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October 22, 2018, 6:30 PM - November 28, 2018, 8:30 PM @ Dublin Civic Center
Thinking of launching a food product or opening a restaurant/cafe? Learn the critical aspects of how to start and succeed in the specialty food business!
October 30, 2018, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM @ Dublin Civic Center
Join the City of Dublin and StopWaste for a free workshop on residential energy. Learn from a local homeowner and local contractor about strategies and rebates to increase the comfort, health, and energy efficiency of your home. Hear from East Bay Community Energy, a public agency who will be sourcing electricity for Dublin starting in November. Learn about SunShares, a limited time bulk discount purchasing program for solar and electric vehicles. A light dinner will be provided. Register for the event at www.FutureOfEnergyDublin.eventbrite.com.
October 30, 2018, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM @ Dublin Library
Looking for a job? Sign up for a 20-minute session with a job search specialist who will read through your resume and give you sound advice on how to make it more attractive and appealing to prospective employers. This program is free and presented by the Tri-Valley One-Stop Career Center, in partnership with the Dublin Library. You must call the Dublin Library at 925-803-7252 or come to the Information Desk in person to sign up for a 20-minute session. Please arrive early for your appointment and check-in at the Information Desk.
October 30, 2018, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM @ Dublin Library
Friendly teen volunteers will be available to assist you with using the library's eBook collection. This program will help you learn how to: download eBooks from the library's catalog onto an e-reader, tablet, laptop, etc; download the apps (if necessary) for the eBook collections onto your device; help you set up your account with your Alameda County Library card; and check out, access, and return eBooks and eAudiobooks. No registration needed; please drop-in. Questions are always welcome!
September 5, 2018, 1:00 PM - March 24, 2019, 4:00 PM @ Dublin Heritage Park & Museums
Begin with a snapshot of Dublin in 1968, when the Dublin Chamber of Commerce was formed. As a small town with fewer than 100 businesses, fast-growing Dublin had beauty salons and barber shops, auto repair shops, and a cocktail lounge or two to serve new suburbanites who were moving here by the thousands. Learn about the Chamber's first battle involving a soapbox derby, and see how the Chamber advocated for local businesses. By 1982, Dublin had more than 675 businesses and had become a major shopping and recreational destination with a bowling alley, drive-in movie theater, roller rink, and every type of fast food imaginable. Discover the Chamber's role in helping Dublin gain a reputation as one of the best cities in California for business owners.
October 30, 2018, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM @ Dublin Civic Center


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There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.
As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, "How long does it take you to catch so many fish?"
The fisherman replied, "Oh, just a short while."
"Then why don't you stay longer at sea and catch even more?" The businessman was astonished.
"This is enough to feed my whole family," the fisherman said.
The businessman then asked, "So, what do you do for the rest of the day?"
The fisherman replied, "Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night."
The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
"I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches."
The fisherman continues, "And after that?"
The businessman laughs heartily, "After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich."
The fisherman asks, "And after that?"
The businessman says, "After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!"
The fisherman was puzzled, "Isn't that what I am doing now?"
Source :www.paulocoelhoblog.com
There are many reasons i love reading Paulo Coelho,and not becuase for me his finest work was not the Alchemist but "By the River Piedra I sat down and wept.
It is also becuase he is a rich store of short stores from many cultures that brng some home truths with them like the baove story.
Have you ever asked yourself why the mental health industry is worth billions in the US?
It is because everyone there thrives on stress,;iving life on the fast lane seems to be the operative in this country.You cannot thrive or grow unless you are stressed.
After talking to a friend who told me she is entitled to 15 days of annual leave in a year, I now understand why shrinks,alcohol and drug addiction and other lifestyle related conditions and diseases are very prevalent in the United States.
It even made me understand why Americans are serial entrepreneurs.
Americans or at least those who are employed work the hardest in very high pressure environments.
It is why going on holiday is such a big deal.
In a 2007 report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research it was found that the US was the only developed country that did not gaurantee it workers paid holidays or leave.
Starting a business is a way for them to get out of the rat race that is formal employment and have some down time.
For those who don't run businesses then well there are pills,shrinks,alcohol,drugs or mega churches to help you deal with stress.
Kenyans dream,live and yearn to live like Americans, we have our TV screens,50 bob dvd's and foreign magazines holding up the US as the standard unit of measuring success .
But the success comes with a price, are we willing to pay it?

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In an exclusive this afternoon, The Hollywood Reporter writes that actress Annette Bening will join the cast of Marvel's Captain Marvel. THR notes that Captain Marvel will mark Bening's first superhero film. Moviegoers will recognize the actress from her notable roles in The American President, American Beauty, and The Kids are Alright
What's happening:
- According to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Annette Bening is joining the cast of Captain Marvel.
- Her role has not been released yet, but it's believed that scientist will be included in her job description.
- Captain Marvel will be Bening's first superhero film.
- Bening's resume indicates that she prefers working with smaller studios. She's found much success in the industry and had been nominated for four Academy Awards.
- Captain Marvel will take place in the 90's –years prior to the Avengers Initiative that currently makes up the MCU.
More Captain Marvel news:
- In February it was announced that Gemma Chen had been cast as Minn-Erva in the upcoming film.
- Principle photography for the film began in March along with the announcement that Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg, Djimon Hounsou, and Lee Pace would all be returning to the MCU.
- Anna Bowen and Ryan Fleck are directing the film. Both directors also had part in writing the screenplay. Bowen is the first female director helming a MCU film. Also of note, this movie is the first from Marvel with a female lead.
- Brie Larson stars as Carol Danvers, the alter ego of the titular Captain Marvel.
- Captain Marvel will debut March 8, 2019 before joining Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Avengers 4.
- Catch up on the backstory of Carol Danvers and read our review of Captain Marvel #1.
- If that's not enough, fans will be able to read a new take on Danvers with the July release of The Life of Captain Marvel #1.


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Something connects many of the articles in Issue 61: Change and the need to embrace it, not fear it. The main technical features focus on the re-approval of Ficam D and the challenges posed by the label changes and the importance of drains in solving rat infestation problems. The debate about what to do with bait stations when contracts change hands rumbles on and, of course, we preview PestEx. Plus all the usual news and views...
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This easy, but elegant, dessert features a homemade blueberry sauce layered with pound cake and a sweet cream cheese filling that mimics the taste of cheesecake. Perfect for any occasion!
If you're looking for a really delicious, super easy to put together dessert that is also a little bit fancy, look no further than these Blueberry Cheesecake Parfaits.
This easy dessert starts with store bought pound cake. You could also use angel food cake if you prefer, and yes, you could certainly make the cake from scratch if you want to go all out!
Next comes a simple, made-from-scratch blueberry sauce–really, it takes about 5 minutes to make! And don't forget the sweet cheesecake layer, which also takes about 5 minutes to make. I told you this was easy!
You simply layer the cake, cheesecake filling and berry sauce in pretty glass cups or dessert jars (mini Mason jars would work great too) and you have an easy but elegant dessert that's sure to get rave reviews.
I used my small juice glasses to assemble these parfaits–nothing special, just what I already had sitting in my cupboard. I like to finish my parfaits with a sprig of fresh mint. It makes them extra fancy looking, don't you think?
Obviously, there are tons of possibilities for using different fruit in this recipe. Personally, I think raspberries or cherries would be pretty amazing. And a strawberry shortcake version of this parfait would also be delicious!
This recipe is pretty fool proof, so feel free to experiment. And although the recipe calls for frozen blueberries (since they are always available), fresh fruit will work just as well.
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- ½ cup water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 cups frozen blueberries
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Pinch of salt
- 1¼ cups heavy cream
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup sugar
- In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar and cornstarch. Stir in water and lemon juice. Add frozen blueberries and stir to combine. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Reduce to a simmer and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes, stirring often, until mixture is thickened. Cool completely.
- In a medium bowl, beat heavy cream with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. In a separate bowl, beat cream cheese, vanilla and sugar until smooth and fluffy. Fold in whipped cream.
- Cut the pound cake into small squares. Divide half of the cake between 6-8 small cups or parfait glasses. Pipe or spoon half of the cheesecake filling over the cake. Top with a few spoonfuls of blueberry sauce. Repeat once, ending with blueberry sauce. Garnish with fresh mint before serving, if desired.


