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Today I am interviewing the wonderful Sarah White, author of Dear Bailey. Before we get started with the questions, here's a little bit more about her and her book!
Sarah White was born and raised in California. Graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Long Beach, she has a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Master's Degree in Counseling. She spends her days as a therapist and her nights and weekends reading and writing stories. She is a winner of the 2013 Harlequin and Wattpad So You Think You Can Write Contest. Her stories include Rookie in Love, Rookie Playing for Keeps, Saving Hope, Falling into Trouble, Letting Go, Full Out and Touch. Her most recent series includes Dear Bailey, Seven Letter Words, Lean on Me, and When it's Over. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @SarahWhiteWrite, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SarahWhiteWrite, www.SarahLWhite.com and Wattpad @SarahLWhite. She is currently represented by Christine Witthohn at Book Cents Literary Agency.
Dear Bailey
Bailey is taking her yearly flight to her father's house in Florida for the summer. When her plane gets delayed, she's forced to spend a few hours at an airport in the middle of nowhere. As a teenager traveling alone, she knows it's best not to talk to strangers-but what if he's in uniform and really cute?
Lucas is traveling alone to Florida to report for duty. His decision to join the Marines might have been impulsive, but he's learning really fast his career with the Marines will involve a lot of "hurry up and wait." He's not interested in making small talk with any other tired travelers-but what if he just can't help but learn her name?
When Bailey agrees to give Lucas her email address after a few hours together in an airport in the middle of nowhere, they'll learn that a lot can happen between "Dear Baily" and "Love, Lucas."
What are some of your favourite books on Wattpad?
I love Jo Watson's Burning Moon. I've also been reading Too Late by Colleen Hoover.
What are some of your favourite books off Wattpad?
I read a lot of books off Wattpad. When I'm not writing, I'm reading. Usually around 200 a year! My favorite authors include Colleen Hoover (Slammed), Jamie McGuire (Beautiful Disaster), Abbi Glines (The Vincent Boys), Kendall Ryan (Unravel Me), John Green (Looking for Alaska, The Fault in our Stars) and Jennifer Niven (All the Bright Places). I also love Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park) and Caroline Kepnes (You).
How long have you been writing/ on Wattpad?
I wrote my first story (Rookie in Love) on Wattpad for the Harlequin contest in 2013. I have posted a few more stories since then, but recently I signed a contract to be traditionally published so my work on there is slowing down.
Why do you like Wattpad?
I like the immediate feedback and how thoughtful and encouraging the readers can be. It's fun to watch the read counts grow and to see what chapters people like the most. I also really love it when I see the same reader commenting on all the chapters and reading all of my stories because then I get to know a little bit about them through our interaction.
How do you get ideas for your stories?
I get ideas from everywhere. Usually I start with one story idea and then branch out the rest in the series by making secondary characters in one story the main character in another.
Why did you decide to write about Marines?
I am married to a former Marine. I wanted to write a story about young love and of course my first thought is how easy it was to be in love with him. Readers really felt connected to the characters and the storyline, which is why I wrote more stories in the series.
Which scene from your books did you enjoy writing the most?
I love the scenes when you first get the feeling that there is going to be a spark between the characters. Building the love story is always the best part. If I had to pick a favorite I'd choose the first chapter of Rookie in Love. It's where it all started.
What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
READ. Read anything and everything. Don't just read in the genre you want to write in. It's important to see how words flow together and what works and what doesn't. I've learned more by reading other author's stories than I have by creating my own.
What is your favourite thing about writing?
The end. I love when I pull a story together and all the pieces start to fit. It feels really good to resolve the conflict and give my characters the happy ever after we all want them to have.
How has your writing developed/ how do you think Wattpad has helped you improve as a writer?
I think reading reader comments has helped me to see what everyone is interested in. It also was the way I broke into being a professional author.
Have you had any criticism/unkindness and if so how did you deal with that?
I have occasionally had readers not like the way I did something, but for the most part everyone has been very kind. There was a time a few summers ago when Wattpad was having glitches and I had to move my story to another platform. I had a lot of negativity from readers who felt entitled to read my work only for free. I don't really worry about those readers because they are few in number compared to the readers who understood my actions and continued to support me.
Would you recommend Wattpad?
I would recommend Wattpad to readers if they want to read stories for free. As an author, I have a few concerns that I'm not going to discuss.
How did you go about being published?
I won the Harlequin/Wattpad SYTYCW contest in 2013. I was published with Harlequin the following year. Now I have an agent who is awesome and works really hard to get me traditional contracts for my other stories.
Anything else you would like to add?
Thanks a lot, Emily!
No problem Sarah, thank you so much for letting me interview you!


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Officially Approved Items (from USNA website):
- White jockey-style brief underwear (18 briefs will be issued on I-Day).
- White crew neck fitted cotton undershirts (9 undershirts will be issued on I-Day). Undershirts will be worn under uniforms and need to be tight fitting.
- White V-neck fitted cotton undershirts (15 undershirts will be issued on I-Day). Undershirts will be worn under uniforms and need to be tight fitting.
- White athletic tube socks (22 pairs of socks will be issued on I-Day). Tube socks need to reach just below mid-calf. Ankle socks will not be authorized for wear.
- Black or Navy Compression "Spandex" Shorts (6 shorts will be issued on I-Day). Shorts shall be worn underneath issued running mesh shorts.
- White sports bras (11 sports bras will be issued to females on I-Day).
- White or nude brassiere (NO regular bras will be issued to females on I-Day. Recommend bring 2). Plebes will have few opportunities to wear these over the summer; however recommended that regular bras be worn during uniform fittings.
- Running shoes
- Toiletries (razors, shaving cream, toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, liquid soap, hygiene products Plebes will have at least one visit to the Midshipmen Store over the summer to purchase necessary items.
- Enough money to last six weeks. Spending opportunities are limited to a few occasions over the summer. Recommend around $100.
- An inexpensive scientific calculator for placement exams. Exams are taken the first few days of Plebe Summer.
- Athletic shoes for any sports in which you will participate (i.e. soccer cleats, basketball shoes).
- Athletic equipment for any sports in which you desire to participate (i.e. lacrosse stick, tennis racket, baseball glove). Do not bring heavy or bulky equipment such as weights, bicycles, or golf clubs.
- Cellular Phone
Un-officially Recommended Items (from the official Parent site--USNA.org):
These Items are best delivered in the first and subsequent Care Packages
- Bleach Pen.
- Small Package of spring clips that hold on Name tags and tie tacs.
- A small (3″ x 5″) American Flag for their desk.
- Several soft cloths to polish shoes, boots and brass.
- Small Wind Up or battery powered Alarm Clock.
- Personal Toiletries including a bottle of Aspirin or Tylenol, cough drops, blister pads.
- Medicated Foot Powder for Athlete's Foot.
- Medicated Body Powder for heat rash and chafing.
- They can't have enough white crew socks.
- Disposable lighter and an extension cord.
- Stamped and addressed envelopes and postcards to make it easier for your Plebe to write home.
Note: Unofficially Recommended Items are NOT on the approved list of things that the Mid can bring on I-Day and may be confiscated if brought to I-Day. If you'd rather not take the chance of them being stored until the end of summer, pack them up and mail them to your Mid via US Mail from the Annapolis Post Office before you leave town on I-Day or immediately upon your arrival back home. Your Plebe will know his/her mailing address at the end of the day.
Additional Information and References (from USNA website):
- Reporting for Induction Day Frequently Asked Questions
- Parents Information Booklet
- Oath of Office and Personal Swearing-in Frequently Asked Questions
- Required Rates for I-Day
- Exercise Routine
More on preparing for Induction Day:
June To Do List for USNA Applicants
Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter's journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, CSG Master Teacher, a USNA columnist for Examiner.com, Editorial Review Board member for ISTE's Journal for Computing Teachers, and a weekly contributor to Today's Author. Currently, she's editing a thriller for her agent that should be out to publishers next summer.


