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Bross Center for Learning offers subject remediation, homework assistance and educational development through the use of research based methods and programs. Sessions can occur daily, weekly or as projects are assigned. Families can choose to enroll their child in one of the following options or combine options for services truly tailored to their child's needs.
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Homework Assistance: Provides 1:1 and/or small group sessions designed to help with daily homework assignments, test and quiz preparation, and long term projects.
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√ We are a certified Autism Scholarship and Jon Peterson Scholarship provider. This scholarship can be used to cover or supplement the cost of our services.


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The Solar Compass
In October 2017 Thompson Rivers University and Solar Earth Technologies installed the "Solar Compass" outside of the Arts and Education building on TRU campus.
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SET Delivered First Solar Road in North America
(By Yong Zhao July 31, 2017)
In July 2017, Solar Earth Technologies (SET) teams with Thompson Rivers University (TRU) to launch the North America's first solar-powered sidewalk installed at TRU. The 16 solar panels produced and donated by Solar Earth Technologies now has been installed on a 40-foot stretch of sidewalk on the campus. The two-phased Solar Compass solar roadway project on the campus will showcase SET's Amber-I technology and promote the sustainability initiative and smart road concept.
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Trial Site for China's First Operational Solar Road
(By Yong Zhao June 05, 2017)
In May 2017, SET's 100% subsidiary, Chongqing DaoNeng Technologies, has successfully delivered a solar sidewalk in Beijing, China, in collaboration with Beijing Hua Sheng Xing Science and Technologies and Chongqing Jiaotong University. The launch of this trial site represents China's first operational Solar Road. The pavement of this solar sidewalk used SET's Amber-I technology.
SET Meets TRU Solar Compass Team and Visits Site
(By Yong Zhao April 11, 2016)
SET executives meet TRU Compass Team on TRU campus. Dr. Michael Mehta, the project manager, introduces the team to SET and the both sides are enthusiastic and passionate for launching the Solar Compass Project. SET CEO, Junbiao Zhang, updates the products readiness status and conducts a site survey. Both sides have a thorough discussion about the issues on engineering, construction, safety and logistics etc.
Solar Compass Project Moves Ahead
(By Yong Zhao March 06, 2016)
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will soon showcase a transformative new "solar roadway" technology so new that it may be the first in Canada. The Solar Compass project will receive sufficient funding from the TRU Sustainability Grant Fund and their project will now go ahead. Solar Earth Technologies (SET) provides the underlying technology and the product modules used in the Solar Compass project. SET will donate the solar modules for the pilot project at TRU and provide ongoing consultation on installation and maintenance. The company has also partnered with the School of Engineering at UBC Okanagan for engineering trials.
SET Launches Tests and Campus Trial with UBCO
A New Milestone
(By Yong Zhao December 04, 2015)
SET CEO Jason Wang meets Dr. Liwei Wang and his Capstone Project team of UBC School of Engineering in Okanagan. According to an agreement entered by SET and UBC Okanagan, the Capstone team will conduct systematic lab tests on the mechanical and electric performances of SET's Solar Sidewalk product line, and build an actual demo system that connects a solar sidewalk segment to an inverter.
SET Visits TRU Campus in Kamloops
(By Yong Zhao December 04, 2015 )
SET CEO Jason Wang and Dr. Michael D. Mehta, leader of TRU (Thompson Rivers University) Solar Compass project, in front of the Arts and Education (AE) Building. The Solar Compass project would expand TRU's solar presence by incorporating SET's solar roads technology and components to renovate the plaza in front of the AE Building [N 50 40.269, W 120 21.884] and produce about 10 KW solar power for the AE Building. The project, once accomplished, would be Canada's first solar road in practical use that verifies the engineering maturity of SET's Solar Sidewalk product line. The TRU Solar Compass project is expected to last through 2016.3 – 2017.2.
SET in Partnership with UBCO on R&D Funding Applications
(By Yong Zhao September 25, 2015)
SET (Solar Earth Technologies) has entered a strategic partnership with School of Engineering of UBC Okanagan Campus on research and innovation for Solar-Powered Roadways and Electric Vehicles initiative. In a recent meeting held on the Campus both parties agreed to provide mutual support to each party's effort on funding applications, including SDTC, ICE and NSERC etc. Key areas and topics of investigation, milestones, and timelines were discussed and determined. A capstone project is also designed to build and operate Canada's first solar sidewalk in the UBCO campus.
SET Invites City of Kelowna to Participate in Sidewalk Pilot
(By Yong Zhao September 18, 2015)
SET CEO Jason Wang visited City of Kelowna to introduce the innovative solar sidewalk that the company is developing in Kelowna in partnership with UBCO and FortisBC, and invited the city to join its pilot run.
SET CEO Jason Wang meets with BC Ministry of Tech and UBCO
(By Yong Zhoa July 7, 2015)
Arranged by BC Ministry of Technology, Innovation & Citizens' Services, SET CEO Jason Wang and VP Yong Zhao met with professors from the School of Engineering at UBC Okanagan Campus, on July 7, 2015. UBCO researchers and SET explored the potential to work together to tackle the scientific/engineering challenges in the following four areas: 1. New design of optic layer with mechanical and optical characteristics that meet the requirements of solar roads. 2. New semiconductor materials for PV layer of solar roads to have a wide spectrum of weather/radiation adaption. 3. Novel mechanisms for high-efficiency EV charging in motion. 4. Solar road system design, civil engineering, and integration to grid infrastructure. UBCO and SET will work together to apply for funding at all levels in order to finance the research works.


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THE Scottish Government has announced that applications for a self-isolation support grant have opened.
The £500 grant will be available to those on low incomes who would lose out as a result of following Covid guidance.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the scheme will go some way to ensuring that no-one has "to choose between doing the right thing or paying their rent or feeding themselves and their family".
The grants will be targeted at those in receipt of Universal Credit or legacy benefits who are employed or self-employed.
Social Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said the service will initially focus on people who are on the shielding list, people aged over 70, disabled people, and people in low income households.
Joined @NicolaSturgeon for today's Daily Briefing to provide more details on @scotgov's Self-Isolation Support Grant 🏴— S-A Somerville (@S_A_Somerville) October 13, 2020
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"We are considering how we roll this service out to further groups to reach even more people and provide support for them to isolate", she added.
The service will deliver an initial 30-minute call, followed up by two 10-minute calls during the period of self-isolation, and will initially prioritise the most vulnerable individuals.
This will ensure people are referred to the relevant services for support while maximising uptake of the self-isolation support grant for those who are eligible.
The service will be rolled out from today, but the grant is available to anyone who fits the criteria and has been asked to self-isolate since September 28.
The money is not available to people who are quarantining after returning to the UK from abroad.
Grants can be received more than once if people are asked to self-isolate on more than one occasion, as long as these do not overlap.
How to apply
People who have been asked to self-isolate between September 28 and October 13, will need to call the National Assistance Helpline in order to have their application moved forward.
The National Assistance Helpline can be reached on 0800 111 4000.
People who fit the criteria and are asked to self-isolate from yesterday will not need to do anything to receive the grant.
Instead, the Scottish Government will be proactively phoning those asked to self-isolate to help them claim the £500.
Local authorities will also contact those being asked to self-isolate to offer help, advice and assistance including help to access essential food and medication or local support services.
This will come as part of a service which people can choose to opt-in or opt-out of when they are first contacted by contact tracers.
However, people may still apply for the grant before they receive the government phone call, or access support even if they've opted out, by contacting the National Assistance Helpline on 0800 111 4000.


