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A Change of Season
Miriam-Webster's Dictionary defines season as:
I have noticed in recent years that the seasons of the year are packed to overflowing with activity, growth and change. Whereas when I was younger the years had a distinct flavor, now the seasons themselves are colored and marked by themes that begin and end quickly as new areas of interest spark and carry me into uncharted territories.
In my work with clients and interactions with others I've observed this same phenomenon. We are being seasoned by the desire from within for a more heartful and engaging way of living and being. If we are to stay current with our emerging deep inner self we must continue to let go of old behaviors and ideas about who we thought we were. As we release old concepts and behavior our true nature begins to be revealed, and with it a state of grace.
Whatever we cling to thinking it defines us is somehow limiting our true expression. The definition of you is unique in all the world. Only you have had your experiences. Only you have walked your path. Only you know what you truly need. Only you can feel your heart warm and race a bit in the presence of someone or something you love. Our divinity alone gives life, lights eyes and drums hearts.
As Gerald Manley Hopkins said in one of my favorite poems As Kingfishers Catch Fire, What I do is me, for that I came.
Life in the body in this life that we alone are living is a journey to discovering our wholeness, our holiness, that which we alone can do as we stand in the light of all we are and shine it out into the world.
The tree in the picture dropped all of its leaves a couple days after I took this picture. It doesn't look the same but the spirit of the tree is alive and well. Today the angles of its dark limbs reach in sacred geometry against the backdrop of the sky. A season of rest and the restoration of resources begins. When the seasons change again the green buds of spring will begin the cycle of creating these gorgeous orangey-red leaves anew.


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Saddam's last stand, and Fiji's new coup
My cup runneth over! With all the news about Castro, Chavez and Pinochet, I haven't even had time to ponder Saddam Hussein's last ditch attempt to avoid the gallows. Curiously, Saddam showed poor clock management, using less than the allowable 30 days to file a formal appeal of his death sentence conviction. Could the butcher of Baghdad be looking to get it all over with?
While I was pondering this, the government of Fiji has been overthrown in a military coup d'etat, the second coup d'etat for the island nation in the past 10 years. In a move condemned (by rote) by Western politicians, the Prime Minister is under house arrest, the Fijian parliament has been dissolved, and the capital is bracing for the imposition of martial law.
Could former Fijian dictator Sitiveni Rabuka (pictured above at left) be working behind the scenes? Rabuka, who appeared to have been mulling a return to politics, had earlier expressed dissatisfaction with the present Fijian government. As 2006 proved to be a good comeback year for a number of dictators around the globe, we have no doubt that the timing is certainly right for Rabuka to entertain thoughts of a return to power.


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Changing face of retirement
Young people tend not to think about retirement – or if they do, they follow advice better suited to the reality of retirement in today's world. But the path to retirement is changing, and by the time today's 30-somethings retire, their realities will be quite different to those who retire today. Some of the reasons are:
Self-employment is now more prevalent amongst young people
Many younger people are self-employed and must make their own retirement plans without the benefit of an employer contributing to their retirement savings and providing benefits such as group life cover.
Younger generations end have children later in life
For older generations, having children in your twenties was the norm and at the latest, you had children in your early thirties. Now, younger people are studying longer and marrying and starting families later. Some women have children only in their forties while men become fathers at even older ages.
This means that whereas previously couples had periods of 20 years or more after their children left home in which to add to their retirement savings, now many couples have dependent children at home until just a few years before they retire, or even after they retire. Having dependents other than a spouse when you retire has big implications for the amount of income you will need for your retirement.
Younger generations will live much longer in retirement
A presenter at this year's Financial Planning Institute conference said that in 1800, the average life expectancy was 38. In 1900, it was 53 and in 2000 it was between 77 and 80. In 2100, at age 65, people will on average be only halfway through their lives. Whilst a person who retires now at age 65 needed to plan for a 20-year retirement, younger generations need to be planning for much longer retirement periods.
Working in retirement will increasingly become a reality and is likely to be very common by the time today's 30-somethings reach age 65.
[with acknowledgement to Laura du Preez writing in Personal Finance, 10 October 2015]


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When Proposition 99 was passed in June 2008, supporters argued that it would assure the a situation like that in Kelo v. City of New London, Connecticut 545 U.S. 469 (2005) would not happen in California. Opponents argued that it would not change the law in any meaningful way. In the end both sides were partly right, in part, because a lot of the overheated rhetoric from property rights groups that condemned Kelo had little basis in the reality of governmental takings.
In Kelo, several homeowners had objected to the City of New London, Connecticut's attempt to acquire their homes through the condemnation process. Even though the nine homes in question were not blighted, the City desired the properties for the purpose of bringing a private business to the area for the purpose of local economic revitalization. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the City's right to take these properties holding that a local government's promotion of economic development (including condemnation of land for private uses) was a traditional and long-accepted governmental function, and there was, in the context of condemnations, no principled way of distinguishing this function from other public purposes.
In Kelo, the Court did not overturn its longstanding "public use requirement", which holds that a public agency cannot not take a property from one private party and give it to another private party for purely individual benefit. The Court recognized that use of the parcels by the private developer would not "open the condemned land – at least not in its entirety – to use by the general public", but held that such a literal reading of the "public use requirement" was not required.1. In Kelo, the City had formulated an economic development plan to "provide appreciable benefits to the community, including...new jobs and increased tax revenue."2. According to the majority opinion, authored by Justice Stevens:
Given the comprehensive character of the plan, the thorough deliberation that preceded its adoption, and the limited scope of our review, it is appropriate...to resolve the challenges of the individual owners not on a piecemeal basis, but rather in light of the entire plan. Because that plan unquestionably serves a public purpose, the takings challenged...satisfy the public use requirement of the Fifth Amendment.3.
As such, the Court found the taking in Kelo to be for a public purpose, and thus permitted under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
While politically charged, the Court's decision appeared to be a reaffirmation of long held legal principles (albeit in a rather extreme circumstance). In some circumstances, local governments and redevelopment agencies have found it necessary to condemn private property, including homes, in order to promote economic revitalization. Usually, such condemnations have been of commercial properties or extremely blighted homes, but clearly exceptions like those in New London did, and could, occur. In any event, however, the court recognized that economic revitalization may sometimes require public agencies to condemn property for the purpose of transferring it to private parties. According to the court:
Petitioners contend that using eminent domain for economic development impermissibly blurs the boundary between public and private takings. Again, our cases foreclose this objection. Quite simply, the government's pursuit of a public purpose will often benefit individual private parties... 'We cannot say that public ownership is the sole method of promoting the public purposes of community redevelopment projects.'4.
However, the fact that Kelo led to the condemnation of homes for private industry struck many people as an abuse of governmental power. Possibly anticipating such a reaction, Justice Stevens in his opinion, made clear that states could individually tighten these restrictions, stating:
(i) In affirming the City's authority to take petitioners' properties, we do not minimize the hardship that condemnations may entail, notwithstanding the payment of just compensation. We emphasize that nothing in our opinion precludes any State from placing further restrictions on its exercise of the takings power.5.
As a result, property rights groups all over the nation began pushing ballot initiatives limiting governmental eminent domain authority with the stated purpose of preventing a similar outcome in the individual states. However, many of these ballot initiatives attempted to put a myriad of additional restrictions on governmental rights to restrict property rights, from local government rights to impose rent control to broader rights to impose environmental regulation. California voters rejected two such broad initiatives, Propositions 90 and Proposition 98.
