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Quality Policy
TDS Policy
It is the policy of Technical Demolition Services Ltd. to consistently, and profitably exceed our Customer's expectations and requirements for quality, reliability, ease and speed of service.
This objective will be achieved by maintaining, and continuously improving, high standards of competence in all our activities that have a direct or indirect impact on Customer Satisfaction.
We shall seek and maintain third party certification of our Quality Management Systems to the requirements of ISO9001: 20015 as a means of ensuring that our arrangements and understanding of current and future customer needs are:
- Appropriate and suitable to meeting our objective
- Consistently deployed and applied
- Deliver to the Customer, and Company, the benefits we seek
- Are in compliance with current legislation
- Prevent noncompliance and seek continual improvement
It is our aim that all members of the company, shall function in an environment in which they are encouraged to contribute to improvement of Customer Satisfaction, quality and reliability. Management is committed to the provision of required resources and managerial support to achieve the commitments in this policy statement. It is the duty of all staff to assist all other members of the company to consistently meet the requirements of this policy statement.
This Policy applies to all our activities and locations from which the company provides service to Customers including the work of subcontractors delivering services on behalf of Technical Demolition Services Ltd.
We will establish objectives and targets for all levels and activities within the company that are consistent with this policy and our continuous improvement targets, the management review process will be the primary format for reviewing the effectiveness of the achievement of stated objectives and targets and the review of the quality policy itself, this will be done as a minimum annually.
This policy statement is publicly available on request.


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Through "Science for the Next Generation," Mrs. Goodwin and Mrs. Gonzalez will enhance the Next Generation Science Standards for each of their grade levels with experiences in visual and performing arts and various technology applications. The project will be centered on a trip to the San Francisco Academy of Science. Lessons and activities before and after the trip will allow students to experience science and connect it to the other disciplines.
Ruth Goodwin

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We're back with another Blog Critique from Momcomm and The SITS Girls!
Mel, Fran and I are dissecting a blog from top to bottom in three areas: design, navigation/functionality and content. The reason? To help the featured blogger meet her blog goals and become even MORE awesome.
The goal of a blog critique is to help all of us learn and grow. One suggestion for a particular blog may very well apply to multiple members of our community and get us all thinking about how we can improve what we do.
Remember to click through all of the blog critiques listed at the bottom of this post and see which tips you can apply to your own site.
Christina says that Mommy Loves Coffee is a parenting resource blog — a place to help parents feel like they're not alone with personal stories and informational resources… along with honest, in depth reviews to help parents make informed decisions when it comes to their children.
Her main goal is to be engaging, informative and honest. She gets freelance work from her blog, so she considers it her online resume. But she struggles with keeping her content balanced.
Design {Mel}
Header and Menu
- Your color scheme is lovely and welcoming. Your header is great. It is clean and uncluttered and draws the reader's attention right to the critical elements of the top of the page.
- The only minor comment I have is about your tagline where you have the phonetic spelling of coffee – this seems really long and when I read it, it confuses me: is the blog about coffee? The real thrust of your tagline is "keeping mommy awake for all that life throws her way". I'm not sure you need the phonetic stuff at the beginning.
- Your navigation bar is crisp and to the point. Kudos for having links for an about page, a contact page, as well as a page for PR and Media. I love your Mommy Resources page – tons of helpful content there. But the Events and Fitness Tips are a bit sparse on content – do you really need them?
- Bonus points for having your social media icons right at the top of your sidebar. I love that they are placed there, where people can see them right away. As you move forward with your blogging, consider adding ones for Pinterest, Instagram or StumbleUpon if you use those services.
- Your sidebar organization is well thought-out and again, very uncluttered. Great job! I think that everything is where it should be with one small suggestion: your category options are really far down in the sidebar. There's no other place on your home page where you can access your categories. Because you cover such a wide range of content, I'd like to see your categories displayed higher up on the page, with each being visibly listed as opposed to a drop down menu. This will allow your readers to quickly get to the content they want, and new readers to see what types of things you write about.
- Thank you for having a search bar and positioning it high up in the sidebar! Your welcome box with your photo is also perfect – it conveys you and the personality of your blog perfectly!
Main Column
- As I said above, your color scheme is really nice and soothing to the eye. While I like that your post title color is completely in keeping with your color scheme, a slightly brighter or darker version of that same color would help your post titles pop out more and draw the reader's eye to the title
- Since your blog's content includes tutorials, it's especially great that you have a LinkWithin widget at the bottom of each post. It's some nice eye candy that will encourage users to click!
- While it's GREAT that you have sharing buttons at the bottom of each post, they get lost being under your LinkWithin thumbnails. Plus your readers will rarely click "share" and search through all the ways to share. They look at what's in front of them and if it's not there, they probably won't do it. Consider adding both StumbleUpon and Pinterest sharing buttons if you have accounts there (you should, since you do craft tutorials and those do well on Pinterest and SU!) Also, with the widget you're using, your retweets don't have your Twitter handle in them.
- You might also think about adding a retweet and FB "like" or "share" button at the top of your post. It seems duplicative (and counter-intuitive), but a lot of people tend to click on the share options at the top of a post versus the bottom.
Navigation {Fran}
- To start out, your navigation overall is really solid, so the points below are pretty minor!
- Your Mommy Resources page is a terrific addition to your site. Think about ways to market that page more, maybe tweet about it once or twice a month. Interlink to it over and over again in posts that call for it.
- I noticed that you don't have a favicon. It would help extend your branding. Your designer can easily create one for you in no time at all.
- I really like that you're putting your footer to good use. Reader comments aren't always particularly fascinating, so they're not worthy of sidebar placement, but they do show new visitors to your site that people are engaged. I like that you're putting them in the footer.
- Putting your current giveaways down there in the footer is another way to drive traffic to those branded posts – good job.
- I agree with Gigi that your sidebar is well organized. But I think putting your DIY tutorials in the footer instead of the sidebar gives them short shrift. This is some of your best content and you'd get continued traffic to them if they were called out more visibly. See if you can find a place in the sidebar for them that makes sense without overcluttering.
Writing {Gigi}
- Your goal stated that you wanted to be informative and engaging on your blog. Hurray! You definitely strike the right tone to be meeting this goal. You have a great conversational tone with other moms.
- Your writing has a welcoming feel that also makes you come across as really educated about the topics you write about. I don't feel like you're shooting from the hip – you really know what you are talking about. This is such a valuable asset, because it will continue to foster trust with your readers.
- You also expressed concern about having the right balance with your content. You're definitely heavy on the reviews. If you're worried about balance, think about creating a more structured editorial calendar. Perhaps you do reviews on Mondays and Fridays, and use the in-between days for your other non-review content. This will allow you to set expectations with your readership as well as nudge you toward striking the right balance.
- You obviously put a HUGE amount of time into writing your product reviews – brands must love how thorough you are. I would consider making your reviews not QUITE so long. There's so much information there that it's difficult to digest – and it's such great info, like this one you did for Stokke.
- If you must keep the product reviews that detailed, try playing around more with using <h1> and <h2> tags and bullets to break the content up into smaller chunks. Also consider vlogging a part of the review so it's more interactive as opposed to a long swath of text. Sections where you talk about the design and aesthetic of a particular product would be a perfect use for a vlog. And, you can get your kids involved!
- Your DIY craft tutorials are fan-flipping-tastic. Again, I think you have so many terrific things to say that you may want to re-examine how you structure and organize these posts. For example, your post on Easy DIY Halloween Crafts for kids was AMAZING! BUT (I hate that word!) there were something like ten different crafts in there! Oh my goodness, I got a little intimidated.
- That post was a PERFECT candidate for a posting series. You could easily have broken each craft into its own DIY tutorial post and had a full week's worth of content ready to go. And, with smart interlinking between the posts, you'd have a big SEO boost as well. The reader wins, because they see a steady stream of great content that's easily digestible. You win because you can coast on that series of posts for days!
- I love your Coffee Chat series. It's a great way to give back to your readers by linking up their comments to their blogs. Have you ever considered making this a weekly meme with linky? I think you would get great participation on this. You could share your perspective on the weekly Coffee Chat topic, then let your readers write their own posts on that same topic and join the linky. Because your subject matter changes every week, it gives people something new to write about. Pour Your Heart Out at Things I Can't Say is a fantastically successful weekly meme that I think you could model your Coffee Chat after (and think of the Google juice and extra pageviews you'd get by having all of those people linking up to you!).
- I like how you use a related posts plugin and links within your post to other resources on similar topics. You did a good job of this on your post Weaning Tips for Breastfeeding Mothers. Keep it up! This will keep readers coming back for more.
- I believe your real strength in terms of content lies in your mommy tips and DIY posts. Since your posts cover a lot of different topic areas (reviews, tips, DIY, coffee talk), consider having a separate RSS feed for your review posts. That way, people who aren't necessarily interested in reviews can still get all of your other great content! To set up a separate RSS feed for a different post category, you need to understand the basics of WordPress and feeds – but here's some info to get you started.
- Overall, you are talking the talk and walking the walk. I think your biggest hurdle is post length – and that's something that can be easily remedied with the tips I've shared here!
So, did you learn anything from this blog critique? Let us know in the comments below.
And be sure to head over to visit Christina from Mommy Loves Coffee and leave her some comment love. Check out her site, see if you agree with our assessments, and maybe even leave one of your own!
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Raspy-Sounding Neil Diamond Offers Refund to Concertgoers
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Disappointed Neil Diamond fans will get a refund after attending a concert in which the 67-year-old singer's voice sounded raspy.
Some fans left the Monday concert early and others said Diamond completed the concert without mentioning anything to the audience at Ohio State University about his voice.
A statement from Diamond, the singer of such hits as "Sweet Caroline" and "Song Sung Blue," on Tuesday says a doctor has diagnosed acute laryngitis.
Diamond spokeswoman Eve Samuels says the singer is offering a refund to those who place a request before Sept. 5. "I haven't let you down before and I won't let you down now," the singer said in an apology on his Web site.
Another message says Wednesday's concert in Green Bay, Wisconsin, will be rescheduled for Sept. 12, and Friday's concert in St. Louis, Missouri, will instead take place Sept. 10.