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Twenty-six years after two women publicly battled over the right to claim "Baby M" as her child, most states still have no laws about surrogacy contracts. Four specifically prohibit them. A few permit them only if the would-be parents are married and the carrier acts for purely altruistic reasons, not being paid or reimbursed. In the majority of states, courts rule on a case-by-case basis.
In 1986 William and Elizabeth Stern of Bergen County contracted with Mary Beth Whitehead who answered their newspaper ad. She agreed to be impregnated with William's sperm, carry the child to term, and immediately turn it over the Sterns to raise as their own.
Twenty-four hours after the birth, however, Mary Beth said she couldn't do it, threatened suicide, and fled the state with the infant. The Sterns sought warrants for her arrest and sued for legal custody. The battle raged in the tabloids for almost two years until a judge awarded custody to the Sterns "in the child's best interests" and gave Mary Beth visitation rights.
Almost everyone had an opinion about the case. Some argued a contract is a contract, no matter what it covers. Others felt no women could give away a child to whom she had given birth, no matter what she promised.
Although that argument was never settled to everyone's satisfaction, new issues kept coming up and gestational contracts became more common. Different than a traditional surrogate, a gestational carrier accepts an already fertilized egg and has no genetic relationship to the infant. One New Jersey county ignored a surrogacy contract, acknowledging the father but refusing to record the woman whose egg was used as mother unless she went through a formal adoption process. One carrier changed her mind about a contract with a same-sex couple because they weren't married.
To avoid lawmaking on a case-by-case basis, Sen. Joseph Vitale and Assemblywoman Valerie Vaineri-Huttle drew up bills to clarify surrogacy issues. Immediately opponents and supporters lined up on each side. Some women's groups insisted a carrier must control the product of her body regardless of genetic relationship, and others said surrogacy is purely exploitation of poor women.
The bills call gestational surrogacy a "development in reproductive technology," but Catholic teaching calls any use of surrogates "gravely immoral." One senator who didn't vote said the issue was "a moral gray area."
However, the legislation moved with surprising speed and support through both houses of the Legislature this spring. Hudson's three senators and six Assembly members voted for it.
If the proposal becomes law, gestational surrogacy will be authorized and there will be firm rules for everyone involved. The carrier must be over 21, have given birth at least once before, and if in a committed relationship have the express agreement of her husband or partner. All parties must undergo medical and psychological screenings and be represented by attorneys.
The law is specific about the level of medical care the carrier must accept, but it allows reimbursement of reasonable costs associated with the pregnancy, including care, clothing, food and shelter. It specifies the carrier must surrender the child as soon as it is born and allows all parties to petition the courts in advance of birth for an order naming the intended parents as the sole legal parents. The child will have full access to all records once he or she has reached maturity.
Now the final decision rests with the governor and he's not yet given any hint whether he'll sign it. The issue seems as controversial today as it was a generation ago.


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In Tip 6 for Empower Software's Browse Projects, we review information that is linked to a result in Browse Project.
Choosing the right technology is crucial – so it's great when innovation makes the decision clear-cut. With Gerard Rosse, Associate Director, Structure Guided Chemistry at Dart NeuroScience.
Tip #5: Browse Projects: Using View Filters It's time again to Get Empowered! In the last Tip of the Week, we focused on Empower Chromatography Data Software (CDS), we explored How to Sort and Find… Read more >
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Swansea City vs AFC Bournemouth Preview and Line Up Prediction: Draw 1-1 at 6/1
Swansea City and AFC Bournemouth will play their thirteenth game of the Premier League season at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday, 21st November.
Match Preview:
The teams last played in August 2014 and AFC Bournemouth won the game 3 – 1. Before that they played in April 2008 and AFC Bournemouth won the game 1 – 2.
Swansea City is currently fourteenth in the Premier League with 13 points having won 3 games, drawn 4 and lost 5. They are one point below West Bromwich Albion.
AFC Bournemouth is eighteenth in the league with 8 points having won 2 games, drawn 2 and lost 8. They are two points below Newcastle United.
Match Prediction:
A 1 – 1 draw is the most likely outcome with William Hill and Bet365 offering odds of 13/2 and 6/1 respectively.
Betting Odds:
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Bet365 Odds: 5/6 Swansea City to Win, 5/2 for a Draw and 7/2 AFC Bournemouth to Win


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Sallie Krawcheck: "Ask for the raise."
"When men negotiate, they're focused on winning. When women negotiate, we're focused on maintaining the relationship."
So says Sallie Krawcheck, once the most powerful woman in banking and now running her own firm, professional women's network Ellevate.
This afternoon, as part of a lunchtime "Media Upstarts" speaker series at Time Inc., Fortune's parent, Krawcheck spoke from vast experience; She once headed Citigroup's global wealth management unit and later at Bank of America, she was in charge of Merrill Lynch. Back then, her male direct reports consistently bargained for higher pay, ticking off their latest achievements and telling her precisely what they needed to earn. "All of them did that," Krawcheck said, referring to the guys. "None of the women did."
"I tried to be fair," she said, but when women don't ask and when men threaten to leave if they don't get a big increase in pay, what can a boss do? "People who ask get more money, and people who don't ask tend to get less," Krawcheck explained.
"So, ask for the raise!," she told the audience, a gender-balanced mix of 100 or so Time Inc. employees on Equal Pay Day.
As for herself, Krawcheck confessed, "I can't stand negotiating." Recruiting young talent for Ellevate, she has to kick herself at times when she worries about what a 27-year-old job-seeker might think of her. It's so bad that her skin sometimes blotches, she admits: "So, I wear a turtleneck."


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Welcome to the Thanksgiving Infinite Feedback Loop!
Try googling "thanks, giving," and you'll find that Google doesn't know what to do with it:
Showing results for thanksgiving
Search instead for thanks, giving
Click on "Search instead for thanks, giving" and Google asks:
Did you mean: thanksgiving
Um, no, I didn't mean "thanksgiving," and the 353,000,000 results you provided — on the history of the holiday, recipes, crafting ideas, NFL football game schedule, etc. — based on my "thanks, giving" query were not what I was looking for.
Switch over to Google Images with the same query and a similar thing happens. Google can't conceive of any reason why those two words, separated by a comma, shouldn't be answered by anything other than turkeys, live turkeys, dead and roasted turkeys, cartoon turkeys both alive and dead, turkeys wearing pilgrim clothing, pumpkins, fall foliage, and an infinite number of greeting card-esque platitudes.
But, I did find a way out of the Thanksgiving Infinite Feedback Loop.
Type in "put the giving in thanksgiving" — because, you know, humans love humorous puns, like "he put the fun in dysfunctional" — and with it Google finds all kinds of well-intentioned content on the interwebs titled Put the Giving in Thanksgiving.
There's been volumes and volumes written on the virtues of gratitude, and there is a LOT of merit and a time and place for the practice of thankfulness.
But, on this Thanksgiving Eve I feel compelled by some awful stuff happening in the world to focus on the second word in the compound word that is Thanksgiving.
Just a few examples:
- I've donated some money to my Native American brothers and sisters to aid in their fight for their rights and our planet at Standing Rock, and I plan to donate more.
- My band, Sleepy Alligators, will be playing at the local #GivingTuesday event, raising money for the food bank and two youth summer camps.
- Rather than stressing over all the work involved in hosting and cooking a Thanksgiving meal for our 12 guests, I have reframed it as an act of giving.
It feels good!
If you can, please consider giving as well.
It might be cliché, but it is true: every little bit helps.
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Bamboozled: Platinum Series
Early in its first draft stage, long before the digital video cameras hummed, there might have been a smartly observed satire beating at the heart of Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000). On the other hand, maybe the film's layers of fatty, gristly message-making muffled that heart from day one, clogging its arteries and choking off oxygen to the brain and other vital tissues. Despite Lee's early promise as an African American filmmaker, with interesting ways of saying interesting things, lately his films' examples of grating excesses outnumber his moments of cocksure brilliance. Could 1989's Do the Right Thing have been a fluke? Could be, at least from the evidence of Bamboozled, Lee's angry social parable aimed at the depictions of African Americans in mainstream entertainment, particularly television. An outspoken critic of racial stereotypes in the media, Lee uses Bamboozled to equate the ugly caricatures of early minstrel shows to the images of black Americans found this week on UPN, Fox, WB, and elsewhere. It's a topic worth exploring.
