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Conversion Rate Optimization
Turn your traffic from Organics, Adwords or SM into customers
There are multiple scenarios for a business with a low Conversion Rate. Wrong pricing, bad reputation, inconsistent support and most common of all bad written content. CRO is where you learn more about who your users, their age groups, their demands and have the opportunity to meet them with a back and forth conversation. You can use that knowledge and platform to guide them towards conversion by anticipating and meeting their needs.
Behind everything is an analysis and this is where our experts comes handy. In order to figure out what part you are missing and target together the best possible user-experience, price-target and content, we test and optimize as experiment small portions of your products/services in order to identify the best return. After this part is done, we analyze the results and we implement the same or similar strategies to the rest of your portfolio. The process is a constant improvement and learnings based on understanding how to translate what your users are telling you through their action. Plus - an extremely important factor - if your existent users are worth enough or is it better to focus on other targets and groups.
What you should expect
Conversion Rate Optimization is a long process that ends up always with the requested result: More conversions from your existing traffic. Increase of the average revenue per visitor. Opportunity to invest further on tacticts that brings you the higher spending visitor. In a deeper level you can think CRO as a per-person optimization. Of course to get to these levels requires not only statistics but constant improvements to the user experience (UX), content consumption and other - less important - factors of your web presence.
The perfect combination
The best scenario for any business nowadays is to have SEO+PPC+SM+CRO. The results of these four can only be dramatically improvement for the business and the sales. This combination requires a steady foundation, solid decisions and strategy builded with time-sensitive expected results. This is where we are coming in and provide you with a step-by-step quidance for your web-presence, changes that should be made, training to your employees and more. Whenever a client followed our strategy there was only success. Period.
How is this happening
- There are specific steps that we follow in order to get results from CRO:
- Understanding business goals, position on the market and competitors
- Conducting research to determine the existent client base today and potentional other customers
- Compare the real-market with other critical for growth opportunities.
- Conducting polls with the existent users for their experience and asking for reviews
- Test in a small level the data we gathered and implement them
The whole thing goes without ending as Test-Measure-Read-Learn-Optimize-Read-Repeat.
Let's talk about CRO today. We will figure out a better way to increase your conversion rate and make your clients happier than ever.


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Timberwolf Insurance provides coverage for:
Homes - including; high valued homes, vacation homes, rental homes, condos, vacant homes, mobile/manufactured homes and specialty dwellings. We also offer flood and earthquake coverage.
Automobiles - including; most vehicle types, classic, collectible and high valued vehicles. We also offer coverage for SR22 filings, no prior insurance and DUI's.
Recreational Vehicles - including; snowmobiles, quads, ATV's, trikes, motorcycles, motorbikes, mopeds, scooters, motor homes, travel trailers, campers, dune buggy's and golf carts.
Watercraft - including; jet skis, runabout boats, ski boats, cuddy cabins, cabin cruiser, yachts, sailboats, pontoon, houseboats and bass boats.
Umbrella Policies - we also offer umbrella policies through most of the insurance carriers we have partnered with to provide additional liability coverage over your assets in both your personal and commercial underlying policies.
Life Insurance - we've teamed up with a great partner who are experts in Life Insurance and are able to offer term life; whole life and universal life products with a variety of different insurance companies. We also offer health and dental insurance for individuals, families and employers.

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The Mission of the JT Oversight Group:
To ensure the members of the San Diego Junior Theatre Board of Trustees are competent, ethical, transparent, and accountable to the Junior Theatre community; and place the interests and safety of the children of the community first.
We are demanding the current board of trustees resign and be replaced by independent, third-party trustees who will make the safety of children their top priority.
We are also asking the San Diego City Council to withhold funding for Junior Theatre until a complete and independent investigation is completed. Please add your voice to ours, and contact San Diego city officials to demand they take action to protect kids.
View more videos of our May 7, 2019 presentation to the San Diego City Council here.


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You may consult the books suggested below. However, you should also benefit from PU Library for value-addition of your notes for each subject. You may select from subjects like Psychology, Geography, Sociology, Journalism, British History and Political Science.
1. Introduction to Psychology by Morgan & King
2. Abnormal Psychology by Neil Davisson
3. Psychology by Ali Ajmal
Physical Geography:
1. Physical Geography of Human Environment by H. De Blij
2. Certificate Physical and Human Geography by Goh Chen Long
Economic, Regional and Human Geography:
1. Geography (20 Questions) by M. Jahangir Sanpal Khan
2. Economic Geography by Fazal Karim Khan
3. Oxford Geography for Pakistan by Fazal Karim
1. Sociology by Horton and Hunt
2. Social Problems of Pakistan by Dr Muhammad Khalid
British History:
1. Modern English History by G.W. Southgate
2. British History for CSS by Dr Waheed Asghar


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The 2013 Winter Carnival events include favorites from past years including the cool Rail Jam, Cirque de Sandpoint, downtown bonfire, the Schweitzer Extravaganza and more. And, the very popular Skijoring will return as well. Let's start with this event...
Skijoring - One Horse, One Rope, One Skier.
Combining two favorite pasttimes - skiing and horseback riding - Ski Joring involves horses and riders pulling skiers at high speeds around a course of jumps and gates. Some folks use dogs for these events, but not Sandpoint. These folks are speed junkies!
Ski Joring is an equally exciting show for spectators and everyone's invited to watch the action. There will be booths, food, and some fun surprises. Skijoring is taking place on February 16 & 17 at the Bonner County Fairgrounds (two miles north of Sandpoint), in the rodeo arena.
The competition starts at noon and gates open at 11 a.m. Admission is $3 but parking and children under 12 are free and each paid admission will receive a raffle ticket to win great prizes. Vendors will be present so don't worry about getting hungry or thirsty at the event...root for your favorite winter cowboys and cowgirls!
Downtown Rail Jam and Bonfires
One of the biggest events of Winter Carnival, the rail jam is a freestyle contest where skiers and snowboarders put up their best acrobatic moves while sliding on handrails and other man-made features. The Rail Jam is on Friday February 15th. Points are awarded for style, amplitude, difficulty and variety. Spinneybent Rails provides a rail jam setup that's 30 feet wide and 100 feet long rail with two features, a handrail and box. Riders compete for prizes from 7B Boardshop and other sponsors. Spectators can keep warm and catch the excitement by roaring bonfires.
Sandpoint Lodging for Winter Festival
Look forward to a great night's sleep and a delicious breakfast when you choose an Idaho bed and breakfast for your accommodations when in Sandpoint.


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In order to grow your business, you need to understand its strengths and weaknesses and how they affect the available opportunities. By researching internal and external factors, we will get a clear idea of your organization's framework and its position in the market. This knowledge will be the basis for setting goals that will propel you to the next level. Whatever your goal may be (e.g., increase market share, improve customer relations), we will help you devise and implement winning strategies based on facts and data.
SWOT analysis is a methodology to determine effectiveness of an organization or a company by separating four key elements, which are analyzing core strengths and weaknesses of the enterprise and a promise to bring up new opportunities leaving the threats behind. Strategy development and its implementation is the foundation to run any enterprise successfully, whether its operations are online or offline or both. Building effective growth plans with intensive detailing on all the processes from start to end is mandatory to achieve the desired results. If you want your business to have a strong backbone of proper strategies and processes for your organization in Montreal and Ottawa, then you have come to the right place.
We, at Envivodigital, have professionals who are skilled in developing and implementing strategies to elevate your business goals. Every road map we will create for your business success will have a detailed plan of action, with due emphasis to the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats relevant to your organization and market. We will leave no stone unturned to create a powerful growth strategy that will propel your business in the right direction. The team will refer to few major things about your business before proceeding to design a strategy –
Assessing the above mentioned points,the team at EvnivoDigital scrutinizes the exact possibilities for effective strategy developmentfor your business in Montreal and Ottawa. Remember – developing a good strategy is not enough till it gets implemented properly.Here, alot of agencies go astray, but we don't. We will be with you every step of the way, till you reach your desired goals.
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text: We are very excited to present a series of street photography workshops in London in December! Joshua Evan and Leanne Staples aka Shoot New York City have both been shooting the streets and collaborating for many years. Seeing With New Eyes is a great opportunity to capture the streets of London with a camera while gaining the insights of 2 seasoned street photographers. Spaces are limited! We are keeping it small intentionally so we can work closely with everyone.