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Fast, aggressive leftist punk rock. "Yankee Boy" is yet another stab at anyone in the military who doesn't desert when the bullets start flying. "Suspect" is about society being to blame for crime and not the criminals. "K.G.B." is a paranoid anti-American, pro-USSR punk rant, which misses the point since India and Pakistan got into a pissing contest. "Welcome to the End," the title track, points a finger at the world's cities and how they're all going to burn.
OK, musically, the Generators are great. Right on target with speedy punk rock. But strange leftist stance is right out of a Eugene McCarthy campaign advertisement (who? look him up! -it'll explain everything). I go to punk shows these days and everyone's looking for something to fight against and all that might be left is to bring up old conflicts or misunderstandings that a good read of the newspapers and a history book would clear up. But Welcome to the End is the Generators' soapbox, not mine. If you're a left-wing, commie pinko who digs good old fashioned punk rock, Marx my words, you'll dig this.


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A new study ('Measles transmission from an anthroposophical community to the general population …') on a measles outbreak in Germany and Austria in 2008 has been published in June. I find it rather interesting in the light of recent debates and previous blog posts. From the discussion section:
Our investigation showed, that introduction of measles virus into a pocket of susceptible persons like the students of the anthroposophic school in Salzburg city provoked an outbreak and was followed by further spread to the general population with a vaccination coverage below the WHO recommended level.
They discuss why parents choose to not vaccinate, and seem to believe that increased knowledge about the safety of vaccines would change people's attitudes. However, as (at least some of) these parents are anthroposophists, information about vaccine safety may not be sufficient to convince them. For non-anthroposophist waldorf parents, it may have an impact, though. It is also mentioned that health care providers should inform parents about the benefits of vaccination. But if parents consult anthroposophical doctors, this may not happen; anthroposophical doctors are not always positively inclined towards childhood vaccination… The study recommends awareness campaigns — but why would that help, if those, who are supposed to be made aware, already hold convictions which are (more or less) incompatible with vaccination? Such as a belief that disease is good and even necessary for spiritual reasons? From the conclusions:
This outbreak investigation shows that once the measles virus has found its way into a low-immunized population like an anthroposophic community, the general population – if having vaccination coverage below the WHO recommended level, such as in Bavaria – is at risk of measles outbreaks.
As an aside, I noted an ironic but trivial thing: 'The National Reference Centre for Measles, Mumps and Rubella in Berlin (NRC) used the Enzygnost Anti-Measles Virus IgM ELISA (Siemens, Germany) for the detection of anti-measles IgM in serum.' [My emphasis.]


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Obsession is now Live!!!
Obsession knows no bounds...Anna Jameson can't wait to escape the hell hole that her cousin has left her in. Desperate to escape her past, the idea of moving to stay with Holly whilst she got her head together sounded like the perfect plan... Until Holly upped and left, leaving Anna to pick up the mess that she left behind. Jensen Blake knows what he wants and will not be told otherwise. Obedience and control are what he knows best. With demons of his own, he has spent most of his adult life traveling from place to place the moment things started to become predictable. When Jensen and Anna are pushed together, an instant dislike simmers between them. Anna hates bad boys. She has witnessed enough of them to last her a lifetime. The sexual attraction between them is evident but will that only make things
harder for them both to handle?
About the author:
Welcome to the crazy and hectic life that is me... A fun, loving mum of one special little boy, girlfriend (I'm sure it should be wife by now!!) and an overall crazy, happy go lucky girl from England.
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Turns out that Honeycomb is not as innovative as we expected it to be, at least not at its core. Some guys discovered that Android 3.0 is actually a shell running on top of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. In order to reveal this detail, you need to change the LCD density to 170 or higher on a slate.
This feature was tested by some guys, who tweaked the LCD density and afterwards performed a reboot of the Dell Streak 7 they were using, only to find the Gingerbread UI on the screen. It has the same lockscreen, launcher and app list and if you want Honeycomb back, you should reset the LCD density back to 160 or lower.
It's strange to find traces of Gingerbread on the device and maybe Google wanted to make sure that the OS won't completely freeze on a device with a 170 denssity or more, so they used Android 2.3 as a backup. Video of this finding below:


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Invisible rays that are part of the energy that comes from the sun. UV radiation can burn the skin and cause skin cancer. UV radiation that reaches the earth's surface is made up of two types of rays, UVA and UVB rays. UVB rays are more likely than UVA rays to cause sunburn, but UVA rays pass further into the skin. Scientists have long thought that UVB radiation can cause skin cancer. They now know that UVA radiation also may add to skin damage that can lead to cancer. For this reason, skin specialists recommend that people use sunscreen that protect from both types of radiation.
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Warren Buffett: One metric tells me the most about the future
Warren Buffett made a name for himself and became a multi-billionaire by making some savvy moves in the stock market. So, it might surprise some folks to hear him say that for stock market investors, the most important metric to watch is found in the bond market.
"Everything in valuation gets back to interest rates," Buffett said to Yahoo Finance's Andy Serwer in April.
Recently, Buffett has been fielding a lot of questions about stock market valuations and how one should value individual businesses. And repeatedly, Buffett responded by pointing to interest rates.
It's not as simple as CAPE or market cap to GDP
At Berkshire Hathaway's recent annual shareholders meeting, an investor asked Buffett about the relevance of two popular measures of stock market value: 1) market cap-to-GDP, which Buffett once heralded as "probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment" and 2) the cyclically-adjusted price-earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot-com bubble and the housing bubble.
"Every number has some degree of meaning," Buffett said. "It means more sometimes than others. … And both of the things that you mentioned get bandied around a lot. It's not that they're unimportant. … They can be very important. Sometimes they can be almost totally unimportant. It's just not quite as simple as having one or two formulas and then saying the market is undervalued or overvalued."
Having said that, Buffett does see a metric that is arguably more significant than these two heralded measures of stock market value.
"The most important thing is future interest rates," Buffett said. "And people frequently plug in the current interest rate saying that's the best they can do. After all, it does reflect the market's judgment. And the 30-year bond should tell you what people are willing to put out money for 30 years and have no risk of dollar gain or dollar loss at the end of the 30-year period. But what better figure can you come up with? I'm not sure I can come up with a better figure. But that doesn't mean I want to use the current figure, either."
So, what does this all mean in the context of today's historically low interest rate environment? In an interview with CNBC's Becky Quick, Buffett said that if these rates were guaranteed to stay low for 10, 15 or 20 years, then "the stock market is dirt cheap now."
Berkshire's long-term returns depend on interest rates
Early during Berkshire's annual meeting, Buffett fielded a question about calculating the intrinsic value and forecasting 10-year forward returns for Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B).
"If you pick out 10 years, and you're back to May of 2007, you know, we had some unpleasant things coming up, but I would say that we've probably compounded about 10%," Buffett said. "And I think that's going to be tough to achieve — in fact — almost impossible to achieve, if we continued in this interest rate environment."
In other words, Buffett is saying that low interest rates signal low future returns for Berkshire. Indeed, the massive float in Berkshire's vast insurance businesses would be unable to generate much return when rates are low. And so, knowledge of the path of rates is critical for forecasting returns.
"If I could only pick one statistic to ask you about the future before I gave the answer, I would not ask you about GDP growth, I would not ask you about who was going to be president… a million things I wouldn't [ask]," he continued. "I would ask you what the interest rate is going to be over the next 20 years on average. The 10-year [Treasury note yield] or whatever you wanted to do."
It all comes back to interest rates.
"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush"
To be clear, Buffett isn't so abstract and ambiguous that he won't share explicitly how he calculates value. On the contrary. He very publicly endorses discounted cash flow analysis, which will get you intrinsic value. He calls it "the ultimate formula."
Before you get freaked out about the finance jargon, let Buffett do the explaining.
From the Berkshire Hathaway's 2000 letter to shareholders: "Indeed, the formula for valuing all assets that are purchased for financial gain has been unchanged since it was first laid out by a very smart man in about 600 B.C. (though he wasn't smart enough to know it was 600 B.C.). The oracle was Aesop and his enduring, though somewhat incomplete, investment insight was 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.' To flesh out this principle, you must answer only three questions. How certain are you that there are indeed birds in the bush? When will they emerge and how many will there be? What is the risk-free interest rate (which we consider to be the yield on long-term U.S. bonds)? If you can answer these three questions, you will know the maximum value of the bush ¾ and the maximum number of the birds you now possess that should be offered for it. And, of course, don't literally think birds. Think dollars."
Still struggling? From Buffett's 2010 letter to shareholders: "To update Aesop, a girl in a convertible is worth five in the phone book."
In business, those "birds in the bush" or "girls in the phone book" represent future cash flows, which is roughly future sales less future costs and expenses. All of that is adjusted for the fact that you're not guaranteed those birds, girls, or cash. Once you make those projections, you then discount those future cash flows to the present by applying a discount rate. Add up all of those discounted cash flows and you'll have the theoretically-sound value of a business.
"The trouble is you don't know what to stick in for the variables," Buffett said at Berkshire's annual shareholders meeting this past weekend. So, while the model is theoretically sound — which Buffett loves — the values you'll get will be fantastically off if your assumptions are wrong. Garbage in, garbage out.
But of the inputs, one variable is by far the most important: the discount rate, which is tied to the market interest rates Buffett has been talking about.
NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran calls it the "critical ingredient," noting that "errors in estimating the discount rate or mismatching cashflows and discount rates can lead to serious errors in valuation."
So, once again, it all comes back to interest rates.
To summarize, Buffett has told us: "Everything in valuation gets back to interest rates;" "The most important thing is future interest rates;" and "If I could only pick one statistic to ask you about the future before I gave the answer, I would not ask you about GDP growth, I would not ask you about who was going to be president… a million things I wouldn't [ask]… I would ask you what the interest rate is going to be over the next 20 years on average."
Stay with Yahoo Finance for the best ongoing coverage of Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.
Sam Ro is managing editor at Yahoo Finance.
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For a little while today, it was possible to view anyone's — and we mean anyone's — private Facebook photos. The simple exploit, which was publicized on an online bodybuilding forum, involved taking advantage of a security lapse in the way Facebook handled profile photos flagged as indecent.
To perform the hack, you would first have had to select a target profile and click "report/block" on the bottom left of the person's page. Doing so still brings up a dialogue box with several options; in this case, you would select " Inappropriate profile photo " and click "Continue."
From there, you can click "Nudity or pornography" in another pop-up box and again hit "Continue."
You are then given the option to warn the person, block them and/or report to Facebook.
If you click "Report" and "Continue," your report is sent to Facebook.
Until sometime today, the next dialogue box you'd get would give you the option of selecting more photos from the target person's account to append to your report. But instead of showing you only the photos that person had made public, it showed you ALL his or her photos.
That may not sound like much, but the fact is that thousands, if not millions, of people have posted racy, revealing or otherwise compromising photos to Facebook, photos that they think only their close friends or family members can see.
Facebook quickly got wind of the glitch and fixed it.
"Earlier today, we discovered a bug in one of our reporting flows that allows people to report multiple instances of inappropriate content simultaneously," a Facebook spokesperson told SecurityNewsDaily. "The bug allowed anyone to view a limited number of another user's most recently uploaded photos irrespective of the privacy settings for these photos.
"This was the result of one of our recent code pushes and was live for a limited period of time. Upon discovering the bug, we immediately disabled the system, and will only return functionality once we can confirm the bug has been fixed."
While the security glitch was still active, it was tested out on — who else — the Facebook page of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The perpetrator set up a page on image-sharing website Imgur showing images of Zuckerberg and his girlfriend playing with their puppy, giving away candy on Halloween and making dinner, and one of the self-made billionaire meeting President Obama. The top of the page bore the text, "It's time to fix those security flaws Facebook..."
To keep your photos and other personal information out of hackers' hands, and for other steps on how to make Facebook a safe, private space, click here.


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What's the difference between Final Cut Express & Final Cut Pro?
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Since Final Cut Express was released, the gap has narrowed between FCE and FCP. Express is a perfectly fine editing program and should work well for anyone not needing the extra features Final Cut Pro has, which include:
- support for a lot more codecs, from the wonderful Pro Res to IMX, DVCPRO, XDCAM and a lot more
- support for third party cards from AJA, Blackmagic and others
- customized window and keyboard layouts
- media manager
- FXscript
- XML and OMF import/export
- FCP includes three-way color correction plus scopes, Express only has the single color wheel color corrector
- multicam
- batch export
And of course, Final Cut Pro comes with the whole software suite, including Compressor, Cinema Tools, Color, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Motion.


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The good news is that the Canadian government may scrap its four diesel submarines, the bad news is that they want nuclear subs.
What is it about submarines that dazzles Canadian governments?
It's understandable that the navy falls in love with exotic toys -- and submariners are a breed apart, doing a tough and dangerous job to which not everyone can adapt.
Historically, Canada's navy has an envious record -- without submarines.
So why do we want them?
In 1998 we bought four submarines from Britain at the discount price of $750 million. A real bargain, we thought. Lucky we weren't offered suits of armour.
The damn subs have been mostly in dry dock ever since -- at the cost of a couple of billion since 1998, and the life of one sailor when a sub caught fire.
Whenever outsiders questioned the purchase of aging subs, the explanation was that they enhanced our 'sovereignty.' How sovereignty is established underwater is unclear -- especially when these bloody things barely go underwater, and when they do they bump the bottom of the ocean. Or something else goes wrong.
Submarines are an attack weapon. Dating back to the First World War, no Canadian submarine has ever fired a torpedo in anger. Our destroyers were pretty effective at killing German U-boats, but they aren't essential for our navy, war or no war.
Now Defence Minister Peter MacKay is making noises about acquiring nuclear submarines which he's called "a very important capability for the Canadian Forces... nuclear subs are what's needed under deep water, deep ice."
Oh? Why are they "needed"?
We've had the nuclear sub argument before -- with the government explaining that 'nuclear' sub means nuclear-powered, not armed with nuclear weapons.
What advantage would nuclear subs give Canada?
Well, we could better detect Russian subs under Arctic ice.
What would we do if we detected Russian subs?
Well, we could inform the CBC which would relay the fact to Canadians.
Would we consider torpedoing a Russian sub?
Good gracious no! Not even an American sub.
Canada has plans for a new series of destroyers and frigates, and that's fine. That's what we need. They'd be visible gestures of sovereignty, and be useful for patrolling the world's longest coast line.
Defence dollars are always short. The four subs bought from Britain have been white elephants. Originally Oberon class submarines in the Royal Navy, named Unseen, Unicorn Ursula and Upholder, we re-named them as the more mundane Victoria, Windsor, Corner Brook and Chicoutimi. Kind of bland. Mostly these subs have been in for repair.
Our military can hardly afford the luxury of useless equipment, or whose full capabilities will never be needed. That applies to submarines, and also to the F-35 strike aircraft that the RCAF would like, but will never use aggressively. The argument that we need these aircraft to shadow Russian military planes that venture into our northern air space is a somewhat specious.
We aren't going to shoot at Russian planes -- just watch them, which is what the present CF-18 fighter jets do. We used the CF-18s to shoot at Libyan targets that didn't shoot back, likewise briefly in the Kosovo air war, and in the dying days of the first Iraq war. But they weren't really necessary. Just feel good missions.
As for subs -- scrap them, sell them, but get rid of them. The sooner the better.