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Gosport Park is a one-acre slice of land where the 249-year history of Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) is frozen in time.
The park is part of Portsmouth's Path of History, a self-guided walking tour featuring a string of historic sites tracing the routes of Old Towne back to 1752, from the home of the Union Army's Provost Marshal to the house where President Andrew Jackson once visited.
I visited the Path of History and Gosport Park during a quick lunchtime adventure, which I began at the Portsmouth Visitor Center on Crawford Parkway.
The Path of History links Gosport Park, off the north end of NNSY, with the three-acre Fort Nelson Park at the entrance to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, the nation's first Navy Hospital.
The entire Path of History is a lot to see in one lunch break, and after picking up a map and plotting my route, I decided to focus my trip on landmarks between the Visitor Center and Water Street Ferry Landing.
The Path of History's pictorial signs, which provide important details about the many significant locations and centuries-old structures, preserve more than 250 years of American history.
The Path of History is punctuated with shade trees, public green space, and brick sidewalks, and the cool air of a mid-October morning made for perfect walking weather.
After leaving the Visitor Center, I stopped at the Lightship Portsmouth, a National Historic Landmark. Like lighthouses and buoys, lightships were navigational aids. The Lightship Portsmouth is now a museum and the quarters are fitted out realistically and filled with fascinating artifacts, uniforms, photographs, and models.
From there I walked down London Street and around the block to Glasgow Street, taking in the varied styles of 18th and 19th century architecture. I continued down Water Street to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, which overlooks the Ferry Landing, and just a few strides further, the Fresnel Lens, a well-maintained retired lighthouse light bulb, which once served as part of the Hog Island Light off the Great Machipongo Inlet on the Eastern Shore.
On my way back to work before my lunch break was officially over, I made one last stop.
At Gosport Park, more than a dozen signs featuring key milestones in the shipyard's history mark various artifacts, such as two 75,000-pound propellers, a refurbished sail from ex-USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN 618), and Navy guns that were once used on vessels built at NNSY.
The park, which is located conveniently across Lincoln Street from Quarters A, is easy to visit on foot through the Trophy Park Gate (Gate 3). The shipyard's historical brick wall provides a charming backdrop for an afternoon stroll or early-morning visit, and the various relics on display offer a glimpse into the past of which NNSY is so proud.
This November marks Norfolk Naval Shipyard's 250th birthday. If you haven't walked the Path of History yet, now is the perfect time.
Whether you decide to wander around on your own or follow the tour sequentially, the Path of History has preserved the historic relationship between Portsmouth and Norfolk Naval Shipyard through more than two centuries of change.
You can find a map and more information about the Path of History online at oldetowneportsmouth.com
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in Norfolk Naval Shipyard's monthly magazine, Service to the Fleet. Thank you to Marcus W. Robbins, NNSY Historian and Archivist, for his contributions to this article.


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Cozumel International Airport (CZM /MMCZ )General information and contact details of Cozumel International Airport in Cozumel, Quintana Roo , México
Cozumel International Airport
Cozumel International Airport is domestic airport located in Cozumel, Quintana Roo , México and serves domestic and rare international flights to 19 different destinations, connecting Cozumel, Quintana Roo with Mexico, United States and Canada. The most popular destinations to fly to from Airport are Cancun International Airport, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Toronto Pearson Int'L. Ont. and George Bush Intercontinental Airport - Houston . The longest flight you can take is to Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (4:41 hours) .
Carriers such as Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines have regular flights to and from Airport.
Here you can find all the information about Airport location, arrivals and departures and learn important details about weather forecasts and current conditions. You may also read more about Airport in the Wiki tab and find other interesting pictures of it in the Photos section.
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Octobers theme for Fabulous Furniture Flipping Contest "Spray It Pretty"
I have been wanting to create a Coral Branch dresser theme for a while now to add a nice pop of color in a tropical themed mostly blue ocean bedroom. I thought it would be the perfect chance to try out this fab color of chalk paint I have been swooning over in a sprayer and really put it to the test. Entrants this month were to complete their projects with a sprayer and were generously supplied with a Finish Max from Home-Right how exciting! I have been dying to try out one of these babies for a while now as I have seen some great projects and have been reading wonderful reviews about how easy they are to use and the great finish you get with one. So of course I eagerly signed right up to Spray It Pretty!
*This is a sponsored post, I have received products used to complete this project. Please review my Disclosure Page for more details on the disclosure policy.
The Coral Branch Dresser
The Before, and Blessings From Friends
A friend brought me this rescued piece that someone she knew was going to put out to the curb. Don't you just love it when that happens? The word gets out that you re-fab furniture and the next thing you know people are bringing you pieces they know shouldn't be discarded. Thanks so much Rosie for thinking of me! Let me tell you, friends are just blessing me this month. My other girlfriend Jody over at She's So Shabby in Boca is now selling her own line of chalky paint. And she had a custom blend mixed up for me last minute to color match Mama's Lipstick – a hue I have been dying to try out. Thanks so much girlfriend – you got me out of a bind. A shipment never would have made it here in time for the contest deadline. -she's on Facebook, check her out… Big shout outs to my gal friends….. gotta love ya – lovely ladies! This dresser is so ready to Spray It Pretty!
The Process
I have to admit I was a little hesitant about trying out chalk paint in the sprayer, in fear of gunking it up. I knew it needed to be thinned out before spraying, I thinned mine down by 1 C paint to 4 Tbsp water, and since I never used this brand before, I was sure to strain it first in a fine mesh metal strainer.
Setting up the sprayer was so easy, just a quick run through the directions, it was pretty simple. Then I tested out the spray patterns as suggested to get used to how the sprayer handled. It sprayed like a dream, no spatters, no clumps and I was good to go! The whole piece literally took only a few minutes to spray it pretty, I spent more time waiting for the first coat to dry, to apply the second coat!
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I ended up using a whole Quart of paint on this piece, more than If I were to have brushed it on, but it was so worth it! the finish was UH- mazing! and a huge time saver to boot, This sprayer and I are going to have one long intense relationship! Here is a shot after one coat applied with the sprayer, isn't that color gorgeous? yes I always paint upside down first coat, to get all the legs and undersides painted easily. I am also always sure to paint the backs.
The Stencil and Planned Hardware
I purchased this great coral branch stencil online, and was having fits because my orders were taking forever to arrive in the mail. I was stressing that they would not arrive in time to complete my project. The stencil and the coral branch hardware I also purchased for this piece literally arrived yesterday afternoon. To my dismay the coral branch hardware was way to small for the piece and would have been lost in the design, so they were cast off for another day. I searched and searched for the perfect hardware, you know the ones, the coral branch drawer pulls? I could only find them at $12 a pop on Ebay, they would have been perfect but I wasn't about to throw that much into hardware, so I went with an alternative that was to small….. things just work out that way sometimes., and plans get thwarted.
The Details
Here is a detailed shot of the coral branch stencil, done with Metallic in warm silver. Funny I just realized I am on a roll this month, seems I've been obsessed with shimmery gold tones this is my third piece this month using the hue. I contemplated painting the hardware but thought it looked much better in its original bronze state, it created more of a contrast. I gave this piece a very lite fine distress to the edges for some vintage authenticity, but the sprayer created such a fine finish that this piece needs nothing but a very light sanding before the finishing coat, if I were waxing this piece it would need no sanding whatsoever, but I plan on giving it a poly finish as this piece is for a little girls room and I want that added extra durability.
The Money Shot:
Here is the final shot of the semi finished piece, all done except for the final coat of Poly. Unfinished because I really wanted to do some research and perhaps get some feedback from my fellow furniture flippers on using poly-acrylic in the sprayer. I've never used it in a sprayer before and was wondering what your results have been? Do you spray on your poly-acrylic, or use the wipe on polyurethane method? I am a little hesitant about using any oil based products in my sprayer, I prefer the milder water based cleanup without all the chemical fumes and such. Come on ladies, whats your preferred method do you spray it pretty with poly or wipe it on?
Note: This post will be updated with the official final shot after the top coat has been applied.
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Well after seeing this post by my bloggy friend Kathy over at Petticoat Junktion, " How To Apply Clear Sealer With A Paint Sprayer ". I realized, yes It can be done! Thanks Kathy for the low down! And congrats to Bobby J. who won the Home Right sprayer in Kathy's giveaway! Will post the final shot after shes dried….
Using a water based topcoat in the sprayer was super easy, it left a beautiful even durable finish to the piece that cannot be compared. And was even easier to clean up the sprayer than when using paint.
The FFFC
The Fab Furniture Flipping Contest™ is a monthly themed furniture contest often using products provided by the sponsor, The entrants compete for a chance to win a fabulous prize package provided by the month's sponsor as well! Check out all the entries over on the webpage!
This Months Sponsor:
Home-Right has provided one Finish Max Sprayer to each Entrant to complete their project. They are also offering one lucky winner for this months contest a grand prize package consisting of:
- One HomeRight Heat Gun
- One HomeRight Spray Shelter.
The Fab Furniture Flippin Contest™ is open only to the entrants who have signed up through the group Facebook page. If you are an active, furniture flippin' blogger, and you'd like to participate in future contests, we'd love to have you! Please contact the ladies at email@example.com to find out how!