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Keeping different types of livestock in the same pasture can help you maximize the amount of use you get out of your facility. When you are considering putting two different species of animals together in the same pasture, you need to consider the individual needs of each animal as well as their natural behaviors and decide whether or not your animals are going to be safely compatible.
Your Horse's Needs
Horses are large, but relatively fragile, herbivores. They are prey animals who prefer to run away from perceived dangers versus putting up a fight. Horses use their pastures predominantly as a source of nutritional forage. Horses are physically designed to consume large amounts of grass and hay throughout the day and a pasture serves to provide them with this necessary nutrition. Horses prefer to live together in a herd. If a horse is placed in a pasture alone, he may become stressed or anxious. Horses will accept donkeys, cattle and even goats as companions in the pasture if they do not have another horse as an option.
Your Pig's Needs
Pigs are livestock but they do not have a lot of similarities to horses. Pigs are voracious omnivores who will eat almost anything you offer to them. Pigs graze on pasture grasses, but they also root through the dirt and enjoy consuming various roots, bulbs and even insects they come across. Pigs are mostly kept in enclosures with other pigs or in solitary housing.
Horses and Pigs
Domesticated pigs and horses generally are not considered to be a good choice of pasture mates. Horses and pigs have little in common and are unlikely to form an emotional bond even if you turn them out in the same pasture. In addition to their lack of emotional friendships, releasing pigs into your horse's pasture can put your horse at risk.
Pasture Management Problems
Pigs are notorious for rooting up the ground in the pasture, which will destroy the ground and prevent the fragile forage your horse needs from growing properly. If your pigs dig holes, your horse risks tripping in the holes and being injured. Pigs also can become quite aggressive during feeding times, your horse may be injured if he gets in between the pig and some food the pig wants. Pigs are heavy animals who can do serious damage to a horse if they decide to charge or bite.
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Mekhala Organic Black Rice 1kg
Mekhala is dedicated to creating a better life with great, wholesome and sustainable Asian foods. Focusing on all-natural, gluten-free and vegan foods, and made from the best quality ingredients, Mekhala wants to give you healthy, tasty and easy-to-prepare Asian foods. All of their products are prepared and made by hand in small batches in Northern Thailand.
Mekhala organic black rice is hailed as a new 'super food'! It is rich in anthocyanin antioxidants associated with health benefits such as memory improvement and decreased risk of heart disease and cancer, and it is low in sugar and high in fiber. This unique rice is grown on small farms in the Nan region of Northern Thailand and possesses a nutty flavor and soft, chewy texture.
Ingredients: 100% organic black rice.
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Satellite Voting Schedule for special supervisor election
IOWA CITY– Satellite voting for the Jan. 19, 2010, special election begins Monday, Jan. 11. Any Johnson County voter can vote early at any Johnson County satellite voting site.
Coralville City Hall
1512 7th St., Coralville
Monday – Friday, Jan. 11-15, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
North Liberty Community Center
520 W. Cherry St., North Liberty
Monday – Friday, Jan. 11-15, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
5th floor Pomerantz Family Pavilion
Walkway (Elevator L)
Friday, Jan. 15, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Iowa City Public Library
123 S. Linn St., Iowa City
Saturday, Jan. 16, noon – 6 p.m.
Hy-Vee Food Stores, Iowa City
812 S. 1st Ave., Iowa City
1720 Waterfront Dr., Iowa City
1201 N. Dodge St., Iowa City
Sunday, Jan. 17, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
In addition to satellite sites, the Auditor's Office will open for early voting. Early voting will be available weekdays 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Friday, Jan. 15. The Auditor's Office will be closed Monday, Jan. 18, for the Martin Luther King holiday, but will be open Saturday, Jan. 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as required by law. For additional information call the Auditor's Office at 356-6004 or visit the web site at jcauditor.com.


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Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) is a serious crime that may carry lifelong repercussions. If you have been charged with a DWI in Andalusia Alabama the next step you should take is contacting a qualified lawyer who is experienced with DWI law.
Andalusia DWI Attorneys
DWIs happening in Alabama are often quite complex and involve extensive evidence and legal intricacies. Because the state is prosecuting you for a crime, there are various times a variety of ways to challenge the DWI charge against you.
Andalusia Lawyers Can Help You Decide the Ideal Course of Action if You Are Charged with a DWI
The most successful DWI defendants hire a lawyer early to help make decisions like whether to negotiate a plea or fight the charges. Promptly contacting a lawyer also allows more time to familiarize themselves with your particular case and legal issue. Andalusia, Alabama DWI attorneys are able to take a close examination at your case and lay out your options.
Do yourself a favor and consult with a DWI attorney now so you can make the right moves today.