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The first-degree murder trail for Philip Michael Stroupe II has been delayed until 2019 after a judge granted the defense's request for more time. The judge declined, however, to move the case out of Henderson County.
Superior Court Judge Robert Bell of Charlotte denied Stroupe's motion to move the trial, District Attorney Greg Newman announced in a news release Wednesday.
Stroupe faces the first-degree murder charge, among other felony charges, in the July 26, 2017 killing of Mills River resident Thomas Bryson. Newman intends to seek the death penalty.
Lawyers for Stroupe argued Tuesday that excessive pre-trial publicity makes it all but impossible for Stroupe to receive a fair trial locally. Newman responded by telling the court that moving the trial is premature and that he believes an impartial jury can be found.
"There is no requirement that prospective jurors come to court uninformed about the things taking place in their community," Newman said in the release. "The question is whether they can set aside the things they have read, seen, or heard about the case and base a decision of guilt or innocence on the evidence presented in the trial. Some will be able to do that, while others may not. We will not know, however, until we bring in the prospective jurors into court and ask them these questions."
The defense offered results from a telephone poll of 407 Henderson County residents to measure knowledge of the case facts. Seventeen percent of respondents knew something about the case, Newman said in the release, and 61 percent knew nothing about it.
Bell did grant the defense's motion to continue the trial from July 23. Defense lawyers argued for additional time of anywhere from 18 to 24 months, saying they needed more time to prepare and that the district attorney is moving too fast for this type of case, according to the release states.
The judge allowed the continuance and directed the district attorney to not reschedule the trial before Jan. 28.
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First-ever code red weather warning as temperatures approach 40°
The KMI has issued a severe weather alert for the whole country and warned people to take precautions to avoid dehydration
Hot hot hot
David Dehenauw, the Royal Meteorological Institute's (KMI) weather forecaster, made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday evening. "After consultation with the Risk Assessment Group and with the General Director of the RMI, I have decided to announce code red for heat for the coming days because the objective criteria of the alarm phase have been achieved," he wrote.
Code red is declared when the average temperature is between 20° and 32° for a period of at least three days. The forecast is for temperatures as high as 38° on Wednesday and 39° on Thursday.
The warning also takes into account the ozone measurements, with the alarm threshold being 240µg/m³. Depending on exposure, the concentration of ozone and a person's sensitivity, it can cause irritation of the eyes and the airways. Those who are particularly sensitive to air pollution, such as children, old people and those with breathing difficulties, are advised not to exert themselves outdoors, particularly between noon and 22.00.
Keep cool
The KMI advises people to drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration, avoid direct sunlight and keep outdoor activities to a minimum. In the evening, when it begins to cool, people should open windows and doors. Those who have stone floors can pour water over it, which reduces the temperature of the room.
Employers are obliged to follow specific protection rules for staff who are exposed to the heat, such as rubbish collectors, who have been starting work early this week.
I have decided to announce code red for heat for the coming days because the objective criteria of the alarm phase have been achieved
Care homes are also being extra vigilant to protect elderly residents, who are particularly vulnerable in hot weather, ensuring that windows are closed, blinds are kept down, activities are non-strenuous and meals are lighter.
Meanwhile, to offer further protection to visitors to the seaside, the tourism ministry has announced extra investment of €120,000 for the coastal lifeguard services.
"The Flemish coast is a pleasant and family-friendly holiday destination, partly because the coastal rescue services monitor the safety of beach-goers," said tourism minister Ben Weyts. During July and August, all 82 lifeguards along the coastline will be in service daily from 10.30 to 18.30.
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The third ODI between India and New Zealand is underway at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bat first but it was once again a familiar story for the hosts, who failed to get off to a great start losing both their openers within the first six overs. It was once again down to Williamson and Ross Taylor to stabilize the New Zealand innings.
Hardik Pandya's eventual return to the playing XI after a series of controversies was one of the major talking points ahead of the 3rd ODI. The Baroda all rounder looked much more focused as he kept bowling good lines and lengths against the likes of Williamson and Taylor. His seam position was much straighter as he kept hitting the deck hard, causing all sorts of problems for the duo.
In one instance during his spell, Pandya lost his cool a bit on Shikhar Dhawan after the southpaw's wayward throw cost Team India an extra run. The incident occurred in the 14th over of the innings when Ross Taylor was on strike. Pandya bowled a short delivery which rose on the right hander, catching him off guard. Taylor somehow pulled it towards the mid-wicket region with no timing at all and the ball landed just short of Shikhar Dhawan at short mid wicket.
Rohit Sharma was waiting to receive the throw some meters away from the stumps on the on-side but Dhawan made a wild throw which went towards square leg which allowed Taylor to come back for a second run. Rohit still attempted to stop the ball but failed and it was Kedar Jadhav, who eventually collected the ball and threw it back to the wicketkeeper's end.
Frustrated with Dhawan's effort, Pandya uttered "C'mon Yaar" to let his disappointment known.
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This is an excerpt from Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics – An E-IR Edited Collection
Available now on Amazon (UK, USA, Ca, Ger, Fra), in all good book stores, and via a free PDF download.
Find out more about E-IR's range of open access books here.
In the first ten months of 2016, 6,155 migrants worldwide died trying to cross borders (Missing Migrants, 2016) — 4,663 of them in the Mediterranean alone (UNHCR, 2016). Long merely a statistic in government deliberations, these dead have become increasingly humanized as their mementos travel globally, crossing fatal zones and in some cases earning the dead post-mortem citizenship. Photographs such as that of 3-year-old drowned Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying face down in the sand on a Turkish beach and 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh sitting in an ambulance covered in a layer of blood and dust have become iconic in a spreading paradigmatic debate concerning how important it is to highlight the personal dimensions of the international. Amid a renewed wave of interest and available funding driven by current global events, Border Studies is being reshaped in debates on the respective importance of, on the one hand, individuals with names and, on the other hand, mere statistics. These debates map onto existing tensions between macro- and micro-level oriented research that sometimes becomes misconstrued as embodying tensions between social sciences and the humanities. The texts collected here seek to overcome these tensions, showing why contemporary Border Studies needs to be trans-disciplinary, less they reproduce the epistemological and political order that has led to current global crises such as those faced by refugees, Indigenous peoples, and planet Earth itself. Beyond a focus on either 'cold' statistics or hyper-personal experiences, this volume argues for an epistemological critique of and within Border Studies that considers Borders and International Relations through the lenses of the individual, their experiences, and their cultures as well as simultaneously through the lenses of the imaginary, the international, and the imperial.
Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics combines approaches to borders as global political superstructures, envisioning borders as internalized patterns of affect and subjectivity inspired by disciplines such as Chicana/Chicano Studies and theoretical approaches such as Post-Marxism and Decolonial thinking. While (post-)Marxist thinkers since Louis Althusser have detailed the interwoven character of power and knowledge, as well as culture and political economy, decolonial thinkers have refused to accept as given an international system formed in and through histories of colonialism and empire, thus keeping open the possibilities of radically contesting borders and the modern nation-state form as such. Starting from an analysis of the lived experience of the Mexican-American borderlands or from the constitutive connections between coloniality and modernity, authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Aníbal Quijano, and Walter Mignolo have pointed out that it is necessary to stop simply thinking about borders and move to a mode of border thinking. Borders are not simply an object of reflection; they shape and inflect subjectivities. Such approaches to borders as formations — of both politico-economic structures and subjectivities — challenges exclusively state or system focused approaches to studying borders for being insufficient.
Instead of considering border deaths and displacements as necessary collateral damage to securing systemic wealth and stability and burying the border power's disposable others in abstract anonymity, Border Studies seeks to understand experiential epistemologies as central to its hermeneutic project and its political implications. This understanding must be more than just recovering a name (United Against Racism, 2012) and an origin, as do DNA identification programs such as that run by the Greece Police's Criminology DNA Lab (Petrakis, 2016) or by the University of Milan's Labanof forensics laboratory (Scammell, 2015). It must also be more than an attempt to retrace tragic events as exceptional rather than structural, as do new research disciplines such as forensic architecture (Forensic Architecture, 2016). If Dr. Cristina Cattaneo from Labanof Laboratories can describe her vision as "Our battle is not to lose the dead" (Povoledo, 2015), border thinking seeks to propose an understanding of borders that lays bare the power structures that produce and even require these dead in the first place. Thus, Border Studies within this volume proposes more than just improved border management, offering instead an inherently political vision of radically different and potentially de-bordered modes of thinking, living, being, and sense-making.
Arising out of a Summer School titled Borders, Borderlands, Border thinking held in May 2015 at the University of Bremen in cooperation with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, the present volume seeks to address global border issues from a border thinking platform. While the current problems of the international system have led many scholars to examine the normative values of the inter-state system and global governance, the impact of cultural border constructions and contestations are generally of second-order interest in IR research. Civilizational borders, racial borders, or other cultural borders are often taken as constants to think from rather than internally unstable variables with a considerable crisis potential both for International Relations and IR Theory. The terms borders, border thinking, and borderlands will not only be approached in their immediate political and physical sense, but also as tropes of thinking. Gathering contributions from (and beyond) Gender, Black, Religious and Post-/Decolonial Studies, the volume offers various border-critiques rooted in these fields.
Instead of recuperating the dead beyond the borders, the epistemic critique proposed in the following pages questions both the existence of these borders and sciences' complicity in upholding them. Critical self-interrogation of various academic disciplines is a major thread of the volume. Traditional dichotomies between researcher and object or between scientist and politician are reconsidered, both multiplying the number of analytical dimensions and refuting the notion of both qualitative and scalar differences between approaches to borders in humanities and social science-inflected IR theory. In so doing, the contributions move beyond separations between inside and outside, self and other, critically engaging their own bordering logics to trace a mode of epistemological, ontological, and corpo-real interweaving and continuity with reference to the border.
Borders cannot be understood separate from the bodies they affect and form. The geopolitics of knowledge cannot be separated from the lived experience of borders. These are two decolonial perceptions that recur in the book and show why IR cannot understand contemporary border phenomena and formations without Cultural Studies, and vice versa.
Forensic Architecture. (2016, Aug. 23). The Left-to-Die Boat. Forensic-Architecture.org. Available at: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/12/identifying-refugee-victims-mediterranean-151221102203683.html
Missing Migrants Project. (2016, Nov. 25). Available at: http://missingmigrants.iom.int
Petrakis, M. (2016, Apr. 5.) Athens DNA lab helps trace those Lost at Sea on Aegean Crossing. UNHCR.org. Available at: http://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2016/4/5703bd576/athens-dna-lab-helps-trace-lost-sea-aegean-crossing.html
Povoledo, Elisabeth. (2015, Oct. 2.) Italian Lab Battles 'Not to Lose the Dead' from Migrant Ship. NYTimes.com. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/europe/italian-lab-battles-not-to-lose-the-dead-from-migrant-ships.html?_r=0
Scammell, R. (2015, Dec. 23). Identifying the Refugee Victims of the Mediterranean. AlJazeera.com. Available at: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/12/identifying-refugee-victims-mediterranean-151221102203683.html
Spiegel Online. (2013, Oct. 9.) Fortress Europe. How the EU turns its Back on Refugees. Available at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/asylum-policy-and-treatment-of-refugees-in-the-european-union-a-926939.html
UNHCR. (2016, Nov. 25). Refugees/Migrants Emergency Response. Available at: http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php
United Against Racism (2012, Nov.1.) List of Deaths. Available at: http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pdfs/listofdeaths.pdf


