bed frame, so you won't have to struggle to get your electronics to reach your bedside. Have trouble seeing in the dark? The USB has a little blue night light that will help you see where you need to plug in your USB cord.
A few other features worth mentioning here are all the things you can do with the wireless remote. There's an anti-snore button, timer, a flashlight at the end of it, and you can even program it to double as a TV remote so you can turn your TV on and off with it.
It's Affordable, But Not Cheap
When a company includes so many additional features to a bed frame like DreamCloud has, they usually up the prices a little more. With that being said, we think DreamCloud was pretty fair with their pricing considering everything you get with their adjustable bed frame. You can see a complete breakdown of pricing by size in the table below and on DreamCloud's website.
|Price (MSRP)
|Twin XL
|Split King
If you compare those prices to the Leesa Adjustable Base which starts at $1,000 for a twin, or a Bear Adjustable base which retails around $1,800 for a queen, you can see why we think DreamCloud's price is really reasonable.
Final Thoughts On The Bed Frame
When we take price, features, and assembly time into consideration, we would say the DreamCloud adjustable bed frame is Slumber Yard approved. We really like the zero gravity and massage feature, and we love how good of a value the whole thing is. So if you're looking into buying this bed frame, we think you should go for it. If you don't end up liking it, remember you can always return it for a full refund (as long as it's in the 50-night trial period). That's it for us and thanks for choosing the Slumber Yard for all your nighttime needs.
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We're not exactly sure why. They could have found that a majority of people who buy a DreamCloud mattress don't go with a California king. It's always possible they will come out with a California king bed frame in the future.
They don't currently have any showrooms, but the folks over at DreamCloud don't believe that a five minute test is adequate to see if you enjoy their product. They do have a 50-night trial for their adjustable bed frame so you don't have to fully commit to the bed frame when you purchase, and you'll have plenty of time to try it out.
Not every mattress will work with the DreamCloud adjustable base, but most bed-in-a-box mattresses will. If the bottom of your mattress is flexible it should be fine, but if you can always double check with the company just to make sure.
On Dreamcloudsleep.com you can find their hybrid memory foam mattress, as well as different bed frames including a foundation, and a bed frame with a headboard.
Not at this point, but that isn't to say they'll never have any promotions going on. We have updated deals and coupons from many different brands over on our deals page.
Yes! Financing is available through Affirm and you can choose that option at checkout. They'll do a soft credit check to make sure you qualify for financing. You will quickly be notified with the amount you were approved for, your interest rate, and how long you have to pay it off.