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Asset allocation is one of those "buzz phrases" that has been used by financial planners for a long time to help keep their clients feeling warm and fuzzy in inside. Coupled with the phrase portfolio diversification, asset allocation was all a planner needed to say to gain the trust of a prospective client. Well unless if you've been living in a cave for the past two years you know that times have changed and all those people who clung to traditional financial planning (including asset allocation and diversification) are currently wondering what happened to all their money.
Looking a little deeper into the practice of asset allocation we can see the inherent flaw. Asset allocation models are typically designed after the fact. To prove my point take a look at 90 percent of the current traditional portfolios and you will not find gold and other precious medals anywhere. why? Because 5 to 10 years ago it made no sense to have gold or precious medals in your portfolio, but obviously that has changed. Now as traditional planners create diversified portfolios they will be including gold and hoping that over the next decade it continues to grow and doesn't lose ground.
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Really the only way you can win when dealing in the stock market is to literally have a crystal ball that tells you the future. I've been searching around for a while and haven't run across one, there are always new stock jocks that pop up during bear markets but where are they now? A new tradition in financial planning and wealth management has surfaced as a smarter, more financially savvy generation rises. It no longer makes sense to put hard earned money at risk. Safe, risk free, tax free, consistent, controllable, liquid, these are all words that describe the ideal financial tool. Have any idea where you can find all those characteristics in one tool? The answer might surprise you. It's time to stop losing money!


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* Merkel says efforts to form three-way coalition fail
* Risk of new German election rises
* Bund yield slips to 1-1/2 week low
* But moves limited as euro, stocks bounces back
* Euro zone periphery govt bond yields tmsnrt.rs/2ii2Bqr (Updates prices)
By Dhara Ranasinghe
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - German bond yields steadied near 1 1/2-week lows on Monday after talks to form a coalition government failed.
Yields struggled to push much lower as investors brushed off initial concerns about rising political risk in Europe's biggest economy.
European shares recovered from early selling as confidence about the outlook for the euro zone economy helped investors ignore worries about the risk of new elections in Germany.
That in turn limited demand for safe-haven bonds - an early rally in German debt ran out of steam as the session wore on.
"The reaction in markets has not been dramatic," said Antoine Bouvet, rates strategist at Mizuho. "At the end of the day, it's not that easy to call for another election in Germany and there is still the potential outcome for a minority government."
Late on Sunday, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) unexpectedly pulled out after more than four weeks of negotiations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc and the ecologist Greens, citing irreconcilable differences .
Germany now faces two possible options unprecedented in the post-World War Two era: Merkel forms a minority government, or the president calls a new election if no government is formed.
"The collapse of the talks was a surprise and there is little clarity on how things will unfold from here," said Rainer Guntermann, rates strategist at Commerzbank.
Merkel said on Monday she would stay on as acting chancellor and consult President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on how to proceed.
Steinmeier said all parties have a responsibility to try and form a government in the near future.
The yield on Germany's benchmark 10-year government bond, perceived as one of the safest assets in the world, initially dipped around 1.5 basis points to around 0.35 percent , its lowest level since Nov. 9.
But it then pulled back to 0.36 percent as the euro and stock markets recovered. Other high-grade euro zone bonds yields were also flat to a slightly lower on the day. Lower-rated Southern European bonds outperformed, dropping 3 to 4 bps.
The euro recovered from a two-month low against the yen hit in Asian trade, with investors brushing off the broader political risks in Germany.
Germany's blue-chip stock index reversed early falls, pushing into positive territory in line with regional peers.
Merkel was damaged by the Sept. 24 election, in which people upset over her decision in 2015 to open German borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
For Reuters Live Markets blog on European and UK stock markets see reuters://realtime/verb=Open/url=http://emea1.apps.cp.extranet.thomsonreuters.biz/cms/?pageId=livemarkets


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Question - What's new in Element Control with regard to Maestro?
Answer - Element Control has been built from the ground up to provide a high degree of customization. We want you, the user, to adapt Element Control to your workflow (or workflows!) and not the other way around.
When you first launch the app, the Snapshot Template window offers a quick way to configure Element Control for a wide variety of workflows, from simple to elaborate.
With Element Control, you can select and set analog inputs and outputs directly from your Mac keyboard using the Arrow keys and Speaker volume keys.
Question - Can I save/recall software setups?
Answer - Yes, it's possible to save and recall "Snapshots" of any Element Control settings. The app also offers a "Snapshot Template" window, where users can choose a variety of common workflows as a point of departure.
Question - How many low latency mixers are available?
- Element 88 - 5 stereo mixers
- Element 46 - 4 stereo mixers
- Element 24 - 3 stereo mixers
Question - What is Autolaunch?
Answer - Autolaunch is an Element Control preference that launches the app whenever an Element hardware interface is connected (including at Mac start-up). Autolaunch is especially useful to display the Essentials window every time you start your Mac, so analog input/output controls are instantly accessible.
Question - Is there any DSP in the app or interface?
Answer - No
Question - Can I add reverb in the app?
Answer - Element Control includes an "FX Send" mixer that makes it easy to route low latency mixer inputs to a plug-in reverb instantiated in your DAW. This approach offers the advantages that 1) only one reverb needs to be set up and adjusted for both low latency monitoring and playback 2) your highest-quality reverb plug-in is most likely in your DAW.
Question - Do I need to open the Element Control Mac app to use the iOS app? The Apogee Control hardware remote?
Answer - It's not necessary to launch the Element Control Mac app to use any other part of the Control ecosystem - iOS Control app, hardware remote or Logic Pro Audio Device Control.
Question - Will the Element Control Mac app support other Apogee products?
Answer - Yes, Element Control will eventually support other Apogee Thunderbolt interfaces, though no timeline is available.


