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Great Advice When Looking For New Furniture
The choice to learn will give you many opportunities. Some education can boost your life to the better. Big ticket items, like furniture, should invariably be researched to keep you from building a regrettable purchase. You can study many superb advice using this article and grow a brilliant shopper.
When looking for antique furniture crafted from wood, make certain you aren't just checking out the surfaces on the outside. Always look inside and on the underside, paying special awareness of the drawers. This kind of visual inspection offers you an even more in-depth consider the condition of your respective furniture. It's sometimes called secondary wood and they surfaces may help you discover the development quality, combined with the ages of the piece.
Be sure you look at chain store clearance sales when you seek new furnishings. Such stores usually have large selections of clearance items and overstocks. Once you take a look at these areas, the top-quality items which were left are available in a small fraction from the original cost.
Select classic pieces of furniture in muted colors. This provides you with significant amounts of flexibility in accessories as well as other items of decor. With neutral pieces, they may match a greater portion of your decor and provide you more options. A lot of neutral options are offered to assist any home plan or decorating style.
Be sure you take measurements where you will place new furniture. No matter the form of piece you are planning to buy, you must learn how large your available space is. Guessing on the amount of space that you may have can change out badly. Larger pieces mean it is a must.
Take along a color swatch of the existing wall color when you are considering furniture. Even if you love the piece you acquire, it simply may well not suit your current decor. Don't let that happen. Take along one sample or pictures of the existing furniture to help discover the new items that you require.
Before purchasing a sheet of furniture, check out the legs. They must be solid, heavy and joined with all the frame. Wooden legs tend to be more durable than legs created from metal, rubber or plastic, plus they tend not to scratch your floor. Look for any evidence how the legs are just nailed on, thus not joined properly towards the frame.
Before taking a piece of furniture off a friend's hands, carefully look at the condition. You don't want a sheet of furniture which is in poor condition just because someone no longer wants it. You could possibly balk at buying something new, but a terrible quality item could be more trouble than worth.
Find out the best times to shop for items, based on the industry. Exactly like it's rumored that you ought to buy cars in September, various industry events can determine the most effective times to purchase furnishings also.
Determine when these periods are so you're able to get a good deal.
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Some general information about North Cyprus
Where is North Cyprus
Northern Cyprus (TRNC, Turkish Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti) is a country on the northern and eastern side of the island of Cyprus. Also known as the "Jewel in the Med"
The climate of North Cyprus is typical Mediterranean with very hot dry summers and cooler winters. The average temperature in July and August can reach up to 40 Celsius and in winter months the lowest temperature tends to be around 15 Celsius.
Places to visit
Northern Cyprus is home to many fascinating sights, below is just a selection:
Beaches are an important feature of Northern Cyprus, found throughout the coastline from the westernmost Yeşilırmak to the easternmost Dipkarpaz. There is a beach for everybody: for those who like to indulge in the luxury of seaside resorts to those who love the remote unspoilt golden stretches of sand. Below is a list of possible locations for beachgoers:
Language and Currency
The official language in North Cyprus is Turkish however English is widely spoken especially in the major tourist areas.
The currency is the Turkish Lira however all major currencies are accepted
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Folk woman stile
Folk is not just a style, it's more an attitude and a way of living … it's walking with bare feet on the grass or in the sand, I think that's the best way to describe it.
It diesent mean not that folk is very related to nature, it imean can not understtood without it: colors, fabrics and shapes, are inspired by this "dependence" of nature.
Folk is folklore, based on popular aesthetic culture, but, although there are many popular aesthetic cultures around the world, in fashion it has been accepted as "folk" only one: small flowers, thick knit hats, boots , long skirts, skins … that is, American folk culture.
Having said that, we are going to talk about a woman's folk style, classifying it in different ways, in order to be able to use it more easily:
The folk style of a woman in her element: outdoor folk
If you are going to spend a day in the country and you are determined to wear an impeccable folk style, you need comfortable clothes and natural materials such as cotton, wool, suede or leather.
You have to mix these elements in a balanced way, adapting them of course to your boby and your style. When I say balanced, I mean that you do not "abuse" a single material, better splashes the look with fabric contrasts and above all textures, fundamental to reinforce the folk effect.
For this purpose it uses, above all, characteristic accessories of this style: the leather of the hat, the thick point of the cap, the suede of the boots …
Motifs and fantasies characteristic of women's folk fabrics
After the most characteristic materials to achieve this look, we face the most representative representative motifs and prints to guarantee a mood that transmits that natural environment.
In the first image earth and ocher colors mixed with browns, a pattern that is once again linked to the earth and plants, both present in folk motifs.