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How it works
Powered by the same technology as Alexa, Amazon Lex provides you with the tools to tackle challenging deep learning problems, such as speech recognition and language understanding, through an easy-to-use fully managed service. Amazon Lex integrates with AWS Lambda which you can use to easily trigger functions for execution of your back-end business logic for data retrieval and updates. Once built, your bot can be deployed directly to chat platforms, mobile clients, and IoT devices. You can also use the reports provided to track metrics for your bot. Amazon Lex provides a scalable, secure, easy to use, end-to-end solution to build, publish and monitor your bots.
Key features
Amazon Lex provides automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding technologies to create a Speech Language Understanding system. Amazon Lex uses the same proven technology that powers Alexa. Amazon Lex is able to learn the many different ways someone could express their intent based on the sample utterances provided by the developer. The speech language understanding system takes natural language speech and text input, understands the intent behind the input, and fulfills the user intent by invoking the appropriate response.
Amazon Lex bots provide the ability for multi-turn conversations. Once an intent has been identified, users will be prompted for information that is required for the intent to be fulfilled (for example, if "Book hotel" is the intent, the user is prompted for the location, check-in date, number of nights, etc.). Amazon Lex gives you an easy way to build multi-turn conversations for your chatbots. You simply list the slots/parameters you want to collect from your bot users, as well as the corresponding prompts, and Amazon Lex takes care of orchestrating the dialogue by prompting for the appropriate slot.
As the conversation develops, being able to classify utterances requires managing context across multi-turn conversations. Amazon Lex supports context management natively, so you can manage the context directly without the need for custom code. As initial prerequisite intents are filled, you can create "contexts" to invoke related intents. This simplifies bot design, and expedites the creation of conversational experiences.
Amazon Lex provides two types of prompts: confirmation prompts that enable you to confirm an action before fulfilling it; and error-handling prompts, that request the user to repeat input for additional clarity. Confirmation prompts allow you to confirm the intent of the user before executing back-end business logic (for example, "Would you like to confirm your reservation now?"). Error-handling prompts address scenarios where the user input is not understood, allowing for a graceful handling of error scenarios. For example, if a user's speech input is not clear or audible, or doesn't map to a known intent, you can configure Amazon Lex to prompt the user to repeat information, for example, "Sorry I didn't get that." or "Can you please repeat that?". You can set the number of retries and also specify the goodbye message before your app stops prompting the user.
Amazon Lex natively supports integration with AWS Lambda for data retrieval, updates, and business logic execution. The serverless compute capacity allows effortless execution of business logic at scale while you focus on developing bots. From Lambda, you can access various AWS services, such as Amazon DynamoDB for persisting conversation state and Amazon SNS for notifying end users.
You can also use AWS Lambda to easily integrate with your existing enterprise applications and databases. You just write your integration code and AWS Lambda automatically runs your code when needed to send or retrieve data from any external system.
Amazon Lex allows you to easily publish your bot to chat services directly from the Amazon Lex console, reducing multi-platform development efforts. Rich formatting capabilities provide an intuitive user experience tailored to chat platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, and Twilio SMS.
Amazon Lex lets you apply versioning to Intents, Slot Types, and Bots that you create. Versioning enables you to easily maintain code as you test and deploy in a multi-developer environment, including implementation of rollback mechanisms. You can create multiple aliases for each Amazon Lex bot and associate different versions to each - for example, "production", "development" and "test". This enables you to continue to make improvements and changes to the bot and release new versions to associate them with the same alias, rather than making changes to all clients whenever a new version of the bot is deployed. Versioning and alias support together allow you to easily build and manage a bot through its lifecycle.
An intent performs an action in response to natural language user input. Amazon Lex can transfer control dynamically from one intent to another based on end user input. This enables you to simplify complex conversations by breaking them into smaller components. For example, in a travel bot, after a user has booked a flight, you can build your bot to subsequently ask if the user also wants to make a hotel or a car reservation. The user response could then result in either making additional reservations, or decline any additional bookings. Amazon Lex will handle the flow accordingly.
The Amazon Lex speech recognition engine has been trained on telephony audio (8 kHz sampling rate), providing increased speech recognition accuracy for telephony use-cases. When building a conversational bot with Amazon Lex, the 8 kHz support allows for higher fidelity with telephone speech interactions, such as through a contact center application or helpdesk. Amazon Lex is natively integrated with Amazon Connect, enabling developers to build voice based conversational bots that can handle customer queries over the phone. You can integrate Amazon Lex into any call center application using the APIs.
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Happy Place - Sat 11 Apr 2020
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HAPPY PLACE is an immersive pop-up experience with larger-than-life installations and multi-sensory themed rooms curated to Capture Your Happy!
After sold-out residencies in Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Las Vegas and Philadelphia, the pop-up phenomenon HAPPY PLACE – dubbed 'the world's most Instagrammable exhibit' – is coming to the Broadway Sydney Rooftop! On a mission to spread happiness around the world, the innovative experience has helped more than one million people 'find their happy' while exploring multiple vibrant rooms.
Featuring larger-than-life whimsical installations and multi-sensory immersive rooms, visitors can get snap-happy in the world's largest indoor Confetti Dome, a giant rainbow complete with a jumpable 'Pot of Happiness', six-foot-tall X's and O's surrounded by red lips, the famed Rubber Ducky Bathtub, the wildly popular Cookie Room scented with the aroma of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, an Upside Down room that defies gravity, and Super Bloom, a room filled with 40,000 golden handmade flowers, to name just a few of the photo-friendly spaces. HAPPY PLACE is guaranteed to put a smile on your face!
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At Somerset, we're in the business of making sure you're prepared for what the changing technology environment may bring your way. One of the biggest trends is having a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy. These policies allow employees to use their own laptops, tablets and smartphones for work, accessing shared files through the cloud.
What are the benefits of BYOD for your business?
There are many benefits to BYOD policies. Switching between devices leaves additional room for errors and inconveniences that could result in lost productivity, such as leaving an important document saved on the office desktop and being unable to access it over the weekend. When your employees are using their own devices, instead of switching from one device for work and using another at home, it is less likely they will be able to access the files when they need them, increasing their ability to be productive.
There is also cost saving element associated with this type of policy as your company does not have to purchase hardware. Employees may even like being allowed to use their own preferred devices. After all, as so many people already own a smartphone, providing a company cell phone may be unnecessary, even cumbersome, as users switch between their work and personal mobile devices.
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Afrolink Software, founded by Kamal Al Mansour, a 31-year-old lawyer who runs the business from his home in Washington State, produces a variety of programs that present African-American perspectives on history and culture.
Mr. Al Mansour also produces two on-line services of interest to precollegiate educators.
The first is CPTime On-Line, whose title, he says, pokes fun at the colloquial expression "Colored People's Time," or the stereotype that African-Americans are chronically tardy.
The service provides current and historical information about Africa and the United States, as well as Europe, Australia, and the Caribbean.
The other--B.B.B., or Black Bulletin Board--provides a forum for computer users to exchange information about issues of interest to black people.
Although the bulletin boards are readily available to schools equipped with modems and microcomputers, Mr. Al Mansour said, precollegiate educators, who often are technologically unsophisticated, have yet to take advantage of the services.
Nonetheless, some districts are already using Afrolink's software products.
The Compton (Calif.) Unified School District, for example, has bought more than 50 copies of CPTime Clip Art, which contains graphics related to historical and contemporary black culture.
It has been popular, Mr. Al Mansour said, because "it allows instructors who may not be computer literate to put together a lesson plan very easily."
Afrolink also produces "Who We Are," a software program that contains 250 questions and answers about black civilizations.
Mr. Al Mansour, whose mother was a teacher, said he expects the current movement toward the adoption of "Afro-centric curricula" by districts in such cities as Atlanta; Portland, Ore; and Camden, N.J., to increase the demand for his products.
Accordingly, he is slightly revamping his development strategy, which previously focused on Apple Computer's Macintosh, a machine that is scarce in schools.
And he plans to produce versions of his products for the more-common Apple II computer.
He also expects to gain an entree into the school market as a result of Apple's recent unveiling of a new, and cheaper, line of Macintosh computers.
More information is available from Afrolink Software, P.O. Box 59149, Renton, Wash. 98050; (206) 277-6497.--PW
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I think it's fair to say that I am extraordinarily accident prone. Dyspraxia doesn't help, as it means my spatial reality is Not Good, but it can't be blamed for the more annoying things that seem to happen on a daily basis. Like, for example, when my car registration plate fell off on the way to the MOT Test Centre. (That's an automatic fail, if you didn't know.)
So a big thank you to HR Owen, who came to my rescue, with not just an offer of an MOT and service, but the loan of a MINI whilst my car was in the garage. Last summer I got to hang out in an HR Owen Lamborghini Aventador, and they are known for their luxury car sales, but I had no idea that they provided MOT tests and servicing too.
So the next morning I made use of their collection and car return service, with an extremely nice gentleman managing not to look as though he was going to cry when he swapped a jazzy, box fresh MINI (above) for my filth bucket convertible. Sadly there wasn't a Lamborghini on offer, although upon reflection I don't think Camden is *quite* ready for that.
(Although I could have taken advantage of their Service While You Shop offer at Westfield London, which strikes me as an excellent multi-tasking option, as well as avoiding the extortionate Westfield parking charges. They also offer a 90 minute Pitstop option for MINI servicing.)
And, speaking of charges, where one might expect a purveyor of such glorious car shininess to charge the earth for its services, I was sent the standard invoice for the work done on my car, which was the same – and in a few items less, than my local garage charges.
Given that my father is a car obsessive, I've spent most of life around cars and car people, and can spot a patronising 'girls don't know about cars' attitude at a hundred paces, which unfortunately happens regardless of whether I am in a car, with my father, or on a press trip – where you'd really think they'd get the message, wouldn't you?
I'm pleased to say that at no point did a single person from HR Owen make me feel anything other than a valued user of their services. I also particularly liked that they flagged work that would need attention in the future, but that they didn't think was necessary at the service: I've had garages that have sworn that everything was essential NOW, putting the fear of God into me and my bank account, so this was a refreshing change. I thought it was intelligent to note, for example, that there was no recent evidence of a timing belt change, which I've never had pointed out to me before.
I'm adding the list they compiled, as those who knows my car will snigger:
Roof leaking and in poor condition-replacement recommended (as anyone who has exited my car with a wet bottom will testify)
Aerial bent (downside of living in Camden – vandalism from drunk passersby)
Bodywork damaged on various areas (that lamppost has never recovered either)
So a BIG thank you HR Owen for all their help: I had huge amounts of fun driving the MINI. It was my first time behind the wheel of one, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It was nippy, responsive, really economical on petrol, and fitted into the tiniest of parking gaps all over London.
I'm so used to driving my two seater, with its inconveniences (tiny boot, no places for a supermarket shop, no room for the Baddog to stretch out), that it was a complete treat to have a car with a back seat and spacious boot for all my stuff.
HR Owen specialise in BMW/MINI (Acton, Central and West London centres); they also specialise in Audi (from Central and SW London), and would like to offer LLG readers a 10% discount to all BMW, Audi and MINI new customers on their service and/or MOT. Just mention LLG when you book in.
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As we all know, we can print online coupons...but all of the grocery stores seem to have tightened up their coupon restrictions and now they only double up to $1.00, will only take 6 per manufacturer, and even have a quantity cap on the item - NOT what you see on extreme couponing, right!?
So, I had to do a little digging but found a few ways to get some extra bang for my buck. Now not only can I use the coupons BUT I also get cash deposited into an account just by using some of the apps that I downloaded to my smartphone. Each week, I am able to rack up extra money and it gets deposited directly into my paypal account (or bank account).
First, OF COURSE USE COUPONS! These are so quick and easy to download! You can download some here - HERE
Second, make sure you check the store's website. Many people don't know that the stores also will allow you to digitally load coupons so guests can save - even on store brands!
There are some things to know:
1) Digital Coupons (Kroger, walmart & Meijer) can NOT be combined with paper coupons so be careful before loading your shopping card with coupons provided by the store.
2) Digital coupons DO NOT DOUBLE but paper coupons (up to 50 cents DO).
3) Some stores will now only take up to 6 per manufacturer or brand.
4) YOU CAN USE BOTH COUPONS & THE APPS BELOW! You can even cash out on the same product from more than 1 app!
ALL THAT BEING SAID - NOW TO THE GOOD PART -here are a few ways to get CASH BACK - not a discount but CASH!!!!
1) sign up for savingstar HERE
2) Add your shopper card to the account.
3) Select the coupons that you may use at the grocery and these will automatically "redeem" at the register.
4) The face value of these coupons will not come off your grocery bill BUT they Savingstar will deposit the face value into your savingstar account which you can roll over to your bank or paypal account when you hit $10. Easily done!
Ibotta works practically the same way. You need to go to Ibotta HERE and sign up.
Here's how it works....
1. Sign up for ibotta then download the app to your smart phone.
2. From there you can scroll through different items that you may select and earn from the purchase of. There are usually three different money earning tasks under each item...you can watch the commercial for 25 cents, take a 1 answer quiz for 50 cents, etc. These also typically match up with the printable coupons and sales out that week so it's extra good!
3. After you purchase the item...Go to your Ibotta app and select the store you purchased the items from and upload a copy of the receipt. You will also need to scan the item for verification with your phone. You will then receive the amount you "earned" through the tasks deposited in your Ibotta account.
You can earn money from them for referring friends and there are always savings for great things like milk, bread, diapers, beer, wine, etc!
This is a NEW ONE FOR ME but check out Receipt Hogg! HERE
1) use the link above to sign up for receipt hog!
2) from there you will simply take a quick snapshot of your grocery store receipt each week for tokens that translate to CASH!
3) the app is pretty fun. You can earn bonus spins and prizes too.
4) It's not a whole lot of money per upload BUT all you are doing is snapping a photo so it can pay off.
1) Sign Up for Ebates HERE
2) You get cash back for all of your online shopping at over 50 stores like Kmart, Walmart, Diapers.com, Victoria Secret, and tons more!
3) Refer a friend! Sometimes, you get $25 for your first referred friend who spends $50 shopping online!
4) Don't worry, if you want the item RIGHT NOW..you can order site to store at many places so you can earn your cash back AND get it the same day!
Click HERE to get the app. They reward you for making purchases on organic, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, etc. It's a great app to add if you are looking to eat healthier because you will see products that you may never have heard of before!
Finally take a look at CHECKOUT 51!
Click here for the link! They may not have as many options BUT there are deals on this app that you may not find anywhere else!
It's as easy as that! Download some apps and start shopping & earning! Let me know if you have any luck with earning or if you have additional ways to rack up the cash!