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Known as one of the greatest comic book artists in the war, crime, science fiction, superhero, and humor genres, Wally Wood was a child prodigy, influenced by the best newspaper strip artists. Hal Foster, Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff, and Will Eisner were all blended into Wood's detail heavy style all his own. After briefly working as an assistant to both Will Eisner and George Wunder, Wally producing some early romance comic stories for Fox, and soon came into his own at EC and Avon, working mainly on science fiction stories. Equally impressive was his hilarious work for Harvey Kurtzman's EC humor title, Mad. During the Silver Age, Wood even re-designed Daredevil for Marvel, and was greatly involved in producing the superhero and spy line-up, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents for Tower...Once again I ran across a fantastic ad from the early 1970s Comic Buyers Guide from art dealer Ken Spivey featuring a good collection of Wood Tower Comics pages. Ken mentioned how most dealers were asking the top prices of $25-30 for an average page, though he only had two in that "high" range that were really exception examples. The eighteen pages of art in the sale were priced for the grand sum of $376 but could be had for $312 as a group, but he would also consider serious offers! Stressing how it was harder to find these T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and Dynamo gems (some with Steve Ditko inks), this dealer from Georgia also had two Total War and a Captain Action page in the group as well. Hey, just check out this list and the cover above that sold for $21,850 back in 2004!
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T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #12 pg. 9 for $25 (Ditko Inks)
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T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #17 pg. 1 for $30 (The splash listed below sold for $5377 in 2011)
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #17 pg. 2 for $15
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All the students of the college are members of the library. The students having identity card are only entitled to draw books from the library. The students can draw only two books at a time and keep it for a maximum period of seven days. A fine is imposed against the late return of books beyond the prescribed time limit. The students are required to strictly follow the rules of the library to avoid actions for non-compliance. Book Bank facility has also been made available to the students to enable the students to have the full benefit of the scheme by which the students are entitled to retain the complete set of books during the entire semester. To avail, the benefit of the scheme students is required to obtain separate membership as per laid down the criterion.
The library is the heart of an academic institute. The BITS library is housed in a fully air-conditioned building with a seating capacity of 300 students. The library is fully computerized equipped with all other peripheral devices like laser printers, scanners and barcode readers etc. It has a very good collection of print as well as electronic resources. It has around 20,000 text & reference books. The library also provides on the Internet and photocopy services to the users. The library is also a member of DELNET (Developing Library Network) to share its resources and to access various databases. There is also an available book bank facility to all the students. Highly qualified, trained and experienced professionals manage the library. It is open till late in the evening for the benefits of the students. The Library also provides internet, photocopy and printout services. Separate Library facilities have been provided to BIPS and BINS.
The computer centre set up in each of group institutes provides internet facility for hostellers on 24 hours basis. The computer centre also provides internet facility today scholar students during college hours. Each computer centre is equipped with 60 computer systems of the latest configuration. The internet is totally working on Wi-Fi enabled system with a dedicated bandwidth of 8Mbps from AIRTEL.
At Bharat Group of Institutions, we believe that the quality of campus upkeep reflects the quality of education and development provided to students. As a result, no effort is spared in ensuring that the sprawling 22.5 acres Bharat Group of Institutions campus are kept clean, green and becoming of our lofty educational standards.
A healthy mind resides in a healthy body. A well equipped Air-conditioned gym having latest state-of-art equipment and machines has ensured availability of excellent fitness and health facilities for the students, faculty and staff members of the best institute in NCR Delhi. Instructors and trainers are available throughout the day to train the gym enthusiasts. There are two sections in the gymnasiums. One section is meant for general exercises while the other is meant for weight training. There are separate timings for boys and girls.
Adequate A.C. transport facility has been provided for both the staff and the students of the college. The college buses rotate frequently from college to Delhi, Narela, Rohini, Rohtak, Gohana, Panipat, Sonepat city and nearby places. The college also provides the transport facility to the students for the purpose of campus interviews and other industrial visits as when required.
Bharat Group of Institutions places a high premium on the safety, hygiene and punctuality of its transport system. The university takes great pains to ensure these key factors and has appointed a dedicated Transportation Department to monitor the performance of the service. In addition, Bharat Group of Institutions has a fleet of cars and vans for backup transport
The beautifully constructed students' hostel at Bharat Group of Institutions houses more than 200 students. It offers single, double and triple-sharing rooms at varying rates, as per choice and availability. There are fully secured residential areas for boys and girls.Hostel in Campus
The group institute has created a hostel facility separately for girls and boys. Separate mess and canteen facilities are available for boys and girls. The hostel provides safe & comfortable accommodation to boys and girls separately with modern amenities like desert coolers, geysers, water coolers attached with aqua guards, colour televisions, indoor and outdoor games, gymnasium, telephone, internet facility and medical facility.Hostel off Campus
Special arrangements are being made for the students seeking to stay in Delhi. The students are asked to indicate their preference at the time of registration to avail such facility arranged outside the campus in the city's residential areas.
The campus provides a mess facility that caters to the students' requirements who reside in the hostel. It provides breakfast, lunch and dinner at economical prices. Special care is taken to provide quality and hygienic food to the student. Students can also get things prepared of their own choice on payment basis. A food committee is responsible for monitoring the operations of the mess, implementing and reviewing the mess policy.
The campus provides a cafeteria facility that caters to the students' requirements till late hours. It provides tea, lunch and snacks facilities at economical prices. Special care is taken to provide quality and hygienic food to the student. Students can also get things prepared of their own choice on payment basis. A canteen committee of the best institute in NCR Delhi is responsible for monitoring the operations of the canteen mess and cafeteria, implementing and reviewing the canteen policy.
Understanding the importance of the holistic development of the students we provide various sports facilities to the students and give them a chance to choose from a wide range of sports via football, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, Cricket, badminton etc.
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Unlike the lists for top players and top moments from 2000-09, I had an easier time identifying the top 10 Big Ten squads from the most recent decade. For starters, the Big Ten produced only one national champion and six BCS bowl winners, all but one of which made the top 10 (actually 11). You won't see any three-loss teams on the following list, and 10 wins was the minimum criteria for selection.
Bowl victories counted, but I also put a lot of emphasis on how a team performed during Big Ten play. This is, after all, the Big Ten blog.
Here they are:
1. Ohio State 2002: The only Big Ten squad to win a national title during the aughts tops the list. Ohio State rode a ferocious defense, a clutch quarterback (Craig Krenzel) and a dynamic freshman running back (Maurice Clarett) to a 14-0 record and its first national title since 1975.
2. Penn State 2005: If not for a Michigan touchdown on the final play at the Big House, Penn State could have been playing for a national title. The Nittany Lions still went on to an 11-1 finish and an Orange Bowl championship as Big Ten MVP Michael Robinson led the way at quarterback.
3. Ohio State 2006: No Big Ten team this decade looked more dominant than these Buckeyes, who steamrolled their way through the Big Ten behind Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith. Ohio State outlasted No. 2 Michigan in a shootout at The Shoe, but lost its mojo before the national title game against Florida. Despite an ugly final result, this team was a juggernaut.
4. Iowa 2002: Only three teams went undefeated in Big Ten play this decade, and the 2002 Hawkeyes were one of them. Quarterback Brad Banks came out of nowhere to become the Heisman Trophy runner-up, while Dallas Clark, Bob Sanders and others helped the Hawkeyes to a share of the league title and road wins against both Penn State and Michigan.
5. Michigan 2006: LaMarr Woodley, Alan Branch and Leon Hall led one of the decade's top defenses as Michigan won its first 10 games, allowing just 13.3 points per contest. The Wolverines ended the year with losses to Ohio State and USC but boasted three All-Americans and several impressive wins.
6. Penn State 2008: Much like Ohio State in 2006, the Nittany Lions were dominant for much of the year, as a dynamic and experienced offense put up points in bunches. Penn State scored 38 points or more in seven of its first eight games. A last-second field goal kept Penn State out of the national title game, but the Lions claimed their second Big Ten championship in four years.
7. Ohio State 2009: Teams are usually remembered by how they finished, and this group got better as the season progressed. Ohio State wasn't much fun to watch in September or October, but a November surge and a very impressive Rose Bowl win against Oregon completely changed the buzz around this squad. Few Big Ten defenses this decade were better than the 2009 Buckeyes.
8. Ohio State 2007: In a season where nothing went according to plan, the Buckeyes surged out of the gate with 10 consecutive wins. A stunning upset loss to Illinois seemed to end Ohio State's national title hopes, but a truly wacky season put the Buckeyes back in the spotlight, where they lost to LSU. The national runner-ups certainly deserve a spot on the list.
9. Iowa 2009: If this were a list of teams not for the faint of heart, these Hawkeyes would be at the top. Every week seemed to bring new drama, and Iowa constantly faced doubts about its success. The truth: This team wasn't far away from an undefeated season and a trip to the Rose Bowl, and it silenced the critics with a very impressive performance in the Orange Bowl against Georgia Tech.
T-10. Wisconsin 2006: The Badgers didn't win any Big Ten titles this decade, but their best team deserves a spot on the list. BCS rules kept Wisconsin from the big bowls, but Bret Bielema's first squad was one of only three Big Ten teams to win 12 or more games in a season this decade. The Badgers finished fifth and seventh in the final polls.
T-10. Ohio State 2005: I just couldn't leave a team that finished fourth in the final AP poll off of this list. The Buckeyes' only losses came against national champion Texas and Orange Bowl champ Penn State, and they finished with an impressive win in the Fiesta Bowl against Notre Dame.
Others considered: Iowa 2004, Ohio State 2003, Illinois 2001, Michigan 2003, Iowa 2003, Ohio State 2008.