Proposition 99, which was sponsored in part by the California League of Cities, was tailored to address the actual concern created by Kelo, i.e. taking of a home for the benefit of a private party as well as to undermine support for Proposition 98. Specifically, Proposition 99 amended Section 19 of the California Constitution by adding additional sections (b), (c) & (d). These sections read as follows:
(b) The State and local governments are prohibited from acquiring by eminent domain an owner-occupied residence for the purpose of conveying it to a private person.
(c) Subdivision (b) of this section does not apply when State or local government exercises the power of eminent domain for the purpose of protecting public health and safety; preventing serious, repeated criminal activity; responding to an emergency; or remedying environmental contamination that poses a threat to public health and safety.
(d) Subdivision (b) of this section does not apply when State or local government exercises the power of eminent domain for the purpose of acquiring private property for a public work or improvement.6.
These provisions would prohibit state and local governments from taking an owner-occupied dwelling (including a condominium) in which the owner has resided for a year or longer, for the purpose of transferring it to another private party such as a person, business, or association absent urgent, public safety-related, circumstances. In other words, no individual's home can be taken in California's unless that person has lived in the home for less than one year or such a taking will "protect public health and safety, prevent serious, repeated criminal activity, assist in the response to an emergency or remedy environmental condemnation."
In California, the vast majority of takings for economic development purposes take place in the context of redevelopment. However, prior to the enactment of Proposition 99, California redevelopment law already provided if the taking was not located in a "predominantly urbanized", physically and economically blighted area then a redevelopment agency had no authority to take the property. Moreover, such a taking required there to be a logical relationship between the redevelopment and alleviation of the blighted conditions.7. As a result, while Proposition 99 made clear that an "owner occupied residence" could not be taken for private use, in fact, prior to its passage few homes in non-blighted areas were subject to condemnation.
However, anti-Proposition 99 activists also argued that Proposition 99 contained a "loophole" that essentially nullified any effect it may have on existing law:
when the government's purpose is to convey property to another private party...[g]overnment can always claim that its purpose is something else. For example, under the Prop 99 'purpose' test, a government could change the zoning of an area – from residential to commercial, for example – and then, with the alleged purpose of making the properties in the area meet the new zoning requirements, use eminent domain to transfer homes to private developers. Courts give great deference to a government's claim of purpose, so Prop 99 would be of little use to homeowners whose cities are determined to take their properties.8.
This analysis, however, completely ignores the fact that government cannot simply condemn a property simply because it does not conform to local zoning.9. Failure to conform to local zoning might be one finding in an argument for blight, but it is not, by itself, a reason to condemn a home. Condemnation requires a myriad of findings, not the least of which is that the agency has to identify the use to which the property is to be put. If there was some nefarious plan to transfer the properties to a private developer post condemnation, such an action would run afoul of the plain language of Proposition 99. It would also run afoul of numerous other laws too, including the responsibility of local government to do its business in public.
Anti-Proposition 99 activists were correct in arguing that it would not change much in terms of government eminent domain practice. On the other hand, it appears that those same activists overplayed the actual effect of Kelo in order to convince the public to approve more wide ranging restrictions on governmental regulatory authority. In fact, the passage of Proposition 99 actually appears to have remedied the perceived unfairness of the Kelo outcome. And though Kelo was never the great threat that the property rights groups made it out to be, any threat that did exist seems to have vanished with its passage.
1. Kelo v. City of New London 545 U.S. 469, 478 (2005).
2. Id. at 483.
3. Id. at 484.
4. Id. at 485-486 (2005), quoting Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26, 34 (1954).
5. Kelo 545 U.S. at 489.
6. Proposition 99 also added a Section (e) which created some new definitions in Section 19 of the California Constitution.
7. California Health and Safety Code Section 33030(b)(1).
8. Analysis of Proposition 99 by the Institute for Justice, a private non-profit that represented Suzette Kelo before the U.S. Supreme Court.
9. See Graber v. City of Upland 99 Cal.App. 4th 424 (2002).
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GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion — the largest health care fraud settlement in history — for marketing its drugs Paxil and Wellbutrin for unapproved uses and hiding the deadly side effects of its Avandia diabetes drug from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Glaxo has agreed to plead guilty to the criminal charges brought by the Justice Department in the U.S. District Court of Boston, the government announced July 2. Under the plea agreement, GlaxoSmithKline will pay $1 billion in criminal fines and forfeitures as well as $2 billion in civil damages related to other drugs. The drug company also agreed to be monitored by government regulators for five years.
"For far too long, we have heard that the pharmaceutical industry views these settlements merely as the cost of doing business," acting Assistant Attorney General Stuart F. Delery, head of the Justice Department's civil division, told reporters. "That is why this administration is committed to using every available tool to defeat health care fraud."
The settlement was reached after prosecutors released evidence that Glaxo encouraged hundreds of doctors to recommend its antidepressant drug Paxil to patients younger than 18. The company treated doctors to conferences in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and California, where they were taken on snorkeling, horseback riding and balloon trips. Doctors were even given cash payments of $750 to increase Paxil prescriptions.
Paxil was never approved by the FDA for use in children, yet Glaxo encouraged doctors to prescribe it by presenting them with medical studies the company paid for, touting the benefits of Paxil. Glaxo sales representatives even made calls to pediatricians to inform them about the studies. Doctors are allowed to prescribe drugs for off-label uses, but drug companies are not allowed to market the drugs as such.
The company also misbranded its Wellbutrin antidepressant for treatment of weight loss, sexual dysfunction and substance abuse, giving doctors millions to prescribe the drug for these unapproved uses.
The Justice Department said Glaxo failed to report safety data it gathered between 2001 and 2007 from post-market studies showing its Avandia type 2 diabetes drug increased the risk of heart attack and congestive heart failure. Avandia now carries the FDA's black-box warning for its heart risks and is available only on a restricted basis.
Glaxo's $3 billion fine comes after the company has paid more than $700 million to Avandia users who suffered from strokes or heart attacks. The drug company has settled more than 35,000 lawsuits and is facing even more.
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Following a volatile presidential campaign, Wicomico County voters chose Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, although Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was the projected winner statewide, with 61 percent of the vote.
In Wicomico, Trump received 20,800 votes to Clinton's 16,300, with all precincts reporting.
Trump also won in nearby Worcester, Somerset and Dorchester counties.
At press time, national victory was leaning toward Clinton, following a campaign pockmarked by the candidates regularly at odds and casting aspersions in debates and speeches.
Trump, of New York, and to a lesser degree running mate Mike Pence of Indiana, repeatedly referred to Clinton as "Crooked Hilary," and accused her of lying.
Clinton, of New York, and running mate Tim Kaine of Virginia, likewise attacked him, questioning his ability and temperament to serve in the White House.
Other presidential candidates were Libertarians Gary Johnson of New Mexico and Bill Weld of Massachusetts and Green Party candidates Jill Stein of Massachusetts and Ajamu Baraka of Georgia.
Voter turnout
Before polls closed Tuesday, Anthony Gutierrez, director of the Wicomico County Board of Elections, said he expected the total voter turnout in Wicomico County to far surpass the 44 percent that voted in the April primary.
By 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 31.5 percent had voted. Coupled with absentee and early voting, turnout was about 54 percent by around 6 p.m. and Gutierrez said he expected a rush of voters Tuesday evening.
Statistics released during the primary indicated there are 47,265 registered voters in the county, with 54 percent Democratic and 45 Republican.