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This is the third part of our Essential Mobile Components series and we will be focusing on all the design patterns and user experience concepts around the Navigation category.
When developing a mobile application, there are some standard elements that are expected to be in place, functioning in a way that's intuitive to the user. It becomes counterproductive to divert from some best practices because it could cause confusion, making the user experience a hard one.
After a long time processing two books that changed the way we design mobile apps (Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, 2nd Edition & Designing Social Interfaces, 2nd Edition), we created a series of articles and resources for you to learn the fastest way possible!
Knowing that sometimes it's impossible to keep up to date with the latest trends in mobile design, we created a list of essential mobile components that you should use in when building your app.
We're going to be releasing them every week so stay tuned to and don't miss them!
Before we start thinking about navigation, we must consider the type and amount of data you want to display in your app. Don't forget you will use navigation to show and structure your data, that's why it should follow the information structure of your app and not the other way around.
It's important to keep the best practices for navigation design to ensure that people will be able to use and find the most valuable features in your app.
Good navigation, like good design, is invisible.
We can classify navigation patterns in many ways, but for this post we followed this convention:
Primary Navigation
Secondary Navigation
Primary Navigation Patterns
Persistent Navigation
Persistent navigation encapsules menu structures like Tab Menu or the List Menu. When you open an app with this type of navigation, you'll notice right away what are the options for the primary navigation.
The Springboard pattern, sometimes also referred to as a Launchpad, was the most popular navigation design pattern since 2011. The design is a landing screen with options that act as launch points into the application.
One of the reasons it enjoyed popularity was that it worked equally well across platforms.
At the time, the general thinking was still in terms of OS agnostic designs that allowed for consistency and reuse. It was also popular because up to nine options (in a 3×3 grid) could be displayed, compared to the limit of three to five tabs imposed by iOS and Android tab bars. Also, by adding a paging indicator (the small dots at the bottom), designers could provide even more menu options.
This pattern is still widely used, both Android and iOS launchpads rely on this pattern to show all the installed apps on the device.
Card style navigation is based on a card deck metaphor, and usually includes common physical card deck manipulations such as stacking, shuffling, discarding, and flipping.
This pattern has become popular again with the release of Google Now, which stacks information rich cards vertically to display a long list of launch points into the app, or quick context based actions.
Other recent applications use Cards as the main way to navigate and interact with content. E.g. when you swipe a card down to remove it from the screen - a new card replaces it.
Other styles of card interaction include swiping left on the top card in the stack to skip the content; swiping right to move the content to a new pile, the 'keep' pile, the most well know example of this style is Tinder.
The List Menu pattern is a similar pattern to the Springboard as each list item is a launch point into the application. Switching between modules requires navigating back to the beginning of the list in the same way that the Springboard pattern functions.
In a hierarchical app a user navigates by making a single choice per screen until they reach the desired destination. To navigate elsewhere, users must retrace some of their steps, or begin again from step one and make different choices.
Consider utilizing List Menus when the use case is navigating within a hierarchy.
Lists also work well for menus with long item names, and in cases where items need descriptions added to the item titles. Follow OS conventions for implementing this navigation pattern.
The Gallery pattern displays live content such as news articles, photos, or recipes arranged in a grid format, a carousel or a slide show.
The Gallery pattern works best for showing highly visual content, where no hierarchy is implied, and content is frequently updated.
Tab Menu
Android, iOS, and Windows Phone each have their own specific naming conventions and design guidelines for Tab Menus. It is important to understand these, even if you choose to go in other directions in your design iterations.
In an app with an information structure, users can navigate directly from one primary category to another because all primary categories are accessible from the main screen.
Transient Navigation
Transient navigation has to be revealed in an explicit way through a gesture or tap. This is because of the change in screen size with smartphones, which have made designers to think "outside of the box", literally. These normally include Side Menus and other off-canvas elements.
Transient as a term means staying a short time, which is how the following navigation menus actually work. They are normally hidden until we make an action to reveal them; then making a selection and they disappear again. The two important patterns we'll look at here are Side Drawers and Toggle Menus.
Side Drawer / Side Menu
There are two styles of Side Drawers.
The first is an overlay, meaning a swipe or tap gesture will reveal a drawer that partially covers or overlaps the original screen content.
The second style is an inlay; in this case a swipe or tap will open a drawer that pushes the original screen content partially off screen.
The most popular orientation for the Side Drawer is on the left, but it can be on the right instead, or there can be drawers on the right and the left.
Toggle Menu
Like the Side Drawer, the Toggle Menu can be an inlay that pushes the content down below the menu, as with, or an overlay that appears as a layer above the content. It's a good-looking approach, scalable and user-friendly.
This pattern is not difficult to implement and allows you to keep your whole menu and for users to easily navigate with it.
The nice thing about the Toggle Menu is that it appears in place and keeps the users there, without the risk of disorienting them.
When to use them?
It's important to ask yourself these questions when deciding when to use persistent and transient navigation:
Is your application "flat"?
Are the menu categories equivalent in hierarchy, and are there just a few primary categories (i.e., three to five) in the app?
Do your users need the menu to be always visible for quick access?
Do the menu categories have status indicators, like the number of unread emails, for instance?
Did you answer any of these questions with a yes? Then you'll probably need to choose persistent navigation.
Secondary Navigation Patterns
You can combine a primary navigation pattern with a secondary navigation pattern to help you better navigate the information structure.
The primary navigation patterns may also serve as secondary navigation patterns. It's common to see Tabs with Tabs, Tabs with Lists, Tabs with a Dashboard, a Springboard with a Gallery, and more.
Page Swiping
This pattern can be used to navigate through content in a fast and easy fashion by using the swipe gesture.
The important thing about page swiping is that the user knows it exists – i.e. That there is more than one page- most common way to communicate this information is via page indicators, which are the horizontal line of small dots usually placed near the top of the screen, although occasionally you may see these at the bottom of the screen. These dots that indicate further pages exist off-screen.
The card metaphor also works for paging. If the pattern is used in this fashion, partially visible background cards or pages prompt the user to swipe.
Scrolling Tabs
This pattern is useful when you need to display multiple categories or views within a specific module. Scrolling Tabs are usually thinner than standard Tab Bars since they don't necessarily touch targets and more often ask the user to swipe horizontally.
Don't use tabs for carousels or pagination of content as those use cases involve viewing content, not navigating between groups of content.
If you incorporate this pattern, make sure your design clearly indicates the selected tab.
An Accordion lets the user see more information while staying on the same screen. In this way, it acts much like Navigation Tabs, as menu items are collapsed when a new panel is clicked.
Where Navigation Tabs are most often used horizontally, Accordion menus are usually vertically implemented.
Accordion menus can also function quite well as sub-navigation for a specific section of a website.
Final thoughts
We have learned a lot in our journey to develop great mobile apps and we aim to share all that knowledge (both design and technical) with the community.
If you are planning to build a mobile app, we suggest you to consider Ionic Framework.
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Lobsters that dwarf George the monstrous malacostracan will grace our tables in a warmer world, National Geographic News reports.
As the oceans' temperatures rise, their pH will surely fall, with devastating consequences for calcareous marine creatures, whose supporting structures are based on the calcium carbonate species that cannot precipitate from acidic waters.
Topshells, bivalves and other delicious fruits de mer face a squishy future, as our ever-sharpening oceans preclude the construction of their mobile homes.
But just as we contemplate a future of dismal evenings spent pushing our forks through distressingly yielding post-apocalyptic paellas, news comes that higher carbon dioxide concentrations will provide a cornucopia of supersized lobsters, crab and shrimp.
A recent UNC Marine Sciences study indicates that marine crustacea will find it increasingly easy to gain weight as CO2 levels rise.
But readers even now reaching for the clarified butter might first wish to check the oil in their bandsaws, as the scientists found the higher CO2 concentrations helped the animals to bulk up their chitinous exoskeletons, rather than the delicious soft tissue favoured by gourmands.
Furthermore, collosal crab will remain resolutely absent from the menu if oceanic acidification proves deleterious to their favoured food: the corals.
Higher temperatures are expected to force the corals' symbiotic algae to flee for cooler climes, "bleaching" the famed submarine gardens, and pulling the rug from beneath the ecosystems they underpin.
So seafood lovers should pay especially close attention to the outcome of this month's COP15 talks in Copenhagen, lest our spineless chums prove more impenetrable than they already are.