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Dear Lois:
The problem starts with what's called "spam" or junk e-mail. I have a huge spam problem myself, with thousands of messages backed up in my computer like plastic bags in a cow.
(I hate it when movies follow plastic bags drifting on the wind—it's not romantic at all. Those bags always end up in some innocent animal's gullet; I hear caribou in
And the "spammers" are incredibly lazy, sending e-mails from phony people like "Kallistrate Rozelle" or "Jisley McNish," with titles like "re: what you said" or random gibberish, like you should be thrilled to get whatever garbage leaks from their computers, probably sitting in a hut stinking of mutton and sour milk in some dumpy village in the middle of Asia that was leveled by Mongol hordes centuries ago, and has attracted nothing but criminals, windborne insects and plastic bags ever since.
Anyway, the spam carries "viruses and worms" that can eat your computer's brain, which is already full of stuff called "software" that's so wormy it brings to mind the Swiss Alps, which are ready to collapse from all the tunnels the Swiss dig to hide their fighter jets, gold bullion and anisette.
And oddly enough, the story of the Swiss suggests a solution to your problem.
Like isolated people everywhere, the Swiss are ornery and paranoid. Villagers used to wait along mountain trails for hikers, ply them with wine, cheese and rosy cheeked charm, then guide them to the scenic rim of the local "Hidey Hole" and shove them in.
These mile-deep chasms have served the Swiss since prehistoric times, when the
(Note that "Hidey" is a modern sanitization of "Heidi," as the holes were originally named for the ancient expectation that widows promptly follow their husbands into the afterlife. Swiss widows would mourn for a day, then bid life a Bacchanalian goodbye for a week or two. Once sufficiently cleansed and exhausted, they would dress in their wedding lederhosen and jump into the Hole, yodeling for their husband, e.g. "Yodel-ay he...Helmut!! I am coming!"
These oaths would echo across the
Such behavior may be deemed unacceptable now, but what could be expected from outcasts threatened by creaking glaciers and knife sharp peaks, with merciless armies rampaging through every summer—from Rome, Gaul and who-knows-what dung worshipping, gull gut divining, pickled pig snout eating heathenish lands—to steal their herbs and womenfolk?
And even though today's Swiss are famously civilized, I understand their constitution still compels them to "accost and confine to a burlap sack" any stranger who approaches their property, then to "feed the Hole" with the sack. The anxiety produced by this rustic pre-emptive attitude is what makes people there so polite and the trains run on time.
So Lois, I suggest you take the "Swiss approach" to your computer. Pull its plug, drown it in the bathtub and drag it out to the curb, where garbage professionals can pick it up for disposal at your local Hidey Hole.
If you get lonely for e-mail afterwards, just answer your phone and talk to the telemarketers—they get lonely down there in the boiler room stinking of oil and cigarettes, dialing number after number searching for someone who will listen. And if you get the urge to look up useless facts (i.e., "google"), call your local librarian—thanks to the internet, they're all lonely too.
Dear Reader:
I have sad news: My good friend Shelly Suggstein passed away last week.
Shelly and I go back to the beginning, when I hosted a live late-night cable TV show, Answers After Dark, and took callers' questions from an easy chair, dressed in a red silk smoking jacket and fidgeting with a silver cigarette case.
Shelly was the show's director/producer, and he helped me become who I am today with his infectious zeal for bringing "dignity and class" to the "advice game."
(In spite of our classy approach, our ratings "tanked" when The Psychic SWAT Team began airing at the same hour, featuring four psychics on screen at a time, making it impossible to keep track of who was predicting (advising) what for whom, thus relieving them all of responsibility. Our show was cancelled three months later.)
The years passed and I lost touch with Shelly. I received a postcard a few years ago—one of those silly tourist cards with a picture of a "Jackalope"—on which Shelly reported that he'd met and married "an angel" named Susquehanna Jones—a casino hostess/yoga instructor in Laughlin, Nevada, who was "a dead ringer for Pam Grier in Foxy Brown"—and was honeymooning in the Southwest before returning to New York.
According to the police, who found a letter in his apartment addressed to me, things did not work out with Susquehanna. The officers discovered stacks of passionate letters Shelly wrote begging her to return from Atlantic City, where she'd moved after a series of arguments with his mother; every single letter had been returned unopened. They also found a dozen increasingly shrill messages from his mother, confined to a
wheelchair in her home in Queens, stored on his answering machine.
Here is the letter Shelly addressed to me:
My Dear Friend:
So this is how it ends. We all seek "the answer," though we know it before we begin: The answer is Love.
But what if the answer cracks your heart, sends blood spurting through your fingers and destroys your favorite sweater, with a Navajo design so vivid it brought tears to your eyes with some marrow-deep memory? What if a week later the plants die and the cat leaves, and a week after that the yellowed blinds, cracked and brittle as dry leaves, fall to the floor and give the room to the sun?
They will find my withered arms locked around our honeymoon portrait. There we posed at the rim of the Grand Canyon, blinded by the photographer's flash, looking past each other at separate hemispheres of stars, with a tourist helicopter hovering between us in the distant haze like a dragonfly.
When I close my eyes, I can still see the new star, lit by our vows at the Bullhead City Best Western Motel Wedding Chapel, that sparkled across our night skies for two magical weeks, then began to fade as the sun lifted itself from
It seems like a million years ago, and I feel a million years old. But do not feel bad for me; I found love for a few moments, and its memory will lift me—from this thwarted thing, this knotted tumor of choked passion—into the blinding heart of the sun. The rest of me, those billion cells throbbed with pain, will drift to sleep like bees in a drought-starved hive, then crumble in a pyramid of dust.
But before I put down this pen, I have one final piece of advice: If you see something in her eyes, calling from across the galaxy, do not shy away from the light…
–Eternally Yours, Shelly
And other than the imaginary blood, that's exactly how they found him, as though he'd just sat down, embraced the portrait, and waited patiently for his bodily fluids to evaporate.
Maybe love didn't work out for poor Shelly, but, as the letter proves, he never lost his enthusiasm for "dignity and class," even in the throes of passion thwarted. And now, when I weave through the crowds of this teeming metropolis and find myself sagging from the weight of earthly concerns, I recall his sage advice and lift my eyes to search the faces streaming past…for a sign, for that light.
ContributorKurt Strahm
Joseph Rodriguez: Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987By Michael Shorris
NOV 2021 | ArtSeen
Late morning on East Houston, a trucker leans from his cab to look, and a young mother twists from her stroller to stare. The onlookers are studying Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 19771987, Joseph Rodriguezs hard-to-miss new show along the chain link fences of First Street Green.
Sara Erenthal's Art of the Street and ScreenBy Megan N. Liberty
MAY 2020 | ArtSeen
Artist Sara Erenthals canvases are discarded objects: flat-screen TVs, couches, refrigerators, and wooden panels and doors. Her characteristic iconography is a hand-painted, black-outlined woman with big hair, almond-shaped eyes, and small red lips accompanied by lines like ILL BE AS LOUD AS I NEED TO BE, GOOD NEWS IS COMING STAY TUNED, and I WONT MAKE MYSELF VULNERABLE TODAY (the last notably written on a discarded mattress).
Fires Burning, Windows Breaking
MAY 2020 | Books
Jon Roemer's harrowing, hilarious, and strangely heartfelt debut novel, Five Windows upends two essential tropes: the thriller and the dystopic novel. À la James Stewart in Rear Window, Roemer's injured small press editor/protagonist seldom leaves his SF apartment and doesn't witness anything near as thriller-fulfilling as a murder, yet readers will flip as quickly as they can through the pages to find out if he will sign on the ominous Sebastian Junger-like famous writer to his small press, what exactly happened to the drastically injured Darrel who lives upstairs, and what is going on with the household of women, including his ex-wife, living in a building that is visible from his window. Without living dead or creepy disappearances, Roemer conjures a subtly dystopic world, just a little bit weirder and scarier than our own.
Tishan Hsu: skin-screen-grassBy Cassie Packard
DEC 21-JAN 22 | ArtSeen
Tishan Hsu has been exploring the messy entanglement of bodies and technology for over three decades. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and video, his work is characterized by a slippery lexicon of biological and technological motifslingering on the touch in touchscreen and the face in interfacethat probes the more visceral, affective, and lived aspects of our relationships to machines.


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Job Information
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Teacher - Durant Daycare 1 in Durant, Oklahoma
Teacher - Durant Daycare 1
Start Rate: $15.95/hour
Job Summary: Responsible for implementing an education program that is developmentally appropriate and congruent with the Center's philosophy and goals. The teacher is responsible for demonstrating good teaching practices and maintaining the security and safety of the children in the Child Development Center.
Primary Tasks:
Prepares, posts and implements lesson plans and posted daily activities that address all developmental areas.
Guides children through a daily routine; teaches children how to care for materials and equipment; administers appropriate guidance when necessary.
Trains teacher's aides; delegates assignments and supervises assistant teachers/aides.
Observes and maintain records of each child including daily attendance, meal counts, and any accident or abuse reports.
Maintains learning centers using appropriate group management techniques; creates and frequently alters learning centers to keep them attractive and interesting.
Assures that all practices and activities are in compliance with the OKDHS Licensing Requirements for Centers.
Collects and gathers materials needed for the next day's class activities.
Make sure classroom is set up and ready for the children's arrival the next day.
Ensure the health, welfare, and safety of the children in the group or on field trips.
Prepare and monitor meal time activities with the group.
Participates in staff meetings and staff development and professional activities with consideration for the licensing guidelines for training.
Monitors appearance of bulletin boards.
Promotes parent involvement in Center conferences, parent meetings, center activities and classroom plans.
Other duties as assigned by management.
Required Education, Skills and Experience:
High School diploma or GED
Exhibits strong interpersonal skills, multitasking ability, and time management skills
Ability to work independently with minimum direction and communicate quickly and effectively both orally and in writing
Possess knowledge and ability to work with appropriate software applications
Able to perform the physical requirements of the job that may include lifting up to 55 pounds, frequent standing, walking, bending, and kneeling
Must have a valid state driver's license for appropriate vehicle with a clean driving record
Experience working with children
Associate's Degree in early childhood education or related field
Possesses exceptional interpersonal skills, effective leadership and time management skills
Exhibits the ability to be flexible and adaptable, able to engage in multiple tasks, able to respond quickly and appropriately to situations
Possess knowledge and ability to work with appropriate software applications
Able to perform the physical requirements of the job that may include lifting up to 55 pounds, frequent standing, walking, bending, and kneeling
Experience in or minimal formal education in child development or early childhood education
Job Education
Primary Location OK-Durant
Work Locations Durant Daycare 2752 Big Lots Drive Durant 74701
Organization Education
Schedule Regular
Day Job
Job Posting 09/16/2022, 1:45:33 PM
Req ID: 22009917