About checks shirts so characteristic of this style I already spoke to you in the previous post, so now we speak of other folk style motifs.
First, other geometric motifs, inspired by those fabulous Indian blankets that you can use to wrap yourself, but whose designs you can find in many other garments, also lightweight.
As for the organic motifs, the flowers printed on viscose triumph everywhere, but also embroidered on cotton fabrics.
Floral motifs full of color are characteristic of folk, especially in long skirts and wide dresses with very feminine open necklines.
My advice is to wear this type of dresses with boots, female for special occasions or more rough, to get a more authentic effect.
Folk style of modern woman for city, essential denim
The denim escapes a bit the characteristics of the folk style, but completes and modernizes it, becoming essential if you need a more structured fabric to complete your woman's folk look in a more urban environment.
The urban folk style is comfortable and with comfortable volumes, but not only … through the slots of this urban casual version escapes that nature that is breathed everywhere in this style.
The accessories bring an mood of usefulness to the folk, adapting it to life in the city. Glasses, bags and shoes change everything, adapting the folk style to a world for which he was not prepared.
The word I'm looking for is "fashion", a fashion that remains faithful to natural fabrics and details inspired by life in the countryside.
It doesnt mean that the result are not contemporary looks, on the contrary, they have simply crossed barriers of social and cultural contamination, to arrive at a complexly different consistency than they needed for life in the countryside, much simpler.
At that point, sophistication comes into play, which is the true protagonist of the difference between authentic folk style and the city version.
Is not about the clothes, not even the pose, if you want to create an authentic folk look and that is also credible outside the city, you'll have to create a second skin more rugged and natural, able to dissimilate that sophistication, between naturalness folds and improvisation … at least apparently.
Casual folk style of women in everyday life, femininity comes into play
In this is the most daily version of folk, but also runs the risk of falling into the most absolute banality, losing all the essence of its origin.
The folk elements go unnoticed among the garments of casual attire without highlighting. The advantage is that they introduce components of their aesthetic origin without complexes, in addition to providing color and fantasies.
With regard to the feminine component of this style, it is one of its best advantages: ruffles, generous necklines … also original garments made with woven fabrics suitable for the different seasons of the year.
If we talk about beauty, the most consistent thing is to continue with their aesthetic characteristics, since they have a lot of personality: braids and disheveled effects, "wild" makeup or tattoos covering your skin, they are the best option.
Special occasions in folk style
On special occasions you can also count on the help of a super feminine folk look, especially if you have to attend an event in the field and want to wear a folk look in harmony with the occasion.
Use embroidery and folk prints to give consistency and personality inspired by life in nature, but I want you to see two images of this post that generate contrasts.
In this post I have not spoken practically of contrasts, since, in a style with so much solidity and coherence, there is not much space for them.
In the cover image, a draped knit dress with a thick folk style cardiganon top, seems completely out of place …
Towards the middle of the post, a girl with completely shaved hair, poses with a very feminine dress that contrasts with the radicality of the hair.
My advice is that you look for these contrasts playing with this folk style to create a much more modern version, taking advantage of, in addition, the most daring resources of your wardrobe.
One last tip … if you want a different and classic wedding at the same time, romantic, natural and simple, all together, folk has all the elements you need. Inspire yourself in its natural fabrics, in its flowers even for the ambience of the place where you want to celebrate your wedding.


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Does Cuba Live Up to the Hype?
Don't go to Cuba.
It's what I tell a lot of people who call Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures about setting up a fishing trip to the "forbidden island."
It's not the answer most people expect to hear from a booking agent, especially one who has built his business on sending people all over the world in pursuit of great fishing. This is especially true for the latest-and-greatest destination — a closed-off country rumored to offer plentiful tarpon, huge bonefish and easy permit. The stories are definitely out there. Cuba is hot right now, and American anglers are doing what they can to get there first. It is a place they want to visit and fish before it is forever changed by the coming wave of American tourism.
The $64,000 question: Does the fishery live up to the hype? The short answer is, it depends. The flats fishing in Cuba can be very good. In fact, at times it can be downright incredible. At the end of the day, however, it's still flats fishing, which means it's not much different than flats fishing in the Bahamas, Belize, the Yucatan and most other well-known Caribbean destinations.
It's important to remember that Cuba is not Disneyland, and there is never a sure thing when it comes to any of these species on a given day. The fish in Cuban waters may indeed be unpressured, compared to other destinations, but they are never stupid or easy. One week may be red-hot, and the next finicky and difficult.
The fish on Cuba's flats are just as unpredictable and spooky as those found in other parts of the Caribbean.