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So the All Blacks will face their nemesis, France, in the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup. Who says history never repeats… they will play in Cardiff, possibly with the same referee from 'that' game in 2007 (although 4 million people will be praying for a different result this time). Do you think the All Blacks will lack motivation? Me neither.
One of the most frequently asked questions during our high performing team leadership sessions is 'How do I motivate my team?'. These days most leaders know that they cannot 'make someone be motivated' and that their role is to provide an environment that is motivating while managing their team-members in ways that match their motivational drivers. Whichever way you come at it, leaders still need to know what they can do to raise the motivation levels of their team.
Many people think that motivating their team comes during inspirational speeches or by cheerleader type behaviour which many managers don't feel they can do. Others think that motivation is achieved by a bonus or by a raise and depend on that even in the face of evidence that it doesn't increase motivation.
Most people walk past the motivational effects of good day to day management and in particular something that a good leader should be doing well regularly, and that is delegation.
Motigation works
Delegation is often poorly used or badly done in many organisations. In coaching conversations we hear reasons not to delegate. Many executive coachees list 'time management' as one of their coaching needs and nine times out of ten it is not time management but poor delegation or an unwillingness to delegate. From 'it's quicker to do it myself' to 'he can't do it as well as me' to 'my people are too busy' we hear managers justifying why they hold on to things themselves.
But let's assume you do delegate and do it well. Do you delegate to motivate? Are you a motigater?
Let's look at some of the ways that good delegation can motivate.
Of course if you are delegating to get things off your desk or because no-one else wants to do it or because you want to play more golfor then your motivation for delegating will soon be obvious and of course that will have the opposite effect. You will be de-motigating.
But I am sure you wouldn't do that if you are in touch with your leadership values!
So take a look at our list as a starting point towards good, well thought out, motigation as another way of getting more traction for you, your team and your direct reports.
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If you would like to look younger via a minimally invasive procedure, dermal fillers could be a perfect option for you. After the initial consultation, the entire process is fast and effective. Most patients are in and out of the office in a half hour with the fillers injected under their skin. Dermal fillers can restore youth in a natural-looking way, so you could both look better and not worry that observers might think you had work done. Speak with a proficient doctor about the benefits of dermal filler treatment.
Dermal fillers are best known for eradicating fine lines and wrinkles, but they can also get rid of deeper wrinkles, such as those in the nasolabial area. One benefit of dermal fillers is that they do not alter a patient's ability to move their face, so expressions are not affected.
For those whose skin exhibits volume loss, dermal fillers could restore lost volume and eliminate a sunken appearance. While many people chose to use dermal fillers on the face, these products can add volume to any part of the body. After the face, the hands are another common area for injections and sagging reduction.
Finally, those seeking fuller, plumper lips may appreciate the ease of dermal fillers to reach their goals. Additionally, younger patients who do not have much in the way of lines or wrinkles can reap the benefits of dermal filler treatment if they are suffering from acne or other scars.
Most dermal fillers use ingredients found naturally in the body, such as hyaluronic acid, which aids hydration, or calcium hydroxyapatite, a material found in bones. Some dermal fillers are designed to boost the body's collagen production, the protein responsible for keeping skin firm, while others contain collagen as the primary ingredient.
One of the biggest benefits of dermal filler treatment, though, is that—unlike plastic surgery—there is no downtime after the procedure. Once the injections are completed, patients can go home, or even back to work. That is one reason dermal fillers have earned the moniker "lunchtime facelift."
Depending on the filler used, the results may appear soon after the treatment, or it may take several days or weeks for a change in appearance. Dermal filler injections do not hurt, other than the pinch of the injection, and each treated area generally requires just one or two injections.
Dermal fillers do not last as long as plastic surgery, but that does not mean the results do not last for a considerable time. Most fillers require an annual touch-up, but depending on the type of person and the individual, the effects of a single treatment may last for up to two years.
Most people do not experience any side effects after receiving dermal filler treatment, with the possible exception of minor and temporary bruising, reddening, and swelling at the injection site. Any of these effects should vanish within a day or two. The only caveats are staying out of the sun for a couple of days and avoiding strenuous exercise. However, the benefits of dermal filler treatment typically outweigh the risks.


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Labor, Greens and union thugs conspire to stop Union Royal Commission
Labor Party trolls Marcus Priest and Chris Winslow, also a Greens candidate conspire to halt the Royal Commission into Union corruption:
Posted on August 30, 2015, in Corporate Government, corruption, Courts, Federal Politics, General, Greens, Labor Party, Law Courts, Liberal Party of Australia, media, media, Politics, Unions and tagged Australian newspaper, Bill Shorten, Chris Winslow, Dyson Heydon, Greens, Marcus Priest, Royal Commissiion into Unions. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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All STIHL gasoline-powered engines can be used with up to a 10% (E10) blend of ethanol in the gasoline/engine oil mix. We also recommend that if a unit will be left unused for more than 30 days that it be stored "dry." This means emptying the fuel tank and then restarting and letting the unit run until all the fuel is consumed and the engine stops. For maximum performance and engine life expectancy, we also recommend using STIHL Ultra HP 2-cycle engine oil.
Note: STIHL recommends use of fuel with no more than 10% ethanol content. Using fuel with greater than 10% ethanol content may cause damage to your equipment and may void your STIHL warranty. Learn More…
Only if you plan to "mothball" your KombiSystem for a longer period - say during the winter months - should you pay a little more attention to the topic of "care." This will ensure that your equipment, when required, will be ready for action. To get the equipment ready for winter, clean it first. The air filter, the cylinder fins, the spark plug and the dismantled cutting tool should be checked and cleaned (also see Instruction Manual). Metal parts should be lightly coated with oil to protect them from rust and corrosion. The spark arresting screen in the muffler should be cleaned or replaced with a new one. The fuel tank should be emptied. Run the engine until the fuel system is dry. (Warning! Do not operate the throttle, run the equipment only at idle speed until the engine stops!) STIHL recommends the use of STIHL MotoMix® fuel which is pre-mixed with STIHL HP Ultra synthetic oil. STIHL MotoMix® contains no ethanol and has a storage life of up to two years. STIHL MotoMix® can be left in the machine during seasonal storage. For winter storage, a dry and, if possible, dust-free and frost-free place would be ideal. You can save space if you hang the equipment. And remember: standard pump gasoline deteriorates. To avoid problems, only purchase enough fuel that can be used within sixty days unless it is STIHL MotoMix®.
Learn more about fuel concerns
Read more about storing your outdoor power equipment
There are several things you can check. If none of these work please take the machine to your local authorized STIHL servicing Dealer for evaluation.
The most common reason is due to too many attempts trying to start the machine in the choke position. When starting a unit, make sure to follow the starting instructions in your instruction manual. The manual provides the proper instruction for starting procedures, but there are many conditions that may affect how the unit starts. A good rule of thumb to follow is to remember that when placing the switch control to the full choke setting, more liquid fuel and less air flows into the combustion chamber in order to create a higher chance for ignition. Pulling the rope more than two to three times in this setting may flood the engine. The operator should move the Master Control Lever™ or choke lever from the full choke setting after three to four pulls even if the engine does not fire. Moving the lever to the next setting, the half choke or part throttle position, will allow more air into the combustion chamber and help resolve the flooding condition.
On homeowner Kombi units it is only located on the bar code label on the fan casing. On the professional models, it is on the bar code label and stamped in the top of the cylinder or main crank case. All current serial numbers will be 9 digits long and begin with the number 2 or 5.
The carburetor comes from the factory with a standard setting. This setting provides an optimum fuel-air mixture under most operating conditions. With most carburetors, it is only possible to adjust the engine idle speed within fine limits. Quite often adjusting the carburetor will not solve acceleration issues. To find the correct setting for your machine, please refer to your instruction manual. If you do not have a copy of your instruction manual, please go to our product manual webpage where you can download a PDF version.
STIHL Inc. maintains a Stolen Unit Database. If your STIHL product was stolen, please report it stolen to your local law enforcement agency. Then contact us with your name, address, model number and serial number. If the unit was registered at the time of purchase, we can have it added to the Stolen Unit Database.
STIHL Inc. does not accept product for repair or refurbishment. Please see your local authorized STIHL servicing Dealer.
Please refer to the Maintenance Schedule which can be found in the instruction manual.
STIHL does not incorporate production dates into our serial numbers.
Generally the minimum is 110 lbs. of compression. However, this will vary by model. Compression readings alone are not enough to determine the condition of the engine. Compression gauges are not always accurate and different engines will provide different results.
The correct gap setting is 0.020".
Only STIHL attachments will fit STIHL Kombi units.
STIHL does not offer an electric start unit. We do however offer our Easy2Start™ system on the KM 56 RC-E.
Please go to our product recall webpage to see if your unit is listed. If it is part of the recall, please take it to any authorized STIHL Dealer.