But Lee doesn't prod and stimulate us into examining whether things have changed much since the bad old days of blackface hoofers, shuffling Steppin Fetchits, and Aunt Jemimah. He's already made up our mind for us. And where most of us in his audience will lean forward to hear a whisper, we turn away from a shout. Lordy, how Bamboozled shouts. Lee may have started with a worthy agenda, but the result is dogmatic, indulgent, sectarian, blunt, and drunkenly off-balance. In other words, prejudiced and therefore unmoving.
Damon Wayans stars as Pierre Delacroix, a starched buppy unhappy from slaving as the token black writer for a major yet struggling TV network. His redneck-in-an-Armani boss (Michael Rapaport) fancies himself "blacker" than Delacroix, and while that's a white-homey absurdity it rings true because of how far Delacroix has separated himself from his own background his name isn't really Pierre Delacroix, he speaks with nearly painful deliberateness in an Ivy-League-elite accent, and he is embarrassed by his father (Paul Mooney), a stand-up comic who goes by the name Junebug in small, black-only clubs. Because Delacroix's boss believes that "keeping it real" means putting out more "black experience" television peopled by home-boy caricatures, Delacroix wants out. But he's under contract so his only way out is to get himself fired.
His plan for getting fired? Create a TV show so offensive to blacks that the network will have no choice but to can Delacroix before it's buried in outraged hate mail. Aided by his level-headed conscientious assistant (Jada Pinkett-Smith), Delacroix dupes two homeless street entertainers (comic Tommy Davidson and tapdance marvel Savion Glover, who is almost worth the rest of the movie to watch) into starring in Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show. There they play the lazy shuckin'-and-jivin' caricatures Sleep-n-Eat and Mantan, "two real coons" complete with exaggerated blackface and "niggah, here comes massah!" pop-eyed mugging on the set of an Alabama watermelon plantation. Surely a recipe for failure. Yet problems pile up for Delacroix (and Bamboozled's script) when Mantan, predictably, turns out to be a huge ratings hit and critical success.
Instead of a pointed and revealing satire borrowing a "Springtime for Negroes" plot device from The Producers (plus threads lifted from Network and Sunset Boulevard), Bamboozled spins downward until it confuses melodrama for potency, soap operatics for poignancy, and appearances by Al Sharpton and Johnnie Cochran for dramatic credibility. Delacroix loses sight of his principles and his soul when the awards start piling up. Mantan (Glover) loses a great deal more when a gang of hoodlum rappers (led by Mos Def) decide that they're going to make him pay for his portrayal of a Steppin Fetchit "darkie." So everyone ends up sliding down the grease-paint pole to hell, but by then there's so little personal empathy for anyone onscreen that it's impossible to feel moved by any of it.
Lee wants to expose double-standards and push buttons. Good. Yes, please. But which buttons becomes unclear as he keeps adding to the list as he goes. Is it the depiction of blacks in TV shows created by whites? The soul-eating effects of modern media power and influence? How about the signs of self-made culpability such as the neo-minstrel stereotypes perpetuated by ghetto-chic hip-hop and rap personas? Or the whites who play at (literally here, metaphorically in our world) blackface and proudly call themselves "nigger"? Or the travails of upward-bound women professionals, especially the sexy ones? Maybe the unfocused "revolutions" of Afrocentric Malcolm-X wannabes? "Unfocused" is a key word here, and by the end it's easier to ask Lee "What exactly was your point?" than it is to come away with an enlightened social awareness.
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New Line's Bamboozled: Platinum Series offers a good transfer (1.78:1, anamorphic) derived mostly from a mini-digital video source blown up to 35mm. (The clips of Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show were filmed on 16mm.) Presumably Lee aimed for a you-are-there docu-drama look; instead what we see more is how often the DV source loads Bamboozled with low-budget deficiencies in lighting and clarity. The audio is clear but otherwise unremarkable Dolby Digital 5.1. (The rap music sounds terrific here, I must say. Don't have a drink set on your subwoofer.)
The disc's extras stumble to a start with Lee's commentary track. Apparently his heart wasn't in it, and at times the track seems to have been recorded after a bad day stuck in traffic. He spends time merely narrating the action, or not saying anything at all, or blustering something sanctimonious, defensive, or generally pissy.
Other extras include an overload of 19 deleted or extended scenes, a thorough but tiresome rah-rah making-of documentary (53 mins.), two uninspired music videos, an animated gallery of artwork created for the film (some images here are quite good on their own), cast and crew filmographies, and the theatrical trailer. DVD-ROM items are a "Script to Screen" feature that presents the original script while the movie plays, and "Original Website," which just copies over material from the film's official promo site. Snap-case.
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The associate administrator for environment and compliance assists the maritime administrator with activities related to environmental challenges in the maritime industry. Responsibilities include making recommendations related to environmental safety, regulations and standards. The position also involves compliance activities in support of maritime administration programs. The associate administrator manages and coordinates activities of the Office of Safety, the Office of Environment and the Office of Security as well as oversees research and development plans for these offices. The associate administrator also ensures effective communication with industry and builds support for the Maritime Administration's objectives and goals.


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It has been a real pleasure to work with you and your crew. The pool, the patio ceiling, landscaping, bathroom, and deck…hope I didn't leave anything out…has far exceeded our hopes and expectations. From our seat, this looked like a huge task and you proved to us that it could be completed quickly, efficiently, and beautifully. Thank you to you and your entire team for giving us such an amazing addition to our backyard for our family and friends to enjoy for many years.
Lastly, Glenn you did an excellent job in building the confidence in us to design, hire, and execute the pool build. Well done……
Warmest regards,
Tom & Brenda Hicks
(extremely happy customers)
use us for an outstanding reference anytime
We appreciate you and your team coming out and fixing up our mess of a project. We were so happy that you were even able to bump us up in the time line. I'll never again mess with any other pool contractor.
Thanks again,
Matthew Dewhurst
Now that we are complete, I thought it appropriate to respond to your email.
Firstly, we want to say thank you for a job well done! Over-all the experience was amazing to me. As you know I have just enough construction sense to get me in trouble, but also enough to catch problems before they become BIG problems.
Most of the people we had conferred with while taking bids and discovering what we wanted, all told us construction time on JUST the pool would be anywhere from 10-12 weeks. The fact we were building such a large patio all the while adding on to our house, they had us convinced 12-15 weeks would be more in line. You guys were 98% complete at 7 weeks …… remarkable….
I too enjoyed your consistent line of BS, and it helped to make a very stressful and disruptive time a little easier to handle.
Mario and his crew were amazing. They were very polite, accommodating and professional people who both Kim and I enjoyed.
I will say the exact same about Palo and his crew. They were VERY cognizant of the fact that we were the ultimate customer and that they were in OUR backyard. Every time they thought there may be a better suggestion, or another way to do it – they didn't hesitate to ask.
Most important to me is that Kim felt safe (as much as possible) – and they were very respectful to her.
In my business of selling a commercial commodity, customer service is paramount and in most cases, the only thing that separates us from the competition. More than Ice Machines, this is what I sell. I spend the majority of my time learning and studying this art, and then in-turn training companies and people to increase their level of customer service. If you would like feed-back on our experience, and I would be happy to do so. If not, just know we are happy with the work.
Thanks again Glenn, I feel that we are now friends and that we can call on each other if we can help.
Tony and Kim S.
Glenn is very gifted at creating an outdoor experience customized to your lifestyle and setting. A few of my clients have used his professional services. All have been more than happy with the outcome and follow-up service.
Lanie Evans
RE/MAX Realty Center
Cypress, TX 77429
We really wanted a swimming pool, but weren't sure we had enough space in our yard. Glenn Kimberling, Expression Custom Pools, designed a plan for a pool that would not only fit, but look great too!