No major problems were reported at local polls Tuesday, although one voter in the Pemberton area fed a folded ballot into a scanner, causing it to jam.
"It took them 15 or 20 minutes to fix it but the line was so long it seemed like an eternity," Gutierrez said.
There was also a report of a couple arguing when they went to vote Delmarva Evangelistic Church on Gordy Road, but it was quickly settled.
U.S. Senate
Polls were only closed 25 minutes when U.S. Senate candidate Chris Van Hollen was declared the winner statewide, to succeed retiring senior Sen. Barbara Mikulski, although challenger Kathy Szelia won in Wicomico, with 20,700 or 54 percent.
Locally, Van Hollen received 16,700 or 43 percent.
Statewide, Van Hollen received 62 percent of the vote, or 1.3 million votes, to Szelia's 34 percent, or 715,000 votes
Van Hollen, 57, was first elected to the House in 2002 and announced his intent to run for Senate in March 2015.
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, where his father worked as a foreign service officer, he graduated from Swarthmore College, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Georgetown Law School.
He worked as an attorney.
In April's primary, he defeated Rep. Donna Edwards.
Also on the ballot for U.S. Senator was Margaret Flowers of the Green Party, who received 3 percent of the vote.
House of Representatives
In the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Andy Harris, a Republican representing District 1, easily won a fourth term against Democratic challengers Joe Werner and Libertarian Matt Beers.
In Wicomico, he received 59 percent of the vote, or 22,800 votes. Statewide, he received 67 percent of the vote.
In Wicomico, Werner got about 37 percent, or 14,400 votes. Statewide, he received 28 percent.
There was local interest in this race early on, after former Salisbury Mayor Jim Ireton, a Democrat, announced in January he would run for Congress.
"There is an urgent need for thoughtful, reasoned, intellectual representation," the 45-year-old Democrat, who was mayor from 2009 to 2015, said at the time.


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Here's how to make sure you comply with food safety regulations when serving food as part of your fundraising activity.
Why food safety is important
If you've ever had food poisoning then you'll know it's not something to be taken lightly. As a charitable cause, you don't want to take chances with the health of your guests and donors, but it needn't be too onerous to ensure you comply with the law. From church suppers, to PTA bake sales, we've got you covered with this list of advice and requirements for food safety at a charity event.
Food safety requirements for fundraisers
First, the good news: volunteers who sell food at charity events DO NOT need to have a food hygiene certificate. However, you do need to comply with food hygiene regulations there are a few basic rules you need to comply with to make your event go well:
- Wash your hands regularly with soap and hot water. This is even more essential when switching between raw and ready to eat foods. Use hand sanitisers where hand-washing facilities are not available.
- Always wash fresh fruit and vegetables.
- Keep raw foods separate from items that are ready to eat.
- Never use food past its 'use by' date.
- Keep food out of the fridge for the shortest time possible, and refrigerate hot food that needs to be kept as soon as it has cooled. Food should not be at room temperature for more than four hours in total.
- Always read the cooking instructions and follow them. Never shorten a cooking time to speed up service, as you might end up serving something unsafe. Check meats with a thermometer to ensure they are properly cooked.
- Keep food preparation areas suitably cleaned and sanitised after use, and in between preparation of different dishes.
- Wash utensils in hot, soapy water, rinse, and allow to air dry.
More tips for a successful food offering
- Plan ahead. If you can prepare food in advance and freeze it, this might save you time on the day. Do make sure though, that frozen food is defrosted properly (usually in a fridge) before it is used. Follow the guidelines on packaging, or use the SAFE method.
- Some foods carry more of a health risk, and you might want to avoid serving those to cut out concern For example, raw fish, soft cheeses, pâté, and cooked, sliced meats can be risky, and you should be careful with foods containing raw egg, such as custard, and some sauces. You can find more information here.
- Even though there is no legal requirement to label the foods you sell or provide at your fundraising event, it's still good practice to do so. Give jams or chutneys a label stating ingredients and any possible allergens. Make sure this information is accurate.
- If you'd like to give the food providers at your charity event some more training before they start, this is a good training video.
- For some bigger, more regular food events, it may be necessary to have an inspection. Check with your local authority if you think your organisation may need one.
- If you have concerns about serving food, it might be worth checking with your cause or charity about what kind of insurance they have in place to cover you in the unlikely event of a food poisoning incident.
You can find more information and guidance on food safety at the Food Standards Agency.
A note about food allergies
If your cause or charity is not required to be registered as a food business, you don't legally need to advise people of allergens in the food you serve. However, in an age when allergies and intolerances are so widespread, it's good practice to let people know what they're eating. It will also minimise the risk of problems or complaints. The most notable food allergens are milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans.
What next?
Planning a fundraising event with a food element? Share these tips with your team, to make sure your event goes smoothly.
You may also be interested in reading:
Fundraising Events Guaranteed to be winners for your cause.
The Beginners Guide to Fundraising
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By Top10BestDatingSites Staff
Tired of endless online dating questionnaires and compatibility tests? Cupid.com takes an entirely natural approach to finding someone special online. The emphasis is on interacting with other users to decide for yourself whether you are right for each other. With plenty of tools, the range of chat rooms provides a great chance to meet people, while "multiflirt" is a great feature which enables you to reach out to multiple users at once.
This is a dating site which will keep you busy. For a start, there are so many ways to communicate with other users. In addition to private message and instant chat, you can send a "wink" or enjoy audio and video chat with anyone who catches your eye. By sending a "multiflirt," you can tell numerous users that you are interested in them with just a simple click. The chat rooms provide the chance to get to know other people and the discussions are not only confined to dating and relationships. You can also find forums dedicated to music, art and more.
Meanwhile, you will find a greater range of profile options at Cupid.com than you are likely to find elsewhere, giving you an even better chance of catching someone's eye. In addition to a bio and photos, you can include webcam recordings and rate your character traits such as patience and caring nature, on a scale of 1-10. When it comes to casting the net and finding someone, check out the "Special 7" and "Daily Top" features which will both suggest possible matches.
Getting started is very simple. The Cupid.com sign up process will take you just a few short minutes. You will be asked for some very basic information, such as gender, date of birth, location, plus a valid e-mail address and password. You will then be sent an e-mail with a link to verify that you are a valid user. Once you log in, you will be handed the chance to upload photos, select a screen name and tell other users a little more about yourself.
Although like any other dating site, Cupid requires you to divulge some personal information, you should have no worries about it ending up in suspicious hands. The information you submit will not be shared, while the e-mail verification helps eliminate scammers. And just to show how seriously the site takes online safety, there is a whole page dedicated to tips for dating both online and offline, which are well worth reviewing.
For a start, women need not pay a cent. That's right, women can sign up for free and enjoy full usability of the site. However, men will need to decide whether to remain a free member or not. In reality, free members are very restricted in their activity. They cannot view profiles in their entirety and "winking" is pretty much the only way to communicate. So if you are serious about meeting someone, it is worth becoming a paid member.
If you want to check things out, then the 3-day trial for $10 is worth considering. Meanwhile, a 1-month deal costs $29.99, but the multi-month packages see the cost fall significantly. A 3-month package will cost you $17.99 monthly and a 6-month deal costs just $11.99 per month.
The whole site is geared towards interacting and this is reflected in the design and interface, which makes it as simple as possible to communicate with other users. There are plenty of icons and drop-down menus to help make things as simple as possible. And from your personal dashboard, you are just a click away from pretty much everything you could want, including your mail, the search function and the activity stream, which conveniently keeps a record of all your interactions.