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19 May 2011
I'm still here but only barely
Which is funny, because NEXT week I start grad school.
That two week overlap?
It's going to be AWESOME.
I have to get Bs in these four classes or else I'm going to be unceremoniously booted from grad school, my life as I know it will be over, and I'll have no choice but to wander into the sea and promptly drown.
I've figured out that it is mathematically impossible for me to get anything lower than a B in two of my four classes.
Which is good.
It is mathematically POSSIBLE that I get lower than a B in one of the remaining two classes, but I don't THINK I will. Also, my instructor is 100% aware of the Drowning in the Sea scenario, and I am fairly certain that as long as I make an honest effort he will make sure that I get a B, at least.
He thinks I'll be a great CPA.
My final class is my statistics class, which I'm taking from ANOTHER school, because it was the only way, and um...my final is 45% of my grade, and proctored/closed book, whereas all the homework and the midterm were online/open book.
And 45% is sizable.
If I get lower than a B in statistics, I don't know what I'm going to do, beyond weeping in a corner that is.
Here's a funny story, by the way: had I gotten a B or better in the calculus class I took my freshman year in college, I wouldn't have to take this statistics class. I got a B-, because I didn't take the final, because I determined that, with the highest grade in the class and the final not being worth all that much, I couldn't get lower than a B-, and I was never going to take my math classes any further anyways! I was only taking this calculus class to get my mother to stop nagging me about how calculus makes the world beautiful!
So I spent the last 3 or 4 weeks of that fateful spring quarter loafing around and sleeping in and not going to calculus.
At the time it seemed trivial.
Now it seems idiotic.
Take your finals!
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text: Red Burns is a professor of communications and chair of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Founded in 1979, the program is an internationally recognized incubator for new ideas on the creative use of digital media, multimedia and telecommunications. Burns began her work in new media in 1971, when she co-founded the Alternate Media Center, a research and implementation center for new technologies. During the 1970s and 1980s, she designed and directed a series of telecommunications projects, including two-way television for and by senior citizens, telecommunications applications to serve the developmentally disabled, and one of the first field trials of Teletext in the United States. These projects led to the creation of ITP. Burns serves as a member of the Mayor's Council on New Media in New York City. She also serves on Governor Pataki's Task Force on New Media and the Internet and is is a founding member of the Board of the New York New Media Association. Widely recognized for her work, Burns has received a number of awards including the Matrix, and Crain's All-Stars Educator's Award. She has also been named one of Newsweek's 50 for the Future, one of Silicon Alley Reporter's 100 Top Internet Industry Executives in New York and one of Crain's 100 Most Influential Women in Business in New York. She received the Mayor of New York's Award for Excellence in Science & Technology. Burns' current projects include a CD-ROM on chaos theory for Harper Collins and the Electronic Neighborhood, an interactive cable-telephone experiment funded by Nynex and Viacom.