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In related news, the sky is blue and cows go moo. This really shouldn't come as any sort of surprise to anyone remotely interested in cell phones, but AT&T made a formal announcement today regarding availability of the hotly anticipicated iPhone 3G S, the newest version of the iPhone family from Apple.
More specifically, AT&T announced that they will have "limited iPhone 3G S in store" on June 19. How "limited" this supply wil be remains to be seen, but they do recommend that anyone wanting the new phone should "pre-order, though, for most certainty/convenience." This "announcement" came by way of Twitter.
Ironically, although the AT&T Twitter account suggests that you should be placing a pre-order if you want to have the best chance of landing an iPhone 3G S on launch day, what it doesn't tell you is that they are already sold out of pre-orders for launch day shipment.
As a result, the only real way that you'll be able to get your mitts on an iPhone 3G S on June 19 is to wait in line along with everyone else. Alternatively, you can fork over the big bucks for the units that will inevitably flood eBay and other online auction sites for the first little while.
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Novare Africa Property Fund II, the fund with a mandate to invest in retail and commercial real estate in sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa, has announced its final close at the end of June 2016.
The fund, which will be listed on the Mauritius Stock Exchange at the end of July 2016, has raised $350 million (R5.25 billion) for investment in a portfolio of new developments in, amongst others, Nigeria, Zambia and Mozambique. It is managed by Novare Fund Manager in Mauritius, while Novare Equity Partners provides a sub-advisory role, being tasked with sourcing potential new development opportunities.
Derrick Roper, chief executive of Novare Equity Partners, said that while uncertainty and volatility had clouded the investment outlook for the continent, Novare's Africa Property Fund will benefit in the longer term from positive demographics, urbanization and growing personal incomes.
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Kalaheo Basketball Shaping Up With Summer Competition
With the recent addition of standout Kaleb Gilmore, Kalaheo boys basketball head coach Alika Smith knows practices will be intense next season.
He's been seeing as much on a daily basis as Gilmore's coach on the Hawaii-Select traveling team.
"He sets a different tone," Smith said of Gilmore, who transferred to Kalaheo this summer from Maryknoll. "He's quick, and we have to be able to run with him. When one brings it, the others tend to follow. He brings all of that. It's great to see the other kids pick it up and follow his lead."
Gilmore averaged 18.9 points per game last season, helping Maryknoll make the semifinals of the Division I state tournament. The Spartans had been state runner-up to Kalaheo the previous year when Gilmore was a junior. His team went 26-6 including pre-season games last season, and were 10-3 in the ILH.
He scored double figures in every game he played last winter, including a season-high 30 points in a 69-60 win over Iolani in January. Other highlights: going 15-of-16 from the free-throw line in the ILH championship game, as well as a three-game stretch in the post-season that saw him average 24 ppg.
For the year, Gilmore shot 37.8 percent on 3-pointers and 71.7 percent from the free-throw line. He also was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Division I state tourney and was a First Team All-Red East pick.
His presence also will complement the considerable talents of new team-mate Kupaa Harrison. Harrison, who will be a senior, averaged 18.4 points per game last season in leading the Mustangs to an 11-3 mark in the OIA Red East.
The team went 26-10 overall, including pre-season games, in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year. A post-season injury undermined his momentum, but Harrison still is regarded as a top player in the state in his class, and Smith said he's back to form.
"He's 100 percent now," Smith said of Harrison, who is the son of former Radford and Kailua head coach Tim Harrison. "I'm excited. He'll take a lot of pressure off of Kaleb, and Kaleb will take a lot of pressure off of him. It's going to be fun to watch. We play a different style than what Kaleb played at his last school.
"They look really good. Slowly, they're gelling."
Kalaheo again will have the services of point guard Kekai Smith. A junior-to-be, Smith was a Second Team All-Conference pick in the Red East last summer.
"He's gotten stronger," Smith said of his nephew. "He's getting better every week, and his confidence is growing. He's probably one of the better defenders that we have."
Also in the mix on Hawaii-Select are Mustangs Alec MacLeod, Jalen Smith and Alex Layi, along with newcomers Cyrus Kama, Jessiya Villa and Jordan Tanuvasa.
Hawaii-Select was 12-0 in summer league games as of press time, and was to play against Off the Bench last Friday night in the championship game at Kalaheo.
The team is in Anaheim, Calif., this week to participate in the Double Pump Best of Summer Tournament.
From there, coaches and crew travel to Las Vegas for the Fab 48 Tournament. In all, Smith and company will be away from the Islands 14 days.
"It's a team bonding thing that will go a long way," he said. "They'll have a lot of fun.
"We always make sure we take a group who are, first and foremost, good people as well as good players."


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Hyperelastic 3D bone
3D-printing and grafting a flexible artificial bone in an operating theatre: that was the technological and scientific challenge that researchers at Chicago's Northwestern University decided to take on.
The researchers developed a new biomaterial made from hydroxyapatite and a polymer, which they christened "hyperelastic bone". It could revolutionise bone implants and orthopaedic surgery, at a lower cost of production.
They stated that the bone has similar properties to a human bone, is easy to implant and does not run the risk of rejection by the host - its biocomponents degrade naturally, and gradually, until the human bone is fully healed.
In addition, "the time required to manufacture a tailor-made implant for a patient could be no longer than twenty-four hours", explained Ramille N. Shah, the researcher heading the project. This could revolutionise cranofacial and orthopaedic surgery and, I hope, improve results for patients."
Customised printing would have undeniable advantages as regards treating bone problems in children. Thanks to this technology, their bones could continue to grow around the artificial implant, as shown in the first experiments.
"Implanting a permanent implant in young patients requires surgery to be conducted during growth. This may lead them to have to deal with many difficulties over the years", emphasised Ramille N. Shah.
A promising invention whose first clinical applications should appear in 2021.
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With the Fourth of July coming, what are you grilling? How about this patriotic red, white and blue burger? It is delicious and will serve you well during this holiday! With its blue cheese, red wine and white onions, you can't go wrong.
This is the grown up version, so leave out the wine on the kids burgers! Need a great recipe for potato salad? Here's the link to my low fat version