They must navigate an environment where they're either eating or being eaten, and when it comes to pressure, the waters of Cuba have been fished by plenty of anglers from Europe, Canada and even the United States for the past two decades. Some anglers have the perception that these waters have been locked away and untouched for the past 60 years and that when they get to Cuba they will be the very first to fish them. That is simply not the case.
Still, Cuba is the next frontier for saltwater anglers (especially those from the North) when it comes to opportunities on the flats, a fish population that's less pressured than most and the potential for impressive catches. And with recent announcements that President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro are taking significant steps to normalize relations between the two countries, the logistics and rules governing American fishing travel to Cuba are changing fast and becoming easier. Many expect that the island will fully open in the very near future, making a fishing trip to Cuba as straightforward and simple as a jaunt to the Bahamas.
I first fished Cuba 18 years ago and have since traveled there, photographed the country and explored its fisheries on more than a dozen occasions. My advice to anyone considering a trip to Cuba is not to go if the purpose is solely to fish. Most Cuban fishing packages are expensive — sometimes twice the cost of an equivalent fishing trip to the Bahamas, the Yucatan or Belize. And is the fishing worth it? Like everywhere else, that depends on the weather, the conditions and the willingness of the fish to cooperate.
The real reason to visit the country is to see and experience Cuba today versus Cuba five years from now. Visiting a country that has seen very little change over many decades and exists in a time warp where the music, food, people and culture are rooted in the early 1960s has both good and bad points.
The island's infrastructure is broken and dysfunctional, and the hotels, food, in-country transfers and service are rarely on par with other Caribbean destinations that are popular with anglers. However, Cuba can deliver a unique experience to those who have patience, a sense of adventure and an appreciation for a destination that has — so far — largely escaped the commercialization of Beaches, Sandals, Carnival Cruise Lines, Señor Frogs and other megatourist ventures. A trip to the Cuba of today is a trip back in time and an opportunity to meet amazing people, experience incredible scenery and, if you're lucky, find a few memorable fish.


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Fun Ways to Help You Learn New Math Concepts
Math can be frustrating to some children often causing them to lose interest in learning math. In fact I can remember that it was not a favorite subject of mine I also remember math books with long mathematical problems that were challenging and your work must be shown on paper. There was never other interesting ways of solving a math problem that would be acceptable. Even now math is a topic that often gives teachers and parents the greatest pause since it is the subject in school that gives the most frustration to children.
Despite the fact that math can be problematic to children there are ways that children can become acquainted with the fun of math. There are many ways of teaching math which encourages enjoyable learning and excitement. What can we do to bring out the excitement of math in children? Finding other alternatives to teaching math is often the best way to regain the children's interest and doing away with the frustration of math.
Providing children with hands-on math games that approaches mathematical thinking and problem- solving concepts in a different manner will help the learning and engaging process that children need. We must remember that math is a difficult subject for some to grasp, but we must also learn how to make children's imaginations soar when learning math. We must also help children to learn math as a useful and accessible tool that can bring on an academic edge certain to last them for a lifetime. Math must be creative and interesting.
For example, using math manipulative, interactive games and even board games can provide engaging math learning and play to children they also keep children entertained for hours and they often never realize how much they are learning. There is a lot to be said about the different ways of teaching math to children.
Today the hands-on approach, for example, seems to be the most helpful in teaching. Math manipulative are used as a hands-on approach and have become valuable to the learning of math in a teachers classroom. Teachers are able to introduce physical and visible objects to learn math. Children are able to visualize their work and create a better understanding of the math concept.
Interactive math is another approach to learning math it is a way to learn math without using the traditional teaching and using books, paper and pencils. Interactive games require you to solve mathematical problems to progress in the game you are playing on a computer.
Board games are also interactive in certain points depending on what is being used in the game they introduce exchange of game pieces and rolling of the dice there by providing interaction among the players. Board games are a form of math and use mathematical concepts for learning. When a child is playing a board game they are using their math skills such as strategic thinking, problem solving, functions, operations and geometry and spatial relation to complete the game.
There is so many ways of teaching math and games are very favorable to children so putting the two together math and games makes since. Besides using math games is a great way to provide learning and practicing of basic math skills while keeping children challenged and entertained. Math games can help parents teach children at home as well. The math games are friendly they come in board games and electronic book form that can be downloaded to your computer to simply print and play. The games are perfect for all ages and some electronic book games let you create your own games for children so you can be creative with math that would interest your children and they would not want to stop playing.
Whatever games you choose the games should keep children challenged and entertained the games should be enjoyed simply through play and should be able to be used in an approach that will promote the learning of mathematical concepts children need to learn while engaging in a fun learning math game.


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Part of the THIS IS THE MOMENT series.