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Reframing Library Instruction: Applying Metacognitive Pedagogy to One Shots and Beyond
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Conference Presentation
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Metacognition, or the ability to think about one's own thinking, is being adopted across higher education. Teaching and Learning Centers are offering campus wide workshops and initiatives, nationally known speakers are being brought in, and the language is even being incorporated into QEP plans. But can these same strategies that are being embraced by subject faculty be used to assist students in the research process? The session will discuss metacognition, what it is, some of its key strategies, and how it is being applied in higher education. The presenters will provide successful (and unsuccessful) examples of metacognitive pedagogy from their own library instruction. The presenters and participants will brainstorm together, using facilitation methods, about how metacognitive strategies can add value to library instruction, even helping to address the threshold concepts of the new ACRL Framework. Extended discussion and brainstorming will surround the different levels of collaboration with faculty, helping participants create a take away list of good, better and best concrete strategies for incorporating metacognitive pedagogy into their library instruction.
Recommended Citation
Beirne, Heather K. and Montgomery, Nicole, "Reframing Library Instruction: Applying Metacognitive Pedagogy to One Shots and Beyond" (2016). EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 8.
Conference Name
Kentucky Library Association Library Instruction Roundtable Retreat (KLA LIRT) 2016


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On Thomistic accounts of chance and design, God micromanages the outcomes of chancy processes by means of primary causation, ensuring that the processes secondarily cause precisely the results that God wants. (Thomists often say a similar thing about free will, too.) On such accounts we can distinguish between two different ways that God can achieve a result, which I will call the miracle and natural methods. In the miracle method, God suspends the causal powers of the chancy process and directly cause the specific outcome he wants. If he does this on a die toss (I'll assume that die tosses are indeterministic), then the hand tosses the die, but somewhere there will be a break in the natural chain of causes. In the natural method, God causes the the causal powers of the chancy process to cause, in the way proper to them, the specific outcome he wants. Presumably, given that the natural method preserves the value of finite causes' activity, much of the time God providentially acts using the natural rather than the miracle method.
Now suppose that I am about to toss a die. And suppose that I pray, for all the right reasons (say, a good to a friend will result from non-six, and nobody will be harmed by it) and in the right way, that the die should show a non-six, while no one else prays that it should show a six. Moreover, suppose that God in fact does not have any significant counterbalancing reasons in favor of the die showing six. Let C be a complete description of the state of the world--including all the facts about the universe on which God's reasons are based--just before the die toss result. This seems a paradigmatic case for God to be moderately likely to exercise providential control. Moreover, let us suppose with the typical Thomist that almost all the time, excepting cases of particularly spectacular demonstrations, God exercises providential control by the natural method. Suppose then:
- P(God wills non-six | C and no miracle) > 0.95.
- P(non-six occurs | C and no miracle) > 0.95.
Suppose that in fact three occurs. It is then obviously correct to explain the non-six by adverting to the above 0.95 probability. The question of interest to me is this: Can we also explain the non-six by the fact that natural causes described in C, in isolation from the facts about prayer and the like, had a probability of 5/6 of producing a non-six?


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Top 10 UFC Firings
Nudie pics, out of control tweets, pushing a ref? These are just a few of the things that have gotten people fired from the UFC over the years. Montage King put together a list of the Top 10 UFC Firings and/or suspensions. See if you think they left anyone out. 10. Chandella Powell 9. Miguel … Read more


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Something happened yesterday that broke my heart. I was chatting to someone, though I don't know him, he asked me if I had any children. Within about 3 seconds I had had an internal conversation with myself, "Shit what shall I say?" glanced at my workmate, searched her face for the answer then said "No" then battled for the next ten minutes not to burst into tears. If I had said "Yes" it may have opened up a conversation that would have no doubt ended up with me in tears in front of a stranger, a bit awks!!!!
I felt incredibly guilty that I had just denied my Son but I shouldn't feel guilty should I? I thought about it for a while after that, there was no need for me to feel guilty at all- I don't have to discuss everything with everyone, I share a lot of myself and my story with my friends and strangers alike, I hope that people get something from my openness, as much as I get from being open, but it doesn't have to be a 24/7 deal.
I think anyone who talks about grief, sadness, epilepsy, loss, depression or anything really that shows our imperfections, shows that we are vulnerable, not 'perfect' are doing the rest of us a service, we are not alone right? There are other people who feel just like me right? I have a disability and I'm not the only one right? Feeling isolated and alone and feeling like you are the only one going through what you are going through is never good. No one has a perfect life, though with social media being what it is we can sometimes be guilty of posting the good stuff right? I have such a great life, look at the selfie of me I'm the happiest person on the planet!! While I am a massive fan of social media and I use it a lot, I think a lot of us can be a bit guilty of guilding our lives a bit at times.
But we all choose what we put out there, I chose at that moment to say "No" to that man, not because I was ashamed, that I'm not proud of my Son, because I am, more than anything else in my life ever, but at that moment, with that person, I didn't want to talk.
Sometimes, most of the time it's good to talk, but now and then it's not.