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Ink Cartridges for HP DeskJet 6940 Printers in DeskJet Series
Ink Depot offers a great range Ink Cartridges for your HP DeskJet 6940 device with high quality products at very competitive prices. We offer a 100% money back guarantee for all consumables you have purchased from us and with 98% of our advertised products in stock, you can be assured of a speed delivery.
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Looking for inspiration for #Veganuary? Or just want to eat a bit more healthily in 2017? This Thai Red Tofu and Sweet Potato Curry is packed with delicious spices and healthy vegetables and can be on the table in under 30 minutes.
Happy New Year!!! How has 2017 been for you so far? I am enjoying a rather slower pace of life than the end of 2016 which was totally manic!! It was all my fault for trying to cram too much in – I counted back…a whopping 21 blog posts in December! No wonder I'm feeling tired.
The period after Christmas was quieter, but then I had the juggling act that was trying to keep up with the blogging (the demands of a blog never really go away, even at Christmas!) whilst simultaneously doing all the Christmassy things, spending time with family and friends and keeping the kids occupied and not feeling neglected – let's just say there wasn't much time for 'me time'! So I am rather hoping perhaps January will be a little quieter (a girl can hope right?).
I did manage to find a small nugget of time (or rather several very small nuggets) to reflect on how I had fared against the goals I set for myself at the start of 2016 as well as setting some new goals for 2017…If you want to read more about that do check out my Easy Peasy Foodie 2016 Review.
I also found a little bit of time towards the end of December and before the madness of Christmas descended, to get into the kitchen and start creating some recipe ideas for 2017. One of my favourites was this simple Thai Red Tofu and Sweet Potato Curry, which just so happens to be vegan and vegetarian friendly as well as gluten and dairy free…and totally delicious!!
Packed with healthy ingredients, this would be a great meal idea if you are trying to be a little healthier this January after the excesses of Christmas and perfect if you are doing #Veganuary this year, but even if those things don't apply, this is quite frankly a delicious meal in its own right! And best of all, my kids really liked it – in fact they wolfed it down. Something I really wasn't expecting!!
If tofu is not something you've cooked before, then I really recommend you try it – it's totally wonderful and had me wondering why I don't cook with it more often. It has a firmer texture if you can spare the time to press it for a bit before cooking – you can do this by covering it with kitchen roll and sandwiching it between a couple of boards…but if you are in a hurry you can miss this step out – the tofu will just be a bit more squidgy!!
To save time I used a ready made red Thai curry paste – I really like the one from Thai Taste as, not only does it taste great, but I can recognise all the ingredients (no weird sounding additives) and it is also gluten and dairy free as well as vegetarian and vegan friendly.
You may of course be doing #DryJanuary this year, but if not, this Thai Red Tofu and Sweet Potato Curry would go beautifully with a Gewurztraminer or a Riesling.
Thai Red Tofu and Sweet Potato Curry (Vegan)
- 400 g pack tofu I used Cauldron Foods
- 200 g jasmine rice
- 400 ml boiling water
- Salt
- 1 tablespoon wok oil olive oil or coconut oil
- 300 g sweet potato peeled and cut into 1 cm cubes
- 1 red or yellow pepper diced
- 100 g baby sweetcorn sliced
- 3 tablespoons red Thai curry paste I used Thai Taste
- ½ to ¾ 400 ml tin of coconut milk depending on how saucy you like it
- 100 g mangetouts
- Juice of 1 lime
- 2 tablespoons coriander leaves optional
- Start by pressing your tofu – place a chopping board down on your work surface and place a double layer of kitchen roll on top. Place the block of tofu on the kitchen roll and then place another double layer of kitchen roll on top, followed by a second chopping board and then 4 tin cans to weigh it down. Leave to drain for 10 minutes, then chop into bitesized pieces.
- Meanwhile place the jasmine rice in a saucepan and add 400ml boiling water and a pinch of salt, cover with a lid and bring to the boil, then turn down to a low simmer and cook for 8 minutes. Take the rice off the heat, but leave the lid on. Leave for a further 5 minutes or until you need it.
- While the rice is cooking, heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a wok or large frying pan, then add the tofu and stir fry for 3 minutes until brown. Add the sweet potato, red pepper and sweetcorn and stir fry for a further 1 minute.
- Next add the red curry paste and stir fry for 1 more minute.
- Add 200ml coconut milk and bring to the boil, cover with a lid of some sort (I used a baking tray) and allow to simmer 7-8 minutes until the sweet potato is soft. Add extra coconut milk if you want the curry to be a bit more saucy.
- Finally add the mangetouts, a pinch of salt and the lime juice and cook for one more minute.
- Serve the curry with the cooked rice and a sprinkling of coriander if you fancy it.
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Google Maps is a great free alternative to a dedicated sat nav, and is also very handy if you're on foot. But did you know you can use it offline too?
That means when you go abroad you'll have a map stored on your phone, and you won't have to pay roaming fees to use it.
[Read more: How to use Google Maps]
Not only that, but you can also use it in areas where you won't have mobile reception. The only thing is, you'll need to be organized and sort it out before you go.
Follow our handy guide, and you'll know your way around like a local.
Step 1: Find the area you want to use
First of all, you'll need to download the Google Maps app. It should come pre-installed on your Android phone, but if not - or if you've deleted it - you can download it for free from Google Play.
In the search bar, type the name of the area you'd like to download a map for. It doesn't have to be abroad – it could be somewhere remote in the UK.
Tap the bar at the bottom of the screen that contains the word you searched for. Then, if it's somewhere specific, like a landmark or a train station, tap the three buttons in the top right corner. This will open the sub-menu and give you the option to 'Download offline area'.
Step 2: Download it
A map will appear showing the area you can download. The maximum size is 46,332 square miles (120,000 square kilometres). If you try to save a bigger area, it will ask you to zoom in to select a smaller one.
It will also warn you how much space this will take on your phone – in our case, up to 175MB – and how much space you have left.
Remember, particularly with large areas, to always download over wi-fi rather than mobile data to prevent racking up a big bill.
If you're happy, click 'Download'. It will then prompt you to name the map.
[Read more: The 7 wonders of Google Earth]
Step 3: View your map offline
Once you've downloaded it, the offline area should appear at the top of your screen (the icon looks like a folded map). Drag down and click it to open it.
The icon will disappear after you've clicked it.
From then on, open Google Maps, tap the menu icon in the top left (it's in the search bar), and select 'Offline areas' from the drop-down menu.
This will show a list of all the areas you've downloaded. To view one, just tap it.
Step 4: Navigation
To browse your offline map, use Google Maps just as you would normally. You can scroll around, and place names and road names should appear just as if you were connected to the internet.
You'll also be able to get driving directions within your offline area, but not traffic updates. You also won't be able to get directions for using public transport, cycling or walking. Once downloaded, you can't modify routes to avoid a toll, say, or a ferry.
To check if your map has downloaded ok and is usable, turn on your phone's airplane mode, open Google Maps and have a look around your downloaded area.
If you use an Android phone, you can also use Maps in wi-fi only mode (which is more convenient than putting your phone in airplane mode). To do so, go to the Menu, then Settings, and select Wi-Fi only. This will ensure you only use the offline maps you've downloaded, so don't risk running up huge roaming costs when abroad.
Offline areas need to be updated at least every 30 days - Google will prompt you so you don't forget. To get the most up-to-date maps, don't download them too far in advance of your holiday.
That should be everything you need – happy hols!
Alternative offline sat navs
If you want an app with full sat nav capabilities that works offline, we'd recommend Here WeGo (previously known as Here Maps). The free app lets you download maps from over 100 countries with turn-by-turn voice instructions, absolutely free.
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This project models the energy use and savings of a typical single floor in both a small and a large office building in two different geographical locations in the United States (New York City and Los Angeles). .
Both existing and proposed building (with POUNCE®System improvements) energy performances were modeled using eQuest (v3.64) software, a DOE-2.2 based building energy simulation program.
The parameters of building location and HVAC systems as typified by building size have been selected to measure the effects of the POUNCE®System on the baseline model lighting, plug load, and HVAC system energy performance. Modifications to the schedules for these systems have been performed based on occupancy and/or temperature monitoring enabled by the POUNCE®System components. The improvements modeled are:
- Controlling existing lighting in all areas of the office by occupancy
- Controlling existing equipment and plug loads in all areas of the office by occupancy
- Controlling the outside air intake by occupancy in the small office buildings
- Controlling the outside air intake and temperature at zone level for the large buildings, which are modeled as having finer zone level control
It was found that installing the POUNCE® System in all of the buildings and locations modeled is predicted to provide significant energy and cost savings. The total kWh savings per project ranged from 17.6 to 20.1 % of total per floor electricity use.
Natural gas consumption was predicted to be reduced in three of the four buildings modeled, with a range from 7.4 to 8.9% savings of total per floor gas usage in the two New York buildings and the large Los Angeles one.


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SPARKS, Md.—Video image smoke detection is now accepted under the New York City Building Code, opening a large new market for such detection systems.
SPARKS, Md.— Fike's SigniFire Server recently received ONVIF certification, making that cost-effective NVR-based early warning detection solution more broadly available, according to Rick Jeffress, sales manager, Americas, for Fike Video Image Detection.
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JFrog Artifactory Extends The Universe with PHP Support for Developers
20 Oct, 2016, 18:00 BST
Over 5 million PHP developers can now use the world's first universal software package repository and include it in their continuous integration environment
SUNNYVALE, California, Oct. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- JFrog announced its support for PHP package management in today's release. JFrog Artifactory, the Universal Repository Manager, is an all inclusive package solution and supports all binary artifacts including Maven, Docker, npm, PyPi, Nuget, YUM, Debian and many other packaging formats.
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With this new support, PHP developers can easily store their local PHP Composer packages in Artifactory, and also proxy other PHP repositories like Packagist. PHP Developers can also utilize the full strength of what JFrog Artifactory has to offer, including the 'universal' ability to use PHP along with other package types in one system of record. JFrog Artifactory also provides support for rich metadata around an artifact, and PHP developers can leverage the Artifactory Query Language (AQL) to query this data and uncover information around each of these artifacts.
"JFrog believes in providing freedom of choice to our developers," said Dror Bereznitsky, VP of Product at JFrog. "Our universal support in JFrog products dramatically speeds up the development process by enabling users to manage all binary artifacts equally well, regardless of the programming language, technology or CI server used to build them. Combined with our open APIs, our products integrate seamlessly into the developer's continuous integration environments."
JFrog will continue to expand its universal support with more releases planned for this year.
More information about JFrog Artifactory PHP support can be found on the JFrog Wiki.
- Company: https://www.jfrog.com
- JFrog Artifactory: https://www.jfrog.com/artifactory
- JFrog Bintray: https://www.jfrog.com/bintray
- JFrog Mission Control: https://www.jfrog.com/mission-control
- JFrog Xray: https://www.jfrog.com/xray
- Customer testimonials: https://www.jfrog.com/customers
- Try JFrog Artifactory for free
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More than 3000 paying customers, 60,000 installations and millions of developers globally rely on JFrog's world-class infrastructure for software management and distribution. Customers include some of the world's top brands, such as Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, MasterCard, Netflix, Tesla, Barclays, Cisco, Oracle, Adobe and VMware. JFrog Artifactory, the Universal Artifact Repository, JFrog Bintray, the Universal Distribution Platform, JFrog Mission Control, for Universal Repository Management, and JFrog Xray, Universal Component Analyser, are used by millions of developers and DevOps engineers around the world and available as open-source, on-premise and SaaS cloud solutions. The company is privately held and operated from California, France and Israel. More information can be found at www.jfrog.com.
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text: L'Assiette on Rue du Chateau has been a "go-to" restaurant since its opening in 2008, when chef-owner David Rathgeber, a student of master chef Alain Ducasse, began serving classic bistro dishes from his small, open kitchen. The restaurant retains the 1930's feel of this former pork butcher's shop, with etched and frosted windows, hand-printed daily menus, floral-patterned ceilings, and antique accessories. L'Assiette is well-known for the cassoulets (slow-cooked bean stew), as well as steak frites, with beef from famous butcher Hugo Desnoyer. For dessert, try the caramel cream moelleux with salt butter, served in a warm pot.