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By Malcolm Doak
On June 5, 1989, the world watched as video smuggled out of China showed a lone man standing down a row of tanks during the Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations. In April 2003, online cameras in a hotel window continued to roll as a statue of Saddam Hussein was torn down in Baghdad's Firdos Square by a rebellious crowd, later aided by US Marines. More recently, it was the rise of social media that helped power the Arab Spring uprising, and the cell phone coverage from Egypt's Tahrir Square brought that conflict home to the waiting world and helped topple a regime. These events, carried by the internet and social media, helped to pave the way for the concept of mobile journalist.
Some in-the-know analysts predict that mobile journalism is the future of news reporting and storytelling. But for Yusuf Omar, that future is already here. Mr. Omar is one of the world's leading advocates and proponents for the power of MoJo, or Mobile Journalism. For Yusuf Omar, the Samson Go Mic Mobile is key to capturing audio of the highest quality while on the go. As an award-winning reporter and journalist, Omar has already enjoyed successful stints at eNCA (electronic News Channel Africa), the Hindustan Times, and as the Senior Social Reporter for CNN. Most recently, Yusuf and his wife, Sumaiya Omar, have launched Hashtag Our Stories to pursue their vision of building a platform that empowers everyday people to tell their stories on a larger scale.
Creating Opportunity
As Yusuf Omar describes it, his professional goal was to become a foreign correspondent. After constantly hearing from the media establishment that he was too young, that they were trimming their budgets, that they were no longer dispatching journalists, Omar made the decision to become his own foreign correspondent. In 2010, Yusuf Omar took his mobile phone and a backpack and began his 12,000 kilometer trek, hitchhiking from Durban, South Africa to Damascus, Syria. As he travelled, he uploaded stories and video he had shot along the way. As it turns out, Omar's timing was serendipitous. By February 2011, he had arrived in Egypt at the time of the Tahrir Square protests marking the tumult of the Arab Spring. In March 2012, Omar was called to Brazzaville, Congo to report on the devastation caused by the explosion of a munitions depot that killed over 250 people, injured thousands, and leveled an area two kilometers in diameter. By his own admission, Omar states the quality of these original stories was unprofessional – the video images from his handheld phone were shaky, etc. "But no one cared," claims Omar. The stories were too engaging, and they brought a different perspective to the stories of the day. Omar began to see the power of the civilian mobile journalist.
"The Medium is the Message"
In his 1964 opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Marshall McLuhan stated that "the medium is the message," explaining that the medium itself defined "the scale and form of human association…" McLuhan could never have anticipated the internet or the influence of social media in our daily lives. Today, social media is the vehicle that brings the world to our laptops, phones and tablets. But what if instead, it were those same individual phones and tablets that brought the world to social media? They way Yusuf Omar describes it, his generation has co-existed with digital cameras and smartphones since birth. "Mobile cameras and oversharing photos and videos don't scare my generation, it empowers us," states Yusuf Omar, "we've given birth to revolutions in the Middle East and helped expose police brutality in the USA – all with our mobile cameras." During the following years at eNSA, Hindustan Time, and CNN, Yusuf Omar began to train and mobilize a new breed of mobile journalist. But even those efforts he found unsatisfactory. "Building mobile journalism teams at mainstream news organizations was often about using mobile phones as the fastest way to get stories out of a location," Omar recalls, "or the cheapest."
Hashtag Our Stories
In October 2017, Yusuf Omar and his wife Somaiya Omar co-founded Hashtag Our Stories, determined to promote the benefits of mobile journalism throughout the world. "We want to amplify the voices of people who have been ignored for too long by traditional media," claims Yusuf Omar. "… we are curating from thousands of citizen storytellers because we believe it's the most accurate way to really understand what's happening on the ground." Hashtag Our Stories is training communities to create journalism using their phones. As Omar reminds us, they are not "trying to replace a broadcast camera. We are starting a global news network with the mobile phone at its center from day one." Armed only with a cell phone and a few well-chosen accessories, the individual is at once eyewitness to events, the reporter sharing the news with the world, the producer and the analyst who can put the story in context by naming the players, narrating the history of the situation, and documenting the human toll.
"Engagement Increases Empathy"
It is clear that one of the issues driving Hashtag Our Stories is preserving human dignity. Hashtag Our Stories believes that more cameras = more perspectives = more truth. Technology and mobile storytelling are evolving together to provide new answers to age old problems. For example, Snapchat filters allowed young Indian rape survivors to tell their stories without revealing their identities, allowing them to express their emotional duress, but sparing them the further risk of being ostracized by their communities, or even their own families. In another instance, a 7-year old girl was using her phone to send updates from her besieged city of Aleppo in Syria, providing the only images coming from the civilian populace there; she was eventually rescued and arrived safely in Turkey. Yusuf Omar described how he feels that engagement can increase empathy. "I believe social video can be used to reconnect people from opposite ends of the web," Omar continued, adding, "we can create conversations and important debates in the comments section. If we don't, we continue to isolate the people we call 'trolls.' And the more they are isolated, the less empathetic they are to the issues we should all care about – whether that's equality, democracy, etc…"
Mobile MoJo
If there is a recurring theme in the Yusuf Omar story, it is that of mobility. The ability to be ready to travel, to report, to capture news at a moment's notice is paramount. Although he once described himself as a jeans journalist, implying everything he needed could be carried in his own pants pockets, his requirements have changes. These days, Yusuf Omar relies on three things: his drone, his phone and the Samson Go Mic Mobile wireless microphone system. The other favorite items in his go-kit are his video glasses, which connect to his phone via Bluetooth® and uniquely film with a round aperture that eliminates the landscape/portrait debate, plus a variety of pop-on lens, a clip on light, and a tripod attachment for placing himself in the frame. All of these items conveniently store in Omar's backpack, so he can literally grab his bag and go, whenever the opportunity arises.
Superior On-The-Go Audio
The Samson Go Mic Mobile is the first wireless microphone system designed for the mobile journalist. Operating in the reliable 2.4GHz wireless band, the Go Mic Mobile receiver delivers two channels of clean, low-latency digital audio to any iOS or Android device, tablet or laptop. The wireless design attains unparalleled levels of mobility and eliminates unsightly wires from the video frame. According to Yusuf Omar, "You can fix bad lighting in edit. I can even stabilize shaky footage. The one thing I can't repair later is sh**ty audio." For Omar, that's why it's important for his Samson microphones to be both affordable and accessible. The Go Mic Mobile automatically seeks out the cleanest available channel to deliver a crystal-clear audio signal – while achieving a 100' (line-of-sight) range.
Taking it to the Streets
Lately, Yusuf Omar has equipped his Go Mic Mobile with two handheld transmitters which feature Samson's Q8 professional dynamic microphone capsules. "I like the green light," Omar confesses, "Here's a little secret; I don't monitor audio. I plug and play. Most of my best shoots are done while running through the streets of South Africa or India. And being able to look down and quickly check that both the green lights on the transmitter and receiver are the right color is reassuring during tricky shoots." Powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, the 2-channel wireless Go Mic Mobile receiver connects securely to the phone using the adjustable bracket arms, and/or hook-and-loop fasteners. The tripod adapter and DSLR shoe bracket provide additional mounting solutions. Lightning, Micro-B, USB-C and USB-A cables are included to ensure the proper connection. An analog connection can deliver the audio signal to a camcorder or DSLR camera.
We would like to thank Yusuf Omar for his contributions in putting together this piece. Please visit Yusuf Omar and Hashtag Our Stories to learn more via Facebook:
Twitter: @YusufOmarSA
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LG's Hub takes on Amazon Echo and home robotics market
The personal assistant device market took off in 2016. Google Home joined Amazon Echo in time for the holiday sales season, and Amazon sold out of its Echo and Tap models in the run-up to Christmas.
We expect this market to grow substantially in 2017, with increasing consumer adoption rates and new market entrants. With its announcement at CES of Hub, a smart robotic personal assistant speaker, LG is the next to enter this space.
To compete with Amazon Echo and Google Home LG needs to get to market quickly, before the space inevitably gets crowded. Both Amazon and Google benefit from larger ecosystems and other competitive advantages that will be compelling to potential buyers. Amazon offers discounted music streaming for Echo owners and Google has a search capability that cannot be beat.
Still, Hub has a few unique features of its own.
- The device is not just a smart speaker and microphone – it also has a visual display to show images. Hearing the weather forecast is simply not as compelling as seeing the radar.
- Hub is powered by Alexa – and so can likely perform much of what Amazon's devices can do, including integrate with other smart home devices. However, LG is a manufacturer of its own line of smart home devices, and the Hub acts as a command and control center for LG's smart appliances. Though details are scare, some benefits to the user experience could be assumed for native LG Hub-LG smart appliances integration.
- Most notably, the Hub is also a robot. It swivels its head, has a face that displays a range of emotions, and has a camera that allows it to distinguish different family members' faces for personalized greetings. U.S. households have yet to adopt home robotics with anthropomorphic features – vacuum cleaners are by far the leader of the home robotics market. Can the Hub or devices like it make a breakthrough, or will it be perceived as too invasive and spark privacy concerns instead? Given the uncertainties of the home robotics market, LG makes a smart play by not putting all of its eggs in the consumer robotics space. The company also announced at CES a series of larger robots for mowing grass, guiding travelers through airports, and industrial cleaning.
Parks Associates' industry report, Transforming the Smart Home User Experience, assesses leading personal assistant devices, evaluates the potential of voice control to shake up various connected home markets, presents consumer preferences for smart product interfaces, and forecasts sales of connected devices with embedded voice-control through 2021.
Further Reading:
- 26% of U.S. broadband households own a smart home device, 7% increase over 2015
- Personal Assistants: Managing the Connected Lifestyle with AI
- Top 10 Consumer IoT Trends in 2017
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Chip Rosenbloom, Dylan Ratigan and Andrew Jenks are teaming on an untitled documentary about the 2005 murder conviction of college student Ryan Ferguson.
Ferguson was convicted for the 2001 killing of Kent Heitholt, sports editor for Missouri's Columbia Daily Tribune. Ratigan and Rosenbloom will produce and Jenks will direct.
Filmmakers are focusing on Ferguson's conviction being based on the testimony of two witnesses and their admissions that they committed perjury. He is currently serving a 40-year sentence.
Rosenbloom initiated the documentary under his Open Pictures banner. He exec produced Halle Berry thriller "The Call," the "Shiloh" trilogy and the documentary "Fuel" and is co-owner and vice-chairman of the St. Louis Rams.
Ratigan is exec producing. He is the author of "Greedy Bastards," a former MSNBC host and former global managing editor for corporate finance at Bloomberg.
Jenks is the host of MTV's documentary series "World of Jenks." His documentary credits include "Room 335" and "The Zen of Bobby V."