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The Army is delaying its next-generation Ground Combat Vehicle program by extending the technology development (TD) phase by six months, according to a memo obtained by Defense News.
The Army also plans to award an engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract to a single vendor — as opposed to the previously planned two vendors — in late fiscal 2014, the letter said.
A Jan. 17 memo (PDF) from the Pentagon's head of acquisition, logistics and technology to the Army secretary states that the changes are being made "in anticipation of the fiscal pressures over the FY14-18 timeframe," and "the need for additional development time led to this restructured program."
By moving the program's schedule back by six months, a final production decision is now expected some time in fiscal 2019 as opposed to the expected first quarter of fiscal 2018.
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The Labour donor John Mills has quit the Vote Leave campaign amid accusations of infighting in the group over whether its leaders are taking the Labour vote seriously enough. He now plans to run a Brexit campaign aimed squarely at Labour voters.
Mills, who made his fortune in home shopping, was a founding member of Vote Leave which earlier this month was awarded designation as the official campaign for the Leave vote in Britain's referendum on European Union membership. He has previously served as chairman of the organisation.
But yesterday he issued a statement announcing his departure as Deputy Chair and his intention to run Labour Leave instead, with a view to ensuring that Labour voters come out in support of a Brexit.
"Over the last few weeks, within the campaign, I have come to believe that it would be useful and more effective for the Leave campaign if there was a strong and independent Labour voice for the arguments to leave the EU," he said.
"Labour people are looking for an organisation that speaks directly to their concerns in a voice they recognise as their own.
"My resignation today from Vote Leave means that I can now focus fully on my role as Responsible Person and Director of Labour Leave, and create that distinctive voice. In the run up to the vote on 23 June, Labour Leave will provide a compelling and robust left-of-centre case for leaving the EU."
He added that Labour Leave "will continue to work with Vote Leave, as well as other Leave campaigns." However, although Vote Leave lists numerous affiliated groups on its website, including Conservatives for Britain, Liberal Leave, Students for Britain and even Historians for Britain, Labour Leave is not listed among them.
Mr Mills' resignation comes amid reports of infighting within the campaign, and senior Vote Leave staff making it clear that they were not impressed with Mr Mills' media appearances, The Times has reported.
Mr Mills had long made it clear that he was unhappy with the way the campaign was being run: in February a letter to Labour colleagues penned by Mr Mills was leaked to The Times which revealed deep discontent with the political thrust of the campaign from the Labour side.
"The bottom line is that Labour Leave are fed up with the way they have been treated by Vote Leave and the — intransigent and insensitive from their perspective — policies it pursued," he had written.
Vote Leave is now jointly chaired by Gisela Stuart, the Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, and Conservative justice secretary Michael Gove, but Mr Mills' departure, and his previous display of dissatisfaction casts further doubts on Vote Leave's claims to be a truly cross-party organisation, as stipulated by the Electoral Commission which ruled on the official campaign designation.
Mr Mills departure follows that of Labour's Kate Hoey and Green Party Peer Baroness Jones, who both quit in February. Ms Hoey was particularly scathing about Vote Leave campaign chiefs Dominic Cummings and Matthew Elliott, who she said had deliberately spread lies about other campaigns to discredit them.
"The board is packed with Dominic and Matthew people," she said, adding: "they have not got the capacity to […] work with 'ordinary people' and all the other little campaigns that have been there for years, working really hard. They haven't got the capacity to bring people together – and that's what we need now."


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On February 1, 1944, two unlikely allies in the United States Senate—Robert Wagner (D-New York) and Robert Taft (R-Ohio)—introduced a resolution that caused shockwaves around the globe. Their initiative advocated American support for "free and unlimited entry of Jews into Palestine for the creation of a Jewish commonwealth." This was a bold move and one that put the Roosevelt administration on the spot.
Nearly five years earlier, the British government had released a White Paper on the issue of Palestine—one that largely abandoned the Jewish people in that region. Since the 1917 Balfour Declaration and during the period of the British Mandate they had been largely supportive of Jewish migration to Palestine and the idea of a Jewish state there. In essence, the White Paper changed all of that. It advocated severe limitations on Jewish immigration to Palestine—this at a time when European anti-Semitism was reaching critical mass.
The gang in Berlin was pleased.
Interestingly, at the time of that 1939 White Paper, two men who would later strongly support the creation of the modern state of Israel saw things differently. Winston Churchill spoke to the House of Commons on May 22, 1939 "as one intimately and responsibly concerned in the earlier states of our Palestine policy," and insisted that he would not "stand by and see the solemn engagements into which Britain has entered before the world set aside."
And here at home, Senator Harry S. Truman from Missouri—who had no clue at the time that he'd be a major player on the world stage in a few years--also issued a forthright condemnation that was inserted into the Congressional Record:
"Mr. President, the British Government has used its diplomatic umbrella again," (this being an unmistakable dig at Neville Chamberlain) "…this time on Palestine. It has made a scrap of paper out of Lord Balfour's promise to the Jews. It has just added another to the long list of surrenders to the Axis powers."
But instead of embracing the ideas put forth by Taft and Wagner in 1944, the White House, State Department and other powerful entities in the government pulled out all the stops to make sure that the idea of proposing a homeland in Palestine for Jews went away. They did this even though they knew very well about the ongoing mass extermination of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
The standard answer to the obvious question as to why the Holocaust evoked little official response from our government until near the end of the war has been to cite "isolationism," or "economic Depression," or "xenophobia" in our nation. Presumably, the idea of doing anything overtly "pro-Jewish" was politically untenable—so goes the argument.
But a closer look reveals something else going on at the time—and ever since.
The most lasting legacy of the toxins that created an epochal global conflict is the fact that elements of Nazism in many ways survive to this day in Islamism. The short-sightedness of FDR's cronies was corrected in part by his successor, a man of courage who chose to recognize the new State of Israel eleven minutes after its birth in May of 1948. But the question remains: Why did FDR and company not get on the bandwagon, even while millions of Jews were being slaughtered?
Sadly, the real reason has a lot to do with U.S. surrender to Nazi propaganda—its power and content.
Largely overlooked or dismissed in the years since is the fact that the Nazi propaganda machine, the distortion factory that shaped attitudes in Germany throughout the duration of the infamous Third Reich, had its most lasting impact far away from the boroughs and beer halls of Deutschland. In fact, Hitler's nightmarish vision of ridding Europe of Jews was only the beginning of what he wanted to do—he wanted to extend The Final Solution to Palestine.
And he had been preparing the hearts and minds of the Muslim world for many years.
Jeffrey Herf, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, has written an eye-opening book about the effectiveness of Nazi ideas in the Middle East during the Second World War called, "Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World." In it, he describes the Nazi campaign for the minds and hearts of the Arab world in great detail—particularly the Axis radio programs that ran in Arabic around the clock from late 1939 until March of 1945.
These broadcasts spewed venomous anti-Semitism and pushed every demagogic button imaginable. They were also highly effective. In fact, long after the last vestige of Nazi rhetoric faded from consciousness in Europe, the poisonous seeds planted back then are still bearing deadly fruit.
The mind-set that gave way to the Third Reich is very much alive and well in the Muslim world of the Middle East.
When those two senatorial strange-bedfellows offered their visionary resolution in 1944 about a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the "Axis Broadcasts in Arabic" were way ahead of the story. Mr. Herf has accessed a significant cache of transcripts and leaflets produced by the Nazis during the war—materials that have not been adequately examined—until now.
So back in 1944, any hopes a couple of well-intentioned voices in Washington might have had to garner widespread national support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine were dashed by forces largely influenced by the hate-speak of Nazi propagandists. Berlin, broadcasting in Arabic, referred to Taft and Wagner as "criminal American senators," while announcing, "a great tragedy is about to be unfolded, a great massacre, another turbulent war is about to start in the Arab countries."
And in phraseology that sounds eerily familiar to what we still regularly hear from Islamists, the Nazis described the stakes as kill or be killed:
"Arabs and Moslems, sons of the East, this menace threatens your very lives, endangers your beliefs and aims at your wealth. No trace of you will remain. Your doom is sealed. It were better if the earth opened and engulfed everybody; it were better if the skies fell upon us, bringing havoc and destruction; all this, rather than the sun of Islam should set and the Koran perish...Stir up wars and revolutions, stand fast against the aggressors, let your hearts, afire with faith, burst asunder! Advance your armies and drive out the menace."
Bear in mind that this is a Nazi broadcast to the Arab/Muslims in Palestine. Of course, the relationship between Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti in Jerusalem, is well known and documented (see my article: "Hitler's Favorite Jihadist"), but the broadcasts from Berlin to Palestine are just now beginning to be examined. And what is being found is further evidence that to refer to Islamists as Nazi or Fascist-like is no smear—or stretch.
The rhetoric broadcasted to the Middle East 70 years ago is still being noised about—and even more pervasively and effectively. Back then, the attitudes it reinforced, complete with distortion, hate and prejudice, caused U.S. officials, from FDR on down, to "go wobbly"—as Margaret Thatcher would say.
It is sadly clear that the most lasting impact of the Nazi propaganda machine is that murderous ideas espoused back then are alive and well in our day and age and still being used to threaten and kill Jews—while nouveau wobblers turn away.