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Over the last week, I've been putting in long hours at my school for the two week period known as "les admissibles". This is a huge event at my school and is the moment when potential students that have passed the written examination come to take part in their oral interviews. The day consists of them arriving in the morning, watching two presentations (one BDE and one from the Administration), doing a language interview (in the language of the program they want to go to : English, Spanish, German, Italian, etc) and then a personal motivation interview in French.
The students known as "les admissibles" are nervous and uncomfortable in their new suits, and are full of questions for us as they want to give perfect responses. As "admisseurs" we are there to share our experience, keep them occupied and show them how awesome CESEM is. This is not difficult.
We start the day with our presentation. A presentation where I tell two personal stories of my experience in Reims, as do other members of my student council. Then we show them a few videos (both of which seem sentimental as we are nearing the end of our year), and we finish with a quick cheerleading routine done by our IBWE cheerleaders (utterly hilarious and awesome). It is so crazy to see how small they are as they walk by full of ideas and excitement/nervousness. I see myself in them five years back, so excited to begin Northeastern, and even more excited at the prospect of two years in France!
I'm also running the restaurant reservations, and so I have to make sure how many admissibles are going out to dinner each night, and which admisseurs are
going with them. The school pays for the admisseurs to go out to dinner meaning it has been tight competition to get in for a free meal. This is totally normal with college students ;-). But is is also pretty tiring as it is non-stop conversation, and usually lasts till 11pm (dinner begins at 8:30pm).
At the end of the day, I'm so excited for the little admissibles that I meet. They are beginning their college experience, and (the lucky ones) might even be doing the CESEM program, a program that I am delighted to have taken part in. On a more selfish note, I'm really glad that the whole event is going on, because it kind of forces us all to hang out every day and soak in the last weeks together.
The reality that the end is coming is starting to hit us all. Yesterday, a friend of mine brought a flag to be signed by everyone. I sometimes feel like my whole self just starts to feel like "error, error, error when I think of CESEM ending. I'm really going to miss Reims, all my wonderful friends who are going to be scattered all over the world, and speaking and living in French.
19 days until I head off to NYC.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Les admissibles CESEM
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HI I came across your page while looking for stuff on Reims, Thanks so much for such an insightful look into what you've got out of the course! Im beginning in Cesem in Septembre and Im experiecncing the same terrified excitement that comes with new beginnings! I know its going to be tough out there but at the same time I cant wait to go! We're looking for an appt at the moment you dont know any landlords that I could contact or what areas are the best to live in? Best of luck with your new life back in America Im sure you will have plenty of excuses to revisit France again soon!ReplyDelete


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- Angelica Bonfanti, Francesca Romanin Jacur, & Francesco Seatzu, Introduction
- Federica Violi, The Practice of Land Grabbing and Its Compatibility with the Exercise of Territorial Sovereignty
- Nadia Bernaz & Jérémie Gilbert, Resources Grabbing and Human Rights: Building a Triangular Relationship Between States, Indigenous Peoples and Corporations
- Jochen Von Bernstorff, Who is Entitled to Cultivate the Land? Sovereignty, Land Resources and Foreign Investments in Agriculture in International Law
- Elisa Ruozzi, Land Grabbing and International Human Rights: The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- M. Bordignon, R. Greco, & G. Lepore, Water Grabbing and Water Rights: Indigenous 'Sovereignty' v. State Sovereignty?
- Marco Borraccetti, The Right to Water and Access to Water Resources in the European Development Policy
- Francesca Romanin Jacur, Tackling the Grabbing of Genetic Resources and of Associated Traditional Knowledge Trough the Nagoya Protocol
- Annalisa Savaresi, Natural Resources Grabbing: The Case of Tropical Forests and REDD+
- Komlan Sangbana, International Land Investments or the Environment Put Up for Auction: the Case of the Niger Basin
- Federico Esu & Solenne Avet, The European Integration and the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive: A Suitable Framework for the Implementation of the Sustainability Criteria for Biofuels Production in Third-States?
- Anil Ylmaz & Tara Van Ho, Integrating Human Rights into the Extractive Industries: How Investment Contracts Can Achieve Protection
- Tomoko Ishikawa, The Role of International Environmental Principles in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Precautionary and Polluter Pays Principles and Partial Compensation
- Inesa Stolper, Exploration and Extraction of Natural Resources: MIGA's Role in the Promotion of Foreign Investments in Developing Countries
- Francesco Seatzu, On the World Bank's Efforts in Defence of the Human Right to Land
- Angelica Bonfanti, The WTO Members' Right to Protect Animals in International Trade: A TBT Perspective
- Julinda Beqiraj, Water Resources' Exploitation and Trade Flows: The Impact of International Trade Law
- Ilaria Espa, Energy Export Restrictions in the WTO Between Resources Nationalism and Sustainable Development
- Marco Pertile, On the Financing of Civil Wars through Natural Resources: Is there a Duty of Vigilance for Third States on the Activities of Trans-national Corporations?
- Garima Tiwari, Breaking the 'Resource Curse': Prosecuting Pillage of Natural Resources
- Angelica Bonfanti, Francesca Romanin Jacur, & Francesco Seatzu, Conclusion
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Saturday we closed our sold out, world premiere of THE TOOTH FAIRY. This show was the result of a collaboration between our Director of Children's Theatre, Tina Jo Wallace, our Musical Director for the main stage, Scott Bradley (who composed the music), and the director and musical director of THE TOOTH FAIRY, Bekki Jo Schneider and Ron Breedlove.
Some notes from Tina Jo:
About a year ago, while reading stacks of plays to choose our new season, I decided I wanted to write a show about the tooth fairy. Both of my daughters are young and losing teeth left and right, and the tooth fairy has been the subject of much discussion in my home. Through further conversations in the lunch room at their school, I learned that there was a huge variety of theories about this magical fairy among kids from 5-10 years of age. I thought these would be great material for a musical.
At the same time, our producer, Bekki Jo, was trying to find a show that would be a good fit for the city wide YES! Fest happening in 2015. The Yes! Fest is a year-long celebration including various arts and cultural organizations around the area to promote a "year of environmental sustainability". An idea was born. I already knew that a big part of the show would be centered around the kids meeting up in school to compare notes about the fairy. Since they were already going to be having school scenes, why not have those scenes focused on science lessons on the environment? In writing these school scenes, I even consulted my daughters' textbooks to see what exactly they were expected to learn.
In addition to this, I really wanted to include some of these amazing kids and their theories in the actual show. My first draft of the script had voiceover lines written in the beginning, middle and end. I thought that I would have some of the "Derby Dinner kids" (children of our staff like mine) give me their thoughts and I would record them for these parts of the show. Later in the process, I found out that we would be having video screens on the stage for our evening production of BONNIE & CLYDE. We then decided to have a Facebook contest where kids could submit a video on our page with their ideas. I then edited those videos to create those portions of the production.
Below are the three videos that we used. For those of you who saw the show, you will notice that the first video is longer than it was in the actual production. This was the first draft of the video. Through rehearsal, we found it to be a bit long, so it was further edited.
I want to thank all the children (and their parents) who took the time to submit their videos! You were seen by over 6500 kids and families. I also want to thank Scott Bradley, Bekki Jo Schneider, Ron Breedlove, and the cast, crew and designers of THE TOOTH FAIRY for all their work on this new production!


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Second App Release From The "Paint Me a …" Series For Children
Pixel Punch is pleased to announce the second release of a series of coloring application for kids on iOS (iPhone and iPad) called 'Paint Me a Fish!'. Combining realistic high quality graphics and easy to use painting tools makes it a perfect place for children to be creative and have fun.
Designed to let users create amazing looking fishes with easy-to-use touch controls. The painting tools include blur, multiple brush layers (fish body patterns) and numerous colours to choose from. Uttermost precision and realism in application visual fidelity provides with the most rewarding experience from the initial launch. The virtual aquarium lets you store, review and manage all your painted fishes.
In addition, all the created content can be shared on a public fish gallery or automatically formed into a print PDF (multiple fish sizes). The application instantly sends the print to your email. It can be used for anything: from small decorations to costumes. It is an extension of the fish painting experience into the real world.
"Our company's vision is to create an environment where children or adults are inspired to produce something they can do with ease and proudly share with others," said Paulius Liekis, CEO of Pixel Punch. "We want children to have creative software available for them at a price point that's affordable for parents."
Paint Me a Fish! can be downlaoded from iTunes for $2. As previously, releases of the app on Mac OS X operating system, as a desktop application, and on Android, as a mobile application is scheduled to launch later. Paint Me a Fish! is a second app in a series of beautiful painting apps.


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text: I love baking my mother's cookie recipe (and eating them, too), but this family favorite means much more to me than a happy stomach. Sometimes the best memories are brought back through food. In "A sweet treat that brings back sweet memories," I discuss the importance of my mother's cookie recipe.