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Respiration is a metabolic process which is carried out in all living organisms. This process mainly involves the production of energy, naturally with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances.
Insect Respiratory system is not the same as the respiratory system in humans. Animals like birds, lions, cows, elephants, snakes, including humans, have lungs as their primary respiratory organ. In these animals, lungs perform the function of exchanging air with the aid of nostrils, nasal cavity, and the windpipe. However, insects and worms do not have lungs to perform their respiratory function. Therefore, breathing in insects and worms occur through a different system of respiratory organs.
Let us learn in brief about the Respiration process in Insects – Cockroach and Earthworm
Respiration in Cockroach
In cockroach, respiration takes place through a small openings on the sides of its body called spiracles. When the air enters the respiratory system of a cockroach through these external openings, spiracles act as muscular valves, leading to the internal respiratory system. The respiratory organ of cockroach is known as tracheae.
The trachea is a dense networked array of air tubes in the internal system. These tracheae balance the pressure within the system. As the oxygenated air from the atmosphere enters into the cockroach's body through the spiracles into the tracheal tubes, it penetrates into the different cells and tissues of the body, where the oxygen gas is utilized to release energy. Similarly, the air rich in carbon dioxide, which is the product of the respiratory process, goes into the tracheae and moves out through the spiracles.
Respiration in Earthworm
Have you ever touched an earthworm?
The skin of earthworms feels moist. That is why they are called slimy creatures. The reason behind their moist skin is that earthworms breathing organ is their skin. Air can easily pass through the skin of an earthworm. The exchange of gases usually takes place through its moist skin and capillaries. In these regions the oxygen gas is picked up by the hemoglobin dissolved in the blood and carbon dioxide is released out. Earthworms can also use their skin to move water and salts by active transport.
Interestingly, frogs can also use their skin to breathe. Although frogs have a pair of lungs to perform respiration, they often breathe through their skin.
Stay tuned with BYJU'S to learn more about Respiration and its process in Cockroach, Earthworm and other species.


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Pest Control Services For Property Managers
We are committed to making your life as easy as possible when it comes to pest services for the commercial and residential properties you manage.
Customized Pest Control Solutions For Managed Properties
No two buildings are ever the same and that is why we will customize a program for you that takes care of your pest problems and fits within your budget. In addition to treating ants, spiders, roaches, bed bugs, fleas, and other common pests, we also provide termite control with the Sentricon® Termite Colony Elimination System, rodent control and wildlife removal -including snake trapping, mosquito control, and fire ant control services.
- We handle the protection for your properties with integrity.
- We give you easy options for billing.
- If you ever need a report on the condition of your managed property, we share with you any concerns or data collected by your Service Professional at each service performed.
- Offer individual savings for homeowner associations that purchases services as a group.
Every Property Manager Knows When A Tenant Complains About A Pest, It's Already Too Late
That's why our multi-unit housing program is designed for ongoing pest management to prevent pest problems. At Spencer Pest Services, we set fixed appointment times that are guaranteed for each property service so you'll always know when we are coming!
We prepare a comprehensive plan for each property that uses the latest industry tools and environmentally responsible techniques. Frequency of service and methodologies are customized to the conditions and needs of each individual property. They may change from time to time but that's because pests are mobile. Our goal always is to stay ahead of them to ensure the best results that respect both your tenants' well-being and and your budget.
If You Are Shopping For The Lowest Price, We Are NOT The Company For You
However, if you are tired of handling ongoing pest issues that aren't getting resolved by your current provider, Spencer is the right pest control company.
- We get results.
- We will reduce your problems, allowing units to be turned faster.
- We will save you money.
- We will help prevent those bad reviews from residents because problems aren't going away.
The close proximity of multi-unit housing means bed bugs, roaches and other pests easily move from one apartment to the next- spreading much like a fire throughout the entire building! Spencer Pest Services offers prevention and elimination services for multi-unit housing including:
- A logbook is prepared for each complex documenting pest activity and treatments. These records are kept onsite and are reviewed regularly to decide which procedures should be taken to prevent future problems. The logbooks also contain product labels, SDS sheets and preparation notices.
- Exterior perimeter treatments are performed on each building on a regularly scheduled basis, reducing the amount of calls on the call-back log.
- A guaranteed set day and time is established for each service.
- Follow-up treatments and inspections are made to ensure any pest problems have been corrected.
- A notice is left in each unit when problems are handled stating what was done, what cooperation we need from the tenant , and what to expect with results.
- A special landing page is created for your community providing residents with pest prevention tips and preparation sheets for special services.
- Inspection reports are provided with each service. It will note why pests may be attracted to the structure and offer improvements to help prevent future infestations.
- Routine chemical applications will not be made. Products will be applied only when necessary, and done so in a responsible manner.
- All our services are pet friendly.
Pest control services require the cooperation of both the landlord and tenants. This link will help you prepare your property for a pest control treatment.


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About CRT
CRT Medical Systems is a homegrown Michigan-based revenue cycle management company. It was founded in Detroit over thirty-eight years ago in 1981 by its current president, David Doyle. Upon graduation, David began his career as a software developer. After a few years of working in the IT industry, he discovered a deficiency within healthcare. This deficiency was the lack of efficient software and technology. From there he embarked on a project to develop a medical billing platform for laboratories, this project soon leads him down a new path. Upon completion of the platform, CRT soon becomes the very first company to offer billing software time sharing services via a modem in 1985. Moving into the early 90's he began noticing a new problem within healthcare, doctors were spending almost as much time on administrative tasks as they were on the clinical ones.
From that point forward, CRT was no longer a software vendor. David now envisioned something else for CRT, that new vision was a company centered around one simple concept, to help doctors be doctors. This idea, along with our business, has grown and flourished over the past nearly four decades and this concept has become the foundation of our company. Throughout the years David and his team at CRT have been aggressively adapting with the everchanging healthcare landscape; and this adaptation has allowed us to learn what works and what doesn't. Ever since its inception, CRT has been thinking outside the box and redefining what revenue cycle management really means. Let us show you what it's like to work with revenue cycle experts, so you can get back to doing what you do best, being a doctor.
CRT Leadership
David DoylePresident, CRT
Karen MetzlerVice President of Billing
Services, CRT
Raymond DemingGeneral Operations Manager,
Vincent AzzopardiPosting Department Manager,
Eric MolerDirector of IT, CRT
Conner DoyleDirector of Business Operations,
Alex RamosDirector of Client Services,
Melody JajouBilling Manager, CRT
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Butternut Squash Risotto with Mushrooms and Spinach
Inspired by the holiday season upon us, this butternut squash risotto is a perfect addition to your Thanksgiving table. Let's be real, you can add this to any table, any time of the year. By switching out the squash for say, chickpeas and swapping kale for spinach, you've just made a completely new meal! Play with spices, add in your own flavors, this dish is all yours!
- 3.5 C vegetable broth
- 2 C diced butternut squash (1-1.5" cubes)
- olive oil spray
- 1 shallot, diced
- 2 C mushrooms, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 C arborio rice
- 1/2 C white wine
- Sea salt/ground pepper
- 2 C baby spinach, washed
- 1/2 C nutritional yeast flakes
Preheat oven to 400°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spray squash with oil and transfer to pan. Sprinkle salt/pepper and roast for about 30 minutes, tossing a few times during cooking.
In a large sauce pan, heat up the vegetable broth and keep it warm.
In a separate large sauce pan over high heat, spray the pan with olive oil and saute the shallot and the mushrooms. Cook for about 4-5 minutes and then add in the garlic. Saute Garlic only for about a minute. Careful to not burn the garlic. Add the rice and gently stir the mixture together. Add in the wine and let simmer for a minute or so. Add one ladle of broth at a time to the rice and stir. When the rice has soaked up all the broth, add another ladle. Do this until all the broth is gone and the rice is cooked al dente. This should take about 20 minutes or so.
Remove the rice from the heat and fold in the spinach and the nutritional yeast. When the spinach has wilted, fold in the butternut squash. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.