We Built a Cathedral –A poem by Michelle Payette-Daoust
Thoughts about the marriage I have let go of
and words to the husband who, like me, continues to move on…
I look at my hands,
thinner and made darker and damaged by chemo:
These are not the hands you knew.
I look at my body, frailer,
and hiding just beneath the skin of my upper right chest, a port for chemo:
This is not the body you knew.
I look at my life, now lived in this country town,
in this new house in which I feel no ghosts, no memories, no shadows and no sadness:
This is not the home we knew.
On a clear and cool September day in 1980, I said—
filled with tender love and hopes for the life that awaited us—
I will love you always, till death parts us.
These vows,
taken and uttered with such purity of heart,
have not weathered time and storms and exhaustion.
We built a cathedral that we cannot live in together
—our family—our magnificent sons and grandchildren;
yet it stands, solid, sacred and majestic. It inspires many.
I am sick. My time may be short.
Here is my life. It did, and didn't, go to plan.
In most ways though, it chimes. It rings. It peals. It tolls as loudly as it ever did.
It resonates in me and through me, transcending the birds.


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Imagination Technologies has unveiled MIPS P5600 core supporting 128-bit SIMD and hardware virtualization. Imagination claims this processor core takes 30% smaller area on silicon compared to comparable CPU cores from other competitors.
The other features supported by MIPS P5600 core includes Enhanced Virtual Addressing (EVA) and Extended Physical Addressing (XPA). MIPS P5600 core is rated to achieve CPU IP performance exceeding 5 CoreMark/MHz with 3.5 DMIPS/MHz. This processor IP is suggested for applications such as servers, automotive and other products requiring the use of multiple secure and isolated operating systems.
The P5600 claimed as the first MIPS CPU core to feature full 128-bit SIMD support, delivering the highest performance for a wide range of tasks that can exploit the efficiencies of SIMD execution in data-parallel applications such as audio codecs, image processing, DSP, low-level simple 2D graphics and other media-rich applications.


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All men of the parish are invited to join this group which meets to discuss scripture and how it related to our lives today. The group meets twice a month on Thursday mornings to enjoy coffee, discussion and spirituality through scripture. For more information please call Mark Kunstman on (920) 495-5856 or click here to email.
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As 2014 begins, the United States may be ready to call it quits on its second major experiment with Prohibition. With both Colorado and Washington state now offering legalized marijuana use, it may be only a matter of time before pot is legal nationwide. Interestingly, the results of drug prohibition look pretty much the same as those that resulted from alcohol being outlawed in the 1920s - a spike in crime, lost tax revenue, but little effect on consumption.
For evidence look no further than the current size of the illegal marijuana market. Estimates vary, as calculating consumption accurately is tricky, but $33 billion is a conservative estimate. That's based on a street price of $185 an ounce and annual consumption of 180 million ounces, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Other estimates of the U.S. market alone range from $70 billion (the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) to $100 billion (Jon Gettman, assistant professor at Shepherd University in West Virginia and marijuana researcher).
Even at the low end, the total is within shouting distance of the cigarette market, which stands at $91 billion. And it's not far from what Americans spend on beer in a year - $97 billion, according to the Beverage Information Group. With beer consumption declining and cigarette smoking out of fashion, it's possible legalized pot will be an even stronger competitor, legal or not.
The boost to the U.S. Treasury in taxes could add up to $9 billion, with additional savings on law enforcement, according to a study by the Tax Policy Center, but that may be conservative. A 2009 study by the California Board of Equalization estimated a marijuana tax could add $1.4 billion to the California economy.
That is not counting the taxes paid by legitimate businesses created by legalizing pot. Like it or not, marijuana is now the largest cash crop in the U.S., worth more than corn and wheat combined. As it comes out of the shadow economy, marijuana will become more efficient and favor big producers who can take advantage of economies of scale. So get ready for pot as big business. Right next to big alcohol and big tobacco.


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Don't just have sex with your partner; fully explore some wetime before goingdutch, dabbling in littleo and frontdoor (softserve optional).
You'll need Cindy Gallop's "Licktionary" to decipher that.
The adland maverick's new language of love was not created as a gimmick or marketing ploy for her company, MakeLoveNotPorn (MLNP)—the movement with a single-minded mission to make it easier for every single person on the planet to talk openly and honestly about sex. It was created as a road map for all, one that will ultimately guide marketers to a place where they feel comfortable normalizing sex.
"We're doing consumers a huge disservice when we do not reflect the world as it really is," said Gallop. "And the world as it really is involves the fact that sex is one of the biggest areas in all our lives. It is so fundamentally important."