If you are a little nervous to contact other users, then the "ice breakers" should help you get started. Meanwhile, deciding who is right for you is made easier by the well-constructed profile snippets which summarize other members at a glance. And of course, there is also a very good Cupid.com smartphone app to keep you in touch wherever you are.
There are two approaches you can take to finding a match – Get someone else to do it, or doing it yourself so if you prefer a matchmaker conduct the search process, then read our review of ProfessionalMatch.com. It is the place to be with professional matchmakers on hand. However, Cupid also provides great options. The site will automatically generate potential matches – "Special 7" hands you seven possibilities each day in your inbox, while "Daily Top" also suggests the very best matches.
However, if you want to conduct a manual search, the basic search lets you cast a wide net by searching via broad categories such as age and location. The advanced search though allows you to tick boxes related to lifestyle and physical appearance which will help hone in on your dream date.
Cupid.com is an excellent all round dating site, which really cuts to the chase of finding someone special. It is a very well-designed site which includes the right features to make it easy to communicate and interact with other people. And of course, women have an advantage as it is absolutely free for them. This is a site which will keep you entertained and engaged while matching you with a great date. An excellent option which is highly recommended.
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DemandCaster Supply Chain Planning
DemandCaster Supply Chain Planning Software – Product Tour
DemandCaster supply chain planning software provides the insight and agility you need to optimize your business outcomes and fuel your competitive advantage.
With DemandCaster, go from reactive to proactive. Connect demand to supply and bring your organization together around a consensus-based plan that keeps you ahead of the unexpected.
DemandCaster provides powerful and intuitive planning capabilities and the data-driven insight you need to act with certainty and speed in every decision.
And DemandCaster gives you peace of mind — offering inventory optimization to S&OP in an adaptable, cloud-powered system that is designed to grow with you as your planning needs expand.
DemandCaster replaces static spreadsheets as your go-to tool for planning and data management. Using data directly from your ERP system, cloud-based DemandCaster aligns planning activities across your organization maintaining a single version of the truth.
Since staying on top of demand is critical, demand planning in DemandCaster starts with historical sales and current orders. This leverages a multitude of forecasting algorithms at customer, product category, and item levels.
Let's look at the underlying numbers in the demand plan. Scrolling down, you can see the historical and projected demand in units, average selling price, and revenue projections.
You can make edits to quantity, price, cost values, and even perform what-if analysis. You can further shape the demand forecast with the 4-P functionality, to work with pricing, promotions, placement, and product lifecycle decisions. The updated demand forecast is reflected across all departments and levels of your organization, so everyone sees a single version of the truth.
Once your demand plan is updated, DemandCaster gives you the option to either adopt a "Level Strategy" for production or a "Chase strategy" when computing the supply plan– so you can better respond to demand fluctuations. In this case, the company is following the level strategy.
To ensure the supply chain plan is feasible, you can perform a material requirement review for replenishment recommendations.
And for manufacturers, you can also test the plan against your production capacity. You can see that work center "Mixing 1" is over capacity on April 4th. Decisions can be made quickly to increase capacity or to move the workload to a day that is underutilized.
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A diagnostic review of aspects of management in an urban primary school in Kwa-Zulu Natal [sic] with particular reference to perceptions of quality and criteria for total quality.
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This thesis investigates the diagnostic review of aspects of management, with particular reference to perceptions of "quality" and criteria for "total quality". The system of education in South Africa faces grave problems: the collapse of the culture of teaching and learning, under-resourced schools and under qualified educational managers and educators. In this regard the new paradigm in managing schools known as Total Quality Management (TQM), was investigated in this thesis. Total Quality Management (TQM), is an approach which has great potential for the enhancement of public schooling in South Africa. School systems in South Africa now faces dramatic changes in the external environment. The TQM approach focuses in particular on leadership and people, and the comprehensive change to the theory and practice of management. This study, thus, tries to determine the nature and characteristics of TQM in the school through the review of literature, and to determine the elements of TQM that were identified in the school. The study further investigates if the strategies employed in schools are based on TQM principles and if it could be characterised as effective in terms of TQM. A literature study was undertaken to analyse TQM and to determine methods for implementing TQM in the school. The empirical research consists of two phases: a quantitative phase comprising the use of a self - completion questionnaire to determine to what the official position of the school is and to what extent the principal makes use of TQM, and a qualitative phase in which the key individuals of the school namely the principal, deputy principal and two heads of department participated in interviews to determine to what strategies the school use are based on TQM. The data collected from both the literature review and the empirical study was used to develop a strategy as a guide to improve school effectiveness through TQM. The main findings of this study reveals that there are identifiable characteristics of TQM in the school, although most educators could not identify with the philosophy of total quality management as an approach to managing the school. The study also finds that the strategies employed by the school's management team can be regarded as effective in terms of TQM.


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This week's T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Wayne Sheffield, and the topic is to blog about anything PowerShell related to SQL Server.
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Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty we are free at last. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
On Friday, June 15, 2018, my family officially became debt free.
We have no credit card debt.
We have no student loan debt.
We have no car debt.
We have no debt on appliances, electronics, or any other item.
And even though it's not debt, we don't even have any outstanding medical bills.
We're currently renting, so we don't even have a mortgage.
After almost 15 years of marriage, my wife, Amy, and I have finally returned to zero.
It's been an amazing day. It started off with a nice morning walk, just me and my headphones. By the time I returned, the kids were already getting ready for the day. I grabbed Amy and said, "I need you to do something." I logged in to the student loan providers website, set everything up, and said, "I want you to make the last payment."
She pressed the submit button, and closed the window. I am man enough to admit, I cried. Then, she cried. We hugged each other. She said, "You did it, babe." I corrected her, "No, we did it."
The wait began.
I had my favorite drink — Sugar Free Rockstar (which I like to call "cold coffee") — and had the kids work on a sign that read "We're Debt Free." They colored in the letters with enthusiasm. They have been part of this process, and my family tree has been changed. They will grow up being taught to stay away from consumer debt, how to build savings, and learn how to give.
Amy had an activity planned with our kids, but my son was sick today so he stayed home with me while she took our two daughters to have some fun. The Boy and I hung out at the house. I chose to the take the day off today, because I wanted to be off for this special occasion. I cleaned and did a little house organization. I ordered my youngest daughter's birthday gifts with the money we had budgeted. There's no more credit card purchases here; everything is paid in full. I did anything to keep me busy while we waited for the official word from the student loan provider that the money had been processed.
My plan for today included meeting a dear friend of mine, David, to have a celebratory lunch. Since my son was sick, he agreed to bring lunch with him to my house and we enjoyed our meal at our kid-abused, paid for kitchen table. I had Chinese food, and savored every bite.
Food tastes better when you aren't making payments on it.
My son wanted to play outside before going to the doctor, so we did. I relished my time with him. We went to the doctor; he's fine and just needs to work a little virus out. He's not contagious, so we are a "go" for celebrating more later tonight.
And then, more waiting. As has been the custom for this process this year, I knew the student loan provider wouldn't have anything definitive until after 6 p.m. I checked anyway. "Processing," it read. The wheels were in motion. I admit, I was nervous. "What if it doesn't go through today? What if there's some problem?" The borrower is truly slave to the lender.
We cut so much out of our budget this year. I took on a second job, utilizing the skills from my main job to aggressively accelerate our debt payoff. Amy helped run defense with the children, and kept the household functioning at somewhat normal levels. She was excellent with the budget when grocery shopping, finding things for the kids to do on the cheap, finding clothing, and so much more. For several months, I was doing 50+ hour weeks. It was so hard when we were going through it, but today it feels like a distant memory.