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Jony Ive and Marc Newson are teaming up with Sotheby's to auction a one of a kind red Mac Pro.
As far as we can gather, the red Mac Pro 2013 is everything the regular Mac Pro is except that the for-charity edition is coated in a bright red instead. Aside from a gallery of some rendered pictures of the brightly colored Mac Pro, there aren't any specs listed on Sotheby's website. With an estimated going price of somewhere in between $40,000 to $60,000, the red Mac Pro is probably as premium as it can get.
This is all the details you'll get from the auction:
Selected and customised by Jony Ive and Marc Newson for the (RED) Auction 2013. Edition 01/01. Engineered extruded aluminium
Height: 9 7/8 inches (25.1 cm)
Diameter: 6 5/8 inches (16.8 cm)
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Winless Lions face flagging Borussia Dortmund in Group D
Galatasaray is at a definite disadvantage as it faces Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund in their UEFA Champions League Group D match on Wednesday, but all may not be lost, as the German club is riding a string of disappointing results into the fixture.
Dortmund just lost to Cologne in its most recent Bundesliga match, its fifth defeat in eight matches, which prompted coach Jürgen Klopp to brand his own club "pointless" this week.
If ever there were a time for Galatasaray to strike down a mighty German opponent, this would be it. The Lions of the Super League are flying high after defeating rival Fenerbahçe 2-1 on Saturday. Now if only they can channel their positive feelings into a stellar 90 minutes against Dortmund on the same exact pitch on Wednesday, they may be on to something. Besides, Galatasaray overcame Dortmund on the way to its first and only UEFA Cup honor.
But Galatasaray cannot get too carried away. It may be winning at home, but the İstanbul club is facing immense pressure in the Champions League. Besides, Dortmund currently leads the group after breezing past Arsenal 2-0 at home in match one and Anderlecht 3-0 away. The German club is not so pointless on the international stage as it is at home.
So even against a team whose coach admits, "The way we played today just didn't make sense," this match will not be easy, and Galatasaray absolutely must start winning in the Champions League. The Lions are in rough shape after drawing 1-1 with Belgian champion Anderlecht at home in match one, before being annihilated by Arsenal 4-1 in London. That puts Galatasaray and Anderlecht at the bottom with one point apiece to Dortmund's six.
Anderlecht is looking to amend its own victory drought when it faces Arsenal away on Wednesday. In both matches the favorites are clear, and everyone else is playing for an upset.
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Counted among Galatasaray's few advantages will be Dortmund's injury list. Turkey midfielder Nuri Şahin and defender Marcel Schmelzer are definitely ruled out, while Jakub Blaszczykowski, Erik Durm and Oliver Kirch are doubtful. Others have returned, but are not yet playing at 100 percent.
"We didn't really want to start both İlkay [Gündoğan] and Marco [Reus] in this game, or that İlkay would play 90 minutes. But they seem to have come through it OK," Klopp said in his most positive comment after the defeat at Cologne. Italian Ciro Immobile and Colombian Adrian Ramos are in shape, and each has already scored twice in the group stage.
Coach Cesare Prandelli's key weapon remains Netherlands national Wesley Sneijder, who proved he is a danger from afar after putting away two long shots against Fenerbahçe this weekend. Turkey striker Burak Yılmaz has scored one in each of Galatasaray's Champions League group matches, but he is not always so consistent. The Italian coach is struggling with issues of his own, though he was more diplomatic than his counterpart at Dortmund.
"We were a bit shy in the first half," he noted, a kind way of saying that Galatasaray did next to nothing the entire first half of the Fenerbahçe derby. "Sneijder is a very high quality footballer, and like I always say, he needs to get in the game more because he has an amazing talent for shooting. He showed that more in the final 20 minutes," Prandelli said.
The whole team must come out of their shells, and for the entire match, because even in its current funk, Dortmund will not be too shy to thoroughly punish a lackluster performance, even if it only lasts half the match.
The match kicks off at Galatasaray's own Türk Telekom Arena in İstanbul at 9:45 p.m. and will be officiated by Spanish referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz.