What you're thinking is right: Gallop's been beating this drum for years. Ten years. But, finally, she's starting to get through. The tectonic plates under adland are shifting (albeit, still too slowly) to a place where her mission is taken more seriously. People are listening. Brands are asking questions. Market leaders in the sex world like Durex are calling for meetings.
Not too long ago, Gallop was approached by two women passionate about her cause. They wanted to bring the Licktionary to life.
Nicole Dorsey, an award-winning commercial and film director and member of Free the Bid, partnered with executive producer Chilo Fletcher to create a new campaign for MLNP.
"The Language of Love" showcases a real couple in bed passing MLNP's new vocabulary between them, including "lickjob" (cunnilingus) and "owowowheynow" (the word for anal intercourse derived from the recipient's experience).
Gallop explained: "The reason this is so necessary is, because we don't talk about sex we have no socially acceptable vocabulary of which to do so. The language of porn has rushed in to fill that gap because there is nothing else.
"That's not good for all sorts of reasons, including the fact that in a male-dominated industry, the language of porn is predominantly male-generated. So the person who coined the term 'finger blasting' did not have a vagina. The person who coined the term 'getting her ass railed' never got his ass railed. Pounding, ramming, wrecking, destroying—all terms taken from people who do not possess the soft internal tissue to which those things are being done."
Dorsey said of the spot: "Media has such power as a learning tool. As viewers, we can't help but be influenced by what we see. So when intimacy and sex is defined by images of hardcore pornography, love and consent become skewed.
"I love Cindy's message of real-world sex. Not damning the porn industry, but rather expressing that it is a fictionalized reality that doesn't need to reflect real world sex. You can watch it for entertainment, to get sexy, but you can also hold onto certain values within your own sex life. And so I wanted to contribute to her conversation; showcasing a consensual, loving, sweet and sexy interaction where communication is central."
Now Gallop is throwing down the gauntlet and challenging media agencies to step up and donate air time. She wants "The Language of Love" to run as a TV spot. She wants it to run online. And she wants it to run in the cinema "because it deserves to be there—it's cinematic."
Her goal is to have this ad juxtaposed with a series or documentary "that reflects the fact that without this normalization and socilization of sex in the real world, all sorts of very unhappy things happen to people when you can't communicate effectively."
Gallop is witnessing growing support from women in the industry who want to be a part of her mission. Brands are slower to move, but they are moving. The entrepreneur was recently invited in to talk to Durex about the role it could play in further educating people about condom use (something rarely seen in porn). Gallop wants MLNP to be the global destination for how-to videos for real world sex. There is ample space for brand integration with a company like Durex willing to partner on product demonstration.
The opportunities for marketers to leverage sex as a tool are seemingly endless. And while many are having these conversations, very few are pushing the green button. Gallop says this has everything to do with leadership.
"Pretty much every brand is male dominated in terms of who managers and oversees it," she said. "I honestly believe that if we have more women on the client side in senior positions I would be getting a lot further with MakeLoveNotPorn, as would other sex-related brands and ventures like me who are also looking for partnerships that will really scale effectiveness for all of us.
"Because men are part of the status quo, they don't see the enormous need to change this part of the status quo in ways that it would have a phenomenal knock-on effect in creating more healthy openess around sex that ulimately impacts so many things, including Me Too."


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Sound Research
While designing our platform we contacted hundreds of business schools and higher education institutions, that included direct interviews with professors, students, and alumni to get their perspective and understand the needs, opportunities and the current difficulties all stakeholders face from their perspective.
Networking Features
One of the awesome things we bring to the table is the variety of features focused on networking and increasing engagement. Based on our research, we developed features that will make your platform the digital hub for the entire network, creating social and business opportunities for your members, offering a knowledge center, managing your events and much more - all of them are available for members in desktop/PC/Mac and the mobile app.
Your Mobile APP
Our platform will not only give you access to your own web-based system, but it also includes an entirely brand-tailored mobile application that is seamlessly integrated to the system with a common database making it easy for your people on the go to access all the features and functionalities!
Our research shows that students, alumni, and professors don't connect outside of the university and don't use the full power of the network to generate career, life or business opportunities. We have made it easy for them to have a way to stay connected and leverage synergies and opportunities - this adds value to them, and adds value to you!
Turning a member of your learning community into an active pillar of your community is not an easy task; for this to happen the value you offer can't be only limited to providing high-quality education - we have made it easy for you to generate engaging mechanisms that make communities thrive without adding extra work!
Having the tools you need to manage your learning community on one single platform is important, and simplicity is the key - with our platform you won't have to distract and bother your students, professors, and alumni with different systems or apps they're "required" to use; instead you make it simple and easy for them by having everything in one place!