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Information for G02886
Everyone at Sida should do an immersion! (PLA 57)
Journal article
The articles in Section 3 of PLA 57 are a collection of individual testimonies written by some of those who have taken part in immersions. This account was written by two Sida staff members following their stay with a family affected by the 2004 tsunami in southern Sri Lanka. The piece shows how initial scepticism was replaced by enthusiasm for an approach that offers more than the usual 'ceremonial' project visit by foreign donors. Sida is leading the field among donors in institutionalising the practice of immersions (see Nilsson et al., Section 4). At a time when many donors are moving further and further away from having any direct contact with people living in poverty - in part a consequence of the shift towards budget support - Sida is signalling its commitment to reducing that gap.
By their very nature these are highly personal and subjective accounts. The authors record what mattered to them at the time. The act of writing is part of the process of reflection, which is so central to every immersion. The tone of the pieces and the choice of language reflect the intensity of the experience. All of them illustrate the power of face-to-face dialogue and the potential of immersions to challenge deeply held beliefs.
Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA publishes articles on participation aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board.
Guest editors: Izzy Birch, Raffaella Catani with Robert Chambers.
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- IIED code: G02886
- Published: Dec 2007 - IIED
- Theme: Monitoring, evaluation and learning
- Series: Participatory Learning and Action 57
- Source pub: Participatory Learning and Action 57 Immersions: learning about poverty face-to-face
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Guest Facilities
Fort Steele has many modern conveniences to assure you get the most from your visit.
- Free parking
- Washrooms (wheelchair accessible)
- Baby changing stations
- Visitor information to help you with your stay in our area
- Gift shop
- Food services - Restaurant, Bakery, Ice Cream Parlour, Cafe (see hours of operation)
- Free wireless internet - ask at Visitor Reception for password
- Wheelchairs are available on a first-come-first-served basis (complimentary)
Helpful Hints
- Bring a water bottle, or, water can be purchased from any of our food service locations. Water dishes for pets are available at several locations.
- Dress for the weather as you will be outdoors for much of your visit. Layered clothing is recommended, as the weather can change quickly.
- Wear sunscreen!
- Bring an umbrella on rainy days.
Accessibility Information
- Pathways are a mixture of boardwalk, gravel and dirt.
- Benches are provided throughout the site.
- Washroom facilities for wheelchair users are available at the Wasa Hotel.
- Wheelchairs are available on a first come first serve basis (complimentary).
- Pets on a leash are allowed on site.
- A variety of animals live on site.
- Most buildings have raised thresholds and/or steps, and low level, if any, interior lighting.
- As a living history site, loud noises and crowds can happen at unpredictable times, though are most likely on weekends and throughout the summer season.


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Medical Staff
Security Training
In accordance with applicable Federal and State Security regulations and our internal Security policies, LHN is required to offer Security training for those physicians and their staff that have access to our electronic systems.
Please click on the links below to review our policies. If you have any questions, please contact one of our Information Security Officers.
Bylaws, credentialing and policies.
Network Software
Information Services provides software that allows physician practices to connect to the Lutheran Health Network system to track patient charts.
You must download the Citrix client (see link below) and then contact Information Services at (260) 479-3777. Download Citrix (aka XenApp).
Ambulatory Electronic Health Record—Cerner
If your physician office is still using paper charts to document patient encounters, LHN would like to assist you. Click here to find out how.


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14 pictures that capture the beauty of the Cotswolds in the spring
PUBLISHED: 09:40 26 February 2019 | UPDATED: 10:55 28 September 2020
The days are getting longer and the Cotswolds are gradually becoming a floral delight, but there are still plenty of opportunities for frosty morning walks and toasting your feet in front of the fire. Springtime in the Cotswolds is absolute bliss as these pictures show.
With the emergence of pretty pink buds,
and blossoming trees,
you'll find dazzling daffodils sprouting throughout the Cotswolds.
It's the perfect opportunity for long, rambling walks through the countryside,
with breathtaking, panoramic views.
These lazy afternoon strolls are closely followed by muddy wellies piled at the back door,
forty winks in front of a cosy fire,
and mouth-watering hot cross buns from Daylesford farm.
The mornings are still frosty and refreshing,
but the days are getting longer and lighter.
And despite the rainy weather (perfect for puddle jumping),
the lambs come out to play,
you can stock up on eggs
and fill your boots with delicious chocolate from the Cotswolds Chocolate Company.
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Get into the office to find enough spam in my mailbox to feed an army of Australians. Not good. I don't want to look at hot Russian sex kittens, thanks very much, nor invest just $26 a week with a guaranteed return of $5000... $7000... AS MUCH AS $10,000 A MONTH.
However, it's not just the ever-increasing volume that's worrying. Hidden in the cascade of quasi-legal scams are adverts from companies I've heard of, some of whom get their stuff reviewed by us. We've had some readers say that we shouldn't do those reviews -- but is that fair? How about encouraging the development of anti-spammers; e-mail programs that send "User unknown" messages back, or the use of uman-readable-only replyto fields? Something has to be done, but something that's not as disreputable or disruptive as the sin itself. Any ideas out there?
A friend is entertaining two Swedish women, who're over on their holidays to see the sights and observe that strangest of animals, the Londoner at play. The hour is late, the chattering loud, the whisky flowing - quite a treat, as the Swedish Systembolaget booze monopoly keeps prices of spirits stratospherically high over there. One of the Swedes with an admirably joyful curiosity expresses an interest in this Internet she's heard so much about. Particularly any online lesbian sites.
It is curiously satisfying to be given licence to explore the dark side ("it was for journalistic research, y'honour"), especially in such agreeable company, and my friend was delighted to kick the modem into life, pull up his collar and slip into the red light sector of cyberspace. What they found, though, was a skein of links of such duplicity and cupidity that it makes Arful Daley seem like the National
Consumer Council. Everywhere they looked, pages promised much but provided nothing. At one point, the pornographers' habits of starting up new browser windows with menus in (more difficult to navigate out of, y'see) had produced 30 copies of Netscape on screen at once.
Fortunately, my friend is a professional. He and they managed to eventually filter out the cons and nastiness and honour was satisfied, so to speak. But it looks as if the guardians of the nation's morals can sleep easy in their beds (if that's what they want to do there); on the current state of the online pornographic industry, nothing but frustration awaits the frustrated.
Wednesday is Palm Pilot day! First, we find that IBM hasn't so much licensed the Pilot technology from 3Com as bought a big box of the things, sandpapered off the words 'US Robotics Palm Pilot" and written "IBM Workpad" on in blue crayon. Oh, and it's replaced the green power button with one of dysentric brown. You've got to laugh, really. Such badge engineering is a good idea really - it'll get the product, which is one of the few that's honestly good enough to merit it, into a whole new part of the corporate world, and the thing will become the de facto standard for hand-held organisers. Bet Casio, HP, Sharp et al aren't laughing, and could you ever see IBM badging the Psion Sienna?
Then come reports that executives in the US, keen to prove ownership and prowess, have taken to giving whiteboard presentations in Graffiti. That's the written shorthand Pilot understands. This also provokes laughing, but in experiments I and a pal discover that our mutually incomprehensible scrawl is much improved if we do the same when writing on paper. This could spread.
Finally, our American and ultra-professional editor-in-chief, Bob Kane, is unexpectedly convulsed with laughter. He's unable to speak, so we prise his Pilot from his hand and see if we can find out what's going on. Seems the man was downloading new software from the Web, and got an offline document reader -- this grabs text from the Web and shoves it into the Pilot for later consumption. Bob had innocently chosen the top downloaded document from a very respectable Web site, only to discover it was a salacious tale involving spanking and panties. Why this rendered him speechless with mirth for a good five minutes is another one of those cultural differences we may never fully understand.
We're moving! Spend most of the day packing stuff into crates. Tempted to just slip into one myself and close the lid, just to escape the chaos, but friendly voices tempt me even more strongly with tales of beer after it's all over. Words cannot express the heroism of the IT department who when faced with moving telephones, 150-odd computers, megabit data links and rooms full of temperamental Notes servers do not just collapse with fear but get on with the job. Can't wait for good wireless networking, though. It'll make such a difference. Get diary done day early, because online stuff may be a little temperamental.
In the evening, descend on Emporium, a club just south of Oxford Circus. It's Firefly's 6th birthday bash, and they always put on a good one. Hear with sympathy story from pal who's being parcelled off to the Continent for three days in the exclusive company of the scene's Most Obnoxious Journalist. MOJ himself does not appear to be in attendance, so we content ourselves with tales of past sins including incidents known as The Client's Wife, The Wastepaper Basket and The Snog.
Party goes on and on. But that's OK, the office is closed tomorrow. Working at home.
Woken from deep and troubled sleep by online bod Arif. "Errr... " he says. The sort of "Err..." that's never good news. "Err... don't suppose you could rewrite the diary" he says. "Some sort of corruption... we've lost it."
But of course. Delighted Just don't expect an entry for Friday...