That was less than a month ago…..and we are already enjoying our new backyard oasis! Three weeks start to finish! Amazing! And no shortcuts taken. Glenn is just extremely organized and had the contractors coming and going so efficiently that the only down time we had was due to rain. This pool is absolutely gorgeous and top quality too!
Our decking is absolutely beautiful. Custom look for sure!
Glenn is a pleasure to deal with. This is our 3rd pool and we've never had such a smooth experience! He kept us informed of the projected schedule and he stopped by regularly to check on things. His contractors were very skilled and my husband and I enjoyed watching the progress unfold.
We are very pleased and HIGHLY recommend Glenn and his company!!
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Administrative Certification of a Minor Modification
Under Subchapter C, Chapter 122 of the Texas Election Code ("Code") any voting system or voting system equipment that has been modified in design after receiving approval from the Secretary of State must be approved by the Secretary for use in an election. Rule 81.75 of the Texas Administrative Code outlines the procedures that a vendor must follow to secure an administrative certification of a minor modification to their voting system.
The request must be submitted in writing to the Secretary of State along with a statement from an independent testing authority (ITA) approving the proposed modification or that the proposed minor modification does not warrant examination by the ITA.
The Secretary of State will forward the request and accompanying materials to selected voting system examiners for review. Upon receiving a written response from the examiners, the Secretary of State will determine whether the minor modification may be certified without examination or whether the proposed minor modification warrants further examination. The Secretary of State will notify the vendor in writing or by e-mail of such determination.
Current Requests for Administrative Certification of a Minor Modification
Pursuant to Rule 81.65 of the Texas Administrative Code, the SOS shall accept written public comments on application for administrative certifications. Comments shall be accepted by email or by regular mail at Elections Division, Secretary of State, P.O Box 12030, Austin, Texas 78711-2060.
- Request by Election Systems and Software for Approval of Administrative Certification of Minor Modification (PDF)


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Just in case it isn't obvious, not everyone in the Korean music scene, even if they are doing similar types of music, is an idol. And they don't all want to be idols…despite the huge amount of pressure they must feel to conform. It can be a challenge to find some of these smaller gems, but when you do…when they are thrust upon you by the cosmos or KpopontheDL, you have to do everything you can to learn about them and support them.
Planetarium Records is a label that houses a handful of solo R&B and hip-hop artists, one of which appeared on, but obviously did not win, Kpop Star. They are an incredibly talented mix of vocalists and rappers that typically do their own thing – writing, producing, and performing. But as a special little project to capitalize on each other's fan base and to get some attention, they put together a compilation album called 'Planetarium Case#1' in 2017. I'll let them introduce it to you in their own words…or at least in Villain's words…
The song on the first album that he mentions including all of the artists is called Blah and is absolutely my fav from that release. They clearly worked hard putting it together and the video is fantastic. These are men unused to working with a big budget, you can tell, and they really did a great job collaborating on this project. I kind of love them all. And when I say kind of, I mean that I do.
Blah, Planetarium Case#1
Now for the new part of this Musical Monday, last week, the artists came together again and released 'Planetarium Case#2.' Much to my delight. This album, despite only a few months actually separating them, feels a lot more mature to me. I'm not even sure why. It's like now that the solo artists are used to working together, they've grown. As a whole, this release is definitely more vocalist heavy than the last, and I, oddly, approve. I love their rappers, but for some reason, their singers really do it for me. The main track from this release is Blind and it's a cool mix of graphics and them involved in a complex story… a continuation of the story from the first video…so follow along.
Blind, Planetarium Case#2
I have to say though, as much as I do enjoy Blind, a couple of the other tracks really spoke to me. Noise deserves a mention – there isn't an official MV for it, but here's a live recording. Not the best quality, but it's available on iTunes if you want to hear it more clearly. Though I have to say, watching Jung JinWoo sing it is pretty fantastic.
Noise, Jung JinWoo
And my favorite on the album, whether because I genuinely love it or because it's just really, really interesting, is Soap Opera, by Villian. I'm having a very difficult time finding it on YouTube, so I implore you to look it up.
Yay for new things!!! Now I have to deep dive on their solo stuff too…I have a suspicion there are some fantastic collaborations between them out there.


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The PIR functionality is available on all Cygnus alarms. This additional feature helps utilise fire, first aid alarms, and detectors for intruder activities. PIR works with the CYG1-GSM/GPRS control panel and sends users an SMS text alert should an intrusion occur. Alerts can also be sent to a third party monitoring station. The sensors are activated by using the menu settings on the control panel and if an intruder passes the sensor when in activation mode it will cause the local alarm to sound. To order this additional functionality to any Cygnus alarm units, add PIR to the product code.
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John Ramirez once worshipped the devil and carried out evil in the name of Satan.
Now a pastor, he knows all about the dark side.
He once sacrificed animals as part of satanic rituals and his friends even called him, "Lucifer's son."
In his book, Armed and Dangerous: The Ultimate Battle Plan for Targeting and Defeating the Enemy, Ramirez details why Christians need to pray more effectively.
"I wrote this book because I wanted Christians to know that it's not only a defense spiritual warfare, but there's an offense spiritual warfare," he told CBN News. "We need to keep the devil, the devil in his place."
Watch CBN News anchor Charlene Aaron's interview with Ramirez on Prayer Link
Ramirez said he was most effective in Satanism when believers were prayerless.
"I was able to go in there and capitalize and take a stand and a position in the spirit realm against the Christians that were not praying," he explained. "I took that territory away so I owned your neighbor; I owned your neighborhood; I owned your region because you didn't saturate with prayers. I beat you to it."
He also shared how when Christians did pray that it stopped his evil plans in their tracks.
READ: 'Witchcraft Is Very Real': 'Limbless Evangelist' Nick Vujicic Responds to Fierce Reaction About Seeing Demons
"It is those believers, it's that group of people, those intercessors that gave me such a beatdown in the spiritual," he said. "When I came into the neighborhood and they were in the spirit together holding hands. Do I know they were physically holding hands in one area? I don't know, but in the spirit realm, they were holding hands. And, they were able to chase me out the neighborhood. No mission accomplished. Mission aborted, weakened my assignment and no mission accomplished because they knew something: they had the power in that neighborhood that I didn't have."
Ramirez now encourages Christians to broaden their prayers and to be sensitive to pray for the nation, schools and other areas.
He said, "If I know what's going on in my neighborhood, then I know what to lift up to the altar of God. And I think a lot of times we miss it because we have been called to be intercessors between life and death. We need to intercede for our neighborhood, our region, then our family, our loved ones, our husbands, wives, our workplaces."
READ: Muslim Family Tortured by Visible 'Demonic Bat Creatures,' Then Dad Literally Sees 'the Light' of Jesus
After serving the devil for most of his life, he says that he wouldn't trade anything for what he's found in Christ.
"For twenty-five years of my life, I was able to do anything to anybody, anywhere," said Ramirez. "I count that all to be foolish to gain Christ. He's my Uno. He's the breath that I breathe. He walks with me. I can hear the sound of His voice in my ear."
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Shimla: Paonta Sahib and Nahan in Sirmaur district experienced heavy rainfall of 222 mm and 102 mm, respectively as well as mercury dropped sharply in tribal areas. Yamuna and its tributaries were in spate, the water level of Sutlej, Ravi and Beas rivers was below danger mark.
Una received 11 mm of rains and was the hottest area in the region with 32.6 degrees while Kalpa recorded lowest temperature of 10.5 degree C. The maximum temperature dropped sharply to 10.2 and 11.9 degrees in Kalpa and Keylong.
Shimla recorded a maximum of 21 degree and minimum temperature staying at 15.6 degree with 20 mm of rains. Pachhad had 30 mm of rains, followed by , Kotkhai and Rohru 26 mm each, Bharwain 25 mm, Nurpur 24 mm, Rajgarh, Sangla and Saloni 20 mm each, Kumarsen 16 mm, Kasauli 15 mm and Rampur and Theog 14 mm each.
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I loved the entire series! I wasn't able to do another review anymore because I ended up watching (marathoning) the rest of the episodes in a couple of days. I liked where each character and couple ended by the end of the episode.