More waiting. And then, at 6 p.m., I checked again. The moment had finally arrived. The balance was shown as $0.00.
Our progress has been measured visually with a debt chain that has hung in our front room since January, the start of The Year of No. Each link represented $1,000 of debt, and we started the year with around $20,000 left to go.
I cut the next to last link in the chain, then had Amy cut the final one. It read, "Debt Free."
Today was all about Amy. The last of the debt was hers, and today we fulfilled a goal I had made when we became engaged. I wanted us to be totally free, and now we have broken the chains of debt. When we started The Year of No, my deep-in-my-heart goal was to be out of debt by our anniversary. We beat that goal by one month. Our anniversary is July 26.
We have celebrated little milestones along this journey with something cheap and fun, and today was no different. We packed up the kids in our 18-year-old, paid-for, hanging-on-by-a-thread minivan and headed to a local frozen yogurt shop for a calorie-laden "dinner." There no place for healthy food choices today; we celebrated our freedom with decadence, paid for with a debit card.
Froyo tastes better when it's not attached to an annual percentage rate.
Today is day zero. Tomorrow is the first day of our debt-free life. I am beyond grateful to the many people who have helped on this journey, and have provided encouragement. I have even loved the haters, because nothing drives me more than "You can't do that."
We have followed Dave Ramsey's plan as outlined in his book, "The Total Money Makeover." I am here to say that we are proof: it's a simple plan that works. I love it when a plan comes together. You can either wallow in your misery, or get angry and take action. I pray you chose the latter.
Our official debt payoff since starting the plan in full is $34,076 of debt paid off in 21 months.
Someone recently told me, "I wish I could be like you."
You can.


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Mike and his family joined the church in 1987 following an employment move south from Yorkshire. He has been in the church leadership during most of the intervening period and first became an Elder in 2004. Now retired after a career in the construction industry he has responsibility for the Operations Team and the Parent and Toddler ministry.
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For several days in 1970, Lawrence held its breath as government and law enforcement clamped down on unrest. Experience this tumultuous time in a fiftieth anniversary exhibit... details>>
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This yearlong exhibit chronicles the 100-year history of Kansas City's Guadalupe Centers, Inc. – and by extension, the history of the city's thriving Hispanic and Latino community. Founded in 1919, Guadalupe Centers is the longest continuously running Latino-serving organization in the country. On display through May 2020. View during regular library hours. Check the library's website for exact hours, and dates the library will be closed....details >>
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Out of the Toy Box: Franklin County at Play features more than 150 years of toys played with by Franklin County children. Photographer Spotlight: Maude Frink. Maude was celebrated for her work portraying children at play and in other natural settings. These exhibits will be on display through December 2019. Call or visit the Franklin County Historical Society website for exact days and hours the exhibits will be available for viewing....details >>
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The spirit of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart is alive and well! Each summer the community honors its favorite daughter, complete with a downtown music, food and crafts fair, outdoor concert, children's activities, carnival, awards and honors, Earhart research and literature, music on the beautiful Riverfront, aerobatic performances and the grandest of all finalés — the "Concert in the Sky" fireworks show. Carnival opens 7/17 - dates and times listed here. Get more information online....details >>
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Da Vinci was a dreamer and an inventor. Math, science and art are highlighted in this interactive, hands-on exhibit. Catapults, parachutes, and a hang glider are some of the inventions guests will find. Guests can add their own creativity and ideas, explore engineering and flight, and see how Da Vinci's inventions contributed to modern technology. The exhibit created by Curious Kids' Museum encourages creativity and exploration with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and math)....details >>


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The world can be a daunting place. People can be mean and things do not always turn out like we want them to. Sometimes our lives can feel out of control – or we can feel numb because we have been through so much that we have thrown up protective walls.
Some days it can feel heroic to get out of bed. That is okay. We can be heroes.
Being a hero does not always mean saving the world. Sometimes it can mean just putting the next foot down and taking the next step. Sometimes it can mean pressing on when we really feel challenged. Being a hero means to keep on going – even when the going gets rough.
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Two months after it launched its new Google Photos service, Google is closing its predecessor Google+ Photos — that will start on August 1st, initially on Android, and soon thereafter on the Web and iOS. A prompt inside the Google+ Photos on Android is already suggesting the user to download the new Google Photos.
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Crombie is committed to providing a healthy, safe and clean environment for everyone who works within or visits our Scotia Square complex.
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Crombie REIT is proud to partner with Bullfrog Power to support renewable energy projects in the Maritimes and across Canada. In one of the latest environmental partnerships made possible with the support of Bullfrog customers like Crombie REIT, Bullfrog Power is teaming up with Canada C3, an expedition that aims to engage millions of Canadians across the country.
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Crombie REIT signed on with Bullfrog in 2014, and chooses green electricity for the parking garages and EV charging stations at Scotia Square in Halifax. By choosing green energy, Crombie REIT is reducing its environmental impact, supporting new community-based renewable energy projects and creating awareness of clean energy in the Maritimes and across Canada.


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Good afternoon and happy Friday to you.
The Phoenix Astronomical Society will be at the Desert Botanical Gardens on
Friday Nov 5 from 7pm to 9pm for an Adult Event
Sat Nov 6 from 6pm to 8pm for a Kids Event.
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And here is what's visible for both nights.
Sun set is 5:20
Mercury is visible at 5:30 and sets 5:50.
Mars is visible 5:30 and sets 6:30.
Jupiter is visible 5:30 and then throughout the night.
Dark is 6:50.
We hope to see you there!
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Every Wednesday around 2 p.m., over 10 weeks spanning April to June 2016, HBO would release a batch of photos from the upcoming episode of Game of Thrones. My task, along with that of two colleagues, was to create content around these photos for our large media company employer's website as quickly and efficiently as possible. This content would then be disseminated by a third colleague, the social media editor, who would hustle it out onto the company's Twitter and Facebook accounts. The process from start to finish took around 20 minutes.
The photos we shared — uniformly dull shots of attractive people looking at one another — were not particularly newsworthy or exclusive. Nor was their release unusual: all sorts of show photos are doled out by all sorts of production companies. It's just part of the game, if you will, to receive press releases in your inbox, and to politely ignore the majority of them. (Full disclosure: The media company also had a show on HBO at the time, but we were under no explicit obligation to cover.) Our innovation, if I may use the term generously, was to approach these posts as parody. Rather than dutifully unpack each tiny detail from the uneventful photos, as many sites did, our writer related what was happening in a vague, upbeat, ludicrously uninformed fashion. "There are people, funny clothes, and horses," he wrote in one post. "Beyond that, I have no information for you, sorry. Hopefully you like these photos."
I think these posts, trolly but essentially harmless, were also a way to convey a funny — or very sad — truth: how useless these photos were and how absurd, even somewhat grotesque it was that we, content producers, were nonetheless compelled by market forces to produce such a post that they, content consumers, would nonetheless be compelled to click through. Such a post, we hoped, would at least be entertaining (or brief) enough that people might forgive the bait and switch. Either way, the engagement time would be ours.
The posts did well — they were our most trafficked posts for hours. Which was a thrill, and a relief — page views here meant resources elsewhere — but not a surprise. If there's anything I've learned from covering culture on the internet in the 2010s, it's that 1) Thrones-related content does very well and 2) you, too, may be asked to create it, because it does very well. As the series prepares to wrap after eight seasons, it will leave a hole in the content economy that could only be filled by another Game of Thrones.