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Here are 3 recent ' oops... wish I hadn't done that :/ ' mistakes I've made since joining moz that you might as well avoid (I'm sure there will be more, but they better not be the same)
Reviewing config files for MySQL, but not all of the defaults
Reviewing config files for MySQL, but not all of the defaults
We recently migrated a few MySQL databases to a new datacenter, and took advantage of the migration to upgrade the MySQL version(s) at the same time. Of course I made sure to have another DBA review all my new config changes that were deprecated or new that we wanted take advantage of. After things were migrated and the new applications were tested, things seemed fine - just a few bugs here and there, primarily around character set issues ( which, obviously, would be a dev problem, right? ).
Oops... the default character set for MySQL is not utf8 !
Lesson Learned:
Don't just check that the configs have the correct settings; check for settings that are not there (defaults), as they are the ones that may be great for most, but perhaps not so great for you.
Restricting the # connections allowed for a user
In order to introduce a quick 'throttling' mechanism for a job based system with a MySQL backend we implemented user resource restrictions. It worked like a charm in staging, so we rolled it out to prod; as soon as the job connections exceeded 30 they were disconnected and had to wait till there other jobs completed, and all the devs had to do was change the user name for the job connection url. Sweet!
Later that day we started getting host denied errors...
Oops... max_connection_errors matters !
Lesson Learned:
Make sure to take time to understand secondary effects of changes over time, as often issues don't show up immediately That's why 'soak' or 'bake time' is not something that should be overlooked when implementing changes.Upgrading percona toolkit and with Capistrano
Awesome! I got my Capistrano scripts working great - it's time to upgrade our percona toolkit on all our servers, so let's start with all our slave instances first ( it is production... ). What's cool it with cap I can deploy it to all the slaves at once.
What's not so awesome is I can also upgrade and restart mysql on all the slaves at once too :/
Oops... 'apt-get -y upgrade' percona-toolkit still upgrades everything, including MySQL !
Lesson Learned:
Make sure staging / test systems exactly mimic production when verifying deployment changes, and if you're working on a different distribution of Linux or MySQL than you are used to make sure to read the man pages! ( apt-get install -y percona-toolkit is what I wanted, and what the man page said to do )
Yes, even those of us that have been around the block a few times still make mistakes ....


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Upward trend continues – strong growth of the Swiss economy projected
The positive development of the Swiss economy will continue in the coming months. And a high GDP growth rate of 2.4% is being projected for 2018 (SECO, BAK Economics). The strongest growth factor is and remains to be foreign trade, which will be supported in the coming months by a favourable international economic environment as well as a devalued Swiss franc. Another stimulating force behind this trend is the growing final domestic demand – positive impulses are to be expected from this. However, part of this growth came through royalty payments from sporting events, for example income from the IOC (Olympic winter games in South Korea) or from FIFA (Football World Championships in Russia), which have little to do with the actual economic growth. BAK Economics expects a normalization of the cyclical trend for 2019. In terms of the Eurozone, the economic indicators point to a slight slowdown. However, that is not the case for Switzerland and there is still potential for catch-up demand.
The risk of expanding protectionism in many places remains – with negative consequences for the Swiss economy.
Outlook on GDP growth
|2.4 %
|1.7 %
|3.8 %
|2.3 %
Growth rate in %, for prices in previous year; source: BAK Economics (Status: Early-Year Outlook April 2018)
Growth rate on a macro economic level is expected to accelerate for the Canton of Basel-Stadt. GDP growth rate is significantly above the projected Swiss rate. With a forecast of approx. 6% for 2018 (BAK Economics), the life sciences industry is a pivotal part in maintaining such a strong economic performance. This positive trend also reflects on the job market. Employment rate will increase by 1.7% in the Canton of Basel-Stadt in 2018 according to forecasts by BAK Economics. In addition, this dynamic economic development continues to the tourism sector, looking at the growing numbers of overnight stays in the Canton of Basel-Stadt (2017: 1.3 Mio.; +9% to previous year), as well as the passenger numbers at the EuroAirport Basel-Mülhausen (2017: 7.9 Mio.; +8% to previous year, Source: "Statistisches Amt des Kantons Basel-Stadt").
Sources: SECO Article "Konjunkturtendenzen Frühjahr 2018"; Frühjahrsprognose der BAK Economics (Status April 2018); KOF Press Release "Breit abgestützter Aufschwung" 28.3.2018; Tourismusstatistik 2017 Statistisches Amt des Kantons Basel-Stadt
Your contact
Deborah Britt
Research Associate
Specialist Department Principles of Economics
Tasks & responsibilities
Economic data analysis, focus topics: Regulatory economy, foreign trade, structural change / digitalization, labour market


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Friday, September 07, 2007
News flash - Polls and Contests
I just noticed that Blogger added a Polls page element so I quickly added the widget on the left. And this week's poll is all about widgets! Please stop by and vote (for those of you on RSS).
Also, since I'm about to get $100 from Mr. Steve Jobs, and I have no need for any more Apple products, I'm thinking of running a contest for an iPod shuffle in the winner's choice of color. That is, if my iPod doesn't give out, as it has been acting up all week. Stay tuned, same bat channel...
Speaking of contests, Happy Birthday to Contest Blogger the keeper of contests, who really stuck it to Ashwin the *cough scumbag cough* (my link has officially been deleted).
2 comments :
- per se said...
Don't you just love the poll feature! So, fun!
Thanks for the tech support; it was REALLY helpful - just what I needed. After my little raskal's cold is all gone I'm going to get my links all set up! Thanks, again.
- September 08, 2007 4:55 PM
- Andree said...
In NO NEED OF FURTHER APPLE PRODUCTS?
What happened? You have at least one of everything? Wow. I've never heard of this!
Or are you a moderate person? Unlike most of us?
But you've been tagged! Come and see.
- September 09, 2007 9:30 AM


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Next question: Who's in center?
Jim Edmonds has been released and Jody Gerut recalled from Triple-A Portland. Does that answer the question in center?
Gerut, 30, came up as a center fielder with Cleveland. But the center field in Cleveland was much smaller than the one at Petco Park. And that was also two serious knee injuries ago.
Scott Hairston opened the season in center for the Padres when Edmonds was on the disabled list and spelled him at times this season. But Hairston is a corner outfielder by trade.
Gerut was hitting .303 with Portland and joins the Padres tonight on the heels of a 22-for-47 run with the Beavers.
Padres RHP Jake Peavy (4-1, 2.22) vs. Rockies RHP Aaron Cook (5-1, 2.40)
The Padres have lost three of Peavy's past four starts, although Peavy has a 2.70 ERA over that span. This season, Peavy has held right-handers to a .147 batting average. At Petco Park, he is 2-1 with a 0.87 ERA this season and 31-19 with a 2.73 ERA in his career. He is 4-4 with a 4.05 ERA against the Rockies, who have won three extra-inning games of at least 13 innings in their last three encounters with Peavy.
Against the Padres, Cook is 8-3 with a 2.69 ERA, and he is 3-1 with a 1.54 ERA at Petco. His 2.40 ERA is well below his career ERA of 4.34 and career road ERA of 3.94. The Rockies won two of three games at San Diego last month, including a 22-inning marathon. The teams have yet to meet in Denver this season.
Padres vs. Cook
Josh Bard: .250 (1-for-4, 2B)
Tony Clark: .211 (4-for-19, 2B, 2 HR, 2 BB, HBP, SO)
Jim Edmonds: .538 (7-for-13, 2B, 2 HR, 2 BB, SO)
Brian Giles: .424 (14-for-33, 3 2B, BB
Adrian Gonzalez: .429 (6-for-14, HR)
Khalil Greene: .208 (5-for-24, 2 2B, 3B, 3 BB, 3 SO)
Scott Hairston: .400 (2-for-5, 2 2B, BB, HBP, 2 SO)
Kevin Kouzmanoff: .167 (1-for-6, SO)
Paul McAnulty: .000 (0-for-1)
Rockies vs. Peavy
Garrett Atkins: .381 (8-for-21, 2B, BB, 6 SO)
Clint Barmes: .231 (3-for-13, SO)
Brad Hawpe: .333 (6-for-18, 2B, 3B, HR, 4 BB, 3 SO)
Todd Helton: .317 (13-for-41, 6 2B, 3 HR, 3 BB, 5 SO)
Matt Holliday: .400 (8-for-20, HR, 6 BB, 5 SO)
Chris Ianetta: .333 (1-for-3, SO)
Scott Podsednik: .333 (2-for-6, BB, SO)
Omar Quintanilla: .000 (0-for-1)
Ryan Spilborghs: .000 (0-for-3, SO)
Willy Taveras: .350 (7-for-20, 7 SO)
Yorvit Torrealba: .316 (6-for-19, 2B, 2 HR, BB, SO)


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Will Ferrell, like many comedians before him, has a dramatic side that he occasionally likes to explore. But unlike so many funnymen before him, Ferrell, has never embarrassed himself. Let's hope he stays the course with his next role.
Ferrell will star in an adaptation of Susan Trott's 2010 novel, "Flamingo Thief," reported Variety. "You, Me and Dupree" scribe Michael LeSieu's script based on the book made the 2011 Black List.
"Flamingo Thief" is the story of a man at a crossroads, who responds to the stress by going on a bizarre crime spree. Here's this from the official synopsis of Trott's book:
U.S. & World
Everyone handles grief differently but none so differently as Tim Forester, multimillionaire Juice King, who lost his son a year ago. It starts with him quietly pocketing a china flamingo belonging to his three year old niece, Joy, and by his tenth flamingo has escalated to felony grand theft... Flamingo thieving makes his heart beat. He comes alive. In a way he is having a wonderful time.
What's helped make Ferrell's forays into drama--films like the brilliant "Stranger Than Fiction," or the solid "Everything Must Go"--is that he tends to pursue serious roles with comic elements, "Flamingo Thief" sounds like the kind of serio-comic role that will suit Ferrell nicely.
In the meantime, we're very much looking forward to Ferrell's next film, "Casa de mi Padre," his Spanish-language send-up of telenovelas, which opens March 16.