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Tune in to a live broadcast of the Emotional Wisdom Training radio show on Friday, August 11 from 1:00 to 1:50 pm EST on W4CY.com as I am joined by John Vespasian.
John Vespasian and I are aligned in recognizing that the past shares insights into our future as we thrive in the present.
John Vespasian is the author of eight books about rational living, including "When Everything Fails, Try This" (2009), "Rationality Is the Way to Happiness" (2009), "The Philosophy of Builders: How to Build a Great Future with the Pieces from Your Past" (2010), "The 10 Principles of Rational Living" (2012), "Rational Living, Rational Working: How to Make Winning Moves When Things Are Falling Apart" (2013), "Consistency: The Key to Permanent Stress Relief" (2014), "On Becoming Unbreakable: How Normal People Become Extraordinarily Self-Confident" (2015) and his most recent book, "Thriving in difficult times: Twelve lessons from Ancient Greece to improve your life today" (2016).
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A Fond Farewell
The current Oakwood Dining Hall and Chapel are no more. The oldest building on our grounds has been dismantled and a modern, bigger dining hall and chapel will take its place. We are excited for this new addition. Many hours and much labor have already gone into the dream that will soon become a…See Event Details


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Ideas from Wisconsin's 2014 Land Trust Retreat
The Land Trust Retreat in October was dubbed both "Land Trust 101" and "Executive Director Therapy" by participants, indicating the range of benefits it offered for brand new board members and seasoned leaders and staff alike.
More than anything else participants in this year's retreat valued the opportunity to network. The strength of the land trust community truly lies in identifying issues and tackling them together.
One retreat session in particular gave participants space to reflect together on the "big picture." The room was abuzz as each small group moved through a series of questions, rotating from station to station to add to and comment on the ideas of previous groups.
Here are some of the themes that emerged.
Land trust folks know that conserving land over time is an awesome responsibility. These are some of the questions that keep them up at night.
- What data could we collect on easements that would be helpful for science and management far into the future?
- What more can we do to ensure resource quality and availability for future generations?
- How can we weather changes in government programs and resources to manage natural resources?
- How can we demonstrate conservation's relevance to more people and make the connection with global and local issues like climate change, poverty, disease?
These are ideas and directions land trusts are interested in exploring.
- Creative fundraising approaches, like mobile payments, electronic currency, crowdfunding. Promotion of digital currencies like bitcoin will be an efficient method for fundraising. With the popularity of technologies like the bitcoin code bot, many people have shifted to digital currencies and experts also recommend it to be an ideal method of fundraising.
- Financing with a Chip Fee or transfer fee for conservation
- Web-based tools for monitoring and stewardship by staff and citizen scientists
- Electronic record keeping, with proper standard/filing format
- Remote-control drones-new ways to access property as well as potential for confrontational issues
- Pathways to engage the wider community through social media, mobile technology, and virtual tours
- Becoming more targeted in land owner contacts (work with UWSP on this)
- Developing a "watershed" message, making riparian buffer zones a "commodity"
- Treat dairy manure properly in watershed by trails, like industrial waste
Participants also listed ideas for working together to increase their effectiveness and efficiency.
- Share tools & resources: hardware tools, work crews, monitoring
- Joint workshops
- Share donor lists, recognize that overlap occurs
- Peer support and accountability for meeting standards, whether accredited or not
- Help/contract for technical support, GIS
- Cooperate on grant writing/applications
- Baselines preparation/GIS job sharing
- Board member shadowing
- Shared professional support/mentorship
- Trade off facilitation of meetings
- Convene board meetings on the same date to share guest speaker
- Pass CE's to neighbor, "save" $50,000
- Serve as back-up holders
- Mergers
- Develop expert/skill directory on-line
- Shared PR, "brought to you by Wisconsin's Land Trusts"
This is a conversation that will be ongoing. At Gathering Waters we welcome your continued reflections and suggestions on how we can work together to make land trusts stronger. Contact Meg Domroese, Land Trust Program Director (meg at gatheringwaters dot org), or reach out to one of the members of Wisconsin's Land Trust Council. Council members keep their fingers on the pulse of land trusts and help us to set priorities strategically.
With our Land Trust Alliance partners we will take these ideas up in Ask-an-Expert calls, peer mentoring activities, and other training opportunities, including at future retreats.