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Deciding on a doctorate in Musicology or Ethnomusicology
Disclaimer: the following represents one senior professor's perspectives and ideas, which are inevitably based in my own individual and subjective observation and experience. Your experience will be different from mine. But here are things that I say to candidates and my own supervisees, so perhaps they will be useful.
Studying music, and specifically music history and music culture, is one of the great intellectual pleasures I know. To understand what sounds other people in other times and places have believed to be beautiful, powerful, and personal is endlessly fascinating, enriching, and enlivening: it forges connections, enhances insight, and helps give meaning to human consciousness. The opportunity to participate in these practices—sharing what sounds and practices we find powerful and engaging—with like-minded mentors and colleagues is likewise a fantastic experience of community. There are a lot of ways to do this, but one particularly intensive way is to study or teach musicology or ethnomusicology (or both!) in a university setting.
Most typically, these are disciplines which most college music students discover during their undergraduate days: this is why there comparatively few programs offering an undergraduate degree in musicology or ethnomusicology—because it would be a rare high school that would put these disciplines on your radar before high school graduation.
Instead, along about the end of the sophomore or beginning of the junior—seldom before then, not infrequently afterward—you the undergraduate run across a professor whose job appears to be reading, writing, speaking, and thinking about the particular details of musical moments, and their meaning to the people participating, and that is attractive to you. You realize that you particularly like the idea of a life, and maybe a graduate degree, that emphasizes these same activities.
This is an appropriate and positive motivation: if learning, reading, writing, speaking, and thinking about musical behavior in specific contexts—across distances of time, geography, and experience—is attractive to you as a life-long activity, then you absolutely should consider the possibility of graduate work in ethnomusicology or musicology.
For such persons, these are endlessly rewarding, engaging, and energizing realms of activity. They don't pay terribly well, the job market is very challenging, and professors are not particularly respected in certain segments of our public culture—but a life revolving around studying music, the mind, and the fascinating diversity of human contexts and behaviors is nevertheless a very rich one.
On the other hand, there is that pesky necessity to make a living. One way to do that is with an academic teaching job. Yet it's a costly path (in hours and dollars) and its job market is contracting.
To "flip" the question: it's important to remember that you can have an entire life revolving around music, the mind, and human behavior without ever taking a graduate music degree: you can play, sing, dance, teach, engage, share, study, practice, learn, write, and perform without ever earning a music degree at all. Neither scholarship, insight, nor virtuosity exists only within music university programs.
So perhaps the question should be, rather, "why would you seek a graduate degree—especially a doctorate—in musicology or ethnomusicology?" What unique doors does such a degree open to you?
The classic answer to this—the one that professors of ethno-/musicology typically provide undergrad students inquiring about graduate work—is "so that you can teach in a university setting." And that is a good and truthful answer: at this point in the 21st century, in order to have decent odds of winning a university gig teaching ethno-/musicology, you are pretty much required to hold a "terminal degree" (apt name!) in the discipline[s].
This is not because "only PhD's" have anything of value to offer—especially in the worlds of music, where we recognize the value of life experience, career, physical and technical virtuosity, and so forth, in addition to formal advanced degrees. Rather, the PhD is a standard expectation because the job-search/-hiring process is so competitive, because there are so many on-paper-qualified candidates for each tenure-track post, that search committees charged with finding the "best" candidate tend to employ certain rather crude rules of thumb to winnow down the stack of applications.
And one of the very first divisions is between the stack marked (A) "PhD in hand" versus (B) "ABD ("All But Dissertation" completed) or "PhD anticipated on X [future] date." There may be fantastic, brilliant, qualified folks in the (B) stack, but the unique and valuable nature of their potential to contribute may never be known simply because the search committee, pressed for time, may consign their applications, virtually unread, to the (B) stack.
Of course there are fantastic advantages to a tenure-track university gig. You can read, write, think, speak, and teach about music that you love and believe in. Sure, there are challenges: committee-work, paperwork, and long hours for example: not just the classroom time and the office hours, but all that grading, and the additional pressure to produce your own scholarship on nights, weekends, and holidays.
There's the frustration of dealing with large and slow-moving bureaucracy—even the challenge of working with students some of whom aren't quite mature or responsible yet. But, if (and this is important) you love to teach, then being a tenure-track professor of ethno-/musicology is a fantastically rewarding life.
But it's a difficult gig to get. There are far more qualified candidates than there are posts—simply because there are many more people who love studying ethno-/musicology in graduate school than there are jobs for professors of ethno-/musicology.
It's at this point that the distinction between graduate degrees—between a Master's in Ethno-/Musicology, on one hand, and a PhD, on the other—becomes very, very important. A Master's degree, in most programs, is a relatively modest investment of time, effort, and cost: two years, or possibly 5 long semesters, or (in very extreme cases) three years; required and elective coursework, a modest Master's thesis of perhaps 100-120 pages; a research language; an exit exam.
These are goals and a scope which are sustainable and achievable within, say 24-30 months of your life. And, for that brand-new Master's candidate who's just "discovered" ethno-/musicology in the sophomore or junior year of undergrad, the Master's program is an opportunity to familiarize yourself with the discipline's topics, requirements, life-style, obligations, ways of thinking and writing, and thereby sussing-out if they're right for you—if it's a way you might like to spend your career.
Most important among all of these familiarizations is teaching: the experience of being in the class and leading the intellectual process for a roomful of undergraduates. It is very, very important that you seek that experience every way you can get it: by serving as a Student, Graduate, or Teaching Assistant; by paying attention and working hard in whatever Pedagogy seminars are available; by consciously and critically observing your own professors' teaching methods and thinking about which might be valuable additions to your own repertoire; by seeking out opportunities to observe other professors, even outside your discipline, in their own teaching situations.
The job of a college professor is to teach. Yes, there are "research," "creative activity," and (ugh!) "service" duties you must meet—but teaching is the bread-and-butter. It's why you have the job. It's why you must seek every opportunity to grow toward mastery in the art form. And—very importantly—it's why you must ask yourself whether a lifetime (it can seem) in the classroom feels as if it would be a good life: a life well spent. If you love to teach, if you love taking the thinking, reading, writing, listening, and speaking you do about music and sharing it with others, then a university ethno-/musicology post can be a wonderful life.
But it's a hard gig to get, and the competition is fierce. If you don't like those odds, and especially if you are less-than-certain that you would love to spend your life teaching, then you should definitely think twice before committing to a PhD program. A doctorate in ethno-/musicology is essential in order to be a tenure-track professor in a university setting. But that is not the only way to have a life engaging in reading, writing, thinking, speaking, learning, and teaching about music; it's one way. And if you think you might not want to take on an additional three or more years of effort and financial debt, if you think you might not be drawn to the long hours and fairly heavy responsibilities of classroom teaching and bureaucratic busy work, you might not want the pressure of "publish or perish," then a university tenure-track gig is not right for you. There is no dishonor in recognizing such things—to the contrary, it is wise and mature to assess what you want out of your life in music, and how badly you want it.
If you conclude that perhaps the life/life-style of a university music professor, or the cost and effort it takes to get there, then you really don't "need" to earn a PhD in music academics. Of course you can do that anyway even so—being a student of music, especially at the high levels of discourse and engagement in Master's and doctoral program, is a wonderful and rewarding way to spend your time. And a Master's program is an excellent investment (24 months, 30 credit hours) in finding out if the life is right for you.
Yet a Master's program is also an excellent foundation for a host of other career/degree paths. Many Master's musicology students continue in PhD programs in the discipline. But others continue in PhD programs in parallel or related fields: Arts Administration, for example, or library science or museum specializations. Others proceed to certificate or professional-training programs.
Still other folks use the Master's degree experience as a jump-start to a related career in the arts. There are Master's musicology degree holders in public radio and television, journalism, arts advocacy, concert production, artist management, community arts entrepreneurship, and so on. Still other Master's degree holders continue as educators, but in public schools or community colleges. All of these and related fields are available to you as a Master's degree holder.
Effectively speaking: you should pursue a PhD in Ethno-/Musicology if you want a tenure-track university teaching gig. There are fewer and fewer gigs that fit this bill, but if it's right for you, and you're OK with the jobs-versus-candidates ratio, the job placement rate, and the cost (in time and dollars)-versus-benefits ratio, you should absolutely consider continuing to the doctorate. Those are the very best reasons.
In sum: the Master's degree is (can be) when you find out if the job expectations & the life-style of the university ethno-/musicology professor might be right for you. If you find out they are, go for that PhD program. If you find out—or even just suspect—that they are not, then remember and feel empowered by the awareness that there are other, parallel career paths that are of great value and allow great personal satisfaction and validation.
Do what is right for you.
Good luck!
Monday, November 09, 2015
Deciding on a doctorate in Musicology or Ethnomusicology
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A game of survival in China's Web space
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The first thing that comes to mind whenever one starts about China's Web space is its "Great Firewall". China has some of the world's tightest restrictions on the Internet. Chinese news sites and social media platforms are quickly scrubbed of


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Hard Rock Hopes to Break Ground on Atlantic City Casino
Hard Rock International, the Gaming and hospitality company, has filed for permission to build a casino resort on the Atlantic City Boardwalk that is valued at more than $500 million. The New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has scheduled a public meeting later today, during which the Hard Rock project will feature heavily.
Press of Atlantic City, a local news outlet, has reported that the Florida-based company will request both preliminary and final approval for the site of its planned property. No additional information on the variances sought by Hard Rock are currently available.
The company purchased the former Trump Taj Mahal casino resort from New York hedge fund investor Carl Icahn in spring 2017. The company reported that it would renovate and update the property, spending more than $500 million on upgrades. The property has been closed since October 2016 amid an extended workers' strike and increasing financial struggles.
The currently-closed resort will reopen as Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City and will replace the iconic Trump Taj Mahal minarets and domes with the classic Hard Rock logo and rock 'n roll theme. The renovated property is planned to reopen to the public this summer.
The day before their planned three-city press conference, Hard Rock will request final site approval from New Jersey gaming authorities. This press conference will also provide the opportunity for the company to share crucial details about the new Atlantic City operation, including its official opening date and the potential entertainment lineup.
The company will livestream its announcement on Wednesday from Hard Rock Cafe Times Square in New York to both the Hard Rock Cafe in Philadelphia and Tanger Outlets The Walk in Atlantic City.
Hard Rock's new casino resort is not the only one planned to open on Atlantic City's Boardwalk in 2018. The failed Revel is said to be reopening this summer, although an official date has not yet been announced.
The property originally launched in 2012 and was valued at $2.4-billion. It was closed after just over two years, having failed to turn a profit. The property then changed hands to Florida real estate developer Glenn Straub at the price of $82 million, only a fraction of its original development cost.
Straub planned to provide additional large investments in the property to help make it profitable; however, he failed to achieve several self-imposed reopening deadlines. News emerged late 2017 that the former Revel would be sold to Colorado developer Bruce Deifik for $200 million. The property will reopen under the name Ocean Resort Casino.
The current rapid growth of New Jersey's Internet gambling market is allowing new casino resorts to open on the Boardwalk. However, the state is awaiting a US Supreme Court decision regarding sports betting that may alter the entire nation's gambling market, with the potential to develop into a multi-billion industry.


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Nexxxt Level Talent superstar Avi Love continues her string of hit releases. This week, sparks fly in the sizzling drama release is A Daughter's Deception, a feature release from Wicked Pictures.
A mother will do anything to protect her daughter but sometimes that love can backfire. Rachel (Mercedes Carrera) has her hands full with her young daughter Alison (Avi Love) who defies her at every turn and blames her for her father (Tommy Gunn) leaving the family.
When Rachel moves on with a new boyfriend, Alison decides to do whatever she has to do to sabotage this new relationship and get her father back. Passionate sexual performances and powerful acting blend perfectly in A Daughter's Deception.
"This was such a fun project to be a part of," Avi offers. "Mike Quasar wrote such an amazing character to play and I had a blast bringing it to life…oh and sex with Tommy Pistol was off the chain."
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Back to the Future: How the New York Times Saw the Web in 1995
New York Times (NYT) chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. may not have figured out how his paper can adapt to the Web age yet. But give him credit: He's been thinking about the idea for more than a decade.
Here he is in 1995, at a Harvard University forum on journalism in the "on-line era," thinking outloud about the ways his company might make money in the Internet era.
This is all an experiment. We don't know where this is going. In the end, it's going to have to pay for itself. We do know that. In the end, it's going to have to pay for itself. And there's not a lot of ways to make money.
As far as I know, there are only four–three, if you exclude blackmail–"Mr. Roberts, I won't put that information up in exchange for $100," which may be the only way to make money at this business today. Either the reader is going to pay or the advertiser is going to pay, or we're going to get a piece of the transactional action. If the reader decides that she wants to get theater tickets from the Shubert organization for "Cats," one, we'll try to talk her out of it, but if she still goes out to see "Cats," then maybe we'll get, you know, one one-hundredth or one-tenth, or whatever the heck it is, of that transaction.
I had no idea Sulzberger harbored such an anti-"Cats" bias. Who knew?
I'm also not sure what to make of the fact that the Times–and everyone else in the news business–is still struggling with online economics 13 years later. Should the industry get credit for grappling with a problem that's much harder than it looks? Or should our collective big brains have resolved this one by now?
Thanks to Harvard's excellent Nieman Journalism Lab for digging up the transcript of the forum, which also featured tech pundit Esther Dyson; Walter Issacson, who was at the time a top executive at Time Warner's (TWX) Time Inc.; and Frank Daniels III, publisher of the now-defunct Nando.net. You can read the entire thing (warning: very, very long) below.