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The Sam's House at Pine Island has a really unique historical past and for the property house owners to have found an Indian burial ground on the property was an added plus. I cannot think about how difficult it may have been at that time to float your entire cabin up the river when the Sams moved up to Merritt Island , Florida. Now the cabin is restored and maintained very effectively I thought. Although there were structural renovations, the coordinator pointed out original options of the cabin together with the flooring and home windows. There have been several displays highlighting indigenous vegetation and family artifacts. We also seen several fossils and you'll see the unique tooth nonetheless intact.
The historical past, the houses, the artifacts, the land & environment,..every part is so very interesting and refreshing here. The employees & volunteers at Sam's House are very nice, educated, knowledgeable … Read more


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The Story
My name is Amanda Dodd and working to close the opportunity gap for women in underdeveloped countries is my life's mission.
And to close that gap - we have to start small.
When I was 7, I saw a National Geographic special that showed starving children in Africa and Asia. I remember the images vividly. They invaded my psyche and scarred my soul. They haunted my dreams.
I wanted to make a difference, but how does one little girl change the fate of girls across the globe?
Fast forward 30 years. The mere mention of these children in need would start the flood of tears. We sponsored a few third world relief organizations but I was left feeling dissatisfied with the level of personal involvement and change I was experiencing. How does one stem the tide? How can one make a lasting difference? Was there a way to support these children and families before they were torn apart by famine, sickness and tragedy?
In 2017, the seed of a dream was planted. A lightbulb moment. It started with the quote by Rania al Abdullah, Queen of Jordan:
Educate a woman and you educate her family.
Educate a girl and you change the future.
So the question became, how could we educate women in developing countries? How could we utilize our extensive experience in business, sales, and marketing to make a difference and create a marketplace for these women to be able to support and educate their families? They didn't need charity - they needed jobs and education.
Cause-ology was born out of the vision to support women in developing countries. To provide sustainable, dignified jobs that paid fair wages and allowed these women to feed, educate, and take care of their families.
To give them a fighting chance.
To stop the cycle before it occurs.
That is where your story intersects with theirs. How does one woman make a difference? I have discovered the answer.
You change the life of the woman in front of you. Today.
It doesn't require a huge effort or massive amounts of money. Simply decide that you support sustainable jobs and education over convenience and cheap imports. It requires you to vote with your pocketbook. It is a small thing that makes a lasting impact on generations.
Together we can show that world, that when you #shoponpurpose you change the story of these women!
Cause-ology needs YOU.
"The man who moves a mountain starts by carrying away a small stone"


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Lorde Didn't Wear A White Rose To The 2018 Grammys, But She Still Made An Iconic Statement
As one of the nominees for album of the year, Lorde attending the 2018 Grammy Awards makes total sense. However, a performance from the star at the award show isn't happening this year for some pretty frustrating reasons. According to Variety, Lorde (who is nominated for her album Melodrama), wasn't asked to perform solo, unlike the other nominees for the huge award. Due to this discrepancy, Lorde chose to not perform at all — including not in a group performance, either, according to the report. Bustle has reached out to the Grammy Awards for comment. However, Lorde still showed up to the 60th Annual Grammy Awards (although, she didn't walk the red carpet this year) in a gorgeous red dress — complete with a statement that echoed the meaning behind the white rose that many other artists wore to the event.
The white roses were a statement of solidarity to support the #TimesUp movement, a protest in support of stopping sexism and sexual harrassment in Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Like actors wearing black at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, the white roses had a similar effect and encouraged an open and vibrant dialogue about the movement on the red carpet. However, Lorde chose to wear something a little different to support the movement. According to the "Green Light" singer's Instagram, a square, white note pinned to the back of her red dress was "her version of a white rose."
The caption read, "My version of a white rose — THE APOCALYPSE WILL BLOSSOM — an excerpt from the greatest of all time, jenny holzer."
The note itself reads, "Rejoice! Our times are intolerable. Take courage, for the worst is a harringer of the best. Only due circumstance can precipitate the overthrow of our oppressors. The old & corrupt must be laid to waste before the just can triumph. Contradiction will be heightened. The reckoning will be hastened by the staging of seed disturbances. The apocalypse will blossom. - J. Holzer."
Clearly the excerpt is Lorde's way of supporting a time of equality, and an end to gender inequality that has been prominent in the entertainment industry and beyond. It's a powerful statement and a personal way of interpreting a bigger movement and protest.
Lorde's 2018 Grammy dress was a red, strappy number with tons of tulle and it was paired with a red lip, which complemented the ensemble perfectly. While it's disappointing that the singer won't be performing, her red dress paired with the bright white note on the back was a powerful statement in and of itself. It was impossible to miss the note, and there's no doubt that decision was intentional. Lorde has been outspoken about feminism and women's rights, and this year's Grammys are encouragingly no different.
In an interview with Teen Vogue, Lorde spoke of feminism and said, "Trying to fight for better conditions and better treatment of all women, whether that be trans women, or women of color, or...women in professions that don't get a lot of respect...That, to me, is what feminism is all about."
What Lorde thinks about feminism is perfectly reflected in her participation in the #TimesUp movement, and her unique way of showing her support (through the note on her dress) is perfectly representive of Lorde's unique, creative, and artistic approach to her craft.
And even though Lorde won't be performing, at least we'll have her vibrant, personal, and flat-out amazing social media presence to keep us inspired until her next awards show.
"Not ur trophy wife," a tweet from the same day as the 2018 Grammy Awards reads. As the tweet emphasizes, Lorde isn't here to please anyone but herself — but that doesn't mean that she isn't making a statement while doing so and, in the case of the note on her dress, in this case it's a pretty powerful one.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, call the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at 800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org.


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Full-length album from 2015 released on Dark Green vinyl (limited to 300 copies) housed in gatefold.
Band: DEW-SCENTED
Title: Intermination
Label: Metal Blade Rec.
Cat. No.: 3984-15398-1
Format: LP
Style: Death/Thrash Metal
A1. Declaration Of Intent, A2. On A Collision Course, A3. Scars Of Creation, A4. Affect Gravity, A5. Means To An End, A6. Ode To Extinction, A7. Demon Seed, B1. Power Surge, B2. Ruptured Perpetually, B3. Living Lies, B4. Atavistic, B5. Reborn, B6. Radiation Sickness


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Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 715-592-6595 ext. 119
Julie is the Training Contract Manager for the MREA. She served a five-year electrical construction apprenticeship working primarily on commercial and industrial-scale projects and holds a Master Electrician and a Commercial Inspector credential in the state of Wisconsin. Julie is a NABCEP Certified PV Installer Emeritus as well as an IREC Certified PV Installation Instructor and teaches advanced Photovoltaic courses for the MREA, including inspector training.