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The sun may represent a big problem for our skin especially on the face, because if it's exposed to sunlight for a long time, it can lead to the appearance of spots in many cases. However, there is a wide variety of products that promise to remove spots, and although some may be effective, it is important to know that the chemical in this type of product only cause serious damage to our health.
But in this video remedies are completely natural, so you don't have to worry about adverse side effects.
Preparation and use
Mash the potato well first, then squeeze half a lemon in it and mix until you get a homogeneous mixture. After you're done, apply the paste on your face and massage in circular movement, then leave it to act for 20 minutes before rinsing with water. Both potatoes and lemon are natural whiteners that can easily bleach your skin.
Preparation and use
The preparation for this mask is easy – just mix the ingredients in a blender, then apply the mixture on your face. Leave the powerful whitening mask to work for 15 minutes, then rinse with cold water in the end.
Preparation and use
Mix the vegetables in a blender until you get a homogeneous mixture. Next, clean your face well and apply the mixture on your face, then rub in gentle circular motion. Leave the remedy to work for 25 minutes and rinse with cold water in the end.
Preparation and use
Like the previous mask, just mix the ingredients in a blender until you get a nice smooth texture. Apply the mask on your face, then rub it gently and leave it to work for 20 minutes before washing with water.
Use any of these masks and your face will be clean and spotless in just a short time!
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MIDLAND CITY, Alabama -- The man who the Dothan Eagle is reporting shot a school bus driver in Midland City and is holding a child hostage was scheduled to be in court on Wednesday for a bench trial on a menacing charge.
The newspaper is reporting that Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, is holed up in a bunker behind his residence on located near Destiny Church off U.S. 231.
Law enforcement hasn't released the name of the suspect who is accused of shooting a school bus driver around 4 p.m. near Destiny Church and kidnapping a 6-year-old child from the bus.
The Dothan Eagle is now reporting that police are evacuating a residential area near Dykes' home.
Police haven't released the condition of the school bus driver or if the suspect has the child with him.
The Dothan Eagle interviewed James Edward Davis Jr, who said Dykes pulled a gun on him and his daughter on Dec. 10 because he believed Davis had driven into Dykes' yard.
Dykes was arrested Dec. 22 and charged with menacing, according to the newspaper.
Dothan Police Sgt. Rachel David is acting as spokeswoman for the Dale County Sheriff's Department and is releasing few details on the shooting and kidnapping.
David confirmed that Dale County and Ozark City Schools will be closed on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
The Dale County Sheriff's Department has established a command post location at the intersection of 231 North and Private Road 1539 in Dale County.
Multiple agencies are present assisting with the incident.
Authorities say a call was received regarding a shooting involving a Dale County School Bus at 3:36 p.m.
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Jumeirah International, the Dubai-based luxury hospitality group, introduced a new hotel concept to the Kingdom's journalists with an exclusive preview of Dubai's newest resort hotel, Mina A' Salam.
Mr. Bill Walshe, Corporate Director of Sales and Marketing, who visited the Kingdom with his Sales Team, also announced special summer rates for Saudi travelers to Dubai.
Mina A' Salam, translated as "Port of Peace", has been designed as a 'Grand Boutique Hotel', a 292-room luxury hotel embodying the attributes of intimacy, comfort and personalized service associated with fine boutique hotels around the world, according to a company press release.
Scheduled to open in September 2003, Mina A' Salam will be the first hotel to open within the Madinat Jumeirah. This Arabian Resort will be the largest, luxury beachfront property in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), extending along more than one kilometer of Arabian Gulf shores.
The design of Madinat Jumeirah has been inspired by the architectural legacy of the Arabian Peninsula. It is scheduled to open fully in Autumn 2004. Madinat Jumeirah will encompass two five star hotels: Mina A'Salam and Al Qasr, as well as 31 villas which have all been designed to reflect the Gulf's heritage in design and architecture. The resort will be completed by Autumn 2004.
Jumeirah International properties group encompasses the Burj Al-Arab that has become a true icon and landmark for Dubai, the award winning Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Emirates Towers Hotel, Offices and Shopping Boulevard, The Jumeirah Beach Club, The World Trade Centre Hotel Dubai and Wild Wadi water park. In addition, the group opened The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management in summer 2001.
Jumeirah International has expanded outside the Middle East into London, taking over the management of The Carlton Tower and The Lowndes Hotel in London's Belgravia in December 2001. Following on from Jumeirah International's move into the UK, The Carlton Tower was immediately included in the prestigious 'Leading Hotels of the World' handbook following Burj Al Arab, Emirates Towers Hotel and The Jumeirah Beach Hotel. — (menareport.com)
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"Dick in a Box" SNL Digital Short
"Dick in a Box" is a Saturday Night Live digital short featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg that aired on December 16, 2006.
Following its debut on network television, the sketch became an example of viral video after massive exposure on sites such as YouTube.[1] The song featured was written and produced by Samberg, Timberlake, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island, with associate music director Katreese Barnes.[2] The video is a parody of R&B sex ballad videos from the early 1990s. The song won a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
The music video portrays two Casanova-type men (played by Samberg and Timberlake) singing about giving Christmas gifts to their lovers (played by Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig, respectively). Each man has a gift-wrapped box attached to his waist. The lyrics include step-by-step instructions on how to create the "gift" (1: "Cut a hole in a box", 2: "Put your junk in that box", 3: "Make her open the box... and that's the way you do it!"). They also sing about how a "dick in a box" is better than other gifts, and suitable for any holiday or occasion. At the end of the film, they are both arrested and taken away by the police, presumably for indecent exposure.
"Lazy Sunday" was watched over 5 million times [before NBC pulled it from YouTube]. This one was able to take off even more because NBC posted it themselves on YouTube."— Andy Samberg