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Ancestors of Ancient Rome: The Etruscans - Region-free DVD
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Relive one of the high points of European civilization in an utterly engrossing look at the Etruscans, whose sophisticated culture laid the foundations for the great Roman Empire.
Extraordinary finds in northern Italy reveal the startling story of Europe's original hedonists and first superpower. The fun-loving Etruscans invented two spectator sports: gladiatorial combat and chariot racing.
They had an alphabet based on the Greek alphabet, a powerfully original sculptural and painting tradition, a religion based on human-type gods which they had learned from the Greeks, and a complicated set of rituals for divining the future, which they handed down to the Romans.
From their territories in modern-day Tuscany, they became the envy of the Mediterranean. They grew wealthy from trade, agriculture and mining, indulged in banqueting and sporting games, created elegant art and jewellery, and built some of Rome's most important landmarks. Yet their origins, and the reason for their dramatic decline, remain a mystery.
Find out how this advanced civilization has influenced almost every aspect of Western life as we know it today, in this fascinating film that recreates the glory days of the Etruscans.
This DVD is accompanied by a beautifully illustrated 24-page hardcover book. Watch and discover the secrets of cultures that thrived for centuries and then disappeared, and at the same time read the captivating book packed with intriguing facts, illustrations, photography and more.
Narrated by William Hootkins
Produced by Cicada Films for Discovery Channel and S4C International (2003)
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Resharper 8.2.X seems to have stopped working in VS 2013 Follow
Has anyone experienced this weird behavior with ReSharper 8.2.X and Visual Studio 2013 where you cant type in the text editor? I've noticed that I can type in the Solution Explorer Search and even in the Package Manager Console but not in the text editor. Here is a curveball, this problem only appears within a certain Web Forms project (C#) and not any other type of project.
Could I have changed something in my project file that I dont know about?
Ok I figured this out. Read this doc after posting this question: http://resharper-support.jetbrains.com/entries/23853492-ReSharper-stopped-working-for-a-single-specific-solution . Deleted <solution_name>.sou and after restarting VS 2013 solution now works fine.
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Dress: Bella Luxx, Denim jacket: Zara (Similar here & here), Boots: Sam Edelman, Purse: Old Navy (Similar here), Bracelets: Forever 21
Every so often I'll acquire a piece of clothing that causes me to so neglect the rest of my closet, that I find it difficult to remember what I wore before it came into my life. And that is exactly what happened in the case of this shift dress. I knew it would be versatile, as most black dresses are, but I never imagine I'd wear it as often as I do. LA has been uncomfortably hot these last few weeks, so it's been difficult to consider anything but airy dresses and open-toed shoes. Fortunately I got a break from the heat during a visit to San Francisco, and fell deeper in love with this dress when it once again proved its versatility styled with a jacket and booties for fall. As I mentioned in this post, I'm not quite ready to retire my summer wardrobe, so I love pieces like this that can carry over to fall.


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A new U.S. survey shows a majority of Americans have a favorable view of renewed links with Cuba after five decades of hostilities between the two countries.
The New York Times/CBS News poll showed Monday that 62 percent of U.S. citizens believe that reopening business and cultural ties between the countries would be mostly good for the United States.
But the survey said that only 40 percent think the new overtures between the U.S. and Cuba, the island nation that lies 145 kilometers off the southeastern U.S. shoreline, will lead to more democracy in the Caribbean country.
Half said they thought it would not make much difference.
Overall, nearly six in 10 Americans favor the renewed diplomatic ties the two countries announced in late 2014 and most favor ending the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.
The poll, conducted earlier this month before U.S. President Barack Obama headed to Cuba for a three-day state visit, showed that a slim majority, 52 percent, approved of his handling of relations with the communist country.
That figure was up from 44 percent recorded in December 2014, just after the two countries announced they were resuming diplomatic ties.
Obama met Monday with Cuban President Raul Castro, the brother of Fidel Castro who seized power in the 1959 revolution that overthrew the U.S.-supported dictator, Fulgencio Batista, and later turned authority over to Raul as his health declined.