Let your students, professors and alumni create their personal profiles in your platform, build their personal networks within your campus and integrate their social networks.
As your members start connecting with each other, what better way to share relevant content than structuring interactions by topics of interest, creating groups and subgroups, enabling them to have their conversations and coordinate actions!
As part of a great community, your members will be at their best having the tools to communicate properly, both in private and group conversations.
another way to keep your stakeholders engaged is to give them the opportunity to cooperate in common activities and projects, for this you need to identify key players (champions) to act as early adopters of these features and let it run from there, it will grow by itself if the first steps are done properly!
events always brings your community together, and you know that! now you will have the chance to manage these events in the same platform both web and mobile app, giving you and your members one less thing to keep in mind...
finally, what about truly creating opportunities by offering internal and external job positions, hiring, tasks, etc? our platform offers the possibility to open job posts and to apply for them with a matching technology generating automatic shortlisting!
Your back office offers you complete control over your platform and management of your learning community. It is very intuitive and you have access to issue tickets for the support that you might need when managing the platform.
The payment gateway offers the chance to pay with credit card or to automatically issue an invoice so that you can receive payments through bank transfers as well.
The payment gateway can be used for membership fees, donations, events bookings and any other additional sources of revenue you might have.
Finally, our platform is seamlessly integrated with Stripe (for payments), with Google calendar (for events), HubSpot (for CRM), and Zapier (to bridge thousands of additional integrations)
During your first meetings with one of our community specialists, we would like to gather relevant information to help you define clear objectives and community privacy policies for the implementation of our platform and translate them into technical specifications for the tailoring phase.
Post discovery phase we start the brand customization of your web platform and mobile app, we set up your payment gateway and help you create a 6-week editorial plan. We also schedule specific features development (if applicable) and finish with the creation of a launching plan.
All set up for launching, we get you ready to go with some initial curated content for engagement within the framework of an internal launching campaign that includes invitation letters templates for your target groups and ways to engage early adopters. This phase finishes with the open invitation to all your selected stakeholders.
This phase gives you the chance to: (1) implement an editorial plan for content curation and creation, (2) send and track newsletters, (3) create events, (4) initiate job postings, (5) identify and recognize top performers in the usage of the platform (champions) and (6) clarify any final doubts you may have on all functionalities available.
From there, every two weeks the community specialist assigned to you will be available for steering calls (four meetings in total) to help you go through your metrics & KPI's and give advise on how better capitalize on your platform. After these initial follow up meetings you will be able use the support tickets for any needs that may arise.
The School of Management Fribourg is very satisfied with the way in which Connexa conducted the project. To build our online network community « Campus Fribourg » was a huge project for us. We had constant support throughout the project. The pre-built platform was very flexible to adapt our ideas and vision. The entire project was organized lean and the continuing communication is reliable and fast. The Campus Fribourg platform will be a key element in our future communication with our stakeholder.
The ongoing support adds further to our praise for Connexa in knowing that they truly care about this project and its success. We strongly recommend them to future customers.
Lukas Schneuwly
Why Are We Doing This?
We believe the future of education is digital and we want to be a key contributor to this shift of paradigm
Who Is Behind This?
Send us a message and we will be more than glad to share with you the whole story and invite you be part of it as well.
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Blog Archives
Gustavo "Gus" Mondragón M.Sc. – Thesis Defense
We celebrate the successful thesis defense of Gustavo "Gus" Mondragón who has now completed his Masters degree and is now on to getting a PhD in our group. Gustavo has worked on the search for multiexcitonic states and their involvement in the excitonic transference between photosynthetic pigments, specifically between bacteriochlorophyll-d molecules (BChl-d) from the bchQRU chlorosome whose whole structure is shown in the gallery below. To this end, Gustavo has studied and implemented the Restricted Active Space method with double spin flip (RAS-2SF) with the use of QChem5.0, a method that has required the use and understanding of states with high multiplicities. Additionally, Gustavo has investigated the influence of the environment within the chlorosome by performing ONIOM calculations for the spectroscopic properties of a BChl-d dimer, finding albeit qualitatively a batochromic effect, probably an expected result but nonetheless an impressive feat for the level of theory selected.
There's still a lot of work to do in this line of research and although we're eager to publish our results in this excitonic transference mechanism we want to be completely sure that we're taking every possibility into consideration so we don't incur into any inconsistencies.
Gustavo cultivates many research interests from excited states of these pigments to biochemical processes that require the use of various tools; I'm sure his permanence in our lab will bring lots of interesting results. Congratulations, Gus! Thank you for your hard work.