Dong jin and Yunshil
We found out that Gi Pyo has been lying to Yunshil for 10 years – saying that he donated his kidney to her father but the father died in the operating room. I didn't like him for the entire duration of the series, even at the end, but I'm also happy that they were able to resolve this issue in a nice way. Yunshil finds out the truth, tells Gipyo she will never forgive him and to leave her alone, Donjin and Gipyo have a drinking session where Dongjin tells Gipyo that if he really loves her, he should do something that would make Yun shil happy. What he eventually did – which is to threaten Hyosang with the recorded tape and to give the CEO post to Dongjin is so-so, i wish he did a better gesture and i wish Yunshil found out about it so at least she wouldnt feel so much hatred to him (at least). I also liked how Gipyo's mother apologized to Yunshil – i know she was just helping her son so I can understand why she did those things to Yunshil – and i'm glad that she didn't let Gipyo det away with what he did and still took him back with her to Anseong to live a better life. with Gipyo out of the way, Dongjin goes back to Meesa and saves the company. It was an interesting idea to put Hyosang in the tailor shop – so that he can learn the basics of men's suits and given a chance to become humble and to work hard. (I'll write more about Hyosang in the next paragraph). On the other hand, it's nice to see Yunshil going back to school and Dongjin strongly supporting his wife. The annoucnement of her pregnancy was also a nice surprise! i guessed early on that she was pregnant when she kept craving for steamed buns and had a huge appetite. (I wonder how the actress felt when she later on find out she became pregnant in real life with the actor!) These 2 couples are one of the nicest couples i've watched in kdramaland – sweet romance, fighting, supporting each other and taking care of each other.
Dongsook and Taepyung
At the start both of them were annoying – Taepyung looked like a loser most of the time while Dongsook was so foolish. By the middle of the show, they wre married and both have matured. I loved their little family with Dajeong and was happy to see Taepyung because successful again. The part about lying that he is still single and not married to Dongsook i guess is a big deal to korean fans, though, for me, i didn't think it should matter since he is not an idol and he's older so people would expect that he would have married by now and it wouldn't be an issue. I didn't expect her first love to come back and become the CEO of his agency, and I dont think it was a big issue again since Taepyung is so over her. I'm just surprised that the first love is still so girlish despite her age. another funny scene is when they finally got their family certificate and Taepyung found out that Dongsook is older than him. haha. can't he see that she looks old?
Samdo and Sunnyeo
The storyline for the second half of the series wasn't as fun as the first half – mostly because they just kept fighting and misunderstanding each other. they have been married for so many years yet they act as if they dont know each other. When they moved to Seoul, i was really hoping that Sunnyeo can start her own store because she is such a good cook so after the storylines about jealousy and fake pregnancy and dying and divorce, we see Sunnyeo getting hired in a bank. And the magnificent Sunnyeo worked so hard that she had no time for any sexytime with Samdo, which infuriated him. It's refreshing to see this side where we see Samdo is the one wooing his wife and we see how much he loves her despite how she looks or acts. Eventually she got employee of the month and the best part of the show, she got pregnant!! yay! i didn't like how Yunshil and Sunnyeo were pregnant and gave birth at the same time but i guess it is a little funny. I like this couple because we see another side where both are older and they have different issues such as money and menopause and trying to get pregnant. Months later Sunnyeo gives her and she now owns her own shop and she finally wins the union presidency (something she has been wanting for so long). Samdo, on the other hand, becomes one of the great tailors and sees the tailor shop cooperative prosper and get recognized.
Taeyang and Hyewon
I honestly think they are too young to get married but they're so cute and mature so I didn't mind. All series long Hyowon was rich and help him out whenever she can while Taeyang was a simple guy who wanted to become a teacher. Despite being poor, he made up for it by being super nice guy who always treat Hyewon and her mom nicely. When Hyowon's family became bankrupt and had to move out, we see the kind Taeyang taking the modelling job and using the money he earned to buy Hyowon and her family a house for them to live. Now who wouldn't love this guy?? He is such a keeper! This is also another great case of a couple who may not be rich but have lots of love and support for each other. Hyowon's mom is still hilarious – when she saw the house that she was moving into and couldn't breathe and sticking her face in front of the fan while eating ice. lol. she eventually gets a job in Sunnyeo's store and she just keeps eating the food. haha. Taeyang passes his teacher's exam and gets assigned to a school. Taeyang and Hyowon get married the traditional way – which was interesting to watch. All his students go crazy over the ex-model teacher but he ignores them because he has only eyes for Hyowon. I was hoping Hyowon will continue to have a career outside of Meesa – i thought her art teaching suited her but i guess she needed to be back at Meesa since it's her family's company.
Hyosang and Yunjin
I disliked them so much that i wished them awful things — but when Hyosang went bankrupt and lost his job (his constant screeching was a bit exag), I felt bad for him. When Yunjin didn't want to move in to the house and stayed with her friend.. it made us all ask.. so did she really marry Hyosang for money or did she really love him? When Hyosang told Yunjin that they were celebrating his dad's death anniversary and if she doesn't come then they will separate, i felt relieved when she came and okay.. maybe just maybe i will like this couple too. Working at Wolgyesu changed Hyosang – he learned about discipline, and actually liking sewing and working at the tailor shop and he became less arrogant. Yunjin became nicer and more sincere. Months later after all the hardwork, Hyosang was finally moved back to Meesa headquarters. I hope he learned his lesson well and will be a better manager in the future.
She made the mean girl in the show – and it was mostly because she felt like the Min family took over her family and her life. when she successfully kicked them out, she realizes how much she misses the family and how lonely and quiet the whole house was. She still felt upset everytime she saw Dongjin and Yunshil together – especially when she found out Yunshil was pregnant. Dongjin is so mature. At the start he was really awful and cruel to her, but in the end Dongjin spoke to her nicely without demeaning her love for him and said to move on, she deserves someone better than him. I was thinking maybe she will meet someone in the end so that she can get over Dongjin, but didn't expect that her future was to go to Europe, study and travel around the world. But in a way it made sense – it gave her freedom to be who she wants to be and to get away from all of them and make a fresh start. I also liked how she became closer to the Min family – especially the stepmother. Even from the start, Hyowon's mom was concerned for her and treated her like her own daughter but she was so hurt with what happened she failed to see that she does have a family who will willingly come to her when she needs it. And with Hyowon out of the country, Madame Ko, Hyosang and Yunjin get to live in the big house again.
Last but not the least, Master Lee and Madame Choi
They decided to leave the house and move to the province to live on their own – as Master Lee explained, they want to live together and be together before Master Lee goes blind. the last few episodes we no longer see Madame Choi -i have a feeling this is when her cancer came back 😦 Master Lee eventually lost his eyesight and agreed to move back home so that they can take care of him. it's quite fitting that the last scene was of Master Lee and the gentlemen of Wolgyesu and imparting a nice message.
Master Lee: I like the sea breeze.
Taepyung: isn't frustrating now that you can't see the view of the ocean?
ML: i dont know. i thought i'd feel uncomfortable once i lose my eyesight. surprisingly, it feels like i can see a whole different view now.
Taeyang: What is it you see, Mr Lee?
ML: I can see my life. When i had good eyesight, I only saw what was in front of me. Now that I can't see and forget what's surrounding me, the images of my past seem to unfold in my head like a beautiful painting. So there's no need for me to feel frustrated.
Dongjin: What was your life like, Dad?
ML: It was dazzlingly beautiful. Luxurious beyond measure for me. The trade I'd learned as a child was to see and make grand suits. I couldn't love my job more. Now those times stretch before me like a roll of beautiful fabric. The verb we use to say we make clothes means "to form". We use the same verb on building houses or cooking food. The verb goes for cloths, food and shelther. That means clothes aren't a mere accessory. Making clothes means we make a life that goes with it. A Gentleman isn't someone who wears expensive or grand clothes. It's a man who lives a life that suits his outfit. That is a true gentleman.
Overall, it was a great family show – very long but worth the watch. I loved the cast, the storylines, there were not a lot of boring scenes/episodes and each character got a good ending.