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Zambia Police Service
The police service in Zambia is a national body which falls under the control of the Ministry of the Home Affairs and is structured at a national and provincial level. The Inspector General of Police is responsible for leading the Zambia Police Service (ZPS) in each of Zambia's ten provinces, each of which is responsible for policing in their respective districts.
The mandate of the ZPS is to:
- Apprehend offenders;
- Cooperate with the civilian and security organs;
- Preserve law and order;
- Protect life and property;
- Prevent, detect and prevent crime; and
- Preserve peace.
The police force is structured in terms of subdivisions, including: State House, School of Public Order and Maintenance, Protective Unit, Paramilitary, Lilayi Police Training School, Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority, and Airports.
Oversight Mechanisms
Oversight of the police is conducted both internally and externally, with internal mechanisms involving disciplinary trials and tribunals as well as a Police Professional Standards Unit which is mandated to investigate corruption, arbitrary arrests and detention, and other unprofessional conduct by members of the police.
In terms of external oversight, a Police Public Complaints Authority (PPCA) has been established to investigate complaints involving the police, which may be submitted by victims, agents of victims or organisations representing victim interests. The PPCA can submit its findings, recommendations and directions to a range of bodies, including the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Inspector-General of Police, or to the Anti-Corruption Commission. It is important to note, however, that the PPCA's findings are only recommendatory and that it cannot impose specific penalties.
In addition, there is also a Human Rights Commission that is responsible for conducting investigations of human rights abuses and any maladministration of justice, including incidents involving the police. Further, various non-governmental organisations in Zambia are working to promote police oversight through awareness campaigns and training, including the Legal Resources Foundation, the Law Association of Zambia, and the Foundation for Democratic Process.
- Interpol: Connecting Police for a Safer World. Country Profile: Zambia. Available at: http://www.interpol.int/Member-countries/Africa/Zambia <Accessed on 30 March 2016>.
- African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (2008) An Audit of Police Oversight in Africa: Zambia, p 75-76.
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This is such a fun recipe to share! You can finally feel Fall in the air here in Portland, with the crisp and cool temperatures. It immediately makes me want to run to the kitchen and bake. Which is a good thing, since I needed to create a Fall dessert to share on TV this morning.
I knew that I wanted to make spiced apple crisp, and then thought that it could be interesting to give it a try in the Instant Pot (which is an awesome electric pressure cooker!). Baking desserts in the Instant Pot is new for me. I use it all of the time for soups and stews and curries and such, but completely forget to make desserts in it. Well not any longer! Now I will be using my Instant Pot on the regular for desserts too. This Apple Cider Crisp is absolutely delicious! The oatmeal topping bakes up a little softer in the pressure cooker, almost caramelizing thanks to the brown sugar. And the apples get super soft and sweet with the apple cider. It's so good, and may just be my new favorite dessert!
Don't worry if you don't have an Instant Pot, because you can also bake this in the oven too. The difference is 12 minutes in the pressure cooker versus 40 to 45 minutes in the oven. That actually makes it quick enough to make for breakfast!
Here's the link to this morning's segment. Plus you can see me wearing my new glasses (and seriously why did it take me so long to fill that prescription? I can finally see when I cook!).
Let me know if you make the crisp. I'd love to hear what you think. And if you've been on the fence about getting an Instant Pot, don't wait. Seriously! They are truly fantastic, and even my kids use cook theirs all the time. They're 24 and 26, and love that they can make delicious and healthy meals quickly.
Oh, and in case you would like more info on the Instant Pot I was using, it's a DUO Plus 6 Qt 9-in-1
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Apple Cider Crisp with Spiced Oatmeal Topping (gluten-free + vegan)
- Yield: 4 1x
This quick apple crisp has all of the wonderful flavors of spiced cider. A pressure cooker makes it super quick to make, and gives the soft oatmeal topping an almost caramelized flavor.
- 1/4 cup spiced apple cider (I used one from Trader Joe's)
- 1/4 cup lightly packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 large Fuji apples, cored and thinly sliced
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free 1 to 1 Flour
- 1/4 cup gluten-free oats
- 1/4 cup lightly packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
Lightly grease a 6-inch metal or ceramic baking pan. Bring 2 cups of water to a boil.
Filling: In a medium bowl, whisk together the apple cider, brown sugar, and cornstarch, whisking until smooth. Stir in the apples, and cinnamon. Scoop the apples and sauce into the prepared pan, scraping any sauce left in the bowl over the apples. Lightly press the apples into the pan with your hand.
Topping: In a small bowl, mix together the flour, oats, brown sugar, and cinnamon until well mixed. Pour the melted coconut oil on top, and using a fork, mix until crumbly and the flour mixture is moistened with the oil. Sprinkle the crumb topping over the apples.
Take a large piece of foil and place it down on the counter. Put the pan of apples in the center, bringing the foil up around the sides. This will help keep water out of the crisp, and help you to lift it out of the pressure cooker when it's done.
Pour 1 1/2 cups boiling water into the insert pot of your Instant Pot or pressure cooker. Place a metal rack over the water. Carefully place your foil wrapped pan on top of the rack. Lock the lid to the pressure cooker and set for 12 minutes at high pressure. When the timer goes off, let the pressure naturally release for 5 minutes, then carefully turn the valve to vent and release the pressure using a long handled wooden spoon. Once the pressure is completely released, carefully remove the lid (so that it doesn't drip hot steam on you or the crisp). Alternately bake the crisp in a preheated 350°F oven for 40 minutes, or until the apples are soft and the juices are thickened, and the topping is browned.
Remove the crisp from the pressure cooker and set aside to cool. The juices will continue to thicken up if left to stand for 45 minutes or so.
- Category: Dessert
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Jamaican black castor oil, which is the star ingredient in the Strengthen and Restore products, is particularly suited to afro hair because it's so nourishing, and I was also interested to find out that it encourages hair growth too. This ingredient and range is good for all types of dry and damaged hair, and although I have very greasy roots, the shampoo didn't overload my hair and still left it feeling really clean, which surprised me. I've now realised this is because of the balance of ingredients - alongside the black castor oil the product also contains apple cider vinegar to clarify and balance the scalp.
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I scored over 4.9 and therefore made it to the final. There were 11 other photographers and sadly it wasn't my turn to win but to know that my couples were happy with my work and the service I provided is better than winning an award.
Here are just a few of the lovely comments and examples of the natural, unobtrusive photographs I have taken over the last 12 months.
Many thanks to everyone who voted for me, it was fantastic just to be a small part of your special day.
'Ruth Mitchell was everything we could have wanted in a wedding photographer - she took a mixture of posed and candid photos, moving among our guests with ease and quiet authority. The photos captured our day brilliantly without interfering or taking us away from the celebrations for too long, and the finished albums are beautiful.'
Ruth is an excellent photographer. She was great on our wedding day - hardly noticed her and she sent around and captured some wonderful moments and emotions. Good value for money. And great photos in the end. Highly recommended.
Ruth displayed a great level of professionalism as well as a friendly welcoming personality, who was very approachable, we were so happy with our wedding photographs and Ruth captured images that we missed which made receiving our wedding album even more special as we felt we witnessed all those special moments and were able to share these feelings when looking through our album to capture every moment.
Provided an excellent personalised wedding service, very friendly and put us at ease whilst been photographed. We now have a wedding photograph album to cherish and lots of great memories to look back on.
Ruth is a brilliant photographer, she made sure everything ran smoothly on the day and we couldn't have wished for better photographs of our wedding. Highly recommended.
Ruth Mitchell Photography provides an exceptional service. At every stage of the process from the first meeting to receiving our wedding album she was very professional while at the same time related with us on a personal level which made her very approachable and easy to get on with. On the day she organised everybody but remained informal and captured some very natural shots. All our photos exceeded our expectations and captured our big day perfectly.
Amazing photographs with an excellent turn around. We got to view our photos within a week and a half of the wedding, with a sneak peak at a couple the day after the wedding. Ruth is so professional, she brought calm to our household the morning of the wedding and we hardly knew that she was there the whole day. Ruth was so patient with us and she was friendly and chatty with our guests. She knew the venues in advance and therefore where to take the best photos which speeded up the posed photo part of the day. We couldn't have wished for a better photographer and we are so pleased with the end result. All of our guests commented on her professionalism, we would certainly recommend Ruth to anyone.
Ruth is an extremely passionate photographer who cares about her clients and made everyone at our wedding feel relaxed and equally important. Our photographs were perfect and captured everything that we wished for. The album is even more perfect and tells a story of our day in pictures. Ruth is extremely professional and delivers excellent customer service and a range of packages to suit all needs. Ruth thoroughly deserves to win this award..
Ruth Mitchell is a fantastic photographer that accommodates the clients every need. She has a very natural and relaxed feel to the day itself and made ourselves and all of our guests very relaxed! The standard of the finished wedding album is exquisite and the overall communication through out was exceptional! We believe Ruth deserves this award as she did not fail to deliver on a single promise she made and helped us relax and enjoy our special day! Would recommend to anyone!!
Ruth was a total professional throughout the day and took some amazing photographs. She made what was a very special day even more special by presenting us with an album which was like a fairy story. There were so many beautiful photographs to choose from that it was difficult to choose our favourites. We have our memories in our album to remind us of that day for the rest of our lives. We would have no hesitation in recommending Ruth to anyone.
Ruth produced some beautiful photos, each and everyone captured a special moment so sympathetically. Everyone looked so relaxed and clearly unaware that they were having their picture taken, which is exactly the result that we wanted to achieve. I felt confident that Ruth would deliver spectacular results but she exceeded our expectations and her presence throughout the day was calm, relaxed and unobtrusive whilst being organised and professional - I was asked by a couple of people whether she was a guest, so she clearly blended in with everyone and no one felt uncomfortable having their photos taken by her. She managed to capture some relaxed and informal shots that represented the spirit of what we were hoping to achieve for our Wedding.
Ruth is friendly yet quietly firm, perfect for a wedding photographer! She did a fantastic job of our wedding photographs and many of my guests commented on how good she was. My sister has even booked Ruth as her wedding photographer! Most of all, she is a nice, normal person which cannot be said for all wedding photographers!
Very cooperative to our needs on the day. Very unobtrusive and takes lovely natural photos.
We absolutely love our photos, they are very natural and really capture the fun part of the day. Ruth got so many of the details of the day. Ruth was amazing, my husband was very very nervous and usually doesn't like having his photo taken, but Ruth made him feel totally at ease and by the end of the day was totally loving it. Have recommended Ruth to two of my friends who are getting married this year. Brilliant professional friendly service, quick turnaround on photos, they were there on a disk a week later. Ruth thoroughly deserves this award and could not recommend her enough.
I had to organise my wedding in Yorkshire from hundreds of miles away in Gloucestershire. Ruth was brilliant from first contact and incredibly friendly. It was an easy decision to make to hire her for our wedding day. She was fantastic on the wedding day, taking pictures in the background, making everyone feeling at ease and taking photos of every detail so we could remember everything from our special day. When the photos arrived we were so pleased, we loved every one. They were so natural and really captured the mood of the day, everyone laughing and smiling like they didn't even know the camera was there. Ruth also did lots of wonderful formal shots and some of us in the countryside which really captured why we chose the Dales for our wedding. The photos were perfect and will be cherished forever. I would recommend Ruth to anyone wanting natural wedding photos that capture both the essence of the day and the beauty of the surroundings. Thank you Ruth!
Ruth's photographs always capture the moment. When we spotted her work whilst visiting a potential wedding venue (Simonstone Hall, Hawes) we knew Ruth would be ideal for our Special Day. We were married at Hipping Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale over 70miles away from where Ruth lives but she still visited the venue before the big day. She is a pleasure to work with and deserves to win.
Exceptionally talented photographer that captures natural pictures.
Ruth really helped to put us at ease on our Wedding Day. She didn't boss us around at all and instead took lots of lovely natural pictures as the day unfolded. We found it very difficult to choose pictures for our album from the proof book which Ruth provided as they were all so great. Ruth answered all of our questions promptly (email) and put together a beautiful album which we will really treasure.
A massive thank you to all the couples who voted for me. It really means the world to me that I got to the final but it means even more to know that you were all so happy with you photographs - THANK YOU !!!!