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Everyone recognizes the Collingwood terminals, one of the iconic (albeit unused) grain elevators on the Great Lakes, but it is actually the fourth on our waterfront. The first three were wooden; the first one was built in 1855 and burned in 1862, the second was built in 1871 and also burned down (date unknown); the replacement third was demolished in 1937. (I've got pictures of the first and third, but not the second – although I have seen an early photo showing two elevators on the waterfront together).
Built in 1929, the existing elevators heralded a new era for Collingwood as the terminus of a great transportation network that brought grain from Canada's western provinces to be distributed here to the eastern half of Canada and, once reaching the east coast ports, overseas. But it never lived up to its promise.
It stands 100 feet tall (183 feet at the top of the superstructure), is 350 feet long, and has 95 bins (55 large, 25 smaller 'star' bins and 18 half-stars) inside to hold the grain. It was built on 125,000 wooden piles – using 700,000 feet of timber and 26,500 barrels of cement, plus another 695,000 feet of timber for the concrete forms used to build the structure above. The railway line ran to the terminals and could hold 70 cars at a time.
Shortly after it opened, in Sept. 1929, the Great Depression brought most commercial business to a standstill. Then, while the world was recovering, the Welland Canal opened (1932) and ships could sail directly from Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay) through to Lake Ontario. They didn't need to stop and unload in Collingwood. The terminals still got used, but never in the volume expected.
Built to handle 10 million bushels of wheat a year, by the start of WWII, it was only handling about 2 million. The outbreak of war proved a brief boon for the terminals, though: grain shipments climbed to about 8 million bushels by 1945 and in 1948 52 ships docked there – one of its best years. But another change was coming: the St. Lawrence Seaway. When it opened in 1959, ships could sail directly from Port Arthur to the east coast. Business at the terminals plummeted.
The owners made several efforts to drum up business. They sponsored Western farmers to grow corn in the 1950s, but when the Ontario corn market grew in the 1970s, they went after the milling business, which remained its major work until the terminals closed.
The Beattie family, from Stayner, bought the building in 1973, then the Hamilton brothers bought it from them in 1987. The Yacht Club leased the land south of the terminals in 1974. Similar terminals in Midland and Port McNicoll closed in 1990, while Collingwood's struggled on until 1993. The town purchased the site in the late 1990s.


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After bizarre loss, Wisconsin focuses on Purdue
Pac-12 reprimand's officials from Saturday's Wisconsin-Arizona State game
No. 24 Wisconsin is trying to move past an excruciating and bizarre loss, and focus on its Big Ten opener against Purdue.
The Badgers (2-1) lost 32-30 to Arizona State when officials erred in allowing the clock to expire, denying the Badgers the opportunity to attempt a possible game-winning field goal. The Pac-12 issued a statement Monday acknowledging the errors by its officiating crew, saying it has "reprimanded and taken additional sanctions against officials" in their handling of the final seconds.
"To us, it doesn't matter. It's probably the PC (politically correct) thing to do and something they had to do," said Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland. "But, we don't care about that. We lost the game, so that's all we care about."
"You can't afford to dwell," Borland said. "You really don't have time, our busy schedules, the practicality of things that we need to do next Saturday, make it easy to forget about what transpired, regardless of if it was something like last week or if it would have been a game-winning kick, we'd have to move on either way."
Coach Gary Andersen said he didn't expect the result of the game to be changed.
"It doesn't change the outcome obviously and, like I said earlier, I don't expect that," Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen said. "But, it's accountability and at the end of the day, that's what we asked for."
One aspect of the play that seemed to throw everyone off was quarterback Joel Stave planting the ball on the field and backing away. One Wisconsin player started to lunge toward the ball after seeing it lying on the ground and Arizona State's players converged on it as their coaches yelled from the sideline that it was a fumble.
Andersen said Stave did exactly what he was taught to do.
"The idea of him putting the ball on the ground is to give the officials the opportunity to get the ball spotted quicker and cleaner," Andersen said. "The officials, wherever they were, but they weren't there to turn around and get the ball. That whole process of Joel looking around behind him, walking back there, where am I going to put the ball, how am I going to put the ball, that takes time, that takes valuable seconds and moments."
Wisconsin's last 11 losses dating back to October 2010 have been by a touchdown or less, including the 37-31 "Hail Mary" loss to Michigan State in 2011 on the final play of the game.
The Badgers, who dominated Football Championship Subdivision opponents Massachusetts and Tennessee Tech in a pair of shutouts, were shredded for 468 yards by the Sun Devils, including 352 passing by Taylor Kelly, who completed 29 of 51 passes.
"Did we play great defense, which was in the plan to winning that game? No, we did not," Andersen said. "It was solid enough to keep us in the game and put us in a position to be able to do some good things."
Wisconsin rushed for 393 yards and 387 yards in its two victories with James White, Melvin Gordon and freshman Corey Clement each topping 100 yards in both games.
Against Arizona State, Gordon broke free for 193 yards on 15 carries, including an 80-yard touchdown run, but White was held to 45 yards on 12 carries and Clement carried just twice for one yard as the Badgers finished with 231 yards on 32 attempts.
Purdue (1-2), which has lost seven straight to Wisconsin, led Notre Dame after three quarters Saturday, but allowed 21 fourth-quarter points en route to a 31-24 setback.
Under first-year coach Darrell Hazell, the Boilermakers have switched to a pro-style offense after more of a spread look last year.
"Purdue's a team that's got talent," Wisconsin defensive end Ethan Hemer said. "They've always had talent, good skill position guys. It took them a little bit to get used to that offense. As a D-lineman, we're all a little excited to be playing something other than the spread."
Wisconsin has won four consecutive Big Ten home openers and nine of its last 10. The Badgers have won their last four matchups with Purdue by an average of 31.8 points.
"It's going to be great to get home. I think everybody's a little edgy, everybody's a little excited," Andersen said. "Coming back home, first Big Ten game, all that is there. I think our kids will bounce back will. It's part of life. It's life lessons that can be learned, you can only control what you can control."


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What's up, you ask? You've come to the right place. Our search for a staff attorney continues, but I interviewed some great candidates yesterday, so I know for sure that we'll have somebody great on board pretty soon. In the meantime, here's the news:
Do you have a Facebook page? Do you want to be an organ donor? Facebook has created a way to indicate whether you are an organ donor on your Facebook page. It's really intended to raise awareness of organ donation and get people to sign up more "officially" at Motor Vehicles or an online registry. I don't see it yet, but there will be a new section on your profile called Health and Wellness, and that's where you'll say whether you intend to donate your organs. You will still need to register in your state, but this is a way to make people think about -- and I think it's absolutely great.
There are chronic diseases that can't be prevented -- Crohn's disease, MS, lupus -- the list is endless. But there also are chronic diseases that can be prevented, at least some of the time -- type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, for example. A study in California found that the state retirees health plan spent $1.6 billion on avoidable diseases in 2008, and 22.4% of current employees' health care went to preventable diseases. Are you doing all you can? I'm quite sure I'm not.
Here's the text of a speech by Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society, talking about how badly the health care system is broken, and who's to blame. I like a lot of what he says, but I'm not sure I agree that patients are partly to blame because they want to over-utilize medical care. In my experience, most patients want only the care they need, and nothing more. I avoid my doctors as best I can. I do want what I need to be able to keep functioning, but I'm not looking for anything more. However, the rest of what Dr. Brawley says is insightful. The system is geared at making people -- providers, pharmaceuticals, insurers -- wealthy. As long as that's the primary goal, the obstacles to getting care will remain. We need a health care system whose goal is to achieve health, not wealth.
Should nurse anesthetists be allowed to administer anesthesia without the supervision of an anesthesiologist? If you're in a rural area where anesthesiologists are hard to find, maybe this is the way to go. Doctors are suing to protect their turf, but if they aren't available everywhere, why not allow this alternative -- as long as it's safe. I suppose that's really the question, though. Nurse anesthetists say they are trained and capable. But should a doctor have to be nearby just in case? I'm torn. What do you think?
Your kid gets rushed to the hospital after suffering a traumatic injury. You race to the ER and, when you arrive at your child's side, you are ushered outside so as not to get in the way of the doctors. The fear is that hysterical parents can distract doctors. However, a new study shows that there's no down-side to allowing parents to stay in the trauma room. Indeed, I suspect filling the room with love can only help.
That's it for this morning. Have a great day! Jennifer
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
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