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Now if you haven't guessed it already, I love to cook, bake, and most of all entertain. What can I say? I think there's a little 70-year-old Jewish grandmother trapped inside of me whose trying to host her way out. Anyways, one of the few things I like more than entertaining in my home is to do it on someone else's dime and when I'm not stuck doing the dishes! Hence my love affair with planning the company holiday party.
Sure it takes a ton of time and there's a lot of hair-pulling-pressure to find a venue and pick a menu that will satisfy talkers, the anti-social folks, meat eaters, vegans, and gluten-free fanatics without going over budget. But…if you can pull it off…you'll be the most popular person at the water cooler.
This fall, like I've done for the past 5 years, I got my per-person budget from the executive team and I hit the streets of San Francisco in search of the perfect venue, which I'm now convinced is Le Charm in the SOMA district.
Le Charm
Now I'm not an expert per se, but I've been planning corporate events for a few years now, and let's not forget I've attended my fair share of bar-mitzvahs, brisses and studied the fine art of in-homo entertainment. And I'm now certain there are two key elements to throwing a successful corporate event: an abundance of food and plenty of alcohol.
Le Charm serves full-portion authentic French cuisine and their wine list is succinct and reeks of purpose. There are a few more components that make this venue perfect for a party of 60 or less: the tented and heated private back patio, a reasonable restaurant buy-out price, a competitively priced three-course menu, a central location walking distance from a tons of public transportation, and perhaps most the most important thing, availability. Although, I'm not sure that will be the case for long.
We bought out the entire restaurant for the evening and planned on starting with drinks so people could mingle and get warmed up before moving into a sit down dinner.
During the cocktail hour guests had a choice of two white wines (a Sancere, which is like a Pinot Grigio or a Chablis, which is like a Chardonnay) and two reds (Four Graces Pinot Noir or Frog's Leap Zinfandel…which is made with solar energy!). The attentive restaurant staff bobbed and weaved their way through the crowd with trays of crab cakes wrapped in crispy flaky wraps, parmesan puff pastry tarts with goat cheese and roasted red pepper puree, cheesy bite-sized gougeres to pop in our mouths, and canapés with crème fraiche and smoked salmon on nutty wheat bread squares.
*I'm sorry, but between my overflowing glasses of wine in one hand and these delectable bites in the other, I wasn't able to photograph the Hors d'oeuvres. Next time, I promise.
Once everyone was properly buzzed and the conversation flowed like the river Nile, we moseyed on into the dining area. Which at Le Charm is the beautiful covered outdoor patio with heat lamps, tasteful white lights strung all around and ivy vines creeping up the walls.
We played that awkward don't commit to a seat until you know who's sitting where game and eventually everyone sat down and puzzled over their choices for the three-course pre fixe menu.
First Course
First course we had ravioli of Tiger prawns in a garlic white wine sauce with herbs. I don't normally think of ravioli being French cuisine, but Jonathan and I had this dish at their sister restaurant L'ardoise Bistro in the Castro and I almost jizzed in my pants it was so amazing.
The traditional French onion soup gratinée with gruyere cheese was served in individual ceramic pots. It was full bodied and there was tons of flavor. The cheese was charred around the edges and bubbly across the top. "This is the best French onion soup I've ever had," one colleague said.
The truly vegetarian dish (could have been made vegan if we needed) was the endive and radicchio salad with Roquefort cheese and candied walnuts and pears. It's important to offer a light, crispy, and fresh tasting starter if you know the main courses are going to be heavy, and this certainly satisfied that need.
Main Course
Choice of one of the following four:
The pan seared whole trout with mushroom and lemon butter sauce with pommes dauphines. The pommes dauphines were light and fluffy mashed potato balls that are flash fried and slightly crunchy on the outside.
The meat eaters all seemed to order the pan seared Black Angus filet mignon with pommes Landaise in a black peppercorn cream sauce. The pomme Landaise used to be served in duck fat and garlic, but since the foie gras ban passed in California, getting the right duck or goose fat is hard to come by. So now they make these potatoes with garlic and lardons.
For the poultry fans, we had the duck à l'orange over Camarque rice. The rice was a mix of wild long grain rice and white rice with a pith-free slice of an orange. The duck was perfectly cooked with a crispy fatty skin and a pink interior.
And for the vegetarians we had a risotto with mixed mushrooms with truffle oil and parmesan cheese. The rice was slightly undercooked and had a little bite left to it, which is actually the perfect way to serve a risotto, because it continues to cook slowly on the plate and if it's over cooked it can taste mushy.
For dessert, we had caramelized apple tart tatins with a caramel sauce. The apples were soft and paste-like and warm. Yum!
Profiteroles with chocolate suace.
Crème brulee, which is my favorite. Le Charm did a wonderful job on their crème brulee, but it was a little more pudding-like than custardy like the crème brulee we had in Paris at Brasserie Bofinger. That was truly amazing.
And last but not least, we had the chocolate cake with crème anglaise. You have to have a chocolate lava cake equivalent for dessert no matter what event you're putting together.
Tid Bits:
- It's important to note that traditional French onion soup is actually "French vegetarian" meaning there's not actual meat in the dish, but it is made with beef broth.
- You don't want people stopping at a McDonalds on their way home from your company holiday party. When in doubt…."more food" is the answer.
- You may know your own staff, but you don't know their guests. People love an open bar and cocktails can be expensive. Offer to host beers, a red wine, a white wine, and non-alcoholic beverages…all other orders are charge to the individual on consumption.
- Email your staff and ask if they or their guests have any allergies so you can make sure there are items on the menu that are suitable for them.
- There should always be a vegetarian option.