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Our team of professionals prepares a personalized plan of action adapted to the needs of the client and his or her challenges with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, notably organizational difficulties and feelings of overwhelm.
The first step is a global evaluation of the subject:
This includes:
- An evaluation of the impact of organizational and attention limitations on the employee's performance.
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Here we go again.
A new Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions (GPS) report on how financial technology is disrupting banks provides another look for us into our rapidly ascending postmodern future. According to the report, mobile distribution will be the main channel of interaction between customers and the bank, which will mean a dramatically reduced need for bank branches. This will lead to the loss of 1.8 million employees between now and 2015, down a whopping 40–50% from its peak in 2007.
An article in Business Insider referencing the report compares it to earlier projections:
That's in line with former Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins' recent prediction that pressure from the tech industry "will compel banks to significantly automate their business" and "that the number of branches and people may decline by as much as 50% over the next years."
The CITI report suggests that as more and more transactions move to mobile, there will be a "rebalancing of staff from transaction-based roles to advisory-based roles," but I don't believe such jobs will pay as much. As such, I'm not certain this "rebalancing" will make much difference for those out of work.
This is downside of the Great Horizontal, when it's viewed from a strictly modernist, top-down perspective. These bank executives know that reduced expenses mean increased profits, so their concern about employees is disingenuous, at best. They will be surprised when faced with the granular investment opportunities that will occur along the bottom of their top-down paradigm, and then the real postmodern disruption of the banking institution will begin. A modernist culture requires banks, but I'm not convinced they will be at all relevant as the twenty-first century moves along.
One thing is absolutely certain: making a living will be completely redefined, and the time to start thinking about that is today.


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Bangalore (5th May, 2014):
Karnataka SSLC Results 2014 Announced: Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB), Bangalore is going to announce the Secondary School Leaving Certificate SSLC Results 2014 on its official website kseeb.kar.nic.in.
KSEEB has organized the Karnataka SSLC Exam 2014 (Class 10 Board Examination), started from 28 March and ends on 9 April, 2014. The examination was conducted for 10th class students with Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Sanskrit, Urdu and English languages.
Karnataka SSLC Exam Results 2014 Declared:
KSEEB is the secondary education board is one of the oldest education board which established in the year 1966 and since then it is successfully conducting the Karnataka SSLC Exam at around 3000 exam centers across the state.
The final declaration of the exam results is managed by the board and will declare on its official website first before coming to any other exam portal like indiaresults, schools9 etc. You should check your Karnataka SSLC Results 2014 on the official website mentioned below or follow the link given below to get accurate marks / scores you obtained. Other exam portal also try to give their best and helpful when the main server (official)
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Karnataka SSLC (Class 10th Board) Result 2014:
For the academic year 2013-14, Karnataka SSLC Examination 2014 was conducted from 28th March to 9th April, 2014 in different regional and compulsory languages.
More than 8 lakh (around 8.26 lakh) students had appeared in Karnataka Class 10 Exam 2014.
7.63 lakh – fresh students,
41,269 – Repeaters and
21,670 – Private students.
Comparatively less than the last year, 8.49 lakh students were appeared in Karnataka SSLC Exam 2013.
All the students waiting for Karnataka SSLC Results 2014 can check their scores / marks obtained on the following link. This is the official website karresults.nic.in where you can get accurate information of your score card. So please click on following link and enter your registration number / roll number and click on submit button to view exam result online or to print it for further reference.
Karnataka SSLC Results 2014 – Check Here (Main Server)
KSEEB Board Class 10th Results (SSLC) Exam 2014 (Alternative Server):
Karnataka Board SSLC Class 10 Exam Schedule / Date sheet 2014:
26th March 2014 – Tamil Paper – I
27th March 2014 – Tamil Paper – II
1st April 2014 – English Paper – I
2nd April 2014 – English Paper – II
4th April 2014 – Mathematics
7th April 2014 – Science
9th April 2014 – Social Science.
On behalf of Freshersplus.com, we wish all the students a bright future and hope you all get good results. All the best!
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RealNetworks is scrambling to stem investor jitters that the online streaming-media giant is about to lose its exclusive agreement to provide streaming media services to users of AOL, the world's most popular ISP.
The company's stock tumbled nearly 20 percent early last week on speculation that AOL Time Warner is poised to dump Real and provide Microsoft the opportunity to replace RealNetworks' technology as media player of choice for AOL's estimated 29 million subscribers.
Analysts believe that AOL is unlikely to dump RealNetworks anytime soon, but ongoing talks between AOL and Microsoft over a key co-distribution deal within Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system could open the door for the software giant to carve out a bigger chunk for Microsoft's Windows Media Player on AOL.
Nonetheless, RealNetworks is not in much danger of losing it's leadership spot in the market. RealNetworks claims that 85 percent of streaming content on the Internet is formatted for its software. It also says its media player has been downloaded by 140 million Net users worldwide. It has struck a key deal with Sony to have its streaming media technology integrated with the popular PlayStation 2 game console. Additionally, RealNetworks has signed Internet content-distribution deals to stream audio broadcasts of Major League Baseball and National Basketball Association games as part of its GoldPass subscription service. Moreover, RealNetworks is a 40 percent investor in MusicNet, a partnership with AOL Time Warner, EMI, and Bertelsmann, aimed at creating a new commercial digital-music service based on RealNetworks technology.


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The day began with the deliciousness of nutan-gur rasogollas. I had my share of 2, then went for a bath. Teja left me 1, from his share, which I had without demur.
Before that, there had been the pale blue house in the tube-lit street at 4 am, a walk up red stairs, and paintings on every landing, and a bed which did not move, and soft blankets, and a clean bathroom.
And before that, there was Howrah Station at 2 am, and a waiting room that was out of a Rituparno Ghosh film, and another train that was late, and deciding to quit the journey and take a morning off, and a long queue at the pre-paid taxi booth, and walking outside the station and finding a cab.
And the rasogollas brought forth a long forgotten desire to learn the Bengali script, so that I can read Bengali novels, not only the translations. "And why not?' I said to our friend in the blue house with many odd-shaped rooms, 'I can read books in Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, and very slowly, in Urdu. I'm sure I can learn to read Bengali."
So the only morning in Kolkata was spent in Chuckerverrty Chatterjee and Sons of College Street, buying the book that will teach me Bengali, and some more translations, some which are available online, but the buying of them at CC&S makes them more Bengali, so to speak.
Then a hurried visit to the Indian Coffee House down the corridor. Fooled by the prices, I ordered a chicken cutlet and chicken sandwiches, and realised one of the either would have been enough.
Waiting for a taxi on MG road, we get into a bus. So there was a bus ride to Howrah Station and a few photographs. Calcutta has bits of Bombay in it, as we drive closer to the station, carts overloaded with huge parcels, coolies carrying goods, markets and more markets, and crowds. But before that there is the long stretch of band shops, shehnai bands, and wedding bands, and the best Indian bands, and more bands. I like travelling to places that seem familiar, and yet are so different, which is almost everywhere in India.
Puri at midnight is quiet, peaceful, as we move through it slowly on a cycle rickshaw. For a few minutes, the town is ours, as its inhabitants sleep. Before that, was a tedious journey by a train that is Duronto only in name.
And then, we watch ourselves fall. A few minutes before that, I thought, "This cycle rickshaw could topple so easily." A few minutes later, outside the hotel, just as we are about to stop, an auto rickshaw comes hurtling at us from the other side of the road, as if he hated the sight of us. He hits us and drives away, at the same speed. The cycle rickshaw, the rickshaw-wala, Teja and I fall in slow motion. We watch ourselves fall, and perhaps watching, we are able to fall without getting too hurt.
The shock comes later.


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by Marco Lazzari
This paper is part of an ongoing research on web reputation, and presents an evaluation of the method used by the professional social network site Naymz to assess the online reputation of its members. By creating six ad-hoc professional communities with different profiles of users and network topologies, it was found that the highest level of online reputation can be easily achieved by engaging a small social group of nine persons or less who connect with each other, providing positive feedbacks and reciprocal endorsements.