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Elections create identities, narratives, paradigms and, zeitgeists, and not just the other way around.
By Gene Lacza Pilapil
Philippine Daily Inquirer/ Asia News Network
From a democratisation standpoint, one of the crucial questions on the 2016 presidential election that need to be answered is how an in-your-face authoritarian candidate like Rodrigo Duterte triumphed in a consolidated democracy.
Possible answers must grapple with two discordant realities in this question.
The first reality is that Duterte's real uniqueness is not that he is a political outsider initially unsupported by major political parties and big business.
Nor that he is from the margins of under-represented Mindanao.
Nor that he has an antiestablishment persona of uncouth language and manners that some analysts have romantically labeled as authentic.
Nor that he has a sordid human rights record (although this one comes close).
Instead, his uniqueness is that he is the first ever presidential candidate of this country who explicitly threatened to become a dictator if democratic institutions stand in his way once he is elected president.
Just to put his uniqueness in perspective, not even Ferdinand Marcos, whether the senior or the junior, ran on such an openly and brazenly prodictatorship platform.
And because he won, he will be the first president of this country who can actually claim to have the electoral mandate to end democracy if he finds it necessary to do so.
Taking a dark turn on the democratic ideal of keeping one's electoral promises, he can stare Philippine democracy in the eye as he puts a gun to its head and rhetorically asks it: Did I not vow that I will close down Congress and set aside the courts and make myself a dictator if things do not go my way?
The second reality is that Philippine democracy under Benigno Aquino III is a stable, consolidated democracy.
It is far from the usual deconsolidated and badly eroded democracies marked by political or economic turmoil that allowed messianic strongmen elsewhere to be elected and to later end or seriously erode their own democracies.
While this administration is by no means an unqualified success story, modest improvements in key economic and governance indicators have been achieved under Mr. Aquino, from economic growth, low inflation, robust antipoverty program and higher employment to better rule of law and anti-corruption scores.
On the democratisation story itself, it was under Mr. Aquino in June 2013 that the Social Weather Stations recorded the highest satisfaction rating over how democracy works, at 80 per cent.
It was also in June 2013 that the number of Filipinos saying that "democracy is always preferable to any other kind of government"—whom the democratisation literature calls "unconditional democrats"—was at a record high of 65 per cent.
The two ratings remained high in the most recent SWS democracy survey conducted in December 2015, two months before the start of the presidential campaign.
So what happened?
Many reasons have been offered to explain Duterte's victory.
These range from structural explanations (continued high poverty, unemployment, inequality and infrastructure bottlenecks) to sociological (attraction to an antielite, "authentic" candidate; yearning for a strongman leader; middle class insecurity or opportunism; democratic fatigue and protest vote) and political (rejection of the perceived ineptness and aloofness of Mr. Aquino himself or his administration; rejection of the post-Edsa "ruling elite democracy," "oligarchic democracy" or "cacique democracy," and triumph of the grassroots movement over party machinery) approaches.
These also include technological (the elections were the country's first social media elections and only the Duterte camp fully understood this fact), cultural (Filipino rebelliousness against incumbents or Filipino gullibility to messiahs), psychological (fascist attraction or Freudian id release), international (global resurgence of authoritarianism), and institutional (president is elected by plurality vote) explanations.
Most of these analyses help illumine important aspects of Duterte's triumph.
But a number of these analyses are bedeviled by the sense of inevitability of Duterte's victory that they convey.
This is problematic because he was not the survey front-runner, and even found himself in fourth place behind survey laggard Mar Roxas as late as the March 4-7 SWS survey.
Duterte's surge in the surveys only happened in the latter half of the campaign, where incidentally this type of analyses started appearing and replacing the earlier ones that said it would be a tight race.
Riding on the crest of Duterte's spectacular surge, these analyses suddenly saw the weaknesses of Philippine politics, economy, society and democracy in a new and much harsher light.
These analyses argued that these infirmities explain why only Duterte could win or could have won the four-cornered presidential election.
Hence, wittingly or unwittingly, they fanned further the man-of-the-hour, zeitgeist narrative of the Duterte camp.
But such analyses ignore one of the basic insights of democratic theorising on elections in a competitive regime: that elections create identities, narratives, paradigms and, yes, zeitgeists, and not just the other way around.
Surprisingly, alternative explanations to Duterte's striking victory in a consolidated democracy might lie in studying the lessons of the equally dramatic triumph of another candidate in the vice-presidential race: the come-from-(way)-behind victory of Rep. Leni Robredo over Marcos Jr.
For here it can be seen, in all its shining glory, the triumph of political strategy over zeitgeist, of contingency over inevitability, and of democracy over despair.
* Gene Lacza Pilapil is an assistant professor of political science at the University of the Philippines Diliman.


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Al James' 1971 Plymouth Barracuda packs a big-block sized punch
Main: The '70s were a great period for automotive design, with engineering and styling reaching a climax, and muscle cars becoming about as outrageous as they were going to get. Al James' 1971 Plymouth Barracuda has been plucked right from the leading edge of the muscle car movement, and is just as relevant and outrageous today as it was in its heyday.
A Mopar man through and through, Al has been toying with this particular car for the last 6 years. "I scored the car from Geoff Ryan over in Queensland. I was working on the mines here in WA and first spotted it for sale in a Just Cars mag while I was sitting around the camp one night. I lusted over it for a while but dropped the idea as it was a bit out of my price range at the time. 6 months later it popped up again, and after about 30 phone calls the deal was done! My wife still reminds me that I never asked her if I could buy it", laughs Al. With work commitments he was unable to fly over to see the 'Cuda for himself, so there was a lot of trust put in to the purchase.
When the car turned up it was indeed in great condition, and it had a 547ci Sonny Bryant crank engine in it. The big block was promptly taken out for a freshen up and replaced with another engine that Al pinched out of his '63 Plymouth Max Wedge drag car – the 'RamCharger'. The borrowed 528ci Chrysler runs a SCAT crank, Eagle rods and Keith Black pistons with a 725-thou lift Bullet cam, Hughes roller rockers and Indy 368cfm heads. An Indy tunnel ram intake manifold is fitted with a pair of 950cfm TRE carbs, which are fed a diet of 98 via a MagnaFuel QuickStar 300 fuel pump. An MSD ignition system provides the spark, while a set of Extreme Custom Engineering headers, a twin 4" system and a pair of Hooker Super Comp mufflers get rid of the hot stuff. A manualised, Bob Grant 727 auto with a 4500rpm converter sends the power south through a chrome moly tailshaft with billet yokes, and a Dana 60 rear end completes the package with a Strange full spool and 35-spline billet axles. Superstock springs and a pair of Caltracs do what they can to help the muscular 'Cuda get the power down.
The paint on the car is now 16 years old, and a real testament to the job carried out by Brent Petrie when he painted it back over in Queensland. "I've tried to find a reason to repaint the car, but the body is in awesome condition and the paint is just too bloody good!" explains Al. You have to agree with him on this one – the factory Vitamin C duco with the '70s style 'billboard' graphic down the side really looks the part.
Al found a set of 15-inch Dodge Phoenix rims, which he modified by cutting off the outer diameter and then welding them back together, to achieve the correct offset. The modified rims are shod with Hoosier rubber – complete with white lettering, and with the slammed ride height and tunnel rammed big-block poking through the bonnet it cuts a menacing figure – kind of like a modern day interpretation of the classic '70s muscle car look.
There is not a lot you need to do to make the interior of a legitimate muscle car look good, and as such the only deviation from factory is the monster Tacho and a few necessary Autometer gauges. The rest of the interior is plain black – just the way Al likes it.
Al gave the 'Cuda a good old fashioned flogging at Gazzanats in Collie earlier in the year, with the Hoosier race rubber turning it in to a cruise missile during the cruise sessions. With just enough rubber left on the slicks a trip to the Motorplex was also on the cards, so after filling up at the local servo and driving it there, Al rattled off a 10.1 at 134mph. "That was with a 1.65 60-foot, and the car weighs 3750lbs, so I was pretty happy. I'd love that 9-second time slip though. The car certainly has it in it, and I want to do it driving to the track and back too". In the meantime he has plenty to keep himself busy before the racing season starts up again – Al and his son Aaron are currently preparing for a trip to the Red Centre Nats in September. They will be taking Aaron's VG Valiant, and have fitted the freshened up 547ci donk just for the occasion. Yep, these guys are Mopar mad!
Exterior: In its current guise, the muscular Mopar is outfitted with a tunnel rammed big block, twin carbies and that sinister looking wheel and tyre combo. Al likes to change things up from time to time though, and as such has another Indy intake manifold with a single 1050 Dominator carby that he can fit, as well as 4 different bonnets and 5 different sets of wheels.
Interior: There's not a lot that needs to be done to improve the interior of a 70's muscle car. The only deviation from factory is the tacho and the Autometer gauges.
Engine Bay: The 528ci donk is a tough bit of gear, and has marched the Cuda down the quarter with a pb of 10.1 at 134mph. Given that it weighs in at a hefty 3750lbs, the Moroso calculator shows approximately 650rwhp. Tough!


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Obama Goes After Gun Owners In New Ad
Ben Smith points us to a new spot from the Obama campaign, "Life," that was not sent out to the press. It features a lifetime National Rifle Association member who supports the Democratic nominee. The spot has been seen in Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
"I'm a life member of the NRA," Greg West says in the spot. "I hunt, I fish, I love the outdoors. I love this country, and I support Barack Obama."
An announcer then seeks to reassure skeptics.
"Barack Obama supports gun rights," he says. "Our right to defend ourselves. The second amendment. That's the truth."
The NRA has been highly critical of Obama in its advertising and rhetoric, suggesting he would be ""the most anti-gun president in American history." The Democratic nominee has repeatedly said that would not be the case, stating that any claim that he would take away peoples' guns is "just not true."
"Barack Obama is running TV ads about guns without telling the national media because he knows they would never pass a credible fact check," RNC spokesman Alex Conant said in a statement. "Obama is the most anti-gun candidate for President in American history. He consistently worked to undermine Second Amendment rights, which is why respected pro-gun groups are harshly critical of him."
UPDATE: The NRA today announced that it is expanding its multi-million dollar anti-Obama ad campaign. National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ads began airing today Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota and Michigan. They were already airing in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Colorado.
"The media spots feature a variety of people from all walks of life, including war veterans, hunters, families and former law enforcement officers criticizing the many anti-gun and anti-hunter votes cast by Obama as a state and as a U.S. Senator," the organization said in a press release.
Watch one spot below.


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The Poetry Center presents Stefan Hyner in a reading and talk entitled "This Other World Not Civilized." Hyner reads in reverse-chronology from his own poetry dated 2003–2015, all in manuscript. He also reads his translations from Classical Chinese poets Lao Tzu, T'ao Yuan-Ming and Li T'ai Po, and responds to questions and remarks from the audience.