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We're getting close to 2018 and one of the most anticipated PlayStation 4 games due next year is certainly Insomniac's Spider-Man. It's been a while since we've had fresh info, but Creative Director Bryan Intihar was featured in a lengthy interview within GamesTM's magazine issue #195 and he dropped several juicy tidbits, starting with the role of Miles Morales in the game.
Miles didn't start out with as big of a role as he has now. But as we started doing more research on the character, I went back and just started reading more and more and more. I'll be honest, I just fell in love with the character. Just like MJ can provide a different perspective on the world, I thought Miles and his relationship to Peter brings something different.
Miles is younger than Peter, and what they experience, and how they get into each other's live is pretty unique. I said off the bat that we wanted to make a unique Spider-Man universe, one that obviously takes cues from the comics and movies, but also does something unique and different...I'm pretty excited about him and where we take him. It's going to be something. It's going to surprise people.
With regards to gameplay, Intihar mentioned two things in particular that the developer is currently focusing on right now.
Two of the things we've been working on are the sense of speed and adding a lot more variety to our animations. So you'll see more of the classic poses that you've seen from the comics, but also just a lot more flair and sense of style.
This is a concrete jungle gym that he is flying through. We obviously want to have a level of accessibility, but then also some skill in it. Since this is Spider-Man eight years later, there's a sense of experience with Peter doing this...There should be a sense of expression in his movement, and that's something we keep adding on.
Intihar had talked about the speed increase a while ago, but it's good to know we'll be able to see a lot more variety in Spider-Man's animations when the final game hits.
Speaking of release date, Insomniac's big Marvel project should be available for PlayStation 4 in the first half of 2018, though fans have worried a bit lately due to Brian Horton (Game Director on Rise of the Tomb Raider and Art Director on Call of Duty Infinite Warfare) joining Insomniac as Design Director starting next week. This doesn't necessarily have to translate into a delay for the game, though. At any rate, stay tuned on Wccftech to get all the latest on Insomniac's Spider-Man.
Excited to join @insomniacgames on Jan 1st! #SpidermanPS4 pic.twitter.com/4g19hmMbDg
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At The Therapy Network we utilize a team approach to treat Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunctions (TMJ) and facial pain. Physical therapy is an integral part of treating patients who suffer from pain in the jaw, head and neck.
If you are concerned you may be experiencing symptoms of TMJ, they can include:
- Jaw pain
- Facial pain
- Headaches
- Sinus pain
- Neck pain
- Ear pain
- Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)
- Ear blockage
- Hearing loss
- Ear fullness
- Clinching of the teeth (bruxism)
- Pain in the teeth and gums
- Throat discomfort
- Dizziness
Reduction of Pain
TMJ pain, TMD, facial pain, orofacial pain, and craniomandibular pain can all be managed and treated by our team approach. We involve everyone from the physical therapist, to your referring doctor, your dentist, and other healthcare providers in order to solve the problem at its core.
Treatment of orofacial pain is a specialization within orthopaedic physical therapy. At The Therapy Network you will be treated by therapists who have comprehensive training in this complex area. This includes being skilled in the treatment of muscle imbalances, trigger points, joint and cranial dysfunctions, breathing patterns, posture, and pain.
Physical therapists are experts in the evaluation and treatment of muscles, joints, and movement disorders. By treating all the jaw and facial muscles, the jaw joint, the neck, your posture, and restoring your breathing pattern, we restore muscle and joint functions. This will lead to an improved mouth opening, an an improved bite.
TMJ and Facial Pain Clinic
As part of our comprehensive approach, we conduct a specialized TMJ and facial pain clinic on a regular basis. Here you will be seen by a physician and a physical therapist at the same time. They will perform a comprehensive evaluation of your condition and tailor a treatment plan with you and specifically for you.


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Essential Information
- Written by Steven Bramall
Essential information
Check in
Generally after 4:00 pm unless prior arrangement is made
Check out
Before 10:30 am
On-Street Parking available free. Please note that at particularly busy times of the year, parking is occasionally problematic.
Allow pets
Well behaved and house trained dogs are allowed but please enquire before-hand. Pets are free per night
After a confirmed booking, cancellations can be made free of charge until 14 days before arrival.
Between 7 and 14 days, there will be a charge of 10% of the total booking.
Between 3 and 7 days, the cancelation fee is 25% and a cancellation within 3 days will incur a 50% charge.
Internet and wifi
Hi speed Wifi is available throughout the house and is free
Suitable for disabled / modified rooms
Sorry, none of our rooms are suitable for disabled or wheelchair access
Public transport
The nearest main line railway station is at Oxenholme, the Lake District, from which a bus or taxi can be obtained
Payment options at Summerhill
Cash, Bank Transfer. Please note we no longer accept Card Payment
Summerhill policy on Children
Very young children are generally free if they can be accommodated in either your own cot or on a temporary bed in your room. Older children travelling with their adults are also welcome but we may need to give them a separate room. Please make contact so that we can give you the best service.


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What types of film will you accept?
We'll have 16mm, Super8, and 8mm projectors at the event. Other gauges (9.5mm, 35mm, etc.) may be accepted into the archive, but cannot be projected that day. We do not accept VHS, DVD, Hi8, or any other video format.
Will you project everything I bring?
Assuming the film you bring us is healthy enough to be safely projected, we can guarantee to show at least one reel. Depending on attendance and format demands, we may be able to show more. The earlier you arrive, the higher your chances of getting more reels screened.
What would prevent you from showing my film?
Film that is found to have mold, shrinkage issues, acetate decay, etc., cannot be safely projected without a significant amount of time and effort. While unhealthy film may still be accepted into the UCF Home Movie Archive, it cannot be shown on Home Movie Day without putting it, our equipment, and other films at risk. In addition, film found to be containing questionable content (nudity, excessive violence, etc.) may be denied projection but still be accepted into the Archive.
What if I don't have any film to bring?
We need audience members, too! With three screens and five projectors, there's always something to see.


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Branded stand alone app
Fully branded app
Need an app for one specific event and want it to match the graphical identity of the event? The branded stand alone app can be downloaded from the iTunes Appstore and Google play.
iTunes AppStore & Google play
The app can be downloaded from both iTunes AppStore and Google play and is suitable either mobile phones and/or tablets running on iOS or Android.
Community app
The stand-alone app is ideal to keep you community connected. While information and program items can be updated throughout the year the community can interact with each other via messaging and/or the Bulletin board.


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Curl PEI is excited to announce their first Junior Foundations Clinic of the season. It will be December 7, 2019 from 9 am-5 pm at the Montague Curling Club. This Clinic is designed for 10-15 year olds. Curlers can join as a team or as an individual. Coaches and parent helpers are encouraged to join for the day (PD points will be awarded to those coaches who help for the day).
Further details on the poster. The cost for the Clinic is $20/curler. Curlers should come with nut-free snacks and lunches.
Registration can be completed online here: https://pe.curling.io/en/products.