The sudden world-wide spread of social networks has transformed them into a rich source of personal information about their members. Personal profiles from social networks are nowadays commonly used by companies looking for new partnerships or employees or by universities selecting freshman applicants (Williams and Lounsbury Morrow, 2008). Therefore, whilst structural properties of social networks have been broadly investigated (Knoke and Kuklinski, 1982; Wassermann and Faust, 1994; Scott, 2000; Knoke and Yang, 2008), the dual problem of building and assessing the web reputation is assuming ever more importance, and has been receiving growing attention by scholars (Goldbeck and Hendler, 2004; Jøsang, A. et al, 2007). In this paper, we deal with it with reference to the professional networks domain.
Professional networks, such as LinkedIn, Xing, Naymz, are web communities devoted to interactions and connections of a formal business nature, rather than informal social exchanges, which is the case of social networks such as Facebook or Netlog, which are exploited by their users for fun, recreation, pleasure, discussion or for organizing and coordinating groups and events.
Professionals can exploit professional networks to connect to current or former colleagues, establish new partnerships, communicate effectively and discover new professional opportunities. Basic services provided by professional networking platforms consist in functions to describe the member's profile (personal data, education, professional history, professional and personal web resources) and to connect to other members for building personal small worlds (Milgram, 1967; Travers and Milgram, 1969; Schnettler, 2009).
These networks often encourage users to endorse other members, so that the online reputation of a member, fundamentally based upon his/her own profile, can be enforced by the judgment that contacts express through the endorsement.
The professional network Naymz sets itself apart from competitors, because it provides an online algorithm to evaluate the reputation of its members: each time a member establishes a new connection, he/she is asked if he thinks that his new contact is honest, if he would recommend him for jobs, if he would like to be worked with, if he wants to be considered as a reference for the new contact and if he wants to endorse him. These answers increment a RepScore, that is the reputation score of the member, on the ground of an algorithm that assigns points to each profile and to each answer, reference, and endorsement got from contacts, the influence of a member on another one being proportional to his own RepScore. The RepScore is then mapped onto a scale from 1 to 10 RepScore levels: thresholds from a level to another one are constantly changing and are dynamically calculated on the ground of the average scores of the Naymz users (Naymz claims to have more than 1 million members).
Naymz's algorithm is therefore an attempt to develop a strategy of people ranking similar to the page ranking model commonly used by search engines to measure the relative importance of each element of a set of links which satisfy a query.
In the framework of an ongoing study on web reputation and trustworthiness of web communications, we performed an experiment to reveal some elements of weakness of Naymz's people ranking algorithm; our hypothesis was that the algorithm is weak in the sense that a low number of motivated cooperating people can easily get the maximum RepScore level.
In order to verify our hypothesis, we created six virtual professional communities, each of which was centered on a profile which was directly managed by the principal investigator: in each community, this main node was connected to all the other members.
Three of the six communities, which we shall call in the following real communities, were made of students of the same class, that is 9 college students, 16 graduate students of a course on Educational technology and 36 graduate students of a postgraduate school for teacher education, who were free to contact other members of the same class group. Two other communities, which we shall call in the following virtual communities, were composed of respectively 9 and 15 members, whose profiles were managed by some research assistants, according to a specific policy related to the network topology. The sixth community, which we shall call in the following hyper-real community, was built by connecting the main node to other members of Naymz, not known in the real life by the investigators, who had already reached the highest RepScore level.
Both in the real and in the virtual communities, the topology of the networks and the strength of the connections were different, on the ground of the different groups and the different commitment they had in the research; with reference to the virtual groups, we experimented two topologies, a balanced binary tree and a complete graph.
In each network the initial task for each member was the creation of the profile: students were free to provide rich or basic biographies; we have noticed that (within our groups) the richness of the profile is inversely proportional to the age of the participant.
Then, each member was held to contact the main node of the network; eventually, students were free to contact other members of the network and to exchange references and endorsements. After some weeks, we noticed that many students had received friendship requests from people from all over the world: with our graduate students we decided to ignore such requests, while undergraduates, who were loosely and indirectly connected with the research team, independently decided to accept them. As far as the virtual communities, they were tightly coupled, in the sense that each member positively answered to all the questions of the contact procedure for each of its contacts, as well as referenced and endorsed all of them.
As a result of our activities, in four cases out of six the main node of the network easily reached the highest RepScore level (that is 10). In the larger community (36 students), the other members were loosely interconnected and reached lower levels (average RepScore: 142.7, standard deviation: 110.4; avg RepScore level: 5.7, std dev: 1.8), while the main node was pushed up by the high number of contacts (top RepScore: 907): despite the individual scores were low, the composition of their contribution as evaluated by the ranking algorithm was enough to bring the node to the maximum level.
In the case of the network related to the course on Educational technology, the students' commitment was higher than in the previous case, the net resulted highly interconnected and almost all members reached the top (avg RepScore: 659.3, std dev: 225.4; avg RepScore level: 9.4, std dev: 1.1).
The sole case of RepScore lower than 10 for the main node is given by the college students' network, where the main node did not get the top (RepScore level: 8), while 4 out of 9 other members did (avg RepScore: 529.1, std dev: 499.6; avg RepScore level: 7.3, std dev: 2.8): the reason was that, as we said above, those students accepted friendship requests from outside the school and even contacted external members with maximum reputation level for inviting them to join their personal network, in order to increase their own RepScore. In fact, this behavior is coherent with what Naymz states for describing its distinguishing features: "With Naymz, you can [ ] find and connect with anyone on the network - including people you know and don't know", even if it appears a clear contradiction of the principle of online reputation based on endorsements made by persons who know your qualities. We have spotted that the phenomenon of the "false friends" is rather common: as soon as Naymz's users get high RepScores, they receive contact requests by other members, "fortune-hunters" who are simply looking for the bonus points that a new contact may supply. Most of them ask for endorsements as well, and provide unsolicited endorsements, which are often recognizable by their vagueness (for instance: "Terrific networker. Recommend.", "Thanks for giving me the great opportunity to network with you", or even "Hi, can you endorse me?").
This community showed that (i) 4 top-score contacts are not enough for a member to get the maximum reputation level; (ii) 9 connections are not enough, if the network is loosely connected (the third community has a low number of references and endorsements); (iii) "friends of friends" do not seem to have direct impact on RepScore.
On the other hand, the second community pointed out that (iv) less than 16 well connected members may reach the highest reputation level (we say "less than", because some of the members of that community were not really active and probably their impact on the rest of the net would had been achieved by substituting them by a lower number of more active members).
For these reasons, in order to better define a limit value for the number of nodes necessary to get the best results, we decided to build the other three networks.
The hyper-real community was built by contacting reputable professionals chosen among those who had already reached the top RepScore level and we quickly succeeded in getting the same result, even if no one of them did know our main node in real life (nobody rejected our contact request). The reputation level of 9 was achieved after 6 days, with 7 contacts; the top level was reached after 11 days, with 11 contacts. It should be noticed that free accounts do not allow to have more than 10 friendship requests waiting for an answer, and this is a limit to the speed of growth of the network. Our main node referenced and endorsed all the contacts, but was endorsed only by three of them. This means that the value of 11 is still overestimating the cardinality which is enough to get the maximum RepScore level.
As far as the other two virtual networks, the root of the balanced tree reached level 7, while most nodes got 8 (the root is connected to its two descendants, while each non-terminal node is connected to two descendants and an antecedent) ; and all the nodes of the complete graph reached the top: the former result enforces the assumption (iii), whilst the latter result demonstrates that a group made of 9 people who agree to cooperate and endorse each other can get the maximum RepScore for each member of the group.
We also lay stress on the fact that we sketched minimal profiles for the members of the virtual communities: should the members provide richer profiles, which enhance the score, less than 9 members would be enough.