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MAT, elaborated as Management Aptitude Test is a national level management entrance test that provides admission to more than 400 business schools in the country. More than 3 lakh candidates appear for MAT every year and get admission in their desired business school.
MAT is held 4 times in a year in February, May, September, and December. The December installment of MAT is to be conducted on 10th and 16th December, for offline and online modes respectively. Candidates can choose either of the examination modes as per their convenience.
Interested aspirants can register themselves on the official website of AIMA. As MAT December 2017 registration is going on and the last date to apply is December 1, 2017.
MAT tests students in 5 sections, which are Language Comprehension, Mathematical Skills, Intelligence and Critical Reasoning, Data Analysis & Sufficiency and Indian & Global Environment. Each of the section contains 40 multiple choice questions and candidates have to complete the whole test in 150 minutes.
Each question in MAT carries 1 mark and there is a negative marking of 0.25 marks for every incorrect answer. The score in MAT is scaled and a total score is shown out of 800 in final results.
With MAT December 2017 being so close, candidates are looking to do a lot of practice and also looking to take a lot of mock tests. But many candidates face problem in getting the right kind of study material for the exam. So today, we bring a list of websites and apps that provide the best study material for MAT, and that too for free.
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Websites that offer MAT Study Material and Mocks
There are many websites on the internet on which you can get a lot of study material for MAT. You just need to create an account and you use the topic tests, sectional tests and full length mock available to them. Here is a list of such websites that can take your MAT preparation to the next level:-
Hit bullseye:- Hitbullseye.com is an online preparation portal which offers a lot of free material for registered users. You can reach on their website and create a free account on it.
Currently, hitbullseye.com offers one free full-length mock test for MAT which candidates can take. Also, by creating an account here, you get access to many topic tests and sectional tests which will be very helpful in your MAT preparation. Hitbullseye also releases some free e-books which can be of immense help in preparation.
It also provides scholarships to candidates who have scored 90+ percentile in any entrance exams and on some other criteria as well. With this scholarship, you can get access to all full length mocks of hitbullseye and videos as well. If used properly, hitbullseye is a great source
Eduwhere: – Eduwhere.in is another amazing portal which offers a lot of free content for MAT. You just need to create an account here and you can use up to 6 full-length mock tests and a lot of sectional tests.
The full-length tests are designed exactly similar to the actual MAT exam, with 200 MCQs to be done within 150 minutes. On the other hand, in sectional tests, you are given a time limit of 30 minutes to do 40 multiple choice questions.
Collegedunia.com: – The famous website can solve all your queries on MAT December 2017. Starting from the application process than moving towards the preparation part. Variety of free study material for MAT 2017 is available on the website. Students can easily download and scaleup their preparation.
TCYonline:- TCYonline.com is another very useful platform where one can take free topic tests on various subjects. Currently, TCYonline provides free topic tests on various topics like Probability, Reading Comprehension, Verbal Ability, and many such topics. These tests contain 25-30 questions each and can be really useful for MAT aspirants.
TCYonline keeps on updating the list by adding newer tests and thus is a great portal for MAT preparation.
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The best thing about prep.youth4work.com is that its tests have been taken by thousands of aspirants which increases the credibility of results. Therefore, you can benchmark your performance against a huge base of candidates which tells your actual preparation level.
MBAUniverse:- mbauniverse.com is another website in the list that offers free content for MAT aspirants. Candidates can access these things on MBAUniverse – MAT Mock Test, MAT Previous Year Paper, and MAT 2017 sample paper. Along with this, MBAUniverse also provides proper guidance for MAT with their articles. Thus, this is another platform which is worth registering for MAT.
Mobile Apps that offer MAT Study Material and Mocks
There are a lot of apps available on Google Play Store that can be very useful in preparation of MAT. Take a look at the list of these apps:-
AIMA MAT Exam Preparation by Readwhere.com :- This app by Readwhere.com is a completely free and perfect solution for MAT Preparation. The app is a new one but has received a rating of 4.6 on the play store which proves its excellence.On this app, you can get access to subject-wise mock tests with explanatory answers on Language Comprehension, General Awareness, Mathematical Skills, Data Analysis and Sufficiency and Intelligence and critical reasoning. This app also provides all notifications and news related to MAT exam.
MAT Exam App by Sana Edutech:- This is another free and brilliantly package the mobile app for MAT exam preparation. This app provides a lot of interesting features which can be very useful for practice and preparation.
Sana Edutech's app provides access to detailed model paper sets for each section, all news & information related to MAT, past year question papers in a quiz format. Also, it features a practice mode in which you can practice questions without any time limit. This 100% free app is a great one to have on your phone if you want to prepare for MAT.
MAT Previous Year question paper and study material app by SarkariBabu:– Previous year question papers are always the best source to prepare for an exam. Therefore, one should have past year papers of MAT as well, for the best and relevant practice.
This app by SarkariBabu has previous year papers of MAT available in PDF format. Candidates can download them and practice whenever they want. A good feature of this app is that it also provides exam papers on demand. Apart from previous year papers, it also provides a lot of study material as well.
MAT 2017 Management Exam Prep by Youth4work:- This is an app by prep.youth4work.com to provide all their study material on mobile. Just like all other apps, this app also provides full-length mock tests, section wise and topic wise tests, and discussion forum for MAT where you can discuss your doubts. With so many features packed in just one small app, this one is really a must-have app for MAT aspirants.
Apart from the above-listed apps and websites, there are many other useful tools which might not be directly made for MAT but can help you a lot in preparation. Websites like RCprep.com, Vocabulary.com, WordPandit, IndiaBix, IndiaBusinessQuiz, GKToday.to offer good quality questions and data for any kind of exam. Also, apps like Vocabulary Builder by Magoosh, Byjus App, and Testbook GK app can be of immense help in MAT preparation.
Hope these online sources will help MAT December 2017 aspirants to score well in the upcoming exam. As the best way to prepare is to practice, practice and practice some more.


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I would rant but you've heard it all before
Mar 19, 2019 at 5:31pm
"Governments" seem to forget that they are comprised of citizens chosen to represent the interests of the citizenry as a whole. Instead, ordinary citizens are met with some condescending version of a landlord/tenant situation.
There needs to be an attitude adjustment in the political class. How can I be proud to live in a country that treats the average family or human being with such indifference? All for greed and false economy.
Such BS reasoning from those in their secure little bubbles zones.
@I would rant but you've heard it all before
Mar 20, 2019 at 10:43am
Canadians don't like to hear it, but Government is a criminal organization. They pick up where the Church left off. Taxes are nothing but modern-day tithes---at least the Church took a flat 10% historically!
Crime against humanity
Mar 20, 2019 at 10:11pm
We need affordable housing solutions that local citizens can afford, so seniors, low to moderate income individuals and families don't face homelessness. This is just a paycheck or rent eviction or rent hike away for some of us. My heart goes out to all who struggle and yet are not quite making it in this city. Our wages are just about some of the lowest!


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A second grader dreamt up Google's latest fun loving interpretation of its logo. Every year for the last ten years, Google have welcomed students to present their sketches – this year, participants were requested to respond to the theme "What inspires me…"
The winning logo for 2018 is by Sarah Gomez-Lane, a second-grade student from Falls Church, Va. She responded to this year's theme, "what inspires me," by making the dino-friendly logo to share her hopes of becoming a paleontologist.
And for the first time in the 10-year history of the contest, the winner got the opportunity to work with Google's doodle team to animate her drawing and have it on Google's homepage. Sarah likewise won $30,000 for college and $50,000 for her school.
Any student from kindergarten through 12th grade can participate in the challenge. Google is accepting submissions for the 2019 contest through March 18.


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Let TheGenealogist take you back in time!
We all want to know more about what life was like in the times of our ancestors...and old photographs provide the perfect opportunity to look through a window into the past. With this in mind, TheGenealogist has become the first family history website to launch a dedicated new 'Image Archive', which includes hundreds of unique 3D photos and thousands of standard images dating from 1850 to 1940!
The new 'Image Archive' is a free to use service that allows researchers the opportunity to relive the past through the eyes of your ancestors at: www.TheGenealogist.co.uk/imagearchive
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The Image Archive is fully searchable using the title of the photo itself, or just add a 'keyword' to narrow down your search. All the photos are rated so you can see which photos are of the highest quality. There's also a selection of main search categories and sub-categories to help you find photos of interest, quickly and easily.
The images are all named and tagged so they can be easily identified. They are also rated for quality so you can see how good the picture is before you download it.
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The pictures really give a flavour for what life was like for our ancestors.
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Included in the first series of photographs in the Image Archive is the drama and experiences of World War One and the earlier Boer War, with photo footage of both the military and social aspects of these conflicts. Here we see Boer War soldiers (right).
Experience not only the battle scenes but the other moments of army life including the camaraderie and extensive travel our ancestors had to endure in an army career, in glorious 3D.
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Now and then: how times have changed
It's not just occupational trends that have changed since our ancestors' times. The rapid pace of development has seen whole cities and towns change beyond recognition. This makes it even more important to get a feel for how things were at the time when researching our family history.
Before the introduction of new inventions such as the motor car, the discovery of electricity, or the effects of Second World War bombings, our towns and cities looked much different, with mainly horse and carriages as modes of transport.
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