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Her persistence and perseverance mean that every possibility is explored and ultimately the client is provided with the best offer for their property or the most ideal purchase for their dream home. Above and beyond is where Crystal goes to ensure those with whom she partners are completely satisfied. She looks forward to creating such a partnership with you where she not only works FOR you but WITH you to realize your real estate goals.
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RokBox is a state-of-the-art responsive modal solution for WordPress with support for images, videos, widgets and much more.
The essence of RokBox2 is an
 link with some data-sets that let RokBox identify the link in the page. Just like any
 link, a RokBox2 link can be placed just about anywhere in a page.
The most basic and simple example of a RokBox2 snippet to get it up and running is:
This is a RokBox 2 Link
This is a regular
 link. The only extraneous bit is that data-set
data-rokbox. Being just a normal link, it implies that you can have any type of content you want. In this case we used
This is a RokBox 2 Link as simple text, but it could have been an image and worked exactly the same.
NOTE: RokBox2 snippets can be easily generated using the user-friendly Editor Button Plugin.
Data-sets are introduced with HTML5, and allow you to attach data to HTML elements. They are extremely useful for JavaScript. In the past, developers were relying on the
class attribute and different class names where added for referencing settings.
Moving away from class names in favor of data-sets allows you to not only to keep the HTML cleaner, but to also avoid possible conflicts with class names.
RokBox2 has different data-sets, each with a specific meaning and all optional with the exception of
data-rokbox, which is what triggers RokBox2 to identify a link. If the
data-rokbox is not specified, the link will be skipped and will just function as a regular plain link.
Below is a summary of implemented data-sets for RokBox2.
|Triggers RokBox2 to identify an element as a RokBox2 link versus a regular link.
|Defines the caption of the link. It allows HTML syntax, but needs to be converted to HTML entities (more info)
|Associates the link to an album. Many links with the same album will trigger navigation (more info)
|Specifies the element in the DOM, through CSS-style selectors (more info)
|Triggers RokBox2 to auto-generate a thumbnail, if the link is to a local image (more info)
|Sets a fixed size for the RokBox2 popup.
The caption is an optional data-set and will be shown on the popup when the specified link gets triggered.
If desired, a caption can also be written using HTML syntax, but it has to be converted into HTML entities in order to work.
It is suggested not to abuse the HTML syntax in a caption to prevent potential layout issues. The preferred HTML syntax one would use are inline tags, such as
, etc.
Here are a couple of examples of a RokBox2 link with caption, both plain caption and HTML caption.

RokBox 2 Plain Caption

<a data-rokbox data-rokbox-caption="The description of my picture" href="http://(Your Site URL).com/images/my_image.jpg">RokBox 2 HTML Caption
If you do not know how to convert to HTML entities, you can find many online tools to do it for you. We've listed three such tools below.
You could also use the Editor Button which does convert automatically your caption into HTML entities.
Assigning the same album value to different RokBox2 links will trigger the navigation on the popup. You can see the album as a way of grouping certain media into the same context. You can navigate forward or backward either by clicking on the arrows or through the left and right arrows keys (
⇠ /
Imagine having 3 pictures of a product that you want the user to navigate through. This is how you would achieve it:
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
As can be noticed, all three links share the same album name. The album name is just an identifier string and won't be visible anywhere. For this very reason it is advised to keep the album name as simple as possible. Try avoiding using unicode characters or any special characters as they might cause issues during interpretation from RokBox2.
RokBox2 allows you to open in a popup elements that have been already rendered on the document (DOM). The elements must be referenced through the CSS-Style syntax.
For instance, if you wanted to open in RokBox2 an element with the id
#my-element structured in such way:

Item 1

Item 2

Item 3

The equivalent RokBox2 syntax for loading that element will be:
My Element
RokBox2 will find the element
#my-element in the DOM, clone it and open the popup with the cloned element in it.
It is important to note that an element deep in the DOM might have specific styles coming from the template that could potentially get lost once the cloned element gets inserted in the popup at a different level. However, you can style the element in the rokbox popup by targeting it. For example:
.rokbox-wrapper #my-element {
margin: 0;
Below is a screenshot of a real-world example of
data-rokbox-element usage. We are creating a link that opens the search form right into RokBox2.
And this is the syntax used to achieve it:

Search in RokBox 2!

NOTE: It is important to always have an
hrefwhen using data-rokbox-element. Because it is not a true link pointing anywhere, you can use the hash
RokBox2 comes with a built-in thumbnail generator, for local images, that can be configured from the Settings page found by navigating to
Admin -> Plugins -> RokBox.
In these settings you can set the max width, max height and quality of a thumbnail. All thumbnails are saved as JPEG.
When you have a RokBox2 link pointing to a local image (stored under the same WordPress directory as your site), setting the
data-rokbox-generate-thumbnail will trigger RokBox2 to create a thumbnail for you, at the same location where your local image resides and with the
_thumb suffix appended to the name. It will also load it for you automatically, as if you were manually specifying the thumbnail to render.

As shown in the example above, we left the content of the
 tag empty. Even if there was text written there, it would have been removed and replaced by RokBox2 with the auto-generated thumbnail.
The above example generates a thumbnail
http://(your site URL).com/images/planes_thumb.jpg sized
150 x 100 and will automatically get rendered on the page as seen in the screenshot below.
NOTE: Auto generation of thumbnails works ONLY with local images. Generating thumbnails from remote images, videos, music and such, is not possible.
This setting allows you to define a fixed size for the RokBox2 popup. This affects templates that are either responsive or fixed, so beware that the popup will retain the set size no matter what the width of the browser window is.
To set up a fixed-size RokBox2 popup, add
data-rokbox-size="210 213" to the image modifiers where 210 is the width and 313 is the height of the popup image.
You can alternatively use
data-rokbox-size="210 100%" as this will enable automatic height for a box 210px wide.


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Let it snow!
'Tis July and the middle of the year. Melbourne is a cold place to be and short, grey days see us locked indoors with kids these Winter school holidays. Feeling like a little joy?
One thing we Australians miss out on is the joy of Christmas in Winter. Our Summers are spent sweating it out on December 25th each year and our fare is, generally speaking, an untraditional salad with cold meats. Not so Christmassy but we do okay.
Deep down I have always longed to experience a Winter Christmas like those depicted on traditional Christmas cards: Snow, carollers, lanterns (and more snow), mittens, scarves, sugary treats...and snow again.
This past weekend we have had the pleasure of experiencing just that and more at the stunning Christmas in July celebrations at historic Sovereign Hill.
For those of you not in the know, Sovereign Hill is a sensational living history museum located a little over an hour's drive from the centre of Melbourne in historic Ballarat, Victoria. The Sovereign Hill experience gives visitors a taste of life in the 1850's in one of Victoria's richest gold mining districts. Ballarat has a genuinely wealthy history in gold discovery and mining.
But let's get back to that snow!