Dr. Gabriel Merino wins The Walter Kohn Prize 2018
Just as I was thinking about the state of Mexican scientific environment in the global scale, Prof. Dr. Gabriel Merino from CINVESTAV comes and gets this prize awarded by the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation, showing us all that great science is possible even under pressing circumstances.
This prize is awarded biennially to a young scientist for outstanding contributions in the field of quantum-mechanical materials and molecular modeling, performed in a developing country or emerging economy,and in the case of Dr. Merino it is awarded not only for his contributions to theory and applications but also by his contributions to the prediction of novel systems that violate standard chemical paradigms, broadening the scope of concepts like aromaticity, coordination and chemical bond. The list of his contributions is very long despite his young age and there are barely any topic in chemistry or materials science that escapes his interest.
Gabriel is also one of the leading organizers of the Mexican Theoretical Physical Chemistry Meeting, an unstoppable mentor with many of his former students now leading research teams of their own. He is pretty much a force of nature.
Congratulations to Dr. Gabriel Merino, his team, CINVESTAV and thanks for being such an inspiration and a good friend at the same time.
¡Felicidades, Gabriel!
A New Graduate Student!
Last Friday we had a new graduate student when our very own Marco Antonio Diaz defended his BSc thesis on the in silico design of drug carriers based on calix[n]arenes. During his thesis he performed around 160 different calculations regarding the interaction energy of our host-guest inclusion complexes, both using the supramolecular method and the NBODel procedure available in NBO3.1 as provided with Gaussian 09. One of the main targets of this work was to assess both methods -with the proper BSSE corrections- in their capabilities for the calculation of interaction energies.
We found that the NBODel method consistently generates interaction energies that are similar to those of the SM method + the BSSE correction (as opposed to SM – BSSE which is the proper correction). Marco and I are still in the process of writing the article so maybe it will be published in early 2018. In this case we're using calixarenes to deliver three drugs: warfarine, furosemide, phenylbutazone to compite with ocratoxin-A (OTA) for the binding site in Human Serum Albumin (HSA).
This project is undertaken in collaboration with my good friend Dr. Sándor Kunsági-Máté in Pécsi Tudomanyegyetem in Hungary.
Congratulations to Marco from all of us here at the lab!
Some Comp.Chem. Tweeps
Out of some +1000 twitter accounts I follow about a quarter are related computational chemistry. The following public list isn't comprehensive and prone to errors and contains researchers, programmers, students, journals, products and companies who gravitate around the use of in silico methods for the understanding and design of chemical and biochemical compounds.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
I'm quite late to jump on this wagon but nonetheless I'm thrilled about this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry being awarded to three awesome computational chemists: Martin Karplus (Harvard), Michael Levitt (Stanford) and Arieh Warshel (USC) for the development of computational models at the service of chemistry; most prominently, the merging of computations both at the classical . and quantum levels, the former allows for a computationally feasible calculation while the latter provides the needed accuracy for the description of a chemical process.
As a computational chemist myself I must say that, at some level, it feels as some sort of vindication of the field, which makes me wonder if it indeed needs it, I don't think so but maybe some might. Last week, Nobel week, I attended a symposium on the Advances in Quantum Chemical Topology where big names such as Paul Ayers, Paul Popelier and Chérif Matta among many others participated along with my friends and colleagues from CCIQS, Fernando Cortés (whom actually organized the whole thing! Kudos, Fer!) and Vojtech Jancik who contributed to the experimental (X-ray diffraction methods) part of the symposium. Surprisingly nobody at the conferences mentioned the Nobel Prize! Not even during the round table discussion titled "The Future of Quantum Chemical Topology". At some point during this discussion the issue of usefulness came out. I pointed out chemists have this inherent need of feeling useful, including computational chemists, as opposed to physicists of any denomination. Computational or theoretical chemists try to be like physicists yet still have chemistry behavior baggage. Even more baffling is the fact that at such an abstract conference usefulness is discussed, yet those theoretical chemists who do not develop new methods, nor dwell into equations or propose new Hamiltonians, but rather make use of well established methodologies for tackling and solving particular problems in chemistry become somewhat ostracized by the theoretical chemistry community*.
Much controversy among the comp.chem. community was aroused by this much deserved award (try reading the comment section on this post by the great Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline). Here in Mexico we have a saying: "Ni son todos los que están ni están todos los que son" which is hard to translate given the two different meanings of the verb To Be, but it can be roughly translated as "Not all the ones who should be are present, nor the ones that are present are all that should be", or something like that. Of course there are many other computational chemists that are left behind from this prestigious prize, but the contributions of Karplus, Levitt and Warshel to chemistry through the use of computational chemistry can be denied. In fact this does vindicate the field of comp.chem. by acknowledging the importance of modelling in molecular design and reactivity understanding.