"I've been a culture editor and writer for the Times since 2008, but nothing I've done has been as popular as these weekly breakdowns," Jeremy Egner, the New York Times' designated Game of Thrones recap writer, wrote in 2017, following season seven. "I don't claim much credit for that — I'm piggybacking on a juggernaut."
Game of Thrones' popularity is well-documented. At this point, the epic fantasy series based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and adapted by D. B. Weiss and David Benioff turns up more Google hits than "Shakespeare" and "The Bible"; its most recent season, its seventh, was reportedly pirated over a billion times. Less discussed, perhaps, is how relentlessly the show gets covered. A casual search of the New York Times site, as of Tuesday, turns up 2,459 Game of Thrones-tagged entries. Entertainment Weekly has written about the show no fewer than 1,838 times. New York magazine's Vulture blog has but a mere 797 pieces on the show. While it's true that shows like This Is Us and The Big Bang Theory might be in the same league ratings-wise, they receive only a fraction of the write-ups. As Vulture's Nate Jones wrote in a recent piece recapping the entire series, it's the most-covered show on TV.
"There's no other show where you have fans really excited about finding out the run time details of every episode," said Entertainment Weekly editor-at-large James Hibberd, who broke the news of HBO's pilot order back in 2008. Such dribbles of new content, often pushed out by HBO, are popular because they fuel fan speculation: who might get offed next, who's secretly from what house, whether Dany, Jon, and Tyrion are all actually related, who's going to get it on while saving the Realm atop dragons, and so forth. This, fueled by social media, generates clicks, which means higher ad revenue, which in turn creates the incentive for more stories. And so the wheel of content turns.
"They all go off. It's insane to see the appetite for it. People will just eat it up."
"You don't get one episode of The Bachelor giving you five, ten stories," explained David Mack, deputy director of breaking news at BuzzFeed News and one of the company's resident Thrones gurus. "The sheer volume of Game of Thrones coverage is what stands out," he said — I counted 1,057 such BuzzFeed stories — "and the fact that all of it seems to land with the audience as well."
Mack described their approach of "swarming" the show, where writers would post anywhere between five and ten posts Sunday night and into Monday — best tweets, funniest moments, breakout moments, explainers, and so on. "They all go off," he said; GoT-related posts would top the site's most-read articles for at least 48 hours. "It's insane to see the appetite for it. People will just eat it up."
When HBO released the season eight trailer on March 5, BuzzFeed "tweeted that like a breaking news event," according to Mack. "[HBO's] rep had informed us something was coming. We made a guess that it was the trailer, [and] we prepared a story to go where we could just drop in the link. Within 30 seconds of HBO releasing that thing, we had it up on our website and were pushing it out for our readers."
He noted, "But even if we didn't have the heads up, we probably would have just tossed the YouTube link and pressed 'publish,' and then gone in and backfilled." (As in entering the rest of the story on a live page, while already reaping the benefits of "first!" traffic.)
The trailer has 53.6 million views on YouTube as of this writing.
By tapping into reliable streams of traffic, editors at numbers-driven sites can feel freer to pursue less obviously popular or prestige stories, which are vital in maintaining the balance of producing work that's valuable for readers and keeping the site's lights on (and their own jobs). Also, it can simply feel good, and justifying, to do stories readers are responding to.
"Everyone in entertainment media is going to miss this show," Mack said.
It hasn't always been this way — the Times famously panned the show's debut in 2011 as "boy fiction," "a lot of confusion," and "sketchily fleshed-out." But the show found its audience and "it's been a steady ramp-up to the level it is now," Hibberd wrote in an email. The veteran TV reporter and self-described "Westeros War Correspondent" noted "upward surges of interest along the way at various points," including the Red Wedding (2013), the Battle of the Bastards (2016), and breaking the Emmys primetime record (also 2016).
The shocking Red Wedding, in which several of the show's favorite characters were brutally killed off, marked a particular turning point for interest, according to Joanna Robinson, a senior writer at Vanity Fair and OG Thrones podcaster who has also become a well-known expert on the show. The way fans used social media and YouTube videos to share their astonishment and horror at the gnarly spectacle "matter[ed] more than any ad campaign," she said over the phone. "When all those [Red Wedding] reaction videos went viral, there was this huge boom." The episode was the most social moment in HBO history, with 700,000 online mentions, yielding a neologism for sadistic bloodbath which quickly entered our cultural vocabulary.
Not that there aren't a few caveats to the veritable content bonanza. "I wouldn't say Game of Thrones was 'guaranteed' traffic," Hibberd cautioned. "It may be the most traffic-driving show out there but because of that every outlet is writing about it constantly, so you have to stand out with content other sites don't have or grab breaking news with speed that others aren't matching."
VICE.com social media editor Peter Slattery seconded this notion. "Speed is so the name of the game there. [The media landscape] is just so saturated that it's really not worth doing a write-up, even from a complete numbers perspective, no matter how good your writing is, if it's the morning after. But the flip of that, there's sort of no tidbit too small for a property like Game of Thrones to report on."
When asked about the popularity of Thrones content, Slattery offered a dark view. "Violent sex written by a man targeted to men is gonna click," he said. "You can put a different man behind it, but a large section of the internet is hardwired," he said. "That's not to insult George R. R. Martin, I mean I've read the books, I watch the show. But yeah, that's kind of the nature of the internet."
But this point has been countered since the inception of the show. "In my personal experience, I have seen more women showing excitement about Game of Thrones than men," Amy Ratcliffe wrote on Tor.com in response to the 2011 Times review's "boy fiction" accusation. "I've seen this on blogs, on social media, at Game of Thrones events, and at conventions."
David Mack also disagreed. "From my experience, looking at the way [BuzzFeed] readers experience it, I think there's a huge amount of women that watch. It wouldn't have succeeded the way that it has. To me, I see it as a soap opera."
It's true that certain events, such as Cersei's "rape-as-a-prop" and the controversial, poorly handled rape of Sansa, outraged a significant portion of the show's viewership. But the story has also progressed so that Sansa's rapist was torn apart by dogs and Cersei sits (for now) atop the Iron Throne, after incinerating a city's worth of enemies. Ultimately, the violence seems a part of George R. R. Martin's master plan, centered on a brutal moral compass that could have been sourced from Hammurabi's code. Like many great shows, Game of Thrones is constantly introducing elements that make you say "I want to see what happens next," which it then delivers. The discomfort of watching bad shit happen over and over again is somewhat balanced out by the knowledge that eventually, all the characters — and not just the Lannisters — will pay their debts.
In a piece last year for The Ringer titled "The Very Last Piece of TV Monoculture," TV critic Alison Herman described the show's "common language," as a cultural touchstone you can "reliably actually discuss with people." She wrote: "It feels good to have something that connects us; it's why the popularity of a Harry Potter or a Star Wars gradually becomes as important to its appeal as the work itself." The Ringer, it bears mentioning, is no slouch when it comes to GoT offerings, churning out the excellent Thrones-centric video podcast Binge Mode, and the Thrones-discussing Twitter series Talk the Thrones, previously known as the HBO Thrones after-show, After the Thrones — alongside a homepage so stocked with Thrones coverage the topic merits its own header, right between "NBA" and "March Madness." Since the season eight trailer debuted in January, they've published more than 70 pieces of content on the show, between articles, podcasts, and videos.