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My Top 7 Favorite Colombian Dishes
I was born in Bogota, Colombia, but raised in Southern California. My parents are Colombian and they both like to cook. As a matter of fact, they owned a Colombian restaurant from 2010 to 2013.
My dad is a Bogotano (person from Bogota) and my mom is a Santandereana (person from Santander), therefore, I grew up eating a variety of Colombian dishes. Having been back in Colombia for about seven years now I have experienced many more dishes.
In this post I'm going to go over my top seven Colombian dishes based on taste and nostalgia.
7. Lechona Tolimense
Yep it's a whole roasted, stuffed pig. What's it stuffed with? Rice, pork, scallions, peas, chopped garlic cloves seasoned with salt, pepper, cumin and azafran. The pig is usually slow roasted for about 10 hours so that the skin comes out nice and crispy.
At my house we never made lechona ourselves, but every Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years we'd order one from a Colombian lady that sold them. This dish forever will remind me of the holidays at my parents house in Southern California.
This dish is customary during the holidays, but here in Medellin you can find it year round at theses places:
6. Sancocho
Oh man there's nothing like a good sancocho to cure a hangover! When I was a kid we'd go to the lake in our city or to the beach with the whole family and my mom and aunts would bring the big sancocho pot (it's a big ass pot) and put it on the barbecue. As a teen I'd get embarrassed, but that passed when my friends would want to come just for the food.
Sancocho is basically a big ass stew. The main ingredient, the protein, can be chicken, beef or pork, or all three if you're lucky. You can also get seafood sancocho, where catfish is the star.
What's in a Sancocho Colombiano? Other than the meat you have: onions, red bell pepper, garlic, ground cumin. achiote, ears of fresh corn, water, green plantains, white potatoes, fresh yuca (cassava), cilantro, ground pepper and salt.
The best sancocho can be found in Colombian neighborhoods on Sundays. People cook outside and share with their neighbors. Also, any respected Menu Del Dia restaurant in any neighborhood will offer Sancocho at least once a week. I live in Manila, which is a neighborhood in El Poblado, and there are many daily lunch spots within walking distance that make good sancocho.
5. Bandeja Paisa
As you can see the bandeja paisa is a monster of a plate. It's almost too big…almost. I'm 6'3, 190 lbs, and I can throw down one these giants, with a couple of beers on top, but yeah, I'm stuffed afterwards.
I grew up eating rice, beans and meat. My father loves avocado, therefore, we always had it. In the U.S. my family assimilated to the fast-paced life and lunch became less and less important as the years went by.
But here, in Colombia, lunch is an event. I own a business in Medellin. I have broken down and let my Colombian staff take 2-hour lunches because I know how important it is for them. I don't take two hour lunches during the week, but I do take them on the weekend and it's great.
My favorite place to go to for a bandeja paisa is Restaurante Hacienda. They have three locations: one in Manila, another in Milla de Oro (The Golden Mile) and another in downtown Medellin.
4. Mondongo
Colombian menudo consists of: beef tripe (mondongo) cut into small pieces, lime juice, baking soda, pork meat cut into small squares, sliced chorizo, tomatoes, chopped scallions, chopped white onion, diced potatoes, diced yuca, salt and pepper, ground cumin, achiote, fresh cilantro, chopped garlic and water.
It is typically served with rice, avocado and a banana on the side. It's incredible to take a piece of banana and dip it into the soup. The clash of the spices from the soup and the sweetness of the banana is pleasing to the palette.
When I first tried Mondongo it was from a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant in downtown Medellin. I loved it so much that I went there for a week straight for lunch (mind you I was living in downtown and it was only a 5 minute walk away.) The restaurant is called El Callejon, and it's located in Pasaje de la Bastilla. El Pasaje de la Bastilla is basically an alleyway where you can find new and used books. Most books are in Spanish of course, but you can find books in English as well. They're all super cheap because most of them are bootleg. I love going there! I usually go check out books then have mondongo for lunch at El Callejon, which is across the way from the book mall. This video shows the book mall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd8n8pSDVqY.
3. Tamal
Growing up in SoCal I grew up eating Mexican tamales, which are way smaller and less tasty than the Colombian tamales. Mexican food as a whole is awesome, but we Colombians got em' beat on the tamale end.
The Colombian tamale is a whole meal in a banana leaf. Let's go over what they're made of.
There are two main types of tamales that I like, tamal tolimense and tamal paisa.
The tamal tolimense consists of: pork ribs in small pieces, pieces of chicken, pork belly in small pieces, sliced potatoes, sliced carrots, egg, peas and rice.
The tamal paisa is: chopped onions, garlic, chopped red bell peppers, chopped green bell peppers, chopped scallions, ground cumin, azafran, salt, pork belly cut in small pieces, pork meat cut into pieces, bone in pork ribs cut into pieces, diced potatoes, peas, and diced carrots.
The main difference between the two is that the Paisa tamal doesn't have rice. They're both tasty and filling.
Whenever I have a tamale craving I usually go to Max Tamal right next to the church across from Poblado Park.
2. Ajiaco
Holy crap! Just thinking and writing about Ajiaco makes me so hungry. Ajiaco is another stew, a shredded chicken and potato stew. The dish is very common in Bogota and since my father is from Bogota we had this a lot growing up. It takes a bit of time to prepare, so it was usually a weekend dish.
Ajiaco is made of: pulled chicken breasts, water, cut ears of fresh corn, salt, pepper, chicken broth, scallions, minced garlic, chopped cilantro, whole papa criolla (Andean Potato), sliced white potatoes, sliced red potatoes, guascas, heavy cream for serving, capers for serving and an avocado for serving.
Whenever I bite into a caper I will always be reminded of Ajiaco. It's so hearty and delicious.
The best place for an ajiaco near my house is a restaurant called Ajiacos y Mondongos near Parque del Poblado. I highly recommend it.
1. Arroz con Pollo and Calentado
My number one spot is a tie between two dishes, arroz con pollo and calentado.
I could eat a whole bucket of arroz con pollo. I absolutely love this dish. There are a few reasons for this. First of all, it's pretty easy to make, so my mom would make it often, therefore whenever I eat arroz con pollo it reminds me of my awesome mom and how much I love her. Second, it was the first thing I learned how to cook when I moved out on my own. I remember calling my mom and her telling me how to make it over the phone. Third, you can use the leftovers for breakfast to make calentado.
Arroz con pollo is: pulled chicken breasts, scallions, white onions, garlic, ground cumin, seasoning with azafran, bay leaves, salt and pepper, rice, olive oil, red bell peppers, green peppers, tomato paste, chicken stock, peas, carrots and green string beans.
I usually put hot sauce, ketchup and a fried egg on top. Yeah, this will definitely put you down for a nap. It's damn good.
I still haven't found a place in Medellin that makes great arroz con pollo.
Calentado is a breakfast dish and it is basically re-fried leftovers and eggs with an arepa. It's a great way to recycle what you have left over from the previous day's lunch or dinner. At my house this was our Sunday breakfast. My dad would take us to play soccer with him and his friends and when we'd get back we'd all take a shower and help cook the calentado. Then we'd all sit in front of the T.V. and watch soccer with him. I miss that very much, makes me want to have kids! Then I realize that I have to get a girlfriend first. Baby steps.
Anyway, calentado consists of arepa, Colombian chorizo, fried eggs sunny side up or scrambled eggs with tomato and onions, hogao, white rice, pinto beans and an avocado for serving.
Again, having grown up in SoCal with all my Mexican people I learned to put hot sauce on everything, so I typically will put hot sauce on my calentado and replace the arepa with tortillas.
Here in Medellin you'll find calentado in any restaurant that serves breakfast, it's very common here. Desayunero La 10 is walking distance from my apartment and they have a pretty good calentado, but like all of the dishes I've mentioned, the best will always be the one made at home.


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