Congratulations from a Mexican fan to Professors Karplus, Levitt and Warshel for the most deserved Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013!
PS a much better post on this topic can be found at the curious wavefunction.
Thanks for reading, liking, rating and commenting
*Of course this is just my opinion and views (which is redundant to state since this is my very own blog!)


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Xbox One Reivew - Kinect Sports Rivals
The Intro:
A lot of the hype surrounding the Xbox One was centered on the new Kinect, one that claimed to be more capable, more accurate and more dynamic than the first version of the device. With such anticipation, a lot of gamers were waiting to see what exactly the new Kinect was capable of.
Sadly, the first game that attempted to showcase the Kinect, Fighter Within, was a colossal failure. And now, with Kinect SportsRivals, we have another game that attempts to show just how good the new Kinect is. This is a better game than Fighter Within, but that isn't saying much. While it does offer a few moments of silly enjoyment, it's hardly a testament to the capabilities of the Kinect. While Microsoft continues to claim that the new version of their motion sensing device is leagues ahead of its predecessor, we have yet to see a game that confirms this claim. You can read an interesting article on polygon, which states the kinect still isn't serious gaming hardware.
The Game Play:
As soon as you begin the game, you are presented with a player creation screen that allows you to create a digital avatar who will be competing in the various events presented. The game does this by having the Kinect scan your face and then create a likeness of you. This isn't too reliable though. Sometimes, you might find that your digital self resembles yourself uncannily, while other times it looks like a completely different person. It's interesting to see how the game creates your characters. Annoyingly, the game forces you to watch an introduction every single time someone stands in front of the Kinect to do a face scan. If you're playing with your friends, expect to sit through a few minutes of intro sequences before everyone's avatars are ready to go.
Once you do finally have your characters created, Kinect Sports Rivals begins presenting a gamut of competitions for you. You begin with a jet ski racing event. The controls here are intuitive and feel natural. For turning, you can turn your arms one way or the other, much like you would if you were operating with handlebars. You can brake by opening your right hand. Closing it again makes your character step on the throttle. You can also perform special moves like flips and drifts by leaning forward, backward or to the side. The environments are good looking and have the proper arcade feel that games like this require. Whenever your jet ski rides the waves, the graphics demonstrate the gravity and impact admirably.
The Different Events:
In the rock climbing event, you have to move your arms up and down, and then close a fist as your character comes across a handhold. Once you grab a handhold, you have to move your arms downwards to make your character push itself up from the current position. You can grab other players' legs and send them on a joyride to the bottom. This mechanic is a lot of fun when you are playing with your friends. The camera handles suitably, giving you a sense of the height and scale of the course. This is probably as good as rock climbing can be demonstrated in a video game setting.
Surprisingly, bowling, which you would expect to be one of the easier games to mimic proper motion controls for, is less than stellar. You have to bowl in much the same manner as you would in a real alley, except here you have to really make extreme motions to impart any spin to the ball. Still, this is a fun mini-game to play for a while. Tennis is similarly underwhelming. While the graphics are good and sending a winner past an opponent looks great, it's tough to get a grip on how timing works in the game.
The shooting and soccer events are indisputably the worst of the lot. In the shooting mini-game, you have to point at the screen and fire at targets via a crosshair. You simply have to point the crosshair at a target and the shooting happens automatically. You are presented with a series of static and moving targets, some of which you have to shoot in a certain sequence. While using your hand as a gun to shoot stuff on a screen isn't the most exciting activity, it could have made for some old school, Duck Hunt-esque fun. But unfortunately, the targeting is far from perfect, and for an event that is about sharpshooting, this is obviously a huge problem.
In the soccer game, you have to mimic a kicking motion to pass the ball from player to player, all the while attempting to avoid the opponent's defense. Here too, the game fails to read a significant portion of the kicks you make, which will probably have you swearing at the screen more than once. When you make a good run only to have your striker shoot straight, instead of left or right as you intended, it is not a lot of fun. When you play as the defensive team, you have control of your goalkeeper, whom you have to maneuver into position to stop scoring shots.
The Conclusion:
The story is a poor excuse to connect unrelated sports events together into a single narrative, and expectedly, it does a terrible job at explaining why you have to compete in such a wide variety of competitions. This game has its fun moments, but ultimately the inconsistency of the controls and some questionable gameplay mechanics never allow it to rise from mediocrity.


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Tribal Statement Looks6:52 PM
You might notice this pic from a previous post. I found a look for less at at local store in St. Louis and this is how I styled this piece in the past few weeks. I am in love with statement pieces and I have a new one on the way that I can't wait to share as well.