Meanwhile, Robinson attributes the popularity of show content to the rise of "explainer culture, helping you understand what you just watched."
"Anyone with even a base level of understanding of Game of Thrones can watch an episode and enjoy it, especially in these later seasons, because there's spectacle and social-media meme conversations, and stuff like that," she said. "But what has been true of Game of Thrones from the start is that, if you don't have an encyclopedic understanding of the books, there are moments when you're gonna be confused. I remember the complaint from season one was like, 'There's all these white guys with beards that have these weird names and I don't know this character from that character.' You don't hear that as much anymore. But there is a value in being able to explain this incredibly dense source material — because George R. R. Martin's books are incredibly dense — for someone who wants to watch the show, doesn't want to do all the homework, but wants to have a slightly deeper understanding for the show."
"The reason people like the show," Herman told me, "is that it's a very good show that has great characters, which is the reason that you like every great TV show. These people are sophisticated and nuanced, and you can really give a lot of thought to them." I concur: With so many of those great and complicated characters, it's easier to find the ones who resonate with you on an individual level. There's the voice of witty reason Tyrion and his siblings/twincesters Cersei and Jaime; the righteous badass Daenerys, Queen of Dragons; morose and duty-bound heroes like Jon Snow, Grey Worm, and traditional gender role-eschewing Brienne of Tarth; forged-in-fire Stark sisters Sansa and Arya; the swashbuckling, swinging Red Viper and his vengeful paramour Ellaria Sand; and literally thousands more Thrones characters to choose from, witches and sellswords and giants, each with their own detailed backstories and family lines if none of the above stirs you.
As Arya suggests to her crush, the orphan Gendry: "I can be your family." That idea — of choosing the family you want, as opposed to the one you're born into — is central to the series. Likewise, community is a draw for the fans and content-makers, too. "It really does genuinely sound kiss-ass that the experience of talking to our listeners means more than watching the show, but it really does," Robinson told listeners on a recent episode of A Cast of Kings, one of two popular Thrones-based podcasts she co-hosts, alongside her Vanity Fair job covering TV — an impressive and possibly unrivaled amount of Thrones material that she's putting out into the world.
When I said as much, she demurred. "It's either impressive or depressing," she laughed. "I'm not sure which." The preternaturally prolific writer and podcaster estimated that she had produced over 500 pieces on the show over the years, including recaps, cast interviews, explainers, and news write-ups, though she couldn't be sure of the exact number. (Spoiler: it's actually closer to 800. I counted.)
"It's an important show for what it's meant for the culture but it's still also just a TV show," she said. "Occasionally you're like, 'Oh my god, the hours of my life I've dedicated to this. Am I going to look back at this decade saying and be like, 'That was a decade well spent'? Or am I going to be like, 'What were you doing?'"
That time for looking back will come soon enough, when on May 19, the sixth and final episode of the eighth and final season will air, and recappers across the internet will scramble to file their swan-song recaps. An obligatory wave of wrap-up content will wash over us: explainers, best tweets and reaction videos, lingering unanswered questions, what's next? And then there will be the uniquely Thrones-sized vacuum that critics like Herman don't believe will ever be filled again, because of the way TV — as it is produced and consumed — has so profoundly changed. HBO has several spin-off shows in the works, with one of them scheduled to air in 2020, but there's no guarantee they'll catch lightning a second time — Better Call Saul and Fear the Walking Dead are markedly less popular than Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, respectively.
Robinson, for her part, expressed "palpable relief from this crazy pressure-cooker cycle every ten weeks or seven weeks or six weeks that I have to cover Game of Thrones and make sure that I'm on top of it at all."
She continued: "To a much lesser degree, obviously, but just like any Game of Thrones actor you talk to, I'm fully aware that this might be the biggest thing I ever do. But that's fine with me. I have no fear of Game of Thrones ending, like, 'What will become of me when it's gone?' I just know it will be different. But that's exciting, as I'm sitting here. You know, talk to me at the end of Game of Thrones, and then talk to me, like, a year after of Game of Thrones after I've faded into complete obscurity."
"'Where Are Your Favorite Game of Thrones podcasters Now?'" I offered.
And just like that — another idea for more Game of Thrones content.


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Can you believe July came and it's almost over? I only have few more summer post ready before Fall inspiration rolls in. This year I am not so ready for fall yet, maybe because we had super cold Spring this year.
However in preparation for cooler evenings I am drooling over this jacket.
My friend and badass mama boss from Loop & Stitch is cooking something and I don't know what it is, but love it.
I am excited to try new skincare products… this CC cream, and this face-mask.
I am also feeling super inspired for the colour collection of Stuart Weitzman.
I am working on the new black and white Instagram project and I hope to share it with you soon.
That is all for July favourites, see ya soon
Dress – Lunia Bonder // Sandals – Valentino
Photos: Fabian Derda


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You can export directly in 3ds.Doc0 wrote:http://sim-garage.co.uk/3dsimed3-download/
3DSimED seems to work now on the modelbin. Scaling and uv seems mostly O.K. But its only 20 days trial so be fast to use it
Don't know if there is a batch script for that, but i had to import each modelbin one by one. Don't forget to use the export plug-in to export. The fbx generated is one single mesh, easy to split with blender but seems to give problem to friends of mine using 3Dmax.
Look like there are issues of normal on some meshes too.
For blender user, import all the fbx (fbx binary is mandatory), scale x100 and rotate 180° and you have the exact same thing that H2O generated obj.
I prefer the MakeH2O way, so i will use this one for the dashboard, wipers, doors and where uv are usefull.
For anyone wanting to import to Zmod3, export as rFactor2 and import with Zmod


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Michael B. Kaminski was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduation from high school, he entered The United States Air Force and was assigned to Washington, DC before being granted a transfer to South East Asia and Vietnam. After his discharge, he worked for The Bureau of Customs in Washington, D.C. as a graphic artist.
In 1973, he joined the Baltimore City Police Department, first working foot patrol before he joined the Anne Arundel County Police Department in 1974. Shortly after a year on patrol, he was transferred into the Vice and Narcotics unit and, for the next three and one-half years, he lived and worked undercover in drug groups and organized crime associations.
After resigning from the police department, he created a private investigative agency. This experience led him into seminary and eventual ordination. As an ordained minister, he served in parish ministry until he became a drug and alcohol treatment specialist for a local government agency.
After his wife died in 2005, he created an organization that still works in community education and awareness to issues pertaining to women: Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse, Eating Disorders and Discrimination. Along with this organization and ministry, in the past couple years, he has created and published two magazines.
Currently, Mike Kaminski lives in a small community in Central Pennsylvania and is working on his next book, DARK SOUL. He is also working with a producer in Hollywood on a television script for LIFE AFTER RUSSIAN ROULETTE: REDEMPTION. Kaminski has three college/university degrees in Political Science, Criminal Justice, and a Masters is in Theology with a minor in Psychology.


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The latest and greatest
The challenge for me is to always in-capsulize my trip in a short enough version to where folks will read it, after all a ton of stuff got done and this for some reason was one of my more memorable trips. Tough to narrow down the highlights but one was I traveled with a friend from N. California and he didn't snore! Can't tell you how huge that is and you would think ear plugs could drown out any noise but they don't cause I've tried so anytime that I travel and if I happen to share a room then snoring can't be in the mix and if it is, well then I'm miserable the next day.