A monitoring of RepScore evolution showed that "bridges" between networks are not necessarily high reputation members, while "hubs" (Barabási, 2002), that is members with many connections, are usually at the top level and heavily influence their contacts. When bridges contact hubs, their scores are significantly higher: Table 1 shows the RepScore levels / RepScores of four bridges we have established among our six communities; they differs by two parameters: (1) contact to main node / to weak node; (2) strong tie (reciprocal reference and endorsement) / weak tie.
Table 1. RepScore levels / RepScores for bridges
|Bridge among main nodes
|Bridge among weak nodes
|Strong ties
|9 / 475
|8 / 371
|Weak ties
|7 / 200
|7 / 161
Our experiment shows that the algorithm currently used by the professional network Naymz to evaluate the online reputation of its members is rather weak against two kinds of malicious behavior: (i) the "class action" of a small group of fellows (nine and even less could be enough), who set up their own sub-network of friendship connections, references and endorsements, (ii) the activity of a single member, who contacts other members randomly, or more often by selecting them on the ground of their reputation, since the friendship of a high-reputation member has a stronger impact on the evaluation of the reputation score.
In fact, the basic problem is not the algorithm by itself, but the lack of quality of the data used in the processing: both the user's identity and the profile data are subjective and not verifiable (Naymz assigns extra points to identities verified by Trufina, but even verified users can add false information about themselves, in order to get more points); there are no barriers to avoid false friendships; courtesy endorsements are common.
Our future work aims at understanding if these problems are generalized to other professional social networks and if there are ways to solve them.
I wish to thank Andrea Mazza and Maurizia Calabrese, who helped me monitor some of the networks; my students of the SILSIS (Scuola Interuniversitaria Lombarda di Specializzazione per l'Insegnamento Secondario) of Bergamo e Brescia, those of the course on Educational technology at the Faculty of Educational Studies of the University of Bergamo, and professor Paolo Macchi and his students of the ISIS "C. Facchinetti" of Busto Arsizio for the time they spent to help me develop the network communities used in my experiment.
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Knoke, D. and Kuklinski, J.H., 1982. Network Analysis. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA, USA.
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Williams T.D. and Lounsbury Morrow, A., 2008. Want To Know Your Employees Better? Log on to a Social Network. The Alabama Lawyer. Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 131-135.
This is my personal copy of the paper
"An experiment on the weakness of reputation algorithms used in professional social networks: the case of Naymz",
Proceedings of the International Conference e-Society 2010,
Porto, Portugal, March 18-21, 2010, pp. 519-522
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The paper may also be "downloaded from AISBERG", the online repository of the University of Bergamo.
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What is withdrawal liability?
Withdrawal liability is assessed to ensure that a withdrawing employer pays its share of plan costs (vested benefits) that have not been paid through previous contributions or investment returns. An assessment occurs when an employer ceases to be a participating employer for any reason, closes an operation location, or significantly reduces its workforce covered by a Plan that has unfunded vested benefit liability.
Why do withdrawing employers have to make withdrawal liability payments?
The Plan is required to assess withdrawal liability under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 (MPPAA). When an employer withdraws from a plan, employees with a vested pension benefit (current and past) continue to be eligible to draw benefits from the Plan. If the Plan's vested benefit liability (benefits owed to participants) is larger than the market value of assets (amount of money the Plan has), then the employer is responsible for the portion of the underfunding associated with its employees. Generally, when a plan is fully funded (meaning the market value of assets is larger than the vested benefit liability), an employer can withdraw from the Plan without needing to make any payments.
How is our Plan doing?
The Plan has had unfunded liability since the end of 2008. A rehabilitation plan has been established to return the Plan to financial health. The Plan is making scheduled funding progress and is currently projected to meet its future benchmarks.
When will withdrawal liability end?
At the end of each year, the vested benefit liability is compared to the market value of assets. If there is unfunded vested benefit liability, employers withdrawing in the following year are subject to withdrawal liability. The end of withdrawal liability depends on several unpredictable factors, including future market performance and future interest rates. Withdrawal liability is calculated using interest rates similar to those that would be paid if annuities were purchased to fund participants' benefits. These rates are currently quite low, which makes liabilities higher. At some point when interest rates come up, liability will go down. When the Plan's market value of assets becomes larger than the vested benefit liability, the Plan will no longer assess employers' withdrawal liability. This could occur if interest rates rise and Plan assets recover more substantially.
What if I am part of a controlled group?
For employers that are part of a controlled group, withdrawal liability is based on the group rather than on individual employers. A controlled group is a group of employers that is under common control and is treated as one employer for the purposes of withdrawal liability assessment. A simple example would be multiple locations of the same company that have different CBAs. A more complicated example would be two separate companies that are owned by the same parent company.
Why does an estimate cost $1,000?
Providing a withdrawal liability estimate requires a non-trivial amount of time and effort from the Trust's service providers. Some employers request an estimate infrequently; some every year. It is the Trustees' opinion that this cost should be borne by the requesting employer instead of the Trust as a whole.


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What Makes Project Risk Game a Success?
It is intriguing and engaging. The gameboard, risk cards, parts and pieces grab learners' attention. This helps put learners in the right mindset to interact and learn. Even the most experienced project managers are disarmed and charmed. It strikes a balance between educating and entertaining the learner.
Thinking about their project differently. Brain churning equals learning. The game activities prompt learners to think, act, analyze, and question how the risks are being handled on their own projects. Repeated plays can actually train a learner's brain to scan through the risk strategy options almost automatically when they occur in real projects.
Discovering and concluding occurs organically. Participants are able to draw their own conclusions. The simulation helps bridge game outcomes with their selected strategies. Learners tend to get many insights from the simulation rather than taking away only one or two lessons.
Jump-Starting. Participants are able to start playing the game after a very short introduction. The games complexities do not all need to be understood in order to start playing, but they help keep it interesting further into the simulation.
Repeatability. Learners can and do enjoy replaying Project Risk. It can be played once or repeatedly. There are no tricks or secrets that are revealed. Also players may change the risk cards to change the simulation project. See more on alternative risk card sets if you want to explore these options.
Experiential. Learners encounter the project risks, including budget and team issues, in terms of meaningful observations, feelings, and reactions. Experiential learning is proven to be the most effective approach to longterm learning.
PMP preparation. The risk strategies used in Project Risk are the same strategies that are taught in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge and tested for in the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam.
Practice the lingo. Learners use the vocabulary that we are trying to reinforce regarding project management and risk, including positive and negative risk strategies, triggers, issues, impact scores, project processes, and probabilities.
Game theory. Game theory states that the success of strategic decisions depends upon the choices and actions of others. Game theory plays a role in real project management, especially if you are operating in a competitive business environment. Practicing with the Project Risk game helps you observe how competitors and collaborators both respond to your strategies and influence your outcomes.
Accompanying resources. An optional project planning workbook is available to explain all of the project management steps touched on in the game. Participants can use the game as a launching pad to in-depth project management training.
What are the Learning Outcomes?
- How to perform project management in a dynamic and changing scenario, including outside influences, instead of in a static environment.
- To be proactive in risk management.
- How to negotiate project decisions amongst team members.
- To be able to remember and use all of the negative risk strategies (mitigate, avoid, transfer, and accept)
- To be able to remember and use all of the opportunities strategies (exploit, enhance, share, and accept)
- To value, identify and utilize risk triggers.
- To be sensitized to the secondary risks caused by implementing initial strategies.
- To build discipline in the risk communication process.
- To add discipline to the responsibilities of using project risk logs and project issues logs.
- Understand the project management teams responsibilities.
- To analyze impact scores and probabilities.
- To discuss risk tolerances.
- To appreciate strategies that may exist external to the project team (rewarding creative problem solving)
Optionally When You Use the Earned Value Sheet
- To learn about Earned Value (EV) project reporting
- To learn EV terminology
Optionally When You Use the Write-On Risk Cards
- Better preparedness for risk occurance combinations
- Team building based around your real project
Optionally When you Use the Companion Workbook
- Be able to define each of the project management steps.
- How to create a real project management plan.
Related Resources
- Helpful Information for Instructors Using Project Risk
- Way to use the Project Risk Game
- Quiz Questions for the Basic Game Play
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