Aside from this, highlights were 11 project dedications; 7 in the hill tribe region of Southern Gujarat and 4 in 2 southern districts of Andhra Pradesh. In addition to the water project dedications and seeing again huge impact due to clean water there were 2 other things that affected me. The first was while Dave and I were in Gujarat after dedicating water projects we visited in Valsad a girl's hostel being run by our partner there, ASK Trust. This home had 18 young women and a house parent, the girls are considered college age which in India means they are studying in the 10 – 12 class and provided they do well in school and get high marks on their exams will have the opportunity to further their education into what we would consider the traditional college route post High School.
Most of these girls are either orphan or semi orphan though a few do have parents but because of poverty they have been told to leave as they can't be looked after. This was my second visit to the hostel and like my first time back in November, I was gripped with the reality that if it wasn't for this home then their lives would be in a much different place and it wouldn't be good. By the end of the evening I was wondering what it would take to keep the doors open, lights on and the girls safe. The reality is the work is being funded through the savings and meager incomes of one or two people and as a result the account is just about dry.
I have been around India enough, 15 years now since my first trip, to know that an appeal will come and one of course did come but even before it came I knew in my heart these girls needed my help and so I made the commitment and I did it in faith that God would provide. The monthly cost to run the hostel is $1,000 and so my promise is we would fund at 6 month intervals and do a review annually to determine if the support would continue.
I have been home less than 2 weeks now and just a few days ago I touched base via phone with a guy I know from So. Cal who works as a IT Consultant and in a nutshell he said he got a bonus check and couldn't get me out of his mind so he figured that was God. I shared different needs with him and he signed up for 2 different projects with 1 of them being 5 months of support for Lydia's home girls. I can't wait to see how the remaining funds materialize and how this need will be met.
I'll end with a photo of the girls and honestly they look much nicer when they have huge smiles, something about a group photo which translates into serious faces. If I would have been there taking the picture you can be sure I would have done something so goofy that they would be laughing and not standing so straight. At least though you get a look at who were working for.
Oh yes, I did say something earlier about 2 things being impactful, I'll share the 2nd later, I promise.


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Sep 20
It was not long ago when people thought that working from home is not a very viable method to earn a living. As such, those who actually practice them see home-based work as nothing more than a way to earn money that can only augment their existing income and nothing more. However, time passed and technology evolved. The Internet was created, quickly became popular and with it came work from home ideas that enabled many to earn a living without even leaving their homes.
Options to Work from Home
There are a lot of ways through which we can earn money from our homes. Look up these work from home ideas on your favorite search engine and you'll be surprised at the number of results that comes up. There simply is a variety of work which ensures that there is a job available for anyone of any skill level or profession. These jobs are naturally those that don't require menial labor and can be done on a computer.
There are home-based online jobs that can be done by anyone who has the proper work credentials. Such jobs only require the ability to operate a computer and follow instructions. Meanwhile, there are jobs that require a specific skill or profession, like customer support and online consultation. You can easily find these jobs through the search engine, but it's recommended that you head to online jobs sites instead, as those are the websites where employers post job listings that you can simply apply to.
Reasons to Work from Home
People have many options with regards to places where they can do their online jobs. In fact, they can work in just about any place where they can find an Internet connection. Then again, many people prefer working from home instead. Why is this so, you ask?
First off, working from home can be very convenient. You don't need to travel for work, so you only need minimal discipline if you want to work on time. The corollary to this is the fact that you don't need to spend on gas and fares. Instead, the money can be relegated to other spendings, like your home Internet bills or your savings.
You also get a good degree of freedom when working from home. You can work in any part of the house you are most comfortable with, wear any clothing you like, and work in any manner that does not break the tasks.
Lastly, you may have a client, but you are practically your de facto boss. You get to supervise your own work, and be able to take as many breaks as you can. The latter is especially true these days as remote employees are often monitored via software. This cuts all the stress generated by work by a significant fraction, thereby keeping you emotionally and mentally healthy.
Working from home is far more lax and comfortable than working in any other workplace. However, this does not mean that you take this sort of work lightly. Most work from home ideas only allow for success if you work on them with dedication and strive to deliver the best output possible.
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This post is also available in: SlovenianInternet scams cunningly exploited by phone. One of the most globally widespread frauds is certainly an Ammyy scam and now is started to spread in Slovenia too. Follow advice on how not to get fraud.
My acquaintance recently told me an interesting personal story. He got mobile phone call from abroad in his absence. Who and why would someone need him from abroad, he wondered. Good Google quickly found the answer and he was very glad that the he missed this call.
Telephone number +442030513739 come from UK, but using VoIP telephony as for example Skype, is not traceable call, and certainly ends in one of the many Indian call centres. I'm not saying that all Indian call centres are bad, but a few among them use illegally obtained personal information database for scams – deception in order to elicit as much money as can get from the victims.
How the scams start?
The website NumberCop got report that a person dials from this particular number spoke in broken English with a strong Indian accent and is presented as a Microsoft Windows support. They call because of increase alerts coming from called a person's (the victim) computer, that there are suspicions files with malicious code.
As evidence they lead victim to run the Event Viewer, which of course sees quite many red alerts, which are actually not uncommon for a Windows environment. The computer really run well with these Red Alert, working like it should and in most cases is clean and safe computer, if you provided the general recommendations for this; a regular upgrade of Windows, firewall on and antivirus / antispyware program.
Ammyy admin
In order to "solve" the problem, they say to the victim, to install a program from the website ammyy.com, after which they can then remotely access the victim's computer. When you allow them to gain access, it pastes traditional firewalls and begin to force the various offers – from 10 -, 5 -, 3 – , 1-year warranty support, up to one-off cleaning of your computer.
If the victim does not agree to pay, they started with the threats. Because they own computer they can delete programs, documents, and access to other data such as certificates until the victim does not consent to pay. The amounts are from $ 35 to $ 300 or more per victim.
There are several variations of this scam, but all have in common they pose as Windows support and, above all, force victims to use the remote admin tool ammyy to remote access the computer and of course they want money.
How to avoid telephone fraud in connection with your computer?
- Microsoft itself does not ever call
- Do not allow remote access to PC to stranger
- Check unknown phone numbers on the Internet
Do not let take advantage from yours poor computer skills! By following these 3 points, you will surely be more secure against fraud.
Ammyy remote control
Ammyy Admin is a tool for remote access and peer to peer file sharing. Exe program is small, just over 600 kb and does not require administrator rights, since there is no installation required.
Basically, is not a bad tool, but company do not do anything to prevent scammers to use their tools. Only a few days ago they have posted on the website about potential frauds by the use of their tools, by being scammers big exploit of this tool mass for more than a year. Truly unworthy to be trusted company.
There for I do not recommend using this tool for any purposes, I recommend other, more trustworthy companies that offer such tools from Team Viewer, Radmin to Slovenian's ISL Light.
Consumer's revenge
Many dialled users immediately recognize the scam and they're for entertainment make fun of the scammers and keep them on the phone us much longer us they could, pretending that they have a lack of computer knowledge, so in the end scammers lost their temper, cursing and finally disconnect.
On youtube.com you can found many video about revenging scammers, just enter ammyy scam in search. One that you will surely laugh also this:
Ammyy.com scammers owned
Remember the word ammyy and next time someone mentions it, run away as far and as quick you can get and disconnect the phone connection.
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- Phone-scam alert: West Seattleite gets the 'Windows' call (westseattleblog.com)
- Telephone scam (charioteers.org)
- Hello world! (shamethescammers.wordpress.com)
- The ammyy scam: the worst social engineering I've ever heard (cubicgarden.com)
- Ammyy scams (sisq.info)
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